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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, ISIS.
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      4 The Nop The Ftjv. St A R. ,. September...

      4 THE NOP THE ftJV . ST A R . ,. September 5 , 1846 .

      New Evening Lon Do N Parer

      NEW EVENING LON DO N PARER

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      FROM THE 1 st OF SEPTEMBER , T H E E X PRES S . mire T-tm-MiMTAv-r -.. .-i :,. <* . « DmT Sews .. ^ 1 & BM 1 Bcrol » fa ««^^ ^ "J ^ 6 lKJ ^ 1 practicable to ; - '¦ ' ..- - . / w m , < j fHiftw , containunj Reports of Price * «> 'd Proceed , ' **™ the 'W ^ f ^ l ™ ' ™ tt ,, M . - ,. „ W « fi * . T ! .- !•; ,-,.-ietors of the "Daiit 5 fiws" liave resolved to comply with tbe Wl > ll Of tiie 1 UbllC . ; lmt , t .. prevent coim > ' .. m . 1 ..- ¦ . .. er will appear under a different name-that of TDEU 1 KhbB . The E \ Utt . S * , willomtam . in a . W « i = « . i .. !» -. ..-ws in the Morning Paper , a SUMMARY of thellOMfc and tORKIGN 1 MELLIGKSCE which may an - ! - ¦•> . , i .-. dav of publication . TlIKEXl'RKSS will bare the advantage of rorci n Expresses , < -vrre « i . mdenci ' . and .. 'l .-r .-...-ti j charartcristtrc of a Morning Journal . But the full and carefully prepared KLroKTS of the " MOSTi . JM ! I . ; "aY , PRODl'CK , COJiX , CATTLE , mid other MAUKETb will bo the marking cature . As . however , tin ? in' -1—1 i-, . i . r ' . i a paper must necessarily be limited to .- » Class , or a Locality , the Proprietors cannot hviic tfaat eithi-r ;!• , -. '«• .. : i ,-advertisements wiMl » f > i > w » fnsive «» r rcimuicratm- as tliof e of a Morning Paper . Tlu-v liroimse . therefor-. ' .. 1 ! i "IKEPEN'C'E shall be the price to the public of Tin" ; EXPRESS .

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      Sowrea-j .-. : •' ' - - --- > hiUmg ; . tiik . - <¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦»» . o'tsfy or LIFE , Oil Ol'f . -or 1 \ L STATE , Part I . l . y i : k ri i : ~ t - «< >> ES , " l ' -jiTI-l .- ! - '« : I . 1 W . \\\ hope the author ~ ili ' - -.. 'traged by the public to continue his memoirs .- /•" ' - •••• ¦ —zetk , A « uiK- < p ' . ivocallyst' -: » oi-- ' < si : i-- < - ntfulhistory— Ossittnic in it-- quality . —J /'» r » ' | . o '' -.- ¦' s . Published b y Mr . "J " - * -- *> . » . T- . >' o . timer-street , Caveu-4 H :-Hj « ar < -, Order ? rc- > - > - — : --: ¦ •!• " Wksellcrs . In the Press s « . i . i - » . •«!» »; 11 be published , MI ! . i : '; -: . i \ xt II . ]» v ttii- - -. oi- Michor THE W O f . n SPIRIT :

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      LITItWJB < i ' si ! ' KVtRAVIXGS d u x comb r . '•; V : > r i m o x i a l . MAY still In .- lino - ! » -.- u . ii .-rj of Messrs . M'Gowax ; iiul To ., lfi . O' -. i - "•¦ jii-ii-r ill Street , Haymarket , Loudon ; through any i—j < - » -J > bic bookseller in town or country : orat any ofrii . ' -. i--: ii > ¦ : the Sorthern Slor . Thc \ -iigraiin . giso : i j l-. i- ; - -. -tie , is executed in the m » st finished style . ir > «•> - •' ' ) - ' - " ? d on tinted paper , and gives a miuntc dosevvu - ' ¦; tV Testimonial , and lias the Inscription . Ac . d -. -si- » --i ujwvsit . nun : i-t u-r . xc-E .

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      Ss ^^ r * Hr ' < M ^ fc . " * r * » < -65 ^ WE ? T UV . 'ix .: ' VOKKSIUUE . TV'OTICE i » Her < . 'Vi .-... That a SPECIAL i \ t'EXERAL £ !¦>>! ' . ¦> * > : ' die PEACE , for the IV ^ si Kidhi ^ of tin- - .-. :. ;/ ,. - Vwrk , will be holden by Ailjouniiiit'iii ai ibr ' ' I ' -n . oe , in Wakfukld , oh Jviuwhi * . the Ttn'J , ¦•¦ - ¦ --v * - nfc'r insUmt , at twelve oVK-ck at noL-n . fur to- .. u-- . .-- F taking into consideration the propriety oi ; -- - ¦! .--. i : i ^ : > arl of the Xew Prison as a Temporary A . v !*! : •• : - ' . " super Lunatics , and luakuis sv . eli vwdvr - ;' :. ; - < - -he Justices , then jwesc : ! t may think prop- ' . ¦ ' -I— : < n other Special Uiisi ness . < . •; BI . J 5 LEV , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s OT . - . ~ . ' - - ^ eld , lstSr :, i .. !« ..

