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THE NOKTHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1846.
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RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
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FROM THE lsr OF SEPTEMBER , TIE EXPRESS . - -fk ^ o / publication . The Proprietors of the » 1 > au . t Nsws have reso lved to comply vath _ the wish of theougnsh but , toprevent confusion , the paper will appear under a different name-that of Ihfct \ n " £ * i" » ^ 5 £££ - will contain , in addition to thi news in the Alorning Paper , a SUMMARY ^ * "S ° ^™ rf ^ lSSn Excesses GENCE which may arrive on the day of publication . THEEXPRESS ^^^^ f ^ S ^^^ Correspondence , and other costly characteristics of a Morning Journal . ^^ W ^ S ^^ SS ? WHm PORTS of the MOSEY , RAILWAY , PRODUCE , CORK , CATTLE , and other MARKETS will be the marking eature .
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D AGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS , HALF PRICE , at 1 * 8 , Fleet ^ street , opposite the late "League " office . —Mr . EGERTON begs to inform the public that from the great improvements he has made in the art , he is now able to furnish exquisitely finished portraits at half the usual price . Minaturc likenesses for broaches , rings , lockets , & c , and the requisite gold mountings , furnished hy Mr . E : equally low . —Pictures any description copied . — *» * The improved German and French Lenses , Apparatus , Chemicals , Plates , Cases , and all other requisites for the art to be had , as usual , at his depot , 1 , Temple-street , IVhitefriars . A complete hook of instruction of this art . 7 s . Gd . —Descriptive price lists sent gratis . —The art completely taught for £ 3 .
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LITHOGRAPHIC EXGR-VTOGS OK THE DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . M AY stiU be had at the Office of Messrs . M'Gowax and Co ., 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London ; through any respectable bookseller in town or country ;; or at any of the agents of the Aorf / iem Star . The engraving is on a large scale , is executed in the most finished style , is finely printed on tinted paper , and gives a minute ' description of the Testimonial , and has the Inscription , ic , £ « :, engraved upon it PRICE rOCRPEXCE .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . UBSDELL AXD CO ., Tailors , are now making up a complete Suit of Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 ; Superfine West of England Black , £ 3 10 s , ; and the very best Superfine Saxony , £ 5 , warranted not to spot or change colour . Juvenile Superfine Cloth Suits , 24 s . ; Liveries equally cheap—at the Great Western Emporium , Kos . l and 2 , Oxford-street , London ; the noted house for good black cloths , and patent made trousers . Gentlemen tan choose the colour and anaiity of cloth from the largest stock iu Loudon . The it t of cutting taught .
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TO TAILORS . 105 D 0 N and PARIS FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN AXD WINTER , 1310-47 , By READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury square , London ; And G . Bergc-r , Holy well-street , Strand ; May Be had of all booksellers , wheresoever residing
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will soon be witnessed ot many hundreds ot men employed in the very heart of London in the construc--tion of a railway . The London and South-western Company have now got possession of nearly all the property necessary for the extension of their line to Hungerford-bridge , and the most active preparations arc making for commencing the construction of the -worhs without delay . There will be a magnificent Station at Hungerford-bridge . The extent and style of the erection may be inferred from the fact , that its cost will exceed £ 100 , 000 . The expenses ot constructing the extension line from ^ Nine-elms to Hungerford-bridge , including the purchase of property , will not , it is supposed , be under £ 600 , 000 , making ™ th the station £ 700 . 000 , or the enormous sum of i 30000
-o , per mile . The South-western Company , though making tueir principal station at Hun » erfordfcndge , do not mean to stop there , but are to extend their line to rxmdou-bridge , where means will be adopted to connect their station with that of the London and Brighton , the South-eastern , and the various other companies , which have their termini on the east side of London-bridge . It is calculated that the expenses of extending the South-western Railway from Hungerford-bridge to London-bridge will be about £ 400 , 000 , making the sum altogether expended by that Company , in carrying its line from Nine-elms into the centre of London , upwards of . £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The extension to Hungerford-brid ge is expected to be finished in eighteen months , and that to London-bridge in three years .
Testimonial to Jons Bright . —A paragraph has appeared in the papers stating that the testimonial to Mr . Bright already exceeded £ 10 , 000 . This statement is incorrect ; the sum already subscribed does nob exceed £ 4 , 000 . The Rochdale committee , with whom the testimonial originated , expressly state in their circulars that they do not ask or wish for large subscriptions , their object being only to obtain an expression of acknowledgment of the services which their townsman has rendered to the cause of free trade . ^ The £ 4 . 000 already subscribed has been received in answers to circulars sent out , no returns having as yet been received except from Wray , an agricultural village ; they have sent nearly £ i , subscribed in shillings and sixpences .
