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    • rTOVlTT'- 3.CRN..- . *? : UTK-.-.TURE ASD PIIO.KBSS. _ ._h*o"*y wm-imandMwjHowm. PartIV.
    • TUE RICH AND THE POOR.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MAY 15,1847. •
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      JLL May Ut , 1 S 47 , price _Sevenpence ,. contains Fonr splendid _Bogr-v- _ip * . u _ w « v « , _« c- « , ana W . H . Kason - with vignettes hvG _Measomand Linton , from paintin- « p . v Mi _» s Gillies , K-Uloach , Sonderland , UurriUo and Sint . _Amoncrt the literary article- are Memoir of E . Elliott ; Sational . Education andGoyernment Education , bv _VraUam-Hwritt ; _Anticlimax , ty R . H . Home - . The Three _Panerafc , by _^ ib * 1 _ardoe ; Vh ysiploiry for the reople , bv Dr CarpentVr , F . R . S . - , _Sfc-am i « the Desert , by E . Elliott ; Ireland , by _ . 1 : rciligartli ; Earl y Closing , by _Silverpen : Poems , etc . * _-y Mary Howitt ; _Sniselicr-s < m tl . e Daunbe . by Hans C . -Andersen ; EawajPt * Flowers ofthe Season , by vSn ni-c " -6 _, P . L . S . ; Have _Patienrc . a Story , by Mrs Hodgson ; Sig . its ' " South Germany , by Abel _Payi . tcr ; B < K--, * -vM rsH _ rtho _\« _nWvv-, On t _ 9 C . _„_" t _* o „ of Ireland . _hWa . _Uvett ; Susan _LeeV Birthday Adventure , by _Edtvard _' _To-1 ; Trip to Texas , i _? Frank-- Fox ; Death of Tiberias , by X . _ . -loilc , author « f _•' _. tate Trials , " etc . etc . etc .- " ¦ - ' ¦ _*' ' ' "Xo two persons have done si much for the literature of fteir country as William and Mary Howitt ; they ar pa-lie _beuefactorr . _" * — _* _os * w ( United States ) Athen—m . _"NoMngchn exceed the surprise and * . caMirc we experieoced on looking over this _valuable Journal , and finding the va « tamountofvariedinf .. nnn _ onitcoiiwins . Arapidly increasing sale mil , wed . _ bt _ ot , repay tke editors for all their _ a __ ietie . s ** _—X-oer pooliftrctiry . . __„ . . ..- „ __ . _ , __ ____«¦__ . _ _»*™ - Louiun . _poblished for the Proprietor , at 171 , Strand .

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      ON THE FIRST OF JOLT , 1617 , _Willte PuWished , NO . L < _PMCE _ L _ PE-. E , _* OF THE PEOPLE'S LEGAL ADVISER . The objec t of thisinomnly publication , is perhaps suSic * e _ lly indicated by its title ; it may be well , however , to add a _' few words in c . vplanation . That there are many sul > U-c : s of an exclusively le _/ al c- _ ra * - -ter , and bearing _jieci-iarly on tiie interests ofthe ¦ working classes—outhem more than utt the oilier classes « _fs _.. ciety—is a truth thai hardly requires its assertion ; and it irould , of course , he desirable that * 11 tlie » e should be brought together in a . form , cheap , compeiidious , and _iateHigible , for the beuefit of those to whoin they chiefly relate .

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      IMPORTANT TO _EMIGEANTS . AGRICULTURISTS and others may purchase 159 ACRES OF mcil TIMBERED LASD IN "HESTERS VIRGI . VIA , described by General Washington as the Garden of America , for £ ii Ss . Sd . Sterling , ABOUT THREE SHILLIXG _. PER ACRE . £ 2 12 s . _trnlvto be paid down , the remainder in FIVE ANNUAL FA-MES-S . . For further information apply to CHARLES _WI-LMEIl , American Land Ofiice , -TASLE _. BDI-MVGS , BATn STREET , LIVERPOOL . Cf whom may be had a Pamphlet on Emigration , in ¦ which these Lands are fully described , and tlie terms of sale explained , by sending three postage stamps to free the same .

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      AUXILIARY TO TUE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . THE FOUNDER nf the NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE BESEF 1 T SO-OIETY respectfully acquaints his iret- ren of thc Land Company and his Brother D . emo crats iu general , that his _object in founding the Socictj was to aid and assist the National Land Company ia its g lorious efforts to emancipate the human race , by pouring __& _. _<_> _iato its exchequer , _through ibe menus of the NATIONAL LAND _andLAhODR BANK ; but the adoption « f the PEOPLE'S _""AX-JC has proved a death- blow to the enrolment ofthe Society . All . _ncllcd societies since thc _passing ef tae New Friendly Socieiics * Act , being compelled " to _deposit the r cash iu the Bank of Eiigla _ d _, and ihus furnish the "sinews" to upheld a Standing Army ,

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      TO TAILOES . B . Bead ' s New Patent Indicator for fiii _. ityr proportion and disproportion in all systees of _cutti-ig . Caveats granted , April i _ iid , . 8 _' 7 , sigrif . by Messrs rooland _Ospmeal , Patent Ofiice , 4 , Old Square , Lincoln ' s Inn . Declaration of same , signed by Sir G- Carroll , _g-it ., Lord Major oi Loudon . THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SEMMER FASHIONS for _ISiT , are how readv , by « ENJAMIN READ and Co . ) 2 _, HartstEt-t , _Bloomsiury square , Loudon ; and by G . Berger , _Holyweii-stiset , Strand . May ha had of ajl bc 0 _jc __ _**_ rs wheresoever j _3-siding . By approbation of her Haiestv _Q-eeu Victors *

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      BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SUKGiON re-idingin Cork having , inthe _coureeof lis Practice , had his attention particularly directed to , _ nd acquired great _experience in the TREAT _*_ KNT OF CAPILLARY DISEASES , beg & to inform those persons afflicted with B ALDNESS ( whether in voatii or ad . ancedw life ) may , by a most simple pi-cess , REl'UOJl-C that necessary ornament . Parties cpplying will req-ireto enclose a small _quantityiof hair , and a fee of five _" _¦^ _" _^ _V-. P 05 t- < , ffic _* - * order , in favour of Surgeon Edward WUliams , 13 , Henry-street , Cork ; when tiie _nelestjuryinfpnetwns vrill _befcrnarded hy _returnofpost .

