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    • jROM £300 TO £509 TO BE ADVANCED IN JULY NEXT.
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    • FHE NORTHERN. STAR SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1818.
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      Ttttt: Mnptttf/Rn Stab. . May 27, 184?,

      ttttt : MnPTTTF / RN STAB . . May 27 , 184 ? ,

      Jrom £300 To £509 To Be Advanced In July Next.

      jROM £ 300 TO £ 509 TO BE ADVANCED IN JULY NEXT .

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      FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS . A HOME FOE BTBBT ISPUSTBIOU S MAN AHD HIS FAMILY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS ' EQUITABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , EnroUed and Empowered by Act of Parlisment to extend oter the United -Kingdom . P Hens T S . Dukcoxm , Ee « ., M . P . Thohas TrAKtEr , Esc , M . P . B . B . Cabbeil , Esq ., M . P . mm <&« .- *> . IS , Tottenham Court , New Boai , St Paccrai . London .-DAh-iEL VTiuuh Ruffi . Secretary . . ^^ : „ three Section . P ayment ! in either Section , 4 d ., 8 d „ Is ., & C , & o „ per Week , payable either - £ S ^»^—^^ part of a ehare . „ S ^^^^^^ himself and famUy nwy hare of gaining a IlTellheoa - - . t crcc t Dwellings thereon , and divide r in lfeT " Sectiok II . -Torake a capital by sham to purchasB Bstfltes . « ec ^ s ^^ , ^^^ land into allotment , *» m half an acre npwar d . ^ Property o be t ^ £ fc rfxteen , eighteen , or tweEty years , from the date of locaUon . « orai ° « wiBhi t 0 uwjhBM are enabled to invest Section IIL-Saring or Deposit KoHon , » f J ^ . " eof 5 per catper annum , on every aum of 10 s : Email sums , from < d . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate ot = F and apvrards so deposited . ¦ t . o— Mpptinss are held , and Members enrolled , S 0 *** n ^^^ g ^^^^ mg ^ eno ' cloclc . . » ,. « . e 4 k . ^ ncist * . The PiiTHEHum Roohs , StMartia ' a-^ tr ^ ^^^ ' IlZ t ^ P ^^ i ^^ " Otter l-, * iU bB ^ for thebauot . ALSO POS THE \ 70 BKISG MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS ' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES , , 7 ; , ,- *« Act o' Parll & ra'st . Thus securing to its members the protection of tho law for their Zn KSJrtJ . iSS * to extend over tho United Kingdom , with the privilege of appointing MediUA SanU 1 Ig entB , & c . An opportunity is now . ftred to healthy persons , np t . Forty lie l Tews of Age , of joining these flourishing Institutions in town or country . Tn _ . _ 0 mD- ~ 18 Tottenham Cenrt , New Boad . St Pancras , ( thirteenth house eaotnard from Tottenham torn , * ofpic . is , CflBrt Eoad ) _ DiHIEL Milium Rom , Secretary . Pafr ^ .-T . S . Dckcohbb . E * .. M . P . T . W «« y , Bw ., M . P . B . B . 0 » UL , Es ,. M . P . F - O'Coksok , Esq ., M . P . L . J . Hassabd , Esq . In the short space of faur years these societies hare paid the following benefits to their members . SU 1 QIART OF CLiiia . Sickness and Superannuation £ " 05 10 5 . . UJO it ) v Aeconchments ... - — ••• ] g j Fnnerals ... — — ••• — 99 5 0 LossbyFiie ... — ••• ••• £ 3125 8 6 Present Capital funded in the Bank of England ... £ 1 G 69 10 0 These Societies are ! n eix divisions or sections , for tbe Members to receive the following Benefits according to their Subscriptions : — FIRST DIVISION . FOURTH DIVISION . Entrance according to age . from 5 s . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to aee . from 08 . Ed . to 8 s . Gd , tribntion for Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 d . Monthly Contribuuon for Sickness and Management . Is . 4 ( L £ s . d . AHav . Moe , in Sickness , per week .. 018 0 £ 6 , d . ifavijer ' s Funeral .. .. .. 20 0 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 9 0 Ditto Wife's or Nominees ditto .. 10 0 0 Member'si Funeral . _ . .. .. .. 10 0 0 Wife ' = Lviu ~ . in .. .. 200 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 500 Loss iiT Fire , from " .. ^ 5 0 0 to 2 o 0 0 life ' s Lying-in .. .. .. .. 100 Sn ^ rSflS ^ Veek " - ~ - O 6 0 Loss by Vire , from .. £ 5 O O to 10 O O SECOND DIVISION . Superannuation , per week - ¦• •• 0 * 0 Entrance , according to age . from 4 * . 6 a . to 9 s . 6 d . FIFTH DIVISION . Hont . -W Contribution for Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age . from 2 s to 8 s . Monthly Con-2 s . Id . tribution for Sickness and Management , Is . Id . . Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 15 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 7 0 Mem ! i = rs Fuaeral .. " .. ¦• 16 0 0 Member ' s Funeral 6 0 0 D ' Ui Wifw's or Nominee ' s ditto .. 18 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 3 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in * 1 15 0 Wife's Lying-in O 15 0 Lo « i . v Fire from . .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 0 Loss by Fire 5 0 0 Superannuation , per week 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week ... .. 0 4 0 THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . to 9 s . Monthly Coh . Entrance Money .. .. .. .. 0 3 0 iribution for Sickness and Management , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution .. .. .. 0 1 0 AHoTTsnce in Sickness , per week .. 0 11 0 Allowance in Sickness .. .. .. 0 7 0 Member ' s Funeral 12 0 0 Member's Funeral 2 10 0 Ditto Vv"ife's or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 600 . _ . . . Wife ' E Lying-in 1 19 0 No Levies in this Division . L 05 fby " Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 O Superannuation , per week .. .. . 0 4 0 Levies according to tbe demands en each division per quarter , > J . B . The only difierecce n the two Societies is , ihe Patriots have an Accoucbment benefit , the Patriarchs & 6 vc not that btnefit , therefora do not pay levies for it . JS ~ Applications for Agencies requested from all parts of the country ; Information for appointment of Agei-. u . 's can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp . LUank forms and inforntDtion for the admission of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclorfng three postage stamps , to Daniel William Bcfft , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New IvOa-I , 3 s Pancras .