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THE PRACTICE OF THE COURTS . Under the 9 and 10 Vic . Cap . 95 . FOR THE RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS IS ENGLAND . With Notes , Comments , and Decisions , on Analogous Statutes . By Jons Jacob , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , London t V . and R . Steven , and G . S . Norton , Law Book-filers and Publishers , Successors to the late J . and W . Clarke , of Portugal Street .
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CRIMES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF DANIEL O'CONNELL ESQ ., M . P ., In a series of letters , addressed to the Irish residing in Great Britain , by Patrick O'Hiooins , Esq . Printed and published by W . H . Dyott , No . 24 , North King-street , corner of Linen Hall-straet , Dublin . Price one penny each . Also the Rev . John Kenton ' s letters : and Mr . O'Higgins ' s letters to Lord Elliot , Right Rev . Dr . Blake , Host Ilev . Dr . M'Hale , & c , & c , & c .
The Nokthern Star Saturday, September 2g, 1846.
THE NOKTHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 2 G , 1846 .
"The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...
" THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England to the Trish people , with a request that we should insert it in the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of ' - ' physical force , " but simply because some of their five points are to us an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enoughfor England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , hit to make it wider and deeper . "
From the "Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 . ABOMINATION No . IV . —EQUAL ELECTORAL
DISTRICTS , This" point" of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER appears so indisputably just and right , that , but for the necessity of treating of all separately , before we make a summary of the whole , common sense would spare us the trouble of comment . . However , as this may be the one damning spot , the " Nation ' s" principal Abomination , we shall consider it in its proper place . Of course our observations are intended for the conversion of the " Nation , " a journal which we believe to be sincere in its advocacy of A REPEAL OF THE UNION , and , consequently , should be
directed to the attainment of EQUAL REPRESENTATION , as Mr . O'Connell has pronounced the inadequacy of Ireland ' s representation according to her population , to be one of the main necessities of REPEAL . Indeed , he has declared more than once , that a Just scale of representation would ren - der the REPEAL unnecessary ; and has , over and over again , quoted the more extensive representation of Wales , in proof of the injustice under which Ireland suffers . We should be extremelv sony to use
the Liberator as an authority when defending a principle , but , as the " Nation " has also used the argument , and as that journal is our present antagonist , it is quite appropriate to our subject . We shall now , however , argue the question upon the score of justice and right . While the people are contending for apparently new principles , it should be understood that every single point of the Charter , with the single exception of the ballot , has been a part of the constitutional machinery . Of course it
was the departure from those principles that gave rise to their several names . We read of no such thing in English history as equal representation , and no property qualification , it is true ; but that arises from the fact of both being practically existing , and the demand for them now cannot be resisted upon the plea that we know of no such names , while their existence is a matter of history . In the outset we stated , that we should not rest our claim to any one of the points , solely upon the fact that . they did previously constitute the basis of the constitution ; no—we took higher grounds we based the claim
upon existing necessity and right . However , we are fully justified in arguing that rights exercised by our ignorant ancestors may be safely and prudently entrusted to the wisdom of the present more enli ghtened age . Formerly , then , EQUAL REPRESENTATION did exist , and its former existence is yet manifest , in the fact of counties sending Members to Parliament according to their extent . The first inroad was made in this wholesome system by a profligate Monarch , who required aid in his struggles with the country party . And subsequently , we find the practice frequently resorted to" as a means of
strengthening the hands of the Court in the Commons , precisely as the royal prerogative has been unscrupulously and unconstitutionally used by a new creation of subservient Peers , for the purpose of intimidating and swamping ^ fhe refractory Lords . One of our Monarchs , James , created no fewer than FORTY of those rotten Boroughs , all of which received an equivalent in the shape of some peculiar charter of privilige , and unconstitutional favour in return for their subserviency . Thus , the Monarch became
possessed of unconstitutional support , while the rotten boroughs enfranchised by his order , were repaid with unconstitutional privileges . And the repetition of this practice , more than any other circumstance , led to the several beastly squabbles between Kings and Parliaments , which ended in Charles the First losing his head ; and , subsequently , to the condescension of William , in accepting these realms as a gift from a handful of the Liverymen of the City of London .
