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    • 1 EDUCATION UPON INCLUSIVE TERMS. -4 A Lad7 conducting a first-class school near
    • TBE MINERS' UNION.
    • DEFENCE FUND.
    • THE N0ETHERN STAE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1819.
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      4 The Northern Star, ' January 13, 1849 ...

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR , _' January 13 , 1849 _^

      1 Education Upon Inclusive Terms. -4 A Lad7 Conducting A First-Class School Near

      1 _EDUCATION UPON INCLUSIVE TERMS . -4 A Lad 7 conducting a first-class school near

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      London , has now one or two TacancieB . The system pursued in this Establishment is calculated te ensure a solid , as _-weU as an accomplished education , as many j ears ' experience , and a careful _mmiuatioa of the moit improved _mcthois of _iastructiou , hare enabled the Principal to select and comVinu in her plan of education those advantages which are hest calculated to secure to her _pupils _thehighestdegreeof intellectual , moral , and religious improvement The sum of fi fty guineas a year wUl include instruction by professors in file _foUoTving accomplishments : —The pianoforte , French , drawing in various styles , dancing , writing , ic , and the use of the globes , together with books , _laundress , & c . French and German governesses reside in the house , and unusual advantages are ava ilable for the acquirement of ; these _languages _, which are constantl j spoken by the pupils . The JamUy arrangements are conducted upon the most _Sberal scale , including wine anl porttr , when necessary . letters with real name and address alone , wUl be attended to . Direct to C . A ., Mr Evans s , Old Town , Clapham , Surrey .

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      On January _lOtb , will be published , no . i of THE PLAIN SPEAKER ; To he Continued Weekly-Price « _ke P « wr . Edited by Thomas Cooper , Author Of ' The Purgatory of Suicides . ' _ThepoliUcalrighU _^^^ _htta- _^ - industrial PWf 0 * e _^ s _^ _^ o { _thirby . the hs _° d ° r _ril | n _^ tenTient means & r obtainiu Mother English , so tnat HE WHO _SXias HAT SUB . ¦ Kr , iwiU contain a Letter to Richard Cobden , M . P _., and tbe Speech which the Queen ought to deliver at the _evening _ofSrtoment . -Betti by tbe Edhob . Published by B . _Steim ., _20 , Paternoster-row , and aU _Soaksellers .

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      LITERARY INSTITUTION , JOHN STREET , FITZROT SQUARE , _SUBJECTS Or ? ¥ OUR ORATIONS to be delivered by Thomas _Coopeb , author of ' The Purgatory of Suicides , ' Oa Tuesday Evenings , during January , 1849 , in aid ofthe National _Yicnn Fund , for which purpose Mr Cooper presents his gratuitous services . Jan . 9 th . —life , Writings , and Character of Thomas Paibe . 16 th . —Lite , Writings , and Character of Whlia * Gobbett . 2-Srd . —The English Commonwealth : Spirit of its Founders , and the causes oftheir _struggle : _JTOUnuerV , BJlu LUC \ . awai . _^ v . — . _* ... oa—

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      NO MORE TILLS , nor any o ther Medicine , for Indigestion , Irregularity of the Intestines , Flatulency , _Palpitatiou ofthe Heart , Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Biliousness , General Debility , Despondency , Spleen , & c . Price Ed , or Sd post-free ; royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free by post , 2 s 6 d ( in stamps ) , Fifth Edition of DU BARRY'S POPULAR TREATISE ON INDI _9 E 8 TI 0 N and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Coraplaints , _bpleen , _fsc , and their Radical Removal , entitled the « Natural Regenerator cf the Digestive 0 rgan 3 ,, vithout pills , purgatives , or medicines of any kind , hy a simple , pleasant , economical , and infallible metns ; adapted tothe general reader . Du Barry and Co ., 75 , New Bond Street , London ; also , of Gilberts ; and all other booksellers . Sent post-free at be same price o Prussia .

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      DO YOU SUFFER TOOTHACHE?—If so , nse Biande ' s E . vahel for filling the decayed spots , rendering defective teeth sound and painless . Price One Shilling onlj , similar to that sold at Two Shillings and Sixpence . Sold by _cnemists _everywhere . Testimonials . — ' It has given me thc use of one side of -ay meutb , whieh luxury I had no t enjoyed for about tiro years . * —E . J . Macdokald , Belford , Northumberland . 'It is the most effective and painless cure for toothache i have ever found . I have nohesitation in recommenrlini- it to all sufferers . '—Captain Thomas Weiqhi , 13 , Nenington-crescent , London . 'I have filled two teeth , and find I can use them as well as ever I did in my life . I have not had the toothache since . ' — Abraham Collins , North-brook-place , Bradford , Yorkshire . See numerous other testimonials in various news _, papers , every one of which is strictly authentic . If any difficulty in obtaining it occurs send One Shilling aud a Stamp to J . Willis , 4 , Bell ' _s-buildings _, _Salisbury-oquare , London , and you will ensure it by return of pest . —Agents wanted .

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      EGYPTIAN DROPS , a Certain and Speedy Cure for STONE and GRAVEL , sent Free to all Persons , by enclosing seven stamps , to _Thos-as Wilwsson , Land Agent , Gainsborough , Lincolnshire .