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      LONDON NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE . Tn ' . " . Tikes , Hesals , and Chbomicle , posted the day ¦ f Publication - 20 s . per quarter . Poi' 3 i the day after Publication at 10 s . ,, Tit :- - isTi 7 CB , Bell ' s Life , Scsday Tiass , Loot ' s NEw- ? iP £ E , posted the day after Publication , at 12 s . per 3 Snu : n . Tt subscription to be paid in advance . A list will be f oriv -. i J-.-d on the receipt of two postage stamps . No conneii— ' with any other person . Adcrefs free to WILLIAM BARRETT , Town and Coau . rv Ke ^ spiper Agent , li 2 , Houndsitch , London .

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      OP . DER THE TEMPERAXC 53 GAZETTE ; A mc-miilv , post free , Journal of Mora ! aad Social Progress . TV . ll TEl-iPF . RANCE GAZETTE contains Twenty-^> ur closely printed double columns , 8 ve . pages , and v ; : i be sent to any address , free by post , for Is . per annu'o , pajab ' e in advance . It can also be had at Sd . percrzen ; All orders and advertisements must be sent to Ricaebd Wasei . iv , West Bromvtich . Loadon : W . Bcittaik , and all Booksellers .

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      Just Published , Price 2 d . DU U'DOUAiL'S ADDBESS to the MIDDLE CLASSES . THE CHARTER—WHAT IT MEANS ; THE CHARTISTS-WHAT THEY WANT . E . i . ' : pp ! e , ii , Hoiywell-street , Strand , London , and all Book ^ elit-rs ; also , ' at the Literary Institution , oh ? . - strec-r , Ti-ttenham-court-road , and the Land Office , 144 , HUh no ' . bjra .

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      NOW PTJBLISHISG . THIJ POLITICAL WORKS 07 THOMAS PAINE Complete ia one thickvelume , price 5 s ., in which Trill " re found several pieces never before published in Bngi .-. nd ; and an appendix , containing the Trial of TJiom-is Paine , with a portrait of the author . Jus : Published , in Penny numbers and Fourpenny parts . VOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY . Jfay be had . completr , in two volumes , handsomely Dodni , 126 . The first volume has a medallion likeness of the : mthor . and the second , a full length portrait , as fee ar : ; eared in his 70 th year . To the Srst volume is prefixed i copious Memoir of his Life ard Writutgs . Every eare ii . is beeu taken to keep the text correct , so that it may - main a lasting monument of the genius and indo , mi £ si-. 2 c- perseverance of the atztlior in enlisniening and liber ' . ting Ms fellow creatures . The two volumes contain 3 , 27 ! - ; .:: gea , tieariyprinted , crownSvo . VOLTAIRE'S ROMANCE AND TALES , in one vol . prici' , < s . 6 d . Ti . E DEVIL'S PULPIT . By the Rev . Robect Tatlob . two vols , price as ., published at Bs .

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      PORTRAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Ese ., M . P ., T MARTIN informs his friends and the Chartistbody - generally , that lie has reduced the price of his Iifr graphic full-length portrait of tlieir Illustrious Chief to t ;; e following price : —Prints , Is ; coloured ditto , zs . 6 d . A '^ so , a beautiful lithographic portrait ofW . Dixon , late of Manchester , now one of the Directors , by i . Mania . Pr ice—plain , Is ., coloured , 2 s . PEOPLE'S EDITION . " To be had at tho NoaiHXRK Stae office , 16 , Great \ t DidrcilUtreet , Haymarket ; at tbe OSce of the National La-. ! Company , 144 , High Ho' . born ; Sweet , Goose Gate Kotrlngham ; Heywood , Manchester , and all booksellers n tho United Kingdom .

