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lit 14 HII ll'J'Ji* -•'ll'.l^ * «i IV"* II *fcI|U * IfLliiti ja Tlil-; X OKI HERN STAR SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 . IP47.. . .
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ChAUTlST t'OKMS , BV EKNEST JONES . 1 ' iki inti f I «; . <¦? . r . nu-i ; raiTios . kevheh axb cvkkectk * . K «] J « te « ith tilt- tire irt " g ' vi : iu < , ar . d poitic pi . wvrs of lh- > terj' liigiie ^ t . 'ni . r . I ..: i-. t « jui-m .-e a ; . u 'Ie-. triii -tivt-: . ' . v-r . they appear .: u-. . ilii ' . i . 'i u ; niv . t ! I » . d . We say " ilvstnjetive . " K' ! -t :..-i-. ' -.: ii ! iT . y i- m . r « thai : Is-.-: V .-. 'vra ' .. .-. " — Adr V ' ' ' f - ' " V - ''•''¦ ' •"¦ - \ >'¦'< :. ' The ^ t !' .- !; . sl .. iVi-t . u : ! cd f .-r : ii » : r tuti . ortlu * i . di ' . ' . iration «• ' I'l . 'U- ^ -. iils . llit-y ln . iy i't c !; is-si'd ti . ^ -.-tiit-r ; is MirriBgaiid : i-j : y j-oetii-j ! : ipj .--. !! r , wl . i » - ; j mus : co * nir : r : J Ok re' -poiiM-o : : li > . ' n i ^ iitr u :: j ;; : uje . —^ qyV ; :.-., ><¦¦ . - . Thrs-r j ««' . i : iS ir . ; . y v >;; y j . j , vjv :-. H ' y i > s-. vii d ¦ .:. «• or .:-jx > uri : ; jr of a *• •' . « : i :.-spirt d bv a c . ' -vout : ; . vc ;' ' r ! ai : o ; :: V ceus-e , and intt-tit .:: i ti : t- n .-n : v . . luut of tUe emui . vij . a . tion of : i !; : ;~ : iv . Tile pvuti- * »; . ! " .-: ue i : ui : ie -. vitli power :. i ! i :: iny a .-. uvwvni li-.-ii :. prL-. ' ai-e an iiifiu < -:: ctun the mind .. f :. < j : ii"' . ts . ;; iui >' . >> it ^ p . u t t < - » . ; triH luij . inj ; aiive slit tliu , c vt ! : •¦; .. .-. i v , v : v . uib .. f :. x tui ^ iij :. — , \ , tfiuc 7 .. T ... / :,-, '•• .
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Now Keady , a Serf Edition of MR . O'CGXKUirS WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the S . tdieta itar Office , 1 « , Great Wind Sttill Street ; and of Abel Heywoud , ilancliester .
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imi'oi : ta . \ t to photogiupiimtj ; . AN applieativii w ;; s made on the iind Sipt -mber , to the Viet .-Cbam-ell . ir of England , bv Jtr . Heard wao , dv-ting under a most extraordinv delusi j . i , ronsiders S ^ BfesSSrsssyra w ileet- > treet , r .. m tutin- I'h .. t . i » rdphic P .. ru . i . » s , which Be Oots by a pr .. i-ess entirely diliVrtnt fior and Verv Superior to Mr . UeirUV , an « i at one-h ; ilf the rl . i- » . ins Honour refused the application in u . ( o . " J'o license re < iuired U i > :-: u-tii-e this j . ruee . « , jvhich is * ught by ilr . Kgertuu in a f- < v icssnit at a iu ,,. ierate darge . AU tbe Apparatus , Chemicals . A- ; - ., tube had as usual ^ hisU-xiit . > , Tt-Hiplc-striA-t , ¦ iiiteli-i .-n-s .
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LlTilOGll . M'llIC ESGUAVISGS OK T 3 E DUSCOM 1 SE TESTIMONIAL . MAY still be had at the Oflice of Messrs . M' < : owan and Co .. !• :, lireat \ Viiid >' iill Street , Hayinarket , Iiondon ; through any respectable booksel ; eriif tswn or C « ttntry ; or at any of the agents of iiie Xorlhera . Star . The eusvaviu ^ t - ( U a lav ^ v sea \ e . is cxe ' Uted iu the most finished styie , is fiiitly printvd -en tinted paj . er , and 5 ires a minute description of the IVtimoma ! , and Jias Inscription , it , « V < -, engraved uji . iiiit . PI ! ICE KOrUPEXCE .
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. DOMESTIC MOXITOK . On Saturday , January the lGth , « as psMishe-i , price ' . ' lie Penny . Xo . V . of THE DOMESTIC MOXITOU , Or Literary , Scientific-, Legal , and Medical Adviser . Eilitcd by Hermes . To be continued Weekly . Contents—Austria as it is in the year 1847 . Don Kodrigo , the Forbidden Wedding . The Nosegay . The Prospects of Labour : Death by Starvation . Corres . pondeuce on Scientific , Literary , Legal , and Medical Subjcts . Domestic Herbal . Publishedby E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet Street , and to be bad of all Booksellers and Xewsvenders . Letters to be addressed , post paid , " Hermes , 31 , Tonbridge Place , Sew Road .
