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March 21. 1«46. .. THE NORTHERN STAR. 5
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The Polish Struggle. " Freedom's Battle ...
oouldsoold soon add tothab-nmnbert , and probably proooke a oke a general rising through Poland . Ever Even out of the mysterious peasants' war in Gslicicia , icia , good may come . They have massacred the PPolisbPolish nobles , but they have also hung the Austrian xsommSommisaon-as . They are demanding the abolition tff fortf forced lab our—that is , their own emancipation ; uind iftnd if the Polish nobles have found them enemies , tithe hhe Anstrians have not found them friends . The blatestlatest accounts represent the Austrian authorities as sin a an a state of great alarm , and preraring to make war ion then the peasants .
Th These facts should warn the British people that i not snot an hour is to be lost in rousing themselves to the : assis assistance of the Poles . Nest Wednesday evening ; a gn a great metropolitan demonstration will be holden at : the the Crown and Anchor . Let every democrat in Lou London he at his post that evening , and raise the eho * shontof fraternity and sympathy for Poland . Let dist district meetings throughout London immediately foil follow . Let similar demonstrations simultaneously tak take place throu--hout the country . Let opinion be org organised and money subscribed . Above all thingslet let every meeting be thoroughly democratic . Let us ha' have these means , and the result will be such an
ag i agitation throughout Europe as will emancipate mi more lands than Poland . Thrones and privileges sfc & ail fall before the shock , And , like the baseless fabric ' s of a vision , Leave not a wreck behind .
March 21. 1«46. .. The Northern Star. 5
March 21 . 1 « 46 . .. THE NORTHERN STAR . 5
Poland And The English Press. [From, The...
POLAND AND THE ENGLISH PRESS . [ From , the Democrotie Paeifiqitc ] The great English journals remain silent on the 1 Polish insurrection , and nothing has transpired in 1 Parliament concerning it However , we must not c conclude that the cause of Polish liberty does not ( obtain any sympathy among the English people . On 4 the contrai y , the proletarians en masa , and the popular journals , pronounce themselves energetically in favour ofthis noble cause . The Northern Star has made an appeal to the Chartist party , and calls on every one to subscribe , be it even for a small sum , in order to show the sympathy of the whole English people for unhappy Poland .
After all we have heard from our neighbours , it is to be presumed , that if the Polish revolution should Spread in the Slavonian countries , and is able to resist the first efforts of Russia and Austria , England is greatly disposed to pronounce itself in favour of the national unity of Poland .
Co Walters: & Gorospnoentsi
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How To Wsue Fob Newspapers.—L Have Somet...
How to Wsue fob Newspapers . —L Have something to write aboir . 2 . Write plain ; dot your i '*; cross your i ? s ; point sentences ; begin with capitals . 3 . Write short ; to tie point ; stop when vou have done . 4 . Write only onoie side of lie leaf . 5 . Head it over , abridge and correct it , until you get it into the shortest space possible . C . Fay the postage Tajt Dieaus ' s Land . —Tnr Chaetist Exiles . —A letter has reemtly been received by Mr . 0 . H . Parry , veterinary surgeon , in this town , from Vrt . Edward Bhllock , formerl / ofCharvilleFann , nearTwyford , Berks , and who a few years since emigrated to VanBieman's Laud . As an account of this place may beintewstiag to some « f our readers , we will give a few extracts from this letter . It bears date Long Port , Probation Station ,
Maria Island , September 20 , 1845 : — "In leplytoyour iE < jui * ies respecting the Xewport Chartists , 1 will just state that Jones is guard to the Launctston and Hobai t Tews mail coach ; Frost is shopman to a large grocer in Kobart Town ; and Williams is overseer of a party of sawyers in the Peninsula , which is separated from ihf mainland by narrow straits . Bt-auraom Smith , who Iaged to the amount of £ - ! 00 , 000 , is clerk io an office at Jiricho . Taylor , the harness-maker , late of Reading ? who was transported for lorgery ) I have not heard Anything about , as I hare not been able to ascertain the shin he came out in . The island is bsa-rtS'nUy situate in the open sea , about 120 Miles from i ' obart Town , and is very similar to the Isle of Wight , bat thesceuery
is more beautiful . Trade and agriculture are much improved here within the last twelve months , and , iu fact , everybody is doing well—if not , it is their own fault . Port Philip . Port Adelaide , Port Albert , and all the colonies , are wonderfully iraprov . d lately , except that wretched place , New Zealand . "—Reading Meieurg . John Willt , M jx . to .-j . —We do not know . Mr . -Jan-Mow ' s address , and he reaUy most excuse the puolicatiuu of his letter ; it wouiu be nnpvSHble to open the columns cf the Star fvf such a subject , nor can we give an opiaion of a case --ith « h " eh yvc are unacquainted . TB £ Land . — We have re- eived several comicunications of estates to be sold , for which we thank onr friends , and request that we may still continue to receive noticis that come -tithin the reach of the several
secretaries . T , 5 ., Hn > -CHCsta * . —William Carpenter , the Editor oi lioyls VTtikly Xewspaper , was the first person who introduced the subject of physical force in the Convention of 1 S 3 S . He Silt under t-vospears crossed , aud declared they were the physic-moral-arms of Chartism . He was one ofthe party who was chiefly instrumental in deceiving Frost as to the intentions and state of preparedness ofthe people . He got blazing drunk as chair man of the dinner given to Mr . Duncombe alter the presentation of the national petition , made a most violent physical-force speech , and brought Chartism iuto such contempt , that many left the room declaring that Chartism was "the mere howl of drunken destructives . "
J . Band . —We fear that neither petitioning , nor any other stsp that he eould lake , would get him justice : justice is only for the rich , not for the poor . Genebal answers . —It would be utterly impossible for Mr . O'Connor to answer by letter the several private coinm-11-ications vh * t he receives—it would more than occupy his every hoar . Ma . G . Hesdesson , . Newtown , Kircaldy . —Greei coveri alcne ate the indication of the termination of the quarter . Yours was not a green one . Veteran Pate wis' and Exiles' Widows and Children ' s FrNBs . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of C » . Cd . from Mr . Thomas Jameson , DrypoeL , Hub * . My own no-able efforts , I am gratified ti state , have this week also added 17 a . 103 . to oar receipts—viz ., 10 s . by last Sunday ev ? ai ; ajfs lecture a * tlie Farthema . n , after dednefing expense of room ; and "s . lOd . by last Monday
evening ' s lecture at Colchester , Essex , after deducting travellia- ; expense * . —Thomas Cooper , Secretary , 134 , Biackfriar ' s Road . H . Ha weiss . —The lines are respectfully declined . Uiutia Am > aEss ofthe Complete Sufirage Av-oeiation No room this week . J . Wiiliaj-s . Stocspukt . —The notice was miilaid : when found , it was too late to obtain insertion . As Acu > S .. OGEE » - tbe CArsE O' DeSOCRACV . The lines « ba * l apprarassoon as we have room . S . Pabkhi , KmnniMKSTEE . —Ali the communications received at this Office rc-pectiug the Bridgnorth strike were duly noticed . AV . M . Tanner . ToTness . —Next week . The Exiles . —We have received several communic-itions re ^ pectasg Mr . Dunco-nlie ' s late motion in the House of Commons , which we will try to m & ke use of iu our next .