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      COl . LIVER'S COMMERCIAL COFFEE AND CHOP HOUSE AND READING EOOilS , 266 i , STRAND , LONDON . ,. . t . , , t . J COLLIYER returns Lis sincere thanks to his . Friends and the Public at large , for the support be 1-as received at their hands during the last ten years , and hopes , bv strict atteutioa and civility , to merit a continuance o ' f their patronage . J . C . also begs to state , that having lately made extensive alterations and im provements in his premises , he is now enabled to afford additional convenience without extra charge . A Commercial Coffee-room upstairs , with every facility for Travellers ^ nd Visitors from the country . The House is situated in the very heart of the Metropoll's , in the centre of the Theatres , near the National JjzvA Office , and Public Buildings . Omnibuses pass to end from all the Railway Stations , to meet the Xrains , cth -y five minutes . Btdr ., is . to is . 6 d . per chjht . All other charges qual y moderate . NO FEES TO SERVANTS ..

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      IMPORTANT TO THE BL 0 CRTRINTER 3 OF SCOTLAND . T ^ R BOARD OF OHGANISATIO :-: call the attention of their fellow workmen to tfce circular— ' Policy of the bo ird '—issued by theai this week , and request thciu to take it into their s ' erious consideration . A ' l communications to be addressed to tbe Secretary—Thomas Watscn , 7 , Smith-hills , P-islev .

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      T TO BE SOLD , HE ItlSIIT OF LOCATION of a Four Acre Allot meat on tb = Estate near L ' romsgrove . ir » r particular ; { statirg terms ; , by enclosing a Postage " V ' | ' i apply to Chas . Goodwin , 19 , Dunviu-strc-et , Bir-

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MK . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the NiJrftcni Star Offica , 16 , Great "Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywood Manchester .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , PEICE BISPINCE . NO . KVII . OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTESTS . ( 1 . The Song of the Gaggers . by Ernest Jones , 2 . Reform and Reformers . 3 . St Jehn ' g Eve , a Romantic Drama . 4 . Self-Reliance . 5 . The Wife , by Jane . 6 . Pride and Pnjudico , or the Martyrs of Society . 7 . The Louden Doorstep , a true stot-y . 8 . The Pe sautGirl . - 9 . National Literature . —5 , Germany . 10 , Monthly Review . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 , Grest Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .

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      TO BE SOLD . A FOUR ACRE SHARE in the Land Company , with all expense paid for the present year—the Advertiser being about to emigrate . Price £ 5 4 b , Apply ( if by letter , pre-paid ) to W . G ., care of Mr Morgan , Malt Mill-square , Mertbyr TydvU .

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      ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND . YORK MEETING . 4 LL PERSONS who intend to exhibit Live Stock at - £ JL the ensuing York Meeting of the Society , are requested to transmit to the Secretary ( at 1 ? , Hanover square , London ) , on or before the First of June next , a statement of the particular animals tbey Intend to exhibit on that occasion ; as , by the Rules of the Society , no entries can be received after that date . Jakes Hddbok , Secretary . London , 24 th Mar , 18 J 8 .

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      EMIGRATION . P ERSONS de'irous of Emigrating can obtain a Free Gift of Forty Acres of the best Land , in the most healthy and productive portion of the United States . Also , Land for Sale , or Barter , from one Dollar per Acr « . Passenscers shipped to all parts of the World . ' and supplied with Bonded Stores , Provisions , < tc , on " the lowest terms . Apply ( po « t free ) to the General Passeng & r Shippinz and Land A gency Offices , 15 , Eastcheap , London ; and 32 , Waterloo-read , Liverpool .

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

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      T SNIG'S END . O BE SOLD a Four Acre Allotment , on the above desirable Estate , the holder having engagemeits that prevent his taking possession . ^ ^ J : '" " containing a stamp to be addressed to G W w heeler , { , 0 . 3 , O'Connomlle , Rickmansworfh , Herts '

      » ^ V. Uurnuty 10 Liverpool. —A Meeting Of The Members Of The Bnarler Association, Will Be Held At Mr Farrall's 4

      » ^ v . uurnuty 10 Liverpool . —A meeting of the members of the bnarler Association , will be held at Mr Farrall ' s 4

      „..., U Evening, Consider The Means To C...