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      THE "XATJu-V-. l . KEFOKMER , -. nri » : ' i \ "BUOXTERRK i ' ~ r . < : u : \ AXD FRIEXDS . Price I -- ' . - " " - > f Post . J . B . O'liltlEX li ; .- -- — .: :, zX--o . re in announcing the J ' i- \ ival of tins Joiilli ! . < -. ' . ¦ , - ' mil appear on SATUli-3 ) . \ Y , " u OCTOUKB . '•; =-: -. n i ea .-h weekly Number shall hfissurd ill Tin ; .- !¦¦ <¦ -..-., ill parts of the United Jviu ^ du in on or bciurc ' . ' <> - '• ¦> : ¦ : "; ui'tie .-itioii . TheSA'flOS . M . J ; iCri . M : vi * i : . vill be tl . e Organ of the JSvai Reformers . Polri--.:. ¦ ...- * .- :: > :: ' —ml your Orders in time toyour Xcnsa-. eii , i .-r ' . - ¦ : ' - "• r = ¦ ""¦ >"«» *" , ITkk-stbeet . Jl-J ;"<; L . \ s , 1 > I . E oI ' Jl i > . ¦'"« - »¦ -i < - . iHJiiminioitioii * for the Euiiui' are to bo . old ! ' . > . Yearly Sul'Scrip ti .::.-. -: . — ..-iugs : half yearly and < j : i-iitoriy in prnporri" -i . ' - : > - -Ttei-Jy may W remitted in Eighteen Po . » ia : iri- * v-. . " . J . li . O'l ' BIEX .

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      T O T a ! 1 . 0 R S . > . •« i-. i . > . THE LOXDOX an 5 . - »» . ! : ! .- - -. ¦ HIX 5 and SUMMER ! PAS 1 I 10 XS , f-i iv . ; . : \ t approbation of her ! "Majesty Queen Victor " --. -. i-i' : > - ' .- . " oyal Highness Prince j Albert , a splendidly cdi'ir-- ' : > n : l , beautifully executed j published by BE . \ M . V >? .. \ " i : " .: \ . i and Co ., 12 . Hart- ; street , Bloomsbury-F-n ..: -. i . nion ; and G . Ber ^ r , ! Holy well-street , Stran ;' . I-i'i > -. Sold by the publishers j and all ouokselicrs , vo- ; --.-r .- : eshling , This superb j Punt will be accovii-vi- ' . «¦ !<" :. ull size Sidins Dress

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      A GOOD K " - ' *> "RANTED , "j TBSL'ELL AXj > <'•( .. " i , i : ..- - are now making np .. v ^ " complete Suit-.: »; - ¦; .. ' * -. ' ...- Hlae 3 \ , ; tnv size , for £ 3 ; Supsrime West of La : ! .... r ,.: i % £ 3 10 s . ; and tin vciy best rfupcriiiie S .-- --. --,. - " -, varr . 'ii ] U'u not to spot 01 change colour . Juv- •;«" .- - < :.-., ine Cloth Suits , 21 s . ; Liveries eqinlly ches . >—¦ : ' - - ' -. at Western Emporium , Nos . I mid z ! . Oxford-.- - > - . :.- ¦ -. _ « i ; the noted house fci gond bkul ; cloths , an i . ¦ ¦ ¦ » •¦ = « e trousers Geni ' tim-n tan choose the e . >! fc ; = > - ¦ ¦• -. --- - -lity of cloth from the largest stock in l .-jnd- " . " ' -- - ~ uf cutting taught .

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      DAtiLKKIvj M ;•! . a . * - ; C . \ LOTVi"E . THE Al'l ' AJiATl-. :. ' .. v < HEMICALS , PLATE . CASES , and B- 'ts .- " '• : — . » -: i-iause-i in making am ! ciouutiu ' . ; tiie above < .-. " - — > . -, ' . o » l . Eserton , No 1 Temple-street ,- V . "] iitr- ' -i-..--.. ; -. •• . ; : )« . ^» t-scrij . tive Ciita logues Ki ' -itis-LKKKnOUR-s' eel- ' - =-i - 'UKOMATIC TRIPLET LEXSES fur the Mi <";* : " —" - •<* ' -- Sctit to any part of the t'SUlltiy at the ftdlor . " ! .: ;> -i— : — Deep Power , < ;« .-,. ; Lon T ' ower 2 "> s . K -crrst-i " ' - -- -: ¦ « -ted . Praeticalinstruc"Sous , Three

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      • " " M £ Chaktist K ? ii--.. '— . * . , -eply to several corre-:-ponder . ts I b ? g to .-. . . v , a \ ; . j .- ingraving of the Chartist Estate »> 311 bt -r i . iri . ^ . . n steel , by she very beit artist , and w ' . Vi '>¦ . , » : rh ., ] upon the very host paper ami finis ' ie-i i . ; -i- :-,-st st . \ lc , and will be u uracil larger size ILa * :- - -etitioii plate . " and ful ! y double the size i . ' . : ' -., <_ ,- - portraits of Oastler , O'Connor and s-tc- j . i ; j „ . is . , ' act our readers may rest assured that it » ii ; :. ,...: I an engraving as will do justice to the t «« .-.. ' . » i- . - ? . d credit to the artist . I must add that t ' i « - -i-v— . ?_ re such plates gi . cn iiith & ju'ii - < Ji : ipfi' ¦ « .- ' ' . Ui ' .-r Jircn with Ihe # r . and thnt the expense « : •>•' ¦ -ii- i .-.. - ' ¦ x me b y agents not taliing the ihuhIk-i k * -i-. : « . ^ amounted to nearly £ 2 < jhi > : and then-f .. r- > - . «!•««• of the promised plate will bt supp lied ill--. - ' - -. i--:,. ascribed for .

