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    • COMPLETE SUCCESS or rpiIE LOXDOS ''^L rfppence ' 1 DAILY NEW3PAPER-PRICE THREEPENCE ^
    • MR KYDD'S TOUR
    • JUST PUBLISHED, (faiferm with tha " Labo»hee" Magaxmo,) j Price 6d.
    • MINSTER LOVEL ESTATE
    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1818
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      4 Tbe Northern Star, February Lojais,.

      4 TBE NORTHERN STAR , February _lOjais ,.

      Complete Success Or Rpiie Loxdos ''^L Rfppence ' 1 Daily New3paper-Price Threepence ^

      COMPLETE SUCCESS or rpiIE LOXDOS ' ' _^ _L _rfppence ' 1 DAILY NEW 3 PAPER-PRICE _THREEPENCE _^

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      The Proprietors ef this new Loudon _« a . v . _. _^ to return thanks tor the _Bupjiort _alreadj _P _«^> " Public- to tbis new _, _^ » « f _^^ erfect thta _W to _stnts th ° t every means are _tauvii _iv ? pa Th _^' ion-PON TELEGRAPH is published every day Thel . O .-i ua _lc . 1 . gcond Edition is also pubat tw _h-e ° ' c ] 0 _' \ _^ L _, t free , containing News , Corn , _KtjSiSA *• _* e ciose of tUe Day _* _Perlor _deti % us of _having a Specimen Number are _™ _™ d to _sea d th _« e postage _sUmps . stating the cdi-So ? _Q uired , to Mr Samuel Collins , publisher of tho LONDON TELEGRAPH , 165 , Fleet-street , London .-Acents wanted fa the Country .

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      THE LAND . T NO . 3 d ALLOTMENT , on the MINSTER LOTiL ESTATE , to be disposed of , the Allottee having _engagonien' . s _tliat prevent him taking possession . Application to ba made to . Mr Henry Lister , 3 i , west-Street , Ktading , Berks .-None need apply who har _» not a paid-up Four-acre Share .

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      Sow publishing , ia Weekly Numbers , price One Penny , or Comi >'? te , stitched in a neat wrapper , price Sixpence , / TIITE COMING AXEMAN * and the NEW ilA . _N . By 1 W . W . _iV : <\ - _>« , Author of * Letters to the Toilm ? , ' & c . London : . Wished by W . Jenkinson , 91 , _Leather-lane , Holborn ; ¦ . Clements , Little Pulteney-street , Goldensquare : i _' aragon Hall , Charlotte-street , Blackfnarsroad , and C . Cook , 2 , Sims ' s-alley , Bristol .

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      A PUBLIC MEETING will be _hel-i at THE LITERARY AND SC 1 ENT 1 PIC INSTITUTE , John-street , Tottenham-court Road , OS _TCEJDAT _EVENISG _NlXT , I * IBStUB . S 52 ud , Por the _purpose _» f taking such steps as mBy appear _espediLCt to sustain that aWe and distinguished political and social _He _^ _enerstor , FEARGUS O'CONNOR , M . V ., against the vile attempt which the creatures of corruption aro now ranking to effect his _ejtrtion frem Parliament . _lU-tcrmars of erery shads of opinion are _i-pecially invited to attend . Johs Sewell , Esq . will _Pbeside . Chair so hi taktu at Eight o ' clock precisely . Many of the most prominent _advocates of the Democratic cause v » ill be present and address tho meeting .

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      THE LAND . THE _advertiser _vrishiag to _PL'IiCIIASE an Allotment on the Sniz ' s End or Moat _Estates , any person bavins : a Fcur Acre Allotment to _ilispose oi ; may hear ofa purchaser by applying to 0 . Giimmict , Aldertou , near _Tewk-sbury .

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      TO BE SOLD . TIIE BIQHT OF LOCATION on a Four Acre Allot-E _.- _; nt on the _Snip ' s E _» d Estate . For particulars _apj'iv , if by _letter . ' post paid , tojMr J . Elms , Perfumer and Genera ! _NewsAsrent , Newton Abbot , Devon .

      Mr Kydd's Tour

      MR KYDD ' S TOUR

      Sheffield.— On Tuesday Evening Weeka Num...

      Sheffield . — On Tuesday evening weeka numerous _co'icoii ' ie _r-f the working classes _asseiabled in the Town Hali , Sheffield , to hear a lecture on the subject Of the National Defences and the People ' s frights , by Samuel Kydd , of London . The chair was occupied by Mr Seward , who , in hiB open -In ; : observations , pronounced as humbug the story that government was afraid of an invasion by the Frc ; ich . II 13 epinion _-s-as that government waa more a _f raid of the increased intelligence ofthe people th . n "f an _invasion by the French . ( Hear . ) ilr _Kidd , alter having been loudly cheered , began his 1- -. ? _ure by ob .-erving that in this country there exis ; - a s _^ ar of classes . It was not a war of individuals ; for so kindly is nature an her sympathies—SO true _--that cord of sympathy that forms the moral

      tie tis •« binds society together , that men , bythe _es-Benc ? of their common nature , livo together and _aerce t o live together in their individual capacity . But , partly owing to _classlegislation _, and partly owing to otrher circumstances that must ever attend the genera ! orogress of civilisation , we live in this nineteenth century—and in this , tbe greatest country in the world when viewed aa a nation—yet we are living in a land of _clashes , where tbe _doctrine is not understood ar . d practised that the interest of the working _clashes is the _trus interest of all —( hear , hear)—and that a liou _.-e having for its basis a groundwork tbat is negate and unsound , never can have for its fabric a buildii *? with a sure foundation . But various ideas had pervaded the minds of men reiatiTe to what constituted true national greatness ; and the rulers of

