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/ The Northern Star. July 1 ^J T Gej ^
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T -i ^ D and COTTAGES for li " 1 EKT 0 TA 1 . EU * "SLY * . !! The mvnrrof the DiMa JHI , " ° » ' ^< J" £ 5 *** HsJiidlEstatrS betas »»*» W F " rcl ) a = "J ™* - - ««« , miirh larger uY . m thc fVf . -t three y \ A VKW'Cr , he is , according to his custom , going to take his best tenants on to his new estate ; therefore teetotalers will ' . a « ooi character liave r .-jw a good chance ' . Invalidate possession of & two-roomed cottage , witb two acres of land may now be had on the Dibicn Hill Estate for £ 3 per annum ; and two acres may be had oil the Colney Hatch Esla ' . e for JSfl 10 per annum , and an erection easily convertible into a living place , at such rent a-s may be agreed upon . I ' c-rsons visiijng cither Estates will be perfectly satisfied a * t <> liitir fertility , on seeing the splendid crops raised by Hit allottees :: i twin places . Any ra £ j . £ MaV : c- t-.-ct- > ta ; er willing to purchase wheat , jmtato , and oifcfr growing crops , at a valuation , will have tin- ?>< -st chance of heirs ; accepted as n tenant . In £ u-t the owner cfiirese Estates bees it lobe known , thai lie has large Jiecuniary resources £ t his command , and -will inanuliv .-r . lre ias » ALUnwiESTS n » bins as he meets
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J > U YUU WAST LUXUKHM AND JJEAUTlltL HAIR , WHISKERS . Ac . I THE immense public patronage bestowed uj-oa -Miss Ellen Gra-iatrrs XIOl'KREXE is sufficient fvidcT . cc- of i-. < araazins j . r < -j . erties in retrodurinjj t ! . e huinan hair , whether lost ; by disease or natural decay , pivvt ntiar : the hair falini ! : oil , strengthening weak hair , and ihivkh . ? grewicss . It is guaranteed to produce Whiskers , i ! ons ; : ic : ii ?» s , \ tc ., in three weeks , without fail . It is tlef an : Jv sreiittd . and sitflieie ; : ! for three months' use , will 1 * > e : it free , .. a receipt vf 24 p 3 Stai ? e stamps , by Miss l ^ LLES GRAHAM , t ' .. Amptusi-str & i-t , Oray's-inn-road , ! , < - »
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HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT . ' HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . Cure of a Bisordercd Liver and Stomach , when in a most / tojxless state . Extract of a Letter from Mr , Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated the 15 th of January , 1851 ) . Sm , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with Cod ' s Wessins , of restoring we to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I was on the brink of the grave . 1 had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that tliey considered my case as hopeless . 1 ought to say that I had been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition a « hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of your jiills , which soon gave relief , and ly persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning jour Ointment over my chest and stomach , and r ight side , I have by their means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everylK > dy who knows me , —( Signed ) Matthew Hakvev To Professor Hollow a v .
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Just rubliskd , IU NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACHj THE EMIGRANT'S GuiuFTO THE GOLDEN LAND f | A L I F O B N I A \ J ITS PAST HISTORY -, ITS PRESET POSITION ; ITS FDTCRE PROSPECTS : tvrrn a jjixcte axd authentic account of THE DISCOVERY OF TUB GOLD REGION , AND THE SUHSEQUEXT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS .
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In Nos . at One Pennv each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED IN THE SEASCfl FOR SIR J . FRANEIN CONTAINING ALL THE RECENT VDYAGES TO THE POLAR REGIONS . Including in particular tho . Expedition sent out under the command OP SIR JAMES EOSS TO DAVIS' STBAITS AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY With other imjiortant and highly interesting information relative to the Expedition under
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Now Publishing in Nos . at One Penny each . By the Authoress of * The Gipsev Girl . * Each Pesky Nn . MBEaof this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS " OF LOVE OB , WOMAN'S REWARD : BV Mbs . II . M . LOWNDES , ( Late HANNAH MARIA JONES , ) Authoress of ' Emilv iloreland . * ' Kosaline Woodbridge , Gipsey Mother , '' Scottish Chieftains . '' Forged Note , ' ' Wedding King , ' 'Strangers of the Glen ,, ' Victim of Fashion ' 'Child of Mystery , ' etc .
