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      4 The Northern Sta;R ' . . December 9, 1...

      4 THE NORTHERN STA ; R ' . . December 9 , 1 S--18 .

      10 Tailors.

      10 TAILORS .

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      By apprd » Uen <> faer ^ s- ^^» e « " acto , to » aad B " . B . H . Prince Albert . - HOW BEAM * . i- JJi - ' MTO 1 l THE LONDON W j £ 5 W ? 25 -L FASHIONS for ^** ^^ n ^ on *» -an d KSLiCo ., lt , E » rUts eet , B } oowsbnr ^ P ^ l 8 ndi ( J by Q . Bain ,. * an >** g *^ Ided vrun the most iklNT , MiperbU ^ " ^ iXr Wding Dress , Huntf ^ UonaWe . -Iovel , ind £ j £ f ^ i ^ rt PsJetot , Dress iag tad ftw & Dwt Wf ^ 'JK , sad donble-breasted . ?& noma * W « W * £ grSSStaSf every description Also , thet 5 eo ^ of Cntttn ^ wo every thing re « pf ^ ^ yexriaMf d . * " *^^^^ lie method of in-^^^ d uSag ^ Patterns , or any other . ¦ - g ^^ t /^ ft" . wbe . consider It „ , f Sent to w thefoll price for the new syitem of Cut-«^ ia * H ^ reeently purchased the old one , that any ^ Mh ^ d ^ e so ^ thin the last year , will be £££ on ^ balf price for tht « hole ; or anypartsof rt ^^ MtenT TODlisli ed- IMS , which vnU . nperseda tSSSST ^ iSi brfo ™ coaceived .. P « rticnlar « SdterMsent post free . Patent Measures , vnthftU 3 SSSS : Sa » A PatentIndiMter , 7 Bpost . ft « e . Entered patterns to aeamn , U , ^ P ??**?!; * § 5 d by : Bsad and Co , 12 . Itou ^ «*• few-square , London j and aU Bootadler .. *«** % «* SasTanf Post Stamps , takea as Cash . Habits per-^ teblU Bait , for fittog Ceate on ; Boys ' figures , foramen provided . - Instrocboni » utwj & ete , ftr aUkinds of Style and Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly gherttime . N-B .-Ladlet * Paletot Patterns , la . each , Post Pre * .

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      METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFB ASSURAHCE , Annuity , Loan , and Invest meatSOCIBTT . ( "corporatrf pnrmantto theJUiana 8 ti Vic , c » p . lie . ) Temporary Offices , 39 , Regent , street , Waterloo-place , London . XBUSTEES . Eichard Spooner , Esq ., | Spencer Horatio Walpole , HP . I BSO . .. M . P . Sdward TJansittart Keale , j Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esq . . I DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq , Edward Lomax , Esq :, St Tlmriew-square , Bromp- John ' s Wood , ten : S »""^ lUUer , Ssq , Ion . . 'SamBelIWver , Esq , * SMte- coin ' s Inn . bau . Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , . Henry Peter Puller , Esq , Richmond . Piccadilly . Edward Tansittart Neale Palk " Griffith , Esq ., Esq , SonthAndleyatreet IroomoDger-lane , Cheap .. William A . S . Wertoby side . , - . | Esq , Hyde Park-place . ATJDITORS . HenryPeaenBacHer , Esq , I HenrySranti Esq , Shenley BasmgbanVstrsat . | House , Brighton . MEDICAL AVY 13 ER 3 . " jVilliam Henry Smith , Esq , BobertKeate , Eif ., 'Serj « int P . B . C . S , ; -2 , FonthUl . Surgeen to the Qaecn , 11 , place , Clapham-rise . Hertford street , Hay H . W . Poller , M . D . 45 , Fair . Half-moon-street , Piccadilly . SAHKERS . —Tha Union Bank of London , 4 , Pall Mall , East . SOLICITORS . W . W . KsheriEsa , 8 , King . | W . Chapman , Esq , Rich-Street , Cheapsd . | mond , Surrey . SURYETOBS . Tmccnt John Collier , Eiq , I Richard A . WIthall , Esq , 7 , Horgaifctteeet . 1 Parliamentstrect ACTUARY ;—Alexander Jamieson , Esq ., LL . D . MANAGER . —F . Fearguson Camroux , Esq . The ohjects of this Sodery are : — To grant Assurances npoa Lives , with or without par . -ticipatioBin profits : also Immediate and Deferred An-? yatiw and Endowments , Of COmuilUBg ulcMnoaMgn . v > T XAS- A . uu . um . . stt } . fee" business of well-regulated Building Societies , to render a Life Policy an available and economical means of acquiruig freehold , leasehold , or other property , by adduces repayable by periodical instalments , thus : A person desirous of purchasing his lease , or otherwise acqmriag property , will not only obtain a loan nearly equal to its value , but on his death will leave the properry discharged from such loan , in addition to the sum assured to be paid at his death . hree-fourths ef the profits will be divided every five years amongst the assured intitled to participate , and the remaiDioRoae-fourttiwili be . added to the profits of tbe shareholders . Prospectuses with tables , and every information , may be { obtained at the Society ' s Temporary Offices , SO , Segentstreet , Waterloo-place , or of any of its Agents in tie country .

