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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1817.
    • THE LAND AND ITS CAPABILITIES
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      No . 3 of THE LABOURER , . Just published , contains a Reprint of Mr . F . O'Connor's Letter , in the " Northern Star" of January 3 : tb , demon , atrating the certainty with which an allottee may support himself and family , and accumulate money , on a " Two Acre" allotment . The very general demand that was made for the paper containing the above letter has induced the Editors to wprintit , after careful revision , in the March Humber of the Labourer . No . 4 of the Labourer , to be published on April lat . * ill contain an elaborate articleon " the Bank" uuts relation with the "Land Cohpasy . "

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      JDST PUBLISHED , No . S , ( price 6 d . ) of THE LABOURER , Monthly Magazine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , &c . Edited hy Feawscs O'Casso * . Esq ., and Emiebt Jones , Esq .., ( Barristers-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholl y deficient in a monthly organ , the above magazine is esta . blished im remedy this deficiency . Placed by lowness of price within the reach of all , yet equal to its more expensive competitors , it embraces the following features : — 1—THE LAND AND TUB LABOURER , " or the progress and position of the National Land Company , and all interesting facts connected with the culture and produce ofthesuil , 8 . —THE POOR MAN'S LEGAL MANUAL , ( by an eminent Barrister , ) giving all necessary legal information

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      CHARTIST POEMS , BY ERNEST JONES . Priet Thru Pence . FIFTH EDITIOX , BEVISED ASD CORBECTED : Keplete with the fire of genius , and poetic powers of the » ery highest order , for eloquence and destructive power , they appear , to us , almost unrivalled . We say " destructive , " for their tendency is " worsa than Democratic . "—2 V « 0 Quarterly Rccietc . —( Tory . ) Orders received hy the author and Mr . Wheeler , at the office of Hie National Charter Association , 83 , Dean Street , Soho , London , or by M'Gowan & Co ., Printers , 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London , where copies may be procured .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , And given free with the current Number of Howitt ' s Journal , which will also contain a Memoir and slendid Portrait of George Sand . ) WILLIAM 110 WITT'S REPLY TO MR . SAUNDERS APPEAL TO THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE . | " A certain man went down to Jericho and fell amont ! thieves . "—Luke x . 2 a . Pnblished by Wm . Lovetf , 171 , Strand , and sold by all booksellers . J

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      IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS . A GRICULTURISTS and others mav purchasa 150 J \ . ACRES OF 1 UCU TIMBERED LAND IS AVESTEUN VIRGINIA , dtierVxd bv General Wash , wgton as the Garden of America , for £ 23 Ss . 8 d . Sterling , ABOUT THREE SHILLINGS PER ACRE . £ 2 Us only to be paid down , the remainder in FIVE ANNUAL PAYMENTS . For further information apply to CHARLES W 1 LLME 11 , American Laud OJiee , ST . SXI . EY BCILDIXG 3 , BATH STREET , LIVERPOOL . Of whom may be had a Pamphlet on Emigration , in winch these Lands are fully described , and the terms of sale explained , by sending three postage stamps to free the same .

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      IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AX application was mad * on th » 22 nd ft < pt .-mber , to th » Vice-Chancellor of England , by Ar . Beard -who , acting under a inostextraordiny delusi j 3 , considers luinseiftheMtejiafcMfee af the photographic pwsess !) to restrain MR . EGERTON , of 1 , Temple-stnot , and 148 , irieet-street , rom taking Photographic Porti . uis , which & does by a process entirely different fron . and very ¦^" nJ ^ T' W * ¦* - half toe " 8 e - His Honour refused the application in tot * . irtSllr" ! ^ to i-racuc . this process , which is aught by Mr . tgerton lu a fcw lessons at a moderate charge * AUtb Apparatus , Chemicals . &e . tobahad as usual tkuDeooM , Xeapls-strwt . Whitefriarj ,

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . AT *« great western emporium , 1 , and , Oxford-street Ubsdcll and Co ., practical tailors , are now making a beautiful suit of superfine black for £ 3 los any size ; splendid waterproof over coats mado to order for 29 s each and youths superfine suits for 24 s . The above house is the cheapest and best in London , for black cloths of everydescription , as may be seen by several London daily pauess f last July , September , and Novembe 3 d Omnibuses to and from the City , stop at the establishment every minute of the day .

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      OBSERVE . AH correspondence , reports ^ of public meetings , Chartist and Trades' Intelligence , and general questions , must be addressed to Mr . G . 3 . IUasJET , "Northern Star Office , " 16 , Great Windmill Street , London . AH legal questions , and matters of local news , not noticed in provincial papers , and requiring comment , to be addressed to Mr . Ebnest Jones as above . All questions respecting Bills introduced into the Legislature , Acts of Parliament , their meaning and intent , &c , and questions respecting the Ministry , and the members of the two Houses of Parliament , to be addressed to Mr . George Fleminsr . " Northern Star" Office .

      The Northern Star Saturday, March 6, 1817.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , MARCH 6 , 1817 .

