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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JANVAKY 23, IS51.
    • COLLIERY ACCIDENTS.
    • (TO C0tW0VOMKIU*«
    • _ 3)U BARRrs UEALTIl RESTORING FOOD TUE REVALESTA ARABICA.
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      CAUTION . —The most disgusting and injuriouscomponndsbeingsoldbjunscrupnlousspecuutore upon the credolitj of the 1 ' ublic , under close imitation of the name of DU BARRY'S REVALESTA ARABIGA FOOD , or wtih % pretence of being similar to that de-Iid « u 3 and invaluable remedy for Indigestion , Constipation . Nervous , Bilious , and Lwer Complaints , Messrs . DU . BARRY and Co . caution Invalids against these barefaced ittempls at imposture . There is nothing ia the whole . ? 2 getiblekin <; dom that can legitimately be called simiuk to ita Barry ' s Kevalenta Arabics , a plantwhich is cultivated iy Da Barry and Co . on their estates alone , ana for the preparation and pulverisation of which their own Patent jfachinerv alone is adapted . Let Corn Chandlers sell their pease , beans , lentil , and other meals under their proper names , and not trifle with the health of Invalids and Infants , for whom DU BARRY'S REVALESTA ARABICA alone is adapted , . flu Barry and Co .. 127 , Sew Bond-street . London .

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      Matrimony made easy ; or how to win a Lover . MISS JULIA BOOTH will send free to any address , on receipt of fifteen postage stamps , plain directions to euable Ladies or Gentlemen to win the affections of as many of the opposite sex as their hearts may desire . The pioposal is simple , and so captivating and enthralling that all may be married , irrespective of age , appearance , or position ; and last , though not least , it can be arranged with such ease and delicacy that detection is impossible . Address , Miss Jcua Booth , 14 . Handcourt , Holborn , London .

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      RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! DU . BARKER still continues to supply the afflicted with the celebrated remedy for every variety of Single or Double Rupture , the efficacy of which , in many thousands of cases , is too well known to need comment It is applicable alike to male or female of any age . perfectly free from danger , causes no pain , inconvenience , or confinement , and willbe > ent free by post , with instructions , 4 c , on receipt of 7 s . in postage stami s or a Post-office , payable at the General Post-office . Address , ALFRED BARKER , M . D ., 48 , Liverpool-street King ' s-cross , London . At home for consultation dailv from 10 till 1 , aud 4 till 8 ( Sunday excepted . ) *' A great number of trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which Dr . B . will be happy to give to any requirinc them after a trial of it . °

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , li , Southampton-street , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A hereby announce the following meetings — On Sunday afternoon at three o ' clock the Metropolitan Bartiw £° meet at th 6 CU * Hal 1 ' > GoldenJane > On Sunday evening next at the Rock T&vern , Lissongrove— Princess Royal , Cireus-strect , Marylebone-King and Queen , Foley-street , Portland-plaee-Bricklayers ' Arms , Tonbindge-street , New-road-Crown and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town-and New Eastern Lite ' rary and Scientific Institution , Morpeth-street , Greenstreet , 8 ethnnl Green . "

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      NOTICE TO THE CHARTISTS OF . THE COTJHTY OB LEICESTER . A DELEGATE MEETING WILL BE "T < s h d aV ^ ' Jenn ^ > 8 » s"l > Church-gate , Leicester , on Swiday , February 2 nd , at eleven o ' olock in the fore ' noon , for the purpose of nominating a delegate to the forthcoming Convention , to be held in London on the 3 rd of March . All towns and village * in the county are respectfully requested to send delegates to this meeting . All communications to be addressed to Mr . J . Johnson , shoemaker , Alexander-street , Leicester .

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      WEST BIDING DELEGATE MEETING . A WEST BIDING DELEGATE MEET- ? £ n F ? ^ JrH ?^ heW at N 5 ch ° M ' . Temperance HottI , c Broad-street . Halifax , on Sunday , the 2 nd of February , t to commence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon—to c . nfer about the election of delegates to the London Conference , i ana to agree , if possible , on some unanimous course for i them to pursue . And also to devise an efficient plan of I reorganising the out districts . It is hoped that thoBe I orancnes which are acting in an isolated manner , will come forward and unite with the other associations . t By order , i C . Skackleton , West Riding Secretary .

