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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 34, 1840.
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The Pans j&arnalaof Sunday aad Monday have fteea recwokThey bring accounts of mere fighting Mt&ut- Said Sad been bombarded and taken by th * iHw # a \ he 26 thrit . -Every point of the Syrian em , wfcfe the exception of Beyroat and St . Jeas ^ Aer ^ wwin tiie poBsessiM of the silks , who had K « woe taken > strong pcrition within two miles of ggyH *?«» they had entreaebed themselves Ibraaini aad Soliiaan Pasha , wett waiting ontil Dm fead ^ weather oomoeBad th « W » w *» dmff 6 **** ia rtnU
ttMo ^ . ia « rte to ftUMk ^ wtUkd tiomiit their p ©« ttons . The Tioooy appeared satisfied ; ftutPfHTiOH h » Wasl—The French papers , - •¦ peeiaUy tho provincial press , teem with notieesof atomies , for placing fee military forces , and the *« tifioBtis « s ef the eoaatry , in the best possible state . All Fraaoe seems to be en tbe alert . . Ta « Attack « k LeoB PHHawrs . —The trial of Dames by the Chamber of Peers is to commemee on afaeday . The French journals contend he ught t » be tried by the-ordraary tribcnals of the eeontry .
Hgpeitm Bun vp thb Xing of the Fkbnch . The £ Vo £ * < aa 4 « f > erit all the Liondon journals ) pubbfthed » report thai Lous 'Phillippe had been again hot at , aad that this time the attack had keen suefiesGfBl . There me so foundation whatever for the
amour . ress < era 101 ( 60 * otKSESPoxDEn . fficsJneMfay Boenino , October 21 , Half past Seven . THK L * E COBBI MaBTIAX XT BftWBTON . —SsKtbbkx « n < kPT * iir Rbttstolds . —The seHtenee on thb aeatlemm has been this day made known from the Horse Qoardg . He is found gsilty < eu the charge kr © ugirt «* ainsi him : » y the Earl of Cardigan , and ordered ( 0 be eashieMd , aad of whieh . senteaee her Majesfe itu beenipteaaed to approve . Aristocracy u the ascendant ? and this mtBt do good in fcrugiss about a reform in the middle , class of the ¦ nay . It is a meet iniqui tous and scaudalous case « f oppression .
~ Tit * RBPOBTKB ASSASSINATION > OP THB KlNG OP « Ftewm . —The pigeon express received at the Ghhm office last sight , from Framse , eentarahir » n anuMncement < Jf the a&ooeesM result of a second zngiddal attack on the persoa « f Lonis Phillippe , has caused -general congwrnation throughout the Mbepebs , « JtfioagB the » on * rriral of the packet «* & * lale h « r to-day enabled only a semi-official —ntradicpoa to be gn « a to the nmov . The abfioaiion of the Queen Regent « f Spain , and tbe pecoEar .-posiiifca of affairs in Trance , are viewed as —aiiliy uK& » txons of the derrafaU of the Whig «* rty , in the eerwal leading BUtcJ of Europe The afeet has feeen great on the Stock Exchange , ( he fends having declined ( Consols ) from 87 to S 6 i I : assi ^ o theekwofthe msskets they had aot Miy g eflgrered ^ sm the depression .
War SOX T 3 TOO LOOK WBU TOC im WiUCn » , jHwr—The dauzeni 1 of High Helboawere called from their p « aeeable dweliia ^ fs t ^^ for ^ . ¦ oob , to witneeB _ a grand •» flare ap betwees a Waterford-eo . aipped Corinfiiian , and % ticketmm « , whohadcffeciuallj damaged the e&foiiite f » ati ^> i 6 oe of the "swell , " by running foil butt against him whh a huge iron-bound trunk , while M » -8 sid < 3 orinthian was engaged in the fashionable MRsit of looking « ne way and walking another . " Urn net certain whether the gentleman weald hare twaJlowed his own # > ord * , but it is a fact , that be was spaa the point of bolting two « r tfereeof his tteih « hw ceremonie ; and all the xedraes he obtained was the taataMng taunt of
** Way don ' t joe look where you are walkins . then !* The battery of the face with the odious trunk might hare been borne ; bat the gentleman « obM aot bear * that insult should be addedio injorr , at he "took on a&in into la own handstand '" pitched inio" the offimding ticket-porter , who steed en the defeasiTe far a few seconds , when , his htoedjpetting hot , a " struggle , sharp , and fierce , * easoed ; aad two or fljree desperate rounds had been foaght ere the police could force their way through th * dense ri * j which the passers-b y had formed , to separate the combatants ; both were immediately taken into custody , aad eooreyed to HattoH-Gar ^ ea to rumbas orer the oonseqaeBoea of » ot looking where yoa are walking , then . "
Thb Poucb Aoiik at Woax . —On Sunday erening last , as aa indiTidual named Hope , one of the parties who was some tune ago charged with baring attended an illegal ™<>« tmg ^ Abbey-street , ^ * thtnH Green , was pawsing , with some friends , along tbe Beibnal Green Road , one of the party obserred , m apohoeman was paning , "there , that ' s one of tbe fellows , now , that lires upon the taxes ; " the polieemzn eaid , aad I reckon yoa are some of the fellows that are called Chutistsf the party replied that they were so ; when the policeman insinuated a threat that they must not repeat tbe offeasiTe remark about u Hyxq £ on the taxes . ' Hope ' replied taut he would , aad did repeat the expression , trEerempen the polieeman took him and another into castody , and detained Hope all night at the Stationhouse , took him before the magistrate at Lambethssxeet , on Monday morning , and there charged him
with being one of the parties who had absconded , e account of the prosecution against him for attending an illegal meeting . " The magistrate said they had nothing to do there with absconding , and * sked what was tbe charge against the prisoner 1 The poli £ entaa replied , that he called him " one of the fellows that lire upon the taxes f when tbe magistrate told Mm that he was , as least , as much in fault as the Chartist ; sad after eliciting a promise from the latter apt to molest the police in future , tbe latter was discharged , harisg been locked up for eighteen hoars for telling apoCcemao "ho was one of those who lire upon the taxes . " The best way , ou meet * ing one of the force , is to Far nothing , to be Bore ; but it is a fine specimen of English liberty when men cannot pass the streets , without being taken into eustodf , if part of their conrersation shall happen to be offensive to the se&Biire ears of the
taxeaten . Bktr&mihed Suicidb . —This morning , shortly after seres o ' clock , the foreman to Mr . Mortlock , batcher , of Lambeth Marsh , was found hanging in * shed adjoining the premises ; the unfortunate man . who bad been in his situation twenty years , haa preTioasJy attempted to drown himself in a rat in the slaughterhouse , as his clothes were wet through . Ko account can be sssi / rned for the eoainiBaion of tao rash act . Robsekt or £ 200 iir the Crrr . —On Saturday atoning , a clerk , in the employ of Messrs . Maltby acd Oiter , of No . & 4 , Old £ road- « treet , city , ab * eftnded with a cheque for £ 200 , which he sobae-• qaeailj got caebed , for gold , at the banking- house of Sloans . Bosasqnet aad Co Lombard-street . He is 4 weoty-one years of age , and about fire feet eight iaches in height ; he was formerly a clerk at the Southampton Railway , and decamped with a Tory large sum . of money .