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      ESLAR 6 EME 5 T OF THE 'SPIRIT OF THE AGE' NEWSPAPER . THE success which has already attended the establishment of the SPIRIT OF THE AGS has led to the resolution of increasing its contents to Twenty . Foar Pagesof three columns each , being the Lakgssi Size aixowed by Law . The SPIRIT OF THE AGE is the only newspaper m this country especially devoted to the cause of Social Reform aud the Organisation of Labour . It contains weekly , full and exclusive reports and correspondence of a'l that is going forwaid throughout Europe and America relating to the Emancipation ef the Industrious Classes from Political Thraldom and Social Slavery ; in addition to the usual intelligence of a First Class Newspaper , as it respects Reviews of Eoohs , Law and Police , Parliamentary and other proceedings of importance — Home and Foreign , and Domestic News of an interesting or amusing character . Price 6 d per copy , or 6 s Ed per quarter , paid in advance .-A . Cajotell , 10 , Bolt Court , Fleet Street , London , and all Booksellers . P Kow also Beady , Price 4 d , at the above Office , Louis Slue's Reply to M . Thiess , entitle ! 'Socialisethb Right to Laboob . '

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      DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE?—If so , use Bkahde * 9 ESA 2 EI for filling the decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One Shilling only , similar to that gold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by chemists everywhere . Testimonials . — ' It has given me the use of eue side of my meuth , which luxury I bad not enjoyed for about two years . —E . J . Macmkaid , Belford ; Northumberland . 'It is the ' most effective and painless cure for tooth , ache I have ever found . Ihave no hesitation in recommendingittfrall sufferers . '—Captain Thohas Wbioht , 2 s , Semngton-crescent , -London . « I have fined two teeth , and find I can use them as weU as ever I did in my life . Ihave not had the tooth , ache since . ' — Abbahas Conns , North-brook-place , Bradfsrd , Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in 'various newspapers , every one of which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling and a Stamp to J . Willis , 4 , Bell ' s-bufldings , Salisbury-square , London , and you will ensure it by return of pest . —Agents wanted .

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      HEALTH AIT O ECONOMY . CCOKKORYILLB , NEAR RICKHAHSWORTH , . HERTS . * THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER will receive J- as BOARDERS , TWO BOTS , between the ages often and fourteen years . Every attention will be paid to their mental development and pbysicalfomfort . Terms { Including washing , & c ) , £ 1 per gnart . ' r—pajable in ad * vanee . ' All communications to be prepaid , and contain a stamp for reply . N . B . A paid-up FOUR-ACRE SHARE in tbe National Land Company , to be disposed of—price , £ 1 ,

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      LAND MEETING . NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE . —The Land mem . oers of this branch are informed that the future weekly meetings of the branch will be held in TL Jade ' s long room , " every Sunday evening , from five to seven o ' clock . The members are also requested to pay up their arrears for local and general expenses , as the treasurer Ti" a long acceunt still remaining unpaid . - A committee meeting will be held on Christmas day , at six o ' clock , to hear appeals of the members who were turned out fox son-attendance at the late quarterly meeting .

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      ; , FOR SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Compssy . Price , £ 4 . Apply to 3 . Belcher , No . 11 , Wiple Place , Kensington .

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      TO BE SOLD , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE , a THREE-ACRE SHARE , and a TWO-ACRE SHARE , value jff 4 4 s , £ 16 s , and £ 34 si Apply to J . S . Anderson , Blackledge , Halifax , York , shire .

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      FOR SALE , A FOUR-ACRE and a TWO-ACRE PAID-UP SHARE in the National Land . Company ; want of employment ia the reason of parting with them . Apply to Mr YilUihire , Hews Agent , 15 , Lower George Street , Chelsea .

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      EGYPTIAN DROPS , a Certain md Speedy . Cure for STOS E and GRAYEL , sent Free to all Perseus , by enclosing seven stamps , to Thomas Wilkihsok , Lind Agent , Gainsborough , Lincolnshire .

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      THE LAND COMPANY . SUB-LETTING ALLOTMENTS . It having come to the knowledge of the Directors , tbat some occupants have sub-let their allotments without refunding the amount due to the Company , we consider it oar . duty to inform all parties who have thus acted , that the parties in possession , and not the parties located , will receive a lease of the premises upon payment of the amount due to the Company ; and that in cases where such amount is not paid , the party holding will be ejected , as the course to which we . refer , subjects the nonlocated members to a most scandalous fraud . We beg , also , to inform allottees , that there will be a clause ia each lease against the subdivision of the allotment , while the occupant will be at perfect liberty to sub-let the whole , •—first discharging the amount due . to the Company , j

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      THE CHARTIST TRIALS . Next week come on the Chartist Trials at York and Liverpool , and it makes us blush and sorrow for Chartism that the means subscribed for their defence is so scant ,. However , we trust that Monday night , at Dewsbury , and Tuesday night , at Liverpool , will bririg something into the Exchequer .

      Shipment Of Egg..—We Believe That This Year

      Shipment of Egg .. —We believe that this year

      Exceeds All Its Predecessors, * By A Lon...

      exceeds all its predecessors , * by a long chalk , ' in the quantities of eggs that have been exported to the southern markets : Some weeks as many as from 3 , 000 to 4 , 000 dozen have been sent off . The result of this is , that the . retail price here has risen nearly 100 per cent , above that of five years ago . The competition among the egg potentates of the county is the cause of many a ludicrous scene . — John 0 'Groats Journal . Determined SoicidxAtSotithvvajikBbidge . —On Monday morning , shortly after two o ' clock , & female ; respectably attired , paid her penny to the toll collector onthe south side of the Southwark

      Bridge , as it was supposed for the purpose of pas-1 sing over .: Instead of doing so , however , when she reached the nearest recess , she ' jumped upon the stone seat , and instantly leaped over the parapet into the Thames . One of the M 'division of police , and alien a City constable who was patrolling tbe bridge at the time , witnessed the occurrence , and gave an alarm ; Tims , of the London Fire Brigade , then on duty at the floating engine , heard , the alarm , nd , pnshing off the stern boat , . succeeded in taking in the body before it finally sank ; life , however , was extinct . The unfortunate woman appears to be about forty years of age , and had evidently beea of nwpossest & g en ^ arinci , |

