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TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR. ESQ., M.P
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St Thomas, Exeter, Aug. 5, 184S Deah Sir...
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1818.
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TO TAILORS . Bv approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , "" and H . R . H . Prince Albert . SOW READY , THB LOIfDOX ASD PARIS SPRING AVD SUMME R FASHI 05 S for 1843 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , nearOxl ' orajtreet , London ; and by S . Besgeb , Hoiyweli-stieet , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an esqaisitely execated and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance ef this Print escels any beforepnblished , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitfinff Frock , Riding Dress , and Huntine-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extra . fitting Habit Pattern of- he newest and most elegant stvie of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing tbe whole for any size fullv illustrated , manner ot Cutting and Halting up , and ail other information respecting gtvle and Fashion . Prke 10 s . post free lis . KEAD andCo . ' s new scientific sj stem of Cutting for IMS is ready , and will supersede everything of the Kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numbered and lettered , and on the scale of Eighteen Inches . Whole sire , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , vtitn tui . explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , tor ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price ; s . Patterns to Measure ( ail registered accruing to Act of Parliament ) , post free . Is . each The trhole sold bv Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbnry-square . ' London ; and all Booksellers . Post-omee orders , ani Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Basts for fitting Coats on ; Boys figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for ail kinds of Style and Fashion , which can be accomplished in aa incredibly short tice .
To Feargus O'Connor. Esq., M.P
TO FEARGUS O'CONNOR . ESQ ., M . P
St Thomas, Exeter, Aug. 5, 184s Deah Sir...
St Thomas , Exeter , Aug . 5 , 184 S Deah Sir , —Having read the minutes ef evidence before the committee appointed by the House of Commons , to investigate the affkirs of the National Land Company , I should be wanting in my duty if I did not express my feeling * of pleasure concerning facts and trutfes which tbat isqniry elicited . I was not surprised io fiad that you had been hones ; and faithful in the trust imposed on you , because 1 had alwajs sought t = discover yoar object , and found it to be purely disinterested in the benefiting of the w irfeing elates , but I was surprised at your exceeding liberality ; I find thai you have not only gratuitously devoted yourself to the work , but your property , handsomely . It calls forth ray gratitude , sad , I trcst , also my fellow shareholder ^' . I am g ! ad it hes been tested , as everything ot honest principle is always f qaal to the severest scrutiny ; and , to use the expression of a respectable tradesman in this
city—notatal ! connected with our Company— 'If Feargus O'Connor coses out o f this fire cleanhanded ( alluding ( o the investigation by the committee , ) he will ba proved to hi tha greatest benefactor living ; ' this I bslieve . aad thus I write . And now , sir , that the legal difficulties and the straining at gnats prevent our Compaay from being enrolled under the present act , I am quite willing to transfer my interest in tbe Company to yon , thereby voluntarily miking it your absolute property , as I have entire confidence that yon will cirry out tbe objects and benefits that W 3 were led to anticipate . 1 consider by sj doing wa shall not need a law to keep yen honest , nor to inspire us with greater confidence in you . I trust thai your hitherto underrating principles wiil be preserved to 3 on , lor I verily bslieve y . u to be raised up as s humble agent in the Almighty ' s hands , for ameliorating , to some ext ? nt , tho sufferinesofvnorfeiiow raea . I believe you will have
jonr reward . Remaining your sincere and well-wisher , E . L . Dcstix . P . S . —Should you accept of my proposal , please to inforame how to ' cffce' ; tbe saine , —it is a family ticket of sixteen acre * , all paid np . Mt Dear Sia , —Accept my most unbr . utic ' e i thanks for year kind lever : I accept cheerfully your ex pression ot nuabited confidence , box I decline respectfully jour generous offer , as my ( ondesi and de & rest hope is to live to fee the antiiipitions of evety sue vrho si ncbly confided in me leMwed . even beyond their rrcst sanguine expectations . It is hard to tum me from my curse when j'i » tice atd humanity are mr objects . With G ^' u bletsing , and the aid of such friends as yourself , I will struggle to the death to locste every one of cay loved acd confiding children , sad should I bcCijras r . pauper ia the struggle rone niil turn ce hiiDj-ry from their door , or refuse me shelter .
I remain . Your faithful and obliged Friend , Feargus 0 'Co . vnob
Approach Of The Cholera.—The Number Of D...
Approach of the Cholera . —The number of deaths in London during the week ending August 5 was 1 , 038 ; the average being 972 . OF this excess 21 deaths are ascribed to cholera , and 97 to scarlatina , —the average deaths from the latter being only 37 . The most noticeable fact , however , in this last return of the registrar-general is the great increase of mortality from diarrhoea and dysentery . During the last three weeks in May the deaths from these diseases were only 12 , 15 , and 16 . respectively ; during June they had increased to 37 ; and now , lor the week ending August 0 , vre find they have risen to the serious number of 15-1 which is more
than double the average of lire season . It should be remembered that diarrhoea was the foreruener of cholera when that scourge made its last visit to London ; and no time should be lost in making sanitary preparations for the impending visitation . Real Yorkshire . —A chap went up stairs wun neet raitber molty , an it hem dark , he put aght hiz airms ta prevent hiz' runnin agean owt ; at last , he went full bang we hiz nuazs ageant V * bed-poast , an daan he tumald . When he gat up agean , he sed . 'Well , its t' furst time at irver ah know'd at me noaze wor longer than me airms . '—Poymoor OlmenocJc .
