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      LETTERS FOR WORKING MEN . 2 ^ v . —The Milita Bill axd Fobeigx Affair

      TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR OF FISEEDOM . Sir , —I am reminded that in enumerating the various questions now interesting public indolence , I omitted to mention the Militia Bill , and flic question of « ar Foreign Policy . 1 think these questions quile worthy o : ' s ^ nnite consideration , and they ought to ]»<• very ju-.-miuent at the coming election . With regard to tli-. ' first question , I cannot better express my « . wii nj » hii : i ! i <> t" its importance , than by quoting ( of coarse n « r , .- ^ h- 'riag to ihe p- « tieularphraseoloov ) the c-p inini ' . ii " - ' * "« new Tory Chancellor of the Exeliwi .-r , 3 J . 'i : j : iraiu Disraeli . 1 L-.-rc js his explanation

      of what ongiii i « := e tJic cVjt-et of the Bill now before jvirli-smeiii . « T ;> h ^ s •**• Sr « t Attempt to habituate the people « of tb' 3 r .. J ; s ' ry to 'house of arms , to v . hieh they * -. rr-r . : : ; ot .: - ¦{>*¦ -m-iiI generally accustomed . Civcum-* stances , irre ^ tH ) c circumstances , had , for a long * tinw , r « id- « red such a policy necessary ; and if this 'Bill should be adopted , though it was not a measure 'tn . it would produc-2 a disciplined army able to eucoun-* tor the veteran legions « f the worM , it icould be the ' first Step ia a right direction , end ivovld lay the * f vim lotion of a constitutional system of national cfe-* fence . *

      When I rorjd this ( it was before the flogging clause had damnei tho measure ) I coakl not help saying ( spue of nil one ' s irrccoucilalile hali ^ l to Toryism)—this man at least knows what is wanted , I could not help contrasting such a sentence with the miserable co-vardly denials of danger ( cowardly because most of those denials spring from foar of having to front the danger , and tbe shopkeeper would rather make servile terms to save his windows ) the shabb y objections to any Militia , of the peacemen , and the Manchester men , and the dinners at the Elysee , with Messrs . Hume and company ' s quibbles about economic divisions of employments and consequent advantage

      of a regularly t -ained army ; a standing army ( on fid same prm : iple , I suppose , as those other divisions of masters and wages slaves , free and unenfranchised , goternors and governed , ' garrison * and garrisoned ); with Mr . Cobden ' s insolence in branding as vagabonds all whom a bounty of £ fi could induce to serve their country ( as only nprincipled vagabonds who would t . ke the money and go directl y to America ) , as if ' Fiee' Trade had so bettered the condition of the working classes tbat a bounty of £ G could he no inducement to any decent labourer . ( This comes well from the man who impudentl y pocketed £ 70 , 000 for being carried at the head of a

      movement which owed infinitely more to Colonel Thompson , Ebenezer Elliott , and others , than to Richard Gobden ); I say , I could not help contrasting Disraeli ' s speech with all the imbecile utterances on the other side . It seemed as if we mnst learn principles from tha lories ; for Whigs and Radicals alike were incapable of comprehending anything beyond some party manoeuvre . Even on Sharman Crawford's Tenant-right Measure—the best measure before the House—there was room for Tory Lord Jfaas to tannt the framer with having left untouched the case of the labourers , * as much entitled to a fair share of tho emoluments of the land as the tenant farmer or the

      landlord / Truly , as I have sadly noticed , the only readings of principle which the public have had of late from Parliament-men or publicists , have been from the purely despotic side . To return again to the Militia : what nonsense for men to oppose the bill on the ground that if £ 3 was given to men at the time of enlistment they would pocket it and desert . Was not this the simple answer : them pay them aftervard , instead of beforehand ? But never a clearsighted statesman could give this answer . 2 \ ever a clear-headed statesman , theoretical or practical , could rise to the real points at issue : —Was there danger ? Mas if tceK to acfopf the ' principle of

      trusting to the people for their own defence ? How immense the gain of such an acknowledgment of principle , however bare the acknowledgment I Not one of the economists par excellence could even seo that the maintenance of our vast military establishment is pretended to depend on the necessity of sufficient defence , and that if we could have a Militia ( not very costly ) for that purpose , we should have the strongest ground possible for afterwards reducing the standing-army . I mnst own that I have never felt more ashamed of what is called the . English Liberal Part y , than in watching the ame , insufficient , quibbling , unprincipled , narrow , manoeuvering , factions , paltry

      objections made by one or other liberal to this measnrea measure by no means satisfactory , hut in which a great principle was involved—the principle of a National Militia , worth asserting at almost any price , And out of doors public opinion seemed not one whit more enlightened . How , then , could I speak of this Militia Question , as one on which to call ont Vie sense of the country ? Seeing that none ara more afraid than tho Manufacturing Reformers of trusting arms in the hands of the working classes ( for fear of the * vagabonds , ' Mr . Cobden . ' ); and that so many of the working classes themselves are ready to forego any patriotism or political advantage for fear of some

      little drilling or loss of a few days' pay ? Since I last wrote , however , public opinion has found one point of agreement against the Bill . These Tories who could ^ 'habituate the people to the use of arm « , ' would habituate us also to the lash . Thank yoa for nothing ^ Mr . Disraeli ! We would have no « step in the right direction' on any such brutal terms . We may not be freemen ; but we are not such slaves as to care to show scarred hacks to our companions after * month ' s learning to he soldiers . £ 6 is not high enough for even fifty lashes . These Tories can learn nothing . With a splendid opportunity before them , right in the main , and not an opponent able to

