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4 _._,_. THE NORTHERN STAR, " Octobeb 31...
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VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY AT BERKELEYGLOUCESTERSHIRE.
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THE flOKTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1846.
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4 _._,_. The Northern Star, " Octobeb 31...
4 _ . _ , _ . THE NORTHERN STAR , " Octobeb 31 1846 ,
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« «» » . » MX LIFE , Wtt OUK , auuiALi aJLAiu , rani i . -. aPoem , ] by EBNEST JOXES , I Barrister at Law . Full of wild dreams , strange fancies and graceful inia- 'es mterqivrscd with ui-iiiy lirigbt and beautiful thou-lits , its chief defect is its brevity . Tlie autiiors mspiraty ^ isse' -in to tfusb fresb and sparkling fromjlippocren « . lie will want neither readers nor admirers . -Morn . ItVontains more pregnant thoughts , more bursts of lyric power , nvrf , in fine , of the truly grand and bcauti- ^ ful tliansiiviH . » e ! ie . il work , which has made iu appearance fur \\ sirs . We know of few things more dramatically bitwise than the scenes betweer Philip " , "Warren ad ' Clara . — - Vse Qiuirterti / ifecictc . Published by Mr . Xev . by , 72 , Mo . rJmer-street , Caren-* is ! i-si : u ; irc . Orders received by all booksellers . Bv tlie same Author
Valuable Freehold Property At Berkeleygloucestershire.
VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY AT BERKELEYGLOUCESTERSHIRE .
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TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION , BY MR . JOSEPH POPE Af the Berkeley Arms Inn , in Berkeley , in the County ofGloucester , Os Wedsesdat , the 4 th day of Xovesibek , 1846 , At Three o ' clock in the Afternoon ,
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TO TAILORS . LONDOX and PARIS FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN AND WINTER , 1 S 4 C-47 . By READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury square , London ; And G . Berg < -r , Holywell-street , Strand ; May be had of all booksellers , wheresoever residing ,
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buuao ruULISHlNG BX B . V . COUSINS , 18 , DUKE-STREET , LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS , LONDON . The Shtpherd , by tlie Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Vol . I . price 5 s . fid . Vol . II price Ss . Vol . III . price Cs . 6 d ., cloth boards ; or the three volumes in one , half-bound ia calf and lettered , price 16 s . Refutation of Oneirism , by G . Redford , of Worcester ; with a Reply , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is . New Christianity ; or the Religion of St . Simon , with a coloured portrait of a St . Simonian Female ; translated by the Rev . J . E Smith , M . A . Is . The Little Book , addressed to tho Bishop of Eieter and Robert Owen , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . fid . ; by post , 10 J . Legends and Miracles , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Cloth boards , Is . 8 d . The Universal Chart , containing the Elements of Univcrsal Faith . Universal Analogy , and Moral Government .
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . UBSDELL AND CO ., Tailors , are now making up & complete Suit of Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 ; Superfine West of England Black , £ 3 10 s . ; and the eery best Superfine Saxony , £ 5 , warranted not to spot or ckange colour . Juvenile Superfine Cloth Suits , 24 s . Liver ies equally cheap—at the Great Western Emporium , Nos . l and 2 , Oxford-street , London- ; the noted house for pwd black cloths , and patent made trousers . Gentlemen an choose the colour and quality of cloth from the largest stock in London . The a . t of cutting taught .
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IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN application was made on the 22 nd September , to the Vice-Chancellor of England , by Mr . Beard ( who , acting under a mostextraordiny delusion , considers himseifthc so !; jxiteiitcc of the Photographic process !) to restrain MR . EGERTON , of 1 , Temple-street , and 148 , Fleet-strect , f rom taking Photographic Portraits , which he does by a process entirely different from and very superior to Mr . Beard ' s , aud at one-half the charge . Ilis Honour refused the application in toto . No license required tu practice this process , which is taught by Mr . Egerton in a few lessons at a moderate charge . All the Apparatus , Chemicals , Ac , to be had as usual « t bis Depot , 1 , Temple-strevt . WluMriur ? ,
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LITHOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS OF THE BUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . MAY still be had at the Office of Messrs . M'Gowan andfe ., l ( i , Great Windmill Street , Ilayniarket , London ; through any respectable bookseller in town or country , ; or at any of the agents of the Northern Star . 1 tie engraving is on a large scale , is executed in the most nmslied style , is finel y printed on tinted paper , and Jives a minute description of the Testimonial , and has the Inscription , « fcc , &« , engraved upon it . PBICE FOUKPENCE .