Rajcwat Tbatklusg ExTRiosx « SA * Y . —On Satorday last , the train , which left Southampton with the passengers from tke British Queen , armed at ike terminus at VaoxhaU in two hour * and nine minute * . Fwghifcl Effects op Irtqxicatiok . —This XKdrniag , between nine and ten o ' clock , the driver of the cab , No . 1016 , was thrown off his seat at tbe corner of S : amford-street , Blaekfriars , while in a state of intoxication , and bj whieii his jaw -was dreadfsHy shattered , in addition to other severe injuries ; no utne wag lost in conveying tbe unfortunate a an to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where he lies without the slightest hope of recovery .
ScictDg at Southwask B&idgb . —This morning , between two and three o ' clock , an elegantly-dressed femaie , about twenty-five years of age , committed Baicide , by throwing herself from the Surrey side of Southwark Bridge ; she was insiaatly carried away with the tide .
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March of Iktklugkhck axoxgst Justkek . —At tie late borough sessions at Devizes , two young men were tried for stealing a ten pound note ; and on the Jury coming into Court with their verdict , the foresiaa a&ootmoed , that they found E goilty , and T&co&Lt&ewi&i W to mercy . On being reminded by the Recorder that mercy was ' out of Court until jjuilt hid been established , the foreman , without consulting his brother Jurors , replied , •* O ! then , we lad him guilty . " Jdr . K J . itiCHABDSON . —We understand , from a letter sent to Mrs . Richardson , that her husband " , R . J . Richardson , was removed frcm Lancaster to Ktrkdale , en Tuesday last , and that Mrs . Richardson was to meet him at one of the stations on his way thiiher . What are the reasons which have led
ie this step , on ue part ef the Whig authorities , we have not yet learned . Whig Lectobixg . —A correspondent writes thus : " Slates of Lqsdok ! on Monday evening next , « i &fTcn o ' clock , October 26 tb , 1840 , a canting Whig ¦ will give a public lecture in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws , admission free , at the Ship pablicho&Be , Long-lane , near Bermondsey-street . I do flcirtat of my brother Chartists to do their duty on this occasion . Last Monday night , the Whigs had it all to themselves , at the aforesaid place , aad got « ereral sfcUIingg out of the pockets of tie working meti of Baraondsey . If the Chartists of London let them have the same game again on Monday next
they deserve to be sent to Newgate . " War . — "To be or not to I * , that it the question . "Since the bombardment of Beyrout , the war has assumed quite a new aspect , and Lord Palmerston aad M . Tniers are firing . at each other with their pecs instead uf cannon . We vehemently approve of tlu 3 raode of fighting , where the whole slaughter will fail upon goose quills and ink-bottles . A more irrational thing Englishmen , orraiher Irishmen ( for they S ^ as Engkaa ' s batiles ) , sad Frenchmen could B :. t do than seriously to set about killing each c&t ou account of a pack of barbarians . The old was ibooi " goat's hair , " recorded in Horace , were fiot Htf S $ XiiKn&iSj—Bclfaxt Vindicator .
