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Captain George Maclean, the husband of the late «e»tated 'L.E.L ' closed his life at Cane Coast.
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 14. 1847.
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T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ., M.P. It is with th...
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THE PRESS AND THE TIVERTON ELECTION. (Tr...
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THE CRIMINAL LAW. In another part of the...
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The General Election, now nearly closed,...
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Captain George Maclean, The Husband Of The Late «E»Tated 'L.E.L ' Closed His Life At Cane Coast.
Captain George Maclean , the husband of the late « e » tated 'L . E . L ' closed his life at Cane Coast .
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the western coast of Africa , on the 22 nd of May Some whale { fishing vessels have returned to the northers parts , bringing good news from the Arctic region ?* The avenge of seals to each vessel will he some 5 , 000 , besides whales . The government ©? Bavaria basjust decided that Jew may exercise tbe profession of advocates . Till no * , there has only been one Jew in all tbe kingdom panaitwd to set as aa advocate .
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JUST PUBLISHED , NO . V 1 IK OF K THELABOURER / rtlCE SlXFENCB , CONTENT ! . 1 . A Sketch , by-Ernest Jones . a . Insurrections ofthe Working Classe * . 3 ^ l ma ' S Manual . ( Game Laws , No . 2 . ) 4 . The Confessions of ^ King . ( Concluded . ) 5 . The Romance of a People . o . The Glorious Privilege , a Tale of our Days . 7 . Poem , by Spartacus . 8 . Monthly BeTiew . 9 . Literary Review . Letters ( pre-paid ! to be addressed to the Editor * , 16 Great Windmill Street , Ha / market , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
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THE PEOPLE'S ESTATE . Next Saturday ' s Star will contain a full Report of the DEM 0 NSTEAT 1 ON AT LOWBANDS , and of the proceedings of COHERENCE , down to the latest hour . Thursday ' s and Friday ' s proceedings will be forwarded by Express .
The Northern Star Saturday, August 14. 1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , AUGUST 14 . 1847 .
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T . S . DUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M . P . It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the continued and increasing indisposition of this noble patriot and disinterested champion of the people in Parliament . Tho attack of bronchites which prevented his appearing on the hustings to receive from the electors of Finsbury the renewal of their confidence , and the veil merited reward of a free and unopposed re-election , has since that time been gradually becoming more severe , and we had the inexpressible pain of learning this morning , (
Thursday ) , that Mr Duncombe has beennnable to leave his bed for the last three days . A distressing cough and pain in the chest prevents him from obtaining sleep at night , and the honourable gentleman is consequently much weakened . We earnestly express our hope—a hope which we are certain will be echoed by the millions of affectionate admirers and followers of Mr Duncombe—that he may speedily so far recover strength , as to be able to bear removal to the country , where rest , care , and pure air may hare a renovatingeffect . His loss would be a national calamity under any circumstances , but at the present
moment . it would be one of the most disastrous and fatal blows the Movbmest Pibxt in this country could sustain . The manner in which Mr Duncombe has fought his Parliamentary Campaigns , almost single banded against the combined factions , preeminently points Mm out as theundisputable and natural leader of the members returned by tbat party to the New Parliament . His indomitable courage and indefatigable perseverance , quick pet * captions , and great Parliamentary experience , con . joined with his polished , and truly gentlemanly —because self-possessed and courteous bearing , and
his felicitous style of oratory , have given him an immense ascendancy ia the house . —If he is spared to take his place in St Stephen ' s on the re-assembling of Parliament , Ids tact , talent , and temper as a leader would give a direct , practical , and effectivedirection to the concentrated efforts of the popular members , which , without such leadership will be unattainable—at least for a very long period ' . For the sake of the country , therefore—net less than on account of the suffering of one whom we personally love and honour—we deeply deplore having to make such an announcement of the state of his health .
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PALMERSTON PULVERISED . One of the most extraordinary features of the recent elections was the curious exhibition of Lord Pamjebston at Tiverton , when " put through his paces '—as the Times says—by JvilKS Harnbt , bis lordship for the first time in his life engaged in an attempted vindication of his political career ; with what success the " show of hands" determined .