      this nation were at this hour , no d _^ ubt , to _sorte extent indebted to those statesmen who had preceded thera for tiltir ideas ot scuud national government and true national wealth . In accordance wiih the subject of his lecture , then , he would inquire briefly into the causes that had given rise in the minds of our modern _stetesraen to ideas of war . Many of them had inherited those ideas from that great writerof the latter part of the sixteenth and the early part of tha seventeenth _, century , Lord Bacon , who , speaking of a country ' s greatness , argued that no body , either ratiir-ii cr political , could be happy without exercise , and that to a kingdom or a state a just and honourable war was true and legitimate exercise . A civil war , hia lordship further argued , was indeed like the heat of a is ver _, but a foreign war was iikejhe heat of

      exercise , and kept the _body'in health . This authority , In all probability , had inherited the idea of the ancient Romans , the ancient Spartans , and the ancient C _; _iri ! : a £ cnian 3 , —namely , that conquest was the great , _orj-. et of their existence . Many of our _statesmen at the _present day inherited the noticn that it was _necessary for the welfare ofa country that it should maintain an enormous standing army . This was the doctrine of' I am stronger , then lire _shaii 1 _ralo . ' If it were the nature ot man tbat he could only ba governed by the rod , then was that doctrine true ; but if such were not the nature of man—if . , he were a being ' joi mental capability and moral relationship , then the right cue te the government of man was of a higher order than brute power , and the men who attempted to govern

      in these times by the thoughts and actions of earlier Bges might as well attempt io wrap up a giant in swaddling clothes . ( Hear , hear . ) It was thought by his Grace the Duke of Wellington that we were in danger of an invasion , and 1 , 3 rd John Kussell had so far evinced his sympathy with his Grace as t ? intimate his conviction of the necessity for an addition to tke standing army ; but if Lord John was right in this particular , waa he sot wrong in StS ' _- _'iing it to be declared in tke Queen ' s Speech at the opening ef Parliament—for which speech , no doubt , he as the head of the government was answerable—that a continuance of friendly relations with torekn powers might be confidently looked forward to ? ( Cheers . ) But what were the people the ( _working classes ) to fight for ? The object of this .

      branch of the lecturer ' s argument was to show that the onus of providing and maintaining defences for property lay upon the owners of such property , and aot upon the _Kiasses of the people , who derived so small a share of benefit from it . It waa upen this principle , he obseiTed , that grants of land were made to the nobility by William the Conqueror . To stand up ia the defence of property was natural and right , and ths people were readj to do this where property deserved to be protected . " The people were naturally _conservative ; but yet there wns a vast difference between protecting property within a count .:- ? , and forming themselves into an armed militia to protect the general property of tbe fundholder , the landowner , aad the _church dignitaries of the counlrv . ( Hear , hear . ) Those men bad _na

      i claim upon the people ; they had forfeited every tie that brand them and the people together . 'The people had been robbed of their interest Jin the iand , * tbey had been deprived of the ( common lands , to the extent o i three millions and Ea quarter a year ; and _n' > w , then , could the _jpeop _le be expected to consent to undertake tthe defence of this property ? We had had one war vwith France—a bloody and brntal war ; aHd what Twas the result ? Why , a national debt of _^ 48-50 , 000 , 000 ; and more war would entail more ( debt . ( Hear , hear . ) Who was to pay it ? The ] pe-ple wonld pay no more . ( Loud cheers . ) If the _jpeople a _^ ain went to war it would be no t for kings or _jariscocraeiej ; it would be to do a little _businets Oh itheir own account ( Cheers . ) They . had fought the

      Ibattlt-3 of kings and aristocracies enough already . ] He believed that the outcry ahuut the probable _lanrtiing of the French was aU moonshine , lie had _retcentiy been at Windsor , and had seen tha presents imade to her Majesty by the King of the French , the 3 Emperor of _PwUiiia , and Ibraham Pacha , which 8 showed him that there was a fraternity of kings , sand he felt that there ought to be a fraternity ' of the _jpeople too , There was not a warlike disposition in tthis country towards France , neither did the French ppeop le cherish a hostile disposition towards us . If aa bedy of armed Frenchmen were to land upon our 8 Bhore 3 , instead of fighting with them , we ought to aallow some of ' . he many Frenchmen in this country to rrea _^ on with them , and to show them that they had no iinterest in fighting with us ; and what a man had no

      iiinterest in dying that he would not do . Happily , _tJthere wa 3 now an intelligent people on both MO . es of tithe channel . There were many who looked at the IPe- pie ' s Charter as an ignorant document , and an _iirimpossibility ; but it was the people ' s right , and they would aot rest satisfied till it had been granted to _ititiiem . The same law of progression _whish had iiforted the aristocracy to consent to the enfranchiseiraDeiit of the boroug hs would compel them to consent fefeo the enfranchisement of the people . ( Cheers ) AAfter some further observations in favour of the _JPPeiuie ' t _: Charter , the lecturer concluded by expressising his conviction that upon the passing of this _ineaismure depended mainly . the future well-bung of the _lEigreat _ma = a of the people . —It wa 3 then announced _tlthat petitions in favour of the _Charter would be laid ; fcfor signature at various places in the town .

      On the motion of Mr _Oiley , seconded by _Coimo ' _oillor B _tuec-, the thanks ofthe meeting were voted t _' _toMr Kydd for his able and interesting lecture .

      »S»Tot._A Mesting Of Ths Land Members Tr...

      » s » Tot . _ A mesting of ths Land members Trill _fc take place on Monday evening nest .

      Just Published, (Faiferm With Tha " Labo»Hee" Magaxmo,) J Price 6d.

      JUST PUBLISHED , ( _faiferm with tha " Labo » hee" Magaxmo , ) j Price 6 d .

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      A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE A HUSBANDRY , coins tiie results of f _» ur years' _esperienco . Bi J , _SlLUETT . M'Rowan and Co ., 16 , Great _Windaiill-st * eet , _Leudon and may be had of all booksellers .