      grapple with them on the fair principle of the Bill , they lose all , give Cobden a ground of right , and justify the most factious opposition , by their iuhereutteudeucy to their old brutal usages . Let tbe indignant sense of the country mark them at the elections . It is a point worth speaking on . But even that may not take the place of our speaking for the Suffrage This Militia Question now is no longer the question whether we shall have a beginning of self defence ( by ourselves instead of by tools hired for despots Uses ) or not j bnfc whether we will take a step in the right direction at

      an infamous price . Every decent man mnst answer—No ! Your flogging clause ought to whip yon out of office , and restore tbe Whigs . Lord Palmerston vofed / or the lash j Lord John Rns-Bell and Sir James Graham would not vote against it . Let them be remembered . And hero we may see how throughly of one mind these rival aristocratic parties are , except on questions concerning only their own persfnabties . A stronger argument can hardly be needed for giving all first attention to universal ( manhood ) Suffrage , togeiria of both of the

      Charlatans—Whig and Tory , and to pat something better than file shabby hydra which is called Radicalism , at our head . On foreign affairs the two-bodied aristocracy has just the same one-mindedness . Malmsbnry and Palmerston are alike admirers of the French Evil . Lord John Russell quite as much so : for Palmerston was not turned out because of his admiration , but because of the indiscretion of expressing it before we knew the sentiments of our friends at Petersburgh tm Vienna ; and also because her Majesty , the Queen of England ( who , the ' Westminster Review ' ™?" ?> IS heginning , like her old friend Louis TMippe to ruhasweliaa reign . Rather nnconstitafaonaJ Alaam )_ was for the moment a little

      flustered tlunbng what mi ght be the effect npon « our uncle Lespold . ' She does not of course interest herself in popular revolutions , but where our personal CoDurgisms are concerned . Well , no matter . The alliums of crowned heads iu Europe is quite a perfect family compact . Not one mi ssing . The Czar the treacherous Prussian , Young Austria , Cobnrgh Cousins , and Consins German without end , cracked Otho of Bavarian Greece , King Bomba , Pins IX ., and other Italian celebrities , those charmingly virtuous young ladies , of Spain and Portugal , Louis AapoJcon , and irreproachable Queen Victoria . It is all one » mily party , divided occasionally by private considerations , out always united against , the peonies . Does not nroud

      Agra uerby own , at the Lord Mayor ' s table , " At most corit , Vr , ^ I ' 'ft * every rascally court and government T ? n » S ^ fi : o , atJlQ Czar l 0 ^ e last of his lieutenants ? E , ° ™ « P » haughty English nobleman , our Prime ttaTMn ^^ S ly approving under tho assurance of Jan - « rLf ^ l dent ' sambassador . that never have the re-« orj Tmhle-1 i" md En 9 lwd bem of a wore satUfachada . better ^ % » -- 3 ° Vernmem ° f Ae tm COVMtriCS tie old and . ^ 3 ^ W * " VP " «« questions , both in S ! P great pouttri > ™ n- £ do we not find that upon TOugs . ia orooTS o & affectin S European liberty , the or office , wppoit ttewlbw traitors to

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      their conniry-these Tory enemies to Freedom ? It will not be supposed , noticing this foul alliance of Pf *" - ™ " ' I underrate the importance or urgency of che ingi ] so People Showing at bwst some interest ia the couse ol right , even u en matters of foreign policy . Let them speafc out as soon :-. 3 thev can , di-chvmmg the un-Eng lish policy ot our Out and Cabinet ( say Cabinets ); whether thev adopt the advice of the Friends of Italy , ' by taking oaro thataraoi .-g tho tests submitted to candidates » ttws « H proaehin-j election ^ sh all be ©» epMJ * m \ Um Vrf ' Of tbe country to ; m Honourable and liberal course of proceding on all questions afterine ©* r ^' " '' g , especiall y ns reganUlour hospitality »««*» <•<<* . ^^ or whrthor t ! iev pursue the course pointed out by ht few who have asked for tiwamcaml a subscr . pUon < f f ' [ f " ™ 9 for European freedom from every lover oj the righUvwca ** , in order t ! mf . tt . « stinatrlhur suffering peoples on u . t

      continent , mav count the rollof their Enajisu *»««" . «» £ ha PBCour . ii'r-d in their arduous wiirfaie . une w , iyoi other-or rather both uaus , let good men ' s voices moie ( m the latter course the voices and shillings of good women will be cquallv effective ); and so let a beginning o . right iction on this ' important oration «•• ni ? dc a ? ° !\ 1 ' ± „ the subscription be pushed wpidly through the country ( who is so downtrodden as not to sp-ire even one shilling to tbe martyrs of European Freedom ?); let the question ot an honourable foreign policy confront the oip . oioatists . and the tradesmen on tbe next hustings . Let both questions—tbat of a right to arms , nithout the ivkp , ana , tne duty of maintaining English honour , even m the lace oi friendly relations of crowned villains—be heard at the next election ; but let neither supersede the dominant question of Manhood Suffrage ; for , till we are recognised aa parts ot the sta : e—till we have /; o * i ' ftca' existence— how shall we save our own backs from dishonourable burdens , or be many comlition to fulfil our duty to our neighbours . SrAIlTACVS ,

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      consisting of a TEA PARTY A > ' 0 PUBLIC MEETING . IS HONOUE OF "THE STAB OV CKE'EDOM , " WU 1 be held ? t the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-Street , Tottenham-eourt-rond , on Tuesday evening , June 8 th , 1 S 32 . Tea on table at half-past fix o'clock precisely ; the public meeting to commence at eight o ' clock . Several friends to political and social reform will attend and address the meeting . Admission to the Tea and PnMis Meeting , 93 . To Public Meeting only , Gallery , 3 d ., Hall . 2 d . The proceeds will be givea to the Democmtic Refcgee Fond . Further particulars will be duly announced .

