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    • POVtiKTY NO CRIME.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JUNES. 1847.
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      Povtikty No Crime.

      POVtiKTY NO CRIME .

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      A METROPOLITAN DEMOSSTRATION against theACCCRSED NEW POOR LAW , and in favour of A NEW ONE more in accordance « rith th * wants , feelings , hibiu , and customs of the British Nation , will lie held at the CROWS ASD ANCHOR TAVERN , STRAND , « iSTcttD * i Evesiho , June 8 , 1647 . THOMAS WAKLEY , M . P ., will be proposed to the eUair » t 8 o'clock precisely . T . S . Dancoo . br , M . P . ; : Lord John Manners H . P . ; . tofi . H < fl , K . P . ; B . W . Hamy . B ^ . ; Sir De Lacy Even ., 3 S . P ; B . Disraeli . M . P ; W . B . Penand . H = P . ; «« .- O ^ . Esq . ; B . B . Cabfaell , M . P . . CharUs Cech-» ne , E < q . ; Charles Lushington , B ^ . ; and the M « mbe « of the Executive Carmnitieu , will bo present and address - tbe meeting . Men of Loneon attend and show your hatred of Inhumanity , Tyranny , and Oppression .

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      ON THE FIRST OF JOLT , 16 i < , \ frffloe PiMisned , SO . I . ( PRICE SIXVESCE . ) of _ TflE PEOPLE 'S LEGAL ADVISER . Tk « eWert of this monthly publication , is perhaps suffift entlv indicated hy its title ; . it may he well , however , to adda " ftw worfsincxPlana , t ! oa- , , - , That there are many subjects of an racluswtty . lfcral character , and hearing peculiarly on the interests of tlie ncrkin ? classes—on them more than ou the other classes « rf s-jciety—is a truth that hardjy requires its assertion ; and it would , cf cour .-e , be desirable that all these should fee brevght together in a f «"! rm ,-cheap , compendious , aud intelligible , for the benefit of those to whom they chiefly relate .

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      TO TAILORS . B . Read ' s New Patent Indicator for finding proportion . sad disproportion in all systems of cutting . Caveats enuted , April 22 nd , 1817 , * signed by Messrs Pool and Capmeai , Patent Office , 4 , GUI . Square , Lincoln ' s Inn . D < v «] aration of same , signed by Sir G . Carroll , Knt ., Lord Jfayorof Loudon . THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1817 , are now ready , by JiE " - JAM 1 N READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , lilooinsbury . eqeare , London ; and by G . Jterger , Holyweli-street , . Strand . May be had of all booksellers wheresoever reeidu : ir . By approbation of her ilajesty Quien Victoria

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      GRATIS ! GRATIS ! GRATIS ! EVERY FS 330 N who shall subscribe for THE DISPATCH > . 4 urins thenwnth of Jsuie next , will be pre rented with affinely Engraved PORTRAIT OF ELIZA toox . "The poems . of Miss Cook are national property . There is hardly a homestead in the land where her name and her eoiitribntious to tlie * Dispatcc' are not familiar as household woi-ds . Apart fr"i : i tlie powerful and brilliant talent with which the " Dispatch" is conducted , this handsome and acceptable present to its fifty or sixty thousand readere ,.- ^ annot fail to be appreciated . "—Liscrjmol Chronvie , May .-S , 1 S 17 . The likeness of -Ssis Poetic Genius , by Trantsch ^ ld , is most striking , aud ^ c Engraving is by i , OLAr . D , in the tirst stylo of the art .

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSIIIEJv . mKEFIELD ABJOCRNED SESSIONS . -ftJOTICE K IIEBEUY GIVEN , that A SPECIAL GEJS NERAL SESSiONS of the Peace , for the JTest Siding of tlie County cf York , wiU be bolde ¦ by adjoarntnent ia the Committee Roam , at -he House of Collection , at Wakefield , on Thursday , tficijth day of June iwi ., at twelve oV-lock at noon , tojreceivs the report of lie « o mmittce appointed to -consider the application of tlie subordinate officers of the House of Correction for an increase of their salaries ; and also to receive the report 01 Mr Baden , Mr Hartley , aad . Mr Shepherd , ou the best method of enclosing and uccuriog the airing court ; ot altering tbe o ! d prison to render it available for females ; and of erecting w » sh-Lou £ * s and . other confluences ; and on other special business .

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      Sovt Ready , a . Veif Edition of UR . XrCOSXOK'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Tobehad ' attfie . terffera ^ rarOlEce , 16 , Great Wind sill Street ; and of Abel Haywood , Manchester .