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      THE CAVILLERS REFUTED . We always knew that nothing so materially tended to elevate a just cause as opposition , nothing in the end so conclusively established the truth , as the attempt of falsehood to subvert it . Never was this fact more completely illustrated than by the recen t attacks made on the National Land Company by divers hirelings of the press , who have endeavoured with the inky poison of their pens to blight the fair promise of harvest we are holding out to the working-man , as a consequence of labouring for himself instead of others . Foremost in the dirty-fingered phalanx stands Chambers Journal , which has drawn down on the heads of its concoctors one of the most

      severe , at the same time that it is one of the most merited , castigations that Falsehood ever yet received at the hands of Truth . We can respect those who conscientiously hold a different opinion , we can pity those ' who err from ignorance ; butwe despise those who , knowingly and wilfully , pervert the truth , and give the lie to their own words , when self-interest or faction demand it at their hands . This is what the writer in Chambers' Journal has done . With a malevolence but too apparent for the success of his cause , he has proved that he can Wow hot and cold at almost the same time ; and after having once

      advocated the small proprietary system , lie now unblushingly denounces it ; while , with an ignorance as evident as the object of his hostility , he has ruined himself by his own arguments , and dug the grave of his philosophy in the folly of his reasoning . May all our opponents be like these ! since their open enmity is the greatest favour they can shew us , and their dishonest friendship would be the only thing we had to fear . What has wrought this sudden , wonderful change in the " Chambers' politics , ' we care not to inquire ; no doubt the same cause that makes members of Parliament in one session

      vote AGAINST the very measure FOR which they voted in a previous one—but we can tell these wouldbe philosophers , these literary cut-throats , they must not think so meanly of working-men as to suppose they are to be led by the nose by a few words from an editorial stool . We tell them men are beginning to think and judge for themselves , aye ! and act too ;—they no longer conceive all wisdom to he wrapped in a broadsheet , and truth to live inth e black well of a scribe ' s inkstand ; men are beginning to read the great broadsheet of Nature , and while

      they find its words written in the glorious type oi grain and fruit and flower , open to all , unstamped by hereditary title-deeds of aristocracy , and untrammelled by legislative monopolies , running counter t the dictates of a "Chambers ' philosophy , " they wi j prefer a gospel inscribed by the hand of God on the hills and plains , to that concoc te si x-pair back" for the jingle of a hireling ' s '' siller . " They will , indeed , prefer their own cottage home to the infernal factory , their freehold domain to the hopeless and wearying tramp . It needs no glozing

      rhetoric to induce this feeling , and opposition might deserve contempt , were it not that the Chambers ' had set themselves up as leaders of the people , and that they rise to the height of deserving castigation from being acknowledged as the mouth pieces of a party . We are glad they have thrown off the mask . This , then , is their recommendation to working-men " Toil for others , instead of for yourselves ; desert the villages , and crowd the factory-towns ; have no homes , but wander ever from spot to spot ; slave , starve , awd die at last in the Bastile 1 " This is th e

      real meaning , and this is the inevitable goal of that infernal competition which overcrowds one sphere of action , and throws an entire population at the feet of a restless monopoly . We are of those who wish trade to flourish to the full limits of its proper extent , but not to see it made a mere agent for coining the heart of labour into gold for idleness to fatten on .

      We are of those who wish labour to have a stronghold , whereon it can fall back , when overpressed by Us taskmaster . We know that from the door of his own cottage the freeholder can hurl defiance at the Factory Lord , when he wants to clip down the wages of his workmen to meet the extravagance of his lust , or to gratify the dictates of his avarice . We know that from the fields of his own

      little farm he can practically refute the "ChambersV and the " Pioneer , " and all the tribe of those , who , living upon the ignorance [ of others , wish to retard the progression of society , at the same time that they profess themselves the apostles of enlightenment . We therefore hail with satisfaction the sound castigation they have received from Mr . O ' Connor and cordially acquiesce in th severe terms in which the rebuke is administered . Let all who live by labour read the reply ; and as a tribute

      to their common sense , we ask them to pronounce an impartial verdict , and to decide whether the policy of precarious and mercenary toil can stand the test by the side of self-requiting labour , sweetened by the sense of ownership , and the knowledge that no taskmaster can come and abstract the proceeds of that labour , or divert the produce from its legitimate channel—the producer . Thii , however , is the very thing most dreaded by all those of the Chambers' school of policy , since , this once obtained , their occupation would be gone

      for ever . Those who live by LIES cannot brook to see men placed in a position to judge and act for themselves—a position in which all doubt would be solved by certainty , and in which schemers , like these Northern journalists , would be no longer able eo work on the credulity , or pervert the judgment of their readers—a position , indeed , to which working men are rapidly attaining , and whose progress

      cannot be stemmed by such miserable attempts as those perpetrated by the W . C . of Chambers ' notoriety . This , then , is the result which those terrible philosophers attain at last . Are these the Free Trade teachers ? Are these Labour ' s advocates ? Are these the toilers * sentinels ? Are these the patrons of cottage literature , and they who ait on the watchtower , while the Factory slave U si Yictio * tg tWir philosophy ? Yes ! for one *

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      they have thrown the mask aside ; for once they have stepped forth in their real characters , and the Northern Journalists have proved themselves worthy coadjuton of the Quaker Cotton Lord . But , now , from this very fact , we have nothing more to fear from them ;—let their article be read throughout the country , and so let Mr . O'Connor's reply . Their article will condemn ITSELF , and the reply will condemn THEM . Let every father read the refutation to his wife and children ; let every friend make it a portion of his daily salutation to his neighbours , to ask , " Have you read O'CONNOR'S