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      -Just published , price Cd . { printed from the Short-hand - Writer . Notes , ) rpHE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS ATLITERPOOL - on tlie 2 nd and Srd « f April , 38 J 7 . Edited by W . P . Robkkts , E « q . Loudon : _Nordiern . Star Office , 16 , Great Tfindmill Strct , Haymarket : and . Bt ' the offices of Mr Roberts , 2 , Robert-street , Adelphi Manchester : Abel Heywood , Oldham , treet ; and all Booksellers .

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      KOTICE . Thc Shareholders of tbeNATIOXAL LAND COMPAHY are hereby informed that A GRASD DEMONSTRATION Will take placo at O'CONNORVILLE , HERTS , On Whit Monday , May 2-th , 1817 , To _commenKjrate the Anniversary of the Company . The Directors not having succeeded in _obtaining a special train from Londou f .. r the occasion , « ie Metropolitan members are recommended to proceed to the estate _l-y van or railway . Day tickets to and from Watford can _behadatEuston-square station . for 2 « . 6 d . each . The branches will make their own arrangements immediately . The time and place of starring for vans and other vehicles will be announced in a future notice . BX OltDER OF THE DlEECTOKf .

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      « ow Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had atthe _Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; nnd of Abel Hevwood , Manchester .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , No . li , ( price Cd . ) of THE LABOURER , A Monthly Ma _ a- _* ine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , <_ c . Edited by _Fk-bous 0 'Co . v _* fon _, Esq ., _asd Ebhebt _Joxss , Esq ., ( _Barristers-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient in _,-t monthly organ , the above magacine is esta . blished to remedy this deficiency . COSTESTS . 1 . May Day , a Poem , by Ernest Jones . 2 . Letter ofan Agricultural Labourer . 3 . The Jolly Young I oachcr . 4 . The Phase of Political tartics . 5 . The Confessions ofa King . 6 . The Insurrections ofthe Working Classes . " . The Laud . 8 . The Romance of * People . 9 . The Queen ' s Bounty—A Legend of Wi-d-or . 10 . The Monthly Riview .

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      NUMBER III . or " THE _LABOURE _** , ' Containing , amongst other matters , a Reprint of Mr F . O'Connor's Letter , ii =. the "Nortliern Star" of January _-I'th , demonstrating the certainty with wliich an allottee may support himself and family , and accumulate money , on a "Two Acre *' allotment . "' The rery general demand that was made for the paper containing the above letter induced the Editors to reprint it , after careful revision , in the March Number of _ilie"Labo _ rer . NUMBER IV . of "THE LABOURER , ** Containing an elaborate Treatise on the NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BANK , IK ITS RELATION WITH THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Are now reprinted , and may be had on applications .

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      NUMBER VI . " THE LABOURER , " To be published on June lst , will be enriched with an elegant Portrait , engraved on Steel , of T . S . DUNCOMBE , Esq ., M . P .

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      Number VI . will complete the first Volume of the " Labourer - " copies of which , neatly bound in embossed cloth , ( Price 5 s . 6 d . each ) will be ready early in the month of June . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star , " and aU booksellers in town and country .

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      A COLOURED DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT in best morocco case for 10 s ., wliich it 15 s . less than any other London establishment , and warranted to be equally good , by MR EGERT 05 , 148 , Fleet-street , opposite Bouverie-street , and 1 , Temple-street , Whitefriars . Open daily from nine till four . Foreign Apparatus Agent to Yoigtlandcr and Liribours , a complete Book of Instruction , price 7 s . ( j . ! ., by post les . Price lists sent nost free .

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      O'CONNORVILLE . - * TnE VISITORS TO O'CONNORVILLE ON "WHIT MONDAY are respectfully informed that Mi SOUTH has a Meadow , opposite the Estate , in which al ' Horses and Vehicles attending the Demonstration can b « attended to . The charge for e » ch Horse , with Hay , Water , and _attendance , will be 9 d .

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      MARTI N JUDE begs to intimate to his numerous Friends and Acquaintances that he has REMOVED TO THE COOK INN , head of the Side , _Newcasile _, where he confidently expects to be favoured with thoir custom / as heretofore . The House is well adapted for Clubs and Societies'Meetings , there being a large and commodious Long Room , which is _bi-ing titted up in a superior style . There is already several Clu . sheldat the house , and a Urauch of the Nati . u-l Land _Coinp- _ t _ meet evti-y Sunday and Monday evening , where persons desirous of taking up shares of the Company caii be enroUed , from seven to nine o ' clock .

      Tue Rich And The Poor.

      TUE RICH AND THE POOR .

      Look Os This Ricic-E, Asd Ok This'. Her ...

