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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1W0.
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KANCraSTER , ^ Abjotjtised Meeting 0 P DeleoaibS ;— ^ ihe | 24 t > ins ^ del egates J *> aiManch es ter , Leigh , Glosaop . SaLord , Duc * rufiel < i , Oldhaai , Stockport , Bolton di \ ion , Ut ^ worth , Holme , Droylsden , and Middle-Bi ? ^«* * ie Universal Suffrage Committee Room , *« Q , 9 , Wbftllo > Elre « t . Mr . Peter Chapel was caile , w » the chair . Sixteen shillings were handed over t < we Stockport delegate , for the support of the victim > from that quarter , sow in Chester Castle , as , owin ^ to the turn-out there , thev are unable to do anything for their suffering brethren at present . The followint resolutions were then agreed to : — 1 . That the delegates present do pledge tbemBelve * individually and collectively , to ujo their utmost endeavours to form Associations in their several districts , for the purpose of resisting local tyranny , as -weH as carrying out the principles of tl » Peopled Charter . ^ - *^^^—**** " « & £ ST £ fc * % « ^
2 . That it is requisite that District Committees be appointed by the Chartists of Manchester , Bolton , Bury . ¦ Aahton , Leigh , Rochdale , Steckport , Oldham , Hyde , Xiverpool , aad other places , willing to < o-operate in " -CHTying out the plans and recommendations of the Sooth Lancashire Delegate meeting . Such District Ooaimittecs to consist of delegates from the various Tillages and branches of the district , aad to m&et one * -a werk to report pr ? gress . 3 . T . ' At for the c : Tecta . al dissemination of Eoun ;; politicsJ knowledge , ¦ we recommend the formation uf & Central Committee , cou . p . o 3 < rd of one or two from each distiict . to meet oacc- a lunnUi in ilanthester ; and the districts ? k req ^ cs ;'_ il tc ek-ct dc ' cgut . a for til ' s purpo * -. ; ¦ asapaadiK as poss ^ ue .
¦ 4 . That as the intemperate use of intoxicating-driift &ts been found to be a great drawback on popular dTaacsinenient . the delegates strenuously advise . tht .-meesbcrs of Pylivlc&l AsociatiOES to uiscountsaance it hj -every means in their powtr , more particularly by ttomsrirws setfcng the « iaraplo . 5 . Tki ; we kave h <_ -saxl witli feelings oMnexpresslble iadig ^ stion , of the treatment "which Mr . Feargus O * CacB&i is receiving from , the Whigs , and * ro of opinion that it affords mother proef that there is no feopb for freedom but through the ceaseless exertion of "Uie pocple—no hope far humanity but in the establish-» eat of a thoroughly Democratic Government C That each Association transmit to the next meeting « f & 6 Central Committe , the names of their respective local ieetarers , and tbe respective times at which they wish to hsre ltctares delivered , in order that a plan for tfcat purpose may be prepared .
7 . That all communications bo addressed to William Smith , 8 , "WhitUe-street . ^ Whittle Stseet Bsulxch . —At the weekly meeting of the Universal SafiVage Association , in their room , No . 9 , Whittle Sireer , the proceedings of the Socth Lancashire Delegate Meeung Yfds mentioned , aad geceraHj approved . Tno case of Mr . Feargus 0 * Coanor w * 3 Uid before them , which excited a iwrit of pity and indignation ; and they resolved to eall upon their feDow-iownsmen and women to meet them on Tuesday , the 26 th inst ., to express their opinion in this case of unparalleled cruelly and oppression .
Co-opekxtios . —The Hulme and Chorlton Joint Stock Provision Company commenced operations on fcaturday , the 2 th iustan- , &r . d have met with that success they little anticipated . Aft « r pro-rich- ; - « iem * elveS With SCal ** , Trains , &c 3 tK « v onlv urovr from ice . 'r treasurer the sum of £ 8 10 ? ., aid have » ot since had occasion to draw any more . The com-Bmtee meet every Thursday evening , ateigbt o ' clock , in the room over the Store , No . 32 , Clarendon-street , Oxford-read , where every l&funnatiou will be given to those desirous to take tp shares . Any persons who feel desirous ot spending a few hcurs ou Sunday afternoon . i < i reading , or hearing read , the public OSWS , are informed thai the Committee Room is open for that purpose , free of expense , from two u . Dine oVloek . Those who wkh to take the NorUiem Star can be supplied by their shopman .
SALFCRD . Radical Association . —At the weekly meeting of the Salforu Radical Association , in Id yii Moaoar . the 25 th ilay , at which was t * ktu into c-ousideratk ' n the cruel treatment of our patriotic friend , Fc&rgu .-O'Connor , Vy the ha * e and brutal Whigs , it was moved by Mr . Campbell and seconded by Mr . Holt , aad carried unjmimoael . Tj thai a pnblic meeting take place In the Town Hal ^ , on Wednesday , June 3 rd . to petition the House of Commons against sueb treatment , and a committee was appointed to carry cot the same .
Ratiosal Chaxtisil—On Sunday eveniBg , the 24 th ot May , a meeting of the Rational Co&rtista took place in their chapel , to receive a report of the Manchester Delegate meeting . Mr . RvWn Ward , the delegate , gave in account of the business transacted , which fcava < . Teat satL-factiou to the mtmbijj present . Arrau ^ em = n ts have been na « ie for a pebhe d ; nuer , to be held in the Rtfjrmer ' s Chapel . on the 13-. ii of Jaue , a ; iwo o ' clock in the aftenjooii : * ad for a peblic meeting afterwards , to bt addresstd by persons of taJent from Manchester , Uldhazn . Kochdale , Ueywood , < 5 c . c It is expected that numerous ptrsc-ns -will attend from the out districts , and that jj-eat Rood and satisfaction will be the consequence . Tickets may bo had of T-. Wild , th * jsewB a »; eut , and Joi . n Hunt .
Co-op £ 3 atio .-. —This eociety has increased in its ¦ embers to the immber of srrenty-two , and its capital has grown t-8 about £ 50 , " They weekly j ciie ad'iiii < -iiB u > their sio .-k in trade , and iheir ttinds appear to be fully beut on raising a capital . thai they may adopt more extensive meaeares ! Unanimity , the harmony of society , dwells amoDgti it 3 iBcmters .