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      ' This is the medicine of nature . '—Sir J . HiLt , M . D . RE-ISSUE OE THE SECOND , EDITION of Two Thousand of BR . SKEf-TO-V'S FAMILY MEDICAL ADVISEll , on Saturdny , June Sflu Price 2 s , Cd , Also , the First and Second Numbers of the' Monthly Botanic Record and Family Herbal . ' Price Is . May be had of all bookseller ? in town and country the first Saturday of every month . Published by Watson , Xo . 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternosterrow , London . In the Press , and shortly wiU he Published , price is fid :, 'A Pica for the Restoration of the Veget . ble Practice of Medicine . '

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      Messrs . Basba = > , Pjbkisso . y , and other correspondents , are reqnested to send all monies , and make all Tost Office-orders payable to John Bczer . Ail letters to the Editor to be addressed i , Brimswick row , Queensquare , Bloomshury , London ; and all letters , monies , & c „ for the Publisher , to be addressed to John Bezer , ' Star of Freedom ' Office , 183 , Plcet-street , London . Sir . Johxso . v . —Received . We beg t « expess our regret that so many of our Town subscribers were disappointed in procuring last Saturday ' s nuEobsr . The demand largely exceeded that of the previous we . We trust that we shall make avrangeiru-nts as mil prevent all such disappointments for the future . Bmstol , Bradford , Nottingham , Ashton-unOer . Lvne , and other places . —Our correspondents at the above-named places are respectfully informed that owin ^ to a press of matter , we have been sompelled for this week to postpone their reports . Our friends trill si e that the report of the Conference could not be inserted without the exclusion of other matter .

      Tbe Star Of Freedom Satlkuar, Mat 22, 1852.

      TBE STAR OF FREEDOM SATlKUAr , MAT 22 , 1852 .

      The Almighty L. S. D. As We Anticipated,...

      THE ALMIGHTY L . S . D . As we anticipated , the renorfpd assertion of Mr . Disraeli , that * The Masters had acted in a manner subversive of the law , ' has called down the denunciations of the Free Traders on his head . The ' Daily ivews '— -thai head pedagogue rathe Manchester School —has had an article on this subject , in which the writer , with Pecksnifiian hypocrisy , ' thankfully records his conviction , that at this moment there is so much sound know ledge among the Working Classes on industry , wages , machinery , and all those important

      economic questions which most deeply affect the material-well-being of Society , ' that Mr . DlSJlAELl ' s words . can do hut little harm just now . He further says : ' It is this soundness of feeling that makes the country at a juncture like the present feel calm and assured . ' Either this is the most unsophisticated and unmitigated ignorance as to the state of feeling among the Working Classes , or it is tho impudent vaunting of the bully , who conceals his cowardly terror beneath the mask of bombastic braggadocio . What ! do these men think that because we have

      made strenuous endeavours to emancipate ourselves from tha tyranny of the feudal aristocracy , that we aro eager to establish the despotism of tho riutonomisfs , and their competitive regime . If so , they are fatally mistaken , and their security is but as tho slumber of one who sleeps on ground beneath which a volcano is ready for bursting . We look upon the tyranny of the Manchester men—the moneyocracy—as the most degrading and the most cold-blooded that the world as ever yet submitted to . Feudalism was bad enough , but this is even worse . It is more terrible in its efftcts and more prolific of human misery . With the feudal

      despotism there was a link between the serf and his lord . It remained for the money-grubs to gnaw this link in twain—it remained for these to destroy the last ties , and crush human beings out of existence , by slow torture in the Bastile . It remained for this Mammoth tyranny to rob the whole world and end with its miserable and degrading Poor Laws at home Let us attempt a brief sketch of this power , which , like AAEOX ' S rod , is fast swallowing all other powers . It is based in selfishness — greedy , unscrupulous , inexorable selfishness ! Lust of gain is its highest incentive , breeches ' -pocket music its proudest aspiration . It is deaf as an adder to the cries of the

      crushed masses , the moans of little children , and the groans of its victims trampled in the strife . Cold , impassable , and relentless , as the iron car of Juggernaut , it marches on its way , utterly heedless of the death and desolation it creates , and the ghastly wrecks of murdered Humanity , which it leaves behind . Indeed they aro the trophies of its triumph , akin to the Indian . warrior ' s scalps . The great weapon of this tyranny ' s warfara is Competition—unfettered and unlimited competition . Competition which gives certain victory to the power of gold over the liberty and life of Labour . Competition which gives to Capital all the organised fjrees of . society in its murderous warfare with the

      producers of wealth— -the craft of law and state to support it and enforce its inexorable decrees , with the sanction and blesaing of Priestcraft to absolve it , aud to consecrate its civilised cannibalism . Competition , which sets father .--gainst son , and children against parents ; which drives the married man who has no children , to work cheaper and undersell the man who has ; the unmarried man who has no wife nor children , to work cheaper still , and undersell both , and lastly , makes the children work cheapest of all , and thus undersell all adult labour , and flush the money-till of the tyrant taskmasters , out of their white-slave trade , with its own home market .

