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_ . In a neat Volume , Price Is . Cd . "The Evidence taken by the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the National Land Company . " IhisTolume ought to be in the hands of every Member oS & 6 Company , as it sVriiangV fflustrales & e care asu ' economy that have been practised in the management 6 the Funds of the Compan ? ' and proves , beyond contradiction , the practicability of the Plan which the Company was established to carry oat . Just published , i os-1 ., It , and UX „ Price Sixpence Each , of THE GOfflMOHWEALTH .
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^ HOLLOWATS OINTMENT . COBB OF KHEtMATISsf ^ DRnEUMATIC GOVT , Extract of a letter from Mr . -Thomas Brunton , Landlord of the Waterloo Tavern , Cuatham , Yorkshire , late of the life Guards , dated September 28 th , 1 S 48 . Sm , —For a long time I was a martyr to Rheumatism and Rheumatic Gout , and for ten weeks previous to using your Hiediciries I was so bad as not to be able to walk . I had tried doctoring and medicines of every kind , but all to 110 avail , indeed 1 daOy got worse , and felt that I must shortly die . From seeing- . your remedies advertised in tbe paper i take in , 1 thought I would , give them a trial . I did so . I rubbed tlie ointment in as directed , and kept cabhage leaves to tlie parts thickly spread with it , and took the Pills night and morning . In three weeks I was enabled to walk ahout for an hour or two in the day with a stick , andinsevenweeks I could go anywhere without one . lam
now , by the blessing of God and your medicines , quite well , and have been attending to my business for more than seven months without any symptoms of the return of my old complaint , . besides mj case of Rheumatic Gout , I hare lately had proof that your 1 'ills and Ointment will heal any old wound or ulcer , as a married woman , living near me , had had a bad leg for four years , which no one could cure , and I gave her some of your Pills and Ointment , which soundly healed it when nothing else would do it . Por your information I had the honour to serre my country for twen ^ -fire years an the £ rst regiment of lite Guards , and was eighteen years a corporal . I was two years in the Peninsula War , ; and was at the Rattle of Waterloo . I was discharged with a pension on the 2 nd of September , 1833 . The commanding officer at the time was Colonel Lygon , who is now a GeneraL I belonged to the troop of Captain tiie Hon . Henry Baring . —( Signed ) Thomas "Heontos . —To
CORE OP A BAD LEG OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS ' STANDING . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Andrew Brack , Blacksmith Eyemouth , near Berwick , dated the 10 th of August , 184 S . Sat , —With pleasure and gratitude I have to inform you that after suffering for twenty-one years with a bad leg , which yielded to no kind of treatment , although I consulted at different times every medical m ^ n of eminence in this part of the" country , but all to no purpose . I was frequently unable to work ; and the pain and agony I often endured no one can telL My leg is now as sound as ever it was in iQ 3 life , 1 > 5 T & eaas of y ovir Tills ani Ointment , which 1 purchased from Mr . I . Davidson , druggist , Berwick-upon Tweed , who knows my case wulL and will , 1 am sure , he happy to certify with me , if necessary , as to the truth of this wonderful cure . —( Signed ) Asdbew Buck . —To Pro fessorHoiiowAY .
AMPUTATION OP TWO TOES PREVENTED . Extract of a letter from Mr . Oliver Smith Jenkins , dated Falkirk , August 13 th , 1 S 48 . Sn \—I was superintending , about six months ago , the erection of one of our railway bridges , and by the fall of a large stone my right foot was seriously bruised , which ¦ ultimately got so bad that I was advised to go to Edinburgh to consult some of the eminent surgeons , which I did , and was told that in order to save my foot , two of my toes must be taken off . In despair , I returned home to impart tlie melanfholy news to my wife , intending to submit to the operation , it was then a thought struck me to try your valualile Ointment and Pills , which I did , and was by tlieir means in three weeks enabled to resume my -usual occupation , and at this time my toes are perfectly cured . — ( Signed ) Olives . Surra Jeskiss . —To Professor . liolloway . AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A DESPERATE SKI
DISEASE . On the 21 st July i 84 S , the Editor of the 3 IofrtsMte newspaper , pub"Jshed iri India , inserted the following , editorial article li his paper ;— "We know for a feet , that Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment act in a most wonderful manner upon the constitution , as an eccentric Coolie , called Eliza , employed in our establishment , was affected with myriads of Ringworms , which defied all the Meevut doctors , and promised to devour the poor man before he was nnderground ; we tried 'Holloway upon him , and in a month lie was perfectly restored to his former condition andcleanliness of skin . The effect was miraculous . ''
The Pius should be used conjointly with the Ointment in -most of the foUowing cases : — Bad Legs Corns ( Soft ) Rheumatism Bad Breasts Cancers Scalds Burns Contracted and Sore Nipples Bunions Stiff-joints Sore Throats Bite of-Moschetoes Elephantiasis Skin-diseases and Sand-flies Fistulas Scurvy Coco-Bay Gout Sore-heads Chiego-foot Glandular Swel- Tumours Clulblanes hugs Ulcers Chapped-hands Lumbago Wounds - Piles Yaws
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VBEWARE OF IMITATIONS . Unprincipled Persons counterfeit this Medicine in the mode of PILLS , ic . Purchasers must therefore observe that none are genuine but " WAFERS , " and that the words , "J > B' LOCOCK'S WAFERS" are in the Stamp outside each box . Observe . — The Counterfeit Medicines nave words on the Stamp so keaelt besehbu-ng these , as to mislead the unwary . Purcbasera must therefore strictly , observe the above caution . Agssts . — Da Suva and Co ., I . Bride-lane , Fleet-street , London . Sold by aU Medicine Vendors . Price , Is . 1 J 4 . j-2 s - _? di ; and Us . per Box . DJEEANT BELIEF AND RAPID CURB OF ASTHMAS ,
. CONSUMP HON ASD COUGHS , And aU Disorders of the Breath and Lungs , is insured by DR . LOCOCK'S PULMOjSTIC WAFERS . The truly wonderful powers of this remedy have called forth testimonials from aU ranks of society , in all quarters of the world . The following have been just received : — :
CUKES OF CONSUMPTION . Gentlemen , —Your Wafers lean speak of myself with the greatest confidence , having recommended them in many cases of pulmonary consumption , and they have always afforded relief when everything else has failed , and the patients having been surfeited with medicine , are delighted to meet with so efficient a remedy having such an agreeable taste , & c—( Signed ) Jons Mawson , Surgeon , 13 , Mosley-street , Sewcastie-on-Tjne . —December 5 , 1848 .