TllADES AND TRADES' UNIONISTS . ffif Since the commencement of this paper ' s existence it has ever be * it our first care to make known through it * columns the wrongs aud grievances of the workinu classes . Whether or no Uie parties aggrieved coincided ¦ with us in politics , it was sufficient for us that thej were oppressed , to at once induce us to open out columns tor their statements . But with the best intsarinas , jt L clear we cannot always serve the working men if the working mtn themselves will not do their husiness iu a business-like way . Jtepeatedly , we are blamvd for not siring publicity to matters ol which we receive no account whatever ; or we arc f jund fault with for " cutung down" * a repmt that comes to us iu so " questionable a shape" tint its appearance
in the suite received by us would do the parties sending it more harm than goad . Another complaint made by some of our correspondents is , that vh-. - postpone reports or addresses , not inserting them until tinweek after they -resent to us . iast week we receireda cummuiiicaiion from L .-eds purporting to be a report of a tailors' delegate -ueetimf hi'den in that to ^ n . The mireting commenced on Monday , March 2 nd , and were .-eived a rcjiortof two days proceeding * oh Thursday , March 12 th . We heard no more from the Tailor .- ' Conference until Thursday last . March liltl , v . hen a pe : s m called at the ofnve with several columns of matter , w j ell , of cour » e , we could do nothing witli , our first editiuii bein ? then nearly filled np . A i , vike of t : iu huilduu trade has hten uoin' ! on in Manchester since Monday , the 2 nd of -Marrh . A ' ot a word did na receive from the pioper quarter of this strike until Thursday moniia-r , March 19 th , when we received an address from the Central Com :: i te- of Loudon Trades .
which , being withiu reasonable compass , we gave to the comporitoiA . The ; ame evening we receded two parcels , one from Mauchvster and one from Moll ( where the sai ! ors are on strike ) . These p ircels c < mtaiucdhug-i plarareU . printed matter aud manuscript . Which altogether would have filled nearly a p .. g uf luJ Star . At the time those parcels were receivel , the < -oapositorshad matter in hand fully sttfficieuttu fill tiu : first edition , r riday morning we nave not lime to put in type more than a Very small quantity of matter . Wc , therefore , cannot do anything this week with the matter received from Manchester and Hull . We must add that the Hull placard we might and ought to have received a wee » ago , and most of the Ma :: cht = stcr copy should have beeohcre several days ago ; iu < * ecd , one of t "» e placards was printed so far back as March 2 nd . So long as the busintssof the trades is conducted in this slovenly manner , we cannot , aud will not , be held responsible for the non-insertion of their communicatJOES ,
Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Ofbratite La...
RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OFBRATITE LAND SOCIETY . ( OABEB . «* US , O ' CO-ffiOI , £ s . a . Barn «" ey , per John Ward - „ ., 506 Leicester , per George Koon „ .. ., 500 Derby , per William Chandler ., .. .. 116 8 Stockport , per Thomas Woodhouse .. ., 280 Nottingham , per James Sweet .. „ .. 190 Hyde , per Joseph Hough , 1 17 0 Butterley , perG . Yamold 1 19 6 Blackburn , i » er Wm . Sutcb'fFe 5 10 0 iriiton-under-LTiie , per Edward Hobson .. 8 15 8 w . J . I * . Wilkinson , Exeter ft o s Shrewsbury , per Joseph Powell .. 040 Halifax , per C . 1 V . Smith 3 a 0 liindley , per Joseph liowden 2 0 0 Wigan , jot Thomas fve 3 7 6
Whittnii-ton and Cat , per C . Doyle .. .. 952 Westminster , per C . Doyle .. .. .. 3 4 S Tm-brid geWeHs , per Lamier 118 6 Jo m Pomeroy 6 2 0 Manchester , per John Murray ., .. . * 5 6 2 Dodworth , per Thomas Croft .. .. .. 200 Liverpool , per William llatcliffe .. .. «• fi 10 * Darlaston , per Uobert Ceilings .. - - ® , Newark , per William Walton .. .. » " J Leeds , per Win . Brook «» J ( ' Bristol , per John Sen-man .. •¦ •• * ¦** , ? Plymouth , per E . Robertson ., .. « * 8 4 i Wahefieldi ^ r Wm . Farrand ,. .. •¦ 5 J °
, Bacup , per John Mawson .. .. ( j 0 0 Northampton , per William Munday .. « J » " Cheltenham , per tVilliam teach .. « J » " Oldhain , per William Hamer .. .. ,. 2 O o Manchester . —The amount received from Manchester last week should have been £ 18 4 s . Id ., not £ 1814 s . Id ., as stated . We sometimes mate a mistake on the WfiOAb side .
CiSDS ISO RCLES . Nottingham , per James Sweet n * J Westminster .. .. ¦• .. " „ ; , Tunbridge Wells « a j > Xortha-npton , per William Monday .. .. 0 o 0 LIVV FOR THE LA . VD CONFEBEKCE , FEB MB . O ' CON . VOB . Nottingham , per James Sweet .. .. .. 026 Whittington and Cat .. .. .. .. 0 3 4 J J . EVI TDK D 1 KECTOBS . FEB J ! B . O ' CO-JNOB . Nottingham , per James Sweet .. .. .. 040 Whittington aud Cat .. .. .. .. 0 ;) Oi Westminster 0 « 2 Newark , per William Walton 0 o 8 Plymouth , perE . Robertson 0 C OJ Burnley , jier William Crossley .. „ „ 0 S 11
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . EXECCT 1 VE . FES MB . O ' COSNOR . Rochdale , per Charles Shaw . , .. .. 0 10 Id
FOMHCOJCIXO CONVEKTlOJ * . FEB KB . O ' CONNOR . EdwardTodd .. 0 1 NATIONAL AJ-TI-M 1 L 1 T 1 A FE > D . FEB KB . O ' COXNOB . Nottingham , per James Sweet „ .. .. 016 Preston , per James Berry * .. .. .. 086 John Bell , Humphries House .. ,. .. 050 Charles Bel ) , ditto .. .. .. .. 050 James Winthrop .. .. .. .. .. 050 llulmc , near Manchester , Richard Town .. 006 * The letter containing this order stated that the Postoffice order was for 10 a , whereas it was only Si . Cd ., which was the right cum . FOB THE WIOOW SEERT . FEB . SB . O ' COKKOB . From Sheffield chemical works , ptr John Doii 0 10 0 A Chartist Barrister , who believes Seery was murdered .. _ l o o EHVELOPES . TES KB . o ' CO . N . VOB . Mr . Milne .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 l 0
pound ' s begexebatioi * fond . FEB HB . o ' COKSOB . The German Democratic Society .. .. 4 lo 6 The Fraternal Democrat ? .. .. .. 2 2 8 The French Demuct-atic Society .. .. .. 2 10 o The Foreign Philanthropic Society of Boot and Shoemakers in LuiuUm .. .. .. 160 A Lady in "Sunderland .. .. .. .. 0 1 0 Bilstiui Chai lists .. .. .. .. .. 000
llECEIPIS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . 8 HABES . FEB GENEBAL iECBETABT . £ 6 . d . £ 6 . d . Warrinjrton .. .. 004 Clitheroe .. .. 5 0 o Thon-ass Toplis .. 204 Greenwich , Sweet-JunahBuare .. 014 love 210 Reading .. .. 440 Mr . Moore , Mary-Cuveutry .. n 2 0 0 lebone .. .. 014 Rachel Kowall .. 009 Mucnden Stones .. 0 18 tl M . -V 0 16 Addui ^ ham „ 0 1 6 t'irkcuhead .. .. 200 LlaneUy .. .. 0 7 0 Sudbury .. .. 300 Hull 3 15 0 Bath 10 5 4 Cheltenham .. 200 John Cam .. .. 014 Dunfermline .. 024 Monmouth .. .. 0 lo * 0 Glasgow , William Son erhy Helm .. 200 M'Murray .. .. 180 EWeisiie .. .. 014 Dorking .. < 2 lo 0 C . 1 BDB AND EULES . Mr . Overton .. 023 Manchester .. ,. 100 Monmouth .. .. 006 Dorking .. ., 014
LEW FOB TBE LAND CONFEBEKCE . Beading .. .. 006 Uath 00 8 Mi . veudc-i Stones .. 0 2 6 Manchester .. .. 0 7 a
iEVI FlUi D 1 BECTOKS . Heading .. .. 0 o 6 . Sudbury .. .. 0 2 fi Mr . Russell .. .. 026 Todiuorden .. .. 010 Mr . ilcaruian and Manchester .. .. 0 12 9 fronds .. .. 006 Lambeth .. .. 0 0 G NoTieE . —On and after Saturday , March 21 st , all eommuuieatious for Mr . Whtcler uiu . t he addressed to him at the « ifice of tbe Cli :: rt 5 st Co-operative Laud Society , S 3 , i ican-street , Soho . Sub-scerctaries are requested to copy the above address . T . M . Wheeler , Sec .
