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      . - - Vtt « . Wost Excellent Majesry « ueen Byaporoba *»^^ gJgSi Prince Albert . V 3 cto , £ ^ ^ pImS ^ TASHIOXS for Autumn T ^ SSS W *^ o- ** - ^ *? n % 6 c > 12 Hart . srreet . IJloomsbury-sqiiare , t ^ Bc « tr ^ olyw 3 rstreet , Strarid , London , and £ 5 & Ti 2 [ Tili ^ BootseUers wheresoever residingja ^• luperbPrint . reprcsenUns the most splendid exhibifiol ^ urope , an interior Tiew of the Colosseum Begenfs-park , Louden . This exguisuely executed and blantirallVcoloured Print wiU be accompanied wita full-SDre 3 & rroc ^ anaB iuingCoatPatterns ; also , Patterns ofthe Vew Fashionable Polka Frock , and locomotive Biding Coats , a » d an extrafitring Paahionable Waistcoat yattera , with every part complete , and a full explanation ctthe manner of catting and making them up ; also 9 extraplates , including 3 sectors , -1 for cutting fancy coats , Hot waistcoats , the other for cutting Coat Collar Patterns , in proportion , for all sizes , so that any person

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      TO ALL WHO CAN'T PAT ! IMMEDIATE Protection , and a prompt and safe final discharge , without the intervention of a Prison or an Attorney . A discharge to Debtors is nowimperative , because Imprisonment for Debt is now penal , notremediah—Debtors of all grades will be benefitted by applying forthwith to John S . Benstead , 22 , Basinghall-street , sear the Court of Bankruptcy , London .

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      TO THE EMBARRASSED . —IMPORTANT . THERE are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune , but few are aware that by a very recent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding £ S 00 , farmers , and all others owing to any amount , can be entirely raised from their difficulties at a small expense , and without imprisonment or bankruptcy . All such Mr . Weston begs wiU apply to him at Moira-chambers , 17 , Ironmonger-lane , Cheapside , by letter or personally . Persons summoned for small debts should apply immediately , as they may thereby save themselves from frequent and lengthened commitments to prison .

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      NOTICE TO EMIGRANTS .

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      THE COLOSSEUM . GRAND ORCHESTRAL ORGAN . —This magnificent establishment , patronised and visited by her MAJESTY and bis Royal Highness Prince ALBERT , lias now , in addition to its former alterations , a new Orchestral Organ , erected in the Glyptofheca , on which the most admired pieces of music will be played daily , from Two till Four o'Clock . Open from Ten till Halfpast Four . Admittance , 3 s . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the most magnificent of all the Temples which nature has built for herself in the regions of night , Is . each . The whole projected and designed by 3 f . W . Bradwell .

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      EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND .--TheriO . irA PLAN now sold at 3 s . 6 d . per lb ., is three times the str eng th of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved hy physiaaas a . n , d chemists of high standing-, also by persons in great numbers with the most deUcate lungs and stomach s . It is most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its sfrengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic esceUence . The Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant iu preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of Indigestions , « fcc .

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      ^" WESTJ ^ ; WTEl ^ DiAT |! SESSIONS .: ; NOTICE is hereby given , that in consequence of a Whiter Assize being about to be . held for . the County of York , the Intermediate-Sessions for the West-Biding of the said County will not be holden at Bradford on the 8 th of December . next , or at Sheffield on the 11 th of December next , as previously . appointed : And that the business of such Intermediate Sessions will be disposed of at the Christmas General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said Biding , to be holden at Knaresborough on the 6 th of January , at Wakefield on the 7 th . of January , and at Sheffield on the 12 th . of January , 1816 , respectively .,.. .. . , ' -..- ,. ' .., And Notice is hereby further given , that all , persons bound by Recognizance , Prosecutors and Witnesses , are required to attend at the General Quarter Sessions so to beholden at Knaresborough , Wakefield , and Sheffield , respectively , in place of attending at such Intermediate Sessions . : '¦' , ¦¦¦ ^ - . \ --., " .: . «; - . '' -. . ..- ; .- ; . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office ,. . Wakefield , 21 st of . November , 1845 .

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      COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week to the Metropolitan Coal Company ' s Shilling Club , can obtain four hah ? tons annually , without further charge , fines , & o . The Company ' s price current is , ' Best Screened Wallsend , 25 s . per full ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 23 s . ; Coke , 17 s . Cd . ' ' . ' .-Office , 279 , High Holborn .

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      M . CAEErS WORK ON COMMUNISM . Now Publishing in Weekly Numbers , price 2 d . THE ADVENTURES OF LORD WILLIAM CARISDALE in Icaria ; descriptive of a Model Republic , and illustrating the Social and Political Regeneration of Society . The work will not exceed twenty numbers . No . XII . will be published on Saturday next , and a number will appear on each succeeding Saturday till it be completed . Also , just but , price Ont Penny , Kos . 1 , 2 , and 3 , of THE HERALD OF PROGRESS ; devoted to the Emancipation of Humanity from Ignorance , Poverty , and Crime . London : H . Hetherington , 40 , HolyweU-street , Strand ; and to be had Of all booksellers .