      LOOK OS THIS riCIC-E , ASD OK THIS ' . Her Majesty aud Prince Death fbom St _ SV _ - Albert _, accompanied by tlie hon . —On Saturday an in-Prince of _Leioingen _, lio- quest was held before P . F . noured the Royal Iialian Curry , Esq ., Borough co-Opera-house with their pre- roncr , on the body of Luke seuce on Wednesday even- Brothers , a child of eight itig . _IlerKajesty appeared years , who lived iu a court to bs enjoying excellent iu _BaniEttr-street , and who health and spirits . died from want of sufficient Her -Inject / the Queen food . The coroner and

      Dowager , her . Royal High- jury , who had been view " -, ne « s tbe _Ducte's of Kent , the body , returned heartand her _Rojal Highness the sickat the scene of disease , Duchess of Cambridge hon- destitution , and filtb , wbich _ouredherJUjesty . Theatre they witnessed in the with th « tr presence on * iYed- court and its neighbour . _ es . ay cresting . hood . The population i » Colonel and Lady Alice dense , and huddled to-Fed entertained a dis tin- gether in miserable dirty guished party to dinner on holes , called house * by the Wednesday at their - rest- owners , but in reality perdence in P _ rk plaee , St feet sties — appropriate James ' s . nests of disease and deatb .

      -Ire Wyndham . ball , in Dr Walton , the medical _Grosrenor-pla _. e , was -the officer of the district , said great point of attraction _. or he found that , beyond the leading _iremb-rs of tie doubt , death was caused _fashionable world on Wed- from want of _necessary _nesdayes-aing . food . There was not the The LoKf ! Mayor gave a least particle of food in the grand entertainment to her _ tom _. ch or intestines , and M-g-ity . Ministers on Wed- both were in a perfectly nesday evening at the Maa- healthy state . In the same sion-house . _Xsjor-General room where the deceased Sir Harry Smith , G . C . B ., l _,. y there were five otber and Lady Smith partici- persons laid on the floor in _pated in the t-iri-. _-banquet . fevec The floor was a mud Lady _Lyndli _. rt - ' s second one , and not fit for any

      agues dunsantc took place human being to live in . oa ____ r «_ ay eveu ' mj . The jury , without _hesitaiordFoleye * te-tnAaeda tion , retsroed a verdict of distinguished circle at * . v'Died from starvation . " d « raer on Wednesday essn- Ho- _ im _* Destitution . ing & t : bU Lordship's tassr —Done _. aiix .-.. A man sion in . Cvasvenor-sq . _aw _. e . named Gal _ _ay was arrested His j _ ords $ _ p had su ____ - hy tbe police , within two q _. _entjy . _an evening party _, sjiles ofthifi town , for Lord Hoth-Oi htil e _stealing a hor « e end killing -inner party on Wednesday ' h \»; and "he and his evening , at his _"lordship ' s _wretched family war . act . _, mansion ia Hill-street . _nllypcrtaking of soup made The Ear ] and Countess oa the carrion" when he Cosvper eut-ri _. ined a select was taken . He says he party at dinner on Tuesday was witbout food for three

      erening . The " Some Karl days , and that he was on and Countess tad also a the look-out for a sheep , u dinner party on -Wednesday pig , or a cow ; but was dis . _evening in Great Stanhope- appointed , as those animals street . are all secured by night , Sir Albert arid Lady Peel aud watched by day—eo he entertained a distinguished had no resource but '' horse circle to dinner on Wednes- flesh" to satisfy the cravday erening , at tbe family _ingsof his appetite and thc residence in Whitehall- hunger of hia _starving cliilgardens . dren , _G-ilway has been The Earl and Countess of gent to gaol . Powis entertained a select pany at dinner on Wednesday evening _. in _Berkeleytquare .

      Telegraph C_K.Ra_ Station.—On Monday, Th...

      Telegraph C _ k _. ra _ Station . —On Monday , the whole of the extensive buildings , including Found ers' Ilall and Chapel _in-Founders-court , Lothbury fronting the Bank of England , were being demolished , the Electric Telegraph Company having purchased the property for the formation of their Central Metropolitan Station . B _ bmo _>___ - . —New Tanners' Arms , Grange-read . The shareholders will meet on Monday evening , Mav 17 th , at 8 o ' clock , for the purpose of appointin _*' officers , * c . _-

      , Observe.:;:, ' . " ..• V;.; \. \ ' All...

      , observe .: ; :, ' . " .. V ; . ; \ . \ ' All eorreepondeace , reports of public meetings , Chari ttet and Trades' Intelligence , and general questions , must be addressed to Mr G . 3 . Ha-net , "Northern Star Office , " IG , Great _WintoiU Street , Loudon . All -leirat . questions , and matters of local news , not noticed in provincial papers , and requiring . omnia t . to be addressed to- Mr Eux _. sf _Joses as above . All questions _rosjiecting Bills introduced into the Legislature , Acts of Parliament , their meaning and intent , Ac , and questions ' respectiug the _Mintetry , and tlio members of the two Houses of _Parliaments to bo addressed to Mr George Fleming , " Northern _St-tr" Office . AU questions , connected with the management of , land , and touching the operations of building , cultivation , J * c , to bcaddressed to _MrO'CoKNOR , _Lowburf * , Red . Unlet , Ledbury , 1 Worcestershire . *

      AH communications ef Agents , and all matters of at- _, count , to be addressed t « Mr . Vf . Rider , "Northern Stai Office , " Iti _, Great Windmill Street , London . , All Applications for m . igaziut . to bemade through Mr . M ' Gowan , Printer , as abovd . 3 _ _BT All reports of meetings holden in any part of England on the Sunday , must be at this office by Tuesday ; reports of ' meetings held on the Monday must he at the office by Wednesday . This rule is for _«* Trad . s , " as wellas " Chartist" aiid " Land Company " meetings . Notices of " Forthcoming Meetings , " and correspondence requiring answers , ' mu _. t be at . the . office by Wednesday , at the latest . " Letters" commenting on public questions , intended for insertion in full , must be at the office by Tuesday . The communications of correspondents not attending to the above regulations will stand over .

