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    • JUST PUt'LlSHEB . '''*"'" ""~ " (Uniform, with, the " La»i«iieb ** Uas&iinc,) i
    • PORTRAIT OF E. JONES, ESQ., BAPvRISTFR AT-LAW.
    • TftE NORTHED STAR SATORDAT . NOTElfBER 13, ISi7.
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      M • Nmftii Notember 13, 1847 The Norther...

      M _nmftii NOTEMBER 13 , 1847 THE NORTHERN STAR . _^ _, _* - ¦¦¦¦ _¦*¦ - ¦ : : - _-4-22 L .

      Just Put'llsheb . '''*"'" ""~ " (Uniform, With, The " La»I«Iieb ** Uas&Iinc,) I

      JUST _PUt'LlSHEB . _'''*"' " ""~ " ( Uniform , with , the " La » i « iieb ** _Uas & iinc , _) i

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      TO TAILOKS . _JSovr Ready , toy appronatioii of hrr Majtsty , _(" _Icees'Victoria , and II . _i ' . H . Prince Albert , THE LOVDOS and PARIS AUTUMN and WISTER FA 5 BIOXSforl 8 i 7 ami 1848 , hy Benjamin Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , ar . d by O . Berger , _Holya-ell-street , Strand , Lo : KX > n ; a _inost " magnificent * ad -. _up-rb'y-coloured Print ,-surpassing everyt ' . Htg of the kind _previously published , _accompanied with tlie _nvjstf . ishionafcle fall size Dress . Riding ; Frock . Hunting , aad Wrapper Cuat-pattetw , with every particular i _« rt for each complete . Also , the m > st fashionable aud newest rtyle Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner of Cutting and _making up the whole , witb _JnS-nnaticin respecting the new scientific _system of Cuttimr , whicii will be published Jan . 1 , _18 t 8 . and will supersede everything ef the kind before conceived . Price ICs ; or , post free , to all parts of the kingdom , Us . Patent Measures , with fall _explanation , Ss the set < _tl > egreatest improvement ever known in tie trade ! . Patterns to measure sent p _«* t frei to all parts of the kingdom , ls each .

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      IMPORTANT NOTICE . THE LOND 0 XER 5 HAVE BEGUN A HOME FOR HONEST INDUSTRY . Patrorts . —T . S . _Dunctanbe , Esq ., M . P ., T . "Wakley , Esq , M P .. B . Bond Cabhell , Esq ., M . P . Have you read the Tract on tlie Land and Building Society for the _"Worldng Miliums ? If n « tt , get it , read it . Price only One _Teany . Published for the Society , by G . Berfier . 19 , Holywell-street . Straad . Sold by all cheap "booksellers , and the Society ' s agents : also to be had , with roll information , of Daniel """ ilHam Rufiy , secretary , offices ofthe Society , 13 . Tottenham-court , New-road , St Pancras , London , bv sending three postage stimps .

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      THS OTONXOR TAIITAX . JAMES XOTHESVELL , Bookseller and News _Ajrent , Cress , _Paisley , begs to intimate ti the friends and admirers of Sir O . Connor , and the public generally , that he has been appointed agent in Pais'ey for the sale of the above beautiful cloth , suitable for vests , cravats , plaids , jhawls _, ore . An assortment kept on hand . Paisley , Sov . 2 , ISii .

      Portrait Of E. Jones, Esq., Bapvristfr At-Law.

      PORTRAIT OF E . JONES , ESQ ., BAPvRISTFR AT-LAW .

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      A splendid fall-length portrait , from a steel engraving , of the above ' named eloquent and patriotic gentleman is now completed , and specimens will he placed in the hands of oar several agents , ss soou they shall have given their directions to Mr W . Rider , HoaTHEas Star Office , as to the mode of transmission . No . 12 , of the " LABOURER , " will contain an engraved portrait of Feargus O'Connor _^ Esq . , M . P .

      Tfte Northed Star Satordat . Notelfber 13, Isi7.

      TftE _NORTHED STAR SATORDAT _. _NOTElfBER 13 , ISi 7 .

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      THE PAST , THE PRESENT , AND THE FUTURE . This day witnesses the completion of the Tenth Volume ofthe Northern . Star . Everyone is aware that our French neighbours _unhesitatingly believe this to be the month in which Englishmen are prone to relieve themselves from the cares of this life by a self-sought halter . Be that as it may , itis certain thatthe gloomy fogs of November have not a more blighting effect upon the human mind and its flesh " and blood _coveriug , than had the mists of prejudice , and the clouds of _ignorance ; upon the body-politic , previous to ihe existence of-the Northern Star .

      Ten years ago , the party of the " people " was unknown . " Tiie People , " toasted at Whig and Sham-Radical dinneis , was an abstraction , a non-entity , a " will-o-the-wisp " conjured up by political jugglers to deceive honest men , an _« l lead them astray . "The People" of " - ' the Radicaltime" was * composed of disjointed sections of a great whole , whicb iad no bond of union ; and , therefore , when driven to madness by the devilish arts of tbeir oppressors , were easily cut off in detail . " The People" of the Reform-Bill-agitation consisted of tumultuous mobs and unthinking political

      confederacies , possessing a multitude of literary mouth-pieces and self-appointed guides , whose honesty and whose qualification to teach and to lead were evidenced by the fatally absurd cry of " The bill , tbe whole bill , and nothing hut the bill , " with which the press of that day filled the mouths of its dupes ! The Unstamped Press did _^ ood service to the cause of progress , but lacked the power to concentrate public opinion . Cobbett s Register must , in many respects _^ he for ever unequalled ; but that immortal publication was but the oracle of a " school , ** never sufficiently , powerful to marshal the popular forces in one phalanx .

      But from the death of William Cobbett , and the consequent fall of the Register , followed _, soon after by the extinction of the unstamped newspapers , the principles of Democracy were almost wholly unrepresented in the Press : at least , it may be truly said , such representation as did from time to time exist was flickering , powerless , and short-lived . These glimmering lights one by one expired , until , at length , darkness and dismay covered the land . Men struggled . ind cried for this yeform , or for the repeal of that law , but , like men fighting in the dark , their blows were struck at random , and their well-meant efforts , often clashing , were ineffective and fruitless .

