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    • ' ; iUXlLlARI TO THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY.
    • DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN TURKEY,
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JULY 10, 18*7.
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      THE NATIONAL CO-OPEBAT 1 TB BENEFIT SOCIETY . Patron—T . WaHey , M . P . Dinoton-Vtam P . M'Grath , T . Clark , and C . Doyle . Bant—the National Land and Labour Bank . Secretary-Mr E . Stallwood . Deatral Offices , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , and 3 , little Valeplace , Hammersmith road . fnWLS , Society { . resent * greater adrantagee to Ihela-X dubious Millions than any similar Institution ever BUhlished . Rulei and every information required can belobtained atthefolloTOigplaces : —Mr Lawrance , Whittinston and Cat , ChurchruK , Bethnal Green ; Mr Jefoej , Tanners ' Arms , Bermondsey-road ; Mr J . Simpson . Harnsons Assembly Booms , East-lane , Walworth ; Herberts Temperance Coffeehouse , Exeter-street , Sloane-street ; Me Walford , Temperanee-hall , Broadway , Westminster ; MrtF . Bwwa , Surer-street , Kensington ; Mr H . Hayter , Frogmore , Wandsworth ; Mr J . Pare , 65 , Lwery . ¦ treet , Birmingham ; Mr T . ShepherdsoB , Town-gate , Aimley , near Leeds ; Mr 6 . Wheeler , Dnnfark , near Semes Mr Mund-v , Northamp ton ; Mr Westly , Cannonstreet ; Wellenborougb ; Mr D . Morgan . Merttyr Tydtil ; Mr J . J . Beaver , Gandiffeth , I ' ontypool ; Mr Skenngton , Loushboroueh ; Mr T . Chambers , Leicester-strert , Bil-• ton ; Mr 3 . Roddis . Barton Lstimer , Higham Ferrars ; Mr J . Gregory . IronTflle , near Nottingham ; Mr B . Pierce , Angel Inn . St Mary-street , Bridgewater ; Mr W . H . Webber , 8 , Farebam-place , Coxside , Plymouth ; Mr G . Grace , . B « rnsJi Locks , Barnsley i Mr Poster , at Yates ' s Temper ¦ nee CoSea-honse , Mills Bank . Sheltun , Potteries - Mr ffestoby , Duppashill , Croydon jMr H . Ingram , Michison-3 q ., Sehole « , * igan ; Mr A . Packer , 78 , Harrow . rd ., Marytebone ; and of the Secretary , Mr E . Stallwood , 2 , Little ^ ale-place , Hammersmith-road , to whom all applications for Agencies most be addressed , and all Post . iffice orders made payable at the Hammersmith Post , jffice .

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      THE TAILORS' TRADING COMPANY . A NUMBER OF JOURNEYMEN TAILORS ( Members JX . of the National Association of United Trades } havingformed a Company to release themselves from the baneful influence of unprincipled ompetiton respectfully inform the operative classes , generally , that they have opened an establishment at No . 7 . VICTOJUA-STREET , M A NCHE S TER , vhere they can he supplied with every article of clothing as cheap and better made than at any uf the ( so-called cheap establishments . WORKING MEN , SUPPORT YOUR OWN ORDER in this attempt to demonstrate thi benefits of ASSOCIATIVE LABOUR . Journeymen Tailors who are desirous of avoiding the degrading contingencies of tramping in search of employ sent , during the next winter , will meet with employment at Manchester wages , by becoming Shareholders . The price of shares is ten shillings , payable by instalments of threepence per week , in addi'iun to one shilling and sixpence for Registration and expenses . Rules and Prospectusas will be forwarded to any part of the Kingdom on application to the Secretary , 5 , St John-street , Manchester , iy enclosing four postage stamps . John Rcsseix , Manager .

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      ' ; Iuxlllari To The National Land Company.

      ' ; iUXlLlARI TO THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY .

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      Gokstasilsoplb , June 17 . A dreadful crime , according to all appearance , has fieen perpetrated here in Pera . within the last fortnight , with entire impunity , which has escaped even censure , and which , such is the moral apathy of this place , has hardly excited notice . The little notice it has excited is altogether of a prurient description ; S 3 for indignation or any severe feeling , Buch sentiments would here ba considered simply ridiculous and Quixotic . And yet the crime I allude to is that of parents ( a father and a mother-in-law ) having connived at the violation of the person of their daughter , and of having , by this act and by a long course of cruel conduct , driven this unhappy girl to the desperate act of saicide .

      Thestory is as follows : —Mdlle , the daughter Of a prosperous shopkeeper at Pera , had become attached to a person whose character , as was after--wards discovered , fuliyjustified her , despite her indinption . in refusing to give him any encouragement in his love , for the attachment was mutual . Her parents then proposed that she should marry a countryman of their own . to whom I understand they were considerably in debt . The girl at first demurred to this proposal , but being strongly urged to it , consented to receive the addresses of this person . Her repugnance towards him , however , s-o increased , that she at last declared she would never consent to be his wife . On the night , then , of the day on which this declaration was made , or the nieht

      afterwards , on entering her bedroom , she found her fttiior there , hidden behind the door , which , as soon as she had got fairly into the room , he 8 huta » d fcolted , and then , by threats and 7 iolenee , being armed with loaded pistols , accomplished his brutal purpose . The screams of the girl must have been beard throughout the house , but no one came to her help . She was aliowed afterwards to take refuge in the room of her brother , a child of about seven yean f age ; and when , in the morning , she informed her parents of the outrage she had suffered , and requested to be sent to her own conntry , that she might be no longer exposed to the persecutions of the ruffian , the answer she got was , that it wa 3 absolutely necessary

      the should ww marry her ravisher , to save her character . Nowrppae , no anger did these parents manifest , by what U was evident they themselves had fceea pwtierto the shocking crime that had been ronmitted . The wretched girl , urged in this way to madness , procured arsenic , and without the bast hesitation ' or wavering in her purpose fora moment destroyed herself . After she had taken the dose which was in a few minutes to put an end to her existence , she told her servant maid what she had done ; and , with a frantic kind of merriment , gave directions for placing her body in a coffin , declaring , with hysterical laughter , that if her directions were not obeyed she would take vengeance after ker death .

