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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, NOTEMBBR 27,1847.
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¦ iUPUZ LUNDON TELEGRAPH , PRICE TJ . THREEPEirOE , WILL BE PUBLISHED EARLY 'TE THE KEW YEAR , 1848 . nn aln announcing a newXondon Daily Newspaper , the Wrioprietors will endeavour to state the prospects and Bun & unds on which they rely for sufficient Public support ; 11 tbd they will particularl y avoid statements and promises At cat cannot be supported by facts . EEnjEngland , wilh her vast population , produces relaHrely frerwer Dail y Papers than any part ef the civilised world ; £ B * pis pautity of a real necessary of life was mainly caused ' thf the late enormous Stamp Duty of fourpence , which eeatreatly reduce * the nomlnr of Journals paMis & ed in HUdOUdon . Fifty years ago , « viihont the duty , there were ooreorc Daily Papers published is London than at the pre . mt ^ nt . When the Stamp Duty was reduced to one penny lilynly , the public expected an increase of Daily Papers Lsnsonsequeut on such redaction , but with only one excepooa ba in ten years , only one new Daily Paper was offered » r tor its choice . Ti The Proprietors of tbe LOSDON TELEGRAPH are aontonvinced that Hie time has now arrived when the public oie of this great country will receive , with satisfaction , i net new Daily Paper , which will be in accordance with the iHlcbflewing Prospectas : — T THE LONDON TELEGRAPH will be published in iwrLon & on every day at Twelve o ' clock , with all the teicew received by tbe Post af the same morning-, and baethe amazing quick Intelligence received by Jtoe ¦ Ilefilectric Telegraph , which conquers time and space . — "h < The Electric Telegraph , with cossmnnic & tieBS nearly coscompleted to the most important districts , will revolu-Uodonize all our social relations and , with it , the Daily Yrefress ef Lendoa . Tbe puVlic will not rest satisfied to * e be in ignorance for senral hoars of events occurring in iiisdistsnt important districts , bnt most be supplied with mettie valuable intelligence which the Electric Telegraph WilBill communicate every day . j At twelve o ' clock each day THE LONDON TELE . UB 3 RAPH will have Electric Expresses from BuSinningham Folkestone Newcastle BrBristol Glasgow Norwich EaBarasley . Gloucester Peterborough SrBradferd € rosport Ramsgate BeSerwick Halifax Rotherham r » - * 11 mgion Hull Kochdale SaCanterbury Huntingdoa Southampton SoCoreatry Hertford Sheffield SrChester Ipswich Stafford SbCbeltennam London Scarborough LSfChesterfield Liverpool Stamford [ LTeCamaridge Leeds St Ives StChelmsford Leicester Tnnbridge ELTdTolcbester Lincoln Woverbampton DiDesl LoweetoS Wakefield Mlover Margate Winchester ITADorcbesfcr Maidstone Wisbeach 96 erby Manchester Ware LUiDarlington Northampton Yarmouth GEdinburgn Not tin s ham York ^ Containing Interesting News—theCorn Markets—Prices aiof Shares , & c . io . THB LONDON TELEGRAPH , without any wish to Bxfce tna rival of any particular Daily Paper now published , svwill , it is expected , open new ground and create a new fifieia in the Public Wants . Te tha General Newspaper Header , THE LONDON XTELEGRAPH wul contain every thing that can bede razzed or expected in a Daily Paper ; the arrangements ftfor receiving HOKE and FOREIGN NEWS have been (? perfected on a large scale—the services of eminent liliterary men in most parts of tbe Civilised World have bbeen secured , and no expense or exertion will be spared ttfo secure the approbation of the British Public , who oaesire a Daily Recosd or thb Moving Woau > . To the Fanner , how important to receive every day ItHtfae Markets of England ; and , if possessed of THE ILONDON TELEGRAPH , ha will avoid , as is now freejfaently tbe ease , the sacrifice of selling bis produce minder tbe Market price , to persoas who . now get later { intelligence than the seller . On tbe publishing Of THE TLONDON TELEGRAPH , no person of any extent of lousiness enoald be without this daily medium of news , las , instead of being an expense it would be a great leaving—from tbe advantages to be derived , compared ilrith the triik of One Shilling and Sixpence per Week . All the arrangements ef Modern Society exact ra- - Jpidity of snpply as a chief akmfSt of success hi a Daily iJournal . THE LOUDON TELEGRAPH will , in , this ^ respect bare an advantage over all other Journals—: moming or ereoinr . The Proprielors have secured the ( exclusive ase of Little ' s Pjlteht Doubls Actios Pbisti . vg HIcaiHE , by which many , Thousand Copiea say be Printed in each hour , and ' will . ' enable THE X . 05 VOS telegeaph to publish later neiTs than asy other Journal in the Metropolis . ... . „ .,.- ,, , ; The price of Threepence for THE LOSDOK ,, TELE- l GRAPH , tbe Proprietors pledge themselves shall not j be increased ; and , under no circumstances , be altered or departed trom . At the price of Threepence , the Pub . lie will be secured a Poll-sized , well arranged Organ ' of Intelligence ; in every respect np to that standard of ' excellence which the wealih , the actively-varied wants , i of a great Commercial Country has established . ; . I Toallpossessirigorspecnlatin ^ in funded Property , i Bailway Sharet , & c , & c i THE . LONDON TELEGRAPH , will be indispensable : on this head it will contain fall . and late fxcludveinttlligenc ' e . ! ' -.. ¦ - . THE LONDON TELEGRAPH ; will be ^ ssenfiaUy a Fahili NEwspirHs ' : ; it ' will ^ cXCfudeisE . ' Advertisements and Paragraphs of aninunoral'hktufe ^ an ' d ,. in tbis re * epect , will stand alone in . tneDaUy Press . " THE LONDON TEI ^ eEAPH , wiK , bejafcricq , v independent in Poufira ^ fearleisl / a ^ MrQng ^ li ^ thePsopleat large , in PoHHcs ind " Religion , sBd . wiil be totally nnioflueacad by the' Powers ' thatbe . *' THE LOSDO & TELEGRkPS . . w ^' ' also , contain amusiaj : articles of interest to the D-jiafstic Circle , with . ' fbllinielJigence of theDiAHA , llcstc , J * i ' s ' e . Ailis , & c , ' & e „ Law Coubts , Pouce , ' ' & £ ., ' . £ & .. ;" . '"' . ' ' ... ; "¦ : ¦' THE LONDON Tl ^ GpPB ; t ? tt > t ; EEfionyvriUba pnbished at Twelve O'Clqct ^—aad be % ISiiAaj Pap . r ] fax tneSttropoUs;—and fot warded the same day by . the I : Tarinas Railwajs ^ io ' reach raostparts of the Conntry , the same evening ; An Edition for Post , with News to j Eve o'clock every afternoon will also be printed . * , * THE LONDON TELEGRAPH Price Tbbeb- « ekce , or Uctetebs sHiiLiscs and Sixfskcc per ' Qaarter , will be paHisheU and sent from the Office ; and ' all desiring the psper abonld state to their Newsagent ' tiie EDITION REQUIRED . OFFICE , 185 . FLEE * STREET , LONDON , where ' tSL communications are requested to be addressed . Orders for a Single Copy ; or for a Qaarter ,. " or longer period , ty Post Office Order , or otherwiie , to be remitted to Mr SiHcxi , Colltss , Pubusbeiof theLONDON TELE- . GRAPH , of lgS ^ Eleet-sttett / aforesaia .... . , , .
