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    • iDS Tse Tea Trade, Oct. 7. —The deliveries of tea
    • A WoNDKBFDu COSMETIC—A most extraordinary phenomenon, it is said, has just made its appearance
    • On''Saturday, the 2nd of November, will be ' pubShed the first Number of
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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1» , 1950.
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      UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETY . Enrolled pursuant to 10 Geo . IV , c . 56 , 4 is 5 Witt . IV . c 46 , & 9 & 10 Vic . c . 27 . —Instituted , 7 th Feb ., 1843 . PATRONISED BT . THE WOBKTSO HUMORS . •„ - ' ,,, <• „„ v „ :- » «_ j The Socieryis divided into six sections , to meet the necessities and requirements of all classes of mechanics and labourers , from fifteen years of age to forty-five . This Society consists of above two thousand members , and has a funded capital of 2 , 6221 . 16 a . 31 ; having paid the Mowing sums for benefits sine * iu . formation : _ Sickness , 5 , 708 . 5 s . lOd Funerals , 1 , 3821 . Sar ^ rannuation , 30 t . Os . 4 d . Fire , 361 . 16 s . Sja ^ JTpfc . l , 7 , 1591 . is 7 Jd . The following is the SCALE OF FEES to be paid at entrance : 3 s . must be paid when admittea . and the remainder can extendoveraperiodofairmonOis , tobepaidwitlithe subscriptions , monthly , if desired : — - . ¦ Age 1 st section . " 2 nd section . 3 rd section . 4 th section . 5 th sec hon . 6 th ^ hon . eroml 5 to 32 .... £ 0 5 s . 2 d . .... £ 0 4 s . 8 a ..... £ 0 4 s . 2 d . .... £ 0 Ss . Sd . .... £ 0 3 s . 2 d £ 0 2 s . 2 d . - 32-38 .... 0 7 2 .... 0 6 8 .... 0 6 2 .. ° _ » £ •••• ° \ \ «<* ^ nutted — Hfi _ 4 ft n in o n q 8 ... 0 9 2 .... o 8 » .... 0 8 2 .... over ¦ - 40-45 " ** ii I "" 1 0 2 I ! :: 0 19 8 ° « 2 — 018 2 .... twenty years BELT JLLOW 1 SCE * « SffiKSffiSS ^ DfflHBANStUTIOH . ^ m ' s DEAm-WKE ' S OR NOMINEE ' S BEATH . KrstSection 18 s . Od . 6 s . Od . - f £ l ' J % * : "" *?? 2 "J — ' fi % u > miA fliftn t ; n 6 0 Second ditto .... 16 0 0 .... 8 0 , O fSif ^ 11 0 ' . t 0 Thirdditto .... 12 0 0 .... 6 0 0 XL ^ 0 4 0 Fourthditto .... 10 0 0 .... 5 0 0 fS , ^" 2 2 ; I o Fifthditto .... 6 0 0 .... 3 0 0 IwSfliH ^ 7 0 . V . " ... none . Sixthditto 2 10 0 .... none oixm auto ... - ^ £ pIRE j „ an Divisions ( with the exception of the Sixth ) £ 19 . MontMy contributions to ensure the above benefits . UnderSOyearsrfage . fc ^ ofd * ^ f Sid . fSlddJtto " I " 0 1 GeneralExpenses 3 ' 2 J * 1 Insurance in caseof fire , 3 * 7 1 4 d . a month for TWrffltan " 2 4 [ including 2 6 can be raised to 15 ? ., 2 10 Medical F ^ urflTdftto '" . ' 2 O / Postage , & c , 2 2 ' ljd . a month extra , 2 5 | Attendance and . RrS ^ to .... ! l 8 I ljd . Monthly . 1 10 J or 20 f . 3 d . a month . 2 1 j Medicine . Snrtaditto .... Yonthfe ] j ciftj TPM 0 W and Orphans' Funds extra , for which , see the rules . , Agencies are established in many of the principal Towns throughout the Kingdom , and agents are required mall narts to whom a liberal allowance is made . Every information ban be obtained , by application to the Secretary , at Se Office of the Society , 13 , Tottenham-court , New-road ( thirteen doors from the top of Tottenham-court-roadj , S > t . ^ P ^ sonsmtheConntry applying for Rules can have them forwarded , by enclosing twelve postage stamps , and if for form of application , or information , three stamps must be enclosed . - - -

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      ALSO THB BRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING S 0 CD 3 TY On an Advance your Bent is Saved—you become your own Land and Householder . PA . TBONTSED BY * THE -WOBKING MIUIOSS . Bonkers . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Branch ) 6 , Henrietta Street , Covent Garden , Cftoirmon of Directors . —George W . M . Reynolds , Esq . Xon * m Office — ~ $ o . 13 , Tottenham Court , New Road , St . Pancras , London . —Daniel William Borrr , Secretary . AsBAXGEo is TflKE Sectioss . —Value of Shares and Paymentfor Investors . Full Share .. .. £ 120—payment of 2 s . 5 d . per " vTesk , or 10 s . 6 d . per Month . nsdfShare .. .. 60 1 2 | 5 3 Quarter Share .. .. 30 0 7 * _ . 2 8 Applieants ' are requested to state in their form the Section , they desire to be a Member of . Ho SOBmOBS " , SoLIcrroBS ' , ot . HEDEHrnoN Fees . —The present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Bules , & c , is 4 s . ner Share , and 2 s . 6 d . for any part of a Share . Price of Rules , including Postage , Is . * * ' ' OBJECTS . 1 st—Toenable members to build Dwelling Houses . 5 th . —To give to Depositing Members a higher rate of inand Leasehold Properties or land , - Children , or Husbands for their Wires , or for Marriage 3 rd . —To advance Mortgages on Property held by settlements , members . 7 th . —To purchase apiece of Freehold Land of sufficient 4 th . —To enable Mortgagers being members to redeem value to give a legal title to a County Tote for Members ot their Mbrteaees . Parliament Section L—By joining this section every person in town or country can become the proprietor of a House and Land in bis ovra neighbourhood , without being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and family wiftvTinyA / if paining- a lrrehnoocL . Section 11 — To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwelhngs thereon , and divide the Land into allotmentsn ^ half-an-acrenpwards . mornearthetownsofthevariousbrauchesofthesociety . The property to be the "bona fide freehold of the member after a term of seven years , from the date of location , according to his subscriptions . Szcnos HL—Saving or JDeposit section , in which , members not nvisbing to purchase are enabed to invest small sums , receiving interest at the rate of five percent par annum , on every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . K . B . — £ 500 will be advanced to the members of the first Section in November next , when all persons who have and may become members for shares , or parts of shares , on or before die 4 th of November . next , and who pay six months ' subscriptions in advance , or otherwise ; will be eligible for an advance .