      Under the circumstances of this case , as tar ss they have appeared ( and there is no reason to think t' -tat all the circumstances are not fairly known ) , the father and mother , and the ravisher , would hive been booted , pelted , and almost torn to pieces in England by an English mob , and the shop would Certainly have been demolished by an English popubee , whereas here M . and Mdme . Af were busy QQ the day after the suicide of their daughter in their Asp . selling their wares to all comers , with whom ttay diseased the tragic event with the most gracepdseatiraentdlity , displaying an absence of all hu-« unfeelin ? , andofaU decent semblance of it , the most revolting .

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      JUST PDBW 8 HBD , NO . VII . OF " THE LABOURER , . eoxntcTi . 1 . Onward-by Ernest Jones . 2 . Education and the Russell Cabinet . 3 . The Romance of a People . « . Visit to O'Connorville . 5 . The Insurrections of the Workiie CHasaag 6 . The League . 6 " osen . 7 . The Confessions of a Kin ? 8 . The Game laws . Vowm ran Fhst , neatl , bound in cloth a nattered , Price 3 i , 6 d . Preprinted , and may be had on applications . . . *¦<> . III . of «« THE LABOUR ER " n'r ^ nmJS . ' amonSst otf «* Matters , a Reprint of Mr F . ?„* a 8 Letter » in th 8 "Northern Star" of January 30 th , demonstrating the certainty with which an allottee maj S « £ ?? rt W'nself and family , and accumulate money , en * TwoAcra " allotment . T . T 5 t 3 r geaeral demand that was made for the paper containing the above letter induced the Editors tc reprurt it , after careful revision , in the March Number of th » " Labourer . " NO . IV . of 'THE LABOURER , " Containing an elaborate Treatise on the NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BANK , IH ITS MXATION WITH

      THE NATIOSAL LAUD COMPANY . Lettera ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymsrket , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star , " and all booksellers ia town , and country .

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      ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS . Whether we look to those parties who are now possessed of exclusive privileges , or to those who are endeavouring to obtain their just rights , we see equally a manifestation of coming changes . Neither electors nor non-electors tried that position which they once maintained . As ia every other feature oi our social state , the system of exclusiveness is draw , ing to a close . The aristocratic morgue has vanished before the ascendancy of the monied class .

      These latter , being necessarily more thrown together with the working class , had less of exclusiveness , though what they wanted in distance they made up in despotism . The State clergy have stooped from their haughty prerogative , and , mingling with working men ,-profess themselves advocates of popular , even of political reformi , because they see the Dissenters are pressing on the State Establishment , and Charehraealookon the popular feeling they have so long partly misled , partly scorned , as the onl y stronghold they can fall back upon against the

      march of Truth . But , unfortunately for them , this citadel is already garrisoned by Liberal opinions ; the gates are closed on them , and they stand naked before the walls , exposed to the arrows of popular contumely , and the shafts of controversial argument . The p roud noble comes out of his mansion , and with a bland " Young-England " smile invites the labourer into his park—joins him at an occasional merry-making—suggests , and takes a part in rural games ; nay ! a Lord can even pull off his coat and play at cricket in his shirt-sleeves with a working

      man . We rather suspect be laughed in his shirt , sleeves at the thought that his " humble" playfellows could be gulled into contentment by the fact of batting and bowling with a real , live , sportive , bodil y , actual Lord ! The money-monger , too , when he wants to tread on the corn of the landlord calls working men together , ( mark ! nothing can be done now without saying something to working men , ) and endeavours to enlist their support , by tolling them egregious falsehoods , and promising them this , that , and t ' other ; whatever they choose

      ti ask , at a railroad pace . When they fail to perform ( as they almost invariably do ) the one throws the blame on the other : —it is "those villanous Tories , " or "those treacherous Whi gs , " and every political TRAITOR votes himself a political AIARTYtt . All , however , equall y combine to overwhelm electors with the tide of bribery and intimidation . Clauses are put into leases forcing a man to vote for a Tory or a Whig , as the case may be . A crushing system of exclusive dealing is made use of by the rich and great

      the refractory elector is put on the black books of the magistrate , and the registrar , and every parish or local official , who " plays his pranks before high heaven ! ' His trade is injured- his motions are watched—his comfort isdestroyed—his liber ty impaired . The poor elector twists andtwistslike an eel in a net . He votes for the Tory to save Lord So-and-So ' s custom and patronage , and straight he feels the vice of Whiggery grasping his throat . He votes for the Whig manufacturer , and straight the haughty Tory treads down his prospects . He appeals to the party for which he sacrificed his trade with the other party , but they then say : " Good bve

      to you ! I ve got what I wanted . You served my turn , now you may shift for yourself . " Driven to desperation , he resorts to the expedient of not voting at all . In vain . Then the cry is raised : " Had yon voted for us , we should have carried our man ! Your not voting at all , allowed the other to slip in !'• and he is proscribed accordingly . He then flies to the forlorn hope of disqualifying himself . He don ' t claim to be rated—he thinks to slip through unobserved . In vain ! Some officious Whig , Tory , or Radical hag claimed for him . He is lugged in b y the ears—and there the poor object is , struggling flouncing , and floundering in the sea of polities .