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1 EARGU 5 O'CONNOR . TO THE iDlTOR OP TBS JfORTIIEIUl STAB . TTOtrLridge , May 26 th , 1 S * O . SlB ^ —On Monday eTening , the Chartists of this io-wa be ! d s public me-tHur , at U ; eir Democratic Ct-xp& , for the purpose of hearing resd the letur o : Mr . O ' Connor r < £ vectin £ the cjuei t' 6- ^ tiutnt that Ik-¦ was rT-t-eivLii' ct Y . > rk C ' -a-r ^ e . The Chap .-l \ ras -wcl £ ll-A , the i-c-. 'X-ie iom iag to hear tie coi » teiits of the fett-E . At eight o ' clork , Ilr . J = mes Jlardi-vnt was called to ¦ file chair , "vsho explained the objects of the meetiag in % very neai speech . Mr . Raviinj tben csin- > fyrwrrd . and made an excellent appeal oa Inhalf cf Mr . O'Connor and others , noir iDcarceBted for the advococ- of freedom . Mr . Ha-wkins rc&d the letter , and strongly commented mpon it ; after which Mr . Ita-sriing proposed the followbx resolutien : —
*• We , the inhabitants of the town of Trowbridge , hi pnblic meeting assembled , view tie conduct of our tase , tyraimic&l , and bloody VThig Government , in yrcgecctaTig and incarcerating tliat bo ; d , nun nching , xrul virtuous patriotic friend o * the people , Feargns O'Connor , H-q .- to be s } runefui r . r . & » j isnnical , atd is ae insult en rtisoa and tUe feriiag vt a majority of the Britiih people ; ana is a most , fe .-. iful ii ; ro ^ d upo n tke « igau of iaa Britiih mhject . " Seconded by Mr . J . il ; -cra , and carried u . r . airm-n- 'Iv . Mr . Hawkins p «^ svd Lt « ccwii « l roevl u tioa : — " That -re , the frieeds « f the Ch : rt--r , ( laring the luczxt ^ rszion utf the prnprL / tor of the SorOiern S : ar , we dettxmhied u > enppo : t ttat rre : t organ of the people , etcn th'jaeH it Bhsuul be lo our ktgt pimiy . " Seconded bf iir . William . Eain ^ , and carried gnarlniiicsiy . Prap ; i « : s 4 by l £ t J . Kaowlcs , sad 8 > € -in ^ ed by Mr . B . MiTtin : —
** T- * t » pubUc njeeticg b-: hell v > -n : orrow evening . T ^»^< li J ¦ , f-. r the purv-oc ^ >_ . f a-J . p .- ; - a uit-morial ; o i *» itsrqclH of > fonuai . by . on t ^ Lai :. f ilr . O'Connor ; » od Ui » t -Jk-te rw-jluti . z ^ U seuz tv V . n Northern Star toe iasertiun . " Mil O'Gasnor ' * p ^ tiuoc La * bcea an * off froni ihW * W » n , tu &t TiaccU Bcr < i * U , the rtj , c * eWft . iVc of the « M ^ r . « iw Lae tiaolj jiroiaiasu , by letusr , \ tat b % ¦ msmte piM « i-. It Tlie petttioa w » e signed by 2 Cto wmim , snd l , l « 0 f ^ ua \ es . ' ^ A |) rtitifin from Ux 6 sriculiural districts of Kin « ton , ph » nl aad Mesie , to tl » came purpose , sgned by ¦ & / PJ "S * ** **»• **« pwi ^ hiM , has ai »> l-een sent off fo-| MM > uat > 'iuu , Tb « . lix . Editor , looks well for those ytfjtbtdd p « to ot WilMuie , whe « no liberal paper Attre yt 4 afpwred tseegtiqf ite Striken Star . - ZJmm Ismrtk * Ot tbe Sm * 3 i maea oblige the Baft ^ f * << Tro » tori ^ a . S Yoorj twpeetfally , N , Johx Mooas .
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Tn » Sto ««> Kt " ^^ M-Oxrr . —Sicee writ in c our ] Mtacooaat , « iwarAmt bis beea augmemed in a casusardsl p « to » *^ V « w , ty tbe strike of the wholi cif ttio muTrrf in the two extensive esiaWishmettU « t Mwnii . Hole , Liogard , and Crut-CflB ^ n , who employ aiwot 600 in that department ThejHeft tbe afljs in ft bodj » » d were received with tfco MObenstioBV cf the o&er tun-oat ^ , ^ ho van dreva 19 in . prc ; e « icu . In this order thev ¦ qurefced tfaroub the town , bearing chanwsteriirtu : wtiTrnn art Ms&ers , » o Tbartdar , and sabse-4 prcst ! y , attoeded by Kionitors of both tesee bearinx « reen wasda . AuBon ^ gt the inscriptions werea Stoekport Tsra-Uut , " "No Re ^ -ction . Cursed -k he ibat epprwwth the p * or f " Ye oppreeeora ! waparetoiaertjour God ; *• Union ia $ treD / rth f &r
*• btni ^ Ie £ 4 U , ( KKj t ^ r inua . " Se-reral oak hagttbm wera cftww ! , typi ^ il cf the necessity of * har l » -viBg be * r : s of osi ; " ard cr . e of the most * avrsipg part 3 of the procession wae the exhibition of two poles , at tbe top of which , respectively , was placed two herruijim , a potatoe , and a crust of bread txpiestivs of the condition to which the reduction would bruig tbe c-stratives . ia facr h ia demonstrated that , um . tr the abatement , » liTsuly of « yht three be : ng in work , wculd oiily earn £ \ 3 , q j ' from wiicn the minimum household expenses ' sex- ^ « lasive of fooci ) of Gs . 3-1 . ttcst ba laieil 1 le * Y . 2 g lai . Sd- : ' o ? vha niainieii =. nse Ot' a man * ills vrif * . and kLs cbilcircr , three workicg in & co . tui . bisvila tor twelve or thirteen hour 3 a dcy . Tne surplus here left will be about 2 id . a-head per
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day—just the allowance of the Poor Law bastiles 1 Ito conse < iaence of the feystem of picquetting adopted by thffturn-oats , the masters , as will be seen by a report in another part of the Star , have occasioned the apprehension of twenty-seven men and women ; and five other females , included in a warrant of conspiracy , are at large . The conduct of the policemen has been of the most violent description , one girl lying ia an almost hopeless state , from a fracture of the skull , inflicted by Serjeant Hough breaking his thick bludgeon upon . her . As proceedings are being instituted against him , either before the Coroner ( if she dies ) , or before the magistrates ( if Bhe should providentially recover ) , we will not prejudge the particulars . The HuTT—inc + tVa Blirtm * . * . *« . * P 2 . X . - T % T 1 . . _ j .