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      EMIGRATION . THE BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION SOCIETY , ' To secure to each Member a FARM of notless than Twenty-five Acres of Land in AMERICA , By Small Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Loxdos Ohice : —13 Tottenham Court , New-road , St Pancras . —D . W . Rum , Secretary . OBJECTS . To purchase a laige trac o Land in the Western States To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , of America , npon which to locate Members , giving twenty- all necessary live and dead stock , and other requisites , five acres to each Share subscribed for . _ supplying each member on location with , the quantity re-To erect Dwellings , and clear a certain portion of the quired at cost price . Land on each allotment , previous to the arrival of the allottees . j _™ muij :. »« , » T .. j ; . To establish a depot , from which to provide each femily To provide for the location of groups , homing the Land in . ^> - , ... , . oojmion , as well as for individuals , securing to each their mQx " «> required quantity of wholesome food , until their CoSectire and separate rights and immunities . own land produced sufficient for their support VALUE OF SHARES . Each Share to he of the ultimate Talac of Twcnty . five Pounds . To he raised 69 Monthly or Weekly Subscriptions , as folUnos : — A Payment of Ninepence per Week tor Ten Tears will amount to 19 M 0 * . Bonus , 51 . 10 s . Ditto Sixpence per Week for Fifteen Years will amount to 191 . 10 s . . Bonus , 51 . 10 s . Repayments may be made to the Society in Money , Produce , or Labour . Erospectuses , Boles , Forms of Application for Shares , and every other information , may be had at the Office as abov & All applications by Letter , addressed to the Secretary , must be pre-paid , and enclose a postage stamp , foe renly , By enclosing twelve postage stamps a Copy of the Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance by enclosing three postage stamps . Agents required in all parts of Great Britain .

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      5 ATI 03 fAIi CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday October 13 th , the adjourned meeting of the Democratic Conference will be held in the Coffee , room ef the John-street Institution . Chair to be taken at three o ' clock in the afternoon . On Sunday evening , ( same date ) the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet at the King and Queen , Foleyfitreet , Portland-place . Chair to be taken at half-past six o ' clock ; and Mr . John Fnssel willalsolecture as above . To commence athalf-past eight o ' clock . On the same eveniBg Mr . Wheeler will lecture at the Bricklayer ' s Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road . On Monday evening , October 14 th , a public meeting will beheld at the City Hall , 26 , Golden-lane Barbican . Several friends to Democratic and Social Sefom are expected to attend . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock Signed on behalf of the Committee , John Aenott , General Secretary .

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      TO TAILORS . £ g approbation of Her Zfojesly , Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . sow READY , THE LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for AUTUMN and WINTER 1850-1 , the mostsplendid and superbly-coloured PRINT ever before published by Messrs . Benjamin READ and Co ., 12 Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; andby -Cr . BERGER , Holywell-street Strand . This exquisitely engraved Print wiU be accompanied with Riding , Dress , Frock and Shooting Coat Patterns , all of the newest and most fashionable style , and every part fully illustrated both for Cutting and Makrag-up . Also the registered Cape and Cloak-Paletot for persons of , all nations , the most convenient garment every before in-1 troduced , and will admit of great variety in cutting and j jnaidng ^ ip : every particular explained . Registered according to act of parliament , by Reap and Co ., 28 th ' August , 1850 . All persons purchasing the Fashions are at liberty to make and seU the same ; and all other persons not purchasing the fashions , by sending 3 s . for the Pattern and printed information , for that and all other particulars eespecting Style and Fashion for the present season . The beautiful and richly-coloured Print is exhibited in the Royal Exchange , London . Price , with all the Patternsand informations complete , 10 s . Sold by Read and Co ., 12 Bart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; ft Beiger , Holywell-street , Strand ; and all booksellers in the United Kingdom . BEAD and Go ' s . Patent Measures now become universally adopted , price 5 s . the set , with every explanation respecting their ntility and use . Registered patterns , of any description , sentto measure , Is . each , post free . ( Ladies Paletots same . ) READ and Go ' s . New System of Cutting vrill supersede everything of the kind before conceived . Terms and all particulars sent post free . Instructions in Cutting for all Jdods of Style and Fashion , so that any person may perform equal to baring forty years experience in a few hours . Habits performed for the trade . Busts for fitting coats on . Boys figures , & c , & c . Post-ofiice orders , and post stamps to any amount taken as cash . K . B . —Foremen provided .