      In the midst of this chaos , the unhappy elector eries : " OH ! HAD WE BUT THE BALLOT ! Oh ! Had we but NO VOTE ! or , Oh ! had we but UN IVERSAL SUFFRAGE !" This has led him a step further . Above the chaos of conflicting factions , that are tearing his interests into shreds—he sees rising around him , beneath him , above him , a mighty power , dim , shadowy , and vastbut ominous of something great , substantial , strongthat teaches him a code of other fears , other interests , other hopes - appealing alike to his worldly

      advantage , to his principles , and to his conscience . It is Democracy assuming a practical , a tangible shapeit Is the masses opposing organisation to organisation—centralisation to centralisation , and system to system . It is the PEOPLE , teaching him a great lesson—that they are able to take a leaf out of the book of the oppressor . If he dreaded to be hunted down by a Wh < g or Tory faction , how much more has he to fear being hunted down by the people ! If he courted the custom of a few units , how much more must he desire the custom of tens of

      thousands ! lie despised—he neglected the opinions of the people hitherto—he scorned their threats—because he never dreamed they possessed the unanimity and organisation to catry their threats into effect . But now he trembles at the nttu idea of skcluswb dbalixo on the part of the people ! Of course he in * veighs against it . It U wrong—shameful—monstrous ' . Ue never dared say ao openly when it was a

      landlord or a moneylord , who practised it for bad and selfish purposes - , but now that working men do it for n-jble purposes ot general good—of course it is iy-KANKY— OPPRESSION- UNDUE JNFLUBNCB , He iuVeighs a « a tnst exclusive dealing—lie says it is wrong : we dp aot opproveof it either as a principle—but we s * y to him : If you vote according to your conscience , —well and good ; but war do tou sbu the raopu ICROM TOTO COUNWM ?

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Another batch of hills was thrown overboard by the Premier on Monday , each of them being selected became they were important ones , and because there were " difficulties" in the way . Our present Government can only carry measures that are unimportant , of no use , or positively mischievous ; but if even in respect to either of these three classes of subjects a hobgoblin of a " difficulty" was to make its appearance , they would be at once precipitately abandoned . It is , essentially . a do-nothing Government .

      One of the bills thus given up is the bill for facilitating the sale of encumbered estates in Ireland . When Sir R . Peel pronounced his general criticism on the ministerial programme for Ireland at an early period of the session , he emphatically stated that , in his opinion , this was the most important of the whole of the measures proposed by them for the benefit of that country . Lord Laoidowne , the President of the Council , and leader of the House of Peers , in explaining these measures , also stated , in the strongest possible terms , the weight

      he attached to this measure , of the benefits to result from which he entertained the most sanguine anticipations ; indeed , expected more than from all the other measures put together . That its importance was not overrated by either of those statesmen , must be evident to all who will give the ' slightest consideration to the subject . The master-evil of Irish society is to be found in the relative position of its landlords and its people , and that position again is mainly caused by the fact , that the landlords , as a class , are merely the nominal holders o :

      the estates of which they are the reputed owners : they are but stewards and rent-receivers for the mortgagees , money-lenders , and annu . Uan . ts ; and an xtremely small share of the annual renial , in many cases , falls to their share . . It is utterl y impossible that persons so placed , and having the appearance ' actual ownership to keep up , saddled with the whole expenses which Fashion thrusts upon those who move in their own circles of society , while , perhaps , they have actually only one-tenth of the income necessary to meet the outlay—it is

      impossible , we repeat , that any real or beneficial change can take place , unless it be preceded by a radical and sweeping change in the position of these nominal landlords , and measures are adopted which , without doing them any injustice , shall relieve them from the anomalous situation in which they are at once a curse to themselves and to their couutry This was the object of the abandoned bill : it aimed at giving into the hands of the real owners of the soil the property over which they held bondsi and at the same time to throw upon them the responsibilities attached to its possession . It passed

      the House of Lords unscathed , but , as soon as it made its appearance in the Lower House , it was abandoned by its author on the strange ground , that if it passed it would succeed in the object for which it was framed ! that is , in fact , the gist of his principal reason for g iving it up . He said , " 11 was stated by persons well qualified to speak , and likewise well qualified , if they should think proper to carry into effect what they said , that several millions of money mortgaged in Ireland would be

      called in , if that bill were passed . " Well ! Lord John , was not that precisely what the bill was intended to produce ? Was it not that the land of Ireland , instead of being doomed to unnatural sterility , to serve the purposes of a bankrupt landocracy , should have all its latent capabilities , of giving work and food , fully developed by the enterprise of the actual owners , who possessed the capital requisite to do so ? We do not remember a better illustration of Collins ' s personification of Fear in his Ode on the Passions than this . Lord John ' Back recoils he knows not why , Even at the sound himself has made . "

      The'Prisons'Bill is another measure on which much debate has taVen place in both Houses . We have on several occasions adverted to it in terms of commendation , so far as intentions were concerned and as affording evidence of the growing strength of a new public opinion on matters of criminal jurisprudence . The object of the bill was to introduce a change in the treatment of convicts condemned to transportation , by which , instead of being , as here- j [ f . i ,

      tofore , the pests of the penal colonies to which they were consigned , and inevitably sunk deeper in depravity by the treatment they received , and their association in criminal and corrupt masses , they might have been subjected to a preliminary reformatory discipline , in such a way as to tend at once to the public benefit and their personal improvement , and then be provided with the means of commencing life anew under better auspices , and away from cri- . , . , ,

      minal associates . The idea was a humane one , though the machinery by which it was proposed to carry it out might be objectionable in many respects . But practice would have corrected these defects , and suggested the proper correctives and amendments . A " difficulty , " however , started up-a very slight one-only a discussion m the other House , which it was not convenient to have ; but it was quite enough With this nervous valetudinarian Ministry to induce them to drop another of . the uL measures . '' B