      The Northern Star Saturday, May 15,1847. •

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , MAY 15 , 1847 .

      Thb Charter, And No Surrender J Those Wh...

      THB CHARTER , AND NO SURRENDER J Those who dreamed that a principle based on truth could ever be _destroyed by violence , or withered by neglect , must be undeceived by the fresh vigour with which the Charter has sprung' --upward from its long repose . It lias risen like a giant ¦ refreshed with rest , and . the sordid capitalist who speculated on its death , and the eager votary who condemned its quietude , are alike disappointed , though with far different feelitigs . . There is a period

      in every prolonged public movement when a pause for thought is reqni ite ; there is one time for preparation—and another for action . Those leaders make a fatal error vylio 1 mistake the relative moment for each . Those soldiers fight the battle of the enemy , who are too eager , in the camp , or too apathetic in the field . But it is the glorious privilege of the Charter , that it has never been wholly dormant;—in the period of its political quiescence , it has been . sowing the seeds of thought , and maturing the fruit of experience . ' ¦ ' The public mind is

      far more prepared than it was some years ago to grapple with the chimeras of Monopoly ; itis purged of the rashness that led it into the snares of the wily ; it is armed _witlifclhe fortitude that can baffle the strength of the unscrupulous . Out of the alembic of violence and persecution it drew , the treasure , ofa peaceful movement , and the . Land Plan stands there as the type of the pure . principle and true spirit of the Charter . It is the image of that happiness which the country would enjoy under a democratic government . It is a lesson _* teaching through the prosperity of the lew , what mi ght be

      the lot of all—either as the landed freeholder or the independent mechanic , since the Land _PJan must benefit equally the new-created freeman , arid the operative released from tlie crushing burden of competitive labour . Yet it is merely a microcosm of the great world of Chartism ; aiid this is the answer for those who thought , or think , the latter can .. he damaged by the Land Plan . It . is but the great incentive held up to the eyes of the people ; however successful , it can but free a tithe of the enslaved , who must still win the Charter , before they can emulate their brethren on ( he Land . Neither will

      it draw those away from the ranks of Chartism who once become its lucky allottees—since these , too , must recollect that a government is over them , empowered tb enforce , and experienced to enact , those unequal laws which crush all independent industry , and nip the flower of enterprise in the bud . The Land Plan , we say , is an answer to those who call the Charter but an abstract theory _. and ask "if it will give us bread ? " It is a lesson which it rests with the country to use . It is true , unpractical theorists have promised the bi g loaf . - the propounders of the

      Land Plan have given it to some—have shown thai it is attainable for all , when once the political monopolies that lock up the laud and crush labour shall he swept away . ¦ "Will the Charter give us bread ? We say to the people—what is it gave the deer-park to the landlord , and the market to . the speculator ? Political power ! What is it gave the tithe and glebe land to the Church , *—the heart ' s blood of yourchildren to the manufacturer , —and the produce of all nature to a few ? Political power ! What is it makes religion a mockery , honest toil a badge of

      inferiority , . and . titled lust , a passport to honour ? Political power ! And what is it but political power that can raise the people again from the degradation of slavery to the manhood of freedom ? That political power is embodied in the Charter , —and we challenge the world to produce a plan so sound for its obtainment . _. Not give the people bread ? Would they , we ask , make enactments that would starve themselves ; or would they not frame laws that would develope the undeniable resources ofthe country ? Not give ns bread ? Would they take the crust out of their children ' s . mouths in the shape

      of taxes , to . pension the kept mistresses of royal dukes ; or support a vile class of molded monopolists , who draw * their funded revenues out of the misery they have legislated into existence ? Letthose who have profited by misrule fear the people ' s possessing power . Tell them " by your fruits ye shall be known , " and ask them , could a system of government be worse , more unchristian , more immoral , more tyrannical than ourpresent system ? It has murdered one million of _ Irishmen ; - — it is murdering the English mechanic ; it has demoralised the spirit of the people ; it has taken Woman from her children and her fireside—chained her like

      a beast of the field to the truck—locked lier in the mill , or laid her prostrate beneath the feet of monied lust ; it has driven Man to the gin-shop , by making his home a hell ; it has taught him to steal , by denying him food ; it has crippled his offspring by premature labour , and schooled them in sin by inuring tbem to misery . Could tbe people do worse ? Which is Ibe party that appears most trustworthy of power—those who , amid unparalleled suffering , and possessed of a terrible mi ght that , if organised , were sufficient to tram ple every monopoly under

      foot , jhave still the Christian forbearance to tame down ihe angry feelings in iheir breast , and , though goaded hy hunger , demean themselves thus , that even their tyrants are surprised at their " exemplary patience ? " or those who , in the . midst of such scenes , carry splendour to its utmost limit , till the papers teem with accounts of banquets , bulls , and dinners—while , like the skeleton at the Eastern feasts , "DEATH FROM STARVATION" nieets the eye at every page , amid the very records of magnificence 1 History will reverse the seiiten .

      eeand write "MURDER BY MONOPOLY * ' in . its place . We regret to see that Her ; Majesty is so illadvised by her councillors as to frequent the theatres and concert-rooms , instead of visiting the factory town and the dyiug pauper , which would be a far more " gracious " occupation for a Christian Sovereign . We even learn that the Queen has been so happy of / ate , that the papers have remarked on Irsr " high spirits . " Of course she can know nothing of the sufferings of the People , or she . would have wept bitter tears of grief . .

