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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1840.
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      X . ATXST IRSLXJOSirCfi . " — i - i-r igu . j rijTj- - - Lj - irL-- -- -- ¦ . ¦ UTIiT i ( W BLU OEirOK .

      TR was currently reported on fheTarisBonise on Wad ? , fiMact Wir , sad Marine , who up i © that 2 f * j £ * * 3 _ % ?« P * & * tf M . afters , and ™^^^ ffl ^ g * »» e . eoMerci » i , JBdici » l , tta rniWie Ife&tatieaal depaitBwuU , were pre-JMtod upon to aaite with the President of the Council rn « paanaMttdj tendering their resignation to the King . U . SL OawL TheKing declined the aeoejteaee of tfcek rrwgntinn , observing that the Cabinet w nanHy booud to meet the Chambers , and if a oewwiry justify the adoption of measures ^ rbiehas yet ted not © owned a legislative sanction . r % i remonstrmoo closed the mouth of the President of the Council , -who subsequently agreed to oonvoke the Chambers for the 15 th of Norember . The Chrmide account ! for the sodden change in the conduct of the peace party in the Cabinet . bv

      observing that up to the arnral of the official despatebesiromtneltediterrauean , onSaturdaj night , they did not believe that the Turks , aided by the . British f ^ p 1 **! could make any impression on byria . - ** They thought , " Bays our contemporary , " Mebemet Ali and Ibrahim impregnable , and deemed that the -winter at least -would wear «*» y -without the reduction or dasger of tho Pachas . The fol ] despatches from Beyroat , however , which reached Paris on Saturday night , opened the eyes of the French Ministers . They saw at once that Ibrahim was completely beaten , and would , if hostilities continued , be driven from all Syria , without the aid of a single Rwim gnm- They trembled not merely for Beyrout &&d the Lebanon , bnt far Acre and Alexandria itself ; and the consequence has been the resolve to interfere , if England cannot be go ; to hold her hand The favourite plan seems to be that of sending troops io Alexandria . Nothing , however , seenu to be positively decided , "—Sun .

      A letter-from Abbeville says— " We are led to ^ beli eve that our" feriificalionB are about to be replaced upon their old footing ; that in case of a war Ibe works wilt receive important additions , and that -oar garrisons will be increased by both : infantry and ^ avtirj . At St . Valery-sur-Somme it is expected . that batteries will be immediately erected for pro-. Xeenn * the entranoe into the bay , and that the old fort de rEmperenr , at the Pointe de Hourdel , is io be restored and mounted . " Tho Independent of M « tz states that a horsedealer , who arrived at Thionvflle on the 29 th ult ., has repotted that , wishing to bring some horses from Prussia into France , they were stopped by the Prussian custom-nouse officers , Government having . on the 26 th , issued a prohibition against the exportation of horses by the French frontier .

      A Frankfort tetter of the 26 th ulk , sayB— " The first strings of an important contract for horses for France passed through this town yesterday and the day before , One of oar dealers has enraged to supply 10 , 000 head . " ^^ The following are the sentences of the Court of Peers on Prince Louis Napoleon and his fellowprisoners : —Prince Louis Napoleon , perpetual imprisonment in & fortress ; Count Montablon , twenty Tears detention ; Yoian , ten ditto ; Mesonan , fifteen Citt © ; P&rquin , twenty ditto ; Bouffet Uontauban , ave ditto ; Lombard , twenty ditto ; Forestier , ten ditto . Second Rank . —B&taille , fire years' detention ; Al&denize , transportation for life ; Laborde , two years detention : Desjardins , * acquitted : Gai-Tani , ditto } De Lambert , ditto ; Bore , ditto .

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      MOST EXTRAORDINARY AND DREADFUL OCCURRENCE . We have received the following statement from an Ennis correspondent , on whose accuracy we can . rely : — " EnniSj Wednesday , Sept . 30 . u Yesterday a sergeant and five or six privates of the 67 til Reglm&nt brought in a deserter , and lodged Hm in gaol here , and this morning the . party lefi this town on their return to Galway ; they drank -to be m » d drunk before they started . At the raceeourse of Ballycoree , they quarrelled amoh ^ themselves , and fired at each other and at the country people in every direction . One of the soldiers , escaping from his comrades , ran off , and on the road met Mr . Butler , of Bunahow , a Magistrate , who stopped him . This man , it appears , did not fire ; bnt npon Mr .-Butler coming up to the party he founa two of * he soldiers shot dead , and another wounded

      the sergeant on the road , handcuffed , and a ' soldier with bid gun standing over him , Mr . Batler asked the soldier who shot the men ! The man answered * I did . ' For what Y inquired Mr . Butler ,- ' because ? said he , * they xcould have shot me if I did not . ' . Before Mr . Butler arrived another Magistrate , Mr . CPLognlen , brother to Sir Michael , came up , and would probably haTe been shot by one of the soldiers Ant for the exertions of his servant . Mr , O'Loghlen galloped off to Eunisfor the police , who , horse and foot , turned out , and haTe just returned with the soldiers and their arms . Most fortunately none of . the country people were near them during the fatal --affray , or they would most assuredly hare been killed , the party were in such a beastly state of in--toxieation . " In reference to the above deplorable affair , we ( Southern ReporterJ have been favoured with the perusal of the following extract from a letter received by a highly respectable firm in the city : —

