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      OX SATURDAY , MAY TnE 30 th , will appear the First Number of LABOURS' ADVOCATE , AND TRADES * WEEKLY REGISTER , price Tivo Pence . To he had of all Booksellers and Sews Agents in the Kingdom . Office for Advertisements , ic . 2 * 2 , l ? utter Lane , Loudon . N . li . All Communications to be addressed to the Editor , as above . Working Men ! give your orders immediately !!

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      POimiAlT OP Mr . _O'llIGGlNS . We refer to the letter of Mr . Rider as the guide for agents to order the channel through which their portraits shall be sent . The portraits are now ready for delivery , and will be given the first week in June to subscribers only . Price of Paper and Portrait Sexes _Pekce .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, May 23, 1816.

      THE _NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , MAY 23 , 1816 .

      The Struggle. The Conference.—The Strike...

      THE STRUGGLE . THE CONFERENCE . —THE STRIKE . Nor only from England and Scotland , but from Ireland as well , we conlinuo to receive the most grateful and gratifying thanks for the manner in whioh we have brought labour's question to bear upon the mind of the industrious classes , and if we have not grossly deceived ourselves and _egregiously miscalculated upon the machinery with which labour's battle is to be fought , wc can come to no other conclusion than that the firmness of her sons

      will insure thc triumph ol thoir order . If the venal , the corrupt and profligate press of the countrydevoted but a tithe of that space which it devotes to the unjust cause of capital to the meritorious side of tbe question , the struggle would be short and decisive , but when we read such rampant , rabid , blustering , swaggering nonsense as that indulged in by the Dispatch of Sunday last , followed by an article in the Times of Mondav _, and which we have printed

      The Struggle. The Conference.—The Strike...

      ' elsewhere ait full length , we confess that we entf k . tain but slight hope of assistance or even justice from thepresa of England . v _ _, It is well , however , that the working classes should hear both sides of the question- and it is with that view that we have reprinted The Times article at length , and , in the absence of all other evidence _, upon that article alone we undertake to establish the innocence of our clients and the justice of their cause , while from its tone we may reasonably deduce their prospect Of success , The Times , after a tortuous construction as to what the law would consider

      conspiracy , and after stating in the outset that the Central Association is an illegal body , is drawn to th * confession at last that its objects are legal , but that the confession of their legality , that is theirreliance upon legal means , alone constitutes the illegality of the Association . This is reasoning more absurd than ever was before ventured upon hy the rawest schoolboy . But , shifting the argument from the Central Association to the sectional strike , The Times-selects some things that those on strike have done , and some things that tbey may yet do , as proof of the illegality of the Central Association .

      The writer did not see that we contended for the necessity of the Central National Association for the express purpose of keeping all sectional movements Within the strict limits of the law , and thus has the Thunderer unintentionally acknowledged the necessity and the value ofthe Central Association , while no attempt has been made to show the necessity or the value of a combination of the tyrant masters There is not a single argument urged against labour ' s combination that does not tell powerfully against the master's combination , and yet this defender of labour's rights has no difficulty in seeing the beam in labour ' s

      eye , while its vision is too obscure to see the mote in that of capital . We presume that few working men will hare perused the article in the Times without coming to the conclusion that it is a government feeler—to ascertain how far the strong government with its reckless Home Secretary may experimentalize upon the few remaining rights and privileges _^ * thevworking classes . Again we remind labourthat we wen the first to announce the coming of the projected Masters' and Servants' Bill , a « id that we are now the first to announce the coming of a much more Terrific Monster .

      "We have already stated that its advent is only postponed until the objects of ihe United Trades shall be fully developed in the forthcoming Conference . And it is in order that the delegates should be prepared for such a result , and that they should protect their great leader against the charge of being associated with an illegal body , or a body , though legal in itself , having recourse to illegal means to carry out its objects , that we "would impress upon the minds of the delegates the necessity of courage tempered with proper cautioa—that we would remind every man who rises to speak , that when the battle is transferred to the " cock pit" of the capitalists .