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      THE B £ OOZ > Our bodies have been entirely formed , art now forming , and will continue to be built up during Lfe from the Blood . Has being Hie case , the grand object « to ieep Hiis precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for without this purity , disease uiillshow itself in some way or the other . It is universally admitted that this Medicine will p urify the Blood better than any other , and will conquer Disease . Govs of a letter addressed to Mr . Drury , Bookseller , w Lincoln . Sir , — L Charles Foster , ground-keeper to Henry Shep-Tjherd , Esq ., do this day , Octxrtwr 5 . 1847 . attest to the followics statement : « Having heen ill alongtime . proceeding frtrnpaininmyhoay , attended with considerable fever , tew faint , sick in the morning , without being able to disrfutnre anvthing from the stomach , and no appetite whatever , with maly other disagreeable symptoms all over » mere medical maa -was » M « V benefit me i « n * -I becamereducedinBirengthsoniucIiasto preventmyattendiTK' to mv USUal avocations . Hearing the manybenentt . derived from old Pake's Phis , I decided at once to give them " ^ Spurchaseda box at your shop , near the Stone Bow , iincom . and it affords me . great pleasure to inform -jou that the one box entirely cured me , and I am now en-Sr * lv « . stared in health ; but whenever I feel lets active , ind no " s ^ Kvely a - s ^ ual , I immediately haver ^ nrse ; to SdPAKs \ and a couple of his pills brag me right . The ^ ni ^ feffertpiiiB ' s Pitts have had upon me is such laat I cantcarcely bdicve that I am the same man I was a * £ monu ^ s ago : 1 felt then as though my hfe was nearly ended : now , I feel hearty , rod able to nndertake anyde-Scnption of Work and exertion , without feeling that , exces-» ve fetisne I did previous to taking them . It is really and imlynewlifetome : I have given this statement voluntary , for the benefit of those of my fellow c reatures who Know nothmgot old Past ' s wonderful pUls . Iremam , sir , yours reapectfuHy , Chables Fosxbb . —Lincoln , October 5 th , 1817 . „„ , ., _ . „ To the Proprietors of Parr ' s Life Pills . Sirs —The above case has been g iven me this day from fhelros of Mr . Charles Foster , who came for two boxes , and who was not disposed to go away without sendinz you Jord for the benefit he has received . Iremam , yours , & c , XutES DKUBT . Iaordertoprotect the pubtofromindtations , theiHon . «~» , X ; cainnpA of Stamps ordered the words " PAIUiSs M ^ ^ tobe Sved on the Government Stamp , RE FILL : * TOM eu of each box , in White which is parted wunoime auUjen ^ TEa 3 . ° ^^ nnriou ? ' Sole Proprietors , T . Boberts , tictty , theyare spunous . sow * v ^ fl gold and Co ., Crane < courr , f «* -sf r > iTpj-n-iio 07 St WhMe by their appomrmen ^ y B ^ dwar ^ C ^ t Paul's Churchryard ; alsoby Barclay gj ^^ f an d ton-street ; and Sutton and Cfc ^ Bw ^ gn * g ^ j ^ Kagdom , and by most « f uieJ"j £ ^ ^^ each , ont-. Pn « ele . lld ^ 2 s . m , ana ^ "J , had 'Thelafe and Times at Thomas a mx , uia . j ratis . of »« as * M * Mo th in town oronuntry .

      Ids Tse Tea Trade, Oct. 7. —The Deliveries Of Tea

      iDS Tse Tea Trade , Oct . 7 . —The deliveries of tea

      In The Metropolis Were, Last Week, 573,U...

      in the metropolis were , last week , 573 , ua » ., oemg arger than for a fortnight previously .

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      Education for tlie Millions , THIS BAY IS PUBLISHED , ~ 8 o . XXI . of " THE NATIONAL INSTRUGTOS , " PRICE ONE PENNY . The object of the Proprietor , Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., is to place within the reach of the poorest classes that Political and Social Information of which they are at present deprived , by the Government" Taxee on Knowledge . " SIXTEEN LARGE OCTAVO PAGES , . Price One Penny . CONTENTS OP No . XXI . Working-Class Co-Operative Societies . The Secret . Parental Education . Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor . Field-lane Criminal Manufactories . Now Ready , THE FIFTH MONTHLY PART , Stitched into a Wrapper . Price Fourpence . CONTENTS OF PABT V . The French Newspaper Press . Who'll be a Soldier ? The Secret . ( Continued . ) Life and Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . ( Continued . ) The Revolution in Vienna , and the Death of Robert Blum . Gleanings . The Heroism of Humble Life . The Bridge of Westminster . Rambles in Schleswig Holstein . A Goasip vrith Longfellow , the American Poet The British Newspaper Press . Population and Employment . The Two Wishes . The Lord Mayor ' s Dinner . The True Romance . Science and History for the People : Astronomy .

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      SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 PENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed to the office of the SorViern Star , London ; or to A . Heywood , 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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      NOTICE . A WEST . EIDIN 6 DELEGATE MEETING will be held on Sunday , October 20 th , at Mr . Hartley ' s , Temperance Hotel , Manchester-road , Bradford , at Eleven o'Cloek in the Forenoon , for the purpose of electing a secretary and treasurer . Also , to take into consideration the suggestion af Mr . O'Connor , on the propriety of holding a Conference in Manchester on an early day ; and , also , to discuss the plan of organisation which is brought forward in London by the Social League , National Charter Association , and the Fraternal Democrats , for the purpose of an amalgamation of all grades of reformers into one bond of union . The following places are requested to send delegates : — Bradford , Leeds . Pudsey , Birstal , Dewsbury , Holmfirth , Homey , Berry Brow , HuddersfieW , Halifax , Sowerby , Sowerby-bridge , Warley , Lower Warley , Wakefield , Queen's Head ; Wilsden , Bingley , Keighley , and any other place in the Riding . By order , . > - .- ' ¦ Thokas WrtcocK , West Hiding Secretary , To whom all communications must be addressed , to the care of Mr . Thomas TJmpleby , News Agent , Manchesterroad , Bradford , Yorkshire .