      The Northern Star arose , and the darkness was gradually dispelled . Men saw each other / ace to face , and , forgetting past jealousies and prejudices , they became as brethren , working together for their common welfare . That union has continued to the present time . The bond of that union has been this journal . The Chartists of London and Edinburh , Manchester and Dundee , Liverpool and Glasgow , Newcastle and Aberdeen , commune with each , other through its columns , and by its cheerfully-acknowledged direction march forwaid , intent on one object . The cotton spinners of Lancashire and the weavers of Forfarshire _, the miners of Cornwall and the

      colliers of Durham , are equally represented in the pages of the Star ; their grievances are therein published , and their rights advocated . And this is the only paper in which poverty ' s voice is heard proclaiming its wrongs . This is the only journal which consistently and _unceasingly enforces the rights of Labour . Hence , Labour has made it its organ , and Labtfut ' _s sons recognise it as the veritable " Tribune of the People . " But the present proud position of the Nor ~ them Star has not been acquired without immense _lubuujr mi sacrifice on tbe part of its

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      _iiio H" fee . -, who 'has * 'bad t _<> battle against the ' conspiracies of botk" frie nds" and foes . For the hostility of avowed enemies he was , of course , prepared . Another ' O'Connor' had in other and darker days est _ablisheda " Northern Star" to light his country men on "their stormy path to freedom , % ut the powers of evil triumphed , and the % ht of that Star was extinguished in the torrents of blood _« hed by the assassin * of Ireland' s liberties . Tie despotism whicb had proscribed Arthur O _^ Connor , though shorn of some of its terrors , * tHl survived when & e nephew of " the Exile of Erin , "

      resolving to carry i & e war into rae _^ nemy s camp , re-established ( we may say Vtbe Northern Star . Despotism was notlongint _^ ingthe alarm , but England , " with ' all its faults , " ™ _isST / was not like Ireland ef 1797 . An obnoxious newspaper could not be crushed by brute force , the means of _annovance were of necessity " legal means . " The policy advised by _Melbounne'te sput down the € hartists- _« he policy ef " ruining them withexpenses "—was seen to be the only course left _4 o the enemaes of tiie popular cause to attempt the destruction of the A % * _fer » Star . The attempt was made ; more than one prosecution for _= Kliel was instituted against the proprietor , who , ultimatelv , was consigned to a felon ' s cell in "fork Castle , for the offence of having freely

      givea the columns ofhis journal to the public , _ailo-ring all men therein to express their views , even wheu those view ? , or the mode in which these views were expressed , was opposed to the wishes of Mr O'Connor ; for , it should he rememeered , that that gentlemen was made the " _scape-goatf' for the " sins" of others . Again , _the-eaormous expenses incurred by Mr O'Connor ia defending the oppressed and persecuted , andfctttling in defence of the rights , and even the very lives , of the proscribed friends of freedem , necessarily crippled that gentleman ' s resources . Lastly , persecution , disappointment , _poi'erty , and despair , thinned the ranks of the " Star _% " supporters , until this journal was well nigh crashed under the weight of legal , political , and social persecution .

      Kind " friends" have done their best to aid the enemies of a free press . Evervj . knot of politicians whose vanity was wounded by witnessing tiie rapid growth of Mr O'Connor ' s popularity , avenged itself by doing its little best to damage the Northern Star . Every disappointed "' leader' ' who , inthe vain-gloriousness of his own conceit , imagined he was a much wronged man , because the public would not tolerate his spiteful egotism , or accept his pretensions at his own valuation , every one of these sons of mischief—and their name has been " Legion "—has vented his spleen in crying down the Northern Star . It is a curious

      fact , too , that every deserter from Democracy , and out-cast from Chartism , no matter how much he may previously have lauded the Northern Star—so soon as he found himself no longer tolerated hy tlie people , bas tried to persuade the public that the Star was the vilest of journals . It isa fact , too , that all the enemies ofthe Star have been , at one time or other , the bitter enemies of each other ; it is not the less true that they still hate each other as the devil is said to hate holy water ; but their point of agreement is , that they all hate tlie Northern Star . They hate this journal because thev love darkness rather than light , their deeds being evil .

      J he most rancorous efforts are being made at this very time to destroy this paper , and its proprietor . But we have the satisfaction of informing the enemies of the Star , that they are but gnawing at a file—a game at which they are much more likely to hurt tlieir own teeth than to hurt us . The Northern Star has now a circulation not inferior to that which it enjoyed at the time Mr O'Connor was sent to York Castle ; and there is every reasonable prospect that the " circulation " of ' 39 will be again acquired .

      Even now we have unmistakeable evidence that the number of readers of the Star far exceeds those of 1 S 39 . In the excitement of that year this journal was purchased principally by individuals ; now , in many instances , a single copy is made to serve an entire club , or a branch of the Land Company . The influence , therefore , enjoyed b y this paper must be measured not by its nominal , but its real circulation—not by its purchasers , but its reader " .

      Behold the proofs of that influence . The party of the people really exists now . That party has secured the election to Parliament of the Proprietor of this Paper ; forced other returned members to acknowledge the principles of the Charter , and given earnest that atthe next struggle the number of thorough democrats , pledged to the Charter— - name and all , —returned to Parliament , will not be confined to the honourable members for Finsbury and Nottingham .

      Ihe National Land Company , called into existence by Mr O'Connor , and fostered by this journal , numbers 42 _, 000 shareholders _, who have already paid into the hands of their treasurer not less than _; _£ 80 , 000 . That Company commands the sympathies and hopes of millions at home and abroad , andstill greater proof of its power—excites the rabid denunciations ofthe enemies of Labour ' s rights , who gnash their teeth through very vexation and despair , at the sight ofthe people preparing to buTst their chains .