      where the " MAIN" of labour must be fought , the more unfettered and untrammelled and unassailable their champion is , the more successful will he be in the adyecacy of their cause . We learn from the press gang that the combination of the masters goes bravely on—indeed , there is nothing to impede them in their progress , while there is everything to inspire them with confidence . They have money , as the Dispatch triumphantly tells us , to Jive in idleness and security , while the men must pine in uncertainty . They have law to protect them , and where it appears weak they have law makers of their own selection ready to strengthen their hands ; ""

      Nevertheless they evidently see a danger in the combination of the men to overcome whicli they will ultimately be compelled to appeal to the legislature for powers BEYOND TIIE ORDINARY LAW . As we anticipated , the labour force has neither been apathetic or unwatehf ' ul , for it will be seen from the cheering and magnanimous resolution of the members of the Leicester Chartist Cooperative Land Society , that solicitude _abaut a project whieh it was supposed would numb all

      political feelings has not prevented them from rendering tlieir mite to aid in labour's struggle ; so that what in the outset appeared to be the cause of a single trade , has by the tyranny of the masters been converted into a national labour struggle . The men , as we anticipated , have remained firm , they have boldly performed their duty , and it now remains with their representatives and thc governing body to give confidence to the soldiers who have so bravely suffered in the cause of their order .

      On Sunday week , the 3 _lst of May , Labour ' s Champion , the member for Finsbury , will arrive at Manchester . On Monday the 1 st of June , labour ' s parliament will be opened under his auspices , and , however lightly the actors in this great drama may look upon their respective parts , we tell them that not only are the eyes of the civilised world upon them , but that upon tlieir deliberations may depend t ' . ie peace ofthe world , but certainly the happiness oj the labouring classes . From the accounts that we receive from all parts of the kingdom we have reason to anticipate not only a large but independent representation of the Trades , while the importance attached to their proceedings by their enemies and

      the government will ensure for their cause an amount of circulation which under no other circumstances could they have insured . Having then so long and so boldly resisted the ii . solent conditions proposed by their tyrant masters , we have only to congratulate the brare sufferers upon the aid now so near at hand , and to assure them , that , however the servile press , supported by their calumniators may burke or misrepresent their feelings , our columns at least shall be devoted to the fullest representation and to the unbiassed criticism of their proceedings . The men have fought a glorious struggle , and again we say to their representatives and governing body , "Upon you depends tlie issue of this great struggle . "

      "Woe To The Conqueror! Sir Robert Peel H...

      "WOE TO THE CONQUEROR ! Sir Robert Peel has conquered that is , so far as triumph over party and conversion from the opinions of a long life of study to tbe adoption of new f ' angled notions without reflection can imply conquest , he has conquered . Tho great conservative party elected him as their chief , they placed him as their sentinel to guard their camp and to watch the movements of their enemies . They robed him in a power never before enjoyed by chief , they strengthened him with a confidence never before conferred upon leader . They had fought the battle of tlie hustings and wero proclaimed viotors , aud appointed him plenipotentiary with unqualified power to stipulate tlie price of victory , and his terms are

      SURRENDER . Strong In numbers , _eJoseiy knit in zeal , kneaded as it were in ono common leaven of interest , and linked in an unbroken chain of confidonce in their unanimously elected chief , they abated much of their individual energy , and like all other tro ops flushed with victory , they relapsed into quiet _apnthy ; he seized thc moment of tlieir confidence and hanaVd them over an easy prey to the very party whom he had been elected to iujht agaiust .

      In our first comment upon those measures which have now received the sanction of the Lower House , we made the distinction between the measures and tlieir propoundcr , We hailed the settlement of a question , which , more than all others had perplexed the democratic councils as prophetic , of good ; while With the great bard we were , nevertheless , compelled to exclaim , " Though I Hko to hear the treason , I hate tho traitor . " We have followed the slow and tedious debate in its progress through the

      several stages , in the hope of discovering labour ' s _ghiu-eofthe minister ' s triumph , but until the hist night of the struggle we were kept in iguoranee . Thc speech of Sir _Kobkrt Pjjel upon the Just night of the debate was a mere heckling , a childish unravelling of the follies of Mr . Colquhoun and Mr . Caley , without even a passing comment upon the copious , the , full , the statesmanlike , the comprehensive and unanswered , because unanswerable , speech of Mr . D'Isbabn .

      "Woe To The Conqueror! Sir Robert Peel H...

