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      A The Nort Hern Star. August 5, Is4-\

      A THE NORT HERN STAR . August 5 , iS 4- \

      A Good Fit Warranted At The Great Western Emporium, I Aud - .', Oxford-Stket, Ubf Dill And To

      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium , I aud - . ' , Oxford-stKet , Ubf dill and to

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      are now making to order a Suit of beautitui = > ui- c . » " - Black , aaj size , for £ i 1 s . Patent made Summer i ro - & ers , l ' s ; Registered Summer Orer Coats , 2 ? s . la \ . Of Cuttinj taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to . « -re for the Trade , and ee _ t ( post free ) for Is . 6 d . caco , or _ i ?_ tee » post 3 ge stamps . Oiford street Address , Charles Cbsdell , 1 and 2 . 0 _ J ° London . -

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      TUHILY ESDOWMEKr , UW fW ^ ASD f * AKN ' . ITV SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , «•*>**??"• London-, CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . DIMCTOES . . William Butterworth B-jley . Esq ., Chairman . TnhnFniier Esq , Deputy Chairman . Bt-lfcrJc-iSSSS- S ^ ^^ r " ' * ' C . n . batoucnci _ •>!• . ^ r ,.. , ,. . n Edward Lee , Esq . ^ Maj , r WUlock , k . L . S . Thir tv percent Benus w _ s added to the Society ' s Pollries onTheproSt scale iu 1 S 45 . The next valuation will be in January , 1652 . AKKCAl PBEKTO-- WITH FSOFITS . A gegQ . AgeiS AgeS- 'jA-geJSjAgetU ' Age 4 S Age 50 AgeiS £ f . d . Ss . d . £ s . d £ s . d . £ » . d . j £ s .-., fis . i £ s . d-117 ?|! 3 1 t 9 7 \ i 1 « 2 * 3 5 9 \ i 16 2 : 4 10 6 -, 7 6 INDIA . ~ " The Societv also grants PoUcies to parties proceeeding to , or residing in India , at lower rates than any Other Ofiee , thePre __ . _ mson which may be payable euher in London or at the Society ' s Office in Cah utta . Annuities of aU kieds , as well as Endowments for Children , are granted bvthe Society . The USUal commission allowed to Solicitors and chew . Jobs Caz _ kov _ , Sec .

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      METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Lo _ n , and investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 'th and MU Tic . cap . 110 . ) Temporary Offices , Si , Regent-street , Waterlw-place ! London . TRUSTEES . Richard Spooner , Esq ., I Spencer Horatio Walpole , up | Esq .. M . P . Edward Tansittart Neale , Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esq , I DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lornar , Esq ., St Thurlow-square , Bromp- Johns Wood . *^ > i gamuel Miller , Esq ., Lin-^ elDriver , Esq ., WHte- ^ ^ ^ 'aSST FUUer ' " M ^ TfUn-tUrt Ncale , MkGrifiit-, Esq ., Esq ^ outhAudler-street . ironmooger-lane , Cheap- * %£ , £ &* $£ >• AUDITORS . Henry Peach B . ekler , Esq ., 1 Henrj Grant , Esq ., Shenlej B __ mgh _ II--treet . I House , Brighton . MEDICAL ADVISERS . William Henry Smith , Esq ., I Ro ^ tKeate , ESq .. SerjeSnt P . R . C . S ., 2 , Fonthill-I Surgeon to the Queen , li , . place , Claphain-rise . I Hertford - street , May I W . Fuller , M . D . 45 , | F » ir . Half-moon-street , Picca- j BASKBRS . —The Union Bank of London , i , Pall Mall , j E ' SOLICITORS . W . W . Fisher , Esq ., S , King- ] W . Chapman . Esq ., Rich . street , Cbeapsii . 1 mond , S ^ rres . SURVEYORS . Yincent John Collier , E q ., I Richard A . Withall . Esq ., 7 , 3 , Afoi ^ an-st- cet . I Parliament street . ACTUARY . —Alexander Jamieson , E ? q ., LL . D . UASAGER . —F . Fearguson Camroux , Esq . The objects of this Society are : — To grant Assurances upon LiveP , with or without par-1 ticipa _ o _ in profits : al $ - Immediate and Deferred An- j unit ies and Endowments . i By combining the advantages of Life Assurance with j tha business of well-regulated Building Societies , to j render a Life Policy an available and economical means ] Of acquiring freehold , leasehold , or other property , by ad- \ Tasces repayable by periodical instalments , thus : A person desirous of purchasing hislease , or otherwise acquiriHg property , will not only obtain a loan nearly equal to its value , but on his death will leave the property discharged fro-u such loan , in addition to ths sum assured to be paid at his death . _ ree-fourt _ seft _ e profits will be divided every fire ears amongst the assured intitled to participate , and the A maining one-fourth will be added to the profits of the areholders . Prospectuses with tables , and every information , may be obtained at the Society ' s Temporary Offices , 3 " , Regent-street , Waterloo-place , or of any of its Agents in fee country .

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      Now publishing / price 6 d ,, post f .-ee id . extra , EMIGRATION" CONSIDERED ; with special reference to the COLONIES of SOETH AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND ; showing their rich natural resources and capabilities of furnishing productive employment for labour and capitaL By W . C _ sp _ ktee . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row , and all booksellers .