      „ ..., u evening , consider the means to carry out the New Plan of Organisation and to nominate persons to serve for the executive Mancuester . —a meeting of the balloted members of Manchester , Ashton , Stockport , and th ? Z'% Tlf tef SoS i i on Sa ^ »«*• S ^^ rif & ssssr at Mr Wh , t - , ? , . , T « ff , f meeting of the branch will be fceiu in the i \ Uberforce room , on Friday Pvanirw ? June 2 nd . tor ^ purpose of electing ? SS ft i tbe ra : m ot Mr . Stephens , leaving tin . Eecretar * Mr DiXONWid deliver a lecture , on Sundav o ^ nn iog . May 23 th , at t * King ' s Cro ' ss Locag . X sous' . Arms , Bmsnnia-strtet , Gray ' s Inn lanp Chair will be taken at half-past eight o ' clock ore cisely . r c "

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      VALUABLE INVESTMENT FOR SMALL V CAPITALISTS . TO BE SOLDBY AUCTION , On Monday , the 29 th of May , 1848 , At twelve precisely , IN ALLOTMENTS OF © too atttr JFour & m » tatty , ALL THAT VAUUBM AHD HIGHTT IMPEOVKD B 8 TATB ,

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      RED HALL . I have received numerous letters , asking me for information , as to the description and quality of the Land of Red Hall . I can only say in reply to all , that there is not in all England PRIMER LAND for spade husbandry , and that I should not recommend any poor man to lay out his money to a loss . I have " undertaken to discharge the duties of auctioneer , without fee or re > vard , oreven my travelling expenses , to have the pleasure of expounding my plan in a maiden district ; where , hitherto , it has been impossible for the small capitalist to possess himself of a patch of land . Were I to answer one tenth of the letters I receive upon the subject , it would occupy my whole time . Feargus O'Connor .

      Fhe Northern. Star Saturday, May 27, 1818.

      FHE NORTHERN . STAR SATURDAY , MAY 27 , 1818 .

      The 'Times'and Chartism. The Sham Reform...

      THE ' TIMES'AND CHARTISM . THE SHAM REFORMERS UNMASKED . "We have put down Chartism ; tut we have not conciliated " discontent . " Thus , a few days ago , spoke the Thunderer of Printinghouse-square . A great fact conjoined to a great falsehood . It is true that discontent has not been conciliated ; and it is not the less true that Chartism has not been put down .

      Chartism cannot be put down as long as discontent exists , and discontent must continue until the system of justice embodied in the Charter is acknowledged and acted upon . When the Charter becomes law , discontent will be conciliated ; because the discontented will be enabled , by legal and moral means , to redress their grievances . Until then there will not and there ought not to be peace in the land .

      I he Times , whilst admitting that " Poverty is the unstatutable offence of modern conventionalism ; ' ¦ and that its victims are far more numerous than were the proscribed followers of Huss , Wickliffe , and Penn—the victims of former religious intolerance—has no remed y to offer for this deplorable state of things but " Emigration . " With all the bullying energy for which the Times is celebrated , it is , day by day , striving to show that " emigration is the mission of this country , ' ' and that " Systematic Colonisation "—that is the wholesale transportation of the poor , is the on lv remedy for existing evils .

      In another column we have commented on this subject at greater length . Here , we will only add a word of warning to those goldgorged conspirators who pull the wires of the W . —Think not , gentlemen , that the people of this country will ever allow themselves to be humbugged into tolerating your infernal design of " putting dow n" Chartism by trait porting the discontented . Your journalists may preach , lie , whine , and bully , until as black in the face as they are black hearted

      but no amount of sophistry or bullying will induce the people to tamely submit to be transported from the land of their birth . Beware ! Perseverance in your present course may produce results fatal to your power . If once the people , driven to despair , inscribe upon their banners the ominous motto of the ouvriers of Lyons : " To live working , or die fi ghting" it will not be Ga gging Bills , nor Times' articles , that wilPprevent them doing themselves justice .

      Being determined to do its best to get all the discontented transported , the Times is , f course , furious at the prospect of a national agitation for lieform in Parliament . The times knows well that a real reform in Parliament would enable the people to improve their social condition , without going through the process oi transportation , but that would be

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      the triumph of Chartism— " A consummatisn devoutly to he feared" by the Times and its masters . But let the Times rave ever so furiously , the agitation for real Radical Reform will go on . In saying this , we are speaking for the working classes . That the new Middle Class Movement has real Reform for its object , we cannot believe . No doubt , many individuals amongst the middle classes , are actuated b y a fair and honest spirit ; the Newcastle meeting , reported in our present number , is a proof of this ; but we have no faith in the mass of the bourgeoisie . Their present shouting for " Reform" appears to us to be only a repetition of the fraud of 1631—32—a mockery , a delusion , and a snare .