      A Wondkbfdu Cosmetic—A Most Extraordinary Phenomenon, It Is Said, Has Just Made Its Appearance

      A WoNDKBFDu COSMETIC—A most extraordinary phenomenon , it is said , has just made its appearance

      in this city , viz ., ; a slave from the South , who has discovered a secret mode of changing the coloured skin to a white one . He has already , according to report , changed the hue of his feet , his hands , and a part of hia face , while the rest of Ms person is gradually undergoing the same wonderful metamorphosis . The story is , that , -while at work upon his master ' s plantation , he discovered that a certain weed exercised this astonishing effect . He and a number of his fellow slaves , rigorously applied the cosmetic , and the result is before us . He expects

      to be fully , white in from eight to ten months . Should the whole negro population of the south acquire this secret , they will want nothing but wigs to enable them to walkaway self-manumitted , and set all attempts of slavery to arrest them at defiance . The . slave in question , it is said , refuses to reveal the name of the weed until he . shall have become wholly , white . . Nor will he reveal the name of his master ,,: nor the place of his former servitude , lest he may be kidnapped again into bondage . Mr . Barnum , they say , is after him , and promises to purchase his freedom , if he will suffer himself to be exhibited . . The Colonisation or Abolition Society oag ht to purchase his secret . —New York : Sun .

      Tub Game Laws . —Sevehb Sentence . —At the Petty Sessions at Khigawinford , last week , William Parker , of Sedgley , a miner , was summoned at the instigation of Mr . Bannister , Lord Ward's head keeper , for trespassing in pursuit of game , in the parish of Sedgley , on the night of the 13 th of September , by setting gins and beating with a dog . An under keeper , named James Hinckley , proved the case satisfactorily , and the prisoner was committed to" Stafford gaol for three months , with hard labour . . At the expiration of that period ho was required to find two sureties in £ 5 each , and Himself in £ 10 , or one surety in £ 10 , not to be guilty of a similar offence for twelve months ; and in default of finding such sureties to be " further imprisoned for the space of six months . ' ' The verbal undertaking to pay another person ' s debt is not binding . It requires to be in writing .

      On''Saturday, The 2nd Of November, Will Be ' Pubshed The First Number Of

      On '' Saturday , the 2 nd of November , will be ' pubShed the first Number of

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      EOBEBt OWEN'S JOURNAL A Weekly Periodical explanatory of the knowledge most essential to the happiness of all . Price Ont 1 Penny ; by post , Twopence . Published by Clayton and Son , 265 , Strand , London k OWEN'S « HT WORKS , THE REVOLUTION IN MIND AND PRACTICE . LETTERS TO THE HUMAN RACE . CATECHISM . And FABEWBLL ADDRE SS , Are published by Effingham Wilson , Watson , and Vickers , London .

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      THE PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL , And the Magnificent Historical Engraving , of the PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS , Are now ready . If any of our subscribers have not received them , application should he made to the agent who supplies thorn with the paper . Agents are requested , when ordering Prints , to state by what means they are to be forwarded .

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      $ ortratte of ftainoto The readers of the " Northern Star , " and the Democratic party generally , are informed ; that there is-now a re-issue , of the . various Steel engravings lately distributed with the "Northern Star . " They consist of - / Kossuth , Meagher , Louis Blanc , Mitchel , Ebnest Jones , Smith O'Bbibn , ; ¦ ' . Richard Oabtler , John Frost . ' j '" These Engravings have excited the admiration of every one who has seen them . They are faithful portraits , and are executed in the most brilliant style ; Price Fourpence each .. There has also been a reprint of the undermentioned portraits , which have been given away at different times with the " Northern Star , " and which are striking likenesses , and executed in the most brilliant manner—Andrew Marvel , William Cobdeii , Arthur O'Connor , Henry . unt , Patbick O'Bjggins , P . O'Connor , Bbontebre O'Bbien , W . P . Roberts . J . It . Stephens , There is also a re-issue of the two large prints , " THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OP 1839 . " " THE PRESENTATION OP THE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mb . mWCOMBE , m 1842 . " To be had of J . Pavey , Holywell-street .

      Co Erorve*Poniseiu*.

      Co erorve * poniseiu * .

      Polish Refugee Fund . —W . Davia begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums : —Concert at George Tavern , £ 1 6 s—Assembly Rooms , Hampstead , 8 s 7 d—Calender Yard , 7 s 3 d—C . Styles , 6 d—Mr . Miller ' s Book , 8 d-Collected onBonner ' s-fields , by Mr . Stokes , £ 2 4 s 7 d —Raffle at Golden-lane , 6 s—Collection , ditto , Is lOJd—R ., per Mr . Moring , 4 d—Mr . Miller ' s Book , 7 d—Lecture at Trinity Chapel by Mr . Worrell , £ 2 lis 5 d—Mr . Smith , 5 s—Mr . Sand , 2 s 6 d—Mr . Hows , 5 s The committee will meet next Wednesday , at the new Democratic Hall , Tarnmill . Blreet , ClftVkettWall . Received from J . R . Calrerton , 5 s . Cd . Mb . J . Tekpebiei , Shotley Bridge . —Received . Mr . Wallace , Coldstream . —The cash was received on the 16 th of September . Mb . P . Black , St . Andrews , and Others—The portraits reauired will be forwarded early in the ensuing week . '

      Several orders came too late for enclosure in agents parcels despatched this week . The full-length portraits of Mr . O'Connor are all disposed of , also that of Robert Emmet and T . S . Buncombe , Esq ; r < Refugee Foud . —Received by T . Brown—Haynau ' s Refuge , Concert 5 s l £ d—Calender-yard 6 s Gd—Mr . Arnold ' s sub : scription 9 s Id—Concert at Stratford £ 10 s ljd . The Irishman . —Several correspondents having requested , us to give the address of Mr . B . Fullam , we are enabled to inform them that it is 10 , Great BrunswicK-street , Dublin . Joan Dawson , Lees . —Under such clrcumstancea we certainly believe that possession is nine points of the law , " J . H ., Wigan . —We are not answerable for the truth of advertisements . The public must decide . Were' we to publish such letters as yours , we should be liable to innumerable actions for libel .

      The Northern Star Saturday. October 1» , 1950.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY . OCTOBER 1 » , 1950 .

      The Land Question. ¦ A Lull In The Polit...