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Botal Doikqs at Court . —The readers of the Northern Star will remember that , a few weeks ago , in a paragraph headed " Prinoe Albert ' s Visit to the CSty , the ( gnen ' s uncle was reported to have assigned , as area ! reason for Prinoe Albert ' s refusing to remain tad dine with the Lord Mayor , on the occasion of his visit to receive the freedom , that he had lately married a very fine young woman * who could aot spare him , " although the alleged reason was the death of the Queen's aunt . It Mess that the Royal Duke knew more than he was willing to ex . press ; for now the report is general , that th * highest personage in the kingdom is actually under the domination of the green-eyed monster . Tbe Salopian Journal . % paper received in London to-dayvand
whose eorreepoMent is evidently well acquainted with the doings of haut ion , has tbe following paragraph respecting the two most exalted persons in the kingdom : — " Of late , whether from the whims which njnaHj attend ladies ia the happy wax in which the UlwtoiooB one of wfconl speak w , or from seme new-diseovered indiseretiea of the Pnnce , the harmony , so pleasingly exhibited during the ** treaele-moon ?* has . in a great measure , subsided i aad harsh aot crating sounds , h is said , are heard where , bat a few-abort months ago , nothing but soft Stoical lispings eould be distinguished . A * row-royal * was very near being the consequence of the Prince ' s persisting to dine with the Lord Mayor , which would have given him the opportunity of being one night alone u London ; and that determination ou his part
waa ^ nly g \ Ten up u pon decided symptoms of a furious storm . He prudently yielded that point , and so far things went smoeth . Sine * then , H is whispered that an intimacy has grewa-up " under the rose / ' between a beauty of a eertaimage at the Court , and the wild yenth ; which is not < anmarked by her who has most cause to be angry . The rumblings of the coming tempest are not unfreqaently heard , although no positive burst has as yet taken place . When it does break forth , Bomehedy will pay for it . " Wehave 8 eenaprivatoletter , fr © mWkbeacb , which lias the following passage : —•* We have no spirit , nor life , nor animation here : anatbv aad indifference
among the middle classes , while sallen discontent pervades the humbler classes . There is neither unien nor co-operation among us ; all is one dreary void—a ohaeti , a confused ming ) jng of the opposiag elements of anarchy with social order ; grinding ; taxes , partial und deepotie laws , and scanty wasjes still continue to add fuel to that which is already smouldering beneath } and must , without timely ceocession , break out in revolution , that shall sweep over the whole length and breadth of the land . In that day of the people ' s indignatieo , I wifl still trust in the innate ^ oedsess ef hnnan ' nature , that out of anarchy social orier will arise freed from the Btanj obstacles thai sow oppose ita rway . "
The Northern Star Saturday, October 34, 1840.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 34 , 1840 .
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THE ULSER ASSOCIATION . AXTICLE It . "Lonelife , and bad health to all mankind , ' is the physicians toast ; and a good one it is for the craft . We recommend the following to the Irish painoter— "Justice and long suffering to Ireland . " Ireland furnishes the only instance upon record of a nation's poverty being made her patriot *? stock-intrade and the scaffold of tbe ambitious man ' s hope . Public confusion is the very life ' s-blood of those adventurers ; they lite upon their own corruption . It is curious that they should be allowed to exercise so extensive a power : subject to so whimsical a
censorship . We presume that the unopposed lioeoUons neeaof the press ooafera the privilege of lwentiotis ness upon all public characters ; else why should we find honesty , or at least the semblance of it , a requisite for all tradesmen , Bare patriot *! Your butcher your baker , or your grocer , deceives you , sad you go toaaother and trmst the cheat bo mere ; bat your patriot deceives yoa and you attach yearself the more cloeely to him . Why is this 1 It is because the injustice of year batcher , your baker , or you : grocer , affects yon personally , and by which loss is sustained by yourself alone :
whereas those who are aware © f the patriot ' s treachery , and -who have inflnrrra to arrest or expose it , are for the most part themselves members of the trade , and implicated in similar p ractices . I a " patriot , " useful to his party , is attacked by the whisper ef the multitude , the thunder of the " establishment" of his division soon silences ignorant criticism . There are various shades of " patriotism . " WsLLIXOTOK is a patriot ; O'Cohkku . is a patriot ; Pkxl is a patriot ; Russbll is a patriot ; Staxlet is a patriot ; and C&AWf ou > is a patriot : yet are th « re not six things in this world more unlike than the
six principles of patriotism by which those six patriots are governed . If you take them in couples , and compare them after the manner of Plutamh , we shall find that the patriotism of the one is founded upon hatred of tbe other . The greatest tyrant is not unfreqaently magnified into a patriot for the benefit of those who require his name and protection to practise upon society in their own small way . In our opinion , if consistency and honesty be a requisite for any character , it is , above all , for that of a public man , who professes to deduce practical results from those
theories which he propounds . What eould be more absurd than a schoolmaster who should teach one section of his pupils one reading of the classics , and another section " of his pupils * totally different version ; or a master teaching one rule of grammar to one division , and another to anether division ! What sort of a Babel would society be likely to become by a systematic observance of sneh a plan , "by those entrusted with the edneaiion of youth ! ! Not so much to the different doctrine * propounded by different politicians , as to the totally different views inculcated at different times by the same individuals , mast we attribute the political Babel " which has been so successfully raised in this country
The Whigs were long rearing the tender mind , " and the obstinacy of the pliant twig , bent in youth to its present shape , nowref uses to be rettmttedto tbe altered gystemdeeired to be introduced into the national schools by theold schoolmasters ; and hence to the inconsistency of the tutors , and not to the whimsicality of the pupils , is to be attributed the present differences of opinion which distract society . For all the disasters flowi ng from so pernicious a system , the people have themselves and themselves alone to blame . If they observed the same rule towards patriot * , that they observe towards all other tradesmen , then patriots , like butchers bakers and grocers would BOOB discover that honesty ib the best polity .
Wo now proceed to compare Mr . Sharmah Cbawfokd , English Radical , with Mr . Sharman Crawford , Irish Whig : to contrast Mr . Crawford ' s individual opinions with Mr . Crawford ' s corporate performance . We arraign Mr . Crawford upon the uosoundness of his principles ; upon the variety of his principles ; and upon hie utter ignorance of ail political principles . Mr . Crawford declares that he never will rest content so long as Ireland remains in a state of inferiority to England . A very good and sound determination , if the condition of England was a good
standard , or at all a desirable one . He then goes on to state that they , the meeting , are there that day to demand tbe same that the Glorious Volunteers demanded in 1782 ; bo are we here to demand the swue as the Reformers of 1832 ; but when the Reformers of 1832 , and the Volunteer Protestant officers of 1782 , had got their own share , they allowed the Boldiers to fish for themselves . Bat allowiBg that they we re there , as Crawford says , for the same purpose , what was that purpose ?