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THE POPULAR REMEDY . P ARR'S LIFE PILLS . Which are acknowkged to be aU that is required to conquer Disease and Prolong Life .
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properties ;—"First—They increase the strength , whilst most other medicines have a weakening effect upon the system . Let any one take from three to four or six pills every twentyfour hours , and , instead of having weakened , they will be found to have revived the animal spirits , and to have imparted a lasting strength to th « body . "Secondly—In their operation they go direct to the disease . After you have taken six or twelve pills you will & LI * riMK & tiwi * feSett ' ' thftdiBaiianjoayou , will become less and less by every dose yon take . ; and if you wfll persevere in regularly taking h-om three to six pifls everyday , your disease wRl speedily be entirely removed from tlie system : .
. . , "Thirdly—They are found , after giving them a fair trial or a few weeks , to possess the most astonishing and invigorating properties , and they will overcome all obstinate complaints , and restore souad health ; " there is a return of good appetite shortly from the beginning of then * use ; FhQst their mildness as a purgative is a desideratum greatly required b y the . weak and delicate , particularly where violent purging is acknowledged to be injurious instead of beneficial .
TO PERSONS GOH 76 ABROAD . These pills are particularly recommended to all persons going abroad , and subjecting themselves to a great change of climate . Offichlb or tbjs Ann asd Navv , Missionabies , Emigbants , & c , wfll find them an invaluable appendage to their medicine chests , as a preventative of the attacks of those diseases ab prevalent in our Colonies , - especially in the West Indies , where a ifflall box recently sold for 10 s . In America also its fame is getting known and its virtue duly appreciated , causin j an immense de maud for it ; and there is no country * o J par lin the world where it will not speedily become ani 3 tit ;<«' extensive traffic and general utility , as it maybe Dfidreeourse to in all cases of sickness , with confidence . in its simplicity , and in its power to produce relief . :
caution . None are genuine , unless the words "PARR'S LIFE PILLS" are in White Letteu on a Red Ground , on the Government Stamp , pasted round each box ; also , the fac . simile of the signature of the Proprietors , "T . ROBERTS and Co ., Crane-court , Fleet-street , London , ' , ' on the Directions . . Sold in boxes at Is . 1 $ & , 2 b . 9 tL ; and family packets at lls . ea . ch , by aR respectable mediciae vendors throughout the world . Full directions are riven with each box .
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NOW READY WITH THE MAGAZINES FOR JULY , No . ILof THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW Of BRITISH and FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , and LITERATURE .
Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY . ooxtests : 1 . The Editor ' s Letter to the Working Classes . 2 . tetter to the Trades : The Land . 3 . Letter from Paris : Present Political Aspect and Prospects of France . 4 . Our Inheritance : The Land common Property . Letter IL 5 . Political aud Historical Review—Domestic and Foreign . 6 . Manifesto of the German Ren Rspubncsms . 7 . Monarchy . 8 . Speech of Armand Barbes . 9 . Literature : Milwn ' tStoic Works ; Bumbotdt ' sCosmos ; Politics for the Ptople ; & a ., & c . . '¦ Fobtv Paces ( in a coloured wrapper ) , Pbice THREEPENCE . Published at the Office , 5 , Wine Office-court , Fleet-street , London : and to be bad ( on order ) of all Booksellers ami News Agents in Town and Country .