public , _ however , axe justly indignant upon the subject . It ia worth mentioning , that the picquet which contained this unfortunate girl , also comprised the persoa of Hough ' a own daughter , who is indicted in one of the warrants for a conspiracy at Bradshaw ' s . A reconciliation of the dispute is not at all likely ; the turn-oats being determined to resist all innovations upon their labour , and we are happy to add , that some of the neighbouring towns have contributed moat handsomely . Several mills are entirely closed . A division of the funds took pbee on Tuesday afternoon , and arrangements are oeing made with district shopkeepers , favourable to i : ie interests of the operatives , to furnish the turnouts allocated ia that district with food&cuntil
, , ihe termination of the struggle , which cannot bo of long duration , in consequence of tbe necessitous cirourastanees of some of the nisnufactr . rers , and who arc a : rcady preparing fresh terms to be submitted to uieir weavers . All that is required now is the Coopcr&Uon of other manufacturing places . It is due w ; h , e picquets in general to say . that , despite of the Xaliiii £ provocation on the part of the authorities int-y have endeavoured to " hold to the law , "' as Daddy Burdett would Bay ; and , to shew their love ot ybydieace to the constituted authorities , they nave discontinued their mode of picquetting discountenanced by the magistrates . Where anv
breaches of the peace have been created , it has been produced by persons in the crowd , over whom the picquet had no control . Tbe number out of ta - . ploy will not fall far short of G , 000 persons , niciudin ^ the dressers , who are resi . ^ tiug an abatement of ten per cent . The manufacturers , expecting that their legal proceedings would hare the effect of driving the turn-outs in , whilst the picquets would not be there to intimidate them , prepared their looms for the introduction of a large body on Wednesday , at the reduced prices ; but never waa disappointment so signal , only one or two instances haviug occurred , throughout the town , where parties availed themselves of the opportunity .
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I * accordance with our arrangements respecting the Portraits , tbe subscribers in Lancashire will each receive a Portrait ef Mr . Oastleb , on Saturday , the 27 th of June ; the Subscribers in Yorkshire , one of Sir . M'Do »« ll ; and the Subscribers in Birmingham , Lvudon , Newcastle , Carlislv , and Scotland , one of ilr . John Collins , on the same day . No agents will be supplied unlesB they have paid up their accounts .
A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OP PEARGUS O'CONNOR Is in the hands of the Engraver , and trill be presented to the Subscribers as soon as ready , which will be some time after those we have promised , and now in the act of distributiug . are all given according to announcement . The size of this pkte will be two inches larger each way , than any previously given , —Mr . O'Coxvok appearing at full length . No efforts will be epsred to make it as much superior to those we have before given to the readers of ihe Northern Star , as they were to any ever yet given with any newspaper . In consequenco of the . great expense we are going to in the production of this Plate , the price of the paper , on the day it is given , will be eightpence . Subscribers who enter their nameg note , will be entitled to this Portrait , a » well as to all others yet to be given .
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MR . FEARGUS O'CONNOR . Mr , O'Cosnob remains in tho same circumstances as when we last published ; his health and feelings are better described in his petition to tbe House of Commons than by any thing we can say here . To the petition , therefore , we refer our readers . We have received no answer from Lord Nohmakbt to our memorial of hist we * k . We are happy to see that the people are stirring in various parts of the country . This is well ; and it murt be kept up , or 0 'Co . TToa will certainly be sacrificed . The Leeds press has also taken np the affair , in a manner that does credit to its conductors . The Intelligencer , after giving the whole of Mr . O'Connor s letter to llr . Hobson , and a portion of our Memorial ,
pays" AVe must ay that this troitment is most disgracel V . —not to Mr . O'Connor , but to the Literal Qovtrnr . iert—U > . Lord Nornianby—espec ; a ly when we call : u n : ind the fact tbat more than oi : « member of tin-Mvlbowae Cabinet has n-ed lanjua ^ e a public meetings as vio ' . ent as that charged upon Mr . O'Connor ; and particularly discreditable ai it respects Lord Xorininby , whose wholesale liberation of I-. ish feiuni of the O'Connell school Is yet fre * k in the pub ic memory . The punishment inflicted Is e-rfriinly a punishment beyend the law , rnd it is tbe -worse that it is unprecedented un < i ^ r similar circumstanct-s . Talk of a Lilxral Government : "Where do tre find a trace ? Tbe Government is a tyrannical Government , as regards those
of opposite politics , vrho come into their power ; and is a slavish Government as respects those on whom It is depinJent for support—wituis * th ' .-ir panderings to the Irish Arch-Di-magogue . Mr . O'Connor has , no doubt , Tiolr . ted the law ; -we roaXo no comment on lliO Lajil sentence pronounced upon him in this place : Vut he 13 innocence itself compcured -with O'Conuell , ¦ a-houi , for its ovm purposes , tiri * LibcnU Government delight to honour ! No surer mode » f attracting tbe public sT-jipftthy towards > Ir . 0 Connor could have b .-eu devitfd thnn this ciix-A tieatn-. e ; i We entirely differ
-snth him in political news and feelings ; wo cannot r . ut cundt-ma the language for ¦ which he was convicted ; we ada ; lt that in ti : nes of danger and agitation ttj' pi ? should be ma-ie-, but we khouid be ashamed of ourreives if any political differences of opinion 'were V > prevent us from proclaiming to the pu ' . lic the existence of this most unnecessary and unwise severity . It is enough , ire think , to lock up a man for eighteen wi-ary monih » -without mper&dding that 'which , in O'Connor * ca-so , amounts to b- - > th mental and . bodily Uirture . "
The Mercttrp does not give any part of the letter —or memorial ; but says , in reference to it : — "Mr . O'Connor - « rasbrought Vj YofkCistlo © nTue ^ day la * t , there to » u » tr-in his ligir . eeniaoutliS'ijupns . 'UIliCnt We learn , by a UtU . T from him > -eif to 1 is publisher , that he is confined oa the frU / h < side of the prlsoa . and subjected to h&niguip * vhich must be extremeiy tevtre &ul galling to a person of hi * education , and not in a good ttate of health . " He hoc to mix with sentenced criminals , to live on
very hard tar * , to occupy a rtoue cell , and to perform offices for himself uf a degrading nature . Ik seems that persona convicted of aeditiotu libel have frtquentlv , if not jg" <~ f T ) r . 1 nn « miu- ^ H to «> c « pj op « rcffie *« s on tbe debtor * side of tha prison . ThU was the caw With Sir Francis Burdett , Mr . Leigh Hunt , Mr . Cobbett , itr . G « orge Edinondi , and Mr . Montgomery ; and is now the case -with Stephens , O'Brien , Richardson , aad others confined in Chester and Ltacut . z G&ola .