The agitation for the Reform Bill was mainly based upon the inequality of the suffrage , upon the absurdity of old castles and rookeries being enfranchised , while Birmingham , Manchester , and the recently populated towns were deprived of all share hi the representation of the country . Did we require proof of the folly of the present unequal system of representation , we need but point to the facility with which the minority of to-dav mav be turned
into the majority of to-morrow , by the addition of a few COW SHEDS or PIGS' STYS to the now incompetent holding , by tbe timely creation of a few 40 s . freeholds , by a few faggot votes , or by the erection of a sufficient number of £ 10 houses in a borough , to turn the scale , or even by the judicious co-trusteeship , or co-partnership , of some national building , school-house , warehouse , storehouse , dissenting church , or old barrack . The
majorities of ministers now a-days are supposed to denote confidence , while Harwich , with its two hundred electors and scant population neutralises the county of Cork , or the West Riding of Yorkshire , with a population of nearly two millions . The voice of the universities of Oxford , Cambridge , and Trinity College , with their migratory population of Masters and Bachelors of Arts neutralises the city of London , and Ludlow neutralises the city of West-
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minster . Now , surely , these are crying abominations ; but what is still more unjust and unconstitutional is the fact , that those who least need protection have a plurality of votes . How many of the electors of the several colleges have five , ten , and even more votes ; any of whom may turn the scale in several elections , and a combination of whom is capable at any time of resisting the most reasonable popular demand . We presume that equal electoral districts also means equality of electoral rights , that is , that no man shall have more than one vote , and that , according to the principle laid down in the new .
constitution for which the people arc now contending . We demand EQUAL REPRESENTATION then , as a legitimate right , we demand it as the means of satisfying electoral requirement , as the means of giving equality to the votes of all repre . sentatives , that people may secure the principle of delegation as well as representation ; - as the means of destroying the injustice of the startling inequality in the present electoral system , and as a means of making laws and conducting the government by the majority of voices , instead . of a majority of close boroughs .
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JUPITER FRIGHTENED AT ITS OWN THUNDER . Whatever- be the stale of trade in the approacli ing winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed m * fhe integrity and good sense of the labouring classes . Having thrown aside the demagogue leadershi 2 > s that formerly influenced the masses , and fully instructed now as to the designs and objects of noborators , they are prepared te meet , in a becomin g spirit , any of the reverses and fluctuations tct which manufactures and trade are liable . The following is from the Times of Tuesday : —
THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OP LANCASHIRE . ( I'BOU 1 Correspondent . ) . MANCHESTER , Sept . 21 . The state of this district is anything but satisfactory ; and although the evils of partial employment and dearneis of provisions are at present but slightly felt , yet fears are justly entertained that they will soon be greatly increased with the rigour and privations of the coming winter . Short time , with short wages , has already commenced ; and it is not improbable that if business continues as at present , a reduction generally in tbe hours of labour will be adopted . The extensive firm of Messrs . Lees and Sons , of Ashton-under . Lyue , who possess 2 , 000 power-looms , commenced working short time on
Mondaylast . Doubtless , the shortening of tho hours of labour just now will surprise many people , when it WB 8 expected that with the partial repeal of the corn laws would come an abundance of labour forjour operatives ; but , with the exception of the American grain erop , the scarcity in most of the grain districts of the world will furnish a sufficient reason for the depression in the manufacturing GlStriCtS which induces a reduction in the hours of labour . Bad as it is , it is far better to shorten the hours of employment than to reduce wages and continue full work . That mode , too prevalent in former seasons of depression , would merely damage the operative , and could not benefit trade , as the production would be quite as great , and the depreciation of prices continue as before . The cotton-speculotor would also have a better chance of furthering his views than with short hours .
Speaking summarily of the actual state of our staple trade atthis period , comprising all its branches , Ishould say that it is one of depression ; there is a paucity Of demand , and profits are greatly reduced . In consequence stocks have considerably accumulated . Perhaps the chief , if not only , exception to this is the best class of printers , which have been in good demand and at profitable rates . In the yarn market there is a fair demand for most descriptions at low prices . If the present price of the raw material be continued , without a corresponding advance in yarns , spinners in many cases will produce to a loss . -
I may add that our home trade generally is good , and the excellence of the English wheat harvest will give an impulse to this branch of our mercantile transactions . The fine weather has done much for the grain crops in the hilly districts in Lancashire , Yorkshire , and Derbyshire ; still somo of the inferior crops have partially failsd . The badness ofthepotntoe crop may also prove a drawback on the goods for the home market . Whatever be the state of trade in the approaching winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed in the integrity and good sense of the labouring classes . Having thrown aside the demagogue leaderships that formerly influenced the masses , and fully instructed now as to the designs and objects of mob-orators , they are prepared to meet , in a becoming spirit , ^ aoy of the reverses and fluctuations to which manufactures and trade are liable .
AVho is there that has not witnessed the ecstatic , frantic countenance of the wild harem-scarem schoolboy , transformed by the sudden appearance of the master ] into the sheepish and down-cast look of the detected offender . Here then is the language , here is the subdued tone , here is he prophetic future from the rVee Trade prophet , short time is preferable to reduced wages . Better for the operative to pay seven days rent , upon three days' labour , and to fatten for seven days upon the
produce of his Scanty employment I This has been the former practice under restriction , full work and reduced wages , with the enemy surplus daily increasing ; but the magic wand , the inspiring spirit , the increased competition , and active speculation caused by the annihilation of restriction , has led to the more wholesome maxim of working short time . What a pity that journalists , who ' undertake to instruct the world , and controul its energies , should send such ridiculous contradictions to the world .