On Sunday , when the minister of Udny entered the kirk , he was no less surprised than indignant to find that 'Jamie Fleming' had taken possession of the pulpit . ' Come doon , Jamie , ' said his Reverence . ' Come ye up , sir , ' answered Jamie : 'they ' re a stiffneckit and rebellious generation , sir , an' it will tack us bahh to manage them . ' A priest , in a rich abbey in Florence , named Gruidnoli , being a fisherman ' s son , caused a net to be spread every day on the table of his apartment , to put him , as he eaid , in mind of his origin . The abbott dying , this dissembled humility piocuredhim to be chosen his successor , and the net was used no more . 'Where ' s the net ! ' said a friend to him the day afterwards , on entering his apartment . 'There is no further occasion for the net , ' said Gruidnoli , 'when the fish 15 caught . ' «
'Let Sleeping Dogs Lie '—Fontenellelived lo be nearly one hundred years old : a lady of nearly equal age said to him one day in a large company , 'Monsieur , you and I stay here so long , that 'i have a notion that death has forgotten us . '' Speak as low as you can , madame , ' replied Fontenelle , * lest you should remind him of us . ' Smuggling of Fike-Arms from Greevock . — On Friday forenoon , two persons left in the halfpast ten train from Greenock to Glasgow , with a quantity of arms in their possession . The arms were carefully wrapped up in sail-cloth , and conveyed with evident precaution into a third-class carriage ; but from the suspicious appearance of the
roen , and their evideat endeavours to conceal their cargo , the suspicions of Mr Symington , the active railway manager here , were aroused , and it being contrary to the rules [ of the company that fire-arms be carried in an open carriage , Mr Symington , caused them to be removed from among the passengers and placed hi the railway luggage truck . It being known to the authorities here that quantities of arms ordered by , and belonging to the Arms Clubs , both of Chartists and Confederates , are concealed about town , it was supposed the two persons referred to mi g ht be removing a part of the arms to a place of greater concealment than Greenock at present is . Mr Gillespie , our indefatigable messenger-at-anns , was therefore dispatched to obtain accurate information . Iu an hour after
Mr G . was upon the correct track , and very soon ascertained that the two persons referred to were Irishmen , and known Repeaters ; that one of them had gone out at P 01 * . Glasgow , as ( j that the other , named William Broadbine , bad gone on to Glasgow with his parcel . On further inquiry in Glasgow and and Greenock , it was ascertained Broadbine had in tbat parcel two guns and four pistols . Mr Gillespie was , however , satisfied that Broadbine , as a broker , dealt in these articles , and that as Mr Agnew Broadbine ' * factor , had been demanding payments of large arrears of rent | Broadbine hai taken the guns and pistols to Glasgow , to sell or raise money upon them , and with no felonious intention . Mr G . reported so to tbe authorities , —Renfrewshire Advertiser .
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THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( befere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . Br Ebnest Jonis . This letter contains the substance of the address which Etne & t louea intended to deliver iu the courf , but which the judge would not allow to be BDoken . Also , price Threepence , 4 TEEHATIM REP 3 HT OP THE TRIALS OP ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHARTIST LEADERS . Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR ' S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . THE CHSAPIST EDITION EVER PUBLISHED . Price is . 6 & ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . In a few . ' ays will be published , price 33 ., TH £ EVIDENCE GIVEN BY JOHN SILLETT , In his Examination before the Committee on the National Land Company . This important bndy of evidence will form sixteen closelv printed pages , and conclusively prove what may be done , with Two Acrea , by explaining what John Sillett has done . NO . XIX ; OF " THE LABOURER , " FOR AUGUST , Contoioins ; a copious report of the Evidence taken fasfore the Land Conmitteo ia now published and ready for distribution . Watson , Qneen' 8 Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London : A Heywood , Manchester : and all Booksellers in Town and Countrr .
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ALLOTMENTS ON SALE . TWO TWO-ACRES' both cropped , at Snig ' s End . TWO FOUR-ACRES , at Bromsgrove . For particulars , af ply to the Directors , at their Office , 144 , High Holborn , Letidos .
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TO BE SOLD , at Snip's End . a Valuable THREE ' ACRE ALLOTMENT , cropped , together with Four Paid-up Four-Acre Shares in the Land Company . The Allotment Is most delightfully situated , and in most excellent soil . Price , altogether , JElOO . For further particulars , apply ( if by letter ) , post-paid , to J . B ., No . 7 , Snig ' s End , near Gloucester ,
The Northern Star, Saturday, August 12, 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , AUGUST 12 , 1818 .
Ireland. " Alas, Poor Country ! Almost A...
