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A THE NORTHERN STAR. ¦** APRIL 1, 1848.
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THE ALLOTTEES OF O'CONNORVILLE TO THE ME...
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Tub Gexeru, Delegate AIeetixg of Lancash...
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JU;3T PUBLISHED, pairs 8IXFEHCS.
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Democratic Cokfbderates.—Tea-party and ball, at the Crippleeate Assembly Rooms, Cartwright's
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Couee-house, flo. w, rted urosB-atreet, ...
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fflE NORTHERN STAR , SATDEBAY, APKIL 1, 1818.
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THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. This count...
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THE SLEAFORD CASE. The appeal for redres...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. ]' % Parliament co...
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Sir H. Halford's motion for an inquiry i...
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KBCEZPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND GOIKPANY, ...
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aess could thus be provided for . Whether tbe . hoard should be abolished altogether was a question for the committee upon miscellaneous estimates . Mr Hnnso-V denounced tha bonri . If It WM 6 to exist , it ought not to cost more than £ 3 , 009 a year . After soma farther ' talk / the house divided , when the numbers were—Por the previous question ... ' J > Agaiflstit " Majority —1 » The resolution was accordiegly lost , election secoosizasces bill . Mr S . Woeilev then proposed the second reading of the Election Hccognizaaccs Bill , and ia the course of his speech explained in detail the alterations which he had made in it as originally introduced by Mr Walpole . A-discussion ensued of some length .
Sir It . Ikgits commented on the singularity of Mr S . Wortley proposing the second reading of a bill which its author had abandoned , aad of then changing it so that cot a single word of its enacting clauses was left from the first to tbe last and formal clause of it . Sir K . Inglis then held np , amid the roars of tho house , a copy -of the original hill , with all tho leaves pasted over , which Mr S . Wortley had altered . He concluded by moving that the hill he read a second time that day six months . Ayes ... ... ... ... SO Noes ... ... 113
Majority ... ——32 The hill was then read a second time . Tin : report en tha Income { misnamed Property ) Tas Bill was then brought up and agreed to ; and tfce till was ordered to be read a third time on Thurs . day . Tho other orders were then disposed of , and theaousc adjourned . HOUSE Or" COHMOXS—TKibsesdit , March 29 . PbahewobkKkitises . —Sir H . Halford , pursuant to notice , moved for the appointment of a select committee to take into consideration the report and evidence laid before parliament in ISliby Her Mojestj ' s Commissioner for Inquiring into the condition of the Framework Knitters , and to make such further inquiries as may appear necessary , in order to ascertain whether any .
and , if any , what legislative measures can be devised for the relief of their long continaed distress . He observed , that the present distressed state of the framework initters Tras not to be imputed to any temporary or transitory causes , and he hoped that the house would st once see the justice and expediency of acceding to his motion . Oa this subject the commissioner entsre 3 in ' o a full inquiry , and his report had been laid on the table of the house . This report fully boro out the allegations of the petitioners in 1 S 43 , as to the extent of their distress , and the grievances and depressioa nnder which they laboured , An act had been passed to carry out a portion ofthe petitioners' views , but that act had been frustrated in consequence of the technical construction put upon it , but where it had been fairly brought into operation a beneficial resslt had betn the consequence , He did not know whether any objection wonld be made tc this proposal , but let it not be said that it would be mischievous because it would create exaggerated hopes , for the commission had already raised and justified
topes , an ! all he desired was to see the legitimate con - sequences of that commission carried out . The house surely would not sanction suah a mockery as that of entering into aa inquiry into the distress of a particular diss , and then letting a large blue book be the only result . "When the commission was applied for an official answer wos given , cautioning the parties against enter , taming too sanguine hopes ; but tkat answer at the same time set forth the conditions on which the petitioners might te al ' owtd to entertain hopes . ; for the government admitted that aliasei grievances and oppressions formed a fit Subject for public investigation , and that when they were proved to exist , it was the imperative duty of the legislature to afford erery ju % t and . practicable re . medy . Now , be maintained that grievances and oppressions in respect to the condition of the framework knitters had been proved to exist . It might be said that the commissioner recommended no specific remedy , but he ( Sir H . Halford ) was justified in saying that that arose from the circumstance ef the commissioner think .
fug- that sach recommendation was not within his pro . vince , Admitting , for the sate of argument , that grievances and oppressions were net made out ty the report , further inquiry was nevertheless necessary to satisfy the minds of this miserable arid wretched body of persons . Some might object to Parliament taking any steps in this manner , on the abstract ground that non-Interference la matters of trade was the proper course ; ? wt he protested against an abstract prieciple of that sort being so far allowed to prevail as to exclude all cenEideration of the specific circumstances of particular cases . It was argued that the condition of workmen must always be governed by the relation of the supply of labour to the demand ; but in the particular trade to which his observations had reference the excess of the
supply of labour , he contended , was influenced by the vicioss system carried on . Such was the cencisfion at which tbe commissioner had arrived , for he observed that this excess of supply was very powerfully influenced and encouraged by the system of frame-rents , and the long , recognised , custom of heavy deductions en one pretext t > r another , from the wages of the workpeople ; which made it the interest of employers to spread any given amount of work among a larger number ot workmen than was necessary ta its performance ; a practice that was farther greatl y facilitated by the superabundant amount of machinery which had been created and brought iato the trade , by ethers than the legitimate employers in it , as profitable investments of capital , induced by the customary exorbitant rent of the frames .