" Beiieving , &s in do , that Mr . O'Connor ' s offonoe is a very aggnTsted one , we still think he ought to be confined on tbe debtor * ' tide , &n& not to be placed among convicted felon * . A memorial praying for thii change hu been « ent to the Marquij of Nonnanby by ti » e pubiwher aad editor of Mt O'Connor ' * paper ; and we think it aort hkUy that the prayer will be granted . " While our more Radical eontetapor&ry of the Lecd Tana gate the following as a leadisg article : —
' CONFINEMENT OP MR . FBARGU 8 0 C 0 NN 0 R . " However we msy b » Te diflbr « d frosi Mr . O'Connor as to the mode which he haa adopted of advocating and carrying Into effbel the principlea of the Charter , we , neTertheless , cannot regard bia present treatment bat with feelinga of the deepest sympathy aad regret . We aay nothing as to the jartice of the judgment lately pronounced upon him , and of tbe long term of imprisonment to which he has been condemned by the Court of Queen ' s Bench . As regarda the manner of his imprisonment , however , end the hardships to which he is nowEubjecteu in the Gaol of York Castle , we cannot rifrain from characterising them as in the very last decree cruel and barbarous .
" Mr . OCcncor has beea found guilty of publishing a ¦ s-. Utions iibel in his paper , tae Korihem Siar ¦ and , hieniaas good men l-eiore him , he fcas been &entenced awrtV ^ iif ^ 10114 i ™ Pr : 8 *' ent' Tbe offence is eSSSK 3 ^ Catnre ; md *« J ' ect" of ^ *« cmel and ** £ ^ J ^^ »** e ?*< 7 ' ^ ^^ ~ A * i «» at , m all pro-
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~ 1 ; i vious cases of imprisonment for political offences , such has been the case . Sir Francis Burdett . was all o ^ eiL intercourse with his friends at all r « asonaJJ * 4 h > ur 8 ; ho ¦ was permitted to find his ovrn food » nd bed , and corresponded freely with his friends out of doors . Mr . Leigh Hunt , Mr . Cobbett , Mr . George Edmonds , and others , confined for similar offences In the flarkostdays of Toryism , were allowed similar indulgences ; and it was never attempted by the most tyrannical Tory Government to punish the publisher of a seditious libel like a common felon , a burglar , « r a murderer . _ .. i _ ; '' ' - ' i . *• % i » i > j *_ _ i . jfe _ . \
" Yet saca is the present treatment ol Mr . O'Connor . He is denied all intercourse with his friends , and cut off from all society save that of thegaoler aud tbe felons and misdemeanants , with whom he is compelled to herd . He is condemned to a felon ' s fare and diet , and to a felon's -cell ; and though in bad health , is provided only With a thin flock bed to He on , without sheets or pillows . In addition to this , he is obliged to perform various menial and degrading offices of the most revolting possible nature . Im a letter from Mr .
O'Connor to Mr . Hobson , his publisher , he states that '' the man from Huddersfield , ( for the murder of Duke , ) and himself , are precisely under the samo rules . " ' "Such treatment is truly disgraceful—disgraceful especially to a Government calling itself liberal , that it should countenance or sanction the infliction of such indignity upon a man whose offence is solely of a political nature ; thus exceeding , in tbe cruelty of ita treatment to political offenders , even the worst of its Tory predecessors .
" n e refer to this subject quite irrespective of Mr . O'Connor's political opinions . Our readers know well that as regards his strong leanings towards what ho terms " the real aristocracy of the country , " as well as his opinions on the question of the Corn Laws , wo stand diametrically opposed to him . It is not as a question of party politics , but hb ono of humanity , that we regard it ; and we sincerely trust that the applications now being made for an amelioration of treatment in his ca « e , will be successful . It Is a subject for the press to taie up earnestly , and we trust it will not be overlooked . The article from tho Intelligencer haa been copied into , we believe , all the London daily papers , except the two Government organs , the Morning Chroniele and the Globe .
Our readers will perceive , from a report elsewhere , that a West Riding Delegate Meeting _ was ' holden on Tuesday at Liveraedge , and that they recommend simultaneous public meetings throughout the Riding on Tuesday next . This is the right plan of proceeding . About the thing at once . Take sufficient time to organise your meetings , and let them be effective and universal . If the people doa ' t move now , we despair of ever seeing them move . Let no foolish , raeh language be used at any of those meetings—no threats—no violence . Fhost
was sacrificed by the ungoverned impetuosity of his friends , led on by wily trepsters : let past experience be a beacon for present movements . Let your memorials and petitions be worded strongly but respectfully , so that men of all parties can sign them . Let tho delegate meeting at D 9 wsbury , on Monday , be attended by the intelligent , cool , and wise patriots of every district . Let the pull be a " strong ono" and " a pull altogether , " and then it will not be a " long one . " Oppression will be foiled , despite of all its power .
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FEARGUS O'CONNOR AND THE LONDON PRESS . Since the above was written , we have received the Morning Chronicle and the Sun of Wednesday , from which we take the following stirring appeals : — The Morning Chronicle says : — " Imprisonment may , for aught we know , be the best punishment that can be devised for political libel ; but it is very desirable that it should be a
more clearly denned punishment , and more uniform in its innictionB , than it is at present . Personal restraint is one thing ; personal indignities , privations , and innictionB , amounting to a species of torture , arc another ; and they ought not to be confounded under the same name , or result from the ? ame sentence , at the will of an arbitrary discretion . The diversity that ia practicable , and the eevcrities that are practised by the local magistracies , under tho existing isdefiniteness , are such as to call aloud for public and legislative attention .
"The treatment of Mesars . Lovott and Colliue , in Warwick Castle , vw ill be in our readers' recollection , from tbe discussions ii excited last year ; and they will find mention ia our columns to-day of that of Sir . O'Brien , in Lancaster Gaol , and , of . Mr . Feargus O'Connor in York Castle . In all these cases there are facts utterly disgraceful—we will not Bay to a popular Government—but to a civilized eociety .
"The gaol regulations are , we believe , framed by the local magistrates , who superintend their enforcement , thoee regulations receiving the aanction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department , and beiug subject to his suspending power . The responsibility may therefore be shifted from one party to another . The subject , however , is not to be burked by this facility for evasion . If the local magistrates abusp . their discretion , we have a right to expect tho interposition of the Government ; and if there be any difficulty about that interposition , theu iet some proposition be submitted to the Legislature . For the continued and repeated infliction of wrong , there must be a remedy somewhere .