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A fJOOD FIT WARRANTED . A T thegivat western emporium , I , andi , Oxford-street , L'bsdell and Co ., jiractii'al tailors , are nou- making l ^ eautifulsuit of superfine black for £ 3 Ids any size ; Sp lendid waterproof over eoaM made to order fur 29 s each ; and youths superfine suits for Us . The above house is the cheapest and best in London , for black cloths of evtrydescription , as may be seen by several Louduu daily papess « £ last July , September , and November . Sd Omnibuses to and from the City , stop at the establish . » ent every roiuutt of the day .
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THOMAS P , \ I . \ E . LITERARY iXSTITPTiOX . Jt > iiu-s ; re < t , Fi'zrxy-square . O X Friday evi-: iinc . J .-muarv i' 9 th , inst .. a Friendly Tea Parly will In- hel in Oom . cmoratiim of he Iiivth-< lay of Ihonias I ' ai'ie , author of" Common sense , " JL'c . Tea on the Table at Seven in ec selv . TiiOMA ? COOPER ( air . hor ot "The Puiyatory of Sui » : ides " i in tl . e Chair . Tipkcf * One Shilling t-: icli , To be hd of ' r . Trnel .. ve , liookseller , next < l « or tu the Ir . stitnti-m ; Mr . Watson , : ; . Qu-.-en ' s I 5 e .-id- ] iassage Paternoster-row : and :- ! r . Ilctheringtnn , 57 , Judil-street , Brunswick-square .
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OUST I'DBLISHEH , No . 2 . ( price ( id . ) of TIIK LABOUR E R . A Monthly Mnyazine of Politics , Liter .. ture , Pottiv , ic- . Edited by Ff . ssrs OX ' ossos , Esq ., ano Eksest Jonkb , Esq ., ( llarristers-at-L .-. w . ) The Democratic movement in this count' v being wholtv deficient in a ii ^ nlitly oifan , th- above mazarine is es ; :, ' . bhslud t-: 1-eine . ly this deficiency . I'i : ic . d by lowness o | price within the reach of all . yet efjiuil in everv respccti to its mote expensive cotiijn titors , v . iil embrace the follow n-. i : ft a . uivs - . — l .-THK F .. WI 1 AND TliE LAiiOlRKli , or the propress and pj > iti .. n of the Chartist <" ..-. 'pevative Land V . i-. n . pa ' . iy , and all interesting facts eoniucted with tin culiure ai . il luvdii' .- u i > f tht-soi :, t =. which will be added 2 .-T 1 IR POOlt MAX'S 1 . 1 X . AL MANTAL , , by r .,, \ . iit-iit'ii . rristcr . ' tiivinjr all iictes-sarv Ugal inf > Tinatioii 1-r tlie t-xpr s ? use i . f allottees on the land , and tin wurkiii" cia-ses iu general .
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THE LAND . As ne have commented elaborately upon thestock piece of the St . Stephen ' s management ( Ireland ) we shall now call attention to wl . at is likely to be t he great movement of the Session . As to the Montpensier marriage , those members who have spoken upon the subject appear to think with usthat is , that any interference on our part would be but a busy meddling in an affair in which the Engliuli people have not , and take not , the slightest interest . In fact , Guizot took advantage of a change of jockeys for a cross , anil the Orleans pet jostled the Cobourg out of the race . As regards Cracow , we have yet to learn what a Royal protest means ; whether from it we are to infer the Queen
demands the restoration of the Republic , or contents herself with expressing her dissent , with the hope that it . WON'T OCCUR AGAIN . In truth , the perusal of Jim Crow Polk ' s postscript to his long yarn , delivered to Congress , convinces us that authority exercised by the landed over the landless , whether of the monarchical or republican stamp , will sooner or later merge into tyranny . Polk ' s last audacious message to the senate appears to have roused none of the angry passion , jealous suspicion , or indignation of John Bull , while a characteristic and expected act of tyranny by the despots of Austria , Russia , and Prussia , appears to astonish , alarm , and offend him .