After some remarks from Sir J . Waimsley , Mr KWdegate , 5 r Soaring , Mr Slaney , Mr Cjrdntr , Col . Sibthorp , in favour of the motion , and fros Mr Lafeouchere , acd Mr Hume against it . Tee house then divided , aad the numbers were— . for the motion .. 51 Against it 85 Majority ... ... ... 34 THURSDAY , Maech SO . In the HOUSE OF LOSDS the Earl of Eh . enboboc « h brought ander the consideration of the house the large increase which had taken place , dur ing the past year , ioih in the nuebsr of persons employed in public oSces , end in the amount of salaries and retiring pensions , whieh showed an increase ia numbers of 1 , 250 , and an excess of £ 110 , 000 over tbe expDnditure on these heads for ISiO , and that ia a year of great national distress , and one in which there was a failing and deficient revenue .
In the HOUSE OF COMMONS , the Speaker being taken Ul , the house adjourned shertly after four o ' clock . On tha motion of Mr Gbogas , a new writ was ordered for the county of Wicklow , in the room of Col , Acton , who has accepted the Cailtern Hundreds , and on the motion of Mr Fsewek for the borough of Eye , in the room of Mr H . M . Cartels , whose election | had been declared null and void .
( front our Third Edition of last week . ) FRIDAY , Masch 24 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Criminal Law Administration Amendment Bill , giving power of appeal from decisions of justices of the peace at quarter sessions and judges of assize upon points of law , was read a second time . HOUSE OF C 0 MM 0 S 3 . —The Property Tax Bill was read a second time . llr BiiiitE ' s motion for an address to the crown , Frajios fcer Majesty te give directions that nsgoti & tions ns entered into with foreign powers to relieve thi » country from the engagement under which it labours , of maintaining a sqaadron on tho coast of Afriet , was rejected . The house discussed and voted the Ordnance Estimates , and then adjourned .
A The Northern Star. ¦** April 1, 1848.
A THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦** APRIL 1 , 1848 .
The Allottees Of O'Connorville To The Me...
THE ALLOTTEES OF O'CONNORVILLE TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Brother Members , — Believing that we are one great family , naited by a similarity ef interests , and that you will have to experience the difficulties we have now to encounter , difficulties inseparable , trom a new undertaking , we appeal with confidenee to yeur kisdly ieelings for assistance : In consequence of onr poverty and the dearmess of provisions when we took possession , we have not been enabled to keep sufficient stock to produce the manure necessary for our ensuing crops !; in this dilemma we appealed to Mr O'Connor to allow us a quantity af manure , charging ns interest for it in
the shape of rent . Mr O'Connor kindly received our deputation , but owing to the Heavy expenses consequent upen the building , & c . of this estate , ] was not able to grantout request ; but , knowing the necessity of the case , gava us £ 10 as his individual subscription , and allowed us to make this appeal through the columns of this Siab . We beg , in justification of our appeal , to remind you that this was the first estate , and that we have to bear in the shape of increased rent , the penalty of the then want of practical experience of which yon will receive the future benefit . Our land was purchased at less than half price of any since bought by the Company , and was £ ¦
F ^ ^_ ___ L _ J < Mn «* - * nn ** # *« -i £ l * -r * nAnrta / 1 ** lOwrrOM poor and exhausted , consequently it needed a larger supply of manure than any subsequently purchased . '; our manure having to ba purchased in London , gthe expense of carriage was very heavy ; it costing half the value of the manure in carting from the nearest wharf three miles distant from-the estate . The ex-SS & gttaB great , and the funds of the C , m . panv being then low , the quantity altotted toue , was ' far less than that at the other estates , where it wlSadfonthlspot , whilst the cost was to usimdensely greater ; these reasons wil !{ prove to you that our case isa peculiar one , and that we areijnstincd in unMolme to vour benevolent sympathies . The
various Jecal ssewtariea are requested to bring this subject before the members at their usual meeting ;; alimonies to be forwarded to Mr T . M . f » O'Connorville ; the subscriptions will be . acknowledged n the Northern Stab , Signed on behalf ofthe members , M . Griffiths , chairman . C . Williams , hon . secretary .
Tub Gexeru, Delegate Aieetixg Of Lancash...
Tub Gexeru , Delegate AIeetixg of Lancashire m ?? T wl 11 te held at the sign of the Unicorn , Little Lever , near Bolton , oa Monday nest , April 3 .-d , at- elevtn o ' elock .