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EMIGRATION . THE LAND ! THE LAND ! TO THE WORKING CLASSES AND OTHERS . In consequence of the immense success that has attended ihe societies instituted by Mr . W . D , Ruffy , a few friends have joined with him in a society , for the purpose of Emigration and General Colonisation ; they purpose to issue 3 , 009 shares of one pound each , deposit'is . 6 d . per share , calls 2 s . Cd . per month . The following eligible investment is now offered : —A freehold estate in Eastern Canada , comprising 20 , 000 acres of land , within seventeen miles of a market town and tbe port of St . Francis ; from which steamers ply daily to Montreal and Quebec ; the River Nicolet , and the River Becancour , runs through the Estate , and are navigable for boats and floating timber down to the St- Lawrence . This estate presents as much as twenty miles of fr . intage to these rivers , with several mill sites , & c . ; the land , which is of a fair average quality , abounds with timber , which , on being disposed of , it is considered will more than pay the price required for the land .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! Dr . Alfeed Barker begs to inform the readers of thc NoaxHEas Stak that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand Testimonials will shortly he pubUshed . BEAJl THE FOLLOWING : — 'In the five cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectly succeeded ; send me another for a case of Scro . tal Hernia . '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . ' We have witnessed tlie cure of three eases of Rupture by Dr . Hakker ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia . '—Medical Joobkal . ' Ycur remedy has cured my Rupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its coming down . ' —Miss Symmonds , JBayswater . ' A fair time has elapsed since I used your remedy , and moreover 1 have been examined by a surgeon , who declares it is quite cured . ' —Mr . Potts . Bath .
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-w unemployed frame-work knitters . She has also addressed them on frugality , and offered a bonus of ten per cent , on all monies which they will place in ner hands during the first twelve months .
The Charter And The Land I
THE CHARTER AND THE LAND I
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Hekkisosoat ' e , Her « . * PUBLIC MEETING J \ Will be HELD AT O'COXNORVILLE , Os Mosdav , Julv Urn , 1851 . FEARGUS O'COXXOB , ESQ ., M . P ., Will deliver an address , \ nd the following gentlemen from London are invited to taitcnart in the business :-T . Wakley , Esq ., M . P ., G . W . M . Revnolds , Esq ., John Sewell Esq ., Ernest Jones , Esq ., Thornton Hunt , Esq . Messrs . T , M . Wheeler , R . Broomfield G J Stratton , J . Shaw , John Arnott , Messrs . Loekhart ' ana Ham Ron , of Aylesbury , and Biggs and Miller , of Chair to be taken at three o'elpck by W . Diuke , Esq .
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NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Odice , U , Soatharopton-si eet , Strand . THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1 hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sundat next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth " locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . On Sundav evening next , at the Crawn and Anchor , Cheshirc-sifeet , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonhridge-street , New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On Sunday evening , July 20 th , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Mr . Ernest Jones will lecture . Subject .- ' Christianity versus Mammon , or , the Doings of the Bishops . ' . . T .. , „ . On thc same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Leicester-place , St . Pcter ' s-terrace , llattongarden , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening at tho Woodman Tavern , Whitestreet , Waterloo Town , at six o ' clock the members of the locality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered .
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TBE CRYSTAL PALACE .
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The following Engvavinga of this unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office : — I . —View of the Exterior of the Building ; a magnificent print—two feet long— exquisitely engraved ; from a drawing ; furnished by Messrs . Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Piuce only Sixpence . II—Proofs of the Same Print , printed on thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price One Shilling .
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THE PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT PEEL . A few impressions of tins Magnificent Portrait of the late great Statesman are still left , and may be had at this Office .
