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T I Still Wretched •;* The Present Lord ...
_•" . May 5 , 1849 _' 4 THE NORTHERN _STAH . ___ - _--- _^ l _^ _T _. — _4 ' .- * ' - ¦ _' • ' ' ' . —¦ ¦¦ - —— 1
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Fasenold Fob The Miixioxs.—Our Friend Jo...
_FasEnoLD fob the Miixioxs . —Our friend John _Asquith ' s letter , giving the description of the splendid estate purchased by tlie Cobden-Scbolefield Land Company , shaU appear in next week ' s Star . Mr , G . White , the _Chaktist Kirkdale Prisoner . —We are _; sorry tohave to state , on the faith ofa correspondent , that the wife and cWldren of Mr . "White are very unfortunately . situated ; in fact , receiving" no adequate support . We know that tbe London Victim Committee disburses its funds upon p rinciples of strict equity ; but we know , also , that , owing to tlie General Fund being badly supported , it is impossible for the Committee to give more than a very small sum to each recipient We are aware , however , that in more cases than one local assistance is supplied in addition to the aid furnished from the General Fund . We are informed that Mrs . White is not so fortunate . From Mr . White's long connexion with Leeds and tbe West Riding generally , we think his wife
and children have special claims ou the Chartists of that town and district . We say no more ; the situation of Mrs . White and her young children must plead their cause more eloquently than any words we could employ . We trust that active and true men will see to this without delay . Itmaybeaswelltoadd , that Mrs . White ' s address is , "Mary White , 7 , Fenton ' s-court , Saxton-lane , Bank , Leeds . " J . Sweet acknowledges the _recsipt of the following sums , sent herewith . — For Victim Fund . — Mr . Knott , 3 d ; Mr . Smith , Gd ; From Hyson Green , Is 3 d ; Mr . Burgin , 6 d ; Mr . Henson , 2 d ; * Mr . Chipindale , Gd ; Mr . Kirk , Id . The _utteb forwarded to us by our friends from the Vale of Leven , descriptive ofthe suffering of friend Thomason , while employed in that locality , has been mislaid , otherwise it should , according to their request , have been published . " We request them to transmit ns another copy of the biography of this much injured individual , and it shaU appear in next week's Star . _g * g" AVe have received a long letter from Mr . Nixon , for which we have no room . Mr . Nixon , who was one of the
Kirkdale victims , states that he was discharged from prison on the _Otliult , having suffered his sentence of four months' imprisonment ; he was detained four months in Kirkdale Gaol previous to his trial , where he endured tlie treatment of a felon . Mr . N . says , that being unable to obtain employment , he intends on Saturday ( this day ) to be at Kirkdale , and to leave Liverpool on Wednesday next , for Scotland . That he will be in Glasgow on Thursday , and Edinburgh on Saturday , the l * 2 th inst ; after which bo will visit Newcastle , Yorkshire , London , Birmingham , and the Potteries , in search of employment and that should any locality near the places mentioned require his services , he will lecture , the proceeds to be given for the maintenance of the Kirkdale victims , their wives and families , or any other object the council may think proper . All letters to be directed for him at the Post Office , Glasgow ; the Post Office , Edinburgh ; at Martin Jude ' s , Newcastleon-Tvne ; and to Mr . George White , House of Correction , Kirkdale . Mr . Nixon refers parties desirous of ascertaining his character to the Manchester Council , and tho Directors ofthe National Land Company ..
The Northern Star Satukday , May 5. 1s49.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATUKDAY , MAY 5 . 1 S 49 .
Ireland. Tyrants, Read Asd Tremble. " Wh...
IRELAND . TYRANTS , READ ASD TREMBLE . " What the eye does not see the heart does not feel for , " may be true , when confined within moderate limits , and when the appalling scenes may have occurred in some distant land , -with whose people , whose manners and customs , the reader may have little sympathy , and of whom they mayjiave as slight a knowledge ; hut when Englishmen , separated from
Ireland but by the channel—governed by the same laws as their neighbours—ibr the moBt part speaking the same language—trading in the same markets—and-tributary to the same monarch , peruse the daily sufferings and barbarous treatment to which their Irish brethren are subjected , the recurrence of such scenes cannot familiarise them to the same extent ' of apathy or disregard , aa they may rest assured that that life-destroying panic which has struck their sister , will , and that ere long , reach their own shores , and as unsparingly decimate their , own population .