      The National Land and Labour Bank is , in like manner , growing in strength ; defying the lying predictions of its enemies , and holding out a certain and heart-inspiring hope of emancipation to the now thinking , moving , determined millions . Tbe Trades , and sons of Labour generall y , are becoming more and more united , principally through finding in this journal the medium of union .

      National prejudices \ _ind religious asperities havebeen removed , or are in course of removal , in a great measure through the influence of this journal . Englishmen , Scotchbeen , and Welshmen are one and our Irish brethren , long blinded and misled by false teachers and traitorous leaders , are at last beginning to see the folly of disunion , and are gradually , but surely . 'learning to distinguish between the people of England and its rulers . They are learning , too , that class-legislation is the cause of the evils which afflict their coantry , and that , to abolish class-rule , they must unite with their fellow victims of that rule—the working men of England .

      And , in teaching that " All Men are Brethren , " we have not had regard to the peopfe of these islands only . We have ever heen the first to denounce oppression , let the oppressors have been whom they might , and to vindicate the oppressed , no matter what their country or religion . Whether denouncing Nicholas or Polk , or defending the r . ghts of the Poles or the Mexicans , our one regard has been truth , justice , and the natural rights of man . The hypocritical villanies ofthe " Fagin" of France , the atrocities of the assassin Metternich , and

      the rascalities of Palmerston , have alike heen exposed by us to the scorn and indignation of mankind . While unmasking the crimes of monarchies , we have not hesitated to denounee the slave-drivers , land-robbers , and military ruffians of America . Happily we have not laboured in vain . Jn France , in Germany , in Switzerland , in Italy , and the United States , the Northern Star is known and respected , as the organ of the British Democracy , the advocate of universal liberty , and the defender of the rights of all men , withoutregard to colour , clime , or creed .

      Such is our proud position at the present moment , and we too hi ghly value that position to risk its forfeiture in the future by any neglect of duty or abandonment ( of principle . Let our enemies say what they will , we know that the public will judge us by our deeds . Labour , life , and every energy of manhood , we have , in singleness of heart and purity of purpose , devoted to the good work of our country ' s regeneration , and mankind ' s progression . We hare hitherto been honoured b y an amount of public confidence never hefore reposed in the conductors of any public journal , andi that confidence we bave not

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      _aliuWeuT Strong " in that best public ' . ' support , we si all _persevere-in iur _labours until the object of our mission is achieved—the establishment , socially and politically , of Equal Rights and Equal Laws .

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      • _rf _^ V _^ _lf _iV _^ if-r _^ _Mif _*^^*! _"*^^ * * 4 ¦ f _^ _n _^ _vwy _yiwuvj _* ¦ THE NOVEMBER SESSION OF PARLIAMENT . _ANOTHER' COERCION BILL , The new Parliament is to assemble on Thursday next , at Westminster , for the "dispatch of divers [ urgent and important matters , " and , of course , speculation is afloat , in the political circles , as to the nature and extent of tbe business it will he called upon to transact during this extra and supplementary session of the eventful year 1847 . _& Three questions present themselves as

      equally pressing and equally demanding immediate legislation . The Currency , the State of Ireland , and the . Railways . But to legislate practically and beneficially on any of them would , in fact , be the work of an entire and protracted session , and it is generally supposed that the Autumn sitting will he mainly occupied by the formalities of electing the speaker , swearing in the members , and passing the promised Bill of Indemnity for tlie inevitable breach of the Bank Charter Act of

      1844 , under the pressure on the money market . An attempt will also be probably made to meet the more urgent necessities of the Irish and Railway questions , with the view of staving them off until the usual _tfee for Parliamentary action . There will , in short , be ¦ ' great erV and little wool , " as on manv

      former . That this will be the case may be pretty safely inferred from a semi-official leader in the Times of Monday last . The inspiration of _Downing-street was visible in every line of that Ministerial manifesto , and it is quite evident that the " Lotus Eaters , " —as Punch has happily designated the calm and self satisfied inhabitants of that dreamy region , —are determined to confine the work within the narrowest possible limits . It remains to be seen whether they can stop the talk . The Ministerial organ positively announces that

      nothing practical or remedial will be done for Ireland . " Government will prefer to see the present measures in effective operation than to overlay them with a new one destined , in its turn , to be shelved before it has . had a fair trial / ' What the Whigs mean by a "fair trial" for their Irish measures we do not pretend to understand . But it must be clear to every one who looks either at their operation during the past twelve months , or the present condition of Ireland , that more wretched and utter failures never were turned out of any

      political workshop . The Times admits that "the report ef the so-called 'Irish Council ' offers some legislative suggestions more worthy of notice than what usually proceeds from such irregular bodies , but they are o fa gravity which requires long discussion , " and as " My Lords and Gentlemen / ' and the Whig Ministry , are indisposed to enter into long discussions , the suggestions of that " irregular body , " the associated landlords , Parliamentary representatives , and middle classes of Ireland are to be thrown aside until a

      " more convenient season . " In the mean time , famine , pestilence , death , murder , and outrage may devastate the unhappy land which has been so , deeply cursed by English legislation , and millions more be added to those swept away hy the fam ' ms fe vev of the past year . Ireland thus depopulated by the ravages of disease will , perhaps , in the _estiroa .. tion of Whig Political Economists , and Irish

      absentee landlords , become a land fit to live in . They will have got rid of that greatest scourge of modern times , a " superabundant population . " But if the Irish members do their duty to Ireland ; if the Radical members of Great Britain do their duty to the empire , the suggestions of the Irish Council , or of any other body , will not be thus lightly passed over . The great principle on which these suggestions are based is , that the land of Ireland is

      sufficient to maintain the people of Ireland , and that measures for setting the peo ple to work at re-productive employment are imperatively required . No " mere palliatives or surface measures can longer be tolerated . The millions already squandered in ' useless or mischievous works , or in still more mischievous charity , have entailed not only heavy burdens and loss upon this country , but have been an actual aggravation of the evils of poor unfortunate Ireland . Ten , or twenty , or thirty millions more , expended in a similar way , would only add to those evils . The time has

      come for a radical and a permanent change in the social and political condition of Ireland . All classes in that country have become convinced of that "great fact . " The utter disorganisation of society has been too powerful an argument to he resisted by any political party , however strong their prejudices and mutual antipathies may have been heretofore . It becomes , therefore , the immediate duty of the Imperial Legislature to take advantage of the favourable concurrence of circumstances ,

      and to commence practical measures commensurate with the evils to be remedied , and capable , not only of affording direct relief , but , when fully developed , of preventing the recurrence of such disasters in future . The principle of reproductive employment , _judiciously and practically applied to Ireland , would effect these two objects , and , even as a mere question of economy and outlay , would be by far the cheapest policy that can be adopted .

