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THE NORTHERN STA ft Septobeb 9, 1848.
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A LIST OF BUOKS NOW PUBLISHED BT "*
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RECEIPTS OF THB NATIONAL. LAND COHIPAN7, FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, ISIS.
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LivEBPOOL.—On Sunday evening, Mr E d mun...
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ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN.
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 1818.
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LABOUR, THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH. It is ...
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IRELAND. The arguments used in our comme...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The session which...
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The Northern Sta Ft Septobeb 9, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STA ft Septobeb 9 , 1848 .
A List Of Buoks Now Published Bt "*
A LIST OF BUOKS NOW PUBLISHED BT "*
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B . D . COUSINS , 18 . DDKE-STREET , 1 I 5 C 01 S ' B-IS » FIELDJ , MSDOK . TOE SHEPHERD , by the RiV . J B . Smith MA Vol . I , pries fcl-TAH V ™ 3 , ' -V , ± " price c / . U'lo * boards ; or the « h « e volumes » n one . hal . boaod « calf an * letter ^ , pncelSs . fetation tfOwntan . lv O . Jeiiord of Wore"ter , with a renlT by the Bw . J . E . Smith , HA . is . V ^ £ fi & or the UV of St Stann . «* * » < oma Port «^ of a St Simonian Female ; translated h » the Ret- J E Smith , M . A . Is . Tootle Bo ,. k , a « reaSed to theB . shop of Ereter and Rub rt 0 * ea , by the Rsv . J . E . Smith , M . A . 61 . ; tapads ar , d Jltac . ** by & eR . v . J . E . Smith , M . A Cloth bond * , 1 « . 81 . The Univrraal Chart , containing the Element * of Dmrsrsil Mtb , Unwewol Aiulo » y , and Moral Gowrn-, neot . By th « Rev 3 . B . Smilh , M . A . Piice 1 « . : hypo » f , lB . 2 d . Analytical Chart of Univewal Juulce , Truth , and P . ace ; avoiding the two extremis of Spiritualism and Materialism—the first of which speculate on the O-famc Principle , without tho Organism , and the latter , on the fjrganism , without the Organic Prineipie- ^ fco ih are presented in this Caart . By the Rev . J . E . Smi'h . M . A . Price 6 d . ; b $ post 8 J . ; or , on thick drawing-paper , Is . ; by post , li . 2 d . The World Within ; or a description of the Interior of the Eittn : a vHU'u of the Mind ; by the Rev . J . E . S-nun , M . A . Price 6 d . ; if by post , nine penny stamps . JJirafjaud ' s System of Satnre , a neatpochet edition ( two volumes in a nc ) . 3 i . 6 d ., post free . T-ilney ' s Huins of Empires and the Law of Suture . Pocket edition , clota boards , 1 « . 6 d . By p -st , 2 s . Trbrds o _ f a Bdhrer ; or , Paroles d ' an Croyant , by l'Asbe de la Mennais . Pur having « nlittn *&«& , be was excommunicated asd dao-nsd for ever by the Pope . Price U . stitched ; or cloth boards , Is . 6 d . free
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THE LaB'iUR LEAGUE ; or , Journal of the Ni-TlOHAL TaiDES' ASSOCUTIOH . Published Weekly , Price One Penny . E « p » cially devoted to the elevation of tha producing classes ana to the exposure of the causes which lead to their present degradation . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queens Head passage , Paternotter . row . and sold by all booksellers and news asents ; and at tbe office of the National Trades' Association , 11 . Totteuham-court-road .
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HOW AND WHERE TO EMIGRATE . This day is published , price ts each , by J . C . Bybkb , Esq , Author oi * TweJve Tears Wandering in the British Colonies . ' THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . With a Map of the Colony . THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO NEW SOUTH WALES PROPER , Australia Felix , and South AustraliafFilthEditim . J Also , by the same Author fin afew days ) , mHE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO NATAL . JL With a Map . London : Effingham Wilson . Commercial an * Colonial Bookseller and Stationer , u , Royal Exchange .
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TO BE SOLD . A FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , at Lowbands , well cropped ; woeat , one acre and one road ; barley , half an acre , cut and stacked . There are seventy fruit trees , a pig-sty cap ible of containing from six to ten pigs , with a wellfenced-rnn . ..... . . Communications to be addressed ( with a postage stamp enclosed ) to Mr O'Brien , schoolmaster , Lowbands , Redmarley , near Gloucester .