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WEST BIDDIG OF TOBKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED 1 SESSIONS , ' ' NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That , tba lOeliaelmas General Quarter Sessions ofthe Peace , for the West-Riding ofthe County of York , will bebeldby adjournment in the Committee-Room , ' at" the House of Correction , at WAKEFIELD , on Thursday , the ninth day of December next , at twelve o ' clock at noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Riding Prison , ( the said House of Correction ) and for examining the Accounts of the Keeper ofthe said House of Correction , making Enquiry , into the conduct of the Officers and Servants belonging to the same ; and also into tbe behaviour of the Prisoners , and their Earnings . - ' ' - CttELStEXV Clerk ofthe Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , 21 th November , 1817 .
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TOTAILOES . Ifow Beady , by approbation of her . Majesty , Queen Yictoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert , THE ZOXDOS and PARIS aTJTUMN and WINTER FASHIONS for 18 * 7 , and 1 M 8 , by Denjainin Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , and by G . Berger , HolywelLstreet , Strand , London ; a most magnificent and superbly-coloured Print , ' surpassing everytiing ofthe kind previously published ? accompanied with the raostfashionable full size Dress / Biding , ftock . Hunting , and Wrapper Coflt-patterws , i with : every particular part for each complete .. Also , the mast fashionable and newest style Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner of Cutting and making np the . whole , with information respecting the new scientific system of Catting , which will be published Jan ; I , ISIS , and will supersede everything of tbe kind before conceived . Price 10 s ; or , post free , to all parts of the kingdom , ' lis . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s thes * t ( tliegreat-( tiiaiproTement ever knowm In the trade ) . Patterns to easoresent post free to all parts of the kingdom , is : ¦ .. • ¦ ¦ : fEW PATENT INDICATOR , lor ascertaining proportion and disproportion in all systems of cutting , the method of using it , and manner of variation clearly illustrated—Caveat granted to B . Bead far the same , April 22 , 1317 , signed by Messrs Poole and Capmael , Patent Office , 4 , Oi J-sqnare , Lincoln's-inn , London . —Declaration signed by tbe Right-Honourable Sir G . Carroll , Lord Mayor of London , May-1 st , 1817- Price , -with- diagrams cUarlyexplataed , 78 ; or , portfree , 7 s 6 d ; ' SoldbyJiestre Xead and Co ., 12 , ' Hart-street , Bloomsbury-sqaare ; , Lon don ; G . Berger , HolyweB-street , Stand , iLondon ; and all booksellers ia the kingdom . „ FestrbSce orderj and post stamps takenas cash . Habits H . H : L ; : formed fer £ etrade . BostfcrfittiBg-CoatSon Boj * £ 5 wfe . ~ Vor & men provide ! -Instmctions in Cutting complete / for ah kinds of Style and Fashien , wBcn . " eanbe : « compusbed in an incredibly short time , bnt tha ; pupil i « ay continue wntii he is folly satisfied .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE . : TTS 1 OKD 0 NERS HATE BEGDU A HOME FOR HONEST INDUSTRY . . Ptftron * .-T . S . Duncerabe , Esq .,. lLP .,. T-. Wakley , Eso ., M . P ., R" Bond Cabbell , Esq ^ M . P . Have yoa read tbe Tract eathe Land and Building Society for tbe Working Millions ! If net , get it , read it . Irfce only One Fenny . Published for the Society , by G . Berger . 19 , Holywell . street . Straad . S » ld by all cheap fiookseliera , and the Society ' s agents :: also' to be had , frith full information , of Daniel William Reify , secretary offices of the Society , IS , Tottenham-coart , New-road , St Paaeras , London , by sending three postage stamps .
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UWSTERWYEl . i .: ¦/ . . ; : . A THRBE-ACRE ALLOTTEE ; balktted for . on the J 3 LlBn « fer £ orel '; B « tJite , wishes to exchange , fer a rO 0 R ^ ACRB , baUo « 6 * for oh ^ 'tha same "Estate . Any P «« w wso it wifflnjtOTiiAke aifexchange ^^ wiEbe treated with by nppljing ( EtatfatBteMterequ & edl'tel . O . S ^
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UOM 11 EUOIAL BOARDISG .-COLUaBIA HOUSE . NO . 8 , Chaxterhonse square . London , Is open for thereception and accommodation of Commercial Gen tlemen visiting London . This Establishment is centrally situate near the General Post-office , and combines ceonomywith comfort . Terms—For Bed and Breakfast , Ss . 6 d . Dinner and other requirements equally moderate , and no charge for Servants .
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FOTJR-ACRE FARM to be let at NEW HOLLAND , near Wilsden , with good Four-roomed House , Barn , and Cow-house , Piggery , Muek-shed , and Yard . The Crops have been of the best quality aud abundant produce . > pply to Richard Elswortb , tbe present tenant , who is leaving on account of bad health .