      1 " O'C . THOMAS jiotTEK , Ch \ y , >" .. ' > .. !• -. . —Apply to Mr . T . M . Wheeler , ; v ' , lJ . « i « - 'li--:. •»<¦>¦ . V < ii '' oii , where you can learn all you wa : v '•'• - ¦•¦ - ¦ as thnt gentleman is secretary to the s : n-:-. * . •' J . S Tliefong ' V- — ;¦ :- - < ? --. Estate" is reduced to one hnltpeiiiiv -:: •<•> . - ' ¦ ' ¦ ' - I" - ' ' * - ' oblailicd of T . M . Wheeler , .- « , Dt-ni- ' -. i- ^ . J . Swr . r . T would f .-i-l > - ••" . ,- > : •• "" ' * ' delegate for Westminster lo th- la ^ c ' . •« .- .- ' . fir-.. -, returning lii : n a letter entrusted to hi- <•;«! < -.-. ' = . j . j . ossible . Sir . II . Olives ; , Iiir-h •;• > - ; - " -. —i —As we do not supplv the agrut from vV -.: :.- ,. i-. cures his papers , we cannot forward ths j »'« t : -. "l * ie agent must write to the London publtslur •» ' .: : * -. ' j .: \ -t he . dce » business . 2-i'" Press uf master . » o-i ; = -l * <¦; to postpone answers to several corieMiM .-i- ¦> ' - "!' i i vt week .

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      Mr . Brewerton Greenwich We have spoke with the agent on the subject alluded , to . All will be right . You will have them in a day or two . Poland . —The persons who hid copies of the pamphlet , published by the ' -Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Regeneration" from Messrs . Harney and Clark , on sale or return , are requested to make a return of cash , or statement as to the sale , addressed to Mr . Harney , Xbrtliem Star Office . Northers Stars Wastisg . _ 1844—April 13 th , No . 335 ; 1843 _ March lfith . No . 385 : 1815—June 21 st , No . 397 ; 1816—January 24 th , No 428 . If any of my friends can oblige me with copies of the above dates I will return them the value in any shape they may desire . G . Julian Harney . Address to the northern Star Office .

      O'Connorville

      O'CONNORVILLE

      Many Persons Having Expressed A Wish To ...

      Many persons having expressed a wish to be ' possessed of an engraving of O'Connorville , which may be framed and kept , we have now the pleasure to inform our readers that we have engaged the first artist of the day to furnish us with a correct sketch of the People ' s first Estate , in which every house and every important object , with a view of the surrounding dis . trict , will be faithfully represented . The engraving will be of a large size , and will be executed with great care and in the nest style , so as to make it worth the keeping and framing- ; to be given to subscribers only , from Saturday , the 12 th of September till the plate is ready for presentation . It should be

      borne in mind that , in order to give a sketch of the farm in the Star containing an account of the Demonstration , it was necessary to commence the work long before it was in a finished state , and , therefore , the same exactness could not he expected as can be now secured . However , we pledge ourselves that full justice shall be done to the engraving about to be given , and that it shall be superior to any thing ever presented wiih a newspaper . It must be distinctly understood that none but subscribers from the date we hare stated , will be entitled to the plate at any price , as we shall only print the number ordered .

      Notice. Mr. O'Connor Will Attend The Out...

      NOTICE . Mr . O'Connor will attend the out-door meeting and tea party on Monday next at Newton Abbott .

      The Northern Star Saturday, September 5, Isis.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 5 , ISIS .

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Fia...

      "THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We fiavf received a printed address from the Chartists of England -o the Irish people , with a reijnext that we should insert it in the " Nation . " He desire no fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account of ( he bui / bear of " physical force ? ' but simply because some of their Jii : e points are to its an abomination , ond the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though ireti enough jcr England , arc so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at . ill desirable . Between its and ( hem there it o gulf fir ed ; we desire not to bridge it oier , but to mate if wider and deeper . " From the " Nation" of Any . 15 , 18-10 .

      ABOMINATION NO . II . U N I V } i K S A L S U F F R A G E . In this age oi" simplicity , the value of the most complicated machinery is the facility with which its apparently irrelevant parts may be so harmonised as to constitute one great working whole ; the tangled state of our fraiicliis ? must strike the thoughtful as a conundrum .

      When , upon all bands , we see ready reckoners introduced into all the relations of this groat commercial country ; when we are startled with assurances cf the necessity of introducing the principle of centralization into our representative system , and the prudence of relying upon the wisdom of one man for a reasonable digestion of public opinion , rather than submit to the crude notions of sectional or individual whim — all must admire the

      adroitness with which the interested have preserved complexity where simplicity is , of all thinf-s , the most needed . Men , and even women , wholly uneducated , and whose want of education is urged as a justification for withholding the franchise , are entrusted with the every-day management and sole control of those new and complicated productions of art , which astound the world and astonish even the inventor .

      No man , upon taking his seat in a railway carriage , dream- of examining the engine-driver as io his qualification , or for a moment hesitates to entrust his life to his guardianship . It is scarcely susceptible of belief , that eoleniporaneously with this delicacy of entrusting the ignorant with the government of their own property , we should , nevertheless , find the very lives and properties of the monopolists of political power necessarily entrusted to ihe most ignorant of the ignorant , and from whom no further qualification is required beyond the mere slavish performance of menial service . The age

      appears to be one of emancipation in all else save that which most requires it . The emancipated horse is stripped of the cumbrous breechin , tight collar , and leasing bearing rein worn by his shackled sire ; the plough is stripped of its unwicldly mould board , every fragment of the superfluous is cast aside , for the better and easier working of the machine and the brute , white contrivance appears exhausted in lie invention of new and more galling fetters for the niinil and free action of man . Before we enter upon the simple question of right , and the indispensable necessity of substituting a simple

      system of franchise for a complex system ol enfranchising , we shall call attention to the present patchwork , composed of indefinite shreds and patches . We have a House of Commons returned by 4 Us . freeholders , £ 50 freeholders , £ 50 tenants at will , £ ' ! 0 leaseholders , with a benelicial interest , and i " 'i 0 leaseholders without a beneficial intcres ; , by A * 10 householders and freeholders , 5 > y freemen by birth , freemen by descent , freemen by servitude , anil freemen by education , by pot