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . FEB GENERAL SECBETABT . Stidhury „ .. 0 8 0 Leicester , profits Preston , per Mars- on Star .. .. 010 den 010 0 EXILES' RESTORATION FUND . City Ladies' Shoe- Mr . Knight ' s ditto 0 2 6 makers , per Mr . Mr . Rogers' ditto .. 0 2 2 L . Kmg .. .. 0 4 19 Mr . Arnott ' s ditto 0 19 WMtrhigt-iu A- Cat 0 3 0 Gr . Godwin , Raffle 0 7 ti Mr . Milne ' s Book .. 0 16 Thomas Mabtin Wheeler , Secretarv .
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Stockport.—A Tea Party And Ball Will Be ...
Stockport . —A tea party and ball will be held in the Ghaviist Institution , Bumber's-biow , on Saturday evening , the 21 st of . March , in commemoration oi the first purchase of land by the working men oi England . Tea on the table at six o ' clock precisely . Tickets may be had ofthe committee , or at the following places-. —Mr . Royles , 13 , Barlow-street ; Mr . Keliitts , Lord-street ; Mr . Birch , Pt-rtwood ; Mr . Clark , 4 , Edgier-brow , - Mr . Pownal , Brown-street ; Mr . Kcrdake , 20 , Castle-street , Edgley ; Mr . Ilailfield , Hedge ] cy-schonJ , Castle-street ; Mr . GclJ , Vernonatreet ; Mr . Wright , Lancashire-hill ; Mr . Smith , 5 i , Toll Bar-street ; Mr . Williams , 9 , Lowe-street ; Mr . Brown , Ardern-pool ; Mr . Rhodes , Turncroftiane ; and Mr . Woodhouse , 4 , Antjel-strect , subsecretary .
MixcuEStER . —A lecture will be delivered in the Carpenters' Hall , Garret-ioad , on Sundar evening , March 22 ud , by Mr . Robert Wild , of " Mottram . Chair to be taken at half-past six o ' clock . A meeting of the shareholders of the Co-operative Land Society will be held at two o ' clock in the afternoon , in the Large Ante-room . The foundation stone of the Manchester People ' s Institute will be laid on Good Friday . April Kith , by Feaigus O'Connor , Esq . The shareholders and friends of the Institute will assemble in Carpenters' llall , at ten o ' clock on the morning of Good Friday . fand walk in procession to the j-rtnmil , where F . O'Connor , Esq ., W . P . Robcits , & q ., the Rev . J . Sehofield . and W . J . West will address the spectators . A te-a party and ball will be held in the evening ot the same day ; the abovenamed ganthnucn will attend .
ltociiD 4 i . E . —A lecture will be dclivcreu in the Chartist-room , Mail-street , on Sunday evening next . fti-At-FOBD . —Thcmembersof the O'Connor Brisade vill meet in Mr . Leadley ' s room , Butterworth-. buildings , on Sunday ( to-m « rruw ) , at one o'clock in the afternoon . The members of the Chartist Cooperative Land Society will meet in their room , on Sunday ( to-morrotr ) , at two o ' clock iu the afternoon . Persons wishing to join the Land Society may do so ; the officers are in attendance from twelve o ' clock at noon until five o ' clock in the afternoon . Socru Laxcasihiie . — A district delegate meeting will be held in Oldham , on Sunday , March 2 i ) ik iliSt-snt . Tin . Vkb . it and Soiree . —The Chartists of Pilkington , near Manchester , will hold their annual t <; a party and soiree , on Monday evening next , March 23 rd , 1 & 10 , in the sclioo ' -iWu , Iligher-laRC , I'll , kiii' -ton .
Oujium . —On Sundar ( to-morrow } , Mr . A . Hurst , will lectun- iu the school-room ofthe Working Man ' s Ibd ! , at six o ' clock in the evening . CovEXTiiT . —A meeting will be held at the British Queen , St . John-street . Coventry , on Monday evening next , at eight o ' clock , ofthe members and friends « . t the Ciartfat Co-operative Land Sucietv , when business of great importance will hcbvou < -ht before them . ° ^ ltocnfflAL ! -. —Gooi-pe Dawson , Esq ., who has been lecturing to crowded audiences at the Athenseuin , Manchester , will deliver two lectures in the People ' s Institution , Bailey-street , on Wednesday and Thursd . av , March *> oth and 2 ( ith , to commence at eight o ' clock .
B & I . TO . V . —The shareholders of the Chartist Cooperative laud Society of this locality are requested to attend « meeting of great im-.-, rtance , mi Sunday next Mmh * S „ d , * » x „' dock iu thh eTeui Ul the Chartist ASsociation-ioon , , at the top of King street , Daiusgate , Croat Bolton ™^ ti ^ J ! tiV ! $ S $£ ^ " *^** Z £ win hT . t , r ^ 1 neeUnsof t !{ e Gi'artistsof Hull m ^ SSSir "" ° Cl 0 Ck *¦» ., at the
SoeS ? mav I 5 J > ™ M * 6 ^ join the Land society , nuy do st »\} y apphinjr to Joshua Stnwoii t , ih-rand bookseller ; hatLJi of KingtnV K
Stockport.—A Tea Party And Ball Will Be ...