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      MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE MILLION . N 0 . . 1 , Vol . II . ofthe FAMILY DOCTOR , IUustratcd , price lid ., will appear ! on Saturday , the Cth of December , 1815 . The causes , symptoms , and treatment of diseases are simplified . Everything objectionable is omitted . Gratuitous advice is given to all subscribers . Part VI ., completing Vol . I ., price 6 d . nowready . Office , IT , Wamick-lane , Paternoster-row , London , and all booksellers .

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      MANY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS STERLING TO BE GIVEN TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PICTORIAL TIMES . For particulars of this extraordinary undertaking apply immediately to any Bookseller , or Newsvender , in England , Ireland , or Scotland , or to the Publisher , Mr . C . Evans , 351 , Strand , London , who wiU be happy to forward a Prospectus .

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      MELODIES FOR THE MILLION FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , In one volume , foolscap 8 vo ., neat clotb , price 7 s . 6 d ., THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES A Prison Rhyme : in Ten Books : BY THOMAS COOPER , THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 132 , Fleetstreet . £ 2 r Orders from the Country to be sent through the Booksellers . Also lately published , in 2 vols ., 12 mo ., Price Fourteen Shillings ,

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      & REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSUKANCE SOCIETY , 14 , WATESLoo . ri . iCE , London . . DIOECIOUS . The Cbisholm , Cnairman . TFiMiamMoricy , Esci „ -Deputy Cliairman . Henry S . Barber , Esq . . James John Kinloch , Esq .. John Brightman , Esq . Henry Lawson , Esq . Francis Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Wm . Deacon , E = q . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . Alexander R . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . F . W . Johnson John Inglis Jerdein , Esq . Vickery , A . M . .

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      :. '" . ' , "Z . ' : ME ' ¦ J UEA & PE .- ' . U : "'" . ' V i' / ' yVi - -:. " . > It is very natural that the high-sounding inducements of "high wages , cheap h'tad , and plenty to do , " should have secured the co-operation of those upon whose assistance the . realisation of sucli fascinating prospects was said to depend , and for whose sole benefit the task Was undertaken . Strange , howeveri and paradoxical as- it may appear , we find those for the improvement of whose condition the measure of free trade was intended ^ not only sceptical and

      dubious as to the promised results ; but opposed to those by whose . exertions they were to . be realised . When prosperity had lulled tneVphilantteopist to sleep , we were silent upon a subject upon which a great majority of the working classes had made up their minds "; but now that famine anid declining trade have awaked the " great fact , " and brought its agitators once more into the field of action * we venture , with all the odds against us that cheap bread to the starving can present , to take the field against our bid

      opponent . The great principle of free trade has now resolved itself into a momentary expedient , and that expedient we find backed by memorials , resolutions , remonstrances , and even threats , from the normal schools of free trade agitation .. .. It is of this expediency , then , that we now write , lest our readers may suppose that the ports of this country could be opened and shut upon the mere caprice of our rulers . Sir

      William Molesworth , in his speech recently delivered at Southwark , very sagaciously observed , "If the ports are once opened who will shut them again ?" Hence we find that that expedient , intended to mitigate the threatened famine , is relied , upon for the accomplishment of the principle of free trade , and hence the success ofthe expedient is equivalent to the success of the-principle ; and hence our opposition to the expedient should be as vigorous as our opposition to the principle . "

      The Timesnewspaper has recently used the same arguments against the League , that the League , the Sturgeites , and professing Radicals have exhausted against Chartism . The Times says , that the prejudice against the principle of free trade is fast fading away , and that its accomplishment is only retarded by the prejudice entertained against its supporters . Let us carry roim measure while you give us your support , but abstain from taking the lead lest tlie . apprehensions of the weak-minded landlords , for whose destruction it is intended , should be aroused . In

      other words you are , — The avowed , the erect , the manly foe , ' Sold , they can meet , perhaps may turn your blow ; ¦ While , if oh us the lordly fools depend , ; ' We'll cut their throats , for we have been their friend . Now such was precisely the argument relied upon by would-be-Chartists for the destruction ofthe principle through the destruction of the leaders . As it was well expressed by the late Dr . Wade , at Birmingham , when he said , "My friends , it is not

      TOUR SAME , BUT TOGR PRINCIPLES THAT THEY DREAD ; ' and precisely the same result which would have followed the abandonment , of our name , would follow the abandonment of free trade agitation by the League . We , however , are placed in a different position to the Times . We are not niore opposed to the principle of free trade under existing circumstances , than we are to the parties whose uncontrolled power must be established by the accomplishment of the measure .