NOTICE . As printing the Review on thin paper , and without a wrapper , would injure the appearance of tile work , copies will not . in future , be printed to pass through tbe post . As perfect copies weuld cost in postage alone 4 d . each , all subscribers are requested to give their orders to their nearest bookseUcr or newsagent To ensure punctual delivery orders should be given by subscribers ( to their booksellers , & c . ) a week in advance . "The Desiocbatic Review "is devoted to the advocacy of our interests , the proclamation of our wrongs , the assertion of our rights , and the advancement of our welfaie . No man is better adapted for advancing our rights , and giving us true pictures of Continental , affairs than G . Julian Hamey , a true democrat Honour , say we , to the Editor of the "Democratic Review , "—we look up to him as the champion of our cause , and we give him our heartfelt thanks , trusting our readers will give it their most strenuous support—Oir & i-idVye Spirit o / Freedom
The second number of the JJemoonmo Review , edited bv Mr . Harney , continues its exposition of Chartism . We hope it wiU attain the eminence of being the accredited organ of those views , as we believe the exposition to be iri faithful hands ; and the public will learn from Mr . Harney's desk , without double meaning or contradictory assertions , what to war with or what to accept . —The Jleasoner . The perusal of the second number of Mr . G . Julian Harney's Democratic Review has given us infinite pleasure . It contains matter of the right colour and proper sort ; speaks boldly out , and bestows a good hearty kick upon the tottering fabric of effete institutions . The summary of parliamentary proceedings plainly demonstrates to the industrial classes , that their determined efforts and utmost energies are required to wring from the nnwiUing government even a small instalment of beneficial legislation . There is likewise an excellent letter on the commonality of
land originally , demonstrating how the people have been robbedand despoiled of that property , a portion of which every one inherited at his birth ; how the soU has been filched from its rightful possessors , and the earth made private property contrary to the laws of nature and of sense . The speech of that noble patriot , Armand Barbes , lost though it was upon the feelings of the French judges , should be read by every enlightened man , — emanating , as it does , from one whose purpose is pure and holy , who has spent the best years of bis existence in a dungeon , and grievously but cheerfully suffered in the sacred ^ cause of elevating France to republican greatness , and freeing mankind from the yoke of tyrants and destroyers . Let the Democratic Review pursue unflinchingly its present course , and it cannot fail to obtain the sympathies and hearty support of those whose cause it so boldly advocates . —liet / - tioUs ' s MisceUanv .
Well did the Julynumber of the Demooratic Bemw exclaim : — "Is it not infamous , O Englishmen ! that you have war ships rotting in your harbours , and those ships not sent to save the gallant cities of Italy ? Why do you not thunder in the ears of your rulers to send English cannon to the help of our brothers % Bo not forget that' the Me may be our own in after times . ' May your own hearts save you from the doom which ever follows national as well as personal selfishness . " With pleasure have we transferred those noble sentiments to our columns ; and we heartily concur with every syllable . —Weekly Dispa tch .
The Chartist Victims
THE CHARTIST VICTIMS
At a meeting of tho Metropolitan Cordtvainers , held on Wednesday evening ^ at the " Two Chairmen , " "Wardour-street , Soho , consisting of persons representing every branch in the trade , Jt was resolved : — " That a number' of prize boots , shoes , and brogues , should be made and exhibited for the benefit of the victims . " Tho exhibition is fixed to take place on the 8 th and 7 th days of August—the price of admission to be one shilling each . Several speakers addressed the meeting , and it i » calcu ' atcd that £ 100 profit will be realised by the handicraft of these worthy sons of Crispin . The idea , it appears , originated with , the West End rnen ' s-men . We wish thorn , the success such an -undertaking deserves , and that other trades may foUow'the praiseworthy example set them by the Metropolitan Cordwainers . _ * : '
Hasltxgde * . —Tho annual tea party and ball was held on Saturday evening , the 7 th inst ., in the large room of the Association , when about 200 persons sat down to an excellent tea . Afterthe tables were removed , Mr . George Rushton was called to the chair . The following sentiments were proposed and responded to ;— " The people ; the legitimate source of wealth . " " Republicanism abroad and democracy at homo . " " AU the noble patriots who have fought and bled , and those lit exile or in prison for their country ' s freedom . " Dancing and singing concluded the evening's entertainments . On Sunday , Mr . J . Bentley , of Bury , delivered a very instructive lecture in the same room to a numerous audience on the " Lives and Writings of Thomas Paine , William Cobbett , and Richard Carlile . " In the afternoon another lecture was delivered by William Nixon , of Manchester , on the " Arrest , Trial ,
and Treatment of the Chartist Prisoners , now in Kirkdale . Gaol . " After the lecture the members and their wives partook of an excellent tea , together with the ladies who so kindly waited at the table on the preceding night . After the tables had been cleared , tbe public was again admitted . Mr . John Holt of Haslingden was called to the chair , when Mi-. Kixoa delivered another lecture on " The Aristocracy of England , " which gave general satisfaction . The large room of the Association was beautifully and tastefully decorated . ^ Nottingham . —At a meeting of members held at the Colonel Hutchinson on the 9 th inst ., it was unanimously resolved— " That this meeting highly approve of the conduct of Mr . O'Connor and tho members who supported the ^ principles of the Peo ple ' s Charter , whole and entire , and to them we return our sincere thanks , and pledge ourselves to renewed exertion in toe good cause of democracy . "
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JT . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the foUowing sums ( sent herewith ) , for the Victim Fund , viz .: —Mr . Dalton , 6 d ; Mr . Knott , 3 d . ¦ • . ¦ , Mas . il'DouALL . —Mr . Andrew Watts , Liverpool , acknowledges the receipt of 10 s . from a few Chartists at Georgie Mills , Scotland , per A . M'Donald . . Wives of the Victims . —Thomas Ormesher has received 12 s . per James Brown , Preston , to be divided between the wives of the Rirkdale prisoners . Mascuesteb . —We have received twelve quarto pages trom the Manchester Ohartist Council , purporting to be a reply to the letter of Messrs . White , West , Leach , ana - Donovan , which appeared in last Saturday ' s *«• • Having a press of matter on hand , and receiving the saiu communication on Thursday , under any circumstances we could not find room for it this week . Had it been a communication of an ordinary characterwe would have