      By subsequent articles in the Ministerial organ to that we have commented upon ,, it appears that theGovernment , insteadof adopting this just and effective mode of putting down the misery which leads to the " wild justice of revenge , " are about to have recourse again to that policy which earned for them , from their quondam friend and ally , the late Daniel O'Connell , the title of " The base , bkody , and brutal Whigs . " Lord J . Russell defeated Sir Robert Peel only last year on the Irish Arms' Bill . He objected to that bill . the defeat ot which placed him at the head of the

      Government _^ in June 1946— f < That it'was not accompanied , above all , with such measures of relief , of remedy , of CONCILIATION , affecting the great mass of the people of Ireland , who were in distress , as ought tp accompany any measure tending to increased rigour of the law . '' Yet , while Ireland is still destitute of that remedial policy , on the faith of which his Lordship and his Colleagues climbed to power and place—while " measures of relief , of remedy , and of conciliation , affecting the

      great mass of the people , ' are as far off as ever , we have the monstrous , and , if it were not asserted of Whigs , almost incredible statement , that" Government are about to adopt vigorous measures for the repression of the conspiracy against life and property , ' ' which is said to exist in Ireland . In other words—the Whigs , with freedom , justice relief , conciliation , on their lips , are about to revert to their former damnable policy , and re-enact the Coercion Bill , which has made their former Government for ever infamous .

      Constitutional Government is once more to be trampled upon by the liberty-loving Whigs . ' The Government which turned Sir Robert Peel out of office , because he proposed an Arms' Act , which was admitted by themselves to have less infringed upon the Constitution than any previous act of that description , are stated , on the authority of the Dublin Mail , to have " an Arms ! Act of aa extremely

      stringent character , in course of preparation , and that it will be laid before Parliament at as early a period as possible . " The suspension ofthe Habeas Corpus Act is announced tobe " the only measure adequate to the crisis . " The country is to be subjected to martial law by the meal y-mouthed hypocrites—who leagued with the Protectionists to drive Peel from power en a false pretence , just sixteen months since . '

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      Will the people of England suffer this shameless and disgraceful conduct on the part of the contemptible , time-serving , _selNseeking , unprincipled faction , now in office ? Will they not rather demand that , contemporaneous with the proposal for a new Coercion Act , a vote of censure upon them shall he moved ? and that the first act of the Parliament called'by them in 1 S 47 , shall be like that elected under their auspices in 1 841—namely ,

      to turn them out amidst the just indignation and execrations of every honest man in the country . There is , fortunately , at least one man in Parliament who has the courage , the power , and the will , to act independently , and as long as Mr O'Connor sits there , the Whigs may expect to hear plain truth , and to encounter the most determined opposition to such an unjust , bloody , and tyrannical a policy as that ascribed to them hy their friends .

      We place this question of Ireland before that of the Currency , and notwithstanding the Times says , that "the attempt to divert the session from its original destination / ' to its consideration , " will be made from the mere love of mischief ; " we trust its confident prediction will be falsified ; " that its first object will be the Bill of Indemnity promised in the recent letter to the Governor of the Bank , and that little or nothing else will be . done , except what bears directly on the critical condition of commercial affairs . "

      But even this same Bill of Indemnity opens up the whole subject of the currency , and it is not at all likely that the opponents of the Currency System of Sir R . Peel and the Whigs , will let slip so capital an opportunity of pressing the victory over that system which they have achieved , by the virtual suspension of the Act of 1844 . That Act has not effected one of the objects for which it was planned . It was useless during a period of monetary plenty , and when scarcity came , it fearfully and

      enormously aggravated the evils of the crisis , until at last its author and the Whigs were compelled _tosuspenditjlin order to prevent universal ruin . It is impossible that such a law can be maintained or re-enacted . It is equally impossible that the discussion can stop with a mere Indemnit y Bill . The Act of 1844 was avowedly the necessaiy complement of , and the buttress to , the Act of 1819 and now thatthe buttress has been taken away , the stability and safety of the original edifice must be looked to .

      In fact , it seems that the Government are aware they cannot avoid thefull consideration of the subject , and , therefore , intend to ' grant " ( which we interpret " propose" ) a Committee of Inquiry . Such a committee , while it would attain their first object , that of shirking the question for the time being , would be equivalent to a confession , on their part , that the calamitous occurrences of 1847 had undermined and shattered tlie system commenced in 1819 ,

      and rendered investigation necessary . We do not see that a committee could add anything to the knowledge ofthe public on this subject . The first principles of monetary science , and the facts which illustrate the injurious working of the present system , are to be found in the writings of men who have given the subject more close and practical attention than a Parliamentary Committee could possibly do ; and all the use of such a committee would he to

      produce another huge and unreadable " blue book , ' ' with probably a report and recommendations " white-washing" the existing system . Closel y connected with this subject is , that of the propriety of enforcing upon Railway Companies by some legislative means , the stoppage of lines , for whicii they have procured acts , in order that the money which would otherwise be expended in carrying these works , may be allowed to flow into the ordinary channels of trade . Unfortunatel y , the pressure of the times has already , to a considerable extent , settled this question in a most

      melancholy way . Many of the companies , seeing the sheer impossibility of getting " calls" paid under the existing state of things , have stopped these works ; and the consequence is , that thousands of workmen are thrown idle , thousands of families added to the pauperised ranks , and to the burdens of the country . Anything more insane than the system which produces such absurd and melancholy results as these , it is impossible to imagine . The worship ofthe golden idol has deprived its votaries of common feeling and common reason . In their blind infatuation , they insist