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      N « w Ready , a New Edition of JIIiV 0 ! 00 MqR'S-rTgBi 4 > N ^ SMALL FARMS * thi CMAraBi . xniTioii . BVf t PfBUSintp .. . > . . Price 18 . 61 ., : - « ' ' A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of b *> ' . ¦ Author , of - ¦¦ , ' ..- v .. , , ' PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . ' ' P »« ssssssss « JUST PUBLISHED , No . 24 , - .. . .:,- ¦ "•; .. ; : THE ' LABOURER' MAGAZIP . eOHTEHTS : — 1 . Female Slavery in Englsad ; 2 . Position and Prospect * of . the National L » d Company . 3 . The Foreign Brents of ths Month , ( . National Literature . This number completes Vol . IV ., which is now ready , neatly bound , price 3 s . 6 d . . NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS . Any imperfect copies of the ' Laboohkr ' Magazine most be completed this Month ; SHI the back numbers are now on sale : but it will not be practicable to perfect copies after this Month . ; Jnst Published , price Is . 6 d ., forming a neat volume , EVIDENCE TAKEN BV THE SELECT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into The National Lard CoHTAirr ; with a review ot the same , and an Outline of the Propositions fer amending the Constitution of the Company , so as to comply with the Previsions of the Law , Watson , Queei ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London : A- Hey wood , Manchester : and all Booksellers in Town and Country .

      The Northern Star, Batztbdat, December 9,1548 .

      THE NORTHERN STAR , BATZTBDAT , DECEMBER 9 , 1548 .

      The West Riding Election*, The Perambula...

      THE WEST RIDING ELECTION * , The perambulatory tour of the . rival Candidates contending for the honour of misrepresenting the opinions and princi ples of a majority of the sane and industrious people of the West-Riding , will not be without its effect . Nothing was more calculated to advance the cause of Chartism , than the taet evinced by that body in 184 J , in the selection of candidates to fight the fight upon- the hustings , although not having a QUALIFIED army

      of reserve to fall back upon in the tents . The free expression of their opinions , enforced with eloquence , maintained by argument , and almost unanimously accepted by the wealthproducers , must have opened the eyes of the pampered idlers to the fact , that while the higher and middle classes took various views of various questions , aad merely squinted at them in the direction best calculated to ensure support , the working classes look steadily—but in one direction—bat in vaia—for the solution

      of the Labour Question . Up to that period , a choice of evils was the only alternative left to the Non-Electors , and that choice invariably falling upon what they called the least obnoxious Candidate was , beyond all other circumstances , calculated to increase the power of tyranny , inasmuch as this choice of evils was paraded through the country , and used in the House of Commons , as proof of popular confidence . "We regret to find the same standard now partially adopted i by a portion of the Keighley Chartists , who

      prefer the Whist to the Tery Candidate as' a choice of evils ; while the real question for their consideration should be ,, how to take satisfaction of that party whose aggressions upon popular rights , and public liberty , during the last session of Parliament—and , indeed , during their whole reign—had all but paralysed the Chartist cause , And , seeing that this Sir Cunning Eardley is intended as a patch upon the old Whig coat , it was their hounden duty to have manifested their disapprobation of Whi g tyranny * by opposing the Whig Candidate .

      Here we are , in the dreary winter season , with scores of innocent men to be tried in the very week in-which their friends are manifesting a tacit consent in favour of an ally of the very faction who hay , e thus doomed them to martyrdom . So long as the Chartists pursue this course , so long will the Whigs , as a body , be justified in their every act of tyranny and oppression ; whereas , had the people made , use of that licence allowed upon such occasions , to manifest their disgust for the tyranny of the party , by

      the rejection of one of its members , it might have been a warning for the future . But what is the qualification ef the Whig candidate : And let it be borne in mind that upon such occasions electors always allow an excessiye licence to the candidate of their choice , who invariabl y measures- his political opinions and pledges by the standard of present necessity . Here then is the qualification relied upon by the Whig candidate , 'as extracted from him in the examination of Mr Firth—as good , as sincere , as independent a Chartist , and as industrious a working man , as lives '—

      Mr Firth , ' a Chartist ia the town , said it | was plain the question that lay nearest his heart , was opposition to endowments . But the mostiraportantquestion , in his mind , was , an extension of the suffrage . Sir Culling : was in favour of the ballot , but ha was' opposed to tha ballet till they got the franchise . He concluded by asking if he would enfranchise all male adults of twenty-one years of age , of sane mind and unconvicted of crime ! ..-,... Sir Culling Eardley said that alteratioaa in the constitution , in order to be successful , must be gradual In France they had gone by a hop , stefi , and jump from an arbitrary government to a republic . His conviction was , that' these rapid and hasty changes would keep the country in a perpetual state of confusion and loodshid . In this country all changes had been made gradually , and therefore they had been safe . He would therefore vote for ths municipal franchise , but not for universal suffrage .

      Mr Firth siid , in this case Mr Cobuea would vote for Mr Hume's motion , and Sir Culling against it ; and the West Riding would say upon the suffrages " y « a'' and " nay . " ( "Laughter . J Sir Culling said he was for progress , but not for a Republic , he was not for that progress which , in nine casts out ot ten , ended In going back again . Mr Firth then exclaimed — " Those who are for no ex . tension holdup your hands . " None were held up . "Those who are for municipal suffrage , holdup your hands . "Few or none held up their hands . "Sow , then , those who are for universal Justice , holdup jour hands . "—All the meeting held up their hands . Mr Firth was going to

      put a question , but complained or sir Culling Eardley laughing at him and the meeting . - Sir Culling Bardley denied that he was laughing ; he suspectedtaatthismanwas hired by- the Tories to disturb themeetiBg . ( Hooting frost the croud . ) i Mr Firth said all present knew he was never hired by the Tories ; he thought Sir Culling was laughing " and lie was sorry if he was mistaken . 6 ' I Sir Culling sald , as the manhadhandsomely apologised lt ° ^ iSiS i ? ld aotb f abo T £ . apologising to ium ; ana lie withdrew his expressions . ( Hear , hear . ) * »** - MrKrth then asked whether Sir Culling believed this ouutry was aUste * aalatajait « lnj » bitaatt ?