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JUO , , VUCSK * C-U » I >—^ , Mk . Watts , Trowbridge . —It is discontinued . Ma . Bdrbidge , Truro . —The plates must be procured through jour London bookseller . The Potisu and Huxgaeun Reeucee 3 . —T . Bvc-wn ' s LUt . —Mr . Parker Cs lOd—Wilson ' s , Wardour-street , 2 s lOd —Messrs . Blunt 3 s—Yf imams 2 s 3 d—Mr . Robinson , K orwich , 5 s—Irishman 6 d—Welchman Ci—Crockett Is—Panton Is—Mr . Salmon fid—Wilson ' s , Wardour-street , Is Gd . Notice ! Turnmill-street will shortly close . G . Cavui ., 33 , Queen . strcet , Sheffield , would be obliged by the Secretary of the Hull Chartists lorwardiug his address , as early as convenient .
The Northern Star Saturday, July 1'2, Is51.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JULY 1 ' 2 , IS 51 .
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MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY CHARTISM . It really does appear that Lord John Russell intends to redeem his promise next year and bring in a new Reform Bill . On Tuesday he declined to open his lips against Mr . Berkeley's motion for the Ballot , kept the ' Treasury whip' in aheyance , and allowed the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General to vote for the motion . Tlie consequence was a majority of eighty-seven to fifty in its favour . Tho Government might have prevented this , or , at all events ,
made the majority much less ; they might have openly opposed the motion instead of contenting themselves with what may be called a negative resistance . They did neither ; from which we may infer that a point which has thus repeatedly been affirmed b y resolutions of the House of Commons may hare a chance of being included in tho New-Whig Charter of 1052 . At all events these resolutions will form an ample parliamentary justification for its inclusion .
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— n , 1 j t a t , * siuren-On the following day Lord Jou .. n dered another point of the Charter ; Nox * nerty Qualification . The cause of this concession was so singular that it almost leads to tho susp icion that the affair had been previously arranged behind the scenes by tho nSipal performers . Mr . Tufnell was for K 3 years fbe Wdor < Whipper-in for the Estry . He has only recently rested that position ; aud since that period has o-iven no sign of alienation from the rttrtY ho served so well and so faithfull y Neither was ho ever distinguished for ultra-liberalism so far as we remember ; and yet it was this gentleman who , on the niotion for going into committee on Mr . Butt s Colonial Property Qu alification Bill , on Wedesday raised the general question of
Pron , perty Qualification for Members of Parliament , and moved its abolition . Tho surprise that such a motion should come from such a quarter was not lessened when the Premier rose to reply . He admitted that the Property Qualification was wholly useless for its ostensible purposes , while it not uufrequently led to the exclusion of Members from tlie House , otherwise highly elig ible . The Scottish Members had no such qualification , and yet they were neither inferior in intellect—in business habits—or in capacity for legislation—to the Member s for England or Ireland . That being the case , he saw no reason why the whole question of qualification should not bo taken into consideration by Parliament ; but he
objected to the mode m which Mr . Tufneix introduced it , and suggested that it should either be done by a special Bill to abolish Property Qualifications altogether , or by a Bill for tho general purpose of improving our whole system of representation ; ' and whether , ' added his Lordship , ' such a Bill may be introduced by my ri ght honourable friend , or by any other Member , I shall be willing certainly to give the question & favourable consideration ; ' whereupon lie was greeted with loud cheers . ' The necessity of going a little further , in order to mako the abolition of this restriction on the choice of the electoral
body of any practical utility , was , however , immediately afterwards shown hy the noble Lord . It would , undoubtedly , be an impossibility for any one not possessing considerable means , to reside in London and attend to the duties of a Member of Parliament , unless he were paid for so doing . That is the logical sequence perceived by the framers of the People ' s Charter , and provided for in that document To the Payment of Members Lord John , however , is at present opposed , and when it is brought forward ' shall feel it his duty to vote against it ; ' while he is
incousistent enough to promise his vote and support of the . abolition of Property Qualification , which , without the other , will have no perceptible effect ou tho composition of the Legislature . It is quite true , as the Premier says , that a farmer who spent his time in St . Stephen ' s during the spring and great part of the summer , could not , at the same time , attend to his farming operations ; nor could the small tradesman attend to his customers , and his business must suffer . But what then ? If' farmers' and ' tradesmen 'let us add workmen—were thought worthy of
being called upon to do the work of the nation , why should they not bo paid for their labours 1 Mr , Henley gives the answer , because there are ' gentlemen at large , and political adventurers , who would recommend themselves to particular constituencies , ' and , in fact , make a trade of seats in the House . Well , are there no- ' gentlemen at large , ' and 'political adventurers , ' in the present House—and do these loose fish and adventurers exercise any influence whatever in it ? As for the idea that the nation would * fill the House with that class of persons , ' we are surprised that so
shrewd and clear-headed a man as Mr . Hen . ley should not understand the character of his countrymen better . We firmly believe that , under the system proposed by the People ' s Charter , there would be fewer ' gentlemen at large and political adventurers , ' than there are at present . If a stray specimen of either species did occasionally find his way into the House , his stay would be a short one . The annual reckonings with the constituents , provided for by the Charter , would clear up all accounts in a manner b y no means satisfactory to shams or humbugs of any kind .