      Such being the real character of the People and their Rulers , none but knaves can fear the former being _possessed of political power—none but traitors ought to shrink from the great duty of . struggling

      Thb Charter, And No Surrender J Those Wh...

      fo / the Charter . _iThat '' exemp lary , patience , which monopoly praises so . much , we call a sm . Se _^ _es-rvatibn ii i ' duty , ; to God ; patience can degenerate into . lavish-ess , which not- only sufters . its . lf , _butisguilty towards others in condemning them to a _Continuance of slavery . The People must rouse themselves frora their lethargythey must come together — tell their grievances aloud to the world , and to . each other , aud then there need be no fear of masters or the loss of employment , for were every factory-slave to pronounce himself a CHARTIST , where is the master who

      could dismiss his hands ? But above all , there must lie no violence—whoever commits an outrage , p lays the enemy ' s game ! Let the energies of all be directed to re-organise the Chartist body—re-establish local councils to agitate their several districts , aud , above all , prepare for the coming Election ; and such a power may soon be raised , as by calm , peaceful , and constitutional pr ogression , shall laugh FINALITY to scorn . In our last number we showed how the present time was peculiarly fitted for the development of our principles;—not alone is Faction distracted by conflicting interests , but the people have learned that self-reliance , which places them alike above the arts of enemies and the treachery of

      leaders . It can never again be an excuse for apathy that a"leader would not act , " the people are cap . Ve of acting for themselves , such has been the growth of the public mind ; and when they show the symptoms of renewed progress , we doubt not but every leader will be found faithful at his post . Onward , then—be the motto of every one _Reserving thc name of MAN : ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , BACKWARD AND WE TALL . THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !

      Priestcraft Versus Religion. The Lord Pr...

      PRIESTCRAFT versus RELIGION . The Lord Primate Vias been outdone . He asserted the famine was a visitation from God for thc sins of " the People "—by which , we suppose , he _comprehended all classes , though unable to reconcile with God ' s justice why the'innocent should suffer instead of the guilty , seeing that-tlie working classes alone are the sufferers , and that the rich and great feci no famine . The astounding assertion o f the Prelate has been surpassed by that of the " Rev . " J . Hocken , superintendant of the Cleckhcaton Circuit , in Yorkshire , who on the late

      Fastday stated from thc pulpit that "CHARTISM is the absorbing cause of all God ' s judgments being poured upon our highly-favoured country . " In the face of this blasphemous dictum , the Chartists of the _locality aud neighbourhood convened a public meeting , and decided uponchallengingthe " rev . _gentletleriian'' to a public discussion at Heckmondwicke*—a challenge which , we need not say , he has not dared to accept . The man who could hazard such an opinion must be either a fool or a knave . We

      are bound by Christian charity to believe the former , since it is impossible for any true disci ple of Christ , who came to break the bonds of the poor , to see anything calculated to excite the wrath of God in the principles _, of the Charter . It is a strugg le of Man against Mammon—it is an attempt to rescue the living soul from the snares of the flesh . Before he preached that in his Fast-day sermon , he should have read his Bible , where it is said to the _ rcat and rich ¦—¦

      Behold ! ye fast for strife and debate , and to smite with the fist of wickedness . Wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not this the last that I have chosen : to loose the bauds of Wickedness , io undo the heav _. burdens AND TO LEI THB OPPRESSED OO FREE , AND THAT YE BREAK . EVERT . _OKE ? And this it is that the Charter inculcates . Black must be the heart , or dark must be the brain , of him who sees irrclig ion in its principle or practice . What is it that the " rev . " calumniator wants ? Does he wish the peo _ le _* to remain factory-slaves or

      agricultural serfs , at six or seven shillings per week ? His Bible tells him to " break every yoke . " Does be see Religion in the splendours of a Court , the riot of an aristocracy , and the truculcnce of the usurer ? Are the cries of young children in the factories music to his ear ? Are these modern blood-offerings to Moloch . the acceptable homage to his , God ? Does he say . that the avenging angel swept over Ireland , as of old over the Assyrian camp , smiting the guilty , and sending one million , souls to their last account ? No ! for he struck not the host of the spoiler ; the Gentile was spared , whilst Israel

      was destroyed . Does he sec a crime in the bright cottages of O'Connorville ? More true religion is preached on those holy thresholds than from the tainted lips of fanatical-hypocrisy . Man was born to live by the sweat ofhis brow . Dare , . he say that God intended him to STARVE on it ? that God gave abundance , to encourage waste ; and made the larger portion of mankind a hungry Tantalus , mocking hira with the sight of plenty , that he does not shave ? If God intended man to live by the sweat of his brow , why do not the lazy drones " ' of his class obey His mandate ? . But no ! It suits them

      not—they wish to live upon the toil of others , and therefore still they preach tlieir accursed doctrine" God made yon to starve and suffer , and us to enjoy the fruits of your toil * " . Let hira behold the fruits of his relig ion in Manchester and the manufacturing North . Let . him stand iu the streets among the perishing thousands , and ) pointing to the palaces around hira , tell them if he dare— " God meant it thus ! '' We know he cannot _; but then , how dare he , safe in his pulpit , cloak himself under the shadow of God , and abuse the holy name of his Creator , to screen iniquity from the hands of justice ? ,

      Let hira look at the prison and the ' Bastile—see men , whom hunger taught- to steal , punished for having learned a lesson frora their tyrants , and sny : God meant it thus ! Let him go from the table of the usurer , taste the Poor-Law soup , and say , —God meant it thus . ' Let him 6 ee thc -ie tears on the liollow cheek of the worn-out pauper , while his poor wife is torn away from him at the gate of the Union , and though he preaches accursed be those who part man and wife , let him then say , God meant it thus !• .,. ¦