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      BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SUHGEOU residing in Cork having , in the course of lis Practice , had bis attention particularly directed to . -and acquired # -eat experience in tbe TREATMENT OF CAPILLARY DISEASES , begs to-informthose perteas . afflicted with-SALDNESS ( whether , in youth <; r adrancedinlifelmay , byamost simple process , JtEPRO-3 DUCE tbatuecessary . oniame'it . Parties applying willrcqnirctoenclosea small quantity of hair , and a-fee of five shillings , by post-office order , in favour ofSurgeou Edward Wifiwms . S 3 , Hcnrr-streoVCork ; when the ne-• sstary instructions sill be tif warded by return of post , j

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      A COLOURED DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAIT in hest morocco case for Ids ., ttUch is 15 s . less than any other London establishment , ami warranted to b « equally good , bv MR EGEBTO-V , & 8 . Fleet-street , copoate Bouvene-street , and I Temple-B ^ eet , Whitemaxs . Open daily from nine till four . PVn ^ gn Apparatus Agent to Vol gUander and Liribourv a . co mplete Bo ^ of Ins tructem , price 7 s . € ! ., by post lo * /"« e JJBtseent post free . J *

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      HO . VI . OF " THE --LABOURER /* mow Ready , enriched with an e . « gant Portrait engraved on Steel , of T . S . DUNCOMBE , hESQ ., HP . costests . 1 . T . S . Duncombe , Esq , M ; 'P . ' 2 . W » r , Love and Mbrrty . by Ernest Jenes . 3 . The Insurrections of the ' Working Classes . . i . The Confessions of a King . i . Letter to Sir R . Peel . 6 . The Romance of a Fcople . 7 . The Phase of Political Parties . 8 . The Jolly Young Poacher . 9 . The laud . ¦ 10 . Tbe Monthly Rtview . . -11 . Literary Review . " 12 . Correspondence , etc . " -13 . Preface , & c . to Vol . I .

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      Just published , price 6 d . ( printed from the Short hand Writer ' s Xotes , ) nrUTE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT LIVERPOOL - « - on the 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1817 . Edited by W . P . Roberts , Ef q . London . - Xortherz . Star Office , 1 C , Great Windmill Strc t , Haymarket -.. and at the offices of Mr Roberts , 2 . Robert-street , Adelolii . London : and 3 , Essex Chambers , Manchester : and Abel Ueywoud , Oldham-street , Manchester : and all Booksellers .

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . QCPERFINE BLACK CLOTHES made to order at the K 3 GnuAT WESTKrs EsiroRiBM , 1 and 2 . Oxford Stbeet , Losdos , which neither spot nor change colour . Only £ 1 los the complete suit of any size . These clothes . % S 2 £ J ? ea - ua , Icd at a "y otter Tailoring Establishmevnt UBSDELLand Co . ' s , Fine stlama Cloth , for light over , coats made to order at £ 1 tfs . The very finest only £ 2 . which for durability aud elegance cannot be surpassed With silk linings , 3 s extra . Omnibuses to and from tiia-City , stop at the establish , meat every liiwute of tbe dat ; .

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      COCK LNN , HEAD OF THE SIDE , NEWCASTLEOK-TYKE . MARTIN JDDE begs most respectfull y to intimate to hisiricndsandthc public lh-. it he has removed to the above Inn . and that he has on baud a prime stock of Ale , Stout , Spirit ? , & c . In the News Room maybe seen the following London and Provincial papers : —/ x >; i « Vn-Tlie Daily News b y express every evening at seven o ' clock , Bill ' s Life , Mining Journal . Northern Star , and Punch . Ijoeal—The Newcastle Guardian , Newc stle Courant , and the Newcastle Advertiser . Tbcre are excellent Rooms for Clubs and Trade Societies * Meetings . A branch of tbe National Land Com . pany is established at the bouse , and meet evcrv week to enrol members . Excellent accommodation lor Travellers , Good Bads and refreshments at moderate charges . Good Stabling , Ac ,

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      WEST-RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MIDSUMMER SESSIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN . That the MIDSUMMER GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the Peace f « r the West Riding of the County of York will be opened at 8 KIPTON , on TUESDAY , the 23 « i day of June instant , at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon ; and bv Adjournment from thence will be lioldeu at BRADFOR * D , on WEDNESDAY , the 30 th day of the same month of June , nt Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon ; and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will be holden at ROTHERHAM . on -MONDAY , the 5 th day of July , at Ten of tlie Clock in the Forenoon , when all Jurors . Suitors , Persons bound by Recognizance , and ottiershuring business at the Sflld several Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several days , and at the several hours above mentioned . Solicitors are required to take notice , that aU appeals must be entered before the sittin ? of the Court , on the first day of the Sessions at each of the above-mentioned places ; and that the List of such Ajipcals will be called by the Clerk of the Peace at the expiration of half an hour from the opening of the Court ; and-that all appeals in winch Counsel are not then instructed , so as to be readv to proceed immediately tif called upou so to do ) , will ho struck out

      The Northern Star Saturday , Junes. 1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY JUNES 1847 .