The whig press have universally praised lord pAiiMERSTON ' s reply to the charges brought against him , as "brilliant , " " crushing , " and " unanswerable ; ' ' and that too without knowing anything of the speech of the noble Lord ' s accuser , except what might be gathered from the speech of his Lordship , who did not forget to avail himself of the usual license to give such a colouring to many parts of his opponent ' s address , as enabled him to get up a few penderous jokes , which , though some of them
do not tell amiss in the Times , fell with dismal effect upon the ears of his Loidship ' s unfortunate auditors . Any one reading the report in the Times would suppose that the Foreign-Secretary had at least delivered a fluent address , not unpleasing to the ear , however " slipshod " iu point of style , unsaund in argument , and false as regards pretended facts ; hut the truth is , that the manner of its delivery was most painlttl and wearisome , as all Tiverton can testify . There stood his Lordship between two and three mortal hours , pouring out his words , in
"One weak , washy , everlasting flood , " making laborious efforts to be sarcastic , and trying his utmost to be grimly facetious ; applauded certainly by a knot more select than numerous , led on by their immortal fugleman , whose unhappy " Yah , Yah ! " must still ring in the ears of the Tivertonians , but whose disinterested applause was continually drowned in the overwhelming jeers and hootings of the crowd . The " sweet voices " of the people "were not , however , to his Lordship's taste , and , therefore , were not taken note of by the noble Lord ' s lacquey—the Times reporter . Although Lord Palmerston ' s , speech was like Don Alfomo ' s , .
" a fine sample , on the whole , Ot rhetoric , which the leara'd call ' rigmarole , '" tbe Times could find five columns for its report , whilst Julian Harney's speech waa altogether omitted , * indeed , the reporters gave their pencils a holiday during the whole time the Chartist candidate was speaking . Again . after Lord Palmerston had spoken , and his opponent came forward to make his second speech , the entire batch of" Suckmugs , " as Cobbbtt used to call them , decamped , and in consequence , actually rais-reported the conclusion of the proceedings , representing that immediately after Julian Harney had declined going to the poll , the Mayer had declared Mr Heathcotb
and Lord Palmerston " duly elected , " whereas no such declaration was made till the next day ! This is another specimen of the injustice and baseness of the " respectable " press . ' » His lordship " is reported to the extent of five columns , because heisaiorrf-JuuAsr HARNEYis not reported at all , because he is merely a Man 1 It is not our purpose to wade through the dreary five columns
of Lord PAmeasiWs harangue , but there are a few points we may notice without much wearying our readers . His lordshi p avowed that he approved of the measures introduced in the time of PzRcrvAL and his immediate successors , for the suppression of public rights , on the gronnd that the "Radicals" were resorting to '' Ph ysical force >' Now it is notorious that the " physical force' * < je monstrations of those » 3 ays were got up V the government , Ca 9 w . es , Ouveb , Ric hmond tod
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Edwards were but the tools of Siomouth > Castjcereagh , Canning , and the other Tory violators of the constitution , of whom Lord Pal-MBRSTON was then one . "Although , " says his lordship , " I am a decided advocate for Reform , I would have that reform effected by reason and by argument , —nay , it may be pushed forward , if you will , by agitation : but it must be by the agitation of mind , and not by the agitation of physical force . "
Of course this tallies well with the Whig persecution of the Chartists ! It will be as well , how . ever , to remember his lordship ' s words , and ( as he would say ) , " pin" him to his non-objection to agitation . "Agitate , agitate , agitate , " said O'Connkm ,. " I have no objection , " says Lord Palmersmn , " Keform may be pushed forward , if you will , by agitation ; but it must be by the agitation of mind , and not by the agitation of physical force . " Good !