      This hypocritical preacher is the true priest of Mammon : it is such as he who bring the name of Religion into discredit , and by THEIR culpable infidelity , estrange the , soiil of man fiom his Creator . Then they dare go forth to the world and say , " Chartism , is infidelity ! " Because it wishes to rescue Religion frora Priestcraft , to free the name ot God from the slander of the bigot , and thinks creation was intended as a BLESSING and not as a CURSE unto mankind . We believe the Chartists to be a truly religious body of men , and we also believe that the Rev . Mr . Hocken is an unfair

      specimen of the great body of Dissenters in this country . We think far better of them than he would make us believe _; he is evidently one of the black sheep of the flock , and we trust , for their own sakes , they will not follow his guidance . Indeed , their interest plainly leads them towards us , since we are the only party in the country , besides themselves , who _. idvocate an entire separation of Church and State , iViis , Mr Hocken , no doubt , does;—he , no doubt , _wishesto c"rtail tlie _splendour of the Slate Church

      Node . a " be disapproves of its monopolising ten millions per annum . But why does he endeavour to _uphold all other monopolies ? Would it be unchristian to suppose that Mr Hocken onl y hates the State Church monopoly because lie has no share in these ten _millions ? We may suppose this ofthe man who ; has spoken thus ; and wc caution those ofhis own relig ious _persuasion against him , since he can ba no honest advoca \ <* of . RELIGIOUS LIBERTY , w--i . a __ pU . l __ r of _^ OLITlCiMi VASSALAGE

      ;• ¦ - •; Tauliamentary Llevjew. Ru«O.R-...

      ;• ¦ - •; TAULIAMENTARY _llEVJEW . RU « O . R- 0 . J . . 6 _ Ltt _ Q _!* I MINISTRY- THE MONETARY PANIC—DEFICIENCY OF FOOD IN THE ' COUNTRY—IRISH _POOR-LAW—HEALT H _^ _.. OF TOWNS—MORTMAIN .

      It Is Evident That The Session Is Drawin...

      It is evident that the session is drawing to an end ; The usual preliminary " slaughter of the innocents" has commenced already . Notices of motion , and bills that have encumbered the business paper for nearly the whole of the session , are either formally withdrawn , or got rid of by a side wind such as " a count out , '' and similar parliamentary expedients for escaping disagreeable er inconvenient jobs . These same " counts out" have occurred rather too frequently of late , ifthe business before thc

      Legislature , and the perilous position ofthe country , be taken into consideration . Last week there were two ; and this week , on Tuesday , tbe sudden termination oftlie sitting at the very moment when a most important and universally interesting debate was to have been commenced , was equivalent lo a " count out . " This laxity in the maimer of conducting public'business at so critical a period is most reprehensible in itself , but is , we suspect , unavoidable with our present Ministry . It is by no means an old one so far as time is conceimcd , yet , in fact , it is *

      ornout , infirm , and decrcpid : its measures arc thoroughly understood , and tlieir worthless , holiow , and insufficient character perfectly appreciated . Nobody , in fact , takes the sli g htest interest in them , because they are felt to be . the productions ofa Ministry n hich is itself a negation—a mere temporary occupant of power , which must be kicked out the moment that events ripen for real action . Even the leading members of the Cabinet , as well as Iheir under strappers , seem to have lost what little heart and earnestness in their work they ever

      possessed . They feel and act as though they were already a doomed party , at least iu the present Parliament , aud whatever of hope they may possess centres entirely on the chances of the coming general election . As a specimen of this official devil-may-care sort of feeling , we may mention one fact . On Thursday week , whilst on our way to the House of Commons , about seven o ' clock in the evening , we met returning from a ride in the Parks Sir G . Grey and a lady , and behind them Lord John Russell and Lord

      Sandon , apparently taking it very coolly and comfortably . . The comparison involuntarily suggested itself between the present and the late Premier and Home-Secretary . Peel and Graham were never seen gallivanting in tbat fashion , when business was to be done . A motion of a most important character was under discussion when wc entered the House . There were but two members of the Ministry on the Treasury Bench , and altogether a House of some thirty Members . The question was one which it might have been expected

      would , in this preeminently commercial aud manufacturing country , have excited deep interestnamely , the means by which the cultivation of cotton in India might be extended and improved . Mr Bright , in a speech less vulgar in maimer and arrogant in tone than is usual with that delectable specimen of the Mill-lords , moved for a select committee of inquiry into the st _. bject , which Sir J . Hobhouse said the Government were willing to grant ; but before the motion was put from the chair the

      House was counted out , on the motion of Dillon Browne , a gentleman who has lately somewhat distinguished himself , in this particular line , and who , n our opinion , if he has neither inclination nor bility to attend to public business , ought not to prevent others irom doing so , in so wanton and causeless a manner . But the real error rested with our dilletanti Ministers . Tlicy ought to have seen that a sufficient number of Members were present to make a liouse , and to have provided for the due transaction of business .

      One effBct of this obvious decay and premature old -ge of the present Cabinet has been , to give currency to rumours of a coalition between Peel and Russell ; or , at all events , some of the lieutenants of the former statesman . > We do not give the slightest credence to them . Sir R . Peel will not return to ofiice unless upon something like a very urgent demand from the whole country , and ir he takes place under such circumstances , he is not the man to-be hampered with an incongruous - ' open-question " Cabinet . One mind and principle will pervade

      every department nf his Administration , and his associates will , as in the case of his last Cabinet , be selected on account of their general agreement with him , and tlieir administrative abilities for carrying out his general ideas in tlieir respective departments . In such a Cabinet-Russell could find no place , and we do not see many of his subordinate colleagues who would be at all up to Peel ' s standard of a man of business . On the other hand , it is scarcely likely that young _. and promising men-like Lords _Dalhousie

      or Lincoln , Mr Sidney Herbert , Mr Cardwell , and others of the late Ministry , will consent to risk their fate with what is evidently a doomed and incapable p arty , and with an inefficient leader . The Election , and the course of events , mnst determine who are to be our future rulers . The pear is not yet ripe for Peel ' s plucking just yet ; but , if wc mistake not , the period is not far distant when natural calamities , conjoined with financial ami administrative blundering , ' will produce a unanimous demand for his resumption of the reins of power .