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MONMOUTHSHIRE . TALE OF USK . MESSRS CAFE . SON , and REID will SELL by AUCTION ( by direction of the Trustees of the Settlements of Mr and Mrs Colthurst Bateman , ) at Garraway ' s Coffee-boose , London , on Tuesday , November 30 , at twelve o ' clock , in seven lots , if approved by the company who shall attend the sale , or otherwise in seventeen or eighteen lest ( unless an acceptable offer be previously made by private Contractt-IMPORTANT ESTATES ; consisting ofthe MANSION of BETHOLET , formerly the residence of John Kemys Gardner Kemys , Esq ., and recently of Colthurst Bateman , Esq ., situate about four miles from Usk , five from Caerlon , eight from Newport , ten from Chepstow , and about eight from the New Pass , age ; and of divers FARMS and LANDS in the parishes of Llantrissent and Newchurch West , comprising nearly 1080 Acres of rich and fertila Arable , Meadow , Pasture , and Wood LAND , principally Freehold , bnt partly Customary-hold of Inheritance of the Manor Usk , held by small quit rents and fixed renewal fines . The whole is situate in the county of Jfonmonthy surrounded and intersected by the Estates of bis Grace the Dnke of Beaufort . Colonel Kemys Tynte , the Rev . R . W . F . Davies , Sir Charles Morgan , Bart ., Rev . John Irvmg , Ber . JamesFarquhar , Rev . S . WiUiams , Rev , J . A . Gabb , Thomas R < ece , Esq ., James Hardwick , Esq ., and William Bingham , Esq . The South Wales Railway , which is already commenced , passes close t * the Mansion , entirely hidden . from view . There is eicellentSalmon and TroutFishine in the fiver Usk , and goed Woodcockand other shooting both on and nearthe property . The Llangibby Pack of Fox Hounds areintbeimmediate neighbourhood , and the Monmouthshire Fox Hounds hunt within an easy distance . ' The Property may be viewed ; and printed , particulars and a plan distinguishing the several lots may he had at the place of sale ; The Beaufort . Arms , Chepstow ; VTest gate House , Newport ; Three Salmons , Usk ; "Beaufi > r t " Arms , Monmouth ; tha Sing ' s bead . Abergavenny ; the Talbot , Bristol ; York House , the White Lion , and the White Hart , Bath ; Royal Hotel , Boss ; King ' s Head , Gloucester ; Plough ; Cheltenham ; Royal Hotel , Birmingham ; Albion , Liverpool ; Albion Hotel , Manchester ; of Mesurs White and Son , Solicitors , 11 , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields ; and of MessrsCafe , Sob , and Beid , Great Marl , borough-street , London .
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On the 1 st of December will be Published , Miceetv-PEttca . ¦¦ - ' ' - 'i- - - ' HO . XII . OF " THE LABOURER / ' ; With an Engraved Portrait of F . O'Connor , EsqyM . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by allagents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town aad country .
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O'CONNOR AND HIS SLANDERERS . We beg to assure our readers that not another line of the Star shall be devoted to the further slaying of the dead . The People must now deal with their own enemies , who would willingl ) ' assassinate their best friend .
The Northern Star, Saturday, Notembbr 27,1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , NOTEMBBR 27 , 1847 .
Thb Union. Hexvetius Said Truly, That " ...
THB UNION . Hexvetius said truly , that " the virtues or vices of a State , are the effects of its legislation . " The iron men of Sparta owed their military domination to the laws of Lycurgus . The Athenians were not a little indebted to their democratic institutions for . their intellectual supremacy . The Roman Commonwealth gradually absorbed surrounding States , and ,, ultimately became mistress of the world , because the citizens of that Republic were influenced by its laws and customs to regard the courage and endurance of the soldier as the chief of virtues , and conquest the greatest national good . When Alfred reigned in this country , bis laws changed England from a den of anarchists and robbers to a home of - ; l j ' ' i
free , orderly , and contented men . Under Cromwell the nation was heroic and invincible , and under the second Charles corrupt and effeminate . Iii our own day , Russian despotism degrades millions to the levelof the . beasts that perish . The Germans , notwithstanding their natural qualifications fpr ' intellectual greatness , are reduced , by the withering despotism of their Kings and Princes , to a state of abject slavery ; owning for their masters the most contemptible set of knaves and fools on the face of the earth . " Behold France , too that France so great in ' 89— ' 93 , abased , politically , socially , arid morally , to almost the lowest depths of shame—the natural result of Louis Philippe ' s rule , and tbe legislation ofthe moheymorigers . I i , . ' '
To the . general rule laid down by Helvethjs , Ireland is no exception , but on the contrary , is the most striking example of that rule . Seven hundred years of conquest , rapine , religious proscription and the most infernal laws ever devised to break the spirit of a people , naturally produced tbe like term of rebellion , anarehy , religious hatred , and hostility to all Jaw and order . What , though , within the last generation or two , concessions have been grudgingly granted by the rulers to the ruled ; what , though ] : , j ' ' ' ' ¦
some of tbe odious penal laws have been repealed , some of them modified , and others permitted to fall into disuse i is it natural to expect " that the " Wounds of deadly hate" caused by those laws can He at once healed ? What , thoughreligious-toleraa tioifctbough not full religious righthas been granted , " and some disposition shown to abandon the sword in-favbur . of " soft sawder "—is it reasonable to expect . tbat such paltry substitutes for justice will suffice to ' render the Irish- people orderly and contented ? - ' ..- , ^ . ., ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ ¦ . ' •¦ • •'• - ;¦ ¦ • ¦ •¦•¦ ¦ * .
But the bad legislation of the past is riot all that Irishmen have to complainof . 'They remember that for a brief term in their rauntry's history they were permitted to enjoy something like legislative independence , and that during that time , notwithstanding the evil of Protestant ascendancy , Ireland greatly progressed in agriculture , manufactures and commerce . Irish interests were represented , and Irish wants cared for . Improved legislation produced its natural fruits—industry , wealth arid order . . ,
But Irish liberty was distasteful to the English Aristocracy , and occasion was soon sought and found to extinguish the new-born hopes ofthe Irish people . Force and corruption were employed to undo all the good tbat "independence" bad effected . Legislation was poisoned at its source , and then came anarchy and bloodshed ; The people were goaded to rebellion , and their ' revolt made the pretext for depriving them of the last vestige of their independence .
We pass by the crimes and horrors of that period , so fatal to Ireland—so disgraceful to England ; the " Union" has now existed forty-seven years—let it be judged by its fruits . 1 , r ' Within the past few months tens Of thousands oi the Irish people bave ' perbhed of'famine ,, of . of pestilence , the natural consequence of that famine . At this moment tens of thousands have a similar doom before their eyes . A war of classes is raging in several counties : landlords , land-agents , and
money-lenders , are in course of being daily despatched to the other world , " with all their imperfections on their heads , " and anarchy aud terror stalk through the land . To crown all , Parliament is summoned at an unusual season by a speech from the throne , full of " deep concern and lamention" from ) beginning to end . If tbe vices of a state proclaim the character of its legislation , then there cannot be two opinions as . to the effect of Imperial State-craft upon unhappy Ireland . -
; Legislation may be negatively as well as positively evil . If , year after year , the lawmakers of a country witness tbe most frightful social evils , and neglect even to attempt to provide necessary remedies , they make themselves responsible for those evils . It is notorious , that the relation between landlord and tenant is at the bottom of the assassinations now going on . Over and over again this has been proved by the friends of Ireland , and admitted by successive governments ' ; but nothing in the way of amendment has been attempted . The murders in Ireland are the natural results of the criminality or kcapacity of the Imperial Legislature .
