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      To 'Snilorh Anil Others

      To 'SnilorH anil Others

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      Bv approbation of her Majesty Quean Victoria , and H . IUJ . Prince Albert . sow BEADY . THE LONDON and PARIS AUTUMN an ! WINTER i ' A $ IHO . \ S for 1851 and 1532 , pub . sbedbv Messrs . Head & G . « ., 12 . Ilari-strcet . Kloomsb-jrj * - quaro . London , and Broadway , New York , Ame-ica ; also " - vGfobge Hemes , Holy" eil-stree :. Strand , London . The View , r ^ rc iented in the miNT for the present Season , lies been taUe-. i in K . en ^ gtnn-sanle-os . in Hie sight ofthe grand Crystal I ' alarc , which is considered ( Huh its coiitenUO the jrre- * te * t wonder in the world , shotting it from a point of rfiht quite different from that exbiiiited lastseafcon . Tin * -s-pleafii ^ -j uoioiiTeS saisx , accompanied with tiidiiig-llrws : * . nd Froek-Coat Patterns the Sew Balmoral Cape and Holyrood Wrapper , now worn by 1 LK . II . Prince Albert , and many noblemen of distinction . Waistcoats , double snvi * nngle-brea ** -ted ; method of Cutting and Making-lip the whole : also for converlM ? the various Patterns into others <> f a different stvle , p rice 10 *? ., or tne beautiful coloured Priat . post free , on a rol er , / s . J . ateiit Measures , 5 s . tbe - -ft . Patterns of an ? ue-K-npnon , po * , tfre ? , Is . each . _ , .. . ......

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      Brother Chartists leivare of youthful Ten Slatting Quacks who imitate tins Advertisement . P-ISXS tl * THE 35 A * : K . -GRAYED , TitLH JSiG' 3 , BhrnmalisiH . Com . Sntligt-slioii , UcbiHiT , rjlriciurc , ISIcd , t'lc . CASTS'SO ?? . — -Ayoutlifuistlf-stylcdten shUling doctor ( uabiusbinf ; impudence bring hi * only qualification ) is now advertising under tlie assumed name of an eminent pbvsician , highly injurious imitations of these medicines , a-i

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      Venule Number at the Single Price . On December 1 st was Published No . 3 of THE 'LITEltARY RAMBLER , F ™ e Twopence , containing an article on '• J /* - ^ , *'''* - hampton Tin-Plate Workman ' s Consp iracy lor thei i rotcction of Labour ' -A Pkj-A Korel-wd o ^ er instructive and amusing matter . ,, t . -it ., London : Vicker * . Holywell-street ; Manchester : Ueywood , Oldbam-street . No . 1 . published 1 st October , is given away to the purchasers of So . 2 .

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      m H O MAS COO P B It , JL Author of « The Purgatory of Suicides , ' & c ., DELIVERS OKATIONS OS THE FOLLOWING -. UBJIECrS ' . — The Genius of Shakspere , as displayed in his 'Hamlet ;" with Headings aud BecitaUons from the Play , the Music of OpheSia's songs , & c . . The Lite aud Genius of llilton ; with Recitations troin * Paradise Lost , ' oc , . The Life and Genius of Burns ; with the Music of some of his Songs , Hecitatious of' lam o' bhanter , ' A * c . The Life and t ' euiui of Uyrou ; with Headings and Uecitations from his Works . The Lifu and Genius of Shelley ; with Headings and Recitatii'Ds from his Works . Civilismion : What it was in tbe Past —What it effects for Alan in the Pr . sent—and tlie Universal liuman Happiness it must produce iu the Puture . The English ti .. miuoinv « aUli - . tfuuuders of the Struggle —Coke , Seiden , E : iot , Pym . Uampdiii , & c—Despotism of the Kin-j , an . l Tvrauiiy <> i" Laui—Civil War—Death of Hampden— Battle ' of Naseby—Imprisonment , Trial , aud Execution of Charles 1 st .