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      THE CHARTIST . THE APPEARAKCE of this Journal is unavoidably Postponed for another week . The circumstances ¥ _ ich have le 4 to this delay do not admit of publication , THE lHARTIST shall positively appear on Saturday next , a _ d fearlessly assert the rights of the people . Chartist Offices , 39 , Holyirell-street , Strand , August 2 nd . 1818 .

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      CAUTION . J | B TREGO , cf 5 , Coleman-streer , London , havingre-JL fused to _ llo » r bi » men to leave work on Saturday at four o ' cloca , e * is tfee general rule in London , the cmsons have , in consequence , seceded from' their employ , until they get the same privilege as is allowed by the principal builders of the metropolis ; they therefore trust , that no masons will apply for a job until such is rained . 1

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      TO TAILOBS . By approbation ef Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . B . H . Prince Albert . KOW READY , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN BEAD and Co ., 12 , Eart-street , Bloomsbury-square , near Oxford . Street , London ; and by 6 . Be ___ b , HoiywelUstreet , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely execated and enperbly coloured PRINT . The elegance ef this Print excels any before published , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitting Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the most fashianable dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extr _ . _ tting Habit Pattern of « he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the ¦ whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of Gutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price lOs . postfre * lis . READ and Co . ' s new scientific system of Cutting for 1 S 48 is ready , and will supersede everything of the kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numberedand leltei-d , and on the scale of Eighteen Inekes : Whole sise , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , with fall explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , for ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price 7 s . Patterns to Measure ( all registered according to Act of Parliament ) , post free . Is . each . The whole sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomeb _ ry-sq __ re , London ; and all Booksellers . Post-office Orders , and Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Busts for fitting Coats on ; Boys ' figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style an _ Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly short time .

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      _Voxnreh4_:.—At A Full Meeting Of The La...

      _ voxnReH 4 _ :. —At a full meeting of the Land mem . bers , the following resolutions were unanimously adopted , at the Noah ' s Ark , Coalpit-lane : —Proposed by Mr Fletcher , and seconded by Mr Walker , ' That the names ef those who are fortunate in the Ballot be sot published , bat only ike numbers o t eir eeriifi cates , the Directors corresponding with the branch eecretary upon tha subject . '— ' That a society for mutual help bs f rand to assist members who are

      fortunate in ths Ballot , to de'riy the expenses ot removing themselves and facsiliesto their location . ' To carry this out a committee was appointed , with Charles Perkins , secretary ; Jas Sweet , treasurer ; which met on theSlst ult ., at the Noah' . Ark , to draw np rules to bs submitted to a general meeting of the members , to be held at the Seven Stars , Barker . gate , oa Monday evening , August 7 . at eight . Paid up Shareholders are respectfull y invited to attsnd . A vjte of thanks was passed unanimousl y to the Liverpool branch , for the interest they have taken ia the good

      cause . Bkaof . an . —A public treeting of the membars of the Land Company was held on Sunday last . Mr Peacock in the chair . The letters ef Mr O'Connor in the Stab werejread , when Mr William Connell proposed the following resolution : — ' That in the opinion of this meeting tho fund Bubscribsd to defend Mr O'Connor , belongs solely to him , and that no Defence Committee has any claim whatever to such fund ; we are , therefore , of opinion that the London Defence Commute * h « cflfrred au insult to Mr O'Connor , by inquiring after it . ' Mr Clefg seconded theresolntLn Filch was carried ttnanimoadj .

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      Ntiw read ? , price fwopencd THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( nefere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . B y E-hkst Jokes . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the cour ' , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken . Also , price Threepence , l TEBBA-IJ * BBPJBS OP TH « IflliM OP ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHARTIST LEADERS . Now Ready , a Kew Edition of MR . O'CONNO R'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . IHE C _ E _ r _ 6 T EDITIOK EVKB PCSLISHEB . Price IS . 6 d ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . NO . XIX . OF " THE LABOURER , " FOR AUGUST , Containing an Analysis of the Evidence ( riven before t _ e Committee appointed by i _ e House of Commons to report on the National Land Company , will be ready next week . Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-rovr , London : A Heywood , Manchester : and all Booksellers ia Town and Country .

      The Northern Star, Sat0bday, August 5, 1848.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SAT 0 BDAY , AUGUST 5 , 1848 .

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      THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . It is this week our pride to call the attention of the working classes to the result of the inquiry into the affairs of the National Land Company . Our readers will understand with us that we embrace the whole question submitted to the Select Committee in this one wor ( j—" affairs / ' as the most partial witness must admit , from the uncontradicted assertions of Mr O'Connor , and , indeed , from a perusal of the evidence itself , that the committee appointed to report upon the National Land Company had assigned to it the simple task of

      establishing a charge of fraud and peculation against Mr O'Connor . Nor , indeed , was such an anticip ation unfounded , if the promoters of the said committee hoped to measure Mr O'Connor ' s honour by their own bushel . ' Set a thief to catch a thief" is , in most cases , an applicable adage and the thief-catcher failing in the pursuit , or discovering that he is upon the wrong scent , becomes not gratified in discovering his mistake , but goaded te vengeance by his failure .