Why , according to the declaration of the Generalis-Eimo , TO uphold Protestamt ascskdakct J Now , fume as Irish Protestant patriots may , there is no getting over that one sUrtling fact ; that the Irish Protestant officers raised the price of their own borough property , by the valour the courage and the union of the Catholic soldiers , and then laughed at them when they asked for their share of the scramble . Mr . Crawford then proceeds thus with an analysis of the franchise , as eDJoyedin the three countries : —
" The first and most important p » tnt to which I will allude is the franchise , which has been already brought under your consideration in the admirable report which you have read . By that report it would appear thai the numerical proportion ef those entitled to the franchise in England to those who already enjoyed that rigat , is as one to eighteen and a half ; in Scotland the proportion is as one to thirty ; "whilst in unfortunate Ireland only one to seventy-seven enjoyed that right , the other seventy-six being robbed of it" ( Cries ef 11 Shame" )
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Now nothing can be more unsound in principle , or more fallacious , than this mode of reasoning . What conclusion must the reader draw from such logic V Why , just this , that Mr . Crawfoed will be " content" with doing injustice , gross injustice , to just so masiy in England , Ireland , and Scotland , as win tyring the Irish franchise to his standard of contentment , the English level ; and to remove which , belt observed , is tire one only and all-absorbin { coBsHeration of tke unrepresented working classes of England . Cbawfobd ' s proposition is just wis . He would use the whole of the seventy-six
snenfranchised to help fifty-eight and % half of that number to a rete , and thereby perpetuate the slavery of the remaining eighteen and a naif ; for that aooording u big statement , is the English level , and * hisstandard of Irish eontentment . Now Crawford has been the loudest and the most consistent opponent of tbe "instalment system" ; bat here we have it with a vengeance , not in tithe , but is franchise Nay worse ; two and Bixpenee is an instalment of a pound , whioh might , perhaps , assist in procuring another slice from the seventeen and sixpence ; while the instalment of franchise stops , and wholly
destroys , all hope of any farther slice of the remainder . Crawford ' s position is this . We have got a heavy lumbering waggon to drag up Reform bill ; we have seventy six pulling with as , and onty ota polling against us . This is right enough , if the seventy-six palling , are equally , upon reaching the top of the hill , to be equally rewarded . Bat see what Crawford does , when he gets to the top of the hill ! He untaoklea fifty-eight and a half of his power , and says , ** now you go into the Temple "; and he then allows the weight of the machine to hurl the remaining eighteen and a half to the
bottom of the hill , and thus multiplies the power against them . Whereas the seventy-six in the waggon had but one to oppose them , now the eighteen and a half have that one , and fifty-seven and a half of those who have taken shelter in the sanctuary . Does not Crawford know that the English people had power in 1832 , as the Irish had ia 1782 , to carry Universal SoffragO-rMd tiut they only appeared satisfied beeaose they imagined they had carried it ; butthat , in consequence of the vast number being enfranchised from the , body whioh then constituted the whole pressure , the resisting power to the aocompliahment sf the Suffrage for the
remaining eighteen aud a half has been increased precisely in the proportion jn . which the right was extended to those who reached the top of the hill , and thea hurled the waggon down upon the shaft horses . Those who got into the temple in 1832 , ran at once to place their shoulders to the door , and assist the old garrison , nearly exhausted , bat thas relieved , to keep out the eighteen and a naif . The very persons who were loudest in demanding ¦ Universal Suffrage in 1832 , and who obtained it for themselves by the aid of the eighteen and a half ja each division , are now the most deadly enemies of the unrepresented .
The poor man is invariably most oppressed by those nearest his own condition and placed in authority immediately over him . The farmer is a greater tyrant to his labourer , than the landlord is ; the factory overseer is a greater tyrant than the master ; the serjeant-major is a greater tyrant than the major ; the curate than the parson ; the gentleman ' s gentleman than tbe gentleman limself . So with master tradesmen . The master bricklayer , who makes money of every man working under him , looks upon the poor hodman with more ineffable contempt than the squire
for whom the house is building , does . The generality of tradesmen and handicrafts-men , men earning two pounds % week and upwards , hold the poor handloom wearer and his starving family in utter contempt ; and the voters created by a five pound household franchise would be mere opposed to Universal Suffrage than the present ten pounders . Let as make thii quite dear to the meanest comprehension . The produce of labour ia the one and only thing to be scrambled for ; that , and that only , creates the value of exclusive suffrage ; the enfranchised order are the scramblers ; therefore , the more yoa increase their
numbers , the more you multiply the crows while you diminish the amount of carrion . Those who have the franchise , whether five pounds or five thousand be the standard , w ill preserve their own order . We speak of man as he is , not as he professes to be ; for every man who now occupies a fire pound house would swear , that upon being enfranchised , he would use his privilege to procure that of his unenfranchised neighbour . Now it is charitable to believe , but prudent to doubt him ; and it is both prudent and necessary to keep him tightly yoked with the rest of the team , until , all working equally together ,
sha ll be all equally rewarded at the same time . The ten pounders would have sworn , —indeed they did swear , —that they merely sought equality , and no * thing exclusive . How Bare they proved it ? We mast speak plain English : our poor , bat honest , Bupporters demand it at our hands : there is none other that fighteth for them . " We tell them , then , that the voters under a five , a four , or a three pound franchise would to the greatest tyrants of the whole enfranchised order . They would be the very
class from which policemen , spies , informers , overseers , and anderstrtfppen of all sorts , would be selected ; and , as new occupations were created for food for the ten pounders , another set of occupations would hare to be created for the new comers , and for all of which those outside would have to pay . A whimsical franchise generates abase to support general corruption ; while an universal franchise would render such abuses unnecessary , by destroying corruption .