We congratulate our readers , however , on the vastly improved tone on these questions , already apparent in the House of Commons . It shows that the time has come when , above all things , it is the incumbent and imperative duty of the Suffrage Reformers to unite in one vigorous and national organisation for the realisation of the object they all profess to have in view . A Reform Bill we shall have next
year , propounded by the present Ministry . Its complexion and extent will depend mainly upon ' the pressure from without . ' The approaching autumn and winter will furnish ample time and scope for creating a national movement in favour of this primary and allimportant object . We ought to be prepared to make use of the precious opportunity , which , if lost , may not occur again for many yeai'B to come .
The present aspect of the Suffrage question is the best possible proof that the past exertions of Chartists have not been wasted . The soedthey havesown has fallen upon fruitful soil , and , though slowly , is yielding a harvest , Parliamentary Reform , in some of its phases , which were a few years ago considered ultra , impracticable , and revolutionary , are no longer tabooed either by Government or b y Parliament . On the contrary , we find the two first Law Officers of the Crown voting , with a majority , in favour of the Ballot , and the PRIME MINISTER declaring his approval of the abolition of Propert y Qualification for members . Here are two points of tbe Charter conceded , and encouragement to work harder to gain further concessions in future .
We are Bearing the goal , and should put forth redoubled energy , cheered and invigorated by the prospect of ultimate and not distant success .
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MR . O'CONNOR AND HIS ASSAILANTS . From numerous quarters we receive information of incessant and evidently organised attempts to injure thc 'jStar , ' and through it the Proprietor—Mr . Feargus O'Connor . It is painful to add , that these attempts have met with encouragement in too many instances ,
instead of being rebuked , as they ought to have been . They have , wo believe , heen made , in some cases , by parties who had an evident personal bias and personal hostility to gratifypers onal purposes , and ambition to subserve while in others , even these reasons have been wanting for forgetting tbe great and substanfcia ! benefits conferred b y Mr . O'Connor and the ' Star , ' upon tlie industrial aud political movements of this country , for the last fourteen
years . During tho . whole of that period tho pages of this journal havo ever been freel y opened to the people , and at tho present moment there is 110 newspaper which is so emphatically , bo thoroughly , and so completely , at their command , or bo entirel y devoted to their interests . Previous to its establishment the working classes of this country had no organ in the press . They were isolated anil
ignorant of each other ' s opinions and purposes . Tho SStar' united aud informed them . It became tho medium of mutual intercourse and enlightenment , and mado Chartism National . At various periods journals have boon established on the same principles , but avowedly in opposition to tho ' Star . ' Instead of treating them as rivals , wo have always hailed them as coworkers , and given thc aid of our commendation , whatever it was
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! worth , and of our circulation when it was at its hig hest . With one recent exception , none of the journals thus commenced maintained . $ q existence of mote than a few ' months } and had they succeeded \ a their real object—that of putting down l ' , O'Connor and the' Star , ' they would aave left Chartism without an organ . With reference to the journal just alluded to , it is well known that but for the very large capital at its hack , supplied by gentlemen of the highest philanthropy , it could not have existed so long . But its proprietors and supporters as well as its conductors , entertain peculiar views , which have a necessary tendency to make its readers more select than numerous ; and while the influence of the
paper must ever bo of the most important and of tho most valuable kind , yet it will operate on the masses rather indirectly than directly . Between us thbre can be no rivalry ; on thc contrary , we frankly and gratefully acknowledge the powerful impetus it is giving to tho movement , in circles where the ' Star' would never penetrate . But for the people at large the ' Star' still continues the only dona fi de popular organ . Its columns are exclusively devoted to them ; the emancipation and the elevation of labour , continues to be tlie one and sole objectof its proprietor and conductors , apart from all considerations of popularity or profit , both of which have during its existence been lavishly devoted to that object .