      If the bourgeoisie were determined to place the representation of the country on a just basis , why not have taken the principles of the Charter for the object of their agitation ? In the anarchy which pervades the forces of the middle class , it is difficult to say what they even profess to seek for—some asking for an undefined Extension of the Suffrage , some for an Extension to Ratepayers , some for Household , and a few for Universal Suffrage ; hut the majority , we presume , follow Mr Hume ' s banner , inscribed " Household Suffrage , Vote b y Ballot , Triennial Parliaments , and Equal

      Electoral Districts . " Such a change , if accomp lished , would be no settlement of the question pf " Reform . '' Household Suffrage would exclude from the representation tens of thousands of the classes best fitted to exercise the franchise , whilst it would include every fool or knave who possessed the . qualification of being a housekeeper . Thousands of the best educated men in this Metropolis are lodgers , and tens of thousands of the best politicallyinformed amongst the working classes are compelled b y poverty to occupy rooms onlyinstead of each family having , as

      , it ought to have , its own separate dwelling . Under a system of "Household Suffrage" the 16 , 000 cellavmen of Liverpool would be enfranchised , whilst at least double that number of artisans , warehousemen , clerks , and assistants living in lodgings , would be repulsed from the polling booths . In this metropolis , certainly , three-fourths of the intelligence and patriotism , existing is to be found amongst the lodgers ; but they would be excluded from their rights by Mr Hume and his friends , whilst every keeper of a brothel , or receptacle for stolen goods , would be

      permitted to legislate , or at least have a voice in electing the legislators . Certainly , Universal Suffrage would not exclude the questionable or unquestionable characters of Liverpool and London from the representation , but under that system of suffrage the evil influence of such characters would be neutralised . The honest , the industrious , the intelligent , and the thoughtful , would far outnumber the knavish , the idle , the ignorant , and the prejudiced . But we protest against Household Suffrage on the broad ground of principle . Household Suffrage would continue the present accursed

      system of Property Qualification . Why will men palter with . ' principles ? " Man is man , and who is more ? " Any system , by which even one man would be excluded from the enjoyment of his natural rights , would he a system of injustice . Why this cavilling about what is expedient ? The right is simple enough ; justice is understandable b y all . If men would act upon the principle , "Do unto thy brother man as thou wouldest he should do unto thee , " injustice could not exist . He who will not act upon this principle , no matter whether he call himself a " Conservative "

      or a "Reformer , " a " Supporter of our Glo rious Institutions , ' or a " Friend to Progress , ' ' is a tyrant and a knave , a robber and a hypocrite ; and whether he mouths the cant of Toryism or the cant of Liberalism , he " is a liar , and the truth is not in him . ' ' Again , the new Reform dodge , if successful , would compel the Electors to select , as now , their Representatives from the ranks of the

      enemies of industry . What matters it that you have a " voice'' in selecting from a basket of oranges when the whole are rotten ? Any system which would continue | the present Property Qualification for Members of Parliament would be utterly valueless . Even Universal Suffrage would not be worth a straw unless accompanied by those two other important " points" of the Charter — " No , ° Property Qualification , " and " Payment of Members . "

      We have two more objections to urge against the " new move . " First—Household Suffrage would be no settlement of the Suffrage agitation . The excluded masses would very properly continue to agitate until they had obtained their rights . We can assure Messrs Hume and Co . that as long as one political slave exists on Britain ' s soil , we shall continue to " agitate ! agitate ! ! agitate ! ! I" Second-It is evident , from the insolent tone of Lord John Russell and the innate despotism of the present Parliament , that the country must be brought to the verge of a revolution before even Hume ' s " Reform Bill ' ' could be carried ; now the same amount of popular agitation could not fail to carry the Charter .

      We have an additional reason for ^ trusting the " new move . ' ' Hufi & w mix up with Parliamentary Ref tion of " an equitable reform of ta ... the Anti-Corn-Law agitation these niu . ... the Chartists that it was necessary to do one thing at a time , and , therefore , they stuck to Free Trade . Why not now act upon their old rule of " one thing" at a time ? " If they were honest they would do so . This " equitable taxation" humbug is the cloven footrevealed . ^ Hume , Cobden and Co . know well that a House of Commons that really represented the people , would at once set about reforming the taxation and expenditure . The shortest road , therefore , to " equitable taxation" is through a real Radical reform of Parliament . But it is

      not " equitable taxation' that these sham « patriots want . They want to remove the bur . dens , which at present oppress them , to the shoulders of other people—either the leviathans of land and capital or the working classes , they are indifferent as to which , so that they relieve themselves . The "Reform " dodge is only a whip with which to frighten the Government into y ielding to their demands for a revision of taxation . If the

      " equitable taxation" scheme were accomplished , the " Reform" cry would at once expire ; and as the aristocracy will grant the bourgeoisie any concession rather than grant the people their rights , the working classes may assure themselves that if they give their support to the middle classes , upon the terms at present proposed by the latter , they will be served as they have been before , —made use of to promote the selfish ends of their " respectable" / ne ? 2 (^ ' , and then trampled in the mire . A week [ ago many were inclined to views more favourable towards the new agitation , but the scene in the House of Commons on