IRELAND . " Alas , poor country ! Almost afraid to know itself <" Ireland is now occupied not by foreign troops , but by her sister ' s sons , and her own police ; and , to the joy and exultation of the Saxon Press , the Catholic Priesthood of Ireland—whose ancestors have grinned through rocks and caverns , and who , under greater privations than the magnanimous O'Brien , whose tenner heart would not allow him to perpetrate cruelty , and whose honour would not allow him to steal , have aforetime traversed their native hills barefoot and in
sackclothare the reliable body-guard of the Saxon government . Let us not be misunderstood , as denouncing men who r ' ^ htei / usly and religiously set their faces against bloodshed and slaughter , but let ui . ask who have been the promoters of this rebellion i Who have sown the seed of dissension ? Who under their great teacher have for years designated the Saxon , and everything English , as the enemy and destroyer of everything Irish ? Who has ripened the mind for ihe present sedition and revolt ? Who
gathered the means of supplying the heat to the hotbed where the seed was sown , and the p lant was nourished ? Who led the monster meetings in 1843 ? Who recommended the fusion of the " moral force humbug ' * into the p hysical force declaration ? Who brought down upon their heads the denunciation { of that Parliament and that Press , which now extols their lo 3 alty to the Heavens I Who characterised them as the promoters of assassination , as the fomenters of sedition , and the organisers of rebellion ? Who called them the " SURPLICED RUFFIANS ? " And who
recommended them as patterns of religion , as promoters of Christianity , and as ministers of a Church , though designated as alien and heterodox , as worthy OF STATE SUPPORT ? Where , too , is their little leader ? Where is the '' young ruffian " who had the ^ insolence to speak of the violence of Chartism , and who now luxuriates in the prospect of eking profit out of the failure of those enthusiastic spirits who have been led to hazard and danger , in the attempt to reclaim their country ' s mind from that state of profitable baseness into which y ^ ars of teaching had plunged it ?
What living man that does not more honour O'Brien in his cell than John O'Connell rocked in his thoughts of exultation at his disaster ? The state of Ireland is frightful to contemplate ; but let not the English minister suppose that poverty , though paralysed for a moment , can be long kept in subjection , even by clerical sway . The Catholic priesthood , once the acknowledged serfs of the State , will lose their power and dominion , and then , in tbe words of Sir John Cam Hobhouse , in 1822 , "Though every Irish peasant had a rope round his neck , or a bayonet at his back , rebellion cannot be subdued until justice is done to a starving people- ' '
The question , as regards England , will presently resolve itself into one of pounds , shillings , and pence , and we much doubt that the Eng lish trader , or even the English landlord , will consider the colony worth preserving at an annual expenditure of some millions . The Press not only exults in the capture of O'Brien , but would now designate him as a silly fool and a maniac . We stop not to inquire the cause which led to his surrender—for surrender it undoubtedly was—and we do not belong to thut class « ho would heap reproach upon the head of one whose valour or cowardice must be measured by the valour or cowardice of others .
Of one thing , however , we feel assured , and that is—tbat if the potato crop has failed this year , which we trust may not be true , and assurances of the falsehood of which we receive from many parts of Ireland—but should such a calamity again fall upon Ireland , all the army at England ' s disposal , and all the money that her Exchequer can spare , and all the influence of the priesthood , will not be able to repress the national discontent . Landlords flying , trade standing still , money scarce , food destroyed , and disaffection raging , will place that country in such a position that nothing but the timely interference of some great and resolute
statesman can avert . But is it not ever the case with the strong , and especially with the stron g Whigs , to use vengeance and force , instead of timeiy and prudent concession ? Is it not a fact that the weakest ministry that ever held office now holds it upon the base tenure of the fears of their opponents , rather than upon confidence in themselves r Is this a state of things that can last ? Will the English trader , with the markets of the Continent , nay , of the world closed against him , consent to the sacrifice of his neighbour customer , who , by justice and conciliation , might be made a substitute for those colonies which are to be pampered or populated as consumers of British produce ?
Will the English landlord consent to increased taxation , to increased poor rates , to increased insecurity , to increased degradation , in order that a degenerate Whig government should substitute the bloody sword for the British constitution in Ireland ? and will tbey submit to the further tax upon their land and
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industry , to pay the Catholic priesthood , in the | i „ pe—the false , vain hope—oi making them tbe pacificators of their country ? and so poor , but so just is our opinion of the Irish landlords , that althoug h the voluntary contribution paid by their Catholic tenantry to the priesthood is not like tbe tithes paid to tho Protestant parsons , a lien upon the lands , yet let the State supply a substitute for that voluntary contribution , and nine out of every ten landlords in Ireland will raise the rent in proportion to the saving effected b y the change .
It is cowardly to avow the fact , but yet it must he stated , that we fear to give expression to our feelings upon the Irish question in the present rabid state of society—but let those who hope to govern by the sword , rather than by opinion , bear this fact in mind , that men become more desperate when the angry passions are pent up , and when vent cannot be given to their expression . All the physical force at the command of Britain can neither stab a sentiment , shoot an opinion , nor cut down thought ; and these are the fiuitful seeds of dissension , dissatisfaction and strife ,
which , in the long run , will out-general , outvie , and out-run the best physical-force arrangements . They rankle in men ' s minds ; they are set upon one object ; they are directed to the same result—and , however a few of the bubbles may be blown from the surface , they at last create a flood , which sweeps away every barrier that sophistry can oppose , every barricade , that the assailing power can erect ; and then , the successful decline the acceptance of terms from the assailant , with the poor modicum of which they would have
been more than satisfied , if granted to justice instead ^ of surrendered to fear . And , though thousands may fall in the struggle not yet commenced in Ireland , we would warn the Government again to take heed , to look around , to reflect upon what is passing in other nations , and to bear in mind that the American missionary , who was denied access to one of their former kings , subsequently became the Ambassador to his Court ; and , perchance , there may be as much magic in an American prisoner , now in an Irish gaol , as there formerly was in a rejected American missionary .