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PATENT OFFICE . Warwick Court Chambers , Gray ' s Inn , IiOndon . NOTJCE TO INVENTORS . The printed Instructions and every information as to protection by Letters Patent or the Acts for Registrations of Dcsitns , as also the list of reduced charges for British and Foreign Patents may be obtained gratis , on application by letter Pre Fnid to COOKE & CO . at the above office .
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CRIMES AND CONTRADICTIONS OP DANIEL O'CONNELL ESQ ., M . P ., In a series of letters , addressed to tbe Irish residing in Great Britain , by Patrick O'IIiggins , Esq . Printed and published by W . H . Dyott , No . 24 , North King-street , corner of Linen Halbstreet , Dublin . Price one penny each . Also the Rev . John Kenyon ' s letters : and Mr . O'Higgins's letters to Lord Elliot . Uight Rev . Dr . Blake , Most Kcv . Dr . M'Halc , & c , & c , ifce .
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- leo ACRES OF LAJN D IN WORCESTERSHIRE , Price £ 18 , 100 . For particulars see Mr . O'Connor ' s Letter . A correct engraving coined from the Map of the above Estate will appear in the Northern Star of Saturday , Novembei the 14 th . Provisional Registration ol the Charti & t Co-operative Land Company . For particulars also see Mr . O'Connor ' s Letter .
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BALLOT FOR LAND . On Friday , the 11 th December , a ballot will take place at Birmingham , during the sitting ofthe Land Conference for Oicupants from the 2 nd section , for about 30 acres ofthe estate recently purchased , there being about that amount over after locating those already balloted for , and upon the same day a ballot will take place for the next 30 to be located of the 1 st section : and on the 18 th January , a ballot will take plac . for the next 30 to be located of the 2 nd section .
The Flokthern Star Saturday, October 31, 1846.
THE flOKTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 31 , 1846 .
Chartism Versus Repeal, Physical Force. ...
CHARTISM versus REPEAL , PHYSICAL FORCE . It is a curious fact , but not the -ess true , that all political parties anxious to preserve their popularity with the people , and at the same time their influence with the middle classes , have been compelled to adopt not only as much of our principles as may serve this double purpose , but from time to time they have likewise been driven to tbe adoption of our tactics . Upon the other hand , the wily have been compelled
to seek the course which led to disunion in our ranks , iu order to accomplish the same object in their own , when disunion was desirable or required . Long before Mr . O'Conuell threw the apple of discord among the repealers , we announced to our readers that his then mission to Ireland was upon the understanding with the Whi g Government that he was to break up and destroy the Repeal movement . We further stated that his measures would
be cunningly devised , that he would be able to throw all the odium consequent upon such a calamity upon those who would be forced into unavoidable opposition , and then denounced as traitors ; but little did we then think that the rock placed in the Chartist course would be the one relied upon by him for a split . We mean PHYSICAL FORCE . We , the Chartists , were represented by Mr . O'Conuell not only as an impracticable , but a disunited body . Surely , the greatest proof of disunion is to be found in the facility with which a party may be broken up ; and now we shall proceed to contrast the mode resorted to by our moral force accusers , for the purpose of disuniting us and their success , with Mr . O'Connell ' s resort to the same bugaboo to break up tbe Repeal ranks and his success .
In 1838 , when Tom Attwood , Douglas , Muutz , Salt , and HONEST JOHN COLLINS , had made a complete physical force tour of Scotland , recommending the establishment of rifle clubs , and offering old muskets for sale , aud when , upon Attwood's return to Birmingham , he told two hundred men in our presence , that if the first appeal from one million was unheeded , be would stamp , and three million voices , backed by as many stout English arms , would respond and compel obedience . When honest John recommended the arrest of all the magistrates aud aristocracy as hostages ; when Lovett told us that the only way to insure good laws was by breaking bad ones ; when Henry Vincent was convicted ofthe most inflammatorv physical force language ;
when the enthusiastic Beaumont and Dr . Taylor reviled us for declaring at Glasgow and Edinburgh that we would rather bear any load of suffering than be the cause of one drop of blood being shed , and when the wild enthusiasm of Chartism had induced many of its ardent young advocates , in the midst of oppression and heat of discussion , whicli in their own cooler moments they would have regretted , then it was that parson Brewster , John Fraser and Abraham Duncan proposed the celebrated Carlton Hill moral force resolutions—resolutions by which they hoped to sever the philosophical from the wild , reserving for the trickster and truckling all the force and power which the destruction of a bugaboo could secure for them .