      EXPOSURE OF THE CHAMBERS'S , and ain ' t we well served for following such blind leaders ?" Nay ! more , — -asa matter of justice to ourselves , who have advocated the Small Farm system , we plead , that it may be distinctly read at every meeting in the kingdom , and that we may have the unpurchaseable verdicts of the yet enslaved upon it . For indeed , the Land is a question of no trivial importance ; it is a question that involves the future well-being of the country ; it is a question upon the decision of which will depend whether , as other empires have done before us , we go rolling down the

      track of luxury and ruin , or whether , like the gram from the soil , the regenerating principle shall ger minate among us , and infuse new life into a now exhausted and emaciated factory-popu ^ lation . We therefore not only warn all friends of HUMANITY against the insidious cavillings of selfish Clas 3 economists but we ask them carefully to read both attack and reply , and dispassionately to judge for themselves , whether castigation was ever more merited , or refutation was ever more complete . And in commending to their notice Mr . O'Connor's

      letter , we tell the ; hireling scribes , though wo are safe in the unpurchaseable verdict of the toiling millions , we tell those WEATHERCOCK JOURNALISTS who this year attempt to DISPROVE what they laboured to PROVE in a preceding one , that the advocates of the Small Farm System hare not exhausted their store ot argument , but that they are willing again and again to fight tho battle of LABOUR againBt MONOPOLY , and of HUMANITY against COMPETITION;—that

      we would rather seo a man his OWN MASTER than the slave of another ; that we would rather see old age in the COTTAGE , than in the BASTILE ; and that we would rather see a CHARTIST TILLAGE than a Factory Town or a Nobleman ' s Castle . We tell them , further , that practical illustrations of our assertions are even now being given , and we invite them to leave their dusty garrets , and visit our Chartist Farms , when they will , at least , envy that which they have so vainly attempted to oppose .

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      ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF RIGHT OVER MIGHT .

      RELEASE OF THE FOUR WASHINGTON VICTIMS . It is with more pleasure than words can express that we announce the liberation of these victims of oppression . Ever since the commencement of their unjust imprisonment , Mr . Duncorabe has been incessant in his endeavours to bring their case before

      Parliament ; six petitions have been presented to the house , and every other effort that the forms of Parliament would admit of , has been made . The matter , however , stood over till Tuesday last , when it was arranged that Mr . Duncombe ' s motion should be discussed . Since then , we have learnt that the discussion was prevented by the fact , that an order for the liberation of the four was svnt by that night ' s post .

      Much as every case of this kind is calculated to excite our sympathies , we have felt particularly interested in this . Mr . Roberts had entered into it with more than his usual zeal . The circumstances were , indeed , well calculated to excite such a mind as his . The mere sentence on the men was not , perhaps , more severe than in hundreds of other instances—but this case was marked by its own peculiar features of aggravation—its loud tone of insclence— " Take him away—three months' imprison .

      ment and hard labour—where ' s the next ?"— " Now then , what have you got | to say for yourself ? don ' t be insolent to the Bench , " &c . We never recollect a case exhibiting more reckless and indecent contempt of the forms and solemnities of justice . The trials of Wyke and Gerrard did not occupy—so the prisoners say—two minutes each j and there is no doubt whatever but that , if Mr . Roberta had arrived at Warrington five minutes later , all four would have been committed without his having the opportunity of uttering a word in their favour .

      The . working ruea of England should gather courage from what has been effected by the working men of Warrington . The case which has just received so glorious a termination , is another clear proof that there are some means even now open to the poor of obtaining redress against oppression , if they will be but true to themselves . This is a subject which we should like to enlarge upon , but

      are restrained by the consideration that probably the matter is not quite at rest , and may be destined before long to figure even in the presence Of a higher tribunal . "A highir tribunal ! " what a phrase it is- » how significant !—how " extremely unpleasant" to the reckless magistrate—what retribution it threatens to tyranny ! We can fancy how the justices stared at each other when the 11 rude expression '' first wounded their ears .

      It is said that during the last month Mr . Thomas Lloyd , the senior magistrate , has expressed his 11 fixed determination , " if the men should be liberated , to retire from the bench . What a hopewhat a blessing is here } held out ! But we warn our Warrington friends to place no reliance upon it . Often as some similar hope has been offered as an inducement to our exertions , it has Always turned out false and delusive . " Retire from the bench ! " —what a glorious opportunity of relieving the anxiety of his friends and serving his country i ^ But Thomas Lloyd , Esq ., will not avail himself of it . They who attend the ^ Warrington court o

      Monday next will see him there as usual . " Constable , tell those boys to pull their caps off—turn ' era out if they make a noise . " His tone may be less boisterous , and there may and will be a greater degree of order ; for this , indeed , is a part of the good that has been effected by his punishment ; but the man will be there—watching the people - guessing how far he may go with safety . Rely o n it , Thomas , you will be well watched for some time to come . Be careful : another blunder ! and you go to the right-about . "Retire into private life ! " Nonsense— "Go back to the brewery fust ! " "Constable , turn those boys out !"

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      Chancellor of the Exchequer creates a debt of 8 , 938 , 570 ? ., or of nearly one million more than he receives ! We cannot understand on what principle so improvident a bargain has been made , for the excuse that he has followed the course of his predecessors , is no reason at all . Why should not 1 / . stock represent 1 / . sterling ? Let us pay a fair market price for the money at the time the debt is contracted , whether that be four or five per cent ., leaving it to future financiers to pay off that stock of a high denomination , and replace it by other at a lower per centage , whenever they were able to do so . But should a future Chancellor of the