Then see the result to which Crawford ' s reasoning tends ! He lays down the continuance of the present injustice , complained of by seventeen and a half in every eighteen and a half of the English people , as the standard of Irish justice , and that upon which he will be content to rest the justice and the permanence of the Legislative Union . Monstrous ! most monstrous declaration for any Irishman ; but still more monstrous for one who was a Repealer , an unconditional Repealer , and one who was there to act the part © f the volunteers of 1782 , who would have held such doofcrine as high treason to the Irish people !
Let us teat this reasoning by a parallel ca 3 e—one with which Mr . Crawford has made the public most familiar—we mean the total abolition of tithes . Now , Crawford was not only a repealer , but he was also a total abolitioniat of tithes : and upon what was the justice of a total abolition of tithes founded ! Not upon any graduated scale of reduction , nor yet upon the instalment principle , nor yet upon the presumption that A , a Catholic , payiug £ 20 a year tithe , was more oppressed than B , also
a Catholic , who paid only £ 3 ; but upon the just principle that the infliction of the £ 3 , or even of one penny , Ux upon B , for the support of a creed in whioh ho had no interest , was a crying injustice . Such was the total abolition principle ; and the landlords , by their acceptance of the Instalment Bill , have assumed , for the present , precisely the same situation to their tenants , as the £ 5 householders , or the fiity-seven and a half , would to the eighteen aud a half by the instalment-offracchise tcheme .
However , it is quite clear that the English standard is now to form the standard of Irish justice . Now , we ask Mr . Crawford , if this is his notion of justice to England ! Indeed , he does condescend to tell us , that even in the English system improvements may be made , while we tell him that there never will be any real improvement made , unless whole , complete , and substantial justice be done to the eighteen and a half ia England , to the twenty-nine in Scotland , and to the seventy-six in Ireland-altogether—at one and the earns time .
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the object may be , is to make the already too wide breach still wid 6 r , between the two countries . We now present a splendid specimen of blarney , aooordiag to the old school of Whiggery , from CRAWFt > w » * S 8 peech ; hesayB : ~ ' . K ' - \ -. ~ ' / " We have shaped our course so as to concede every thing to RefdHttu * of every dau ; % at at the aam « time we score to saeramb for ft mtment , or to concede one iota to toe , bocedMary enemies of oar country . Let there be nothing like division ; let every Reformer hold' out the right bind of fellowship to his brother Reformer , although ttojr . may be fta from agreeing in details , with regard to certain . measures ; and if thlrbe done in the t » e spirit of sincerity and kindness , belaud wW yet see glorions days . " ( Cheer * , ) .
Hen we hare Bainks , Tatlob , Eamhopb , Rvsbbix , and the whole fraternity of oome-withme-to-Whig-cross pilgrims , echoed by the eidevant repealer , total abolitionist , moral force English Chartist , and physical force Irish volunteer . By the way , what ia the name of common tense aad common honesty do a bevy of old women mean by denouncing physical force , while they are making the walls resound again with acclamations of armed
volunteers , and while the " moral force" Crawpofto says : " We are here to-day , my Lord , to promote tbe same principles which that glorious body advocated 1 " We just ask Crawford if " that glorious body" had their muskets to pick their teeth , or tb shoot men , with ! Now , let us hare a plain answer to that , or let as hear no more blarney and denunciation of English Chartist physical force , and high commendation of *• glorious" Irish physical force .
Crawforb then goes on to admit that opposition to Starlet ' s Bill has called the Association into existence . Now , how stands his character for practicability here" ! Why , that is the rery sause of the ' present repeal agitation , and in order to prerent Starlet ' s Bill from taking effect , Crawford and his dupes take the only course by whioh Stanley and his friends can possibly hope to succeed ; namely , by creating two rival associations in Ireland , having the same avowed purpose , but pnlling in diametrically opposite directions . Ireland's disunion ever
has been her enemy ' s greatest strength . Crawford says it is glorious to see the landed interest uniting with the people . It will be glorious fan also to catch larks when the sky falls ; which is an event as proximate as tho landlords of Ireland joining with the people . They'll "join them , " as they did for commutation of twenty shillings tithe , paid to the parsons , into twenty-fire shillings rent , paid to the landlord . Bat in speaking of "the people" the labourers are always left out ; we must presume them to be the eighteen and half dead weight—Mr Nobody ' * child .
- We shall now point oat the besetting siuof the unrepresented classes . They are , In general , eo captivated with all above them , that they applaud mysterious doctrines coming from their ** superiors " as orthodox ; while if their own order were to propound the same notions they would be instantly hooted , hissed , groaned , laughed at , and stigmatised by the horrid name of Whig . Such syoophanoy makes them not only an easy prey to the artful and designing , but it further inspires the deceiver himself with a thorough
contempt for them , their cause , and their judgment . The consequence is that he practises upon their weakness , making them the instruments Of bis ambition , rather than the objects of his admiration and esteem , or of his care and solicitude . This system of conferring an individual and corporate right upon pttblie men of fortune , is both dangerons , and slavish , and destructive , in the highest degree . It invariably leads to the following pernicious result . A demagogue is allowed to swell his importance for accomplishing practical mischief in the ranks of
moderate Reformers , " by the hold which he gets of the populace by windy professions and unintelligible jargon delivered at popular meetings ; hence we fiad that the first step with every demagogue is to acquire popular eonfidenoe , without which he is worthless to the privileged order . Thus the people most industriously out rods to whip themselves See the effect that such mistaken indulgence has had upon Daniel O'Connbll . This man was granted a diploma to practise in his corporate and individual
capacity . As a demagogue , he was allowed to spout nonsense to gaping fools ; while in his corporate capacity . as a mover of puppets , he sold every grin of his smiling audience for the highest penny . The surest , indeed , the only method of keeping public men honest , is to dismiss them upon the rery first false step . Let them then return to the ranks , and when convinced of former errors , they may become zealous followers , but should be avoided , as dangerous leaders .
