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2 ? ow ready for delivery , uniform ' with Tallisa Imperial Histories of England and America , Part I ., Price One Shilling , fpHE HISTOBT OF IRELAND , from the earliest JL period of the Irish Annals , to the Bebellion of 1818 . By Thomas Wright , Esq ., M . A ., P . S . A-, Vfcc-, Ac . Corsesponding Member of the National Institute of France ; Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature , & c ; author of' England under the House of Hanover , ' 'The Biographia Britannica Literaria , " Essays Ulustra . tire of the Literature , History , and Superstition of England in the Middle Ages , ' and other works illustrative oi English History . Each part embellished with a btau-Cfulsfcel engraving , chitflj from Original Drawings . By H . Vfarren , E = q ., 'President of the New Water Co' . onr Society . London : J . and F . Taixis , 103 , St John-street , and all IiookseUers .
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ABBE 8 T OF AMERICAN ETHPATHISBES . The Cailow Sehtixel gives the particulars of the arrest ef three American sympathisers who have lately arrived in this country on a buccaneering expedition ; the arrest of thirteen persons charged with drilling , and the arrest of a quartermaster with a rebel commission ia bis pocket . The Sektisel hat the following particulars in conaexioa with tbe arrest of Mr tx-Qi * rtermaster Hanraban ;— ' Our readers will recollect that a few weeks since It was announced ia tbe public journals . that Qasrter . master Henrafaan , of the 13 th Regiment of Poor , had mbaemded with a large sum cf money in his possession , with which he had been entrusted . From that period be eluded tho vigilance of the authorities until Monday
last , when he was arrested by Sub-Inspector Gould and a party of constabulary , near Carrick on-Snir , and committed to Cionmel Gaol . On searching his person , a commission conferring tho rank of a 'general' in the Irish rebel service waa found in his pocket , to which was attached the sigoaure of one of the leading rebel chiefs , whose name it would now bs imprudent to disclose for obvious reasons . We have , unhappily , ample reasoa to believe that fta late insunection , if not timely suppressed by the arrest of tbe leaders and the dispersion ef tbeir followers , by the firm and d-dsive measures of gov * rnm » n ! , would havt p- ^ ved cf a formidable character , and time a ! ons Cin cevtlope the facts and circumatsnc 2 s connected with the most extensivel y organised conspiracy * ever entered into iu Ireland during a cen . toy It railed ; but , through Providence , that failure was owing to the imbecility of the leading actors and the treachery of their colkagues . '
UiSSBS o ' bbibh ASD D 0 HKHT . A correspondent of the Tipp £ » i 8 r Tindicstob , writing fraa Cashel , teems to know a great deal cob ' cerulng the movements of Ht , stw O'Brien and Doheay after their outlawry . Speaking of O'Brien's arrest , he seyi : — 'Virj anny persons iu the humblest station , and In the most destitute condition , could hava sold blm to tha government for the tempting reward so carefully placarded all over the country . Oa the very ni ght of his arrest , he was aecomsanitd near the town of Thurles by more than one of the poor people of the nriahbouthood ; but they did not yield to the temptation . They kept faith with the man who confided himself t 3 them ; and so far ot dt population . It cannot ba said that tv 6 n one of them was actuated bj a love for lucre throughont the whole of ttlst / ansaoUoa . ' X . tJOTH 0 * SBIEtr AKD THE STATX TBUXS . —COKCrtli . HOH Hill—THE COBDITIOK 01 THH HEOPLB .
( From Our oum Correspondent J Dublin , Oit . 2 nd , 1848 . As the proceedings connected with the State Trials aad the prosecution of the unfortunate 'Young Irelanders * approach towards a climax , public interest thickens . Mr Smith O'Brien ' s conduct since the commencement of his trial has been ail ihat could dignify the high . sosicdpatriot . Bnu his greatest enemies must cenfts tfci * .. It is a significant fact that ia the great county of Tipperary—one of the most Catholic districts of Ireland , and in the South Riding too—still a more CathoUc locality than the North Biding not one single Ca'JiiSa isempannelled on the jury ! Does anybody consider this as the effect of chance or aa occurrence of
• fair , honest , and nnlmp achable character ! Is any man in the British empire stupid or roguish enough to say It is a ju « aad equitable transaction ! Sot one ! So far as tha trials have gone up to this day ( Monday ) thereisliJtleofan interesting nature attached to them . But two professed informers have aa yet been examined , one a wretch named Lowe , who was foreman printer ia the Natioh office ; another characterless va . gabond name 3 Dobbins , a lawyer ' s writing clerk , and a member of one of the late Confederate Ciobs . Thil latter traitor has performed his part of the ' dirty work ' iu true « niood-sacking' style , Uevtr was mora arrant villany exposed than ( in this fdhn ' g case ) was pumped forth by the able counsel for Mr O'Brien
