Star.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

NUMBER 13,321.]

Tbb gay was published, in 4 vols. 14mo. price XI 4s.
BELMONT'S DAUGH TER;
a Fashionable Novel, by Miss M'LEOD, Author of Tale:
of Ton, Geraldine Murray, Principle, acc.

much hither; sad were we to make an exact average of routing
with boiling pieces, we should And it approach nearer to 9d. a
pound, for that which cost 34d !
The laws which authorised an anise of broad were framed on
the assumption that a quarter of wheat would furnish Sour for 96
quarters loaves very nearly : we are sue It will for say 96 that are
manufactured in these degederate days. The allowance by the
Act, for grinding, forming, baking, gtc. u well as profit on capital,
was 12s. per quarter. Now the last weekly average of wheat was
se; 151. 7d. add to this 125. which, had it not been found over
much, the Act would still have remained unaltered, and we have
/Id Is. 7d. for 96 loaves,whicb gives a fraction less than aid. for
each, while the selling price is 10d.
The ordinary price of good potatoes is 14. a pound ; if you can
procure nine pounds for 7d. as some cautious housewives contrive
s do, then you effect great things. The former amounts to 49
es. lid. the latter to £7 3s. 24. per ton ; the market value
of the best Scotch or blab potatoes being on as average Onset 413
These are all actual necessaries; they constitute the principal
Items in the expenditure of the middling, and nearly the only
Items in the expenditure of the lower deuce of the community.
Tea, which cannot be called a luxury, for it is nearly in as ge-
neral use as bread, bears, notwithstanding the number of our gro-
cers, an enormous retail profit. The black teas, commonly sold as
thalamic, at Is. 6d. and Sa. may be purchased freely at the India
sales at from ta. 10d. to 3s. 24. per lb. duty included.
To a certain extent, wine is a necessary in most families. Now,
French wines of an exceeding good quality (greatly superior, with
the exception of a few choice samples that may hornet occasionally,
" like angel visits, few and far between," to any that are put-
duseable in London) may, as every one knows who has visited
France, be had for three francs and a half or four francs a bottle.
We have now before us the carte of one of the most respectable
wine-merchants in France, and his charge for the best clarets--
those which principally suit the English market and climate—(in-
eluding bottles, the intrinsic value of which will more than cover
the Opals duty of 2a. per dozen) is AI 185. 4d. Hence Igo have-
5. 4.

The following statement of the relations between the United
States and the Cherokee and Creek Indians, and the treatment
of the Aboriginal race bt the European intruders, who have
become their masters, is taken from the C'haske Phontis,—a
Paper published in the English and Cherokee languages, and
conducted by writers of the Indian nation. The Government
at Washington is endeavouring to persuade or overawe these
two nations, to give up the land they posses, at the West of
Georgia, and, with that view, have offered them an exchange of
it for a greater quantity, but of much inferior value, on the
Arkansas River, a north-west branch of it, the Misshsippi, into
which it falls by two months, inclosing an island. The tem-
perate and clear manner in which the Cherokee discuses the:,
subject, an*etates the facts, reflects the highest honour on him*
and maker.ps regret that a people. Ikea, so thaPrwf'd
Radon; 'MOM' be &leen again into the wilderness, and, by
what is tantamount to brute force—the expression of the wish of a
seperlop—dsprived of the advantages they have acquired by living
on their present territory, and the increased value that belongs to
it from the growing popuhtion by which it is surrounded, merely
that the Georgia treasury may pocket the produce of the industry
of this intelligent Cherokee.
The Indian article is to this effect :

Printed for A. K. NEWMAN and Co. London.
Where may be bed. published this Autumn,
Fnswatvass, Barons of Chesterton. 41 4s.
My is Evens. or the Vision of the Tapestry, 4 vols. 411 4s.
Faassomm's Bans, or Black Pirate of the. Mediterranean,
S vol.. Al .7s. 6d.
lenses Ours, or Tokeah and the White Rose, 5 vols. 16s. 6d.
Lola MORALS op }LAMAS:). a Romance, 4 vols. idit as.
Tes BLANDFOZDS, by Mrs. Masse, 4 vols.. AI 4s.
YOTIIIFOL DAYS or Enwaan ELI" s •ols. II&