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      Sir C . Eardley objected to this mode of questioning him . These were questions ot political economy , not questions on the duties of Members of Parliament . . Mr Firth asked if he thought people ought to be alio wed to starve ? - . ;<¦¦¦ - ¦ ¦ .. Il a . ' ? -.:-, ¦ :: .. ; ..:.. ; Sir C . Bardley , said , certainly not , ;^ Mr Firth then asked what were the causes which made the people starve ? -, . .. ¦ „ ... .... Sir Ci Eardley said one would think his friend was a schoolmaster , and he was a schoolboy , ' ' - . '; Mr Firth said tbts ' waa a most lmnortint nneitlnn .

      'which he had studied a long time . - He had askod the magistrates ef the district tie question ,: and' they had evaded it He had asked their representative , Richard Condon , by letter , but that gentleman had treated , him with silent contempt . If Sir Culling 'Eardley was sent to Parliament this time he would not be sent another time . However , en the present Occasion he thought of two evils they must choose the least : and there , fere he supposed they must vote for Sir Culling Eardley this time .

      We ask whether or no , 'according to the present necessities of the ' natiori , and the universal demand for progress , it would have been possible for the M'Callochs or the M'Gregors , or the first class men of the Manchester School of Economists , to put more rational , more trite , more seasonable questions to a candidate for parliamentary honours * In his' opening speech the cunning baronet makes a sad blunder . He

      says , "Now about the Franchise—he was for the Ballot . " As we have often told our readers , the Ballot without the Suffage , is tha ladle without the soup ; the mask to-cover theiiypocrite ' s face , and save him from that responsibility which it is acknowledged he owes to HIS CONSTITUENTS , who are the non-electors , and of whose interests he should be the trustee ; and which trust , like the Salford barber , he should use according to their instructions . '

      . Mask the face of the electoral body , tomorrow , and you give to idle speculators an unqualified licence to plunder the labouring classes without any the slightest responsibility . Mask the electors to-morrow , and every shopkeeper will shout for the most liberal candidate upon the hustings , bit will covertly drop the colour of the man of their order' into the Ballot-box . For these reasons we , with Mr Firth , are opposed to the Ballot until the Suffrage is possessed by every man of twenty-one years of age , thus constituting a constituent body far too large to be tampered with . And we should not fear the establishment of such

      a constitution emanating from the first Farlia ment so chosen , as would induce : the proud Englishman to go boldly upon the second occasion , without the guise of the mask , to vote . independently for the man of his choice , because the influence of the ' privileged few would then be destroyed , and pride would take the . place of subserviency . The Whig Baronet selected the present position of France as a justification for the old policy—WAIT A BIT . "You are not , prepared , lam for cautious progress , ; and not , for hop , step , and jump from Despotism to a Reovi . gr , * uu juttiu ikviu . xseouvvuui tv a

      AVOpublic ' v-Now has net this been the twaddling cant of Whiggery from the day i of Ciarlew Jam w Fox , down to its repetition by this Whigling ? And has he not the brains to understand that if the despotism ef France had been modified b y degrees , in accordance with the progression de . mandedhy an improving age , 'that the expatriated despot might have still filled the throne of that great nation as its accepted monarch ? And that tbe very denial of those changes due to altered opinions and an altered state of things , drove an exciteable people from the hope of

      any change to the accomplishment of a Republic , and this but a few short years after the King of the Barricades had encircled his palace and his city with fortifications , in the hope that they would serve as barriers to the mind ' s progress , but which , however , fell before' the mind ' s unity . We are told by this candidate for popular support that , "in this country all changes had been made gradually and , therefore , , tbey had bees safe . " In faith , some have been gradual , and some , Bite the French Republic , have come with a hop , step , and a jump , hut all have * been hostile to the interests of Mr Firth ' s

      class , and to the advantage of the class to ; which Mr Firth ' s school-boy belongs In what consists the safety of the Poor Law Amend- a ment Act save in the custody of tke immured pauper , the breaking up of his little home , the separation from his famil y , to weep through ; a life of bitterness in his tomb . :, ' Have safe laws been made for the regular tion ' of machinery , which have come upon us with a fearful hop , step , and jump r " < Have safe laws been made for the trial of those Chartists whose sweet voices this Whigling now courts ?

      Have safe laws been made for the protection of those who are willing to live by the hardest toil , but are threatened with the convict ship if they dare describe the injustice to which the tyranny of class legislation has doomed them r Will no one venture to face this Whigling upon the hustings , and ask him to point out those safe and gradual changes which he advocates as his qualification to represent the industrious classes ? lu the event of this Whigling being returned , of which there is but little chance , as Mr Firth truly said , the West Riding of Yorkshire will be divided into a "Yea" and a "Nay '' in the House of Commons . But , like all other

      Whigs , when the enlightened baronet found himself in ah inextricable puzzle , he exclaims , " Oh , he ' s a Tory tool , hired by the Tories to disturb the meeting 1 " Ah , Sir Cunning ! that war-cry served its purpose but its day is gone . It was the last resource of Gobden ' and Sidney Smith , but the Chartists have learned how to distinguish between their friends and their enemies , and are no longer to be caught in that trap , yours is a Whig cry . Firth ' s was a National cry—one that you were not able to answer , aud , therefore , not qualified to represent the enlightened class to which your SCHOOLMASTER belongs .