"we have no partiality , heaven knows , for Feargus O'Connor . Our columns have often been occupied by the exposure of the vices of his political career , his inteznpearte language , bis outrageous calumnies , his insidious charge ? , and the blended violence and cowardice of his popular appeals . But Feargus O'Connor is , for a political libel , sentenced te eighteen monthB' privation of personal liberty . He is not sentenced to the companionship of felons , or to solitary connnemtsut as an alternative ; he 16 not sentenced to menial offices of a filthy and degrading description ; he is not sentenced to tho
suspension of all communication with , or knowledge of , the world ' s doings or sufferings ; lie is not sentenced to such diet and accommodation ae shall necessarily impair health , aggravate disease , and shorten life . If thc 3 e horrible additions to more imprisonment were intended in the sentence , they ought to hare been expressed . If not intended , they ought not to be inflicted . The local magistrates may say such ate the regulations of York Castle ; the Home secretary may Eay the sentence was eighteen raoiiiha' imprisonment in York Cattle ; aud we caa only subjoin that , betweeu thei ( wo , there ia a pitiful evasion .
" Mr . O'Connor docs not app *> ar to have been subjected , like Mesers . Lovett and Collins , to 'the fklon dress , or to having his hair cropped by a felon , or to a common bath with the felons ; but the difference is only an instance of tlie ^ arbittary discretion which is the damningJn&acLDf ^ Jl the cases , in * n , the priweer Is delivered p ? er to a- power which may bare some forbearance , or may have no forbearance ; but which has ample latitude for indulging the most brutal insolence and vindictivenese under the m&ak of law and juBtiee .
"Mr . O'Brien haa only been Indulged , aftertnueh demurring and long discussion , with & copy of "Blackstone ' s Commentaries" in his cell ; » few works of classical literature having been refused him . We » care « ly know how to comment on the astounding absurdity &nd gratuitous cruelty of this conduct , ^ h&t a prisoner should addict himself to reading , and have about him some works of standard worth , would bo % pleasurable fact to
any magistrates who did not desire to degrade the h « maa into the brute natort , or to arail themieJTea of whatever wag best in the prisoner ' * mind and character for purposes of tindietire infiietion . The old rtory is well known of a gaoler ' s kUling a spider to which his prisoner had become attached ; but there is really a more misehievous malignity in refusing the book than in killing the spider .
" These aggravations of the punishment of imprisonment for political offences are a recent abuse . It was not thus even under the rigorous sway of Pitt and Castlereagh . Flower conducted the Cambridge Intelligencer ^ Leigh Hun t the Exa miner , and Cobbelt the Register , during their several incarcerations for political libel . They were imprisoned , and nothing more . That was the o * m also with Sir Francis Burdett . It is a disgusting and monstrous
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incongruity that such scenes as have recently passed ¦ should be enacted under the present Administration . The greatest good they have done for the country is tho practical freedom of the press , during their possession of power . They have allowed it an unexampled extent of liberty . Not a day passes in which the opposition papers do not indulge in language which any Tory Ministry would have been sure to visit , in its political opponents , with vindictive * a , . * « « . ¦ . «
punishment . We owe it to them that this has become a country of frank and free speaking through the press . The license has been grossly abused , but even the grossest abuse has obtained by tolerance a sort of prescriptive sanction . There seoms no necessity , to our minds , for this wise indulgence being counterpoised by wanton aggravations of the punishment to which , in a few cases , political libel has been judicially sentenced .
" From the conversation in the House of Commons last night , wo infer that in the particular case of Feargus O'Connor some mitigation is likely to take place . But this , of itself , is by no means all that the subject requires . So long as there is no prospect of amending the indennitene&s of the law , the punishment at least ought to be definite . No man , probably , ever put pen to paper half a dozen times on political subjects without writing what was capable of being construed as a political libel . Impartial dealing with the parties universally , according to the present mode of punishment , is wholly out of
question . No Government dare attempt it , were they disposed . No succession of juries would cooperate with them , were they to make the attempt * How unwise and unjust , then , to allow of these disgraceful freaks of Tory magistrates , in cases where they infallibly produce tho impression of harshness towards the members or champions of the working class . The Government wrongs itself , and becomes the scoff of the faction which , after having furiously complained of its leniency in Ireland , will not fail , with the same impudence , as furiously to charge it with cruelty in England .
"The gaol system needs thorough revision . If local magistrates cannot discriminate between the offences of erring intelligence , exercised in public affairs , and those of brutal disposition directed to individual injury , their discretion must be superseded . Tho remonstrances of Feargus O'Connor are a happy accident . Leigh Hunt has somewhere said that there would be few anglers if fishes could scream . The tyranny of prison regulations has been generally exercised on silent subjects . In catching Feargus O'Connor , the York justices have hooked a fish that screams . It will be well for humanity and justice , if , by the noise of the exception , the iniquities of the rule be in some measure amended . "
The Sun feommita a slight mistake in stating Mr . O'Connor to be the Editor as well as Proprietor of a journal . Ho is the Proprietor , but not the Editor of the Northern Star ; nor haa he any absolute controul over tho matter which may be written or inserted in the paper . The very libels , if libels they must be called , for which he was prosecuted , were inserted without his interference , or eveu knowledge . He seldom writes any thing in the paper to which his own name is not attached ; but as Proprietor , beinff * iega \ ly answerable for all tho sins of the Editor , he has too much manliness to hide behind such a plea . The Sun says : —
" Mr . F . O'Connor has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in York Castle for a seditious libel . Under the present law that is an offence of which almost every editor of a newspaper in the kingdom is guilty , whenever it pleases the Attorney-General to ask a Court of Law to Bay so . The same punishment , therefore , as Mr . O'Connor is subjected to in York Castle , may be inflicted on the majority of the editors of newspapers . We
have published his own account of the treatment he suffers , and we confidently appeal to every man in the kingdom , whether such a species of punishment is at all suitable to his offence , or was meant to be inflicted by the Legislature . Wfesbelieve ih&t it is equally abhorrent to tho fetfjngg of-Eng-Ushmea , and to the intentions of ihe law-makers and we knovritrto be a complete novelty in the administration © four law .
" The first persons guilty of a seditious libel who w * re compelled to herd with the felonry of a gaol , and were treated like felons , were Messrs . Lovett and Collins . When Mr . Warburton brought their case before the House on April 13 th , the several instances of Mr . Cobbett , the Messrs . Leigh and John Hunt , of Sir F . Burdctt , of Mr . Winterbotham , &c , were all quoted to show that persons previously sentenced to imprisonment for seditious
libels were allowed to feed themselves ; they had respectable apartments allotted to them in the gaol , saw thoir friends when they pleased , and lived as comfortably as it was possible fur men to live deprived of their liberty . Messrs . Lovett and Collins * however , on bein g guilty of the same offence , were stripped on entering the prison , had their hair cut off , and were in all respects , till their friends interfered , treated like felons .
