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THE NORTHERN STAR. . Jawawlo, i W. ^^___...
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THE CuMING SESSION.
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NATIONAL LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS....
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Gratitude.—Tho coloured citizens of Cincinnati held a public roict ng on the 2nd ult.. and passed re-
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solutions euiogisue oi tiieiate lhomas U...
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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, JANUARY W, 1847.
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TO YOUR TENTS, OH CHARTISTS !
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We have no ordinary pleasure in calling ...
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THE LAST KICK. While ministers in esse, ...
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THE GREAT DIFFICULTY. We live in a stran...
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WEEKLY REVIEW. Famine, pestilence, and d...
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The Northern Star. . Jawawlo, I W. ^^___...
THE NORTHERN STAR . . Jawawlo , i W . ^^__________^ "" - 'I ^ = S ^—^—M ^ M ^^—^^— i —tf—^—^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ¦ ^¦ ^^""^^^ ^^^^^ ¦¦^ 1 . ^ ¦ ¦ - - * ¦ - — i ¦ « - — — — ' r ¦ •» - ¦^————^—^ ' " ^^ " *
The Cuming Session.
THE CuMING SESSION .
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ON MONDAY EVENING , JAN . U , 1847 , A PUBLIC DINNER . WHi TAKE PUCK IS THB LAROB BOOM OF THB WHITE CONDUIT-HOUSE TAVERN , PENT ON VL L E , Is Honour or the PeowVs PARLIAMENTARY LEADER , T . S . DUNCOMB E , wvmvno VTIfcL BE PRESENT ON * * THE OCCASION , and explain to the Meeting the course which bo intends to itir =, nr =, ic-. in reference to the Public Question wfcidi must occupy the attention of Farl ' nmmt during the approaching ssstasstan . ___^_^____™__________ TriicThc 1 " . ilowing distinguished advocates of the rig hts of all Classes of the People , have been invited and are expected atl attend : — T T . W , KLET , Esq .. M . P . Hindlet , Esq .. M . P . I W . S . O'Bmew , Esq ., M . P . I C . Cochrakk , Esq . V " \ V .-. Crawford , Esq ., M . P . Dr . Rowrisg . Esq ., M . i . F 0 Cosnob , Esq . E . Jones , Exq . . J J . F . eldes , Esq ., M . P . W . Williams . Esq ., M . P . | \\ . Howitt , Esq . | G . Bird , Esq . Dinner to be on the table nt half-past six o ' clock . Single Tickets , 2 s . Cd ., Double , 4 s . 6 d . 1 Aft After Dinner several Toafts and Sentiments will be proposed and spoken to by many of the above-named Gentlemen . The Public will be admitted at 8 o ' clock—Admission 3 d . each . A BALL YiU iU : u : 0 tike place in the same Evening in another Large Room of the Tavern . Single Ticket , Is Double . Is . Cd ., Dancing to commence at 9 o ' clock—Dinner Tickets to admit to the Ball . TICKETS FOR DINNER AND BALL TO BE HAD AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES ; "! ai \ 'ark "> ( < flee IKu < c , IU . Edgwnre Road . : Madgins Berkshire Coffee House , Little Pult . ncy Street * l r . Jr . Pii' kir . News Agent . Uarr . w R « ad . : Mr . Snwtcr , SS , Little Windmill street . Mr . Ur . Viii . vnt Pakes , 2 '' , Hereford Street , Lisson Grove . : Mr . Parkcs , 22 , Ditto . iMr . tlr . J-ii / . / fii . Msrgaret Street Wilmington Square . Wcsterton ' s Library , Park Side , Knightsbridge . Wr . klr . Sli'iiiliy , 15 . Xorllirni ' s . L ' ui'dings . Sinners Town . '¦ Gulliver ' s Cuffi-e House , Holywell Street . Alr . rtr . . 1 . A • ¦ « .. « . Viddlvsex Place , Si . niers Town . j Mr . W . J . Young , 33 , Park Street , Dorset Square , i'ilrilr . l ' is «? . ! rid £ C , Br i .-kIi > jvrs Aims . Tollbridge St . New Rd . j Mr . James Harris , Cursitor Street , Chancery Laiie . vtfrMr . 1- K . Brown . Silver Street , Kensington . : Mr . J . Gr . issby , 1 , Noah ' s Ark Court , back of the Amphi-Mrilr . . StB . ' lwood , -, Little Vale Place Hammersmith Road , i theatre , Lambeth . WlrMr . Skclion , Cicil Court , St . Martin ' s Lane . Mr . G . J . Harney , "Northern Star " Office . SMrMr . G . I unipl . rits , Collier Street , l'entonville . i Mr . Gover , Marquis Court , Drury Lane , ^' ri ' r . 0 ^ i ' 'Km , It , T :. l > crnaele Bow , City Road . j The Silver Cup , Cromer Street . * SMrMr . Bar tt , Trade * ' Office , Hyde Street , Bloomsbury . ( Mr . Rogers , Coi per , Lambeth Walk . W « Wwkiv : < ii ' s Own Shop , 151 , Drury Lane . J Mr . J . Gathard , Pago ' s Walk , Bermondsty . SMrtlr . Bus-h I , York Street , Lambeth . i Mr . J . Cleave , 1 , Shoe Lane . SMiMr . Ciw ' . 'Wt , 3 , HnwickTwracc . Vauxhall Road . Mr . Thome , 2 , Prospect Place , Bnrnsbury Pk ., Islington IMiWr . Wi ' i-. ix . 1 Avery Farm Kow , Piuilico . The Literary and Mechanic ' s Institute , Frederick Place ( MiMr . CulVay , Maiden Laue , Covent Gorden . Goswell Road . ' SMiilr . MiHi - , Union Street , Berkeley Square . Mr . R . Moore . Hart Street , Bloomsbury . iUUtbe A ^ embiy and Reading Rooms , 83 , Dean Street . Soha . and at all places of meeting ofthe Land , Charter , and Trades' bodies throughout the metropolis , and at the Bar of the White Conduit Tavern .