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      A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Company , to be disposed of , for £ S 10 s , in consequence of the advertiser leaving the _^ Address , post paid , J . W „ New Street , Walsall , Stafford _, shire . _^^

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      NATIONAL LA 5 D COMPANY . THREE FOUR-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES , with all expenses paid to the present time , to be disposed of . Early application is requested , the party _Slaving other engagements preventing him from holding : the same . Address , post paid , to Mr S . Boonham , Company ' s Office , Ui , High Holborn . Terms , £ 15 s per share .

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      TWO THREE-ACRE PAID-UP SHARES in the National Land Company to be disposed of . —Price , £ t 10 s . each . Apply to Mosis Wabble , Hemshaw-lane , Stockport , Cheshire .

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      TO BE SOLD . THE RIGHT of a _THREE-ACRE ALLOTMENT in the National Land Company , balloted for in May last Apply to Mr _Sahuel CLtoo , Basket-street , Burnley , Lancashire .

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      TO BE DISPOSED OF , A FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Company . App lication to be made to Ann Hasbb , 6 , Winchesterplace , Kentish Town .

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      A BARGAIN . TO BE SOLD CLEAR OF ALL DUES , ONE FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the National Land Company—Price , £ 3 10 s . Address W . 6 . Bassk , 52 , thc Grove , George ' s-place , Holloway .

      Tbe Miners' Union.

      TBE MINERS' UNION .

      To The Miners Of The Tyne, Wear, And Tee...

      TO THE MINERS OF THE TYNE , WEAR , AND TEES . Fellow WoBKiflw , —Erer wishfnl foryonr welfare , and fearful lest the approaching attack of yonr em ployers should come upon you unawares , I hasten to inform yon that a preparation on yonr part againBt a general reduction of wages must be made with a spirit of determination . Ten , perhaps , are not aware that the viewers—or rather coal kings—of Durham and Northumberland , have again united themselves in a body ; snd be assured it is not for your benefit , but , on tha contrary , for the purpose of _giring you mere work and less wages . They do not unite to replenish your coffers , or place yoa in a better state of society ; they care not tor the danger yoa undergo ;

      ihey heed not the hunger of your wives snd little ones . Miners , _bewise , and guard against the com . ing evil . Redaction , on a large scale , ia their intention . View the lat _^ e heaps of coal at _Seaton Dale . Tal . and other collieries ; look at the miners of _Segluii , only receiving a part of their wages when dried and at the eame time under notice ; many other collieries are iB the same _position . The employer _, ofthe Conside Iron and Coal Works gave 600 or 700 Ben and boys their discharge , and then advertises ior 300 mea . Does sot Buon a _proee'ding cry , 'AEners , Unite ! ' Up and be doing , and when the reduction do ? _a come—for come it mu _3 t—let it be the signal for another great and ilorious union . Come forward in yonr thousands , and oppose your employers on the prinoiples of justice . Tbere is no

      necessity for a redaction of your wages ; the mic & _'B of Lancashire and Scotland are almoBt generally improving their wages . Then , I ask , why reduce your 6 ? The only reason I can assign is , that the viewers , seeing yonr weakness , think it time nn their part to suite for their _advantage . Resist , then , illegal proceedings . On yoa depends the happiness or misery of almcst the entire population of the counties you are employed in . Secure yourselves good wages , and the country is benefitted ; suffer a reduc tion to take place , and you bring more evils npon yourselves , and those depending npon your irade for support , I would again Bay , unite ! be on yonr guard , and shun , if p- _^ aible , the coming danger _, lam , youra faithfully , Johh Hah ,

      Srnguub Discovert. —A Table Knife Was Fo...

      SrNGUUB _Discovert . —A table knife was fouad firmly embedded in the Btomach of a cow , which wa * slaughtered tbe week _bdfcra last at Elgin , which was in suoh good condition as to show th _& t hor health had not in the _slightest _d-gree bf en iflecled by the sf range morsel which she had swallowed .

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      Now Ready , a Ken Edition of MR . O'D 0 NNOR . 'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS THE CHUTIST EDITION XVJJ & PCBLUBBD . Price ls . _64 ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of he Author , of _PAIRE'S POLITICAL WORKS . VOLS . I . TO IV ., NEATLY BOUND , Prioe 3 s . 6 d , . each , THE ' LABOURER' MAGAZINE .

      Defence Fund.

      DEFENCE FUND .

      Mt Friends, Every Week I See Announced I...

      Mt Friends , Every week I see announced in the " Star ' so much sent to this person , and so much to that person , for the Defence Fund , and I do not understand wbat it means ; not a farthing of it finds its way to me , while all should be sent to Mr Rider , to the " Star" office . How

      do those parties who receive it know what to do with it ?— -while perhaps you are not aware that Mr Macnamara—the gentleman whom Mr Jones selected to defend him and four othersafter receiving over 200 ? ., has brought an action against me for 130 / ., and Mr Nixon , who most ably defended Mr Vernon , is yet unpaid to the amount of 701 . or 80 Z . ; while a large sum is due to Mr Roberts , to whom I have paid 1701 . for the defence of the London , Chester , York , and Liverpool prisoners .