      " Ennis , Oct . 1 . "" A most melancholy occurrence took place yesUr--diy . An escort , consisting of five soldiers , a sergeant , corporal , and three privates , came with a deserter from Galway , to the barracks at Clare Castle , when returning , iu passing through this town yesterday morning , lour ef the party got beastly drunk , and when they reached Ballycoree race-course , about a mile from Ennis , they commenced firing at every person whom tney met ; but , fertunately , none of the shots took effect . Mr . Hugh O'Lo « hlen , brother to the Master of the Rolls , had an exceedingly narr row escape . After a little time they commenced wrangling amongst themselves , and one of the

      fellows shot two of his comrades dead . The balls passed right through their bodies . The murderer is an Englishman , and , when captured , he was -drunk . He says that the two dead meu fired a ; him , and that he was compelled in self-defence to shoot t&em ; but this is very improbable , from the circumstance of the full quantity of ammunition being found in one of the dead men ' s poaches . The sergeant , when taken , was lying helplessly drunk on the bodies of the murdered men . The corporal , who is a temperance man , had the good luck to step ¦ in advance of the party when they began to quarrel . When the corpses were brought into town yesterday , -everyone was appalled at the terrific sight . "—Cork Heporler .

      Laib TBiGKDY at Enms . —The I . vqckst . —On Thursday , an inquest , -which was adjourned to the ztext day , was held , when , after the evidence had been brought to a close , the Coroner said—Gentle--mea of the Jury , I believe that it will no ; be neceBsary for you to retire to consider your verdict . I 'Would recommend you to find that the deceased -soldiers caaae by their deaths in conseqnence of gun--shst wounds inflicted by John Hurst . The Jury -retired , and returned in about ten minutes with th ' e following T&rdiet : — We find that the eaid William Noyce and Charles Francis Smith came by their deaths in consequence of gun-shot wounds inflicted fey John Hurst , private 67 th Regiment , on the 30 th ¦ day of September , 1840 . " The prisoner was then fully commuted to take his trial at the ensuiDg assizes ; and the sergeant was retained in custody in order to be iransuutted by an escort to bis regiment at Galway , there to be tried by court-martial for drunkenness and neglect of duty .

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      Fortification of Jebset . —The following intelligence appears in the Jersey Chronicle and British < Press , received this morniiig at the ^ North and South Amencaa Coffee-house : —&eiy preparation is . making to place the fortification in this island in a ¦ complete state of defence . The guns are being mounted on Fort Regent , and orders have been . issued to mount guns on all the towers recently ¦ erected round the coast . There are at Fort Regem a battery of twenty-four pieces of artillery , which it rs intended to add to those already in use by the Hoyal Jersey Militia . It is also Etated that , in the event of war , a brigade composed of twenty-four pieces of artillery of the same calibre would be sent from England . A regiment of the line b expected shortly from England to relieve the depot garrisoned -Jiere . —Sun of "Wednesdav ,

      Rotal AKTiLLEEt . —The non-commissioned offi-- « ers , and gunners and drivers , appointed to proceed to Constantinople , were ordered , when thej arrived in Loudon on Saturday night last , to keep themselves in communication vritn one of the caembers of the Foreign-office , who , iastead el . allowing them to wait for the first train by the rail-. road to Southampton , ordered post-cbaises , and ibej were dispatched by express to Portsmouth , along fl'ith two persons connected with the Turkish Embassy . At Portsmouth they were to embark lor Malta , as the quickest mode of conveyance to their ultimate destination .

      No FcitTHEB ixtelligexcb has been received respecting the incendiary fixes in the Hoyal Dockyards . At 5 aeernes 8 the investigation has been continued during the whole of Monday and Tuesday , ¦ before Sir John Hill , the Captain Superintendent , Lieutenant Wise , and a Police Inspector . No part iculars , however , of any kind are allowed to transpire , as strict orders have been issued , according to which " no person belonging to the yard shall be allowed on auy pretence whatever to communicate , by writing or otherwise , any information relative to toe equipment of ships or other business transacted in the Dock-yard . " The accounts from Devonport ~ are » f the Bune meagre description , though the Cor-«* pondfiat of a Morning Contemporary his conviriredto spin oat a column and a half , giving a -. second edition of the cock-and-bull story about two . foreigners and a cabman . —Sun of Wednesday .

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      _ Tfcax , of Cap t . Rmroujfc—11 » Jiiai of Captain Reynolds is now over . ThVftetr are few aidaim pie , and a great talent far anatyur U nH paired Means toa » tufaeto » f t * fteSa 8 OiL ^ nie firoita > is , that the Bad of QamaaL ; on fi * 2 mz asked ata private ' party , ia his own honse , Where are the Captains Reynolds , " replied rudely , and as the answer wit given to a lady , most rudely , "That tbey shall never enter my house again , " or word * to that effect . The otoerrttboi was Teported to Captain Reynolds , whether accurately or sot u of no importance , who , thinking the observation calculated to injure him , wrote to the Earl of Cardigan for an explanation or disavowal . The terms of that letter , in a military point of tiew , seem to us of no earthly importance , for it was private , but it was at once polite , firm , tad gentlemanly . Instead of answer ing thatletter as fcgentkmau ought to have answered - Tfcrif . r > v riw > PWwAtvii-lJI ^ ivl&i A ^ fV ****!_

      w * tne fiari or cardigan < saiied Captain Reynolds from the ranks , and in the presenoe of the Adjutant and the Major gave him directions not to send any letters to him unless official and officially directed . Now this order of the Earl of Cardigan was itself a usurpation . Hehad no right to give any such order , to prevent an . officer sending private letters to him , but he gave it , and gave it in a rude and brual manner . Captain Reynolds then wrote his second letter to the Noble Earl , which is plainly a breach of military discipline , by no means justified by what the Earl of Cardigan , had said and done . We hold » t ° *>« quite clear , therefore , that Captain Reynolds will not be acquitted , though it is beyond pur means to conjecture what the sentence will be . —Sun .