Whilst it is rumoured that Smith O'Brien , if convicted , willbe haag ^ C instanter , it ia resolved by his friends and counsel to move a writ of error to the House of Lords , foundid on tho illegal proceedings of the parties con . earned in getting up his jury . That there are valid and abundant grounds for such an appeal there can be tqsetOoz , Too scattered elements of « moral foros' delusion are trying to bricg themselvts together again , and the tagrag of the « H-Ol deserted' are ' moving mountains' in their tffirts t :- op . -n tbe strings of the Irish parse . They haveitsucd ogsing letters in wry quarter at all Uk Iy to seud thetn a shilling ; but , with four or five psLry exceptions , cold water has been flung upon thedr imoadent exertion . . Ireland hashed enough of Cmcilfcuon Hell , and if that ill looking denbesver again op . 'ued it will not be by IRELAND t
Tae coa ££ tioa of the people is dail y—nay , hourlyh ^ efiralBg m . ra and acre alarming . Tne fauUae „ f 1818 « has not actually set in , fcni X tell you that it is rapid ! , approaching , and I tell , ou that , unless God works a mirarlo in our favour , the history ot mankind furmsaes no such record of hampn suffering as will be asra x = the csming winter tad spring . The netatses areroton ^ awaj „ pia , and ^^ u ^ ^ any kind * f , r « n . Hunger , fever , nakedness , film , and probably C ^* ra , _ will ; do their business , and « tt anoffer ywr ft wiB 6 ew , v to taie tleaenitu o / Jrefcnd' «'
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PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL . Notice to Agents will be given in the Stab when the above Portrait is ready for issue . P 0 RTRA 1 T __ 0 F CUFFEY . The absve portrait , takes by his fe'low-sufferer , Wm . Dowliog , will be ready in a few days . Price la . Orders received by Mr Dixon , 144 , High Holbom ; or Mr Rider .
The Northern ^Star, Saturday, October 7, 1818.
THE NORTHERN ^ STAR , SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7 , 1818 .
" Moral Power Is The Deliberative Qualit...
" Moral power is the deliberative qualit y in each man ' s mind , which teaches him how to reason , how to endure , and when forbearance becomes a crime ; and should its exercise fail to secure for man all those rights to which he is entitled , and should physical force be required ( which God forbid !) it will come to his aid like an electric
shock ; but the man who marshals it destroys it , and the man who recommends it is a fool or a traitor , and will be the first to desert it . "Feargus O'Connor .
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THE REBEL GOVERNMENT . Last week we commented upon some of the doings of the FELON GOVERNMENT , which bave since concluded in the Transportation for Life of Five of their English victims , and this week we are called upon to chronicle their Rebel acts in Ireland . We say their Rebel acts , because—but for their mis-government of the country—there would not be a rebel in the land . We have published the trials of O'Brien and others , as far as they have reached us ; and as in England so in Ireland , we find the case for the Crown mainly , if not wholly , depending on the evidence of spies and informers . But as custom reconciles man to
depravity of . the worst description , and as , under some circumstances , the evidence of such parties may be indispensable to establish the guilt of tb ? accused , we yield to the morbid fashion of the day , and eschew further consideration of such wretches ; but we cannot as lightly pass over the conduct of the Court , which , if not impartial , should assume the appearance of impartiality , or , indeed , if leaning could be evinced to either side it should
be to that of the accused . The Judge should be above suspicion . If the law is to be strong it must be impartially administered , and if it is to be avenged , its vengeance sheuld serve as an example to warn others of its power ; but when we find the Chief Justice presiding in a case ef tbe greatest magnitude , not only evincing palpable partiality , but disregarding even the common courtesies of life , then we can come to no other conclusion than that the
Judge is the tool ot Administration , and not the administrator of the Law . There is no crime more revolting than that of premeditated assassination ; there is none mere foolish than that of an unarmed , undisciplined , disorganised party , making war against an armed , disciplined , organised army : and the people of this coantry , and of Ireland , have yet to learn what constitutes the difference between a French and English , or Irish revolution . The French constitute a great national army . There are a greater number belonging to the operative classes who have
been drmed and trained in the use of arms , and who possess arms , than the French army numbers , and from time immemorial that nation has considered the musket as a substitute for speech . The emeute of a single club , or a single school , or a single association , has been a sufficient standard to insure , if not a general , at least an extensive and alarming outbreak . And in France these outbreaks are looked upon as the representative of the will of a large portion—if not of the entire community . But even there , while such wild frenzy is on the eve of an outbreak , there has been little .
