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      4 4 The Northern Star, Fwirr27. 1847,

      4 4 THE NORTHERN STAR , fWiRr 27 . 1847 ,

      Ubiberal Books Ox Politics. Theology And Social Progress,

      UBIBERAL BOOKS ox POLITICS . THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS ,

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      MONTHLY PART , FOR FEBRUARY , JUST OUT ; PMCH SeVJSK PtHCE , HOWITT'S JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND PROGRESS . Edited b y Wtuuv and Mam Hovutt . CONTESTS . —This Part contains Five fine Engravings ; vis . 1 . The New Islington Cattle Market . 2 . Portrait o the late Joseph John Curacy , of Norwich , from an admirable family painting by Richmond , beautifully engraved by Linton . 3 . The Lover , from the German , ensraved by George Measom . 4 . A Peep into the Odenwald , by Wonderland , finely engraved by Vf . Measom . 5 . A Vignette of February , by the celebrated Kaulbacli . The Literary Contents are : —Visits to Remarkable Places , by William Ilowitt . Letter from South Africa . The Canker and the Cure , by Silverpen . Indirect Advantages of the Temperance Reformation , by Philip P . Carpenter , B . A . —Poetry : The Lover , translated from tho German , bv Mary Ilowitt . Sonnet to tho Americans , by Thomas Cooper . As it Should Be , by Edward Youl . A Grey-Beard ' s Carol , by J . B . Kirgton . A Winter Picture , by W . Ilowitt . Childhood , by G . S . Phillips . There ' s Something Wrong Somewhere , by Edward Youl . —The Month in Prospect , February , by W . Ilowitt . Corcumroe Abbey , by R . H . Home . Common Lodgiiig-IIouses , and u Model Lodgiug-House for the Poo ; . Two Scenes on the Danube , bvHans Christian Anderson . Memoir of J . J . Gurncy . Ireland , the Imperative Necessity of a Universal Agitation in its behalf , by William Ilowitt . Bob Racket ' s Shoes , by Edward Youl . Universal Language and Phonography , by Goodwyn Barinby . Physiology for the People , by Dr . Carpenter , F . R . S . The Philanthropic Assassin , by R . II . Home . Earliest Flowers of tbe Season—The Winter Aconite , by William Hincks , F . L . S . Penny Wisdom , No . II ., Poisoned Peas , by a Man of No Party . A Dapper Little Londoner , by John Strides , the Literary Policeman . Author v . Critic , "William Ilowitt nnd the Athenaum . Tour in the Odeuwald , concluded . Free Trade Recollections . Syria , by Dr . Bowring . Itinerating Libraries , by Dr . Smiles . The Philanthropic Assassin , concluded . Exhibition of the British Institution . The Globe Theatre , etc . Literary Notices ; Weekly Record of Facts aud Opinions , etc ., etc . Published for the Proprietor , at 171 , Strand , London , and sold by all Booksellers . Weekly Numbers , Three Half . pence , Stamped Copies for post , Twopence Halfpenny .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , No . 3 , ( price 6 d . ) of THE LABOURER , Monthly Magazine of Polities , Liter . tturo , Poetry , ke . Edited by Fgabods 0 'Connob , Esq ., and E & hest Jones , Esq ., ( Barristers-at-Law . ) Tho Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient iu a monthly organ , the above magazine is esta . Wished to remedy this deficiency . Placed by lowness of price within tho reach of all , yet equal to its more expensive cempctitors . it embraces the following features ;—l .-THE LAND AND THE LABOURER , or tho progress . and position of the National Land Company , and all interesting facts connected with tho culture and produce of the soil , 2 .-TIIE POOR MAN'S LEGAL MANUAL , ( by an cnit . nent Barrister , ) giving all necessary legal information for the express use of allottees on the land , and the working classes in general . 3 . —THE HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES . Compiled ? roui sources hitherto carefully hidden from the public eye , narrating the encroachments on thoir rights , and the wild and daring insurrections , by which tliey endeavoured to regain them , —being a lesson for the future , derived from the past . , 4 . —POLITICS OF THE DAY , comprising the stataof England and Ireland , the Chartist and Trades' Movement , an analysis of proceedings iu Parliament , aud a summary of news at home and abroad . 5 . —POETRY AND ROMANCE , since these are important branches of educational progression ; nnd sonic of the first democratic authors have undertaken t 6 furnish narratives of intense and vivid interest . A largo portion of the April number will be devoted to the plan and working of the National Land and Labour Bank , in connection with the Chartist Co-operative Land Company . Such publications will be reviewed as deserve the attention of the People . T HE PORTRAIT of an eminent Chartist will accompany every sixth number . C 0 XTENT 3 OF NO . Ill : 1 . The Life of a Flower , a Poem . 2 . Insurrections of the Working Classes . 3 . The Land aud its Capabilities . 4 . The Romance of a People . 5 . The Poor Man ' s Legal Manual—The Small Debts Act . G . Tho Good Old Days , a Poem . 7 . The Phase of Political Parties . 8 . The Confessions of a King . 9 . Monthly Review . 10 . Literary Reviews . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 1 G Great Windmill Street , ll . iymarkut , London . Orders received by all agents for tho "Northern Star , " and all booksellers in town and country .