      In every instance where legislation interferes with a monoply of free traders , their existing interests arc obstructively paraded ; for example—when Sir Robert Peel proposed cheap travelling by railway for the working classes , Mr . Bright , and the free traders , were loud in denunciation of any interference with iBsmexisting interests . When Sir Robert Peel proposed his cattle tariff , some of the raw and undisciplined troops defended the existing interests

      of the landlords ; and it is because we have a more lively and anxious care and solicitude for the existing lSTEIffiSTS OitnB working classes than for all other classes , that we ever have and ever shalldcfend them against the usurped ' authority ,. ' of ' those '' . who would have the greatest interest in destroying every vestige of their rights . It matters not whether Sir Robert Peel concedes the principle or acknowledges the expediency—in either case the accomplishment ofthe measure is the confession and the

      acknowledgment of the triumph of cap > ital over labour . ' Whether he carries the measure from his presumed convictions in its favour , or whether he' carries it as the tool of its avowed advocates , it will not alter its character , nor will it less mark the power of its supporters ; and it is against that power in its ulterior working , even more than against the principle itself , that we have ever contended . Cabinets are ever fashioned , and local power is ever modelled , according to the political dress arid bias of that majority of which they are the administration , and that administration is the reflex of the power that creates ifc The power makes the law—the

      administration sees to its duo exercise—and to this end strengthens itself through every channel that may conduce to its support . Hence , as we have stated aforetime , if we have a free trade cabinet , we must liaveafree trade House of Commons . If we have a free trade House of Commons ,: we must have free trade patronage extended to all who will support free trade principles ; and if we have free trade principles its professors must have their triumph , and that triumph will be marked by . the entire prostration oi labour to capital , and the legal humiliation , degradation , coercion , and punishment of those " who shall then dare to violate laws enacted for the especial PROTECTION OF THE LAHOURIXG CLASSES .

      Perhaps one of the most curious anomalies of tne present fruitful and inventive age is the great int erest attached to a sufficiency of corn produced in foreign couiitries , and the slight interest taken in its productionfromthelandat home . The labourer , however , who toils for a precarious existence , will find but little difficulty when the conundrum is properly solved for him . If the whole of that corn which is now produced at home was produced abroad , all those who are now engaged in its domestic cultivation would either be thrown as supplicants into tho artificial market , or if a reduction in the price of produce was the result , their' present poor pittance

      would be reduced by that sliding scale by which employers ever regulate the rate of wages , and , as cheap and dear are relative terms , the pauperised LABOURER IBEX EMPLOYED MOM CIIAMty would find tkat it was more difficult to buy the cheap loaf without r money than to buy the dearer loaf with money wages regulated by tho value of its price . The landlords are the most helpless , hopeless , ignorant , and unconnected class of society , and they being , under the Ciiandos Clause , the depositories of much power , are now being fascinatingly tickled b y tli ' e fashioned words of their " candid friend" ' ofthe Times . ! Their friend not only knocks down ah European hobgoblins that affright them , but , like Jack , would slay the American Giant so threateningly

      prolific in that commodity which might be brought into competition with their home-grown produce-Danger from European supply is argued upon present temporary inability to spare , and thus expediency is propped , while the danger of the principle is mot by an assumption which none but an uxaccou . ntable arithmetician would dare to raise . From an elaborate table , showing us the results of American produce for many years , the ' limes adduces the great fact , that for many future years America would not beable to exporfcmore than 1 , 500 , 000 quarters of wheat per cinnuni to this country , and thus disposes of the American Giant , without taking at all into calculation the boundless resources and . increased inducements to cultivation .

      Nations , like individuals , have some scale to regulate demand and supply ; and while a total prohibition against the importation of foreign com may so regulate its growth abroad as to leave scarcely any surplus above calculated requirements , so the invitation of free trade may be met Lv increased production , beyond the requirements of the necessitous . But how mad ,

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      bow chUdish , how absurd , to deduce prospecta of an altered future fhnf-ito'M' ^ IMbiB ' & " ** " *»«*'» given by : the richest country in t he world in money to the most productive country in the world-to furnish an exchange for that money , the altered circumstances will govern the future operations ; and so far from America only producing 1 , 500 , 000 quarters of wheat for the English market for each of the next six years , America , under the altered circumstances , would in less than three years send 15 , 000 , 000 quarters annually of her untaxed , tithe free , army free , navy free , police free , monarch free , patronage free ,

      and idler-free Wheat into this country—not only to compete against English rents , but to compete against English labour . For instance , although there may hot now be a surplus of white howes in England , yet , if there was a bonus of £ 20 given for every white horse as fast as they could be bred , all other colours would vanish . Oh ! but then freight and- insurance ! : ; A flea bite . Oh ! but the quantity of our manufactured goods that Americans would then take ! A delusion . Americans are learning the secret that it is cheaper to manufacture their own cotton than to send , it to England with heavy expense and risk ,