. . Endless calumnies . are directed against the Irish people . They are denounced as lazy , improvident , and bloodthirsty . But what encouragement have men to be industrious and frugal who have ho secTmtv'for the . fruits of their labour ?; There are murderdui landlords as weU . as sanguinary peasants-Harder by ejectnient is as common in Ireland as is murder by the musket , with this difference , that the executioner ; of "the wild justice of revenge" is usually sa tisfied with one victim , whereas the landlord ' s victims number many , sometimes scores .
Thb Union. Hexvetius Said Truly, That " ...
In England and America , and throughout our vast colonial empire , the natives of Ireland are neither idlers nor assassins . On the contrary , they perform the hardest toil , and are no more given to blood-spilling than are their neighbours . The Irish are proverbially grateful , chivalrous , and kindhearted ; such are not the usual qualities of
assassins . Still it cannot he denied that revolting acts are committed in tbe sister country . Parliament having assembled , the Whigs find themselves compelled to legislate for Ireland , and characteristically they com - mence with coercion , promising to end with some paltry measures of " reform . " Whig '' reforms" are" Like dead-ses fruits that tempt the eye Aad turn to ashes on the lips : " but their coercive measures are usually of a more decided character . On Tuesday evening , Sir George Grbt gave notice that on Monday next he would move for leave to bring in a bill " for the better prevention of crime . and outrage in certain parts of Ireland . "
The way to prevent crime and outrage , is to remove the causes of those offences against society , but a Coercion Bill or an Arms Bill can have no such effect . Ireland needs justice not terrorism . The appeal for extraordinary powers on tbe part ofthe government is a proof tbat ministers are unfit for their duties . It is for the English people to say how much longer they will tolerate the rule of the " Incapables . " Let every Irishman , and friend to Ireland , read Mr O'Connor ' s'heart-stirring appeal to his countryr men , which appears in the first column of our first page . Petition ! Petition ! Petition ! Agitate 1 Agitate ! ' Agitate ! No Coercion I Down with the * Whigs ! ; Oh Tuesday Mr O'Conhor gave notice ofthe following motion : r-.. ¦ . . s ¦ REPEAL OF THE UNION .
- Mr P . O'CosVe * gave notice that on Tuesday , the 7 th December ) ha sllould move for tbe appointment of a select Committee te indulr * into , and report upon , the means b y which tbediewlqtion of the Parliament in Ireland was obtained , and open the effects of tbat measure on Ire * land , and open the labours of hnsbandmen and the . property of manufacturers in England , and into the probable consequences of the continuance ofthe legislative union between the two countries . The fintttsneeringlyrecommends Mr O'Connor to postpone his motion until means have been taken by Government to put an end to the present disorders ' in Ireland . A wise physician will first thoroughly understand the disease of his patient before he prescribes for him ; and the speediest way
to put an end to Irish disorders is , for . the Legislature first to understand the nature of the disease , and then provide an efficient remedy . The great mass ofthe Irish people lay their present complaints to the account of the Act of Union ; let , then , Mr O ' Connor ' s Committee be appointed to investigate the subject , and it may be that that Committee will discover that tbe means to put an end to agrarian crime in Ireland , and relieve England 'from the destructive influence of Irish pauperism , is to repeal tbe Act of Union , and give to the Irish people their own Parliament , elected by Universal Suffrage . Before we conclude , we must direct tbe attention
of onr readers to Mr O'Coskob ' s able speech delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening . It will be seen that the honourable member for Nottingham exhibited the true cause of . Irhh anarcby , and the remedy for that anarchy . Both Englishmen and Irishmen may be proud of Mr O'Connor . Ue has seized the very first opportunity to proclaim the Land as the source from which social reform and political tranquillity must be obtained ; and , forgiving the past , he has demanded the union of all Irishmen to effect the regeneration of their country . The following patriotic appeal should be published throughont the length and breadth of Ireland : —
He wonld now appeal to the different sections of Irish members , whether of tbe Irish Conneil , ofthe Old Ireland , the Young Ireland , or tbe Confederate party , te merge their own little differences , whatever they might be , in one common feeling of patriotism ; and notwithstanding the tannt of the hon , member for Marjleboae levelled at the declaration of the hon . member for Kilkenny , that ha wonld become a victim in the cause of Ireland if necessary , be , ( Mr O'Connor . ) although an English member , did not forget that be was an Irishman , and his resolve was now tbe same as in 1833 , to enlist as an Irish soldier , to resist coercion to tbe death , end if . all tbe Irish members were impressed
with his feeling they would sit in that house , stand in that cense , sleep in tbat house , aud die in that house , if necessary , rather than allow their country to be coerced . ( Cheers and shouts of 'bravo' from the Irish members , which were followed by a general cry of 'Order , order . ' ) Those shouts of " bravo" augur well for the future . Let the slaves of faction , the sycophants of power , and the gorged recipients , of the loaves and fishes shout "Order , " if they like , till they are black in the face ; no matter , the order ef the day must be the union of all true Irishmen , ' and the onion of Irishmen with Englishmen , for the common salvation of both countries . ¦ !
Now is the time for Union , not an Act of Parl' uu ment Union , but a Union of hearts . By tbe perishing millions in Ireland , by the starving millions in England , by the rizhts robbed from the people of both countries , by our common hopes of Freedom , let as unite . Be the bitterness of the past between the two nations forgiven and forgotten . Let tho hostility of both be directed against the enemies ,. the oppressors of beth . Englishmen , yon will not allow your brethren to be scourged by military law . Irishmen , you will no longer refuse to unite with your brethren to obtain . the blessings of self government . Now is the time for united action ; English ' ment and Irishmen , —Forward ' . Oh ! Where ' s the slave so lowly , Condemn' * to ' chalas unholy , ' , . Who could he burst . His bonis at first , ' '' Would pine beneath them slewly !'
. Hurrah For The Charter. The Appeal Oft...