The local situation of that country (the land on the Arkansa,)
comsat bear a comparison with the Cherokee lands this tide of the
Mississippi in any respect, and It will be a barrier that will ever re-
main to prevent the Improvement of tbat_country. It possesses no
allurements to induce Indians to better their condition, but the re-
vere, surrounded as they are by every 'peeked Intrigue and im-
posture—infested by roguish outlaws from all parts of the United
States, together with various remnants of Indian tribes, who are
not stationary, but rove from place to place in quest of game
or of booty, and who think it a great honour to be stied a great
horse thief. I saw massy Indians of various tribes, such as Osage.,
Peels., Peyanshaws, Miami's, Senecas, Shawnees, and Delawares.
and various others. The Delawares claim to be the Grand Father
of all Indians, and imbibe morn enmity against the white people
than any other tribe. They often cry with anguish when speaking
of their once powerful nation.

Cost per dozen
Duty on two gallons
Freight. and other charges (at the most) ...• 0 S 0

42 14 10

Oar brother Cherokees have obtained all the lands that are of
any consideration en the Arkansas River, front Fort Smith west-
ward—that is, on the north side of the River. Front Fort Smith
to the Creek Agency is about 61 miles, the full length of • the Na-
don up and down the Arkansas River, but between those two
points Ido not recollect ageing any good uplsod. Good land is
entirely confined to the Arkansas and its tributaries. Water (that
is good water) is also very scarce in most parts of the Western
Country. There are hardly any streams of water, and those of
considerable size, but what are subject to have standing pools in
dry seasons, and, in fast, the Arkansas River itself appeared last
winter almost absorbed in her sand.

For wine of this kind, or rather for a liquor wheel: prime cost
is by no means so high, your wine merchant makes a merit of
charging you only 84s.
So much fora few of our *dabs and one of our drinkable ; let
us now attend to clothing. The price of tee cloth of which the
best coats, with the exception of scarlet, are made, is about 18s. a-
yard ; we have seen princely blues purchased (rein the manufac-
turer at 16s. The prime cost of the material of a coat is therefore
about 325. Now, in Loudon, when the cloth is furnished, thou-
sands of tailors may be found who will undertake the making and
furnish every extra for 20s. Nut all, job. of this descriptioo, per-
formed for individuals, are of necessity charged a great deal dearer
than when done for a master. It will be sulkiest in his case to
allow 16s. This gives—
d. d.
Cloth 1 12 0
Making, arc

It is of all regions most uninviting, and the poorest I ever saw.
It presents nothing instrocdve ; but, everything that is calcu-
lated to dull the faculties, depress the mind, and to suppress all
those Sow principles of the mind so essential to the maintenance of
virtue and good order in society.
From Fort Smith to the north-west corner of the State of
Minna Is seventy-se►en miles and thre•-seerten. I was in-
formed by those who accompanied the surveyor, that It was the
pooreit country in the universe—nothing but mountains and

Value .•• . .
Master's charge . 4 4 0

Pro&

brambles in extent. It is indeed unlike any other country this
side of the Mississippi. Then following the north-western line of
the State, until it strikes the old territorial line, and then following
the said line to the Arkansas river, you would pass over nothing
but barren land and extensive Prairies, almost boundless in extent.
Within this circumference there are about two millions and a half
acres of land. Thence down the Arkansas to the mouth of the
Canadian river, up the same until north and south line from river
to river win make the seven millions of saes (see late Treaty,)
which will be so far west as to clash very much with the isterest
of the Creeks ; and It must strike the river some distance above
where the Creeks were locating. This fast was no little diem*a
faction among them before I came away; and not only this, bet
they considered themselves sadly disappointed in regard to the
nature of the country.
The truth is, they (the Greeks) have no guarantee to any land
in that country; all they have is a mere promise of the Govern.
irsent (see Washington Treaty, 111211.) All the land they can claim
by the promise lies between the Verdirse river and the Arkansas'
and a pan of that is included in the Cherokee boundary. Their
farthest settlement from the Cherokee line does not exceed twelve
or fifteen miles up the Arkansas, and lunch farther than that they
cannot go for the grand Prairie, for they already have extensive
Prakies all around and amongst them.