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      NEWCASTLE-Ul'ON . TYNE . A DISTRICT DELEGATE MEETING will be held at Newcastle , on Sunday , January 26 th ( at two o ' clock in the afternoon , in the Joinets' Hall . Demo ' J cratic Reading-room , when delegatee from the followinz 1 places are requested to attend :-Newcaetl « , Swalwell , ' Winlaton , Shields , Sunderland , Middleborough , Hartle 1 pool , Westmoor , Seghill , Seaton Deleyal , and Alnwick i Where there is no association organised , friends from such i places are requested to attend . On behalf of the Committee of Newcastle Charter Association , Jons Bbowh , Secretary .

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      THE REFUGEES . THE FUNERAL of JAN ROSHETSKI , late officer in the political struggle , will take place on Sunday , tho 26 ih . The procession will start from Clerkenwell-green at tw « o ' clock precisely , passing through Sraiti . field , Long-lane , Finsbury-square , BMiops gate-street , Bethnal-green-road , to Victoria Cemetery . The pall will be borne by the TradeB * Committee , assisted by other friends , bearing various natfenal flags . Mr . G . W . M . Reynolds and other friends are invited to deliver orations over the grave . All personB attending the procession are requested to observe due order . The body will lie at Turnmill-street for the inspection of friendB on Sunday morning , with all the accoutrements ofthe deceased . Persons wuhtag to take part as officers must be at Turnmillstreet at one o ' clock precisely , bringing their wands . ; A Lecture will be given in the evening on the life of the deceased , with appropriate music . T . Brown , Secretary .

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      ENLARGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . Nos . I . II . and III . of the New Series OF " THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . " Are now ready , SIXTEEN LARGE E 0 YAL OCTAVO PAGES , Price One Penny , IT IS THE ADVOCATE OP POLITICAL , SOGIAL , AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS . IT CONTAINS A WEEKLY : LABOUR BE € OKB . The Autobiography of Peargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ; , Original Articles on Social and Political Questions . TalesCReviews : Poetry : Gleanings , &c . Contents of No . IV . 1 . "What should a People ' s Parliament do ? 2 . The Great Mississippi Bubble . ( Continued . ) 3 . Adventures of Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P , 4 . The Pirate . 5 . New Books , —Foreign Reminiscences . 6 . Labour and Co-operative Record . In No . III . was commenced a series of articles on the necessity for Parliamentary Reform , and wbat might be expected from a Legislature truly representing all classes of the community , They will form when completed a POLITICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE PEOPLE ! which it is hoped will accurately represent the feelings ofthe industrial and intelligent operatives , and at the same time disabuse tho upper and middle classes of the enormous and exaggerated impression too prevalent among them , respecting tho views and Objects ofthe unenfranchised masses . Now Ready , A Title , Contents , Index , and Preface to the Vivst Volume . The Numbers and Parts of the First Scries of the National Instructor that were out of print , have now been reprinted , and may be had on application . Subscribers are requested to complete imperfect copies forthwith . The " National Instructor ' * ia supplied by all the London Agents for similar publications : or by A . Hey wood , Manchester ; W . Love , and G . AdamB , Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham .

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      ' Liberty—Equality-Fraternity . EARLY NEXT FEBRUARY WILL BE PUBLISHED The First Number of 'THE PEOPLE . ' ' We'll 8 truggh on till all be won the good God has designed , The Empibe of the People—the Monarchy of Mind . ' A NEWSPAPER established b y private individuals is ronnifestly inadequate to the attainment of any great National object . ' It is , ' says a distinguished Irish writer , 'in many particulars defective , in many others injurious , and in some dangerous , unsafe , and untrustworthy ; it may be bought or bartered ; it may be traded with and trafficked on ; it may be corrupted , conquered , or intimidated , and offers no guarantee for firmness , independence , or honesty . '—Influenced by these considerations , a number of Irishmen—deeply Interested in the welfare of then-Native Land—have resolved on the establishment of a National Weekly Journal , which , founded by the People , will be alone responsible to them , and will have fer its immediate aim and object the uncompromising advocacy of their rights- * -their interests and their liberty .

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      THE ' EDINBUHGH REVIEW' ON THE ' LEADER , ' THE LEADEE ¦ L of Saturday , January 25 th , contains Thobntok HONT ' s reply to the article on 'Ai / ton Locke and th » Leader , ' aa exponents of English Socialism in the last number of the 'Edinbuboh Review . ' Published by Jo « ephClayton , jun ., 265 , Strand . Price 6 d .