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Will be published in a day or two , ' . THE TRIAL OF DR M'DOUALL at Liverpool , on the 28 th of August last . Printed and published by Mr A . Heywood , of Mancheater .
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SNIG'S END . TO BE SOLD . A THRBE-ACRB ALLOTMENT , well cropped , consisting of Barley , Potatoes , Turnips , Vetches , Peas , Cabbages , Ac-Application to be made to W . G ., No . 9 . Snig ' s End , or to the Directors , 144 , HighHolbora , London .
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MINSTER LOVEL . TO BE SOLD , A FOUR-ACRE FARM , ( full cropped , Three Pigs . Tools , and Implements , with various additions to tbe House and Premises Applv to T . Gilbert , 34 , Brizenorton-road , Minster ) Lorel , Oxfordshire , or to the Directors , H 4 , High Holborn , London .
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TO TAILORS , By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . . NOW BEADT , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ aid Co ., 12 , Eart-street , Bloomsbury-squaie , nearOxford . . treet , London ; and by G . Besoib , Holywell-street , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely exeested and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance efthis Print excels any before published , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitfing Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunt-; ug . Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extra-fitting Habit Pattern of ?» he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the stholeforany sixe fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Maying up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price 16 s . post free Us . HEAD and Co . ' s new scientific system of Cutting for 1848 is ready , and will supersede everything of the kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numbered and lettered , and on the scale of Eighteen IneUes . Wholesixe , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , for ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price ? s . Patterns to Measure ( all registered jcsordlng to Act of Parliament ) , pest free , Is . each . The whole sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square / London ; and all Booksellers . Post-office orders , an 4 Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Busts for fitting Ceats on ; Boys figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style an < J Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly short time .
Receipts Of Thb National. Land Cohipan7, For The Week Ending Thursday, September 7, Isis.
RECEIPTS OF THB NATIONAL . LAND COHIPAN 7 , FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , ISIS .
Pb* Mr O'Connor. Tuases. £ R. D. Bntterl...
PB * MR O'CONNOR . tUASES . £ r . d . Bntterley .. 2 0 0 Stoney Stratford , Stockport » 19 0 0 Watson .. 4 11 G Easington Lane 0 10 0 Oldham » 0 6 6 Rorhdale .. 1 15 0 Atberstone . 0 15 0 Nottingham , Newark-on-Trent 2 15 0 Sweet .. 5 5 0 Loughborough .. 3 12 11 Biandford „ 110 Preston , Liddie 6 12 8 Manchester .. 2 2 6 Westminster .. 0 5 0 Chelsea .. 2 13 0 Thos Thornberry 0 14 0 Windy Nook .. 0 9 0 John Anderson . 10 0 £ 4581 SXPBKSZ FUND . Tbo-nas Thorn . Nottingham , berry .. 0 2 0 Sweet .. 0 2 6 Rochdde „ 0 5 0 Newark on-Trent 6 3 9 £ 0 13 3 LsniFund ... 46 8 1 Expense Fund ... ... .... 0 13 3 4 ? 1 d Bank ... , ... •¦• 58 0 0 £ 105 I 4 whDiroH
, . CnaiBiopnEi Doili , Thos . Cube , ( Corret . Sec . ) PnuCT M'GxATU , ( Fln . Seo . ) FOR FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . BECEIVED BT W , BIDES . HMBBrigg .. 0 10 Pottery Field , ltu ? eley , per C Leeds , per J Hill .. 010 Page .. 150 Coventry , per W A few poor Devils , Hosier .. 0 5 0 Cariisle , per W . Swansea , per J Hail ,. 0 2 9 Phillips „ 0 lo 0 £ 1 7 9
To Mr Phtluis , Swansea . —I beg to say that I have not received the 6 s . 6 d . for tbe Victims , directed for me at the National Land Company's office . I cannot say why Mr Phillips ' * letters are not answered . ilss S . Simmonds . —We have not beard of the seven shillings sent to the Central Committee for the Defence Fund . Write to the party to whom you remitted . YJm . Rideb , beceived at land office . A few Friends , Wm Davis « 0 10 Greenwich , per An Enemy te Mr Whitcoabe 0 li 0 Oppression .. ISO Mr Sims .. 0 6 0 Ditto « 0 5 0 £ 2 6 6
DEFENCE FUND . XECEITED BT W . BIDES . Nottingham , per John Gale , St J Sweet M 0 13 Eeliert , Jersey 0 0 6 HUAnngien , £ ly 0 4 0 £ 0 5 9 FOR DR M DOUALL'S DEFENCE " KECHTOD BV W . RIDEB . Nottingham Shoe- New Basford . per makers , per J Fletcher .. 0 9 0 J Fletcher „ 0 2 6 Old Radford , per ditto „ 0 3 0 £ 0 13 6 THE LIBERTY FUND . I """Ten Chartists , Kidderminster , per WYeates , 0 2 6 FOB THE EXECOTIVE . Pottery Field , Leeds , per J Page - .. „ 0 5 0 fob Has h ' squall . Ten Chartists , Kidderminster , per J Yeates ., 0 5 0
Livebpool.—On Sunday Evening, Mr E D Mun...