      Tuesday last , must satisfy the most credulous as to the real designs of the bourgeoisie . After the just complaints of Mr O'Connor against the juggling course pursued b y Mr Hume , up got Cobden , and in the most venomous terms denounced the Chartists , and declared he never had , and never would , fraternise with them . That the people may not be deceived by the sham Radicals , of whom Cobden is the real head , we will here place on record his words Let every Chartist read , mark , and inwardly digest them : — ;

      1 never frater « lfled with tho honourable member or with hie mymUen , No one can charge ffi 0 wllh ove ; bavmfj fraternised with or succumbed to them tor a mo meat . Iahvaya tr . atcd tho honourable member as a leader of a small , insignificant , and very powerless Mri „ Chtcrs * nla laugh . ) I never ideat ! fl 7 h im 0 f £ fo » o « e »* uhtben > Bn of tbo working cImbm of th country . I treatid him then as I tr . at him „™ ! tho leader of tho workin , classes of S . IT ' Z 11 the leader of «» organised faction of the very tmallest di melons . I 1 ,. to .. t h , m puMlcJ } 0 nd pohtbally ? t de hance , and I hammer failed to beat the honourable nZ her h , j a vote ,,, p » bU assenllie , in the open ^ TcZ ^ r mry county in he kingdom . N 0 w , 1 „ tay ™ *™ that in any advocacy ^ hlch I may enter on to , taTad vaaeement of tho political franchi 3 o of tho workht «*»«» , J nmr mil fnUniK xm , « S

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      andhis organised-followers ; and if he says , asne has said , that he has been preparing his followers to go with ns , I will say , as I have said a hundred times , that , with the Chartists as organised under his leadership , I never will fraternise—Ihavt set them at d tftanetbefore , andlsetthem atdefiantet \ ou > , ( Cheers . ) Chartists , you are denounced as a " small , insignificant , and powerless party , " whom the League king sets at " defiance . " We accept his " defiance . " Cobden says that he and his " myrmidons" never failed to beat the Chartists . A grosser falsehood never came from the lips of even a Leaguer . He knows that as long as the League meetings were free to the public , the Chartists constantly unmasked his schemes ,

      and outvoted his paid spouters and deluded dupes . It is notorious that , in consequence of being invariably defeated by the Chartists in open meetings , the League had recourse to closed meetings . In the last two or three years of its existence , the League had scarcel y throughout the kingdom any collection of human beings that was not a ticket meeting . Free discussion was completely proscribed , and any one who , at the Covent Garden Theatre gatherings , ventured to put a question to the speakers , was hustled out of the place . In the teeth of these facts , to outrage the truth as Cobden did on Tuesday night ; shows him to be possessed of powers of face perfectly matchless . After this exhibition of furious hatred on

      the part of the middle-class leader , compromise is impossible ; until the middle-classes renounce Cobden and his schemes of delusion , and prove their honesty of purpose by adopting the entire principles of the Charter , there can be no union with them . Let the shopkeepers have their private and " organised faction" meetings unmolested ; but if they venture before the public , and pretend to take the sense of the public on their nostrums , and demand the support of the people let them be made to understand the only terms on which they shall have that support- — THE CHARTER , THE WHOLE CHARTER AND NOTHING BUT THE CHARTER ' '

      Mr O'Connor's Letter ' ( To The Chartist...

      Mr O'Connor ' s letter ' to the Chartists , " and the address from the Chartist Executive , received since tiie above article was put into type , recommend precisely the line of policy we have above recommended . We are happy to perceive that the Star , Mr O'Connor , and the Chartist Executive , are all of the same mind . Energetic action must be the fruit of this union of sentiment . Throughout our serried ranks'but one resolve must run : — No Cominomise ! THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !

      The Pigmy Premier. Mister John Russell, ...

      THE PIGMY PREMIER . Mister John Russell , commonly known by the style and title of Lord John RussqII , has ventured to assert that the people desire neither Mr Hume ' s scheme of " Reform , " nor the " People ' s Charter / ' According to his Lordship , the Working Classes are quite indifferent to the question of their rights , as embodied in the Charter .

      Chartists of Great Britain , you well know how to answer this mendacious insolence . You will carry out the Proclamation of the Chartist Executive , and strike conviction to the puny pettifogging soul of the Whig Premier , by raising from the Land ' s-End to John-o-Groats , one united , thundering peal for "THE CHARTER , THE WHOLE CHARTER , AND NOTHING BUT THE CHARTER !"

      The Trades And The Charter. We Direct Th...