, promised its insertion in next Saturday ' s Star , but taking into consideration its tone and extent , wc nuist decline taking upon ourselves the responsibility of giving « I > uulicity . The ¦ Manchester CouncU ' s letter , if published , could not so much hurt Messrs . "White , West , Leach , and Donovan , as it would injure the Chartist cause . Of the Manchester Council we know nothing persprially , but we take it for granted that they are Chartists , and have the confidence of tlieir fclknv townsmen , and as such wc respect tbeni . Messrs . White , West , Leach , and Donovan , are known- to us ; they are also well known to , and honoured by , thousands of their countrymen in all parts of the country . We think the Chartist cause cannot afford to lose men . We think that proscription of Chartist leaders upon trivial grounds has been already carried far enough—perhaps too far . Wc think that it would conduce to the success of our movement , to win'back a few old friends , rather than drive away any of those
who are stiH struggling and suffering in our cause . Messrs . VJWie , West , Leach , and . Donovan are irue men , and staunch democrats ; their talents render them an honour to their class , and their past services and present sufferings should endear them to the people . Wc must say , it would only he fair that those who have , aujht to allege against them should have the decency to keep back their accusations until the men are at liberty , and in a position to defend themselves . Taliing this new of the question , we have resolved to forward the Manchester Council's letter to Mr . O'Connor , that he , as proprietor of this paper , and principal representative of the Chartist party , may determine upon the . fitness ofits publication . " Should the said letter appear in the Star , Of course the same channel of communication with the public win be open to Messrs . White , West , leach , aud Donovan . * , « The letters of Messrs . Smith'and Grocott we have also transmitted to Mr . O'Connor . ¦ . . . ITuddebsfiem ) . —The notice is an Advertisement ., ' . . -.
The Manchester Council recommend Mr . 1 'cter Ilenretta as a fit and proper person to deliver lectures ori . Chartism , Localities desiring his services must address ; 'P . ilenretta , 12 , Johnstreet , Ancoats-street , Manchester !' ; . -. '; W . Greenwood . — Respecting the " Illustrated Atlas , " writ © to the publisher , 100 , St . John ' s-st ' reet , Lorfdoli . ' C . Hepwobth . —Tliirteen and two tellers make t & e'fifteen who voted for tlie Charter . ¦; . ^ J . Lesson . — It is impossible to give your communication this week : it shall appear in our next . Mr T . Suhmebsgill , Woolwich . —Write to Mr . D . W . Ruffy , 13 , Tottenham-court , New-road , St . 1 ' ancras . We do not know the price . Bdbnlev . — All correspondence for the Burnley Chartist Association , must be addressed to Mr . J . Suttliffe , grocer , . Goodham-hill , Burnley . The Victims . —Mr . Fisher , of Great Yarmouth , is informed that John Arnott has not received the stamps alluded to , and J . A . requests that , for tho future , all commnnica-. tions relative to tho Victims will be addressed to him at ll , Middleses-place , Somers-town .
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TO THE CHARTISTS OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE . Mr Friends , As you will see in my Letter to tlie Working Classes , I liave been very ill indeed for the last ten dayg , and I know of no medicine that is likely to relieve me , but the glorious siglit of the Lancashire and Yorkshire men , women , and children , that I expect to see on Sunday next . I hope that the platform—or , rather , the speakers , will not be placed with their faces to the sun , and I hope that the meeting-room in Manchester will bo well ventilated . Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .
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. North-street , Tredegar Iron Works , Monmouthshire , July 0 , 1849 . Honourable Sir , If any four acre allottee on the Bromsgrove Estate , is wishful to let his allotment , I shall be glad to take tho House , Land , and Crop , at a rent of £ 16 a-year , for a term of three or more years , payable half-yearly , and to have possession next month . I am , honourable sir , Your humble servant . Samuel Armstrong . To F . O'Connor , Esq .
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TO OUR AGENTS
Notice is hereb y given , that the Papers of every Agent , who does not toward the amount of his account , in the following week , ' will be slopped , and no excuse will be taken ; as the Proprietor cannot suppl y those who do not pay their accounts , and for whose paper and stamps he is obliged to pay . This resolution will he critically observed .
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THE HORTHEM STAB SATURDAY , JUIiY 14 § 1849 .
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IRELAND . OD , BE JOYFUL ! Talk no more of famine , ye base degenerate Irish . Has it not achieved for you the greatest triumph that any nation upon earth can boast of ? ^ Are not four years of famine , destitution , decimation , weeping , wailing , and gnashing of teeth more than compensated for by the promised visit of her ' most gracious Majesty ? And will not every banner
belonging to the Loyal Royal Repeal Association be unfurled , and flutter before the breezing cheers of a starving people , whose every recollection of the past must be buried in oblivion ? Is not your ancient castle to be furnished , decorated , and perfumed , for the reception of royalty , and has not the loyal enthusiasm of your Loyal Reform Corporation hushed every murmur and put its veto upon every demand , saveand except the conferring of titles upon your Catholic brethren , at length admitted within the corporate pale ?
You got Emancipation , which gave you patriotic representatives , generous , learned , and ingenuous Queen ' s Counsel , and , though last not least , just and impartial judges . Those great boons were onl y for the benefit of a heretofore excluded class , while the magic visit of Her Most Gracious Majesty will lead to national exultation , from the conviction of the national benefit it will confer . 1 St . Patrick merely drove the toads down in the bogs and bothered all the vermin ; but Victoria , with her magic wand , will banish hunger from the land and bother all starvation . What a picture ! A merry Queen , with a merry court , surrounded by her merry phalanx , revelling in the midst of famine .