Free Trade was the one thing required to extend our commerce with all the nations of the habitable globe , and food was the commodity , the necessary , that wc were to have in return . Well then , surely common sense tells us that the greater the demand for food , the greater incentive to activity and industry ; but alaa we want the food , and the Thunderer tells us , that , in the midst of circumstances which were to test the value of Free Trade , that the millowners of the north ate Ollly saved from the horrors of the experiment by the prospect of a remunerating home trade , consequent upon an abundant harvest ; while they are obliged to protect themselves against the reality of the promised blessing by working short time .
When we ] praised the commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel , we took it , firstly , with the industrial clauses to which he was pledged as a portion of the whole , while we hailed it , as we then stated , as the precursor of popular union , caused by the failure of a measure , anticipation from which had caused such disunion in our ranks . We repeat that the benefits of this measure were principally intended as a safeguard against famine , and as a protection to enable the labourer , by remunerating wages , to secure after living a larger amount of his own profits than he
could possibly do under the laws of restriction . "We were not led to anticipate any of those casualities , calamities , uncertainties , or jumping changes for which The Times and the unmitigated free traders had not prepared us during the discussion of the question . "What , | then , we would" ask , has transpired from the first working of the experiment , so to rivet the aftection and confidence of the disappointed slaves in their disappointing masters , to secure the peaceful rule of suffering all upon the one side , from the intervention of " MOB ORATORS
AND DEMAGOGUES . " Will the mob orator , who foretold the evils of the measure , and who prophecicd that the weakest would be the first sufferers from it , he now less acceptable with proof of their wisdom than the interested speculators who trafficked in their credulity , used them for faction ' s purpose , and , then threw the weight of disappointment upon those for whom the war of bread was waged ? We see not only in the above announcement of terror , but in the recent effusions of The Times , a warning , a strong and unmistakeahle warning , that the free traders must
now wage war , so to strengthen their weak position as to secure peace in the midst of famine profit in the midst of poverty , and class luxury and aggrandizement in the midst of national degradation . The "demagogues" and " mob orators , " who welcomed the measure as a means of popular union , and as the destruction of the cherished and dangerous privileges of a careless and ignorant aristocracy , but viho foretold its failure , are now in
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unopposed possession of the field of agitation . Cobden has prudently run away from his own thunder , while The Times is compelled to take shelter in the dust that it can kick up from its corn and market correspondence . There is no instance upon record of ignorance equal to that displayed by the Times newspaper upon the question of Free Trade , and there is no finesse and wriggling more contemptible than its present attempt at escape . We told the people , and circumstances have not changed our mind , that it w as impossible to knock the keystone out of so old an arch , before it was propped by timely and necessary
concessions . Even Peel , the tool of the capitalists , was compelled to strike his centre before his work was finished . . As we predicted , he carried the profitmongers' principle , but he forgot the INDU STRIAL PROP by which alone it could be supported . Notwithstanding the apparent calm " now manifest , we hold to our oft-repeated assertion—that the capitalists of England will drive the country to a revo-Iution , to insure the complete success of Free Trade principles . And it rests solely with the people what the result of the struggle shall be—whether bloodshed in honour of capital ' s triumph , or a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work in honour of labour ' s victory !
Notwithstanding the exultation of the Times in the diminished power of " mob orators and demagogues , " we assert , that at no period of our agitation was popular confidence ever so complete in popular leaders . Ireland is not likely to be longer governed by antiquated buffoonery , or baronial sessions , instituted for the protection of the lives and properties of the rich , nor is the following conundrum of the blessings of free trade likely to satisfy a starving people . At a recent meeting at Castlebar , Dr . M'Hale , the Archbishop of Tuam , saidand we find all in the same column of the Times ,-
The young and the old , the rich and the poor , the landlord and the tenant , should all join in the great object which wo all have in view—the prevention of the dreadful calamity which may , and must , occur in the starvation of the people , unless timely and effectual relief be afforded . In Clenmel , the sufferings of the people are great ; and , in a letter from there to the Examiner we learn that " an order has been received here this morning for the transfer of the reserved ammunition laid in hers in 1813 . " Mayhap , the use of the ammunition , the sight of which kept the unarmed volunteers in subjection in 1843 , may fail in keeping the starving people in peace .