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      CHARTIST POEMS , BY ERNEST JONES . Price Three Pence . FIFTH EBITIOH , J 1 EV 1 SED AND COBItECTKn . ' Replete with the fire of genius , and poetic powers of the very highest order , for eloquence and destructive power , they appear , to us , almost unrivalled . Wo say "destructive , " for their tendency is " worse than Democratic . "A ' cio Quarterly Review . —( Tory . ) Orders received by the author and Mr . Wheeler , at the ofilce of the National Charter Association , 83 , Dean Street , Soho , London , or by M'Gowan & Co ., Printers , 1 G , Great Windmill Street , llaymarkct , London , where copies may be procured .

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . ADJOURNMENT OF THE CHRISTMAS SESSIONS FOR THE TRIAL OF FELONS , ic . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Christmas Quarter Sessions of the Peace , for the West Hiding .. of the County of York , will beholden by adjournment , * Sheffield , on Monday , the 1 st Day of . March next , at Ten 'Clock in the Forenoon , and by further adjournment from thence will be holdun at Wakefield , ou Wednesday , the 3 rd Day of March next , at Ten o'Cloclt in the Forenoon , i- 'oit the Trial of Feloss and Persons Indicted for Misdemeanors , when all Jurors , Suitors , and Persons who stand upon Recognizance , and others having business at tho said Sessions , arc required to attend the Court . Prosecutors and Witnesses in cases of Felony , and Misdemeanor from the Wupotiliikes of Sti'ufi'ortli and Tiekhill , Osgoldcross , and Staineross , must attend the Sessions at Sheffield ; : md those from the Wapentakes of Stainclift ' e and Ewcross , Claro , Aiusty , Agbrigg , and Morley , Skyrack and Barkstoiiash , being the remainder of tho West Riding , must attend the Sessions at Wake-Md C . II- ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Ofilce , Wakefield , 10 th Feb ., IS 17 .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the A ; rttern Star Office , 10 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel llcywood , Manchester .

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      IMPORTANT . TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . A N application was made on tho 22 nd Sipt . 'mber , to tha Vice-Chancellor of England , by At . Beard who , acting under a mostextraordiny delusion , considers himself tho sole patentee of the Photograpliic process !) to restrain MR . EGERTON , of I , Templc-strcot , and 148 , Fleet-street , roin taking Photograpliic Porti . uU , which ha does by a process entirely different fron . and very superior to Mr . Beard ' s , and at one-half the cl , ' rge . His Honour refused the application in toto . No license required to practice this process , which is aught by Mr . Egerton iu a few lessons at a moderate charge * All th Apparatus , Chemicals , & c , to bo had as usual sthisDenof ., 1 , Temple-street , Wbitofriars .

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      The Northern Star Saturday, February 27. 1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 27 . 1847 .

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      PARLIAMENT AND THE PEOPLE . If any additional proof were wanting of the spirit , hostile to the public interests , in which the Parliamentary business of this country is conducted , that proof was amply afforded on Tuesday evening last , when the house negatived , by a majority of 58 to 38 , Mr . Buncombe's motion for leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of the Ratepaying Clauses Of the Reform Act .