if any , preconcert . The grievance is felt—the alarm is given—the standard is raised—the ! revolt takes place while authority is not as ! well prepared to resist ; but , in this countryalthough-the Bill of Eights proclaims the right of every man to have arm ? , nevertheless , not one in a thousand possess them , while their very possession may establish the guilt of the owner . They are not soldiers ; they lack discipline , and are deficient in organisation . Hence , when they resolve upon an emeute they have to pass through those several dangerous ordeals—the procurement of
arms , discipline , and organisation , and in every stage of which they stand in danger of being ensnared , betrayed and destroyed . The reader may , therefore , conclude that all agitation for the amelioration of the condition of the working classes must be vain andhopeless ; while , on the contrary , we assert that the straining of the law , in those cases , goes to establish the weakness of the existing system , and to prove that its weakness consists in its injustice : and when the Chancellor of the
Exchequer produces his next budget , in which the suppression of Whig treason will constitute no unimportant item—then those parties who would now halloo the government on their victims , will have cooled in their enthusiasm , and will ask themselves whether a large saving might not have been effected if timely justice had been substituted for unseasonable rigour ? Surely those who pay for such fanciful pranks must expect that the recent and progressive acts of terror will have the effect of
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wholly suppressing that disloyalty , disaffection , and discontent now so generally manifest in both countries . And with such proof will the Prime Minister dare to repeat his assertiohj " That the people of this country are loyal to a man , are perfectly satisfied with things as they are , and require no reform ? " Or will theGrand Jury or the Petty Jury of Tipperary , be more reconciled to the confiscation of their property by Whig injustice , aid misrule , after they shall have sacrificed O'Brien and his associates to
Whig misgovernment ? We have always told the people that men were best in that situation for which' nature designed them ; and if nature . had any hand in the establishment of British Parliaments , she designed the Whigs for the opposition benches . There , though artfulj cunning , and hypocritical , they wake a show of resistance , and are loud in professions of liberality ; but when
housed in Downing-street , and placed on the Ministerial benches , they are tyrannical , cruel ; and vindictive ; weak in princi ple , they exhaust the Exchequer to secure support , and even then their chief reliance is npon an appeal to the hereditary loyalty of their opponents ; At present , therefore , we recognise but one paramount duty as devolving upon the whole people , and that is the restoration of the Whigs to that side of the House for which nature designed them . This was to have been the first work of
that Assembly which was to have succeeded the triumph of the loth of April , \ . It yeas marred , however , by the folly—nay , by : the insanity—of the would-be representatives of the people ; but as it is never too late to retrace error , it now becomes the bounden'duty of all to join in this necessary , this useful j ^ brk . ' We presume that even the really brave of the Chartist body have now got a ' surfeit of trusting their lives and their liberties to the tender mercies of the blustering , the enthusiastic , and false ; but that , like men truly wedded to their principles , they will become
more confirmed in their faith , and firmly contend for their adoption by every legal and con * stitutional means ; and those means , let us assure our readers , if energetically used , will be more speedy—more efficient and conclusive —than the folly which has been so often tried , and which hasso often failed . ; The example of France ought not ttfbe lost upon the people of England , while ,. as we contended in the outset , the example set by Prussia ought to convey a serious lesson to the people . of the world . Politics , governments , and systems were neverso perplexed or confused as at the present moment- It is some years since we -prophesied that one day there would be established a league of people against
the league of kings ; and we predicted that the artful and designing would so , possess themselves of democratic confidence as to constitute the league of capital as a substitute- for- the league of kings , thus establishing the tyranny of millions in lieu of individual tyranny , and in every instance . in Europe where the league of people has been successful against the league of kings , . our prediction has been verified . And hence we gather experience from the past , and say : " Preserve us under the rule of individual tyranny , galling and oppressive as it may be , until the industrious classes , of the country have affixed their stamp . of approbation upon a system which is to make labour the source of government . ' '
Have the working classes ever considered what the condition of this country would have been if a physical revolution had changed the system of Government , if they had been unprepared with a substitute ? Have they learned wisdom from the hesitation and treason of the Provisional Government of France / and the treachery of Lamartine and . the ^ majority of his associates , until the enemies of Labour had prepared themselves with the hy dra-headed monster as a substitute for the old woman they had deposed ? Whereas , had the French people been as well instructed upon the principles , of representation as the English people are , there would Lave been no interval between the
destruction of the old , and the establishment of the new system ; the united will of the millions , instead of the moonshine of traitors , would have been tbe basis of the Constitution—much blood would , have been spared—the : treasure of the country would have been confidingly brought into the market , instead of being transported or buried—and Labour , instead of being a beggar at the door for a portion of its own creation , would have been relied upon as the source of justice , and treated upon , true terms of equality .
"Liberty , Equality , Fraternity , ' is a Trinity of humbug . " Justice , Self-reliance , Co-operation , and Representation , " must ' constitute the true basis of a Constitution which is to do impartial justice to all classes ; and however the trickery of language may invent a whimsical and wordy Constitution for the excitable French people , we tell those who rely upon the judge , the spy , and a jury box , that the league of people will be too strong for the league of tyrants , or the law ' s perversion , and that the reviled Chartists of England , unscathed , undaunted , and undiminished in vigour , enthusiasm and strength , ' will yet establish a Constitution which will hot require force or fraud for its protection , because it will be based upon . vr
" JUSTICE , SELF-RELIANCE , CO-OPERATION , AND REPRESENTATION . " We cannot conclude without calling attention to the Whig Attorney General ' s side blow at the Land Plan . Daniel Burn , an honest Chartist and member of the Land ; Company , appeared as an evidence against the . informer Powell , and exultingly concluded his crossexamination by the Attorney General : — " I know nothing about ' class leaders , but I have heard there are such persons . ' " | I belong to the Land Society also . ' ]; ' ; ,. ' , " , " / ' . ' /' " The Attorney General . —When . do you expect to get your share of the Land ? >>
" Witness . —Oh ! I am quite satisfied with the Land Scheme . It has been much misrepresented by the Press . I entereti for a , four acre share , and have paid 32 sVfy ; „ Now , irrelevant as tbe matter was to the question at issue , we hesitate not to assert that the Whig Attorney General would have preferred tbe ridicule and denunciation of the Land Han , even to the conviction of , the victims of his guilty colleagues , as'ih oiir soul
we believe all the force of the . Government , both legal and administrative , have , been most treacherously enlisted against a plan whose chief recommendation must be their hostility ; and our only astonishment is , that the official ' in his sagacity did not secure the evidence of some of his confederates—some of thei vermin —to throw contempt upon the Land Plan . But the little gentleman burned his fingers when he attempted to play the Anti-Land tool with honest Daniel Burn .