This granting of exclusive privileges to pet politicians is most unjust to the really patriotic Let us suppose a case . Suppose O'Connor or O'Bbikw , after having made a flaming Radical speech at a publio meeting , to join what they choose to term a practical" Reform party , for more moderate results ; what , in suoh ease , would be the feelings ef their former friends . Suppose , for instance , that either one or ether of them had made Crawfoed ' 8 speech , or proposed , or seconded any one of the resolutions , or taken part in the proceedings ,
nay , or eren sanctioned the proceedings , by tacit consent , what , in sash case , we would ask would be their reception f What ought to be their reception upon their next appearance before a Radical audience;—Why , of right , they should be hissed , hooted , and groaned , as an example to all future humbugging politicians . Every man will agree with us iathis . What ! then , are you to hiss , hoot , and groan O'Connor and O'Bribn , and to cheer Crawford and O'Connbll for the very same actions ! Is that justice ! Let us suppose another case . Suppose M'Dooaix , Collins , and White had gone to a meeting at Glasgow , composed of the same materials as the' ** ulcers ; " and suppose anyone of
them had made Crawford ' s speech , or a speech of the like stamp with any one made upon that occasion , or had moved or seconded any one of the resolutions , or had taken any part whatever in the proceedings , what , wo ask , would hare been the result ! Why , simply this ; that , instead of addressing 200 , 000 honest , unsophisticated , hard-working men , upon Glasgow Green , on the 23 rd Sept ., the meeting would have consisted of Collins , Chairman ; M'Dooall , Secretary ; and White , audience . This is plain aud straightforward reasoning . Is it fair or just , then , to judge your own old and tried friends by the strictest rules of criticism , while you allow your holiday champions the most ample latitude in tae art of mystery and deceit !
Crawford ooncludes his speech thus : — " In conclusion , I will say that I adopt the sentiment of the glorious Grattan . Never to rest satisfied whilat one link of the chain of slavery clanks about the feet of the people . " This is all very fine , but it throws ridicule upon Crawford ' s whole speech , and furnishes a sorry instance of his want of consistency and of political principle . Now , does not Crawford see that ho would clank the chains now worn by 76 upon the
legs of eighteen and a half , and then rest contented ! This reminds us of a great libertine who was so absorbed in the enjoyments of life that he had no time cither to fret or pray ; whereupon he hired two women , by the week , the one to fret and the other to pray so many hours a day for him . The only difference would bo , that the ladies were willing sufferers and were paid for the job , while the eighteen and a half must fret and pray for their fiftyseven and a half friends , and pay for the privilege into the bargain .
We hare used Mr . Crawford ' s table of franchise merely as data . This we state , lest we may be supposed to have acquiesced in the many and palpable errors with which it abounds ; and , in order to avoid anything like misrepresentation , we give hiB speech at full length in our sixth page , as we find it reported in the Morning Chronicle .
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THE . MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS .-The time is fas * approaching when a grand struggle wm tak « plaxw between the two privileged factions . Brers' trial tf strength between them proves tbe position , which we hare invariably laid down , that the Reform franchise being a » oney franchise , and the T ^ r ^ being the wealthier elans , the ^ o ^^^ lt siBVli' wasequenoe , become 4 , Tory uistrumeni For the last fire years ( the three prerions were spent in astonishment ) thb Tories hare turned the whole Reform machinery to their own purposes . Whether , therefore , the contest be for indiridaaL corporate , or parliamentary pre-emineoce ,
the Whigs are daily becoming weaker , while their opponents of the prirjieged order are becoming stronger , and their bitter enemies of the outlawed class are becoming more and more inveterate . The signal gun of the Tories has been fired in the metropolis . The "liberal '' man has been rejeoted as Lord Mayor ; most indecentlj rejected ; rejected contrary to role , custom , right , and etiquette ; but in the violation of all such bonds we witness Tory resolution to leave no stone unturned so to possess themselves of the citadel , upon the next occasion , as will not subject them to a
repetition , of the hasty and unceremonious ouster which they experienced in 1835 . That experiment was forced upon Pkbx by the young and ignorant portion of his party . He was sacrificed to their impetuosity ; and , perhaps , his jndioious retreat from office ia 183 * was the master-pieoeofhismany political performances . Had Pksl remained in till he was drubbed as the Whigs bare been , and then kieked oat , his party would hare become panic stricken but he really showed his capacity for leading by his weileorered retreat . Since then , Peel has been doubly strengthening himself ; he -has marshalled
the out-posts under the signal , Register , Register Register " , while he has weakened the enemy by fomenting the most artful confusion In their rery camp . The moment the Whigs finally strike their tentij the most awfal scene of confusion will be presented that the mind of the most romantic can imagine . Billingsgate will be a perfect ' drawingroom to the filth that Dan and some of the disappointed Bads (!) and the ousted Whigs will bespatter each other with . Dan will desort the Whigs ; Homb , Waklkt , Duncombb , and the ultras will find that Dan has only kept them in a state of probation for office , while by their foolish support of Ministers , they hare conferred upon him all the sweets { of most extensive appointments ,
together with 411 , 000 a year rent . In fact , Dan has joclded them all and himself into the bargain . To see suoh a result from eight years thimble-rig legislation we hat await the next general election . And as municipal elections are bat a preliminary to the general Parliamentary contest , we shall hare a taste of what the Whigs are to expect on Monday week . Monday week is tho day for the municipal contest . Monday week may be made a day pregnant with the most benefioial results to the people ' s cause , if the people , who profess so much patriotism aad self-esteem in speech t will erinee it on Monday week in deed . Let us explain the importance of giving the Tories ** rope enough : ' - always premising that the Reform Bill , and not the people , must furnish the Tories with the means of
self-destruction . When the Whigs had a majority of 300 , they passed the Irish Coercion Bill , and the English Starvation Act , it is true . These were of their own concoction , although well backed by Tory support . While they had this majority , they professed to set the Tories at defiance ; but as their majority dwindled , they became more and more tools in the hands of the Toriw , and were constrained to mould all their measures to taut Tory politics , as a license to go quarterly to the Treasury . Hence we
find the Rural Police Bill , the Irish Arms Bill , the law of Royal and Magisterial proclamation , and , in short , a complete riolatiou of all law , custom , and decency . Tho strength of a Tory opposition has driven the Whigs to this headlong course ; whereas , it is probable that the Tories , if in power , aad stoutly opposed by the Whigs would not hare dared to venture upon all the experiments upon popular forbearance to which they have forced the Whigs to have recourse as a means of holding possession of the purse-strings .