      and to get it back with double expense and risk . Therefore , if the thing to be fought for is bread , and if the land alone produces bread , and if those countries , underproperregulations of that land , are independent of us in times of peace and times of war , while we must periodically rely upon their generosity or policy for its produce , let iis have the land—that land which is ours by right divine , by legal right , by moral right , and by natural right . When the stomach is full , man will know how to keep his back warm ; but when the back is cold the nerves are weak . For all these reasons we are opposed to the expedient , because we are opposed to the principle ;

      and we are opposed to tho principle because its realisation would make bad men the arbiters of good men ' s fate . Our principle ever has been , that when the Corn Laws are repealed they must be repealed by the whole people , and for the benefit of all , and hot to mark the triumph ofthe few—the griping and the interested—over the lives , the liberties , and the properties of the many . And out triumph can be only manifest in the possession of that amount of land which will make every man his own producerteach him the value of his own labour , and constitute him a recognised unit of that society of which he would then be an honoured member .

      Lord John Russell. The Public Has Been F...

      LORD JOHN RUSSELL . The public has been favoured with a manifesto of Lord John Russell ' s present opinion upon the ques " fcion of free trade iri corn , through a letter addressed by his lordship to his constituents . This production is not only a gem in its way , but is a record of truculency , wavering , [ inconsistency and folly worthy ef being ; preserved through , all time . We have here a perfect illustration of that sliding scale to which the noble lord pompously submits the measure

      of his consistency , and not less remarkable , than the writer ' s admission of inconsistency is the comment o * the Horning' Chronicle upon his great consistency The noble lord informs us that for many years he has been cequeting with the question of free trade , and that he is at length about to steer his vessel to the free trade port , " while the corn barometer points to fair , " meaning thereby that a favourable opportunity of famine presents itself to the Whig party once more to secure the Government of the country .

      Ihe noble lord , in order to divide the responsibility of inconsistency , whereby his own may be lessened in degree , informs his constituents that the League , who , in 1841 , had nailed " no compromise" to their mast / would , in the Language of the writer , at that very period have consented to a fixed duty of 8 s . a quarter . His words are : — " In 1841 the free trade party ivoirtd have agreed to a duty ofSs . a quarter on wheat . " Now we may fairly ask if this admission is not a condemnation of the free trade party ; and we

      may as fairly conclude that the League of that day were creating an extreme public opinion which they proposed to receive and barter for the accomplishment of a leS 3 extreme measure than was promised as the fruit of a fiery , continuous , and extensive agitation . Is it likely , then , that opinions forced upon the noble lord by . a casual calamity will remain unchanged when the noble lord shall have achieved that power which his seasonable entertainment o . them may confer upon him .

      Has there ever been a question at issue between the public and the party in power , when that which appeared the most popular view has not been adopted by the other party contending for power ? Thus Lord John Russell makes the present issue to depend upon the will and the requirements of her Majesty ' s subjects upon the one . hand , and the disinclination of her Ministers to obey that will ,- or meet that necessity , upon the other hand . In this view of the case we fearthat the noble lord has fallen into the old Whig

      error as to who the people are ! We presume that under the head subjects he includes the whole people ; and as he has thus deferentially appealed to the , vhole people we straightway tell him that the whole people will never again consent to that change which carries with it the mere transfer of power from the hands of one party to those of its opponents—that tho ivholc people are resolved to have their share in the next change—and that that share shall be the power to convert any benefit that may result from any alteration made in the Corn Laws to national and not to party

      purposes . :, While , the free , trade . rages we dread the crisis whiclvmay end in finality . While the bowels of compassion are open , we stand aghast at his lordship ' s dietary table for thepoor . While freedom of thought and action are paraded as . the rights ofthe subject , we shudder at the recollection of our cold and chilly dungeon . ' in the epistle of the noble lord we find some passages which may serve for what ought to be the rule of his political conduct . He tells us that " the

      result of resistance to qualified concessions must BE the same is THE present instance AS IX THOSE i . iiayementioned . " If ,. then , the noblelord calculates upon the Whole people as her Majesty ' s-subjects , may we not apply this rule of increased demand au the result "of . resistance to qualified concessions V Docs tho noble lord forget our letter to him , published in the Northern Star of June 1839 , wherein wc attributed the demand for the Charter to the noncoriccssion of those qualified measures with which the people would have been satisfied as the result of the Reform Bill ? And may we not now use Lord John Russell ' s admission of this propelling , and resisting power , as a justification of our policy , nay , as ail invitation to increase our demands .