Fortunately , however , for the English Chartists , honest ardour and enthusiasm , triumphed over cunning philosophy , and the rock intended as our destruction proved a fatal barrier in their course . The very most inflammatory , and violent , g lad of an opportunity to skulk from the danger that they had created , abandoned the cause that they had dishonoured , and clung , with the hope of forgiveness , to the new idol created by the philosophers . The effect of such a schism threatened danger for a season , until the veiled purposes of hypocrisy were seen by all . No sooner had they achieved their first triumph , than the few promoters themselves were split into sections , stoutly contending for an
ascendancy less galling than that which they presumed they had destroyed . This wicked course failed in England , and , notwithstanding the enthroned power of the Liberator , it will fail in Ireland . No one section of the Chartist body ever proclaimed physical force as a weapon to be used offensively . Many attempts were made to provoke us into an unqualified denunciation of the principle ; but while we repudiated violence as a means of achieving power , which but required the concentration of all our moral energies to accomplish , we never did , and we never shall , confess ourselves slaves , by denying the ri g ht of the oppressed to shake off their fetters , by the same means by whicli they have been imposed upon them *
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While the tempest raged we held to this principle , and encountered no small amount of odium . Daniel O'Connell was the loudest in his denunciation ofthe pbysicial force Chartists ; and now we proceed to show the striking analogy that exists between him and his policy , and the moral philosophers and their scheme . We have shown that they were the first to propound and circulate the physical force principles in England and Scotland , while iu 1843 every post teemed with the valiant effusions of tbe physical force Liberator . When surrounded by his battalions of infantry and cavalry , upon the hill of Tara of the Kings , after boasting of the amount of physical force at his command , he proclaimed the Union a nullity , a parchment fiction , and , amidst national applause exclaimed
" Morally , if we can , physically , if we [ must . " Such an announcement from such a quarter must have inspired the young and enthusiastic with increased ardour and zeal ; their country had been proclaimed as a wilderness , made desolate by the tyranny of the Saxon oppressor ; her seven centuries' grievances were burnt upon the warm hearts of Uiose who panted for liberty , and , as a natural consequence , new and ardent disciples were roused to new and ardent inspirations . In the midst of war proclamations he invoked that tranquillity
which he declared was essential to his purpose , but the prospect of which he had destroyed . This was the origin of the mere notion of the resort to physical force being justified under any circumstances , and the national valour soon rallied round the newly-erected standard . Thus we prove beyond controversy , that the Liberator was the orig inator and propounder of physical-force doctrines , while , like our moral philosophers , he uses the enthusiasm of his young disciples as a justification for the desertion of his principles .
We may be told that he has not deserted those principles , because he still bellows " Repeal 1 " as lustily as ever ; but we cannot recognise the distinction between the general who deserts his ' army and he who surrenders his position to the intrigue of an enemy . The latter is O'Connell's case . He has weakened his position for the purpose of strengthening the Whigs , and his next move will be to abandon the cause upon the pretext of the weakness which he himself has produced . What has been the incessant declaration of tbe Liberator ? Has it not been
that ENGLAND ' S WEAKNESS IS IRELAND'S OPPORTUNITY ; and do we not find him fostering that very weakness as the instruments of Ireland ' s oppression . The quondam liberal press of Ireland , without an exception , teems with abuse of Whiggery and Russell , while the very mountains reecho the denunciation ; and yet the Liberator would cunningly draw the distinction between officials acting under Whig orders , and the Whi gs who give the orders . The Irish were promised Ireland , and are starving and in sorrow ; while we read the
damning , galling , bitter fact , that the Liberator ' s second son , Morgan O'Connell , who sold the representation of Meath for £ 800 a-year , has been this week promoted to an office with a salary of £ 1500 a-year as the purchase-money of his father ' s sale of that country that has so confided , so supported , so bled , and so paid for his promised devotion . Will this act open the eyes of the yet sceptical ? Will this convince the nice and scrupulous about the Liberatov ' s honour ? that England ' s weakness is Ireland's increased oppression and her Liberator ' s increased peculation .