We shall now shew the different results to be anticipated from a House of Commons nearly balanced , and a House consisting of 500 Tories and 168 Whigs ; Radicals we cannot expect , except from the chemical process which we are about to explain The 168 of a minority would , if attached to as many as would constitute a strong Opposition , be mere place-hunting Whigs . Their policy would be a thing to be determined by the result of a general election . Upon the other hand , the 168 , if composing » minority without any hope of forming a party strong enough to take office under the
present Reform Bill , woald be 168 volunteer , musket , sky-rocket , burn-ship , kill-em-and-eat-em Chartists or Destructives , or devils , or anything , in fact , that would place them at the head ofa Treasury party ; thas the people woald once more have Bomething Parliamentary to rail ; round , always taking care to reverse the old order of agitation , by putting the 168 in the shafts instead of inthe traces Upon the otherhand , 8 oppose , afterageneral eleotion , that the Whigs should be able to master so many ( say 250 ) as Woald keep them together as a party into whose hands some "lucky accident" might throw the loaves
and fishes once more ; they woald , with such fair presumption of return to office , avoid all liberal precedents , all violent opposition , all exciting topics , and all pledges for the fulfilment of which they may be one day called . Then it becomes the people to stand aloof , hoping that the use made of the Reform BUI , by the Whigs , may prore a wholesome lesson to all unprincipled politicians , by throwing that power whioh they hare so atrociously abused into the rery hands from which , for forty years and upwards , they were trying to wrench it , and which they have new strengthened , for its
retention . There was ouoe a man , who so hated his neighbour , that he said , "I wish neighbour B . would murder me before respectable witnesses that he might be hung . " Now we assure our readers that the 168 Whigs would murder Whiggery and become Radicals , Chartists , or Destructives , provided their doing so would murder Toryism , if it stood across the threshhold between them and the Treasury . Let the Tories then hare Reform rope enough to hang themselves and strangle Whiggery ; a little won't do . We have been induced to take up this subject in consequence
of the trimming and unprincipled policy of some tew working men professing Chartism , who plead former pledges as a reason for supporting Whig candidates on Monday week . They had no right to make any suoh pledge . Such pledge is a violation of their general pledge to support their order and their charter . Such pledge has been bought ; or it never would have been given : there is more honour ia the breach than hi tho observance of such pledge . Such pledge may be made with equal propriety to
support a Parliamentary as a Municipal candidate ; and what man , daring to call himself Radical , will do so . This ia the old game over again ; and in order to stop it we call upon every working man in the empire to prove his title to the name of Chartist on Monday week , by taking no part whatever ia the contest . Mind the Second of November ; by that day we call upon them—by the day when the dogs of war were Jet loose upon the people at Newport—by the exiled Frost—by the widowed wife and orphaned children
—by the exiles , Williams and Jones , and their families , we call u $ oa them;—by the imprisoned riotims , wo call upon them ;—in the name of the murdered Shell aud those poor bleeding bodies allowed to die iu the Westgate Yard for want of a drop of water , we call upon them;—by the inmates of the cold bastiloj- ^ -by the suffering inmates of the Whig preparatory madhouses—by the mothers that boro them—by the wives that honour them—by the children that represent them and ask them for freedom—by their oft-made vowsh-by their National
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Petttwn-brjhej ^ try—by their homes—by ; their families—b y thflj , honour—by their Charier , and by their GOD , ** call upon theinyto avoidtbefonl « Uin of supporth * the murderers of their friends or Monday week Let' erery « rga )» isW ajsoci ^ on be at its post npo » that day , a ^ itransmit to tu th » names ot those wh » vote , that wto 4 ftay pabHeh them to the wotid , Lg us harejoo BTwfr ^ pnsense tj | i * ** Mr . A . w better Ub » Mr . B ^ " as b ^^ penditure" and " would willingly * e « Universal Sof . fragV ' and * bJW afeeliijgl ^ Chi * tists . " Itis ' kn blarney ; and such fellows are th > greatest rognea of the lotl Left no Chartist take p » in the dog-fight on Monday week . V ;
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ROBERTS , THE BIRMINGHAM BULL .