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      NON-INg'EUVENTIOSI t EXGLANS . AT WAR WITH THE PEOPLE OF PORTUGAL 1

      fitter experience has taqght the people of this coustry the holiowness , falsehood , and hypocrisy , of that pitiful factiaii—the Whigs . Never yefedid they make s promise thai they did . not break ; -never a pledge $ at they & i not falsify ^ never was a principle professed by thea that tliej did not violate , and do their best to fring- into contempt . Sheir clamour for - »« Reform " was followed hy deed of dferanable delusion and desk depravity , as "Coerci n " and » New Poor Law " BSte testify . Their ranting for " itelgious Lfrerty " has . been ever followed by !

      schemes tending te strengthea Church-esaft , and to insult proscribed sects . More recently , " Education" and " Sanatory Reform" fcave fallen under the withering curse of Whig patronage . " . Justice for Ireland " was long ( fee factious watchword , by the use of which they trafficked in Irish credulity , until surprised by the fam & e , they proved their utter incompetence as rulers by ffceir impotest mcasur . es of " Relief . " In the present , . as in the past , the 8 higshave shown themselves imbecile meddlers with every work they liave undertaken , and hypocritical traitors to every principle they have enunciated .

      But if there is one fraud blacker than the rest in tbe list of their irredeemable offences against truth , honour , and honesty , that one pre-eminent plaguespot is , their hypocritical use and blood-stained violation of the policy entitled by themselves , ' Non-intervention . " In 1830 they proclaimed that Non-intervention was , and would be , the basis of their foreign policy , yet they were scarcely well seated in power' when they engaged this country in a " little war" with Holland , not for the purpose of

      securing the liberties of the Belgian people , but to place a Cohurg on the newly-erected throne of that country . They engaged in left-handed wars for the purpose of putting down the " legitimate" claimant of tbe Spanish Throne , and ousting the actual possessor of the Throne of Portugal . Nevertheless , they pretended to act upon the principle ot " Non-Intervention , " and , in proof thereof , pointed to Poland and Italy , where they had allowed Russia and Austria to drawn in blood , and crush by force the patriots who had attempted the redemption of

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      those countries . 1 heir next exploit was the driving of Ibrahim Pacha out of Syria , compelling the Syrians to accept the anarchial rule of the Turks , insteadx-f the organised despotism of Mehemet Alia change for the worse . The slaughter and destruclion at Beyrout and Acre atraagely illustrated the vaunted policy of Non-Intervention ! But the conduct of the Whig Government towards Afghanistan capped tlie climax of their duplicity and criminality . Afghanistan was a perfectly ^ independent country , yet * thc Whig Government ,. p 7 esumed to interfere in its affairs , deposing thepeople ' s chosen Prince ,. aiid imposing upon them

      a detested creature whose fpower was only maintained hy British bayonets . . But that came to an end-r-affrightful end—as every- one knows . Goaded to desperation , the Afghans rosejigainst the British ar . t . y and their princely tool , and annihilated both . Alarge « rmy was totally destroyed . But one man and ' ajfeio worn ¦ lived to tell the tele of England ' s disgrace , arid the wretched end -of England ' s sons and soldiers . The bleaching bonea of the hapless Victims <© f a righteous retribution , whitening in their thousands the gloomy passes < of Afghanistan , proclaimed the true interpretation of Whig Nonintervention . "

      Again in power , the Whigs have Already within a few months exhibited two characteristic illustrations of their precious principle of " Non-intervention . " They have again betrayed 'Poland , and are now coercing Portugal ; crouching to the Tsar , they bully the Portuguese , and in both instances disgrace their country . If there is . any common sense in the phrase « ' Nonintervention ; " it must mean that each nation jhould bs left to tbe Management and settlement of its own affairs , without being interfered with by any other nation . Well , Cracow was an independent state , Hb independence guaranteed "forever ^ by the parlies who contracted the treaty of Vienna , England

      being a principal party thereto . The Republic of Cracow has notmerely been interfered with , its independence has been annihilated by an act of intervention and brutal tyranny on the part of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . Did the Whig Government forbid that intervention ? No ! But Lord Palmerston protested . He sent paper pellets to Vienna , which were received with all imaginable politeness . Metternich knew that tlie Whigs were not in earnest—that they were too much in love with despotism to heartily sympathise with the Cracovians . The " protest ' was intended merely to humbug the English people ; and the " three Powers , " very well understanding that , very consistently treated it as a sham .

      Any interference in behalf of Poland would have been necessarily an interference in favour of tbe people and liberty , and , therefore , not at all in accordance with the sympathies of the aristocratic Whigs . Accordingly , the principle of " Non-Interventiou" was appealed to as sufficient reason for declining any interference beyond that of the paper protest .

      But , behold , how different is the conduct of the Whigs when despotism is in danger ! The people of Portugal , weary of the falsehood , treason , and cruelty of Donna Maria , rise in arms to compel her to a due fulfilment of her engagements , they are on the point of complete success , when the British Government engages in a CONSPIRACY with the French and Spanish Governments for the purpose of crushing the popular movement by FOREIGN FOHCE , and restoring the Queen to the full exercise of her destructive authoritv .