Is this not some substitute for the graceless rejection of a tribute which poverty marred . It is but the second windfall , and before another harvest will glad the eyes of the starving , his f lesh p o t will be filled with the wages of corruption , Well may lie renounce the title of 'Liberator' at Fermoy , and , rather than he should go nameless , we would recommend him to assume in its stead that of' Patricide . 'He is
a bad old man , and notwithstanding the power of his charmed name , the very same cause which led to the destruction of moral force treachery in England , will lead to the destruction of the same bugaboo in Ireland . This consoles us , for it is a consolation to think that those who have been dragooned into the justification of a denounced principle , are daily gaining strength , while its propounder is daily becoming weaker and more exposed .
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THE PRESS . From the establishment of the Northern Star , which is within a fortnight of nine years , down to the present time , we have ever opened its columns to fair . strictures upon our policy , our conduct , and our actions . There are some who have felt aggrieved that we have not surrendered them to abuse of ourselves without provocation ! We always have , and we trust we always shall , make a proper distinction between those acts of public men in
which the success or injury of our principles may be involved , and those of individuals acting a mere capricious part upon their own responsibility or whim . With these feelings we cheerfull y give insertion to a remonstrance of om * Somers Town friends against that portion of one of our articles of last week , in whicli wc stated our grief and sorrow at the appointment of Mr . Waustaffe , as one of the Local Registration Committee of St . Pancras . Our friends very fairly set forth the qualifications and
pretensions of Mr . Wagstaffe , by which they would establish his fitness for that office . We ask our friends , whether or no they are amongst those who think that such pretensions and qualifications constitute a Chartist . We know of but three political names , namely , that of Chartist , Whig and Tory . Our friends ask us , if such and such declarations as those made by Mr . Wagstaffe , can justify us in designating hint as a Whig ? We ask , in return , whether such declarations are sufficient to constitute
him a Chartist ? We are ready to admit that the Convention from which the public meeting derived the power of electing its own officers was supreme in the delegation of such power , while we are not prepared to surrender our right of canvassing the acts of those who exercise the delegated power or even of those who delegate it . When the Convention delegated the power , it naturally did so with the impression , and upon the understanding , that it would be used conformably to Chartist rules , and advantageously for the Chartist cause ; and hence the question , the sole
question , for our consideration is , whether or no that Convention for a moment anticipated that any other than professed , unquestionable and avowed Chartists would be elected to an office so important as that of the arrangement of the machinery by which we hoped to ensure an unequivocal representation of the principles of Chartism . We would ask our friends , whether or no the election of a committeeman should not , as far as principle goes , be received by the country at large as a test of his qualification to represent a Chartist constituency according to the terms and principles we have laid down . We would ask them , whether the kindliest acts of Mr . Wagstaffe , which we never intended to
dispute or deny , and his equivocal professions of a desire to extend the suffrage , would he such a declaration of principles as would recommend him to a Chartist constituency ? Our friends are not to presume that we entertain any , the sli g htest , personal hostility to Mr . Wagstaffe , for , ou the contrary , their character of him inclines us to esteem him beyond others of his class ; hut there are other qualifications necessary to constitute his fitness as a manager of our most important affia ' rs . If upon the other hand we arc told that his nei ghbours are aware that he is not a Chartist but hope to use him for Chartist purposes , we answer , such course would he unworthy towards Mr . Wagstaff and disgrace-
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ful upon the Chartist body on the one hand , while we assure them , upon the other hand , that Mr . Wagstaffe would be much more likely to use them . We have heard many good Chartist sayings , such as "God helps them that help themselves "— " He who is not for us is against us "— " If our work is to be done we must do it ourselves , " and so forth . Again , we will take the liberty of canvassing this delegated power from the source from whence it was received , namely , from the Convention . We ask , then , would Mr . Wagstaffe , upon the qualification set forth for him , have been a fit delegate to elect upon that Convention ? Would he be considered a