      The great questions which now agitate the public mind are , population , colonisation , emigration , and starvation ; and for a solution of these great problems we are told that Political Economy is the text book , and from these great facts let us endeavour to deduce tlie qualification of taehustingsschoolboy to . discharge his Parliamentary duties . When asked , by Mr Firth , " Whether he believed this ' country was able to maintain its inhabitants , ' and what were the causes that made the * people Starve ? '' the would-be legislator replies ; " These were ' questions of Political Economy , not . questions on the . duties . of Members of Parliament . '' v' i

      > Now , can any schoolboy , can any reporter , or even editor , restrain hia - laughter , when he reads , the Baronet ' s ¦ answer ?; He boastingl y presents himself to he questioned as to his ' fitness to discharge the duties of Member of Parliament , and when questioned - upon the one subject which of all others distracts the cabinet , the country , and the legislature , and upon the science which is relied upon as the text book for the , solution ef all , he says , " These were questions of Political Economy not questions upon the duties of Members of Parliament . "

      Fore Gad I here is a pretty candidate , who declares , that population and starvation are subjects with which a Legislature has nothing to . do , but were mere questions of political economy —the veryscience > and the most abstruse one , which Parliament has long been endeavouring to solve , unravel , arid unmystify ; while , m £ . fortunately , all its heretofore endeavours have but tended to entangle , ' complicate , and niystify . But perhaps the honourable baronet will explain what the duties of a Member 0 f Parliament are upon the hustings , when surrounded by those with whem mystery and entanglement will constitute his best qualification .

      Let us suggest-a course for him . We believe he was first in the field , and therefore will be the first nominated , and the first to address the electors , and—miserable mockery ! —the , " non electors" as well ; whose hands will select , until the voices of the privileged reverse their judgment . This position is rather an unfortunate one for the Whig cock , as he must enter the pit , trimmed and spurred , to make battle with his antagonist ; whereas , had he been last in the field , he might have waited for the declaration of his opponent ' s principles ,

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      and IhWlmet Jt 3 i 6 m > with > -a direct negative , placinghis * . pretensions-upon . anti"TotyV" and : not .. Whig principles , : whjcb ,-. according 4 o . his l own showing , ' cannot be . explained . ¦ ¦ ¦•• • - *¦' But is he isi ' p laced ! in his present awkward position , we will furnish him ' with a speech for the occasion t— , - "Mr High Sheriff , electors , and NONELECTORS of the West Riding of the great , county of Turk . ( Loud cheers . ) Ahj I am happy to find thatyou are proud ef your local habitation and your name . ( Shouts of ' We have nq habitations ! ' ) / My friends

      who interrupt me must be aware of the onerous duties which have devolved upon me in my recent canvass-through this extensive district , throughout which I have considered it my duty to submit myself to the most rigid and searching examination , in the several large towns in the district—no easyttask , I < assure you ; and in the discharge of which solemn duty , my friends will discover that I have contracted a severe hoarseness ; and I must , therefore , claim their indulgence . " ( Hear , hear , and . cheers . ) ( Aside to the Mayor of Leeds : " What shall I say ? " ) .... The Mayor : " Oh , abuse Denison . "

      " Gentlemen , the great ] and onerous duty now devolves jipon ; you of choosing a member to represent youi in the . House of Commons . There are two candidates before you . : My principles are well known to you , and so are my opponent ' s . I am a Liberal in the fullest sense of the word ^ shouts . of 'BraVo , ' from the p latform)—and if I am honoured with your confidence , I shall , endeavour , to the fullest extent of my power , to realise those great principles upon which alone , I believe in iny conscience , ' the stability of this empire must henceforth depend . " ( Shouts of applause . ) ,, . ; , ;< i -A Voice : "Ar'tfor doing away with the damnable Poor Law i "

      i : ' "I thinkthat , like many other of our institutions , requires ' . very great ^ alterations , arid I shall withhold . any expression of my opinion upon the subject until—if honoured by your confidence—I shall hear the views of the successor of the late able and much lamented head'of that department—Mr Buller . ( Laughter , and / Live horse , and you'll get grass , ' arid 'Go back to Edinburgh . " ) , ,,. A Voice : "Ar ' t forGaggingBillandtransporting . folk if they speak their mind ? ' * "The measure to which my friend refers was rendered necessary b y the revolutionary state of foreign countries , the licentiousness of a portion of the foreign Press , and the discouraging effect which those events were calculated to

      have upon our domestic trade and industry , " ( Shouts of " Get thee home ; lad "— " Go and take another lessen from Firth—we can ' t be worse off than we are . " ) " Well , that is a measure , of a mere temporary nature , and if Government should apply for its renewal when the Act is about to expire , I shall be entirely governed by the then circumstances of the country . But , let my friends bear in mind , that while they catechise me so severely , the party to which my opponent . boasts of belonging , expressed

      disappointment that the measure did not go farther , and , therefore , the duty , the only duty , which now devolves upon you , is to choose between a professed Liberal , ready to march onward in the safe course of progression , and a professed and rabid Tory —( Hear , hear , cheers , and waving of hats on the platform)—who makes no secret of his determination to resist all progress . ' ' A Voice . —** E'mun , but we'll squeeze him ; and we'll put thee , and the like of thee , tother side of the House , and THEN thouls't squeeze him too . "

      "JWell ,. my friends , I have now made a clear and unmistakeable ayowal of my " . principles . You have to choose between one who is a Free TraderTn heart ; and one who cloaks his views upon the subject in mystery , calculated to in * spire confidence through delusion . " A Voice . — "Thon ' rt . a Leaguer * then ? We had enough of them chaps . One lot speculating in our labour , and the other in our food . We won't have thee . Get thee home . Theu ' rt a humbug . Wilt g ive Suffrage ,, lad ?" ( Cheers . )