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      Just Publishod , price One Penny , A LETTfiR by _Fiuaess O'Connoe , Esq .., M . F ., 'TO THE RICH AND THB POOR ; T _« those wh _» Live in Idleness _Without Labour , and to those w _* ao are Willing to Labour but Compelled to Starve . ' -

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      Price 2 g . per 100 . or 18 s . per 1600 . I _-fTrrHAT MAY BE DONE WITH THREE ACRES VV OF LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by _Feabol ' _s _O'Cjnkob , Esq ., M . P . To he had atthe Offise of the National Land _Giampany lit , Hizh H _» lborn .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be kad at tho Northern Star Offieo , 18 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel _Heywuoi . Manchester .

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      JUST _POBLISHEB , _PSlCK SIXPENCE . NO . XIV . 0 ? " THE LABOURER , " CONTAINING A TREATISE OS THE SMALL FARM SYSTEM A . XO TIIE BANKING SYSTEM BV . WHICH IT IS 1 XTENDED rO BE _DETILOPBD , BI FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ., M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by allagems for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in ttwn and country .

      Minster Lovel Estate

      MINSTER LOVEL ESTATE

      Having Visited The Minster Lovel Estate,...

      Having visited the Minster Lovel Estate , with the express intention of . informing myself as to the earliest period when the occupants could be located there , and after a Ions ; _consultation with Mr Doyle and the tradesmen yet employed , we arrived at the conclusion that Monday , " the 27 th of March , would be the very earliest day on which the members could be located , And when it is borne in mind that the work was not ' eommenced there till about the beginning of October , it will not be bad service to have completed ei g hty cottages and a school-house within that time in the depth of winter ; and , in order to ensure this early

      location I have been obliged to send six additional horses to perform the work there . This notice will be rigidly enforced , as the houses will not be numbered till Saturday , the 25 th , and the period of the year is sufficientl y early to admit of the performance of all agricultural operations for the season , especiall y as the land has been all p loughed , and those portions requiring it twice over- while , during the last three weeks _^ the state of the weather rendered it next to impossible to carry on the necessary operations . By the 27 th of March , therefore , Minster Lovel will be ready for the reception of the occupants . Feargus O'Connor .

      The Northern Star, Saturday. February 19, 1818

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY . FEBRUARY 19 , 1818

      The War Of Classes. " Within That Land W...

      THE WAR OF CLASSES . " Within that land waa many a malcontent , "Who curs'd the tyranny to which he bent ; That soil full many a wringing despot saw , ¦ Who work'd his wantonness in form of law . " The Morning Chronicle of Saturday last contains an article on the present state of the Mining Districts , showing that our " " g lorious institutions " are menaced by a more formidable enemy than either Bugeaud or Joinville ; an enemy already within our gates—the cruelly-oppressed working class of this country . According to the Chronicle , the prevailing depression has at length reached

      the Iron districts ; furnaces are being blown out , and workmen deprived of employment ; " and the iron-masters are not only stopping operations , but endeavouring to obtain the labour which they still require upon lower terms / ' Hence a strike is anticipated—one of tho . se advancing waves which precede that rising of the waters which will certainly come , and which will as certainly sweep to annihilation that monstrous system , by which the Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie have grown fat , at the expense of the outcast millions of their fellow-countrymen .

      According to the Chronicle , the Mining Population are as ' foreign to civilisation as were the fierce tribes who broke in upon the luxurious refinement of the Roman Empire . " Certain authorities are then queted—Parsons and Government Commissioners—to prove the ignorance and demoralisation , the " strong passions and vigorous vices" of the miners and iron-workers . We take little account of the evidence of such persons , having had long experience of their proneness to calumniate their hardworking fellow-countrymen . A Mr Lingen reports the following of the Mining Population of Glamorgan : —

      The workmen and their families eat amd drink to excess , their cookery being at the same time of the mo 6 t wasteful and greasy dessription . The principal meal is that taken in the _erening after work hours , ; and called tea . Large quantities of meat , and rolls swimming in melted butter , are eaten . Now we should like to know who has so good a right lo eat meat , and rolls swimming in melted butter , as those who do the hard work of society ? Supposing the above to be true—and if true it is so only of a very small section of the working class—is it not just that at the close of their terrible toil , the workers should eat their fill of such food as best pleases them : What these Miners are said to

      do , it should be in the power of every working maa _* to do—eat , drink , and be satisfied , But how many millions have neither butter nor meat ! The curse of toil is upon them ; but the promised bread is withheld by the plunderers " who toil not , neither do they spin . " Why does not the Chronicle enlighten us on the interior economy of the drones of society who " fare sumptuously every day ? '' How dare those who riot in excess , who excite their palled appetites by every dainty , and gorge themselves with every luxury—kbw dare they assail the working man for enjoying his meat and his butter ? " Oh , shame ! where is thy blush . 1 "

      The Miners are accused of degrading habits—it is alleged that single and married persons sleep in the same room . For this horrible state of things the working men ara not altogether blameless . They are _culpable in quietly submitting to live huddied together in wretched rooms , garrets , and cellars , notwithstanding that they build the palaces and mansions of the idlers of society . In the Morning Chronicle ' s favourite system of " civilisation , ' _^ one man has not even the sole occupancy of a single room for himself and family , whilst another man monopolises ten , twenty , or fifty rooms . Unmarried raen and women are compelled to sleep , wash , and

      change their clothing in one and the same room , whilst Queen "Victoria finds Pimlico palace—whieh would comfortably lodge all tbe inhabitants of a large village—too small (!)—and , although she has some half-dozen other domiciles , some of which she never stays a single ni g ht in , she has the modesty to require an enlargement of the said palace ! Of course , the corrupt rascalocracy in Parliament are but too happy to vote thousands of pounds to gratify " her Majesty ' s " whims . For months past this enlargement has been going onpaid for out of the taxes , which taxes are wrung from the poor creatures who , because they have not _decent'liouse-room _, the editor

      The War Of Classes. " Within That Land W...

      of the Chronicle calls " barbarians _!* ' There are liundr ' eds of mansions in this capital closed during a great part of the year , whilst their possessors are in the country , or enjoying themselves at Paris , Rome , or the Rhine ; at the same time hundreds of hapless creatures in this same metropolis have not a shelter of any description . May perdition seize institutions which defend such an accursed state of social life . Why should the working man respect" civilisation" of this kind ?—why should they build mansions for others and live in kennels themselves ?