      The collectobs of assessed taxes throughout the fangdom have received peremptory orders from the Commissioners of Somerset-house to collect all rates m luutre one month earlier than heretofore , and to make an immediate return to head-quarters of any defaulter .

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      WHIGGERY . In former times the Senate-house was the great national stage , where , during the season , patriotism , eloquence , devotion , talent , and the superiority of reason over brate force was displayed . The warm reception of the most distinguished performers , not only by their own constituents , but by the nation at

      large , during the receBs , was the only reward sought by patriots for their Parliamentary labours . England was then the common country of Englishmen ; and the triumphs of a Rcsseu , , a Hampdkn , a Stktet , or a Wilkes , were not confined to the mere locality of representation , but spread themselves , like the genial rays of the noon-day sun , over the whole land .

      In thOBe days of national darkness and popular ignorance , the spirit of a BiBgle individual , though inoperative for positive good , yet held the powers for evil in those trammels in which fearless virtue ever holds timid vice . Vice is only bold when unopposed , or weakly opposed ; but ever crouches her coward neck , and bends her pliant knee , before the irresistible charm of virtue . In those days , there could nol be a law good for the rich and bad for the poor . There could not be one law for the poor at Leeds , and another law for the rich at Wandsworth . But

      since the system of centralisation , and of binding the wrist of the paaper to the heel of the aristocrat , by the golden link of dependaney , was established by Pitt , and baa been screwed more and more lightly by the Whigs of later days , we find England , though nominally under one code of laws , yet subdivided by magisterial ignorance , party rancour , and Whig corporate depravity , into faction-made statutes , ihe spirit for a Cardigan , and the black letter for a White , a Crabteee , an Ashton , a Hoey , or any other child of labour .

      Thus has England become subdivided into as many different interests a .- ; localities ; and all and every one of those localities being corrupt , and being the several channels through which life is conveyed to representative Government , has had the natural effect of rendering our institutions impure and unwholesome . No man can allow himself , be his powers ever so great , to be carried upon this filthy flood

      without , almost instantly , experiencing the eff ct oi his folly and his conceit . Russell , Brougham . O'Coxnell , Grey , and others , many others , have launched upon its surface , in the hope of either guiding the stream , wooing the storm , or mooring at pleasure from its influence ; but each and a'l have been hurried along by the irresistible torrent , without being able eithir to govern its course , oi escape from its fury .

      The bad acts of public men we doubt not , proceed as often from vanity , disappointment , or jealousy , as from any innate viciousness of the mind . The ambitious man , who is not governed by strict rules of honour , if baffled in the accomplishment of a favourite project which he has sought by fair and honourable means to attain , will , without scruple or hesitation , hare recourse to the most unprincipled expedients to carry his point . These changes and deviations dazzle , for a season , a 3 meteors of skill and invention , but are sure , eventually , to expose the designs of the hypocrite and the selfish . As it b

      with institutions , so it is with families . Hence we find th « descendant of the nationally popular Russkli ., presenting a fair specimen of the principle of centralisation and decay . Lord John Russell , while apparently struggling for the rights of man , was recognised as the legitimate champion of his country . When he changed his course , and showed that he but wished to secure the ascendancy of faction , his popularity dwindled to the disputed preference of a county ; and as time developed the real intentions of the mau , he became the rejected oi

      even that narrow constituency , and was driven to the shelter of a mere Whig borough , one of those harbours kept open by the Reform Bill , for the reception of "Whig cruisers . And now public opinion awaits but the very first opportunity to drive him from his hi ding-place , stamped with the brand of a nation ' s just contempt—eternal distrust-, —and -when thus punished for repeated delinquencies , the ingratitude , or perhaps the ignorance , of the peop' . e , instead of the degeneracy of the statesman , will be assigned as reason for the melancholy change .

      Upon the day of retnbution Russell will not not stand alone , for so general will be ihe manifestation of popular disgust upon the next opportunity afforded for the expression of public opinion , that we may fairly anticipate the expedient of selecting a permanent Cabinet from the House of Peers being resorted to , to avoid a repetition of the frequent and awkward rejections of Ministers sent from the Lower House , to solicit a renewal of their trust . Vacancies are now generally filled up by persons whose only qualification appears to be a certainty of re-eleetion ; but so polluting and damning has everything Ministerial become , that even this scheme can be tried but once with the

      same individual , his very connection with the sweeps of Downing- Etreet so covering him with soot , as to scare even the present electors . Do but behold Lord Gb . ey ; what a miserable creature , to be thu 3 , in the latter end of his days , but a mere memento of large profession , narrow mind , and BelfishaeEs ! Then see the once popular Hardy Bbocgham , stranded upon the quicksands of vanity , ambition , disappointment , and spleen ! Then behold the great navigator , whose very name was a talisman , not in a nation , an empire , or a single quarter

      of this narrow world , but throughout the length and breadth of the habitable globe ! Behold the man who , if he failed to conquer , yet drew the poison from defeat , by virtue of tfee world ' s acknowledgment-of his powers , Mb intepity , and his zeal ! See him driven from question to question , from nation to nation , from connty to county ; and at last compelled to take shelter from the merciless

      pelting of popular rage under the wing of fanaticism ! Behold th . avenger of the world ' s wrongs dwindled into the mere supporter of a factious pre-eminence ! See tae advocate of cheap Government , foremost in pandering to aristocratic Iu 3 t , and feeding overgorged Royalty from scrapings filched from the pauper ' s scanty store ! See the imperial physician , who promised health to all , turned into purging quack to a siDgle corporation J O'Cosskll , who