      Now , then , let me ask _you-rat the commencement of this year _1849—how long these things are to continue ? how long am I to be the paymaster ofthe National Land Company , and ofthe Chartists of the empire ? I tell you I cannot stand it , and I will not stand it . I tell you that Mr Nixon and Mr Roberts are well entitled to their costs , most ofit being money paid out of their pockets , and you are pretty fellows , well deserving your rights , when you

      are not willing to protect me against tbose several wrongs . I trust I have said enough to protect me against griping solicitors , and I ask you , as honest men , whether it is just that a gentleman , whose greatest pride is that he has never accepted a penny of your money » nor ever travelled a mile or eaten a meal at your expense , should be thus daily harassed and annoyed by your positive dishonesty and neglect of duty . Your unpaid , but persecuted friend , Feargus O'Connor .

      Portrait Of W. S. O'Brien. On Saturday, ...

      PORTRAIT OF W . S . O'BRIEN . On Saturday , the 3 rd of February , our subscribers will receive their portraits of William Smith O'Brien , and we venture to assert , that a more splendid portrait , or a more correct likeness , was never published . None but subscribers will receive the portrait .

      The N0ethern Stae, Saturday, January 13, 1819.

      THE N 0 _ETHERN STAE , SATURDAY , JANUARY 13 , 1819 .

      Ireland. Under No Circumstances Should W...

      IRELAND . Under no circumstances should we consider an apology necessary for continuously illustrating the state of Ireland ; while at the pre . sent moment , when the condition of that country constitutes the stock-in-trade of the press , the pamphleteer , tbe letter writer , the Government , and the frightened of all classes , her grievances and remedies are legitimate questions for consideration .

      Although Ireland constitutes a portion of the British dominions , aHd is said to be an integral portion of the British Empire ; and notwithstanding the facilities of communication now existing between the two countries , nevertheless , we venture to assert that the majority of the English people are better acquainted with the history of any foreign country than they are with the history of Ireland . And the cause of this ignorance is not at all unnatural , while its effects constitute the " great difficulty " with which the English Government has now to contend ; and the " great difficulty'' which it has become the interest as well as the duty of all to correct .

      Far he it from us to travel over the seven centuries of oppression which has so long and so unhappily constituted the stock-in-trade of trafficking politicians , and whose incessant practice has been to array Celt against Saxon , by continuous repetition of barbarous atrocities , of barbarous times , without introducing one single practical measure for the correction of existing ills , or without the slightest endeavour to heal existing national wounds , from which would have resulted a much better un derstanding between the people of both countries - and tbe consequence is , that the Irishman ' s horror of the Saxon is as fresh and green in the Irish mind as it has been in the darker

      days of her melancholy history ; and as well may the physician hope to restore the patient to perfect health without removing the cause of his distemper , as the English _Government may hope to correct Irish abuses without first destroying those causes which have led to their perpetuation ; while their princi ple is the attempt to allay angry national feeling by brute force , without administering any remedy for the mitigation or removal of national hostilities . While the people of a country are in a state of absolute starvation , nothing can be more unchristian , uncharitable , or unfair , than to make the question of tlvnr suffering the grounds of political agitation .

      The Irish are continuousl y taunted with the venality , the corruption , and prostitution of their own Parliament , and the justice of its dissolution is based upon those charges ; while the English reader should bear in mind , that the Irish people , from the period ofthe English conquest , never were represented in Parliament . He should understand , that more than ninetenths of the population were Catholic , while a Catholic was not eligible to sit in Parliament ; and that patronage , secured by conquest , and the emolument paid by the Catholic people , was distributed amongst the Protestant conquerors , and constituted their test of allegiance to the British Crown ; and tbat this Protestant Parliament sold itself to the British monarch .

      Thus far we absolve the Irish people from all crimes chargeable upon the Irish Parliament ; and now , throwing over the seven centuries ot barbarism , we shall trace the woes of the Irish , and the i gnorance of the English , from the Act of Union—not by any means seeking to . charge the present Government , or the

      Ireland. Under No Circumstances Should W...

      Eng lish people , with the His daily resulting from that measure , and which will require both time and capacity to correct , but with the hope that , even yet , the latent mind of Ireland may be roused to a sense of its people ' s sufferings , and their country ' s capability . When the Act of Union was passed , and when English education , English patronage , and the representation of Ireland inthe English Parliament , constituted the pride and ambition of the Irish , heretofore resident , all local thought of Ireland , with the exception of patronage and distinction , was abandoned . No longer was popular favour courted ; no longer could _national acts be locally considered ; no longer could the domestic representatives receive the smiles of their constituents

      as the reward of virtue , and their frowns as a punishment for vice . They _| fled their country —took their families with them , and abandoned agriculture for patronage . As long as they were residents they were magistrates , possessed local authority , and vied with each other in works of national or local improvement ; but as soon as the more fashionable and seductive port was opened to them they let their estates to griping

      middlemen , who sub-let at an enormous profit , and became the representatives of those from whom they rented their properties : and hence tbe upstart grip ing middle-man , as if by magic , became a magistrate , grand juror , captain of a yeomanry corps , and distributed amongst his family and friends all that local patronage which , previously , was administered by the lord ofthe soil , and by the equitable administration of which his character was measured .