      "lhave already answered the several questions put to me upon that head . 1 trust you will question my opponent upon those several points , and if he goes farther than I do , let your choice be decided by the / . soundness of y our judgment . I thank you for the indulgence you have manifested towards me in my present critical position , and . I trust that , although my examination has been severe , that I have treated all with that courtesy and res .

      pect which should always mark the conduct of men upon , such occasions . Again thanking you for yourkindness , and assuring you , if I should become the man of your choice , I shall exercise my poor abilities , ( Shouts of" Devilish poor , lad . " ) Well , such as they are , they ehall be ever devoted'to your service , and the dearest object of my heart shall be the amelioration of the condition of the labouring classes . *' ( Cheers and groans . )

      Now , there is a capital speech for the haronet , a much better one than he will make ; and , in conclusion , we have to express an ardent and an anxious hope , that the good men of the West Riding will march to Wakefield on the day of nomination , and shout "Ireland , " " . Gagging Bill , " " Starvation , " "Transportation / '' Imprisonment , " "Whi g Tyranny , " and '•* Treachery , '' in the ears of the Whig candidate and his friends .

      Our policy has ever been , and ever shall be , to weaken the . hands of that faction—to rip them up into shreds and patches , without the slightest reference as to the colour or principles of their opponent , until we ' place them in that situation for which Nature designed them—in opposition—where they are spouters ' of liberty arid resistors of tyranny , thus affording some check to a rabid Tory . administration . We conclude in the graphic words of the old Geae « ral , when leading his ' soldiers to battle .

      "THERE'S THE ENEMY - BY G ^ -, IF YbU" DON'T BEAT THEM , THEY'LL-BEAT YpU . " »*^^ yr ^^*^^***— . ^ t ^ tas ^ - ^^^^^^ - ^^^^^**

      The Forthcoming Chartist Trials. ; The T...

      THE FORTHCOMING CHARTIST TRIALS . ; The trials of the Lancashire Chartists will commence ,: we belteyei some time next week . We are sorry to say , that the funds collected for'the defence of tlie victims fall far short of the ' requirementsof . thecase . We earnestly trust that a last , simultaneous , and general effort will be made , Within the next three days , to procure the necessary means of securing for our persecuted , brethren all the aid that legal skill and talent can supply . ' '" . ' ,., i '¦ - '' Let' all monies be addressed to Feargus 0 'C 6 iinor , Esq , M . P ., "Northern-Star" Office , 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . . ' ' ' . ' . ' ..

      The following paragraph has been going the round of the ' " respectable" Press : — "Toe ChartistPbisonebsinKibkdale for Taut . — There will be about sixty Chartist prisoners for trial at the coming assises , / Though the charge against them has reference to physical force , men of morefeeble bodies and weak constitutions it would be difficult to find in all katicashire . There are not three manly-looking fellows among them . Time , reflection , and treatment have wrought a wonderful change in their opinions and expectations . In the event of captiom ior treason , they took for granted that they would be treated as state prisoners , and fed at the Queen ' s table . 0 r M'Douall was ottbis opinion , and great was his disappointment at being set down to gaol allowance . He sought to be sent to Lancashire , as his wife could thenllvo there , and see hi oi daily . Defeated

      in this object , ' he became dejected , and continues in rather low spirits . The Chartist prisoners at flrst . de . manded to be treated as offenders of distinction , and have felt what It is to live on gaol bread . Tho mist that' surrounded them has dispersed , the friends they loved have deserted them , and the Crown solicitor is perplexed at the number who pray to be permitted to turn Quesns evidence . "—Liverpool Journal . The scribe of the Liverpool Journal knows very little of the defendants when he asserts that there are not three manly-looking fellows among them . If John West , James Leach , and George White—to say nothing of a host of others— -ate not manly-looking , we should like to know where he will find his men ? But , granting that many of the defendants may be

      men of "feeble bodies and weak ' constitutions /' it ddernot- ' app ' eaY ^ e ^ rsutpri ^ such men . should- dreams ;© fi ? righting ? their wrdrigsbyi . ' pb ' y 8 ica ^ force . " "Feeble bodies and ' weak cbnititutidns * ' are the results of an oppressive system . The starving man may find his strength wasting daily away , but it does not follow that his spirit must needs de « , cline as rapidly as his bodily powers . " Oppressioa will drive a wise man mad , " and star , vation will goad the wretchedjto talk of ! ' physical force . " Sometimes—in other nations , if not in this—deeds follow ' words . For words and deeds , not the oppressed , but the oppressors must be held responsible .

      The scribe of the "Liverpool Journal" jests oyer the sufferings of the poor fellows who have been lying in prison through want of bail . Dr M-Douall ' s punishment is made the subject of special merriment . The "Liver pool Journal * ' ruffian looks upon the sufferings of Dr M'Douall , as something particularly funny . When we remind our readers of what has been already stated in this paper , that the Doctor is confined to a cell thirteen feet by seven , for twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four—that he is compelled to pick wool-rtbat he is forced to wear the gaol dress—that he is half-poisoned on the gaol diet—and , consequently , that his health is

      rapidly sinking—when we add , that he is permitted to see his family and write to his friends only once in three months—we have said sufficient to give our readers an idea of Dr M'Douall ' s sufferings , and of the pitiless malignity of the wretches of the Press-gang who chuckle at , and exult over , this catalogue of human miseries . We are told in the paragraph from the "Liverpool Journal , " that "time , reflection , and treatment , have wrought a wonderful change" on the Chartist defendants ; and it is added that "the Crown Solicitor is perplexed at the number who pray to be permitted to turn Q ueen ' s evidence . " ¦ ¦ : ¦

      We will hope that the approaching trials will prove the . latter part of the statement we have just quoted to be a calumnious invention on the part of tht "Liverpool Jourrial . '" But if proved to be the truth , then , while lamenting the treason ( or shall we say the weakness ?) of those who have passed over to the camp of the enemy , our indignation will be excited principally against the Inquisitors who have had recourse to torture for the purpose of creating traitors .