      walloppers and scot and lot voters , hy fabricated votes and faggot votes , the dependents of the several classes being mere tools in the hands of the owners of the properly out of which the vote is created , and sufficiently numerous to overbalance the independent minority , and before even this mysterious privilege can I" ; possessed , tbe anxious expectant has io run the gauntlet of overseers , with the formality of notices and required technicalities , the tax collector and his demands , then comes the bias of the

      partisan revising barrister , the interested support of the friendly hnvy- ' . r , and the factious opposition of the antagonist , and then the caprice of the assessor against whose partiality there is no appeal save to that dread tribunal a committee of the House of Commons , where reduced faction gives final judgment , according to its party ' s interest , thus making merchandise for party purposes of man ' s dearest right and most valued privilege . Nor does tiie complexity end here , as we have recently seen in the further threat of entanglement by the creation of free trade voters . What we demand , therefore , is the application of the new science of simplicity to our complicated

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Fia...

      conundrum Of franchise , in the substitution of man suffrage for house suffrage and the simple parish register of his birth for those mazes and labyrinths through which the claimant is now compelled to pass ere he can secure his natural right to vote for the representative best suited in his jud gment to protect his life , his liberty , and his property , and to adjust the profits of his labour with justice to society and without detriment to the owner . What

      we demand , therefore , is , the restoration of the suffrage to every sane man of 21 years of age and at large on the day of election , as the only means of securing a constituent body sufficiently large to defy bribery and corruption ; sufficiently varied to insure the representation of all classes according to their number and usefulness , sufficiently intelligent to distinguish between a good or a bad servant , and sufficiently simple to admit of definition without the aid of the barrister , the lawyer , the overseer and

      tax gatherer . As it is an admitted fact that labour is the source of all wealth , it naturally follows that the primary aim and end of all governments should be care of that spring from whence the refreshing waters flow , and it follows as unerringly as effect follows cause , that neglect of the source must lead to irregularity in the several streams that should mutually and evenly

      contribute their supplies to the one great reservoir . In our treatise upon Annual Parliaments , we trace ministerial difficulty from the folly of an obsolete age to the wisdom of the present , and we shall now proceed to trace the embarrassment of the several represented classes to its natural causes , namely , the disfranchisement , and therefore neglect , of labour , which is the source of that wealth , that only wealth

      which all enjoy and would vainly hope to increase by restricting instead of extending the limits of the fountain from which it springs . We have asserted . and have not been answered , that if society ia composed of an indefinite number of antagonist interests , all represented , while labour alone is unrepresented , it will be impossible to secure harmony in the

      reprftscntative system , so long as the contest of faction is for the lion s share of labour ' s produce , while , on the other hand , inasmuch as capital and skill will ever possess their legitimate share of influence and power , if the anomaly of class legislation must continue it would be incomparably more beneficial to society at large , that labour alone should be enfranchised than that labour onlv should he unrepresented .

      The major device of the day is the means by which our national resources maybe better cultivated while the loudest cry is PROTECTION TO NATIVE INDUSTRY . If , then , we can prove beyond the power of denial , that the enfranchisement of labour is the only means by which this double object can be achieved , and that the desired benefit can only be insured by Universal Suffrage , we establish a claim for the principle , which can only be resisted hy the tyrant ' s plea of expediency—a plea , however , which is being daily weakened by the growing intelligence of the age .

      "We may be met by the rejoinder , that what is an object with labour is also an object with government ; that government has a paramount interest in the cultivation of our national resources and in the protection of native industry . "We admit this assertion as a fact , while it must be remembered , that government is the mere creature of those classes who prosper upon an inequitable distribution of labour's produce ; and that government must hold the balance of power unequally , between those whose servants they are , and those whose property they are appointed to distribute , and whose servants they are not , anil to whom they arc iu nowise responsible .

      The represented classes , whose sole property consists in traffic in labour ' s produce , will only allow their government to cultivate our national resources , and protect native industry , to that extent and limit , to which the experiment can be safely made , consistently with the security of class-appropriation . For instance , the profit-mongers would much prefer an annual return of THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS from national industry , with Two Hundred and Fiftv

      Millions as their shave , to a return of a Thousand Millions , with Two Hundred Millions only as their portion . All men must confess , that the main object to be achieved by the representation of labour is , the securing for its order a larger share of its own profits , while few will be found sufficiently hardy , or insolent , to deny that the object , of the speculator is to limit produce to that point which best secures the lion ' s share for themselves .

      The true meaning of Universal Suffrage is , the better cultivation of our national resources , and their more equitable distribution , with the Vote , as tbe legitimate protector and guardian ol native industry , and a House of Commons as the medium of its equitable distribution . The anomaly of our present system is strikingly manifest in the fact that each succeeding government is compelled to ferret out the property of tbe

      weakest political section , as a scramble lo appease the rapacious appetite of the more powerful j while the plundered are allowed to make good their losses by filching from the poor . Hence , Lord John Russell declared that the object of the Reform Bill was to give to the landlords a preponderance in legislation , and forthwith the action is suited to the word , by the plunder of the poor for the benefit of the rich . The Irish landlords demand their share

      in the political scramble , and 25 per cent , of the church property is offered as a sacrifice to their power ; with the additional advantage of being able to make a profit upon the transferred liability . In turn the landlords are sacrificed to the growing power of the manufacturing interest , and the loss is threatened to be made up from labour ' s parings . The paper hangers , boot makers , silk weavers , cork cutters , and thousands of other' branches of

      native industry , arc sacrificed as compensation to those who have suffered in the whimsical adjustment of class legislation . None arc satisfied , while labour is the most plundered , and hence wc prove the impossibility of a parliament of represented classes ( labour , the only source of wealth , being excluded ) -adjusting the affairs of those classes to their mutual satisfaction , or at all to the satisfaction of that class upon whose industry they live , and for whose legitimate property they contend .