      The Portuguese Queen has passed through nearly every possible stage of tyranny and treason to her people . She was hardly seated on lier throne—a throne won for her by enormous sacrifices—when she commenced frittering away all that was of value in-the '' Charter" she had sworn to uphold . Atlength , when . liberty was almost entirely lost , the Septembrist movement compelled Donna Maria to accept a modified version of the Constitution of 1820 , instead of the mangled " Charter . " The Queen now swore to uphold the " Constitution , " and

      fulfilled her oath by conniving at arevelt got up by the tax-caters for resuscitating the defunct " Charter . " The notorious Cabrals triumphed , the " Constitution" was strangled , and the " Charter "changed- greatly for the worse—substituted . The Cabrals established a grinding tyranny , under which every law for the protection of public liberty and personal freedopt was violated , and the people given over to the plundering exactions of tax-eaters . Excessive taxation atlength produced revolt , the peasantry rose in arms throughout Portugal , and ,

      with the certainty of a popular rising in the capital , the Queen gave way , dismissed the Cabrals , and appointed the Palmella Ministry . The overthrow of that ministry was accomplished by the vilest means , no less than a midnight plot . The chiefs of the Ministry summoned to the palace on pretence of business , were there informed that their services were no longer needed—that their successors had been appointed , and themselves were prisoners until such » tiine as the army had secured the triumph of the counter-revolution . This was accompanied by

      the suppression of the public press , the " suspension of the guarantees" of personal security , and the establishment of martial law . What had been left of the restored " Charter" was again utterly violated , and a despotism established more perfect than that of the Russian Autocrat . A popular outburst immediately ensued . The Luke of Terccira , who had -been sent to Oporto armed with full powers to repress any manifestations of popular discontent hy military violence , was himself arrested by the people , and ftas since been kept in durance vile . For the

      last eig ht months civil war has raged m Portugal . Manyiundreds have perished in battle , the dungeons have been crowded with victims , decrees have been fulminated threatening death to all who should be found opposing the Royal despotism , and in many instances tbe most brutal murders have been perpetrated , sanctioned by these decrees . Anarchy and despotism conjoined have desolated the land from end to end . At length the Queen , deserted by half the army , with the entire steam navy captured by the forces of the insurgent Junta , her own troops

      ¦ paralysed in sight of Oporto , a body of the insurgents menacing Lisbon itself , that capital secured frejn a popular explosion only by the cannon of the English fleet , pointed . against the people ;—in this humiliating position the , Queen and her villanotts confederates must have speedily succumbed , or fled the country ; the people must have triumphed and achieved their deliverance—when , lo ! foreign force intervenes , condemning the Portuguese nation lo slavery , and restoring lo the she-tyrant her justlyforfeited pocer .

      la our foreign intelligence the reader will | fmd a copy of the protocol agreed upon between 1 almerston and the Plenipotentiaries of France , Spain . and Portugal , by which it will be seen that an En ^ ith and French fleet , together with a Spanish army , ai t to be employed in subduing the Portuguese patriots and restoring the supremacy of Donna Maria . This protocol is based upon the foulest falsehoods . It is therein set forth that " the Junta had refused to put an end to the civil war . " The Junta showed the utmost readiness to accept the mediation

      offered by the British and Spanish governments ; the Junta , however , very properly required that the terms of settlement should be couched in plain and explicit terms , and that certain guarantees should be riven , such as the ackowledgement of all contracts sntered into by the Junta ; the dismissal of the Palace-intriguers ; the garrisoning of Lisbon and Oporto by the troops of the Junta , & c , & c \ The Junta felt satisfied from past experience , that unless these guarantees were obtained , it would be impossible to bind the Queen to any seWement . The moment she was freed from the terrors of organised

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      insurrection , that moment would she , as she has always hitherto done , break through every engagement , oath , aud treaty , to glut her lust for vengeance and re-establish her darling despotism . These guarantees the Representatives of the 33 ritishand Spanish Governments refused to accede to ; tkey , therefore , and not the Junta , are respmsible fordhe continuance of the civil war . Everybody knows that diplomacy is the art of political tying , and : Palmerston ' s protocol < is a precious specimen of his ( proficiency in that disreputable attainment .

      • People of Great Britain and Ireland , we appeal to-you against this atrocious conduct on the part of j / our (?) Government . You are reproached 'b y the nations of the continent with being selfishly mdifferent . to all that concerns the welfare of oilier nations , , and that reproach will be justified if you tamely allow the present Ministry to plunge this country into a > war-with the people of Portugal , for the benefit of thetyrants of Portugal . That war , though it may not effect your persons , -will affect your pockets 5

      every shilling of the cost of this foul attack upon the Portuguese will have to be paid by you . If you will ; bave nothing to do with foreign politics , fore i gn politics will have to do with you , as the present ENORMOUS TAXATION and GIGANTIC DEBT sufficiently testify . That MRT was contracted , and those TAXES first imposed upon you , because you stupidly allowed your class-rulers to make wars in your name , for the purpose of keeping the nations imslayery . Will you allow your aristocratic rulers to : play the same game again ?