      Whatever demoralisation or ignorance may exist amongst any section of the working classes is chargeable to the account of the ruling classes . Is there ignorance—wh y has the Church , with its ten millions of revenue , not educated the people ? Is there demoralisation—why has the Government , with its enormous and unprecedented resources , allowed the masses to be made the prey of heartless capitalists , who , even according to the admission of the Chronicle , " use the animal force" of the working men " for industrial ends , and take-no thought of the feelings and capacities which are proper to them as

      human beings ? " Even the Government commissioner states , that the employers have deliberately conspired for their own profit to corrupt their workmen . Some persons wishing to establish a " provident society , " applied to a large mine proprietor for his patronage , which he refused . " For , '' said he , " if I did 1 should be arming the men against myself , and enabling them to strike for wages . I want them to spend their earnings , and not to hoard them . " There are not many who would have the audacity to confess this ; but the policy of nearly the whole of the employers is the same . Public houses swarm , and

      unlicensed houses , where ardeiit spirits are privatel y sold , are still more numerous . In many instances , the employers have a direct interest in these houses . The truck system is another engine of extortion and degradation , enriching the " masters " and impoverishing the slaves . We are gratified to learn that tho victims of this system are begining to excite the fears of the privileged orders . That they are not quite so ignorant as is sometimes represented , is proved by the admission ' that Chartist

      principles are disseminated to a considerable extent amongst them . Of course there is the usual fudge about the circulation of " infidel and seditious publications , '' and " newspapers of the same pernicious tendency 1 " We are i / ery glad to learn that " many persons who read such works , also _attend Sunday schools , from their anxiety to obtain a knowledge of the art of reading , which they cannot otherwise acquire , " Yet with this fact before him , so honourable to the working men , the editor © f the Chronicle has the assurance to call these noble fellows modern barbarians !''

      This insolence is very refreshing . It cannot be too widely made known , that our good lords —the bourgeoisie—regard the creators of their wealth as ' barbarians ; " consider they eat too well , and read too freely , and ought to be restricted in their choice of food , both for the body and the mind . The sooner this is generally understood , the sooner will come the tug of war , and it cannot come too soen . We earnestly entreat the Chartists to consider whether it is a wise policy to have their lecturers traversing the oft-trodden path—the beaten round ofthe towns in the manufacturing districts . The

      preseat organisation of large masses in those districts is not indispensable . In the hour of revolution , men previously enlightened will spontaneously organise . In our humble opinion , the Chartist lecturers should he employed amongst the miners , the " navvies , " and the agricultural labourers . We cannot transfer the physical strength of the iron miners and " navvies" to our emaciated mechanics and diseased factory workers , but we may make the possessors of physical force sharers of mental power . Were that accomplished , to will our freedom and become free

      would be an easy matter . Liberty was never yet gained without a struggle , and certainly such liberty a 9 we seek —the political emancipation and social regeneration of the working classes—is least likely to form an exception to the experience of all time . Moral force is moral humbug , unless there is p hysical force behind it , and we have done next to nothing towards carrying the Charter , until we have secured the aid of those masses of p hysical force , which , even at present , though deplorably wanting in mental power , strike alarm into the minds of the supporters of the existing system .

      The existing " civilisation" is , for the Proletarians , a thousand-fold worse than barbarism . So far as regards food , clothing , shelter , protection of life , and enjoyment of liberty , savages possess immeasurable advantages over the working men of Great Britain and Ireland therefore , we say , perish this false , murderous civilisation ; and in its stead let there commence the reign of Justice . When Rome , fallen from her once proud state , had forgotten her Republican virtues , and become a den of criminals , and a sink of sin , an invasion of " barbarians ''—Goths and Huns

      avenged the wrongs of the world , and purified the imperial city from its pollutions . Frightful was the remedy , but it was necessary for a still more frightful disease . When centuries of misgovernment , oppression , and corruption , had rendered French society—political and social—one hideous | lie , one rankling mass of rottenness , the rising ofthe " canaille" and the "brigands" redeemed France from death , though at the price ofa baptism of blood . And now , in this England , where the Moloch of money reigns supreme , and human rights , happiness , life itself , is sacrificed at the altar of

      Mammon ; where the name of liberty is prostituted to eover the most atrocious system of social slavery that ever existed ; where the wealth creators perish , arid idlers and schemers revel in unexampled abundance ; where the poor can find neither justice nor mercy , hut , on the contrary , are treated with hatred , cruelty , and scorn ; in such a country , and under such circumstances , we may anticipate the speedy invasion of the " barbarians , " and the rising of the * canaille "—that is the wronged , insulted PEOPLE , who must and will lie their own liberators , and the saviours and vindicators of their country .