Lord Paimebston was dreadfully shocked at JVuan Harnby ' s strictures upon that " most distinguished statesman ; " ( the late ) Mr . Canning , whom his Lordship described as the pink of purity , he never having used the power he enjoyed "for his own aggrandisement , or that of his family . " Now what are the facts ? For about thirty-five years Canning held a sinecure place , for which he received in the course of that time about seven , teen thousand pounds of the public money , independent of the salaries he enjoved in the various
posts , which , at different times , he filled , of Under Secretary of State , Paymaster of the Forces , Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , President of the Board of Controul , Ambassador to Portugal , and lastly , First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer . Canning put his mother and half-sister upon the pension list , instead of keeping them himself , as he ought to hare done . He had a son called William Pitt Canning ( named after " tbe pilot who gathered the storm" ) , w'jo , placed in the navy , was , long before
Canning s death , made a Post Captain over the heads of thousands of officers who were at sea , and bad poured out their blood iu the service of their country (?) long before Billy Pjtt Canning was born . We might fill columns with the doings of this flashy jester , Canning , who Lord Palmerston says " did honour to his country ; " but enough tbat we say ( or Juliak Harney , that he is ready and wiling to meet his Lordship any day , to prove Canming one of the worst enemies the people of of this country ever had to contend with .
Lord Palmerston said , that his opponent ' s strictures on the administrations of Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne would lead him to suppose his opponent " a Tory in disguise . " Stale fudge that 1 Very like a Tory ! « Very like a whale 1 " Lord Palmerston was very unity ( J ) in his advice to the people of Tiverton to ' send Mr Harney back to school to learn political economy . " . We quote from his Lordship ' s speech : — " Why , Mr Harney says tbe Government ought to have turned shopkeeper—that they should have made
magazines , and bought corn and sold it out to the people , and that then everything would have been well . ' This his Lordship characterised as " dreadful error , " " bad economy , " & c ., & c . ; but we again quote from his Lordship : — "The Government bought corn / row the storekeepers and merchants in Ireland at the mari-et price , seat it by Government vessels to be deposited at certain stations in these remote regions , and so endeavoured to alleviate those
calamities , which would otherwise have pressed much more heavily upon the people . " Here we have Lord Palmerstok contradicting himself , actually demanding popular admiration for the Whig Government , on the ground that himself and colleagues had done partially what Jvliax Harney would have had done nationally!—His Lordship had been sneering at his opponent wanting the Government " to turn shopkeeper , " yet immediately afterwards the noble Lord avows that the Government did turn
shopkeeper , only after a petty , huckstering fashion . Julian Harney would have had the Government buy com in the wholesale market , but no , that would have been * ' bad economy , " says the noble Lord ; what sort of economy , then , was it for the Government to buy corn in the retail market , " from the Storekeepers and merchants ia Ireland ?" We always understood that one of the principles of political economy was to " buy in the cheapest market ; " but here we have Lord Palmersxon
avowing that the Whig Government deliberately went to work to buy in the dearest market ! After this exhibition , Julian Harney would have been fully justified—could he have beense uncoutteousto have flung back his Lordship ' s insolence in his own teeth , and said to him : — " I think that on this subject my opponent displays such a degree of ignorance , as should lead you to send him back to the school of the Political Economy Club , for at least six months , before you allow him to represent your interests in the House of Commons . "
After lecturing on the impropriety of gentlemen indulging in declamation on the subject ofthe New Poor Law—a sore subject for his Lordship—he proceeded to enlighten his hearers with some startling definitions as to the objects of Government . "The object of all science is truth , and the science of goveroment is an investigation of the truth . * * *
It is only by applying truth to the interests of the different classes of society , that you can do justice ; and , therefore , truth and justice are indissolubly united / ' We should be glad to know what is Lord Paimbrston ' s " truth ? " We perfectly understand his "justice , " viz ., the exclusion of six-sevenths of his countrymen from the exercise of the rights he claims for himself .
In entering upon a defence of his foreign policy , Lord Palmerston exhibited the good taste of telling his opponent that "he knew nothing of the matter he had been talking of , " but we tell his Lordship , in his own words , that "it is not a mere question of assertion one way , and denial the other , because events are matters of history , " and Julian Harnsy may safely appeal to history to decide
between himself and his noble opponent , who is too much interested in " making the worse appear the better reason . " It must have been mortifying to his Lordship to have witnessed , in spite of his sneers at his opponent , that the people declared by their voices and their upraised hands , that the Chartist candidate s statements were history , and that his Lordship ' s replies were merely history falsified .