fit person to act upon the Central Committee ? Would he be considered a candidate sufficientl y qualified to command the support of a Chartist constituency ? And if he would not be qualified for any of these offices , then we ask , is the delegated power of Chartism to be frittered away in its transfer ? Because we contend for it , that a person who is not qualified to serve in any of those capacities , is insulted by being nominated to serve for any inferior purpose . So far from objecting to Mr . Wagstaffe personally , we should be rejoiced to hf-ar that he had fully quallified himself by an unequivocal declaration of Chartist principles . The duty which we have now set Chartists is the hi ghest and most important they have ever been engaged in , and consequently
more circumspection and jealousy is required in its discharge . Let us suppose , then , that Manchester had established a central committee for Chartist purposes , and that the several towns in Lancashire had appointed local committees to act in concert with the central committee , would any town in Lancashire elect other than an unequivocal Chartist to serve as a committeeman , or would the central committee act in concert with any town that had done so ? We confidently say , No . And what Chartism looks for is a defined , clear , unequivocal representation of its own principles through its own avowed members . Where principle is concerned there should be no nice delicacy as to individuals . Chartism has suffered much already for its punctilious deference to middle class bashfulness . We have
been too fond of hugging a bit of respectability , while in no one instance have we ever derived a particle of benefit from its co-operation . We are pleased to find that our friends approve of the article > hich was damned by the selvage , while it appears strange that they should have approved its tenor , which went to establish what struck us as the error of their course , and still defend the error itself . However , as good feeling is actually indispensable to the success of our cause , we can point out the most simple remedy by which the error of the offending party may be established . Upon our part we protest against the qualification set forth in the
remonstrance of our friends being received as the Chartist test . We protest for ourselves against the election of any save Chartists to serve upon Chartist Committees . Upon the other hand , our friends declare that Mr . Wagstaffe is not a Whig , we are sure he is not a Tory ; and therefore , a natural conclusion is , that he must be a Chartist . Well then , what could be more consolatory to tbe whole Chartist body than such an announcement , and thus our friends have a pleasing duty to perform in receiving and communicating the intelligence that Mr . Wagstaffe is a Chartist . None will more cheerfully hail the announcement than ourselves , and none will more
respectfully apologise for the high offence offered to to Mr . Wagstaffe in designating him a Whig . This remedy , this easy remedy , is in the hands of our friends—they may avail themsevles of it , by putting the simple question to Mr . Wagstaffe , " ARE YOU A CHARTIST ? If you are , YOU ARE FOR US , U you are not , you are against us . If you are for us , we bail your co-operation ; if you are against us , you must see and confess the impropriety of relying upon your services , as men do not usually rely upon the co-operation of their foes . " While the men of St . Pancras exercise their legitimate right of canvassing our acts , they must never attempt to deprive us of the right to canvase theirs .
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RENE WE AGITATION FOR THE TEN-11011118 ' BILL . THE FACTORY-KING AGAIN IN THE FIELD ! From the resolutions given below , it will be seen that the short-time delegates have resolved to open , what we trust will prove the last triumphant campaign for the attainment ofthe Ten Hours' Bill . It will be seen that the delegates have invited the cooperation of their former trusty champion , Richard Oastler , Esq ., the factory-workers "King . " We understand that Mr . Oastler has noblv con- '
sented to forsake his retirement , and again take his stand upon the platform , as the unrivalled advocate of the rights of the factory-workers . Mr . Oastler will he in Iludderslield , and will address the first of a series of meetings , on Tuesday week next , November 10 th . He will spend three weeks in Yorkshire , taking part at three meetings weekly , after which he probably will visit Lancashire , and may extend his tour to Scotland . This announcement will be all-sufficient to arouse our northern readers , who will be preparer ! to give the Factory King that hearty welcome which he . and the holy cause he advocates , so well deserves .
TEN HOURS' BILL . A meeting of delegates from the Short Time Committees ofthe West Rid ' m ; of Yorkshire , was held on Monday , at the Royal Hotel , Brighouse ; Mr . J . Rawson , chairman of the Yorkshire Central Committee , in the chair ; when the following resolutions were unanimouely agreed to : — 1 . That it appears desirable to this meeting of dele-Kates that a course of public meetings should be holdenin tho manufacturing towns of the West Riding , to permit another expression of public opinion on the Ten Hours ' question - , and to show the government that the mill operatives have not abated in their ardour and determination to sceure a legislative ten hour regulation for the young and female portion of the factory- workers .