      Perhaps there is not upon record a parallel for the abuse that has been heaped upon Mr O'Connor , from 'his entrance into public life down to the recent investigation—which we must designate as his trial for ] the worst description of crime—a breach of confidence in the robbery of the poor . The people will understand that , however Mr O'Connor may stand honourably acquitted of the charge preferred against him , that , nevertheless , the result will but increase the hatred and embitter the animosity of those who dread his popularity , and who would have much preferred the verdict of his guilt to proof of the honourable expenditure of the people ' s money ; as the defeated enemy must now feel conscious

      that Mr Feargus O'Connor now occupies a position as a public man which no individual , undertaking to advocate the people ' s cause , has ever achieved . We abstained—and we think with good taste —from commenting on the proceedings until the committee had closed its labours and made its report ; and having perused those proceedings with a scrutinising eye , it affords us no small pleasure to be able to bear testimony to the high and unequivocal honour manifested throughout the proceedings by thirteen out of fifteen of that tribunal ; and if we required any further evidence to strengthen our conviction of "Whig depravity and baseness , we find it in the fact , that the two whom we cannot include are Whigs to the back bone .

      The letter of Mr O'Connor , which will be found in our present number , is of itself a complete refutation of the strong presumptions based upon the evidence of Messrs Grey and Finlayson , and relied upon by the Hayter and Sir Benjamin , as to the prospect of reproduction . But the question which most puzzles us , and which no doubt will most puzzle our readers , is this—a committee is appointed to inquire into the practicabilit y of carrying out a certain scheme , the success or failure of which must mainly depend upon the description of evidence submitted to it , and that evidence , every reasonable man must admit , could only have been acquired from practical agriculturists , for , as to the legality or illegality of the Company , as

      it now stands , the very entertainment of that question was mere moonshine , inasmuchas the very fact of Mr O'Connor applying for leave to bring in a bill to legalise the Land Company , was of itself an unequivocal admission of its illegality in its present form . This being an undeniable fact , we now turn to the consideration of the evidence of Mr Revans , ex-Poor Commissioner , and now secretary to the Board of Commissioners ; a government functionary , and the only individual called by the Chairman to be examined , not upon the most important , but upom the only important branch of the subject , which in essence was , and is , the probability or improbability of labour applied to land diminishing or increasing the value of that land .

      Now , we contend that that is the whole question at issue ; andjthis being an admitted fact , a collateral question would arise as to the prospect ol reproduction . If the evidence of this official had been reconcilable with common sense , his situation as a domestic removable at pleasure ; would have cast suspicion upon it ; while the production of such a witness not only casts suspicion , but stamps guilt , upon the higher official who produced him . This official was what thelegal profession term / ' Too good a witness ; and we imagine , the onl y effect that

      the perusal of his evidence can have , will be to excite contempt , ridicule , and laughter against a witness who could talk such rubbish , and the official who could present him for examination . However , as the practical knowledge of this gentleman was the only evidence relied upon as the solution of the problem of man ' s capability to live and pay rent out of three acres of land , we g ive the best evidence of his capacity , as a practical agriculturist , in the following document , to which the writer ingenuously attaches his name : —

      Jeebet , Wednesday Morning , July 26 th . TO THE EDITOE OF THE NO-TBEBN STAB . Sib , —I wrote to you last week , in which I told jou a little ot Mr Revans ' s agriculture . But that I may make no mistake , last Wednesday merning , I started about four o clock , to pay a vif it to Sorel , late the residence of that gentleman , to ascertain if h ? were tbe man , and I am led to believe be is . I will give you tbe result of ray in . quiry , and as I hope tomeet Mr Revans , either privately or publicly , I will not state otherwise than the truth of him . As he has come forward publii'ly to be a witness , to blast , if nois ' . ble , what I consider will be a blessing to thousands , publicly I Jtake him up as a farmer , by stating what I understand he did with his lani , and how much be had of it . First , he had about 100 vergus , forty of which

      were under cultivation , the rest was on the cliff as a run for sheepjthen he bought 100 more , which was onacommon , twenty of which he broke up ; and as there are two and-a-quarter versus to an English acre , he had about eighty acres , twenty-seven of which were under cultivation . Two years ago when I was there , tbey were breaking up the common , out of which he bad as fine turnips as ever 1 saw ; then he broke up more , but never cropped it ; then he had as fine peas as were to be seen , since which he has never cropped an inch of his land , whUh is two years ago ; that which he broke up Is as bad

      as ever if wa » , the rest _ is growing nothing but couch grass and weeds , which is higber than my knees , or was whea I came across it last week , so you miy judge of the nature «¦ £ the soil . When there , I mentioned the circumstance of the corn to the hind ; he replied , " Well , its there now , I suppose for the rats , th _ t th « y might not be starved also . " Now , for his stock ; : He had six cows , one boll , 150 sheep , twenty . ei ghtpigs , two lo'sesand a ram . The men used to say the horses could not do fealf a day ' s work for w < int of food ; three of his cows died , 103 of the sheep , and all the pigs . Bedding he never gaye them

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      any , as that was : i waste , he said . The stock he has now is , tsree cows , one bull , two yearlings , and one lw bull , one heifer cilf , undone bull calf . He never sold but one bull calf , and that went to Franco . He said , " He could not let out his bull , as he had to go to court , and be under a heavy fine before they were landed , because tliey would not mix the iiland breed ; " so he has kept them all , considering them too valuable to kill . Ah to the quantity of mi k tbey give , I saw them milked , and they are now iu very good conditi on , although , as the hind said the other day , i iecou ! dalmo 6 tsee through them ; thelargesthas lost her milk these eight months , the other two are much improved of late , and as there was a gauge in the can , I saw what they gave , and It was barely five quarts , this too just agreeing with wbat he stated . To manage that land / lie kept four English labourers .

