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      The Northern Star. Saturday, January 31,1816.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JANUARY 31 , 1816 .

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      "THERE IS A DREAD-A NATUEAI DREAD-OF COMPETITION ON THE PART OF AGRICULTURISTS . IT IS IMPOSSIBLE , I THIKK , FOR , _ASY MAN TO DENY THAI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IS YET IN ITS INFANCY IN THIS COUNTRY . BUT THERE ARE MEANS OF MEETING THIS COMPETITION WHICH IS SO MUCH DREADED , BY THE APPLICATION OF CAPITAL , SKILL , AND INDUSTRY ; AXD BY THE ADOPTION OF THOSE MEANS I FEEL PERSUADED THAT BOTH THE AGRICULTURISTS AND TIIE LABOURING MAN WILL BE ABLE TO MEET THE COMPETITION WHICH WILL BE { RAISED UP AGAINST THEM . AND , IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE EFFECT , WE PROPOSE THAT THE STATE SHALL ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY . " -Sir _Romsni P __ l .

      ALL-MIGHTY PEEL . Ir is not yet four years since Sir Robbrt Perl struck the first blow which . staggered us , and shook the ancient temple of abuse to its very centre . In canvassing the ALL-MIGHTY measures of this montal Hercules , it _ianeitherfairnor just to measure them by the limited scale of protection , or by the more extensive standard of commerce . True , thc twin interests of agriculture and trade may each be materially affected by hiB proposed _aiterat ' ons in those laws by wliich both are regulated ; but , it is not so much to the bearing upon those peculiar interests that we look , as to the peculiar and astounding influence which

      they are calculated to exercise upon our poi __ tio _ u , and social relations . When Sir _Roueot Pebi . proposed tbe admission of live stock at a mere nominal duty , made merely nominal by the reserved duty on raw hides , tallow , hoofs , tails , and horns , wc fearlessly asserted that it was a measure sueh as a Char tut Prime Minister would hesitate to propose to the landed aristocracy ; while four short years sees even that protection vanish in the very face of a House of Protectionists . We have ever thought , and we have so stated , that an undue importance had been given to wheat by tho fr _« e-trade party , and we were anxious for some measure wliich would restore the various productions ofthe soil to their legitimate position in the catalogue of uses .

      The gigantic scheme of Sir Rob _ m Peel wilt effectually serve this purpose , and upon that account alone we would hail it with becoming gratitude ; but it does not stop here , it equalises the several interests that before warred to the great disadvantage ol trade , agriculture , and industry . It takes from those who were cursed with an over stobb , which rendered them objects of jealousy to the' poor and helpless , while to the latter class it presents _manyndvantages , together with the PROTECTION of a fire years ' INDUSTRIAL RESIDENCE in that parish where the labourer shall have contributed to the augmentation of the national wealth . We have laid it down as an unerring axiom , that the Corn Laws might be

      repealed , and that all other protections might be dispensed with , without disturbing tberelative relations ofthe several classes of society . We have shewn how the possessor of an income of £ 20 , 000 a-year , unnaturally forced to that point by the intrieaeies of pro tection , would be enabled to hold _hisrelative position in society , without the abridgment of a single luxury , upon £ 14 , 000 a-year ; and we haTe shewn how the additional £ 6 , 000 abridged the comforts anddimi nished the luxuries of the working classes ; and yet , knowing these things , we dreaded their hasty correction Jest a sudden alteration of the most loathosme abuses should lead to as sudden a revolution , in which the working classes were sure to be the greatest

      sufferers . We have presented the substantial dread of an unsettled period of three years—we have apprehended a one-sided measure , such as the Whigs would have proposed , to make THE THING LAST THEIR TIME , without reference to other interests than that whieh was calculated to preserve their political ascendancv . We doubted the PRUDENT

      CONCESSIONS mentioned in Lord Johx Russell ' s memorable letter , in which he condescended io mention the article of clothing , together with food , but we were not prepared for such a piece of Mosaic legislation , firm in every mortice , complete in every doveta I . tried up in all its parts , and equally hinged upon the framework of society . This measure of Sir Robert Peel , great and mighty as it is , astounding and heaven-born as it is , is , nevertheless , to be acpected not as a final measure , but merely as the

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      means of arranging that harindiiious machinery to whose working the State affairs must he subjected . Many may wonder that the tithes , the funds , the civil list , and salaried officers , have escaped the pruning knife of the great gardener ; but in these exemptions , as well as in his resolution to abstain from the imposition of further taxes , more than in themeasuro itself , has he shown his consummate prudence and tact . By abstaining from any assault upon those

      several interests , the Pnmo Minister secures their co-operation , and shields himself against their opposition ; while , cognisant of the active power of money , he , liko ourselves , doubted the ability of facing the whole artillery of monopoly in one pitched battle , with his slender army of COERCED VOLUNTEERS , while those several sections of apparently protected monopolists will , in turn , have to face the combined forces of unprotected landlords and querulous free traders .