Ju;3t Published, Pairs 8ixfehcs.
JU ; 3 T PUBLISHED , pairs 8 IXFEHCS .
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HO . XVI . OF " THE LABOURER , " CONTENTS , 1 . The Marseillaise and Ifourirpour la Paine , translated by Ernest Jones . 2 . Insurrection * ot the VTMkiag Clas « 66 . —Tha Hns . sites . S . The Poor Man ' s Legal Manual . —The Law of Riot . t . Tli ? Bov s Song . 5 . The Pirate ' s Prize . { Concluded . ) 6 . The Partins Guest . 7 . TheKamanceof a People . 8 . Our Charter . 9 . The Mealmongers—An Irish Sketch . 10 . The German Youth . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received b y all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers iu town and country . ¦
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JUST PUBLISHED , REVOLUTION IN PARIS . A narrative of tbe recent Revolution in France , containing a full account of ts Causes , Incidents , and Effects , together with tbe Aldi . cation of Louis Philippe , the fall of Guizot , and the triumph of the Popular Cause . —By a Barrister .- Price Sixpence . Nobtjieen Stah Office , 16 , Great Windmillstreet , London ; W atson , Paternoster-row ; Cleave , Shoelane ; Berger , Holywell-street ; Manchester , Abel , Heywood ; and aU booksellers in To ; vn and Country , to whom all orders should he immediately sent . ; ! ; ,
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NOW PUBLISHING . THE POLITICAL WORKS O ? THOMAS PAINE . Complete in ono thick volume , price 5 s ., in which will he found several pieces never hefore published in England ; and an appendix , containing the Trial of Thomas Paine , with a portrait ofthe author . Just Published , in Penny numhers and Fourpenny parts . VOLTAIRE' 3 PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY , May be had , complete , in two volumes , handsomely bound , 12 s . Theiirst volume has a medallion likeness of the author , and the second , a full length portrait , as he appeared in his 70 th year . T o the first volume is prefised a copious Memoir of his Life and Writings . Every care has been taken to keep the text correct , so that it may remain a lasting monument of the genius and indomitable perseverance of the author in enlightening and liberating his fellow creatures . The two volumes contain 1 , 276 pages , clearly printed , crown 8 vo .
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Now Ready , Price Twopence , post free . TH E REPUBLICAN for April , containing ' The French Republic , hyW . 3 . Linton—Ireland and Repeal--Taxation—Universal Suffrage—History of French Revolution of 181 S- —A fact in Polish History—Reviews , Political Record , & c , & c . No . 5 , containing ; in addition to various articles , a complete copy ofthe PeoptE's Charter , has been reprinted , and may be obtained o : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , London , and all booksellers .
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PORTRAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , ESQ ,, M . P ., j np MARTiy informs his friends and the Chartist body I X . generally , th » t he has reduced tho price of his ' lithographic full-length portrait of tbeir IUustrious Chief to the following price . - —Prints , Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . 6 d . Also , a beautiful lithographic portrait of W . Dixon , late of Manchester , now one of the Directors , by T . Martin . Price—plain , Is ., coloured , 2 s . PEOPLE'S EDITION . Tobehad at the Nob-therm Stab oflSce , 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket ; at t > : e Office of the National Land Company , H 4 , High Holborn ; Sweet , Goose Gate , Nottingham ; Ilejwood , Manchester , and all booksellers in the United Kingdom .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majestv Queen Tictoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert .
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COLLIYER ' S COMMERCIAL COFFEE AND CHOP HOUSE AND READING ROOMS , 266 * . STRAND , LGFDON . J COLLIVER returns his sincere thanks to his . Friends and the Public at large , for the support he has received ftt their hands during the last tea years , and hopes , by strict attention and civility , to merit a continnance of tbeir patronage . J . C . also begs to state , that having , lately made extensive alterations and improvements in his premises , he is now enabled to afford additional convenience without extra charge . A Commercial Coff « e-room upstairs , with every facility for Travellers and Visitors from the country . The House is situated in the very heart of the Metropolis , in the centre ofthe Theatres , near the National Land Office , and Public Buildings . Omnibuses pass to and from all the Railway Stations , to meet the TJrains , every five minutes . , Beds , is . to is . 6 d . per night . All other charges equaly moderate . NO FEES TO SERVANTS . * a * Please to observe the Address , COLLI \ ER t > COFFEE HOUSE , 266 A , STRAND ( opposite the Angel Hotel ) .
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ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND . Prize-Lists and Printed Forms of Certificate for the entry of Live Stock and Agricultural Implements , for exhibition , at the Country Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society o £ England , to be held at the City of York , in the week commencing Monday , the loth of July next , may be obtained , on application , either personally or by letter , of the Secretary of the Society , 12 , Hanover-square , London : —with whom all entries for Implements must be made on or before the 1 st of May , and all entries for Stock on or before thefirst of June .