Making a feint of replying to . Julian Harney ' s strictures on his Lordship ' s Spanish policy , he said not a word concerning the increase of taxation to the extent of some millions , imposed upon the people by 'Liberalism , " nor of the sanguinary horrors committed by Christina and her cut-throat tools . These matters his Lordship conveniently forgot to say anything about , but instead , he vaunted with an air of great self-satisfaction , that "he had , for the first time , established Parliaments in Spain . " Why , it is a matter of history , that Spain had her Parliaments at a time when this country , under the PlaNTAge .
nms , was yet struggling for a similar privilege . It is true that tbe despotism of Church and King subsequently subverted Parliamentary freedom in Spain , hat municipal Ubcrty survived , and up to the time of the impositjrsa ef Lord Palmerston ' s" Liberalism " on Spain , the Basque provinces were the freest of Europea ' a states , and the people of those provinces were less taxed , and enjoyed more real liberty , than any other people in Europe . Lord Pai-mer 8 TQ « is either ignorant of these facts , or wilfully suppressed them ; in either case , it ill becomes him to charge his opponent with ignorance of history * . '
Coming to the Syrian war , Lord Palmers-ton tried by artful misrepresentation t » f his opponent ' s words , and the assuoip & a of a free-and-easy style
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of jocularity , to turn the laugh against his adversary , but Tacts are chWWsthat wlnna ding , And canna bo refuted ;" a nd , as his lordship said " events are matter of his tory ! " of course Mehkmet Ali will be hig hly gratified at his lordship ' s familiarity in speaking of him
as « that old gentleman , " who was " kicked out of Syria neck and crop . " This way of talking of foreign potentates , we suppose his lordship learned from his" gifted" master , that mischievous buffoon , -Canning , who was in the habit of indulging in similar displays not greatly to the advantage of this nation . Whether English or French interests will be best served by the perusal of Lord Palmerston ' s speech at Grand Cairo , time will tell 1
In reply to Julian Harnby , who had spoken of the mockery of calling Hindoatan *• otw Indian Empire" in relation to the working classes of this country , who bad not one foot of soil they could call their own in their own native land , Lord Palmbrston said .- " I should like him to show m the country in which there are not some men who do not possess any land . " The greater shame to his lordship ' s class all over tbe world ; though , according to bis lordship , if the wrong is next thing to universal it is therefore rig ht ! Iu allusion to the Afghanistan catastrophe , L ' ord Palmerston said : — ' Those who sent that army into Affghanistan were
as much the cause of the calamity I have alluded to as a man who builds a house is the cause of its being burnt down ; or a man who builds a ship is the cause of its being wrecked in a storm . " But suppose , most noble reasoner , a man builds his house on the edge of a volcano , or wilfully sails his ship into the midst of the breakers , if the bursting lava and the raging waters prove too destructive for house or ship to withstand , who is then responsible for the fatal event ? This was precisely the course
pursued by Lord Palmesrtoh in Affghanistan ; he invaded an independent country , forced an odious monarch on the people , held the country for that monarch by a foreign force , and in a variety of ways goaded and galled the Afghans , a people , as he well knew , too brave to patiently endure insult . Any m an with the least foresight might have predicted t h at . the Afghans would at some time or other attempt to shake off the yoke of the British ; they did attempt and succeeded , for the British found themselves quite incapable of resisting the attempt
when made . The burning lava overflowed , the hurricane came and the waves rose , and Lord Palmerston ' s " house" was consumed , and his " ship" sunk . and went" down into tbe blackness o / darkness for ever . " Lord pALMERSTON ~ says that the measures of vengeance against theAffghans were taken by Sir Robert Peel ' s government , but he adds , " I applaud them . I think they were right and proper . '' Thatis , Lord Palmerston approves of armed and unarmed Affghans being put to the sword , women and children ruthlessly murdered , cities given to the flames , property plundered , or wantonly destroyed ;
corn fields and fruit trees trampled down , cut down , and destroyed by fire , to cause the inhabitants who had escaped the sword to perish of hunger ! These hellish doings his Lordship " applauds , " and thinks t' right and proper" Be it remembered , these atrocities were performed solely for the pitiful purpose of " avenging ourselves" for " our" previous defeat . His Lordship professes to be a Christian and a supporter of the Chuich , " as by law esta . Wished . " Can he reconcile his creed , which teaches him to forgive injuries with these abominable doings which be " applauds ? " Perhaps , like 'Wobdstvort h , he thinks that
" Carnage Is Ood's daughter , " and so would persuade the Affghan to adopt the principle of good faith , and all the other virtues and attributes of Christianity and civilisation , by tickling him with the sabre's point . Julian Harney ' s charge , tbat his Lordship had practically opened the gates of Affghanistan to the Russians , his Lordship forgot to reply to . It was not convenient to admit that his Lordship ' s policy had produced results directly opposed to those intended .