LivEBPOOL . —On Sunday evening , Mr E d mun d Jones will deliver a lecture . Subject : —Communism ; what it is , and its ( Sects on scciety ;' at Jolley ' a Temperance Hotel . 76 , Cre £ sweIl-street : tocommence atefcjhtoYbck . A tea-party and ball will ba held ou Tuesday evening , September 12 th , at the same place . The proceeds to be given to the Victim Fund . Tea on the table at eibgt o'clock . Newcastle-cpon-Tine—The Land members of this branch are requested to attend the general quarterly meeting of the branch on Monday next , September 11 th . Tbe chair will be taken at seven , and the members' names called at eight o ' clock precisely . IItdb . —The members of this branch of the Land Company will meet on Sunday next , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , to receive subscriptions and transact other business .
Mr Ktdd will lecture iu the Town Hall , Oxford , ou the evenings of Monday and Tuesday next . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . Leeds . —Mr Theobald , from Manchester , will deliver two lectures to-morrow afternoon and evening , in the large room of the Baziar . A tea party will be held on Monday evening , when Mrs Theobald will deliver an address . Chateau —The members of tbis branch will hold a special meeting at James A . Rick ' s , New Cagelane , High-street , Chatham , on Monday evening . September 18 th , at eight o ' clock , when all members are requested to attend .
Athersiosb —At a meeting of the Land Members of the Atherstone locality , held on tto 5 : h , the propositions of tbe directors were unanimously adopted , except the reduction of tbe rents from five to feur percent ., which was considered impolitic . Ueckmosdwike . bear Leecs . —A lecture will be delivered by Mr Shackletoa , oi Queen ' s Head , injthe Red Chapel , top of Heckmotdwixe , on Sunday evening , September 10 : h , at half-past six o ' clock . Subject , "The People and their Rulers—their relations to each other . ' Mrs Theobald will deliver leceures at Halifax on Tuesday , and Bradford oa Wednesday .
One Mile From Lincoln.
ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN .
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TO BE SOLD , a COTTAGE FARM , c o nsi s tin g of an excellent dwelling hftuse , quite n ew , with dairy , back-kitcben , cow-nouse , piggeries , stabling , and < ther conveniences , enclosed with a high wall . The dwelling ia in . th e c e ntr e of th e farm , consisting of four acrei of excellent land , in high cultivation , facing the highway ; air pure and salubrious , and the water excellent . A similar farm with Five Acrbb . Also , Two Acres , with an excellent frontage , hut without a dwelling . A F . irm of Suit-five Agbbs with a cottage dwelling , two lar ^ e yards fur cattle , with extensive sheds , « nd an excellent bam . Two thirds ef the purchase money can be obtained on mortgage . Application to ba made to Mr Allsop , Royal Exchange , London .
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Price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( befere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE , Bt Ebhest Jonzs . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken .
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PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL . Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first victim of the Wh i g Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in cou rs e of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits . MR O'CONNOR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . On Monday week , tbe 18 tli instant , lhe hon . member for Nottingham will meet his constituents in any public p lace they may select , and will carry into effect two Points of the Charter , namely—Annual Parliaments , and Universal Suffrage , by tendering his resi gnation to the people ; and which , if accepted , he will cheerfull y resign the office of their representative , and , if refused , ; he will accept their renewed confidence as the tenure of office . Mr O'Connor upon that occasion will review the acts of the past session , and invites the Government reporters , policemen , spies , detectives , and informers , to chronicle his words .
The Northern Star, Saturday, September 9 , 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 9 , 1818 .
Labour, The Source Of All Wealth. It Is ...