. HURRAH FOR THE CHARTER . The appeal ofthe Chartist ' Executive , published in onr last , 'has already met with a hearty response , as the resolutions and movements of meetings in different parts of the country : abundantly show . The best response , however , is that fe iven by a number ofthe People ' s " Leaders , " in the shape of . pecuniary contributions . The list will he found elsewhere , and will , we hope , stimulate air good Democrats to do likewise ^ When the leaders talk ,
and work andjwjH-surely tbe people will do their part . - ' We perceive with pleasure that the Metropolitan Delegate Council has taken up our suggestion respecting a grand central place of meeting for the Chartists of the Metropolis . 'We trust that the efforts of . the Council will be zealousl y supported . Now ; men of the Provinces , men of Wales and Scotland , now is your time to move likewise . Now for a long pull , a strong pull . ! and a pull altogether 1 " Hurrah for the Charter , and No Surrender 1 "
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . ' After disposing ef the usual preliminary formalities consequent upon the assembling of a new Parliament , . and electing for the third time , Mr ShawLbfjevre to the high position of Speaker to tbe House of Gommonsytbe Senate ofthe nation actually comroenceo' business on Tuesday ; when , what is called ^ courtesy , •'«• the Queen ' s Speech , " was read by a Commission ot members of - the Upper House . Making ' allowance lor ^ the tendency in human nature ^ to ; l look " at the disagreeable and painful incidents of the past , through a softened medium , and upon the difficulty , immediate or prospective , with somewhat-exaggerated feelings and apprehension , we 'think there is sufficient in the tone of tbat
document ; in the melancholy : nature of the topics to which it refers , and the language it employs , to justify the statement , that never did a British Parliament meet under more threatening or gloomy auspices . As Lord Stanley ; truly says ;— " In every sentence there was deep concern and lamentation . " Whether ythe subject was the breaking ont oi civil war abroad , and bur general relations with foreign powers , the state of trade , commerce , and finance at home ; or the condition of Irelaod- —all was lamentation , anxiety / and deep apprehension .
Nor are these expressions merely the rhetorical exaggerations of party speechraakers , They are amply justified by the magnitude and variety of the difficulties by which the country is surrounded . After apwards of : thirty years of peace , and while the country has during the whole of the intervening period been growing ; rich in' all the essential elements of wealth , prosperity , and happiness , such has been the ignorant and erroneous policy pursued by our statesmen and legislators , in applying these resources , that an almost universal paralysis has smitten every department : of national industry and enterprise ; and the state of one portion of the empire , " unhappy Ireland /' , is so wretched , so miserable , sb ; 'disor | anJ 8 e . d l ' that ^ t has . become a standing disgrace to this country , and a Wot upon the boasted cMisatjpn of the nineteenth century .
.. . . But the programme of . the policy , of the Govern ment-for such in fact thedocument to which we refer miirt be taken to 'be ^ wbiie ^ copioks in its lamentations over the evils , ( which-it is hopeless to attempt concealing or denying , ) -is singularly bar-
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ren with reference to the causes of these evils , or the means by which they are to be remedied . VTe are disposed to make every allowance for the habitual and traditional inanity and unmeaningness of" Queen ' s Speeches , " which are avowedly framed on the principle of Talleyrand , "that speech was given to man for the concealment of his thoughts . ' ; But after making all due deductions on 'that account we must say that the utter absence of any glimps e of measures of a practical and remedial character in that document , is a strong proof that
its concoctors have no conception in their own minds of the possibility of such measures . If a maa or a body of men , in a collective capacity , have really a positive idea in their heads , it will slip out or betray its presence , in spite of any attempts to hide it ; hut as the trite Latin proverb has jtf : — " En nihil , nihil fit" out of nothing , nothing comes . Our present rulers have not the practical knowledge , and , if they had it , they have not the moral courage to apply to the diseased and rotten state of society , those remedies which can alone restore it to a state
of health . Instead of proposing anything in the shape of a remedial policy , they are retrograding in the cure of Ireland , to a policy which after their defeat of Sir R . Peel last year , on the Irish Arms Bill , we imag ined even the Whigs had abandoned for ever . They are unable ; to breakthrough thO vicious circle of Irish policy , which beginning in injustice , breeds retaliation and disorder , and prevents . timid and
ignorant politicians from attempting measures which would really regenerate the country , by doing justice to the whole people . The brutal , foolish , and nugatory Coercion Policy of by-gone times , tried so long and so often , without effect , is again to be had recourse to I There are some people on whom the teaching of time , and the lessons of experience , seem to be utterly , thrown away ; and Lord John and . the present Cabinet , seem to belong to that class . ¦ '' '' •' ¦ ¦•¦ ¦
In the article two weeks ago , on " the November Session , " we . put tbe Irish question , before even that of the currency , pressing and important for this , country as recent events have shown a proper settlement of that to be . The House of Commons agreed with us in our estimate of the relative urgency , and importance of the two subjects ' . The first - night ' s debate on the address was exclusively an Irish debate . The great fact was pressed upon the most obtuse English intellect , that until the Legislature really grapples with , and settles in some way or other . the Irish . difficulty , it will remain , as it has been ,, the , " chief difficulty" of all British statesmen . ] Mere abuse of the Irish landlords will
not avail to meet the question , or avoid the necessity , for comprehensive , radical , and practical raeasuresV It ' may suit surface reasoners and popularity hunters , like Sir ' Benjamin Hall , to earn a cheap notoriety , by ' pandering to the vulgar prejudices , and appealing to the breeches pockets of the English middle-classes on this subject , but the question is too grave to be dealt with in that fashion . Calling names or setting classes against classes , can in this case be of not the slightest service to anybody . What is required , what must be had , is that all parties shall suffer "bygones to be bygones , " and set themselves seriously and in all earnestness to devise and apply plans wnich shall give " Ireland to the Irish ; ' marry to the unfilled , but fertile soil , the involuniarily idle labourer-open ont the sources of wealth which lie latent in the mines and fisheries of
Erin ; and put down outrage , murder and violence , not by vainly attempting their forcible repression , bnt by striking the evil at its root , and with drawing that idleness , poverty , and destitution , —which are the proximate causes of these lamentable occurrences . That is not only the cheapest , but tbe only effectual policy . The mere application of force , on however costly a scale , can only be effective to a very limited degree , and during the time it is applied . The moment it is withdrawn , the old evils will reappear , because nothing has been done to stop up the fountain from whence they flow .