      He has forty-seven sheep , and seventeen lambs ; the cows are kept in stall by night , an 1 fed on' _ which is all bought for them , as there is nothing growing on the place . I inquired of the people living near him , all of whom told me tbat his stock died last winner by wholesale , as he had nothing to g ive them , and it was wellknown in the neighbourhood it was for want j when the Islanders -see people foo ing away their mo iey they have no objection to it ; but it must be on the nail , ae they will not chance credit , I asked the milkman about the sawdust for his pigs ; he said , that he had heard bo , but thought it incredible , but that both had heard that his stock was all starved ; and if he asserts that a family cannot live off three acres of good land , he knows it 1 « an untruth : for if any of bis neighbours had it freehold , they

      would be independent , which many of them are with much less . That is what makes these Islands so fruitful ; it is tbeir small farms , and nothing else but the value they set on their land , by keeping it in continual vu . tivation . If Mr O'Connor would but pay us a visit , I think he would have a rich treat ( and a delightful treat to us ) I think he would have a whip-hand of Mr Revans , should tbey meet again , if not , he could show him up in his right coloars as an agriculturist . As the landlord siiid at St John ' s , it is his starvation system which constitutes his qualification for a Poor Law Comm i ssioner , while thanks be , here we need them not , as nearly all Jerseymtn have a little land . I remain , fraternally yours , Daniel Long .

      Now , what does the reader think of the sentimentality and morality of a Poor-law commissioner , who could not let his bull out to improve the breed of cattle , because he had to go to court ? We presume he meant the court of St James ' s , and that , from the importance of his situation , he might perchance be introduced by the Lord in-Waiting as the . gentle ; man that let his bull out . However , our correspondent has let the cat out of the bag . Here we have the character of a practical agriculturist , —one who feeds his pigs upon saw-dust , no doubt , as an experiment hereafter to be practised upon paupers in the

      bastile ; here we find upon this gentleman ' s pleasure spot , " which he took such delight in cultivating , " couch grass up to the knee , untouched for two years , and upon which fact he based that portion of his evidence , which went to show how land , badly cultivated , would run to couch grass ; here is a practical agriculturist allowing three-fourths of his stock to starve , buying hay to keep the remainder alive , which , he stated in his evidence , must end in the destruction of the purchaser ; not bedding his

      cattle , starving his horses , experimentalising upon animal frugality . in the hope of obtaining a reward b y applying the experiment upon paupers committed to . his tender mercies . Now , here is an exhibition of the skill of the only practical man examined ; and if he did not evince much practical skill in agriculture , the perusal of his evidence leads us to believe that he is pre-eminently qualified to . fill any situation npon which the existence of a Whig Government may depend .

      However , we may soberly and seriously ask the members of the National Land Company whether they are prepared to submit to such tyranny , depravity , and meanness ; the more especially when they bear in mind that the chief object of that committee should have been to have arrived at a solution of the main question submitted to it , by the ^ examination of skilled and practical agriculturists ? And

      what will the working classes say , when they have reflected upon the fact that Mr O'Connor produced four allottees , who had travelled at his expense , and that the chairman refused to examine any of them ? Must not this fact of itself irresistibly lead every impartial man to the conclusion that , as far as the Chairman was concerned , his object was not to elicit the truth , but to damn the plan by falsehood ?

      Let us now submit a list of witnesses , called by the Chairman of the Land committee for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability or impracticability of the Land Plan—No . 1 . Mr Whitmarsh , Registrar ; No . 2 . Mr Chinnery , Solicitor ; No . 3 . Mr Lawes , Barrister ; who had drawn up the Health of Towns Bill for the Government ; No . 4 . Mr Tidd Pratt , Certifying Barrister to the Government ; No 5 . Mr Revans , ex-Poor Law Commissioner , and now Secretary to the Commission ; No . 6 Mr Grey , Accountant and Government

      Official ; and to whose inspection was submitted the account of the Drainage and Sewerage Commission ; and , No . 7 . Mr Finlayson , Government Actuary . Now , such were the callings of the seven wise men who were selected by the Whig Chairman ef the Land Committee , to establish the practicability of the scheme ; while we learn that it was with difficulty that Mr O'Connor succeeded in having Mr John Sillett—an occupier of two acres of his ownexamined ; the Chairman doggedly refusing until the determination of the committee

      overpowered his objection . The people , however , may rest assured that , as far as we are concerned , that fraudulent , barefaced , and dastardly attempt to destroy their project , shall not be allowed to stop where the Chairman and his worthy coadjutor —Sir Benjamin—had hoped , Mr O'Connor ' s trial is now over , and we have formed an erroneous estimate of that gentleman ' s resolution , if he does not now carry the war into the enemy ' s camp . Already we have received

      numerous resolutions , indicating the will of the electors and non-electors of the borough of Marylebone , and other parts of London , expressing a determination to call upon their mis-representative to attend at a public meeting , and give an account of his conduct , and at which , we are informed , a select committee of Welch missionaries will attend , for the purpose of putting a few questions to the honourable baronet . And we are further informed that a" committee , calling itself the " NO

      BENJAMIN COMMITTEE , " has been formed in Marylebone , for the purpose of securing a substitute for Sir Benjamin , at the next general election . One of our correspondents inquires , whether it is likely that Mr O'Connor would attend the proposed meeting , and , in reply , we have to state , that his answer was , " He would lay all other business aside to stand by the PUMP . " Indeed , it would be impossible to read the evidence as printed , and the rubbish as ' spoken by the member for Marylebone , upon the report being brought up , without coming to the conclusion that he had failed in his mission , and had lost a portion of that confidence which insured for him his present title , through sycophancy , obsequiousness , and treachery .