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mOU' - 'LAS JERROLD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER . Enlabgement of Onk Thibd on tbi Meetin * oe Pab . MOMENT . In order to < ivc ampler space for alt thu News of the Week , including the Debates in Parltoiaiatnent—The Miscellaneous Occurrences—Law and Police Reports—Public Meetings—Foreign Intelligence -iCUeraturc—Correspondence—as well as for Original and various Ne « v Serial Articles , the Proprietor has deter , niniued to . nlarge the Paper to the utmost limit allowed by the Stamp Law , and to add one third , or 2 t columns , aamaking i ' . ; the whole Thirty-two Pages , or Ninety-six Columns , thus rendering it equal to the Fullest and Largest NiNetrspsj ; -r in the extent aud variety of its Newi of the Week , and still retaining the large space heretofore devoted toto Original Articles by the Editor , and his Eminent Literary Colleagues . Price ( as heretofore ) Sizponee . Order ot aVallNcwsn . en , Town or Country , from whom detailed Prospectuses can be had .
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PRICE THREEPENCE . T HE DAILY NEWS , London Morning Newspaper , in Time for the Morning ry ails .
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Now ready . Price One Shilling . TUK SECOSD EDITION OF MY LIFE . OR OUR SOCIAL STATE , Pint I
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LITHOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS or TUB DCXCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . MAY still be had at the Office of Messrs . M'Gowan and Co ., IC , Great Windmill Street , Uaymarket , Xo . id ^ n ; through any respectable bookseller iu towu or toaiitry ; or at auy of " the agents of the A ' orthern Star . The _ engraving is on a large scale , is executed in the most finished style , is finely printed on tinted paper , and < ires a minute description of the Testimonial , and has tlnscriptiun , ic . tc , engraved upon it . PRICE FOD 11 PENCE .
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NEW EDITION OF THOM'S POEMS . Just Published , RHYMES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF A HANDLOOM WEAVER . By William Taov ( Latent Iuverurj ) . A . Third Edition , 1 'ostovo ., with Portrait , Cloth , Gilt , Price 4 a . An EJitiun iu Demy , on fine paper , Cloth , Gilt Letter and Portrait , 7 s . Cd . London ; buiith , Elder aud Co , 65 , Cornhill ; and to be had of nil Booksellers .
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TO TAILORS . LONDON tnd PARIS FASHIONS FOR THE WINTER , 1 S 4 C-47 . y READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-ttreet , Bloomsbury square , L'ludon ; And G . Berger , Holywell-street , Strand ; Miy be had of all booksellers , wheresoever residing . NOW UEADT , By approbation of her Majesty Queui Victoria , and his Royal Highness Priace Albert , a spi . ndid print richly coloured and exquisitely executed View of Hyd
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Now Publishing in Weekly Numbers , Price One Penny . THE CO-OPERATOR . A Journal of Social , Moual , and Educational Sciencb . This work , which is published in Supe-Royal Octavo , i ' urnishes weekly reports of every movement going for . ward in the country of a co-operative character with original articles on education , and all social and mora questions involving the interests and happiness of the people . Published by S . G . Collins , Ifolvwcll Street , Strand . Also Publishing in Weekly Numbers , and Monthly Parts THE FAMILY JOURNAL . Beau ifully illustrated , as large and elegantly got up as Chambers' Journal , price One Penny , containing a varietv of original romances , tahvs , aud literary , and scientific Essays . C . Dime , Holvwell Street , Strand .
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Xirthem Star Office , IC , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Hey wood , Manchester .
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DOMESTIC MONITOR . On Saturday , January the Kith , was published , price One Penny . No . V . of THE DOMESTIC MONITOR , Or Literary , Scientific , Legal , and Medical Adviser . Edited by Hermes . To be continued Weekl y . Contents—Austria as it is in the year 1847 . Don Rodrigo , the Forbidden Wedding . The Nosegay . The People ' s Corner . Prospects of Labour : Death by Star . ration . Correspundence on Scientific , Literary , Legal , aud Medical Subjects . Domestic Herbal . Published by E . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet Street , and to be had of all Bouksellera and Newsvenderg . Letters to ba addressed , post paid , " Hermes , 31 , Ton bridge Place . New Road .