      It is not in human nature to suppose that the powerful landlords , and the not less powerful manufacturers , will assent to that spurious ascendancy which exemption would confer upon the church , the money monger , the idle pauper , and the official with a fixed salary . They will see thatthe necessityof the times demanded some sacrifice at THEIR HANDS , and they will be slow to believe in the justice which

      enriches others at THEIR EXPENSE . They will argue that if they can purchase foreign luxuries , and _dome-tv-pi-duce , at so cheap a rate as will make their diminished incomes still square with their necessities , that parties with undiminished incomes , and equal ad . vantages from cheap produce , will possess an undue influence and an amount of protection which modern policy properly tells us is not only unpopular , but unjust .

      Some of our ootemporavies entertain the notion that small compensation has been accorded to the landed interest for the great sacrifices they have been called npon to make . "We do net hold with this doctrine ; we contend that they have received the wisest , the largest , and most profitable compensation , in that protection wbich the Prime Minister offers against local jobbery , local prejudices , and local intolerance . True , in his Irish , as _ttell as in his English policy , we recognise the strongfcst symptoms of CENTRALISATION , but , then it is in

      the right direction ; it is in the transfer ; of abused power from the hands of the fosterers of local abuse to _thoscofresponsiblegovernment ; as , let ihe reader rest assured , that , under the Prime Minister's proposed measures , governments willbecome much more responsible than tliey have ever yet been . ' It is twenty years and more since wc complained of tho dependency of the old Irish police upon their foster-fathers , their aristocratic debtors , and their old masters , who sought protection for themselves

      inthe refuge wliich patronage afforded of providing for their menials , their bastards , and thew cveuiVota . With that force the Squire ' s will was the constitution , the Squire ' s order was the law , and they were irresponsible to all other authority . Hence , abuses were ¦ anottoned , cruelty was encouraged , and indemnity was certain . But , in thc altered state of things , the Squire , stripped of this anomalous power , will be the first to complain of the improper exercise of authority derived from tho government .

      If Sir RoBRRi ' a measure did nothing more'for the mortgaged aristocracy of this country than the power it confers of raising money upon trust property , as well for the improvement of the estate as to reward the industry of the tenant for life , it has conferred an everlasting , blessing upon those uniiatui ally dependent upon the coercion of their heirs . The stipulated sum stated by Sir Robert Peel , as necessary to meet those local burthens which aro to ba transferred to thc consolidated fund , must not be taken as their previous amount , as local jobbing has

      the two ev ' A tendencies of promoting peculation , and causing a slovenly expenditure of the funds ; and if the landlords , who in general have the fingering ol those funds , and the power , but uot THE WILL , to complain of their misapplication , shall recognise but slight benefit iu the transfer , tke farmer , UPON WHOM THE IMPOST FALLS , will discover no Blight advantage in it . Hence , we find that Sir Ro _ eb- Peel has overcome another of our contemplated difficulties—thc difficulty of separating the interest , and at the same time preserving the ties , between landlord and tenant .

      Li reviewing the gigantic scheme ot tbe Prime Minister , of course we speak of it as a thing accomplished , and for this reason , because an appeal to the country against it would be threatening , not only to those remaining privileges which the Minister _leavos untouched , but to the very possessions from whicli tbey spring ; while any senseless resistance by the House of Peers would bc met by the irresistible national _demand'for the measure , and SOMETHING MORE . It is not at all unlikely that some cunning protectionist may endeavour to awaken the suspicion of those classes whose interests have been spared , while we -rus . tbat the supporters of the measure

      will abstain from any . incautious policy likely to hazard its success . Having perused this NEW CONSTITUTION over aud over again , we find it so complete in all its parts as to render any selection of the gems a task of no small difficulty . There are a few , however , which shine and glitter with such peculiar magnificence and splendour , that we cannot abstain from dignifying them with particular notice ; and first and most brilliant stands the passage we bave selected as the heading of our comment , and here , to distinguish it , we reprint it , that ' all may feast upon it , in THE HOPE OF FATTENING UPON IT .