• 2 . That as it is probable that Parliament wiuassem . hie in the ensuing month of November , such public meetings should be arranged for without delay , so that the honourable member chirued with the conduct of the Ten Hours' Bill through Parliament may feel his hands strengthened at the outset of what we fondly hope is to be the last parliamentary campaign . 3 . That , to enable John Fielden , Esq ., M . P ., testate to the House of Commons the unchanged opinion and unabated determination of the factory hands never to rest until they get the Ten Hours Bill , itis desirable that he should attend the said meetings , to " see with his own eyes anil hear with his own ears , " and for that purposehe be hereby invited to accede to our request .
4 . That this meeting of delegates , knowing of tbe strong desire that exists in the manufacturing districts to hold council ones more with the originator of the present ten hours' movement . lUchm-d ( hstler , Esq ., and believing that it would conduce materially to the success of the Ten Hours ' cause , if the factory workers had that gentlemen among them on this occasion , it be resolved to invite him to attend the said meetings ; and that the Secretory be instructed to communicate the wish of the delegates to Messrs . Pieldcu aud dustier , and arrange for their convenience . 5 . That the Secretary be instructed to communicate with each committee as to the time of their respective puh . lie meeting , wi : en he has communicated with Messrs . Fielden and Oastler .
C . That the best thanks of this meeting are due and hereby tendered 10 Lord Ashley for Ids admirable litter to the recent meeting in Bradford attended bv Lord Morpeth and for his conduct in declining to attend on that oeeassion , when the measure to which he is devoted was exeluded from discussion or comment . 7 . That the thanks of this meeting are also hereby tendered to-Vr . Wdham Walker , of Bra . Jft . rd , for his very proper bearing and conduct on tbe same occasion . 8 . That while this meeting hails the effortmade at
, nmatord unuer the auspices of Dr . Scoresby ami Lord Mo-peth , to amehorateihe social condition ofthe female tao ory workers , as one deserving every wcourngement , th „ ' ! b ? , ? ° > f Sfal' dUfcMnt fe * » S ™ this . ubjec th = n obtained at the commencement ofthe ten-hoursagiat , ou ! yBt th 6 delegates regret that ihe promoters ° of the said movement did not add abort time ' to their praiseworth y ohj-. cts ; for without time to " instruct aud enjoy , au weans of instruction and enjoyment are comparativel y worthless .
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH IRELaNdJ The calamity by which the sister island is at sent afflicted , has , as we have before observed not been unaccompanied by beneficial rei ^ . Among others , we are inclined to reckon the e . tn sure of the hollow and empty quack who has so long lived on the wretchedness of his fellow c ountrymen . Had O'Connell possessed any prnctj ca j knowledge , or any real interest in their welfare , t | , ; g would have been the time for the exhibition ofl ) oln From the vantage ground he occup ies , he mi ght hlv ,
dictated terms to both the Government ami th , landlords , and , " out ofthe nettle danger ^ p lucked the flower safety . " But , instead of calml , and practicall y setting himself to work to meet tb crisis with appropriate measuers , he is found writ . ing empty and inflated ep istles in laudation of ty , Whi gs , abuse of the officials who , at the prese t trying moment , have the practical administration ( relief , and keeping up tbe old quarrel with " iW Ireland" on the hypocritical pretext of " physic ;] force . " In the speech which he delivered at Fer mov , there is not a single idea or proposition worn
the paper it was printed on . Nothing but the old hacknied themes , tbe old , worn-out proposals as , machinery , deputations , committees , debates " words , words , words . " Ireland has been cramme with such windy food too long ; she needs , and mm have , clear-headed men and practical measures which will relieve her population from dependent on the potato ; which will g ive her peasantry posses . sion of the soil on just and equitable terms , an , which will , by the introduction of a better tenure remove the standing disgraceful anomaly , n / . people starving in a land capable of supplying foo (
to four times its present population . Such salvation as this , however , is not likely t ( come from tbe mouthing mountebanks at Concilia , tion Hall , whose only object seems to be the puffing of themselves into a factitious political importance in order that they may afterwards make nierchan . tlize of it , and hoist themselves into well-paid places . O'Connell , like Louis Philippe , is partus , larly affectionate to his sons , and is making good u of his influence with the Whigs in their behalf , His son , Morgan , has just jumped into an office jf £ 1 , 500 a-year , and , in short , the Irish people are
converted into political capital by a grasping rapacious set of adventurers , who thrive upon % miseries and grow fat on the famine ofthe very people they pretend to befriend . This , however , is no ? becoming plain , even to the Irish themselves . Tt : buffoonery and trash ofthe "Liberator" no lon » e : draws the cash it used to do . The rent " grow small b y degrees and beautifully less , '' and though this may in part , at least , be attributed to the poverty of the people , it is also , no doubt , very much caused by their eyes being opened to the real character of the man who has so long misled them .