      _ZZZZZ _^ r . — ,-.-.- ¦< - ¦ : ¦ — .- , .,. _^ . _»« _w _« - _»^^; _:-r--.....:- .- . The question of Free Trade has been . elaborately discussed for years in the House of Commons , on the hustings , and the platform , and . the threadbare arguments hare been repeated ad muteam throughout the present controversy , while we assert , broadly and without fear of refutation , that , with the exception of Mr . _D'Israeli's speech last Saturday morning , the working man ' s side of the question has never been even hinted at in the house , while in that speech we recognize an able and convincing confirmation of every shape and form in which for years we

      have placed the question before , our readers , and however the defenders of inconsistency and " so forth" may attempt to evade argument , in a maudlin sympathy for a defenceless minister and an assumed reprobation of glowing and not unmerited sarcasm which towered above their imagination , their expression , or their courage , yet we tell them that D'Israeli _' s speech , which we print without the omission of a single line or word , will outlive the ribaldry of a prostitute press , the scoff of a degenerate Whig leader , and the sneers of those deserters upon whose

      subserviency the minister has wrecked his party and his fame . We have heard speeches in the House of Commons ; we have read speeches delivered in the House of Commons , but we candidly confess that it never fell to our lot to hear or read sueh a speech as that upon which we now write . It was terse , argumentative , and eloquent ; comprehensive , conclusive , and convincing , and in the present state of parliamentary ignorance of the subject can only be answered by the sad realization of the anticipations ofthe hon . member .

      Here are . his points : —the Corn Laws , I admit , are a great fiction , but they are a fiction by which the universal traffic ofthe world has been regulated , and in that traffic labour has been a gainer rather than a loser by the fiction . Under this great mantle are concealed the fiction of your currency , the fiction of your taxation , the fiction' of rents , the -fiction of tithes and church property , the fiction of debts , loans and interest , the fiction of prices , the fiction of incomes fixed and fluctuating , THE FICTION OF WAGES , and the fiction of REPRESENTATION itself " , partially acquiesced in upon the grounds : that

      labour had Us share in the . GREAT FICTION . Then mark how the great logician solves the problem relied upon by the free-traders . See how he demolishes the arguments in favour of free trade in corn , deduced from the increased importation of other articles of consumption . Observe the masterly manner in which he assigns to each clime and people the power of extending their produce according to the wants of newly-created consumers , and how he winds up his catalogue of labour ' s prospects out of the unconnected threads from which economists would weave the veil to obscure the workman ' s vision .

      Mark how he distinguishes between the thing produced and the thing producing . He shows tbat the importation of all the articles employing labour and used for the sustenance of labour have been abundantly increased since the duties upon these several articles have been reduced . And then , in answer to the folly of those who have asserted "THAT THE WORLD HAS NO FEARFUL SURPLUS OF CORN TO SEND US , " he triumphantly offers the increase in the importation of TEA FROM CHINA , an article in which there is no competition , and from it he shows that the price declined from 2 s . 5 d . to 9 d .

      while the importation within the same period increased by millions upon millions of pounds . China has a monopoly of that article , and yet the INCREASED DEMAND insures the increased supply . He next shows , as we have shown a thousand times over , that the wages of the agricultural labourer are kept up by the fiction ofthe Corn Laws , and that all other countries capable of growing corn will be invited to the pursuit by the opening of the RICH MARKET , and that , as a matter of course and of necessity , the wages of the English wheat grower will be capriciously regulated by the

      FLUCTUATING STANDARD OF FOREIGN SUPPLIES . English prices of corn , notwithstanding her Corn Laws , have been more equable and less fluctuating than the prices iu any other country , and of course the opening of her ports will now subject ' her to still more lamentable fluctuations , while we are confidently told that FIXEDNESS is the one great desideratum contemplated by free trade . The honourable gentleman shows how the importation of cocoa , tea , coffee , sugar , cotton , and other articles has increased , while we presume economists , who hold out the ideal _happiness of plenty , would

      have told us that it weuld be impossible for all the world to have met so large an increase in our demand for those articles within so short a period . Who does not recollect the statistical ravings of the Thunderer ? Who has forgotten the balm administered to the bleeding wounds of the affrighted aristocracy ? Who that does not remember the nursery tales of Printing Ilouse Square ? They are fresh in the recollection of panting infants and wondering old age . America for six long years could not favour us . with 500 , 000 quarters annually ( while the rest of the world was not only an empty gianaiw but a barren wilderness ,