      Peelsays" THERE IS A DREAD-A NATURAL DREAD-OF COMPETITION ON THE PART OF AGRICULTURISTS . IT IS IMPOSSIBLE , I THINK , FOR ANY MAN TO DENY THAT AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IS YET IN ITS INFANCY IN THIS COUNTRY . BUT THERE ARE MEANS OF MEETING THIS COMPETITION WHICH IS SO MUCH DREADED , BY THE APPLICATION OF CAPITAL , SKILL , AND INDUSTRY ; AND BY THE ADOPTION OF THOSE MEANS I FEEL PERSUADED THAT BOTH THE AGRICULTURISTS AND THE LABOURING MAN WILL BE ABLE TO MEET THE

      COMPETITION WHICH WILL BE RAISED UP AGAINST _THEft-f . AND , IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE EFFECT , WE PROPOSE THAT _THESTATE' SHALL ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY . " Here , then , is the promised fulfilment of our every hope . Here is the realisation of our prison dream , of our dungeon aspiration . Here is the manly confession " ... that , the science of agriculture is but IN ITS INFANCY , while , throughout , we recognise those details which are to nurture it to a , giant strength . Tall , not to us of any other native

      industry , or protection for it , ov ot honourable ov emulative competitien , beyond that which is to be found in the cultivation ot the soil , for the benefit of him who tills it ;; the surplus from a nation of happy in . dividual , increasing the national store to an extont that may defy the free competition of the _Frenchman who cultivates the banks of the Seine , the Dutchman , or the Belgian , who cultivates the alluvial soil , or the banks of the Scheld , or the foreign slaves whocultivate those rich and productive valleys that haunt the fears of a pampered aristocracy , but will have no dread ibr thc consumer who is his owu producer .

      fhe alteration made in the duty upon all articles of food _. ' and its total annihilation upon animal food , dead or alive , upon vegetables of all descriptions—its comparative nothingness upon the important articles of butter aud cheese , and , though lastnot least to _usjust now , the promised reduction in the article of timber , will give an impetus to native industry jn the right direction . It will invite the foreigner to furnish thoso articles of food which require but little labour in the production , while , to contend against foreign competition , it will compel the landlords and the farmers to apply alarger amount of native industry to the cultivation of their lands . Now , had free trade been proposed in Whig stylehad it been granted as a boon to the increasing power

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      of the Leagtk and as a sop to ' the niohied interests , unaccompanied with those wise , salutary , and statesmanlike adjustments proposed tiy Sir ' . _Robem _P-eki , not all the power at the _dispojal of government could have averted the horrors of a revolution . Upon tho one hand , ' the arrogance of the triumphant League , and the vengeance of the coerced aristocracy , both extensively represented in the Lords and Commons , would have caused a hurricane within , while the haphazard use of the triumph by the capitalists would have roused the nation to a state of mad revenge . The tact is , that the people nevor again will tolerate the ascendancy of Whiggery in this country , while the working of the new State machinery must , as surely as effect follows cause , lead to the no distant acceptation of Chartist principles ; when our predictions will be dignified as prophecies .

      Now is the time to forco popular concessions in the last moments of a dying aristocracy . Now is tho time , when their own privileges are threatened with sudden death , to awakon them to a contemplation of those they havo so long withheld from others . Believe us when wo say , that the future interest of landlords and cotton-lords will be more antagonistic than those of landlords and labourers ; and now , for thc first time in tho history _Ttf this country , the ear of labour must be prepared to , hear long , suppressed truisms from the lips ot a proud but humbled oligarchy . Honour , then , to the man that has made the deaf to hear , andthe dumb to speak ' ... If there aro gome interests that will consider ; themselves hardly

      dealt with , let it be borne in mind that England has long _struggled against one old and dangerous abuse , and that all must boar an equal share in any _roveiso that its destruction involves . The nation is recovering from a long and loathsome pestilence , under which it has recently grown worse and worse ; the infection is about to be removed , and it is not too much to expect that every member will derive health , strength , and activity from the change ; and should' we he called into action to struggle , against , the , ranks of monopoly , we have tho authority of our chief , and wc have permission to state it , that Dusoombb , fully , cordially , and entirely , approving ofthe ministerial prepositions , will lead the ' democratic party in support of them .

      Our convictions square with those of our leader ; and therefore we have reason to anticipate undivided popular support in aid of them . " United we stand , divided we fall . " Let" Onward , and we conquer !"' The measure , the whole measure , and no frittering down to Parliamentary necessities , or party expediency V" be our watchwords . Let Pebl deal with the landlords and free traders , and subsequently they will unspa _« _ringly deal with the church ' lord , the fund lord , the pauper lord , and tho fixed salary ; lord .. Pee-has oamed for himself a glorious immortality , by his bold ahd manly bearing ; and if little Jons and th .