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      Faint in the Hack , bravel , llheumalism , Oout , dec . Logo , Indigestion , Dtbility , Stricture , Gleet , Lum-T \ li . BARKER'S PURIF 1 G PILLS JlJ have in hundreds of cases effected a cure when all oilier means had failed , and are now established , by the couseut of every patient who has yet tried them , as also by iHe faculty them-j-lves , as the most safe aud eiiica . cious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any himi , retention of live urine , and diseases of the Kidneys , and Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence ur otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end in st < me in the bladder , and a lingering death ! For Gout , fc'atica , Rheumatism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas , Dropsy , Scrofula , Loss or Hair or Teeth , Depression of Spirits , mushing , incapacity for Society , Study or Dusiuess ,

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      ISlPORTAXT SOCIALIST . PUBLIOATIOHS ! ROBERT OWEN ' S JOVRNAL , THIS JOURNAL ( Published weekly , price Onk Penny , and iu monthly parts , price Fouhpenck ) , Explains the means by wliic'i the population ol the world may be placed within new and very superior circumstances , and provided with constant benclici .-il employment , and thereby enabled to enjoy comfort and abundance , aud great social advantages ; and the direct means by which this change may he oll ' ectod with bnnrrit to all classes .

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      PUi'TURES EFFECTUALLY CURED it WITHOUT A TRUSS ! Caution . — Sufferers are cautioned against useless imitations , by a self-styled doctor , who copus this announcement , and who also professes to cure deafness , with varioms other wonderful feats ; and to render lite abominable deception more comp lete concocts ' testimonials' as glaringly truthless as fhev are numerous . The utter fallacy of thesc may , however be easily detected by writing to Ihe pretended authors , whom it will be found are as spurious as the article they are intended fc . palm upon the public . Db . Waltkb de Roos continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated remedy for this alarming complaint , the great success of which , for many years past , raiders comment unnecessary . It is easy and painless in use , causing no inconvenience or confinement , and is equally applicable to every viriety of Rupture , in male or female of any age . The remedy , with full instructions for use , will be sent post free , to any part of tbe kingdom , on receipt of 7 s . in casli or by Post-office or ' er , payable at the Holborn office , to Walter de Roos , M . D ., 35 , Ely-place , Ilolborn-hill , London , where he may be consulted daily from ten till one , and live till eight ( Sundays excepted ) .

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      THE ROAD TO HEALTH ! JJOLLO WAY'S PILLS . CURE OF A DISORDERED LIVER AND BAD DIGESTION . Copy of a letter from Mr , II . W . Kirhis , Chemist , 7 I ' rescot Street , Liverpool , dated 6 lh June , 1851 . To Professor Hollow at , Sib , —Your Pills and Ointment have stood the highest on our sale list of Proprietary Medicines for some years . A customer , to whom I can refer for any inquiries , desires me to let you know the particulars of her case . She had been troubled for years with a disordered liver , and bad

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      THE PATRIOT KOSSuTHi ; The Portrait of tins eminent man hits been reprinted and is now ready for delivery . \ It lias been pronounced , by persons well able to judge , to be a most admirable likeness . It is exquisitely engraved , aud is printed on thick royal Quarto paper . Price on . ) y Fourpence . Northern Star Office , and Pavey , Holywell Street , Strand .

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      THE CRYSTAL PALACE . The following Engravings of this unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office : — - I . -Viev ; of tne Exterior ofthe Building ; a magnificent print—two feet long—exquisitely engraved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Pbice only Sixpence . II . —Proofs of the Same Print , printed on thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price One SllIUJNO .

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      TOR . CUlVESWEtl ., ON THE PLEASURES OF HEALTH . A sum's of popular works , Is ., each , hy post Is . Cd . each . ENJOYMENT OF LIFE . ' Health , recreation , and rationalune o ftime . ' Contents . —E : irly rising ; Spring and Summer mornings , Excursions about tlie fcuvirons of Losdon—the Parks , Lanes , Hills , Forests , Fields , nigh-roads , and other plea , sant places , Country Trips and . Ibmbles ; the Sea ; Lomlon at Night ; Evenings at Home ; Munic ; the Drama ; on Eating , Drinking , Sleeping , Hatting , Air , licit , Bute , Occupation , dsc . ) i . find in .