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      might have b « m tfc # gjrtert « a—g the treat ; has becomes the least amo » g the little I In olden tteft , tke gnetbgB at tin feetive board , and the acclamations of the people collected in open day around the platform , were the good man's only reward for hi * advocacy of popular rights in . St . Stephen ' s . The patriot who would be hailed at Manchester , would be welcomed at Birmingham , Bnt so low has Whi ggery fallen , even _ -n , _ v ^_ *« - ^ - *^ * . __ j . __ * . *___

      in ihe art of commemorating triumpha—by guzzling and boozing , thai not a chimney sends forth its incense in oommeinoration of Whig achievements ; nay not even a kettle ' s spout proclaims their won * derfttl works of those for the celebration of whose triumphs , and commemoration of whose principles , spacious halls were wont to be erected as if by magic , whose very walls resounded with the loud shouts of onward " and defiance , till at length the echo dwindled into finality " and " coalition . "

      What now are the signs of Whig pre-eminence and popular attachment to Whig principles 1 Two months of the time usually devoted to singing hallelujahs to Whiggery have passed away , and , alas ! we behold no splendid hall in preparation for the celebration of the session ' s triumphs ; no tongue lisps in praise ; no poet laureate commemorates ; no village bell peals a weloome ; no popular procession , or even village cheers , to help the hopeless , helpless , hapless Whigs on their weary pilgrimage . " How have the mighty fallen ! " or rather , how have the mighty knocked themselves down ! Russell , the once popular magician ; Russell , the champion of Reform , now prefers retirement at the palace of the Duke of Bucclevqh , to the busy bustle of a popular

      reception at Glasgow , vulgar noise being now unmusical to his lordly ears . Young Sidmouth has had a taste of popular feeling at Crieff and Perth , and finds that Whiggery is out of season ; ( this turnkey to the Home-office was lustily hissed and properly groaned at those places ); while Nohmanby , the Irish puppet-show , dared not even comply with the usual ceremony of returning thanks in person for his appointment to the office of High Steward of Hull . Morpeth retires from the "GreatCounty , " to make way for a walk-over by John Wortley and Young Milton , two untried colts , who will be obliged to bolt in torn . O ! what a picture of the Home Department , and all who have been connected with domestic oppression !

      But the Whigs , resolved to hold on by the " flesh pot" to the last , have determined upon the expedient of changing the scene of action to foreign parts and out of English view * but not beyond reach of English pockets . We are now at war , or promise fairly to be so , both at home and abroad . France is now watching the first fitting opportunity to deal a deadly blow . England is striking wide and wild , while France is fencing close , and the first awkward blow aimed by England will be returned by a home thrust , through Ireland or Scotland , or , perhaps , in the

      very stomach . And then , to prove the falling off of popular affection for those laws and institutions foisted upon a people in lieu of their own constitution , which was strong and invincible , because it recognised the penny of the pauper as part and parcel of the estate of the aristocrat , to which he was but trustee . Where , in the event of invasion , should we look for the volunteer spirit of the despoiled people I where is the national fool to ri * k a mere existence in defence of the domestio tyrant ' s pelf ! where the flocking of a nation ' s pride—an independent peasantry , to the nation ' s common

      standard ! where the cry of my house , my wife , my ? hild , my country , and my home , are in danger 1 Out upon the rascal , who have deprived a great nation of such an army of volunteers , for the mere purpose of quartering their tinselled boobies , and natural born idiots , as . standing pensioners , upon the industrious , in time of peace ! England has been bankrupt by the agents of an oligarchy . The Exchequer is not oaly empty , but it has a hole in the bottom , and there is an open mouth underneath to catch every god-send between wind and weather . If , upon the other hand , the labouring classes had an interest in the country's welfare , every farthing that could be spared would be cheerfully contributed to any great emergency , without even the

      form of an act of Parliament to enforce it , and every life would be ventured in defence of those institutions which , while they maintained one class in surpassing luxury , were not unmindful of the duties due to those who supplied the means . We have shown how Whiggery has declined in Britain , while , in Ireland , the great magician is obliged to denounce its influence to keep open shop ; aud yet will these national jugglers , these thimble-rigging scoundrels , after having blackened each other to their respective audiences during the recess , meet once more in the " National Hell , " and use their united necromancy , not for a nation's good , not for the country ' s weal , not to make laws themselves , not to act positively as a Government , but merely , as they confess ,

      To splutter , fence , and parry ; to juggle , cheat , and spout ; To keep themselves in office , and to keep the Tories out .

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      TORYISM . The faint glimmer of Toryism shines but dimly ; it is but a flicker raised from the ashes of expiring Whiggery ; however , it i 3 hailed as a great luminary by those so long groping the way to Downiug-street in the dark . Neither Whiggism or Toryism having any positive claim to popular support , the pretensions of the one are built upon hatred of the other . A Whig never sayp , our principles are goodi our ministers are virtuous ; no , he contents himself with their comparative excellence , and says they are better than the Tories . Increasing detestation of Whiggism passes for increased confidence in Toryism , while for ten long year 3 the Whig

      cannibals have been feeding upen the putrid carcase of their vanquished foe . The day is however gone by when either Whig or Tory can qualify abuse , reconcile injustice , or silence complaint , by bandying responsibility from faction to faction . The hour itfast approaching when the strongest union—a consolidation of ail that is vicious and daring in both parties—will appear but as chaff before the hurricane of popular indignation .. Indeed , we but require the bold front of that unprincipled coalition , so loudly thundered In our ears , to meet , to battle , and to beat the united phalanx . Chartism cannot show its real strength until it plainly understands the utmost force that can be opposed to it .