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PRESS-GANG The truculent « 7 Vmes " -true to its horrible reputation-has seized upbn the recent trials atthe Old Bailey as a pretext for renewed abuse and misrepresentation of Chartism , upon which it would fasten the odium of Powell ' s villany , and the folly of that miscreant ' s victims . In the first place it represents the " dozen or two tailors , shoemakersand joiners , " tried at the Old Bailey , as the " nucleus and mainstay of Chartism . In a subsequent arti cle the "Times" say 8 : ~^ The Chartists
reckonedon the assistance of 50 , 000 thieves and rogues . They were assisted by one scoundrel more than they bargained for . " ' Bight well the " Times" writers know that they he when they represent the Chartists as leagued with « thieves , " or calculating upon the support of " rogues . " We will not here , like some craven wretches , decry what is called « physical force . " We always have asserted , and always will assert the right of the people everywhere and in all | times to defend themselves from oppression and violence even by arms . We will not . preach " peace at any
price . " We - ; wiH not blasphemethe memories of our fathers who'obtained'for themselves arid their descendants , the few liberties' we do ' possess , not by passive v obedience ; but .. by . the ' outpouring of their . blood : on many a battlefield . WemW not do otherwise than honour Simon de Montfort , Wat Tyler , and Hamp . den . We will throw no slur upon Wallace andI Washington , because they fought tyrants with their -own , weapons . The battle-field ' s where freedom was the prize contended for ; we regard as " holy ground ; " and , let the
lying tools of tyranny , and the canting trucklers to an usurping minority say what they please , we will . eyer maintain the sacred right of resistance to oppression , that last resource of the wronged against the wrong-doer . But we have ever deprecated the employment ofphysical force when other means of ¦ Obtaining justice have been open to the op . pressed ; and we have as ardently deprecated the very idea of any section of the people appealing to force ,- under any circumstances . We nave done so , not because we are insensible to the rig hts of minorities , but because we are convinced that even a just cause and pure intentions are not sufficient to justify armed revolt . For anv cause to be successful it must
have the sanction of public opinion . Even temporary victory will not ensure the establishment ef , principles which the mads of society are ignorant , of , or hostile to . A " conspiracy "; must of necessity beconfined to a few , a sufficient reason , though by no : means the only one ; for us to oppose everything like the "Powell Plot . * ' The views we have expressed , and the "course we have invariably pursued , are the views of , and has been the course followed byiheChartist party . .- ' ' Excepting Cuffey * . the names of Powell ' s victims were totally unknown to us before the
arrests took place ; and though some of them may be Chartists , they no more represented the Chartisfpai-ty than they did the Whig or Tory party . It is true , the Whigs were represented in the "Conspiracy "— -represented by Powell , Davis , Barrett ; Tindel , nnd Baldwinson . If an insurrection , of 50 , 000 thieves was calculated , upon , the calculators were the Whigs . At the time the Cochranites induced a turn-out of the blackguards of the Metropolis , the Chartists abandoned their out-door meetings rather than give any pretext for the
assembling of ; the ignorant and brutal window smashers . Chartism is comparatively weak in the Metropolis— w . e mean as . compared with Manchester-r-precisely because c thieves "legitimate ¦ and illegitimate , law-sanctioned , and law-hunted . rogues—here ftiost abound . Public plunderers and private pickpockets may have some , sympathy in common ; but scoundrels—from these in ermine and lawn , to those in rags and tatters—have an instinctive horror of Chartism . The Chartists reciprocate that feeling . ; . y '; ,: ¦ •' ; ' , '¦; ' // " : ' ¦¦;¦
Once for all ' we declare that the "Powell Plot" was cencocte . d without the ^ knowledge of the Chartists , and in . opposition to the whole course of Chartist-policy . The "Times '* in asserting the contrary , lies , and it knows it lies . During the progress of the trials th & "Times ' did its best " to ensure the conviction of the victims , and when convicted it savagely exulted at the brutal sentence passed upon them . The "Times says the sentence "is a severe , but amostjust one- '' The" Chronicle" " approves " of the sentence , and denounces by anticipation any outcry that may be raised against it as
" p hilanthropic and constitutional cant , * Undoubtedly these . ruffians of the Press-gang would have , rejoiced had Powell ' s dupes been condemned to swing on the gallows . That vile thing , "Punch , " not contented with having done its best to make Cuffay both ridiculous and offensive in the eyes of the jury-class > is this week guilty of the pitiful .. scoundrelism of heaping insult upon the fallen victim of its lies and scoffings . In the course of the dirty article alluded to , the mis-shapen buffoon say's : — "If we have the misfortune to pass . for dangerous levellers with some people , we are
considered aristocratic sneaks by-others . " This is at any rate an admission that tells of a perished popularity and a falling circulation ; for people are not in the habit Of expending even threepence upon a thing they despise as a sneak . But the superannuated hunchback , though well known to be a "sneak , " is not an "aristocratic sneak ; " its baseness is below even that . " Punch ' ' is the sneaking toady of the 6 ouro / eoiste—the buffoon of the Plutocracy , from the " League" to the " specials . "
Once it affected sympathy for the poor and op pressed , and knaves and tyrants winced under the scourge of its wit ; but , sold to the Plutocrats , its humour has been replaced by drivel , and its wit has degenerated to slander . Of course its popularly is gone , and its doom is fixed . The laborious advertising puffery which , week by week , is applied to sustain the worn-out imp of ugliness , is all in vain—the end is not far off when over the rotten remains of / ' Punch , " will be inscribed : — "Here lies a sneak / ' '
Fvilure Of Free Trade. The Free Trade Ag...