The 2 ' imes takes Mr O'Connor to task for mtend-. ng to fritter away the public time in the House of Commons , by an untimely or useless motion . It thinks that his motion on the Irish Union , might be postponed until after Christmas , without any detriement to the public service , and , in short , all but the niost necessary business should be so postponed . Well , Mr O'Connor thinks , and we think with him , that an inquiry into the state of Ireland , past and present ; how far the Legislative Union between the countries has contributed to produce it ; and in what extent , and in what way its repeal or continuance will ! affect that country in future—is the most necessary business that can be transacted . Grant
the motion with a bona fide intention that the inquiry shall be thorough-searching and sincere , and then go on to the next question , of importance , ' whatever that may be . ; If ibis be done in a straightforward manner , the month that has to elapse before Christmas , will be quite enough to do all the needful business of the extra session . The next important topic—the Currency Question , —which was passed by with afewjncidental allusions , in the Commons on Tuesday night , formed the subject of a supplementary debate on the bringing up of the report on Wednesday . It is evident that the Peel and Wood school are not to have it all their own way . There are numerous and determined exponents in the House of the monetary policy ,
which rests upon the principle that money is only the symbol of wealth , and medium of exchange , and that a country increasing in real wealth , increasing in population , and wiih daily and yearly multiplying transactions , in consequence of the combined operation of these two causes , ought to possess a currency capable of expanding with the requirements of the country . The Procrustean bed of the bullionists has inflicted too much torture and loss upon the nation , for it longer to submit in silence to having its capacities of producing , exchanging , and consuming wealth , fettered by the quantity of a foreign and scarce metal , which may happen ; ata particular day to be in the coffers of the Bank of England , and available under the act of 1844 , for commercial
purposes . The Protectionist party , in general seem disposed to take this view of the questioi . In the House of Peers , Lord Ashbtjrton ; who ! is a great authority on this subject , strongly condemned . the act of 1844 , and ascribed toils operation the ruin of dozens of our large commercial houses . Lord Stanley , in what was in others respects an extremely clever speech , also attacked the act ; and both he and Lord G . Bbntinck , who spoke in the Commons on
Tuesday , concurred in attributing all the disasters we have passed through and are still suffering from , to the combined operation of a defective currency , and the Free Trade policy , of late years , As , however , the whole question is to be brought before Parliament next week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , ' we shall have more ample material for comparisbn and comment , as to the views of the differing parties than at present , and merely refer to : it now j as an important question with which Parliament must fairly grapple .
Among the class of minor questions which will be mooted , will be that of the admission of the Jews to sit ia Parliament , and tbe abolition of tbe Navigation Laws , But it is probable that the latter , at any rate , will not make its appearance on the boards until after Christmas ; and the Jew question as . one of those that we think even the Times , will concede , should be postponed as notfalling under the category of ' the most necessary busiuess . " We are not insensible to the importance ofthe question iii itself , but there is a " time for everything under the sun , " and when we have loosened the strangling band of famine from our throats , it will be time enough to take up the question of religious citizenship , involved in the right of Baron Rothschild to sit in the House of Commons . ,
Meanwhile the Parliament of 1847 has commewed Us labours ,. Tta'timwm vrtrich it does so , are troublous , and the aspect ofthe future far from cheering , but if the men of . the movement party in it are earnest , sincere , and united , they may change our mourning into joy , and adversity into prosperity , and out of evU educe permanent good for all classes of their , fellow subjects in every part of the empire . It is . in such perilous and startling times as the present , that political and social changes have the best chance of being effected .
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A FLAIN TALE IS BEST BEING PLAINLY TOLD . TO THE WORKING CLASSES . My Friends , As this is the last letter that I mean to devote te the condemnation of tie wretched treatures who have hoped to build a little bit of fame upon falsehood , I shall preface the conclusion of Mr Hobson ' s conviction with a few brief observations , before I proceed to the demolition of his last whimsical facts . This fellow , relying upon a peculiar knack of mystification , undertook to unravel entanglement , and has ended by making confusion worse confounded . I suppose it has
never fallen to the lot ofthe reader of conundrums , to have submitted to his puzzled pate a more complete and entire web of puzzle , than this plain writer of plain facts has jumbled together . But the facts which will strike you as the most extraordinary , are that this fellowabandons the defence of his own character , stamped byMrArdill in his . two letters of December , 1842 , and betakes himself , almost exclusively , to the defence of the character of his accuser , as in those letters ¦ Mr Ardill has accused Mr Hobson of directandpalpable
fraud . As to his reply—his weakand lame reply—to Mr Rider ' s charges , I ' can , only say that Rider is a working ' man ; that my belief in his integrity is .. tested by entrusting him with the receipts of all my monies ; but if general report is preferable to individual predilection , I believe that Mr Rider will have no objection to place his character in comparison with the characters of Messrs Ardill and . Hobson ; the judges to be . the townsmen ofthe three individuals . ,- •' . ;
The time has now come when I cannot devote even my Sunday , as I am this ' day doing , to exposing the fabrications and falsehoods arising out of the angr y feelings of these vipers , and therefore , I shall make this—my lastnotice , a finisher . You recollect how the dismissal of every servant from my office ; has been met by the , publication of the same description of falsehoods , and a ripping-up of all my ^ private affairs ; while not a single one of those persons , so long in my employment , and professing such an intimate knowledge of my' every transaction , has dared to charge me with one single act of political meanness , or one single equivocal public act . . ¦>• : ¦
Now , all who know anything of the inti ^ macy which must subsist' between the proprietor and editor of a newspaper , will ba forced to the admission , and to the conclusion , that the Northern Star newspaper has been conducted upon principles of honour and integrity which are unknown and not recognised by the newspaper press generally ; as all will admit freely that the slightest act ' of political doubtfulness—not to say meannesswould have been a God-send to my disbanded staff .
The Rev . Mr Hill tried his hand at exposure , which was so crushingly met by Joshua ; Hobson and John Ardill , in their reply to his pamphlet of 1844 , that he has not since returned to the charge ; while Mr Joshua Hobson , who was dismissed from my service , " after being eight years employed , has riot been able , and is not able , to establish a single fact injurious to my character as a gentleman : and a public man ..
But now , my friends , I come to this question , in its entirety and real bearing upon society . The solicitor who divulges the case of his client is not admitted as evideice against him ; while the communication of one particle of evidence , entrusted to him , would forever professionally destroy him . Well , the confidence between the proprietor and editor of a newspaper , should , if possible , be
more sacred ; but what do you learn from this base man ' s conduct ? You learn , from his apparent knowledge of my debts , that he opened all my private letters ; while you learn , from his own admission , that he has made the Manchester Examiner office the depositary' ' ofall my correspondence , and the honourable proprietors of that , paper the exhibitors of that correspondence tothe curious ! ! " " ' ¦ '"
' Now , this is the light in which every rightminded man must view this question j while 1 beg to assure all , right-minded and wrongminded , that neither Ardill , Hobson , nor any man living , has a scrap from under my-hand that I would care to see , printed in large type and posted at every > market cross in Europk Not a scrap ; but : yet all who understand'the trickery of the press , the mystery of the press , and the vind . ictiveness of a dismissed-official , will be able to attach the proper importance to the horrifying announcementi-rthe hobgoblin threat—that all these documents ^ are placed IN THI HANDS OF . THE
PROPRIETORS OF THE " MANCHESTER " EXAMINER" FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION And now , to carry out the : intention' ' ¦ of Mr Hobson , and , the GENTLEMEN of ' the ^ - aminer , it is the duty of every working man within ten miles of Manchester to go to' that ' registry office for privatejoorrespondence , ' arid to demand an inspection of-those papers ; always taking care to be accompanied by Mr Edward Blrley , or some person who is acquainted with my hand writing , to be able to test the authenticity of those documents } and if the working classes will accept the invitation , held out by the Manchester Examiner , they will be highly edified .