What times we live in , and how depraved is the mind of man , when he reflects that the amount expended upon this royal hobbory would preserve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people ! Will Her Majesty visit the system-made rebels ? No . They are banished tho land . Will sho condescend . to visit the loathsome charnel houses where her loyal subjects are penned up , like sheep in Smithfield Market ? Will she visit the mud hovels of her loyal subjects and distribute alms amongst the dying ? No ; in faith , the veil will be drawn o ' er Ireland ' s woes , and the cry of famine will be hushed in tho . bursting cheer of the loyal well-fed livers upon the people ' s destitution .
But heed it not , ye starving Irishmen , it will furnish the Minister and the royal cortege with t ae strongest proof of Irish loyalty , and the strongest refutation of Irish suffering , - ' and the no-necessity for doing anything for Ireland . From the Castle banquets , and the cheers that follow the loyal toasts , the royal visitors will draw their conclusions of Irish prosperity . Victoria is the first English Queen that has condescended to visit her Irish territories . She is a woman , and , as a woman should be courteously and respectfully received , hut hor ministers use her as a puppet , upon reverence and devotion to which , they may hereafter be
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able to base the loyalty of the Irish people and their own popularity . What ragamuffin , what half-naked female , will he allowed to pass the barricade of truncheons , hy which majesty will be surrounded and what channel is there through which the real state of the nation can be communicated to the royal ear ? In 1821 , the FIRST GENTLEMAN of the a ^ e , but the biggest blackguard in the world ( GEORGE the Fourth ) , visited his
Irish subjects ; Daniel O'Connell , the leader of the Irish people , presented his Majesty with the olive branch upon his knees . His footstep has been carved upon ' the'Irish shore ; he condescended to shake hands with ah Irish peasant , who never washed his hand from that hour to the day of his death , least it might lose the royal perfume : all was hilarity and joy , sumptuous banquets , though a year of surpassing distress , and tho magic wand of loyalty was to banish disloyalty for ever from the land .
Ireland was then blessed ; Catholic and Protestant were to he for evermore united in the bond of fraternity . Howbeit , in the winter of the same year , Captain Rock and the White Boys , having discovered their share of the royal visit , broke out into all but open rebellion , and the promised measure of Emancipation , to expedite which was the main object of the royal visit , was postponed for nearly half a score of years .
What measure , let us ask , is to be the result of the present royal visit ? Is it to be the endowment of the Catholic priesthood ? Is it to be the release- , of the Catholic people from the gripe of tlie Protestant Law Church ? Surel y it is not to be the Repeal of the Union , or the holding alternate parliaments in Dublin , based upon the magic influence that its scenery and the loyalty of its people has had upon her Majesty . Our rulers are not aware of the anticipated effects from such a charm . They imagine that
knighthoods , titles , honours , and distinctions , bestowed upon those who can raise tho breeze of exultation , will he afterwards able to caliri the hurricane of disappointment ; but they should draw wisdom from the past . Can they have forgotten the magic results anticipated from Her Majesty's visit to the present King of Claremont , then the King of the French , when the old woman ecs t aticall y hugged the young iady , and conveyed her with firm step , in locked arms , on board the royal yacht ? This was to have cemented an indissoluble union between the two nations . The
loving cousins were to be for ever allies , and no distant erruption could ever destroy the halcyon calm . Now , how changed the scene . The then monarch is . now the subject of the then rebel—a fugitive seeking refuge under Her Majesty ' s wing , and the then rebel her dearly beloved cousin and ally . Will our rulers never gather wisdom from the past ? And will they still hope to govern the growing mind of the age hy the fusty records of barbarism ? Will they withhold what
is due to justice , and might be prudently conceded , until it is extracted from fear , and surrender to force , when an evil use may , perhaps , be made of it ? Do they imagine that the statistical folly of a Chancellor of the Exchequer , and the crafty defence of an Ex-Prlme Minister , will stand for a moment before the evidence of increasing Poor Rates to support increasing pauperism ? Do they imagine that the mind of England is now so stolid and obtuse as to admit of the
measurement of prosperity by the increasing wealth and consequent satisfaction of a single class ? When they boast of the cheapness of the people ' food , and the comparative increase in the monicd wages of the workman , based upon the comparative cheapness of provisions , are they foolish enough to imagine that the enlightened people of this country will take such a squinting , one-sided view of the question , as to base national prosperity upon class
satisfaction ? Upon the contrary , will not the people , and naturall y , say , in repl y , "If your i & 100 will now do as much as * GloO formerly did , are not £ 8 , 000 , 000 of Poor Rates , now measured by the same scale , equivalent to twelve millions in former times V' And is there any one who doubts that the greatest economy will be practised in the expenditure of the money of the rich upon the preservation of the lives of the poor ?
The Session of 1849 is now drawing to a close—it Avill have cost the people nearly half a million of money in blue books and other rubbish . It has been one weak , washy , everlasting flood of incoherent rubbish , which in less than three years from this day the enlightened people will look upon as the stereotyped ignorance of their predecessors . Six mortal months have been spent in jaw and clatter , and will any , the greatest staticiau , the most powerful analyser , or gifted prophet , point out one singlo'beuefit that has been conferred upon the people . A heap of bills have been introduced , some mutilated , some passed , some withdrawn ,
and tho most useful rejected . The interests of class have been advocated , while a measure for the better preservation of the lives of those who supply us with one of the greatest elements —fire—has been contumaciously cast in oblivion . But no matter , the Queen is going to Ireland . We trust that she will be received with that courtesy and gallantry for which the Irish people are distinguished , while we warn both English and Irish not to expect any , the slightest , benefit from the event , beyond the anticipated popularity expected to be redeemed by the English minister , and the hope that her magic breath will dispel the anticipated potato blight .