      Fhe Shop-Boy Volunteers

      FHE SHOP-BOY VOLUNTEERS

      MIDDLE-CLASS ARMAMENT . At a time when gaunt misery seems sundered more and more by a still-widening gulf from wealthy indolenee , —at a time when , in a part of our empire , at least , the hunger-cry appears swelling into a war-whoop , every movement made , or step undertaken by either party , is deserving of most serious attention . We have long had evidence of the desire on the part of Government to promote emigration at almost any cost , —while recent legislative enactments have shown an intention of arming on the one side , and disarming on the other . Thus , the Coercion Bill performs the double office of arming the landlords and

      fundholders , and disarming the people . _; The Freneh war-cry , again , subserves the same object , since it affords Government an excuse for strengthening its military and naval forces , and for embod y ing a militia , which would pave the way for the military despotism of a _middleclass army . It becomes daily more apparent that a vast crisis is at hand ;—Ireland is on the brink of _insurrection—England is hurrying rapidly to a great change . Foreseeing this crisis , determined to resist the march ol Democracy to the utmost , and prepared to use p hysical . force in the endeavour , the middle- _« lass have commenced arming , —and the following note of preparation has escaped through the columns of the daily press : — A number of gentlemen in London _hara resolved to form themselves into a regiment , to bo termed

      ' The Queen ' s Own Volunteer Rifle Corps . " The number at present proposed is six hundred ; but probably it will ba materially increased after it ia fully known to the public . The parties who haye taken the lead in thia movement have received every onoouraRement from the government , and will have their arms and ammunition supplied them . __ The uniform will be dark green , with black _braidinn , bronze ornaments , and a light cap . A commanding officer haa been appointed and approved of , and the captains of companies and subalterns will be chosen by the gentlemen forming the corps . The Navaz , _uNn Military" Gazette announces a report that a

      Second volunteer oorp 8 ie in course w formation . Let us ask these " gentlemen" what they are aiming for ? Do they fear the French ? Not they—they know better . No other _foreign foe is even talked of . If then , their armament is against no foreign foe , it must be against a domestic one . Who is it , then ? The landlords—the fundholders — the church ? If against none of these , it must he against the working classes—the people—the great march of Democracy , that shall yet trample on the _yraves of all monopolies . And Government gives them " every encouragement , ' ' supplies them with " arms and ammunition . ' ' What

      for ? Who are they to shoot and stab ? Do the blood-thirsty "Whigs fear that Ireland will call for all their bayonets ?—that they will have none to spare for England , when the voice of the English people shall call , in thunder ; " Freedom for England and Ireland "No more murder of our Irish brethren ! " Is it , therefore , they organise their Shopboy Volunteers ?—is h , therefore , they are sharpening their middle class bayonets—is it , therefore , they are forming the " Queen ' s Own ? ' ' Well may they call it a rifle corps , embodied from the class that has , for ages , been rifling Labour of its rights . " The Queen ' s own Rifle corps !

      We like not this arming of a class—if such armaments were wanted , they ought to be national—they _ought to embrace the _PEOPLE , too . But they are not necessary- —on the contrary , they are pernicious , * and , therefore , we oppose them . Yet would we not have that class arm alone—if they are arming-—then we say the peop le should exercise their constitutional ri g ht of bearing arms as welland we call on the Government , if it can

      PItOVE the dantrer of invasion , to supply the people with arms as well—but , if it cannot prove that a danger of invasion exists—and we assert that it cannot—then , we say , it ought not to allow one class to assume so undue a preponderance of physical power , as must , of necessity , become dangerous to the unarmed working class , and imperil the liberty and the peace of the country . We doubt much whether Government would

      be so ready to stipply arms , uniforms , and ammunition , and to grant " every encouragement , " were the Fustian Jackets to propose forming : volunteer corps of NATIONAL GUARDS , appointing * their own officers , and enrolling themselves for the defence of their country against EVERY foe . We call on the working classes to look to this matter—it is a vitally important one . We bid them ask themselves what would be

      the condition of the country , should Government succeed in its game of Coercion and Emigration . Emigration is now one of the mainsprings of Whig policy , which may be summed up thus : — " Let us get all the independent , enterprising spirits out of the country , to our remote colonies . " ( Mark ! they talk no more of Canada—that is getting too strong for them already . ) i ( Once there , they will be thinly scattered over a savage country ,, and a few regiments will he able to keep the dispirited exiles in slavery and subjection , while only the weakest and feeblest will remain at home . Meantime we will increase our army , we will arm our " shop-boys ; " and then we shall have easy work with a decimated , emaciated , and broken-hearted population . ' '

      In pursuance of this plan , Government is organising a monster system of emigration to Australia and the Cape , and SOUTHAMPTON is to become an EMIGRATION PORT —while , as we have seen , army , navy , artillery , fortifications , are to be increased , and even " Queen ' s Own Riflemen'' to start lip from behind the ledger and the desk , to " fright the isle from its propriety . ' ' Look to it , then , working men ! We say ; No arming at all , where there is no necessity —and , above all , NO ONE-SIDED ARMAMENTS .

      The Sleaford Case. We Understand That Th...

      THE SLEAFORD CASE . We understand that the preliminary steps are now being taken for the purpose of bringing Sharpe , the policeman , to justice . It is well thus . The people should never tamely submit to any infringement of their rights , and , had they always acted in a similar spirit , they would not have so many invasions of their liberties to lament as they new have . Our readers will recollect the flagrant circumstances attending the death of the late William Dodson , secretary of the Sleaford branch of the National Land Company ; they will also remember the highly improper and illegal conduct of the bench of _magistrates , with the _exceptionjof Mr Charles Allix , who protested

      against the decision of hisbrethren on the bench . The Bill of Indictment is now , we are informed , being sent to the grand jurj ' , and we , therefore , expect to hear this case decided ere long . It remains to be seen whether the same illegal decision will be renewed at the assizes —the same scandalous mockery of justice perpetrated—as by those contemptible expounders and enactors of the law , who glorify themselves in the easy cloaks of magisterial dignity . At tbe assizes there is , at least , a better guarantee for justice in the persons of judges than there is in those of " country gentlemen , " who actually confess themselves "ignorant of the laws . '*

      We repeat , that the energy of the Land Company and its Directors is much to be applauded in prosecuting this case ; we regret , however , to learn that the . funds in hand are still inadequate . We doubt not , however , that this deficiency mil be remedied _between this and the assises .