      We are not contending that in the-old boroughmongering time , patronage was _Equitably administered , but we do contend . that it was more equitably distributed by the lord of the soil than it was by his tenant ' representative ; and to this substitution of pride and ignorance for character and responsibility , we will now trace British ignorance ' of the Irish character . j During the period of war from 1800 to the peace of 1815 , high prices not only diminished

      but destroyed the English Minister ' s Irish difficulty . After that period , however , when prices fell , and middle-men saw more profit in continuous ejectments , and continuous relettings , receiving more than the just rent by _fines , these middle-men became Irish historians , and each urged agrarian disturbance and Irish disloyalty as his inability to pay war rents . ; and through this channel the Irish members sitting in the English Parliament , received and communicated the state ol Irish feeling ; and hence the statute book shows that from

      that period down to the present time , every act of English aggression has been based upon the representations of Irish middle-men , enforced in the English _, House of Commons by Irish landlords;—those landlords being only too happy to justify their own neglect of duty by the foulest calumnies upon their countrymen , while every abuse was consequent upon their own abandonment of duty ; and hence we find the English Minister of that day securing the support of those deserters by the most extensive and shameful p atronage ; and we find those landlords merging all thought of territorial possession and cultivation of their land in Governmental patronage .

      We believe that the strong animosities of tbe Irish peop le towards the Saxon mi g ht be very easily dispelled , if even now the Government of this day , taking example from the folly of its predecessors , would say to the Irish people , in the wwds of Mr Harkort , the President ofthe Prussian Election Committee ,

      "HE WHO MUST TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF , HAS NO TIME TO TAKE CARE OF YOU ; and , therefore , hs your landlords have neglected their duties , and in taking care of themselves have neglected to take care of you , we have tried the experiment of making their estates answerable for the support of the poorpoverty being a consequence of their own neglect ; and , if that is not sufficient , we will try further and more stringent remedies for the correction of this national malady and crying evil ; and the remedy—the only

      remedywill be in enforcing the system of PERPETUITY OF TENURE ; and then we shall hear no more of Irish emigration—even in search of gold in California ; we shall hear no more of Irish destitution and poverty competing with the English labourer in his own market ; we shall hear no more of Irish rebellion , treason , and sedition—no more of Irish intemperance , laziness , and improvidence , when the field of remunerative industry is open to the Irish peop le ; and all the rubbish r about the * area of taxation , " the responsibility of landlords , and their destitution consequent upon their

      own neglect of duty , will pass away as so much moonshine , when the field of Labour becomes more profitable and honourable than a lodging in the workhouse . And again , we say to the English Ministers : " Do not , in the name of justice and common sense , hope to crimp the votes of Irish landlords by skinning over a wound , which , if not probed to the core , will make Ireland not only your real difficulty , but the cause of English bankruptcy , as the English people will not consent to maintain expensive armaments rendered necessary by the non-performance of landlords' duties . ' '

      The Financial Reform Meeting In Manchest...

      THE FINANCIAL REFORM MEETING IN MANCHESTER . We recommend the repert of the proceedings in the Free Trade Hall , in Manchester , to the working classes , and from it they will gather more than the mere atteitfpt to reduce Whig patronage by the amount of ten millions a-year . They will see that Mr Cobden proposes a return to the expenditure of 1835 , merely as the first step in the march of progress , and then , he says , he will go farther . The reader must understand that the affairs

      of a country , long based upon the principle of patronage , cannot be altered , as if by magic ; and that the Reform Bill being the foundation of middle class ascendancy , it required time for that class to muster its strength against the old Country Party , whose power , though shaken , has been temporarily upheld ; by the Chandos clause , which gave to the . _SOJ . tenants-at-will of the landlords a right to the vote ; and that class of voters constituting 108 , 000 , or more than a fourth of the whole agricultural constituency , is a pliapt and docile reserve , which must march at the bidding df the Protectionists , and which , though the- minority , constitutes the balance of power of that Partv .

      What vre glean , then , ftom the new _deyer lopement of Free Trade strength is , that now the battle—the real battle—must be fought between the upper and the middle classes—between the owners of land and the owners of machinery—and this is the very phase in which we have long viewed the coming struggle . Not that we base the hope ef the employed upon the political success of the employer , but that we found the _future prospect of the Labourer upon the good old maxim , " WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT HONEST MEN COME BY THEIR OWN : "

      and the worker may rest assured , that the sluggish , inactive , and once-duped Protectionists , will now open their ears to what is passing around them , and will be prepared , in the approaching struggle , to outbid their competitors for popular favour . To us , who have long foretold this day of auction , it matters not who may make the bid , provided it comes up to our price j whether Peel or Russell , we will knock ihe lot down the moment the " reserved bid" is offered and that bid is ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE , VOTE BY BALLOT , EQUAL REPRESENTATION , NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION , AND PAYMENT OF MEMBERS . _*

      The Financial Reform Meeting In Manchest...

      We are not prepared to take exceptions to a single sentence spoken at this meeting , as regards its intended influence upon the people ; but , as we may hereafter be called upon to refer to the old book of prophecies , we cannot acquiesce in Mr Cobden ' s doctrine—that any of the proposed reductions of taxation will better enable the farmer to pay his rent , as the whole amount , if chargeable upon the land directly , and if the land was directly and entirely relieved from it , would be but as a drop of water in the ocean , compared with the indirect tax imposed upon the land by foreign competition .