The results of the war in China had been , according to his Lordship , the teaching ofthe Chinese ' ' good manners , " and the making of them "free traders . " Whether battering down cities , and destroying thousands of lives , are the most fitting means to teach nations" good manners" and the blessings ot " free trade , " we leave to the public to decide . In our humble opinion , a better way to have effected the latter object woild have been for the
British government to have totally repealed the teaduty . We strongly doubt that a nation was ever yet taught" good manners" by having cannon balls knocked about its ears , and certainly , notwithstanding Lord Palmerston ' s swaggering assertion , the Chinese are in no good humour with " us , " and have exhibited no very " good manners , " as the recent expedition from Hong Kong to Canton abundantly proves .
In discussing the Portuguese question , Lord Palmerston made some remarkable admissions , " The Portuguese , " says hb Lordship , " did what any people would do under such circumstances ; and what I stated in the House of Commons , / thought they were right in doing . * * * * I think the people of Portugal were justified in that conduct . ' His Lordship makes these admissions , and then adds a string of puerilities to excuse his
intervention against a cause which he admits to have had justice on its side . Thus far events have proved the stupidity as well as injustice , of his Lordship ' s policy , the conditions to which Ponna Maria agreed , have been but partially carried out , and only under British coercion ; but the moment that coercion is withdrawn , there will be a repetition of the scenes recently exhibited in that country , and then , we suppose must follow more " interventions : "where to
end?—• "Thus bad begins aud worse remains behind . " As regards Cracow , Lord Palmerstoh talked of th « millions that must have been spent , and the blood that must have flowed , to have restored th at republic . To hear his Lordship descant upon this topic , you would imagine that he had a moat holy horror of war . Like Shakespeare ' s fop , " He lookso so neat , and smelt so sweet , And tftlke 4 . so like a waiting gentlewoman , " of guns and drums , and so forth , that had you then heard his Lordship for the first time , you could not
have doubted that he was president of the Peace Society . "It would not , " says his Lordship , " have been dignified , wise , or becoming the honour of this country to threaten what it was not prepared to execute . " Very pacific , no * to say cowardly and contemptible , this ; but this "bulIy ^ Bottom" can roar in a very different strain when not the liberties of a nation , bii ' t the monies of a few ( deservedl y ) jilted bondholders are at stake . He repeated his
war-threat ty the Spaniards , but let the Spaniards not fear , Vhe English people will never sanction a war for the purpose of reducing them to the co * j . ditLon of slaves to foreign money-traffickers . Lord P hum-stoK twitted , his opponent that whereas he professed to be a great advocate for " . V ustice , " he was against justice to the Spanish bondholders . His Lordship is mistaken , Julias Hab ' jey wishes them full justice—that they may neve * see their money again-the only kind of justice they deserve .
Tut Times professes to be half-amused , half . shocked , at the Foreign . Secretary of this powerful Government being "f « more cwmwunicatire , mi
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even confidential to » **• of ' oeery' e , cctors » tnan hehaseverbeentoihe -iegisJature or anyforew ambassador . " " Beery electors ; " complimentary , very ! Several ofthe weekly Liberal papers are equally polite , ( prftising Lord Palmerston for having provided the Tiverton electors with information on the " politics-made-easy" principle . The electors may hence see how much they are really despised by their aristocratic " representative , " and his toady '
admirers . The Time * rejoices that "the Chartist was beaten on his own ground . " Now , it happened to be exactly the reverse , it was Lord Palmerston who was beaten on hi * own ground , as was sufficiently proved , not only by the superiority of the Chartist's arguments , but also from the fact , which the Times could not conceal , though some of the weakly rap did so , that the Chartist was triumphantly elected by show of bands , and the Viscount had to demand a poll to get himself " returned " -
elected he was not . According to the Times , it is Lord Palmerston ' s habit to " finish off his opponents very clean , and leave them no opportunity whatever for coming again . " There is no rule without an exception , and we beg to tell the Times that Lord Palmerston ' s opponent is sure to " come again , " the only ques tion is , will his Lordship come again ? If the noble Lord has any stomach for the fight , his opponent will be found ready and willing at any time .