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      was given up , the Premier did not say . It might be want of time ; but then nobody opposed it , that we remember : We can only , therefore , conjecture that it interfered with the doctrine of " finality , " and was calculated to lead to the inference that it was possible to amend the Reform Bill . Lord John does not belfcve in that possibility , and therefore he thought it prudent not to encourage any democratic or revolutionary hopes . The Parliamentary Elections Bill is included in the annual <* Massacre oi the Innocents . " Not content " with this , Sir G . Grey , on

      Wednesday , successfully resisted the second reading of a Parliamentary Elections Bill brought in by Sir De Lacy Evans , extending the time for the payment of rates and taxes ; thus . showing that the Ministry are obstinately bent on resisting any alteration o f that favourite Whig bantling , the Reform Act . By the way , but for the determination of MrDuncombe Gen , Evans ' s bill would have been burked , in consequence of his absence , and the country have lost this additional proof of the adherence of the Cabinet to the " great principle" of" finality . "

      Turning from what has been given up by Ministers to what they have attempted to carry this week , the task is a light one . The Health of Towns Bill progresses through committee at a snail ' s pace , in the face of a dogged opposition , led on by the eccentric member for Lincoln , and the burly Railway King who have on ; this occasion taken " stench , filth , fever , and death-dealing pestilence ' under their especial protection . They are backed up by a small section of the " country party , " who , we presume ,

      not being in want of fresh air , a plentiful supply of pure water , and efficient drainage themselves , do not see that anybody else needs it . That the measure as it stands U in many portions of its machinery most defective , is undoubted . That it was a most shameful and disgraceful proceeding to exempt London from its provisions , must be admitted ; but we really do not find any reasons among those urged by the opponents to the bill , which are not resolvable into thia— « The sanitarv condition of London is not to li « improved , and therefore York , Lincoln , and all the other towns and cities included in the bill shall not . " " Two blacks , " according to the old proverb , ' do not make a white . " Such opposition is not satisfactory . If London ought to be included in the bill , try to have it so . If there be defects in the machinery , try to amend them . As to the excuse that there is not time to do this , it may be replied that the institution of measures which will remove causes of disease that annually destroy more lives than were lost at Waterloo , ought to take precedence

      • f the annual amusement of shooting partridges , pheasants , grouse , black-cock , or deer . The gamekeepers , farmers , peasants , and " gillies ' ' will do that , if need be , quite as well as under the inspection of " ray lords and gentlemen ; " and , if the game smokes daily on their tables , they ought to be content to stay and do the work they promised to do when they undertook the duties of legislators . But such reasoning as this is Utopian . Fever and pestilence will be permitted to stalk through the blind lanes , the filthy alleys , and narrow streets , in

      which the poor are . huddled , and daily sweep to the grave their accustomed crop of victims , to the insane arrangements b y which the blessing of God to all , free fresh air , is shutout from the pent-up dungeons of our towns , in order that Right Hon . and Hon . Lords and Gentlemen may " enjoy" themselves ia their " preserves" and shooting-grounds , in ^ estroying the lives of other animals . Verily we are an enlightened people ! There is , we believe , not the sli ghtest chance of this bill passing in the present session . A

      few days more must close its existence , and that of Parliament ; and even if it was safely through the Commons , there is now no time to carry it through the other house , if the usual arrangements which regulate the sittings are to be adhered to . Under these circumstances , the Ministry might as well have included the Health of Towns Bill at once among those thrown over for the session , and tried , in the meantime , to make a better one for next year ,, which should include the metropolis . :

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      in the Spanish Exchequer in 1841 after " all the bi ]] were paid , " the " dons" obstinately refused or neglected to pay the interest due t to the British bond , holders . Under these circumstances , Lord George appeals to Lord Palmerston , and the noble and war . like secretary holds out a threat , in terrorem , t hat unless the Spanish " repudiators " pay their debfy some day or other he will come to the aid of the money-lenders , and batter down Madrid with Britiafc cannon . England" has gone to war and paid the piper in many foolish and in many wicked qnarrels ,

      but we can scarcely believe that she would bear go fooiish and so wicked a war as this . The sordid speculators who lent their money to profligate ^ dissolute governments in Spain , for the corrupt and selfish purposes of these governments , not for the benefit of its people , did so without asking the con , sent of the people and parliament of this country . They made their own bargain ; and , if it had been t good one , the people of this country would not have participated in their gains . What right have we to share in their loss , or be at the cost of compelling their refractory creditors to pay ?