      that all the reproductive capabilities of this great , wealthy , and enterprising people , shall he measured by , developed by , and fettered by , the quantity of a scarce and foreign metal , which may happen to be in the country for the time being , and when that is deficient , that mills , factories , work-shops , railways , — all must stand idle , until by means of enormous sacrifices on the part of manufacturers , and dreadful privations on tbe part of the operatives , we can manage to induce foreign

      nations to part with it , and to take from us that wealth , at any price they choose , for want of which we , ourselves , are suffering ! We repeat , never was there in the history of the world so monstrous and so mischievous an idolatry as this . It has already inflicted deep , frequent , and wide-spread evil upon "this empire and , if not banished , it will as certainly lead to its final destruction , as the _^ operation of similar causes overthrew Rome , the ancient mistress of the world .

      These cursory observations will show , that the ante-Christmas session will have to deal with important , pressing , and vital questions . Another week or two will enable us to judge of the qualifications the new parliament brings to its work , and in resuming our " Parliamentary Summary , " we shall try . them , as heretofore , by the standard of past * , principles and public utility , altogether uninfluenced by the particular party designation they _mavvbear .

      Power And Progress. It Is High Time That...

      POWER AND PROGRESS . It is high time that a definite line of action should be adopted by the people . The popular mind has already been toned to one point—imbued with one feeling—tho necessity for the abolition of all Glass . Legislation ; but , while the theoretical truth has been clearly demonstrated and fully appreciated , it is necessary tint the popular will should be guided , and the popular power organised . The phalanx of faction is preparing to take up its position in it _< Parliamentary battle-field ; the ranks of democracy must bo marshalled for the encounter . Often as this

      great battle haa been fought , we think vre may safely _asseut , it has _neyer yet been fairly fought or _wiss-ly contested . Democracy has , hitherto , looked not towards the great aim of regeneration only—but to the darker goal of destruction . It has thought that it must pull down , before it could build up . A t the very time at which it exclaimed against class-legislation , it has endeavoured lo construct itself into a class-and rule . With Iho bi gotry of the fanatic er ( he acerbity of the despot , it has met the hostility of either , and thus perpetuated their evil . ' It is not so with tko present objects of democracy in England , and therefore its prospects are brighter . Democracy

      endeavours tn heal the wouuds class-legislation has inflicted , not to _atrike deeper blows—and while striving to enrich the poor , it does not seek to plunge the rich into that poverty to which they have so long consigned the millions , This system of destruction , on the contrary , is the very one employed by tho privileged factienist . The monied class strikes a blow at the landed ( interest , as the only means by which it thinks it oan rise . The landlords again endeavour to retaliate , thinking they can only

      gaiu by tli 3 declension of commerce . Tho very _keybtane of Free Trade—competition—whab does it mean ? - "I will ruin my _neighbour and drive him out of the market , that I may have both his share and my own . " It is clear that a system based on these principles , although it may benefit a restricted circle , must , by injuring an entire das ? , do more harm than it can effeot good . For a time , indeed , what are called tho " leading interests" elude the consequences , because they -Bakethe working classes t uB scapegoat oftheir

      Power And Progress. It Is High Time That...

      mutual animosities , and increase " ' of machinery , reduced wages , _unemployed bands , and crowded _Oastiles , are the inevitable results . But the evil stops «« there . Its originators feel it themselves , lhat system which restricts prosperity : to a _cJ-ws , keeps working on , and gradually contracts the limits ot that class itself . The " rich" begin to suffer . __ A period of panic in speculation , a period of depression in trade _arrives-the strong back alone can stem tne tide-tho minor capitalists cannot weather thestorra , but the greater moneymonger finds all the better _fishingin the troubled waters-he absorbs the broken fortunes of tlio ruined sp « culator , till at Jen ? th the

      great " monied interest" will be restricted tonn aristocracy of afew gold-king * , more tyrannous ban the feudal and bolder prototypes . Thus we find he insolvencyof tradesmen still increasing , and thuathe stately fabrics of _old-established banks keep fleeting away around us , melting , wiih their credit , into thin air-while some , ae _atatcdin Mr O'Connors letter of this week , can make a profit of £ 1000 per diem , out of the difficulties aud tha ruin ol the rest . It is e _' ear , then , that the policy founded on the destraction of one class , for tho elevation of another must be pregnant with future evil to the latter , and present as well as prospective injury to all . It js the votaries of

      not to thepr _& _cipies propounded by these classes thatthe people ought to listen _though courted by the landlord to -help in crushing the moneylord-orby the latter to destroy his rival . They must , on the contrary , seek a remedy , in measures , that , while they benefit all , will injure none . Such is the plan propounded this week by Mr O Connor-such are the objects the popular power enshrined in the Charter will seek to attain . But we must here point the attention of oar readers to the foundation en which the political superstructure of modern Democracy seeks to place itself . Not on the shadowy basis of governmental credit—not on the fluctuations of commerce—that

      foreign war may annihilate or foreign competition undermine — no ! a people ' s welfare should be grounded on Bomething more substantial—more secure ; and , therefore , we find that tho political reformer is forced , amid the chaos of monetary ruin and commercial panic , to look to thb "" . asd aB the source of wealth , _thcgtiarantce of power , and the assurance ofits stability . Political freedom is a glorious thing ; but political freedom and starvation would soon lead back , through anarchy , to _Blavery . In _arder to insure tho stability of the Charter , in order to guarantees wise use ofthe power when obtainedit is _ncces-ary that the people should learn to eontemplate the end—as veil as the means . Tbeyare now standing on the threshold—tfcey must learn to look into the interior ef thc political edifice , and see