      THE LAND QUESTION . ¦ A lull in the political world always succeeds the close of the Parliamentary session , but We never recollect of its being so deep , and so protracted , as at present . Party politics appear to have fallen into abeyance . The few thinly-scattered party demonstrations , usual at this season , which have , as yet , been made , only serve to exhibit more completely the apathy of the great mass of the community , and the want of zeal , or earnestness , 6 n the part of those who play the leading characters They are , in fact , routine observances , from which the life has departed , and are merely honoured because of that reverence which

      John Bull habitually pays to whatever is hallowed by " use and wont . " The public mind is not , therefore , dormant , or contented with these dull decencies . In proportion as thepeoplehave escaped from the leading strings of party politicians , they have betaken themselves to the study , and the agitation , of questions far more comprehensive , important , and radical , than any ever mooted within the narrow circles of contending factions . Industry , and the tenure of the soil , are the subjects which now attract attention , and excite interest , to the exclusion of almost every other

      topic . "We have already alluded to the Tenant-Right Movement in Ireland , as a growing and formidable , antagonist to that territorial feudalism which has , hitherto , been the especial bane and curse of that unhappy country . Its rapid progress , and the varied elements of strength which it is accumulating , are evidently producing uneasiness and fear , in the minds of the landlord class . Their organs sre becoming abusive ; a sure sign that the new League has succeeded in "touching the raw " and making the " galled j ade wince . ?' On this side the channel the popular tendency shows itself in tho increasing discussion on the

      subject , not only by the newspaper press , but by periodicals of high pretensions and influence . The right of a email class of men to appropriate the soil of a country , and to lock it up from its inhabitants , except upon condition , 'that for the -permission to cultivate it , the cultivators will maintain the appropriators in idleness and luxury , is one that will , in future , receive a most searching scrutiny . Even if such a right . could , by any possibility be established , the question would remain to be considered , whether the consequences . upon society were of such a character as to render the continuance of the system desirable .

      The manner in which the subject has been taken up in the United States , is perhaps ' the most forcible illustration of . its fundamental and all-important nature that could be adduced ^ In that Republic / blessed with the freest political institutions the world has ever witnessed at any period of its history , the blighting' influence of landlordism has been found to be as productive of evil as in the . long-established monarchies of Europe . Even the peculiar and unparalleled territorial circumstances of the States are ^ sufficient to counteract the baleful operation of the system of-Land Monopoly by individuals . It is found , that virtually

      the possessors of the soil become the masters of society , and that all lacklanders are really their slaves . Neither political nor territorial advantages unrivalled in the world , avail against this terrible tyranny . The wide stretching prairies of the " Far "West , " and the millions of millions of acres of fertile , and , as yet , unappropriated virgin soil , are a mockery to the masses . In whatever direction the tide of population flows the land jobber and speculator sails with it . The moment the land in any quarter is likely to her come valuable , he forestalls it . When the actual settlers reach then- destination , they find , that although not an axe has been laid to

      The Land Question. ¦ A Lull In The Polit...

      the root of a tree , not a spade full 0 o & vth has been , turned over , they must pay for liberty to support themselves by their own labour to some owner of "Almighty dollars . '' at a distance , who has purchased the fee simple from the State . Driven forth from crowded cities and thickly populated districts , by tb # exactions of landlordism , they find that it pursues them even into the wilderness , and there asserts its " vested interest" in their " thews and sinews . "

      The Land movement originated by Mr . Evans , the editor of Young America , has , in the course of a few years , attained great influence , and promises we think , ultimately , to extinguish this monster evil . In various States' Legislatures as well as in the Federal Congress , the question has been made a prominent subject of discussion , and some of the moat eminent public men have unequivocally given in their adhesion to the National Reform Party . In a few of these Legislatures , acts have been already passed , embodying the principle

      of the movement as far as " Homestead Ex ' emption " from liability to debts is concerned , A large portion of the American Press supports the movement , which has also earnest , active , and talented advocates in every part of the Union . Under these circumstances it will be strange , indeed , if America be not the country first delivered from the bondage of landlordism . At a recent meeting in New York , presided over by Mr . Horace Greeley , the Editor of the Tribune—the most influential and popular paper in the States— -Senator Walker , of Wisconsin , said : —

      In most other countries , when beneficial reforms are proposed , the first thing is to attack the government ; the limited right of suffrage manacles the power of the people . Here the case is different . Here , if we do not carry out reforms , 'the fault is our own , and not that of our rulers . He-was proud to : believe that our institutions-were capable of securing any desirable reform ; if they do not , we must censure ourselves . He was glad to believ * that the people would never hazard those institutions . With a people thus situated we learn on the

      same authority : " Land Reform has become the great reform of the day . People were asking , in every section of the land , the reason of the vast disproportion in the distribution of wealth ? " They found it in the monopoly of the soil by a privileged class ; and they were determined that this source of social oppression and misery should be closed . Their chance of success may be judged of by the concluding sentence of Mr . Walker ' s speech : —

      Each man of you is more powerful than the President himself , armed with your ballot . He rejoiced that this reform had come from tho " bone and sinew " of the Iandf ; he was from that class himself . He was glad to know that these doctrines were now looked upon as something holy ; that they were heard with respect , and even with pleasure , in quarters were they were supposed to be least palatable . While in the old and settled States on the Atlantic side of the Rocky Mountains , this paramount reform is steadily progressing towards fruition , through the medium of public agitation , and the influences brought to bear upon public opinion ; it has given use to a hos-:

      tile encounter and bloodshed m the New State , which has so suddenly sprung up on the shores of the Pacific . By , the last advices , Sacramento City was in flames , and the landlord and free soil party were in arms against each other . That auch was the probable conclusion to the quarrel which has been waged by these parties , ever since California was settled by the anglo-Americans , must have struck all who have watched the progress of the dispute . It is only about four " years since the American flag was first hoisted in that country . At that time there were some twelve thousand native