      THE TRADES AND THE CHARTER . We direct the attention of our readers , particularly those who are members of Trades ' Societies , to an ably written Address in our 2 nd page , from the Stone Masons of London to the Trades of the Metropolis and the country generally . It will be seen that the Stone Masons urge upon their brother operatives the necessity of forming a Metropolitan Trades ' Political and Social Union , for the . purpose of obtaining legislative recognition of the political and social rights of Labour . The Stone Masons in contending for the political rights of

      industry , demand tbe Six Points of the Charter , and wisely add that they regard the > ote only as a means to an end . Their views of social reform do them great credit , and are well worthy the serious consideration of all who earnestl y desire the veritable emancipation of the millions . We are especially well pleased with the sensible observations of the Masons on the necessity of the working men obtaining by discussion and mutual instruction a thorough comprehension of their political rights and duties ,

      and the measures necessary to effect the social salvation of the masses . When Universal Suffrage is obtained—as obtained it will be—we trusi it will be better employed than hitherto it has been in America , or than it was employed in France , on the occasion of electing the present rotten Assembly . If . ith , e Stone Masons can succeed in inducing theuij ^ other operatives to follow their noble example }<* heA , j indeed , political enfranchisement will cornel soon , and . social regeneration will as surely follow .

      when , on a late occa ~ t , inc of - •^ litan Trades , " '««» . sue u .. presenter .. _ , . -u adoption , we werejuy „ . _ ' „ their " triumph . " It ; was , t . an indiscreet act , calculated to prejuaj ^ ... Trades against the Chartists . The operatives , who are not Chartists , must be converted , not driven . Now it appears to us , that the movement of the Stone Masons is admirably calculated to win over to the good cause those « ho hitherto have not been with us . The greatest stickler for unadulterated Trades ' Unions , cannot object to the Stone Masons '

      scheme . They do not wish to bring politics into the Trades' Societies ; they [ desire , on the contrary , that those societies should be wholly devoted to Trades' interests ; but , seeing that Trades' Unions alone are not a sufficient defence of the workmen ' s interests , and certainly not calculated to obtain for the working men the restoration of their plundered rights , they propose the establishment of an Association which they ( and we ) believe to he calculated to promote the social . . . interests of the Trades , by and through the obtainment of those rights which will arm the people with the power to enact good laws , and establish social institutions founded on the principles of eternal justice .

      Wholesale Transportation. The Wealth Y C...

      WHOLESALE TRANSPORTATION . The wealth y classes are very much puzzled just now . They don ' t know what to do with the " poorer classes . ' Notwithstanding artillery , soldiers , pensioners , police , and special constables , they have an uneasy consciousness that the system is ricketty beyond the power of such props to keep up much longer , and that a change of some sort or other must be made .

      But what kind of change shall it be i The producers of wealth demand their fair share of political power , in order that they may use that power to promote the social well-being of their , " order . " The possessors of the wealth , who are not its producers , refuse , under vari ous pretexts , to concedethis just demand—the real reason being that they fear the establishment of just political relations would lead to equitable social practices , and the labourer then be not only worthy of his hire , but actually receive it , which is not the case at present .

      The question , however , must be answered in some way or other , or it is evident that this land will become too hot to hold the partv of the " haves , " and the party of the " have * , nots" together . Therefore , the rich people have bethought themselves of a comfortable mode of settling the difficulty , in a way which they flatter themselves will appear exceedingly patiiotic s « ntl philanthropic on their parts , and

      Wholesale Transportation. The Wealth Y C...

      at the same time secure not only all * tT present advantages , but conduce to the f j permanent predominance of their class " tl Times ia the exponent of the panacea ! f 0 » tt wretched and disturbed state of society t t der the catching title of " Colonisation '> *?' has , by leaders and letters addres ssed to i \ 1 * by its own writers , been busily employed ? some time past in writing up the wholes transportation of our " superabundant" workpopulation to the antipodes . It is found tv , " 6 the " Gagging Act" does not fulfil its v 0 cat i ' by enabling our ru ! ers to transport any of ti 0 I 1

      as felons , so a systematic and extensive triation is recommended , and called " Nation ! Colonisation . " The hundreds of tflOUsan l who are thus to be got rid of , are uncon victed by any court of law , hut their crime apparent enough . There are too many 0 f them—human vermin that they are—for r comfort of the rich : therefore , we are t " ship off cargoes of human beings starvin ° here" to Australasia and elsewhere , and th ^ in the language of the same authority , ' < f ,. ' that which seems a curse into a blessing an 4 to supersede the turbulent discontent of ' hui f employed multitudes by the well-direct ed efforts of a National Colonisation ! " '

      Casting about for the means of carrying nnr this scheme of National Transportation- £ 1 beg pardon , Colonisation—the Times finds that the Poor-rates absorb a great deal of money very wastefull y , besides the larg : amounts expended in maintaining hospitals alms-houses , orphan-schools , and other charil table institutions , and appealing to the selfish ! ness and the pockets oi the wealthy , it « " would it not be cheaper for you to pay a good round sum , and get rid of this c surplus ' humanity at once ! " On the other hand , to entice the working classes , it publishes highly coloured pictures of colonial felicity at the Antipodes . " Lumpers" getting 6 s . a day in a . country where meat is 6 d . per pound , and bread , lA . In fact , " where the servants are

      masters , and lose half their time . " _ It is scarcel y necessary to observe , that these pictures are drawn by men who want more la . hour , in order to enable them to beat down its present price in the colonies ; and that if the Times could succeed to any great extent in persuading people to adopt this " National Colonisation , " the result would speedil y be what we see at home . There would be more labourers than were wanted by the Capitalist and consequently the high wages and " mas tership" of the " servants" would vanish to . gether . They would become , as they are at home , the serfs of the commercial feudalism which has superseded the iron rule of the ' mailed barons of old , with , in our opinion , but very little , if any , change for the better to the serf .