      u e were apprehensive lest our denunciation of Whipgism should administer any even the slightest comfort or hope to the Tories , and , therefore , we have thought proper to place the two monsters " cheek by jowl" in their true and proper colours , j Toryism was the one thing whose destruction was sought by the people , and promised by the Whigs ; in 1 S 32 . Wbiggism , upon the success of the Reform Bill , was to have thrown off every remnant of the detested- rule of the old oppressor , and to assume the name and reality of Radicalism ; but their success , 60 far from destroving , or even scotching the

      reptile , has had the direct tendency of increasing its powers ten-fold . The Whig ? , from the very commencement , have been afraid of the Tories , and if they ( . the Tories ) came into power to-morrow , they would not only bring with them all their old prejudices and principles , but they would find Whig machinery ready made to their hand , to carry out those prejudices and principles to the fulL The country has not had any party in the House of Commons for the last ten years . In

      former days , of corrupt borough notoriety , when Toryism was in the ascendant , a stout and well organized Whig opposition considerably limited th « means for the full development of their accursed system , and consequently much evil intention was smothered for want of the means of accomplishment . Then we had his Majesty's opposition ; and so strong as to justify frequent struggles for ascendancy ; while it never was so weak as to allow the strongest Tory admi-

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      nistration W parry , a > Uf ^ wfthoat » straggle to arouse apprehension , by awaking the watchful energies ofthe community , then in a constant state of preparedness for aotion ; but now being no longer required , 'allowed to do penance in thetenitentiary , the bastile , or the madhouse , doomed for too much talk in days of yore to spend some time in silence Hence we find the Whigs driving the Tories to the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , to the emancipation of th « Catholics , and to many other popular measures . _ . . * . _ x . . !_ ^ « < : .. « . * ~ . V t .

      The people in thOBe days literally held the baWe of power , * nd the House of Commons was in reality a Court to which the non-electors could with confidence appeal by petition against the encroachments of the Crown , the corruption of administrations , or the prefligacy of the representatives of the constituent body . Those petitions were cheerfully presented and ably supported . Such was the whole-Borne check kept upon the licentiousness of faction in the nnreformed times ; whereas from the passing of the Reform Bill to the present time , those nominally iu opposition have only required to make a

      simple suggestion to insure a ready compliance by their tools in office . The Whigs have devoted the whole term of office to manufacturing the most perfeot and improved machinery for the advancement of high Tory principles , whenever that party shall condescend to accept the reins of Government . Upon their return to power , they will find an increased standing army ; an enormous Metropolitan and Rural Police establishment ; the precedcHt of suppressing constitutional meetings by proclamation of Lords Lieutenants of counties or magistrates ; the transformation of riot into high treason ; the most

      unconstitutional power vested in the most ignorant magistracy ; the spirit of a brave , a bold , an honest , a peaceful , and industrious people , broken down by hunger , oppression , and neglect ; much responsibility removed from the shoulders of representative and local government , to three unknown irresponsible , hard-hearteJ " starve-beggars" at Somerset House , and much more vested in the hands of jobbing corporations . To these we may add the system of submitting all grievances

      complained of to the farcical form of expensive commissions , before they can be entertained , and when reported upon , if ever , never further noticed ; the precedent established , of securing support by transferring the property of the weak to the powerful ; the system of robbing the Church for the benefit of the landlords , and of robbing the people for the benefit of both ; of shooting , transporting , entombing , and imprisoning discontented operatives , to make their class handy tools to the tyrant master ' s will .

      Such have been the acts of the Whigs ; while , relying upon Tory sympathy , they have claimed conBdence for the violation of all law . To allay the ferment created by themselves , they have hired spies , bribed iuformers , suborned witnesses , intimidated jurors , and corrupted magistrates . Such , and many more , are the new aud improved tools , of Whig manufacture , for performing Tory work . The fact is , that we never have had a full

      and unopposed development of true Tory principles in this country till within the last eight years , when a set of beggarly Whigs renounced all principle for the emoluments of office ; and so well satisfied are Sir Robert Peel , and all the wealthy Tories , with Whig management , that nothing but the teazing of the hungry vermin will ever induce him to exchange Tory ascendancy as at present established , for Tory rule , met by Whig opposition and ali the responsibility of office .

      We may argue , then , from what Toryism lias been with limited aud opposed means , what Toryism would now be , with the new machinery , new precedents , and new laws , added to the viciouaness , the hatred of popular institutions , and the innate baseness of that bloody , cruel , and heartless faction . Iu a word , whose life would be safe 1 Would not the mnzzle be taken off the whole kennel of hungry

      hell-hounds I Would uot the starving crew , backed on by the shooting church in Ireland , run breasthigh upon their prey , when every Jack in office , promoted by the . O'CoNNKLL faction , would instantly become part and parcel of the ascendancy party , be they Protestants , or be they Catholics . What then ? are the Whigs to take advantage of their own iniquities , aud plead their own misdeeds as title to office , and receive reward where condemnation in

      so justly merited I and are we to be affrighted by the dread of Whig machinery plaoed iu Tory hands ? To this we answer , as we ever have done , thus : —If Tory beat Whig , with the Whig ' s own measures , well and good ; but if Tory beat Whig , with the slightest assistance from the people , then will the iuefficioncy of the Whig reform be loat sight of , and Tory triumph will be attributed to a popular predilection for that faction , and a reaction in the public mind . The difference between a Tory Administration , sanctioned or supported by the people , and a Tory Administration denoting tho