      We affirm , therefore , that our whole system of Poor Laws , with their grinding rule and degrading propensities ; the contention and strife of represented parties ; the impossibility of government to hold the balance of power even between the represented and unrepresented classes , the enormous fund raised for the support and enforcement of our criminal law , the huge amount of money expended in liti gation , the unchristian tax for the support of a standing army and police force , the pauper prosecution fund , the transportation of system-made thieves fund , the

      expense of strikes , sick clubs , benefit societies , odd fellows , mutual relief clubs , Janti-militia clubs , repeal associations , Chartist associations , anti-slavery associations , emigration societies , mutual protection societies , class and party distinctions anfl feuds , election rows , criminal prosecutions for speaking the truth , the hatred of man towards his fellow , the jealousy of the misgoverned , ami dread of misgoverning , tbe disparity between man and man , the growing

      tendency towards infidelism , drunkenness , ignorance , licentiousness , theft , dissimulation , idleness and dissipation , the limitations of our national productions , and general discontent , are one and all consequences of class legislation , and which can only be destroyed by Universal Suffrage , The great importance of this ABOMINATION compels us to divide its considera * tion into two parts—the second of which shall follow in our next .

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Fia...

      TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF AN ATROCIOUS MURDERER . Since the death of Cobbett , the title of chief opponent of the DAMNABLE ACT , with all its appurtenances of hatred , vengeance , horror and revenge , has devolved upon us hy survivorship , and if the monster shall outlive our time , which God and the people forbid , wc shall bequeathe its destruction as a legacy to posterity . Our position with respect to the monster , from conception to birth , from birth to maturity , and from maturity to rottenness and consumption , must not be lost sight of . While in the Whig- womb we assisted in administering , nightly , poisonous concoctions composed by Cobbett , in the hope of promoting abortion . We assisted to insure a painful labour , and met the young monster

      at its birth with every species of opposition , in the hope of stopping its growth and strength until awakened popular indignation and resistance should aid us in its total destruction . If the fierce and continuous opposition of the few and determined within had been backed by the pressure from without , the beast would have been strangled ; hut , alas . ' the people accepted the Whig Reform Bill as the nation ' s triumph , and stood by in listless apathy while the real victors were demolishing every vestige of Labour ' s rig hts . We implored and pleaded , but in vain , till 1836 , when the threatened machinery and details sounded the alarm , and then tardily half a million of the sufferers assembled on Peep Green , attempting to undo what their timely resistance would have prevented—to repeal the law .

      This has ever been the besetting sin of the popular party . It stands by in sulky , sullen silence when action would be successful , and it splutters in frothy rubbish to undo what never would have been done if resisted in time . In 1839 we were honoured by the Whig Attorney-General with a criminal prosecution for our opposition to the Act , and we much doubt that one in one thousand even of the working classes are yet aware of the fact that we were the first victims to Whig wrath in those days , or are at all acquainted with the circumstances of our first trial , conviction and incarceration . However , as we are once more about to renew the war against the tottering monster , the time is favourable for the recapitulation of some forgotten facts .

      We have now before-. us the Star of December 22 , 1838 , in which was published that libel , for which Mr . Justice Littledale , in delivering the sentence of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , said that he would award us eighteen months' imprisonment , nine months upon the alleged Poor Law libel , and nine months for the publication of the speeches of Mr . James Bronterre O'Brien ; and here follows , not a garbled extract , but the whole , every sentence , word and syllable , of the libel for which we spent nine months in solitary confinement in a condemned cell . Warminster Bastile . —A little boy , last week , for some small offence was confined in one of the cells

      belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally Starved to death , The poor little fellow during his confinement actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his fingers and the flesh from his arm !!! Now , reader , we did not suffer nine months imprisonment for the above libel by process of law , we suffered it from your culpable apathy , from your treason to your order , and for our own folly in fighting for others who were too cowardly to fight for themselves . However , still willing to trust to the growth of opinion for protection from the law ' s tyranny , we now republish the paragraph , with the addition that we believe everv word of it . That we

      believe that Englishmen and women have feasted upon the pickings from , perhaps , ( he bones of their fatkers , their mothers , or their children . That the destroying monster has committed countless murders , and that those who framed , and sanctioned , and administered the Law will one day appear as murderers before that great Judge into whose councils neither the dictum of a cabinet , the quibble of a judi » e , tbe prejudice of a jury , or the rule of a devil king , will dare to enter , where murder will be adjudged as such , not by construction of human law or political ingenuity .

      For that poor assault , upon so great an offender , we were denied the judgment of a grand jury , and treated to an ex-officio prosecution and a special jury of Yorkshire lauded proprietors , who were themselves partieeps criminis , co-conspirators with the Whigs , the devil king , and the law , in the plunder , starvation and murder of the poor , the rightful owners of the stolen property ; and yet , although we suffered thus unjustly then , when we stood alone upon the watchtower , and when we alone dated to cry thief at the thief ' s approach to the manufacturing districts . Then , when faction , like the crawling caterpillar , had other legs enough to crawl upon , not a newspaper vouchsafed aline in condemnation of our uivj ust suffering , not an agitating lip lisped a single word in our behalf .

      No , faction would have kept their last leg for a seasonable crutch in its old age and last extremity . Having thus traced our opposition from conception to consumption , we shall now proceed to revel in the torturous agony to which the administrators of the Whig law are subjected , while wc shall , meantime , justify one mucli complained of abuse of Joseph Hume and other supporters of the measure . When the Landlords , —with that preponderance of power which Lord John Russell said the Reform Bill was meant to guarantee to their order—asked for the substantial symbol of the great national victory , the men in power under its provisions said : —

      Behold it , take unto youselves and for ever , divide among ye , and bequeath as a legacy to your children , and your children ' s children nnd to their offspring for ever , yea , to the very end of time , all the lands that the Lord our God gave unto the poor and their children , as the means whereby they may live , and through which they may gloriiy the name of the Lord . Take them , we say unto you , for the Lord ' s name is to be no longer glorified in a land where the Lord ' s ordinances can no longer be kept by man , as they are at variance with the supreme laws of traffic and gain and lucre , which must henceforth be governed by the laws of political economy .