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      Thirty-two poges , price Gd ., with the Magazines on the ls » of February , THE ENGLISH REPUBLIC . J- , No . a , containing the Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzim-the History and Official Acts of the Central European Democratic Committee—tho Editor ' s Plan for Republican Organisation ia England—A History tf the Three Revolutionary Years , and other articles . Edited by W . J . Linton . J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Faternorter . row , London .

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      A DELEGATE MEETING . DELEGATE MEETING WILL BE held in the Chartist Association Room , Hebdenbridge , on Sunday , the 2 nd of February , at ten o ' clock a . m ., to nominate a delegate to the Convention to be held in London on tho 3 rd of March , when the following places are urgently requested to 6 end delegates : — Halifax , Todmorden , Ilebdeii-bridge , Midgley , Ripponden , Mixenden Stones , ^ heatley , Lower Warley , Sowerby , Ovenden , Queen ' s nead , Elland , and other places . Tboma 8 Wood , District Secretary .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sib , —Your paper recently contained a valuable letter on the accidents in collieries , copied from the Mining Journal , which has drawn great attention to the dangerous condition of Jarrow ' s colliery The men of this colliery have complained to the Homo Secretary that the master will oblige them to blast the coal with power , whilst the air is bo weak that candles dare not be used , but Bafety lamps only . The inspectors © f the district have twice visited the pit , and pronounced the practice dangerous in the extreme , yet the master will not cease the practice . Tho master of the pit in question , haa recently called in the aid of some of his brother viewers , and they , with true fra .

      ternal feelings for each other , have decided that the practice of blasting with powder may be carried on with safety ; thus the lives of the workmen are placed in jeopardy , the opinion of the government inspectors set aside , and the small benefit conferred by the Miners' Inspection Bill completely nullified , and set at naught by tho viewers of the district , each of whom will be called upon to help bis brother out of any such dilemma when necessary ; it being but another edition of the practice of calling in the assistance of viewers after an explosion , to report on the cause of the same their opiflions being invariably recorded in evidence at the inquests . That the said pit ( no matter which it may be , ) was excellently ventilated—one of the best ventilated pits in the district . M . Jcde Newcastle , January 30 th , 1851 .

      Sir Peter Laurie , having an offender of some five or six years old before him , one , day last week , said he " would take him in hand ; " and try what a whipping would do . " Won't thatroake him worse ?" asked his mother . Sir Peter replied , that if he seemed none the better far the rod , ho would eive it him again until he was sensible of its fiffioacy Tub Great Exhibition . —A large number of packages have been brought by the steamer Sultan , which has arrived at Southampton from Constantinople , which are consigned to a high diplomatic functionary in this country , and are intended for the Great Exhibition of tho Works of Industry of all Rations m Hyde Park , and will bo placed in the bonded premises under ihe approved re / nilatons until the building ia Hyde Park is ready for their reception , * J

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      Mr . Ebnkst Jones . —We must positively decline to reopen , or be in any way accessory to continuing controversies turning upon personal character , and in which no great public principle is invoked . The Star shall not . while we have charge of it , be prostituted to the purposes of faction or party , or be subject to the repetition of tHe charge—that it is ' the great manufactory ofBiUlngsgate . ' Let all who aspire to lead the people , show their qualification for the position by the loftiness of their arms , the usefulness of their labours , and the power and energy into which they assail the abuses of the present bad political system . Such persons will not need to enter upon any personal defence or laudation . Their works will speak for them ; and by abstaining themselves from personal controversy , as well as discountenancing it in others , they will most truly aid in producing that union among the di sfranchised millions which is essential to their political emancipation . Nottingham . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums ( sent herewith ) , viz .: —Fob Honesty Funb :-JoIui Bradford Is—Samuel Bradford Is—John Goodall ls-John Milli 6 d-T . Dann 6 d-J . Dann 6 d .