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BIRMINGHAM—PEOPLE'S HALL . AT the general half yearly meeting of the shareholders ofthe above Hail , held at the Institution on Wednesday , March 1 st , thefoUowing resolutions were unanimously passed : — 1 st . 'That no new shares be issued . ' 2 nd . 'That all unpaid » up shares be forfeited . ' 3 rd . 'That all shareholders do sign the share register book . ' The committee give this , as a last and final notice to all persons concerned in the above property , as the effect of the above resolution , will be to make the shares more valuable to those who comply , and wholly exclude aU those who do not ; also , those who do not come forward and sign the share register beok by the 5 th of April , will be Excluded from the Society , and any advantages derivable therefrom , as the property must he placed . upon a legal footing . The committee will sit at the Hall on Tues day , Wednesday , and Thursday evenings , from seven to teu o ' clock , to receive money upon unpaid shares , and grant certificates . The other register book will also lie open for inspection and signatures , till April Sth , after which date it will be finally closed .
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THE LAND , THE LAND . TO BE SOLD , A Four Acre allolment at Snig ' s End , which will shortly be ready for location . The Land is of first-rate quality , surrounded with capital markets , and lies by tbe side of the Turnpike-road . Letters containing terms , and inclosing a stamp , to be addressed , care of Yi Payne , 25 , St Clement ' s Lane , Strand , London .
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TO BE SOLD . SEVEN FOUR ACRE ALLOTMENT SHARES ( paid ) , in the National Land Company . For particulars , apply ( if by letter post-paid ) , to Mr John West , Caroline-place , Ordnanee-place , Chatham Keut . The possessor being about to emigrate , only re quires the cost amount for tha shares , on which all expenses are paid for the . prestntyear .
Democratic Cokfbderates.—Tea-Party And Ball, At The Crippleeate Assembly Rooms, Cartwright's
Democratic Cokfbderates . —Tea-party and ball , at the Crippleeate Assembly Rooms , Cartwright ' s
Couee-House, Flo. W, Rted Urosb-Atreet, ...
Couee-house , flo . w , rted urosB-atreet , City , on Monday , April 8 rd . The City authorities having arbitrarily and tyrannically deprived Mr Cartwright of his billiard license , in consequence of his holding Ghavtist opinions , the committee fer conducting the amusements ofthe evening hope for the assiatauce oi all lovers of fresdom to make the meeting a bumper . Ftargus O'Conaor , Esq , M . P ., Ernest Jones , Esq , and other irfeutial gentlemen areiayited .
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. , NOTICE . The National Convention will assemble for the despatch ot business in the Literary and Scientific . Institute , John-street , Fiizroy-square , on Tuesday morning next , at ten o ' cleck . Each locality will forward by their delegates whatever quantity of the Petition shall be ready at the time of their departure , the signing to go on as rapidly as possible , and all sheets must be at the Land Office by Friday , April 7 th . Each delegate will bring with him whatever banners or flags [ may be available in Ms district . By order of the Executive , C . Doyle , Secretary . PORTRAIT OF THE POPE . A portrait of the Reforming pope , Pius IX ., has ; been engraved , and will be issued with an early number of the Northern Stab . It has been copied ! from a wonderfully correct and much-admired statuette , and the engraving has been executed in the ; most finished style . Specimens will be in the hands , of our agents next week , and due notice will be given of the day on which the plate will be issued . EVICTION OF TENANTS . We beg to call the particular attention of onr readers to the speech of Mr F . O'Connor , on Mr P . I Scrope ' s motion , on Friday evening last , in the House of Commons . FROST , WILLIAMS , AND JONES . Next Thursday , Mr O'Connor will make his motion in the House of Commons for the recall of these banished patriots . The simple fact is sufficient to show the Chartists throughout the whole country , that there is not a moment to lose in preparing and transmitting petitions in support of this motion . To work , then-vigorously , earnestly , everywhere—and before Thursday next exhibit to Parliament , in a way that cannot be misunderstood , that you are determined never to rest until justice is done to these noble-hearted men . The petitions should be forwarded to the members who represent the boroughs or counties from which they emanate . Take care that they are open at the ends , so as to avoid delay or charges for postage . Saturday , Sunday , and Monday must he working days . SIGN ! SIGN !! PETITION J PETITION ! I SIGN ! SIGN !! SIGN !!! Let any one who has not signed the National Petition do so , and forward it , addressed to " Feargus O'Connor , M . P ., House of Commons , " both ends open , and let the parties sending signatures , while the Convention is sitting , also , b y the same post , address a . letter to the Land Office , stating that such Petition has been forwarded , and the number of names attached , as the Post Office is not PARTICULAR in those matters . Parties may continue to post signatures till Sunday , the 9 th of April . HOUSE OP COMMONS—Mond 4 V , Match 27 . THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Mr y . O'Conkob gave notice that , on Monday , the 10 th of April , he would present a petition from the united Chartists of this kingdom , and movo the following resolution , as an amendment on the first order of the day , on that day : — That this House , recognising the great princi p le that Labour is the source ol all wealth ; that the people ai e the only legitimate source of power - that the Labourer should be the first partaker of the fruits of his own industry ; that taxation without representation is tyranny , and should be resisted ; and believin g that the resources of the country would be best developed b y laws made by representatives chosen b y the labouring classes , in conjunction with those who live by other industrial pursuits—That ( in recognition of the above great truths ) , this House adopts the principles embodied in the document entitled the People ' s Charter , namely—Annual Elections , Universal Suffrage , Vote by Ballot , Equal Electoral Districts , no Property Qualification , and Payment of Members .