      what prospects of comfort nnd security there are in its spacious , and still , in part , unexplored _chambsw . The value of the Land movement , in this mpec _* , has been incalculable—it has led the minds of men in the right direction . It is one thing to create popular feeling—it is another to organise popular mind . But , thanks to the constant _instruction the people have received , they are now beginning to give some of it to thc government ; agitation has censed to le a hungry howl—a storm of wrath , a clamour of revenge ;—the abstruse points of political economy are unapproachable secrets no longer , —and men begin to discuss thc questions of Land and Labour , and Currency—iho source , agent , and representative of wealth , This is as it should be ; popular power is worth nothing unless wisely used . The peoplo are prepared so to use it , since they seek in the Land the

      source of wealth—the stimulant to commerce and the corrective of poverty ; for , whilo fluctuations in trade , and failures in banks , may ruin thousand ? , the solid Land never fleets from under our feet — all crops never fail simultaneously — the great bank of nature never breaks . They aro prepared so to use it , since they seek not to rob the rich , but to prevent tbe ricb from robbing them , and endeavour to harmonise tVe just rights of property with those of labour . They are prepared so to use it , since they hold that moneythe representative of wealth—should not ba like dice in the gambler ' s hands , a medium to defraud

      hbour—a means of speculation—the fine juggle by which the fundholder and stockjobber , fatten on a National Debt and industrial poverty ; but as the monopoly of land is being broken through , as the monopoly of legislation is being assailed , so they now assail that hidden , but ever active power , comprised in the monopoly of gold . While theso political principles are guided by tbe glorious motto of — " Right to all and wrong to none , " we can call on the people with increased confidence to act and organise for theOharter . This _winterEnfland must bestirring While factions are struggling and straining—while the moneymongers are rushing into ruin—while the

      mills are standing still—while the hands are in the streets—while the Irish are starving—while the protectionists have no faith in Bentinck—the moneymongers in Russell—the ministers in themselves —now that Chartism ia the only arm lhat can interpose between the country and ruin , Chartists , if true to their principles , must seize the golden op . _portunily , and whelm , beneath the gathering wave of public opinion and popular power , the struggling atoms of Toryism and Whiggery , that now flounder about in the mire of tlieir own misrule- It is no

      time for waiting— famine stares ' us in the face—the game of parties overlooks the general good—ministers quarrel for place while the poor are turned from the overgorged _bastiles—landlords squabble about relief , while their paupers perish—quick , energetic , and sound legislation can alone save the country—nature has given us the means of _salvavation , wise expounders of political truths are teaching the people that bad laws must no longer prevent our access to those means , and if government is unwilling , or incompetent to adopt great measures in great times , it must be forced to concede them .

      We warn the ministry , we warn tke privileged law makers , and law perrerters to yield ic time . It is yet the time in which generous and beneficent measures , like those embraced in the letter in our first page—like that expounded in the ' Labourer' of October , may bo adopted far the benefit of all—let them not trifle with the feelings of a people , whose hour of despair may tempt tliem to take counsel of hunger and wrath , sooner than of peace and justice—and may the people take immediate steps for bringing public opinion to bear on the assembling parliament , by their demonstration , their organisation , and their Convention .

      Tue "Holy Alliance" Of Nations . The Atr...

      TUE "HOLY ALLIANCE" OF NATIONS . The atrocious doctrines avowed by the Times , respecting the «• rights of _propertj _, " on which we commented in our last , have been criticised also by eur Irish contemporary , the Nation , in terms worthy of the energetic character of that journal . We quote the following paragraph ;—Now we hereby offer on the part of Ireland , strict alliance , _offensive and defensive , to this portion of the

      English people—to those EnglHhraim who have tw rights —to thoBe whom tho Jews thus trample and spit _upon . If they hare indeed forgotten it , we mean to show them that tliey and we have both rights , rights to win , aud rights o recover ; that we can help one another to do it ; that the first step to tbe performance of our pious task is , to bring to condign punishment tbe criminals , Ministerial , Parliamentary , Jew , anil Gentile , who have so long lain upon the broa 6 tof throe great nations , and striven to crush the lite out of them .

      We beg to assure the Nation , that Englishmen have not forgotten that their fathers had rights , and that the _present generation are fully aware _. that they have " rights to win and rights to recover . " ' Englishmen too-tpe working classes of England-have for years past demanded the restoration of the rights of their Irish brethren , as earnestly a * they have demanded rights for themselves . More than three millions ol Englishmen have petitioned for the «« Repeal ofthe Union

      , " in conjunction with "The Charter . " We long ago taught that Englishmen and Irishmen " can hel p one another" to win the rights of both ; and that without such union the rights of neither tan be obtained . Wo beg the Nation to remember that it was _notuswhosworoto _maka the " gulf" between thc two nations " wider and deeper . " If , before this time , Englishmen and Irishmen have not beon united in one phalanx , the fault haa not been on this side of the channel .

      But" let bygones be bygones . " We accept the one * of '' a strict alliance , offbksive asd » _b-PBNSiYB , " between tbe two countries . Perish the prejudices of the past . Let Irishmen cordially unite with Englishmen , and we swear , by the fathers of

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      both ; who had •" rights , " thatthe " rights" of tj , sons shall be won . " Woo to the Whigs if they dare to bring _ftuwj their threatened measures ef coercion against T » land ! Woe to the Jews and jobbers , oppressors and murderers , who have too long trampled and spi * up « H" the outraged people of both countries ! _fyM to the" enemies of both nations , when the _pe-pu march " shoulder to shoulder , " under one ban ner , _recognising but one foe , and intent on one object—tbe regeneration of Albionand Erin . * , _Vjii . heart and soul we respond to the words ofthe Nation and now for the struggle ! "Our preen flag glittern o ' er us The friends we ' ve tried Are by our side , Ami the foe we hate before us !"

      - -- Mmmwkbfmmm ¦ .. Co Sua&Ersi & Coroswitfcn \Si

      - -- _mmmWKBfmmm ¦ _.. Co sUa & ersi & Coroswitfcn \ si

      Wiscrluuious. J. Page, Brighton.—We Do N...