In the horrifying recitals of only one day , and but from few parts , of the country , which we publish at foot , the xeader will discover some slight hope for the future if he is moved to sorrow and- repentance for the past . He will find that the " vultures . of the law , as well as their dopes and their prey , are now beginning to taste of that calamit y of which they and the flock to which they belong have been the chief promoters . *
. As long as the poor and unprotected cottier _luBbandmaa and labourer were the " only sufferers , and as long as the harpies could prey npon the remnant of the small farmer ' s industry , they were the shield of the . _Congtitutionithe defenders of the throne _^ -the supporters of religion—and the ready ; _volunteers of . the "" ( So- " , _yerj-unent when loyalty was considered the best ' _, fafleto ' patrohage . . Th _^ _tKeToic « of the dying was smothered , and -the : compiaint of the : _injured" _-waVtf _ablate * into -legal- _-ju-rticepstate necessity , or dispensation oi Proriden . ee ,
Ireland. Tyrants, Read Asd Tremble. " Wh...
Tho cormorants , so long as they could live upon the credulity or the weakness of an outlawed race , were deaf to complaint ; but , alas those drones that sip the honey of other men ' s industry will now become venomous stinging wasps , and their former patrons , tbe Saxon Government , will very speedily discover that an unemployed lawyer is a more troublesome and disloyal subject than a starving peasant , whom he has ruthlessly robbed and whose death lie looks upon as a mercy . When thereader . calmly peruses and seriously reflects upon the annexed description of Irish suffering and misery , and when he considers that the theatre of such scenes is the most
fertile land , peopled with a most industrious population , and blessed with the most genial climate ; when he hears ofthe laud lying waste ¦ —the inhabitants ready to brave all dangers in quest of another home—workhouses crammed , and beds' supplied to living paupers by the eviction of their former occupants by deathhe must blush , in this state of things , to find the time of the British Parliament occupied with Marriage Bills , Highway Bills , Sheep-Stealing Bills , Navigation Bills , Clergy Relief Bills , and Votes of Thanks to Lord Gough for the murder of men defending their
property against usurpers . As long as misery , destitution and famine are confined to one class , and that the weakest —because they have no channel through which their complaints can be heard—their oppressors affect a charitable sympativy for their sufferings ; but when the malady roaches other classes , and when they become participators in those sufferings and misery created by their own apathy—nay , by their own iniquity—they will then begin to . understand that a working industrious population constitute the basis of society , while tinselled'peers and pampered monarchs are but the useless decorations that
could be most profitably dispensed with . The blood of every man—that is , of every feeling man—must curdle at the recital of such facts . And when this country and Ireland are governed upon the principle of justice , and when such a . thing as " Death from Starvation" will be looked upon as a romance , those who live to see such times—and we are strong in hope that the old , the grey , and the decrepit will see them—will ' then begin to reflect upon their own apathy , their own indifference , nay , their own criminality , which thus tolerated the murder of thousands , nay of millions , to uphold the prerogative of units . But , holding strong political p rinci ples , let us nevertheless not lose sight of the fact—that it is not to the present government , nor , indeed , to any former government , that the miseries
ofthe Irish people are to be attributed . On the contrary , they are to be ascribed , and solely , to the mismanagement of landlords , the tyranny of middlemen , the plunder of lawsharks , and the disunion of the people . True , we may bo told that in all such cases —nay , in all cases where injustice or mismanagement is likely to interfere to the extent of national suffering and inquietude—the Government has not only a right to interfere , but it is its duty to do so . This we admit as a principle , but let it be borne in mind , that England and Ireland , at the present moment , are as much governed according to tbe feudal system as they were before the passing ofthe Reform Bill—a fact strongly corroborated by the fraternisation of English : and Irish landlords on the question ofthe Sixpenny Kate in Aid .