LABOUR , THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH . It is a fact which cannot be too often reiterated , that " Labour is the source of all wealth . " And it is also a fact , that i g norance , stolid and inveterate i gnorance , of the Labour question , has become the dethroner of kings , the alarmist of monarchs , the hobgoblin of cap it a list s , and the g host ef Governments . It is an irrefutable fact , that the operations of machinery have stolen upon the watchmen
of Eng land ' s constitution , and the English system , like a thief in the dark ; and that , so profitable was the sudden change in its infancy to the revenue , the cap italist , and the fascinated labourer , that there are no laws upon the statute book to control the monster , save the abortion of a Ten Hours Bill , passed when infant labour was a drug , and the infant popul a t i on had become dwarfs , and so crippled as to threaten sterility and non-production .
The Government , charmed with an exchequer filled b y increased and unnatural dissipation ; the c a pitalist , exulting in the new discovery of coining infant-sweat into gold i and the reckless parents , who abandoned their " cold , quiet home "—the country air , and comparative contentment and peace , and sold themselves and little child-en at the flesh market , were so overjoyed with the first flush of prosperity , that the Government , capitalists ,
traders , merchants , traffickers in blood , and the duped people , all joined in one common league to establish that political reform which would give to the possessors of this Dew wealth a control over every other class of society . AnJ that change was to secure . Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform—that change was to enable Britain to def y the world in arms , and to rivet affection for the constitution in the breast of every Eng lishman .
But let us ask in how far this political change has improved the social condition of those by whose co-operation it was effected ? Who amongst them that undertook to supply the deficiency of old times , has ever spoken a word , or written a word , in favour of the people ' s share of that change ? but , up o n the contrary , while Parliament is nightl y engaged in passing laws f „ r the protection , not only of the property and ri g hts , but of the privileges , of the monied classes , do not Hume a nd Cobden , and the disci ples of the Manchester school , violentl y protest against the
ri ght of Parliament to interfere in the Labour question ? They say , " Arm us with powers to curb the disaffected , and to enable us to make merchandise of the destitution of the poor , and we will grant you the supplies toarm your police , to pay your detectives , to march and countermarch your troops , to erect your tents , to man your fleets , to prosecute your victims ^ and transport your felons ; but touch not our profit s , by interfering with labour , b y creating a market for its free exercise , or we will hurl you from the seat of power , and establish your enemies upon your ruins . ' '
We have laboured hard and incessantl y to prove that every class in society is irreparabl y injured by the injustice done to the labouring classes . A five-pound note is a five-pound note , and can be exchanged for five sovereigns and every soverei gn can be exchanged for twenty shillings ; but there are intermediate classes who look upon the note , the sovereign
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and the shilling , as the link which binds them to the system ; while from the lowest to the hig hest order of the middle-classes , and the aristocracy , none have the brains to understand that they are one and all directly dependent upon the labourer . _ We will not go into the solution of the Antediluvian problem , that if some didn 't work , all should starve , but we will take a review ' of the relation tha t subsists between the labourer and all other classes . Colburn , the aristocratic publisher , may sayjn his grandeur and mig htiness , " What have 1 to dj with the
vulgar labourer ? he does not read my publications ; he is no customer for my wares j but his disaffection , disloyalty , and discontent . may je o pardise my trade , and cause my poverty , theref o re , tax me to keep him in subjection . '' The wine merchant , the silk mercer , the paper maker , the aristocratic bootmaker , the clothier , the merchant , the banker , the broker , the peer , and the queen , may all hold those op inions as to their independence of the labourclass but let us show how links of the great
; social chain , of which labour is the strongest , and that from which alone all others extract their strength , mutually depend upon each other . Colburn says , " No labouring man reads my books , and therefore I am independent of labour ; " the silk mercer says , ' ? No labourer's wife comes to my counter , and what care I for labour ; " the wine merchant says , "Talk not to me of the prosperity of the labourer , he quaffs no wine" —but see the link by which they are bound together .
The Labourer at full emp loyment , at remunerative wages , wears clothes , and shoes , and a hat ; and his tailor , his shoemaker , and his hatter then de . il more extensively with the chandler , the butcher , and the baker ; the chandler , the butcher , and the baker deal more extensively with the mercer , the h a berdasher , and the grocer ; the mercer , the haberdasher , and the grocer deal more extensivel y with the s ilk merchant , tbe wine merchant , a nd the more aristocratic tailors and shoemakers ; the silk mercers , the . wine merchants , the tailors
and shoemakers , deal more extensively with Mr Colburn , with bankers , and with merchants ; the Commoner and the Peer have better markets for the produce of their land , and greater security for their rents ; the Government have a more extensive Exchequer , flowing through so many channels from Labour , its spring and source ; the Queen has a more secure seat upon the throne ; the expenditure of the country is less ; the confidence of all is greater , because , the comforts of all are increased .