      The competition of foreign grain is not like the competition of foreign shoes , foreign silks , foreign ribbons , or foreign manufactured articles of any description ; foreign competition of grain is competition with the staple commodity of the country , which establishes the standard value of gold , of exchange , of discount , and all manufactured articles . But we merely recite these facts lest Financial Reform should stop with the acquisition ofthe proposed reduction ,

      and lest our pupils should then say , "Youurged us on to acquiescence in those propositions , and led us to believe that , NAKEDLY and PER SE , they would correct the several abuses of which we complained . " We do not view them in this light , but we do look upon them as the garter , over which the belligerents are to fight , and to tbe result as promising and sure to realise a great advantage to the mil- _, lions _.

      It is something refreshing to find the Extension of the Suffrage now constituting a portion of the middle-class agitation ; and although the forty-shilling freehold scheme may be intended as a scabbard for the Chandos dagger , things do not always stop where their projectors contemplate , and , therefore , we look upon this very narrow political franchise as the miniature and distant view of John Bull ' s labour-field and cottage ; nor should we he at all astonished to find our friends of the League outbidding us with a new and more fascinating Land Scheme ; and , so far from feeling disappointed , we should hail the conversion with shouts of joy , and look with delight upon the son of the Sussex farmer in his jack-boots ,

      apportioning a dunghill to the several allotments , while our friend John would be employed in the pleasant duty of assigning the several locations : — " This is thine , friend Timothy , and this is thine , friend Moses . " And then his colleague , Milner Gibson , might be president , instead of subordinate , of the Board of Trade , overlooking and managing the co-operative department , seeing to the lighting ofthe ovens , the boiling of the wash-house boiler , the arrangement of the . soap , and the just application of the mangle . But , all badinage apart , we should much more respect those gentlemen in the situations we have assigned them , and so would the people , and they would be more profitably employed , than in Ailing the hig hest government

      situations . To the Financial Reformers , therefore , we say : 'Go on , bid away ; who bids more ? Bid again , sir , it is against you ; you will lose the lot . I had a Protectionist nod , and we , as _faithful auctioneers , will proclaim our reserve bid , and , ifthe value is not offered , we will postpone the auction to another day . " What pleases us most in the Manchester proceedings is , that no Chartist opposition was manifested when the object of the agitators was to clip the Whig wing of its patronage , the thing — the only thing—upon which Whig weakness and

      imbecility has been enabled to base its pretentions to office * and , ere long , we hope to see the "HAPPY FAMILY" abandoning their old house in Downing Street , their old seats—their worn-out seats—upon the Treasury Bench , and betaking themselves to their comfortable lodgings and the bleak side of the _House , and no exertion on our part shall be wanting to aid in this Christian endeavour . Of course the Press gang , that lives upon patronage , is open-mouthed in its hostility to Cobden and his associates ; but , to the people , we say , "Let their value be estimated by the abuse of the Press , as the censure of slaves is adulation . ' '

      THE VICTIMS . We direct the attention of our readers to an address from the Manchester Victim Committee , concerning , and in behalf of , the imprisoned patriots West , White , Leach , Donovan , and others , confined in Kirkdale . We have before commented on the peculiar position of these victims of Whiggery , and shown the disgrace it would reflect on the Chartist party , and the working classes generally , were

      our suffering friends left unprovided with the means of" subsistencei The address above alluded to , states that the imprisoned Democrats have , hitherto , obtained support , but are likely to be reduced to want unless funds are immediately placed at the disposal of the Committee . The case is an urgent one . We have reason to believe that the Committee has already had to borrow money to supply the sufferers with food and the barest

      necessaries . The imprisoned patriots are best known in Lancashire , and , natnrally , have first claims on the Chartists of that important district . We suggest to the Manchester and Liverpool Committees , the propriety of convening a South Lancashire delegate meeting , for the purpose of concerting measures for obtaining a regular and sufficient sum for the maintenance of the men in prison . Each delegate , attending the said meeting , should come with authority to name the sum his town or district would supply monthly or weekly in advance . The first week ' s or month ' s contribution brought at the same time , would render the meeting more effective .

      We have received several letters concerning the family of Dr M'Douall . Mrs M'Douall has four young children , one born about the time that her husband was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment ; the situation of his family would before this time have been desperate but for the real philanthropy of Mr Farrell , and other Liverpool friends : it is , however , unjust and impossible that one or a few persons should perform the duty due from the many . We understand that Mrs M'Douall is anxious for assistance , to enable her to commence some line of business by which she might support " herself and children . We believe the general Victim Committee would be happy to vote that assistance if the funds existed , but the funds do not exist .

      Week by week we make these appeals . When will the multitudes who have adopted , or pretended to adopt , Chartist prinoiples , save us from the shame of making these ap . peals , and rescue the victims from their present condition of unmerited suffering .

      Magistrates' Law. As First-Class Misdeme...