      Fob Winding-dp Fund . —Mr . W . Duffy Gd—W . Perkins 3 d—James Wardley 6 d—Mrs . Wardley 6 d—t £ r . G . Gamble 61 In t » s List of Monies received from O'Connorville for Honesty Fund , the total amount was stated correctly , but the name of Mr . Pocock , Gd ., was accidentally omitted . The Honesti Fond . —( To Mr . W . Rider . )—Dear Sir , —You will much oblige those who subscribed for the defence of Mr . O'Connor at Hightown , if you will be so kind as to correct a mistake which is made , vie .: —I said in raj letter £ 16 s ., for the Defence Fund ,. and it should have been £ 12 s . 6 d , for the Defence Fund , and 3 s . 6 d . for the Winding-up of the National Land Companj , subscribed by the following members : —Kbenezer Clegg , John Cotton Swallow , Daniel Mills , George Robertshaw , John Robertshow , Charles Brook , and Jonah Jackson , at 6 d . each , will be 3 s . 6 d . —The total sum collected for the Defence Fund was £ \ 5 » . 3 d . The expense -was for collecting . 2 s . 2 d , ; collecting book , Id . ; PoRt office order and postage , fid . Total expense , 2 s . 9 d . ; taken from £ 1 5 s . 3 d . leaves £ 1 2 s . 6 d . —Yours in the cause of freedom , EnENEZF . R CLEGO .

      Mr . M . Cook , Woodhouses . —Four weeks . Mr . Welch , Lye Waste . —The 3 b lid neknowledged last week fihi uld have been for the Honesty Fund , not for the Winding-up of the Land Company . Mr . Lodos , Lepton . —We will inquire concerning the 12 » sent to the Land Office . - Derby . —John Moss begs to acknowledge ibe receipt of the following sums for the Honestt Fond—W . Short 1 b—J . Skevington Is—L . Brooks Is—T . Chester ls ~ J . Wright Is—B . Brierly Is—W . Crabtree Is—W . Sowter Is—J . Bradbury Is—W . Blacket ls-J . Sturman 6 d—Mrs . WestonGd—T . Smith Is—J . Thorpe 2 s 6 d—Mr . Biggs Is—J . Moss Cd—T . Allen Gd—Mrs . Johnson 3 d . Polish and Hungarian Refugee Fond : —Per John Arnott 4 s 4 d The Committee meet on Sunday afternoons at four o ' clock , at the Literary and Scientific Association , Morpeth street , Green-street , Bethnal-green , and Tuosday evenings , at 26 , Golden-lane , at nine o clock . —T .

      Ferguson , Secretary , Edward Hoosos , Manchester . —The question muBt be considered settled . Further discussion would be both unwise and mischievous , Alexander Yateb , Coventry . —Your communication is an advertisement , and should have been paid for . J . Hull , of Padiham , informs us that none of the Char . tists of that plate visited Manchester on the occasion of the visit of Mr . Ernest Jones ; A . W . —An index has been prepared , and may now be had from the agents : the way to bind the different sized portions of Air . ; O'Connor ' s life will be in different volumes . James Gibson . —Tho story alluded to will be continued and concluded in the Instructob . M . Jode . —We shall be happy to receive a copy of the Miniso Journal containing the letter alluded to . It is not received at this office .

      The Northern Star Saturday, Janvaky 23, Is51.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JANVAKY 23 , IS 51 .

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      STATE OF PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES , AND PROSPECTS OF CHARTISM . In the course of a few days Parliament will re-assemble , it is said , with a Cabinet seriously weakened by divisions on the Roman Catholic Question . The Sovereign and the Premier insist upon a stronger condemnation

      of the Papal policy in the speech from the Throne , than a powerful section of the Ministry are willing to agree to . This will of course be the most immediate topic for talk at the commencement of the session . Financial questions will follow , if not accompany it , and as yet those appear to be all that can be predicated as certain subjects of debate in the forthcoming session .

      It is for the people at large to say whether they will rest content with such matters , and allow the professional politicians and party hacks to settle affairs in this easy , off-hand style . There never was a period in the history of this country more favourable for the introduction and the carrying of some of the great political and social reforms , upon which public opinion has ripened during the last quarter of a century . If we allow the

      precious opportunity to pass away unimproved , it will be our own fault . Parliament and the Cabinet are at present so placed as to be uuable to offer but a very limited and feeble resistance to any well-organised , vigorous and rightly directed pressure from without . It is the fifth session of tho present Legislative body . ^ Visions of the hustings at a General Election begin to flit before the eyes of members , and a sense of popular responsibility to

      be awakened , which is Bpmehow or other lulled to sleep at earlier periods of their lease of Parliamentary power and place . Many a man who troubles himself littl e indeed as to either attendance or the nature of his vote in the three or four first sessions of a Parliament , grows fidgetty as he sees the lease expiring , and remembers that po pular opinion out of doors has been advaucing , while he has been standing still , —or worse , retrograding . The application of the screw at such a time is certain to produce a greater effect than at any other and the people ought , therefore , to avail themselves to the utmost , of the accessibility of members to popular influences .