The Times , commenting on Julias Harnby's speech , which it did not publish , says ;—We will just ask the value of a principle which proves a public man , a long-tried servant of tbe State , and tbe friend of many ( treat ram , utterly and totally bad ; and not only this public man , but la fact , all tbe public men we have had for half a century . What is this Chartism ? Is it a principle t Ib it a real and practical system ? Is it anything which can he arried out , and which can guide a man straight throu gh any moral or political embarrassments ?
Good Times , you are a pretty " public instructor ' ' if you cannot answer these queries for yourself . Chartism is a principle , tbe principle of ETERNAL JUSTICE , as defined in the great moral law— " Do unto thy fellow-man as thou vjouldest he should do to thee . " It is because Lord Palmbrstow , and the rest of the " public men " of half a century , have acted in violation of this principle , and have bolstered up a system opposed to this principle , that he and they have gone wrong
and always been wrong . It is our purpose to set them right , and ensure right-doing on the part of statesmen henceforth , by making them the representatives of a system totally opposed to the present , and perfectly in accordance with the principle above enunciated . Confident in the strength of our cause , and encouraged by the glorious triumph recently gained at Nottingham , and the partial victories ( hereafter to be completed ) elsewhere , we shall push on , taming neither to the right hand nor to the left , determined to hasten that better
day , when Bight—not might—shall be the lord la the good time coming . "
Even Confidential To » **• Of ' Oeery' E...
| we do say , if men are to be killed in theT ^ \ in pursuit of their peaceful avocations . ? ^ whose supposed office it is to guard then \ against the turbulent , strike the former i ^ iS latter ; if a policeman is to use iris trunci , ^ strike at random among a crowd whenever tt " ' ^ seures him , catting off the father of a . f aTaiJ e . % prime of his life , and thus casting a dial '" ' widow and four helpless orphans on the ?"' " ' mercies of the world ; and if an act like this is ^^ stamped as excusable homicide ; then , indeed ' ^ criminal law is even worse than we beliered it \ ^ in our previous estimation , " ^ «• / I . ... j *— ;_ » . 1 . i . » i .. ¦¦ ' ^^ v
It is no excuse if the policeman suppo sed it the wrong man . Life is no such trifle aj lightly taken ; the mistake is in itself a crimt | ° before striking the blow it was his duty to < ee J * he struck . It is no excuse to say he did not J * killing the man . He struck a blow of $ ,, * ^ force to till , and it must have been a lucky ^ that had prevented death . It is no excuse ( . !* policeman to say his life was in danger-. it a i that nobody's life was endangered—and then e the plea of self-preservation cannot be urged io $ fence of the accused .
We are not going to prejudge this case ; and mn say no more at present , as the men of Sleaford bj « obtained a warrant against the policeman , and hi , case comes on this day . We are but reasonin g „ the verdict already recorded ; but this we < fa , h shouldjusticenotbe done—should reparation J be made to the snrviwng sufierers—then it beho ^ the me hers of the Land Company to take ^ question up , and fight the battle of their d epart ^
comrade .
The Press And The Tiverton Election. (Tr...
THE PRESS AND THE TIVERTON ELECTION . ( Traadlated from the ' Gazette de Ouemiey . 'i The bitter chagrin that the defeat of all these leagued politicians has caused to all the London journals , appears to have been for a moment mitigated by the events which marked the election at the town of Tiverton , where Lord Palmerston has rendered a singulai account oi his diplomacy in all parts of tbe world , to one Mr Harney , his fellowcandidate for the honour of the representation of Tiverton .