      The object of Mr . Buncombe ' s motion has been supported by petitions adopted at large and influential meetings in the metropolis and various parts of the country ; the public mind was plainly manifested on the occasion , and we did at least expect sufficient courtesy towards its expressed opinion , to allow the bill to be introduced , and to proceed to a first and second reading ; the more so , since the power of ultimately throwing it out remained unimpaired , and as , under any circumstance , experience has taught us , that the house could so cripple and mutilate its provisions in committee , that no vestige of

      its original form would have appeared . But , disdaining these advantages , the imperious and ill-advised Whig Premier at once rose and put the damper of a ministerial negative upon it , dreading , no doubt , the very thought of an extension of the franchise , since its every extension must prove a contraction of his power . The Protectionist leader , Lord George Bentinck , too , rose to oppose the introduction of the bill—nor are we surprised at this , for the Landocracy , although it may strive for popularity by voting for a

      Ten Hours' Bill , which will apparently only inter / ere with its enemies , dreads , as much as the moneyocracy can , any step that shall infuse democratic blood into the constituencies of England . Thus arc our predictions verified , that both Protectionist and Freetrader would coalesce when it came to a struggle between capital and labour ; thus have our exhortations proved well-grounded , when we advised the people not to look to any parties for support , but to help themselves when thev were in want of aid .

      But one grand object lias been gained by this measure . Baffled as it is at the outset , it has taught us to know some of our friends from our foes , —and , like the demonstration of a clever general , it has forced the enemy to reveal the tactics of his secret combinations . We now know what we have to expect at the hands of ethers , beside the ministerial Janissaries . Whig place-holders , Irish banditti , and Young Eng ' aiid feudalists , will form the " holy alliance " of privilege against justice , and they are the more to be at once dreaded and despised , since they are men deaf to argument , alive only to

      selfinterest , or fearful of committing themselves in the face of conflicting principles . The conduct of the house on Tuesday evening last sufficiently indicated this . Few opponents stopped to hear the arguments advanced for or against Mr . Buncombe ' s motion ; but on the call-bell ringing for a division , they came thronging back to render their votes against a Bill , whose merits they had long prejudged under the tutelage of political subserviency . Surely their time could not have been so precious , nor its economy so imperative , if we arc to judge by the hours that have been wasted in discussing the marriage of an

      Infanta , or the removal of a brazen Wellington . We trust the constituencies will refer to and remember the division-list on this occasion , and that it will be made to tell at the next election , should those men , who have met the , wishes of so large a portion of the community with the contemptuous insolence of not allowing this Bill to be introduced , present themselves again for the votes of the insulted . The division list contains the names of fifty-eight opponents to Mr . Buncombe ' s motion , of whom twenty-eight are Whigs ( including twentytwo Whig officials ) , and thirty Tories . It further

      presents the now , unhappily , usual feature of men voting AGAINST , who previously voted FOR the measure , as in the instances of Admiral Dundas , C . It . Fox , Milncr Gibson , B . Ilavvcs , and the O'Connor Don . Surely these arc not the men who should represent the constituencies on which they arc forced by influence . These conflicting votes are an additional argument in favour of an extended suffrage , since neither political weathercocks can represent the steady prog ress of public opinion , nor subservient placemen the honest independence of that ideal being— " a free

      Briton . " To dream of . honest conversion would indeed be absurd , since scarely any arguments were urged against the motion , except by Lord John Russell , who declared , that the paying of rates was a qualification for the franchise founded on the ancient principles of the British constitution . The Premier forgot that tax-paying formed no portion of such old qualification , and he has yet to learn , it appears , that the English people do not consider old constitutions the polar star of their political horizon . They believe , on the contrary , that new times demand NEW MEASURES , and hVshews that they demand NEW MEN . After all , the cloven foot of

      finality is again revealing itself through the recently assumed drapery of " liberality , " which induced Lord John to bid for the Free Traders in the coin of competition , and for the Protectionists iu grants to extravagant and half-beggared landlords . He has not bid for THE PEOPLE , and therefore he must fall . He clings like a withered weed to an old wreck , shivering and straggling to and fro as the waves of popular opinion come dashing over him , and with the rotten planks he must sink ; neither a Bentinck nor a Peel will lend a hand to their drowning comrade ; and that man will vanish as a blank , from society , who , bad his narrow mind been