Under these circumstances , will those who float upon the tributary streams , all springing from the one great source , deny their dependence upon Labour , or dare to assert that the stability of the throne , the security of Eng . land ' s Constitution and institutions , do not mainl y—nay , w holl y—depend upon the profitable emp loyment of the labouring classes ? Talk not to us of the dark age of Tory ism , of the " bloody old Times , " and the darker ages ,
when Pitt possessed the mag ici a n ' s wand , and , with talismanic influence , commanded money to any amount—who , with a touch of the magician ' s wand , s a id , " O pen Ses a me . " and the chest gave forth its abundance and superabundance . Those may be called the days of monop o l y , of reckless expenditure , and coercion ; but contrast the condition of the working classes in those days of England's deg r ad a tion , with their present condition , in the sixteenth year of the Reformed Parliament .
The middle classes and aristocracy of this coantry were wont to look upon the Exchequer as the honi of Amalthea , from which the more you extracted the more remained behind ; but now they have discovered the value of the policy that pauperises one class that another class may live upon their destitution They have found out , that , if 2 0 s . make a sovereign , and five sovereigns a live-pound note , that those coins and that " rag '' receive their value from the sweat ' o f the wo rking man ; and
the working man has discovered that there must be something rotten in a system which consi gns him to degraded pauperism , while the land of his birth is sterile and dry for want of his muscle and his sweat . And he is beginning to discover that there is something unnatural in the policy which reconciles all above him to the infliction of increased taxation , for no other purpose than to secure passive obedience and non-resistance , even to the suppression of comp laint or murmur , while he and his famil y are in a state of starvation .
Do the rulers of this land hope to substitute the falsehoods of the Press for the loyalty of the subject ? Tiie Morning Chronicle assures its readers that her Majesty was received , on Tuesday last , with the most rapturous applause of her devoted and loyal subjects ; and although we can be as loyal and devoted to a system—to a constitution—and institutionswhich do even-handed justice to all , as any other person ; yet we declare , f r om our own knowled ge—our own senses—and our own ears , that the progress of the Queen through her devoted and loyal subjectson Tuesday
, last , was dumb show—a perfect pantomime We w alked part of the distance alongside the royal cavalcade , and we declare , upon the " true faith of a Christian ' ' th a t th e re w as not one single cheer , with the exception of a faint attempt by about a dozen ladies and gentlemen standing upon the steps of the Solicitor to the Treasury ' s office . Now , we ask with what show of deceucy this apostate journal , that has turned from p hysical force Chartism to physical force reform , from p h ysical force reform to moral force Whiggery , and from moral force Whi ggery to v a pid , puling , and imbecile
Toryism , can thus hope to prey upon tho credulity of its dupes ? We have now shown that Labour is the source of all wealth—that it is the main link , nay , the centre of the social chain—that once snapped , society becomes convulsed—once weakened , s o ciety becomes disorganised . And however traders in fear may flatter themselves with a notion that , rampant Chartism once suppressed , the rolling ship ri g hts herself , we would caution the oversanguine not to entertain a notion that shillings , s overeigns , and five-pound notes grow in the Exchequer ; but to believe that their
transfer from hand to hand , however manufactured , wholly and entirely depends upon their first passing through the hands # f the honest labourer . While in passing , although not looked upon as an authority by profitmongers , we would call the attention of our readers to the announcements made by Mr Feargus O'Connor in his place in Parliament , and published in the newspapers of the day . Upon the question of Repeal he said , "There is Iri s h veng ea nce pent up in Ameri c a and the Americans look upon England with a jealous eye , and will be prepared to take advantage of Eng land's weakness . " Again , "While you are
coercing Ireland at home , take care that Can ada m a y not s e ek to thro w o ff your dominion / ' Again , '' If you pass this Gagging Bill for the suppression of public opinion , you may rel y upon it that secret clubs and societies will be established , against whose , machinations you may not be so well prepared to defend yourselves , as against ' open and advised speaking . ' '' A gain , " If this weather continues for another fortnig ht , no matter what your harvest weather may be , your crop will be miserabl y deficient , as the seed will have peri s hed in y o ur clay lands , your cold lands , and your wet lands . "
This was predicted in the middle of A pril , and the result proves its correctness , as the most practical men now agree , that , under the most favourable subsequent circumstances , the wheat crop will be miserably deficient . Eng . land is not able to bear another famine , and unless England ' s rulers are prepared to work a miracle , they will not much longer be able to reconcile the farming class to the payment of rents measured by protection ; the payment of tithes , measured by indifference occasioned by prosperity ; to have the produce of their dear land , with rents , rates , taxes , and tithes , measured by protection , placed in competition withUie produce of cheap land , low rates and