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MONDAY . To be or sot to be ?—How of ten has the popular candidate , surrounded by the enthusiastic spirit of his admirers , mistaken their confident expression of success as the sure indication ol victory ! The present strugg le between the quiet confident Lords , lying by fora "lurch , and the gabbling young Commoners very much reminds usoi the conscious security ofthe candidate of tub electors , while the choice of the non-electors serves but to amuse him . The hands held up to-day are struck down and paralysed by the votes registered on the morrow . Now , so il- is with the Lords . Weaffirm , as we have frequently asserted , that Stanley wtfl lead on the old dukes and tho young hereditary peers against the great cantain and bis
confiding fogies , and that they will either throw the measure out , so damage it that the Commons must reject it , or keep it suspended in debate until frightened by the prospect of a badharvestand actual famine , or emboldened by the prospect of a good harvest , and the cry tint the famine spoken of as existing months ago has not yet arrived . The abandonment oftheskirmishing dghtby the Protectionists in the Commons was rather a part of their tactics than any prooloftheu- acquiescence in any portion ol the measure . However , end as the controversy may netween Peers and Commoners , Protectionists and 1-rce-lraders , Monopolists and anti-Monooolists . we
now , with nearly two months ' experience furnished by t he debate before us , and strengthened by the manly exposure of Mr . Duncombe in the House of Commons on Friday last , assert confidently that for every shilling saved to the workman in the price of produce , lourteen pence will be stolen from him in the shape of reduced wages , if labour does not interfere m time . Now , what is the proof that Mr . Dimcombe has given , and we here insert it in large type , full , whole , and entire , in order that every working man in the kingdom should preserve it as the index pointing to his share of the promised blessings Irom extended trade and unfettered speculation : —
" Mr . Duncombe called the attention of the house to the article of tvyoivw * powder , which was much used as a , raw material in the process of paper-staining , and observed that it was greatly desired Ly the paper-stainers that this article should come in dut y free . The master paper-stainers , it had boon represented to him , were determined that , b y the reduction of tbe duty on stained paper , the loss , if any should not fall upon them , and they told their workmen so . He had been informed that , in one case , an extensive employer was holding back a fifth of the men ' s wages till this question was settled . 2 Tow , he held it to be very unfair towards the workmen that all the loss
should fall upon them . The masters said they were not able to compete with the foreign paper-stainers , who , in addition to other advantages , paid no excise dut y upon the article He wished to ask the ri ght lion , baronet if he would not remit the whole of the protective duties upon bronze powder and pigments ?" Now , lest any man may suppose that Mr , Dunconibe's statement was a mere repetition ot an unfounded assertion made by the men , let us hear what Sir George Clerk , the minister who manages the Trade Department , says in reply to Mr . Buncombe : — Sir George Clerk had had an interview with a deputation of paper-stainers a ftw days ago , when they made statements similar to those put forward by tbe hon . gentleman .
Let the working men well consider this subject . We have now for many , many years written and spoken upon it , and we are not prepared to retract a sentence that we have uttered , but , on the contrary , we now repeat that free trade , if not accywpanied by such measures as the working classes can now enforce from divided faction , will lead , firstly , to poverty , dependence , and degrcdation . and tlien ' to revolution , distraction , destruction , and strife . The people now have evetything in their power : let the free trade chain be quietly rivetted upon them once , and they are powerless , except through revolution . Labour must have its Parliament , or labour must succumb to the Parliament of capitalists .
A Nice Man for a Small Party . —Ignorance of the working classes is the great cause assigned for withholding the franchise from them . No value is attached to the knowledge of building a house or furnishing it and decorating it—no importance is attached to feeding , clothing , warming , and in every way sustaining its idle inm'itcs ; no importance is attached to the performance of tho .-e several works which , if not performed by the industrious , the ignorant wealthy would starve and die . If we are to look for knowledge anywhere , surely it is within the precincts of the court , and in the neighbourhood of Eton College , and l ' rom the first magistrate of Windsor—he has the opportunity of picking up a bit of "larxisg , " aud even a smattering of Latin , ( voiu
theyotiuggentlcnienof Eton ; and new let us see how far this important officer is gifted with that important thing called knowledge . Last week he presided at an election for the borough , and the tight being all upon one side , he had no opportunity of displaying his partiali'y for the court candidate . When the proceedings were over , a vote of thanks , as is usual in such eases , was proposed to his worship the mayor , when , in reply , the first magistrate of Windsor said , " 1 am sure I have every reason to be grateful to those honourable gentlemen who have so cordially drank my health . ( Three cheers , and 'Long life to you ! ' ) Yes , he repeated it . He was unaccustomed to public speaking , and had his health so often drunk at small tai-parties , that he thougkt the present was a repetition of the many such compliments that had
been paid to him . " What would be said of a Chartist thatdidn ' tktiowthedifferencebctwecn an election and a tea-party ? We can furnish but one parallel for this case of ignorance . Amongst military men , "* General Breczo" is a favourite toast , and means " the glass . " A very ignorant Irish middleman , who was appointed to the commission of the peace , but who couldn't write his own name , by some accident or other was invited to dine at the mess of a regiment whose officers he had allowed to sportovw his grounds . After the usual catalogue of toasts was exhausted , the commanding officer said , " Come , gentlemen , I ' ll give you 'Genera ! Breezo !"' "Aye , d n it , " exclaimed the middlemanjustice , starting to his feet , "I'll drink that fellow's health ' ; that's the fellow that saved us from Boney , though 1 forget where he signalised himself . "
O'Co . wvem . axd THE WELSH Martyrs . —We hare received several letters inquiring whether or no it is true that Mr . O'C-nnell pledged himself to vote for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . Yes , it is quite true that he pledged himself to Mr . Duncombe to vote for the motion , and yet that neither he nor a single joint of his tail , although they were all in the house nearly up to the hour of the division , voted for it . This is too bad , and made apparently more galling to us by the fact that on the very day of that division we paid £ 7 lfs . Cd . expenses , incurred by getting up the Covent Garden demonstration , on the 1 st of July , on behalf of O'Connell and the other Irish prisoners ; but we richly deserve it for resting any hope on such rotten reeds .
Russell axd the Whios . —there remains not a shadow of doubt that Russell ' s motion , to be brought ou after Easter , relative to the state of Ireland , is intended as a fceler for power . It is nlvrays after Easter that tbe " sessional battle" really commences ; it is after Easter that we shall have the bidding for public favour ; it is after Easter that wc should contrive to have out- flock veady to exhibit in the best oossible state . Again , we repeat that no Ch ; 'rtUt constituency * . vill have to pay more than the travelling cxpen > es of their delegates ; and that . thcrelore , it is the bounden duty of every constituency to he prepared , without delay , with a delegate ready for the emergency , and the Executive will issue their instructions in time , as to the number to constitute the Convention and the places from whence delegates arc to come .