      In that letter we told the noble lord , that , if the people had received the adjustment of national requirements , instead of starvation and coercion , the savagencss of despondency would have never . been created , and that the people would have been satisfied with even fewer concessions than he and the leading Reformers had promised theni . And , therefore , as the refusal of timely concession to the free , trade party warrants the adhesion ofthe noble lord to the extreme principle of free trade , has not his total disregard of petition , appeal , and renionstrancc , justified our demand for so much political

      power as will secure those concessions that have been refused ? There is scarcely a line in this memorable document that does not furnish us with a justification for the past and hope in the future . Not hope from the present mariner , who sees the barometer pointing to famine , and would use its hungry howl to pilot him into port ; but in ourselves , and in that concession which our position has reluetantl y wrung from the Whig . Minister . Russell would rather hold with a landed aristocracy , if his friendly connection would achieve his triumph and his party ' s share of aational plunder ; but , that being impossible like Catalme , he is resolved to be victor ,

      Per fas ant nefas . By hook or by crook . The writer says—" Let the Ministry propose SUCh a revision of ihe taxes , as in their opinion may render the public burdens more just and more equal ; let them addany other provisions ivhieh caution awl even scrupulous forbearance may suggest . " What will the

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      Chartist ^ ader . think of tKia timely admission ? Will he notSuppose that it is our language ? The wr ^ nr ^ ument we " used—the veryjcourse ' thafcTfe suggested in our 3 pC 5 ? h > p . . * ke House of Commons in 1834—the preliminflry ; step that we have from that hour to the present advocated as indispensable to the ifair settlement of the question ! Is it not the very principle for which we werir consigned to a dungeon , while in six yearsafter our g . ioler ' and persecutor is _ _ j ¦¦ *;> . i . f ,- iit . , ' .- ¦ # »• ' ¦'« ¦ '' '* - - _

      distinguished as a great statesman for . the discovery . ? Yes , we hold fast by every word of £ he above passage , and we tell the noble lord , that , ' besides this adjustment between the power to buy food and the obligation to support a , bauble and its bells , we tell him that the only other provision that " caution and scrupulous forbearance" can suggest , is the provision against want , the provision against oppression , the provision against over-taxation , embodied and declared in that document entitled the PEOPLE'S

      CHARTER . ,: Under another-head we have discussed the general question of free trade , and have shown the probable result of its'achievements under existing , circumstances . ( What a full meaning term ') Under that head-we depicted the horrors which must inevitably result from a free trade cabinet , and those horrors will be a thousand fold increased and multiplied if the measure was achieved by a union of the Whigs and free traders . Hence , so far from the noble lord having evinced policy by attacking Sir Robert Peel in what he considered the tender point , and at the fitting time , we tell him , that , if public opinion was

      rotten enough t , o be relied upok . as his accomplice , we and a large majority of her Majesty's subjects would much prefer the adjustment and application of details by Sir Robert Peel to those which the whimsicality , caprice , and consistenct of the noble lord would suggest , Yes , ten thousand times give us the Tory , who has humbled the church , who has undeceived the landlords , who has endeavoured t « give us cheap foreign food that requires but little labour to produce it * to the Whig that has aimed heavy blows , but fears to strike , at the church , that has pandered to the landlords , ' and would how depress the nationaLlabour market by admitting as its competitor the produce of slave labour . We have

      sworn in our wrath that never again with our consent shall there be any transfer of power—and least of all to the , old scotched snake Whiggery—in which the people have not their full share . ; We have , vowed vengeance against Coercion because we are Irish . We have vowed vengeance against Starvation because , as an exile , we have been hospitably received by the English . We have vowed vengeance against the unjust and tyrannical incarceration of honest working men of all countries , because we are cosmopolite , and therefore do we vow vengeance - against the triumph of a party who would orice more make their victory OUi' desolation , our home a ; dungeon , our Charter a by-word of scorn .

      Progress Of The New Dodge. Since The Abo...

      PROGRESS OF THE NEW DODGE . Since the above article was in type we find from the report of a free trade meeting , holden at Leeds , that Lord Morpeth , the great " rejected" of the West Riding , has taken the first step in the game of " follow my leader , " by giving in his adhesion to the cause of the cottonocracy . Of course these simultaneous doings of Lords Russell and Morpeth have been decided on " without previous arrangement or concert ! " An attempt at a revival of the Whig juggle of 1831-32 is evidently close at hand . Will it be successful ? Will the people allow themselves to be humbugged again ? We shall see . The following letter was read at the Leeds meeting : — ¦" : "' ; ' -. . ' . ' .. i Castle Howard , Nov . 24 , 1815 .

      ¦ My dear Mr . Baihes—I perceive that you are about to liave . a meeting at Leeds to promote the qualification of electors , with a view to further the objects of the Anti-Corn-Law League . You will probably remember being present upon an occasion when , amidst very strong surrounding inducement , I forbore from pledging niyself to the entire extent of those objects . AU that lias siuoe intervened , all especially that is now occurring , a fellow feeliug with my old friends in the riding ( although I less than ever anticipate any probable renewal of a political connection between us ) , and & seme or what has been effected by

      the Anti-Corn Jaw league to advance their great end , alike combine to put an end to all further doubt or reserve on my own part , and I write this without concert or consultation with any one else . The contribution I enclose for your immediate purposes is of very trifling amount ; it would not be easy to foresee what calls may not be made upon any of us in the course of the ensuing year ; but I wish to record in the most emphatic way I can ray convictibn that the time is come for a final repeal of the Corn . Laws , and ' my protest against the continued inaction of the State in the present emergency . Believe mo , dear Mr . Baines , yours very faithfully , Edwajid Baines , jun ., Esq . : ' MobpetH ,

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      Important Notice.' Henceforth All Commun...