      Can it be possible that Victoria , while professing deep sympathy with the starving people , —as shown by limiting the palace flunkies to a pound vf " seconds" bread daily ( as though courtly flunkies "lived by bread alone" !) -can it be possible after this evidence of Her Majesty ' s humanity and philanthropy , that she has . sanctioned this war upon the people of Portugal because , the Portuguese Queen ' s husband is a Cohurg , a relative of Prince Albert ' s ? Can it be possible that the . Queen of

      Great Britain and Ireland , knowing that thousands have died of famine , and that at this moment thousands are languishing in misery , can it he possible that she would approve of the waste of the nation ' s resources , at the cost of the starving people , for the purpose of maintaining a worthless Queen , and a crew of needy German cormorants in their oppression and plunder of the Portuguese nation ? We will not believe it ; we must impute this wicked aggression wholly to the despotic instincts of the mock liberal , hut basely hypocritical Whigs .

      A word to the electors and lion-elecfors of Marylebone . Your fighting Commodore has run from his seat in Parliament to take command of tbe fleet sent against against the Portuguese people . Only a few months ago Sir Charles Napier delivered a thundering oration against the confiscatovs t >{ Cracow , yet he now takes command of the naval force

      intended to act in support of the connscators of the liberties of the Portuguese ! He is now out of Parliament , keep Mm out , anil so punish him for his shameless inconsistency . What are the Democrat s of Marylebone about ? As yet there is not a candidate in tbe field worth a bunch of dog ' s meat . Let a people ' s candidate be found forthwith who will pledge himself to stand by England ' s . " PEOPLE'S

      CHARTER , " AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN . ALL OVER THE WORLD I Again , and yet again we appeal to the People against the British Government ' s War against the People of Portugal . If the House of Commons really represented the commons of this country , Palmerston would be IMPEACHED . As it is , the people may do their duty . The Irish Confederates in London have been the first to set a noble example in protesting against this War . The Chartists everywhere should " pronounce" likewise j and the People generally should wash their hands of this disgraceful and wicked aggression .

      Between the " Holy Alliance" of the North-East , and the " Quadruple Alliance" of the South-West , the nations are crucified . 0 ! for the hour when they too shall unite , and the tocsin sound for thei deliverance !

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      THE NEXT HARVEST . Every promise is given of a plentiful and abundant harvest , and this promise is the head-pacificator of England . Men bear their present famine and privations with greater patience , in the belief that a few months will set all [ right , and that those who survive till the " grass has grown" will be able to fling care to the winds , and live on the fat of the land . We see in the redundancy of vegetation that which we beheld last year , and for many years , the

      fertility of nature , the beneficence of Providence . and the industry of man ; but , alas 1 we see no guarantee of plenty for the poor , or bread for the hungry . Instead of lulling the people into a state of listless apathy , the signs of a good harvest ought to rouse them into energetic measures for preventing forestalled and monopolists from again robbing them of that which God is willing to bestow . Already the forestalled are in the field , as witness the following , from the Western Luminary :- ^

      Speculation is Corn * . —A fanner in this neighbourhood , who is a large grower , has sold all his wheat in the ground at Its . per bushel , to be delivered between harvest and Christmas . Already the evil effects of pernicious laws are extending their blighting influence over the coming year , as witness the following : ¦—Cost of tub Gamb Laws . —From the very large quantity of game preserved on the Duke of Marlborough ' s estate at Blenheim , some of the corn-growing land in the locality will not produce a bushel of corn to tbe acre . ^ His grace has some hundreds of acres of arable land in his occupation now unproductive , and which has not this season been cultivated .

      Already the anticipated supplies from abroad are being forestalled in the same way , as witness tbe following : — Corn speculators are rapidly buying up the standing crops in France , in order to have a command of the future markets , although this is expressly forbidden by the French laws . Already , then , the harpies are in the field to take the bread from the mouths of starving children , and the working man lulls himself in tbe fond security

      that , because he sees plenty around him some of it will fall to his share . It may be very near him . A pane of glass in a shop-window may divide him from the loaf ; it may he the thin brittle partition between life and death—but it is there , and—he dies ! When will he awake to a sense of his power —hie moral power—his legal power—his irresistible power ? Brittle as that pane of glass are the monoplies that incase him— -yet he moves not a fibre ! —he lifts not a voice in the rescue ! Yet he can see

      the change ; the riddle of hypocrisy is read ; a little time ago the famine was a " dispensation of God ;" a little time ago there was" no food in the land ;" a little time ago it was" nature ' s fault . " Now tbe beneficence of God and a are are too palpable ; ev 2 n unblushing effrontery cat : i o longer say there is " no food in the land ; " perhaps tbe Archbishop will proclaim it has come in consequence of his prayers ! Now the Deity can no longer be made the scapegoat of Monopoly . Well , then , we ask , has oMnopoIy " given up the argument ? . Does it admit there is enough for all ? Does it say all shall have a fair shave ? No ! It has recourse to another argument , the worst and last ! That arc'tfment is phvsical force !