      And the lords ot tho soil said , Verily we thank ye , but howbeit , if the Lord of hosts , angered by our possession of his people ' s property , should raise his hungering children and load thorn against this our new property , when , mayhap , the devastating army in their march may make no distlncticn between the land-marks of Parliament and the land-marks of the Lord of hosts . And the Whigs answered and said , Behold we will give you a Cerberus , whose deep growl shall be obeyed as a law , to guard your gates and your

      avenues , and a rural Police Force to guard your extended domains , and we will surround your new possession with ramparts of steel and iron , and wc will g ive unto you a body guard of local chief ' s , who snail have equal interests with yourselves in this new sub-division of the land , and wc will erect bastiles , and gaols , and dead houses , for those who shall dare to murmur or complain ; for , behold , it is our command , that all the nations of the world shall confess our civilisation , made manifest in tbe increased misery of the poor .

      And lo , the Lords ol the sou were no longer afeard , but defied the Lord ot * hosts and his people , and thanked the lords of parliament for the lands of the poor , of which they possessed themselves yea , even to the last inch . But now , behold the despoilers of the poor begin to tremble , for the Lord of hosts has strangled their Cerberus and scattered their guards , and has cried out with a loud voice which rings through the land ,

      " RESTORE J RESTORE ! 1 RESTORE ! JI unto the poor their full share of tho land , which thou hast stolen from them , and if ye disobey mv commands I will destroy the land marks of your unrightcousnes ; for , verily 1 say unto vou in mv wrath , that the poor shall no longer starve in this land overflowing with milk and honoy , made a wilderness by tho eovetousness of man , for they are the people of my pasture and tho sheep o " l mv fold .

      And behold , the whole earth trembled at the voice ot * the Lord of hosts , and the lords of the soil were sore afraid , and exclaimed . Strike down the land-marks of parliament , we beseech you , and restore unto the poor the lands which they unrighteously bestowed upon us , for verily our

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Fia...

      eyes are opened to the injustice of this great iniquity . We shall now proceed to examine the pretext upon which the 43 rd of Elizabeth was repealed , and we shall then justify our denunciation of Joseph Hume and the Malthusian Whigs , for their support of the new measures . The ground work of the damnable act was the report of a commission appointed to nose out all the irregularities of the several governing and managing bodies entrusted with the administration of the old law , and the commissioners had

      for the most part a strong interest in its repeal , and in the substitution of an act which would enable the rich to plunder the poor . There was no pauper , no poor man , no poor man ' s friend , upon that commission ; and , nevertheless , throughout tbe whole report , not a sentence appears in condemnation of the old law , while the several parties examined condemn its administration by the existing local boards and acting officials . The people themselves may be well excused for their temporary , and otherwise culpable , apathy , by tbe fact , that being the greatest sufferers from the mal-adr ainistration of the old law , they also desired

      some change , and naturally enough anticipated the required Reform from that Government which they had helped to power . Although we have frequently censured the working classes for their indifference to the new measure , we can yet find a plausible excuse in their young confidence in their new allies , and the difficulty in believing that a measure , supported by so many of those old and loved leaders , could be as bad or as dangerous as described by some friends always found in opposition . It required the foresight of a Cobbett to see the evil future which has now overtaken the friends of the experiment ; and it required at least

      the first pinch to convince the niore ignorant and less thoughtful of its probable effect upon the labour market , upon the comfort , and even the very existence of the poor . If , however , we can find an excuse for the ignorant and unconfiding—if we can pardon the amiable simplicity of those who expected a reform in their institutions , as an instalment of the wholesale measure to which they had helped others , we can find no such excuse for Hume and Co , nor will it satisfy us now that Mr . Hume and his

      friends should purge themselves of popular disrespect and hatred , by unseasonable abuse of the administrators of the Damnable act . They must do move , they must repeal it , trample upon and leave not a vestige even of its ashes behind . Our charge against Mr . Hume is not that the ADMINISTRATION of the law was left to irresponsible brutes j our charge was , and is , that he and his Malthusian friends , with their eyes open , allowed those brutes to MAKE the law . and to administer it as suited their whim .

      The old law was repealed in consequence of the peculation , neglect , and plunder of those who were intrusted with its administration , and we cannot grant the Malthusians absolution , until , acting upon a like principle , they shall now repeal a law which is more clearly damned by official p lunder , peculation , cruelty , insolence , and culpable neglect , the more culpable and unpardonable , because numerous unexposed murders have been committed upon no better plea than an expedient irresponsibility conferred upon the mutes of the rich to thin tbe ranks of the unprotected poor .