      'Whiglings should attempt to oust him upon a promise of a more speedy settlement of the question , and with adjustmont to be applied , and prudent concessions to be offered , when revolution stares us in the face , let the nation rise as one man ; and with tho voice of thunder and linger of scorn , motion the ghost back to that tomb which it prepared for Chartism , but in which we have enshrined tlio remains of' Whiggery . Greedy of power , and not cognisant of its . own weakness , and ofthe popular detestation in which itis held , the impudent , brazen-faced jade mayhap may try the dodge ; and , therefore , we have deemed it necessary to sound tho warning note .

      It would bo impossible to analyse all the charms of this New-year's gift as they deserve ; suffice it then , to say , that it is calculated to make us GREAT AT HOME , and therefore great abroad ; to convert ancient enmities into new affections ; to turn old suspwioti intoy «\ M _ , ge . ufidcnce . ; and . in the end , to lead us to peace through prosperity , to happiness through plenty , and to contentment through PROTECTION . It is a measure which henceforth will

      change competition from pernicious strife into honourable emulation , conferring benefits npon all , and injury to none . The science of agriculture is BUT IN ITS INFANCY ; and Peel ' s all-mighty measure is pre-eminontly calculated to nurture « wa giant strength . It is , indeed , an ALL-MIGHTY MEASURE !

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      NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET !! Br reference to the Parliamentary proceedings of Thursday , it will he seen that we were not premature in sounding the note of preparation _^ ' while thc speedy , and , we may add , almost unanimous response to the appeal is such as we had reason to expect from a niind drilled to peace and trained to progress , averse to war , and opposed to ' retrogression . Our peaceful chief has extracted a confession from thu Secretary of State , wliich , in justice to her Majesty's subjects , should have been announced . in the Royal Speech , as in it we recognise more importance than all the rest besides , inasmuch as the paternal feelings therein expressed , and attempted to be practically realised by her Minister , great as ; they' may be , would lose their efficacy ; in . the din of arms and turmoil of war . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ :

      We have asserted that the fact of calling out the militia was per se a declaration of war , and we must conclude that hor Majesty's government , cognisant of all the facts bearing upon the subject / having taken the preliminary stops , for the embodiment of a militia , are prepared to follow them up by a declaration of war . We have shewn that an improper uso of the several appliances at the command of tho people

      has , more than any other circumstance , contributed to tho strength of their oppressors , while we have endeavoured , at ' the . samo time , so to direct those appliances that each movo may tend to goneral good , and not to sectional advantage . We have been the first to establish a National Anti-Militi * Association , and wo have done so in furtherance of our general policy , and to fru ' _stvato the machinations of traffickers in popular foar arid popular grievances .

      Tho principle of bur Association . is io offer constitutional and even legal resistance , not to tho embodiment ofa militia , but to the enforcement of the sot vice of those who are unwilling to become soldiers . This course marks an anti-warliko feeling , as well as the progress of tho national mind , while the establishment of militia oluhs and societies but prove the willingness of artful and designing men to tabs advantage of tlio fears and the weakness of their more timid brethren . Wo recognise no distinguishable difference between the _recruiting-sorjeant who

      entraps his prey by all the baits and lurements which the law furnishes , ! ind the militia club , which becomes a wholesale recruiting company to aid the government , and relieve it from odium , by supplying a willing staff of hired slaves , purchased with the money of cajoled and frightened dupes . The club that proposes thus to volunteer the national service , or any section ofit , to aid inthe _recruitingservioe , is more hostile to the cause of libtr-y , and more foeteiv ing of all the horrors of war , than the most tyrannical government with whioli the country could be cursed .

      " War is a game at which princos . would not play If their subjects were wise . " ; _-.- ¦ _.-.. ¦ But , upon the other hand , are not princes and tyrants fully justified in resorting to arms upon the merest pretext , when their subject * are found foolish enough to constitute a recruiting _aervico for their army ? What possible principle , except that of slavish subserviency , can . be served by the frightened wealthy hiring the inconsiderate poor to fight the

      battles of their _opprosiovs ? or what could possibly tend more to inspire thoso oppressors with a natural and becoming disregard ofall popular clamour ? Upon the otlier hand , what course could road a more convincing lesson to tyrants , than that of allowing them to fight their own sanguinary battles , while their peaceful and war-hating subjects adopted the Christian preference of spending three months in gaol , to the unchristian policy of shedding their brother ' s blood without any cause of quarrel .