      However , if we understand our Marylebone friends , we feel assured that in their opinion the partial committee man cannot be an impartial parliament man ; and that , therefore , npon the next struggle , the question with them will not be Whig or Tory , but * ' Down with the Pump . '' There is no man more apparentl y fastidious of other men ' s honour than the man who is not scrupulous about his own ; and , as a great moralist has said , " The depraved invariably select the vices of others for comment and reprobation , as a cloak to cover their own iniquities . " We c ' ose our observation for the present with the following lament from the poor Chronicle of this ( Thursday ) morning , thus proving to demonstration that we consider the vituperation of the Press as one of the most powerful auxiliaries of the Land Plan : —

      The Committee on the Land Company Scheme has made its report , and amply confirms all that wo have stated regarding it . The mere illegality of tho scheme was a question to which we never devoted any but the most cursory notice . Its deceptive character as a scheme for the good of the " toiling mUiions , " when , in fact , only a very small fraction of those tolling millions could gain eren the chance of a benefit from it , was the subject of our complaint . That character is now , though in the gentlest , periphrasis , fixed upon it b y the committee . The Repert declares it not merely to be an illegal Scheme , but Ukewise one "that will not fulfil the expectations held out by the directors to the shareholders . " It is needless to quarrel about terms . We are told in " Kenilworth" that El-. zabeth conveyed her commands to Sussex in the form of an entreaty , and her entreaty to Leicester under the glide of a command . The softened phrase of the committee announces to all men of business , ae plain ' y as cne

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      less measure a might have done , that the scheme is a total failure . Any "lei-cautila company would unhesitatingly so ac knowledge it . Whether Mr O'Connor is a debtor or a creditor to the Company on the money accounts ( the committed declares that the irregularity in them has be » n against his Interest , instead of in his favour ) , Is a matter of small importance , though upon that point Sir Benjamin Hall does not seem in exact accordance with the rest of tho committee . Tho fact stands ndmitted that the Company is a failure , and all tbat the committee can Bay in its favour is , that considering the 60110 fides with which it has been carried on , and the groat number ot persons Interested in It , power might be granted them to wind up the undertaking :, and to relievo the parties con . corned frem penalties . If any doubt could by possibility

      be entertained on the subject of the utter failure of this undertaking , this recommendation must satisfy the most sceptical . But it still remains to bo asked , why the committeehfls left the unsecured allottees wholly unnoticed t They have stood the chance of the gambling—they have won , they are in possession , but their possession is at this moment > nly that of tenants-at-will , if not of actual trespassers . Mr Chiunery asserts , and Mr 0 Connor admits , that he has never given them a conveyance , while he does not affect to deny that he could do so ; and the legal evidence shows that , without such conveyance , they could be ejected at onoo by the heirs or personal representatives ef the person in whose name the whole land has been purchased . As the matter stands at present , all the propositions we originally started with are made out . The scheme is not a scheme for the benefit of

      all the subscribers-for the advantage of the toiling millions—bat is a gigantic lottery , with a scale most unfavourable to the gambler . In thia lottery , tho holders of tbe prizes are wholly unsecured , and the scheme will not fulfil the expectations held out by the directors to the shareholders . What is such a scheme but a bubble ? Assuming everything which tho committee has assumed in favour of Mr O'Connor , the fact that he has been the author of a monster blunder still remains . The mis-Ctlievousness of that blander , the blind faith so readily yielded to tho assertions of its author , as to the good he can effect for tho labouring classes , the evils likely to follow therefrom , and the neces « ity of protecting the poor and ignorant man against a ruinous credulity , justify all that we have said on this subject , and may compel us to resume the consideration of those parts of it on which the Report is lamentably defective .

      We shall make a very short comment upon the foregoing rubbish , and we shall begin backwards . The monstrous juggle that WAS , IS now but a monstrous blunder ; but , no doubt , the hero of the quill would rather be convicted of a juggle than of a blunder , as , with him , prostitution is a virtue and a qualification , honour is a disparagement and a disqualification . The commentator either forgets or is ignorant of the fact , that Mr O'Connor ' s title would rather be strengthened than weakened by making conveyances to the present occ 1-pants ; and the philosopher does not appear to understand , that if those conveyances were

      executed the rents would be payable to Mr O'Connor , and that the rents , in case of his death , might be recovered by his heir at lawthat is , if Mr O'Connor had not made his will , as stated by that gentleman , and left the whole of the property to trustees , for the benefit of the members . But , why throw pearls before swine ? Why stoop to reason with a senseless blockhead , or , rather , with the worn-out machinery of a worn-ouli engine , that could not even go the slow , jog-trot Whigpace , and was obliged to limp on Tory crutches in the hope of keeping the engineer ' s staff

      above water ? No wonder this cameleon should approve and praise the conduct of the PUMP , as the weak wash that comes from both is of equal strength and has equ ? l influence . However , when Grunticle is ready for the fray we promise to meet him , and beat him , too , upon his own ground ; but what we have to request is , that he will not take his style , his language , or his facts , from the Marylebone baronet . Perhaps there is no paper in the universe that has evinced so much profligacy , so little talent , or more disregard for truth , than the poor old " Chronicle . "

      Rebellion And Persecution. We Congratula...