      We rejoice that Mr . Hume has sorely felt tbe loss of long-earned popularity and confidence . There are few instances of a fall so humiliating and rapid , or more deserved , than his . And , in order to convince him that the feeling of disgust was general , naught now remains for us but to pass sentence upon tbe convicted torturers . You , Mr . Franklaud G . Lewis , Sir Francis Headt and Mr . "Niebolls , have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen , after a long and patient trial , in which you had all the advantages that station , influence , and wealth could bestow ; as well as the

      assistance of the professional skill of those learned gentlemen to whom you have very wisely intrusted your defence . If you have any just cause of complaint , it is against those whose duty it was to have warned you of your first transgression ; in the hope of saving you from that ignominious end to which your multiplied and repeated sins against the laws of your country , and your God , is now about to consign you . Your fate will , we trust , act as a warning to all who vainly hope to escape the eye of Him , from whom no secrets can be concealed ; and will teach others , that , however thev mav evade justice

      for a season , yet the arm of the law is too strong , and will , in the end , be found too powerful for the most cunning . The crime of which you have been found guilty is the highest known to our laws , inasmuch as you are told by the Scriptures—which we fear you have neglected in youth , that" they who die by the sword are better than they who perish from hunger , for their bodies pine away , stricken through for want of the fruits of the field . " Hence , you see , that you have been found guilty of a hi g her moral and legal offence than if you had slain the thousands that have perished from hunger , bv the

      sword . And , therefore , having given your case our most calm and anxious consideration , the sentence of the court is , that you , Mr . Fraufclaud G . Lewis , Sir Francis Head , and Mr . Nicholls , be taken from the p lace where you now stand to the place from whence vou last came , and from thence , upon a day to be appointed by the people , you shall lie drawn upon a hurdle , each of you being represented in effigy , and , respectively burned by the hands of a pauper selected for the purpose , [ amid the most vociferous popular acclamation ;] and may the Lord have more mercy upon your souls than yon bad upon tbe bodies of the poor .

      Now , such being the sentence , we earnestly hope and trust that an early day will be appointed throughout the land for carrying it into execution ; an example that will yet do more to awaken Hume and the Malthusians to a sense of their duty than all the exposures of the press , the condemnation of coroner s juries , or the censure of the House of Commons . We must now destroy the monster , or it will crusli the system-made poor to the dust . We will stniKgle for no amendment—our motto is , RESTORE ! RESTORE ! RESTORE !

      Oastler And O'Connell. "The World" And "...

      OASTLER AND O'CONNELL . " THE WORLD" AND "THE NORTHERN STAR . " A hand of genteel politics after a week of party contention is like a quiet game of whist after a boisterous romping match , and as The World newspaper is the only companion with which we can enjoy this unusual tete-a-tcte , we have no objection to accept the polite invitation of our cotemporary . Wc commence the game with the following card from our cotemporary ' s hand : — AN EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT .

      Tho Northern Star assumes to be—and , wo believe , is , the organ of the Chartist body ; that is . of the industrial classes of England , Scotland , and Wales , and labours to advocate democratic principles . It was therefore with no little astonishment we noticed a letter iu it from itfeliard Oaatlor , from which Ave have taken the following paragraph : — " Be it remembered , however , tluvt the game once lost , can never be regained ! Fbee Tkade in commodities ihi'LIES Free Trade in lss-mo-noss * The levelling spirit will not stop » t corn or cattle , or goods , or labour . It will , if not resisted , ride roughshod oveu Cttowss and mitres and coronets— AYE , AND FUNDS .

      , « ' The spirit of the Constitution being once broken , we shall be governed hereafter by the sordid spirit of eommerce , upon the principle of ' buy in the cheapest market . ' "Gain will change \ dacc with honour—the high < wul noble spirit of chivalry will yield to the sordid trickster ' s grasping resolutions to obtain wealth ! The Crown may still glitter , but it WIIL » K HELD i » subjection by the . mean ! The Coronet max shine , hot not on the iikow or the Noule !

      "Well , well , if \ l must lie so , the glory ol England is fuded , and her most sordid sous will he her proper CUiOES .

      Oastler And O'Connell. "The World" And "...

      "If her nobles consent , they deserve their doom ! If they dare not resist , they prove that they are not true ' son * of their reputed sires !" " , mark ! the Northern Star , which is constantly abusing Mr . O'Connell , publishes the above without a line of comment . We would have at least expected that our cotemporary would have reminded Oastler that" free , trade institutions" might not be so bad a thing for the peoiJ ? . Now our answer is , that while our social feelings run evenly in the current with those of that excellent English gentleman , Mr . Oastler , we have no one political bias in common with him , while , if our cotemporary had used his usual nice discrimination , he might have discovered that Mr . Oastler ' s strictures upon free trade rather had reference to the parties bv whom and for whose interests it was

      carried , than to the principle of the measure tinder circumstances which would admit of its equitable adjustment ; and when he states that free trade in commodities implies free trade in institutions , which may entail damage to crowns , and mitres , and coronets , and funds , he implies no censure upon free trade institutions other than those which will be held in SUBJECTION BY THE MEAN . Mr . Oastler is speaking of the probable effect of the measure under the rule of a Free Trade government emanatW from Free Trade traffickers , and not of tbe effect of

      the measure under truly liberal institutions . We shall now take another card from our opponent ' s hand in order to assist us in the game to which he has recently challenged us . He has challenged us to prove a single instance in which he abused Mr . O'Connell , and now from his own lips we are enabled to reply . From the beginning to the endyea , even to the end of THE WORLD . In the same number from which we select the Stricture upon our publication of Mr . Oastier ' s letter , we find the following exultation : —

      A REFORMED POLITICIAN . We had for some years lost sight of Mr . IIuohes a young gentleman of great genius—a poet—linguist —philosopher— " a travelled Thane "—a ripe scholar —and , likeall Hibernians , a patriot ; but we are now happy to announce that the jifted author of " The Ocean Flower , " has reached land , bringing with him a little volume full of gall and honey , in which he lashes critics and Repealers , and " feasts us with "some orient pearls , at random strung . " Mr . Hughes once was a " Young Irelander , " and had nearly started a paper , which was to have blazed forth as " The Sun , " to promote the cause of nationality . He is now an older and wiser person , and behold how he speaks of his former chums : —