      " Tht hall ef horrors , and the alienors pen , " were formerly employed by tyrannical priests to prop up their power , nevertheless , that power crumbled away . So with . political oppressors , The torture ' of solitary confinement , degrading labour , hunger , cold , and insult , may serve their ends for a time , but not for ever . At the worst , the cowards and traitors will be few , compared with the noble army of dauntless and enthusiastic martyrs , whose great example will give birth to

      " Thoughts—Influences , to lire la hearts unborn ; Opinions thai will wrench the priion-key ¦ Prom Persecution ; show her mask off-torn ; And tramp her bloated head beneath the foot of scorn . " We commend to the attention of our readers a letter from Mr George White , in vindication of his character against certain calumnies lately promulgated to his injury . Believing Mr White to be a thoroughly honest man and sincere Democrat , we can sympathise with his indignation against the dishonourable imputations cast upon his character-We wish Mr White every success in defending himself against both slanderers and persecutors—private enemies and open foes .

      A Chartist Candidate In The Field. The C...

      A CHARTIST CANDIDATE IN THE FIELD . The Chartist Executive Committee have determined to bring forward Mr Samuel Kydd as the Chartist candidate for the West Riding . We understand that Mr Kydd . left London some daysago , to commence his canvass of the electors and non-electors , : Mr Kydd ' s abilities are so well-known , that any recommendation of ours would be altogether superfluous . . His fitness to represent the people is well understood by the masses themselves in every town of importance in the West Riding ; and the working-men—if true to themselves , will rall y round him „ in their thousands on Monday next . Hurrah for Kydd and Labour ' s rights ! The Charter and no Surrender !

      The Poor Law In Ireland. The Poor Law Pu...

      THE POOR LAW IN IRELAND . The Poor Law purge is evidently working a revolution in this unhappy country . Landlords , farmers , and peasantry—all who can contrive to possess themselves of ; the means , in fact , are flying from Ireland as fast as they can . If things go on at the present rate a great portion of the island will Deleft desert . ' Estates cannot find purchasers , because the burdens upon them , or likely to fall on them in

      future , exceed the rental ; The farmers gather together the remnants of their property , and cross the Atlantic by ' ' hundreds , and the steamers bring over to this country hordes of poor famishing wretches , who add to the enormous mass of pauperism and vagrancy already existing in it , We . observe by the police reports , that one duty of the city magistrates daily is to dispose of an immense number of charges against vagrants of . this description .

      The selfishness of landlordism has brought its own curse . They would govern Ireland in the way they have "done—namely , by the strong hand . They laid the foundations of society in , tyranny and injustice , and the inevitable retribution , which , in the long run , ever waits on such conduct , has visited them at last . When they complain that rents cannot be collected—that their late tenants have carried off all they could scrape together , and have fled across the sea—let them remember their ownpast conduct to Ireland , and see in the present state of the country , the natural

      consequences of their own misdeeds . They willed that their country should be politically and industrially enslaved arid degraded , and they are now reaping the fruits of their own policy . . The facts to which we refer , are not only a lesson to the landlords , but to the Government also . They may now sit down , and count the cost and the results of their late victories in the so-called Rebellion , whether these were achieved by the force cif arms , or by . lawyers and the jury-box . They have made , and are making , a solitude , in order that they may call it peace . Inthe middle of the nineteenth cen .

      tury , the highest , wisdom of an English Govern , ment and Legislature , can only find one cure for the social evils of a land ' possessing a superabundance of all the natural elements of national prosperity;—and that is depopulation . Verily , "Our fathers have eaten sour grapes , and their children ' s teeth are set on edge ! ' ' The way out of all these difficulties is plain enough and simple enough , but for that very reason it willnot be adopted . Our rulershate truthful , practical business-like measures . Every thing must be tortuous , involved , and complicated . They have bewildered themselves with a host of moonshine crotchets , elaborated into a very awful looking thing called Political Economy : 1

      and for fear ofviolating the canons of this dread " Science , " thjey are content to let a nation go to . wreck alhd ruin . We observe that some of the Boards of Guardians in Ireland , not having the fear of this new Deity which rules our rulers , have taken a very easy way of putting matters rig ht . Finding themselves called upon to pay a great deal of ntbney to feed idle people , they bethought them of the expedient of setting these idle people to work by means of that very money on idle or unemployed lands , and the consequence is , that the idlers produce more than they eat , and the Unions are relieved from the burden of supposing Idle paupers * * « , __

      The Poor Law In Ireland. The Poor Law Pu...

      ^ But thjsjs ,, as we havejatd , fartbd simple ^ and plaihT plan " t 6 "h " e adopted"by Eandh fds and'Whigs ; and so they , rnus ' t , we suppose , go on . blundering until , in the course of events , honester and . wiser men take the affairs of the nation in hand . : : ; .

      Notes On Popular Movements, The Aspect O...