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IMPOUTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN application was made on the 22 nd Sipt .-mber , to the Vice-Chancellor of England , by Ar . Beard who , acting uudev amoitestraordinj delttsvan , considers himself the sole patentee of the Photographic ji . mwss !) to restrain JIB . E 5 ERT 0 N , of I , Temple-etrioc . and H 8 , Fleet-street , rom taking Photographic Portt . j . is , which he dues by a process entirely different froe and very superior to Mr . Beard ' s , and at one-half the cl . rge . Wis Honour refused the application in toto . No license required to practice this process , which is aught by Mr . Egerton in a fc-w lessons at a moderate charge . All the Apparatus , Chemicals , < Ec , to be had as usual v . his Donor * I , Temple-street , . Vuitcfriars .
National Land And Building Associations....
NATIONAL LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS . Whereas my name is unwarrantably used in connexion with the . above Associations , notwithstanding my repeated orders to the contrary , and to formal notices sent to each committee member ; and as the following state , ments well calculated to mislead the unwary , have for months back been published through the " Commonweal " and : it public meetings , " That the purchase of 100 acres of freehold land for the use of tbe Associations has been completed , " and also "that sums so paid in , stand in the name of respectable trustees on behalf of the Association , and are from time to time invested in the purchase of freehold estates , " I hereby give public notice that no "monies or lands of any amount or kind have been paid to any trust account opened iu my name , nor have any been tendered to me . Having long since declined to act as a trustee , I shall take legal steps if necessary , to disconnect mv name from the above Associations . T . W . Mt'SKKTT . Gvove Lodge , Brixton . Jan . l , 1847 .
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EDUCATION UPON INCLUSIVE TERMS . A lady conducting an establishment quite upon the plan of home education , and who only receives pupils of the first respectibility , has now a few vacancies . The system pursued in this establishment is calculated to insure a so . id as well as an accomplished education , as many years' experience and a careful examination of the most improved methods of instruction , have enabled the principal to select and combine iu her plan of education those advantages which are calculated to secure to her pupils the highest degree of intellectual , moral and religious improvement . The sum of fifty guineas a year includes instruction by Professors in the following accomplishments , the Pianoforte , Drawing in various styles , Dancing . French , Writing , 4 c , the use of the Globes together will books and all other charges . The family arrangements are conducted upon the in >» st liberal scale , including nine and porter when necessary . The freuch language ( which is taught by a master as well as by a resident I ' arisienucJ is constantly spoken and it will be found that in this branch of study unusual advantages are available . The house is situated five miles from
Gratitude.—Tho Coloured Citizens Of Cincinnati Held A Public Roict Ng On The 2nd Ult.. And Passed Re-
Gratitude . —Tho coloured citizens of Cincinnati held a public roict ng on the 2 nd ult .. and passed re-
Solutions Euiogisue Oi Tiieiate Lhomas U...
solutions euiogisue oi tiieiate lhomas Ularksun , aod regretting his death . They also resolved to wear mourning for thirty days , and recommended the pastors of their churches to deliver discources appropriate to tlic occasion . Sciesce « . Hkmen . —The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway is now opened throughout , and , as it eonstitute « the route to the far-famed Gretna , if the electric telegraph should be adopted by the directors on that line , elopements would become almost impracticable . What an enemy science is to romance and lore ! Chahtist Wedding . —On Monday , January llth , at All Saints Church , Fulbam , by tho Vicar , the Rev . Mr . Baker , Philip M'Grath , President of the National Charter Association , and Corresponding Secretary to the National Co-operative Land Company , to Elizabeth Alice second daughter of Henry Cullinghain , foreman to ^ he Company ' s Works , at Lowbands , and Kedmarley , Wor , eestershire .
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JO ST PUBLISHED , Ho . LftpriM Sd . ) ef THE LABOURER , A . Monthly Magazine of Politics , Litsrataro , Poetry , & c Edited by Fea & ous O'Connob , Esq ., and Ernest Jones , Esq ., ( Barristers-at-Law . ) contents or no . i . 1 . A Christmas Carol , by Ernest Jones . 2 . New Tear ' s Greeting . 8 , Tbe Insurrections of the Working Classes . i . Ireland . 6 . The State of Parties . 6 , Tho Romance of a People . 7 , The Trades' Union * . 8 , The Land and the Charter .
The Northern Star Saturday, January W, 1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , JANUARY W , 1847 .
To Your Tents, Oh Chartists !
TO YOUR TENTS , OH CHARTISTS !
We Have No Ordinary Pleasure In Calling ...
We have no ordinary pleasure in calling the reader ' s attention to the letter of Mr . O'Connor . To the principles , policy , and tactics contained in the document we give our most unqualified approval . We feel assured , that those who rested their hope of founding a spurious party upon the ruins of Chartism will receive the missive as mournful intelligence , while the faithful and confiding will hail it with gladness and joy . We have not condescended to make frequent remarks upon the insane cry , that the Land movement was calculated to injure the cause of Chartism , and for this simple reason ,
because , to our knowledge , the Land Company numbers among its members the best , the bravest , and most resolute of the Chartist body . Like Mr . O'Connor , we , too , have witnessed the evils of a long , a drowsy , and flagging agitation . Tbat execution should follow upon the heels of design was the policy ~~ of Peel , adopted from his knowledge of human nature -, it was the , strategy of Wellington , borrowed from Napoleon ; it was disregard of its value that lost Espartero the regency of Spain , and its observance by the leaders of public opinion is likely to nut a new and smiling face upon our old sleepy friend .