The famine has put other pretenders to the character of popular and practical statesmen to the test , besides O'Connell . The Whigs have certain !; not been lucky in their government of I island , what little has been done of a judicious and decided character is more owing to the decision and prompt ! , tude of the Lord Lieutenant than to the Cahineti So far as its measures are concerned , they were and , are ludicrously inadequate to the occasion . It i their illfortune to have their heads bewildered will the mischievous crotchets of Political Economy ; an in the very midst of the awful distress which pre vails , they are found gravely debating whether i should he relieved by the most obvious and read ; means for fear that these means are not in accord
ance with the dogmas of a nonsensical and parni cious theory . The obli gations of the Irish people to the Whi ; government , very forcibly remind us of the Irish ! squire's obligation to his farrier , and of which hewa thus reminded— " To curing your honour ' s horse til he died . " Such appears to be the general view o their conduct entertained in Ireland . The press ami the people call loudly for the restoration of Si Robert Peel to power . They have had enough a Whig imbecility , and are for the return to ofiice of I statesman , who showed by his measures last veai
and his speech on resigning ofiice , that he unite stands the nature of Ireland ' s malady , and ba courage enough to apply radical remedies . In tb event of his again taking office , he will find the ^ v ^ to the application of such remedies , has been tunc smoothed by theoccurrenccof this severe and nmicsiv calamity . It has driven writers and thinkers tec on first principles . The horrible spectacle whichth unhappy sister country presents , compels a dissectio : of the causes by which it has been produced . Sue a state of society—if society it can be called—cannc longer be permitted to exist , no matter who or wh £
the classes may be , whose supposed interests it si » serves . This conviction is so strong that , as we n marked last week , the leading Journals have con out on the subject ofthe land , with article ; , which short time ago would have been denounced as rev < lutionary . The Chronicle , in reply to the propos tion of extensive emigration put forward bv tl Marquis of Wcstmeath and other landlords , reiteniti its proposal to g ive "Ireland to the Irish" i reality . It urges all those , objections to compute and extensive emigration , which have so often be stated in this paper . To make the Irish ( says ot
contemporary ) work , they must have what uiaki their Celtic brethren , the French peasantry , wori and those of Tuscany , of the self-indulgent anil luxi rious south . They must work , not for emp loyer but for themselves . Their labour must not he f < wages only , it must be a labour of love—the ! c which the peasant feels for the spot of land fro which no man ' s pleasure can expel him , whit makes him a free aud independent citizen ol v world , and in which every improvement which li labour can effect belongs to his family , as their pc mancnt inheritance . "
Here is the true lever by whicli to raise , not on the population of Ireland , but of all others , in di scale of existence . " They must work , not for en plovers , but for themselves . " " We thank the Jew , for that word . " It is , to be stir a little opposed to the " political economy " which the Chronicle has been a long and consiste exponent . But it is never too late to mend or leai and seeing how aptly our new pupil is taking lesso from the Star and t he Chartists , we cannot " hut p him kindly on the head . We have also to euro ! t : Times in the list of disci p les of the p hilosophy ai political economy of the Star , It says—Before we can take the Irish landowner ' s view " giving encouragement to emigration to people w
are too closely packed at home for their own co ; 'fort and convenience , " we must first he satisfi as to the facts . Is there a larger population in I : land than the land , if properly dealt with , cot support ? All evidence U to the contrary . Wlu the land is properly cultivated , are the labuun " too closely packed , " or do they complain of w of '' comfort and convenience ? " All evidence « no We protest against the consequent the land of Ireland not having been properly dc with being borne wholly by the poorest of the If . people . — ' —To compel the peasantry to cro into tho holds of emigration ships , and submit to unavavoidable exile , would , in effect , " create "new felony for the benefit of Lord Westm-.-a : " order . "
The discussion on this subject is now fairly rsis never to be stilled again until tlie land of Ireland devoted to the support of its people , free from t rapacious grasp of a band of monopolists , wh ' fancied individual interest now dooms it to an ai flcial sterility , and keeps extensive tracts lying primeval waste . This , we repeat , is the true v to g ive IRELAND TO THE IRISH .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 31, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31101846/page/4/
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