      Exchequer ever be in a position to reduce the charges on this debt , say a half per cent ., he will have to pay off 938 , 570 / . over and above the eight millions actually received . By means of a similar juggle on the part of previous financiers , the poor tax-ridden people of this country have been saddled with enormous burdens , for which a fair quid pro quo was never received , in any shape whatever . From 1794 to 1817 , both inclusive , we borrowed for " publie purposes "—i . e . for the purpose of crushing the revolution in France , and forcing the elder branch

      of the Bourbon family back on its people—584 , 874 , 556 / . in money , for which stock of various kinds was given , to the amount of no less than 872 , 289 , 943 ? ., or nearly three hundred millions more than we ever received ; and upon the total of which , dividends to the amount of 30 , 174 , 304 / . had to be paid annually . In reducing the charges on this debt , the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund had to calculate as if the whole amount of nearly nine hundred millions had been received , instead of nearly six hundred millions ; and the nation has ,

      consequently , had to bear all the loss ^ on this fictitious debt , under every operation affecting it , whether in paying the old charges at which the debt was contracted , or under the operations by which these charges were subsequently reduced . For these reductions the Whigs can take no credit . They are , and always have been , the worst financiers and men of business ever known to hold office in this country . From the 1 st of January , 1816 , being the commencement of the year after the battle of Waterloo , to the 1 st of January , 1831 , two months after

      the Whigs came into office , the Tory party had paid off no less than eighty millions of the National Debt j they had reduced its annual charges by nearly four millions five hundred thousand , and they left a real sinking fund—a clear surplus income above expenditure—of above two millions six hundred thousand a year , to their successors . They did this , notwithstanding they had to struggle through the difficulties incident to a change from war to peacethrough the terrible crisis resulting from the change of the currency in 1819 , and through the almost

      unparalleled commercial panic of 1825-6 . The Whigs came into office just as all these financial difficulties had been mastered , and a new race of active enterprising men had succeeded the numerous classes whom previous causes had consigned to beggary and ruin . The fine harvests of the years 1834 , ' 35 , and ' 36 , produced an almost unprecedented amount of commercial prosperity ; and , indeed , up to 1840 , they may be said to have had an unusual amount of favourable circumstances with them . W hat was the result of their financial management , under these circumstances ? We take the returns from

      "Porter ' s Progress of the Nation , " for eight years of their administration . They added nearly TEN MILLIONS to the public debt—the clear annual surplus of 2 , 600 , 000 / . which they received from their predecessors , was converted , during these years of unprecedented commercial prosperity , into a deficit of above 1 , 500 , 000 / . a year . The charges on the debt were , during the same period , increased by the sum of 940 , 000 / . ; and before they were kicked out of office by an indignant and disgusted country , they had increased the annual deficit to upwards of TWO MILLIONS !

      We refer to these matters at the commencement of a new lease of office to these incapable , blundering blockheads , in connexion with the new loan just contracted , for the purpose of illustrating the course they are likely to pursue , and its disastrous consequences , as long as the country shall be unfortunate enough to be cursed by their rule . The Peel Government left them even a larger annual surplus in hand , than the Wellington Government did in 1830 . They had no deficiency bills flying about the market ; but in addition to upwards of three millions of actual

      surplus , had nine millions of real money in the Exchequer to draw upon at the commencement of the year ! Under these circumstances , if there was any real necessity for a loan , which we must den }' , they had the power of making a good bargain for the country , instead of which , they have made the extravagant and improvident one we have alluded to , and thus shown they are only commencing again a career of financial mismanagement , that must cany u ? again to the shores of that " bottomless deficiency" on which , in the latter days of the former Whig Government , Baring sat and fished in vain for a revenue .

      One might feel disposed to overlook somewhat this innate incapacity for financial policy which distinguishes the Whigs , if there were any other redeeming points about their character . But where are we to look for them ? Are they more liberal , in a political sense , than their nominal opponents ? Let Lord John Russell ' s opposition to the repeal of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill be an answer ,

      Are they prepared to go further for the educational , sanatory , or social improvements of the ' community than their predecessors , who were so infinitely superior in their management of the national finances ? Let their measures on these various questions reply True ; we grant that in promises they are more liberal , but the performance halts a long way behind . Peel promised little , and did much . Russell reverses it—he promises much , and does little .

      There is but one measure for which we feel the slightest gratitude to the present ministry ; and even in that case , the gratitude belongs to individuals , and not to the whole Cabinet . They all sail in the same boat when there is any mischief to be done , or any resistance ] inade to political progress and demands , but when a really good social measure is in hand , they make it an " open question , " and exhibit the shameful spectacle of a Cabinet divided against itself ; its members speak against each other ; and upon a division , walk into different lobbies . This by no

      means decorous exhibition has been shown again and again during the debates on the Ten Hours' Bill . On Wednesday , Sir George Grey declared himself in favour of ten hours ; Lord Morpeth for eleven , and against ten ; Mr . Ward and Mr . Milner Gibson against interference altogether ; and thus the confusion went on . Still it is gratifying to find that the support given by the Premier to the bill , in conjunction with the large number of supporters of the measure who vote for it upon principle , are

      sufficient to constitute majorities large enough to beat triumphantly the opposition of the millowners and political economists . We cannot account for the fiery and novel zeal of Mr . Escott , the member for Winchester , in defence of the " vested interests" of spindles , throstles , mules , and power-looms , except by attributing it to the zeal of a new convert . He lias only recently abjured the defence of the " agricultural interests , " to protect which he has beea sent into Parliament by the farmers and landlords of Hampshiret ' ' anu , by a not miusual ot unnatural re-

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      action , in getting loose from his old moorings has gone with a swing to the opposite extreme . _ But , however praiseworthy his zeal in the eyes of his new masters , or friends—whichever may be the relation he stands in to them—we apprehend that the opinions of one so little acquainted practically with the subject will not for a moment be put in the scale against that of Mr . Fielden and Mr . Brotherton , who have all their lives been connected with the manufacture of cotton ; the latter , as he nobly told the ihouse , having worked as a factory boy himself , and formed in youth resolutions to destroy the slavery to which he and his class were subjected , which he adheres to in his old age . As to