      Corapetition , which moans defeat for the poor , and victory for the wealthy , in whatever struggle they may engage ! Which means that the tender lives of infants must he used up in pestilent factories , to enable their parents to eke out their scanty incomes , that poor girls who have not the courage to resist starvation , mnst sell the name of love to buy bread . This competition is the principal agent , or chartered bully of this Middle Class despotism . And tbe only lure it h is to offer to the world , is comprised in the word « Cheapness . ' It is by virtue of this talisraanie influence , that it holds its present position . Cheapness , no matter at what cost soever . Though flesh and

      blcod have to compete with steam , and fire , and iron——though arms and hands , muscle and sinew , be pitted against uever-tirhig wheels and shafts , it must have Cheapness ! It sets six hundred millions of steam men , which perform all the functions of the labourer , competing with human machines , which must be beaten , because they work at such fearful odds ' Cheapness I though the condition of the pauper be letter than that of the active , able-bodied , labourer , and that of the criminal better than both , as it is at present , so that it is an incentive for the working man to get into the wwhhouse , and there commit crime , to be sent to prison for the betterance of his

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      physical condition . Cheapness it must have , it isi to only tenure 0 f toleration , aud that Cheapness is a terribly fatal snare , which we , of the working classes , have first found out , because wehavc been the first to feel the visitation of its fearful consequences . It is out of our productions , our fauonr , our sweat , ixmi tears , and blood , that this grinding' Cheapness u manufactured . This is hw all Enjrland o ' er , Manchester ' s siiui l » w we puess ;

      Less thev give fW more and more , More " they take for less . ' ' «>» i * s * . And then , with their spurious Free Frado , what do they do with , the profits they got out of our productions , but , place them in tho bauds of bankers and stockbrokers , who league together and purchase the whole year's produce of some foreign goods , which we consume , and raise the price of it in the English market to whatever maximum they think fit \ That is their Free Trade ! Reciprocity all oil one side . They rob and cheat us in all they export , and rob and cheat us in all the imports which we need for our consumption . Such is the

      tyranny of the moneyocracy—the Almighty £ s . d . And in working out its baneful supremacy , what terrible things it has done , and is still doing ! What discords it has sown—what noble feelings it has crushed— . what proud asp irations it has destroyedwhat brave hearts it has broken ! How it tramples the love , and affection , and chivalry out of men . What wars it has caused , and what g lorious ideas it has fought against . It has set up a canting respectability and a gilded hypocrisy in tho place of honesty and truth . It has installed " hollow shams and living lies in the throne of simple , noble , Manhood . It is

      eating out all the heart and spirit of humanity with blind selfishness , instead of glorifying it with the radiant spirit of self-sacrifice . It is encircling us in a system which kills us body and soul , slowly , but surely , instead of giving us room for healthy action and higher development . Moreover , it is a doubleedged sword and cuts both ways—those who give the blow , and those who receive it . It makes tyrants and slaves , and grinds all the manhood out of both . Such is the power which the scribe of the "Daily News " thinks we . lthe Working Class , entertain great respect for ; and , therefore , we shall bow down to it in lieu of the feudal aristocracy . Tho Masters have

      acted in a manner subversive of tho law , human and divine , but they are only a part of their system , and the slaves of the Almighty £ . s , d . ; a system which the working classes are beginning to comprehend , and out of which they will not escape without much tribulation and misery .

      The Resurrection Of The Eagles. All Thin...

      THE RESURRECTION OF THE EAGLES . All things are portentous of a new revolution iii France . Spite of Bokapabte ' s Prffltorians—spite of his manyefforts to gain the support of the ignorant and unthinking among the masses—spite of bis appeal to the martial spirit of the people , and the remembrance of the military glories of a bygone time , the fe e of the 10 th of May , intended by its originator as the day for his inauguration of tbe new empire , has demonstrated , by the sullen silence of the people , the storm that is gathering around the base and perjured betrayer of that country , which had , in its blind and generous confidence , bestowed upon him far more than royal distinctions .

      Who has BoKapaete gained ? Not the noblesse who see in him only the usurper of the throne of divine right , and . to whom he is but an obstacle in tho way of the re-establishment of tbo thrice slain monarchical and aristocratical system . Neither has he won the bourgeoise , for he has not crushed the revolution—he has not destroyed that mighty movement of modern Europe , nor is * he able , as he promised them , to perpetuate the existing state of things , and allow them to struggle on as of old in trading selfishness , oblivious of all principle and duty . And what has he done to deserve the gratitude of the workers ? He has proclaimed to them his desire to ameliorate their condition , and relieve their miser ies ; but in what has their condition been made

      better ? Pray , how much has their burden of woes been lightened ? A sufficient answer is given by tbe Bonapartist journals themselves , when they tell us of men dying of hunger on tbe highway , as they wander in search of work and food . Such accounts do not give much reason to believe that pauperism has been , or is likely to be , extinguished during the reign of the ex-prisoner of Ham . Moreover , the many amongst them , true-hearted , though mistaken , who received his coup d ' etat in December , with it a Men fait , " cannot now be otherwise than undeceived , " I have only , ** said he departed from Law to return to Right ; ' and this he and his minions have since conti ed to repeat , adding , tbat by eight millions of suffrages , the sovereign people has approved ol what they have done .