IHNG'yiCTIM . Thb family of this unfortunate , honest , $ t& perfectly innocent victim to the infernal maflhli ations of the Whig faction , are at this present time in the greatest misery . We have received from 4 friend in Birmingham a letter , from which We girl the following extracts : — : , " Tbe wife of Roberta , with three small ehUdna are in a state of destitatioB . Aay sum sent to Ma *
CKtect , bookseller , 83 , 8 teelhoua « -lane , BimdnghaQ will be foTwacded aad duly acknowledged . Sums aS be sent in ooi * . pos t-qfiee order , or what is chew and safer , ptt-qffloe stamp * , for small sums ot ^ iee largvr ones , biil stamp * or receipt etamjpt i or by & cojb bination of thaw , any gum from 1 « L to £ 1 may be sent for one penny , prepaid ^ All suns « f Is . and upwardf shall be acknowledged ij letter from Mrs . Roberta , if required . " ^
We hope most sincerely that the sorrows of this Whig-made widow will be speedily alleviated . While the people hare hearts the rictims of fiendlike- oppression moat not be allowed to stanv Rather than that , lei nnirerssl rain swallow &p society 1 . . •^ . -. ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ . V . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦• . - . •• -
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RESURRECTION OF BIRMINGHAM . RESTORATION OF FROST , WILLIAMS , AND JONES . Thb state of our columns last week prevented tilt possibility of our doing justice to the address of the Birmingham Frost , Williams , and Jones Restoration Committee ; bat we did not nnder-value , or less value , the object of that body ' s exertions . We do not know any one aot which , of itself , should sun interest the public generally than the restoration of Frost , Wil liams , and Jonks to their native land , It should interest all who hare liberties to defend ; but , above all , those in defence of whose interests these patriots are suffering .
It has always given us pleasure to find the reool lection of Pbost , Williams , and Jones closing all the proceedings of the people , all through the country ; and we have no doubt that so of ten as the living martyrs have been able to learn that the * names are -still honoured by the hearty cheers of ai approving and a grateful people it has caused their hearts to swell With satisfaction , and the bitterness of their bereavements hare been to some extent sweetened by the conseionsness that their virtues have not been vainly expended , in . aunuch as the fruit thereof is visible in every traca
burst of patriotio feeling . But though the erer-tobe-honoured victims are patriots they are also meat and the cheers of an approving multitude , hearty , and sincere , and gratifying , aa they may be , conrey not half the consolation to the wounded heart of the tender husband , fond parent , and repining exile , which would be found in the most gentle whisper of the magie words of freedom . These words may yei be spoken ; and , if the people of these countries yet deserve the name of Britons , thet shall -is spoken . We do not think the people hare bestirred themselves in this matter , as they both might have done , and ought to have done . Astonishment has been expressed by . many at their lukewarasess . Coo * paratively , nothing has been done , eare by one man
This is not well ; and right glad are we to see Bis * mingham bestir herself to wipe away the stain from our national escutcheon . Birmingham has shown her power in times gone by . She said—** Let the Reform Bill pass , " and the Reform Bill did pass : and though that Bill was a deception , yet was no * the leas honour due to Birmingham for the exertion of her strength . The same power which , misguided by , the artful Whigs , accomplished that , can accomplish any other purpose which it earnestly sets itself about . That power is the people ' s will } which , when unitedly manifested , is irresitible . In that manifestation of popular decision , Binning * ham was foremost , and we are proud to see her again in the same post . '
Our anticipations carry us at once to the successful issue of the struggle . We think we see the victims , with their smiling families , at the head of a national procession , entering Birmingham ! We im * g ^ ne we eanreadthe hearts of all the counties fathers , mothers , friends , and children , who survey the living and imperishable picture of which they hare been the artists ; while the welkin rings with joyous acclamation I
This is a busineae legitimately Chartist ; and to which we can , therefore , give our most cordial approbation . There are yet nine weeks remaining ef the present year : in those nine weeks let the wools country be marshalled for a grand display on New Year ' s Day , on whieh the mountains , glens , and valleys shall simultaneously pour forth their millions through ail England , Wales , and Scotland ,, declaring that the fiat of a reckless faction shall be instantly rerersed , and the patriots recalled with honours g reat as their deserts .
Let this be done , and do mincing . Let it be ai once set about ; and while the roicce of powwis being uplifted for the glorious object , let the necessity for its recurrence be annihilated by a demand ia the same breath , and with the same power , by tb * whole people , for the enactment of the Charter . Let the people thus speak , and who will dare gainsay them I Taey hare never yet spoken for themselves the thunder of their roioe has been heard only ett behalf of their oppressors ; while their own wron * have been expressed in plaintive whispers . It ig now time that they should show their consciousness , not only of the wrongs they suffer , but of their own power to redress them .
Let it never be forgotten , with reference to then patriots , that four Judges of the Queen ' s Bench * aad Barons Parks and Aldebson , the two ablest lawyers in the world , have decided that they were illegally convicted ; let it be remembered that BosANQ . utT , Ebskikb , and Coltmah , three other Judges , declared them to have been indecently convicted—kidnapped—taken by surprise ; while tl » only Judges who upheld the conviction ' were Baron Gurnet , whose soundness of judicial
mind has been long disputed ; Baron Rot ?* but recently appointed ; Baron Maclb , and the Chief Justices . Let the people bear in mind that the exertions of O'Connor , and the partiallyexpressed , and , in someplaeesmadly-directed , aroinl of their will , was not without its efficacy , evea when power was most rampant , aud malignity most recklessly vindictive : when the gallows was piepared , and the grave yawned for their reception . The bloody edict would have been executed but for one thing !
For seven whole days Frost calmly stood ; and listened to his life and character being sworn away without a word or murmur ; adding not a word to the exertions of his Counsel so long as he alone stood in the way of danger ; but when Sir Fa * okrick Pollock was giving an erroneous constrnetibn of the objects of the Chartists , stating that they were a body who wished to divide the land among them ; then , and not till then , did Fbost speak . Hs would reap no advantage , though to save his life , which must be had at the expence of troth . He said , " NO , NO , SIR FJREDEftICK . YOU ABB IN ERROR . I WISH IT TO BE DISTINCTLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE POOR P EOPLE NEVER HAD SUCH A NOTION , OR ANY INTENTION OF ROBBING OR INJUBIN 9 ANY PERSON . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 24, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2707/page/4/
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