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THE BANKRUPT BROTHEL KEEPER . It is a very remarkable fact , that those who have led the most depraved and dissolute life , are in the habit of most rigidly scanning the acts of others . In "Lloyd ' s Newspaper" ( the "Threepenny Trash , " as the people now callit ) , of last week , there is , what we cannot call an article , but an emission of bile ' against Mr . O'Connor , for daring to advocate the People ' s Charter in the House of Commons , and hi Vhich Mr . O'Connor is charged with once having advocated physical force , and having
thus estranged the affections and support of the middle classes .. Let ns , however , see whether we can measure the integrit y and consistency of the writer by an undeniable standard . He makes reference to the Con . ference of 1839 , and speaks of the transactions of that body in the most reprobatory terms , while he forgets that he was one of that body , receiving six guineas a week—that he was the most violent until the exchequer was emptythat , as a member of the Lumber Troop , in whose guardroom the Conference sat , he , as Chairman , pointed to the sword , the musket ,
and tho blunderbuss , represented behind him as the arms of the troop , and told the Delegates and the audience that those were the weapons by which alone they could obtain the Charter , ' He forgets that when the petition was presented , he took the chair at . the White Conduit House , at a public dinner , and got so beastly drunk that the well-conducted men left the meeting in disgust —that he then hugged Mi-. O'Connor , who sat next to him , and vomiting over the table , distinguished him as the Man of the People . And this is the
beast who would now base his opposition , or rather his wrath , for opposition he is not capa . bio of presenting , upon the pretext that some other man should have taken charge of the question of the Charter . This spotted zebra , this political renegade , this moral monitor , who is such an enthusiastic admirer of popular rights , is not only theEditor of poor "Lloyd ' s" LAST WORDS , but he is also the perfumed editor of the " Court Journal , " in which the looks , the winks , the squint s , the sueeses , tUo Iveius , the
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haws , aud the coughs , the dresses , the petticoats , the bustles , the bosoms , the necklaces , the bracelets , the lockets , and the rings , the shoes , the stockings , and the ancles , the carriages , the horses , the liveries , the perfumes , the pocket handkerchiefs , and the reticules of the nobility , ' are faithfully described ; and in which this blaring , wide-mouthed , waddling frog caters for a little bit of aristocratic sentimentality , to relieve him from the Chartist stink , and the still more execrable effluvia from which even the Court of Bankruptcy cannot cleanse him .
However , as this fellow caters for the aristocracy upon the one hand , and for the frequenters of stews , brothels , and gin palaces upon the other ; and as now hut few read his rubbish , we consign him to that oblivion for which nature designed him : we leave him to the cheering reflections of his gayer days , and trust he will find consolation in the reminiscence ; and if he does not , we commend to him the perusal of the following article , taken from the " Dispatch" of last week , and which , ere now , has been read by hundreds for every one who peruses his trash ; aud which , instead of perverting their minds , will enlighten their genius . It is an admirable article , and we commend Ifc to the perusal 6 $ ail pasties , and all classes THE CHARTER .
( From the LHspatch , of July 8 th . ) Mr . Feargus O'Connor has this week brought the " Charter ' " before the House of Commons , in the shape of a resolution approving of its principles . Formerly such a motion ; treading on the heels of Mr . Hume ' s , and of the various attempts to secure Triennial Parliaments , the Ballot , and such reforms as unite the goodwill of ail the friends of progress , and sure to be supported by a very small minority , would have been inopportune , as showing a division in the camp . That danger is past . Our legion is a serried phalanx . Mr . Hume and his more immediate followers admit the whole Charter in principle , and only defer parts of it , on account of expediency and the chances of present success . The
Chartists ,. on their part—no longer obstinate to claim all or none , no longer bent upon enforcing extreme rights by the . physical foroo which puts all right out of the question , and leaves might as the sole arbiter of justice—are disposed to help all who will frankly help them , though it be to but a . part of their claim . They not only agree in action with such men as Mr . Hume , who , allowing their natural right , think it unwise at present to prosecute it to the utmost , but even with those who act upon the minor principle , that , for the people to he well governed , they must be represented , though not in full proportion to their numbers . The experience of defeat when the entire party is such a national maiority as , united , must insure victory , has taught
the wisdom of union . Therefore it is . that , at the groat Marylobone meeting , in the Princess's Theatre , we find Air . O'Connor , and even Hetkerington , side by side with Lord Dudley Stuart ; and that on the same night , in another crowded assemblage , at Hackney Sir V 7 . Clay stands on the same platform , for the same general purpose , as his much more liberal colleague , George Thompson . Even the Premier himself disclaims the title of " Finality John , " because he declares he never used the word " finality , " or intended the idea , and indignantly says " Ko ! no ! " to the . assertion that he means the representation to remain as it is ; and distinctly states , in the discussion on the Charter , "I believe that it would be advantageous to the country , if a