" Somewhere about 1833 , we believe , an Act was passed empowering the Magistrates to make regulations for the different prisons , and amongst those regulations made for Warwick Gaol , and made , as it appears , for York Gaol , there is some such regulation aa this , that every person imprisoned for misdemeanour shall be treated in the same manner . The magistrates , therefore , when a person is sentenced to imprisonment on account of a seditious libel , which is classed as a misdemeanour , subject him to
their common gaol regulations , and to prevent fovouritism it has also been settled , wo believe , that there shall be no exemptions from the common treatment , but on account of illness . Sd Messrs . Lovett aud Collins were subjected to the regulations of' Warwick Gaol , so Mr . F . O'Connor is subjected to the regulations of York Gaol , and so every person convicted of a seditious libel may be subjected to the eame , or Bimilar treatment , according to the gaol regulations , in any gaol of the kingdom .
M We have heard it said that certain persons , who aro greatadmirers of tho Prcs ? , gladly availed themselves of tho ca . se of L'jvctt and Collins , who were poor and very unpopular with the middle aud influential classes , to show how heavily they can punish the Editors of Journals , whether provincial or metropolitan . Mr . O'Connor , a gentleman who is also extremely unpopular with the middle classes , is another excellent subject , it is supposed , on whom ?• -trywro TApcimrout * iiu i « tiio ouuui * u < i proprietor of a Journal . From him the punishment may be extended to other editors and proprietors , and
they will have no right to complain of similar treatment , if they see with silenco or indifference the indignities to which Mr . O'Connor is now subjected . Perhaps , when the editors and proprietors of several London Journals Bhall in turn bo compelled to eat skillagalee out of an earthern bewl in company with felons , or go without breakfast , and shall be compelled to rinse « ut their own iron chamber utensil , aa endeavour will be made , if noi before , to kindle public indignation against such unworthy treatment . Wo shall not wait till their turn , mor till our own tun comes , to denounce it as wholly unjust aad tyrannical .
"We most , in conclusion , whitper as gently as we eajnn Lord Normanby ' i ear , that any Government —tfjough we believe the Ministers have had nothing whatever to do with determining the place of confinement to which Mr . O'Connor haa been sent , or the scandalous manner in which he is treated —that any Government which even tolerates , much l ess adopts , such cruelty , is wholly undeserving of any sapport from the Press , and will most certainly be pposed and condemned by every Journal of the embiro . "
The view taken of this mattw by tho Sun is the just one . It ia a case affecting not bo much Feargus O'Connor , as the whole press ; and the whole press may expect to be so dealt with as they act in this aattor .
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We have great pleasure , as an act of justice , in referring the attention of our readers to the letter of Captain Barstow , inserted in another column . They will remember that , some time ago , we published a letter , under the signature of Cincinnaths , describing the death of an English emigrant , named Ward , on board the New York packet uhip , and reflecting upon the Captain , and the American authorities . That letter , though published under an
assumed name , waa sent to ub by a person whom we know , and on whose veracity we have the most perfect reliance . Of Captain Babstow we know nothing ; but we think it no more than justice to allow him to explain the couduct which has been complained of , through the same medium which gave currency to the complaint ; and we must say that we think his explanation quite exculpates him .
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THE LEICESTER CHARTISTS AND THE WHIG HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE TRAP .
Right glad are we to rescue the fair fame of the Leicester Chartists from the stigma which was put on it , of having been the only body of Chartists in the Empire who had walked into the trap . They have not done so . They did not attend the Whig meeting as a body . A few individual Chartist 3 were there as spectators , and , we think imprudently , brought forth an amendment which , seeing they should be unable to carry it , they withdrew . We learn from the Leicestershire Mercury , that they met on Monday week , aud unanimously nailed their colours to the mast . Hueba ! Universal Suf-BAOE , and NO SURRENDER .
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O'BRIEN'S FAMILY , THE SO UTHERN S T A R AND THE N O RTHERN STA R .
There is nothing more irksome to our feelings , than to be dragged into dispute with parties claim-I ng to advocate similar principles with our own . The cause of right has suffered more from the squabbles of interested and selfish public advocates , than frbm any other cause—probably more than from all other causes combined . Trading politicians , " who take up the public advocacy of certain principles for the emolument it
brings them , are ever angry in proportion to their dieafipointment ; and most ready to vent their spleen upon those to whom envy points them as successful speculators in the same game . Thus has it too often happened that , while the leaders were wasting their time and expending their resources in blackguarding each other , tha people have been sacrificed , while their oppressors have looked smiling on .
Knowing the mischief which the eaueo has suffered from it , we have hitherto most carefull y « schowed contention . Much provocation have we endured iu silence , because we would not hazard the damage of the cause , which might be consequent even on an honest vindication . And when we have been so attacked that it was absolutely necessary to reply , we may appeal to all our readers if we have not done it in as gentle and conciliatory a tone as possible—if we have not , at all times , used fairness aud moderation , whether we have received it or not .
We Bhall not deviate from this practice in the reply , which we now think necessary , to a contemporary ( late or present , we know not which ) , who has thought proper to attack us , in a style of which our readers will form their own judgment when they read it . In the last number of the Southern Star appears the following article , which , that wo may not inour the charge of garbling , we reprint at length , though part of it is merely a repetition of what has previously appeared in our columns : —
THE O'BRIENS AND THE " SOUTHERN STAR . " The following letters , to our surprise and indignatiou , appeared in the Northtrn Star of Saturday last , and the latter iu the Northern Liberator and Cleave ' s Gazette , aud , perhaps , iu other papers ; lor the object appears to have been to give the matter every publicity : —
MRS . O " BR 1 BN AKD THE " SOUTHERN STAfi . " We h * ve no . wi « h -whatever to ln ? Arma 4 at in' ^ « spw » , mucn-iess in the private afiairs , of our contemporaries , and especially of our coadjutor * in the . glwioui cause of « right to the people - but the follow ! »!! *?"* fT Mr" - 0 > Briea * ° Mr- OConnor , having been hand e d to us . we think it but right to publlshit We areauthonsed by Mr . O'Connor to aay that he called once on Mrs . O'Brien , and that he w « arranging » W mittee of friend * , who were induced , by thTifcateinents of the SouUwru Star , to think their exertioa « We ! cessary : — ^ 77 . Brook-Btroet , West-square , Iambeth
Dear Sir —I was in hope * you could have spared a few moments to call on me , M I had a great d £ S ^ o » y to you . i jvaa confined last Wednesday wUi , t ^ Z ^ fT ^ ° Ut Of ftU P »«« ce by Sa * f ?^ T ! ?? ' l " h * 11 * "" Pelled to publicly LutoZ dvet their fatae assertions : indeed I am very aLSTto thetaak , aud I hope you will not quite fag £ toll £ hurry and anxiety of your o wn affairs , " Yours , most truly , M 0 'BRian .-Siaee the above was in type , we have received tke following letter from Mrs . O'Brien : — " London , May 12 th , 1840 .