Tjuni * . —From the several manufacturing districts the trade reports are more awful , in consequence of the anticipated future , than even from the present deprc-sion . From Bradford , we learn that an immense quantity of machinery is idle , while hands arc unemployed , prices looking down , and speculators cautious . In Manchester , the masters arc so anxious to have the first shot at free trade , that most of the building trades have been compelled to strike . We may be told that . thoy have struck , not against a reduction of wages , but for increased wages . So they ought !—that is the most legitimate of all strikes . The masters have entered into extensive contracts , which Peel ' s tariff will enable them to complete much below the estimate at which they have taken them ; and as Jabimr is the important material m all such contracts , why , we should lie gad to know , should it not have " its share in the benefits of free trade ? Will the contractors
& offer their employers a drawback upon the estimated sum i v > di they say— " I contracted for £ 1500 when prices were so-and-so—I now find that I can execute the work at £ 200 under that amount , and I will give you the benefit of the reduction V Not a bit of it . lhey will persuade the employer that the proposed tariff has actually thrown impediments in their way . * ow , wc will give the Manchester trades a little counsel : they should only strike in cii * es where specific agreements lor the performance of the work at a certain tune exist , and then , not io allow the mastei-s to have all the talk at their side , they should send a respectful deputation to the person for whom the contract was undertaken , and state their case , requesting him not to grant au extension of time . It , was by the government aiding 1 ' eto and tirissell in tin ' s way , that enabled them to / leaf , tficir hands ; whereas , it kept to the performance of the contract , the men would have triumphed .
Com * Tjiadb . —Jvotwithstiinding the continuous attempts of the free traders , the tender-hearted millers cannot he induced to purchase beyond the ha . ad to mouth supply . Indian corn is coming in wholesale , and every quarter of Indiiiti corn that comes' iu ,
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stands as a competitor to every home-grewn quarter of wheat . We may be told , that bread made from Indian corn ig not as good as bread made from wheaten flour ; we admit it . Neither is salt pork as good as roast beet , and yet , if the price of salt pork was twopence a pound , the price of beef would becommensurately reduced . Fish is neither beef nor mutton , and yet , when fish is very plenty nnd very cheap , it is made a substitute for beef and mutton . It is singular , however , that the reduced price of wheat has not had the effect of commensurate ]) ' reducing tho price of bread . We are s-oiry to be obliged to recur to our old lessons ; but . ' we have often told tlicf workine-elasaes that no Parliamentary regulation will rcguhte the retail price of the WORKINGMAN'S LOAF .
The London Tailors and their Employers . — More of the blessings of free trade , with uncontrolled power in the hands of capitalists , are being daily exhibited in the tailoring department . The masters have reduced wages by nincpence in every two shillings , or about thirty-five per cent . ; while they are also actually overhoiding work in expectation of cheap food making still cheaper wages . Again , we ask , if it is not time for labour ' s parliament to assemble in the metropolis , and for labour to have a mighty demonstration after its day ' s toil , to enforce such TIMELY CONCESSION as the necessity of the times demand ? We are even fearful that labour will again allow its hour of triumph to pass .
Mo-Msr and Shark Market . —These twin devils are still suspended between hope and fear . The hope of free trade , and the fear of war keeps up such a Stock Exchange fever , as to make It impossible for the speculators to operate without considerable risk ; and the Times , as is its custom , is playing fast and loose with the war question . Shares are , and have been for sometime , at a stand-still , and the funds are looking down .
IRELAND . Famise and Pkstilencb . — These are the Irish twins , and are gaining daily strength . We cannot much rely upon the interested information we receive from the patriot * or the free traders , while we give with sorrow the following extract from a letter received from , a relation of our own . — " An to the fieed potatoes you write for , you cannot form the least idea of the difficulty in getting thenvhere , or of the shocking state of . distress that threatens us . Two Neapolitan vessels , laden with potatoes , have put into Cork , and many GENTLEMEN are actually purchasing them at 8 d . a stone , in expectation that the demand for seed will increase the price , and give
them a profit . All those families who used to feed their servants partly upon potatoes have now , one and all , been obliged to substitute bread ; in fact , the newspapers convey but a very slight notion of the present state of the country , and the much worse state that threatens us . Seed potatoes that used to be fourpence a weight for good ones , are now selling for a shilling a weight for bad ones . "—Would not the English Chartists be represented by the Conciliation Hall patriots as savages and monsters if , under such circumstances , they resisted what even PROMISES TO BE A BENEFIT ? Depend upon it , the Chartists are right in not resisting free trade , and are just as richt in resolving to have their full share ef any benefit that accrues from it .
Coercion . — Wc are not , on the first day of the week , in a sufficiently amiable temper to write upon a law which subjects the Irishman who shall bo found out ol' his house an hour before sunset , to transportation for fifteen years ; but this we will say—Oh ! that the Irish people had the Polish leaders , or that the Polish leaders had the Irish people 1 This is not only a damnable bill , hut au infernal , rascally , bloodthirsty , rebelious bill . Murdeks ' in Ikeland , —While the Times is labouring hard at its beastly vocation to bring Ireland and the Irish priesthood into odium and contempt , we will here relate an anecdote , which bespeaks the Irish feeling as to what murder really is . Some few years ago , an English capitalist purchased an estate in the county of Tipperary , and proceeded by the Cork coach to Cashel to take possession . A respectable old dame , a fixture , had been in the habit of attending the passen « crs while at tea . The
purchaser had heard several conversations in the coach as to the disturbed stateof Tipperary , and the numerous murders that were said to be committed there . When the passengers had started , the stranger said to the dame . " Pray , tuy good woman , is it true that there are so many murders committed in this country V " Wisha then , my God , who tonld your honour the like of that ? Sure , then , the devil a murder is ever committed here ; and I'll engage but that tnere's not quieter boys nor the Tipperary boys . " "Well , but 1 understand that they murder their landlords and the proctors here frequently . " " Oh , wisha , is it them sort ? Yea , them , to be sure , they knocks the brains out of them landsharks and them tithe devils now aud then ; andhowcanthecraythurs help it ? Sure , when the devil cr ever they'll let them alone , but worrying them and harassing them , and driving them out of their lives ; but I declare to Gud the wonder is that they lets one of them sort live at all . "
FOREIGN . America . — It appears that the Cambria mail packet set off with one side ol" the question , and only brought half mails—the peaceable halves—while , somehow or other , the warlike halves have been smuggled in ; and ic appears , after all the pacific declarations , that we are to have war . Indeed , the activity recently displayed at our dockyards leaves not a shadow of doubt upon tbe subject , and , as we stated five months a--o , the first announcement that the nation , will receive from Sit Robert Peel will be something like the celebrated declaration of Mr . Canning , " that three war ships are now on their way to chastise Jonathan and to assert our rioiit to the Oregon territory ; " but Jonathan remembers the old story , — " Catch a weazel asleep , and shave his eyebrow . "
Poland . —The tyrants have not yet succeeded in subduing the rebellion of the natives against their tyrant usurpers ; - and , however the unholy triple alliance may remain in quiet possession of Cracow , we hope and trust that the attempt at national regeneration now spreading throughout the land will be ultimately successful ; and , should it even fail now , we trust that a universal , not a mere national association , will be established , entitled Poland ' s regeneration sociEir , and that the work will go on incessantly , until the great object of Poland ' s regeneration is accomplished .