      MAGISTRATES' LAW . As first-class misdemeanants , the Manchester Chartists confined in Kirkdale , are sup . posed to enjoy among other privileges that of receiving newspapers . Aware of this , we have , since their conviction , forwarded a copy ofthe " Star , " weekly addressed to «« J . West House of Correction , Kirkdale , near Liver _, pool . " It appears that the '' Star' has reached the prison , but not our friends confined therein . The governor would not give the paper to the person to whom it was addressed , until he had received authority from the magistrates : that authority has been sought by the prisoners , with what result the following extract from a letter from one of them , will tell

      \—I regret much that your kindness in causing the Stab to be sent here is _unavailing , as the Visiting Magistrates have peremptorily decided tbat it shall not be admitted . I cannot account for this decision on any other grounds than tbatits politics are _oppoted to the views of those gentlemen . But we have just as good a right to our po . litieal opinions as any other men or _claBS in this country , and I do think that any newspaper that is legalised by government , bears its stamp , and pays duty , we have a right to receive . We do not intend to let it diop here . We intend to apply to the Secretary of State , and inthe event of that failing , to appeal to the House of Commons ,

      Magistrates' Law. As First-Class Misdeme...

      where I have many personal friends , who will see that Justice is done to me and the others , and that we shall have the full benefits that the law allows . We ask no

      more . We all feel much concerned that the Justices should deem it necessary to come to such a decision . We often got much instruction and good _adrice from the Star that we could not obtain in any other paper , but W 9 are in _prlsou , and the Magistrates must mako ub feel that they have the power to punish . Wo are all ia good health and spirits , with the exception of Nixon , who is in the hospital , from a severe cold , which , we fear , will terminate in fever ; bat we hope it will not be dangerous .

      This is monstrous . Our friends are allowed to receive the ' Times " daily , and why should they not receive the " Star" weekly . The " Times" is not more a lawful journal than is the ' Northern Star . " All the regulations enforced by Acts of Parliament have been complied with by the proprietor of this journal , and at the Stamp Office the " Star" is on an equality of right and privilege with the " Times . " If the " Star" was anHlegal journal , or in any way an offender against the law / the

      Attorney General would soon remind us of his existence ; but we maintain , and are prepared to show , that the " Times'' is not one whit more legal or respectable than is this journal ; why then this unjust , odious , and tyrannical distinction ? This act of petty despotism is another proof of the hatred towards the "Northern Star" entertained by those who riot on the spoils of the poor man ' s labour , and who detest this journal , because it exposes and denounces their rapacity and oppression .

      Criminal Versus Pauper Asylums. There Is...

      CRIMINAL versus PAUPER ASYLUMS . There is no want of comfortable , well-to-do persons in this country , who are disposed to fold their arms , lean back in their easy chairs , and congratulate us that this is , upon the whole , the happiest and the best governed country in the world . They have no objection to admit , merely for the sake of argument , that there may be pointed out abuses here and there ; but then , you know , it is in the nature of things human to be imperfect , and , taking our institutions altogether , they do not exactly see how they could be made much better .

      To this class of persons , the startling revelations that bave just been made , respecting the immense difference in our treatment of poverty and crime , must be more forcible than the most eloquent essays of moralists on the practical anomalies of society , or the most indignant denunciations of the injustice inherent in our social _arrangements by these who suffer from that injustice . Nothing can add to tht * force of the simple facts themselves . It appears , that at the Pentonvilie House of Detention , erected at an immense expense by the Government , for

      submitting tbe convicts sentenced to transportation to a preliminary course of reformatory treatment , the cost of maintenance per head is sixty pounds a-year . This is only one of those fancy prisons in which our philanthropists and dilettanti legislators have of late indulged in their crochets of criminal reform , and , in order to win back the convicted burglar , forger , highwayman , or pickpocket to an honest life , have surrounded them with comforts , which , when contrasted with the treatment of the honest poor in our Bastiles , called " workhouses , " not only appear to be , but positively act as a premium upon crime .

      Now , far be it from us to say one word against the position tbat all punishment should be reformatory in its character and object , but let us not be one-sided . While acting upon the maxim , " That it is our duty to bring back , as soon as possible , the stray sheep to the fold , " let us not forget that it is easier to prevent than to cure . It is simpler to take the poor in their honest though pauperised condition , and make them self-helpful and selfsupportins , than to wait until we have hardened their hearts by bad treatment , rendered them desperate and reckless by our inhumanity and avarice , and thereby driven them to hecome criminals , for the purpose of enjoying the comforts in that capacity which we denied

      them while their only misfortune was being poor . " The comforts of crime , " as they were appropriately styled at a late meeting in the City , are , indeed , sufficient to make an honest pauper ' s mouth water . Each prisoner in the Model House of Detention we have named , has a separate cell to himself , the temperature of which is regularly heated to fifty degrees . It is lighted with ga 9 , supplied with wash-hand basins , towels , combs , and soap , and with a change of books every day . According to Sir Peter Laurie , there are water closets attached to each cell , and we heard that worthy Alderman state , that such was the care taken of these persons , and the deference p aid to them , that outside in the corridor there was an officer

      walking about ready , when the convict rung a bell for him , to bring a piece of paper . The diet is wholesome , nutritious , and varied , so that the inmates gain in flesh . Medical attendants , chaplains , and schoolmasters are unremitting in their attendance ; and , to crown all , the turnkeys who wait upon them are bedizened with gold lace to the tune of nearly a thousand pounds a year , and in one of these fancy prisons there are sixty-two attendants to wait upon one hundred and twenty-one prisoners . Why , the crack club in Pall Mall , the Reform Club , could hardly de the thing in a more magnificent style ; we question , indeed , whether the proportion of attendants to the persons to be waited upon in that splendid establishment , comes anything near that we have stated .