"To be forewarned , is to be forearmed ;" and we think we best discharge our obligation of allegiance to the Queen of England , by telling her that she is surrounded by artful and designing men , who lose all thought of her prerogative in ambition , self-interest , and selfaggrandisenient . Let her reflect upon the words of Grattan , an authority much relied upon , as the dead always are—however much they may be disregarded while living . He said— "Three million Irish slaves will rivet Britain ' s chains . " Oh , Queen ! beware ! Oh , Ministers ! take heed !! Oh , people ! be cautious , for assuredly the tyranny of your oppressors will secure your freedom , your own folly alone can retard its accomplishment .
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THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . As we promised the snarlers ln « t week , we have not yet done with them . Perhaps this National Land Company , in its several phases , presents to the sane and thinking portion of the community one of the most extraordinary features of the growth of mind , and progress of self-reliance ; while , to the insane and thoughtless—who still hopa to live on the disunion , the jealousies , and want of confidence of the millions—it presents the first stumhlingblocklaid in the path of avarice , cupidity and plunder .
The propounder and promoter of this scheme is a member of a persecuted family—a native of a degraded province—an alien in a strange land—exiled by the greatest juggler of ancient or modern times , because he would not be a coadjutor in the work of national degradation achieved through the prostitution of the Irish mind . And from the moment r , e set foot upon these shores , as the advocate of popular rights and the defender of his country ' s liberties , his whole endeavour appears to have been that of inculcating the principle of self-reliance in the minds of the labour class .
To accomplish this he has braved and withstood an amount of persecution and oppression which few men could have borne up against , until , at length , he has constituted himself not only the adviser , but the accepted director , of the Labour movement . With some peopleand for a short time this may be an easy task —but with the English people—and for fifteen years—it must have been an herculean labour , especially when the annihilation of one charge is succeeded by another , until , at length , the general complaint of the Press—which has hurled its thunderbolts
against him—has melted from the charge of plunder , deception , and fvuud , to one of blunder , mistake , and weakness . But what we most esteem in Mr O'Connor ' s character , in connexion with the Land Company , is his repudiation , not only abroad but in the House of Commons , of any compliment to his honesty , at the expense of the character of his working men associates . " But , " said that gentleman , " however flattering the resolutions of the Committee may be to myself , I will not accept a compliment at the expense of the honest working men with whom I have been associated , and who have acted under my direction . " And now that the farce of a nine
weeks' inspection of Mr O'Connor ' s accounts by a Select Committee of the House of Commons has been performed , let us not be misunderstood when we state that the evidence , on the face ef it , bears out the fact , that the object—the only object—of Ministerial acquiescence in the appointment of that Committee , was to prove Mr O'Connor really guilty of fraud upon the working classes . But that farce being now conclude-. ! , we ask , if there is upon record such another instance of pure devotedness and integrity as has been proved to the world , as that established by Mr O'Connor and his working men coadjutors ? And hence the continuous , though altered ravings of the maniacs who dread the loss of those traders in
blood , whose abject slaves they are ; hence , we find poor Fonblanque , of the " Examiner "a creature who has made as many tortuous windings as the serpent—emitting his spleen in two columns of wrath , containing no less than three and twenty falsehoods , and not one single fact ! Curious to say , that while Mr O'Connor is charged with " paying the p rinter of the '
" Northern Star 1 , 000 / . for printing done on behalf of the Land Company , the scribe lacked the honesty to state that the very PRINTERS OF THE ' < EXAMINER" received a portion of this money for doing tho work of the National Land Company , while the work performed by Mr O'Connor ' s own printer was performed at a considerable r eduction under any other estimate furnished and under what was previously paid for the same description of work
. Is it not marvellous how the Lord delivers our enemies into our hands , and what will poor Fonblanque—the great caterer for slavish patronage from the Government—say to this charge of patronage recoiling upon himself ? Then comes the '' Daily News" the huxter paper of JSradbury and Evans , the " ragmen , " who having become the proprietors of "Punch ' have turned that originally splendid paper into a mere puppet-show exhibition .