      But it cannot be so . Even the freely expressed suffrages of a free people could not amnesty the crimes and treasons of the perjured miscreant , whoswore again and again that he would be the devoted servant of his country , and of her republic . ' I have only departed from Law to return to Right . ' Is Right , then , that merciless despotism with which Franco has been afflicted since December ? If the massacre of the unarmed people , the death and transportation of the noblest and best of the children of France—the

      destruction of the liberty of the press and of freedom of thought and speech , be in accordance with justice and with Right , doubtless Bonaparte is the saviour of society and of France . If the French people can be persuaded tbat perjury , murder , and robbery are the attributes of ri ght Louis Napoleok will seem well worthy of their gratitude , and in spite of the noble and dignified language of Ahago , and the withering scorn of Changahnieu the fete of thelOtb of May , may indeed usher in an era of Napoleonic rule for France .

      The fete of the Eagles has , however , a far different signification . The spirit of opposition becomes deeper and more wide-spread every day , as misapprehension and violent party spirit becomes graduall y less . To stand still , was to await certain ruin , so the Dictator boldly plays his last card , by introducing , on the 10 th of May , the last act of the monstrous Bonapartist drama-parod y , mingled with the wildest traged y , that is now being played upon the atase of

      Europe . That act consists of WAR—War to the Revolution and to Liberty , within and without the frontiers of France . To aid the liberticidal work , comes the time-serving priesthood , who thundered the ' Marseillaise' in February , and who now come to kneel at the feet of the perjured traitor , and to bestow their benediction on his ridiculous and Woody bird , andiu the bayonets intended to be sheathed in the hearts of the patriots of the world .

      The Dutch hero of Strasbourgand Boulogne can no longer exist on the mere name of the Corsican bandit . Accordingly , he can now but seek to work upon the people ' s passion for military glory—to raise their enthusiasm for him as the leader of victorious France , or see himself swept away by that current of opposition which grows stronger every day . Poor , indeed , has his success been as yet . All the pomp and magnificence with which their eyes were sought to be dazzled , could not raise in the as sembled multitude even that very small amount of enthusiasm that would have sufficed to induce him to mount the Imperial throne .

      Greater success he will not have . We have not lost all faith in France . We do not believe that that noble country , whose children have so often shed their blood to strike down tyranny , and to form a union of European peoples , Republican and Free , will lend herself to the task of establishing a solidarity of Despotism , or will ever ieel the ignoble desire to make France , herself enslaved , the mistress of Europe in chains . What could not be done by Napoleon , a genius and a soldier , will never be accomplished by his servile imitator , who is neither . At the news of his first defeat , the Republic will arise from her ruins , and extend the hand of fraternity to the conquerors of the Despot . Verily , the resurrection of the Eagles is the beginning of the end

      The Emigration Of Engineers. The Flouris...

      THE EMIGRATION OF ENGINEERS . The flourishing condition which England assumes to the eyes of foreigners , is something like a decaying building covered with green and growing ivy . The very thing which gives it the apperance of strength and stability , is feeding on Us life and living on its decay . Look beneath the ivy , it is there you will find the work of dissolution and death goino- on . Look beneath the shining splendour , the holirded wealth , and the magnificence of England , and there

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      you will find Misery , Disease , Decay , and Death , preying at the heart of her . We are , at the same time , tho richest and the poorest notion in the world . We transcend all the nations of antiquity in the breadth of our possessions , and the extent of our sway . The boat of the drum which signals tho . hour of sunset , is caught up from station to station , and travels all round tho ulobo as it marks the track of England ' a rule . Wc have at this present time twenty millions of gold in tho bank , and ' some fifteen millions of ucits of land lying fallow . And beneath this power and wealth , cowers pauperism , and starvation , and crime , in the most horrible profusion . It is a singular anomaly which England presents . Wo Iiavo too much wealih ami too much poverty : that is , too many starring , mul too much food ' to

      food thorn ; too many naked backs , and too many clothes to cover them . This seems strangely paradoxical , but nevertheless it is true ; mid the reason of this is that England in her blind huny of mad competition , has concentrated all her energies upon the production of wealth , and lost sight of its proper distribution . Why we are actually rich enough as a nation to exist for tho next half century without labour . But whatis that to us , when hundreds of our fellow creatures go down to tho pauper ' s grave today and hundreds will follow to-morrow , crushed out of life by disease , over toil , and other deadly causes incident to poverty ' s' hell of torture . We have machinery enough to clothe the whole world ; but what is that to us , if wo cannot get clothed ourselves ? We can produce wealth ot the rato of twelve times faster than our forefathers , which fact

      might lead us to think that where they toiled twelve hours , wo need only toil one , whereas , our labour must double theirs , to enable us to obtain the means of subsistence . England has exhausted herself with over-production , and Labour perishes from ovi-r exertion . We have impoverished ourselves to enrich lbe whale world . Labour , which creates all , upon an average gets in return only one eighth of its own produce , society robs it of the other seveneighths . Capital is now predominant—it buys and sells us in the world ' s market at its own price . ln » deed , we cannot live in our own land , we are too poor to purchase our own productions , the work of

      our own hands ! What a horrible state of things What government and statesmanship it must be to bring us to this I In a country overflowing with riches , there is no room for us , and the best and bravest of the working-men , those who have some spirit still left in them to resent oppression , are ! . -eing- driven from among ns , to seek n land where labour may reap the reward of its own exertions , without being forced to submit to the degradation of signing the abominable ' document' of tyrant masters who are bound together , like a band of robbers , for the protection of stolon property . Is it not mournful ?—is it not heart-rending , that the men who utter such noble words as these should be compelled to emigrate ?