What have the three Powers done as regards Cracow that Polk has not more barbarously attempted as respects Mexico ; and meagre , cold , and unsatisfactory as our Queen ' s Speech is , and as Royal speeches generally are , yet it is balm compared to that of the President of the Republic of America , lie parades the POMP of international law , the RIGHT OF CONQUEST , the HUMANITY of fiinvug civilized institutions on an uncivilised enemy , a ; id justifies the worst system of tyrannythe law of might—by the cold-blooded assurance , that Til ! - ; CONQUERED will be benefitted by the change of masters .
we observed , last week , that Polk was fast administering the Pilt policy of uniting the rich oppressor to the poor oppressed liy the golden link of servile dependence . The Exchequer is exhausted , new taxjs are to lie levk-d , a ,. d a new bond of union , in the shape of a National Debt , is to be established ; atd hence , the American Pi ; t will have achieved finiiieial greatness upon his country's ruin . So loug as fools and tyrants can secure the hired assassin ' s service , so iong will might triumph over right ; but iht moment that social comfort , Imams through the cottajre window , and when the rich oppressor is
obliged towage battle for himself , the voice of knowledge and din of busy industry will silence the cannon's roar sad stay the murderer ' s arm . Is any peasant , possessed of four , three , two , or even one acre of land and a cottage , to be fouad in the ranks of Polk ' s mercenaries ? No , not one . Armies arc not recruited from the nest , they are existed and mustered from the cellar and the garret , from the hospital , the brothel , the workhouse , and the beershop—haunts unfrequented by him who has his
lahour-field to work in , and his nest for repose . Ha Tlie importance , then , that we attach to the present Session is , that * the grand principle that the Land alone , and its proper cultivation , can secure m us ; lie conceded man against famine ; and that , as far as speeches and motions can foreshadow the future , we find cheering earnest that the loeked-up Land of the country is to be stripped of those anomalous and pernicious barriers whieh withheld it from the retail market . That the law of primogeniture , of settle-
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¦ nt , entail , enfranchisement , with all their blighting concomitants , are to be DISCUSSED ; and , in < uch coses , discussion means condemnation , as it is impossible that the absurdities of barbarous ages can withstand the torrent of civilization . Perhaps there is no question in which the working classes . ne nwe intererted than that of enfranchisement and cheap registration . Enfranchisement means converting copyhold into freehold . As the custom of copyhold now stands , no man can build , no man can plant , improve , or safely possess himself of stock , furniture , or property vhich he can consider his own . No matter who the . proprietor of the Land may be , the power to withhold improvement rests with the Lord of the Manor ; and who , in many instances , demands more than the value of the Laud , as his terms of enfranchisement . The heiiot , or gift to him , upon the death of the occupant or proprietor , is in many cases normous ; while his unnatural interest makes him indifferent as to the improvement of the property . He is the high priest of the soil , and his power is more blighting than that of the parson . His obstinacy checks improvement , W * will limits representation . For these reasons we had no ordinary pleasure in reading the following notice of motion , by Mr . Aglionby , the excellent and spirited Member for Coekermoulh . -
COPY HOLDS' ENFRANCHISEMENT . Mr . Aguoxbv gavo notice that it was hia intention nn an early day to puta question as to the report of thecuminittivon the enfranchisement of copy hholds , * n < l to brinp in a bjil on the enclosure of common i inds which should include the compulsory enfranchisement of copyholds , and enable Buch holders to ho'd in freehold . The reader may rest assured , that every false position by which the landlords have so long retained their estates in an unproductive condition , and which above all other circumstances has pressed hardly upon the means of subsistence , will be
assailed and overthrown . This session , then , promises to be one fruitful hi social improvements , with those who will see the necessity of relaxing some of their harsh conditions , lest they should be called upon for the performance of others less congenial and satisfactory ; while the working classes , who have achieved a knowledge of the value of Land , as if by magic , must , on their own behalf be prepared t ' or the coming political struggle , as the means of turning those social changes to national instead of c ' ass . advantage . We never tire of giving , and they should never tire of receiving knowledge , upon a subject upon the thorough understanding of which depends national greatness and man's redemption ,
Let the reader then gain courage and consolation from the following fact , namely , that the absurdities of lamlbrds may yet be turned to the account of universal prosperity , lleve is the illustration we give of our assertion . A landlord leases , say one bundled acres of land , cramping the tenant with anomalous conditions , which restrict industry , bar improvement , and considerably lessen the real value of the holding . Thus A leases one hundred acres of
land to i 5 , upon condition that such and such things shall not be done , the performance of which would he beneficial ; and that such and such things shall be done , the doing of which may be injurious . Three-fourths , and sometimes a larger proportion , is to be retained in unproductive grass ; and hence we know of thousands of instances where farmers pay a stipulated rent under those conditions , whereas if free to freely apply their industry , skill , and capital , they would willingly give more than double the rent , and would return more than double produce to society .