But what , in reality , will be the impression left upon the minds of the working classes by this long and protracted inquiry ? Will it not be to invest their poor savings in any undertaking recommended by Mr O'Connor without too minutely scanning details upon which the whole Press of the kingdom has been unable to come to anything like a conclusion ? The p lan submitted by Mr O'Connor in this week ' s paper , is one which , if carried out with spirit , will be the best answer to the assailants of the Land Company ; and while poor Bradbury and Evans writhe and wri ggle at the notion of the . Land Company having raised the
, - , circulation of the " Star , " let it be understood _ as wo are willing - to meet and able to refute every charge of interested motives or cupidity jet it be understood , thatthis Company being est ablished for the benefit of those who could onlv pay threepence per week to the funds , that Mr O'Connor , upon its formation , recommended the people , who could not otherwise afford it , to g ive up the " Northern Star ' ' and apply their money to the payment of their weekly subscri ptions . And let it be further understood , that so far from the establishment of the National Land Company increasing the
circulation of the " Star , " the fact has been precisely the reverse . Men that bought now borrow ; it is political and not social agitation which raises the circulation of a popular newspaper , and we put it to the readers of the " Northern Star , " whether Mr O'Connor has ever used any passing excitement as the means of increas ing the circulation of his paper . But we may go further and carry the war into the enemy ' s camp ; we may ask whether any of those newspapers who use passing excitement as a means of profit , and who placard the walls of
England with brutal and obscene posting-bills—we may ask if they devote any portion of their profits to other than their own benefit ? Nay , we go further still , and ask whether , after eleven years of oppression and persecution , the " Northern Star , " for years making a splendid fortune , has made its proprietor a richer man ? The very charges of those sycophants should make every man in England a subscriber to tbe " Northern Star , " when he finds , by their own showing , that its whole profit goes to sustain their cause .
But there is another curious feature connected with this Land Company , and it is this—that not a fraction of the money has either been misapplied or unprofitable employed , and if the property was sold to-morrow , Mr O'Connor ' sattention , industry , and prudent management has increased its value by more than lO . OOW , ; whereas , as we have frequently stated , the invariable course of other companies is , to surfeit the mind with flaming
prospectuses , for which the hireling Press receives a large reward ; the chairman , managers , directors , committeemen , and their staff , luxuriate and grow wealthy upon the gullibility of their dupes ; hope is raised , expectations are held out which the profligate Press encourages , until at length call after call is made , and when no further aid can be received , the rogues " book up , " the managers dissolve , and the lawyers , like the harpies , come in and devour the fragments .
These critics talk as if the earth was to swallow up the land of the Land Company and all the houses , as if the property had vanished , because no rent is yet paid . There is one reason , and we trust a satisfactory one , why rent has not been yet paid—and it is simpl y because rent is not yet due , Bnt when the rent is due , not an occupant will be a defaulter ; and this is a strong argument in support of the benefits arising from the Land Company , namely—that being for the benefit of the poor , it is not contemplated that the tenants of the Company shall be harrassed in their infant undertaking , like the tenants of Irish land lords , or many English landlords .
Next week , however , we shall publish some curious revelations connected with the Select Committee of the National Land Company . We shall publish some letters , written b y a Member of Parliament to a clergyman upon one of the estates , appointing him spy and inquisitor into the conduct of Mr O'Connor and the allottees ; and which letters the receiver incautiously dropped in one of the cottages . We shall publish a letter from a most respectable individual , inculpating Mr Richard Cobden as , ferreter of evidence for the Committee , that letter— which we will give literally from the original—charges him with being daily closeted with " One who has whistled
at the Plough , alias " the flogged Soldier , ' ' alias Sommenille . '' And as to Sir Benjamin , we shall withhold the correspondence respecting his dealings , until we establish our facts sufficiently to enable the honourable Member for Nottingham to apply for a Select Committee to inquire into the truth or falsehood , the legality or illegality , of those transactions . Meantime , in reply to " T . I , " we would invite him to use all open and honourable means to acquire information upon those points on which he has instructed us , but not upon any account to follow the example of Sir Benjamin , by courting or giving ear to anything which cannot be indisputably proved .
We think that Mr O'Connor ' s letter , which we publish this week , p laces the Land Company , as to its future prospects , in so clear and unmistakeable a view , that it will give unmixed satisfaction to all , save those whom he very properl y designates as ' Tllli VERMIN . " And , in conclusion , we would draw the attention of the reader to , the indisputable fact , that the largest amount of weekly payment required from shareholders in the Land Company , does not amount to one-half of the subscription paid to other societies , in which few
receive any , and many receive no benefit at all ; and to the still greater fact , that Land and Houses are the best security for money , and that the Free Labour field is the best Savings Bank for the investment of man ' s industry , and renders him the largest profit . One other fact must never be lost sight of , which is , that Mr O'Connor never anticipated such a giant association ; that its growth , as well as the " vermin , " have continually hampered him in his movements , and that , according to the evidence submitted to the Committee , every possible attempt has been made to secure ,