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      capable of entertaining a great political conception , might have been the first Minister , of his age , and have transmitted a worthy reputation to future times . As it is , he has clearly lost his opportunity ; but the errors of finality are the strength of progression . We would wish none other than he to head our opponents , for we now have learned that no man is less capable of making head against us . To turn from an expiring Parliament and a perplexed Cabinet to the great elements of political and

      social reform embodied m the rising power of the people , we feel confident that the position of open hostility assumed by the former will but strengthen the energies of the latter , since a recognition of their influence has been given in the altered tone of government towards them . Active enmity is , indeed , a recognition of the strength of the opponent to whom that enmity is evinced . Yes ! they can no longer afford to treat us with contempt , and they are unable to crush us by silence . We have tongues that speak when

      their pens are inactive , and multitudes that combine while their factions conspire . We have the growing wealth of co-operative industry contrasting with their empty exchequer ; and while the Minister ' s foot slips on a rotten potato , we are planting our stand firmly on that soil which the hand of God gave to all men in the title-deed of Creation . We bid the country remember , that the time for an election is approaching—we exhort them to prepare . The power we are raising against the citadel of corruption must be carried into its heart . A siege is not

      sufficient , an assault must be given . It is too well-provisioned with the plunder of centuries and the spoil of millions to yield to the first summons 5 it is only when we have gained admission for men of our own party within the walls of St . Stephen's that our power will tell with effect . "We shall not lack supporters there—the recent debate on the ratepaying clauses proves this . Parliament waits but to see an evidence of our strength in the fact of a few Chartist Members being

      returned to the house , and our friends will avow themselves , the inactive will become partisans , and the waverers will be fixed on our side . Everything favours us ; the fallacies of the political economists have exploded one after another , their followers are disheartened , and wc are full of hope . Then , let us take Time by the forelock—let us rally our phalanx throughout the country to the watchword of the LAND AND THE CHARTER , and we shall be able to strengthen the hands of BUNCOMBE , by the addition of some honest CHARTIST MEMBERS .

      Poland And The Peacemongers. There Was "...

      POLAND AND THE PEACEMONGERS . There was " speaking out , " and no mistake , at the meeting on Monday evening last , in celebration of the anniversary of the Cracow Insurrection . Nicholas , Metternich , Dr . Bowring , Palraerston , and the " Peace " -preachers supplied ample material

      for such plain speaking as we have not been in the habit of hearing for some time past . The " plaj English" of Monday evening ' s meeting was really refreshing after the weak , washy flood of " moral " twaddle with which the land has been deluged by " learned blacksmiths , " crazy writers , " political pedlars" and Brummagem dodgers calling themselves " Christian !"

      We need not now say one word about Nicholas and Metternich . Dr . Bowring has been for some months past threatening to make a motion in " the House" in behalf of Poland ; as yet , we have not heard of the motion , but the Democratic Committee willing to believe the Doctor in earnest , desired , fot the sake of Poland , to obtain for his " motion " the support of the public ; but , behold ! the learned and patriotic gentleman was afraid to admit tbe Democratic Committee " between the wind and his nobility . " No matter , the working

      men got on very well without him . Re-echoing the wish of one of the speakers at the meeting , we trust that Mr . Buncombe will take up the Polish question . We know that the claims of the poor and the oppressed classes of his own countrymen keep the honourable member for Finsbury constantly employed ; still , as has been happily said , " although charity begins at home , it should not stay there ;" and we hope Mr . Duncombc will find time to speak the honest sentiments of the English people , regarding the unparalleled wrongs of the people of Poland .