greater number of the working-classes were in possession of the Suffrage , and able to take part in the choice of representatives ; but I maintain that that object can be attained without sacrificing all the main principles of our constitution . " The necessity , or , at least , the " advantage" of change is therefore admitted hy all , from the most lukewarm to the most ardent among Liberals ; the only questions are those of time and degree . Therefore , though , the Charter had but fifteen supporters against 224 , tho cause was advanced , rather than deteriorated by its discussion . Lord John , indeed , in combating its principles , was obliged to resort to very stale tricks . The old folly , that if all men are entitled to vote , women must bo also , was raked up by the Premier , with the instance of Miss Harriet Martineau as a
political reasoner far superior to many men . Nature is very bountiful ; the offices of the two sexes are often interchangeable . A poor widower often makes an affectionate and successful nurse ; a widow or a wife , whose husband is incapacitated , takes the office of a man , thinks fov tho fatally , works' fov It and maintains it . Miss Biffin , having no arms , cut out and painted watch-papers with her toes much better than many artists could with their fingers . But the two sexes are mainly divided in their functions , mental as well as bodily , The observer , physiological and phrenological , sees that this is intended . Women have no such stupid advocates as those who wish to make men of them . If they be equal , they are not identical with men , As we do
not wish them to be electors , neither do we wish them to dig , or to go to sea , or to go to battle . Even in our monarchy , the English prefer a Queen to a King , because the regal office should be rather female than male , rather a benevolent influence , rather an elegance and a grace , than a stern power . Lord John's argument is nonsense , and he knows it ; but then he also knows that bespeaks to those with whom nonsense will do better than sense . Just so with the plea against Universal Suffrage , by the example of France . True , the minority most unadvisedly rebelled against a criminal majority ; but
had they had any less authority than the representatives of Universal Suffrage to oppose , they would have triumphed . Iu one breath , he calls this suffrage dangerous ; in another he calls it ineffectual , because it will return Conservative representatives , and not such as are expected from it ! Which does he mean ? No one can have the benefit of two opposite arguments . It is Democratic or Conservative , dangerous or safe , and not both and all . But the time is at hand when better answers must be given . Let all do their work to hasten it ; it cannot come too soon for those who think soundly and mean uprightly .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . " Itis alonglane , " saystheold saw , " which has no turning . " Even Mi-. Joseph Hume , who some years since estimated the political value of the Whigs so hi gh , that he frankly declared , he would vote white was black in order to keep them in office , has become disgusted with their reactionary policy . Pew of the readers of the '' Northern Star '' can have
forgotten the columns of abuse whieh were showered upon " the Tory Chartists" by the Free Trade Press , when the Anti-Corn Law League was in the ascendant , on the ground that , by opposing the so-called " Liberal party , " they were playing into the hands of the Tories . That policy was , it may be recollected , deliberately adopted and in several instances carried out , even to the length of
giving a nominal Tory the victory over a nominal " Liberal" at the hustings . At that time the middle-class reform party did not understand the tactics pursued by the Chartists . It appears , however , from Mr . Hume ' s speech on the second reading of the bill for shortening the duration of Parliaments , that the * adoption of that identical policy is not at all uWljkoly by the party of whom the venerable . Reformer is the acknowledged leader .
In spite of the opposition of the Prime Minister , Mr . D'Eyncourt . carried his motion for the introduction and first reading of his hill . On the next stage being moved on Wednesday , Sir George Guey repeated Lord John ' s arguments in a worse spirit and manner , with greater flippancy and greater disregard to the actual facts of the case . It certainl y does require considerable hardihood to assert "that there does not exist in the country any practical discontent or dissatisfaction with regard to the duration of Parliaments . " Nothing hut the aptitude of not Hushing acquired by "
officials" in the course of practice , could have sustained the Home Secretary when venturing upon an assertion so wide of the truth . But Sir George , of all the party , exhibits the greatest predisposition or capacity for reaction . Most of his colleagues may be said to be " aegatives , '' but he has a positive affinity towards Toryism—or absolutism , rather-, which colours the whole of his public conduct , and has "been so frequently and prominently displayed in Parliament , as toleave no doubt in the mind of any close observer as to the party with whom he really sympathises .
The true meaning of the fondness of certain Members for Septennial seats , was explained by a late colleague of the Home Secretary , whom the people of Manchester—not improperly—wished to be an independent member , inteadofa mere echo of ministerial decisions . But Mr . M . Gibson , iu resigning his seat at tho Board of Trade , did not at the same time part with the experience necessarily
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acquired by the performance of official duties and the peep behind the curtain which they gave him . When , therefore , an authority thus qualified , openly and gravely declares that the inducement how for members to represent a borough , after previously nursing it , and spending large sums of money in it , is to be found in the fact , that they knew there was a copious fountain of good things supplied
from the Treasury , to make the -money they had spent a good investment—we may fairly take it for granted that such ia the fact . If so , it forms the strongest of all arguments against the longer continuance ol that corrupt , demoralising , aud most mischievous system , which Ministers and Members thus agree to perpetuate , at the cost of the money , and the material , and moral well-being of the whole community .