      We are defeated , and the conditions of ouv " gallant conquerers ' are , that before we resume employment , we must append our signature to a document of a most infamous ami degrading character ; of so bate a description that hundreds of our fellow members in London , men who have suffered much , who have looked blank misery sternly in the fece , are still determined , rather than yield that ennobling quality of honour , which finds a resting place in the bosom of the mechanic , as well as in the breast of the wealthy , that they will repress the rising love of coantry and home , they will sever the sweet ties of friendship and love , wtt \ tear asunder the bonus which bind them to their families , and seek a home auda livelihood in some foreign land , preferring exile , even death , to dishonour .

      These are not tbe men to emigrate . If the tyrants can rid the land of such as these , they can crush the soulless slaves who remain behind , and perpetuate their murderous tyranny for another century . Emigration is good , but not for the men who plough and sow , who build the house , and delve the mine , and create the wealth of the world , but for tbe rich rogti . 's , and palaced paupers , who squander our hard earnings , and fatten their rotten carcases on all life ' s luxuries , and wallow in mad riot with their drunken courtezans , their pimps , and parasites—the fiit-paunched and greasy Mamm >> nites , for whom a thousand instruments of torture are set at work , and

      a thousand hearts are wrung , and all those whose path is marked with tears and blood , curses and groans , broken hearts and desolated homes , these are the men to emigrate ' . If we could only rid the land of these , or make them work to win an honest livelihood , it would be a better and a happier land . If all tho ablebodied paupers who are pensioned iu palaces really did some good thing in the world , and were working in those occupations which their natural abilities fit them for , there would be no need of any Emigration for the children of Labour . 0 , you , men of the Iron Trades ! how much more of suffering and misery will be necessary to teach you that you must go with

      us in changing this Btate of things , which is daily killing the noblest life , and blasting the bravest energies of England ? All that is necessary to accomplish this is , that the Working Class should join in an united phalanx to demand their Freedom and Right—to say to the powers which crush them : — Our birthright is liberty our patrimony is the soil ; and cursed are they who destroy our inheritance . Hither you must give us the land , and leave to work and live , or we shall take it . It is the biggest blasphemy under heavpu to talk of over-populntion , while you shut up millions of acres of God ' s cartli . To us , Nature bares her beautiful bosom , earth smiles a welcome invitation upon us , and we shall not always suffer , starve , and die , while there is plenty for all .

      i Lat such a demand of Right , backed by the invincible logic of Might , be made by tho people , aud we should speedily have a Government based on the hearts and suffrages of the workers , instead of being bamboozled by this miserable mockery of Class Legislation , for even as it was said , ' Let there be light , and there was Light ; ' ' so lot the people say , * Let there bo Freedom , ' and they shall be Free .

      The Forthcoming General Election. A Publ...

      THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL ELECTION . A public meeting , convened by the National Reform League , was held in the Bccloctic-hall , Penmark-strect , Soho , on Tuesday evening , May 18-b , 1852 , " to take into consideration the best means of influencing the forthcoming metropolitan elections in favour of Chartist candidates , pledged to the social rights of the people !'* At ninejo ' olock Mr . Blaib was called to the chair , and read a letter from Mr . G . w " . M . Reynolds , highly complimentary to the League . Mr . C . MuitRAY said , the question was an open one—open to all present . It was the duty of Labour ' s advocates to stand forward on the hustings and proclaim the great principles of political and social rights in such a way nsto make them understood . If those men were not returned , it would be a solemn protest on Labour ' s behalf against the wrongs inflicted .

      Mv . Harbop suggested tbat certain steps might he taken that would induce the trades to give their aid in favour of candidates who advocated the rights of labour . Mr . Dick suggested , that committees of electors and nonelectors should be formed iu each borough for the purpose mentioned by Mr . Murray , and that each candidate should give a written pledge . Mr . OsnoRNB moved , That thia meeting ia of opinion that all true reformers sliov & o ., a * the approaching elections in the metropolis , tiiho measures to bring forward Chartist candidates , pledged to support the sotlal as well as the political rights of the people j and it recommends that a central committee be formed to encourage such candidates to come for ward .

      Mr . J . O'Brien , in rising to second the resolution , was received with great applause , and entered into a candid statement of tho pending contest between the territorial and mercantile aristocracy , both of whom might be fairly designated plunderers of the wealth created by tho Proletarians , and demanded that the people should bo up and stirring to take advantage of the coming elections . He depicted , iu glowing terms , the horrors caused bv tho present svstem , and contrasted therewith the blessings that would ' be the consequence of tho roign of political mid social rights , not only to the Proletarians , but to the people in general . Mr . 0 Unon resumed his seat loudly applauded , After a few words from Messrs . Hunniball , Mills , and others , the resolution was carried unanimously .