" Dear SiR .-Will you oblige mo by Inserting these few lines in your widely-circulated Journal . However painful to me , still , aa Mr . J . R O'Brien S ^ ' ™ g" the harsh and vexatious » £ SK ? Lanc » ster Cartte , to correspond withTs £ ? " « . ?? . *«» I am compelled to assure Bron M rre . B £ f , " end 8 ' 4 « " > public in general , ^ t w ^; tirjr ntctioD * dkectiy »^ ^ "That paper still lives , and may flourish ; but I do mwt distinctly and publicly declare that the SouiJm Star does not exist for the interest or bentfit of Ja 52 bronttrw-O'Brien or his family . His Iriends w 11 I aS sure wcoii « t a notice to thesLeeffectappSgim » eekaback from himself , in the Northern Star , ma
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...... r ' J ¦; not illness prevented , I should have immediately con . tradicted the false statement which appeared in the Southern Star of May the 3 rd . " •« Tours , most obedier&y , I " aopnu 6 'Briek . ¦ > "To the Editor of the ^ . [ Northern Star . " ' ' ' ) All we can say upon the matter is , that to permit the-Wife of O'Brien to suffer want er inconvenience during the incarceration of her husband , would be a shame to ' the whole people . ' ™ ' '" ' " . ' "" _ ; „ «* s \ t « 11 * tA * a v » wawm » 4 a < 4 T mVa « U t—_ -. * '*• . . .- •' . '*
Our business is first with the Editor of the Northern Star , and the editors of the other papers I will take our remarks to themselves , as far as the ? apply . J The first letter is evidently a private letter , and is not addmsed to the editor at all ; the other appears to be so addressed ; both , however , he thought proper to insert . The real object of this insertion , in our opinion , and which we sh » H expose bye and bye , is attempted to be disguised by the veil or coat of as clumsy and transparent an hypocrisy as ever encumbered and disgraced a public writer He begins with saying , " We have no wish whatever to intermeddle with the disputes , much less in the private affairs , of our contemporaries , and espe « cially of our coadjutors in the glorious cause of the oi
nguiB me people , ana cneu , in ino next breath he goes not to intermeddle by request , but voluni teers his service , and officiously publishes a private letter which Mrs . O'Brien is said to have written \ and which Mr » O'Connor sent to the editor of the ' ¦ Northern Star . And , as if afraid this xvould not accomplish his object , he tell n * that he has received another letter from Mrs . O'Brien for insertion , which he publishes . We wonder who got Mrs O'Brien to write this last letter , and , perhaps the flrBt } We have our suspicions , and may hereafter trace the man through all his mazes , detect him in his lurking places , and drag him out to the public gaze—and he may depend upon it we will not le&va
him even tbe shape of a man . But to this editor what , according to his own pretensions , proved by his conduct to be hypocritical and disguBting , ought tohavebsen his mode of proceeding with such let . ters towards a coadjutor and the nearest coadjutor he has " in the glorious cause of the right * of the people , " to use his own words , even if he had been urgently requested to have inserted them both ! We wilisay what we Bhould have done . We shonld have told the individual who nent them , that thev m-J j the "^ onoo * cans © " injury , if they were published , and that she had better apply to the parues concerned , privately , on the subject : and that then , ir these parties would not listen , she should ! ^™ * £ £ ? 8 ffair ™» ld P * Publishedand
SI ; . , that we would then make it publio , ater private means had proved unavailing . " Or we would have written to the parties ourselves , as friends and " coadiutorsm the glorious cause / ' before we had published . But oh ! no . The editor of the Northern Star is in haste to publish . For this conduct there must be a motive and an object , and we can see no other than that he aimed to extinguish tbe So uthern Star , which is known te be rising in pnblic favour b ^ creating a suspicion of the integrity and honour ot its conductors ; and , all this too . mark ! just before the very paper that was to contain the new plan of Charter agitation , and which had been extensiv « l »
advertised , Bhould come out ! And all this , not to a Tory or a Whig paper , but to a coadjutor in the same Klorious cause , " which coadjutor has not , however , been once quoted , or even referred to , durine its career , by the Northern Star , although it could now own it as a M coadjutor in the same glorious cause , " for the Bole purpose of hiding the dagger that the Editor thrusts into its heart ! Was there no common enemy to thrust at , that he must seek to bury his steel in the bosom of a friend , ** a coadjutor in the same glorious cause , " for whose prosperity Mr . O'Connor had privately and repeatedly expressed the greatest anxiety ? Is our strengta ' so Rreat that wo can divide it , and quarrel amongst ourselves , thus becoming the lauebinic-Btock of our foes . ^^
We comenewto deal with Mrs . O'Brien , whohasso disoreditabl y figured in this affair , and between when and the proprietor of this paper the following correspondence has passed : — € ¦ ¦ " London , May 18 th , 1840 . "Dear Madam , —I have jart read a letter dated , 12 th of May , to which your name is attached In the-NotheraJLiberaior , denying that the Southern Star ii ^^ eondoctedfor the benefit of-Mr . O'Brien and his fiunfly .-The Southern Star would have ceased to exist some weeks since , had I not stepped forward and iupplied the money to keep it in being , and it is only continued
by me at year husband ' s urgent request , and for the purpose of assisting him and his family , whenever it becomes a paying property . I have , therefore , to request you will , upon the receipt of this , contradict the letter in the Liberator , otherwise I shall cease my exertions in your behalf , and the Southern Star will have no existence after this day . I forbear to mention any of the circumstances that have taken place between Mr . O'Brien and myself ; but I have at all times extended to , him the hand of friendship , and my interference for the continuance of the Southern Star , ii for h& Mid your - benefit , and not my own .