Every reader who calml y and dispassionately peruses the'debates in the House of Commons which have any reference to landlord privilege , must see the difficulty which stands in the way of any diminution of those old feudal rights . A Landlord and Tenant Bill , which proposes to give compensation to the industrious farmer who expends his own industry and capital upon the improvement of the landlord ' s property , is met b y a general assault , and instantly crushed . And if Irish misery and suffering had been marked by anything short of death , we should have hailed it as the warnin g voice ofa nation . But wc cannot reconcile to ourselves any change , however beneficial , that is produced by millions of deaths .
The landlords of Ireland must suffer , and the harpies of the law have had their taste of sorrow , because they are the mortgagees of the landlords—they hold their title deeds ; they will take every advantage of their poverty , created by mismanagement—and , ere long , we shall have a crop of legal harpies as a substitute for feudal tyrants . The reader will naturally ask , if the Reform Bill was not mainly projected for the destruction of this feudal power , and how is it that , in the teeth of such a great political change , the abuses can still continue ? The answer ,
however , is simple—namely , because the _Ciundos clause emasculated the Reform Bill , and constituted a hundred and eight thousand tenants at will—mere serfs of the landlordsas the balance of the rural constituencies . These one hundred and eight thousand slaves obey the lash or tho call of their taskmasters ; they must vote , not according to their opinions or presumed interest , but according to the dictates of their chiefs , and hence -it is that we now find that great reaction in favour of Protection , with which the feudal lords threaten their opponents ..
Here follows tho sad , the miserable , the heart-sickening catalogue of Irish suffering , and we implore the English reader to bear the fact in mind , that injustice , tolerated by him , will surel y and speedily re-act upon himself ;—State of the _Inisn Law and Equiti' Cbnirra . —It did not require a legal enactment for superseding certain powers ofthe Courts of Chancery and Exchequer , to paralyse the business of the equity as weU as the common law courts . Never was there so dull a term as the present , nor one so unprofitable to both branches of the legal profession . Experienced practitioners assure me that £ 3 , 000 will not circulate amongst the bar for thc entire term . In fact , the famine has reached thc hall ofthe Four Courts , and the empty bags of the lawyers exhibit the universal pressure of
the destitution . The Court of Exchequer , with its manifold functions oflaw , equity , and revenue , is kept busy enough ; but the Queen ' s Bench , which used to be borne down by the weight of causes , now rises every day at twelve or one o'clock , from the sheer want of anything to do ; and the Common Fleas , as usual , has little or nothing to afford occupation to the judges .- The Court of Chancery is still keptgoing with causes in the list . The Rolls Court is full of business , produced , however , by the deplorable condition of tlie country . On Monday , and again yesterday , the Master of the lloUs was occupied with applications from tenants seeking reduction s in their rents , on account of . ' * the badness ofthe times , " or for liberty to surrender their farms . Thus , upon all sides , and by every section of the community , the effects of the protracted famine are most severely felt , and in the legal professions there are now pretty manifest indications of a panic . The following horrifying picture of the _western districts
is given by a correspondent of the Evening Packet : — " Dear B ~ l «? vobeen for the last ten days through the counties of Limerick , _Galway . Clare , and across thence tothe King ' s County . AU attempts to depict the existing state of the misery of the masses . beyond the Shannon must como utterly short of thetruth . AU the tract of country from _Killaloe to Portumna , on the Galway side of the Shannon , lslymgwaste and uncultivated . About three outoffour ofthe miserable huts are unroofed . Some of the . former inmates are dead—some in the union ; and some few huddled together in one or two of the huts still existing . The men generally have perished . With large tracts of land lying uncultivated , a few miserable men are employed on the roads—at what wages , think you ? One pound of yellow meal—ie . less than one penny per diem !!! Great God , how is this to cure famine ? If this process of depopulation goes on a few months more , you may seek an able-bodied man in vain for twenty or thirty miles of country—April 28 th , 1849 . "