FVILURE OF FREE TRADE . The Free Trade agitation is too recent for any one to have-forgotten itsleading incidents . B y means of the issue of hundreds of tons of tracts—of large packed meetings in Covent Garden Theatre—of a costly and widely-ramified organisation—a highly-paid staff of lecturers and agents—and a succession of bazaars-Conferences , & c , & c . —the leaders of that movement succeeded , for the time being , in filling the eye and the ear of the " thinking and ' . most respectable British public . ' ! The shopkeeping and electoral classes generally ,
were quite captivated by the fascinating promises of Messrs Cobden , Bright , and Co . According to these gentry , all that was needed , in order to let in a flood of prosperity on the country , was to throw open our ports for the free importation of foreign produce of all descriptions . That was the specific which was to restore health nnd prosperity to the body politic . "High Wages , Cheap Bread , and Plenty to do , " was to follow in the wake of the Repeal of the Corn Laws . New mills and manufactories were to be erected by the nun-Sired to supply . the ever-growing demand , for British manufactures from abroad ; and , in return , a stream of agricultural wealth was to how steadily into our ports , and thence into the cottage and dwelling of every working
man . We . were among the few journals advocating Radical politics , not deceived by these specious and alluring promises . We saw through the fallacious reasoning and clap-trap declamation by which the movement was supported , and steadily and consistently warned the working classes against putting any faith in the representations of the leaders of that party . For this we were , of course , assailed with all that coarse vituperation and scurrility which the organs of the "respectable " middle-class Free Traders know so well how to indulge in .
Accusations of bribery by the Tory party were the gentlest of the charges made against us . We were denounced as the greatest enemies of the working classes , and the Leaguers were held up as their friends , par excellence . Well , we have been content to give the League measures the " fair trial" they asked for them . It might , with truth and justice , have been objected to an earlier criticism , that these measures should , at least , have a year or two to develope their probable tendencies , as
well as actual operation , before any judgment was pronounced upon them . We are now getling towards the close of the transitional three years allowed by Sir R . Peel for this purpose , and we think it is but reasonable , after this delay , to look round and ask " How far the new policy has fulfilled the expectations held out by its promoters ?" The failure of the Potato crop of late years , 8 <> fa J ; frombeingan argument in favour of the Free Trade party , as it is generall y used by their , advocates , in reality tells against them . A relative scarcity of home-grown
food may have had some effect in preventing the price of Agricultural produce from falling to the . low point predicted by the'Protectionists , and thus averted—for a time—the evils which were anticipated by that class of the population . Biit , on the other hand , thisrery scarcity of provisions should have co-operated with what were alleged to be the natural ten dencies of the Free Trade system , in producing a very much larger demand for our manufactures , on the part of those countries who brought their "bread . stuffs" tb supply our
deficiency . Has-this been the case ? By no means . The foreign importer has preferred our gold to our manufactures ; for this good reason , that every country is encouraging , as far as possible , ; its native manufacturing industry . They have not the slightest objection to be allowed to participate in all the advantages of our high-priced market , by selling their Corn and Cattle in it , without paying either taxes or customs ; but they have a very great objection indeed to let our textile ' fabrics compete on the same terms with their own , in their markets , and hence they have shut us out of them by hostile tariffs .
The result is , that ever since the Free Trade policy received its final legislative sanction , our manufacturing industry has been declining , and may safely be said to have been , during the whole of that time to the present , in a worse condition than at any former period of the histoiy of our manufacturing system . We do not mean to assert that at particular periods , and for a short period , there may not
have been a larger number of hands out of work at one time—but what we do mean is , that the trade was never before so long and so generally depressed , and that instead of mending it is gradually and steadily growing worse . In Manchester , the heart of our manufacturing system and the cradle of the League , instead of improving things are growing worse , as the following extract from the " Manchester Examiner" will show : —
Shout Time . —Until a decided improvement in demand taket place , a recourse ti short time working seems to be the safest and best policy for producers . In . the pre . tent state of tbe market anything like an accumulation of stock would only make matters worse ; and the condi tion « f the cotton market is not such at to cause any apprehension regarding a plentiful and cheap supply of raw materiuVfor the ensuing jear . A pretty general resort to shorter hours , on the expiry of contracts now running , would tend to arrest the present downward tendency of prices , and prevent many producers from closing their mills altogether a few months hence .