      _WISCRLUUIOUS . J . Page , Brighton . —We do not know whether Tlie legal Adeiser is in existence . Foit the 0 'Co . v . _voa I ' _ifence Fo . vd . —3 . Sweet _acknov » . ledges the receipt of tlio following sums , viz . :-From Wake Hall , is fid ; Mr Kllicock , ad ; a Hater of O _pp-ej . sion , Od ; Mr Lee , « d . —Towards Printing Account .-Collected at the Horse and Jockey , ' 2 s 3 i _« l ; do ., at the _Siilutation Tavern , 2 s 'd _.-JTottingham Election Fund ; —A Friend , _Kettering , Is . Mr _Eh . nest _Jonis has received twenty four postage stamps from _Gc-. _n-ge Stevens , Armitage , for i > roseeution of tiie c :. se of Manslaughter at Sleaford . All monies for that purposo ought to he forwarded to thc Directors , at the hand Office ; 114 , High Holborn . Air _Jt-ncs has also received tlie sura of Is ldd for the same purpose

      , trom Uury St Edmund ' s per Thos . Leggett _, and 3 s id frnin tlie flaniek branch of the Land Comp _.-iiiy . _Subscriptions fob Election Committeb . —The Secretary acknowledges the receipt of 8 s 2 d from Mr Edmund SomerMdc , Winlaton . A Yohso _CiiAaTisr _, _Diirkiiif" . strongly censures the J 5 ij . patch for its libels on Mr O'Connor and the Land Plan ; and _advtees . Aldrr-nan Harmer to emplo ; sober editors henceforth , if be wishes his paper to continue in ex . istence . A Pooa Operative Irisiuian wonders what has come over the press-gang of late , so _mindftl of tlie Interests of the _working classes ( l ) and so anxious t > protect them from Mr O'Connor ! He thinks tho _s . \ mpathy of the said ' gang * is all bumbng , and advises the _wurkiiis men not to support any paper opposed to the Land

      Pkn . J . Hichards , Icwishatn , writes : I have money in the Exeter _Savings' Bank . Can I draw it out of the Bank of Engl-nd without going to Exeter V Answer— ' 1 fear Mr Iticbnrds will have to present himself _personally at Exoier , for the purpose of withdrawing h is money from the Savings' Bank ; but these banks are not , I believe , all governed by the same rulos . I recommend h , m td apply for information hy a letter add : esscd to tha Board of Directors at Exeter , setting forth tlie hard-Ship of having to apply in person , and asking whether his receipt , through some friend at Exeter , will _besuffi . cent discharge ?—T . Price , Manager of the _National land . md Labour _I _' iink . ' . Mb _Meaki . v , _Suttoii-iri-Ashfichl . —You must make yoar own arrangements . > Ves _« a ! l _sundou receipt of yoa

      order . Ma Tuhner , Park _Gate .-The papa . * was posted at tho proper time . We wi !) see to it . Stockton .- }>' c fault whatever is attached to Mr J . Wil . son , our ageut _, for the d . lay Ia . t week .. We wrote him to that _eftV-t . Ma Oosung , _Conglefcin . —We have not got them . A _SonscEiBta _, Woodbridge . —Wo have no knowledge of the party . , The Leagbebs . —To the Editor of the ]\ ortnern Star . — _S-r _, —I have road with most undissembled concern tho Btstement in _t' ; e letter signed ' Manchester Man , ' of an attempt be _me made by parties in the Examiner office to procure the assassination of our best friend , which , if tru « , argues such an amount of respectable F . ee Trade _chapd-going _villnny , that I hope no exertion will be wanting to ascertain the truth or falsehood of

      the _allegation . The attempt is , itself , a penal oftence _, _ftr which _tl . ey can be recommended a change of resi . dence , country , and climate , by twelve of their own order . I remain , vour obedient servant , E . Uobeuison . Plvmoutli _, NoV . l " , _lbl 7 . raosEcunoN of trie Froprietors of the Manchester Eat miner . _—Mtirylcbone Locality , 2 s lud ; Abergavenny , pcrT . C . Ingram ,. 3 s Cd . Ur S . Ktdd . — The Chartists of Deptford and Greenwich are desirous of printing'Mr Kydd ' s election speech , if that gentleman can supply a copy . Mr Kydd is requested to cuiniiiunicate with Mr J . Morgan , 23 , Hutchcr-rovv , Deptford , Kent . William Coumbs . —We have no room to notice the _asiniiio doings of the Western Visitor ' s tditur and correspondents . R . Fuaseh , Elgin . —Thanks . Mr Rider ' s address is . "for .

      t « crn Star office , lo , Great Windmill street , Hayinar . U ' - 't _, London . T . D . Haurisos , Walworth . _—Ve have not room . S . Jacobs . —iS ' _u have no room for yonr lengthy letter . If i-. ii ; injustice has been done you by anything published iu the Star , show the error or falsehood of the ma ' . ter you complain of in half a dozen lines , aud your statement shall hav publicity . ' A Word to the _Cuautists . _' —During the present agitation _regnriiiiig tiie Land Company in Manchester , I trust the Chartists generally will not he so foolish as to encourage the enemy by purchasing the Examiner , through curiosity to behold its ravings . Instead ut' so doing , lit thrm go to a reading room , where they may see it with iut giving the smallest assistance to the un . principled crew . ~ _-From a Land Member who has mishaken confidence tn Mr O'Connor .