      where mouths , gaping as . the Irish , were anxiously expecting relief from any kind and condescending neighbour . We saw either ministerial patronage or League gold , or mayhap both ) under the storyteller ' s mask , and we marvelled how paying impudence ventured upon so bold a speculation as palpable falsehood . Well , despite the Croney ' s tale of comfort , we have since heard her lamentation over BENDING GRANARIES ]; SHIPS WAITING THE FIAT TO DISCHARGE AT HOME AND TO LOAD ABROAD ; Capitalists made nervous by the unsettled state of the question , and not daring to

      speculate until they could buy upon some SOUND PRINCIPLE of exchaage . Our great friend was deaf , or at least dumb , when we assured him that the prices abroad would not regulate the price at home . That it was not what could be conveniently spared by other _ceuntries , but what eould bo capriciously speculated on by capitalists , that would find its way to the wealthy market , and that a little from each would give us a destructive surplus , which would scare labour from thc domestic mart . We laid down the scale by which —with risk , freight , and insurance—corn-growing

      countries could sell with a profit in our market . We showed that speculation would produce surplus , that surplus would produce low wages and unemployed hands , that unemployed hands would produce crime , expence , heavy poor rates , agitation and fluctuation of prices . Wc showed that wheat capriciously bought abroad must be capriciously sold at home , and always to the disadvantage of the home grower , who was the labourer ; who was the best customer in the manufacturing market , and who , when neglected , was the most dangerous customer in the political marker . We have never been answered , we never can be answered , but we have been confirmed . Mr . D'lsraeli has logically confirmed our every assertion . He used his inanimate figures well , he might have

      used his animate figures better . The non-arrival of foreign cattle is not consequent upon religious faith , it proceeds from tho facts that at the time we stated , namely , that cattle was a commodity of which no country cou ld _haye a surplus . It is a surplus that eats , and cannot be stored for speculation ; and , as we stated at the time , there not being an existing surplus of a commodity that required at least five years for its growth , the effect of the cattle tariff could not be felt till tho autumn of ths present year . Cows that were served by the TARIFF BULL in August , 1842 , would not calve till May , 1843 , and their produce would not be fit for tho English market till next autumn , \{ and barely then ) , tlie period wc assigned for the developemont of tho Cattle Tariff .

      In 1842 , the Sun and tho Chronicle childishly answored our arguments , by showing us that because Spanish beasts , imported as an experiment , and sold for £ 12 10 s ., eould not bear the cost of £ 4 : 10 s . transit , that wo were safe from _intruders . But we explained , tbat while 35 per cent , was a large outlay for conveyance of experiment » Wat » , that a _jjultable arrangement for the transit o £ heavy beasts , worth from £ 25 to £ 40 , would reduee the cost of transit to 5 per cent ., against which , tha English feeder eould

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      not _contend . We showed , that the present scarcity is a _consenuti _^ cc of the panic of 1842 , and that cattle which ought fo have been held as stock , were foolishlysold ; whett ? . now , stock is dear , because graziers and feeders are supplying the place of that which they ought not to have sold , and because a superabundant crop of turnips ! has induced farmers to overhold their sheep . \ However , we hail the repeal of the Corn Laws , not for the substantive or the immediate benefit that the change will confer , upon the labouring classes , but for the many collateral issues that will arisefrom

      the experiment , and which must be adjudicated upon according to the position assumed by labour in the struggle which is assuredly at hand . We hail the change because it will strip ignorance of its prophetic importance ; because it will exhibit the real complexion of pale-faced philanthropy ; because it will teach the crednlous , who have confided in the sophistries of a hollow-hearted , _interes' . ed , reckless , speculating faction , the folly of supposing that the same parties can feel an equal interest in the well-being of living man , and in the success of his inanimate , unconsuming competitor , We hail the revolution because it must be bloodless , as the disorganisation of party confederation will ensure the union ef labour against which ignorance , sophistry , and

      inconsistency , will struggle in vain . We hail the change because it will knock the last crutch from under limping Whiggery ; because it will tear the new mask from off the face of hypocritical Toryism . We hail the change because IT WILL MAKE ONE of the mighty class of labour , which , to say the truth , has been disunited by the promised benefit from cheap bread , high wages , and plenty to do—the exploded trinity ofthe unity of humbug . And , while we hail the change , we cannot fail to express our admiration of the incomparable speech of Mr . D'Iskabli , which will go far to prepare the national mind for the result of Ministerial inconsistency—a speech which' we feel convinced , every working man in the kingdom will read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest .

      Parliamentary Review. The Corn Bill And ...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Corn Bill and the Tariff have at length escaped from the limbo of the House of Commons and made their appearance in that awful " other place" so often mysteriously alluded to , and in whicli their strangulation has been predicted , with more or less confidence , by various Protectionist prophets . Hew much of truth there was in these predictions will soon be seen . At present the appearances are by no means ofa favourable nature for the minister .

      His pet measures for the session have escaped positive mutilation or shipwreck either on the Scylla of Protectionist opposition or the Charybdis of Irish tactics . But the delay caused by both , has impaired the prestige with which they would'have been invested had their introduction to the House of Lords 6 een two months earlier . To be sure , Peel bos maintained his original majority with the addition of one , but the month of May , which waa to be witness ofa universal famine if the Corn Bill did not pass , has waned into old age without exhibiting sueh general destitution and disease as the potato-panic mongers at the close of last and the commencement

      of the present year unanimously predicted both for Ireland and this country . Had the minister , despising any temporary or factitious aid to be derived from such a source , relied entirely' upon the great principles and the wider experience to which , he afterwards referred , the position of Ilia measures in the Lords would not be in the slightest degree weakened ; but the great stress laid by himself and his lieutenants on the potato failure , and the manner in which we are approaching another crop of that useful root without the realization of the predictions in which they freely indulged , will no doubt put a power into thc hands of the Peers which they will not be slow to avail themselves ef .

      These and other damaging circumstances contribute to produce a general feeling of doubt as to the fate of the ministerial policy in the Lords . The Duke of Richmond announced the most determined opposition , under the leadership of Lord Stanley . A meeting of Protectionist Peers , very numerously attended , has taken measures for organizing the strength ofthe party , and bringing it to bear effectively on the divisions . The 'liberal journals speak dubiously , and the Post triumphantly , of the

      approaching struggle . It is within the list of probabilities that a resignation [ or a dissolution , or * both , may intervene before the certain victory of the League and Peel . Be it so . The people ' s cause gathers strength from the collision of hostile parties . Each defeat sustained by a political party sends it back to the people for support . The people are be . ginning to learn at what price they should give that support , without which no party whatever can long exercise power iu this country .

      With the exception of the discussion on the Lace Bill , in the Comfiionson Wednesday , the proceedings in Parliament this week have been of a very dull description . One whole evening was deveted to a debate arising out of the disputed Bridport Election . Upon such subjects , members are afflicted with a cacocthes loguendi , an itch for talking which would be unexplainable if we did not recollect that , however stupid on other matters , they must be all tolerably well versed In thc mysteries of a contested election . No doubt most of them are better

      acquainted with a tariff of votes than of customs ' duties , and it is always pleasanter to talk about what one knows than npon topics of which you are wholly or partially ignorant . " Bribery and corruption , " to use the hacknied parliamentary phrase , are , however , inherent vices of our present vicious representative system , and disputes between the two great factions , or individual members of either , on such a subject , are simply disgusting because neither of them & Te in earnest , neither of them , feel the system itself to be immoral and degrading , neither of them sincerely desires its reformation .

      The only people ' s questions diseussed this week and last , were the Lace Bill of Mr . Duncombe , and the Ten liours' Bill of Mr . _Fields . The _uommoiia , ou a division , threw out Mr . Duncombe ' s bill by a majority of So , the government were only saved from being beaten by a majority of 80 or 4 © on Mr . _Fielbek _' s bill on the previous Wednesday by putting up Mr . Caudweu , the Secretary of the Treasury , to speak against time .