This is the present state of the Manchester trade , be it remembered , after a continuous and unprecedented state of depression . One significant fact in common with the subject may be noted : it has been the custom to publish in the "Manchester Guardian" a weekly table , showing the number of hands at work on full time , short time , and totally unemployed ; these tables were made up by the official authorities , and furnished an unfailing barometer as to the state of the mills and manufactories in that town . In the last return for the month of June the number of the unemployed was
stated to be 7793 . From some cause or other this column was omitted , and for three months subsequently the unemployed have :, been kept wholly out of sight . Whether it was considered to be an awkward contradiction of the predictions of the Free Trade millowners , to see that not less than nine thousand mill hands were idle in the very capital of the League that caused the suppression of this column , we cannot say . This week , however , the statement re-appears for the last time , the " Guar , dian" appends the following notice to the table : —
Of the total hands included in the table , there is an increase of 359 working short time , and a decrease of 616 working full time . The return is , therefore , rather of an unfavourable character , These returns are to be ditcon tinned after ( hepresent week , it being considered unnecessary to take them regularly every week at present , as they bave lately varied so little , and as objections have been m ide in some quarters to the trouble given to millowners in famishing tbe information . . Taking this in connexion with the advice of the " Examiner' ' , to work short time , a pretty shrewd guess may be given as to the actual effects of the Free Trade nostrums , of the Manchester trade , and the determination on the
millowners to prevent us from accurately estimating its results this winter . But our recent policy in commercial matters has turned out still more disastrously for Glasgow . The " North British Mail , " a Free Trade paper , has a lengthened article on the subject , in which it discloses a lamentable tale of decling trade , diminishing imposts , and suffering industry , A short document—a return of the vessels cleared out of Glasgow in two different but consecutive periods , is a short but remarkably instructive document . Here it is : — Ve » sels cleared out of the port of Glasgow for foreign parts , from 6 th January , 18 * 7 , to 29 th Sept , .. 602 Ditto from Sih January , 1848 , to 29 th September .. 382
Decrease .. .. •¦ .. 220 "This decrease , " adds the " Mail , " "is without any parallel in previous years ; " and in a subsequent part of the article it thus describes the state of Glasgow under Free Trade : — Our streets swarm with unemployed men . Immorality , ignorance , and demoralisation are increased by idleness Defective homes are falling gradually into wretchedness . Our poor-rates and policerates improve , and they are the onlj improving interests in this city . Some time ago the pawnbrokers comp lained that matters had gone too far for them ; and even tho spirit dealers , we believe , feel the pressure of the times . The potato disease at home , and revolution on the Continent , are charged with the rigin
of this misery . Thepotato disease of 18 . 6 was followed by a splendid harvest of 1847 , and apparently now by an average return of food in 1813 . The revolutionary proceedings on the Continent were not altogether Injurious to our manufacturing and commercial interests . They reduced the demand for some fabrics on the Continent : bnt they also cast back industrial pursuits in the troubled states . Men cannot work and fight at the tame time . These facts' are , therefore , utterly inadequate to explain the great decrease in our exports , accompanied by * still greater reduction in the home consumption of goods , and a very extraordinary increase of imports . * * * Hatters cannot long exist in their present state . We cannot go on from bad to worse in order to try an
experiment which has not a reasonable chance of success . At this moment we know that measures are in course of adoption to reduce wages largely in some staple departments , for the purpose of meeting the competition ere . ated by recent changes . Such reductions as that to which we refer in the Glasgow trade render necessary and practicable great reductions of wages ; hut they were not the consciences promised after the legislation of 181 s and 1846 . We believe that a British commercial union will require to be formed , after the fashion of the German union , on the basis of perfectly free trade
be-Here then we have one Free Trade organ compelled by the facts under its own cognisance , to retreat from its former position , and to take up the advocacy of that colonial and reciprocity system of commerce , which the Protectionists were but a short time since assailed with ridicule and obloquy for main , taining . The returns as to our East Indian trade are nearly as unpromising ; and as to our West Indian colonies , there come from all quarters a chorus of groans and execration on the policy and the party by whom they have been plunged into irretrievable ruin . In short , in whatever direction we look , our Free Trade legislators have "made a pretty mess of it ; " and the worst of the matter is , that they are as
impudent , as confident , and as boastful as ever . But , as the " Mail" says : " we cannot go on f bad to worse in order te try an experiment , which has not a reasonable chance of success . The great interests of the country imperatively demand' that our present downward career be arrested , and that speedil y . Messrs " Cobden , Bright , and other luminaries of that school , had better seek out some more congenial vocation than that of politicians and statesmen , in which they have evidently made some monstrous ] blunders , and proved themselves decidedl y false prophets . They staked their reputation on the success of the policy advocated by the ; Anti-Corn Law League . It has turned out an utter failure—They have lost , and . hM belter give np ,
Tween All Trie Dependencies And Possessi...
tween all trie dependencies and possession ! of this empire . It will start with a population of 200 , 000 , 000 , on a field embracing one-fourth of the globe , and within that range mischievous class monopolies are utterly and absolutely impossible . We can then wait the converslonof the world in calmness and security in an unassailable position . That movement may be more rapid than some parties-antlclpate - , and it would be accelerated a generation or two in consequence of our resolution , Some step ef the kind must be taken speedily , in order to save our docks and rivers from desertion , and our people from starvation .