Ffle Northern Star , Satdebay, Apkil 1, 1818.
fflE NORTHERN STAR , SATDEBAY , APKIL 1 , 1818 .
The Condition Of The Country. This Count...
THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY . This country and Ireland are rapidly Lurrying to a crisis—dangers are thickening around Class Government , that the Press has long culpably passed over in silence , and that it now feebly endeavours to reason away . The French Revolution has torn the mask front tyranny , and shewn its hideous features , and , therefore , the first attempt of the Press is to run down the French Revolution—its second to convince the British people that they are remarkably comfortablej that a Revolution would do them no good , andj that they ought to be remarkably satisfied . It bids the working classes reflect , that they would be " worse off for a change , " and the middle class organs , true to their instincts ,
say : — ' If trade were panicstruck , or if twenty thousand families in the fasbionaWe or the' resp ? ctable' circles were deprived of their incomes , what class of persons would gain by tbe change ? Wonld there be more demand ior coal , if all these establishments were reduced ? Would there be more demand for builders , tor carpenters , for bricknsakers , for painters and glaziers , for cabinetmakers and upholsterers , for whitesmiths , or , iF . deed , for any other class of workmen connected with the comtorts and luxuries of life , if all these houses were shut up ? If two thousand carriages and horses were put down , at least ten thousand men and their families would loae their livelihood by that single change . '
Now , this wiseacre forgets or wilfully ignores , firstly , that the object of the Chartists is not to " deprive people of their incomes " ( except in gross cases of pension and sinecure ) , but to prevent the * ' fashionable and respectable ' * circles from stealing the incomes of the working classes . He forgets or wilfully ignores , that , if these classes were jn-osperous , the demand for coal , builders , carpenters , brickmakers , painters , glaziers , cabinetmakers , upholsterers , whitesmiths , tailors , shoemakers , butchers , bakers , etc ., would be far greater than now , since , in addition to their present customers , these tradesmen would have the custom of that mighty class , who are now either paupers , or
nearly approaching to pauperism . He forgets or wilfully ignores , that if " two thousand horses and carriages were put down , ' ' by a few taxeaters being prevented from living on industry , the men , whom he supposes thrown out of employment , would become independent by enjoying a part of that , which their fashionable masters previously derived from unjust and injurious monopolies ; whereas we challenge the "Whig scribe to show how " anybody would be thrown out of employment , by the abrogation of our commercial and aristocratic monopolies . Puzzling himself , as he ' proceeds , this wise journalist admits that " we are badly off ;" but in order to prevent our looking for a remedy , gravely tells us that the
' Saxona are a spreading , a stirring , an ambitious , and a conquering race , Wo prefer hope to enjoyment . ' We marvel whether this fat editor would prefer hoping for his dinner , to eating it ! He continues : " We would rather look forward to be something better than to be always the same . " Is not that a just raason for ] the " great change" the journalist inveighs against ? But he actually continues : —
' Who wishes to think that his children and hifl children ' s children , and so forth , will be always as pinched , as slaved , and as dirty as himself . ' £ - " —
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Of course not . The scribe uses this as an argument against equality—does he not see it is one in favour of Revolution ? But he goes further still , in combating for the maintenance of our system and institutions . He says : — We will not dispute that the French had a right to depose Louis Philippe , if they pleased . ' If so , why have not the English , Irish , and Scotcli a similar rig ht to alter their institutions , if they please ? At last , however , the murder will out—Might , not Right , shall rule—says one of our cotemporaries ;—' If constitutional law will not do , we must have something stronger ; at all hazards , at any price , the fcliingmuat noivbe ' pufcdyra / and that quickly , or England is disgraced in the face of the civilised world . '
Indeed ! That is easily written—but less easily enforced . It remains to be seen which will be strongest—constitutional law on the side of the people , or unconstitutional aggression on the side of a faction . But , a few hours elapse , a slight demonstration of popular strength reaches the ears of the scribe in the interval , and already he changes his tone .- — We would not , ( says our contemporary } take a too gloomy or alarming view ofthe state of political
affairs . But still we cannot but perceive , that in its financial affairs , to speak of no other , England under its parliament and constitution has reached in 1848 the same embarrassing and dangerous full stop that the monarchy of Louis XVI . reached in 1787 . The parlement of Paris at that time refused to register a new tax . The parliament of 1818 has made the same declaration . And Lord John Russell has withdrawn hia demand with a resignation and an embarrassment which very much resemble those of Calonne , or of the Archbishop of Toulouse . '