      The . Business -Transacted Tins Week Has...

      The . business -transacted tins week has been multifarious , and generally of a discursive character ; its termination rcmiwVmg one more of . tlie passages in old houses which lead to " nowhere , " than anything else . On Monday , a monetary debate took place on tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s statement , as to the intentions of the Government with reference to the present pressure . These were briefly to raise the rate of interest upon . Exchequer Bills , and to allow a discount of five per cent , upon instalments of tlie -68 , 000 , 000 Irish Loan , paid in

      advance . By these means Sir C . Wood expects to raise the value of Exchequer Bills , which have been selling at a discount ; and to preclude the necessity of going to the Bank of England for gold which it cannot spare , by inducing the capitalists to come forward with advances , for the sake of the extra 5 per cent . This is merel y another of those desperate stop-gap expedients , in which Whig financiers are so fertile , but it leaves the great question exactl y where it was . The problem to be solved is this Great Britain possesses labour and -machinery suffi .

      cient to create constantl y an enormous amount of wealth , by which we mean all those articles of consumption necessary for the pliysical and mental wellbeing of the whole community , and generally in . eluded under tlie category of food , clothing , shelter , and education . But with this superabundance of means for producing the real wealth , it finds itself suddenly arrested in its operations by the want of the representative of that reality . Men and

      machines , who should be employed in executing orders for home and foreign markets , are thrown idle ; trade is at a standstill confidence is destroyed ; ' credit is suspended . The wheels of society almost cease to revolve , solely because , though we have , with the exception of food , which is scarce this year , an abundance ofthe raw material , and of industry to work tt up into articles of consumption , wehave not yet found out a representative medium of exchange wbich cau Ue Pace _witlrour _produc .

      The . Business -Transacted Tins Week Has...

      tire powers and the wants of society . The _dmi we admit , has been found difficult of so ! uf _' ? , "•' legislators heretofore , and , looking at the _ilehi _^ Monday night , it does not seem much advanced ! ° wards a satisfactory answer ; but we can _sc imagine that ignorance , prejudice , or _interes _?™ _!* belong suffered to prevent the settlement of _« _' most vital and Radical question . In fact jthan any other , lies at the very _foundation _^ existing social structure . It is clear that thepre monetary system does not adequatel y perfori * _, _^ duties jt ought to do ; t is equall y clear that > throws undue and enormous power and riches it the hands ofthe money-dealers , and , by a _tlio-JI . , secret and unsu < pnctcd channels , drains the _weaiiu of th : * country from Labour , into the coffers of _•* , capitalist . Until Ibis monster evil be put an /? to-, it will be utterly impossible for an equitable and beneficial distribution of wealth to take place , or / put trade upen a sound and satisfactory _fouii-ly ; ,, The talk upon the subject was to havebeen rcsun- _^

      on Tuesday , but the Marquis of Granby , who _sIio _ V _ bave opened it , was not present when the order _«• , called , anil , much to thc amazement of the IIoiis t and to those members who bad postponed their motions in order that this question mi ght hebroueU on , tbe Speaker adjourned the House at six o ' clock It was , we dare say , looked upon as a sort of God ! , send by the Treasury Bench , —anything is welcome which staves off work and a day of reckonin _g Meanwhile , matters in thc City continue as gloomy as ever . The manufacturing districts are _rapidl v approaching the same state of things ivlu ' ch in 1842 , produced a wide-spread _insurrection ; anil altogether , our future prospects are of thc most gloomy description .

      Closely Akin To The Preceding Subject Wa...

      Closely akin to the preceding subject was that of the quantity of food-really in the country , which was mooted in the House of Lords by Earl Hani _, wicke on Tuesday night , [ f his statements approach correctness , it is evident that we are as yet only at the beginning of our troubles . From all that can be gleaned in the present imperfect state of agricultural statistics , it is to be feared that there is not enough wheat in the country to maintain « s until the next harvest comes in : while , at the same

      time , sucb is the scarcity abroad tbat continental buyers are in our markets purchasing and sending off the very food , of which we have an insufficient supply . Unless this can be replaced by fresh importations , we are in a fair way of knowing practically what the meaning of the word Famine is in Engla * d . Already , as a premonitory symptom of its approach , we have wheat hi gher than it has been for the last thirty years , arid bread at one shilling the quartern loaf !

      The Peers Grow Frightened At Last In The...

      The Peers grow frightened at last in their task of mutilating thc Irish Poor Law ; and though Stanley , with that recklessness and keen appetite for mischief which characterises him , was as ready to have carried the Bentinck clause as the other amendments (!) wliich their lordships have agreed to , some ofthem , more discreet , did not like carrying the game so far as to make the Whigs give np , and he themselves saddled with the responsibilities of office in . these ticklish times , and under such circumstances . But they have done , enough . As _Mercutio says— " The wound is not so deep as . a well , nor so wide as a church door ; but it will do . " The Irish Poor Law is _effectually rendered nugatory . It is not worth the paper on which it is printed , and with it has vanished the last shadjw of efficiency in the Whig nostrum for Ireland .

      Another Measure Which Was Urgently Neede...