      Parliamentary Review. A Creditable Anxie...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . A creditable anxiety to do business has heen manifested by the early introduction of several important measures b y the Government , and this , conjoined with the activity of individual members , has made the business in the Commons both varied and interesting . Lord Morpeth ' s Sanitary Bill is , in many respects , an improvement upon the one withdrawn last year . It preserves to a greater extent the principle of local self-government , and merel y introduces the principle of central

      control in cases where it is obviousl y impera . tive to do so , if we are to have efficient legislation upon the subject . In this respect , the princip le enunciated in the " Northern Star ' last j ear , when commenting upon the bill then before the house , has been adopted by Lord Morpeth , and pretty fairly carried out . To one part of the machinery , we , however see great objections . The local boards are to be elected on the same principle as the Poorlaw guardians . It would have been more in accordance with tiie spirit of the constitution as respects local self-government , if the election had been in open vestry , and the right vested in all the

      parishioners or inhabitants of the district under the management of the new bodies , to bo created by this Bill It is also questionable whether entrusting the _dutas defined by the Bill as pertaining to these bodies to existing munici pal _authorities , will secure that undivided , constant , and practi ca attention which itis desirable , and , infact , absolutely necessa ry to have , in order to carry the Act properl y > t . True , Lord Morpeth sJ . gests that the public health may be remitted to a _speeial -committee of a Town Council , and there may be an advantage in having no division of authority in such cases ; but , upon the whole , i t > pears to . _usfthat a separate aad

      Parliamentary Review. A Creditable Anxie...

      distinct body would have more effectually administered the law . When the important questions involved in sanitary legislation are mixed up with other matters , there will be a tendency to underrate their value , and place them in a secondary , instead of a primary , position ; which would have been avoided by the appointment ofa body whose sole and specific duty | it was to superintend the carrying out of the law under which they were appointed . The exclusion ofthe Metropolis from the operation of the new Act has been complained of , and certainly , at first sight , it appears a sacri iice of principle ; the excuses made for that exclusion , however , have some weight , and taken in connexion with what has been done , and

      what is now doing _. hythe Commission of Sewers recently appointed , may go far to neutralise any opposition to the bill on that ground . One fatal defect it has , the omission of provisions by which the practice of Burial in Towns would be totally prohibited . No prejudices , of any descrip tion whatever , and no vested interests , _however great , should be permitted to stand in the way of the abolition of one of the greatest nuisances , and most pestiferous sources of disease , which can exist in large towns . We are promised a separate measure , some time or other , on the subject , but it would have been better policy to have included Town Churchyards at once among the other abominations to be rooted out by a new Sanitary Law ,

      A Conversation Of Some Length And Intere...

      A conversation of some length and interest occurred on Monday night , with reference to the cost ofthe New Houses of Parliament , and various circumstances connected with their erection . We have had occasion to remark on similar subjects , that the English are bv no means happy in their public Architectural and Artistical efforts . We do not say the people are to blame for the numerous abortions , or caricatures , which stare one in the face in almost every quarter of Loudon . Practically , the people have been excluded from all interference in the matter . It has been a privilege

      ot the Aristocracy , an appanage of a Court Commission , and mainly directed by the caprices of a few amateurs , who have made a sad mess of it . It is a historical fact , that the Arts have always flourished most in a Republic , or where Republican Institutions predominated , Athens , whose name is svnonyr mous with all that is beautiful in Art , was ruled by tho popular will , and the taste for the symmetrical and the graceful was cultivated in ail its citizens , almost unconsciously , by the daily presence of the grand and harmoniouslyconstructed specimens of Art which adorned

      that world-famed city . We are onl y beginning to give this kind of education to our people , and , unfortunately , the horn-books are of a very inferior description out of which they have to be taught . Mr Barry ' s " New Palace at Westminster" is akin to a / most all our public structures , in conception and in execution . What it may be when the monster Victoria Tower is raised , we cannot tell , but its long low monotonous facade at the present time is

      anything but striking . It is covered all over with florid ornaments , which give it a tawdry appearance , and from being planted in a low situation it loses any little _dignity and grandeur of appearance which a better and more lofty , situation mi ght have imparted to it . To the foolish prejudice in favour of the old site , not only has the appearance of the building itself been sacrificed , but an outlay caused of hundreds of thousands for the formation of an

      embankment on the Thames , all of which would have been saved , if a more appropriate situation had been fixed upon . The ori g inal estimate of the cost of the building was 707 , 000 / ., and it was to have been finished in six years . There has now been expended upon it 1 , 401 , 036 / . —they have been working at it nine years , and nobody pretends to know either how much it will cost , or when it will be finished . In fact , as Mr Osborne humorousl y observed in his excellect dissection of this huge job , the newHousesofParliamentare considered among architects to be a sort of Mrs Harris , whose real existence was as problematic as that celebrated friend of Mrs Gamp , whom every body heard so much of , but never saw . When

      the Commons will get into their new House is a mystery , of which no one dares attempt the solution . The Government , however , have been obliged to pull up ; they cannot go on supplying Mr Barry with money at the same rate as they have been doing . In future , as they are very poor , they are going to grant him less in thecourse ofa year , and go on slowly ; so that the rising generation may possibly have a chance of seeing the works completed , of which middle aged men of the present day saw the foundations laid when they were just entering manhood . For all this , we are assured that nobody is to blame—the good-natured baronet ( Sir Robert Peel ) excused everybody connected all round , except , indeed , the House of Commons that fixed the site and sanctioned

      the plans , and as that venerable body is long since defunct in its corporate capacity , and tha members yet living do not hold themselves responsible in their individual capacity , the comfortable conclusion is , that for this excessive expenditure , past and to eome , nobody whatever is to blame .

      The New Zealand Government Bill, Which W...