First , enrolment—then protection by Act of Parliament—then provisional registrationthen complete registration—then , again , legal protection . And that the Press , bursting with hope in the Select Committee , has now the audacity to turn upon that Committee , to revile and abuse it for not lending the weight of its name to the destruction of the Company and the gratification of its enemies . We think Mr O'Connor evinced no small tact in excluding Free Trade mercenaries from the Committee , and as there were four popular
representatives—not counting thePUMP—upon the Committee ; namely , Mr Sharman Crawford , Captain Pechell , Mr George Thompson , and Mr Scliolefiehl , Member for Birmingham—we would recommend the constituents of those honourable gentlemen to make a respectful appeiil to them , asking them to express a sincere opinion as to the manner and spirit in which that Committee was conducted , and also the impression made upon their minds , as regards the management of the affairs of the Company by the promoters . As we stated last week , we have not only not yet done , but have
not yet commenced our war attack ; and , perhaps , the reader will be curious to learn that we shall be enabled to convict a Cabinet Minister of a hellish conspiracy against Mr O'Connor , in obedience to the recommendation of his former chief , to"RUIN HIM WITH EXPENSES , " and by whose treachery and connivance Mr O'Connor was compelled t 9 pay 6 ol > last week to the celebrated Mr F . T . Fowler , who gave evidence against the Chartist prisoners , and whose letter , with reference to the Government and Press arrangements of the 10 th of April , we annex : —
4 , Great Charlotte . street , Blackfriars-road , April l 7 ta , 1848 . Dear Sib , —A fact has just come to my knowledge , which may perhaps be intrusting to you , and which will in some measure explain Jk , w all the dailj p'UeXd ou Tuesday Inst , stated that there were only ) o , 0 b 0 persons present at the meeting on Monday lust ; which sommvhat surprised me , as I am certain theie were upwards of • • oOj OtfO . The Commissioners of Police , on Mondisy evening last ,
ient round to the papers a document marked private , requesting them to state thit there were only 15 , 0 i > 0 persons present at the meeting . Now , I think you ought to ask tlie Uoilie Secretary , whtt'ier the po ice are paldtur tho i urpoae of supplying the newspapers With lies . Of course , I do not wsh you to mtntio : i my name in i-. vinixion with the matter , but you may place the grea-; c : t reliance upon my information . I remain , dear Sir , faithfully yours , » * , ^ . ~ f *• FOWLLB , To Fearges O'Connor Esq , M . P .
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..-.,,., — * .-,- » .-.,- / i , s . vt , ' « n- IM 1 M \ A "NT t ~ \ THIS ENEM Y" CONFUTED AND CONFOUNDED . The strict and searching inquiry into the affairs of this Company , which was instituted by Parliament , having closed , and the Report of the Committee having placed its promoters under the necessity of devising new means of effecting the great ohjeet in view , it is of the utmost importance that all connected with it should understand the exact nature of the diffi . culties with which they have to contend . It is also necessary , in o ' rder t » maintain that feeling of confidence , which has enabled the members hitherto to make head against an
amount of calumny and opposition almost unparalleled , that they should have the fullest information , as brought out by the investigation by the Committee of the House of Com . mons , with regard to the manner in which their affairs have been heretofore managed With the view of supplying this desideratum ) a ' carefully compiled and impartial abstract of the voluminous evidence given before the Committee , has been prepared for the number oi " The Labourer * ' now ready for publication , and which ought to be . in the hands of every shareholder of the Company In addition to a detailed account of the
various efforts made to legalise the Company during a period of three years , and the nature of the obstacles which prevented the attainment of that object , the evidence incidentally throws a flood of light on the position of associated bodies of the working classes , with reference to the law , which has never before been brought together , and which we recommend to Trades' Unions , Friendl y Benefit and Building- Societies , Odd-Felhnvs , and others , as a valuable compendium of the law with reference to these matters , as stated by the official authorities themselves . The members of the
Company will find a detailed account of the manner in which the finances were managed the business transacted , and the extent , cost , and capabilities of each estate purchased by Mr O'Connor for the Company , as vouched for by two of the most eminent accountants of the present day , appointed by the Select Committee to examine and report upon the exact position of affairs . The practicability of the plan itself , and the means by which it may ultimately he made successful , form an interesting portion of the digest , and will be of the utmost service , injeonjunc ion with the other parts of the evidence , in enabling the various
branches to give instructions to their delegates at the Conference assembled to definitely determine theffuture course of the Comparty . The publication of " The Labourer " has been delayed , in order that it might include the whole of the evidence , and it has also been more than doubled in size for that purpose , that the public might have all the facts before them at one glance . 'I'hese facts we may , in conclusion , remark , are equally honourable to the people who placed unbounded confidence in their leader , and to the leader who so nobly and generously exercised that confidence for the benefit of the people , at an immense sacrifice to himself .