Drousdsn.—The Land Members Are Requested...
Drousdsn . —The Land members are requested to attend a meeting at the Temperance jroom , on Sunday moming . ' . Ootober 8 ch , at nin « o ' clock , for tbe purpose of appointing a secretary and other officers .
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Todmobdbn.—Persons Corresponding With Th...
Todmobdbn . —Persons corresponding with tho Chartist of Todmorden must direct to Mr Isaac Hartley Pell , Hanging-ditch , Todmorden . Jahib Dehmett . —Received . : John Beddow .-No room , Mr J . Svf eit acknowledge the receipt of the following turns for the Victim Fund—viz .: — ' , £ B . a , Mr Taylor .. .. .. .. .. 0 0 — BIrgin „ „ „ . „ » 0 0 C — Knott m M . ,. ¦ . . 0 0 8 — Shepherd ' .. „ . - .. 0 0 3 — Oannt » ,. ... , ••«¦ .. 0 . 0 8 — Graves » .. » » ' ' " .. 0 0 8 — Kirk ., .. „ m „ h 0 0 ' 2 — Chlpplndale „ H M » 0 0 6 — MrSIaney .. .. „ ,. o 1 0 From the Colonel Hutchinson * ... M 0 . 36 To OoBtBsroNDBHTs . —We cannot publish letters until tbe state trials are concluded . —Several Trades , aad other communications , are unavoidably poitponed . D . Gunn . —The spirit ef the lines is rery good , but the work is too imperfect for publication . David Edwaids , Merthyr , should consult an attorney . Weaannot answer legal questions . Brviswb . —The reports of the Irish and Old Bailey , trials have left us no room for our usual reviews . The Laboubeb for this month , the Tsiai . or Db H'Dooali , and other publications received for review , shall have our attention next week . ¦ -
Receipts Op The Nationai* Xjans Company,...
RECEIPTS OP THE NATIONAI * XjANS COMPANY , FOR THB WBBK BNDINtf THURSDAY , OCTOBER 5 , 1848 . PER MR O'CONNOR . BABEl . £ f . d . Winchcombe » 15 0 Bury , J Bury „ 18 0 Cardiff .. 408 Manchester „ 3 o 0 Market Lavington 4 6 6 Cirencester .. 3 0 0 Lincoln •• 2 4 0 Haswell M 0 4 / 0 Merthyr , Potvell 0 2 0 Ashburton « l 6 li Hawick h 13 6 Leamington .. 5 0 6 Chester .. 118 Aberdeen ,. 1110 Clayton West - 0 6 0 Nottingham , Hugh Mason M 8 0 Sweet « 119 ; 0 £ 33 19 ' 4
1 XPBHSB FUHD . Merthvr , ' Powell 0 4 . 0 Aberdeen .. < 0 3-4 Hawick .. 0 7 0 JobnRubsell »• 0 0 6 Chester .. 0 4 0 Nottingham , : Bury , J Bury » . 0 12 0 Sweet .. 09 4 £ 1 19 a AID FUND . Merthyr , Powell o ; 1 9 4 SRoasiter « 904 Gosport . » 6 . 2 4 JnoAddisoa .. 0 10 £ 0 18 : 0
Land Fund ... 33 19 4 * Expense Fund ... 1 19 . 2 Aid Fond ... 013 0 M 6 JU Wu , Dixoh . Chbibtopheb Doiu , Tho * . & . 4 BK , ( Corres , Sao . ) Pauir H'G » ATH , ( Fin . Sto . ) THE LIBERTY FUND . BICBIPBD BT J . M ' CBAE . Derby , per Wm . Sheffield , J Cavil ! 0 5 0 Short u 0 18 a Wincheiter , G Limehouse , Mr ¦ • Sturgess H 0 8 0 ¦ Ford « 8 10 0 Somen . Town , A Friend .. 0 0 6 J Arnott — 0 5 . 0 Irvine , John Lower Warier , Youall ~ 0 10 0 J Greenwood OS'S Paisley , F Watson 0 6 3 " " : ; £ 114 9 N . B . All correspondence , aad . monies intended tot tha propagation of Chartist principles , to be addressed to Itr S . Kydd , National Land Office , High Holbora . RECEIVED AT LAND OFFICB . Leamington « » . ~ . . « 0 6 6 FOR-FAMlLliToF VICTIMS . BECJSIVED BY W . BIDEB . Portsmouth Sheffield , per R ( ScmtBsea ) per Otley „ 0 11 6 ENobbs .. 6 13 6 Huddersfield , per Bradford ( Wilts ) , W Murphy » 0 10-2 per C Kendall 0 0 6 Carlisle , Cham-Mr Wilson , ' ber * s Warpers , London « 0 0 6 per J Gilbertson 0 10 0 £ 2 6 2 BECEIVED AT LAND OFFICB . Jos Arrington 9 0 6 A Pew Friends , Wm Butchart ,. 0 0 6 Westminster ., 0 18 Ditto , Chelsea 0 16 £ » 4 2 FOR DR M'DOtTALL'S DEFENCE . BKOBIVBD Br W . BIDBB , Sheffield , perROtley .. ... ,. ¦ .. 0 0 6 TO EXEMPT KB Fff'SEU FBeK OAKOB PICKING . BBCE 1 VBD BT . W . BIDEB . Birmingham , Ship Inn , per J Newhouse H 0 9 DEFENCE FUND . BECEITED AT LAND OFFICE . Mr Elliott > 6 8 9 Richard Hayee , Dudley . „ 010 Q
National Land And Labour Bank. The Follo...
NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BANK . The following letter has been received by the Manager of the < National Land and Labour Bank , ' in reply to the circular which has been recently issued to the'depositors in the Bank : — Hull , 2 nd Oct ., 1848 . Dear Sir , —I received " your circular , which I laid before our members in due order , and I am happy to inform you that they are perfectly satisfied with the security of the Bank , and do not intend to withdraw any more money than is necessary for their use ; you must understand that the money is for our local expenses , so that our shareholders who are paid up may be entitled to the Ballot for the whole year in advance ; the money is , therefore , placed in the Bank to be drawn as needed .
Several other circulars were produced by members of our Banking Company , and they are every one of them satisfied with the security , as they have every confidence in Mr O'Connor and the Manager under him . Tasked for a resolution to withdraw , and was answered with a universal' No ! ' I then asked for a vote of confidence in the Bank , which was unanimously given . Thus let opposition rage and use its influence as it may , we ate determined the thing shall succeed as far as our small means can carry it . Yours respectfully , O . B ., Secretary . To Thomas Price , Esq ., Manager .
The M'Douall Defence Fund. To Thb Iditob...
THE M'DOUALL DEFENCE FUND . TO THB IDITOB OF IBB NOBTBEBIT « TAB . Ashton-under-Lyne , 3 rd Oct ,, 1843 . Dear Sir , —Insert the following for the expense of M'Douall , and to assist his wife : — £ . i . d . W . Rider , Stab Office 0 11 G Thomas Howattb , Harebolrae ... , „ 0 1 (
FOR M'DOUALL' 8 WIFE . A few friend * , Njntwlch , per Tbbb . Dovanny 0 2 6 Ditto , per Tarparley ... „ . ... 0 2 6 It is now a fortnight since I wrote requesting the Chartists of Britain to subscribe something towards commencing Mrs M'Douallina small way of business , to assist her family during her husband ' s con * finement , and five shillings from Nantwich is all I have received . The money she has had from me is nearly exhausted , and I hope the women ( if the men will not ) will step in to the rescue , and save this woman and her family from want .
The prosecution of the government ia bad enough , but the ingratitude and cold neglect of our own body is a thousand times worse , and more annojing . Will you not subscribe one penny each ? If not , what faith can be put in the Cbartiata , as a body ? I hope this short appeal will be sufficient to stir the friends of the Doctor throughout the country to assist his unfortunate family . W . Aitkbs .
Defence And Victim Fund. Received By Wm....
DEFENCE AND VICTIM FUND . Received by Wm . Rjdbb . £ b . & Bradford , Wilts , per C . Kendall 0 10 BuryStEdmund ' eperJ . Leggett . „ 0 6 6 0 . Smith , Birmingham , per H . Roberts „ . 0 19 Mr Wilson Lendon 9 0 6 Sheffield , per B . OtUy . 0 19 Mr Paulton , Sheffield ... ... „ , 0 1 0 Birmingham , Ship Inn , per J . Newhoute ... 1 10 0 A Democrat , Cbepttow , „ 0 18 tBlttttagham . perW . H . Rudhall ... 0 6 0 Hamilton , Scotland , per A . Walker . „ 10 0 Lincoln , per J . Budd ... . „ ... o 5 0 Ktddermintter , T . Smith ... , „ 0 10 Surorrbldie-atreet , S . Ljtnall ... 0 0 6 „ 6 . Barker 0 0 6 Ripponden , per J . Wiigley 0 5 6 £ 4 0 6 BBCS 1 VM ) BY W . P . B 0 BERT 3 , MQ . Mr John Coult , Bury „ 0 10 I
* The Turn Of 6s. 6j. For The Victims, F...
* The turn of 6 s . 6 J . for the Victims , from Bury St Edmund ' s per Mr Leggott was received , and ought to have appeared in previous Htt , f MrB . onuAU .. —The lg tent to Land Omoe , came to hand too late for acknowledgment last weak ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 7, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07101848/page/4/
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