      A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman , and the ?«? £ A wa 8 ad J ° urned until Tuesdav evening next , the < 5 oth of May .

      Maxenestsr. -The Birthday Of Robert Owen...

      MAxenESTSR . -The Birthday of Robert Owen was celebrated < m Monday evening in the Social-Institution , by a leal arty and Ball , when an address from Mr . Owen was read , also one from our Society to him . — Wxlkimok nuRsUM , Cor . Sec , - [ Wo are sorn we have not room for the addresses . ] . A Marine Monster . —The brig Village Girl , which arrived in this port on Thursday morning last , from Patagonia i a m ? - carg 0 of guano , brought home a large Seonme seal . Ibis monster of the deep was captured on an island oft tlw Patagonian coast on the 18 th of December last , whilst in a state of repose . One of the crew observing the huge animal sleeping on shore , armed himself with a crowbar , and , with more courage than prudence , proceeded to the attack . Ho succeeded in approaching the animal without rousing it , and dealt out a most formdiable blow upon its head , by which it was severely stunned , but not altogether disabled . Bleeding profusely from the mouth and nostrils , the monster reared if . « ftlf « nnn its hind feet or fins , and

      threw itself against the breast of its assailant , covering him with its blood ; but before the wounded creature could recover itself , it was attacked by four or five other seamen , by whom it was ultimately despatched . The monster was upwards of nineteen feet in length , and is supposed to have weighed about two tons and a half \—MMaKn Herat * .

      A Word On 'Progregf^ To The Editor Of M ...

      A WORD ON ' PROGREgf ^ TO THE EDITOR OF m STAB OF n 5 Prn Sn This > said to be an age J ^' Granted . It is an ago of < Progress «„ ><* > gross , 'however , is not all on the rhrht S ' [\ government of this country has madoV , ° ' \ grass' m prison discipline , and one of tuf " 'V Progress' in prison disci pline is to red J ?? ' ° f workmen beneath the level of felons i » , n Jf ° . H » t to ihe comforts of life . In scveial b ' ? rcl ^ diir try Uw competition of prison labour | ! ° 'Q « ami most injurious to the interests of < u 5 ev ° ' ' e , workmen . That is a branch of ' ? C * ** 8 < demands examination . To use the count ™ tll ! " competitive power against smaller capital s , ^ i , s « unwise and unjust . Prisons aro surmo ^ > pubiw expense ; and prison-made goot b j , , t ! 'e pwted to realise a' living profit' And ] , ? toSbettor that persons « JJn ' „ , A ? ° «* H

      than live idle , it is not well tha | & of their labour should bo made tho means of 1 ° S the earnings of honest workmen ; vet such vm ( ii , n ? ting arrangements is practically u , e cn ' T" ' * h . labour in prisons ought not to bo destructive ff !* crests of hose who have escaped such ^ S ?* Propm ' ia prison labour should need be £ Kft havmg for , ts object the good of all . T hatlS ^ omitted , such ' Progress , ' when fully ex-imh ? i ^ be found to bo retrogression , } mc ( , < ^ Great « Progress' has been made by f !! a „ , ment , m tbo shape of cheap clothing 4 th » In land sailors , worked out through the medium I ' vernment contracts . Unnecessary waste i 8 , « ° " necessary evil ¦ but it will behovo tho nuthoviL * ) his country to take care that the « contracts' IT ° i into do not imply as one of their ISf * that working tailors and shoemakers shall boobS to work at such rates of wages as will render «& atrogglo and a burthen , rather than an raiWB , ? f which it ought , to be to all , and to none more S o an industrious working man . It is quite JS that 'Progress'in ' public economy'Lv R ? cases , be also « Progress' in private and un ^ onS ? misery . It would become even the 11 * 1 Wilhainses of parliament to look beneath tho . surf and examine the moral , social , and phYriMl »«¦ »» , tho'Progress'iu low wages / arisiiS gS ^ mont contracts' » iri 1 '

      1 ho building of improved dwellings for ineuu , portion of tbe labouring community is anrr ' ttcd ' bo a proof of advancing 'Progress . ' A 'lo rd 1 bishop , a member of parliament , or a benevolent lady , cannot , it may be , find a more becomiusr or usp ful employment . It will not bo amiss , hovever that such parties cast an eye behind them , and see ' that while they are engaged iu fcuMug stveets of nouse in our cities , their neighbours , or it . may be them selves , aro not engaged in pulling down cottars ig the country . It would also become lords andladies

      to look into the house accommodation of tho farm labourers employed iu cultivating the laud which thev own . It is a ragged kind of ' Progress' that ex . hausts itself in a minor city humanity , and leaves the vast a gricultural population to grub on iu misery filth , and rags . Such a ' Progress' will end iu a confusion , for which its devotees are not looking . Some of them aro even now beginning to wouder , why it ; is , that , notwithstanding all their efforts , men aro still to be found who aro scor-tical about the' Pro .