The Editor then ' suggests : — ' Iu fine and in fact , the middle class of Englishmen should put forward their Charter , if , at some critical period , they wish to avoid being altogether set aside and trodden down . ' They have . Their Charter was Free TnADE—and it has failed . They must rall y with the People for the People ' s Charter , if they wish to avoid being "trodden down'' at the feet of Whig Government , as they are now ( at least the shopkeepers are , ) suffering from taxation and paralysing class-laws . Witness the following , from Manchester : —
' Increase op Povemy anh its consequences _ in Manchester On Thursday , the following startling statistics were laid before the Manchester board of gu 3 rdians , by a member of the board ( MrHough . ) To show how greatly the exertions of their officers had been increase ) , he said the number receiving out-door relief in the quarter endins March , 1847 , was 25 , 155 ; quarter endinsr June , 43 , 139 ; September , 42 , 658 ; December , 38 , 552 ; being a total of 149 , 504 cases . —Mr Rickards , another member of
the biard , said there ought to go forth with this statement another ; and this statement was , that in order to enforce the rates during the past year , 2 , 760 summonses had to be taken out from the magistrates , and that 563 householders had to be sold up . —This last statement excited some surprise , and tho chairman said he thought 563 warrants of distress might have bien applied for , but not executed . Mr Rickards said he had applied to the clerk , the churchwardens , and overseers , for the figures , and was assured that that was the number executed . '
Thus the Shopkeeping class are suffering for the poverty they have helped tlie Landlords and Capitalists to bring over the People . Well may the People not trust to a Charter of their formation—but rally for their own—do their work themselves—offer fellowship to all the honest and true , but accept a servile tolerance from none . What we have to expect from . Parliament , let the following show : — " When Mr O'Connor gave " notice of his motion for the Charter on the 10 th . of April next , it was received -with loud and general laughter . "
"When notice was given [ of Mr O'Brien ' s motion for the Repeal of the Legislative Union withlreland . it was received with loud and general laughter . " So Guizot laughed immoderatel y , when Barrot laid the Impeachment against him on the table of the Chamber of Deputies . For the Charter , then , and no Surrender ! We say to the PeopIe Sign—Sign the Petition ! Subscribe for the Convention , and ^ to carry out its intentions . Organise ! Org anise !! Organise ! We must have no mistake this time . * France has a Republic , England must have the Charter .
The Sleaford Case. The Appeal For Redres...
THE SLEAFORD CASE . The appeal for redress has been in vain . Every possible step has been taken for its attainment—an indictment was drawn up by a skilful barrister—it was lodged at an early date , and the witnesses were all ready in due time—when the Grand Jury , in their wisdom , threw the Bill of Indictment out . We wish to out the attention of our readers to certain circumstances connected with this case .
After the fact of the intended prosecution had become public , indictments were lodged against eight ofthe zoitnesses in this case for a riot . It is customary to talce indictments , according to priority , and though the indictment versus Sharp was lodged considerably before that against the eight witnesses in Dodson ' s case , the indictment against these witnesses received precedence , —and eighteen witnesses deposed as to a riot , and . the participation of those eight individuals in the same .
Almost immediatel y afterwards the Indictment against Sharpe , the brutal Policeman was brought forward 1 The effect of this on the Jury may be imagined . Eighteen men are brought to swear to a riot , in which the witnesses against Sharpe are declared to be participators , and then these witnesses are immediately afterwards produced to testify to Sharpe ' sguilt ! Other matters of a highly indecorous nature occurred ; as , for instance , when one of the most important of the
witnesses in Dodson s case was making his way to the Grand Jury Room , threats and intimidation were ujed , and effectuall y , used against him ! This case calls aloud for publicity , and no stone shall be left unturned to obtain justice . We are bound to give every praise to the Solicitor and Counsel employed , for the assiduity they have evinced in this matter ; and we are happy to leain that Mr O'Connor has consented to bring this matter before the House of Commons .
Such , then , is the law in England : —perjured witnesses may lie with impunit y , and brutal policemen may unprovokedly kill inoffensive persons , whose efforts at redrtss are treated with contempt ! But the day of redress is coming . People Be alive to your duties and conscious of your powers . The spreading union guarantees success .
Ireland and England are united — popular factions are amalgamating—even in quarters least expected the fraternal spirit ferments . We cannot quit this subject without alluding to a letter , entitled " Soldier and Citizen / ' appearing in another part of our paper , Thisis written in aright spirit—suchletters tend to promote good-will among the different sections of the working classes , that aristocratic governments have most tried to sever .