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taxes , and an inexpensive government . Let us draw the picture ; here are two bags of wheat in Mark-lane Market—American and English produce . The miller opens the Eng lish bag , and straightway out hops the Crown and Sceptre , the Crozier and Mitre , the fund lord , the t a x eater , poor rates , the parson , the curate , the army , the navy , the pensioners , the police , the detectives , the jud ges , the placemen , the Income Tax , the Window Tax , high rent , and Kennington Common , with the innumerable etceteras ; then he opens the American bag , and sees a cheap President , cheap land , and
li g ht frei ght . Now , we would ask , in the name o f common sense , how the producer of the English bag of wheat can stand competition with the produce of the American bag ; and let it be borne in mind that wheat establishes the value of gold , and that the loss of five million s wo rth o f Eng lish wheat , would cause more serious disasters than the loss of twenty millions worth of manufactured goods . Thus we show , and indisputabl y , that before confidence can be restored , the Labour question must be considered , and justice must be done to the Labourer
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IRELAND . The arguments used in our comment upon the Labour Question , will equally app l y to Ireland as to England . Ireland is a fertile country , and the energies of her peop le have been wasted for more than a quarter of a century in the visionarj pursuit of a handful of moonshine . They have been instructed to disregard all measures save that one which was calculated to restore their nationality—and , as upon former occ a sions , it now becomes our duty—and a painful one it is—to review tbe mode adopted by the Irish people and their accredited leaders , for the a c c o m p lishment of their darling object .
We pass over every General Election , fr o m the period of Emanci p a ti o n and Ref o rm w hen Catholics were admitted to the Leg islature , and when tbe honest and unpurchaseable votes of the brave Catholic peop le were g iven to candidates of their own creed , in spite of the threats , and in defiance of the persecution of their Protestant taskmasters . It is painful to review those times which bring to our recollection the patriotic p led ges of the candidate , the heroic devotion of the electors , and the sordid , the base , and contemptible prostitution
of their chosen members . The result of every contested election since the Reform Bill , was capable of achieving the nationality of Ireland , had not her representative power been basel y bartered for Saxon patronage , f o r pelf , for title , for place , emolument , and distinction . And what is Ireland ' s reward ? The flimsy boast of a few degenerate Catholic Jud ges , an apostate Catholic Attorney-General , a set of degraded Catholic officials , who would establish their claim to impartiality by being the most violent persecutors of their persecuted
race . It was to be hoped that this wholesale confiscation of Irish loyalty would have ended with the demise of the National Salesman , and th a t Irish members , left free to act , unfettered b y the dread of denunciation , and linked together by the love of fatherland , would have ri s en superior to by-gone prejudices , and , confederated together , would have stood like a cemented rock against the storm of Saxon oppression .
If , in all previous parliaments , the Irish members were armed with the pretext that they were but so many arro w s in the great archer ' s quiver , and that bowing before bis uncontrolled leadership was the surest mode of acquiring the confidence of their countrymen , the same reasoning does not hold goo d as to Ireland ' s present representatives—Gird forgive us—Ireland forgive us—Justice forg ive
us—for having used the term . If the present representation of the Irish peop le is a correct and faithful miniature of the full-length portrait of Irish nationality outlined in theRepecil of the Union , our humble but sincere prayer would be , that the destinies of that country should never be committed to a whole Parliament of such cri pp les , mercenaries , and political apostates .
Since Parliaments were established to the p resent moment , —nay , since society was established , and since every class had its rabble , there never was such a rabble of any , the most profligate class , as the Irish rabble of the House of Commons . As landlords , they surfeit us with their fulsome jargon about the area of taxation and the administration of the Poorlaw ; as " Protestants , they disgust you with their anti path y to the Pope and the Popish relig ion ; as barristers , they are contemptible for their narrowness of conception , prejudice , and i gnorance ; and as liberal , ( save the mark !) they are contemptible for their sj'cophancy , their venality , and pros t ituti o n . The slaves return the ministerial nod as if it was
condescension to be recognised ; they accept a ministerial invitation " to feed , " as though it was an honour conferred upon their virtue , their talent , or their integrity ; they bluster about Saxon oppression , but yield submissivel y to the Saxon yoke . Upon the most important questions , even connected with the lives o ; millions , Ireland can furnish her jester ; upon matters of relig ion , her fanatic ; and upon matters of policy , her buffoon . In short , allow us to pick the odd number of five from the scabb y lot , and a more contemptible set could not be selected from the rabble of all classes , Notwithstanding this glaring and irrefutable f a ct , staring the Irish people in the face , they seek for a national representation of such a set of prostitutes .