TUESDAY . Legislation . —The variety of our legislation must be amusing to foreigners : we read of railways and fever in Ireland , coercion and paper-staining , Irish Arms Act and horrors of the Poor Law Amendment Bill , murders of rich individuals , and of thousands of pour but unprotected Irishmen , almost in the same breath ; and eager as the new school of political economists may be to inculcate the doctrine of buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market , of the glorious spirit of rivalry and speculation , and of tlte honest reward of commercial industry , we never can , and never will , enter into the philosophical consideration of those circumstances which create a class of overwealtliy , gorging oppressors , and a class
of stunted , l ' anitahing oppressed . We will continue to preach the doctrine , because we entertain it , that no idler has a right to his dinner until every man who is willing to work for one has had a good one . The righteous rules of nature have been wholly subverted . It is cruel , nay , it is unchristian , immoral , and wc will add illegal , to see fox-hunting idlers and voluptuous pleasure-hunters mocking honest poverty , and making the disparity between the idle and the industrious so galu ' ngiy striking to the latter . There is no great branch of our glorious institutions , whether in Church or State , that does not cost more money than the feeding of all the poor in England , it may be considered prosy iu us , but we will repeat it until wc convince every man of its truth , that one idler in each parish has a much
larger income than is allowed for the maintenance of the remainder , of tho inhabitants ; that the Church property alone , it' laid out in the purchase of lands for the people , would locate live millions upon two acre 3 each—that is , would support in affluence and comfort hard upon double our population—T W ENT YFIVE MILLIONS—and spent as it is now , it produces brothels , incest , immorality , ignorance , deception , infidelity , hypocrisy , indecency , uucharitableness , lewdness , drunkenness , strife , debauchery , rape , rapine , and murder ; in fact , the State Church of England is the mother of all mischief aud the father of all crime , and we will gladly join in the establishmentof-m Anti-Church League , or , lest that might sound as heterodoxy in the cars of the ignorant , an Anti-Tithe League .
The Armv . —Ty follow on this subject , there is paid for the support of an insolent , idle soldiery , as much annually as would locate four million heads of families upon two acres each of the best land in England—that is , twenty millions of human beings could live happily , and furnish a more extensive market than the world now presents to the manufacturing interest as customers ; but then , oh then , the devil" wages" steps in , and they discover that if a man knew tho value of liis free labour , to make profit , they should work all by inanimate machinery . Well , be it so . We now lay down a principle which we defy mortal man to upset—it is the very opposite of free trade , it is total prohibition of every single article produced by native industry , provided the free labour market was open to that industry . _ Now , we'll explain . If even one million heads of families were
located upon land on lease for ever , we would rejoice to sec nothing used except what was produced at home—that is , ; ss a staple . We should wish to see a total prohibition against all manufactures , and wc should not object then to see machinery Hying away for twenty-four hours a day for six days in the week ; and we pledge ourselves , with these increased facilities of production , that its produce would be treble its present amount , in consequence of the increased ability of the free J--boiirers to purchase it . Of course , wc would not deny admission to articles of luxury , or to the importation of such articles as English industry , the English climate , or English soil could not furnish ; while , if a fair chance was given to these , the exceptions would bu rare and low . The fact is , that man , not so much in ignorance as iit consequence of active engagement in existing pur-
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suitSjfancieBthat what he isenjoyitig is a blessing , and that he enjoys it in the only mode in which it could be enjoyed , but he never thinks of valuable substitutes : thus , thirty years ago , if a man was told that he never , again should have a candle in his house , he would fancy himself condemned to eternal darkness ; but gas now furnishes a very good substitute . So , with regard to travelling—if at the same period a man was told that he should never again go from London to Birmingham on foot or by horse power , he would despair of seeing Birmingham , dvu-inj- hi * natural life , lhesamemay bo said of steam navigation , the printing-press , and all the operations now performed by steam . Well then , we use the argument to show that there is not half that value in existing
institutions and things which ignorance attaches to them . We are now only speaking ofthis new theory ; but , with God ' s blessing , before this day twelvemonths , we will furnish a practical illustration of it , and before tins- day live years , whatever may be the result of Peel ' s measures , and however necessary they may be in the present state of Ireland , we shall have a Parliament represcntingacompletely new state of things , a new , country , and a new mind , capable of forcing new opinions upon new men . Th « Navt . —The same may be said of this glorious branch of the nation ' s pride . The annual amount spent upon this department , maintained for the solo purpose of being insolent to foreigners and bullying the natives , would also locate four million heads of
families , or twenty million individuals upon the land . Im * London Pouch . —T » e money paid annually to these skull-cracking ruffians , these kitchen spies and pimps , would locate two hundred thousand heads of families upon the land , or one million of human beings ; and , in all cases , we estimate the land at a pound an acre . Is this a Christian country , then ? Is this a civilised country , when a church , an array , and a navy receive as much annually as would pay a pound an acre for twenty-six million acres of land ; and which , at two acres to a family , would locate thirteen million heads of families , and at five to a family , would maintain sixty-five millions of a population in peace , comfort , and happiness , and make them actual competitors for all that our pre-sent
amount of machinery could produce ? And yet these Malthusians tell us that the land is over-populated , and that the restriction on commerce acts injuriously to the working classes . Bother ' . —let labour protect itself , and England in three years would be the finest country in the world , EXCEPT IRELAND . No » v , this may not bo considered as a legitimate summary of the week ' s news ; but wc contend that it is the most legitimate summary , because it is a complete answer to the horrible blasphemy preached on Monday night in the House of Commons . Moreover , it is precisely that description of news that we wish the working men to understand , because they must bo acquainted with their degraded position , their power to elevate tlicmselves , and the better
prospects which present themselves from their union . Tub Law . —We estimate the money expended in this department , much below its real figure , at twenty millions per annum , not a farthing of which would be necessary in a well-regulated state of society ; and this amount , at two acres to a family , would locate ten million heads of families , or a population of fifty millions , upon the land . The National Debt . —The interest paid upon this debt , incurred for the preservation oi Church and State ascendancy , wiuld locate fourteen million heads of families upon two acres each , or a population of seventy millions . Now , those are all cruelties which injustice imposes upon the working classes , * and , as they have been severally perused , we make no doubt that many a reader has said , "Eh , but it's true ;"
aud "but it's shocking , " and "I never knew it before . " Now , see what labour imposts upon itself . Dnu . vKENNEss . —This item far surpasses ail others put together in amount , in injustice , and in sad result . In amount , because it exceeds the others ; in injustice , because here drunken , dissipated labour preys upon sober , virtuous industry . It is not the tyrant that oppresses here , or rather , it is not the irresponsible tyrant—it is the unnatural tyrant father , that oppresses his wife and children—the unnatural tyrant son , that oppresses his parents aud family ; this is the most unnatural of all tyranny . Oh ! that wc could spend one year ' s dissipationmoney upon locating drunkards on the soil ; and we would be satisfied , after one year ' s probation , to vest the government of the country in their hands ; because they would pass the strongest laws against a vice of which . thcy had been the victims ; and because justice must always flow from a representation of the
sober mind of the country . We assert , without fear of contradiction , that the majority in the present House of Commons owe their seats to drunkenness . We know that many readers would rather see our space devoteil to murders , rapes , and police news , but this is the very depraved taste that we seek to destroy . Poor Laws . —The money spent annually in degrading honest poverty amounts to more thun eight millions a year ; a sum that would locate four million heads of families on two acres each , or a population of twenty millions . Now , is not this a sad but true picture of the present condition of England ; and will not our friends bear in mind , that in November , 1835 , we told them , that iu two years , labour could purchase the church property of the country ; in five years labour could purchase ail thu land of the country ? And yet , after eleven year !* , we are obliged thus to commence the A B C of this system of education for them .