      Sir J . Grahams opposition , that was to be expected . He has always been a rigid political economist in this matter , unable to see or reason upon « any point connected with the subject , except the 'interests of capital . " He and the whole of the one -sided theoretical school to which he belongs always assume that if they legislate for the pros perity of capital , the prosperity of labour is included . The theory is a plausible one . The practice , to a very considerable extent , does not bear it out . We regret , however , that Sir R . Peel should , as we think so unnecessarily , have put himself forward as a prominent opponent of the claims of the operatives . The same " experience" which

      convinced him of his error in upholding the old protective system , ought ere this to have convinced him of the propriety of supporting the Ten Hours Bill . From 1815 , when his father , who understood this subject practically , and who left on record the emphatic prophecy , that " unless machinery was regulated , it would become England ' s greatest curse , " down to the last discussion , the opponents of regulation have predicted all sorts of evil from interference . What are the facts ? Why , that in proportion as interference has increased , manufactures have also increased . Not a solitary prediction of the croakers has been realized . And so it

      will be now with the false and hypocritical pretence on which the opponents resist the bill , viz ., that it will injure the operatives themselves , by reducing wages . The operatives have studied political economy , and the law of " supply and demand" for themselves , and ' they feel well convinced that the scarecrow hung out to terrify them by the milUords is a scarecrow , and nothing more : and , whether or not , they have made up their minds to abide the issue of the experiment . It is gratifying to see , by the majority of 90 , which resisted the last attempt to continue their slavery , that they are likely this session to achieve their lougsought-for emancipation .

      A subject of considerable importance was discussed on Tuesday : the right of the Scotch landlords to refuse sites for building churches for the late seceders from the Established Kirk of Scotland . Two grave questions were involved in the discussion : the extent to which the doctrine of the inviolability of private property is to be carried , and the right of private judgment in matters of religious belief . Certain lairds belonging to the Established Kirk , possessing the exclusive ownership of whole counties , have obstinately refused to grant sites for churches to the members of the Free Kirk . Practically , this refusal amounted to a complete prohibition of the exercise

      of a particular form o worship . The highway , the glen or hill-side , tinder all weathers , were the only places open to them ; in the land of their nativity they were denied the shelter of a roof while worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences . This disgraceful state of things is clearly an outrage upon the most sacred of human rights , and a gross abuse of the right of private property , which cannot fail to force inves . tigation into the nature of that ri ght itself , and the conditions upon which it is granted . There is no divine and imprescriptible right to property in land , it is and must always be held subject to reserva . tions for the public convenience and well-being Exclusi in the

      ve property soil is granted only upon condition that such property shall not stand in the way of the general benefit . Hence limitations upon hhIWWu&I r ights become established on the same bases as the rights themselves . The right to knock down a man's house which obstructs a thoroughfare ; the right to insist ihat when he builds , he shall make drains and sewers ; the right to run a railway through his park , precious from ancestral associations , and the efforts of years to adorn it ; are exemplifications of the primitive and indestructible power of Society to modify and control the rights she has given , whenever the public welfare requires . It is well to stir these questions now and then , and , so far , good mav

      arise from the intolerant obstinacy of the Scottish lairds . The inquiry granted by the House of Commons , and the anticipated verdict against the tyranny exercised by these lairds . is also a benefit , inasmuch as it forms a precedent upon which in future times , others who are farther removed from fashionable sympathy than the members of theJFree Kirk , may demand social and proprietary rights . Unitarians , ' Quakers Socialists , Chartists , and even Atheists , may take their stand on the same ground , and demand that the conventional and limited right of property in land shall not override the sacred and imprescriptible right of liberty of conscience and fre e speech practised with all the conveniences that bel ong to the mos favoured sects .

      The Irish measures have made way so slowly this week , that they are scarcely in a fit position for criticism . Indeed , we have at present nothing to add to former comments upon them .

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      $ 5 gr All reports of meetings holden in any part of England on the Sunday , muat be at this office bv iuesday ; reports of meetings held on the Monday must be at the office by Wednesday . This rule is for ' Trades , " as well as " Chartist" and "Land Company " meetings . Notices of " Forthcoraina Meetings , " and correspondcKce requiring answers , must be at the office by Wednesday , at the latest ! " Letters" commenting on public questions , intended lor insertion in full , must be at the office by . Tuesday . 1 he communications of correspondenls not attending to the above regulations must stand over .

      MISCELLANEOUS . MAMCHEmii . _ We mutt exercise our own discretional to the curtailment or amendment of all reports . Our correspondent is requested to write only on one side of the piper . A Member o » the Natioicai Land Coupavt , Manches . ter , is informed , that the founder of " The National Co-operative Benefit Society" would , doubtless , be happy to find tbat « v « ry district secretary of the Land Company was an agent for the Benxfit Society . The contributions are—lst lection , 2 s . 7 d . per month ; 2 nd lection , 2 s . Id . per month ; and still lower in the t ' hitd

      fourth , and fifth sections . Mr . II . Whalley , Berwick-on . T weed . —All is " right . The plate it ready when called for . Mr . B . Arhstroho , Alrton . —Will find [ it more conve . nient , and less expensive , to procure the magazine through the Carlul © or Newcastle agonts . ' Mr . John Nixon , Haswell . —We cannot lay why thi Star was not delivered on the 20 th ult ., as it is not sent direct from this office . Hit agent mu « t answer . The plates are charged as follows : —Coloured and mountsd Is . 6 d ., plain mounted 3 s . 6 d ., coloured 2 a . 6 d . plain Is .