      This unwonted operation of blushing must have recently proved its practicability even ox the packs of Ikisii RtmiEBS , had they witnessed , as I have been forced to do , the contemptuous comparisons which wretched Spaniards and Portuguese have of late been accustomed to form between their own intolerance of oppression and frequent armed resistance on the one hand , AND THE COWARDLY MENACES AND IN 3 AKE MOUTHING IN IRELAND AGAINST A BENEFICENT GOrERNMEJtf : OX THE OTHER . Talking the Kralten , and actiffg the sprat , is the surest warrant to be despised . It wag

      but yesterday that 1 heard this humiliating subject discussed here by a party of Spanish emigrants from Gallicia , and of Portuguese fresh from the late successful insurrection . With what blistering mockery and scorn they ridiculed the suLrnuK . nzzisosiNTHEAiB . aND sadbb-slasues in tue water , of men who declare their wrongs to he immeasurably greater than THOSE OF ANY OTHER SECTION OF MAXKIKD . and yet , said the Spaniards , were tan cobardts para charlary no hear nada * — ' such cowards as to prate and do nothing ' . " Again : —

      Whether were the Marsians and Sammies , or are the Irish by their ' modeof preceedure the jn-eater Barbarians 1 Having spent many years of my life in various parts of ihe continent , I can vouch that the dignity of beixg a RaiTisn scbiect to-day is as great as was that of being a Roman citizen 2 , 000 years ago , and that if ( which Heaven forbid !) the fatal delusion of Repeal > vere to succeed , with its inevitable consequence , Separation , Ire / and and Iceland in the estimation of continental Europe , would

      differ only by a letter . The Irish imagine that the ? HAVE A UIHTORYi . su LITEBATL'ltE OF THEIB OW . V tO Sustain an independent national character , but their bards and annals do not surpass the Icelandic scalds and sages , and they have no modern literature , worth one farthing which is not steeped in Sliakspeare and his successors . I , an Irishman , say this , knowing enough of the ancient language and the ancient and modern literature to laugh , at the claim * of factious scribblers .

      Aon * for a bit of the honey ;—"THE DIRGE OF REPEAL . » " Strepunt Hibern ( i ) 3 . . . turgidi ! Horat . Carni , iv , 12 , ' PepeoV ' s the Irish word— 'tis well . ' With Britons be the word , Repel ' . ' ' Repeal " s the shout—ah , well-a-day , When will the shout n . rise , Repay V " We must have another morsel : — "—Juvenumta m ' ocanfpreces Horat . Carta , iv . 1 . Lteve caput , madidique infantia nasi .

      . lev . Sat . s . 109 . Young Ireland *—young , ' tis plainly seen 'Green Erin '—ah , how deeply green ! For coxcomb hoys not e ' en half learn'd And bad old man your pence are earn'd . Your heart ' s too warm for thoughtful head Your brain with air-drawn fancies fed . Keep back your coppers from the rogues—AND BUY YOCBSELF A 1 'AIR Or BROGUES 1 " The poor gentleman makes the following confession in a foot note : —

      I was once smitten with the Repeal mania , and wrote some verses in its favour eight years ago , before the real character of the movement became apparent , and when I was incapable of forming a solid judgment . I was then an enlightened politician of four-and-twenty ! One mouthful , and we have done : — I once was an admirer of O'Connell , bct his cocbse dchikctue i > A 3 T sBVESJ VEARShas L'spuiigoduvsry feeling of sympathy . Ileigho !

      Now , from the above we learn that " Mr . Hughes , a young gentleman of great genius , " and formerly an enthusiastic Repealer , has now become AN OLDER AND A "WISER PERSON , —that he has abandoned the wild ' notions of his youth and arrived at the sober discretion of manhood , and for his conversion from love of nationhood to love of provincialism is entitled to THE WORLD'S commendation . Here , then , is our reply to the challenge of our cotemporary , who understands " that praise undeserved is censure undisguised . " Our cotemporary is an avowed Anti-Repealer , and the most zealous champion of Daniel O'Connell , a professed Repealer . What

      other construction , then , can we put upon his championship of O'Connell , than that in his policyhe sees the success of TlWi WORLD'S principles ; and hence , is his praise of the Liberator censure in disguise . Can THE WORLD be sincere in its opposition to llepeal , and also sincere in its lavish encomiums upon him who has pledged himself to the death to its accomplishment ? Or , rather , does not the strained etiquette between the juggler and the Editor , strongly remind us of those

      conventional habits of intimacy which exist betwen the fox and the badger , when those animals are copartners in anil joint occupants of the same " earth . " Whether by natural or prescriptive right , or by compact , the fox takes the tit-bits of the wild animals , and the birds of the air , and domestic fowls provided by himself , while the badger luxuriates on the guts as his shave for keeping the house clean . Now , does THE WORLD suppose that whatever its adulation of the Liberator maybe , that the badger can live in the hole with the

      fox , or TUli WOULD with the Liberator , upon any better terms than we have cited ? Or is THE WOULD not aware that the old fox only allows to THE WORLD the privilege of being read so long as it perforins the required duty of playing the badger ' s part . If THE WORLD has any doubt of the Liberator ' s relapse to Whiggery , wc beg to furnish our contemporary with the following damnabory poof from the columns of the iVorf hern 11 ' % .

      " The tone of Mr . O'Connelly s speech is very good ^ with respect to Ministers . They are anxious to do for Ireland all the good in their power ; and we are glad to find that ko seems disposed to second their ctVovta , without permitting Repeal absurdities to stand in the way . lie is acting " in a comp lete Whig spirit ; and we are glad that he is so . We wish , also , to give Mv . O'ConneA ! praise for his quiet , but el , factual , exposure of the injustice , ofllr . Mm Uaw , ia his letter to Lord John Resell . The haughty and unjust prelate speaks with all contempt of the vote i of £ 30 . 000 for the relief ot distress in Ireland . A \ e submit , that U hasum not to he despised . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 5, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05091846/page/4/