      REBELLION AND PERSECUTION . We congratulate our readers—the British empire is safe ! List ! oh , list ! to the Liverpool Times : — " The British i mpire has now passed through the double ordeal of Chartist and Irish discontent , and has come out of both even more triumphantly than its warmest admirers could have expected . " There waq great reason to fear that the instigationa of the O'Connors and llajnejs , on this side of the Channel , and thoBo of tho O'Briens and Meaghets on the other , would have led to serious disturbances . Happily that has not been the case in either country . "

      It seems that the warmest admirers of our g lorious institutions have been in a bit of a pucker , from which they are now happil y relieved . The designs of the gentlemen abovenamed on this side of the water against the British empire are the pure inventions of the Liverpool editor ' s fertile imagination . Their one aim has been to strengthen and glorify the British empire , by rendering its institutions the safeguard of all classes . If Messrs O'Brien and Rleagher have menaced the British empire they have been enabled to do so , because there was " something rotten in the state of Denmark . ' '

      A large portion of this day s paper is occupied with accounts of the unhappy state of things in Ireland . It will be seen that one collision has taken place—there are rumours of more than one—in which blood has flowed . The accounts of the destruction of human life have greatly varied -. some stating that seven were killed ; others ten , eighteen , and twenty ; and the latest account we have seen fix ttyg number at three . Again , the insurgents have been variously estimated at from two , three , or four thousand , down to one or two hundreds . It has been stated that Mr Dillon was wounded —some said killed . It hts also been asserted

      that Mr O'Brien was wounded , and that in some skirmish at some other place Mr O'Gorman was shot . We have good reason for believing there is no truth in these statements . The stories told of the disguises , flights , and concealments of the several leaders , are , no doubt , equally unfounded . The reporters and correspondents seem to have more than ordinarily taxed their powers of mendacity in describing the movements of Mr Smith O'Brien . Sometimes they represent him with onl y fifty followers—anon he appears at the head of five

      hundred—again , utterly discomfited , his adherents are reduced to two—presently he appears at the head of two thousand p ikemen . He is represented to be riding North , South , East , and West—concealed in a priest ' s househidingin a coal-pit—sleeping in a field—and on board ship on his way to America—all at the same time . From this our readers may infer that , at present , so far at least as Irish affairs are concerned , lying is the order of the day , and that the reports of the daily journals are not to be depended on .

      The correspondents and editors of the Lon don Papers are indulging in songs of triumph over the suppression of the rebellion , and language almost fails them in their efforts to pour contempt and scorn upon Smith O'Brien . If , indeed , he is the coward or the madman , or the fallen leader abandoned by the whole of his followers , they represent , how is it he has not yet been arrested ? Without forces or friends , how is it that 45 , 000 troops and police , stimulated too by the promised reward of 500 / ., have not yet captured their prize r

      We warn our best possible instructors not to halloo before they are out of the wood : we should be most happy to hear of the establishment of peace in Ireland , but we strongly doubt that tranquillity is so near being restored as the Times and other papers would fain make the English public believe . Some of the journals already speak of the rising in Tipperary as the " late rebellion ; '' and a flippant writer in one of the morning papers , tries his hand at a history of the insurrection , affecting to regard it as being already , a thing of the past ; but we agree with the Morning Chronicle , that the present state of Ireland '' can he regarded with no other feelings than those of the deepest anxiety and alarm . "

      The arrest of Mr O'JIiggins , reported in our third edition of last week , appears to us to be a most unwarrantable stretch of power . We say this , because we are persuaded that the charge of treason or felony brought against Mr O'Higgina is a fabrication , manufactured for the purpose of putting him out of the way . We are informed that the gun stocks found on Mr O Higgins ' s premises were purchased by him as a mercantile speculation , a year or two ag' ) . As to the treasonable correspondence with the English Chartists , that is all bosh . In the course of the last ten years Mr

      O Higgins has no doubt ha 1 a pretty extensive correspondence with English friends and acquaintances holding Chartist principles ; but anything like treasonable correspondence we believe to be a hag of moonshine . Our sentiments respecting the destruction of the Nation and Irish Felon may be better conceived than we can describe them . The unnecessary and wanton waste of property , and the arrest of the pressmen and

      compositors , are such Algerine acts as no circumstances can justify . The pitiful persecution waged against the poor newsvendors arrested for selling the Nation and Felon , is equally disreputable to the Irish Government . The poor news-hawkers are to be made defendants in a great state trial for selling newspapers which the Stamp-office authorities had previously legalised by impressing the sheets with their stamps !

      The tyrannical invasion of the office of the North British Express was one of the grossest acts of oppression ever perpetrated in this country . Not contented with arresting persons employed on tha t paper , the authorities of Edinburgh broke into the Express office , and took away books , correspondence , & c , together with a considerable portion of copy prepared for the next number of that paper ; subsequently the property was restored , but the Express had to appear with several columns in blank . It appears that the principal articles in that journal were subjected to the revision of the Procurator Fiscal , before publication . What next ? Here is the censorship established without the sanction of law , and in defiance of constitutional rights .

      I he arrests continue . Besides the Chartists arrested last week in Edinburgh , Glasgow , and Greenock , Mr Grant , of Edinburgh , was arrested on Monday last ; and we see it stated in a Scotch naper , that a Mr Hamilton , another Scotch Chartist , was arrested on Monday evening . These arrests , and the practical establishment of the Censorshi p , have excited a £ _ at ferment in the Scottish capital , and on Monday evening last an immense meeting was holden on , the Calton Hill , to protpst against these wanton fresks of irresponsible power .