      Californians and white adventurers , with , perhaps , double , or three times that number of roving Indians , in the whole of that magnificent territory . Since that time , at least two hundred thousand emigrants have poured into it from the Atlantic States . Many of them holding the principles of . the National Reform Association , saw in California a clear and unoccupied field for the application of these principles . The money which had conquered the country * was supplied by the whole of the citizens . Each had paid his quota of taxation for the support of the army

      by whom it was wrested from Mexico . It belonged , therefore , in the first place , to the people of the United States , and , as yet , had not been appropriated to , or by a landlord class . They demanded that it never should be , but that here , at least , where there was a " clear stage , " there should . " also be no favour , " and that every actual settler should have a homestead and land sufficient for the wants of himself and family . Old claims resting upon alleged grants ; b y former Mexican Governments , have been put forward by various parties , to some of the richest and most favourably situated localities . Speculators in land sections and building plots ,

      acting upon the assumed legality of these grants , have purchased for " an old song , " large tracts of country , in order to retail them again at an inordinate profit . This nefarious conspiracy against the fundamental rights of the community , has been especially resisted at Sacramento City , where , in addition to the opposition upon abstract grounds , there is a legal objection . The grant to Captain Sutter , is shown not to include the tract of country upon which the city is situated . The Land monopolisers relying , however , on the support of the troops , have provoked collision . The first blood has been drawn in a purely agrarian revolutionary contest , with what ultimate issue remains to be seen .

      Enough has been said , however , to show that the Land Question , both in the new and the old world , is rapidly assuming that magnitude and interest in public opinion which is due to its intrinsic and essential importance . When Mr . O'Connor first urged it upon public attention in his letters from York Castle , feW listened to him , and those who did , either derided him as a visionary , or

      calumniated him as a spoliator . By indomitable energy and perseverance , he succeeded in making it the great question of the day in this country , and went far to secure its practical success upon a large scale . But the cunningly contrived laws enacted by successive parliaments of landlords , threw insurmountable obstacles in his way . The Society , of which he was less the head than the devoted

      and untiring slave , was refused the protection and the facilities which the law so ; readily affords to , companies trading for individual profit and advantage . The absence of that protection was fatal to the National Land Company , as it has been to many other associations founded for the benefit and emancipation of the industrial classes . It prevented the Directors 'from compelling the shareholders to pay up the capital requisite ; to the successful completion of the plan ; while , at the same time , it left them open to be p lucked by all tlie selfish , ignorant , or knavish members of the Company , and placed its property in such a situation that it might be plundered by whoever had the will to do so .

      Mr . O'Connor has met the fate of pioneers in great enterprises in all ages ; he has had to encounter the ingratitude of those whom he laboured to benefit , the obloquy and persecution of the world at largo , and tho loss of friends and fortune , in the prosecution of mea- ? sures . calculated to . improve the condition of his fellow men . But he is not without his reward . In the growing importance , of this trul y radical question , he may trace the results of his past efforts ; and now t hat many p ens and voices are at work in influential quarters where : it was formerl y unheard of , he may look forward with confidence to the eventual triumph of the cause he has so earnestly advocated . ' ' '

      All the great influences of Nature and Society point to % just apportionment and rational cultivation of the soil as the only sound foundation for individual and collective well-being in society . It is only , by framing society in accordance with this cardinal truth , v * t we can escape from the complicated

      The Land Question. ¦ A Lull In The Polit...

      [ difficulties that necessarily spring from our ' present artificial , commercial , and competitive system . That system contains within itself the germs of its own destruction . How rapidly it is approaching may be heard in the wail , of our manufacturers over the short cotton crops of America ; over the rapidly . diminishing profitable foreign markets , to w jjich they can export their . fabrics ; and over fche increasing competition to which they are evervwhere exposed . As Mr . Ferrand would say , " The Devil ' s-Dust System is going to the Devil . "

      M. Lamartine's Last Romance. M. Lamartin...

      M . LAMARTINE'S LAST ROMANCE . M . Lamartine , after an absence of twenty years , has paid a third visit to England . His first was in 1822 , when the policy of the Holy Alliance was avowedly that of the British Government ; when the scandal created by the prosecution of Queen Caroline was yet fresh , and when the whole nation was . w a state of incipient revolt against a licentious Court and a despotic administration . M . Lamartine , then a young man , noted accurately the outward symptoms of the political and social diseases that affected England , and " prognosticated , as everybody else also did ,

      the approaching decline of that great and mysterious country . " " The Ministry of Mr . Canning , '' he adds , f happily placed me in the wrong . " His next visit was in 1830 , a few months after the Bevolution of July , when , according to him , " the political Government of England had become moderate , reasonable , and wise . " But the misery of the English and Irish pro / etoVcs , frightened and brought consternation to the thoughts , of observers . " Ireland was dying of inanition , the manufacturing districts having produced more than the world could consume in fifteen years of peace , left an overflow of manufactures . The masses were emaciated , vitiated in mind and

      body , and vitiated by their hatred against the classes of society who . possess wealth . " M . LAMARTINE draws a fearful p icture of the vices and brutishness of the masses of proletaires , degraded by ignorance and hunger ; their altern ^ w : poverty and debaucheries ; their beddinglfi cellars and garrets . Social war , with all its horrors and furies , seemed imminent ; and , again , M . Lamartine foreboded " social war , like everybody else . ' * Again he has been disappointed . After the lapse of twenty years , he has revisited this country , but this time the symptoms of social suffering , disorganisation , and approaching warfare , are no longer visible to him . On the

      contrary , to look at the picture he draws of England in 1850 , it would appear as though it had climbed to the very summit of modern civilisation and prosperity . If not exactly Arcadian or Paradisaical in all its aspects , it is , according to him , quite so in its results . The marvellous increase of our metropolis , is dwelt upon with enthusiasm by M . Lamartine The manner in which that huge polypus sends forth its feelers , and seizes upon the forests , fields , hills , and villages , which surround it in every direction ; the sumptuous buildings , pretty villas , chapels , churches , schools , hospitals , penitentiary ; prisons , or new models , " which take away from their sinister aspect , " all contribute to throw M . Lamartine into