      The House of Lords rejected the amendment o ( Mr Peter Borthwick , by which aged couples , up . wards of 60 years , were not to be separated frora each other in Union workhouses . Lord Brougham , who appeared as of yore the great champion of this atrocious law , waxed magniloquent on the subject , and absolutely thanked Lord John and the Government for having so GALLANTLY resisted the amendment . What" gallantry" there was in a war against helpless old men and women we are unable to see , but it seemed their lordships agreed with the

      erratic ex-Chancellor , and unanimously threw o ut the amendment . It is stated to be Mr Borthwick ' s intention to insist upon the re-insertion of the clause whenever the bill is brought down to the Commons in its altered form . Looking at the majority bj which his amendment was carried , and its composition , there is a probability that he may succeed , in which case even the " gallantry" of Lord Brougham may " ooze out at his fingers' ends . " It would scarcely be prudent to show the country the spectacle of the two Houses of Parliament at odds on such a question as this , and especially to exhibit the comfortable and rosy-gilled old gentlemen of the " upper

      house , " whose " bread has been buttered for them on both sides" by society , without trouble , care , or exertion on their parts , waging war against aged pauper couples , and , in obedience to the fanatical dictates of an insane and cruel set of dogmas falsely called " philosophy , " insisting upon wounding and crushing the holiest feelings of human nature . There may be a shadow of reason in prohibiting young married couples from living together while supported at the cost of the ratepayers , but in the case of aged couples , where there is no chance of any additional burdens being thrown upon the rates by an increase of family , the prohibition is not only preposterous , but infamous and disgraceful .

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      HIBCET . L&NEOUa . O'CoNNOBVitM . —Through the medium of the Korthtn Star I desire to acknowledge the handiome present made to ine by th « Carrington shareholders , of a three , tined garden fork , which is considered to be one of the bent construction in every respect , full length three feet eight inches , length of the tines fourteen inches , width of the three tines six and a half inches , steeled halfway manufactured by Mr John Ley . Carrington , Nottingham ! _ , t re - _ „ Charles Tawis . TheLowbakds Estate . -Sir , —Will you allow raetosaj that I have returned to town this evening , from Low . bards , under Tery different feelings from what I had when I left town last week ? Although I hare been a supporter of jour cause and principles for years , vat the

      many malicious attempts which have been , and still are being made in the metropolis to slander and misrepresent your conduct and you motires are sufficient to shake if not to destroy confidence . From the confidenca I place in Mr Pettit I purchased the allotment , without knowing where it was or the nature of the undertaking , But when he had removed to Lowbands I decided upon coming down and ascertaining the truth for myself . Dunng the two days which I took in getting to Red Marlejr , I proceeded cautiously , and made the most careful inquiry of all I met with in my journey as to their opinion of the undertaking . It may be pleasing for you to know that the farther I made inquiry the more my doubts were removed , and the nearer I came to the locality , the better account I received . But the moment I put my foot on the estate * all doubts and fears were gone ; my heart rejoiced txceedingly ; and I said , " Surely the most unbounded praise and support is due to the individual who , under such very unfavourable

      circumstances , has patriotism enough to persevere ia Such a good and glorious undertaking . " You hav » achieved more for your country asd your - oppressed countrymen than all that was ever done by the C » sars , by Alexander , by Napoleon , or Weilington , and whether yuu may be spared to see it or not , you may be well assured that your name will go down to posterity with the richest blessings of many and many a ransomed family , who , but for your intrepidity , would have been consigned to drug out a miserable existence in the back polluted settlements of an overgrown metropolis . It was in conversation with Mr Cullingham , on Monday morning , that I decided upon casting my future lot among you , and having nothing that requires my at . tention in London after this week , I fee ? desirous to place my whole energy and experience at your com . mand , and to render my humble aid in earning out this noble work . t PiHTniirnr F . O'Connor . Esq . ammboe . John Deabden . —No , it would be contrary to rule to do

      so . \ Bl | M f anche"er .-The average price of the land already bought by the National Land CompaHy U about £% per acre . A . two-s > e * e alloltee , on the WonnonWeEstate , might punlnu the fee sin > plefor aboutS If A B . H » nfrL fc n is m 0 ™ y ' tne ^ nd parchue Z ? Z . . es . at the wholesale price , with 5 percent . thoCem ^ n rCCnta 5 eiS throWn int 0 th ( J ca P ital uf M n vi , ~ Juli ? n Harney ha 9 ' eoeived from Mr R . Wild ten shillings for the Genoral Election Fund . J . H . nas handed the ten shillings to Mr Cla rk of the J > in M tT > ^ T rinlt ^ S > ~ Your Ietter snould havobeea sent to the Land Oftice , to which office we forwardid it . Mr Abnot , Pocklinzton . -We received all right . Are we to continue the increase after this date ? You haw not stated .

      NOTTINQIUU ElECMoH Vond . -J . Sweet begs toackn » Wedge the receipt of the following sums ? viz . -Frora three working men on th . > Swannington Railway , lsfid ; Mr Jackson , Is ; Mr William Coates , Is ; MrEs . ei Ui ^ A ^ n ^' , " 11111111111 ' 6 d : b ? MrBostock , nani 10 s ' C - Coleford > 6 d ' B Jro « locality , Notting . CONTWOATION OP SDBiCBlPIIOK * ro * THI O'COSKOI . miK Tba . Trat . -W . Pickvtnce , Bolion , 8 J sub . crip . oH / - ™ Matthew » > London , 18 ; N . Critcbley , Radcliffe Bridge , 2 ; W . Selby , Bury . 31 ; J . Barl , Bed SS ' l ' j K B ^» 8 rtI * iW . Swift , 81 * . d ! T' !¦ - ? " hou «' . Birmingham 17 ERoiri