Another thing which will strike ' the reader as curious is , that Josh , and John profess to have kept copies of every line they wrote to me for eight years . Now , this looks suspicious ; because , from the specimen of one published in one of Hobson ' s' long yarns ' — the only one—t declare to you , that I never received such a letter ; he never wrote such a letter ; and if he had , there was nothing in it but the mere communication ; of the opinions of a Mr Stead , of Huddersfield . However , it smells queer that those . men , who were , so overworked , should have kept copies of ' 811 eight years ' correspondence . Now , ( I only publish extracts from 'letters , the . authenticity of which can be vouched for .
Having now stripped this hobgoblin of its horrors , ! beg to submit to you the description of satisfaction that inquirers receive with reference to this curious correspondences Here is a specimen ;— .. ' .- ' Optnshaw , near Manchester , v Nov 17 J 847 Respected Sir . —I write to inform ' you ' that I went last night to * he JSwrwfw office to inspect the documents sent »> y J- Hobson , and I will till you howl got on . I reached the office at twenty . fife minutes past four , twomtnwtteluttve office , I told them what I wanted . One whispered lo tbe other . They said that the editor
had gone out , wonld I call in again in a few minutes ! One of them then said to the other , « Ie Mr Hobson oome ? No , said the party questioned ; they turned to me and said that I must cell agaiB , t m B 0 in on 8 hsur end ten minutes . Another person was in the effioe . l said , Is the editor come in ? ' He said « No , ' and he then seat me up etairs to the editor ' s reom . I knocked at the door ; it was opened by a very tall robust man with a Scotch accent . « W ell , what do yon want ? ' said he . I said « I am oome to inspect the docWents sent by Joshua Hobson , relative to the character of Mr O'Connor . ' He then said , ' The editor ' , aot in , aad be has got the key They are y „ important do uments , ZFv " ? sSd * 'Z \ ° Z about *«<•** " * £ 0 C 1 CCKI I said 'No , I have come four milei and MK ^' l * ' * ' Kyoucansta ^
then went hSiT "i ? ° ^ Untl , M ™ « 'A there I said -I , the editor come jnyetj' 'Doyouwant Mr 0 Connor ' s character . ' The other was called up , we expect bim in about a quarter ef an hour if you can wait so long . ' I aaid I'll wait , I suppose I ahull not not annoy you If we stop'here , as it is raining ! ' 'Oh no , he said . So wb stopped in . the office about forty Are minutes , when the Scotchman came down to go home . He had some talk with tbe men in the emce , then he came to me and said , « I am afraid you cannot see them to night , as tbe editor is not come ; have you ne fronds in the town that can call in to-morrow ! ' I said 'No , I have come four miles to see them , and what
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must I say to those who have seat me f I have beea here three times and heard three different accounts about it . ' He said ' Well , I cannot help it , the editor has got the key , and be went away at a qnarter to five , ' I said 'I was here at a quarter past four , and thena men told «• that he was not here . If I go away thla way you may expect to hear of it ; by what appeared ia the Examiner we expected we could see tbe documents any time . ' He then sent out for a man to come and pick tbe lock , which was done , and tbe documents pro * duoedand when I had seen them , I said' Do you
in-, , tend to tell me that Mr O'Connor has wronged either Mr Ardill or Mr Hobson , or any ene elie ! ' He said 'Ko I don ' t know anything about that , What we ffaofc to ahow is , that parties ere putting theirmonies in unsafe ) bands , as the society is not enrolled . ' I said ' Well , t hare known and watched tbat gentleman ever since ho came to this country , and I have never seen him guilty of a dishonourable or dishonest act ^ not even one , therefore I shall still continue to pay what little I c & n spare to tbe Land Company . ' Yours truly ,
SaMOH . TATtoa , ( Mr O'Connor . ) A four-acre shareholder . Now , from the above letter you will learn , that all this correspondence consists of a farrago of Joshua Hobson as to the stability of the National Land and Labour Bank . Hobson ' s friend , Ardill , is lying b y in a waggon , biding his time ; but if he will give me an undertaking to bring an action against me for libel , I will bring the question oi accounts to an issue in next week s Star—if his solicitor will g ive an undertaking to bring an actionand thus the question of accounts will be submitted to a court of justice , and Mr Ardill will be entitled to his damages if I have
falsified those books to the amount of one single figure . Now , there cannot possibly he a fairet challenge than this—if Mr Ardill ' s solicitor will undertake to bring an action for libel against me , I will put the question of character to an issualin a court of justice in next week's Star , I . now proceed to the refutation of everyone of Mr Joshua Hobson ' s conundrums ; and , as a pjlaiti' tale is best being plainly told , I shall pursue the same course as I adopted in last week ' s Star , giving the reader every one of his charges as they appear in the Manchester Examiner : — 1 . —Prom a letter of Mr O'ConnCr ' s t » Mr Ardill , bearing date April 28 , 1816 , and now lying before me , I find that
the 1839 " balance" was taken on the 8 th of August in that year . There then wanted Mr Ardill ' s nine months ? salary entering in the book ) before an accurate balance could be struck-that salary only being charged in tho account yearly . There also wanted the weekly wages of the establishment ' entering up from the wage-boot , which was only done , as a rule , quarterly . -If rheseiteros had been properly placed to the Credit of John Ardill , the 1839 balance would not bare been against . him , but in bis favour . It is very . easy to make a balance out against any cashier , if you hep out ofthe account several of his looks and payments ; but an honest man would scorn to seek such " evidence" for a purely concocted libel . : Answer—He has no such letter stating any such . fact from trie . ' The whole of the
weeklycharges , postage , and petty cash account , ara entered into the books up to the date , and Mc Ardill ' s nine months' salary would have made but ibl . ; but it is straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel ; the gnat is the 120 / ., and the camel is the 2 , 300 ? . and odd . Perhaps , under this head , I may as well refer to the assertion of Mr Hobson / "that from the establishmentofthe / Slfor—yea , from thefirst week to the last , he and Ardill were crippled in their own resources , to assist me from their exchequers . " Now for a more curious fact than Hobson ' s repudiation of his reply to Kill ' s ' ScabbaroV of 1844 . JThe reader will remember how Ardill and Hobson were always borrowing