DISTRESS—PUBLIC PRATERS . The Evening Post says : — We have reason to believe that directions are about to be issued for the preparation of a form of prayer to be readitt the Churches of England and Ireland , in consequence of the distress existing in this country and in Scotland . MABCH OF TROOPS TO THE PROVINCES . The 59 th Regiment , at present forming part of this garrison , has received orders to proceed b y forced marches to Limerick . The first division leaves this to-morrow
morning . Two troops of the Royal Scots Grays left Portobello barracks this morning , en route to Newbridge , iu the county of Kildare . We now think that we have furnished as complete a glossary of Times ignorance , free trade blessing , and Whig imbecility , as time and circumstances permit , leaving to the Times , the Lea g ue , and their government , to deal as best they can with the disappointed feelings created by short time , starvation , plague , pestilence , and famine ; and the prospect of a disastrous winter , with the certainty of short nights and short reckonings .
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THE WAR OF THE BABIES . Who is there that has not witnessed the sudden irruption of the whole household , the frantic screams of the mother , the terrified countenance of the father , the scampering of the servants , the tumbling of furniture , the smashing of the crockery , the ringing of the bells , and the midni ght alarm of the affrighted neighbours , and all occasioned by the sudden start or squall of a sickly infant . There is really something so natural , nay , so charming , in the hubbub created by such an exciting cause , something so
reasonable in the . enlistment of the excited feelings of the household and the neighbours , that we can pardon the commotion ; but when we think of two little girls , quite old enough to sleep without rocking , setting nations by the ears , who have no interest in their feelings of passion or excitement , the case assumes a more important character . Column after column has been filled with the speculations of all nations upon the subject of the mar riage of the Infanta of Spain , the sister of the Queen , with the son of the King of the French .
The poor little Queen herself , about sixteen years of age , is decrepit in frame , weak in constitution , and an abortion in intellect : infirmities no doubt inherited from a dissipated mother . This young woman , this pitiable girl , felt no inclination for the marriage state , but intrigue marked her as a fitting instrument to fight the battle of French diplomacy . Being weak of constitution she lacked the natural feelings of woman at her age , and the surrender of her will being necessary for the gratification of her mother ' s lust , that old bawd hired a procuress , a
kind of " teazer , " to fill her youthful innocent mind with the delights and joys of matrimony , surrounded her with all the appliances of delusion and excite , ment , and thus wrung from her a reluctant obedience , which was to be made subservient to her larger stroke of policy—the prostitution of llCf younger daughter to the embraces of a French prince . Woman ever has been , and ever will be , romantic , and such a unioti being forbidden by an international treaty , the descendant of Eve having the same longing as her parent for the forbidden fruit , has been provoked into a romantic desire to
taste it . The marriage of the Queen's sister—a very comely and amiable little girl of fourteen years and a half old —to the son of Louis Philippe , is considered sufficient provocation to set all Europe by the ears . French gold and female cunning have been enlisted to carry out the plot . A French fleet , under the command of the Prince de Joinville , brother to the bridegroom , is to guard the coast of Spain , while a more numerous English squadron occupies a position sufficiently near to inspire .. the rebels against the union with
confidence and ultimate hope of success . While the intentions of the English Cabinet are cautiously withheld , the newspaper scribes are waging terrific war . Our Thunderer put forth its feelers for a share of the French marriage portion in a series of fishing articles ; hut the King of the Barricades having refused the bait , our moral force cotemporary , throws off all further disguise , and has raised the bloody Narvaez as the standard around which Spanish patriotism is to rall y for the defence of Spanish liberty .
The article of the Times of Wednesday , in days of yore would have furnished move than grounds for a European war ; hut , thanks to the peaceful progress of the democratic principle , war is now a game at which monarchs hesitate to play . However , as the Times has ventured to suggest its modus operandi for chastising a monarch with whom OUR QUEEN is at perfect peace , we are surely justified in recommending a course more suiting to the taste of the age . Espartero is in constant communication with Lord
Palmerston , to be used for Whig purposes , if Narvaez should prove intractable ; and what we recommend , as there is no foul hunting a fox , is , that Espartero should take advantage of the present godsend , land in Spain , under a salute from our squadron , pronounce for or against one or both the marriages , and as a means of securing the Spanish people against the disasters of either , to raise the standard of the Charter ; and our life upon it that the Spaniards , once iu possession Ubertv , wilt
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banish the whole tribe of murderers and miscreants from their nation ; and without French or English interference—without the protection of the Debats or the counsel of the Times , will guard their frontiers against their future conspiracies . One thing is quite certain , that if this marriage does take place the fate of Spain is doomed , unless our proposition be carried into effect . If the Queen of Spain should have an heir it will be the cause of eternal jealousy between France and Spain , and we khow that royal jealousy always ends in war . On the other hand , if the Queen should not have an
heir , the crown of Spain will devolve upon a French prince , and Spain , as a matter of course , will be to France what Ireland is to England , HER DRAW FARM , her nursery for soldiers and sailors , her battle ground . We have little doubt that the King of the Barricades had an eye to this ripening fruit when he enclosed Paris as a hot-house for its reception , but we have as little doubt that the first shot fired in such a war would be answered by the joy bells announcing the establishment of a republic and the destruction of all those silly , womanly squabbles by which nations are convulsed .