      Iu the next place , death and removals have made great changes in the composition of ParrrTf T r ^ , rdative P ° 8 ition of Pities . The death of the late Sir Robert Peel removed an insurmountable obstacle to the iunction of the severed sections of the Conservative party of which he was so long the leader . The translation of the Earl of Lincoln to the Upper House , in consequence of the death of his father , the Duke of Newcastle , also to some extent facilitates that junction , should y tlon ** * ' exion either side

      ^ J * . There might , on the part of the Peelites , have been some difficulty in adjusting the rival claims of Lincoln and Gladstone for the Premier part of leadershi p ; and there might also have been some reluctance on the part of the ultra-Conservatives to unite under the acknowledged leading of the former . But the eloquence , talent , and varied knowledge of Mr . Gladstone , conjoined with his experience ot official life , eminently qualify him for the position of leader of an united opposition ; and by acting with tho co untry party on more than

      one important occasion , last session he , to a great extent , laid the foundation for a treaty of peace between them , when the proper period should arrive . It appears to us that it has come . Though the cause of Protection is not yet openly and explicitly abandoned , it occupiesYo mytpe ^ J ^ ntovmtn ,. Its most / minent supporters nominall

      y avow themse ve Ttil Protectionists ; but they have at ft « « , „? W' ^ and 0 ^ ? ° P «™ -P al ngTe £ ffiS ? - ° ^ . W and replfc £ ™ rs ? rrr ^ r ws ^ -swaa k

      a ^ s ^ tfel ^ SaSnS ^ rf ^ l ^ Z ' e ^ T at con ^ uc tlve legislation SanS ' by D 0 Weans on a P « H » I * to " ' * to Pr ??» " ** attacl £ 8 on the " to * turn t ? VS ^ wnism- 'O n whom he used to S L * i ! M **« * his pushed and galW

      mn . f fc ™ ' somet / me , at least , he mus be content with a situa ti on subordinate rnhri ?! . J ° ' , Iefls reaI a ^ ' have " lured the knack of dealing wift every . day

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      business , by passing through the usual office gradations . He must stoop to conquer a alliance with Gladstone , and the band £ clever and practised officials who occupy a benches opposite to Ministers , will , in realitv bring him nearer to the object of his ambition —a seat ia the Cabinet—than the mainte nance of a separation which has no realfoun dation , and can only now bo perpetuated from personal pique , and the recollection of by-eon * quarrels . ' """ If the Peelite section take this course and the Country Party unite with them , - they wnr become what the French call " masters o f th situation . " A party will be formed nunieri cally stronger than the Ministry can denend

      upon ; ana , in order to save themselves the * will bo obliged to make concessions to the * mom Liberal section of their supporters , which hi therto , backed by thesupportof the Peelites thev have refused . We have , on various occasions shown how adverse to any vi gorousl y progres ' sive policy the state of parties has been for the laBt two or three years . When the Country Party made an aggressive mo vement , tha Peelite and Free Trade Sections could always be counted upon by the Whi gs—when the Parliamentary and . Financial Reformers pushed forward any of their measures Con . servatives of all complexions united with the Whigs to defeat them .

      The formation of a distinct Opposition party under recognised leaders , would put an end to this anomalous state of affairs ; the only prac tical consequence of whichjias been to keen the Russell Ministry in power , to do nothing or next to nothing . The death of Sir R Peel has removed the obstacles which fer . merly intervened , and we think it is scarcely probable that the altered circumstances will not be followed by an altered policy . There is , to be sure , the other alternative , namel y—* of the Peelite section ; or , at least , its more prominent members going over to the Whiga and in consideration of official power and patronage , placing their votes and influence at the disposal of the head of the present rickettv

      Administration . This , however , we thi nk by no means likely ; and should the difficulties ar ising out of the newly-created Roman Catholic Hierarchy bo safely surmounted all the probabilities point to the conclusion we have indicated . In view of such a change in the composition and relative bearing of parliamentary parties the people ought to be prepared with a definitive and a practical plan of representative and fiscal reform .