Ik-re then , is a great , a monstrous , an unnatural and flighting tax ; a tax which restricts production , and limits the expenditure of labour and capital-Talk of the National Debt , tithes , the army , navy > ordnance , civil list , pensions , placemen , tax-eaters , and salaried officials , they are but as molehills compared to this mountain ; mere bubbles on the water ' s surface—destroy it , and away go seven millions of poor rates , their concomitant legal expenses , their heart-burnings , and a bloated rural police . This system has , thank God . retained the grass land of the country as a savings' bank—and its destruction will equitably distribute the deposits between landlord
tenant , and labourer ; and would , we pledge ourselves , dispel the cuckoo cry of Britain ' s incapacity to maintain her own sons . Ireland alone , if cultivated to its capability of bearing , would produce twice as much as every Englishman , woman , and child—every Scotchman , woman , and child , and every Irishman , woman , and c ' nild , could consume , while it would transform millions of beggars into wholesome customers in the manufacturing market , thus making machinery man's holiday , instead of man ' s curse ; and securing , within arms length at home , & larger , a better , richer , and more constant class of customers , than the serfs of foreign nations or barbarous tribes can furnish .
Let the Land then , and its restoration to national purposes , be the morning thought and dream of all who , for want of it , are compelled to offer their labour to those who will condescend to purchase it in the competitive slave mart .
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additional five per cent , upon funded property , allowing that it is partly embraced in the twelve millions , would add a million to the fund ; while au ad : litional tax of twenty per cent , upon Church property , surely not too much to expect the shepherds to give the starving flock to meet the ALMIGHTY ' S DISPENSATION ; would give an additional two millions no great OFFERTORY , from Ten Millions a-year . Thus , the Minister would , at once , be in poscssion of a war tax of over Fifteen Millions , over and above the amount required for the usual appliances and to meet the common enemy .
The proposition will , no doubt , appear farcical to many , while , to our mind , it is much more farcical , nay , tragical , to read of Royal entertainments and Ministerial banquets , while our eyes are shocked with prancing horses , bloated menials , and gorged peers and senators hurrying to the stage to consult how they can best secure their persons and their properties against the ravages of their own
distemper . It is mortifying to see sleek and fatted , aye , and well clothed horses in the brewer's and distiller's carts carrying poison through the ranks of naked , houseless , starving paupers . Some may smile at our proposition , but we ( ell the Minister and the aristocracy that we have set a low figure to meet what will inevitably be a national requirement .
The Prime Minister has pompously told na that it would have been imprudent and injudicious to have summoned the Irish Landlords three months ago from the performance of their local duties ; but he appears to forget that March , April , and May , are the very months of the year when the presence of the landlord would he required to encourage agricultural pursuits , and that their attendance during spring and seed-time , would have been cheaply pur . chased by their absence in November , December , and January . The dutv of the Minister was to have
called Parliament together in the season when nature intended the land to skep , to have performed the required work during seven days of the week if necessary , ( armies fight on Sundays and famine never goes to church ) , to have spoken less and done more , and if seven days in the week for three months was insufficient for the performance of the farce and the epilogue , then to have allowed the performers in the tragedy to return to their vocations , when nature roused the Land from its slumber ? , and t < i have consigned the squabbles of jobbers and speculators to a tribunal competent to arrange their diiferences .
Now the noble Lord will be compelled to prorogue Parliament after a short sitting , in order to allow the local guardians an opportunity of experimenting upon his novel measures . We give the Minister one hint , and that is , above and before all other considerations , to establish airy , dry , well ven - tilated , and convenient depots for the reception of the largest amount and best description of all kinds
of steels that can be purchased for love or money ; and to fuvnish those seeds to tenants and labourers , holding THE LANDLORDS AND THEIR ESTATES responsible for their repayment . This is the way to dp the monster ' s wings ; if this he omitted , the famine of this year will be succeeded by the plague of the next . Ireland , we are told , is ONLY DECIMATED : omit this necessary precaution , and nest year will see it DEPOPULATED . Has the noble Lord ever considered that 4 iibs . of corn per day , estimating all the horses in Her Majesty ' s military and police service at 20 , 000 , would amount to over forty tons psr day , or nearly a quarter of a million quarters of corn per year . Now if we estimate the abstraction from each manger at four pounds and a half per horse , we find that the deduction from each would support a man , his wife and three children , daily ; or that the whole amount would secure food for a hundred thousand daily . We may over estimate the number of war horses , but if they amount to ten thousand , that abstraction from their daily rations would furnish food for fifty thousand human beings daily , while the loss may be made up in hay and chaft '; but we contend that our service would not be injured by the reduction . BUT WE RAVE ; HOW FOOLISH , TO THINK OF STINTING THE QUEEN'S HORSES WHILE THE QUEEN'S SUBJECTS AllE STARVING .
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assist retail registration ; that the Gram ! Jury Laws were bad ; that compensation should be given to tenants fortheir "labour and improvements ; " that the Law of tenure should be altered , and that the waste lands should he brought into productive cultivation . No , those were all old standing grievances and so was the OLD HOVEL AND OLD MISERY of the pauper class , but for the means of correcting or mitigating all of those long standing abuses they come
to Parliament , with their fingers in their mouths , with an astounding , suspicions , and disgusting unanimity upon the great question , GIVE . In all else they are at deadly war , but upon the principle of " catch and keep , " they are marvellously unanimous . Even the hovel , ruined by their own indifference and neglect , is to be rebuilt , and the condition of their serfs , degrading to the very name of man , is to be ' . nproved , but all at the expence of the English Exchequer .