      ,: , ; . , X SVV n ' Archibald ' K * ! W . Wig h » , r * ; T 8 ptbg 4 li ' Notwioh ' ; T - Hwrison , Retford , 1 ; J . fJutman , Wi . bea . h , 6 ; S . Bre * e .. ton Greenwich , 15 ; Jamei Taylor , Ashton , 12 ; R . Stringer , Sandbach , 4 ; J . Harkneis , Edinburgh , J ; J . Scott , Lynn , 20 ; J . Gilbertson , Carlisle , 16 ; 0 . Willis , Strood . 17 ; W . Shelmerdine , Hulme , 6 ; W « Gregory , EcdeB , 20 ; W . H . Lawaer , Tunbrid e Well » , 8 ; W . Gardner , Linlithgoir , 10 ; J . Berry , Farrington , 4 ; S . Cheltam , Halifax , 2 ; £ . tfaddington , Birk

      head . l ; F . TaUs , Bristol , 2 j H . Langworih , Liu . coin , 1 ; T . Crowther , Halifax , 7 ; C . Theobold , Peterborough , 5 ; J . Harding , Worcester , 8 ; H . M'Lenn , Falkirk , 5 ; H . Edwards , London , 4 W . Median , Georgie MUU , 2 ; J . Watren , Maccleifirid 18-3 . Budd , Lincoln , 2 ; J . Fletcher , Cockermouth 1 8 S IUlbeck , Bristol , 5 ; J . Stone , Dunkirk , 0 r Ben ! field , Tredejar , 3 ; H . Hains , Sunderiand . i- j | Hill Southampton , 18 ; J . Grim . haw , SDonmutar 3- / Murray , Northampton , 17 ; J . Douglas , Qoipon , 8 * ; R * . Dearden BuruU ,, * ; W . Hamer , OldhamJ ; Thomw WaUe ,, S » ockton , 8 j C . Hutching . , London , 4 .-ToUl number of Bub . criber . , 1 , 389 . Th . b . llot 90 mmence 4 Btnlne o clock on Tuejdsy ana continued till twenty Blnotei pait tan , wh . n the prUe CMM out for Ho . 438 , W . Sonwvme , of Edinburgh . Th « BlUton Cb « r . tuts retura their sincere thanks to all subscribers . „ Thoi . Alicohd , Sec . Mr Soon , of Ljnn , will racthe an answer in a few day * ,

      Domestic Tragedy In Turkey,

      DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN TURKEY ,

      The Northern Star Saturday, July 10, 18*7.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JULY 10 , 18 * 7 .

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      *«* Mr O'Connor hegs to inform the men of Manchester that he will he at Mr Roherts' house at four o ' clock on Sunday morning , and requests of them to allow him to remain in bed till the last moment for starting .- The men of Warrington will be good enough to send word to Mr Dixon , of Manchester , the hour for the tea-party commencing .

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      MONARCHICAL MUMMERIES .

      Some courtly parasite , if wo are not mistaken the author of " Reflection ! on the French Revolution , " once denominated monarchy " the cheap defence of nations . " Was the assertor of that falsehood alive now , we suppose he would prove the " defence" by bringing forward the " Albert hat , " which some have sup . posed was invented for the purpose of rendering its wearers so frightfully formidable in appearance as to render the very sight of them quite sufficient to appal the stoutest foe . That the "defence" carries with it the quality of cheapness , is net so easily proved . Certain it is that , defence or no dofence , Englishmen pay pretty dear for their whistle .

      This week the servile , sycophantic daily journals , from the Puddle-dock Thunderer to the Fleet-street Tap . Tub , have had columns upon columns , day after day , filled with accounts of the solemn tomfooleries , the glitterinR waste , and insane trivialities of Prince Albert's " installation" as Chancellor of Cambridge University . Of course the Prince is as well qual ified to bo an University Chancellor as he is to be a Field Marshal , and would be equally able to take command of the next naval expedition , or officiate as Archbishop ot Canterbury , both of which berths will no donbt be

      his at the . first opportunity . The prostration of the heads of the University , and even such men as Sir R . Peel and Lord John Russell , before this accidental husband of the Queen of England , proves the utter baseness of the insolent aristocrats who presume to dictate law , life , and death , to the people . But a thousand-fold more degrading istho disgusting exhibition of Wordsworth , writing rhymed rubbish to order , in laudation of" the Church , the State , the Throne , " and in illustration of his own despicable toadyism .

      Well , the papers have duly chronicled all the luxury and profusion of railway conveyance for the Queen and the court flunkies , triumphal arches , public fea sts , &c , combining therewith the information , that the Queen journeyed in her own carriage to the Tottenham station of the Eastern Counties ' Railway , " thus cutting off all the annoyances of Norton Folgate , Bethnal Green , and so forth , '' where poverty , filth and disease " most do congregate ; " sights not meet for the royal eyet At Cambridge , part of the ceremonies consisted in Prince Albert , as Chancellor , readi ng an address to the Queen . thankingherforher royal condescension in visiting Cambridge , and assuring her of the most loyal attachment to her person and government . While this farce was being performed , " His Royal

      Highness maintained the most remarkable gravity !" Then we have full and correct statements of what the Queen wore—from bonnet to bustle—how the Queen looked—what made the Queen laugh—and when the Queen said " Oh , la ! how pretty ! " and all the rest of the trash in which the readers of Court gossip delight . We conclude this notice of the '' installation" with the following items of a " spread , " denominated a " public breakfast ; "A brilliantly ( jilt coniole table , surmounted by a mirror with handsome candelabra , was placed against one side of the tent . The table was covered with costly gold plate , which combined , with very beau « tiful vasea and other table ornaments , produced a magnificent effect . At . the table were placed two state chaira lor the use of Her Majesty and Prince Albert .