We should recommend the publication of that or some eimilav letter , in a cheap form , for gratuitous distribution in suitable ; quarters .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . ]' Parliament continues in the same listless and inactive mood which we noticed last week . There seems to be a dogged determination not to work , and night after ni ght passes over without the real business of the session being in the slightest degree advanced . The few bills of public importance before the House of Commons ( such as the Public Health Bill for instance ) , arc put aside for the merest trifles , as if the British Legislature was obstinately bent upon making- an ostentatious display of
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its determination to stand still , while all the rest of the world is moving . As for the House of Lords , that is in all cases a mere shadow , until a late period of the Session , when they are obliged to work almost " Double tides , " to dispose of the shoals of bills , over which the Commons have been dawdling for months , and which they are expected to get through in as many days , in order that legislation may end before the "Shooting Season" begins . If , as on Thursday , some adventurous peer gets tired of this inaction , and moots a question on his own account , it is quickly got rid
of , and their lordships hurry home to dinner . Certainly , among the changes that are taking place now-a-days , few are more curious than that of the Tories turning the advocates of economy in our National Expenditure . Graham and Gladstone in theCommons . and Ellenborough and Stanley , have delivered some useful and pointed lectures on the subject , of which it will be the duty of the people to remind them should their party ever again resumeoffice . It seems , however , to show what a ' set of spendthrifts the present Ministry are , when even the Tories cry out against their
extravagance ; and the utter ignorance of the expenditure in their several departments by Enrls Grey and Auckland , deepens the feeling of astonishment with which we regard their continnance in office . Among the matters that have been talked of , has been a case of oppression and cruelty on the part of an Irish landlord , which not only shoivs the horrible state of the venting system in Ireland , but how utterly powerless and impotent the law is to check the perpetration of the grossest crimes on the part of the wealthy , and the utter hopelessness of any redress by the poor .
The laws which ought to stand between the oppressor and his victim , is paralysed , when it has to deal with the strong , and is only available when it is needed as an additional weapon for crushing the weak . The case may be briefly stated as follows : —Mr Blake , a lauded proprietor in Galway , resolved to eject a number of families from his estates , in order , apparently 3 to save himself from the burden of poor rates . Ejections are common enough things in Ireland , and , therefore , the mere fact of his turning the poor people out of their holdings , and levelling their dwellings
before their eyes , would have nothing unusual about it . But the forms of the law are observed in ordinary ejectments . Mr Blake did not think that mockery necessary . Having resolved upon ridding himself of what he , no doubt , considered a nest of troublesome vermin , without reference to the right or wrong of the matter , he resolved also to lose no time about it . Knowing the law to be powerless to punish him , there was no necessity for assuming the appearance of respect for it . He therefore dispensed with all preliminary legal conditions } he did not even preserve the
appearance of moderation , but did a cruel and illegal deed in the most cruel and oppressive manner . The eve of the new year was selected for turning his unwarned tenants out of their holdings , and the bitter winds of a bleak January night from across the Atlantic , chilled the frames of the unsheltered sufferers upon its shores . Hel pless children and hel p less sickness were driven out to lie upon that bleak shore . Some found a speedy end of their sufferings in death . Others crawled back to seek temporary shelter and warmth by the wreck of their smouldering and
ruined cabins ! This is no tale of a seditious agitator , whose object it is to stir up the people to rebellion . Jt is the report oi Major McK / e , a Government Commissioner , to the Government . What did the Government do when they received that report ? That was the question which Mr Scrope wanted to have answered . But the House was in jio humour to hear an " Irish grievance . " On rising , the Hon . Member for Stroud was received by general shouts of " Oh , oh , ' amidst which he managed , to state the leading facts ; but , on his producing the Blue Book , and essaying to
quote evidence to substantiate his statement , he was met by such a storm of disapprobation , that , accustomed as he is to such exhibitions , he was compelled to give way . Other Members , however , rushed to his aid , and ultimately the subject was discussed , after a fashion . The Attorney-General said , the law gave the wrongfully-ejected tenants a remedy , by an action at civil law , and the Government did not mean to make the monstrous and illegal act of the landlord the ground of any prosecution on their part ; a declaration which elicited , from Mr O'Connor , the following emphatic and p lain-spoken warning ;—
He would not talk of moral force or moral impressions , but he told tho government that the Irish people looked upon them as an exterminating , crucifying , and destroying government—that the landlords received every advantage and assistance , but that the lives ofthe population were regarded as the lives of so many slaves . He told the noble lord at the head of the government , that looking at what was passing in other countries , thi ? waa not a time to trifle with the people of Ireland . Talk of Poland —that land was redolent with the blood of illustrious martyrs , while the soil of Ireland stank with the dead carcases of a starved population .