      The New Zealand Government Bill , which was discussed on Monday evening , is a curious exemplification of the bungling style in whieh laws are made in this country . The colonists who have settled i n these islands very naturally demanded the constitutional rights of Englishmen ; namely , to have " a voice in making the laws by which they are to be governed , and in fixing the taxes which they are to pay . Their right to these privileges had been conceded by the Peel Ministry previous to its resignation in 1846 , and a pledge given

      that it should have free representative institutions , which Lord Grey , on coming into office set about fulfilling , as it now appears , with more haste than practical wisdom . Ac . cording ¦> Governor Grey , the Constitution will not do at all . Metaphysically and abstractly it may be a very admirable one , but it is not at all applicable to the English Colonists and aboriginal New Zealanders , who con stitute the . population of that colony . One would imagine that this being the case , the Government would try to make a Constitution "to order , " instead of the " slop made " one they had already sent out . They _miuht have

      ascertained from the colonists themselves , as well as from Governor Grey , the actual state of things for which they were required to legislate , and upon that information tried their luck again ; such a course , however , is by far too practical and straightforward for a Whig Ministry . Instead of really redeeming the p led ge given to the colonists , they bring forwarda Bill to suspend their own Constitution tor five years , and entrusting Governor Grey , m the meantime , with all but absolute power oyer the colony ! The bungling of the Colonial Office has long bean notoriou 3 , but this last specimen is certainl y a very racy one .

      While Chartism Is Growing In Strength An...

      While Chartism is growing in strength and numbers , Protectionism becomes daily more divided and weak . Lord G . Bentinck ' s support o [ the Jewish Disabilities Bill has caused his abdication as leader of the " country party , " as they style themselves , and so reduced were they that they are actuall y going a-begging with the vacant place . Nobody will have it . The . Marquis of Granb y was applied to but re » fused . E ven that shows to what desperate ex . tremities they were reduced . His lordship is a young nun of reputed abilities , but ho is quite new to the House . $ He has no eminent

      services or reputation to fall back upon , and , but little of that political experience , which ia indispensable for the occupancy of such a post . What the countrylparty . will do without a'head remains to be seen . ' 1 [ The other section of the old Conservative party , who remained attached to Peel , are said to have made a decided move they do not feel disposed to play second fiddles any

      longer to the Whigs , and mean to put themselves in training once more for seats on the Treasury benches . This resolve has led to very distinct intimation from Sir Robert that he , at least , is determined at present to have nothing to do with office . He enjoys his otim cum dignitate too keenly , it appears , to f ee any desire to be again encumbered with the cares and anxieties of Premier . fle has therefore , also abandoned his position of leader of his party , which thereupon _promoted the Earl of Lincoln to the vacant throne . Those changes in the constitution and management of the parties in the House cannot fail materially to influence its proceedings in future .

      To The Important Bill,Introduced By The ...

      To the important Bill , introduced by the Secretary for Ireland , on the sub ject of Te nan t Ri g ht in Ireland , we _will . give more attention at a subsequent stage of its existence . We content ourselves , at present , with stating that the _bringing it forward at this earl y period ofthe Session , is creditable to the Ministry , and will give the House time to maturel y consider a question which is certainly surro unded with many difficulties . Two other bills—the one for the amendment ofthe law of Landlord and Tenant in England , and another to give facilities for the Improvement of Encumbered Estates in Ireland—were also read a first time on the same evening .

      The Roman Catholic Relief Bill, Which Wa...

      The Roman Catholic Relief Bill , which wag defeated last _jear on the second reading by Sir R . Inglis land his trusty band of out-andout Churchmen , has this year , under the pilot ' age of Mr Anstey , reached the farther stage of being committed . Whether that implies that the degrading pains and penalties , which Btill blot the Statute Book , are really this time to

      be swept away , or whether the Bill may yet be defeated , and another struggle have to be made , before the bigotry of the age is finally overcome , we cannot predict . The majority ( thirty-two ) , is , we fear , too small to ensure success . Even should it pass the Commons , it will have to undergo the ordeal of the Lords , who may feel disposed to show their power of veto on a bill sent up to them by so small a majority .

      In the _csurse of the debate the Earl of Arundel and Surrey produced a copy of the Northern Star , and read from it an _atlrertisement of what he termed " infidel books . " for the purpose of showing that the open and wide sale of such works demanded the union of all classes of religionists , including even Jesuits , in order to stem the progress of doctrines which his lordship holds in abhorrence . Lord Arundel , however , did not fall into the mistake of Dr Campbell , and impute to this jour _, nal the advocacy of the opinions propounded

      in the works announced in its advertising columns . If his friends , the Jesuits , have any desire to avail themselves of our extensiv « circulation to make known their works , _ws shall be most happy to make room for their advertisements upon the usual terms . Apart from the object for which the / Star was exhibited in Parliament , we feel . ' gratified at the circumstance . It shows that the aristocracy consult the columns of this great organ of the Democracy , not onl y of Britain but _' of theC ontinent . May their study of its contents lead to their enlightenment !

      To The Discussion On The Currency Questi...

      To the discussion on the _Currency Question , the new Bill for Establishing Diplomatic Rela . tions with Rome , and the important speech of Lord John Russell on bringing forward the Budget , we must . ad vert next week .

      Co - ^Eaners ^Corresuounente*

      Co - _^ _eaners _^ _Corresuounente *

      The Land.—It Would Be Wholly And Entirel...