      mere triumph of party over party , would be this : — In the ono case , the savages would take office with a rope round their necks ; while , in the other case , thuy would appear as the adopted ef public opinion , and would repay publio credulity , as they ever have dono , with treachery and deceit . All those of the ago of twenty-five aud under have a just horror of Whiggery , from what they have witnessed of its performance . Those who are now twenty-five were but fifteen when Toryism , as practised by Tories , infested the land ; and they can scarcely be brought to believe any deeds blacker than those of their present rulers ; but they have yet to witness intrepid monsters applying the improved machinery as

      implements ol power . The Whigs would use the power to tho utmost , but they are afraid . Let the pooplo try Sir Robeut and tho iron Duke for a season , as the adopted of public opini < m , and then the sting of the aristocrat , and the nettled pride of the " nouus homo , " would produce a poison too deadly to admit of other autidote than revolution . We are not to bo diverted from the . floundering foes , after having forced them to take shelter in the arms of their bitterest enemies . We have combatted the drooping Whigs for some years ; and shall we now abandon an easy conquest , and commence a new campaign with a fresh and vigorous foe of our own creatiou I

      The difficulty in treating of these two factions arises from the fact , that ^ heir respective merits cannot be measured by any established rule , and we must , therefore , judge of them comparatively . The best notion we can give of the two parties is that d fference made by Mr . O'Connor , when he said that if the Whigs were devils , the Tories were devils in hell . The most difficult part of Chartist tactics will be to avoid Scylla without falling on Charybdis ; to show a positive hatred of , aud maintain a steady opposition to , Whiggery , without leaning one point toward * Toryism ; to avoid the several snares laid for them by "liberal" Whiga and " liberal" Tories , " liberal" individuals and "liberal" committees . If thev oonfine their operations to organization and

      union , and their opposition to the party in power , and consequently dangerous , be that party which it may—if they act thus , no human ingenuity can much longer resist their juat demands . But it they listen to tho interested proposal of this one , whosays , " Just join me here ! " and to the other , who says , "Just join me there ! mine is a peculiar case , and mine is an uncommon case , and you can beat the Whigs with me ! " aud all such nonsense-if the Radicals weaken themselves as a body , to add dignity to some place-hunting , distinction-seeking knave , why , then , the sooner they give up their agitation , and , standing in the market-place , " open their mouths and shut their eyes , aud see what God will send them , " the better .

      We could find a local champion in almost each locality who would recommend his peculiar case as the one most fitting to form an exception to the general rule ; but it should not be broken through at all . The Whiga are dead bast : the power that beat them can beat the Tories , ii it but hold , together .

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      United , we itand ; 4 ftid * d * w » frlL As a nation we are omnipotent ; as tools in the haa * ef ethers , we should but be contemptible wretches . Xet m stand or fall together like men , andfommcmUtion and give no guartert but ery • , ; ONWARDl ONWARD !! ONWABDU ! ft > u ^ j — Jm . 1 . ai + IAmA ^* # W 11 laAWtAn

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      CHARTISM . Chartism is a noun substantive that can stand alone , without the aid of any other , word to give it signification ; while Whiggum and Toryism require the addition of tyranny , treachery , dungeon , mad-house , cannon , scaffold , perjury , musket , brute force , or some equally expressive term , to give them their proper signification / Chartism 1 how delightful , after having spent a short time at the

      repentant death-bed struggle of hoary old Whiggism , breathing the infected air of the expiring monster O ! how refreshing , after having just returned from the inquest upon view of the putrid carcase of Toryism , onoe more to revel in the dear and healthful air of Chartism . Chartism ( how we love to write the word !) is an element which j from its very nature , cannot be mixed with any other , without detracting much from its own strength .

      We have faithfully described the two enfranchised factions—the popular Whigs , and expectant Tories ; and now for "ouroum , " the Chartists , consisting of the poorest of the poor ; against whom integrity of principle is charged asblackest crime , anddevotion to class as justification for oppression ; opposed on every side by the powers of law , of prejudice , of brute force and interest ; deprived at one " fell- swoop " of more than one hundred leaders ; opposed by all the powers that united local faction , malice and power can muster ; marked by the local tyrant , for the wrath of ArroRNEY-GENEBAL-made * law ,

      jury prejudice , and judicial severity ; riot magnified into high treason ; free expression of opinion , at noonday , in open air , designated as foul conspiracy and secret combination ; walking straight of halfa-dozen poor men , arm in arm , construed by au old woman , cotton-spinning , half-saved magistracy into military drilling ; and looking crooked at a tyrant overseer into dressing by the right and left ; asking for the means of BUYING JUSTICE , magnified into intimidation , levying illegal contributions , and getting money under false pretences ; and looking sharply at the sign over a shop door , warped

      into a threat of vengeance ; dismissal from employment the penalty attached to attendance at legal and constitutional meetings , at "which ¦ the peo pie were invited by Rdssell to declare their grievances and express their opinions ; going to church summarily punished as infidelity , by hired bludgeon ruffians , at the very door of th * sanctuary ; heavy , nay , enormous bail , and forty eight hours' notice of sufficiency , which meant forty eight hours' time to the police to intimidate bondsmen by threat of magisterial displeasure , and th question of sufficiency left to a villain in blue , livint

      upon perjury , slander , and riot , —the yery name o , Chartist being quite a sufficient ehaTge to insure conviction . Then comes the sentences from the smooth-faced hack , he being the very alpha and omega of the exclusive system , the prop of institutions as they are—the robed representative of manmade mystery , tyrant-made law , and class-made tyranny . He cannot be wrong , because he cannot be questioned ; he must be just , ' because he sits upon the judgment-seat , in the paraphernalia of justice , and covers all the bumps of a deficient intellect with a barber ' s head . Two year ' s hard labour upon

      the silent- mad-house system , for attending a single publio meeting , without the slightest commotion , alarm , or dread having followed , and the best oi characters , through the whole of life , given to the offenders by the prosecutors and their solicitor ; two years of slow and lingering tortura for attending a public meeting , and from - six to twelve months , by the same Solons , without labour , in healthy gaols , for aggravated manslaughters , rapes , forgeries to large amounts , perjury , stabbing , wounding in the dark , Waylaying , swindling , biggamy , highway and house

      robberies , violation of children , from seven to eleven years old , and every description of foul offence . Then , when imprisoned , assaiiua by a hired press , and hired assassins , without the power of reply . The prisoners' families doomed to starvation , while deprived of their only support . Then the foul conspiracy of both Houses of Parliament , against all political petitioners ; the brand of the local tyrant stamped upon every man who dares to stretch a relieving hand to his incarcerated friends' family ; and though last , not least , the blasphemy of the hired "establishment . "