The account rendered by the Minister of his-Howie administration contains nothing very remarkable , but that of his Foreign policy is at once curious , and very interesting . It cost the Minister a space of above three hours , and upwards of five columns of the Morning Cftronicle , to develope his principles and conduct to Mr Harney . We can form some idea of the extent of territory over which he travelled , and the
importance of the events of which he heated , when we hear that Mr Harney ' s interrogations comprised the whole space of Lord PalraersWa ministry , from the time of his Lordship ' s entrance into office , ( a period almost beyond the recollection of the oldett inhabitant , ) up to tbe moment when the Usher of the Black Rod called the Members of the Lower House into the presence of their Sovereign , to hear the announcement ofthe dissolution of Parliament ,
only a few day previous . A voyage from Paris to Peru , and from Peru to Rome , is trifling compared with that which Mr Harney caused Lord Palmerston to take . The policy of England towards Belgium , Holland , France , Austria , Spain , Portugal , Italy , Poland , Russia , Turkey , Egypt , India , China , Canada , all was explained at length , by the Minister of Foreign Affairs . The character of the monarchs of these
different countries—that of their governments alsohas been as fully and as regularly presented to Mr Harney , as if he had been an ambassador from France or Russia , after a long war , and a sudden and sincere renewal of friendly relations . It would be impossible for the Minister to act with more guarded care , or to enter more explicitly into detail before his Sovereign , than he did before Mr Harney . The spectacle was a remarkable one , and to have been perfect , the metropolitan press ought , in justice to Mr Harney , to have given , at least , a brief sketch of that remarkble . production of his , which caused so remarkable a one from the English Minister .
But this is the age , of ingratitude—the most renowned orators and statesmen are rejected by constituencies , who , without their brilliant efforts , never would bare had an existence . The Press takes upon itself to blame this ingratitude , but in its turn treats the remarkable speech of Mr Harney in the same manner , by refusing to give that speech a place in its columns . The excuse with which it
seeks to cover the omission—that Mr Harney ' s Bill of Impeachmen t is gone over in the course of the Minister ' s reply—is quite as bad as that which the electors , whom it blames , put forward for rejecting those members of the House of Commons , whose talents and standing made them most worthy of a place there .
The Criminal Law. In Another Part Of The...
THE CRIMINAL LAW . In another part of the paper , our readers will find recorded the death of a very worthy member of the National Land Company , Mr Dobson , the secretary of the Sleaford branch , Lincolnshire . The circumstances under which he met his death afford a glaring instance of an undue use of violence , OU the part of the so-called guardians of the peace , Mr Dobson was merely passing quietly through the crowd , on his way to the Post-office with a letter , when he was struck ou the head by a policeman with his truncheon , and died within five hours of . the
wound . There appears to hava been no necessity fox having recourse to such violence towards anyone . It waa election time—there was a quarrel between thftUues and the reds—bat neither property not life appears to have been endangered , and even if any interference on the part of the police were necessary , brutality like the above could only be excused in the last extremity of self-defence . Yet , though it is clearly proved that poor Dobson had nothing on earth to do with the quarrel , that his v / bok previous life had been exemplary—and that he was even ignorant of any disturbance taking place when he left his home—the Coroner ' s Jury bring in a verdict of " Excusable Homicide . " We are far from harbouring vindictive feelings against the author of . flu } unhappy occumBce , but
The General Election, Now Nearly Closed,...