It appears plain that Louis Phillipe will persevere ; it appears probable that the Whigs will be guided by the amount of confusion they can rally in Spain , while , to us , it appears certain that the Spanish people , aided by French republicans , will now take advantage of the intrigues of faction for the establishment of popular rights . If there is a physical struggle , and if blood is shed , we trust that that of the two p rime sinners , hig hest offenders , and greatest criminals , the prostitute Queen-mother and the butcher Narvaez , will be the first victims to their own intrigue and lust .
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WEEKLY REVIEW . The state of affairs in Ireland becomes daily more ominous and alarming . All classes of its population are awakened to the necessity for instant action in order to avert in aorae degree the consequences of a calamity so severe and so extensive as to be wholly without a parallel even in the annals of that ill-fated country .
It does not always happen , however , that "there is safety in a multitude of counsellors , " the proverb of the " wisest man" to the -contrary notwithstanding ; especially is the requisite safety unlikely to be obtained when the great mass of the " counsellors' * have been unaccustomed to the practical consideration of the subject , and moreover come with a decided personal and class bias to its discussion . That this bias has more or less influenced the conduct of all parties in Ireland , must be evident to impartial observers . By the Labour Rate Act passed immediately before the . ' close of the session ,
Parliament threw upon the landlords of Ireland the duty which in vequity has always pertained to their class , namely , so to use the land as that it should supply the means of employing aud supporting the population . Iu virtually asserting this Important principle , and recalling to the recollection of the owners of the soil a primary duty , which we fear too many of them [ have utterly forgotten , or never learned , the British Legislature at the same time proffered its help to enable them to practically act
upon it . It offered loans of money , which might otherwise not have been procurable , on the simple condition that the properties improved in value by the expenditure of this money should be rated for its repayment . Farther , in poor districts , where tbe preponderance of hill and bog land , and the absence of wealth and cultivation , prevented the application of this principle , it provides that free grants should be given to employ the people on works of public utility .
For immediate and temporary purposes tins was , perhaps , all that could be looked for , though far below what we think requisite , - and ( what we know to be imperative before the sister country can be placed in a condition approaching to healthy . But the immediate question is , whether the owners of property in Ireland have generally responded to the appeal of the Legislature in tho same spirit in which it was made ? The answer must be in the negative . They pleaded poverty . Mortgages , settlements and annuities , they say , reduced many an apparently large income to an exceedingly slender amount , upon which the [ nominal possessor of thousands finds it very difficult to make both ends meet : and , in short .
they have no money to spare . They are , in fact , the owners of the soil only in appearance , they maintain their position only by the sufferance of others . Their parchments are always in the hands of the money dealers ; and , with an eye to self-interest , which would be amusing were the circumstances less serious , they gravely propose to the Government plans by which public calamity will be converted into privatcadvantage . In brief , most of the proposals wo have seen , divested of the deceptive phraseology in which they are presented , amount to simply this : that the people of the United Empire shall improve their estates for them , and make them a present ef the money expended in the improvement .
O'Connell talks ot £ 10 , 000 , 000 bemg required to meet the present awful visitation . We have , individually , no objection to twice the sum being so applied . We paid that much for West-Indian Negro Emancipation , and Irish Emancipation from perrennial destitution is , surely , worth that , or double the amount , if necessary . But , whether it be ten , twenty , or thirty millions that is required , we do demand , that as the nation is called upon to find the m ans , the wti < m shall be benefitted . If tho lands of Ireland are to be converted from barrenness to fertility by the application of national capital and Irish labour , let tbe nation and the labourer be the parties benefitted . It will not do to allow a third
party , who have contributed nothing to the result , to step in and snatch away the advantages from both . If the landlords of Ireland cannot perform the duties of their situation , the Legislature should enable them to quit it , and put the land in the possession of those who have the means , aud the will to use it rightly . It is a monstrous anomaly , that so many millions of people should be living in a state of almost unexampled destitution and misery , in an island capable of giving employment and subsistence to three or four times its present population . It the anomaly he probed to the bottom , we believe its origin will bo found iu the manner in which the land is appropriated , and the relative position of the landed and labour classes .
Meanwhile the danger thickens apace . Desperation follows fast on the heels of hunger—gatherings of excited , suffering , and reckless people multiply . Deeds of violence increase . Deputation after deputation cross the channel , to confer with the Government ; and , on the other side , the officials of the Castle are almost smothered in the correspondence which pours iu upon them . Some Minister or other wilf , 8 urely be found some day wise enough to take a plain , simple , and manly view of this question , and save himself and everybody else a great deal of trouble by settling it in a straightforward way , despite of the outcries of those classes , whether priests , landlords , or trading agitators , who think they benefit by the present system .