      THE LAND . —It would be wholly and entirely out of the power oi Mr O'Connor to answer one in every twenty of th » letters he _reeeires relative to the sale of allot _, ments , the conditions of membership , and a thousand other questions of detail , some of which are answered in the rules , and others nhould be addressed to the director * . This notice m « st be taken as _general . _HAtiFii . —Sir , — Permit me to state , in reference to Mr Tomlinson , that it was true he was placed on the plan te lecture at the time specified , but _T hare reason to _heliove _, after _inrestigating _^ he matter , that Mr _Toiilin . _eun gave due notice to the Halifax council ; that other engagements prevented him attending to his appoint . mentl ; and , _injustice _to'MrJTomlinsou , I have to stats , I am extremely sorry that I should unknowingly have announced Mr Tomlinson to lecture , rthen he was

      engaged elsewhere . Mr Tomlinson , though no longer on our ' plan , ' is still engaged hy various associations as a lecturer , and is still _eagaged by the Halifax Chartists to lecture for them whenever an opportunity presents itself . I have to state that I have no desire to throw any obstacle in his way , or say anything in disparagement of him as a lecturer , hut as he is apprehensive , from the tenor of . my language in last week ' s letter , that a false impression may have been made on the minds of individuals through the country I have fur . ther to state , that as far as my knowledge of him ex . tends , I believe him to be a consistent , honest democrat . . 9 . Wzbbeb , district secretary . Pais * or Matter compels the postponement of communications from Rotherhara , Stourbridge , Bridgewater , Barnsley ( weavers ) , Address of the London shoemakers , and Mr Hurley ' s letter . Mr Ktdd . —Mr Morgan , 39 , Butcher-row , Deptford , wishes to know Mr Kydd ' _s address . Falkikk . —We have sent your letter to theChartist Execu . tive .

      JutiAN Ha . _rnet has received is . from H . Bernard , and In . from Robert Wild , forthe Fraternal Democrats . Mr ; _PATKics Duff , Dublin . —Thanks for your letter ; it sliall hare our attention . Mr Seal , Leicester . —Your London publisher must supply you with the portraits . Wm . Boston , Cambridge—We cannot Und room for your letter . Grand National _Rtronsi Banquet , —W . Webb suggests a grand National Reform hanquet , to which should be invited—Feargus O'Connor , M . P ., T . S . Duncombe , M . P ., Thomas Wakley , M . P ., W . J . Fox , M . P _., George Thompson , M . P Colonel Thompson , M . P ., Joha O'Connell , M . P ., V . S . O'Brien , M . P ., William Williams , Esq ., J * n Fielden , Esq ., H . Mander May , Esq ., Messrs West , Julian Harney , Ernest Jones , _M'Graih , Cln _^ gj . & c , Ao . Our correspondent forgets that such invitations were lent on the occasion of the late Chartist dinner at the Crown and Anchor , and responded to By the appearance of one real , lone member —Mr O'Connor ! We may add , that he can answer for Julian Harney , that he would be very sorry to breathe the same air with John O'Connell aad somo other hum .

      bugs named in tha abors list . - Roqee _PiNDaa calls upon the Chartists to abandon the use of taxed drinks and tobacco . R . P . says : — ' The three and a half millions a year raised on income has alone kept the government going . Seeing this , and knowing that taxes raised on strong drink aad tobacco amount to about fourteen millio n * , and tho working classes consuming the greatest part , it is your duty to © _o-operata with me and become abstainers , and keep at least ten out of the fourteen millions in your own pockets , instead of jiving it to those who will rob , plunder , and persecute you . W . GaimN , Birmingham . —Tou had better lay your plan . before the local meetings of the Land members T . _GiBttoN _.-Youtiiay getthebooks of Mr Watson , publisher , Queens Head - passage , Paternoster , _roiv , London .

      • WiLFaiDA _. ' and ' Robert Com . '—No room Tiverton . —A letter from Julian Harney to the electors and _non-electors of Tiverton must share the fate ol Borne others , stand over till next week . Caution . —Wm Parker , a native ef Leatherhead , in the county of Surrey , and who describes himself as having formerly beo _« a seafaring man , has decamped with a sum of money subscribed forthe assistance of James Pitman , his fellow workman , he havinf » one dead child and two nearly so . The Baid Wm Parker having , at the same time , left his wife and child-about eight weeks old—in great distress . Tbis is to warn the public against placing any confidence iu so base and unfeel-Ing a villa . n . I remain , air , your obedient , humble servant , W . _Bennis , secretary to the _Cordivainers '

      Operative Society , Davtford . SOTIOE .-I should feel under great bligation to anj reader of the Northsrn Star " who will furnish me with the full and correct address of the » lfe of a poor max , named Michael _DriscoU , supposed to reside on or near West Calf Island , when the unfortunate ship Stephen V \ lutney was wrecked . This poor woman gate her only sheet to wrap the bod y of a lady who per ished at the time . My object in desiring this information is , that 1 may be enabled to eommunicate witb _' tbis kin *" boartod woman , and to remit her a substantial evidence ( received from a distant part of tbo world ) that such a manifestation of Christian feeling has not been unnoticed in a foreign land .-Wiu . uM _Ridsr , Nortmbn Star office .

      Mr J . Stephens , of Hull , wishes to refer his Pocklingto * friend , aud others in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire , to the Address from Hull in the Stab oj January 1 st , 1848 . Parties writiug to him _niujt send their names and address . D . R . —Probably the government will introduce a _neir measure for the embodiment of the militia . Until that measure is brought forward , we cannot say what would be the consequences _« f refusing to serve . *»* At the last moment w » find ourselves compelled to exclude notices of meetings held . at . Stockport , Warrlug-. ton , York , Dalston , Mottram , SaH ' ord , Bolton , Hej . wood , and Bristol . This exclusion is owing to the gentlemen of the Chartist Executivo ' and Land Company brimriDgr matter for Insertion , which ws might just as well have had on Uenday last , as on Thursday _ny bt , at twelve o ' clock . Had we had that matter earlier , we could ] and would have arranged for its insertion with _, out excluding th « reports aud notices from the abovenamed places . Brdxxllbi . —A . P . Receired .

      LSQAl . ROT ICE . —Owing to the space occupied by Parliamentary proceedings , no legal _correspondent ) can _" plaoe in the _Stak during the Session . All those therefore , whose cases hava been & a ' » wwcd nly ia the St _*& , ate requested t _> o send thetf ; _**" . addresses and a postage stamp _should they r £ q ' private answers , _EawESt _Jo _*< w '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 19, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19021848/page/4/