      These contradictory decisions upon cognate subjects are somewhat puzzling , and especially so when we find among the majority against Mr . Duncombe ' s bill the names of Wm . Beckett , J . Bhothmyto !* , W . F . Cowf-eb . C . Hikdley , and others who have long prided themselves on being supporters of the regulation of labour in factories by legislative enactments . There is something more in this conduct than meets the eye . What can he the cause of it ? Do the parties named , and others similarly situated , merely Jook upon the Ten Hours question as a species of "

      political capital , " eut of which they can manufacture a spurious popularity , which would be in danger of destruction if the question got into the hand * of an honest , determined , and successful member like Mr . Duncombe \ We hare our suspicions that the solution of the anomaly is to be found in some _sach feeling . The excuse upon which most of these Ten Hours' members deserted Mr . _Dctncomer on Wednesday—namely , the interference with adult labourthat lum . member distinctly stated his intention , to abandon in committee , and there voting against the

      second reading , is , therefore , without ihe shadow of a reason . We trust that the operatives in th » manufacturing districts will carefully * satch tha movements of their professed friends at this , critical _mwnent . Power with all its _blaiulishments is busy at work to divide or silence them . The struggle on the Ten-Hours' Question will soon , te renewed . The deserters , the quibblere _, and the absentees on that occasion must be marked for & sru . t & ble reward when they next make their _appearance en the hustings . We must have no mow of such shameful trickery

      Parliamentary Review. The Corn Bill And ...

      and riding off upon special pleas as that which led to the division of Wednesday last _^ Against this . defeat , however , we are happy to place the Debate of the preceding _Wednesday <>» q _. Ten Hours' Bill , and which a press of other ' matter precluded _ua from noticing last week . _Honeatv talent , eloquence , argument , philosophy , and facY were arrayed in an overpowering phalanx in suppo rt of the measure . Never was any question so trium phantly argued , or so unanswerably demonstrated as the necessity , the justice , and the policy of a Tej Hours' Sill , on that occasion . Its opponents were

      few , and these consisted of miserable tricksters , who wish to play fast and loose with great questions , as mere instruments for serving party and personal interests ; blockheads whose natural stupidity has been rendered more intense by the artificial addition of a stupid system of Political Economy , and contemptible but greedy hypocrites , who raised ihe ciy of protection | against the reduction of wages , for the purpose of securing to themselves the augmented profits which they believe that free trade measures , in

      connection with unrestricted labour ,. are sure to yield them . Of all _. tae cants in this canting world , save us from the cant of hypocrisy . If there is anythin _* more disgusting than another it is to hear men , no torious for their grinding down of wages upon the slightest pretext of bad trade , slack markets , or da * magedwork _, or greater competition among themselves , _ceme forward with elaborate calculations to prove that the workmen will earn so many pence less in the week if their toil is limited to thai prescribed by nature as the limit of healthy endurance . Tha

      operatives unanimously reply to these humane persons " We are perfectly ready to run the risk of a reduction . " But so careful , so tender are these selfelected guardians of the interests ofthe operatives , that they will not permit them , ignoranfcsaortsigftted wretches as they are , to have any voice in the matter . " We know best what is good for you , " is in effect their answer . "Place confidence in us , as your beat friends . " Miserable self-deceivers ! Dotheyimagina that they can thus hoodwink the sharp-sighted intelligent operatives of England ? No ! they are too well acquainted with the actual working of the Factory System , to be deluded by such a clumsy and transparent attempt at playing the philanthropist and poor man ' s friend .

      Among the few opponents of the Bill , a young maa named _Trelawnbi * made a speech , wliich was remarkable only for the glib manner in which it waa delivered , and the impudence ofa person like him venturing to sneer at the opinions of such men _ag those who have advocated the regulation of labour ia factories . Presuming to lecture these mistaken sentimentalists on their ignorance of sound principles and the true way to promote the welfare of the working classes , this very green young man informed them , that the best way to improve the condition of the operatives , was to establish parks , to widen

      streets , and ventilate houses . All Tery good things In their way , no doubt . But of what use , can Mr _Tbelawset tell us , would parks be to the poor wretches cooped up in the " rattle boxes , " in the heart of Manchester , from half-past five iu the morning to half-past seven or eight In the evening ? How much of sunlight will there be left " after that time , to brighten the factory labourer ' s stroll in a park , two or three miles away from the mill , even if the exhausting , protracted , and enervating nature of his toil did not of itself produce the desire for rest ? Yet this is a specimen of the humbug , out of which these would-be friends of the working classes

      con-; tinue to manufacture a character for enlightened philanthropy ! As to wide streets and ventilated houses , ail we can say is , that all the widening of streets we have hitherto seen has only tended to crowd the poor more into smaller streets than they had before , because the rents in the new ones were too high for them , and could only suit a higher class of income , * and if the factory operative is to live 15 hours in the mill , including the time going to , returning from , and taking meals in it , the ventilation of tke dwelling in which he is permitted to spend so small a portion of his waking hours , is of but very trifling importance .