FOREIGN . America . —The news from America is considered unfavourable by the 'Change banditti , and the Times has the imolence to proclaim the falsehood , that the national mind of England would prefer war with America to any further ( jiving way upon the part of our government . We tell the Times t and we tell the world , that the Nort ! ic 7 ii Star , and the Northern Star alone , speaks the national mind , and that that mind is against war ; but if that war should be considered inevitable to preserve and uphold theleagueof kings , and their intervention with American policy , that
however the national mind of England may regret the loss of English life in a struggle for monarchical ascendancy , that the English people , in such event , would rejoice in the tviumph of the Republican army over English mercenaries . Wc tell the Times more , that the English people , if indeed they constitute any portion of the nation , will neither aid nor assist THEIR GOVERNMENT in a war with America ; but , on the contrary , will present every constitutional passive resistance to such a project . We early foretold that the profligate press of England would make a moaey-jobbtng speculation of the American news , and we were right .
Polakd . —Wc rejoice to think , that novwithst » n « - ing the cold-blooded iudiflcrenec of the English press with respect to the present glorious struggle by the Poles for the regeneration of their country , that the English mind is about to he aroused to a pcrfbrmance of its duty on behalf of this gallant nation . To-day a respectable deputation of foreigners waited upon Mr . O'Connor , to request that he would bi : come treasurer to the
POLAND BEGENIiRATION FUND . And , however the present struggle lor liberty maj terminate , it is the intention of it new society ,
entitled—POLAND S RKGEXKIUTIOX SOCIETY , to continue their labours , in peace or in war , by the publication of tracts , the diffusion of knowledge upon the history of Poland , the brutal tyranny of its oppressors , by public lectures and otherwise , and to keep up and maintain an effective agitation for this glorious purpose , iu which every oiiic-er , from the highest to this lowest , regardless of labour and danger , will be expected to discharge the duties of their several offices without fee , salary , or reward . It is
useless to look to the lords and ladies , who will only move to Weippert ' s band in the cause of Poland ; they would allow the Polish serfs to hug their chains * , il unrivetting them was calculated to loosen the English fetters . The hour hna arrived when labour must do its own work , and fight its own tattles . We rejoico to find that the veterans who are still in exile for endeavouring to give liberty to their own country are yet alive to the cause of Poland , and iu proof of which we give the following exit act from the French press ;—
Ii : Paris subscriptions are being raised towards obtaining arms anil rations for the insm-jems m iVIami . The subscription list includes the names of many deputies , and among numerous other subscribers occurs the name of Arthur O'Connor , so well known ior the part he played during the rebellion in Ireland ,
WEDSfSSBAY . The Land . —The most important newsof this day , at all events to our readers , is , that the auctioneer who sold the property that we purchased for £ 1 , 860 on Friday week , has just called to oiler us TWO THOUSAND POUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE , meaning , we have no doubt , if we expressed a desire to sell , to make it two thoiwaiid five hundred . However , we will estimate our day ' s work merely at the £ U 0 profit , and we will ask whoever returned so much to the people ' s excheouer in one day i Had he offered
the £ 2 , 500 we should have rejected it ; so that wo may calculate that we have done a good day ' s work for our friends . What will the brawlers say to this ? Will they now continue to din into our ear * the folly of the Chartists not bang able to buy land with money its cheap as other people ? Wc continue to receive packages of letters congratulating us upon the first purchase of laud for the people . Yve hope by next Saturday , the 28 th of March , to be able to astonish the weak minds of those who foreboded such evil things of our regeneration society .
No Vote ! no Musiax !!—At length the people are beginning to take up the anti-militia question , as will be seen by our subscription list of this week . As Mr . Edmund Stallwootl is secretary , we have to request that all money letters f o-vardtd to Mr . O'Connor may contain a list of details , to be handed to Mr . Stallwood , to enable him to keep his accounts . MlJ . O'CoNNOn ANDT 11 K DOXCASTEU EsTATK . —It Was Mr . O Connor ' s intention to have visited this property on Saturday last . He was io have left town on Friday morning ; , but was seized with so violent pain under the shoulder blade , as if a sword was running through his body , as nearly to confine him to the house up to
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the . present time . He hopes , however , to make a tour of land-inspection as suon as the meetitig ! > n bem L th (! Po 1 " - an ( i tno sn 'i ee in honour of i'Vost , Williams , and Jones , are over . iVioxnr Makket . —The Amerisan news has sent the funds down nearly one per cent ., which , together with the evil forebodings from the seat of war in India , throws a complete fog over the 'Change den . Those barbarians who sought to repossess themselves of their own country , it appears , are all coming to life again , while a great many mure of OUR OFFICERS AND MEN , at first reported missing , now appear to hiwe been killed . What a pretty subject for the joy-bells to chime upon , and for a unanimous vote of thanks from both Houses of Parliament !
IRELAND . Brian Skekt . —It will be seen with pleast ' . re that the English people are resolved that the widow and orphans of this murdered man shall not starve . There was a letter in tho Times of Saturday , signed " R . M ., "' " which we take ty mean REAL MURDERER , to which we shali devote more extensive comment , merely observing for the present that a more gross and scandalous libel upon tilts Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland , and the Irish people , never appeared m print , while the libeller at the same time unintentionally , no doubt , acquits Seery ofthe murder , and saddles himself as an accessory after the fact , and ,
consequently , is a principal , for all accessories , incases of murder , arc principals . The Times , true toiKs . tvage calling , is doing mote than everthe Orange Assto-mtion attempted—to get up a NO POPERi' cry i . n England . Not a number that docs not teem with palpable falsehood , with lying abuse ofthe Catholic priesthood , and with vituperative denunciation of Ireland and the Irish . The conductors of this journal sent an English special pleader to report upon the state ot Ireland , who actually didn ' t know whether a calf was under his bed or in the street , and finished his labours , as they were intended , by an individual squabble with a political opponent . We'll meet those fellows once more at Phillipi ,
UPON THE HUSTINGS , where we have met them before , and there we will not allow them to separate themselves from the respou-ubility of their tools and their paper . We were willing to forget many of Mr . Walter ' s sins , and to wish to see him once more opposing the Poor Law Amendment Act in the House of Commons , but he has cancelled the good he has done by the many libels he has published against Ireland , the Irish , arid their revered priesthoou . That Seory was murdered no man can now doubt , and we shall prove it , even if all other evidence of his innocence was deficient from the pen of the Real Murderer . Conciliation Hall . —Irish ignorance ofthe English mind was never more manifest than in the speech of u Mr . Mitchell , an attorney , who took the chair at
the last meeting in Conciliation Hall . In speaking of the Times' abuse of Mr . O'Brien , this attorney says , " it is an index ofthe Euglishteeling towards Ireland . " Now , be knows no more of tho English mind than a hedgehog knows of theology , but ke did know that a part of the tactics of Conciliation llall is to keep the Irish mind in a state of ignorance as to English feeling . If he knows anything , he might have known that the English people actually fed more for the Irish than they do ior themselves , and that they have bestirreo themselves more on Irish than on English subjects . Where , wc would ask , were the patriots while poor Seery was being legally murdered , and while ibe Northern Star was proclaiming , that if he was tried a second time ke would be murdered ? What have they done for the victim ' s family ?