      Tho question of embodying the militia bas , we learn , been submitted to the Secretary at War , while we submit to the country the peaceful alternative of constitutionally meeting its provisions bv declaring the national resolution of suffering the worst alternative that Parliament should prescrilt _}

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      to the dreadful . alternative of perpetuating war . After thirty years of peace , a more fitting and timely opportunity could not be presented for testifying national approval of the continuance of the blessing . _Itwasourintentiontohavesubmtttedan analysis of the Militia Act to our readers this week ; but the confession extracted from Sir Jambs Graham , that a nc < v bill , and we may infer , a more stringent one , is in process of manufacture , might render that labour useless , and , consequently , we shall reserve our space until tho new _concebflDn comes to light .

      We must presume , that pending the present auction for popular support , the Protectionists and Malthu-Bians will not acquiesce in any more stringent law , as an alternative for refusal to serve , than the old enactments of George prescribed—namely , three months' imprisonment . What our society proposes tlien , is , to raise . a sufficient amount of funds to remunerate its members who shall be balloted for the militia service , full oimpensation for any loss they may sustain by their property being distrained , as well aa the payment of their Ml wages to their families while they are enduring their honourable term of incarceration . To accomplish this comprehensive , and philanthropic plan , it requires but a small amount of protection money from all , while it

      ia a grand principle . ' ' Upon the other hand , the procuring of substitutes , by weekly or monthly subscriptions affirms the worst of principles ; and every man professing a love of freedom , and sanctioning such a course , should be hissed and hooted from the public hustings as a recruiting serjeant , wherever he presumes to make his appearance . We know tliat some men will attempt to reap popularity by offering this spurious protection to young aristocratic tradesmen , and tlieir . young timid wives ; but we tell them , that if their funds shall fall short , or he misapplied , wliich they assuredly will , thoy must look elsewhere , but not to us , for sympathy , when they are suffering an ignominious imprisonment as a consequence of their credulity and subserviency .

      The National Anti-Militia . Association is now embodied , and will meet on Wednesday night next , at the Parthenium , St . Martin ' s-lane , at eight o ' clock precisely , for the purpose of agreeing uponrtile 3 to carry out its , principles ; and although we care but little for the attendance of police spies , we trust that no man's name shall be added to the committee , and that no man shall bc allowed to tako part in the proceedings , _unles-he is known to , and introduced by two members of the association . We thiuk this precaution necessary , because the topic is an irritating one , and thoreforc likely to lead to irritating discussion ; and although as regardless of persecution ; as others , we must take care that a move which

      professes to be protective of others , does not partake of the character , of rash and-headlong precipitancy . We have used the warning of 1839 and _ 8 A 2 as caution for the future . We , more than any one else , have suffered for the _ra-hness of others ; nor should we havo repined if those for whom we suffered had not subsequently abandoned their every principle , and imposed upon us the hardships , the difficulties , and the dangers consequent upon the desertion of leaders . WE WILL NOT BE TRAPPED AGAIN ; and , therefore , we announce that there is mors policy and patriotism in peaceful , determined , and strictly legal language , than there is inthe bombastic fire and fury of dangerous and exciting _nonsense .

      Wc need but run oyer the long roll of deserters , to prove that the most noisy are not always the most brave nor tho most stanch ; therefore wo trust that tbe warning of the past will be a caution for the future , and that the wisdom of tlie peoplo will not allow their cause to be damaged by the exciting _V-pourings of trafficking politicians upon the one hand , or by the timid subserviency of the artful and designing upon the otlier . There now remains but

      little doubt that tho miiitia will bo embodied , and there remains but as little doubt that the disposition ofthe wholesale recruiting clubs will embolden the government to persevere . Again we say , we have sounded the warning note from the Watch Tower , and let those who have so often acknowledged the advantage of ouv teaching avid ol' out watchfulness , join in the loud shout of—NO VOTE ! NO MUSKET !!

      Lord Grey. Aa We Predicted In Our More E...

      LORD GREY . Aa we predicted in our more extensive commentary upon Sir Robert Pbel _' s measures , the Whigs have sounded the note of disappointment through that petulant trumpet of theirs , Lobd _Gbbt . This lucifer match has been the curse of eveiy eabinet with which he has been associated , and has not the brains to see what the inevitable result of Sir Robert Peel ' s capacious measure must be . This peer , like an overgrown spoiled child , appears to base his mature opinions upon juvenile predilections . Ho never could understand the meaning of " protection , " and therefore ho proposes to demolish it at one fell swoop , and at

      once . Just as we predicted , free trade first , then revolution , then such adjustment as the necessity of the Whig chaos demanded . We can perfectly understand the rabid and incoherent nonsense of his Graco of Richmond , but for the life _^| f us wo cannot comprehend the biting policy of * this rabid Whigling . There breathes no mortal of a moro crooked mind than Earl Gbbt ; indeed wo might apply to him the sarcasm that was once _sidministcred by Curran to a cranky lawyer ; He Baid , if you swallowed a twelvepenny nail , it would come out a corkscrew ; so we say of the noble lord , when he swallows a plain and accepted principle , it is sure to come out an irreconcilable dogma .