      Another measure which was urgently needed—the Health of Towns' Bill—has been dealt with after the approved recipe of this most precious Cabinet for getting out of hard work and inconvenient opposition . It is to be cut into two or three parts and materially altered in its machinery . The country corporate towns are to be first meddled with . London is to he separately assaulted by the sanitary Reformer . The citadels of filth aro too securely

      entrenched , the upholders of nuisances too powerful , it appears , for the weak pro tress of Whig statesmen to encounter collectively . We confess to a snspicioa that the whole matter will ultimately be found among the " good intentions" with which a certain _ylace , not to be named to ears polite , is proverbially said to be paved ; and to which said pavement Lord J . Russell and his colleagues must have made considerable additions .

      Lord J. .Manners Called Attention On Wed...

      Lord J . . Manners called attention on Wednesday to a practical grievance of considerable extent . The law of Mortmain was , no doubt , in its origin , a most useful and necessary measure . But it seems equally indisputable that , in the lapse of time , and witli the changed circumstances of society , it is now' in many cases the cause of much lois , inconvenience , and injustice . It confounds the innocent with the guilty ; and in the attempt to prevent abuses , prevents really good objects from being carried onr . It is high time that

      the obstructions which tbe law now places in the way of publicly-beneficial bequests should he removed , and the law itself adapted to the existing _coiidit ' on and requirements of the community . Since the matter was first brought forward by his Lordsl ip it has evidently made an advance in public favour , and time is all that is necessary to produce such a strange conviction that the mere vis inertia of those whose nature it is to " stand in the old ways , " will be overcome ; while , at the same time , all probable abuses of such an alteration of the law will be as far as possible guarded against . Saturday _Mor-tnt * .

      The Lords last ni ght restored to the Irish Poor Law Bill its original _j'ermanent character . On the bringing up of the report proxies are allowed , which is not the case in committee . It is said that the Duke of Wellington sent several proxies to the Government on this occasion , and so defeated the Monteagle-Stanley league . The measure is still , however , a mere shadow of the right it recognises .

      Dj &Eaoer0 # Coms-Yontoii Te- ,

      Dj _& eaoer 0 _# _Coms-yontoii te- ,

      Mrscehineoos . To.Qd»T —Julian Harney Ac...

      _MrSCEHiNEOOS . To . qd » t —Julian Harney acknowledges twelve shil . lings fer tlie Registration am ! Election _Cominiltef , which will be _lumped to tli . it body . A . _JJ _. _ATC'i _. E- _* _, Apple-ford — The correspondence in cur next . Duncas Robertson * , and J . B _ . b _ r . _ -. Received , and sIk . 1 I bu attended to , Wandsworth . —The report in onr next . " i-DiN-TON . —Visit to _O'Connorvilleon _Wliit-Moudny , —Our Puddingto- friends seem delighted with ::. e proposed trip , and doubtless antici pate a rich tre > . * . _' Their preparation of banners , i . e . indicate a disposition not to rank second to any other locality . They

      irtt « d rising with the lark , and spending the day as _ -. i- . f _ -y along witlj their now rural brethren , aw . _iy from the stench and din ofthe overgrown "Wen . " They assemble at the Coach Painters' Arms , _Circusstrei't , Neiv-road , at 0 oVIook in the _moraing , and proceed from thence to Labour ' s own Domain , pre . cisely at half-past sis . _M'Kowes , _Iiim-ieg . —Received . . Many 'banks . Irish Peogt sends us some poetry , which , we fear , would have but poor chanc . of finding a place in Irel . ' . n _. ' _i *• Melodies . " The purport of Peggy ' s rhymes m . y , however , be briefly told . Seeing an advertisement in the Mawhtsttr . iiardina _set-im _; forth that a servant-maid was wanted at ihe Queen . Hotel , Peggy made application , but was told ' No Irish need apply . _'' On this our poetess moralises , reminding tue gent , of the Queen . Hotel that he is not so nice in refusing

      Irish mett , eggs , butter , cheese , and other articles of food , which are brought to this country and v .-- " * the In ? h _naturslly follow . It is hard to say whether the _Aation gang who fulminate curses against England aud the English people , or thc brutes on this side , whose doctrine is "No Iri . h need _oppl-, " are the worst . Both contrive to perpetuate national pre _' iidic « s aud nationai hatred ! , , than which greater wickedness could not be wvought . J . S ., Glasgow . — -Your questions will require lencthy answers . The subj-ct uill probably command the e » riy attention of the Polish Committee . A Cit _. I _ QuiREtt . » —Ye 8 . Two months ago . Coloured and mounted , -is . el . ; coloured , 2 s . Cd . - , 'daifl _, is . A pply to _sny of the agents for the Northern Shir . T . Tobkak , AMreton ; " W . H . » and "Philomath . " --Wr . ce to the Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine , _Fl-.

      ctstreet _. Transportation . —A correspondent wishes to be informed of a work on " Transportation . " II- * withes to know ifa convict is , at the expiration ofhis sentence , brought to England again at the country ' s f _* _- > peiiBe ; or if . supposing he desires to return , he is compelled to bear the expense himself ! T . Ai . M 0 HD .-Ie is folly to throiv pearls before _sm _» > and not always necessary to answer a fool accordifl . to his folly . The _tJiinp is too obscure for notice . 3 ouh Williams . —Agreeing with yon jn the main , we still cannot insert jour letter in Us present shape . _* a general rule we cannot find room for _letigthv le * " * during thc sitting of Parliament , and your letter contaiiw of _.- ' words" a _considtrabie superfluity . David Wilson . —Though we wish to oblige our _poeiicalcontrtbutors as far as possible , wo arc _compill _" . _* to exclude innumerable favours ; your " souuet" included .

      Poland ' s REor . srRATioN .-G . Julian Harney has r _« ceived ... . for the Democratic Corainitt _<* B for Poland' * _Rejcueration , contributed by the Chartists _oiBiMO'' _-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15051847/page/4/