We see great force in the opinion , that the laws will be more cautiously used for the suppression of a politico-social movement , than for the overthrow of a mere political agitation , and , in truth , we have yet to learn that the co-operation of a well-fed , wellhoused , well-satisfied operative is calculated to injure rather than serve a great national movement , and the more especially when we find that , by his own devotion , he has armed himself with the defensive weapon , THE VOTE , which his class contends for . To us , at least , it is eviden 11 h at the next Chartist S TIR
will possess the advantage of a great social adjunct , while none will be hardy enough to deny , that the old aristocratic enemy must fight the next battle of might against right with LAND MUFFLES upon both hands and A GAG UPON THE LAWS . Had Mr . O'Connor undertaken the labour , which he now seasonably imposes upon himself , some months since , the excitement created by his agitation would have passed away without leaving a trace of its usefulness behind , whereas , by " nicking the time , " as he terms
it , he secures the anticipated advantage of fresh and feverish excitement . Moreover , it was right that such a missionary should have waited the opening of the Session and the Minister ' s BID . It was right , too , that he should have been present at the proposed demonstration in honour of the Chartist Chief and Labour ' s Parliamentary friend ; it was further right , that he should withhold his assistance from those who are too indolent to assist themselves , and , therefore , we approve of his refusal to visit any localitv where devotion to the cause has not been
evinced in signing a petition for its aid . But , above ail , and before all , we approve of the singleness of purpose upon which the agitation is to
proceed—THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER unmixed and unalloyed , not even blended with the interests of its younger brother , beyond the inseparable unity which must ever exist between political rights and social enjoyments . It will have been five years since Chartism made its last Parliamentary exhibitio n in the Metropolis , and it now rests with the disciples and advocates of the measure to prove to its enemies , that , if the noise has ceased , the work has gone on , and the love of the principle increased . We are aware , that not only Europe , but America , are now looking to England for the next POLITICAL RESOLVE . Let it
he then for THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER . At all events Mr . O'Connor cannot be blamed , i ( apathy should have stripped the principle of any of its fair proportions ; and let the noisy gabbler say what he will , we declare that the man who will not sign his name , however SMALL THE HOPE OF BENEFIT MAY BE , IS UNWORTHY OF HIS
FREEDOM , AND IS NOT FIT FOR THE FRANCHISE . Nor can any deny the powerful and stunning effect that the muster-roll of the national will , signed by FOUR xMILLION MEN AND WOMEN demanding their freedom , is calculated to produce upon tottering thrones , a disbanded aristocracy , and dying parliament . Let every Chartist , then , within reach of the Metropolis , attend at the White Conduit House , on Monday evening next , to hear his chief proclaim his tactics and his hopes ; and let those in the provinces prepare the TROUBLESOME PLEASURE of well-signed Sheets for the Chartist missionary . Adding our condemnation of all old women ' s rubbish to the just censure of Mr . O'Connor , we say , with him ,
ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , BACKWARD AND WE FALL ! THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !
The Last Kick. While Ministers In Esse, ...
THE LAST KICK . While ministers in esse , ministers in posse , ministers in embryo , jind some whose hopes may be ranked in the paulo-post-futuro , are maturing their plans for corruption ' s LAST KICK , our readers may rest assured that the Irish Metternich is prepared with a DODGE , if not with a measure . Ire land is acknowledged to be the English Minister ' s great difficulty , while we may truly assert , that Daniel O'Connell lias heen Ireland ' s great difficulty , and greatest curse . This cunning man has ever relied upon the pliancy of the Irish character , rather than upon the success of his advocacy of anv defined policy , for his popularity . O'Connell ' s excuse for tolerating this or that Ministry , has ever been upon the pretence that their policy or promises , if realized , would be a part means to his promised end . Tranquillity amid unparalleled suffering and provocation ; obedience to his commands , however repugnant and contradictory ; and contributions , however poor the contributors may be ; have been the conditions , the harsh , but yet satisfied conditions , upon which the success of IRELAND'S ONLY MEASURE was to depend . We have witnessed an unmanly forbearance in the midst of grievous provocation , an obedience the most servile , and contributions the most lavish ; and in exact proportion in which the stipulated requirements and conditions were complied with , we have witnessed the retrogression , the retreat of the SPLENDID PHANTOM . Nevertheless , though we , who were behind the scenes , and could see the juggler ' s SHOW BOX , and were , therefore prepared for every fresh twist and turn of the wonderful paper , were bound to
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censure af 7 " ware hawk" J « ^ e have never de " nied the v aIue t , iat society was likely one day to derive from credulity , confidence , and ignorance . We have frequently « ftid that however ihe career of this bad old man should end , that lie would " LEAVE THE WORLD BETTER THAN HE FOUND IT . " We said so , because of all experience , that which is dearly bought is best , and , heaven knows the Irish have paid dearly for the knowledge he has taught them . We sometimes mourned , lest the posthumous fame of the juggler might stand as a