      gress' of tho age ? One day tbo overconfident believers in street building ' Progress , ' should they fail to look into the condition of the agricultural labourers may discover the cause of such scepticism . Right Honourable Chancellors of the Exchequer have of late years made considerable 'Progress' iu reducing national expenditure ; and take credit to themselves for lightening tbe burthens of labour . There was much room for ' Progress'in thai direction . But even Chancellors of the Exchequer may not always be correct in their conclusions . It ia true that taxes have been reduced . The ' burthens' of

      labour are not withal lightened ; and why ? Simply because the reduction in ta xes has not been by a long way so great as has been the reduction in the wages of labour . The woolcomhers of Bradford , the weavers of Wigan , the flax-spinners of Shrewsbury , the silk-weavers of SpitalfieMs , the boot and shoemakers of Norwich , Stafford , IS ' ortbampton , and London , are all agreed , that of late years their wages have been making 'Progress' downwards . A statement which it will become Chancellors of tho Exchequer to remember , when they assert tbat of ' lale years tbo burthens of labour have been reduced . ' A

      reduction in taxes to tho amount of ton shillings per annum is a very desirable thing considered by itself , When balanced against a reduction of wages amounting to ten pounds per annum . The ' reason why ' the burthens of labour are not reduced is

      selfevident . Tho Malthusian philosophers , with Lord Brougham at their head , professed to have made great' Progress ' when tbey enunciated that they would pul down pauperism by abolishing the old Poor Law of Elizabeth and introduced tho new Poor Law with all its indignities , being avowedly ' a step to uo Poor Law at all . ' In order that the conditions of relief should be sufficiently 'irksome , ' workhouso diefc . was fixed lower than that of gaols . Vagrancy was to disappear , mendicancy to die out , aud a new and improved social and moral system to be instinctively inaugurated . Tho workhouses were built purposely

      like gaols , under the erroneous impression that their very repulsiveness would prevent them from being required . 'Progress' was tho order of tho day . Alas ! for tho frailty of human ambition ; again aud again we have seen the workhouses filled to overflowing , along our highways vagrants tramp front town to town , our city streets have a population ot their own—' street people . ' Mendicancy is an organised profession ; poor rates have increased ; and in our anxiety to put down pauperism by repre ssion , we have filled our gaols , and peopled our penal settlements to overflowing . It is all ' Progress ; ' unluckily it is ' Progress' on the wrong side . steam

      Well , but there is educational ' Progress ' - - boat and railway ' Progress '—postage and telcpW 1 Progress '—scientific , chemical , aud mechanical ? Progress '—all very important . Another day , ana then we may glouce at them . Meantime , we ask out patient readers to reflect on the following declan * " ) quoted from the most popular of modern politic economists : — . , , ' Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanic inventions yet made have lightened the day ' s toil e any human being . They have enabled a gr ° , population to live the samo life of drudgery » nd "" ' prisonment , and an increased number of manuiac « turera aud others to make larco fortunes . They » a __

      increased the comforts of the middle classes ; b ut t & ey have not yet begun to effect those great chanff in human destiny , which it is in their nature w ' their futurity to accomplish . ' Such is the tetfwW of John Stuart Mill . And what a melancholy «»• mony on the' Present' it is . Our Progress , ' a « or f f ing to such authority , is for the aggregate iM sses our countrymen no advancement—no improvemen t" * " - it is ' questionable' if we have made any r « 'Progress' of « l ate years' iu the accoinF "' ' ment of the greatest object of existence- ! * live profitably and well : and how to enjoy We . Tfpallv t . hi « < P » n » . „»!«„ nBti ™ ic n ( Treat OW , u ' ib &—

      - »«•• - v """ ° Aiwgiuaa ijuoouuu » - ~ , . to be slightingly cast aside , nor decorously ^ % , Some kinds of 'Progress' have progressed rare-7 form . Bill ' Progress ' ^ Exeter Hall '^ grK 3-g . ; making ' Progress ' -Cant ' Progress ' - Charitalle if ' ' tion « ProgroM ' -froe export and import « ? rope »' ' 3 - wages ' Progress ' - 'devil take tho hindmost ' P ^ lL . ,,. - ' great sacrifice' « Progress ' -and sundry others , j « ^ ing from the same parent stock ; branching o « . , { brotherhoods aud cousinships ; but all members on » , very old family , in fact , though notinname- 'H" * ^ o A family which working men will do well to reject ; a « . . being , by . ' legitimate relationship , in any way conu with them ; ( ... ^ j , „| Representatives of the family of ' Humbug , ' ?'; ffC n TC n few exceptions , may be fairly judged of by marK = esita . jita the answer they giro to tho following question , f ¦ 0 0 tion being a bad omen : ~ 'Do you think it just and ?' tiia ( i ilisf that working men , on tho average , should work i ¦ rie 5 ir ies they now do , and enjoy a greater share of the nei > ^ ^ and comforts of life ? ' A distinct answer in the am is a good sign . ' Qm ^ - MnnaaaaaBI jM . lM

      Aberdeen. —The Members Of The Jt'ootdee ...

      Aberdeen . —The members of the jt ' ootdee l ° -w ^ ^ Store held a . soi « e on Friday evening , May H ¦ ( fj ti- ^ \\ - soiree Was held principally with a view of presenti ng , » ^ ^ mutual of esteem to Mr . Wishart , he having com P ' jjr , J . ' , J . , fifth year of management of the above Store , ^ jt . ^ , Anderson tooK the cbair . Mr . David Burns , on <» » , cs 9 i » i the society , presented , with a very appropriat « i » j „ e j ur „ ej | beautiful silver snuff-box to Mr . Wishart , wuo ' j ^ tS . fe atS . i . tnanks ; and some eloquent addresses were given "' rat ioHi rat ioiiiii D . Burns , Work , and Hall , on the !»««« " ^ JJsSw " * M * '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 22, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22051852/page/4/