Parliamentary Review. One Of The " Six P...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . One of the " Six Points" of the Charter has been agreed to b y tbe House of Commons . Whether it was owing , as the Times asserts , to " a sudden concentration of the extreme Radical party , which took the Minister by surprise , " or to the desertion of his Tory supporters , who on this occasion left him in the lurch , to contend , as Colonel Sibthorp expressed it , wit h " his own mutinous troops , " is not clear . The fact , however , is there . In what , for the month of August , must be considered a full house of
1 G 7 members , Lord John was beaten by a majority of FIVE . For our own part we do not concur in the excuse invented to cover this defeat by the Ministerial journal ; Mr Berkeley had given ample notice of his intention to bring on the motion in favour of the Ballot ; if Lord John , under these circumstances , allowed his obsequious supporters to scamper off and place the Humber or the Tu-eed between them and St Stephen ' s , it must have been under the belief that , by some of those Parliamentary < c dodges' ' which so frequently cushion inconvenient questions , he could without their aid
defeat the motion . Perhaps a " count out " might be reckoned on—that simplest of all modes of putting a stopper upon topics tabooed by the two great factions who play into each others hands at the expense of the nation . But fron the very first the Hume party mustered in such strength , as made that " dodge" impracticable . In fact , the House presented a very singular appearand ! during the debate . With the exception of Lord John Russell and one or two underlings , the Treasury Bench was empt y during the greater part ot the e enintr . The Protectionist benches were
nearly deserted , while behind the Minister sat the evidently determined and compact forces of the favourers of the Ballot . The course of the debate was not less curious than the appearance of the House . Mr Berkeley ' s clever and telling speech in support of his motion , was followed by a number of small speeches , each of them followed by a short pause , and cries of" Divide ; " while Lord John sat with his hat drawn down over his eyes , and his arms folded , seemingly determined to keep silence on the question , and leave it to its fate . At last he rose , and if not in an able , at least in a
frank and decided manner , gave his reasons for opposing the motion , From that time the debate increased in interest , and the House became more animated . Tbe tc Whippers-in " ferreted out reinforcements to the Whi g troops , and hurried them to the scene of action , but in vain , the division equally surprised the victorious party . ' and the beatenJMinisterialists ; and the " great fact" remains ' on the journals of the House ol Commons , that it is the opinion of that House " It is expedient in the election of members to serve in Parliament , that the votes of electors be taken by way of Ballot . " }
One other circumstance connected with the division may be noted . It was left an " open question , " and in order to maintain that appearance of consistency , without which no public man can long possess public confidence in this country , eight of the inferior officials voted against their Chief upon the question . The triumphant party appear to be satisfied with the victory they have gained for this Session , and have given notice of a bill founded on the resolution , for next year .
\ Y ith respect to the Ballot itself , we candidly confess that , apart from the other points of the Charter , and especially disconnected with an extension of the Suffrage , we are very doubtful of its utility . There was great force and truth in the argument of Lord John Russell that the one seventh of the male adult population to whom the vote is at present given , hold it in trust for the six-sevenths who are excluded from the franchise , and that if the privileged one-seventh were alkmed to vote in secret , there would . be an end of all public control and responsibility . No doubt the argument comes badly from a man who has so recentl y
voted against an extension of the Suffrage , and who has so resolutely taken his stand upon the princi p le of finality . But truth is truth , come from what quarter it may , and we are not prepared to concur in adding new privileges to those already conferred upon a privileged class . If the ' electoral class find that the exercise of that privilege exposes them to intimidation and to consequent loss , if they do not submit to the corrupt and unconstitutional influences brought to bear upon themthe remed y is in their own hands , Let them do justice to the parties whom they are said virtually to represent , instead of holding any longer the trust vested in them , and which entails
upon them such numerous annoyances ; let them exercise it at once , an . ! effectively , by sending to Parliament men pledgeu U give the franchise to the people at large ; when that is done let the Ballot accompany the Suffrage in order that corruption may be baffled by
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the extent of the field on which it has to ( rate , and the impossibility of asce ^ d r ' ' ' whether its bribes and its intimidations ' - " ^ successful or not . Meanwhile , as the wrTf generally adopts innovations , ho wever v 1 they may be , piecemeal , we have no object ' to see the Ballot received into good soti ' ? and made " respectable . " It is a sign 0 f , liticul progress . " Wuvk a little longer" a \ the other points will , b y and by , secure ' " eligible" position in public and in Parl ^ mentarv estimation . la ° rhu uvtant nt' trio fii > l < l nn wVii / iVi : t- I ...
I The Public Health Bill Has, We Suppose...
I The Public Health Bill has , we suppose last been moulded into the shape which fit ' - i for public inspection , as a piece of legishu *' : workmanship . Its transmutations have ' ] , ^ ! many and perplexing-asort of Parliament ary i Proteus , which assumed new shapes even a-vn r , looked at it . Since the 10 th of February vvh jit made its first appearance , undir the th /* ; of a " Rill for Promoting the Public H ealth « ¦ down to the 27 th of July , when it came out-I " a Bill as amended by the Lords , intituled an ; Act for promoting the Public Health , " it } v l ! passed through six transformations , eich ] of them involving the alteration of all the ' old \ clauses and provisions , and the consideration j of shoals of new ones . There can be no doubt
that this is mainl y osving to the facile -ind ; yielding temper of Lord Morpeth , who had the 1 Bill in charge . A more obstinate and deter [ mined man would have shut his ears to the ! countless suggestions which poured in upon him from all quarters , and having first satisfied I himself as to the principle and machinery of the Bill , have gone resolutel y forward to his object . But Lord Morpeth is not cast in that mould of statesmen . He may be said to ; " Stoop to Conquer , " an ' - ! , perhaps , " in this instance , looking at the multitude of interests tbat had to be wrestled with and overc ome in J the long run it was the best policy The tortoise bas reached the goal at Jast-. rhaf ; =