      IMPORTANT NOTICE . ' Henceforth all communications , for the Northern Sta : must be addressed simply thus : — . ' ' '*" .. ''" .. *'' . ' . To the Editor , ' .. ' .., ' Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , ' . , '¦' .. '' .. " London . I requestparticular attention to the above notice . Feakgus O'Connor .

      Serious Illness Of Mb. O'Connor. Mr. O'C...

      SERIOUS ILLNESS OF MB . O'CONNOR . Mr . O'Connob having been taken suddenly and several ) ill , has been prevented writing his usual "Letter / The communications of several correspondents must remain unanswered until Mr . O'Connor ' s recovery .

      White Slavery Is England.—Tbaffic Is Hum...

      White Slavery is England . —Tbaffic is Human Flesh ( From the Nottingham Journal )—We lately found the following cool announcement in a Derbyshire paper . It it related amongst the ordinary proceedings of the Chesterfield Board of Guardians , on Saturday the 25 th of October last : — " The Clerk stated to the Board that a person from the silk manufactory of Messrs . Bridgett and Co ., Derby , had been to view the girls iu the Union l ' oor-house , and on their being arranged before him , he expressed his satisfaction at their healthy appearance , and selected fourteen of the age of ten years and upwards , which were to be ' delivered at the manufactory in Derby , free of charge in the course of the ensuing week . Some older girls of thirteen or fourteen were rejected as not being so suitable for his purpose . " We whould have our readers to mark the precision of the terms upon which this little bit of -slave-dealing is transacted : "Fookteen

      CIRLS OF THE AGE OF TEN VEAES AND UPWARDS TO BE DELIVERED MESSllS . EKIDGETT ' s MANUFACTORY is Derby , fbee of chabge "— : that ia to say , carriage paid ! ! J Now , we dare say , that many people will be incredulous , and have grave doubts whether anything so monstrous as that we have cited ever took place , and yet it is doubtless quite true . What an interesting sight it must have been to see these young animals , fcd up , no doubt , for the purpose , all ranged in proper order , so as to be shown "to the best advantage to Messrs . Bridgett ' s slave-driver ! Then how carefully the said slave-driver selects his stock . "Some older girls of thirteen or fourteen being rejected as not being suitable for his purpose . " How unfortunate these older ones must consider themselves in not being suitable to the slave-dealer ' s purpose . ' But what is his

      purpose ? We wait for an answer . Alas ! for the orphan poor of England . ! To be fed in an Union Poorhouse till ten years of age—then to be delivered carriage ft-ec at a manufactory , and afterward *—at the parish expense probably—consigned to the grave ! Perhaps it will be said , that at Messrs . Bridget ' s faetoi y the operatives are treated with Kindness and humanity —that their moral , religious , and intellectual , as well as their physical condition , is cared for—that , in short , itis a sort of boarding-school for the teaching of all sorts of accomplishments , and improving the education Of pauper children . —We anticipate that some such defence will be SCC Up . Many Of the West India planters could have produced certificates of kind treatment of their slaves—and yet slavery was abolished in the West Indies .

      A Contrast ( From the Times ) "Look on this Picture . " —Not many weeks since the Eclair steamer anchored in Funchal-roads . The dread yellow flag drooped from her mast-head . A strange and deadly sickness had ¦ swept " off two-thirds of her officers and men , Her captain aud both her surgeons had perished . The wan , worn survivors , sought relief from the inhabitants of Madeira . The G overnor of the island deemed it his painful duty to forbid any ' . intercourse between the . plague-ship and the shore . He sternl y commanded them to weigli their anchor and depart . The < = cantv crew of the steamer , already insufficient to carry on the duty , of the vessel , were daily becoming scantier under the «« acks of the fever . Tile CquiUOX WBSUt land . In tins pliable plight , without medical aid , they were on the point of being compelled to putto sea and cross the Bay of Biscay . There chanced , however ! to be at Madeira Sidney BernaiQ , an English surgeon . This man and seven seamen , volunteers from English merchantmen , came forward and offered their services