barrier in the way of another and a better system , and , Go d forgive us ! feared lest he should not be honest or bold enough to commit suicide , and thus release his country from that interregnum of hesitation and doubt , which must have been the inevitable result had he died unimpeached and unconvicted . Fortunately , however , God ' s vengeance and man ' s oppression has applied the touchstone to his nerve , the test to his patriotism—the reader will pardon us for the expression in connection with Daniel O'Connell—he is now about to visit the Saxon
Parliament , and , under any circumstances , we predict for the LAST TIME . When he broke up the IRISH PARTY , according to the conditions prescribed by his Whig patrons , our readers will remember that we attached more significance to the part likely to be acted by the young and enthusiastic of the inferior Catholic clergy than to the easily satisfied consciences of the Catholic hierarchy , or the most violent of the Catholic laity . We have witnessed the effect produced upon the iron Liberator by the speeches of two Catholic clergymen at the Rotunda meeting of the PHALANX , and the immediate surrender of the INFLEXIBLE PATRIARCH OF HALF A
CENTURY . He has attempted to stem the rapid current of Young Irelandism , by the mean , the dastardly , the shuffling and hypocritical subterfuge of thwarting one of their stipulations upon which a conference would be consented to , into an attack upon the Catholic church , or a denial of the right of the Association to interfere prejudicially with the religion of any . This heretofore successful weapon has been shivered in his trembling hand , and now the reader is on tip-toe , anxious to hear the course the Liberator is most likely to pursue in the coming and ending struggle .
If the Whig Ministers are bold enough to propose and strong enough to carry measures the carrying out of which will involve extensive patronage , and of a nature that the Liberator can monopolize the lion ' s share , thereby substituting the popularity and support of a greedy section , for the admiration and devotion of a nation , he will be the Minister ' s most servile and slavish tool ;] but if , upon the other hand , the plea of poverty should stint his gluttonous appetite of a portion of the mess , he will return like a disappointed HARPY , convene his quondam serfs , and address them thus . —
I have made the last trial in the Saxon Parliament , and now in the winter of age , though , thanks be to God , in the freshness of affection for Ireland , I renounce the Saxon connection and from this spot I declare the UNION REPEALED . Oh ! what pangs I have borne to afford the Minister an unopposed opportunity of doing justice to my loved country . Havel not nwered uij self from friends that were dear , lest their presumed intemperance shonld iilFord the enemy a pretext for withholding aid in the hour of a national calamity . Yes , but now , as Ireland is dearer to me than life itself , I stretch out tbe right hand and open my arms ready to embrace all
Irishmen , without distinction , who are ready to struggle with roe for a npeal of the BLIGHTING UNION . I would now rather rely upon the enthusiasm of the voung Irelander than upon the philosophy of the cold , blooded Saxon . Ah , they hate us . The young gentlemen who seceded have given the assurance , that thev meditated no weakening of those religious bonds by which Catholic Ireland has preserved her religion through centuries of bloody persecution , That is all tbeguarantee I require , they have given it ; I fling all physical force consideration to the four winds of heaven , and call upon them to join me in the last struggle for Irish freedom . Oh ! if they require it I will humbly beg their
pardon . I was wrong , O'Brien was right . I was too confiding , his family suffered from Saxon oppression before , and 1 honour him for his obstinacy , and pity my old age for my childish credulity . None but Irishmen and Repealers shall henceforth represent Ireland in tho Saxon Parliament ; and they shall confine their labours within those walls ; and to Ireland . I bury the terms Young and Old Ireland . We are the IRISH PARTY , and will struggle for Ireland on Irish ground . On Monday we meet under this sacrod roof , where all Irish difference * shall be buried , and I will be the first to beg pardon , if any I have offended . I was in the wrong ; but the fault was an amiable weakness , and in an old man may be forgiven . ( Uproarious blarney . )
Now , such , in the extreme case , will be the Liberator ' s speech ; and who will venture to deny the effect it would have till the general ELECTION WAS OVER , when , GLORY BE TO GOD ! he would find himself strong enough once more to heard the English'lion in his den , which , bring interpreted , means , WORTH PURCHASING , with another long tail looking for TITLES , JUDGESHIPS , PLACES , PENSIONS , and SOUP .
There is an old saying in Ireland , "Keep the bone and the dog will follow you . " Dan has been too long followed by the hungry dogs to part with the bone to Smith O'Brien , and the young Irish leader will find himself woefully mistaken if he supposes that King Dan is going to be baulked in the appointment of Master John as his successor , according to the laws of
TANISTRY . NO ; THERE IS NO KILLING AN OLD FOX . " Dan has been often " bagged , " " run to earth , " and " taken above ground ; " but he has as many lives as a wild cat , and when pitched out ol the Saxon barn , he will either have his share of the mice , or will light upon his legs in Conciliation Hall among the rats , and once more shout"HURRAH FOR REPEAL !! FOR REPEAL HURRAH !!!"
The Great Difficulty. We Live In A Stran...