Mi \ Hume has had pretty considerable expe « rience of the stand-still and re-actionary qualities of his quondam friends this session , and , as we have already said , begins to get tired of supporting a nominal " Reform Government , ' but really an obstructive one : therefore , he emphatically declared , that unless they were prepared to accede to measures of . reform , he could no longer give them his support ;
considev ' mgti \ a , i any Adinintsiratiofc . would bepvefitalic to the present—however ultra-Tory it might prove — because , in that , case , there might possibly be a chance of a large and united Opposition , determined to carry out the reform which the country required . At present , cut up as the House now is , info sections , the friends of reform are , in fact aiding , abetting ; and supporting a Non-Reform Government . We know not whether Mr . Hume in these
sentiments gave utterance to his individual convictions , or to those of the powerful party with which he is connected ; but , in either case , we have no hesitation in saying , that however much the purely Whig journals and Ministerial hacks may abuse it , as a Tory policy , it is theonly one that promises to bring the great questions . between the people and the oligarchy tdareaiancl & oBSjfafe issue . At present the industrious and unenfranchised masses are
plundered and oppressed by the privileged classes with impunity , in consequence of the manner in which the hall of power is tossed from one faction of the oligarchy to another , whenever circumstances appear to threaten that their longer retention of office would damage the permanency of aristocratic domination . If the policy so often explained and recommended hy Mr . O'Connor , in former
years , and so forcibly enunciated by Mr Hume on Wednesday , be vigorously carried out , there will speedily be an end of all shams , and the people knowing the nature and extent of ihe resistance they reall y have to encounter , will be enabled to . bring a proportionate attacking power to bear upon it . In the meantime—thanks to the Whigs—Parliaments are , at pre ' se ?) t , not to be less in legal duration thaa
seven years . The resistance of the Ministry to the repeal of the Septennial Act , however opposed to the early practice of Parliament , and the proper carrying out of the representative system , may , in some degree , be comprehended , when we remember that the Whigs , as a party , are the parents of that Act . But no such palliation or explanation , either hereditary or imaginary , can be suggested for the wholesale and unblushing apostacy which characterised their conduct , in the matter of
the Irish Church on Tuesday night . If there was any one political principle or question to which the Whigs were pledged , as a party , it was this Irish Church Temporalities question . Ever since 1823 , when Lord J . Russell supported Mr . Hume ' s motion , they have in office and out of office made this their cheval de bataille . In 1833 , Lord Grey's Cabinet brought in a measure which distinctly embodied the principle of secularising the surplus revenues of the Irish church , iu other words , of taking public property from useless and bloated bishops , deans , rectors , vicars , & c , and makin g it available for the
education and social improvement of the people . Two years afterwards the Melboukne Opposition proposed their famous " Appropriation Clause , " whichbroke up Sir R . Peel ' s Government of that day , and seated them in power on the foundation of that very clause . Por some years they played the game-, so common to them , of appearing to keep their promises / while , in reality , they were determined to break them . They sent up " Appropriation Bills" to the Lords , which were as regularly rejected , and , at last , public opinion having been directed to other subjects by other parties , they let the matter quietly drop as a Government . But even then it was not
given up as a party question . . Mr . Smith O'Brien mooted it in 1843 , when he was supported by seven members of the present Cabinet . The year after Lord J . Russeli , himself renewed the attack , and was backed by all the members of the present Government then having seats in the House ; and in 1845 , the question was opened once more , by Mr . Ward , late Secretary to the Admiralty and now " Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Isles : " on that occasion Mr . Macaulatt —breaking through the measured phraseology of Whigs — distinctly denounced the L-ish Church itself as " a bad institution . "
Mr . B . Osborne , who re-introduced the question on Tuesday night , gave this history ( which we have condensed ) , and illustrated it hy copious extracts from the speeches o £ all the leading Whig Ministers and orators , before proceeding to explain the grounds on which he made his motion . It was in one aspect a humiliating exposure ; in another , a severe , hut most just , castigation of the faithless and unprincipled party whose career he followed step by step . Prom whatever cause it happened we are unable to say , but Lord J . Russell absented himself . Is it stretching the imagination too far to suppose that some lingering remains of honourable consistency and of conscientious feelin »
forbade him to make an ostentatious proek £ niation of his recreancy ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer , too , left his seat vacant . On the Home Secretary , once the most spirited and vi gorous assailant of the Irish Church , devolved the duty of opposing a motio ^ he had ; ., so ; often supported , and he did it iii a way which we imagine will , on cool reflection by the . Cabinet itself , be seen to he the worst he could have tried , Defence he made none—his whole speech being confined to a most disingenuous , we mierht almost say , "Old Bailey trick , " of luggin * in the Roman Catholic Endowment Question which had nothing to do . with the motion * and then arguing that appropriation must ' from tho nature of the case , be postponed until
the Koman Oatholic Clergy and Laity can be persuaded to accept of the surplus revenues of the Established Church . This , we repeat , was one of the lamest and most transparent subterfuges ever had recourse to by a Minister o £ State , and SirG . G key knew that well enough himself . He knew that the Whi g party had always treated the Church Temporalities Question as a totally independent one , and argued that the surplus revenues of that Chh should
urc be ; appropriated as Mr , Osborne again proposed they should—namely for purposes ol general and nnsectarian education . At the conclusion of the debate many members sitting on the Ministerial aide of the House hastily rushed- out of the House to avoid voting , amidst the ironi cal cheers of the Opposition henches ; hut the mercenaries and the Tories mustered strona enough to defeat the motion , and to stamp upon the present Government an ineffsceablQ disgrace .
Mr . Dismay ' s motion , on the State ' of the JNation , ended in smoke , and now needs no comment , from us . It was a sham fight . Neither of the contending parties cared five
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 14, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14071849/page/4/
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