The Registrations are now occupying the attention of the factions pretty generally throughout the country . So far as wc have seen , the Chartists have not bestirred themselves with that activity which an approaching general election should have inspired Duncomise , we repeat , wants rnove Buppeittrs within the walls of St . Stephen ' s , and the Chartist body should be ready to give liira them . The Anti-Corn Law League seems to have so thoroughly innoculated its agents with the mania for manufacturing votes , that even when its object has been fulfilled , and the League itself is dissolved , they go on in the old track , seemingl y for the pure love of the thing . Svdnev Smitu , an old Leaguer , was this week detected at the City Registration , in , a flagrant f ? .-
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brication of a vote . The ignorance of the individual upon whom the benevolent Mr . Smith wished to conferthe privilege , led to the exposure of the whole affair , which is , doubtless , a mere index to the fact of the wholesale manufacture of such votes by these political purists . A remarkable document appeared in the leading columns of the Post this week . It will be found in another column . This is no less than a * ' declaration of Conservative policy , " which , though the Post declines to guarantee or coincide with , must , from the prominent position it occupied have emanated from some of the leaders of that party . The points involved in tho " declaration" are too numerous and
too important to be incidentally discussed in this cursory " review ; " but its appsarance places the Protectionist party in a somewhat better position in the event of an election . They area © longer liable to the taunt of having no definite policy . Right or wrong , some of them have shown that they have brains enough to construct a scheme—on paper . 3 he rumours of a meeting of Parliament in November grow louder , though we retain the opinion expressed last week on this subject , unless the Irish measures should prove to be decidedly inefficient to meet the emergency , the Whigs will manage to rub on till the beginning of the year .
The prices of provisions of every kind are rising rapidly . Ere long the cry of distress frem the other side of the channel will be echoed on this . The free trade nostrum will be subjected to an early and a severe trial . The Cobden tribute is perhaps as premature ] as the peerage and pension to Lord Keane for taking Ghuznee , which was immediately retaken and kept . It would be better to wait a little longer . " Let us not halloo till we ' re out of the wood .
Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative Land Society.
RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY .
Per Mr. O'Connor. Section No. 1. Shares....
PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . SHARES . £ ¦• d . [ lalifax , per C . 'W . Smith .. .. » 0 1 6 Jeorgie Mills , per W , Mechan .. .. " Ion Bury , per M . Ireland .. « " o ft n Norwich , per J . Hurry .. •• , 10 7 Birmingham , per TV . Thorn " •• £ ,, I Nottingham , per J . Sweet ? « jeeds , per W . Brook .. .. .. .. 5 0 Ishton-undor-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. 3 % Cidderminster , per G Holloway .. .. 10 " « Vakefield , per W . Farrand : 2 a Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. » * ____ £ 35 13 3
SHABES . Robert Blackie , Edinburgh .. .. .. 5 4 0 Teignmouth , per . J . Edwards .. .. , .. 8 10 0 Halifax , per C . W . Smith 3 2 0 Clackmannan , per G . ratterson .. " 1 10 3 Bury , per Mr . Ireland .. .. .. .. 14 3 1 Norwich , per A . Bagshaw 3 10 1 Birmingham , per W . Thorn 18 5 Nottingham , per J , Sweet 15 16 0 Swindon , per D . Morrison .. .. .. ft in A Aberdeen , per 3 . Fraser .. u „ ¦ 2 13 Q Bradford , per J . Alderson 5 0 0 Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. 0 16 0 Oldham , per W . Hamer 4 * 2 Kidderminster , per G . Holloway .. .. 11 10 0 Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 2 17 6 £ 8 d 18 5
u . SECTION No . 1 . SHARES . £ 8 . d . £ a . d . Totness- • 6 11 6 Elderslie . . 290 New Radford . 0 18 3 Lambeth , omitted . 29 0 0 Westminster- - 0 7 0 Do . - - - 1 6 0 WorsboroughCora- Glasgow- - - 714 0 mon - - - 3 17 7 £ 52 fl i SECTION No . 2 . T . Copern - . 0 2 0 II . . Chancellor , F . York- - - 0 0 fi Yarmouth- - 2 0 0 G . J . Harney- -020 Somers Town , ff . James Hall - - 1 0 0 Howard - - 0 1 6 William Fletcher- 0 2 6 John Knight- - 3 18 6 Daniel Hopkins - 2 12 4 J . Hughes - - 0 9 0 Thomas Powell - 0 3 0 Clitheroe - -14 0 0 Mells , W . H .- - 1 5 0 Elderlie- - - IU 6 Westminster . 0 10 lfl Henry Hoare- - 0 2 6 James ^ MoiTis - 0 1 0 Horsley , per Chap-J . Stevenson - . 020 man - - - 5 0 0 Arthur Menson - 2 12 4 Hull - . . 17 2 George Marsh - 1 0 2 Glasgow - - 8 6 6 Belper - - - 2 16 5 Silsden - . - 0 3 0 WorsborougliCom- Bath - . . 200 mon - - - 0 9 4 Hammersmith , per J . Miller , Grant- Stallwood - . 1 1 i ham ..- 5 0 0 £ 58 3 5
TOTAL LAND FUND . Mv . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 35 13 3 Mr . Wheeler „ „ ... 52 G t £ * S 7 19 1 Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 2 ... 85 18 6 Mr , 'Wheeler , „ „ ... 58 3 -5 £ 144 1 11 FOB JIB . FBOST . FEB JIB . O ' CONNOR . Geo . Allen , Dunrobin .. .. ,. 012 Booty ' s Foundry , per W . Pleths .. .. 0 H 11 W . T . Smith , Liverpool 0 10 0 The Chartists of Liverpool , per J , Farrell ,. Oil 1 RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . FEB GENERAL SECRETABT .