      Tiie protest against Palmerston's mock-protest , at the meeting on Monday , was unanimous . It is well for Nicholas the Charter is not yet law , otherwise his Bearship would be treated to a protest '' widely different to the recent missive from Downingstreet . Ol course the professors of " permanent and universal peace" will be terribly shocked to find so much common sense left in the country , in spite of all their efforts to the contrary . We have been long disgusted with these canters who have the ignorant impudence to make no

      distinction between the tyrant who , in brutal wanton , ncss , desolates nations , and commits wholesale murder , and the men who , in self-defence in defence of life and freedom—wield the sword against earth ' s destroyers . What think our readers of a man who can rank Washington with Napoleon and Wellington ? Yet this is done by Elihu Burritt , himself an American . By-the-bye , why is the " Learned Blacksmith" here at this time ? The English people

      are not engaged in any war of aggression and robbery , as our American friends unhappily are in Mexico . Mr . Burritt , who is fond of stuffing his dull speeches with scriptural quotations , should remember that , " they that be whole need not a physician , but they that are sick . " But enough for the present ; when the peace-fanatics have answered the arguments of the speakers at the meeting for Poland , it will be time enough for us to take them

      in hand . We aro happy to find in a Polish journal , whose extensi ^ o circulation is a proof of tho fidelity with which it represents public opinion among the emigrants , the following observations on a document we have not hitherto commented on , anticipating as wo did some such explanation as the following : — " The Times , of February 1 st , ( says tho abovementioned journal , ) contains an ' anonymous protest of tha inhabitants of Cracow . ' From the ignorance it shows of local events , from its tone and

      expressions so foreign to tho habits of those to whom it is attributed , from the calumnious accusations it lavishes against E . Dombowski , of being a Russian agent , and from the eagerness with which our aristocratical journal , The Third of . Map , has inserted this pretended protest in its columns , it is evident that this document lias been forged among tho emigrants , and by the very party who now throw upon Dombowski that same calumny of being a spy , which formerly they directed against Konarski and Sciegienny . "

      This opinion is in complete accordance with the information we have received from the beat informed quarters . The generality of tho Poles , those few excepted who have sold themselves to the aristocratical party , consider the document published by The Times as spurious , and ascribe its origin to the Czartoryski faction , of which tho literary secioties of friends of Poland in Paris and London have rendered themselves the organs .

      Wo see that a public meeting is advertised to take place in the Freemasons' Hall , on Tuesday next . At last , then , the " influcntiuls" are moving ; better late ' . than nevei ;—that is , provided their sympathy does not do more harm than good . At that meeting the Marquis of , Northampton is to take the chair—anobloman . who during a period of general excitement against the ( then present amongst us ) tyrant Nicholas , distinguished himself by the

      base and cowardly flatteries he heaped upon ^ T despot , in a letter published in The Times . By proclaiming democratic principles ' , the iatfl national movement at Cracow has gained forth ! cause of Poland tho universal sympathy of tha people of Europe . The meeting on Tuesday nexj is , we fear , intended to extinguish that sympathy , By violating a vital condition of the treaty ' of Vienna , so justly called by Prince Metternich himself the fourth partition of Poland , and , in fact , the

      only one which western Europe had sanctioned , the despotic courts have torn to pieces this libcrtieidg treaty , liberated Poland from its fetters , and thereby implicitly authorised the powers who were parties to the treaty , to claim for Poland the restoration ol her ancient imprescriptible rights to independence , The meeting of Tuesday next is , we Aara reason to apprehend , intended to re-establish the violated treaties , and thereby to rivet the old chains of Poland .

      ^ Again we witness aristocracy and diplomacy handjn-hand , and an old courtier a ringleader of tha inseparable couple . Well , then , somustbo united the peopleof England with its ally the people of democratic Poland ; and if tho brotherhood ofnations is the foundation stona of their alliance , hell may osrabine , its efforts wil not prevail against it .

      Parliamentary Review. The " Budgets" Of ...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The " Budgets" of the late Ministry were a series of masterly developments of certain great principles of monetary and social economics . They showed an intimate acquaintance with the intricate and vast machinery of English society , and steadilv worked

      out a great proolcm , namely , how to unite a flourishing : revenue with the most ample supply of all articles of consumption to the community , at the lowest amount of taxation . The tariffs of 1842 and 1815 were , each of them , most effective applications of this principle to our financial system , and their success would , it might have been imagined , have been sufficient to have induced the Whigs to follow the same track .