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      in taking the Eclair home . Itis needless \ 0 w « wordsinpraisingtheirnoble " conduct—a more Si „ ¦ act of cool disinterested devotion is not on rec i The Eclair reached the Moth ' erbank ; the fever sri raged between her'decks . Many had died on ti ? passage from Madeira ;' the pilot who boarded he- - the Channel ' died , and ' the- ' heroic ' Sidney Bern * ? having accomplished the humane task' he hadassien ^' himself , died also . Now Look " on This " . —ij ~ chant at York speculated boldly and successfully *" railroads . He bought in as low as he could , hesol !! out as high as he could , and when ho mad « a manent investment , he tooK the best care lie could ( 1 " t the in which he had his ~"'" "

      *^—concern placed capital shouli be well managed . He was a clear-headed , energer man . " His gains were enormous . He is now an M p " a large landed proprietor , and as for his possessions i " ' railway shares , he aud the Income-Tax Commissioners can alone gruess . at their amount . His name is Geor » Hudson . Many people have closely watched his ope ° a . tions in the share-market , and have imitated then ,. Many people have sought his advice and followed jj and many people by so doiug have made much money ' and hope to make more by the same means . So , iu order to evince their gratitude for past and future favours , the British public have got up a subscri ption to offer a testimonial to the most successful speculator of the day . In the list are to be seen the names of the

      noblest ,, the wisest , the fairest in the land—all , an unblushing worshippers of Mammon , £ 20 , 000 have already been collected for the Hudson testimonial , and money still pours in . Alas , for Sidney Bernard antf the gallant volunteers of the Eclair ; alas , for their widows and orphans ! No testimonial is proposed to record their daring humanity i no subscription is raised to provide for the families of the ' dead , and to reward the unselfish courage of the' survivors . Our nobility and gentry crowd forward iu hundreds to do homage in purss and perssh to the railway king , but not a single individual has appeared desirous of rewarding , or even noticing , the high deserts and melancholy fat » of Sidney Bernard and his companions in danger and death . Verily , ' we are a nation of shopkeepers . ^

      M . I . H . The Dixon Fran Committee wish to acknowledge the followingsums , viz .: —Manchester , per Mr . Sutton s book 10 s . ; Bolton , " per Mr . Thomas Lomax , £ 1 . Tup Land . —To the Editor of the Northern Star . —Sir , ^ . Having been on board the Jiveinciofe for the lastmiaitev ofa century , I trust that , as captain of the same , you will allow an old voyager to throw out a little of Ms jaw- tackle to his brother shipmates—not to create a mutiny , nor yet to induce them to tack about , bm merely to caution them to steer clear of the nudum dinous rocks and quicksands that beset our course least we should go to Davy's locker at the very time tse all descry the longlooked-ibr land . Well , my hearties . I presume we are all hankering after a bit of "the tight little island , " and anxious to cast anchor on a . firm and sound bottom , and shelter ourselves from the blasts of poverty under our own blackberry bush , and realise the sweets of home , instead of

      singing—.. " Home , home , sweet home " ' mid diseased potatoes and short commons , and even these not secure from the lubberly pirates who fatten on that for which neither they nor their rotten fore , fathers ever toiled or spun . Since we have been making for the land , our ship has rode majestically before a fair and steady gale , not a Single leak has boon discovered—not one of her timbers damaged , and we have made more way than any of the boasted fast sailors ever known to traverse the political ocean . But , notwithstanding all this , let us not lie down in the hammock of imaginary security . Tlusre ava mks nigh the surface , and tho nearer we approach the haven , the greater will be the caution required , both on the part of the officers and crew . A cluster of rocks called the crotchets , which are barely visible at liii *

      water , has been the destruction of thousands , at the very moment they were within reach of the object of their desire . To avoid these , every precaution is necessary , and all on board must be on the look out . The progress made , and the _ success attendant on the voyage has been the result of a judicious discrimination in'the selection of officers—men conversant with the intricacies of the course , and possessed of sufficient knowledge to guide the vessel in safety to its destined port—men too honest to sacrifice the ship and cargo to subserve party purposes or private interest . This fact ought to induce the crew to remain steadfast in their attachment to the officers , and to deter them from ringing changes at the suggestion of the Syrens who slug ofthe s weetnass of variety . Beware of the sharks . These will play around the ship iu shoals in hope of

      pickings ; but let them taste the harpoon of your displeasure , and they will soon be left writhing in the distance . As the ship nears the harbour you will perceive many strange pilots vowing towards the Jinjjn cible , but give the rascals a cut or two with the cutlass of your indignation , if they attempt to mount the deck , and they wUl soon understand that you have in earnest taken tho unintentionally-spoken advice of the pilot of the enemy ' s ship ( the State ) , by taking your own affairs into your own hands . If a storm should threaten to arise in the north—which some prognosticate , from the appearance of the little black SPOt SeOU by the captain 3 emerging- from the horizon—be not dismayed ; all is bright and serene in every other quarter of the compass ; and the genius under whose benign influence you have hitherto