      This hereditary peer , relieved from all the chances of an adverse election , and snugly housed in therefuge for the destitute , cannot tolerate the notion of a further seven years'lease of case , and therefore his little voice is pitched to the highest on behalf of that party , which more than any other man ho has helped out of exWtcnce . The country has suffered much from the Gbbys , the Russells , the _Hobuousks , and that tribe , and we recognise no greater value in the all-mighty measure of Sir Robbrt Peel than the horror with which it naturally inspires the waiters upon Providence ; but we havo done with the tribe , and rejoice to think that their resuscitation is a thing boyond hope or even possibility ,

      Cobden And Free Trade. Cobdks Has Writte...

      COBDEN AND FREE TRADE . Cobdks has _written a letter in the Times newspaper to tho tenant-farmers . Nothing can be more dangerous to thc character of an uneducated demagogue , than a rush from an unlettered , lenient multitude , to a criticising , ill-natured press . Cobm * . * . blustering for a repeal of the Corn Laws is one tiling , and Cobden ARGUING tor the measure is another , and a very different thing . His York speeches were enly for his York audience—his Manchester " SAYS" for his Manchester audience—his town talk

      for his CHEAP BREAD admirers—and his country predictions for his rural expectants . Now , all this was very well . No man is disreputable in that state of life to which it has pleased God and speculation to call him . God made Cobden an extremely good man—speculation has made him an extremely foolish one . Of course , on Saturday morniug , we aro not to be expected to make a very lengthy comment upon a rather long letter ; nor can we make room for it , to the rejection of other more important matter ; but we cannot withhold the two following paragraphs from immediate criticism : —

      How different would bo the operations of au immediate repeal ofthe Corn Law . There would then be no stock of foreign corn waiting for the opening of our ports . Nobody expected last year in Poland or America that the English Com Law would be repealed—nobody prtpared for it—not a bushel of grain was raised upon the chance of sueh an unlooked-for contingency . Ia there an intelligent farmer'Si " the kingdom that will not at once exclaim , " If we are io have a repealof the Corn Law , give tu

      it this spring , uhen the foreigner is unprepared for it , and to / icii not o single quarter of corn sown after the news reaches him can be brought to tliis _marfcetin _tess than eighteen months . " But the present is , beyond all comparison , the most favourable moment ever known for abolishing the Corn Law . If ever it could be repealed without even temporary inconvenience to the fanner , this is the time . There is a scarcity ut present over nearl y all the continent , One-half of Europe is competing for the scanty surplus stock vf grain iu America . Millions of our countrymen

      Cobden And Free Trade. Cobdks Has Writte...

      are deprived of their ordinary subsis tence by the disease ofthe potatoe , and theymust _btfirastaincil at the public ex . _pense _uptn a superior food . Do what we wiU , we cannot during the present year , seeurs low prices , Abolish the Corn Lam to-morrow , and still wheat must rise during th e _s } iri „„ and summer . If the farmers had the power of orderin * time and rircumstances , they could not contrive a junc ° . ture more favourable to them than the present for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn Law . Kay , I be . lieve that if tho Corn Law could be abolished by an edict to-morrow , the farmers would never make the discovery of open ports by any injurious effect produced upon their interests . .

      Now then , there is a sound legislator , a _judiciota politician , and a CANDID FRIEND ! We want an immediate supply of food ; and Cobd __* y says , _CTetj with total repeal , prices must rise . Well , then , for twb years , at all events , of the terrible three , the operatives , and all who do not grow food , have no in . _terest in the question . _Yes- _^ _-we beg pardon—Cob . dkn tells the farmers that Peel's measure will injure them . the most . Well , it was intended that the growers of food should make an IMMEDIATE SACRIFICE to the consumers . Again , how childish , to write about catching the whole world

      napping , and to talk about surprising foreign nations —but , above all , how repugnant the publication of the precious document must have been to the Thunderer , as it leads us to the conclusion , that when relieved ofall trammels , the world is watching its opportunity to BURST us with cheap food . Ah !! * The Times saw the folly , and therefore gratified tins fool . If ever there was strong argument against any alteration at all in the Corn Laws , _Cobdes has given it ; aiid if it was possible to point out a preference for

      Peel ' s proposition over any and all others , Cobdex has done it . G _' obde . v staving off the CURSE OF PLENTY for eighteen months is more than amusing . So that , upon the whole , we shall the more eagerly go for the remainder of thc _ALL-MIGHTY measure , as it is not calculated to injure our " TENANT . FARMER" FRIENDS . Alas ! it is tho _moii-ttc INDUSTRIAL RESIDENCE that haunts the fears of the heretofore protected plunderers of Labour .