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      BEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , EYEBROWS , & c , may be , with certainty , obtained by using a very jmall portion of ROSALIE COUPELLE'S PARISIAN POMADE , every morning , instead of any oil or other preparation . A fortnight's use will , in most instances , show its surprising properties in producing aud curling Whiskers , Hair , < fcc , at any age , from whatever cause deficient ; as also checking greyness , itc , Forchil . dren it is indispensable , forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair , and rendering the use of the small comb unnecessary . Persons who have been deceived by ridiculously named imitations of this Pomade , will do well to make one trial ofthe genuine preparation , which , they will never regret . Price 2 s . per pot , sent post free with instructions , & c ., on receipt of twenty . four stamps , by Madame COO . PELLE , Ely-place , Holborn , London . Important Notice . —None is genuine unless the signature ' Rosalie Coupelle , ' ia in red letters on a white ground on the stamp round each package of her preparations . TfSTIUONIALS , the original . *! of which , with many otliei'S , may be seen , at tlie establishment .

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      In Nos . at One jRsHflj / each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN THE SEAMH FOR SIR J . FHAMLIN CONTAINING Alh TIIE RECENT VOYAGES TO THE POLAR REGIONS Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OP SIR JAMBS ROSS TO DAVIS' STRAITS ASI > . Of Commander Moore and Captain Eellott , to Behring ' s Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other important and highly interesting informa-

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      . AW Publishing in Nos . at One Penny each , By tlie Authoress of' The GirsEr Girl . ' Each Pen * - *! Number of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS * OF LOVE OB ,

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      Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE _ P 5 NNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT'S-GUIOe ' tO THE GOLDEN LAND ft A L I F O R N I A , U ITS PAST HISTOUY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS PUTU 11 E PltOSPBOTS WIT !! A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE 1 HSCOVEKY OF THE GOLD REGION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course of tho work will be given PLAIN DIEECTIOIS TO EMIGRANTS TO CALIFORNIA / OR THE UNITED STATES , OB TO CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OB anv oinea BRITISH BtTTLEMEHT . SHEWING THEM WHEN TO GO . WHERE TO GO . HOW TO GO *

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      FHATERNAL FESTIVAL . THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS ' will hold their fourth ANNUAL SOIREE and BALL , . at the LiTEBAKr Institute , John Street , Fitzrot Square , On TUESDAY l-. VENING , Dec . 30 th , as a Public Reception to 6 . JULIAN' HARNEY , On his return from Scotland . Several of the Leading Democrats , both British and Continental , are expected to be present , JOHN LOWUY , The Celebrated Democratic Vocalist is engaged , and several other talented friends will also attend and enliven the festival with Songs , Daets , ike . Tea on the table nt Six o ' clock precisely . Tickets Is . Cd . single , and 2 s . Gd . double , to be had of Mr . Bezer , 183 , Fleet-streat ; Mr . Watson , 8 , Queen ' s Headpassage , Paternoster-row ; Mr . Bendall , Hall of Science , City-road ; Mr . Parlies , 32 , Little Windmill-street , Hay . market ; the Members of tlie Committee , and of Mr . Truelove , at the Institute .

      To Agents And Subscribers.

      TO AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS .

      Northern Star Office, Friday, Dec. 2gfch...

      Northern Star Office , Friday , Dec . 2 Gfch 1851 . By some mismanagement , the cause of which we have not yet been enabled to trace , a considerable number of our country parcels were not despatched last week . We regret the disappointment thereby caused , and bog to assure our readers that measures have been taken by which the recurrence of such an error shall he prevented in future , as far as it depends upon this office . To those who wish to complete their files , we have to intimate that the papers can be supplied on application , either here or to their usual agent .

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      Mr. Gujjn , Lalston.—Your Papers Were Se...

      Mr . Gujjn , Lalston . —Your papers were sent from this office as usual . IIobeet Dennis , off Carr House , near Pickering , who is a paid-up member of the National Charter Association , asks those who call themselves Chartists and Democrats where they put themselves when money is wanted . Men who will not pay a shilling a year to the cause cannot have much Chartism at heart . If every working man in England would subscribe one shilling per year towards the Cause , ' the Charter wouid soon become the law of the land .