      Such have been some of the shoala of Chartism ; and yet the vessel has weathered all the quicksands and the floating obstacles in the course . leaving a few of the crew fora time upon the sandbanks , while pilots and mariners , fresh and young rush to fill the vacancies caused by their absence ! We see the glorious principles , go inviting to the virtuous , raiging ten young and zealous volunteers for every stranded- veteran ; and onward in spite of all , procaeds the good ship Chartism ' with her young and hardy erew , without -varying her course a pin ' s point , or taking in a single reef in the

      galo . We hear of nothing but Chartist meetings-Chartist banquets—Chartist Associations—Chartist triumphs and rejoicings . Verily , this dying Chartism is merry in its death-struggle ! How muoh more jocund the csnquered than the conquerors ; for in the midst of dying Chartist » ejoieing , w « hear of nothing but Whig mortification and Tory disappointment ; while a union of the two miserable things is proposed to get up a diversion . Such is the negative strength of Chartisaa , whioh can only be discovered by the weakness which its union confers upon its enemies . What is the positive strength of Chartism

      Whereas , formerly public wrath and popular indignation was appeased by tne transfer « f power from tho offenders , to the faction whose sins had been partially forgotten , or made white by ! the crimson deeds of the more recent delinquents , the people now look neither to Whig or Tory for protection or aid ; but raising their own standard , and unfurling their own banner—displaying their own motto " Universal Suffrage , and No Surrender" they defy aLl tho assaults of the united power of their oppressors . No crotchet can now crimp a single recruit—no trap , be it never so well baited , ean

      catch a single straggler . Neither the Ballot , the Corn Laws , the Russian Carlton Club hoax , backed by hired mercenaries employed to kill by infection what they dare not openly attack ( thest Russian bears had better look sharp , for we require but satis , factory confirmation of what ire feel almost certain about , to strip them naked before the public eye ) ; neither the dread of prison discipline , the threat of dismissal from work , t he anathemas of the advertising establishments , the . conspiracies of * jum . najna

      hired to stab the character of gagged victims , nor yet all the power of local tyranny , backed by representative depravity and executive brutality , can quench the flame , nay , nor extinguish one spark of the fire of liberty—or pluck a single feather from , the expanded wing of Chartism , under which will be hatched a new constitution to destroy Whiggism , Toryism , and Chartism , and all other political distinctions , and establishing in their stead the name of brotherhood and the principle of philanthropy . .

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      NATIONAL EDUCATION . National Jackass ! You may just as well talk of a national Jackass , a national pig , a national cow , or a national house , ( indeed , better the latter , as it is tho national standard of intellect ) as talk of National Education , or anything else national , till we have » nation . Would the discoverer of an uninhabited wild , call the wild a nation 1 No . There is no such thing as national institutions in EnglandVtherefcre sho has no pretensions to the name of nation . There is no national character : there isthemaohinationAof necessity . broughtonbymisruleupontheonehand . aiwl

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      the retaliation rfexp * 8 * bey upon Um ^ T ^ H English « re neither morose , thankless , ^ ZLtB ineonaide * ifet df 4 f neAMtHy extraTa p ^ Hp of luxury ; they are . sot querulous wtUjo ^ JJjjW or vindictive without . eanse . Before jit ^ S anything national you must first hare » mS and before you can hare a nation yott ^ jfa ^ m the best digest of the national will , a / JJi sure foundation upon which nationality •^ j erected . A people mart have a Charts u » they can have a nation . ( Set the Cto ( J j then call England the Gbbax Na ^ on , ^ j * /¦ court in Europe will believe you ; but a ^ rl laugh at you , and call your country 4 J * Y Workshop . ^ i lim iwliMilTnn < if ifiiJkTIiifai mw » % ik . .. T ^^ BSl

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      TRIAL B Y J U R Y , AND | fi I "ESTABLISHMENT " . ; I The " establishment" is in a most furious , wM passion because Captain Douglas , of tha-p ^ M ovrn Boobies , " has not a fair Court Martial , % jk majority of his Jury being of superior x ^ % himself . Now let usbegtoinform the " estabUjiJ that they never wagged a jaw to tell their ^ J that there was not one hand-loom weaves upTX ,

      Juries which tried and condemned Hory 3- ^ j Cbabibee , White , and others ; nor was thereat gentleman upon either of the Juries who coa ^ S O'Connor , Captain Douglas and his order ^ 1 purchasers , with full * notice that they are tjl below the salt , while Lord Cardigan and his « M axe to occupy the head of the table ; but the ocenj of both high and low board join in taking yl dishes , salt , and all from the poor , and we Jm hear a word of sympathy . Who would ' aj | J tinsel'd booby ? I

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      FORTIFICATION . i " Spell fortification , " and English it ftt J said the Irish schoolmaster . " F-o-r , for , j .. M forty , f-i , fi , fortyfi , c-a , ca , fortyfica , m / J fortificashy , o-n , on , for-ty-fi-ca-shy-on . fortilkaJ which means , in English , two twentyfiafoj said tke boy . Now , we like simplicity ^ dl | poor boy ' s explanation waB just as good sckH the supposition that fortifications are . ittstifwj of oppression ; for , in fact and in truth , tu !* M

      are but strong walls round larders , where kj food is intended to b 8 preserved from the hufl visitors . This is the last step in centralizatiiall money spent on such undertakings , even pftffij economists call " unproductive expend 1 ture !" il these devices are but too many flood-gates tsstoifll progress of public opinion , or to form a rall ying Jl for those who oppose it ; but the undertaking jiX less ridiculous than that of the lovers wfcolaj to exclude obtruders by bolting the door with till parsnip .