      To a just , necessary , and rational system o £ National Colonisation , we are by no means opposed . In the course of Nature , nations must throw off fresh hives , as weil as bees ; but the bees never do so until there is a real necessity for it . The means of subsistence equitably distributed among the workers , are found to be inadequate to the support of the whole , and then the Emigration takes place . But they don ' t expatriate the working bees , and keep the drones to consume the honey which the workers have stored up , with only

      so many other workers behind as may suffice to make more honey for the drones . The bees are too sagacious to worship their droneocracy to that extent . As long as they > re useful or tolerable , they have no objection to them ; but when they become neither , they are dealt with a la Jeremy Bentham—on the princi ple of utility . We would apply the same principle to human affairs . We shall grant that when there is a " surplus population , " the surplus should swarm off and find a new hive , and a new field for their industry .

      But who are the surplus ? Those who create the wealth of the country , or those who merel y consume it ? The best way to test any principle is to push it to its extreme . Let us suppose / then , that all the tillersofthesoil—the shepherds and graziers , the bricklayers , masons and carpenters , the weavers , spinners , and . mechanics—in short , those who raise the food , build the houses , produce the clothing , and furnish all the convenience , comfortS ; and luxuries of society—let us suppose , we say , that every one of them , if it were possible , were to sail to the Antipodes in one day , leaving

      behind only those who have hitherto honoured them by condescending to consume the fruits of their toil , and who now cooll y talk of their wholesale expatriation . . What would be the result if the land of England was thus left in the undisturbed and sole possession of the Lord Johns , Sir Georges , Sir Charleses , and noble and right hon . gentlemen , who now imagine they sway its destinies ? We suspect that it would be found very soon that these idols of

      tlie British Constitution , were as wooden gods as ever were worshipped by the most i gnorant lavage .. The armies of labourers who went ' ''nn' its shores would carry with them plenty . Mighty and ever bene-» . ' - - " ' fl way . forests ; stately Jjj itu " ' ' n . ijss ; pleasant farmst ^ ileupon the hill-. j . ^ oh "ay to the ho f f or man anu

      - «» h their white v > ! ' ¦» " " proc . for the ku ., ' * hei . But what wouiu ucw . u « of Englanu . the hands of the serene nonentities—the " lords and gentlemen , " and who now think themselves the great pillars of the State ? Her cities would fall into ruins ; her fertile soil revert to a state of nature ; > and her now busy ports cease to be visited by a single sail . If we are to have a system of colonisation , let it be for the purpose of sending away the real surplus , not the real wealth of the country . Every labourer sent out of it who might be profitably employed in it for himself and the

      country , is an abstraction from the national strength and prosperity . Every useless idler exported would be a substraction from the national burden . The true surplus are those who arefunwilling to work for their own maintenance , and who think they have a right to live on the labour of others . Send them away by all means , as fast as you please , with just so many captains and sergeants of industry as may suffice to teach the poor beni ghted and ignorant wretches , how to earn an honest livelihood . Give at the same time the implements and the means of living , until they get their first crops in , and then you will have done ail they can fairly expect from you , and have restored England into the hands of its real owners—those whose labours make it what

      it IS . This question must be fairly understood . The richest man amongst us can eat , drink , wear , or spend nothing whatever which has not , in the first place , been produced by Labour . Only a comparatively small portion of the population actually labour ; therefore , every labourer produces a great deal more than he consumes , or would be capable , under any circumstances , of consuming . As Christianity and natural justice equally c » ncur in laying down the principle that , " the labourer

      shall first _ be partaker of the fruits , " it follows that , until he and his arc satisfied , there is nothing for anybody else . If , after this is done , he is contented to let his surplus go to feed idlers , under any name whatever , why he has aright to do so . But if there conies a pinch , and there is not enough for all , it is clear the original owner—because the first creator of the wealth—has the right to say to the idler , " I can't afford to keep you here in idleness any longer . You are ' surplus , ' and must betake yourself elsewhere . "

      But we denounce the whole theory of " surplus ' upon which this scheme of wholesale transportati on is based , as a fiction , invented lor the purpose of propping up an unjust anti unnatural system , and of screening from publii indignation the real origin of the artificia

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27051848/page/4/