Not in vain have we laboured . Tho altered tone of public opinion , on all the political and social questions of the age , is not a spontaneous production . It is the result of many a hard fought battle with Error , Prejudice , Ignorance aud Party Spirit , in which , we are proud to think , the * Star' has taken and given some hard blows . The great cause has prospered , and the principles for which we have contended are evidentl y gaining the ascendant . What we want is , that those for whom wo have struggled and laboured in the storm should not forget us in the sunshine . It will be long indeed ere they will find another man who will devote time , means , health , and energv , so unsparingly to their service by day
and night , month after month , and year after year , as Mr . O'Connor has done . By the cabals of his enemies , the treachery of his pretended friends , and the desertion of his summer weather colleagues , he is , at the present moment , called upon to face unusual difficulties—the bitterest of which is the ingratitude of those for whom he has made so many and such great sacrifices . The people , for whom he has toiled in their day of need , should rally round him in his time of trial , and demonstrate to the Government and to tho world , that neither ofiicial calumnies , personal detraction , nor base betrayal and partisan slanders can alienate their hearts from a leader who has , under all changes , and at all seasons , ever been true to them and to their
interests . As a specimen of the treatment to which Mr . O'CONNOR has been subjected by those from whom he had a right to expect very different things , we may refer to the letter signed 'Observer , ' in another column . The facts stated by the writer , as to the disposal of the Bank furniture by the Directors of the Land Company , we have been informed are correctly stated ; if not , we shall be happy to give an authorised contradiction . If true , how these parties can justify the act , after their solemn protestations that the Bank and the
Company had no connexion whatever , is inconceivable ; but not more so than the hot haste and eager speed with which they rushed into the 'Daily News , ' to cast imputations on Mr . O'Connor ' s character . The only explanation of these strange occurrences wo can find is in the old axiom , ' Necessitus non habet legem . ' Mr . O'Connor could no longer pay them their salaries out of his own pocket , so they denounced the temporary suspension of the Bank , and disclaimed all connexion with it in a paper , where , they well knew , such a communication would be welcome . That , however , did not prevent the recurrence of
the weekly bakers ' and butchers' hills ; and the same lawless necessity drove them to identify the Bank and the Company again , by the extraordinary act of appropriating the Bank furniture . As to the attacks of the same parties upon the policy and the proceedings of Mr . O'Connor , it is obvious that every word they utter against him is self-condemnatory . They were , in their official capacity , participators in the errors , if errors there he , and they ought not to have delayed criticism and disclaimers uutil both were conjoined with a financial position , which throws as much suspicion on the accuracy of their statements , as the purity of their motives .
This , however , is a mere sample of the numerous agencies which are now at work , and of the motives b y which Mr . O'Connor ' s assailants are actuated . We leave to the hundreds of thousands who admire the boldness and the determination with which he has ever upheld the cause of the People ' s Charter , to say whether such attempts shall succeed or not . Wo trust that improved health , and the close of the Parliamentary session , will shortly enable him to make a tour of tho principal industrial
districts ; and that thc thousands of old and tried friends of the Charter , who will then rally round him , will make such a demonstration as to show both the Government , which has sought to ' ruin him with expenses , ' and the private foes , who have , mole-like , worked in tho dark , to traduce his character and injure his property , that their efforts have failed in separating the people from the long tried , sincere , and devoted leader of Chartism . Tho intrigues to injure the circulation of the ' Star , ' we leave to be counteracted by the local knowledge and energy of our friends .