      France is surrounding her larder witlm rampart ; England her ' s with wooden ^ Russia her ' s by building numerous porters'U to her many avenues and approaches . But theji all so many locks upon leather ; for bingeri break through stone walls ; and public opinion , j directed , is a battering-ram that will l evel to obstacle opposed to it . Let those who have ntfi to fortify throw a chain of united hearis am them ; then none will attack , and the Devil c ^ W storm them . ¦

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      ALDERMAN HARMER , A GOLD CHAIN J

      A WOODEN LEG . ' Poor Alderman Harmeb ! He mi ght l lost the gold chain without getting the woe leg ; bnt , in trying to please everybody , has pleased nobody , and lost the chain , and got wooden leg into the bargain . This day week we most heartily wishedf « j Alderman ' s success over the scullery of the Lai Banqueting Society ; but since then a changtl come o ' er us . Let us very briefly trace thin extraordinary struggle .

      A writer in the Dispatch , " Publicola , " get proprietor ( Alderman Harheb ) into a scrap * i the old women of the city . " Publicola" finds , ! outset , that he has a very ill-assorted hand tejl between himself and the Editor ; so for thehm of the concern , and the success of the Aides " Publicola" says , " I'll just snatch that em wand , ' abuse of Ireland , which is at enceasof , dagger , and a shield . Let that work under I torial mystery for a bit . These fellows hate en thing Irish : it will be a sop for them , asbieU

      me , and a dagger to Ireland ; and by this fins I will throw the Editor ' s cloak over 'PablicoM shoulders . " " Publicola" then writes four cotol of the most rabid trash ever put upon paper , up the Repeal of the Union , bearing evident mub the hasty grasp and triple virtue of his weipoi and then , in a third article , or rather , in » tot signed " Publicola , " he praises his former rukbii and thus hoped , by this manoeuvre , to arrest pub ! attention . However , tne unprovoked slap it « Irish priests did not appease the " gurpliced raffia ] of the Livery . I

      But then what does Habmer do ? Why , held out manfully at first ; but when hard run be fan his own paper overboard , and actually repudal the sentiments contained in the Dispatch , 6 placing himself in the situation of & droj ? who sells poison , not that he likes it , but becaut makes mo ^ ey . Suppose O'Comnob , upon his trial , had said , keep the Star for profit ; I repudiate iu si ments , " what would the pnblio have Midi I what did he say ! Why , he said , "I did not iri but I avow every word of original matter in ' e * number of the paper . I . did not make the speeei reported , but I adopt it , and will justify it . "

      If Alderman Harmkr had taken a similar ood he might nevertheless have lost the gold chain , i he would have escaped the u-ooden leg . He * before as the advocate of freedom : he n » ri B be contented to be ranked aa a vendor of that " saleable news .

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      FEARQUS O'CONNOR'S POBTBATT . OuRClerk has received a note from M r . Read , t )» graver , respecting the next Portrait , of wniA * following is a copy : — SlB , —I shall lose no time in placing fl ** ** Mr . O'Connor's portrait In the hands of your « ff but I must be allowed time to finish so I" * * S beyond what was requited for those pw ^* , ? with the Star . Your waders nay reat «? ° * J 7 , shall be , in every respect , as good ft pork * ' ri can produce . It is much larger than any gfr * ' * and must , of oourae , take more time . I *»* f " rough preof to Mr . O'Connor ; he bu * & ***? l the observation , ' that the likeness is toog « " " pleasant '' I am , Sir , youis , * f- - ^

      To Mr . John ArdiH , Northern Star office , Leeds . Since the above was in type , the followiW ^ received from Mr . O'Connor : — " Dear Aepill , —I have seen a rough P ^ ' portrait ; I regret to say , we are as like " ^ , 5 If aize and likeness form any part of * vr" ^ f [ por trait , it will be valuable . Mr -J : *^ « iii Aislaby Hall , and a friend , were hera ^^ vTrir they thought it the best likeness «» t con »^^ It ought to be good , for the engravta * &" % & nearly half a year . It is very large snafu" JW-» Yours , very tettIy , lC 0 ! nr () S . '

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      The Fire at thb Plymouth ^ " ^^»( 3 wretched scamps who manage and o *" ** . . J ef the ?' establishment , " having ^ Tfrj J and bull story about some man bety /^ Jj that some other man had told h » " -f ^ ~ j had written to some other man tomt f ^ L u warning him that her husband . MjJE ^ J . ' l were Chartists , and would rtry J ~ V fl dock-ywds ^ Beme of these to £° 3 £ jd Chartists of the three towns tore tt ^ JJj sary to call publio meetin gs , for ** J ^ m . 1 dignantly repudiating the ^ "f ^ ii tfll aw sorry they tookw muca teoutw *^ perr a matter .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, October 10, 1840.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 10 , 1840 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2705/page/4/