THE GREAT DIFFICULTY . We live in a strange world , in strange times , and with strange people , having strange ideas . The tow for solving the " GREAT DIFFICULTY " once more is at hand , and it is not many days since an able wriler in "The Labourer" reminded us that the Irish landlords would constitute the Minister ' s insurmountable difficulty , when , lo , we have the prediction verified from the mouths of those very worthies , and confirmed by our friend the Times . Now we have no objection to the Thunderer demolishing the little noise of our friend of the Quarterly ; but , in sober earnest , it is not fair , right , or
just , tbat even GREAT JOVE himself should charge his battery from THE LABOURER ' S arsenal , without acknowledging the compliment . In plain words , the Times has seized the far-fetched opportunity afforded by the Cavan landlords , for using an article upon Ireland from " The Labourer , " body and sleeves . That is , the plain , blunt , and unmistakeable article upon Ireland has been metamorphosed into mysterious Editorial phraseology , and paraded to the world as a hit—the last hit . The " Labourer" announced that the Minister would fail in his next Irish experiment , from the impossibility of dealing with the abuses of the Irish landlords ; and so say we .
It now appears that those worthies , not satisfied with the slow process ol depopulation secured by their OWN FAMINE , have come to the magnanimous resolution of enforcing a more extensive system by what is fancifully termed EMIGRATION . That is , that the English government is to furnish the means to the Irish landlords of clearing their estates ; of consigning what famine spares to transportation . Such , then , is the mouse produced by the mountain ' s long and painful labour ; while , to meet all and cure all , the " Times" says " No , a good system of Poor Laws is the thing . " At any other time this proposition may be reasonable and may appear feasible , but , just how , when workhouses and
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hospitals are filled , three ^ deep , it is wholly inadequate as a means . Well but , says the Times , "JWeare not bound to propose a permanent remedy for a mere casual calamity , what we say is , let Ireland have a Poor Law , such as England has . " What vre say in reply is , GOD FORBID , while , especially in Ireland , any system of Poor Laws will be found inadequate to meet the evil it is proposed to remedy . The law that Ireland requires is the law of TENURE , which will , as if by magic , open every pore of industry , and bring every farthing of available capital into the market . There is not a people on the face of the whole earth so
wholly unprepared for the experiment of a pauper rate as the Irish . A pauper rate means the estrangement of friends , and the Irish are hospi . table ; it means a brand upon the idle , and the Irish are UNWILLING IDLERS and should not be stamped with their oppressors' infamy ; a pauper rate means a whip in the hands of the strong : to scourge the weak ; a pauper rate is the tyrant ' s surest mean * of reconciling slaves to mere bearable misery , and of perpetuating an odious comparison between the comparatively comfortable and hopelessly destitute . Besides , under a proper form of government , no pauper rate would be required , as tyranny makes paupers , justice makes industrious freemen .
We have no small pride in bringing our friend of Printing House-square back to old times , not long past , but which , no doubt , would be gladly forgotten . We refer to our awkward predictions of August last , when the flush of harvest blinded our short-sighted cotemporary . Then we answered the boastful prediction of plenty staring us in the face , with the assurance that winter would bring crowded poor-houses and deserted fields ; that the farmers
would dismiss their labourers , and that the landlords would abuse the farmers ; that , in short , all agricultural pursuits would be abandoned from fear or famine—it mattered not which . Has our ptedictiom then , been verified , or not ? Again , we denounced the Archbishop ' s blasphemy , which ascribed famine to God . Well , what says the Timet now ?—we admit a very doubtful authority on so sacred a subject , yet worth quoting to shew that the Thunderer was silent when the Archbishop blasphemed ; but is iudignant when the Irish landlords use the blasphemies—the Times now speaks thus : —
The introduction of " Divine Providence , " for such a purpose , as though " Divine Providence" were the author of the whole calamity , is nothing : less than blasphemous . When a drunkard pawns all his clothes for liquor , and "Divine Providence" sends a sharp frost , who is the author of his death , or his rcry bad cokl ? " Divine Providence" sent a like dispensation in 1822 , and again in 2831 . By this time it ought to have been reckoned upon . If it is now rather worse than usual , it has also come altera rather longer interval than usual . Having thus , however , thrown the calamity upon "Divine Providence , " they proceed to repeat the well-known and most disgraceful
assumption , tbat the " potatoe-crop" is "the main support , not only of the labouring classes , but also of most of the tenant-farmers . " The more shame for the landlords . There you have at once the fact , which , and not " Divine Providence , " has " plunged the population of Ireland into tho most dreadful state of destitution and of want . " If the landlords , in spite of continual warnings , persevered in a system which made the poor , the labourers , and even the tenant-farmers dependent on a crop , which , besides its usual inferiority for the food of man , is subject to a decennial failure , it is arrant blasphemy in them to father upon "Divine Providence" their own want of humanity and forethought .