      NATIONAL . \ 3 S 0 CUTMW OV UNITED TRADES . —Erratum In the letter of tlie Central Committee , wliieli appeared i » wir last number ,-Mr . JMacnainarais made to say , ' The members contribute ( on an average ) Is . id . per week out of their earnings . ' It should have been lid . per week . I ^* The usual weekly article came to hand too late for insertion this week . G , Brown of Wakefield comments upon the varieties of opinion which exist among the Chartist lenders , and have been expressed by them in tins paper . These ilitt' erences he sajs , distract the poorer members ofthe Chaitist body , prevent anything like united action , and he urges upon the leaders the necessity of promoting simple Chartism in a direct and strrightforward manner . Those who cannot do this should withdraw without culumni iting each other , and becoming a laughing stock to the opponents of the cause .

      The Northern Sus Hviuituay, »»:E™Ibi:U Sr, Issi.

      THE NORTHERN SUS HviuituAY , »» : e ™ iBi : u sr , issi .

      How Everybody Might Have " A Merry Chris...

      HOW EVERYBODY MIGHT HAVE " A MERRY CHRISTMAS " AND "A HAPPY NEW YEAR . " Free Trade and unrestricted Competition , notwithstanding their loudl y vaunted effects , hare not quite converted England into an industrial and moral Paradise . Somehow or other , there are evils in society not to be removed by these quack specifics . Ignorance , want , temptation , and unregulated and undisciplined passions , yet periodicall y crowd

      our criminal calendars with . their victims—the workhouses still open their portals to receive ' . able-bodied ' paupers , who would willingly work but cannot find it . Even Manchesterthat metropolis of economic philosophy—finds , that ,-despite its increased exports , pauperism is augmenting its burdens . In the face of our boasted . ' prosperity , ' it preaenta the strange , anomal y of a very decided increase of persons chargeable upon , and receiving relief from , the Poor-rate .

      How Everybody Might Have " A Merry Chris...

      .. Arewo to submit to I gwa-auto ? overt v Crime , as irremediable evils ? Qr gj-yj ) : ' not rather iind in the mode they have hith /* been treated the true cause of Qur j- >* failed to remove them from societ y ? t v \ ^ are questions which may be apprimrijiM asked at this kindly and hospitable Was when , by universal consent , there is a v ?' , cessation of the universal strugg le to « . Jf our own fortunes , ' regardless ot ° the weal woe of others . At Christmas , the mo ° f ardent votary of Mammon rests for a br ' f space from his all-absorbing pursuits to member that ho has other relations ' to ft ' human famil y than those of mere pound , Shillings , and pence . The fraternal and ex pansive sentiment of the season is infoctiona and pervades all classes ; but , lu the m-iim-h

      -ol cases , it leads to no further result than tho temporary alleviation of suffering an ( j ( jestj tution . The prisoners in the gaols , the paimon in tho woi-khouses , find tho rules of ma » i « " trates and Poor Law Commissioners relaxed ' Christmas comes but once a year , ' and on that day at least they are . ' permittod to havn a dinner of old English fare . ' The papers teem with the appeals of ' Philanthropic So cictiea , ' to enable them to suppl y coals , blankets , and food to the scantily-supplied inmates f cellars

      o , back rooms , and garrets , who -no too proud to seek pariah relief , and sour , kitchens put forth their claims on the bounty ol tho benevolent . There is on all hands a per fect paroxysm of chanty and compassion but it is ephemeral . The coals , the roa st beef , plum pudding , and beer , are distributed and consumed , and then each betakes himself to his task again . The strife and the over-reaching of every day life recentmences with renewed vigour , Tho causes which consign , eveu in the midst of

      commercial and manufacturing prosperity , tens of thousands to a hopeless and ceaseless struggle with poverty , sickness , . and want ; which people our workhouses and prisons with persons in the various stages of their downward progress of demoralisation , are left untouched . The machine rolls on , crushing as it goes tho weak , the unprotected , and the ignorant , and our philosophers and statesmen repudiate the idea that it should be otherwise . Astate of warfare , according to them , is the normal state of society . Competition , not Co-operation , ought to bo its animating principle ; Division , not Concert , its action ; Individualism , not Association , the position of mankind .