Mr . Grattan said , " that the present policy of the English press was to hunt down ail who struggled for Irish nationality . " Now , we tell iVir . Grattan that the policy of the Irish patriots is to hunt down all who light thu battle of Ireland otherwise than by obtaining seats in Parliament and screwing money out ofthe starving Irish . The Nortlum Star has done more for Irish liberty than the whole ot the Irish press put together , and Mr . Grattan knows f his : but he owes his return for the county of Meatb to the suppression ofthe fact , and the withholding from the Irish the real state of English feeling , Wc don't know what business these men can possibl y have to talk about what they are culpably ignorant or ' , or to withhold knowledge that would be serviceable to the Irish ..
Vouncios . —The patriots are now wrath about the Coercion Bill ; while , the moment it was mentioned in the Queen's speech , we invited them to come to England to defeat the minister who dared to propose it . We n * w tell the people of Ireland , tha . t if the Coercion Bill increases the Repeal rent , even patriot who lives upon it will bless it in his heart , ; but , thank God , the Irish people will have an opportunity of having it denounced worn the altar out- uay in every week r The Rent for the week , including £ 100 frfim New York , amounted to £ ii'i . This sum would buy twelve acres and a half of excellent land , fu- ever , for tho widow Seery and her family . Y '' c beg to move that it be appropriated to that purpose , il any patriot at Conciliation Hail will second the motion .
FOKEIGN . America . —No news is as bad as bad news for the Stock Exchange ; and , there being no news from America , consols an .- still going down .
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iiNLUAN CORN . The importation o * Indian Oith , which is going on both in England and Ireland , will prove of little service in alleviating the wants ol the- poor , unlets tlii-y he informed of the best lnvihods of preparing it for iood . Thw infor mation it is now iu our power to afford ; tlte t ' uliowing receipts having been kindly forwarded to us from North America . Indian corn when ground makes excellent gruel , pre * par * d m * he some way as oatmeal gruel ; aud what -is milled mush , is the same tiling as Lancashire oatmeal porridge ; but it is necessary in making this , that ic tu very well boiled . In summer it is eaten coht and is very nsnDh liked . Treacle may be iaten with this . Indian meal is considered a great improvement either in white or brown bread ; about one ihird of Indian meal should be mixed with whuaten flour ; this is especially advantageous in case of the Hour heiug damaged by w « t .
Indian hivud is uxeellcnt , and is mudethus : —To a quart of sour milk , or buitermilk , as much corn meal should be added as will make it into a thick batter ; a , little salt , and a teafpoonful of earueuate of soda dis- - solved in water , acts upi'n the acid of the buttermilk , and 1 the enV-rvesceiiee causes the bread to be light ; a spuoniul 1 of course suyar is an improvtment , as is also a little e butter or melted laid . This must be baked in wel I greased tint , sufficiently large to allow the cakes to be e about an inch thick ^ tl-ey must he baked iu a quick oven . i . They are best eaten hot , but are very good cold . Treacle le is excellent with these . When « our milk cannot be proo ^ csred , fresh milk may he tubstituted , adding a table le spoonful ol vinegar ; but the carbonate of soda mtoSt not Jt be stirred in until just before putting into the ovtn . n . Another way of making this bread is to pour boiling sweet et milk over the meal , aud when cool , add three eggs and a , a little salt .
What is called Indian SUiji-Jaek would be very availabie > le in those parts or Great Britain where girdle eata afldod bread of that description is us > d . They are very ex-excellent and are thus made : — -Scald a -piait of lndianar . meal ; when lukewarm add a lewspooniulsofwbeatettei Hour , halt a tea-cup full ot ve-ist , and a lhtle salt , ancW when sufficiently ris * n hake them on a well-grer . sed oaf-edse . stone . They are best eaten hot . Another way , and th ( th < most approved here , is to mix about half the meal inttnt < boiling milk and water ; when cool , stir in the remaindndei of the meal so as to luake a thick bailer , mixing in t > v ( t > vi or three spoonfuls of flour , three tgj ; s , and two tea-spoomon fulsofsult ,
To make Johnny Cam . —Scald a quart of Iadiaih ' ai meal « itli a suflieient qtiuntitv of water to make itiato 'to l thick batter ; stir in two or thruO spoonfuls of salt ; moulciult it in the hand into small cakes , rubbing a good deal o . 'l o flour in the hand , to prevent them sticking . ' l '' ieS ( SieS < l cakes are fried iu lard ; when browned on one side , turitun I the other . They take about twenty ini-iutes iu bakingiing ; Eat them hot with treacle . To make Hoe Cakes : — -Scald a quart of Indian meaneJ 1 with a pint ol water , enough to make » thick bavier ; sti ; sti i in two tea-spooufuls of salt , and a small quantity ot bntUntU i melted ; put it in a well-greased tin , mid bake it half aalf a i hour .
iib-jiiflj" is made from the ungrowu Indian corn . It Tit bask is treed from tho grain in a mill , and tbe grain iain !! this state resembles the fines ' tapioca , lioili : fi : J sail so iu water , It is cxtveii-. elv good thus boiled and eaten ten milk , and with the addition oi * a little sugar and spice , rco , r t gambles lin-sli & h ifumit--. What U called Slut ' s iioniiiomi ; in inud « by steeping tlw grains in weak ley , which loose oose > tbe husk , so that it is easily removed without tho nt-Ctnt-Ctt Bityofthemill . Bannocks or Indian Cakes are made thus , and arc fit fc fit f i the most luxurious table . Stir to scream npi . uiid'Utid buttei- and a pound and a half of brown sugar ; be ; bet up six eggs and mix altogether ; add a tea- * i > oon ' ul > n ' ull eiunumon and the stiine of j-iiij-tfr ; stir in ihreii pou ** pou * ij uid and -pinner of tilted Indian meal and a ( -warier oter expound ol wheaten flour . Bake in cups or small ball 11 moulds , aud cat when cold .
Tiik Rent.—Neither O'Cuunell Iiior His C...
Tiik Rent . —Neither O'Cuunell iiior his cliqudiquc *' no , nor his press—can check the desire on the paie pun of the mure hottest repealers to know what has beus oe ^ done with their money subscribed to the " reni'rcntt The Pilot ( Mr . O'Conncll ' s organ ) openly avows tbws tub " the people of Ireland have never paid one shilJishilJii to the repeal fund for any other purpose hut that- that- ft Liberator may have it to apply to awj purpose , or e , or - every purpose , which to /»»» may appear most ctost c << ( iuctvc to the cuds of the association . " Such braz brazz assurance as this is anything hot satisfactory toiry too large body of subscribers , and hence the con ' . inttn ' . inuo bickerings amongst them , which arc daily ineirasinrasir r Dkatii of u Pubucola . "—David Williams , bet ' s , bctiti known to the public as . the writer of the letters tiers ; the buputdt signed -l' -ibiicolu , " is dead . Lett * Lett * : * hearing the signature of " I' -iWicah * " still contm-o-mni to appear in the Ititpatch , hut » he " real bimon 1 urn 1 urr
is no move . J- ' oousji Piuc « oB .-Oi : Wednesday an inquest west w held on the bodv of a gentleman , believed to he b he 11 Kic " h--hiw of the Hon . G . F . i \ ugent , and wand wv met hs death from the accidental burning 0 k 0 11 clothes when reading in bed .-Verdict aeeordingly Jingly .- .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 21, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21031846/page/5/
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