Again , fhe Times appears to have learned , for the first time , that the Irish farmers were as badly off > many of them , as the labourers ; although , if anxious for knowledge upon the subject , our friend might have read the following fact from one of Mr . O'Con . nor ' s letters to the Irish landlords — "A farmer who has occupied 100 acres of land for 25 years , and who has lived upon stinking milk and potatoes during the whole time , will consider h ' mself happy if , at the end of that period , he has saved £ 250 , or £ 10 a year for interest of capital , and remuneration of labour , and that sum you will have squeezed out of him as fine for a renewal of his lease at an INCREASED RENT . "
It is needless to multiply instances of the Thunderer ' s folly . The fact is , that a great journal must handle great subjects , and the Irish one in its present phase is so novel , that we must allow the novice time to gain ^ knowledge from experience , before we can expect much sound sense from him . Not to write about Ireland now , would be to be out of the fashion , and the adage goes , " Out of the fashion , out of the world . "
What with the false reasoning of the Times , the false position of the Irish landlords , and the false heart of Daniel O ' Connell , we shall be agreeably surprised if we do not see many false steps taken by our false ministers .
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WEEKLY REVIEW . Famine , pestilence , and death stalk with gigantic strides over the " green isle . " The accumulated curses of a long system of oppression , misgovernment , and neglect , have fallen upon it all at once ; and , as yet , there is scarcely a practical or a statesman-like measure adopted by the Government to rescue Ireland from utter ruin . The succeeding winter threatens to be more terrible than the present .
The only approach to efficient remedies hitherto indicated is that to jc found in the resolutions agreed to by the Re-productive Employment Committee of Landlords , to be submitted to the meeting of Peers , members oi the House of Commons , and Landowners , in Dublin , on Thursday . No details of the proceedings or deliberations of that body have reached us at tbe time ef writing-, but a glance at the subjects which will occupy their attention , may not be unprofitable .
The resolutions , we find , repudiate the direct employment of the great mass of the able-bodied people by the State , as having a tendency to paralyse industry , and substitute artificial for natural labour ; they object to any kind of employment which does not lead to the increase of food , or articles which may be exchanged fur it ; and assert that all measures of relief for the able-bodied , should be based on the principle of encouraging tho employment of labour by private individuals ; the absorption of surplus labour by the State , and the provision of
facilities by the State for private employment . The committee propose to absorb tbis surplus labour , and at the same time increase iood , by the erection of piers and harbours for fishery purposes , with model curing-houses and salt depots attached , along the coast ; and farther , for the especial purpose of increasing the food supplies , that a systematic plan should be adopted for tho reclamation of waste lands throughout the country . On this head we present the words of two of the resolutions agreed to by the committee : —
' That in such system an option should be given to the proprietors of waste lands to undertake the reclamation themselves : and , in order to enable them to do so , means should be placed at their disposal for obtaining public loans for that purpose—the security of such loans to be confined to the land improved—and ( subject to due protection of reversionary interests ) every possible facility should be afforded them of alienating their waste lands for the purpose of reclamation . "
It will be seen that by this resolution the laud- 1 lords are wide awake to their own interest , and have no objection to have the present unfertile and waste lands in their possession made productive and rentpaying by means of advances of public money . From this course we totally dissent , If the State is to act upon the principle laid down by the landlords themselves , namely , to absorb all the surplus labour by public works and the reclamation of waste lands , let the State , or Us constituents—the people at largebe the gainers by this expenditure of national foods ,
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and nob any particular class . The landlord s h bad privilQges enough already without making tw severe calamity a means of bringing more OTigt ^ their mill . The next resolution is not very c i though it points to something like what wa shout wish to be done . After ^ stating that the Cover ment should also construct naval dockyards , gaf » i ' harbours , packet stations , and other works of a &* tional character , the Committee say-In addition to these measures , a scheme of tematic colonization would , in our opinion , nrov f the means of subsistence to a large portion of « . destitute population—would relieve many distri t ' in this country which are now unable to sunn /! their inhabitants—would benefit the colonics by « ., plying them with labour-would increase theann !?
ol food throughout the world by bringing fresh lV J into cultivation—and would largely ext endi ? market for home manufactures . l " & If this means a system of proprietary u ,, loniei , established under State superintendence wti , ' the resources of the State , for the benefit onlv t those located in such colonies and the nation i finances , we think that the proposal of s uch a sure docs great credit to the political wisdom oft ) , ' Committee ; but , as it stands , it is so vagnc that ' t is quite possible it docs not mean that . \ f m J wait and see whether the debates at the general meeting will enlighten us . The resolutions further
embody direct encouragement to emi gration-the simplification of the Drainage Acts-the amendment of the laws affecting estates under tho Courts of Equity , so that facilities for selling portions of their estates may be given to landowners ; and , with tn « like view , the introduction of cheap and simple modes for the transfer , partition and exchange of landed property . Tho amendment of the grand jury system—the improvement of the social condi . tion of the agricultural labourer , by improving their
dwellings , and , through the medium of proper saui . tery regulations , ensuring to them good and healthy habitations—the dissemination of agricultural know . ledge—compensation to tenants for permanent io , provements , and taxation on absentee proprietors form the leading outlines of a scheme , which i ' ( wanting in some important elements and particulars , is yet by far tbe most business-like and prac . tical that has yet emanated from the other side oi the Irish channel .