We argue the question thus , as the Irishman who argued the converse , when he tasted the quince in the apple pie , and upon asking what it was , when he was told it was a q u ince , excl a imed , " If one quince makes an apple p ie so good , what the devil would an apple pie be if it w a s all quinces V So we say , "Ifahundredand five Irish Members make a Parliament so bad , what the devil would a Parliament be if it were all Irish Members ?'' While a s et of place-hunting beagars have
been roaring for a Repeal of the Union , and denouncing Chartism , we have witnessed the pr o fli gacy of pledged Repealers ; we have witnessed the manner in which they are boug ht and sold in the Sjxon Parliament , and , notwithstanding their degeneracy , we h a ve looked to Annual Parliaments , Universal Suffrage , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , Payment of Members , and vig ilant popular control as a means of securing a fair representation .
We do not include Vote by Ballot in the Irish Charter , a nd f o r this p lain and simple reason—because , instead of requiring the mask , which the brave Irish peop le would look upon as an insult , every Irish elector would glory in being enabled to boast of the independent manner he voted for the man of his choice . But , although we have placed the dark side of the p icture before our Irish brethren—and althoug h the pigmy Saxon Prime Minister is now upon a spying tour—and although the voice of complaint is lulled—although the famishing must die without a moan , and the over population is to be thinned by transportation—although the Saxon law is as desolating as the Saxon sword—and although
passive obedience and non-resistance are preached by the pastors of the peop le as the Christian doctrine , we are nevertheless , not hopeless . They may pack their juries , suborn their witnesses , decorate their soldiers , reward their policemen , and commend their Judges , their officials , and their lickspittles , the day will yet arrive when the voice of Knowled ge will silence the cannon s l oar—when Rig ht will overcome Mi ght—when the felon , Mitchel , will return to the fond embraces of his disconsolate family—aud when Ireland will be herself again . Aforetime , when trade was in its infancy , she carried on commerce with distant countries ; when literature was a novelty in other countries , she sent her
philosophers to distant regions ; she has preserved her relig ion , her patriotism , and hospitality , against the might of the oppressor ; and , althoug h there has been a dark cloud e ' er the destinies of Ireland , in the distant horizon we see the dim shadow of Liberty , and the heart gladdens . " In our exlacy ko exclaim , Can It be !' When a voice r »» ponas ' Union and Liberty !'"
Parliamentary Review . The Session Which...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The session which seemed as though it would never come to « w end , has , at l e ngth , succumbed to the great conqueror—Time . After nearly ten m o nth s' duration , it was formally closed , as it had been opened , by the Queen in person . A contemporary has taken the trouble to reckon up the number of sittings , the number of hours consumed b y these sittings , and the hours per dim which each working legislator must have been occupied during Su „ months - Tl > e calculation is curious , lhe House of Commons met 168 times , and the House of Lords 136 . The duration oi
each sitting of the House of Commons , cannot be reckoned at less than an average of seven hours ; it has , therefore , since last November sat in full conclave about 1 , 176 hours . If , addition to this public business , there have met 44 public committees , with an average on fifteen members on each ; 28 election committees , with five members on each ; 14 railway committees , each with five members ; 17 private bill Committees , with five members each ; and 112 other committees , 15 of
which had five , and the rest three members each . In all during the session , 215 Committees , requiring 1301 members to constitute them . If the work had been equally divided , every member of the Housemust have served on t w o com m ittees , but scarcely more than onehalf of the members have been reall y working men , so that upwards oi 300 of them must on the 168 days on which nocturnal sittings took p lace , as well as committee meetings , have been lab o uring for twelvehoursa day , and for seven hours per day on the other days when no
Committees met . It is no wonder that human patience and fortitude should have broken down under such fag ging task work , more especiall y as no profitable or satisfactory results followed these interminable labours . It is no wonder that everybod y , within and without Parliament , hailed with delight the close of a session whose barrenness was in the direct proportion to its length , and that the prorogation should have been one of the most p leasant and happy days
of the whole season . It would almost appear as if the weather itself had participated in the general feeling at its termination . The chill y air and cloudy skies which have mocked the name of summer during the greater part of the season were in keeping with the wretched temperature of Parliamentary oratory , and the nature of Parliamentary business . The bri ght sun and clear sky of Tuesday admirably typified the national rejoicing at gel ting rid of a n a ti o nal nuisance , for a time at least .