      Hence the evils which at such seasons as the present are recognised and deplored , instead of being permanently removed , are increased in . magnitude aud dacpeseA in intensity ; while those who urge upon public attention the necessity of dealing with the subject upon radical principles , and a comprehensive constructive spirit , are sneered at as benevo . lent visionaries , or denounced as Socialists , Anarchists , and Destructive ? .

      let , iu truth , it is those who hurl these epithets at the Social lloformor—who are tho real destructives . Tbey cling to institutions aud to modes of action which have an irresistible tendency to produce antagonism between classes , separation of interests , and a widespread souse of social injustice and oppression among the masses of the population . Tbe immense productive powers at the disposal of society , instead of becoming instruments for the diffusion of wealth among all classes through commensurate channels , are perverted into instruments for accumulating enormous

      and unhealthy amounts of propert y in tho hands of a few , at the cost of the degradation , misery , and oppression of the many . Instead oNightened labour and increased enjoyment—¦ I which ought to bo the natural and rational result of augmented productive powers , aa compared with the ratio of population and consumption—thelabourers find that they have to work longer and harder for less and less wages . The system turns everything upside down . Nothing is what it should be . Things blessings in themselves , become curses by their misapplication . That which should have saved , destroys society .

      There is no excuse for this crimAual and perverse persistence in a course opposed to all the highest and best interests of mankind . Although surrounded by all the obstructions and difficulties which inevitabl y beset new experiments in every department of human inquiry and research , tho attempts which have been made to apply superior princi ples of social action to practice have invariably produced results in kind , if not in degree , to those expected from them . Wherever they have apparentl y failed to do this , there has been an ample explanation in the peculiar adverse circumstances against which they had to contend . We have no hesitation in

      saying , that , in the publications of tbe Labourer ' s Friends' Society , in the Blue Books ofthe Poor Law Commission , andin other Parliamentary official papers , there is an amount of statistical , practical , and demonstrable evidence , which , taken in conjunction with other admitted facts , proves that there is not ; the sli ghtest necessity for there being one pauper or one uneducated , untrained child in this country . It has been shown , over and over again , that there are fifteen millions of uncultivated—but cultivable—acres of wasteland in the United Kingdom : each of which would

      yield a profitable and permanent return for labour judiciously expended upon it . At tho same time , it is known that we annually expend between five and six millions sterling in supporting in compulsory idleness , a vast mass of paupers , many of whom are ablebodied , willing , and anxious to work , but whom we cage in what they term « BastileV and treat worse than convicted felons . This unused Laud , this mis-applied capital —this Labour forcibly doomed to idlenesswould , if combined , become a mine of new and iiutold-wealth to the country at large . Instead of being a burden upon the nation , our so-called surplus population would be

      found to be a new source of strength , wealth , and prosperity , The experiment of the Sheffield Guardians , on tho wild moors in the vicinity of that town , has demonstrated tho productiveness of such labour , even in the most unpromising localities ; while we observe that in the Isle of Thanet , similar results have been recently obtained , through tho enlightened and practical exertions of Mr . Sackett , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians . The paupers in the union , under Mr . Sackrtt , instead of being a a burden are a profit to the ratepayers ! The simple method by which this ' astounding result is accomplished we give in hia own words : •—

      Whenever it could be done work was procured for those- who could perform it , and thus the pernicious effect cf idleness were prevented . To effectuate this , the guardians had taken ten acres of land lo cultivate with tlie spade , the result of which ivas most successfid , as they obtained from it at the end ofthe yeart profit of £ oQ to the guardians . Idleness is by no means indigenous to Englishmen ; only give them the chance , and they

      are too happy to work . In the Sh effield union , the labour of reclaiming the moor frop its original sterility , was so welcome in place of the dreary monotony of the workhouse , that it was reserved as a reward ( ot the best conducted paupers . In the Th anet Union wo are told there are onl y nine ablebodied paupers , though some of them , fro ** having particular complaints , cannot be termed able-bodied .

      These facts , which are the mere index to hosts of a similar nature , ought to lay tbe foundation of a totally new course of legjs-- * tion and practice with reference to our suffering and « d angerous classes . ' In conjim ck -j > with training and industrial schools lor the large masses of children , who in every toff » aud district of the Country are subjected a * an early age to strong temptations—to a h of idleness , dissipation and crime—W would ( ifect ; more for tho physical improve-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 27, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27121851/page/4/