The plain and simple fact is this , but docs not appear to have struck our contemporaries—that the Irish landlords strive to make a GOD-SEND OF THE DISPENSATION . They , and they only , are answerable for the consequences of the calamity ; they , and they only , are responsible for every death , or rather murder , committed by their own dispensation ; and yet do they now seek to turn the calamity to the improvement of their own properties . We admire Mr . Smith O'Brien ' s boldness in a political sense ; it is right to hold the drawn sword over the oppressor ' s head , but he must not forget there are
such things as social duties . He roust not forget that the government does not forbid or prevent the Irish landlords giving compensation to their tenants for skill and industry ; that the Government does not compel , or even encourage , the middleman system ; tint government docs not tie up properties , or sew them up in parchment , to an extent that will stop improvement , and create unnatural indifference ; that the government is not the purveyor tf local jobbing , and county and parochial abuse ; that the government docs not throw a blight over the waste lands , and forbid thcio cultivation ; that the sovernment
does not prevent , or stop th 3 process of , draining ; that the government has not been the architect , nor yet the constructor of the mud hovel ; nor has government denied to each landlord the right or power to erect sehool-housRs for the education : it the families of his own tenants and labourers ; thai all thai has been done by Government , has been dmie upon tile recommendation , enforcement , and worry of those very Irish landlords themselves ; and , therefore , do we einpliaticilly pronounce again .-t the
proposed plunder—not because it is intended to come from English pockets to relieve Irish distress , but because it would be an injustice to the Irish people ; because , if the sore is ' skimmed over , instead of being probed , cleaned , and healed , the abuses which have led to it will be allowed to continue . We say bv all means lend , advance , and accommodate—but CONFISCATE for security . Open the path for tht Jew to the Irish domains ; and let the Jew be secured even in the pound of flesh , provided it comes from the real debtor .
But herein will be the minister ' s greatest difficulty—it will be impossible to mortgage the property of the real offender for the discharge of his just debt , without multiplying the grievances of the innocent ssffercn—the poor—and , therefore , the point upon which the government will require most watchfulness and jealousy is , so to frame its measures , that the spiteful landlords shall not be able to take vengeance , for government justice , upon those who have no government protection—and whose social grievances are one and all consequences of landlords ' oppression ; and to the consideration of which , landlords of <; li shades of politics have agreed to confine the question ; and thus thev have not onlv justified , hut have invitcii
discussion upon the subject , on its own proper merits—ITS SOCIAL BEARING . i ' eriiaps no question of equal magnitude , as regards belaud , has ever been discussed in the British senate ; ami , therefore , we shall nut apologize for dealing largely and comprehensively with the subject . The English people then inns * be firm to the great principle of justice , and must not allow their judgment to be blinded by the dust of the guilty humanity-mongers . They must be prepared to stand up against the torrent of tilth and unjust reproach that will be heaped upon them , in the following terms : — "Oh ! our struggle for Ireland would have been successful , but for the cold blooded indifference of thu English Chartists . Did not I alwavs tell von that thev
were your enemies ? What Irishman will henceforth tolerate a set of ruffians who withheld food from his starving family . " The answer is , that the English people proclaim the right of the Irish to food and to immediate relief , whether they get work or not , but that the relief MUST COME FROM THE POCKETS OF THE RESPONSIBLE GUILTY . That , if relief comes from England , Irish abuses will be perpetuated , nay multiplied ; that Government should hold the GODSEND as a lash to whip the guilty to the performance of their natural duties , The
justification i 6 , that the Irish landlords pay no direct and but trifling indirect taxes ; that they have received a bonus of twenty-five per cent , upon church property to coax them into the periorniance of their duties ; that they are all but exempt from the support of their poor ; that they are exempt from property and income tax ; that they have the advantage of cheap labour awl dear markets ; that their estates are let on rack rents ; that living is cheaper in Ireland than in ai . y other country in the world . Nay , we go further , and viewing the calamity as it really presents itseii " , we pronounce against the right of interfering with any tingle vested
interest as far as the landlords are responsible ; against the justice and prudence of reducing the interest upon mortgage debts , personal contracts , or provisions for younger children ; against the justice , because the mortgagees are not pnrikeps criminis , and have had no share in producing the calamity , and nu poition oi the immunities conferred upon the landlord class , to indtue them to perform their duties ; against the prudence , because the step would lead to the confiscation of three-fourths oi the landed properly of the country , just when such an event should be borne exclusively by the poor . Let the church property and the landed property be opened lor . its propei burden , and which it should