To most of those measures we do not see how the Whigs can make any opposition . While , if Ru $ se || has the wisdom to secure a solid title to tho name o . which he is ambitious—that of a statesman—he wi ] f thus forewarned do with tho Irish landlords , as Fe ci did with the Whigs—outbid them ; and , by something like a decided and bold plan , at once conciliate the support of the Irish people , and neutralize alloppo . sition in Parliament , which could do him any serioua damage .
In noticing the movement of this new Irish party last week , we augured that it would prove a great benefit to that country , and if the general meetin » entertain , and agree to anything like the scheme which the Committee intend to submit to them , it will materially promote the great object in view . The subject will come before Parliament with weight and influence , and in so connected and tangible a shape , that it may be both speedily and effectually dealt with . If so , 18-17 will , we trust , lay the foundation for a new political and social system for Ireland .
Nothing has as yet transpired as to the actual intentions of the ministry , with reference to their policy next session . VVe , at least , do not see sufficient authority and authenticiiy about the few statement tbat have been made in certain journals . They wear more of the appearance of guesses at the probable course of the Cabinet , than statements of plans already decided upon . Before we again meet our readers , this uncertainty will have , we should imagine , been put an end to . Looking to the alarming nature of the crisis , and the pressing urgency for itu . mediate measures , Lord John will surely imitate his
predecessor , and , on the very first night of the ses « sion , " make a clean breast , " as to the principles and policy by which he means to govern Ireland , and other leading questions . If he falters , equivocates , or falls beneath the exigencies of the time , he will fall from power never to rise again . To no minister was there ever given so fair an opportunity of making a stand as a great statesman . The very magnitude o ( the evil , by removing from his path those party , sectarian and selfish obstructions , which in ordinary seasons impede the progress of reform—has half paved tbe way for a sweeping and masterly scheme of policy , which by grappling effectually with , and
extinguishing the causes of Irish misery and wretchedness , and substituting , instead , institutions ) founded upon sound and progressive principles , would net only secure & nation ' s happiness , but universal gratitude and admiration . Dare lord John take this leap ? Even if he failed , the attempt would be hailed with acclamation , aud beheld with pleasure . We fear tbe doom of the Whigs is upon him—that the opportunity will pass away unimproved , and Ireland ' s deli veraws have to be effected by other agencies than a Whig Government , Water can rise no higher than its on level—Whigs cannot soar above their own an * cient principles—prejudices rather . A glance si
their past history as a party is no very good rccipa j for producing sanguine expectations as to anything ¦ they may do or purpose . The lull to which we alluded last week , pieparatory to the active commencement of Parliamentary proceedings , has scarcely been interrupted bytlw slight electioneering movements tbat have taken place during the week . In East Worcestershire , a Protectionist was returned without opposition . In North Lincolnshire , a Whig walked over the course on i
the same hereditary grounds . Mr . Charles Coca- rane appears to be making some way in West- ¦ minster , if we may judge by a waspish and would i be witty attack upon him in the Chronicle . The t Whiglings can ' t afford to be silent any longer , and , I , true to their nature , they commence their attack k upon the new candidate for Westminster , by sneer- r < ing at extension of the Suffrage . Wait a little k longer . " That is one ef the questions upon whiti i both Conservatives and Whigs , and so-called ec Liberals will have to change their or , inions ,
Lord Lincoln made his first appeaance before tli « li < electors of Manchester on Tuesday night , and ad-td dressed a crowded and influential meeting in a cun-in ning , plausible , clever , and withal able speech , in h which he shewed that he had not sat at the feet oi " Peel , his political Gamaliel , as a pupil for nothings The report occupies more than a page of the uiorutft ing journals , so that wo cannot pretend to glance JJJJ these cursory observations on the various topics in . ii troduced . It is sufficient to say that , at the close ole < his address , his Lordship , in reply to questions
avowed himself to be opposed to Universal Suffrage the Ten Hours' Bill , the immediate repeal of tbi Corn Laws , interference with the Anglo Jrisli Church , tho removal of the Rate-paying clauses to the reform act , the Ballot , and Electoral District On the question of national education he was claM ; rately guarded , and to the query whether persons to property should be represented in Parliament , K thought it very desirable both should be reprcseiitsii but did not not think there was at present an uudtit preponderance of property .
This will be quite sufficient to enable our reader to judge of tho qualifications and claims of the eie ponent of John Bright ; we don ' t see a pin to choojh betwixt them so far as the questions affecting tig labourers are concerned . Each of them live by t \ jy system which crushes industry to the bottom of tof scale , and exalts upon it the idler or the usurer . \ the thousands of unenfranchised and toiling labolal ers , operatives and artizans in Manchester , it rait ters very little whether a conservative Aristocstt or a liberal Millocrat shall have tho power of ttf representing and plundering them through tha lio dium of unjust and oppressive institutions .
We have unhappily still to record an upward hrd I dency in prices . Bread , vegetables , butcher s' ntf ma malt , beer , spirits , everything is on the rise , but butt and that is the price of labour . With augme ^ mee demands the power of meeting them either rem reran stationary or diminishes . Trade . languishes , hes ,, prospects for tho future book gloomy . Tbe seie ses for 1847 will Had work eaough out out for it . it .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16011847/page/4/
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