      '.'. .- .- .- _« To The Readers Of The S...

      ' _. ' . .- .- .- __« TO THE READERS OF THE STAR . We have this moment received the following _eommvt . nication from the Printer : — Thursday afternoon . Su , —I have to inform you that tbe paper on which this week's Star will be printed ii very inferior to what it ought to be . It is entirely the fault of the parties at the Stamp _, office , by whom this paper was stamped , in error , some time since ; and , being then found of an inferior quality , it was put aside , and we did not notice , till too lat » _, tliat * r e bad no other in the office . I will endeavour , by extra care in the printing , to pre . veHt the difference being very apparent ; but I think it desirable that some- announcement on the subject should b * made to the readers of the paper . Tour * obediently , % D . _M'Gowi _* . _-. '' ' » - ' ¦ -, „ , ___ ,

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      Petitions Fob Tus Pabdok Or The Eiims.—I...

      _Petitions fob tus Pabdok or the Eiims . —In answer to several communications which I havo received relative to tke petitions and memorials for Frost , Williams , and Jones , I beg to state that the petitions to Parliament must be sent either to Mr . Duncombe , Albany , or Mr . Wakley , _Bedford-gqware _, London * , when the local representatives cannot be got to present them . Ths weight of each petition must notexceed sixteen ounces _. It roust be folded with the ends open , and be superscribed with the words " petition to Parliament : " it

      will then go post-free . The memorial should be signed hy the chairman on behalf of the meeting , and be di ; rected to Sir Robert Peel , Whit » ball Gardens , London _^ A brief memorial to the representative or representa _. titea of tbe place in which the meeting is held should be sent , respectfully requesting his er their support of Mr , Duncombe ' s motion on behalf of the exiles ; and where , practicable , it is also advisable that petitions should be got up by the various trades , signed as nu . _raerously as possible , and presented on behalf of tha trade bv either of the above-named Members of Par .

      liament . —T . M . Wheelib , Secretary . _Alexjhpeb _Kico-, - i- _ icoc _ TBE _ Qnepoitiaitto each subseribsr . The notice in the Star was sufficiently explicit . . 3 , Moss , —The song will not do . The Militia . —Manyparties write anxiously to know to whom they are to remit their _tionies on account of tho National _Anti-Militia Asiociation . To Poargus O'Coij . nor , Abrttern Star office , 16 , Great _Windmill-strect , Haymarket , London . »' e shall next week publish the Militia Act , which will be much shorter than answering the thousand and one questions that have been put to us upon the subject . IH 2 . _EP-V to sevebai Qoebies—Mr . _VThebler begs to state tliat the vote ofthe Land Conference for bis pay . ment of £ 2 per wetk from May 6 th to the ' _assemhling of

      that body , conveyed no additional salary to him , as ho had relinquished his claim of salary from the N . C . A , during that period . It . Side : — Your "first efforts , " though sound in sent * _, ment , are deficient in poetry . You may do better yet . UtKB-N PmiOTS" AND _E-I-ES * WIDOWS' AND . UU * -BEH ' _a Fonds . —Press of mutter compelled us to ex . elude from all one edition of lust week ' s Star the fol . lowing acknowledg ments of sums received by Mr . Cooper . *—For : the Veteran Patriots' Fund wily , Mr . Carruthers , Carlisle , 7 s . 6 d . ; for the tioo funds , Mr . Mitchell , Rochdale , £ 1 10 s . ; collected by John Uornby , Stockton , 2 s . ; a Chartist Seaman , Stock . ton , Is . ; also the following sums for the two funds , by Mr . Dear , per Mr . Wheeler : —Lower Varley , 10 s . ; Brighton , 7 s . ; Mr . Wells , Ss . ; and Mr . George , Is . od . Mv . Shaw begs to state that the following is a complete list of his receipts : —London , S . Brewerton , 2 s . -id . ; * ft ' . Ellis , Od . ; Poplar , Dr . Bowkett , ls . ; J . _IVatkinson , Is . ; Preston , R . Marsden Od . Manchester