      It is aware of the consequences to be entailed by its own sinister intentions — and , therefore , it prepares its powers to crush protesting human i ty therefore the old Chelsea Pensioners are taken from their long repose , to earn "laurels" thai should never " grace their brows . " Therefore the Hampshire Telegraph informs US : — -flie Admiralt y bare ordered the men of the Dock-

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      yard battalion to be drilled 3 evening a week , that if . possible they may be rendered efficient < jw «*«>" summer ; 1 , 500 stand of arras , and 800 cutlasses , and other requisites , have been sentimm the lower . The officers and men at the Clarence Victualling Yard have formed into a brigade of artillery , and will be instructed in the use of great guns in battery , and in boats . It is settled that the first master attendant and tho maimer shipwright are to be lieutenantcolonels ; the second master attendant and thestore-Ireeper and store receiver to be majors ; the other officers of the yard , the clerks , & c „ to be captains and subalterns . Therefore the United Service Gazette acquaints us with the following : — . _ . t o ..... —1 « .. » ¦ w % inoolr i . Utti

      Removal op Troops . — The cavalry corps—the bead-quarters of which is now stationed at Peirshill Barrack !) , Edinburgh—is to march south in the middle of Junft , and will be stationed at Newcastleupon-Tyne , Durham , and Leeds . This is , « aid to be caused by an apprehension of some disturbances in the . West of England . The 5 th Dragoon Guard" , who have until now filled these out-statinns , will throw out detachments to Proeten , Bradford , and tbe west of Yorkshire . Manehesbr has now become the depot of a squadron ( tho 11 th Hu > sai >) .

      Scotland has so long been noted for its tranquillity that it is thought useless to keen cavalry in that country when it is required in England . It has been discovered that cavalry is not adapted for North Britain , and a troop of the 3 s-d Dragoon Guards , which was stationed at Aberdeen , was lately recalled , and infantry sent in their place . In the north and west of England they are the nnly branch of our service that can act efficiently against a mob . The 5 th Dragoon Guards will throw out a detachment to the new barracks at Preston .

      Delightful preparations these for securing comfort and plenty , to the famishing people ! No doubt all these strong men are being concentrated to assist in reaping the harvest ! No doubt they will secure a fair and equable distribution of its produce ! No doubt , backed by these , Monopoly feels self-secure , and with a light heart indulges in those vile excesses which our readers see chronicled in another part of this paper . But they are leaning on a broken reed . How can falsehood resist truth ? How can armed power strike when its opponents arc peaceable ? How can Law punish when nothing illegal is done 1 There lies our strength ! - Thence comes our victory ! Nor can the instruments of Monopoly be much in love with her position ! Witness the case of a man recorded in this number cf

      our paper , who , though so employed , was forced to steal to save his family from starvation ! Ay the elements of all power are in the hands of the people !•—they need hut to he used . Surely working men can no longer be blind to their future prospects . The famine was a godsend to Government , since fhey fathered their faults on it . The promise of a good harvest seems another godsend to the Government , since they interpose it as a shield between themselves and popular indignation . It gives them time to surround the peopfe with a mesh of steel . It gives them time to organise their power thus that the remotest links of the vast machinery

      are connected by the fineness of the mechanism ! But how disappointed they will be when rtiev find it cannot be used ! Vfhenpeace defies violence ,- when jmidence resists excitement , and wisdom baffles fraud . Let the people proceed as they are proceeding . These preparations of Monopoly shows its fear and weakness ; — reveal our determination and power . Let us go on strengthening our elective influence , and scat a CHARTIST OPPOSITION in

      tbelluUSE . Let us go on strengthening ouv organization , and thus take from Monopoly its power of intimidating individuals . Let us go on holding great meetings through the country , to rally those who are yet undecided—and who but wait for a display of our power to join us heart in hand . Let us cultivate UNION AMONG OURSELVES and we shall triumph over the " DIVISIONS" of the enemy !

      Parliamentary Review. Ten 1i0uh.3* Bill....

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . TEN 1 I 0 UH . 3 * BILL . — HUSH POOR LAW . —IRISH LANDED ESTATES BILL . — DESTITUTE RELIEF BILL .-COLO . N'lZATION , The two remaining stages of the Ten Hours' Bill in its passage through the House of Lords have been gotover , and the Bill only now awaits the Royal sanction to become the law of the land . The opponents seem to have been thoroughly satisfied by the decisive majority against them on its recent reading , as neither in committee nor at the third reading was there a word of opposition or the slightest

      discussion . This great and important measure received the final sanction of the Upper House as easily as a parish highway bill . It is true that the noble head of tbe house of Baring complained that its third reading had been hurried , and thus deprived him of an opportunity of saying a few " last words" of opposition , but we imagine Lord Ashburton did not in reality , feel any serious annoyance at having missed the chance of doing so . As his object was merely to keep up appearances , what he did say will answer his purpose quite as well as if he had I

      made a speech , which would probably have been like all his other speeches—six and one-tenth on one side , and five and nine-tenths on the other—even if the preponderating fraction of reasoning , or bias , had not been move minute tban that we have supposed . As it is , the great struggle of one-third of a century bas achieved its legislative consummation The Ten Hours , Bill is henceforth taken out of the list of those vexata questite , which agitate society and furnish topics for the hustings and the public press . It is even part and parcel of that

      mysterious thing " the British Constitution , " and is fenced round by legislative sanctions , as awful and as power ful as those which consecrate Magna Charta or the Bill of Rights . For the sake of the oppressed and over worked millions , to whom theis law will secure ^ due rest from toil ; for the sake of that equalisation and better distribution of labour , which is one of tlie great requirements of modern times ; for the sake of the probable comparatively unfrequent recurrence of those periodical panics which resulted from the old system of unregulated labour , and for the sake of tlie health , the intellectual progress and the moral improvement which may be fairlv