      prospored , Will Chase the speck to its original nonentity .-As a consultation of the ablest hands is about to determine on the best mode of landing , it will be expedient that they should bo cool , and thoughtful , and fully impressed with the importance of their missionto beware-of Babel-builders , schemers , and new-fangled ev & tenvtnongevs . Let to \ be iustvucMto tar . and feather novel nostrum-venders , alter enquiring their come-from ; for ,- depend upon it , the truculent Tories , the wily Whigs , and the light-fingered League , will all want a hand iu the matter , for certain reasons . In the description given of the Land and its cspatolties not the least exaggeration has been indulged in by tho propoundcrs of the measure , yet some men are apt to build castles in the air , and when their imaginary felicity , or dreams , arc not realised in every particular , they are wont to indulge in outbursts of disappointment , chagrin , and , not unfreiuiently , hatred towards their best friends . A practicable measure has been propounded , and received unexpected support—the

      benefits resulting from a judicious mode of operation in the carrying out of that measure are many and important ; but beware , least you kick your basket of brittle ware , and destroy the prospect of good at the outset . Don't imagine that on landing-yon are at once to be ushered into paradise—that you are there to sit while the earth spontaneously pours forth its fulness at your feet . No ; labour , diligence , and economy will be indispensable to the perfection ofthe object sought . Labour may then reap its reward—comfort may bo found in the cottage , and a basis laid for the temple of universal freedom . The attainment of the Charter will be greatly facilitated , and the overthrow of despotism accelerated . Always remember the Land and the Charter must be bound together to achieve the happiness of man—the work cannot be perfected without the attainment of both—they are the two breasts from which alone the body politic must derive sustenance and support . Lot the shout and struggle be for the Land and the Cuahteb . —Yours truly , Wn ,-liam rviDKK . —Lonu & n , November 2 Gth , 1815 .

      Rochdale . —If the Council wish the address to b « noticed , they must send it ; it may have been posted , but we did not receive it . We presume tliis is sufficient " reason" for its non-appearance , UscuMANswonin . —Y / e thank our correspondent for this report . English Freedom . —Sir , —Being a stranger in London , aud wishing lo know the public of the Princess ' s Theatre gallery , I went last night , and had the good fortune of seeing a very interesting spectacle—I do not mean that going on the stage , but that of your very efficient police in presence of a free English public . This is the way in which were displayed the efficiency ofthe one and the freedom ofthe other . Prom the first the gallery was rather full , all the seats being occupied , and some people standing behind ; yet all was quiet orderly , until the half-price rushed in iu crowds , forcing their way onwards behind the seats over the opposite side , encouraged by the police , who , I imagine , had promised some friends of theirs to find

      room for them . Now , the space between the scats and tho wall was filled with' a thick mass , which it was quite impossible to pierce ; and the stout invaders struggling onwards with all their strength , we were Obliged to . make all possible efforts to avoid being overturned over the ladies , screaming on their seats ot the alarming impending . danger ¦ of being crushed by our fall ; but , unmoved b y any pity , the policemen urged on till they . ' wcameat . last convinced of the utter im . possibility of going through . . Now , the free public , whowureput tosuch . a trial , did not offer any other resistance than that of an inert mass—they did not venture to make any complaint—they allowed tho police to do with them what they pleased —; faciamus expei-imenium inanimd vili : Had it been possible to pass through ( not htlweeny their bodies , they would have , I think , raised no objection . I called on a policeman who took the most prominent part in the affray—I remember his number—to cease such a scandal . N » attention was paid to the voice of A Suve Citizen op Fkasce ,

      Mii j " Wheeler ' s Addhess . —The members and officers of tne Chartist Co-operative Land Socistv , and also ofthe National Charter Association , are informed that all correspondence intended for the general secretary must be addressed , T . M . Wheeler , 7 , Crown-court , Dean . street , Oxford-street , London . —N . B . —The officers of the associations are requested to copy the address . Vetehan Patriots' and Exiles' Widows' and Cttrtdhen ' s F USDS . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of 5 s from Mr . Stevens , of Trowbridge ; of 5 s . from Mr . Gray , of Barnsley ; of Is . from "A son of Crispin , Kotherhithe -. " Is , from " Two Teetotallers , Bradford , Wilts ;" and 6 d . from Mr . T . Whitfield ( per Mr . Stallwood ) . —I

      beg also to remind all holders of collecting books , that their names will be read over at the quarterly public meeting , in the City Chartist Hall , Tumagain-lane , on Sunday afternoon , Dec . 7 th ; when it will be seen what they have succeeded in doing for the poor sufferers . Tho last committee-meeting , prior to the present committee quitting office , will take place at eight o ' clock , on Tucs day night next , Dec . 2 nd , at Mr . Cooper's , 134 , Black - friars ' -road : all monies received ought to be paid up at that time , or before , Receipts have been scanty of late ; and if we are in earnest about desiring to relieve those -whom it is our bomiden duty to relieve , it is time to show it . — Tbojias Cooi-eh , Secretary . 131 , Blackfviars r road ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 29, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29111845/page/4/