justly bear , and let Government be the mediator between the lender ami the borrower . We must br prepared for the landlords' threat of— " If you rule us thus , you will force us into the Repeal ranks j " but that would not give us much annoyance , nor will one single one of them carry the threat into execution . We must call the attention of the ' reader to an article upon Ireland , that appeared in the " Labourer , " of the present month , and in which the writer pointed out the fact , that the attempt of the landlords to uphold abuses , which are the harvest of famine , would be the minister ' s greatest difficulty ;—the impossibility of severing the landlord from the labour question , and the consequent necessity of enabling the former to perform
his duties to the latter , by generous loans , to be recovered b y EXTENT ; th « -probabiliiy of the landlords making a stand upon the famine side of the precipice , to draw attention from the abuse siile , and the indispensable necessity of an alteration in the law of tenure , whereby the producer may lie secured in the uninterrupted possession and enjoyment of his own industry . That article was , " ,,. ' > lwUe . 1 in December , and we now ask the imparti-1 reader , whether the resolutions of the Banditti , aBd the few short speeches made by Irish members in the House , do not critically realizs the prediction * of the writer . In conclusion , we shall narrowly watch and fearlessly criticise every measure of the Government iu connection with Ireland and the
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amiue question , treating it , as the lr ; , i , Zmti ^ 'lesire , upon its mere social merits , and wholi - - " ^ specliveof theirs or our political feeling ( ,, ' !?** We shall give the minister credit , if [ , is , 5 l deserve it ; shall give him the benefit of ( mr * t -in , i ?" very speedily be brought into operation o \ - * .. SIDE OF THE WATER , as his best ciufe ^ cannot possibly avert the monster ' s mardi . To J ' FOREWARNED IS TO BE F OUEAKMEn tnerefore Russell , THINK . ' **
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THE FAMINE . As famine is not likely to he confined to Ireland , and as the laws of the landlords cannot establish any cordon to arrest the monster ' s march , we are bound to consider the question in all its bearings and relations . Firstly , then , we must reasonably presume that the Exchequer will suffer , and materially too , iu the naval and military department , as we are not aware that the Noble Lord at the head of her Majestv ' s
Government will be able to insert a clause vti the Free Trade tariff in favour of the provisions and rations of soldiers and sailors , nor will he find it convenient to limit the amount of those important items , when the services of the recipients may be so urgently required to reconcile the less subservient to short commons . In truth , both the minister and Mr . Lahouclieve have told us , that all that is to be expected is a MITIGATION OF THE CALAMITY . Oh for a nation of Cavagnahs , in this the hour of our tribulation , when the gift of fasting would be indeed a hcavenlv dispensation !
The precedent having been established in Ireland , that property not only has its duties , but must perform those duties , will shortly be called into practice iu THIS COUNTRY , and therefore it becomes the duty of all to furnish the minister with all the material for that ready reckoner , to which he will be obliged to refer at breakfast , dinner and supper , i ! the economy of three meals a day is to be preserved . With this view we cheerfull y furnish him with our fair portion of figures . We find that the Income and Property tax then , from a tax of
something less than three per cent , produces over five millions annually : That amount is a peace tax , but now we are at war with the most deadly enemy , who spares neither age nor sex in his ravages , and whose march and tactics cannot be arrested or circumvented by ordinary military tactics . The capitalists and landowners of England submitted to a property tax often per cent TO KEEP BONEY OUT ; hunger is a more watchful , more subtle , less manageable and more powerful enemy , and therefore would demand as large an amount to resist its aggression .
Allowing the five millions to be required for the idle and indolent as hush-money for the discontented , and pelf-money for the easil y-satisfied , au additional seven per cent ., making the whole amount ten per cent ., would place a fund of nearly twelve millions at the disposal of the Government , while an
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THE IRISH BANDITTI . In days of yore , in the good old days when things were called by their proper names , and when the conqueror ' s rule was " touch and go ''" catch and keep ; " when piracy and adventure had their dangers as well their brighter prospects ; when even the ocean itself was but an uncertain boundary to the native possessor or foreign usurper , then pirates and adventurers met in conclave , in the dark cavern or some dingy hall , to talk over the chances of death , or prospects of success —even iu those savage days secrecy was observed , whether from fear of apprizing the victim or of the consequences
of detection . Well , but those barbarous days of bashfuiness uud secrecy are gone , and why should ' nt plunder as well as commerce have its civilised code of laws ? The old barbarian was but a man amongst men , the new barbarian is a host iu himself , and iu his own proper person swallows up , some a county , some a jity , some a town , and the most moderate a borough . Of old , arrow ranked with arrow , and the bowman ' s skill alone gave preference . Strength—God ' s gift—was , then , man ' s reliauce , but now , the pigmy voice of some stall-fed abortion , or crippled half-begotten thing , stays the arm of unarmed legions , and checks expression on the threshold of conspiracy .