      James F . M'Cormack , secretary to the Stockport E ! ec . tio : i Comraittet ? , be _^ s to inform the localities he lias visitod that he wili lay a full return before them ia next week ' s Star . Mr M'Cornr . ick wishes to let tbe Keighley men know that he was iurnished with proper credentials . AU letters to be add _\ _-essed to James F , _M'Cormack _. 'No . 80 , Queen-street , Fortwood , Stockport ,. Chesldre . J . Swest begs to acknowledge the recc pt of 2 s SJd forthe I _' lintuv" Account , cotlectol at the Masons' Arms . Stlyesteii _Rtan . —So room . John ¦ Crosslet , Stalybridge . —1 st , If the government bring in the bill , it will not cost thc tonn anything . Snd . It will cause ko _increase of the police rates . Srd , You will not be compelled to have a corporation . No Tbas * r-Ktt can take place until the Company is com .

      pletcly registered . All certificates must be taken out ' in the name o : ' the person who joins . A Mam and nis Wife can each hold four shares . Mb Side . —We cannoi find the letter , which , we suppose , like other rojeetedeomuiunications , has been ilestrojed _, J . _Suaw . —A resolution , signed J . Shaw . ' is without tho necessary additions of when and where adopted . C . G ., Westminster . —Your acquaintance , who told yoa there was no such paper as the Reforme , is an ass . The Reforme is the organ of the Democrat c Republicans of France ; itis published daily , and its office is "Se . 3 _, Hue J . J . Kousscau , Paris , Tub Whistler . —As it is not our purpose to makes Newgate Calendar of the Northern Star , we have thought it due to our readers , and respectful to i > ur numerous correspondents , to withhold the numerous letters that wo have _received from the dupes ofthis

      ABLE AXD INTERESTING THIEF . . Hf . nrt Bea le . —Wo have reoeived his long amlintercsting letter , relative tothe conduct of Messrs Cleate and llobson . We shall reserve It , and preserve it . One who signs himself 'One ok Ma Hoc son ' s Apprentices' and who gives his name , writes thus ' - — * Will Joshua Hobson meot Ben . Brown , "Will . Brown , Fnwley , Pallistcr , and another person , and niyself _. fac * to face , and we will not turn our backs upon tbe dis . eussion of tho Land Plan , or the grease pot ?' J . _CiSTLtDoe , _Shtffieid ; aad J . Y 4 _Ti : s , Manchester .- " Next week . G . Tubneb , Coiheve . —It is impossible to tell at present , The Tivebtos Lib & _as . V . —Julian Harney has received the following books for tbe above library , presented

      by Mr Dorman of Nottingham , per Mr Bornliam : — _'llaport of the Commissioners for inquiring into tiff state of large tones , & c ., ' 2 vols . ; ' Life , Travels , & e . of George Fox , ' 2 vols . ; and a volume of' The Pre . ceptor . ' Tue Poets . — 'Wchave received a mass cf' pottry , ' which we cannot use at present . _Ji'Uiif HABtfEr'has paid over to Mr Stallwood the A . _« _llowing won : —For General _Election Fund : —Alloa , per W . Kerr , £ l ; Kidderminster , per G . Holloway , 4 s . Gd . ; Hawick , per S . M . B ., 31 . For the Sleaford case ; Alloa , ptr W . _Ktrr , 10 s . ; Bradford . J . Sinjtb , 3 s . Cd . Forthe Holytown Miners : Bradford , per J , Smyth , 3 s , ; Kidderminster , per G . Holloway , 'ii . ' A Well Wisher , ' GIossop ; and G Gobdon , Miall te answered In onr next .

      _Oua Paris Cokbispondent will receive a letter from as » The interesting article on ' The Hi form Movement ia France , ' arrived too Iato for _insertion this week . It shall appear in our next , J . G . O'Leary . —We oannot pledge ourselves to publish a statement , a portion only of which we have seen . But we may add , that now that Parliament is about to assemble , we shall not have room for 1 ng letters , or lengthy documents of any kind . In that portion of jour reply to the tract of the International _Leaec " , ' now before us , there are several asserted ' facts' _wbiiij f . n- the sake of truth and fair-play , we would _willingly

      publish , but we c :: _nnot open our columns to abuse ol the abovo named society ( with which , by the way , we have no connexion whatever ! , nor to ribald denunei _"* tion ofthe Swiss Diet and Swiss Radicals . The censors of other men ' s ' tatempentitco * should not beint _* i » r " rate themselves . If yoa allow us to select facts- _« _" " at least what you deem _fjets—from your statement , we will make tae selection In good faith , to the fullest extent the many demands upon our columns will nl _'» w * If you object to this jou can have the manuscrip t by applying to Mr Rider , nt the Star office , any day » f '" r Monday next . Metropolitan Delegvte Committee . —Next week .

      LKfiAL . Wm . Rankin . —The papers _relating to tho estates of tho late Sir Lkttr Holt shall receive an early attention . They are Y ; ry balky ; and a careful perusal ot tk «"> and consid . ration ofthe case of the claimants , may"" * gage me some days . I am not aware of tbe cirelioi * stances of the claimants ; but if they are not po 0 _*" _?^ p ie , a fee , bearing some proportion to the length ot tu papers , umiht to be sent . Clients ought to keep m '"* , collection tha 11 have never professed to give ' gratuitou _* legal advices , except to poor _people . _ Wm . Constantine .-I shall be able , r hope , to take "J * your case aeain soon . f vmir Law ant Augustcs Leader . —lean make nothing of ) - letter ; but if jou will send mo a copy of the '''" ' i which the legacy of £ 1 t ) l ) . was left ( or a copy of ' 0 ui « the tas

      of it as relates to this legncv ; , I will advise on Nathl . KtTTLF . WKLL - 1 « aw Mr Levey some tllllfl ' a / and I have since written to him , telling him l •» e dcred that you and your sister , Mrs EullofK , j clearly the only persons entitled to the legm < j > ja have received no mistier to my letter . I will d 0 . my power to pretent a Chancery suit , which is 1 unnecessary . tm , rirj S . II . Suaw —If you were not hunting rabbits , bat ru « going with your dog quietly along thc road or too p tlie farmer had no right to take and detain S [ _. 0 uf If he will not give it up , you may maintain an ne " trover against him in tha Small _' _llebts' Court htt _„ s , Thos . and Jas . Arkwkight _.-UuIoss tlie 0 c _^ ' . , nficryour unele ' s death , lived in a much ' nore T uny if manner than they before did , I think the pro !) "" '"' that tbereports about your uncle ' s great " » 'p * ' f , _«» r have been witiiout foundation . As no "" _% ' _jun" . uwle was found ia Doctori'Commons when tue *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 13, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13111847/page/4/