      It is again rumoured , as it was last year , that Lord John intends to propose a measure of Parliamentary Reform , next session . "We have no faith in the report , and if it haa any foumlation in truth , a measure , coined in iho Whig mint , would be of so paltry and valueless a character , as to he unworthy of acceptance by the people . In order to gain a Reform of Parliament worth y of the name , the power of au united public opinion must be brought to , beat both upon the ministry and ' the members , who , as we have shown , are just now favourably

      situated for that purpose . Tho approaching Conference at Manchester has it in its power to inaugurate a movement with that view , which , under proper direction , may most powerfully contribute to the speedy political emancipation of the masses . There iB no need for concession or compromise—still less for a far greater blunder at the present moment—for wasting any energy or time in useless and irritating controversy . If they will adopt a definite and determined , but rational and conciliatory policy ; if they will hoist the standard of the Charter , without direct

      antagonism to any class or party , and devote themselves with all the powers at their command—be these few or many—to the task of evoking and directing public opinion , the coming Session may he prolific of great and lasting good for the People ' s Cause . The leading members of the minority in favour of Parliamentary Reform , who have seats in the present House of Commons , have , at various periods , publicly expressed their preference of the principle of Manhood Suffrage to the proposal of a rating suffrage , as embodied in

      Mr . Hume ' s " Little Charter . " They only give the latter their support because they think it expedient . A well directed agitation , with the view of affirmativel y testing the opinion of the masses on the subject , would , we hare no doubt , alter their convictions on that point . If they saw an organized , constitutional , and rationally conducted movement for Manhood Suffrage , supported by a large section of the intelligent and independent operatives of tins

      country , we believe they would have Uttle difficulty in substituting principlo for expediency . But whether they did so or not , the greater the power behind them—tho more extreme , and , at the same time , more comprehensive , just , and satisfactory measures demanded by the masses , would have the effect of lessening the repugnance of obstructives of all classes , to the moderate reforms advocated by Sir Joshua Walmsley and bis colleagues .

      At the commencement of the second half of the century—in the midst of profound peace , with a population tolerably well-employed , provisions plentiful and low-priced , and a flourishing exchequer , we stand in an unusuall y favourable position for re-commencing the agitation for the Charter ; and for demanding that , at a time when no panic fear hurries either Ministers or Legislators into blunders , they shall calml y and practically remove from our Constitution all that is rotten , impure , or useless , and make such additions and improvements as are required by the intelligence , and commensurate with the wants of the age .

      It depends on the Chartists of the United iingdom to take the initiative in this important and most beneficent work . If they bestir themselves in the right spirit , they will give a salutary and a powerful impetus to the causo ot Iveform . All around is propitious . Upon ourselves it depends whether we will take advantage of the favourable opportunity , or whe-5 % J t J hich ma ? lead us to s « cceBB shall be suffere d to ebb , and leave us where we are . We look to the Men of Manchester , to those who may assemble with" them in council , and to true Chartists ererywhere , for an answer to thiB question .

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      A MODERN PHCENIX TTn ? % ^ - mate destination of the Socialist Wall of Science , m Manchester , forcibly illustiates Shakespeare ' s assertion- " There ' s a T ™ "y . ™ # » peB our ends , rough-hew them as we will . ' Erected some ten yiars ago , for the promul gation of the principle of Commanity of Pr operty , it has passed out of the nanos of its builders and owners , and become the common property of the citizens of Mancnester . Socialism , in its abstract and the * retical aspect , has not been realised : but the principle has been adapted to . and

      incorporatea with , the existing institutions and social machinery of the Cotton Metropolis . People talk of Socialism having failed , anc ^ » i 5 ? eXUltation wa 8 ex P ^ d bycleri . SLSVff , arecent ™ eW * hen th . Mayor of Manchester explained the new pur poses to which the Socialist Hall is to be put Sn r l think that a victor ^ had Wi gained over the principles of Socialism , when fw aS We under ^ nd those principles they were essentially triumphant P TH 8 trui

      sfruXl 8 Cientific % and harmoniously con nosed hv ^ mUnit l ' Home Colonies , pro thTL , y - ? Tfc , ° ' and looked upon ai not yS ££$ - Society byh 3 s d 5 sci P lefl « hav ( the SLff ** f ? PP ^ nce . It is true tha K 1 - m ) l translated ^ to the real £ fS £ , 11 fa 8 Mon and ^ nner in wind the more enthusiastic , imaginative , and Ban

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR , January 35 , 1851 ;

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      _ 3 ) U BARRrs UEALTIl RESTORING FOOD TUE REVALESTA ARABICA .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 25, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1610/page/4/