What the Maker meant as man ' s distinction , the weak , through jealousy , has thwarted to his disgrace , as the able-bodied man must sorrow at the controul of his pigmy superior . Who will say that the bold , the daring , and unblushing resolution of the IRISH BANDITTI , discussed in open day and resolved in open council , does not deserve so much prefatory observation . Perhaps OUR READERS are not yet aware that the fright of famine has at length roused the apprehensions of its creators , and that Saxon and Celt , Protestant and Catholic , Whig
and Tory , Repealer and anti-Repealer , Jew and professing Christian , have had their seitafus coxsuffum in the Rotunda , and that the Irish landlords , armed with the weapon of millions—THE VOTE—and , headed by their Parliamentary gang , have invaded Britain in the hope of sacking her Exchequer , and carrying off that poition of the spoil , to the abstraction of which they cheerfully consented as long as no part of the amount ea-ne from their own coffers . No , so long as they could plunder industry for idleness , and that the British Minister ' s support
was given in return for their subservience , then there was no charge of plunder , but now that labour ' s lemon has been squeezed dry , the bandit cries out RESTORE ! RESTORE !! RESTORE !!! These tender-hearted philanthropists hav paraded nearly forty crying grievances of their own creation , and of over forty years' unheeded existence , as their caws belli , unexpected famine , has reminded
them of the dangers of property as well as its duties , and in order to protect themselves against the one , they seek to chuck responsibility of the other on other shoulders . Did it . require famine to tell them that the land required draining ; that the poor required productive employment and a suitable provision , if unwilling idlers or unable to work , to convince them that the Law of Settlement required improvement , and that facility should be given to
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . At an unusually early period the l ^ ubody of the country has been c tiled togcu /' to discuss grave , pressing , and momentous o ^ : > and the crowded appearance of both lining . ' first night oi the session , showed that th « ra ^ i * of each are alive to the critical nature ot ' titc poaif " in whieh we are now placed . Tlic Ministerial programme for Up ? w ^' nn *« w » i , i || i > 'VVi ihi | 'I"ij if » lNiuV k \ H III' * Jl ( SS'flh
wined in the Queen ' s Speech , was r . ;; n iriuble ' only for what it indicated , but for wiuit , ii ymitted andjin oach case curiously chnriwtermic of tlie gtnj ' of the party now in office . Bold and frank iu m ^ where gonc-ral concurrence was expejie . l , it eitu passed over entirely , or alludes in the ui . st vag manner , to topics on which opposition m . y arise . Jt is elaborately distinct about temporary snnll mea surcs , such as opening the ports , a :,. ' l luting the brewers have liberty to make bier from Su- ; , ; * \ vhHe on the permanent question of Educati-m it is totally silent . TV . state of the revenue , and of our colonial and foreign dupemlencies , are also whollj unnoticed in the speech .
11 The immediate and temporary measures rccom mended by the Ministry , arc in laet an imficacV nient of thoir own pr . st policy . If the opening of the ports and the juspensioa of the nuvig -. tinn \ iVi could have been of any service at all , it was three or tour mmtlw ago , before winter ha ^ l bincked up the shores of the Baltic , or France , Belgium , and Ifo ] , land exhausted thesiore granaries of tho Cntincnt , The wisdom of shutting the stable demr alter the deed was stolen , hns received a practical exeraplifi . cati-ui in the policy of the Whig Cubit-. et . While
otnornations , eitner actually suffering frnm scarcitT or misery , anticipating its probable pressure , abolished all imposts on the importation of food , anti took active measures for supplying themselves with min wherever it coul < i lie found , Lord John Russeil , on some unintelligible ground ot other , resolutely refused to open the u » rts wbV ur , t > d to do so , not ( inly by repeated deputations , but bv the " Chronicle , " the old and stauiv' * i organ of tie Whig party . It was said in ex'Mi > e fur this o ' . ininiicy , that his Lordship was unwillinj to break
a eompa-t made last session that the arrangement a- to the Corn Laws should not be in any waydii . t :: bed , but Lord G . BentiRck , on the ritrtofth Protectionists , or . Tuesday nigiit , utterly repudiated ariy such compact , denied all knowledge of it , and siid that , so far as hi ? party was concerned , the Pre * mii-r might have opened the ports when he liked ' For not doing so , therefore , he is clearly rcsponsi-Wt . and f » r the consequent evils which such errors irv . vy enUi ! upon the country . His own lnte adoption of the measure , pronounces his nv'St emphati 11 con iemnation .