      , ; , Rev . J . Scholeficld , 10 s . Gd . ; Mr . Abel Heywood , as . ; Bradford , W . Charnock , Cd . ; Vf . Rous , _0 d . J . Jack _, son , 6 d . ; B . Suteliffe , ls . ; H . Hodgson , fid . ; J , Charlesworth , Is . ; T . _Halliday , 6 d . ; H . Milnes , Is . ; J . Dew . hurst , Gd . ; J . _Rjcvoft , 6 d . ; 6 . Watson , _0 d . ; collected at the Boe-buck _, ls . lOd . ; making a total of £ 1 10 s . ljd ., to be equally divided between the Veto _, ran Patriots ' and Exiles' Widows _' and Children ' s Funds . The Joint committees , at . the conclusion of the publie meeting at I , Turnagain-lane , last Monday night , disbursed a further sum of £ 510 s . for the relief of the _sufferin-j _objscts of these two funds . I beg to reply to Mr . Smith ' , ( of Carpenters' Hall , Manchester , ) kiud note , and to say that I know no cheaper way of re . mitting money than by post-office order : the help o . thc Manchester friends , in this matter , will be most gratefully received . Especial aid is , Just now , needed for the veteran Preston , whose age is seventy-six , and who has been seriously ill . —Thomas Cooper , socretarv _, 131 , Blackfriar _' _s-road .

      Mr . J . _Faulksbr . —Postage stamps will do . Five shil _. lings and sixpence per quarter . To S _. mcbibsks . - Several of our subscribers complain of not having roceived their papers on Saturday last . Tha _»« won was , that the persons into whose hands the r _^« S « _en , mislaid a number , which were not . sen till Monday morning , at which time we had not a single - copy left in the office , neither could we _proeure one of any of oui- London agents the in . creasing demand havl „ e « csded our _aatlclSttoi « tar as to compel us to close the office before the usual time . _EDMraDLoBD _. THoVroK . —Yow _Storj have alwaysb » en posted m due time , and ought to havebeen delivered on the Saturday morning . When an accident has hap . pened to our machinery , we have kept back the large parcels for the large towns , and paid for theii bv the first tram , but those to distant and small towns / such as Thornton , are invariabl y _ssut by th _» Friday evening

      J . C _, _IlAiiFAX—The petition to bo gent without a - cover , or , n a c . v . r open at th . sides , and not to exceed I W ? Ut _« J _ttirtHi » ounces . Membersofeitl . ee r igechargr lUed t 0 rc 8 eiTesUl ! h _Prions free of po . U ; _. John BuowKSlL . -Our friends will have no cause to o _rSSlT Pw , ia ~> intelligen _' th s week , _c _. not shall tliey have any cause in future .

      Notice. M- The Great Importance Of Tho D...

      NOTICE . m- The great importance of tho debates in Parliament , it , . id the necessity of reporting thom at _couidetabb ) ilo _Kngtb , compeli us to withhold several comuiuiik . ut . ous us until next week .

      Ohorley, Perw. Wilkinson 3 D " 0 D " ( 1...

      _Ohorley , perW . Wilkinson 3 _d " 0 _d " ( 1 restoii _, per J . Brown .. 15 S S S E lork , perG . _MYevson lis 613 < _aot . _tugli _ uu , pevJ . Sweet a ' - 0 _U ( Alva , per J . Robertson 3 13 013 ( Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. » .. " . 0001 Oldham , per W . llatuev 5 0 0 0 i I - i -hove , _\\« v W . Conn S 0 0 0 "» twk _* jo-t , _i > evT . _> Yooahonso „ „ ,, 2000

      RECEIPTS OB THE CHARTIST _CO-OPERATIYE S LAND SOCIETY . SHARES . KB MB , O _' CONKOB . , Halifax , perC . W . Smith - _^ . fi ( 5 _T _* « Robert Hodge , West Linton .. .. _ir « « obett Young , ditto .. 0 6 2 2 ttobm Hodge , jun ., ditto .. . V _. V o 1 I I l _' _loinus Silvester , Hanley , Potteries .. „ •» u £ . S Bury _. pttrT . Irdand , * „ * * Dnbton , per T . Sowerby .. ,. " " _, ° » Manchester , per J . Murray " " 40 n S n S Pr-scot _, per J . Robinson * " " " _*» ° J » J Sunderland , per W . Dobbie " " _tAl V , 5 City locality , per W . Dunn " " * VI tl Shcffl-ld , per G . Cavil ! .. " * _, J , j Wigan , per T . Pye .. . " " J il I ji \ Dudley / per W . Rankin i 113 a Lc _Korwteh _. serJ . llurr , .. " " " 6 0 00 <

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 31, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31011846/page/4/