      ecstacy , It is not , however , alone in this overflowing of the wealth of London into the adjacent country that he sees the improved condition and brilliant destiny of this country . He says ; The City itself , that furnace at the same time blackened and infect of this human ebullition , lias enlarged its issues , widened its streets , ennobled its monuments , extended aud straightened its suburbs , and made them more health ; . The ignoble lanes , with their suspicious taverns , where the population of drunken sailors , huddled together like savages in dregs and dust , have heen demolished . They have given place to airy streets , -where

      the passers-by coming back from the docks , those entrepets of the four continents , circulate with ease in carriages or on foot , to spacious and clean houses , to modest but decent Shops , where the maritime population find , on disembarking ,. clothes , food , tobacco , beer , and all the objects of exchange necessary for the retail trade of sea ports : these streets are now as well-cleaned from < jfiltb , drunkenness , and obscenity , as the other streets and suburbs of the City . One can pass through them without pity and without disgust : one feels in them the vigilance of public morality and the presence of a police which , if it cannot destroy vice , can at all events keep it at a : distance from the eyes of the passers by ,: and render even the cloaci inoffensive .

      The same magical change presented itself in the manufacturing districts : — The appearance of the people in the streets is no longer what filled me with consternation twenty years ago . In place of those ragged bands of beggars—men , women , and children—who swarmed in the narrow and gloomy streets of the manufacturing town , -you see well-dressed workmen , with an appearance of strength and health , going to work or returning peaceably from their workshops with their tools on their shoulder , young girls issuing without tumult from the houses where they work , under the superintendence of . women older than themselves or

      , of a father or brother , who brines them hack to the house ; from time to time you see numerous columns of little children of from five to eight years of age , poorly but decently clad , led by a woman , whe leaves them at their own doors , after having watched over them all day . They all present the appearance of relative comfort , of the moat exquisite cleanliness , and of health . Tou will perceive few , if any ; idle groups on the public way , and Infinitely fewer drunken men than formerly ; the streets appear as if purged of vice and wretchedne ' ss , or only exhibit those which always remain on the scum of an im . mense population .

      Public opinion is in keeping with this high state of material and financial prosperity . In public places , and in private company , M . Lamartine was struck with The extreme mildness of men ' s minds and hearts with the temperance of ideas , the moderation of what is desired , the prudence of the Liberal opposition , the tendency evinced towards a conciliation of all classes , the justice which all classes of the English population render to each

      other , the readiness of all to co-operate , each according to his means and disposition , in advancing the general good —the employment , comfort , instruction , and morality of the people—in a word , a mild and serene air is breathed in place of the tempest-blast which , then raged in every breast . The equilibrium is re-established in the national atmosphere . One feels and says to oneself— "The people can come to an understanding with itself ; It can live , last , prosper , and improve for a long time in this way . Ead 1 my residence on this soil I should not any longer tremble for my hearth . "

      There is , however , one dark shadow to this brilliant picture : — ' " Poor race of men , ' said the pitying spirit , ¦ "earl y ye . pay for your primal fail ; Some flowers of Eden ye still inherit , But the trail of the serpent is over them all . " Even the bright sun of England is not without its specks , and it is , perhaps , well for poor human nature that it is so ; otherwise such excess of happiness , prosperit y , comfort ; and luxury— such a -perfect ; Millenium in the physical , social , and political world , might drive us wild with a'delirium Of joy : ! M : Lamartine , therefore , begs us to understand that he excepts :-i _ . '

      From this very general character of harmony and reconciliation two classes of men whom nothing ever satisfies-the demagogues and the extreme aristocrats-two tyrannies which cannot content themselves with anV liberty , because they eternally desire to subjugate the peo . pie the one by the intolerance bf the rabble , and the other by the intolerance of the little timber . -y . he M ^ Sm r & 0 n rf ° ' ^ t 0 crac y * and ° f theungoTeSe EStM $ t ° „^ ° " L *? t atul contrast by their 1 58 of opinions in

      SrrC ^ Fr ^ Gre ^ t Britain . But some clubs of Chartists , rendered fanatical & n ! SKk M T e clu ° * of diplomatists , rendered „ ^ . i „ i- yp " f ' - 01 , ] y sem « 'e bettor to show the calm n wi 1 A ' , ch " *? more and more prevailing in the other parts of tho , nation . The one makes speechosto the 2 w * Places where the people are invited to meet , anu tne / r tfcers pay oy . the line for calumnies and invectives against h ranee and the present age . No one listens , and no one reads . The people work on .

      Very natural and very proper , if M . Lamartine ' s facts are facts . Why should a whole nation , basking in the full blaze of material andnioral sunshine , trouble their heads with what a few discontented croakers may say , in the midst of the universal and superabundant happiness ? Everybody knows they have hot the slightest cause for grumbling . Afturs in commerce , manufactures , industry and trade , in Church and State , are so well ordered , and so perfect in all their ramifications ; that it is mere perversity of heart and intellect that induces these growlers to find fault . " Nothing , '' says M . Lamar tine , emphatically , " ever satisfies them . " These few paltry " clubs of Chartists , who are rendered fanatical by sophistry . ' havA not tha

      slightest real ground for complaint . They are merel y suffering from an intellectual iaun-Jcjjclitwevery ^ eitiiey iook upon wto its own bilious and bitter hue . That is all ,