      But these wretched tricksters are alike past redemption , and past teaching . Experience is thrown away upon them . They drag down everything to their own level , and ere long will again bring the nation to the verge of bankruptcy . The " Budget " of Sir Charles Wood , on Monday night , is one of the simplest , and at the same time of the most

      freeand-easy character , which was perhaps ever propounded . He finds that the good management of his predecessors has put him in possession of an income sufficient to meet all current demands in the way of interest , including an increased outlay in various departments of the public service , and therefore he resolves right royally " to go on spending whilst- " there 's a shot in the locker . "

      Ireland , which was Sir Robert Peel ' s " difficulty , " is a positive godsend to Russell . On the ground ot its distress any measure whatever may be proposed ; no matter how monstrous , it is sure to be swallowed by the eager listeners on both sides of the House . Hence Sir Charles finding that , after providing for all the ordinary and extraordinary demands of the vear he has still about half a million left , at once

      proposes to borrow EIGHT MILLIONS for Ireland , and to pay the interest out of this half million . Having plenty of money at present , he can reckon on procuring the loan on easy terms , say 3 * i per cent . That swallows up £ 284 , 000 . The rate of interest must be raised on Exchequer Bills ; that absorbs some £ 150 , 000 more , and thus the surplus is disposed of , leaving a few tens of thousands for contingencies .

      This eight millions is to be expended in Ireland by next August , iu addition to upwards of £ 2 , 000 , 000 alrealy given out of the English Exchequer to the Irish landlords . That is , in plain words , we are this year to give the Irish landlords TEN MILLIONS sterling , which ten millions are in a time of peace to be added to the permanent

      National Debt of this country . Taking the population of England , Scotland and Wales , at twenty millions in round numbers , this will saddle every man , woman and child , in Great Britain with a permanent debt of ten shillings a head , the interest of which must be paid to the lenders by the sweat and toil of the labouring masses , before they cau eat , drink , or call their houses their own !

      It was thus the Whigs acted when last in office . They came into power with a surplus in the Treasury ; they left , having added millions to the national burdens . But , it may be said , look to the extraordinary demands upon them ! Would you have them let Ireland perish unassisted in its terrible calamitv ? No ! we would assist Ireland to the utmost , hut it should be on teams of justice to Ireland as well as to this country . We do not see any guarantee after this ten millions is spent , and the month of August has passed , that the people of Ireland will

      be permanently improved by it . If the harvest fails again , there will be a repetition of the same evils , and of course a claim for similar assistance . Not one step that a wise or prudent government would have taken to secure the application of this enormous sum of money , either to the real alleviation of misery , or its reproductive return at some future period , has been taken . We are told , to "be sure , that the landlords will at some future time pay backone-half of it ! " Very like a whale ! " We think we see them with their dexter thumbs at their noses , exclaiming— " Don't you wish you may got it !"

      And be it remembered that this course has been adopted with the certainty staring us in the face , that next year cannot be so prosperous , financially as the present . On all hands it is admitted that a commercial and manufacturing crisis is impending . But the Whigs coolly leave consequences for to . morrow . So that they get over the difficulty of the hour , it is enough for them . To next session and a

      new Parliament they leave all vexed questions , of additional taxation , or other modes of meeting increased demands in the diminished means . Sufficient for them that , in the mean time , they sit on the Treasury benches and draw their quarterly salaries . *] For what peculiar sin is it that Providence has doomed this great nation to be governed by such a set of incapable , miserable , mountebanks as these ?

      Mr . Buncombe tested the " finality" Premier on Tuesday , by his bill for the repeal of the Ralepaying Clauses of the Reform Bill , and found him true to his ancient creed . It was in vaiu that evidence was laid before him to shew that the virtual effect of these clauses , and the cumbrous machinery of the Registration Courts , is to deprive hundreds of thou * sands of the franchise , who are otherwise clearlv

      entitled to vote under the Reform Act . Anything which limits the political power | of the masses seems to be therefore dear to Lord John Russell . He met the specific allegations of Mr . Buncombe and other members with some fine pompous constitutional generalities , and the consolation of being patted on the back by Lord George Bentinck , and beat the bill bv a majority of 20 !

      This will , no doubt , tend to open the eyes of the country as to the real character of this small pol itical pedlar and pretender to liberality . We see that even the Chronicle , that staimch organ of \ Vliigger >'» ''is sick of this last escapade , aud thinks that for so flagrant and practical an evil , even Whiggery niig 1 have promised consideration aud redress . Tbe oH <

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27021847/page/4/