"I am , dear Madam , yours truly , „ . "Thomas SMitst"To Mra . Bronteire O'Brien .- ¦ "f . S . I have sent a copy of the above letter to the Editor of the Northern Liberator , and shall also send your answer , which I request you will favour me with immediately . " " London , 19 th May , 1840 . . " Dear Sir , —I was not aware you had promised Mr . - O'Brien to bring out a newspaper for him , until this d * y , when yon laid before me hia letter of the 3 d April last , urgently requesting you to do so . There Lmo .
doubt when Mr . O'Brien wished you to bring out the paper , he did not calculate upon a sentence of eighteen months' imprisonment Shut out from all that trampires beyond his prison walls , I feel sure I am studying Mr . O'Brien ' s interest , and the interest of my ' Uttb family , in requesting you to withdraw Mr . O'Brien ^ name from the Southern Star . You » re at liberty tfr- ¦¦ ' continue the paper if you think proper , or do what else you please with it , bo long as Mr . O'Brien ' s Dame be ' withdrawn . Trusting you will comply with my most urgent request , I retrain , "Yours , most obediently , " Sophia O'BaiBif . "
"Dear Madam , —As my object in carrying on the - Southern Star was the benefit of Mr . O'Brien , and at you wish his name t » be withdrawn , I shall take care not only to see that done , but shall also myself cease to have any further control over the paper . Should any other person take it np , I will take care that Mr . tVBrien ' s name be -withdrawn , as you have requested . " I am , Madam , yours truly , • rp „ * , "THOS . SMITH . " To Mrs . O Brien . "
This correspondence might all have been obtained , and the end answered , without any of the calumniating and libellous letters which were published in the last Northern Star , and elsewhere , of W - P . ^ . ™ justl y complained , and which w *' again indignantly denounce . The correspondence more than fully vindicates , for it is highly honourable to tho proprietor ; but the editors , and those who have prominently and publicly coae forward in this matter , must defen . i and vindicate themselves also . They will speak of the facts of which they are cognisant , and which induced them to lend their aid to the paper .
After Mr . O Brienhadgone to take bis trial at Neircaetle , lodo which he was supplied by Mr . Smith with money , the Southern Slarn * a carried on until jugtbfr lore his trial at Liverpool , when , in consequence of a communication from Mr . Carpenter , he came te Ixmdon , cxpreesiy to induce his particular friend , u ^ \« ^ m » to uke * P * P «»* nd carry it on for his , Mr . O'Bnen ' 8 , benefit . Mr . Smith , at that time , did not think wtll to accede to hia wish . Mr . j "f , n was tried at Liverpool , and found guilty ; and all communication with him , after that , wa # at an end , owing to the rijridity of modern Whigpriion discipline .. Mrg . Cifrieri « ndiier family were in & ?•*„**?*> * nd "be made urgent application to j ot
. omita for money , both by letter and in person . vur readers will judge of the importunity and presbuto of these applications when the following expression occurs m one of the letters : — " If something be noi done for me and mine we must go out of the world . " It was thought that casual assistance was by no means so good aa " a permanent fund , providing that could be established . The question , of eaxryuig on the paper was again gone iBto , wbidi terminated in Mr . Smith acceding to Mr . O'Brien ' s . uwntrequeut" toearryitonforEis , Mr . O'Bri e «> vu ^ u H « oommunicated to Mrs . 0 'Brien < for with her husband he could have no eoiEmnnieation > his decision : and nnon hm > wimukine . "that M |
S \ ! R ^? -l >« wouWIoie his Bwney , " he replied * 2 ? V- ** « d » d not think proper to embrace * ba jftfr «>* victims generallyshould have the benefit , if there were any , " which at once secured hot acquiescence . He then stated that aa thepsp « r did not . now , pay its expenses , there were no profits ; bnt that if she would send him her ord « for ten shilling " J **™** . to Pay her rent i it should always bo paid , and other casual aseintance should be afforded , until the paper produced profits . " Could any pro poiitwa be mow honourable , disinterested , drgenerons tfc » Una ! The paper , although it has been rising » na is rising every week , does not bow mow thw . pV ; iU expenses , although conducted with the gw »^ : ' -
economy . . ; ' - ' . Thence originated the announcement , it $ * M 4 of-the Souttern Star , and elsewhere , thatittl * PAP * was " carried on for the beneBt of Mr . ^ route / " : O Biien and his suffering family , " w *» b » rs . O'Brien has publicly declared to be a fdfc *« " ! £ tion . Whas credit is duo to the assertions of taw woman relative to the Southern Star , *?« Jffl ¦¦ .-. ¦ publication of this correspondence , our readers wiu ¦¦ , _ judge . Ifshehavenotavailedherself oftbesenerflttS oif ^ r of the proprietor , shs haa had her reasons fw » ° domg , which are not difficult of explanation , , ;¦; ; The sum of the whole matter is this , that according to Mrs . O'Brien ' s own admission to herletttr above given , Mr . O'JBrien applied to Mr . Saw *^
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CONSEQUENCES OF CLASS LEGIS- - LATI 0 N . We recommend to the attention of our readers the following facts , pithily stated by the Sun . — " We stated , a few days ago , that the revenue of the priesthood had increased eight-fold since the revolution , while the population had increased only threefold : and yet the priesthood have the impudence to demand more wealth for the performance ef their duties . Within the same period the revenue of the Government has increased from £ 2 , 061 , 856 to £ 47 , 000 . , or it has been multiplied twenty-three-fold ; and yet those who live on taxes are not contented with their share of the national produce . Just before the revolution , agricultural labourers received lOd . per day , and ' - ,, ; , ^/ s % vr * n /\ TTTf \ TAWf 1 /\ 11 / IT A CQ T f / lIC -
now the / receive , under the most favourable circumstances , 20 d ., hut in many cases not 15 d . Whsnthe landowners , then , and other classes , cry out about the great increase of prices , and the great burdens they have to bear , what have they to say to the labourers who have to bear their full share of those burdens without receiving a corresponding increase of reward ? But what we wish especially to remark iu relation to the comparative increase of the people and the increase in the revenues of the priesthood and the Government is , that the labourers , by whom all wealth is created , have amply done their duty by the State and the priesthood , as is proved by tho increase of their revenues ; while it is plain from their insumcitnt reward , insufficient protection , and insufficient instruction , that neither
the priesthood nortUeStato ( or Legislature ) has done its duty by the working classes . For tbe tax-eaters , therefore , to demand more revenue and more power , and for the priesthood to demand more wealth add more churches , under such circumstances , are other specimens of that impudence which we have said seems at present to prevail in the management of all public affairs . If the Legislature supposes for one moment that it can hide these and similar facts from the public , it is mistaken ; and if it supposes that while it is unable to hide them it can continue to command the public respect and public obedience , it is under a great delusion . In the most trivial affairs , errors and delusions lead to much mischief , and we know no reason why the rule of every day life should not be equally applicable to the Legislature . "
In the sentiment contained in the last sentenced this article we most heartily concur . We only wonder how tho writer can stop short of the conclusion to which it points ; which is , that the evils he complains of will never be remedied until the whole people legislate for themselves . Class domination has engendered and sustains the injustice he deplores ; and , so long as class domination is permitted to exist , the same cause will produce the same effect .
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