      Two more London Chartists have been arrested . Messrs Bryaon and Shell , working men , were arrested on Wednesday evening by a body of police armed with cutlasses , and on Thursday were committed for trial on the usual charge of sedition , preferred against them by Uond Hughes , the Government reporter . In our second page will be found a report of the conclusion of the trials at York . Some of the Defendants have traversed ; most harsh and heavy sentences have been passed upon those convicted- Sager and Johnson , convicted of riot , and sentenced to two years imprisonment with labour . W . Connor , I .

      Heaton , W . Winterburn , W . Smith , H . Whitcome , J . Downes , F . Vicary , A . Binland , eighteen months with hard labour . For drilling , J . Ramsden , two years with hard labour . D . Holroyd and T . Fell , eighteen months with hard labour . J . Cochran , H . Butterfield , R . Bradley , A . Bowler and J . Leeming , twelve months with hard labour . For riot , J . Ickeringill , six months with hard labour . J . Crabtree , two months ; and J . Kilvington , one month ; A . Tomlinson , convicted of uttering a seditious speech , eighteen mouths without hard labour ; J Bland , for neglect of duty as a special constable , to be fined 10 / ., and to be imprisoned until such fine be paid .

      These biutal sentences must excite the reprobation of every friend to justice . Men of England , again we appeal to you , to protect the unhappy families of your persecuted brethren . Not a moment should be lost in raising the 10 / . for payment of the fine imposed upon Mr Bland . Let the leading Chartists of Yorkshire see to this without delay . Privilege . * is rampant , Labour is prostrated in the dust , "Right" and "Justice' have become mockeries—mere words . " Lawsgrind the poor , and rich men rale tbe laws . "

      Parliamentary Review. The Report Of The ...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Report of the Select Committee on the National Land Company was presented this week , and gave rise to an interesting conversation in the House , which we have given in full . This is not the place in which to indulge in any commentary on that Report , or to discuss the various questions connected with the past proceedings , or the future course which should be adopted by the promoters of the Company . One fact only , in connexion with the presentation of the Report , we notice . It silences , once and for ever , all the calumniators who have attacked the honesty and the

      motives of Mr O'Connor , in a series of slanderous and virulent attacks , unparalleled in this country , either for the length of time over which they have extended , or the audacity and violence of the assailants . Of course these veracious scribes will , with their usual ingenuity and disregard of truth , invent excuses , and concoct articles in plenty , to cover their ignominious defeat , and continue to bespatter the honourable member for Nottingham with abuse , all the more bitterly because he has so signally defeated their attempts to assassinate his character . But rave and calumniate as

      they may , they cannot overturn the fact , that after a careful , minute , and protracted inquiry into the whole proceedings and accounts of the Company—an investigation conducted with an offensive and indecent hostile feeling on tbe part of the Chairman , and at least one member of the committee , the honesty and the motives of Mr O ' Connor have passed through the ordeal not only unscathed , but in a manner which reflects the highest honour upon his disinterested sacrifices for the benefit of others , in time , energy , and money . So far from having in any degree benefited by his connexion with the Land Company , it is now on record , solemnly published to the world , on

      tbe honour of a committee of an Assembly which has been proclaimed to consist of the " first gentlemen in the world , " that his private interests have suffered from that connexion ; and that , independent of the devotion of his time and his money , to a large extent , in travelling to inspect and purchase Estates , and in superintending the practical operations on these Estates , the Company owes him a sum , calculated by one eminent accountant , at nearl y 3 , 300 / ., and b y another , who is still more eminent—the celebrated Mr Finlayson—at 3 , 400 / . Mr O'Connor may justl y be proud of the jury by which he has been tried and the position in which he is placed by the verdict .

      But , besides this triumphant result , as regards the personal character of Mr O'Connor , the Company itself has also reason to rejoice that the inquiry has taken place . It has placed the good faith of all the parties concerned in it beyond doubt . Although there may have been unavoidable irregularities in the keeping of the books , and in other small details—although the Plan neither falls within the strict scope ' of the existing law , nor , perhaps , is , in all its facts , the best that could be devised for carrying out the objects of its projectors , yet there is not the slightest imputation on tho motives or conduct of

      any one connected with these proceedings ; and Parliament is not onl y recommended to grant powers to wind up the undertaking , if they shall be asked for , and to relieve the Company from the penalties which tliey may have " incautiously" incurred , but also tbat the parties should be left entirel y open to come before the legislature with any new plan which they may consider better adapted to secure the object in view .

      This is the result of the investi gation which , it was hoped , would irretrievably destroy the character , reputation , and influence of Mr O'Gonmr . We wish his opponents joy of it , and leave them to their own reflections . Their ow . disappointed rancour , and the " still small voice" of any conscience they may happen to have left , are quite as severe punishments as we could wish them to suffer .

      Parliamentary Review. The Report Of The ...

      The other business of Parliament has be of an exceedingly varied and miscellaneou ^ character , as usually happens at this period jj the Session , when bills pass through stages shoals , every one of which would , at anTarli " period , give rise to hours of discussion . ' p , f the material for comment is not greatly a men ted by this increase in the quantity of T * gislative workmanship . In fact , there is ljtM * novelty in anything now done . The princinl and bearings of each question of import J iw .., _ k __ - j „ u-t _ 4 t- n __ i ! f'rtance have been debated in Parliament

      , and crit cised by the publicist , at earlier stages _ f a * Session . They are thoroughly understood many of them worn utterly threadbare ar 7 » the only question is how to dispose of them fn the nonce . Shall they be pitched into that limbo from whence they may or may not h _ picked up- " next Session ? " or shall they u pushed through with a crowd of other mea sures , with all " their imperfections on their head , " to constitute the seed for another plen tiful harvest of " Acts to amend and explain acts passed in last Session ? " We imagine that the determination of the Ministry on these matter ., i 3 mainl y guided by the degree of probability there is of getting them quietly through , and not on account ot their intrinsic importance .