And this, be it obeerved, is the charge of a *moderate tailor; a
fashionable of the first water will charge you from Ave to six
guin s.
ea
For stout walking shoes we pay Nth a pair, if London made.
The same shoes, country made, may be bought for 7s. 6d. ; which
is about a *billing too much. Why should there be any difference
between London shoes and country shoes, further then the differ-
ence of prices paid to workmen, which does not exceed 6d. a pair?
What shall we say of boots We well manta having purchased
a pair In 1205 at las. after a lapse of 21 years, on revisiting the
metropolis, we bad occasion for a pair, and found the price 385.?
This one fact, as Liston says, speaks libewries. The law of the
vender is as the law of the Medea and Perlis= ; it &are* not.

The people in Canada have a saying, that what costs a shilling
in England, costs two at Quebec, four at Montreal, eight at
Kingston, and .lateen at Ansbastburg. We are not quite so badly
off ; but it is notorious that the stages, though not so distant be.
twee' the original producer at the one end and the co•sumer at
the other, are quite as numerous as between the Canadian at the
head of Lake Superior and the Shippet at Liverpool. And that a
very large tollage is exacted at every halt slang the Hoe d transfer,
the few examples we have give' (it would be easy to multiply limn)
sufficiently show. What is the result? The consumer is trodden
la the dust, and the pettiest dealer acquires a fortune. Our shoe-
maker goes to Margate; our tailor has his house at Ornery ; as
for our wine.mercitant, we do not pretend to trace, much less to
limit, his tours ; while we are content to scribble our fingers blue
in December, and roast oar livers to rags in the dog-days, in order
to support their luxuriating.
It is of small use for one, or one dozen, to set themselves against
abuses which necessity alone has pot us and the public on investi-
gating. A man who keeps Ide gig and has nothing to do, may, by
threading the labyrinth of streets and alleys of the "great weo,,
contrive to find a cheap eiscesemooser here, and a cheap butcher
there ; but those whose time is occupied, and whose locomotive
pervert are such as nature bestows, must be content to be cheated
as all their fathers have been. But what we are unequal to of our
single selves, we may accomplish by combination. Like other
feeble people, we may go forth against the enemy in bands"—
we may bear them down by numbers. We would, in plain lan.
page, have a Joint Stock Company, or Joint Stock Club, or call
it by what name may appear most suitable, for the purpose of
supplying ourselves with wherewithal for eating and drinking and
being clothed. We have literary societies, scientific societies, clubs
for good, clubs for evil, clubs for no purpose—why should we net
have a society to spare our pockets ? and, we may add, to preserve
our health? For Without believing every word that is contained
in the tales of the horrible audited by Mr. Amen, there can be
little doubt that between the " wet um" of the butcher, the hem
beans of the baker, and the sloe-juice of the wine-dealer, we run a
daily risk of being poisitned in addition to the certainty of being
plundered. To persons of Szed and moderate income, the plan
we propose has singular advantages. The greater part of the
'mouse of a family that is in the receipt of three or four hundred
a year is expended in such necessaries as we have noticed above,
To suck a family, the saving from a combination which would
I insure to them the supply of good provisions (to say nothing of
clothes) at a fair and moderasely-remunerating profit to the seller,
could nabs lees than fifty or sixty pounds& year; which in Sheen
or twenty years, would form a very pretty sum for the establish-
ment of a son or the dower of a daughter. Indeed. we fact, are
►n rating the saving that might be effected by the plan that we
propose so low as fifty pounds on the income of three hundred, we
are doing injustice. The pay of our police constabks,:our readers
know, is, one,guinea per week ; by permitting them to purchase
certain necessaries at contract prices, this guinea is made worth

The Creeks immediately where they are located have excellent
land, bat it is badly timbered and not extensive, not even enough
for one-fifth of the population of the Creek nation ; it is not as
large as Creek Path valley. They have settled very densely in-
deed, but the nature of the country is such that they cannot branch
of any distance.