      The following was the bill of fare : —800 cold chickens , 200 lobster salads , 60 baskets of pastry , 308 jellies , 10 tarts , 200 raised game and perigotd pies , 10 chicken salad * , 100 quarters of lamb , 70 hams , 1 ( 0 tongues , &c . The wines were excellent ; they were supplied by Mr Mitchell , of London , and consisted of 200 dozen of champagne , 60 dozen ; ef claret , 150 dozen of iherry , 2 , 5110 bottlca of soda water , &c .

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      Oar roaden now tee how -Royils" and "Loyali" Inakfatt . How tena of thousands of the PDBWo breakfast , dine , and sup , we need not tell . We will merely n » m » one fact . So full are the workhouses and other places of refuge in the metropolis at this very time , that many hundreds of wretched beings pass the night in the open air , there bein g nothing like an in-door shelter but what is nightly crammed . This , too , at the height of summer . At the workhouse of St Martin's-in-the-Fields , at the back of the National Gallery , Trafalgar-Bquare ,

      there may be nightly seen scores of miserable beings , men , women , and children , crouching on the shelterless ground , their only bed the cold flag-stone , their only covering the pitiless sky . There is not room to afford them a night ' s shelter in the workhouse , that being overstocked . Immediately opposite the work , house is a huge barracks , wherein ia at present quartered a body of Fusileer Guards . A private soldier one day lately proposed to his comrades to give a few basins of soup to the wretched creatures outside the barrack gate . This they

      willingly assented to , and the soldier was proceeding on his mission of mercy when he was stopped by an officer , and ordered to take the soup back on pain of punishment ! We are assured that gallons of soup are thrown into the waste-buckets , which the soldiers are not permitted to give to the famishing creatures within sight of them . On one occasion , a few weeks ago , the houseless sleepers had left some little dirt or straw on the pavement outside of the barrack-wall ; the next evening , to prevent them from

      sleeping or sitting there again , an officer ( of the Fusileers ) directed some of his men to take a water-engino and therewith saturate the whole of the pavement to prevent the poor creatures having even a fuot-hold for that night ! "The foxes hare holes , and the birds have nests , but the Son of Man has not where to lay his head ! " Such is the condition of thousands of Queen Victoria ' s subjects . But " Britons never shall be slaves ! " " God save the Queen ! " Yes , — ' God sare all Queens and Sings ' . For , if he don ' t , I doubt if men will longer ; I think I hear a little bird who sings Thb people by-and-by will be the stronger . ' Tbo veriest jade will wince whose harness wring * ¦ Too much into the raw—at least to wrong ber Beyond the rules of posting—and the mob At last Ml tick of Imitating Job ' . "

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      ARISTOCRATIC HUMANITY . Last Friday night ( July 2 nd ) the hereditary " Hospital of Incurables" rejected from the Poor Law Administration Bill the measure of partial justice , carried as an amendment by Mr Bothwick in the Lower House , which provided that married couples who had attained the age of sixty years and upwards , should not be separated in the Union Workhouses . This humane provision the Lords have expunged irora the bill . ' ¦ Their Lordships" have this excuse , that there is not many of them who care one straw for their wives . As a specimen of Aristocratic humanity , morality , and decency , we give , the following , which appeared this week in the advertising columns of the Times : —

      ' The Countess of Morningten . beihg reduced to a state of destitution , is compelled to appeal to the public , whose charity is sever sought in vain . Lady Mornington has been driven to the adoption of this painful and humiliating course by reason of her inability to procure the means of subsistence , although every method which the law permits , has been adopted to obtain her rightful support . While her suit is proceeding , she is on the brink of starvation , and is now left to the alternative of becoming an inmate of the workhouse , or throwing hersolf on the charity of ( she trusts ) a sympathising public . To avoid the degradation of being treated as a common pauper , she makes thi 3 appeal . Subscriptions will be received at the bank of Messrs . Ransom and Co ., Pall-mall East . "

      We give Lady Mornington the benefit of the above gratis . Ljrd Mornington is a nephew of the Duke of Wellington , and will be better known to our readers of mature age by his former name —Long Pole Wellesley , or something like that , a name more than sufficiently notorious in the annals of aristocratic profligacy , " Such be thy gods O Israel t " We should be glad to have from Richard Oastler , whom we venerate , Mr Ferrand , and Mr

      Gurneywhom we respect , reasons why the . people should tolerate the existence of this aristocracy one moment longer than they are compelled by superior force ? We 8 » y these titled land-robbers and hereditary usurpers ef legislation are as thoroughly selfish , cruel , and cold-hearted a set of petty-minded despots as ever cursed a people with their sway . " Better bow down before the Frank , and call a Russian lord , Than these swoln silk-wormi , masters . "

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      Grumbling , reluctant , ke | is forced to yield nevertheless;—he darenotturn against the hand that feeds , now that he seB ^ that the million hands are guided by one impulse and one will . He comes over one step—he consents to split his votes—he don't care tor consistency—not he ! He gives one vote to a Chartist and another to a Whig or a Tory ; one vote to a State Churchman , and another to an Anti-state Churchman . He has arrived at the HALF-wAt-noiroB on the road to Liberty—and he stops to bait before he jogs farther on his old Dobbin , expsdiehot . Well , —let him go on—the old links are breaking—and History , iike another Columbus , is sailing into a hew world ! The first vote has gone before—the second vote is coming after !