      I Bat jbM . Lamartine a reliable and satis , i , factory authority . in the matter ? He confesse s 8 that he has twice already been mistaken in hi 8 a prognostications , derived from what he ob- - served in his previous visits . The confes sion l deserves credit for ' its candour , but it \ a no ^^ calculated-to Mate ' us place implicit confidenc e s in hia judgment . Time has altered M . La * martine even more than it has changed I England . It has given him a new way off looking at external objects . Had he visited ! us be fore the Revolution of 1848 , we doubt ; whether he would have discerned any essential I

      alteration in English society , or in its commercial competitive system . It has no doubt expanded during the last twenty years . It covers a larger space , and exhibits a more showy front , bat it is virtuall y unchanged in its character . In its results it is , perhaps , more destructive of the liberty , the permanent social well-being , and the comfort of the masses , than ever . Formerl y , M . Lamartine would have looked for the proofs of this ; now , he resolutely shuts his eyes upon them . He sees everything coleur de rose . In the excitement of his enthusiasm he introduces figures and backgrounds into his fancy sketch , which have no prototypes in the reality . Poets and

      novelists have a recognised license , when they are writing poems and novels ; but we humbly submit , that it is not allowable when they pro * fess to observe and record facts . The " airy streets" in the vicinity of the docks " the spacious and clean houses , modest but decent shops , " where sailors just landed can get everything of the best quality , at an honest and fair price , are mere creatures of M . Lamartine ' s imagination , ' The ignoble lanes , with their suspicious taverns , " have not disappeared—nor , we regret to say , "the population of drunken sailors , huddled together in dregs and dust . " . The well-dressed , strong , healthy , and contented workmen , in the manufacturing towns—the numerous columns of

      little children , presenting " the appearance of the most exquisite cleanliness and health , " defiling in the evening to their own homes , under the tender , enlightend , and careful guidance of the woman who has watched over them all day : — -where , in England , did M . Lamartine see them ? A benevolent and talented clergyman of the Church of England lately paid his first visit to Manchester audits neighbourhood . On emerging from one of the large factories , in which men , women , and

      children are cooped up by hundreds—morn , noon , and eve—amid the din and rattle of machinery , and an exhausting , over-heated atmosphere—he wi ped the sweat from h is brow , and remarked to a friend who accompanied him , that "he did not wonder at the discontentof thesepeople ; he wondered rather at their patience and self-possession . If he and his children were doomed to such toil , in such places , he could not argue with those who profited by the system . He would strike . "

      Unfortunatel y for M . Lamartine , the Correspondents of the " Morning Chronicle " have recently dug up the rottenness and dead men ' s bones , which are masked by the whited sepulchre of English society ; their disclosures rival M . Lamartihe's , as to the state ol affairs in 1822 and 1830 . M . Ledru Rollin , his late coadjutor in the Provisional Government , may have , perhaps , over-estimated theincidence of their revelations , and in his work on the "Declining of England , " have prophesied ,

      too co nfidently , of its approaching and rapid downfall . But , we would remind the critics who have abused and ridiculed M . Rollin , and laughed at the idea of his being an authority on the subject , that at least , he has indisputable facts as the basis of hia reasoning . The rhapsody of M . Lamartine is as purely fanciful as the gorgeous temples and dazzling landscapes which , at a summer sunset , present themselves to the imaginative watcher of cloud land .

      ( . Ledrtj Rollin may neither have written history nor drawn a correct horoscope . M , Lamartine is still less to be held up as an authority by the supporters of things as they are . His " England in 1850 " is the purest Romance he has yet written , and we trust , that in , future editions of his works , his literary executors , mindful of his fame , will place it among those of imagination . It will be a fit sequel to his dream , under the influence of " Haskish . "

      Workhouse Industrial Organisation. Indus...

      WORKHOUSE INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION . Industrial organisation appears to be making so me progress , if slow . It has always seemedtoustheacmeofnational folly , to expend millions sterling annually in keeping some hundred thousand able bodied labourers and artisans in compulsory idleness . That a people who boast so much of practical business habits and common sense as the English , should do this , was all the more extraordinary Neither can it be said to have been done from pure ignorance . Much knowled ge of what its professors call the science of Political

      Economy , had , in fact , driven the nation mad . It was in vain that a few persons who had not lost their wits , pointed out how easy and how profitable it would be , to bring the unemployed land and labour of the country together , and by a temporary advance of capital , enable the unwilling idlers to support themselves , and ultimately repay the capital advanced . They were ridiculed as " visionaries " and " theorists , " and advised not to talk non

      sense about such Utopian projects . To set the able bodied paupers to work , would , it was , and is averred , add to the difficulties and the evils of our present social state , even if it was practicable in itself . If so , it must be a monstrous and devilish social system , which pre * hibits the production of wealth , and saddles a section of society with the burden of maintaining a large proportion of the community in moody , suljen idleness , surrounding them at the same time by influences calculated to engender the darkest and deadliest passions of revenge , for the hardships and the indignities inflicted upon those whose onl y crime is povert y . Such a fact is in itself calculated to make all thoughtful men narrowly scrutinise the framework of our present institutions .

      But the Political Economists are omnipotent in and out of Parliament . For fear that any stray Board of Guardians should possess a sufficient glimmering of reason to make a trial of the self-supporting system , they deliberately enacted that no workhouse should be in posses * sion of more than fifty acres of laud . Tlie Poor Law Board has systematically discouraged every project that appeared to have a tendency to make able bodied paupers productive ; _ and it wasnot without difficulty that tlie Sheffield Guardian

      s , two or three years since , commenced a small experiment of that kind outhe heath y moorlands , in the vicinity of that town . Limited b y the law to fifty acres , they leased that quantity of waste land , and set a few of their able-bodied labourers to work upon it . It is now so far reclaimed and fertilized , that they intend to dispose of it at a rental proportioned to its improved value . They will then bring in another fifty acres to be treated and disposed of in the same manner . ¦

      The material benefit conferred by these additions to the cultivatable soil of England , is the smallest advantage derived from this process . Even the saving to the ratepayers is a secondary consideration , compared w ith tho moral influence which it has upon those ww > are thrown upon parish relief . They la ^ cheerfully ; in fact there is a competition among them to be sent to the farm , and tney are elevated in their own mind and character , by the noble sense of independence which flucn an occupation naturally produces . At ta same time , the system is found to be the very best test of assuKied poverty , and to deter froni seeking parish , relief all who are unvulwfil to earn their " oread by the sweat of then' brow

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12101850/page/4/