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THE CURSE OF LANDLORDISM > Depopulated Irelan d is a terrible illustration of the effects of landlordism and misgovernment . But for these twin curses , its population should have been two millions and a half more than the census shows it to lo . Instead of an increase of a million on the last decennial enumeration , there is a decrease of
upwards of a million and a half ! A general European war could scarcely have been more destructive of human life in the same time ; and those friends of 'Peace , Law , and Order' who shudder at revolutionary conflicts , and the loss of a few hundred lives in the effort to win individual and national freedom , may , at their leisure , count the cost of submission to a real , if not nominal , slavery . nder the
U sway of landlordism the destroying angel bas winnowed the laud with his wings . People and dwellings havo alike disappeared . In 1841 tho sister island had 8 , 175 , 000 inhabitants ; in lasi they have dwindled down to 0 , 515 , 7 W ! At the former period there were 1 , 304 , 300 d welling-houses . There are now onl y 1 , 115 , 007- Talk of French ' raznas in Algeria , or tllO dCBOlatmg ravages of a foreign foe t The wholesale destruction and wido-spread desolation ol Irish evictions cast them into the shade Under cover ot law , in the name of order , thev make a desert and call it peace ' Th
e apologists for this appalling state of things havo recoup to uumoiou * palli oi , a excuses , and subterfuges . They UmiuTu of the famine , ot cholera , 0 f typhus , of emig ration . But why did tho fumino uhoifl ,-., and typhus produoo loss dUustvous d & everywhere else than in iroia „( i ? m JbU thatm that country alone , population has been not onl y arrested , but absolutely dim . u « bed to 8 Uch a fri ghtful O . Mv . Ut , and that the dwellingsi ol the people havo also hetm iiucd , as ii a ioreigu invader had ynm \ imw tho and with fire ami sword v Tlu > . lamino might thin the pcoply , but it did not n { {\ w Banio tunc knock down tfu'ir houses Some
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other explanation must be found for this tv ' iota destruction . It lies in one word —? ftj ! . / tydlSTlL The potatoo rot could not be averted W human means ; but nowhere else did that calamity fall so severely as upon Ireland , because " landlordism had long reduced the people of that country to almost exclusive dependencp upon that root . The potatoc was their solo subsistence . When that perished they had nothing to foil back upon ; and hence the fear , ful mortality that ensued . The ravages ' of disease among a people , enfeebled by subsi « ting upon innutritions and scanty diet were "
in like manner , equally traceable to the mono ! poly of the soil , by it selfish and domi tlan t class ; and even the emigration to tho United States and Canada , which has undoubtedly been very great during the last three or foul years , may also be referred directl y to the fact that the people of Ireland found no resting place for the sole of their feet in their native land . The landlords had appropriated it all To use the language of Malthus , at Nature ' s board there was no place for them . They were told to be-gone . Famine , pestilence aud expatriation were merely different methods of executing the behests of landlordism
We may see in tho census the penalty which nations have to pay , whose institutions are infractions of the great laws of nature audi equity . If there be any one princi ple more clearly deducible from the scriptures on which the christian faith is based—or more powerfull y supported by all abstract reason and argument than another , it is that the soil of any country belongs to the whole people , and not to any section or class of that people . When this principle is violated , there can be neither stability , justice , nor beneficence in the other institutions of society . They arc all placed on a radically vicious and unsound foundation . By dint of much counteraction and
counter-planning , by mitigations here , and palliations there , theoriginal and fundamental error may be modified iu its injurious operation ; but underneath the whole , there will still flow steadily a deep and sweeping tide of social evil . Ignorance , poverty , and crime , must he the condition of the masses who are shut out by the robber institutions of the powerful few from the common heritage devised to them by their Creator .