AS OVTLINS or TIM ICIIIIIIII

OUTLINE OF THE PLAN OF A CLUB FOR
CREAMING THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE.

Front the Spectator.

A good deal has been said, of late, about the exorbitant prices
charged by retailers in this mighty city for every article of news-
ier/ consumption. Nor it is undeserving of twice, that it is our
seamarks, and not oar luxuries, with the exception perhaps of
lignin and wines, on which the heaviest tax is laid by uncoil-
' seliiible shopkeepers. We mentioned last week a fact touching
Ash. We stated that salmon, purchased at Billinsgate for N. the
.pound, bad been retailed in Bond-street for 3s. 6d. being a mode-
rate profit of about 300 per cent ! Much of the inconvenience,
doubtless, and much of the downright knavery under which the
public suffer through those who draw the elements of their trade
from the riven.and channels of the deep, may arise from the fact
of there being but one fish market in London. It connettse ex-
peeted that any family, much hoe a small cps, should send a ser-
vant Ave miles on a purchase. even with the certainty of a consi-
derable seeing. But there is a trick of the trade among the fish-
mongers, which the competition of another Market. would not
wholly remedy. These persons, we are credibly informed, fix
their prices in the minting when at market, and ro these they ad-
here sio rigidly, thee rasa dile abate their enormous profits, every.
nigbteifbilissaiitte irlitle 'tire loads of deb are call into the
Thames; , • ,• . •
Whir bum kb we come to sneak the • difference betwease, the
poem Reid leitibedeakr and those. charged, to the ere
sir hrg frreiritaMit., It was'stured but the olbee day, that cargoes
olghtt Inighi from the sealgecp at 4s. 6d. a, stone% which were
'attetwainkreselled in Leaden M MI. a lb!. Bet StLis.• among re-
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about twenty-eight shillings. Now, at this rate, the saving on as
income of 6280 would be 410. And (be it observed, that there
are numerous articles (too tedious to mention, as the bills say) all
of them grievously overpriced, for which government makes n..
contract, and from the overcharges of which the police constables
cannot be relieved by the permission alluded to. But reckoning
the saving to be at 4750 only, a society composed of one thousand
heads of families, would be worth to its members no less a sum
than 450,000 per annum

Sodedes suds as we recommend are common in Scotland. We
have seen the rules and aesounts of several " bread societies," s 4
they are called; and it is astonishing with what slender means
great savings are effected, even on an article that is exposed, we
may say to universal•competition,in a country where, though mould-

ing a loaf is seldom attempted, every house has its griddle cakes.
In one case, that we have seen, the shares consisted of about 600,
each entitling the holder to a loaf per week. The parties were
mostly poor-people ; the deposit only ss. a share. With this little
capital of AftSo the society began. and in ten years from its com-
mencement it bad accumulated a fund of nearly XBOO ; and it had
furnished bread on an average at something more than Id. per loaf
below the ordinary sale price. When It commenced, which was at
a period of dearth, the difference was 4d. or about 35 per cent. 01
the price. This instance, which is one of many, 'bows what may
be done, on is small scale, in a part of the country and on an article
very unfavourable to sack a plan as we propose.
Many persons may imagine that the mere operation of competi-
tion would effect all that we aim at. But Isere, fact is opposed to
theory ; or rather, the local circumstances are such that the ordi.
nary laws of competition do not apply to them. No trader in
London, where hardly any man knows Ms next.door neighbour.
can force sales by underselling the rest. Were be to go on for go
years. and advertise a fortune away, be might, but not otherwise.
The large dealer charges high because be must make a livelihood.
Competition, In such cities as London, operates inversely ; the more
tradbsmen multiply. the leas chance there is of a fail of prices.
There are three objections to Joint Stuck Companies, that we
are prepared to bear urged.

First, tbe impossibility of procuring honest and conscientious
servants ;

Seam& the heavy responsibility of the shareholden, in case of
malversation ; %V*
Third, the argument from precedent-1K almost uoiveisal
failure of each schemes. ri!.