      anticipated among the factory workers , as one of the inevitable consequences of greater leisure , we heartily congratulate all who have aided in carrying this most important , and , as we believe , most beneficial measure . But its influence will not stop with the direct advantages it will confer . It gives to the reformer , who is labouring to achieve other necessary changes , another of those encouragements to perseverance of which history is already full , but which , whenever they occur , are always welcome and heartinspiring . In the success which has finally crowned this long-protracted agitation is contained a guarantee that no cause which has a sound principle f or its foundation , and the benefit of the community

      for its object , will fail , if its advocates be true to themselves , and persevering enough in their exertions . The Utopia's of the day become the commonplaces of to-morrow ; and , among other changes , tha extension of political privileges , conjoined , with a commensurate ]* ' extensive and unsecfarian system of national instruction , which now seems to the " wise men of this generation an impracticable dream , " will by-and-by take their place among the recognised institutions of the country , as quietly as the Ten Hours'Bill has done .

      The amendments made by the Lords on two of the Ministerial Irish measures occupied the Commons d > - ' -- the greater part of Monday night . The fate of i .. ese amendments , and the conduct of the Ministry with reference to them , afforded another instructive commentary on the nature of Whig statesman , and of Whig policy . As the Irish Poor Law weni uj ) to tbe Lords , it provided for levying rates on the Union ot large , when even they exceeded 2 s . 6 d . in the . ren . ' al of any particular district . This would have to a con ^ bterable extent put an end lo the clearance system , i ? r to the driving of the destitute into town districts , ' . because the landlords , by being colled upon to contribute to the r « tes above

      Parliamentary Review. Ten 1i0uh.3* Bill....

      . ., SS ^ these ejectments , and would ti \\\ have be . » i to the support of the poor . This , ho wever Vi 5 , l ! t suit the ' Irish Par y" i „ the House of Lor | ^ they , therefore , passed an amendment by yw' " rates will , in fact , fall on the electoral V ^ The amendment is very ingeniousl y conlr ' " lll ! the landlord ' s object . It provides that " ^ ^ shall be considered resident in an electoral v ^ ' " unless he has occupied a tenement in jf Q ""^ m slept in it for 30 months during the ' th USUa " ' previous to his application for Hief . j t c ^ kinds of settl « ment—one on the Union , and * ^ in tbe electoral division ; and once a man than six months away from the place wher . tn < 1 ' lived all his days , he ceases to helonofr , . L . ^ lived all his days , he ceases to belong to ( tr

      , sion , and must live at least 30 months ; other place before he acquires anv rir > w . 8 oille .,. „ . * 6 c ' ' asM tkment a n . According to Sir J . Gra | ian of the speakers in the House of Commons ani ° the confessions of Ministers themselves tl ^ effect of this clause will be to encourage uj e i lords to turn the pauperism on their estates ad It will , most probably , flow to some open tow ior town district , which will become a mere s' t- ^ destitution ; it will be impossible to raise rat support them in that division , and one oftwoiw will happen , either the poor victims of fendl ^ rapacity will be sent over here in shoals , in the they have already been sent this year to Livern t or the means of supporting them in Ireland * n have to be taken from the Consolidated Fund toft

      tune of £ 2 , 000 , 000 annually ; the landlord s rae while will escape scot-free . It will be seen at 0 n ' how effectually tin ' s neutralizes one of Urn grana professed objects of the bill , namely , ihat % poverty of * Ireland shall be supported by thepropert , of her land ; and . also , that it virtually infringes in * , the privileges of tbe House of Commons , by Whitj that House alone is empowered to pass money bill , and tax the people . But , though all this was free ) , admitted , tl e Whigs , could not screw their coura- > i up to the sticking-placc , and say so to their Lord

      ships . They were certain the law would not ff 0 r ' well with this plaguy hitch , and fully expected thai they would have to mend its rickety framework nest session , but for the sake of peace , ( query yfuce « and of getting any Poor Law at all , they were cob . tent to " eat humble pie , " bow down in submission to the Lords , and surrender up the privileges of the Representative House as another sacrifice at lb sacred shrine of Irish landlordism . This is th . mode in which they legislate where the jwoor arj concerned .