The General Election , now nearly closed , ha fully realised these anticipations . We are , it ii true , still in the transition period , but sufficient has transpired to show clearly whither we are tending , what the goal at which we are to arrive , Tbe mere routine drudges of tbe back press , unobservant or ignorant of the Radical change which has taken place , have we see betaken themselrei to Chronicling the members of the new House after the old fashion , and classify them under tlietbm beads of "Liberals , Peelites , and Protectionists , "
THE NEW PARLIAMENT . Whether it is owing to a fortuitous combinaijo , of lucky accidents , or to the results of a superb intellect and practical forseeing sagacity app ]« j to political affairs , it seems that Sir R . p ee ( ^ or out of office , is the virtual mainspring 0 f tfcj state machine . The great revolution , of ^^^ was the author in 1846 , and upon achieving % successful consummation of which he retired into private life , has not stopped with merely attetiu
the law * affecting the imports of bread stuffy a ^ the numerous articles catalogued in the Custom House Tariff . It has extended its influence throughout the whole of our political system , and entirely changed the position and relationshi p « j political parties to each other . Perhaps the mon correct statement would be , that his policy onftn occasion has decomposed all parties , and this under its powerful solvent " all old things hart nearly passed away , and all things are rjpidli becoming new . "
We have a vivid recollection of the brilliant scene presented by the House of Commons on the memotable night , at the commencement ohij session , 1846 , when that policy was expounded hx Sir Robert . The Queen ' s husband and uncle , i large number of members of the House of Pew a crowded assemblage of excited and anxious members of the «* Lower House , " and the " Gallery " crammed with " Strangers" comii . tuted Sir Robert ' s auditory . It was , in fact , an
assembly of the Three Estates of the realm . As we listened to the orator , we felt a profound cot viction that we were present at and assisting in th : inauguration of a great political , social , and morj ] revolution , the ramifications of which extended far beyond the microscopical range of mere " party " men . Tbat , in fact , that speech rung the knell oi ' party , " and substituted The People for Paction and Ministers , instead of being the nominees and bondslaves of the ruling faction of the day , would , ia future , become the ministers of the Nation .
with wonderful self complacency , bnt very trifling accuracy . These general terras tell nothing ; if they do anything at all , they deceive . Lord J . Russell and Mr F . O'Connor are classed under the same category , " Liberal . " The " liberality '* oi the one is the antipodes of the other . The motto of the one is" Finality ; " of the other , " Progress . ' The same error pervades the calculations ai to Peelites and Protectionists upon many question ) . The so-called Peelites are more liberal , that is , more progressive , than the self-dubbed Liberals ; and a ? to the Protectionist party . its members have so candidly and moderately , with few exceptions , proclaimed
their readiness to give Free Trade a " fair trial , " tad so discreetly declined to pledge themselves to any thing in future , that we can scarcely recognise in them our old friends , who used to foam at the mouth like mad hulls about the " perfidy . tergiversation . and treachery of the modern Judas Iscariot /' who betrayed the confiding agricultural party into the hands ofth « cotton lords of the League . Their wrath has evidently cooled down . The old parties have been dissolved , and the change which has come Otfir th 8 individual members of which they were composed , will soon leave scarcely a trace of their existence , except that which is to be found in Hansard and history .
But out of the debris , new combinations are arising . Each occupies an advanced position , a compared with the past ; and , in front of all these , has been sent into the house a little hand of pioneers , representing the views of all the extrentt sections of Reformers , whether these Reformers be i of a political , a religious , a social , or economical description . Who can accurately foresee or calculate » the full effect which this party of pioneers , will havt t on the deliberations of Parliament , and . the future »• destinies of the conntry ?
Henceforth , the battle of priuclptovsittbetranH ferred from the lecture room or the hustings ,, to thee arena of the Legislative Hall . The tame commonn place , the trite and hacknied qusstions , the formalo conventKHv & UsTos , and the hollow wtifiwilities of th « o old system , will be brought face to face vritbthetl vital earnestness , the ardent xeal , a / jd the uncos-ii querable determination of men who have a solemn ^ sense of the importance of the principles they main- g tain , and who are not to be daunted or turned asi < K from the path of dnty , either hy the blandishment ^
of power , or any compunctious visiting * for disturbmjtu the convenience , of the parties who have be « e accustomed , to " play at shuttlecock with tbt . h people , and to change plaMu . . "<> ut ° ' " in , " as suited themselves * The result of * i this is not doubtful . The agitation of JM League furnishes an analogy of a hopeful lujwl From the moment that tbe out-door agitation oftoi
Wloped its strength , by sending members from ^ roi own ranks to advocate its principles—from the wtn meat that it secured the suffrages and sympathy tat the electoral classes , its triumph was certain . « aiii must it be , with the " People ' s Charter , " and * % d those gveat practical measures which are requtfj re to give every man a Home in the land of his btfiis in which , by honest industry , he may live a eo & s fortable , independent , and happy life . Alreaay % ei perceive a distinct and gratifying change in f ' e i ap ^ eshenUas uomtoatiau hwtmffi oa this ^ "bis
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 14, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14081847/page/4/
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