The present Government has a heavy crime to answer , as the aider and abettor of the landlord class , who have sunk Ireland to its present deplorable condition . They ousted the late Sir R . Peel from office at the very moment when he was about to turn his attention to that country , with tho view of introducing substantial , permanent , and progressive measures of amelioration . That great statesman declared that thc time had come for the adoption of a remedial , instead of a coercive and repressive policy ; and the plan which he afterwards outlined , of an extensive and systematic scheme of colonisation , by which
capital , skill , and enterprise , would have been brought to hear upon tho employment of labour , and the development of Ireland ' s latent resources , indicated sufficientl y the nature of the measures we should have had from him had he remained in power , even to tho time of his lamented death . He would have initiated and set in motion a system of reproductive enterprise and employment of a self-sustaining aud progressive character , which would have opened up to Ireland a long vista of prosperity , and , instead of a largely diminished number of inhabitants , we might now have a population , showing , at least , a fair natural increase .
But Lord John Russell chose to ally himself with an angry and irritated faction , and for factious , party , and selfish purposes , to prevent that great man from conferring those blessings upon Ireland . He ousted his political rival from office , however , on the distinct pledge that he would act upon the principles laid down by him . The terrible year of famine followed . The landlords were utterl y beggared and broken down . Societ y was , aa it were , resolved into its primary elements in that country . An appeal was made to this
country for help , in the shape of millions sterling ; and the immensity of the suffering requiring immediate relief , demanded expenditure on no less a scale . But what would have been the conduct of a far-seeing and firm-minded statesman atsuch a crisis ? Would he not have seixed the opportunity of landlordhelplessness to insist that a fundamental reform should be the condition of assistance , and taken care that the monopolists of the SOU should never have the power of placing the country in such a position again .
Instead of doing that , Ireland was delivered over to tho landlords , bound hand and foot . Millions of sterling money were wasted in the most absurd and disgraceful manner by professed political economists , who aro always sneering at the impracticable crotchets of Communists and Socialists ; and the end of all is this damning record of their utter incapability , either to apprehend sound principles
of national Government , or to appl y them to practice . The blind have led the blind , and both have fallen into the ditch . Malthusian political economists and land monopolists have reached the ne plus ultra of their respective principles iu Ireland . How do they like their handywork ? Could "Anarchists , " or "Red Republicans , " or "Communists , " govern worse or produce depopulation and destruction upon a larger scale ?
Parliamentary Review. The Lords, In Thei...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Lords , in their decorous style , read tho Anti-Papal bill a first time on Monday , and postponed the debate for a fortnight , when the second reading will come on . It is threatened with opposition from Lord Monteagle , and Lord Aberdeen is also likely to resist it ; but the probability is , it will pass the Upper House very much in its present shape . Tbe increased stringency of the measure will not make it unpalatable to their Lordships , but the contrary ; and neither Monteagle nor Aberdeen have a party strong enough at their back to prevent its passing . The only
chance of modification lies in the possibility that the Minister expectant—the Earl of Derby , may think it prudent to take away tho dangerous power the bill gives to commou informers in its present shape . The Ministry having been twice completel y and decisively beaten on the amendments agreed to by the Commons , and having at last adopted them , will not venture to propose any alteration ; but the clause in question will be certain to keep any Govern ment whatever in continual hot water , if not to plunge Ireland into open rebellion ; and it behoves those who may have tho responsibilities of Government to look ahead .
3 he Earl of Ellenborough called the attention of the House a second time to the case ot J or be Ters . wd , greatly to the annoyance of Lord Broughton—late Sir Jons Cam Hoi ' . uouse , —who albeit used to defend dirty Indian jobs finds this the foulest he ever meddled with . , . « rl of Sn . OTESmmY has carried with bun into tho U pper House the same topics ami tho same stylo which distinguished him as Lord Ashley in tho Commons . On Tuesday night he made his premier es sai , en
moving the second reading of the Common Lodging Houses Bill , which has , for Us obje ct , to provide a better class of lodgings for tho poorer classes . The ample compilation ol deplorable facts which he threw down before then- Lordshi ps , poiuts to causes and remedies » " >• beyond either his comprehension , or their will to grapple with . But dilletanteism » Inshionablo jU 6 t now . The cant of p hilanthropy is catching ; and so the Lords echoed tho now member , and , amid praises from a ' sides , Hit ! bill passed the second reading .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 12, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12071851/page/4/
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