Grant " - . 15 0 Lambeth • 0 S 0 William Fletcher - 0 0 6 Leicester , Sliaks-George March - 0 0 10 perian- - - 0 10 0 Sheffield . - . 037 Liverpool - - 0 9 9 VETERAN , ORPHAN , AND VICTIM FCSD . Sheffield , « friend- 0 0 3 E . Wells . - 0 « 6 TOR US . TaOBT . Bury - - - 0 11 3 FOB WIILLAMS AND JONES . S . C . - - - 0 1 0 An O'Connorite , Rotherhithe - 0 I 0 Bl-GISTRATIOS FOND . E . Wells - -810 CROWN AND ANCUOR MEETING . R . Wells - - 0 0 6 Thomas MartinVVbeeleb . Secretary . Erratum . The sums announced from Bushey last iveek should have been from Busby , per JI'Godkin . T . M . Wheeler . Sec .
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Caution to Dan . —We give the following just as we recived it : — " Gosport .-. ! have enclosed ten postage stamps tor two Stars . The Irishmen are beginning to see through Ban . A sergeant of the 3 rd Buffs has got a Starsent him , which has been read and heard read by manyof them . They vow vengeance against the traitors . W . Rowbottom . —Yes ; to be had at the Printing Ofnee , Harding-street , Fetter-lane , London , at lid . per sheet . Apply to any bookseller in Hebden Bridge , or Hahtas , to procure it . Nimbod —Mr . William Bennett , late of the Exeter Hotel has taken the Duko of Clarence , London . road , long celebrated for the Derby and St . Leger Sweeps .
Mr . Richards , tho veteran Chartist , is requested to send his address to John Gray , Larnton-square , Burnley , North Lancashire . A Shipwbight . —What National Union ? If you moan the National Association of United Trades , send tm > post-stamps to the Secretary , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , London . Ma . JeHN Kirk , Oadley . —The clergymen ot tbe parish can charge the amount he claims . Mr . Jdnw Aknott , Pocklington You are right , all orders for the Northern Star ought to be made payablaat the Post Office , Charing Cross . Notice . —All communications for Mr . John Murray , secretary to the Manchester branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , mast be addressed—No .
21 , Turner-street , near Shuue-hiU , Manehester . We have received the following , correction of a paragraph sent us for insertion in our lost : — " Sir , —A paragraph appearing in last week ' s Star , stating that a deputation of the silk glove makers of DuBiold , Belper , and Holbrook , waited upon Mr . Gimblot , aad stated that Messrs . Ward , had redaced wages , bj imposing extra work on the gloves , thus occupying more time without giving a corresponding remuneration , so far the paragraph is correel , now with regard to Messrs . Brittle ' * firm ,, the pasagraph is not correct—U \ e iact is it was cumntis reported , providing tha men o » strike submitted to this extra work , for Messrs . Ward's , which Messrs . Brittle did not require , that firm would reduce their hands bis pence per dozen , By inserting the above we conceive it will co rrect the mistake of last week , and you will much oblige the
men on strike . ¦ Me . Wh . Joiinssone , Liverpool . —As we do n 0 * * P £ the agent you allude to direct from the "" T 0 ^ cannot interfere . Our chargo is two-pe" . » which , with postage , would cost you ^ g * ^ , t 0 Q Several Communications received on Friday , «« late for insertion . P . Bium-iON .-We havei no room . ^ ^ f ^ i * * . « U P ublished , i £ CobbeSrane , opposite St . Qrf « tafr *« k
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26091846/page/4/
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