      Texas . —An extraordinary prcM of matter compels the postponement of our promised remarks on " Emigratiou to Texas . " 4 . Jethson . —Received . LEGAL , NOTICE . —All question ! on Jegal matter * requiring answers in the ctrrent week , must be at the office on or before Wednesday . iHPOBTAJir io tbi Poo »—At the Thames Police-office , on Saturday last , a pawnbroker , named Clarissa Purser , of Jamaica-place , CommercULroad East was fined 40 s . and costs for exacting more than the ' legal Interest o » a pledge , bj which she incurred a penaltj not exceeding £ 10 . —John Fitzgerald , aged fourteen went , on Friday , Mta , to Mrs . Purser ' s shop , to redeem

      a scarf , pledged en Slit Jan , lait , for 8 S . ojd ., in the D » me of Ana Smith . H » p » t dowu 9 s . on the counter when he redeemed the pledge , and Id . oni , „»» returned to him . The interest wai 9 Jd . only , and the xcess of charge was lid—Mr . Ballautino said if the penalty was not paid , he would send a dlstreis warrant into Mrs . Purser ' s house before sunset that evening Th « Small Dims Aci . —On Monday the following notice was issued throughout the metropolis and its environs : —" Notice is hereby jiven , that , inconsequence of the notification in the SuppUmcnt to the London Oauttt of the 5 th of February instant that th « New County Courts ' Act will come into operation the 15 th of March next

      on , no further sitting of the Courts of Requests in London will be held after that date , and no summonses or execution . will bemued aiur Tuesday , March 2 nd , but the offices of the Courts will contimu open as usual , for the receiving and pay . inent of money until Wednesday , the lOtU of March . I ublls notice will be given of the commencement of the operation of the N « n County Court under the Act of 9 th and 10 th Vie ., cap . 95 . " JAHla KlHIUCK , Stourbridge . —1 st . Th « properly not __ being ia either Middlesex oi Yorkshire , there it no ~ court or other place in which the deed of gift is tegig . ^ tertd , 2 nd , If you are satisfied tbat ) such a deed ol . gift actually exists , that it ( is | correct in point of firm

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      and was not obtained by Widw infl " ^ uncle wai of sound mind and lobei ZlJ ? ja * cuted it , in tha . case it i . valid 3 rd » S ^ get a sight of the deed of gift , the only th £ " ? «' do is to bring an action of ejectment for the ron ° * of the property , i » which case , the parw < ZT' * under the deed would be compelled to ' produ ct ? court , and the court will determine whether u ' * valid deed or not . e Wuet " « it i , , J . C . F . Warwickshire—If the father knew and if be proved tbat he knew , It was property whSdw " belong to his son , but to a third party . ho ha 7 r . n , not himself liable to punishment . « noa rend erad P . 8 . Coventry—Do you mean that the landlord ?„ , away 18 or £ D worth of the goods , which he hail 1 viously agreed the tenant should havo as his shir Jons Wail , Stanhope . —1 st . Yes . 2 nd Bv Sh ?'

      your quiet possession for the ln « t ?„„„»_ ' e " « your quiet possession for the last twenty year . * your repeated ownership of the property tai Ridiit o » Footwai , Newton Abbott —Po . t . Hf fight their own battles , l . t . Uninterrupted ™ for twenty yean gives a legal ri ght . 2 nd n ?" non ' t assemble a crowd and do it after the fa . hiJ ) Rebecca . A . openly as you please . 3 rd ?''" way in which yuu state your cMo there ' seem . . reason to think that tl . e footpath is m a nuhr but a mere easement to some particular rMldence " ?! a public one , it don't matter what it leads to J . P . S .-Tou must enrol or register , as your case 8 eem . to come within the operation of the act relating t ! Benefit Building Societies . relating to

      Qeoioe Robebts , Underc ! iffe .-l , t . If the member M , his rates in respect of othtr property , the non-payment of the rates in respect of the store does not deDrivehim ofhlsright . 2 nd The portion rftta SttSSK each of the members would probably be too small 3 rd . No . 4 th . A , having possession of the property , has t , n his power to cheat the society , but , of cours , would expose himself to tl . e lash of the law ; but " your society , « , not enrolled , there would be more , diffi , culty in punishing him . Ellis Bakbb , Crowland .-lst . Yes . 2 nd . Pay ; as I take it fer granted that the vestry consider youable to pay , though your neighbours may not be .

      Yoono Ibeland—After the 15 th of this month summen him before the New Small Dtbts Court , if he has the fiddle . If you still have the fiddle , givehim notice you will dispose of it , unless he payg the remainder of the

      purchase-money . J . \ T . Haihisok . —1 st . Perfectly legal . I take it for granted you are described in it according to jour usual place of residence , fnd . Good to all eternity , unlesi one ot * tubiequent date should turnup . A . Cbartist , Birmingham . —I presume an order of affiu . ation hai been made ; if so , you had better acquiesce

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      v RECEIPTS OF THE C 1 IARTI 8 T CO-OPERATIVE LAND COMPANY . FEtt MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . sbaks . je f > d Kidderminster „ 4 3 5 Salford 1 fl fl Plymouth .. 4 3 0 Deronport „ inn Duvonport .. 3 13 0 Bolton ,. 2 n 10 Hut-nicy .. 10 0 0 Stockport .. 9 o 0 Campsje , Part- Tunbridge Wells 3 3 9 imjtuii « 4 15 0 Carlisle „ io u 6 Cioydon .. 0 ' 2 6 Colne , Hey .. 0 8 0 Ashton . under-Lyne 12 0 Nottingham , per Lei K h .. .. 0 18 6 Sweet .. 1 n fi

      Trowbridge .. 16 0 Lambley „ o 5 o rinneston .. 2 13 0 Alva „ 0 8 0 Charles Rennie .. 0 4 0 Upton . on . Severn 4 U 8 Charles Wyatt .. 2 12 2 Linehouse .. 0 8 0 Crown and Anchor 4 2 4 Mixcnden Stones 5 2 0 Westminster .. 0 la O Westminster , Lambeth .. 16 0 J . P . J . „ 2 0 0 Ely .. .. 3 18 0 Whittington-and . S . L . B . .. 0 12 0 Cat .. „ 3 M 0 Ovenden .. 1 10 0 Merton „ 0 5 0 Mountain .. 2 12 0 Glasgow „ 8 3 0 South Shields .. 3 2 8 Littletown .. 7 5 o HrUhton „ 0 10 7 Newcastle upon .