To the first objection ye wryer, that allowing all that has been
said of human nature, the utmost of theAtildgilis a society mach u
we propose, would be, that ws:shqgld have toNeal with rogues
whose roguery we had the power of watchbig and checking;
whereas at present we have to deal with rogues whom we can
neither watch nor cheek.

To the second we say, that by oar plan. no responsibility needs
be incurred ; for, in fact, a simple engagement to purchase would
alone be necessary. But no responsibility can be dangerous where
here is no possibility of loss.
On the argument of precedent, we have to observe, that the
principal cause of failure in ether companies does not affect ours.
They failed 'because they inverted the process by whieli individual
speculadoos are rendered profitable. The eautioes trader begins
with a stall ; be takes a shop when his business increases ; and
when a shop will not bold his goods he hires a warehouse. The
demand regularly proceeds, and produces the supply. But the
companies opened their warehouses before they had a solitary cus-
tomer, and were ruined, not so much because they had purchased
idly or inconsiderately, but because they bad no one to whom to
sell. Now our warehouse would not open until the buyers were
at the door. We secure the purchasers before we go to market.
We know their numbers and their wants, and regulate our own
purchases thereby. We sell only to ourselves. Half a dozen of
families that buy a chest of tea and then divide it, might as well
anticipate failure as the fruit of their speculation, as the sharehold-
en of our company from theirs.
We give to the plan the title of our plan, in order to save cir-
cumlocution. It is, as we noticed last week, furnished us by a
friend, who has in reserve many regulations of detail. We do not
submit the plan to our readers as complete, meth less as not ad-
mitting of modification. In fact, there is one important item—
truly a housekeeping item, we mean the house itself—that our
friend omits, but to which the attention of a society might be
quite as proltably directed as to any other.

In the following rules, the gentleman who furnished them very
properly makes a distinction between credit and cash payments.
And here we cannot help o►serving that of all the dements of
price, credit is the most capricious. The prices are enormously
raised to all, in rater to enable the merchants to speculate on the
chances of ultimate payment from a wider circle of easterner& The
tax which is laid on the honest and the punctual, in order to meet
the shortcomings of the dishonest and the dilatory, is greater than
all that is levied by Government, and the parish to boot.
We conclude, for the present, with

Let a society be formed of one, two, or-three thousand persons,
the Immediate object of which shall be to provide the necessaries
of life at the cheapest possible rate.
Let every member of this club .subscrlbe 410 a-year to the un-
dertaking ; sad let the fund so raised be applied in the first in-
stance to pay the rent of premises and other neceury espenses, and
the overplus to the reduction of prices.

Let the club have proper olicers for its managetnent.
Let a committee of subscribers audit the accounts of the °racers,
and regulate their oplations.
Let the managers communicate directly with the farmer and the
manufacturer, and Contract for periodical supplies of the ammo-
dities which shell fall within the design ; and let proposals for
contracts be made by tender, according to the plan adopted by the
Government once,.

Let each subscriber be entitled to purchase provisions at con-
tract price.
Let no credh be given for any longer period than three months,
and even for that abort period let a proportionate Mamie in price
be charged.

Let every subscriber be at liberty, on the payment of two gui-
neas annually, to give to his own servants, workmen, and depen-
dents, tickets entitling them to be supplied by the club at the same
rate as himself.
Let the phn of the society include, in the first instanes,,the sale
of the following articles only-via. butchers' meat, poultry, deb,
vegetables, fruit, bread, cheese, butter, eggs, milk, groceries, coals,
candles, sap, and wine.

SWAN RIVER.--Wednesday last, a party of twenty-
live left Sbeptoe Mallet to embark omboard the Britannia, Capt.
Curry. for the settlement on the Swan Meer. Thiry loft Mumma
In high spirits, two bugles playing national airs before them through
the streets; and on Friday, ten more left the town for the same
destination. (Men are preparing to follow ; Andros (smithy:Mr-
aiming of a man, his wife, d thirteen, not of fourteen children,
ha& preceded the above, paling a total of sixty-Sew—Bath
Inwstal.