      Among The Measures Proposed, And Withdra...

      Among the measures proposed , and withdrawn on account of the opposition offered and the hopelessness of their passing in consequence , have been Mr Bailor ' s batch of Poor Law Bills . He contents himself with merely re-enacting the provisions of Mr Bodkin ' s Act , respecting the removal of the poor which expires in October , and a change in the management of vagrants . Broader and more comprehensive legislation is reserved for " next Session "—that legislative " to-morrow" which so seldom makes its appearance .

      A Debate On The State Of Ireland , On A ...

      A debate on the State of Ireland , on a motion of Mr Sharman Crawford , pledging the House to remedial measures , elicited from the Premier a long exposition of his Irish policy—a smart , effective , and d ama ^ speech to . the Ministry from Mr B . Osborne-l and caused a day ' s sitting on Saturday to dispose of the adjourned debate . The House sat from twelve to seven o ' clock on that day Ihe usual topics were served up Sir G- * Grey and Sir W . Somerville-as usual with Whig officials—eat their own words , and turned their backs upon themselves , and , ultimately , a division took place , in which Ireland , of course , was left in a woful minority

      Fjie Everlasting Sugar Duties Formed The...

      FJie everlasting Sugar Duties formed the staple of the business on Monday night when the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in order to get rid of the difficulty in which ' he was placed by the " twenty-three errors'' ' pointed out by Lord G . Bentinck , proposed a new scale altogether , the result of which , it was stated by the advocates of the West Indian interest , will be to violate all the premises of relief held out by the Government to that interest . Lord George ironically congratulated the Minister of Finance on " the debonnaire air with which he came down to that House and announced that he was about to disappoint the expectations of the West Indies , the Mauritius , and the East India interest , which he promised them no longer ago than Monday last "—and , above all , " it was edifying to observe the li ght and trivial way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer , whilst affecting to speak of what he called an inaccuracy , had . iri fact , made an admission of guilty" to all the twenty-three ceunts of the indictment of error , preferred by Lord George . We do not wonder at the quasi leader of the Protectionists expressing his wonder at the nonchalance of Sir C . Wood on these matters . Experienced as he is in ' the ways of the world , " it must even , in his eyes , « beat Bannagher . " Sir Charles is not only unabashed by these damaging exposures , but seems to think the whole thing—if not an excellent juke—at least as most creditable to his financial genius ! What a blessed thing it is to be brother-in-law to a powerful Whig Earl ! As to those who suffer from his incapacity , his ignorance , and his temeritywhy their ruin , or the paralysation of a large and important commerc i al market , is a mere bagatelle compared with the national felicity of possessing such an incomparable financial chief .

      An Attempt Was Made By Lord Stanley, Lor...

      An attempt was made by Lord Stanley , Lord Ellenborough , Lord Glengall , and a few sympathising peers , to delay the passing of the emasculated Irish Encumbered Estates Bill , on the ground that they had not time enough to consider theamendments made bytheCommons . Delay was , in fact , defeat , and for once Lord Lansdowne plucked up spirit enough to resist a landlord opposition , and refused to give way , notwithstanding Lord Glengall threatened him that if the Bill passed , the landlords would all become Repealers . The loyalty of the landed interest is certainly of a very selfish and calculating character . We fear that if they « ere subject to one-hundredth part of the pressure which other men endure patiently , " rebellious routs and riots" would be much more plentiful than they are now .

      A Bill With A Useful Object In View Is P...

      A Bill with a useful object in view is passing through the House , called the " Farmers Estates Bill . " In its main object it somewhat resembles the National Land Company , with this difference , that it does not aim at embracing so large a class of persons , and that the Com " pany whose operations it will legalise , have a prudent eye to profit in their proposals to benefit their fel ow men . Perhaps this latter part ot the scheme may be one main reason why its other objects may be tolerated , the object of the promoters is to enable them , as a Land Company , to purchase freehold properties in Ireland , in order to sell them again in fee-farms of not less than thirty acres each to small agricultural capitalists . It is calculated that the difference in price bv bu 3 ing Estates in the wholesale market , « 3 selhng them in the retail market , will yield sufficient profit on the capital embarked ih the undertaking ; thus substantiall y taking up tbe position so frequentl y maintained bv iff n ! i w , ? n ^ P ° in t- The measure " will , undoubtedly , offer considerable facilities for the creation of a small yeoman class ; but we see no reason whatever for the Legislature to hx the minimum size of the farms at thirtv acres It is tying up posterity to our comparativel y crude notions on agriculture aad unless carefully ; guarded agaitc , may lead to it est ; r : ctio ? ° vv t ^ xs he Estates purchased by the Company . If tins be not prevented , the Bill , so Var from improving the condition may seriousl y a-ravate the evils of Ireland , and deprive thousand , of tenants of homes , for the gain of a spe culative company of . profit-mongers .

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      ™ I 3~ Allmonie8forthe Defence Of Dr_M>O...

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05081848/page/4/