      The aspect of . the house during the whole debate showed the strong public interest taken in the question . It was very well attended on both sides from the commencement , and towards the time when a division was expected became quite full . Had the government , as we have already stated , not put up Mr . Cahdwell at the last moment to speak against time , they would undoubtedly have been defeated , and we trust that upon the next debate they be so in spite of all trickery and _manoeuvring whatever , Let the delegates be incessant in their endeavours to secure votes ; above all let them adopt as their motto

      THE TEN HOURS' BILL AND NO COMPROMISE , and ere long this hard-fought contest , prolonged for so many years , will be crowned by a victory , unstained by violence , and sanctified alike by the holiness of its objects , and the nature ofthe weapons by whicli it has been won .

      Postscript. Saturday Morning. —The Facto...

      POSTSCRIPT . Saturday Morning . —The Factory Bill was defeated by a majority of TEN , in a house of 400 members , this morning , at three o ' clock . The debate exhibited tho same superiority in argument and temper on the part of the advocates of the bill which characterised the previous discussion . The division , though a disappointment for the moment , is full of hope and encouragement for the future . Victory is

      certain . Another struggle must command success , and place this long sought boon in the possession of the factory operatives . The part taken by Messrs . Cobden , Bright , aud Wakd , on this occasion , will not be forgotten by the working classes ; and if , aa is not unlikely , a general election intervenes between the passing of their darling measure , we trust they will receive a lesson at the hustings that they are not to monopolise all the anticipated benefits of free trade .

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      Geheral Hews.—The Great Length At Whicli...

      Geheral Hews . —The great length at whicli the Trades and other general news has occupied our columns this week , obliges us to reserve many communications , and to withold reply to many correspondents , "Veteran Patriots and Exiles' "Widows and Children ' s Funds . —Receipts for the week , second instalment from Committee of Cc-oper Festival , . £ 3 . Warwick Chartists , per Mr . French , 2 s . 6 d . Bilston Chartists , per Joseph Linney , is . Julian Harney , Is . Mr . Knox of Leicester , Is . Total £ 3 Ss , ( id . _—Tuolus Cooper , Secretary , 131 , Blackfriars _' -road . To the London Chartists and Friends of Demockact . —A grand concert , for the benefit of Mrs . Ford ( who has been long suffering under severe indisposition , ) will take placeat the Assembly Rooms , S 3 , Dean-street , Soho , on Monday evening , May tho 25 th , under the direction of the Chartist Executive Committee . "We understand that tickets ( sixpence each ) may be

      obtained of Mr , T . M _, Wheeler , at the above Rooms , and * _, at all the metropolitan Chartist meeting places . London Shoemakers . —A . correspondent writes : —In . the Resolution given in tha sixth page of our last number , concerning the "West End Men ' s Men ' s body of boot aud _shonuiakers _, a _tjpcfiaphisnl rawtt _& _a has be « a committed of considerable importance , where the word _•«¦ connected " . ought to have been " -unconnected , " as neither ofthe six sections therein mentioned , belong to the Association , though two others still do . The CoorER Festival . — . The sum of £ 3 was realised by the above festival , and ordered to be paid over to the , Veterans and Widows and Children ' s Fund . Allen Davenport . —Received , —shall appear shortly . W . _Pattsbmn . —A notice of Mr . Marriott ' s lecture ap . peared in the Star , ' , J . Sweet begs to acknowledge ths receipt of ls . 6 _^ . from Arnold * , and Gd . from Mr . Brown , for tho forthcoming Convention .

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      THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY , Meetings for the purpose of enrolling membew , and transacting other business connected therewith are held every week on the following days anu places :-.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 23, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23051846/page/4/