to support the Star , and how I was always taking away the money , as they presumed , to pay my old debts and electioneering expenses . Now , I told those men that the more they stirred the more it would stink ; because their assertions would induce me to look for proof to the only record in existence —? my account books . And now , reader , read the following , attested by accountants , who have gone over every page of those books with me , from the commencement of the Star , to July , 1839 : — We certify , after inspecting every page of the cash book in which the accounts of the Northern Star are entered , from tho 18 th of Jfovember , 1837 , to the 12 th , June , 1839 , that within that period Mr O'Connor made
payments of monies to the clerk to the amount of £ 1 , 988 . 6 s . fid . ; and that so minutely were those accounts kept tbat , in several instances , Mr O'Connor has been charged 4 jd . for ^ portraits that he ' gave away . And we also find , that within that period Mr ArdiH only advanced £ \ S :, the balance in hishands as treasuref ofthe Leeds shares ; and that beyond that amount of £ 18 ., neither Mr Ardill nor Mr Hobson advanced one farthing to the Star . We also find , that up to page 83 of the cash book , the accounts . Wore kept by Mr Williams , and that in page 86 , in an entry made by Mr Ardill , who succeeded him , there is an error of £ 2 o . in carrjing over Mr Ardill ' s credit from the bottom of one column to the top of the other : the . amount at foot of page 85 being ifl , 85 i iss . 5 d ,
and the amount carried forward being £ 1 , 371 . 18 s . Sd . ; ( of course tbis is an error tbat a practised accountant might commit . ) We further find th » t at the commencement ofthe Northern Star the exact amount payable to the printers , weekly , is acknowledged as received from Mr O'Connor . 0 . A . Fibbing . G . J . Habhev . ' - "! ' . '" .. D . M'Gowan . Now , my friends , what do you think of the "Lucky Boy and his host ' s" hardshi ia scouring the country for loans to keep up the Northern Star ? but I havn ' t done yet . We
had an immense office sale in Leeds , and very large weekly payments made by large agents , and all that was . hanked by the clerk as soon as I opened a banking account ; and before I have done I will frame these accounts , and make them as plain as panels in a door , from period ; to period , until I bring the charge of falsification into so narrow a compass that he who runs may . read , Cunningly enough , this cunning -advocate of the "Lucky Boy" has tried to jumble them by spreading them over a period of eight years ; but I will trace them , step by step , from the commencement to the close : —
i IaJLke mw » nw the 'great balance of 18 * 1 isineorreet . O'Cennor knows , no man better , that Ardill nevesclaimed to have owing to him tbe sum of £ 2 , 853 ; that ho never even dreamed of such a thing . O'Connor knows that when be and Ardill sat down to ascertain what tha real balance due to the latter was , they took all tbe elements into their calculation ; they had together aw the books ; they ascertained tbe expenditure and the income on the several funds which bad been kept separate from the Star , general cash book ; and thej entered inTthe proper place the balance of those separate funds and payments ; and thbh strwck tub OESBaAt baianc * This was , indeed , the only course by which the actual balance could be ascertained ; and nothing could be more foul or dishonest than O'Connor ' s taking the cash book alone
at that period for his statements ^ hefore the otter boloncaitoere posted up ! jv » uwwwr n , L hea l , M alance of £ 3 ' 853 was made up thus ; - During 18-10 . 1 there were several public funds , which were received by Ardill for O'Connor , at the office . Ot lh ^ lt ^ Mv T di 3 tinet « ww « 8 wholly independent of the star account boeks . But the money was regularly paid into the bank to O'Cennor ' s credit . I hare before told you ofthe state in which ? ir £ ieft -X ! £ <> ffic 6 ' ' ^»» heavy debts to con . iS \ , Wlth jj « "ycttrrentpayments to meet , without tne whole of a diminished and diminishing income to meetthemjaadlteld you that eren ' with the money trom a certain source , ' we were dreadfully short This mtt that ' certain source . ' These public funds were used in
O'Cennor ' s private business . Had they net beenso 0 Connor would not have had one atom of prepertv when he was released . See , then , how tbis apparent « balance ' of rf 2 , 353 was made up :-There was received durint 1840-1 , on the Frost ' s Defence Fund , upwar-U , oS on the Stephens * Defence Fund , £ 200- on the No « Anni Defence Pund , £ ' io ?! besides smXCs on SerS minor funds : m all amounting to more than £ Uoo The tnwme - of . these several funds did not appear in the gene ! itV' *} \ ° " 5 Star , but in separate ud diffi books for each fund- [ the books are still in existence ]^ - ^ V L , aym < JI i . outheStor account did appear in the cash book ; and thus there would necessary appear to have been much more paid than received . TJlthnatfllv entereWul *? " 1 ° " eola »» B . <«« amunls Z ' e ¦ ffitoMv . Ar / u * ral C ? ' ? ^* ' 5 ndthe actual balance tm l * ° . MrArdlU "Stained and acknowled ged . How r £ ? - > ta" «?* ' . th » t » ttfc » knowledge ef these facts .
rn , «» T . ¦ b ? dared t 0 8 li" > der away another nuni s character , to divert attention from his own curious position in relation to a public fund . t Now , then , hath not the Lord delivered this incomprehensible fool into my hands ? 1 will go on , seriatim , to unravel this " long yarn . " 1 never had all the account books before me in my life , and the one thing which I wish you to keep clearly in view , and never to lose sight of is , that if 1 had all the books before me , and if Cocker had them all before him , he couldn't make anything of them , and for this plain and simple reason—that from page 86 , when . Mr Williams handed over the books to Mr Ardill , not a single , columnjfwas totted up—not one , for five ' years after . Now , then , what does the reader say to that ? [ But mark the sequel , I do riot ask you to take . one word upon my authority , but read the folio
wingwe certify that wheh-the balance due to Mr Ardill an . pears te be jBa . Sli . 6 i . 6 d , it Is a net balance in money claimed by him , and tbat there is no explanation , in con . nection with that entry , attached to show tbat it was de . rived from any public funds whatever , but tbe balance appears as dno to Mr ArdlSl , O . A . Fuming . G . 3 . Basket . . D . M'OowAHi ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27111847/page/4/
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