      Manchester .. 7 , 0 9 Tyne ,. „ 0 7 0 Droylesden .. 0 2 9 Northampton .. 4 17 0 Thomas Moore , jun . 0 1 C Pershore .. 4 3 o James Moore .. 0 2 2 Canington .. 1 3 o Totnes .. ,. 056 Butterley „ 270 Loughborough .. 1 16 0 Heywood „ 2 7 0 Sowcrby Longroyd 0 16 0 l'reston „ o 13 2 WtlUnguorough I 2 0 Newark „ 0 12 0 Derby .. .. 3 17 0 Monmouth „ 1 1 o Halifax .. .. 2 6 6 Exttter .. 1 1 s iiaiittix .. .. see txttier l l 3

      „ Hyde ,. .. 0 19 0 Hamilton .. 2 0 0 Manchester ., 49 19 3 Hebden Bridge .. 0 10 0 Wigan .. .. 14 4 i Bristol .. 1 10 0 Bury .. .. 0 6 0 Sheffield „ 4 15 c Dorking „ 0 4 0 Liverpool .. 1 11 6 Huddersfield .. 4 1 G G Birkenhead .. 0 U 0 Whittington and Hadford „ 0 1 S Cat .. .. 1 10 0 Basford „ 0 S 0 Cambnnvell .. 10 0 Blackburn „ 6 18 i Shurcditch .. 0 2 0 Ashford „ 4 14 g Burnsley 5 0 0 Warrington ,. 10 13 0 Cheltenham .. 0 5 0 Leeds „ ,. 2 10 0 Leicester , Astill 1 10 4 Ashton under-Lyne 3 G 2 Uebdeu Bridge .. 0 0 6 ( tochdale , ' , 0 17111 Leeds .. .. 2 0 0 Heading .. 0 2 5 Kotherliam .. 4 12 4 Brighton , per HimUey .. o I 0 Flower „ 0 9 0 £ 27 S _ 2 _ 8 J SECTION No . 2 . ¦¦ ""

      SBABZS . Brass Founders' Falkirk „ 2 19 8 Arms .. 2 12 4 Chepstovv ,. 0 9 0 Foleshill ., 1 0 10 Belpcr ,. 10 0 Kidderminster .. 4 13 10 Deronport „ 0 4 6 P . ymoutb . .. 4 11 2 Salford „ 017 0 Marple .. 0 10 Walsall ,. 10 7 8 William Wilson 0 11 Boltou „ 2 8 6 Peterborough .. 2 1 6 Stockport ,. 1 13 0 Croydou .. 10 6 Carlisle „ 0 10 0 Ashton . under-Lyne 0 IS 8 Nuwtou Abbott .. 34 0 0 Leigh .. 0 6 6 Lainberhead-green 16 0 Kircaldy .. 2 0 6 Norwich , Bag-William Androws , shaw .. .. 7 li 8 Ivinghoe .. 0 5 0 Colne , Hey ,. 0 4 0 George Greenwood , Benjn . Garwood 5 3 0 ClieJdington .. 0 5 0 Sninuol Wright .. 5 3 0 W . I' . Horton .. 0 5 0 Westminster , 6 . Alyth .. 1 14 0 Wright .. 3 4 0

      Glasgow , John J » ottingham , Sweet 33 19 0 Gavin .. 16 2 Lambley „ 2 11 6 Trowbridge .. 4 18 0 Glasgow .. 28 11 0 Mnidstone .. 3 11 6 Alva „ 4 15 » Norwich , Crowfoot 2 12 loj Oxford ,. 0 17 0 Lcvi Warner „ 1 5 0 Shiney Itow .. 4 16 Lynn , per Scott .. 8 7 3 Leamingtou ,. 3 8 0 Birmingham , per Bath .. .. 7 IS 3 Pare .. 3 10 0 Bridgewater .. 10 4 6 Shaw , Alexander 16 8 Marylobonc .. 10 0 Clackmannan .. 4 15 7 J . F . Rodburn .. 4 2 2 Edward Smith .. 0 Io 0 Globe and Friends 3 4 6 Andrew Barney 0 0 6 Alfred Thomas Greenwich .. 3 10 0 Spryng .. 3 12 0 Crown and Anchor 0 14 Oldhatu .. 1 9 Q John Fletcher .. 0 5 0 Bttnbury „ 4 17 4 William Fletcher 0 2 6 SwinUou .. 14 0 0 Westminster .. 13 0 4 Robert Axworthy 2 9 10 Robertson , O'Con- Rochester , per

      norville .. 2 14 2 Willis .. 7 0 8 George Bishop .. 0 0 6 G . J . Harney .. 2 15 0 Ellaud .. 3 S 1 Whittington and Ely .. 2 17 8 Cat .. .. 0 16 0 Ovenden .. 0 10 0 James Topp •¦ 4 2 0 Cinder-ford Iron Merton .. 2 4 0 Works .. 112 Devonport .. 3 17 0 Kilmarnock .. 2 2 0 Ledbury .. 0 1 C ltirnringhnni , per Howsull , near Pure ., 5 0 0 Malvern . 5 0 0 Mary Batchelor 5 4 6 Smith , per Mulls 1 8 8 Charles Pattison 6 2 0 Littletown .. 6 13 Brighton .. 82 O Newcastle-upon-Manchester .. 2 13 6 Tyne .. .. 4 12 10 Giles Davies .. 5 4 4 Bradford ( Yerk-Joim Dnvis .. 0 3 0 shire .. 30 0 0 Oswaldttiwistle .. 3 11 0 Ilolmfirth .. 0 5 0