Of course the fineness of the w eather , and the usual exhibition of regal pomp , attracted a large number of the spectacle-hunters who abound in the metropolis , and a few of the exceedingly loyal and sentimental denizens took occasion to parade their attachment to the Throne and Constitution , in a somewhat c o nsp icuous way , whereupon the veracious Times indited a flaming and most sentimental panegyric on the loyalty of the nation , and drew a contrast—in its own slashing stylebetween happy Britain , under such a Queen , and other countries that have had the
misfortune to quarrel with their old rulers . Now nobody h a s c a lled in que s ti o n t he pers o nal co nduct and bearing of the S o verei gn of these realms . Whatever unpopularity may attach to her Ministers ' , we believe that a sentiment of loyal respect and esteem for Queen Victoria pervades the country . But , at the same time , that feeling of personal respect is quite compatible with the existence of a general feeling of discontent among the population with the working of our institutions—a discontent which such sessions as that just closed will do little indeed to allay .
The cheers which greeted the royal cavalcade , on its way to the new Palace at Westmin s ter , were no more indicative of the contentment of the people at large and of their attachment to our institutions than the applause which fallows the brilliant close of the pyrotechnical spectacle at Vauxhall . People s hout from mere excitement a t the sight of a fine show . But the excitement is evanescent When the rockets which went up so splendidly have come down again as naked sticks ; when the fiery serpents have whizzed into darkness ,
and blazing stars and revolving wheels have flashed and disappeared , the excitement vanishes too , and nothing but a smell of wasted gunpowder remains behind . Much the same with the gaud y close of a useless session , in which much breath was needlessly spent that would have been more profitably employed had it been even applied to the humble task of cooling the porridge of the speakers . We have so constantly and so regularly tracked the proceedings of this do-nothing session , that to enter at any leng th into a review of its course now would be a work of
supererogation—another killing of the already thrice-slain . The subject is worn threadbare , and we are sick of it . To waste many more words upon it would almost be repeating its own sin of making " much ado about nothing . " Briefl y , then , let us endeavour to sum up the results of this ten months " palaver . " The Session has produced about 100 matter of form routine bills—five or six measures of general utility , such as the Encumbered Estates Bill and the Public Health Bill—but in such an emasculated and mutilated state , that their practical value must be estimated very
lo w l y indeed . Even the Ministers , while taking credit , in a separate paragraph of the Royal S peech , for the last-named measure , speak of it onl y as a "foundation for continual advances in this benefici a l work , " showing that they were so fully aware of its defects , and felt that tbe public were so likewise , that they did not dare to go beyond that very mitigated commendation of their handiwork . To counterbalance this want of useful and remedial measures , there has been no lack of mischievous and coercive ones . Ireland has received from the
hands of a Ministry—who took office solely on condition that she was in future to be governed by a remedial policy—no less than four editions of coercion , each more stringent than the other . In Finance , after four different Budgets were propounded by that incomparable Solon in money matters—Sir Charles Wood-the business ended by saddling the country with two miUtons more debt , and the prospect of double that amount , perhaps , to be added next year , should the country continue to be cursed with Whig mismanagement so long . So comp le t ely was everybody worn out b y the purposeless and futile labours of the Session , that this last achievement
was performed in a house consisting of fewer members than the number required by the rules of consti t u t e a bouse . " Sir Charles propounded his last Budget to thirty-eight members only , and to these we noticed several who were most comfortably asleep . I ( it had not been out ol courtesy , the thread of his discourse might have been cut short ,, ami the House counted out . On Monday night the third reading of the Commission of Sewers Bill , which affects the Metropolis in a very important and vital manner , was carried in the House of Lords by a majority of live to four , thus showing that iu the upper branch of tbe Legislature attendance had
dropped to zero . If the Prorogation had been delayed a week longer , there would have been nobody t o add r ess as My Lords and Gentlemen . " save the Usher of the lllack Rod and the paid officers of the two houses , for even the Ministry were seized with the desire to get away from it . Lord John Russell , strangel y enoug h , scampered off to Ireland before the close ; and the other members of tbe Adminis tration were equally eager to escape . Most of them had done so , leaving to the Queen the task of putting an extinguisher upon a Session whieh has i done more to bring popular legislation and popularly ¦ constitutedIj : Ulatire bodies into contempt , than
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09091848/page/4/
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