      Sixty pounds a year is twenty-three shillings a week . That is the sum " which these gentlemen criminals cost . How many hundreds of thousands of honest working men have to toil from early morn till late atnight for half that sum , to support themselves , a wife , and a large family ? Happy , indeed , they who are so permitted to toil , consider themselves ! When stern poverty and grinding want drive them from their empty cupboards and cold hearthstones , into the asylums provided by law for the reception of the henest and unfortunate poor man , they find no such comforts provided for thorn as for the criminal

      who has broken the laws of his country . We have frequentl y heard it said , that one of the most disgraceful features of modern Poor Law Administration was , that it treated " Poverty as a crime . " Henceforth let that sleep with other exploded popular fallacies . The Philanthropists have taken crime under their care ; the . Economists have charge of poverty . Twenty-three shillings a week is deemed little enough for the criminal * five shillings a week is grudged to the honest man , or the orphans he may have left behind him , when he has sunk in the battle vainly waged against poverty and distress .

      Of the treatment of these wretched orphans , and the offspring of the poor who are so unfortunate as to require parish aid , the outbreak of disease at the Infant Pauper Asylum , Lower Tooting , is a horrible revelation . It appears that the Metropolitan Unions are inthe habit of " farmingout" the children chargeable upon them , to a Mr Drouett , at sums ranging from 11 / . ls . to 112 . 14 s . per annum or little over 4 s . a week . For this sum the contractor engages to feed , clothe , shelter , medicate , and educate them . Generally there are from 1 , 200 to 1 , 400 children thus farmed

      out at the establishment in question . Within the last few days a disease broke out of the most fearful character . In a Bhort time nearly two hundred children were attacked with vomiting and sp 8 sms , w h _* resulted in the speedy death of nearl y fifty 0 f them . The alarm spread far and wide . The dreadful and dreaded Cholera had stooped on its quarry at last and revelled _uhuudantlv upon the tender flesh of infancy . The S duns ofthe various unions , and their medical officers , hurried down to Tooting , on the heels of each other , and found out-w _& t they oS _tohave known _before-that the _nSr fi !

      oMnfTntiI ? Ure M _\ that _abominable cesspool and over n _! _'"J * * " *** * , _™ re under-fed and over-crowded , They died ( like rotten

      Criminal Versus Pauper Asylums. There Is...

      The union medical men let out , on the nr 9 t * alarm , the true _cvjuse of the excessive mortality . They recommended the abolition ofi gruel and liquid food , _aiid the substitution of animal food daily , and added , that it would be better to have the meat roasted . They further recommended more warm clothing , both for the persons of the children and the beds . _Thus showing clearly that it was owing to a system of deliberate starvation , both as

      respects food and clothing , that this appalling plague had broken out among the children . It has been called Cholera . Perhaps it is ; but we can only say that the symptoms by which its attack was prefaced , are not those usually ascribed by medical men to Asiatic Cholera . That is said in all cases to be preceded by a tendency to diarrhoea ; whereas , in this case , instead ofthe usual premonitory symptoms , " the first indication of attack has , in almost

      every instance , been the sudden bulking up or vomiting . " Afterwards the ordinary symptoms of confirmed Cholera appeared . We must hot , therefore , blame the Cholera , nor the " open tank " into which the refuse of the County Lunatic Asylum was drained , for this pestilence . When Mr Grainger , the Inspector of the Board of Health , visited the place , h _» found one hundred and sixty children labouring under violent suffering , lying four or fiye in a bed . Fifteen hundred thinly-clad ,

      scantily-fed children , were crowded into a place which was not calculated to give accommodation to more than five hundred . The superintendent of this great mint , in which shivering and helpless orphanhood and poverty were to be coined into gold , no doubt when acting in concert with so many "honourable and respectable men , " boards of guardians , thought everything was perfectly en reg ie . It required such a visitation as this to expose the selfishness and heartlessness , if not the deliberate cruelty , of all concerned in this atrocious outrage upon our common humanity .

      One of the most clumsy methods of getting out of the scrape , was that adopted by the chairman and guardians of Chelsea—the first mentioned person , in fact , avowed a moral complicity in the conduct of the contractor , by stating that he and his colleagues had frequently remonstrated with him as to the insufficiency of the diet . But when they found these remonstrances not attended to , why did they not remove the children ? The Chelsea guardians , the Holborn guardians , and other metropolitan guardians—panic-stricken by the

      results of their " farming" system , rushed down to Tooting , and removed their children en _wiasse . The whole and the sick were cram * med into omnibusses pell-mell , and driven off with all speed from the pest house . But here , again , they showed as little common sense as they had formerly done of common humanity . The children so brought to town , and dispersed in the various quarters , have spread the seeds of any endemic disease with which tney may be afflicted ,

      The removal of the children has , however , thrown more light on the manner in which these Infant Pauper Asylums are managed . According to the surgeons of the Hospitals where they have _been-temporarily lodged , out of every ter . children , nine are affected with the itch . This single fact reveals , in one sentence , all the horrors of this over-crowded , dirty den of starvation . Every one knows that itch is the invariableconcomitant of crowding , uncleanliness , and under feeding ; und this , conjoined with the fact that up to this time more than three hundred children hare been

      attacked , and upwards of one hundred have died _, is quite enough to settle , in every honest man ' s mind , the , verdict , which should be passed upon all parties connected with these proceedings . Let our readers contrast the treatment awarded to the convicted criminal with that of the innocent and helpless Infant Pauper , and think of the boast that our institutions are " the envy of surrounding nations I "

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      J, Svtset Acknowledges Tbe Receipt Ofthe...