      NOTES ON POPULAR MOVEMENTS , The aspect of affairs in England at a moment of universal copimotion upon the Continent , is very remarkable . With us " nothing is stirring but stagnation , " The West Riding Election is the onl y event of a political character which excites general interest . No doubt the late leaders of the League will work with might and main to prevent the election of the late Member , because Mr Denison is an avowed Protectionist ; and his return

      would be a virtual recantation of the creed of the Free Traders , besides affording small hope of the re-election of Mr Cobden , in the case of a dissolution . It is of the utmost importance to the League that they should maintain the prestige of their party , by keeping hold of the wealthy and powerful Constituency of the West Riding ; . and that they feel it to be so , is proved by the fact that John Bright has taken the field in person , as a supporter of Sir Culling Eardley ; the probability-is , however , that this undisguised interference on the part of the Manchester clique , will do more harm

      than good to Sir Culling . Not a few Yorkshiremen are anything but pleased at the idea of having one stranger foisted on them by the League , and are not at all reconciled to ' the idea of taking another from the same hands . It will be seen that advantage will be taken of the occasion to test public opinion , by nominating a representative of Chartist opinions . With the exception of this affair , the quiet which marks the political world is reall y singular , and would almost . induce the belief that it is merely the temporary but deep calm which immediately precedes a storm . In the

      most ordinary state of political affairs there is always some agitation or other going on ; but all parties , for the present , seem struck dumb . The people are only recovering from the assaults made on them b y our liberty-loving Government . The middle classes having been doctored by the Times , and the alarmist Press in general , into a state of feverish panic , are afraid to move for the support of even the "little goes , " which used to be so rife at this time of the year . The Financial Association , at Liverpool , with its parings and its seductive cry of economy , which at any other time would

      have elicited a ready response from all the tribe of shopkeepers , and the race of " penny wise and pound foolish " people who abound among us , is a failure , in s pite of the attempt of the Press to " write it up . " The people have no objection to cheap government , and have long been aware of the extravagance , and the disgraceful anomalies of our national expenditure . But they are more anxious about good than low priced government , and' they are convinced that an effective and a just government never can exist , until the Legislature really represents all classes of

      the community , and is a faithful exponent of the people ' s will . With respect to the present incidence of taxation upon . particular classes , there is no doubt that great injustice is done by our present system to the poorer classes , and that it is " possible to construct a much fairer scheme in appearance ; but it would be in appearance only . After all that can be said , there is but one source from which all taxation can be paid , and that is the produce of Labour . It matters little , therefore , to the labourer , if 6 , 000 , 000 / . a year is to be in future ( as it is now ) the amount annually paid to carry on the Government , whether he pays it directly , or has it

      taken from him by others , and paid in their name—or , at least , the difference is—speaking in a pecuniary sense—so small , that it is not worth talking about . The only thing really desirable withjreference to this financial question is , that the taxation should be cut down at once to some two-thirds , er so of the present amount , in which case there would be a sensible diminution of burdens . But , in order that the workers should have a fair share , and their due proportion of the advantage , it is essential that they should have representatives of their own , to look after their interests , and see that the new scale of taxation was equitably framed .

      Another movement may be mentioned , as in some degree breaking in upon the monotony of these " piping times of peace "—the Ragged School movement . No doubt many of the amiable people who take part in this have deluded themselves into a sincere belief that it is a most philanthropic affair , and that they are , individually , the very perfection of Christian virtue and benevolence . Others , of course , know better , and laugh at it in their sleeves , though it suits their purpose to row with the stream . ' The whole Movement is just one of those popular fallacies which present a sufficiently attractive and specious appearance , and effect just such an amount of benefit in individualand isolated cases as to direct into that channel the

      resources which might otherwise have been available for more useful plans . The very magnitude of the evil for which these Ragged Schools are intended as a remedy , is sufficient to show their hollownessand inadequacy . It is stated , that in this metropolis alone , there are not less than thirty thousand children who live by vagrancy and theft . In every large town inthe country , the prop ortion is at least the same to the entire population . ' This accounts for the fact , that in spite of schools and improvements of all sorts , the sum total of criminality is yearly

      increasing . These improvements do not penetrate into the depths of our social system , from which the recruits of our great standing army of criminals are constantly enlisted . In the tortuous lanes , blind alleys , and unventilated courts of immense districts , in every populous town and city , are to be be found an immense population , whose doom—previous to birth—was to be beggars , prostitutes , and thieves , The cost of maintaining this perennial and growing criminal army , is estimated at not less than £ 9 , 000 , 000 sterling per an « numexclusive of the value of their

      depre-, dations upon society . It is increasing : it will soon be £ 10 , 000 , 000 . What is the inference I Why , that nothing less than a . vigorous and enlightened national effort is capable of coping with so gigantic and costly an evil . Instead of that , we have the aforesaid amiable , well-intentioned persons , leagued with a score or two of Church clergymen and Dkg seating preachers , taking dilapidated old cowhouses , stables , and piggeries , in the heart of the destitute and demoralised districts , assembling such of the children as they can lay

      hold of , and teaching them sundry scripture lessons and spiritual hymns . When they have learned these by rote , they are paraded on platforms before public meetings to repeat and sing them , in order that a few stray halfcrowns may be wheedled from tbe pockets of "the Christian public" in support of " so good a cause 1 " Why this is very " moonshine madness 1 " The old story of Dame Partington , who tried with her broom to sweep back the advancing tide of the Atlantic Ocean , was a sober reality compared with it . |

      We have seen not a few of those exhibitions lately , and it was rather trying to the risible muscles , to watch the ill-concealed chuckle " at the fun of the thing , " which lurked in tha eyes and in every feature of the faces of these young " Ishmaelites . " They evidently thought the whole affair a capital joke , more especially as being picked ones they were indulged with the luxury of a wash , some clean and whole though coarse clothing , and a warm meal dailyl for carrying it on . That such mere surfacemongering should make the slightest impression on souls so deeply incrusted in moral filth —so prematurely old in ' the world ' s worst ways

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 9, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09121848/page/4/