Of course , there were Irish landlords found to repudiate this statement , and impudent enough to state , on the contrary , that the House and the landlords were most anxious to promote the welfare and prosperity of Ireland . But the people have long learned how to estimate such assertions , which only add disgust to the indignation with which they regard the tyrannous oppression of the sister island . The Irish Secretary promised to have the case inquired into , and , subsequently , Sir G . Grey has stated to the House , that Mr Blake was dismissed from the situation of Justice of the
Peace , which , he hoped , would satisfy the House that ths Government had done all they could in the matter 1 It may satisfy " the House , " but we imagine it will not satisfy the country , that such a miscreant should thus escape the condign punishment which ought to attend robbery and murder upon a large scale , for such the conduct of this fellow Blake really amounted to . Yet there are people who wonder why Ireland is at this moment on the eve of a revolution . ' It would , indeed , be truly wonderful if it was otherwise . A collision between the Government and the people must
come , and though the Times exultingly prognosticates the suppression of the ' people , and the victory of the troops of the Government , we have seen so many instances lately of its incapacity to foretel political events , that we confess we put little faith in its predictions . . The determined silence which has been preserved in Parliament on the subject of Ireland , at a moment when it must be the uppermost thought in every man ' s mind , and the principal cause of the Cabinet Councils which ' have been held so frequently of late , is , perhaps , a more significant symptom of the depth and intensity of the
interest with which all parties are watching the movement in that country , than if it was openly broached . It is , in fact , exceedingly ticklish ground , and nobody likes to venture upon it under present circumstances . Lhe Government , therefore have , as it were , a carte 6 tanc / ie to do what they please ' in the matter . Is this wise ? Would it not be better , before blood is really shed , that tbe House should take the onl y way to prevent such a lamentable catastrophe , b y granting at once that power of Self-Legislation which the Irish people demand as a right , and whic h it is for our interest , no less than theirs , that they should
possess ? The anticipations of the Times , as to the immediate success of any conflict , may be correct , but does anybody of sane mind believe , that a sanguinary slaughter of the citizens of Dublin , Cork , Limerick , and other large towns , in the slreets of these towns will tend , to bind the two countries together more closely than they now are ? Will the blood of Irishmen , slain in endeavouring to achieve legislative independence , cement that Union which it is the object of tho Eno-Iish Government to maintain ? No ! the determination to emancipate Ireland from the bloodstained thraldom of this country , would 0 n \ y grow more intense and more universal , In
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addition to the long catalogue of wrongs already inflicted—of horrible sufferings en . dured—there would be added a last and inexp iable deed of blood , which would rankle in the hearts of the whole people , and stimulate them to constant efforts for revenge and freedom . One of the most interesting debates this week , took place upon the presentation of a petition by Mr Wakley , from a clergyman named Beale , which , in addition to praying for the adoption ofthe principles of Universal Suffrage , and other sound political reform s asked for the Abolition ofthe House of Lords ' Sii ? R . Inglis—that champion of all that is
antiquated in our venerable Constitution—was horrified at the idea , and endeavoured to prevent the petition from being received . Looking at the actual fate of petitions in general perhaps it would have served the purpose of Mr Beale quite as well if Sir Robert had succeeded . But , though " the House ' ' treats petitions with very little real respect , they do not like to abandon the outward show of it , and , therefore , after certain homilies against the unhallowed desire for change in our blessed Constitution , which such a petition indicated , it was allowed to be put in the basket , and carried away with the other " rubbish" which "the House" had allowed to be tumbled into it .
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Sir H . Halford ' s motion for an inquiry into the case of the Framework Knitters , with a view to some remedy for the acknowledged suffering and depression of that much-oppressed class of operatives , met with a summary rejection on Wednesday . The Political Economists scout all interference with the right of Capital to buy Labour at its own price , and to treat the labourer solely with reference to the per centage question , wholly oblivious of all other considerations . The example of France , legislating for Labour , and recognising its claims to protection by the State , was pointed at with pious horror , as one
of the most injurious things which had happened in their times , and the possible adoption of such a policy in this country very earnestly deprecated . The request for an inquiry was surely a modest enough one ; but the profttmongers were afraid of the introduction of even the thin end of the wedge , and showed their positive ^ determination not to concede a single point to the labourers , while they can prevent it . Do not such occurrences more forcibly show the imperative need for a radical and sweeping reform in the constitution of the House , than the most elaborate argument , orjthe most eloquent speeches ofthe advocates ofthe People ' s Charter ?
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KBCEZPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND GOIKPANY , FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , MARCH 35 , 1818 . PER MR O'CONNOR . SHABES . £ 8 . d . Ashton-under- Dukinfield ., 1 12 0 Ljne „ 20 15 0 Rochdale .. 3 5 0 Bath .. 3 2 0 Headless Cross 3 18 6 Bury . 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O 19 4 E JE C .. 0 10 O John Bond „ 0 30 0 W E Boyle ., 0 6 0 Thos Coiiings ,. i 16 o Wm Sturgeon ,. 0 5 0 SarahR Salmon 0 3 UN ., 2 10 0 Wisbeach , Cutman llfiJKS „ OlOO Sittingbourne .. I 10 6 Macclesfield .. 5 0 0 Maidstone .. D 14 8 Wingate Grange 10 0 Shoreditch .. 6 6 6 Preston , Brown 13 0 O ^ lva „ 1 18 6 £ 595 4 8 EXPENSE FUND . 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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 1, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_01041848/page/4/
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