      J , _Svtset acknowledges tbe receipt ofthe following sumg , aud respectfully requests all persons or localities who hare money in their hands for Mrs _M'Doatll or Mrs White , ia the Nottingham district , to forward the same immediately . Be prompt—we want deeds , not words , now : — fob . Has h ' douam . & a . S . The _Seren Stars .. .. .. .. 020 Mr John Pringle .. .. .. ,. 0 3 5 Mr Mott 0 3 ff Mr Chipindale .. .. .. .. 010 Mr C . Waterfield .. .. .. 6 0 11 Messrs Mortimer and Scott .. .. 0 10 Master Perkins .. .. .. .. 002 Mr Gee .. .. .. .. .. 0 0-6 J . L 0 0 7

      FOB , MSS WHITE . The Seren Stars .. .. .. .. 0 2 0 From the ' Kln _$ 6 _f the French' .. -. 0 0 9 Mr Ginnirer and Son .. .. 0 0 6 Thoi . Obmesheb bas received the following sums irom the Chartists of Higher Lane , for the relief of the imprisoned Chartists of Kirkdale : — £ s . d . Pilkington , per John Eastwood .. .. 0 9 0 Jersey Street Stores , per Victim Box .. 0 3 7 Ths Chartists of Leigh , per JameB Cook .. 0 7 0 H , Lewis , _Burslem . —We cannot publish ' forthcoming meetings' _unlesu paid for as adrertisements . Thb Poets . —We can give no more poetrj on the old 01 new year . S . N . B . —I cannot name any particular day after which ofl ' erawill not be entertained , but I would advise you not to delay your offer later than the first .

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      Executive Notice. Fellow Countrymen,—-It...

      EXECUTIVE NOTICE . Fellow Countrymen , — -It is with satisfaction and pleasure that we announce the election of Mr O'Connor to the presidency of the National Charter Association of Great Britain . This step will , we are confident , meet with your unqualified approval , and augurs , well for the future success of the movement-Any eulogy on the character of Mr O'Connor from us is unnecessary ; he is known to you all , and vou are tbe best judges of his merit . No Movement can succeed if it meets with either a doubtful or damaging support . If we possess your confidence be true to yourselves , and true to us . The men of London are taking the proper _BtePS tO secure an efficient agitation in the met ? opoHsfani supported as they will be by the co-operation and supporofthe resident members of the Executive Council , we cannot doubt as to the result lYC

      We solicit you to be attentive and punctual in your business arrangements ; and as the cards of membership and plans of organisation are now ready , let each locality order the requisite number forthwith , distinctly stating the means by which they can be best transmitted . The sum charged being only one shilling per dozen places tbem within tbe reach of all who desire to join the Association . We say then to the sub-agents and friends of the National Charter Association | do _yOUT patt of the good work , and we will to the best of our ability do ours . Samuel Kydd , Secretary .

      John O'Connell's New Year's Gift . £ .Hu...

      JOHN _O'CONNELL'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT . £ . _huitn « S _> V ° me t 0 , he S" ° n . _hore - Whit PaL , ° _? ° Xand fled fr 0 m «• _•*•*»* Whoa Padd y refu-ed to pay any more . Wv _. ° _^ _ry _^ a ; e Ch"rti 8 tB ' these Christmas times , JX ™ * _ZVh * _^ _to _' * " 0 ' _*«» ous la story , The chap that will lead yeu to death or to glory . Attention ! ' Eye ' , right ! ' hear the word of com .

      ESS ? . ? 0111 th ! divi , _« awk _™ _J ° 8 tan * _« Hands iu your pocket . , and fork out your money . *« th _« » f _ai f ° / Ce 8 nW _* e" -our motto 1 . peace , For the _atick of the pike and the ball we abhor ; _Rnt It ? * _*_** ana tte 8 l ° ' ! " t Milesian race , an BHouia show box require it we'll then talk of war Let a penny a-week be your _loyaltj ' a test-Let jour watchword ba lreland f t _ _ _ q { t _ g { ree K _^*? , _* _^ ° ' _* ' * _*< - _™ _' Ton must leave to your GorJ _, to your priest , and to me But tho blow must be struck whea sweet nature think

      1 _U die of the cholic , _teezee _weezee or pip . Oh Erin , I love you , I cannot tell how . yZ T A _^ annesn _*** 'Bl till her pap has run dry , J ™ £ m , at of ¦ om 8 _oautonU , cow , For the milk iu John ' s dug Is Uke _oruda and -wee ¦ ffaW _,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 13, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13011849/page/4/