      This is a new feature of our times—an organisation of the Non-Eleotors telling on the Electors . And , be it rembered . thisis not an additional oppression of the latter . It will , on the contrary , FAEE them from the oppression of many small factions . Many Electors , to do them justice , long to vote on the side of the people ; they have openly said so ; as openly have they said , "THE * DARED not . " , The people were not strong enough , not organised enough to support them . Will they dare to vote rightly now—now that the people ARE strong , ARE organised ? now that their interest is identical with their duty . Now that they see , on the contrary , the great monopolists are growing weak , their support

      is no longer worth having . They feel how poor the patronage of their tyrants has become ; they feel it by foreign competition in their home markets ; they feel it by the practical exclusion of their wares and produce from the foreign markets , as foreign monopily begins to thrive ; they feel it by their frequent bankruptcies and insolvencies , and they are turning their backs on the star that is setting , to bow down and worship b efore the rising sun . Monopoly is sinking—Democracy is rising—as the electors are becoming democratic—some from honourable prinr ' ciples , that have only been kept back by tyranny ' others ( and , we trust , these are few , ) from less ereditable motives—but they vote alike !

      We have alwayB told the working classes what , power they possessed—now they are beginning to use it ; we bid them go on and prosper , and would but add one word—Let them use it wisely and well nottopoMSH others , but to PROTECT THEMSELVES ; more to REWARDthau to REVENGE -more to WIN OVER than to terrify .

      ^ Co Fuaomi & Comspoirtw &

      ^ Co fUaOmi & Comspoirtw &

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      Lowbandb . —Messrs Renham , Moss , and Sowter would be happy to meet their brother allotteas , resident in London , on Tuesday , July 20 th , at Mr Sa » me , Grapes Tavern , Old Compton-street , Soho , at eifiht o ' clock in the evening , on business of import * ance . KsYiroRT 'Vaqsm .. —Mr M'Grath will deliver » lecture explanatory of the objects and principles of the National LandCempany , in the Public Kooo . on Monday evening next .

      Radford . —At too weekly meeting ot the share * holders held on Monday evening , July 5 th , Mr Ja ©« 8 Saunders was nominated as delegate to the forth * coming Conference . A committee was also appointed to collect subscriptions for the Election Fund . Toe Nsxi Cohkiunce—A number of districts have addressed letters to this paper woini upon the Directors to issue a programme ( of business to be laid before the nest Conference ) as early as possible . Such letter * should be mtml to ( bi Directors , » t the Land utn . ,

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      BaunL . T r to Cu . TES .-At the City Police Committee , on Saturday , Mr L Cotching was summoned , ttheutttmce of Alderman Copeland , for brutal SShlfSk nu - mber ofcalve * . The alderman de-¦ enbed the state in which he saw the animals ; their » p were tied together in a cart , and their heads % tre hanging down , oh the tail-board ; they were rtragSiBgvjolently . and a quantity of saliva imed fiwn theirmouths . The bench fined the defendant ovi . and costs .

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . * July 10 , 1847 .

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      The last of three abandoned bills vraa the Parliamentary Elections Bill , Wmu * ^ meant to get M of some of the abuses connected with the preset farce , of returning ; wembers to Putant . Why it

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      Lord G . Bentinck provoked another " talk " about Spanish Bonds and Bondholders , whose case he hu several times broug ht before the House , and had on this occasion the satisfaction of eliciting a somewhat warlike and threatening speech from the belli . gerent Secretary-at-War-we * mean for Foreign AJfairs . it appeals that the money-mongers of this country , nofc content with having the labours of un horn generations at home pledged to t hem and their descendants in payment of what is called the National Debt , have lent some forty-six millions to Spain , with the same view . But Spain is not ao honest ( query , simple ?) as John Bull , and don't " stump up , " which is the more provoking , as the revenue has nearly doubled since the money waa lent ; aud though a surplus of £ 1 , 000 , 000 remained

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      Government have worked hard , by means of morning sittings , &c , to get into Committee of Supply , no doubt with the view of finishing the session at the earliest possible moment . But successive questions and motions by various Memberi have hitherto prevented their actually reaching that stage , for practical purposes . Portugal formed , on Monday night , the subject of another lung " talk , " mainly ( it appeared by the avowal of Mr B . Osborne , who was ambitious of acting as accoucheur , ) for the purpose of giving Lord Palmerston the opportunity of delivering himself of the speech which was " burked " by the untimely " count . out" upon Mr Hume ' s motion . The Foreign Secretary accordingly did deliver a speech , and other hon . Members followed him ; the conclusion of the talk beingnothing ! The motion was withdrawn . The case of the Rajah of Sattara was then introduced for the twentieth time by Mr Hume , in a speech of three hours ; who was replied to by Sir John Hobhouse , in another speech three hours long , on the following evening . Notwithstanding all this verbosity , the case is a very common and a very simp le one and an extremely good specimen of our system of ruling India . The Rajah was at one time a great pet of the Indian Government , but he took into his head that he and his subjects were entitled to some jaghires , or estates , which the Indian Government were determined to have . Finding him inconveniently obstinate they got up a case against him , through the instrumentality of a couple Of his com . raon soldiers , and upon the most flagrantl y . flimsy pretexts deposed him from his throne , hurried him off to a distant part of the continent of India , without trial or hearing ; and continue to keep possession of his dominions , estates , and money , unto the present day , because he has refused to acknowled ge the justice ot this treatment , or own himself guilty of the charges alleged against him , and has the hardU hood to demand a fair and open trial . Such is the case of the Rajah of Sattara , to which the President of the Board of Control , and the Ex-Chairman of the East-India Company , made the most meagre and miserable replies imaginable ; but on & division an obsequious majorit y denied the trial and inquiry which was demanded by the friends of the deposed prince . His case is unfortunatel y only one among many . By force and fraud combined it is determined that the whole of the vast continent which is watered by the Ganges and the Indus shall belong to England- Who cares what victims we may trample down in the ruthless march of conquest ?

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1426/page/4/