Its adoption now will produce no sen * iMe benefit . Evon if there be corn to be had abroad , wliith U it 4 best a doubtful matter , the elements are ngainst us . I Tim season of the vear will prevent iir . jdrtatioiu \ \\< r some time to come , and the very rigours ol ¦' wi « ri » r , which a gravate the misery of tho wit , will interpose a barrier to the tran-it of the surplus which ' ,- ' . arp so urgently needed . The permission to use sugiir in brewer !* - * ami dls ' fcilk'fii'S lias been explained by tho Premier to b « ¦ •(
virtually a permanent measure , though in th « tvrat * instinct ; he will only nsk for a temporary act . On tlic t ; sce of it , t ' . ie change is a beneficial cup , but j it iiiustleai ! , if adopted , to other and croater changes ' ' i which we suspect the Wuigg , who are br . i vt-ry in . I clirtVrerit financiers , iire by no means prepared lor . | - I ; will , we apprehend , he impossible to maintain the I Malt T ; ix in the face of such a measure , and whetta ILord John is prepared to give up th mi ' . 'iar . s an' |; inially ilerived from this tax , may be safely left t | : his own consideration . ' As to tho " permanent measures" of the ri ' nistrj , ; they are as yet meivly indicated . The . , are stated •' to be intended " to r » ise tbe great in . « of the i pe pie in comfort , to promote agriouitiire and to p lessen tho pressure of that competition f > r ' . lie occupation of land which lias buen the fruitful saurw ; of ' vrime and misery" in Ireland . Thesj . o ' u .-moio ! . by which these objects ave to be attained , an . to be developed on Monday , ami till then we ska !; re * ' serve all comment or anticipatory coniectaro .
Ireland has the "lion ' s share" of the s ?< -ech , a « it hiid ot the debate . The Montpensier marn . ige and the annexation of Cracow , were the ii--xt , o ' sAi considered of importance by the membus -. if both iiinis ' . 's . England was apparently alto-. * e « hcr forgot- , cai , the only allusion to it , the onlv imli-.-.: ; < : ; 'M its condition Lad in the slightest derive p ; .:. ; pie ^ tiie attention of the Ministry , is to be touiui in a vague mention of a measure fur imviMvi : ^ . - the
health ot towns . The great measures 0 ! Social , Sanatory and Educational Reform , which l . or . l John | . Russell somewhat pompously emblazmed 0 : 1 his election banuers in the City of Lorniou tn his acceptance of office Last year , liavo vlwi « iUc . l « o « u into one . This , for John Bull , who ias to " pay t . e . pipev , " is disheartening euoujib , atid ; : " tlie ven'Mi debates may bo accepted as au ino . cuaoa ot the staple materials of the session , he «•! , ! lunlly f
: yA a word on edgeways for any of Aw u rievai . ^ s . [ Ireland , it * »; ate and prospects , its evils and their remedies , constituted , and will constitute * , t ! ic tUeiue J of every orator and of all parties . There wa < & wonderful unanimity among Uieni as to the r . eces- \ .-ity of " .-oinethini * being done , " but what that " something ' was to be , did uot appear to tie very I eh-ar to any ot the numbers whose cluqi :. n . e iiis hitherm iK-tindb-pluycd 011 the subject . Oi . ver > s ' . wpi-I'ious point in our opinion , and observable in almost ¦• very speech in either hi > use , was the evident lo . iuifiS t o tl : e Irish landlords . Lord Stanley , in the 1-orda ! I'mphatLally valletl upon tho Minhtrv to w . ilk in j the pMli ot tin 1 constitution , and e--ii < c allv to tak *
into their counsel , the landlords 01 hvhn 1 , upon whom he- pas-ed a liij-h . eneomi ui . It they did this , they were assured of ii . A . lo-operation mvA that t > V his party . The same sun * wms sung in the Commons , and tho niinwi . vj ., ! rej- > imlt « ate Millieient to shew that , be tho coming measurci what , they may , they will not alarm tlie most tiiuU Conservator of " the rights o ! " property . " Peel ha ' for thirty-eight years in his Parliamentary nml Ministerial capacity , bi-eu attemptine t . i keep Irish Soeiety together ou its present foundation ; an < l h » s tailed—lamentably failed . The pau- ! : \\ - > rk will not hold . All measures which do 1 ot gra pie with the eaters , are ' a delusion , a mucker . ., and a snare ;" and if I ' eel , with his superior adiiiinistr : itiv » > abili *
nu-, has wretehvdly broken down , in lUoemU-avoUf ing to maintain the incongruous sujiei ' structure of Irish Society on its present foundation , what Iwpe ¦ ' there that Russell will succeed . Anything short of radical and awning mca BUr «» will be futile . A different rehitiou nuw ' . bj establish * oil lictwetM . the property ami the ( -m .-rty of Ireland . The land must iu fact , a * it dot's in i ^ ulty , be ma ^ to lio ! oii >; to the people , and by kimll . . and fostcrM vuiwuves , tlie labour ami the prMurVwe cn « tg ic 8 ° rliu sister island be so developed ami uUuibuteu as > ° produce abundance tor all .
This is one of the great t : ¥ sks which tie bsfore Ministers and Parliament ; whether the present Cabio « and the present Legislature are canab ' c or' a chieving it , or we must wait for a new Administration &" * new Parliament . It will be , to a considerable ?*"
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I THE NORTHERN STAR . January 23 , 1847 , I
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