      By way of counterpoise , however , to this pusiiiasitnity , and as if for the purpose of showing that ib ' arc not utter cravens , they refused lo assent to h " j amenrinien ' a on the Landed Estates Bill , which vof « £ 2 , 000 , 000 to the Irish landlords , upon loan , fcr the improvement of their own Estates . The ori « ind objects to be effected by this bill were the dramaa and reclamation of land , to which the Lords addej a proviso that the money might also be employed for the erection of grist mills , and other useful agi cultural buildings . Not an unreasonable addhin in itsflf , one would say , and one which could , at all events , have led to little harm , if Sir Charles Wood ' s statement ., that a million and half of the money fa been already applied for , for the original olijectt , But on this point the Ministry took their stand , and

      wuh a great show of valour and patriotism in the defence of the very privileges they had shortly hefore surrendered , they negatived the Lords' amendments ' upon which a Conference , was appointed between tlie two Houses , to talk over the difference between tweedledum and twecdledce . In a matter where the iardlords , by indirect and circuitous method ? , are likely to plunder the country of two millions annually , for the support of that poverty which they have mainly caused , our excellent Ministry gave way ; but in another , where it is possible that ten , twenty , or thirty thousand pounds might have been used f « ir the erection of useful buildings , not contemplated in the original plan , they would no : budge an inch i This is swallowing " a camel aad strainining at a gnat with a vengeance !

      On the same evening the Chancellor of the Eschcqtier gave an account of the condition of IreM under the Destitute Relief or Soup Kitchen Act , ' which Sir James Graham truly described as by no means a cheering one . While the ; fail to bring forward a single enlarged and practical measure , for the permanent improvement oj the condition of the Irish people , they are profusely lavish in the expenditure of money on scheme ! that are neither efficient temporary mcasttres , norcl the slightest imaginable future utility . It is clear , that under the recklessly extravagant and

      improvident policy hitherto pursued by the government , that the sum already advanced for mere temportn relief will not sustain the people until next harvesi , and when that harvest comes we see nothing iu an ? of the measutc- they have proposed which is at all calculated to afford the destitute and impoverished peasantry either adequate employment er adequate wages . In short , as we have before had occasion to remark on this particular topic , the whole ministerial policy with reference to Ireland is a hut : fallacy , and must result , as it has already resulted t ) far as it has gone " , in downright and compto failure .

      The petty and inefficient character of the Whig nostrums for Ireland found an able critic in Lotq Lincoln , on Tuesday evening , in submitting to the House his motion for an extended and improved system of colonization . His Lordship very conclusively proved that , the real grievance of Ireland have not yet been grappled with , and that ail that his beeen done is mere bumbug . So far we perfectly agree with Lord Lincoln , and also that some means must be taken to provide work and food for tte more than two millions of persons who will be leitotally destitute and idle lor at least 30 wceksintte year . His Lordship proposes to do this b y means ?'

      foreign colonization , on a superior plan to the men exportation of human beings which has heretofbw been carried on . We are not prepared to deny dial colonization may become in the history of nationsi social necessity . We see in the economy of the beehive , that when its busy inmates become too numerous ; a swam is thrown off , to find in some other quarter a home and the means of self-support . h '« , in the bee-hive two things are always observable before " swarming , " first that there is » real " surplus population ; " and second t ! sat all work , and all are entitled to receive a fair sltait tif the products of their toil . Is Ireland iu this

      condition ? Has she really a superabundant papuiatio '' - ? Can there he no work , no increased supplies of food i fount ! for the Irish people in their own land ? These js arc the iinestions one woiM like to ask before tf : " tering into any long discussion about the propriety y of sending away to foreiirn lands a whole poop . e- !• Rightly looked at , the real strength of anv ami of if every country consists in the number of its labourers , s . His labour which isthc ori ginal creator of all weA '•¦ and every unnecessary subtraction from this invaluable It reproductive source of wealth is , prima fuck , a p <& " ;• tive lo .-8 to the Commonwealth . We arc , certaittl . f i t , advocates of coloniuuion as a means—as tlie menu n

      of introducing plenty , prosperitv , and canlnvtincBt nt mo-Ireland , instead of the famine , pestilence , and id despair , which has for months rav . wd that unliapp' )» mV )^ ' -B" * our colonization would eomwuctW N lllbLAND . iiofiK Canada or Australia . Wlicn «« (• had fully set the Irish people to work in the draifiiiS K ot its bogs , the reclamation of its culiivabfo jle wastes , and the better cultivation of the land no * )* UKdertillage j it would then be time enou ^ li to eend ad any "surplus population" abroad , but , until then . > c , disguise it as they may , any scheme for that purpose see is merely another form of that inveterate selGslintf' | w « and rapacity , inherent in aristocracy , which w « " » ^ amine

      rather , as it has done , decimate a notion by F , ne , or expatriate it en masse from its native shores , tb sj :. « permit the least infringement of its privileges si " im > enjoyments . " Ireland for tbe Irish" say we i " * " * best sense of thsse words ! Let us see its eoit popp" pc lati d by free and independant labourers , at «* # * # beautifying its surface and adding to the weali "' > CI theconntry by their industry . When this isdo' ^ j m we shall advocate foreign colonization , but not » " »" then . Every ship load that is now transported , . " - !' that would be under an improved system , e ®> . fact , onlybo considered a bonus for the counte *" ! " °° of misjrovernnientand oppression in the island froOroO whence tho exiles are drafted .

      The other business of the week manifests an »> n »> cps ^ . anxiety to get through a Session , which . J *« , l *« the Whig party , has . been full of professions , and !»•* !»•* ren in performances . Come when its close may ,, »' , »• curtain will fall before a listless , if not dissataWnWi audience ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05061847/page/4/