      Totnes .. 0 5 6 Denny .. 2 6 S Loughborough .. 0 11 C Trowbridge .. 19 0 LeJbury .. 5 4 0 Northampton .. 3 2 0 Sowerby Longroyd 0 16 0 Pershore „ 8 12 0 Uridgewater , ' Huddevsneld .. 4 4 4 Tweedy .. 4 14 4 Gainsborough 2 3 0 Shrewsbury . Robin . TeignmoutU .. 8 14 0 hood .. .. 3 19 2 Carriugton .. 1 S 6 Chorley .. 10 0 Bromsgrovc .. 5 1 / 0 WelUngborougU 0 18 0 Nottingham , per Derby .. .. 876 Watt .. 236 Tsnistock .. J 9 0 Butterley .. 4 H Bclmont .. 9 13 4 Heywood .. 1 10 f Belper .. 2 10 O Preston .. 4 7 2 LittletonPnnnell 4 5 0 Newark .. 5 H i Halifax .. .. 10 6 Hebdon Bridge „ 5 13 0 Mottram .. 12 O 0 liri . tol .. 10 5 0

      Hyde .. 15 4 Sheffield „ 2 ll t > Littlcborough .. 2 0 0 Birmingham , LeigW .. 8 10 O Goodwin .. 5 12 U Westminster , W . G . 4 7 6 Liverpool .. 20 3 6 Manchester ,. 11 18 0 Birkeuhead .. ( J 0 0 Droylesdcu , J . lladford .. 12 U 6 Dawsou ,. 2 12 0 Retford .. 4 It O Wigan ., 2 0 0 Mansfield .. 16 * Ashburton .. 3 18 3 Old Basford .. 11 3 10 Dorking .. 8 4 0 Birmingham ?«* . » 7 10 ( Ship ) .. 8 13 9 Mnghorn .. 0 10 0 Dudley .. 610 S GeovgeMartin .. o 1 0 Maidstone .. 1 17 0 George Allison .. 0 2 0 Easington-lnno .. 0 3 fl Lambeth __ ., 16 8 Anna Sutton .. 1 W u

      Camberwell .. 3 12 0 Benjamin Peyton 0 1 i J . Regan .. 0 0 6 Blackburn .. 31 8 " Shorcdltch .. 0 8 o Atherstoue .. 0 1 ' - 0 Barnsley .. 5 0 0 Torquay .. 6 1 * 2 Bowbrldgo .. 4 2 C Ashton-under-Lyne '•> 1 * \ Cheltenham .. 0 9 6 Witham .. 1 1 « ° Lake Loch .. 0 0 0 Rochdale .. 1 13 H Leicester , Astill 3 6 3 Brighton , Flower 12 l 6 10 Robert Broomfield 5 3 0 Reading .. 5 11 6 Hebden Bvidgo 4 4 6 Limeliouso „ 15 2 6 Leeds ., 7 10 0 Lambeth „ 4 U S Hindley .. 0 ll 2 James Hill „ 10 * Exeter .. 4 4 10 E . B . Jukes .. 1 6 « Clifford .. .. 200 Robert Axworthy 2 12 0 Aberdeen .. o 19 6 Thos . Lewis , sen . 2 13 "

      £ 800 1 1 SECTION No . 3 . - 4 ) 1 A * iS . Bridgewater FiBk 5 4 4 Cheltenham ... 0 19 6 Kidderminster ... 0 2 4 William E . Boyle 0 1 * H . Evans ... 0 1 0 Edmund Jackson 0 1 * R . Daries ... 0 1 0 Leicester , per Devonport ... 1 1 Q i A 8 till .. CampsieParting- Hobden Bridge .. 0 2 « ton 15 12 0 llobp . rt Baiter . 0 10 0 Croydon ... 0 C 3 Ac- rington " ... 7 5 Thomas Sparrow 0 5 0 Aberdeea o « » Wm Campbell , Fn , kjrk - 0 2 S Merton ... a 13 4 Mansfield 1 » « Beuj . Biggs ... Q i 4 Be , ... 1 0 * Ashton - under . Devonport ... 0 1 * ni L > '" ... 0 2 8 Staekpwt ... " ° . . Plymouth ... o 8 8 Norwich ... 0 S ? Lei » ... 0 15 0 Nottingham ... 3 W 0 ;

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The terras on which the Ckancellor of the Exc hequer has contracted for the Eight Million Loan for Ireland , are only one degree worse than the original blunder , of meeting the exigency by an addition to the permanent debt , instead of reducing expenses ,

      and imposing such slight temporary addition to taxation , as might have been requisite for the purpose . The houses of Rothschild and Baring , by previous agreement between themselves , are to pay 89 / . 10 s . for every 100 / . stock—in other words , in order to get hold of ei ght millions of actual money , upon which interest and charges to the amount of 3 / , 7 s . Gd . must be paid annually , the

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR , March e .. « ,. »

      The Land And Its Capabilities

      THE LAND AND ITS CAPABILITIES

      Co *Tea&Er0# Cottohjontou &

      Co * tea&er 0 # CotTOHJontou &

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1408/page/4/