, something to be thankful for , \ foundation at least , has been laid for more effective le « ri s lati « n hereafter . s '* In the progress of the measure through both Houses , it is generally admitted that the Lords have shown themselves the most enlightened and determined Sanitary Reformers " and that but for them the Bill would ultimatel y have passed a mere caput morhum , like manyother Whig measures , which , like Dead Sea fruit , fair and tempting to the sight , crumbles into ashes at the touch . In fact , the Lords are removed from the trade influences which operate on the minds of Members of the other House , and can legislate on the subject
of public health impartially . They are not like Mr Bri ght , personally interested in the provisions for the prevention of smoke , and , therefore , they have not the obtusity of intellect which prevents the honourable member for Manchester—that capital of smoky chimn / es—from understanding the meaning of the term , " opaque smoke . ' According to the amiable and innocent Mr ? Bright , smoke is never" opaque " in itself , but
merely seems so according as there is a black or a white sky in the back-ground . You need not laugh , good people of Leeds , Bradford , Manchester , or Stockpert , who are so familiar with " opaque smoke . ' This is the kind of stuff which may be safely talked to the squires , lurdlings , and merchants , in the House of Commons , without much danpr of detection . The secret of the opposition is , that any attempt to compel the owners of mills to
present the contamination of the air b y the smoke belched forth from their tall shafts , involves expense . It is something , however small , that diminishes the per centage—that sacred idol , so devoutly worshi pped , and , in comparison with which , public health and public well-being fades into insignificance . In addition to the owners of manufactories and steam furnaces , tbe owners of slaughter-houses , and persons connected with offensive trades , the shareholders of water-works—who coin one of the first necessaries of life into gold , and dole out wafer by the driblet—have "" all an interest in
keeping things pretty much as they are , and preventing any interference with arrangements which y ield them profit , however nrj « t judicial to the community at large . The House of Commons is wonderfull y sensitive to these influences , and had it not been that the approach of the cholera inspired a wholesome fear of consequences , it is probable that some of the Lords' amendments would have been negatived at last . Lord Morpeth , in proposing " one of tht-se amendments , with an alteration of his own intended to make it more efficacious ami simple , took the opportunity of stating that the cholera was advancing to this country in precisely the same direction as that which it
pursued in 1832 ; that it had been heralded by the same precursor as on the former occasion —namely , a great amount of increase of diarrhoea , ending fatally in many cases , now prevalent ; and that , by recent accounts , it had spread as far west as Riga . Narva , and Revel . He added , that it would be gratifying to him to be able to state , that this frightful visitation was approaching us in a more mild form than that under which we had already had dreadful experience of its mortal effects ' ; but , unfortunately , that was not the case , as shown by the communications of our Consuls abroad . This important announcement , no doubt , helped the progress of the Public Health Bill .
Ihe Other Questions Before Parliament Ha...
ihe other questions before Parliament have been both numerous and varied—among them Mr Ewart made a show motion on the subject of taxation , which was " nipped in the bud '' b y the chilling pest of the lateness of the Session , and put carefully by to be brought forth at some more convenient season . Mr C © Buller has pushed forward his amended Poor Law Union Charges Bill , and succeeded in getting as far as the Committee with another , which has for its object the creation of new facilities for pauper educ . ition . The bill was
objected to by several Members , on the score of expense—and we observe that it was also petitioned against from Ashton , on the ground that the children in workhouses " were better educated than the children of the labouring classes , and those of mechanics , who were brought up out of the workhouses . '' This is a non seqicitur . The petitioners should have prayed , not that the children in workhouses should have less education , but that the children of the mechanics and'labouring classes , brought up out of the workhouses , should have more . On the mere ground of economy , apart entirel
y from the moral and social bearings of the questions , it would be infinitel y superior to replace our costly ^ criminal and " repressive machinery , hy a comprehensive and effective scheme of intellectual and industrial train ' iac . Ministers and Parliament are doin ° - their best to hurry the Session to a close . The sitting may be said to be almost literally en permanence—for they continue ni ght and day , with the intermission of a very few bours ^ - scarcely sufficient for sleep and meals . Wimther the legislation which results from this species of overwork will be of the best and most useful description , may he fairly doubled .
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Mr Thomas Poweia , secretary of the late Venezuela Emigration Company , is requested to send his add-ess llalh \ Sutcliffe ' Lowei--mo ° r , Ripponacre , near M u- ? „ Ne » ca 6 tle « I > 'ler . Lyne .-Tbe 5 s 6 ii , sent to i * i , H > Hh Holborn , bus ntt been handed over to us for the defence of the victims . Had wo received it , it would have been acknowledged iu our last . Sik , —riease to answer me this question . Suppose tha Ameneaa prisoners captured in Irehnd are hunger tr .. imported , what will tbe Yankees ; say or do ! [ We l .-uve tbe solution to the Yankees . Ed . N . SJ Mr O'Connor and the SoHhBS Town Ch * iitists . —Per . bsps my enthusiasticfrhnis of Somers Town will now bosutiK < i £ d , when they learn that the Insertion of Mr FusseU ' i letter relative to Mr Fowler , cost me £ 65 paid to tbat man , a sum which 1 trust will be refunded by tbe country , as if I was to pay for every body ' s enttiisiasm , I should soon beeoiae a pauper . P . 6 'Cossqr , S Davis , Motherwell . — Write , and enclose a po » ta < re Btnni ] ., to Mr Effingham WUson , Royal Exchange London . ° 1
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 12, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12081848/page/4/
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