State or tub West . —The Rev . Mr . Anderson , the Protestant : rector of BaUmrobe , has , in a second letter addressed to the Premier , furnished some additional details of the progress of mortality in the union of which he is the chaplain . _The-rev . gentleman , after a few preliminary remarks _, observes : — " As matters progress , we shall . be familiarised with returns of mortality like as in railway traffic , except that the passengers in this case are from time to eternity ; and I grieve to tell your lordship that the return for the week ending April 28 , 1849 , gives tha increased amount of 136 registered deaths on the workhouse Doola , _inelusive of nineteen- 'who died in our temporary cholera hospital since Wednesday last , -but exclusive ofthe deaths in the extern ferer sheds . Thus the mass of poverty and wretchedness isstillmott fri '
. . ghtful . 'Tis true we have not this week ten , nor even five , ' - in a bed in the hospital , as before ; but this paradox will find its lolution in the dreadful fact , tint the poor wretches who , in their awful destitution , took refuge in the workhouse , are now escaping _, _therefromaVfastas . they can , in the hope ( vain hopeT _ahu !) _thatdeath . miiy not all at once overtake them eliel where . And _. to whatli _^ all . this ,, state of ¦¦ things to _beattributedt My Lord , causes _mustproduce their _ownEffects , ' andsb itii in thwcaie likewise . _' ThVpobr _are'losfcby ikmiri 6 : ; , they have neither ; . iopd- _ttdr _. _Mriineiittiri anyway _couimeMurate . vriJh their -jvanta , or even the necessities of nature , and the painful consequence in , th » t they are dropping into th » ir _gravei in _muItatuOM , What , thu * , are the
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, . , , _t __* i . _vin . ov the still more wretched qa _?* _fc-JS _«^ _sx « aaft _^ _jsBxzs & _s _& _^^ _S _^ _SsiStssiSSlt commg more painfully perce _^ _y , h ' " , _? ££ ti _. e pauplr _claimanV for eleemosynary relief S _« S _Si ndepSnt first-class farmer-trom the landto V' ? , " _" t " i _£ f £ 500 per annum tothe noble veer of _5 £ ? mo _AUIrfnwrfmiB _. iuto the general . mass of deep oi _irciauu _ic .. _ _, ,
_tVivnnirhout this doomed pan . , " _.- _— . _--. nv _Keable to _struggle against . . the . combmahon of Sortune which surrounds us . The majority of the _pau-~ r population are fast sinking from inanition mto _premai » _rc craves . The small farmer class : are auftmnS . tho _PTMtcst ' hardships / denied out-door relief because tliey Sing will _tenacity ' to their little holdings . Many have sunk into death , t iie . victims of hunger . The hitherto extensive farmer and grazier class , once ; the most important erode in the country are swept away between Poor _^ Lav * a ' lxtion and -destructive Free Trade . The merchant and trade sman are one by one passing away into utter oblmon ; and lastly , the landocracy arc spoiled , overcome , and swam ped by heavy taxation , family encumbrances , and a total cessation ofthe payment of rents , insomuch that the vast bulk of our landed gentry are at this moment immersed in the greatest difficulty , and enduring severe
pn-The same paper states that in Ballinrobe . the deaths m the workhouse for the week , have been UG , and upwards of 400 have absconded , preferring to die by the wayside rather . than become victims of disease mtliat charnelhouse . The cholera is said to be on the incroase in Ballinrobe and the surrounding villages . Who , in the teeth of the CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECUMTYBILL , would venture further to ' comment upon . the Irish LIFE INSECURITY QUESTION ? : , '
Comical Harry And The Labour Question. O...
COMICAL HARRY AND THE LABOUR QUESTION . On Thursday night " Comical Harry /' alias " Lord . Brougham , " alias " Punch ' s Stock-in-Trade , " presented a petition to the " old ladies '' sitting in the Lords , from the Trades of Londonderry , praying for an adjustment of the Lahour Question ; and let the reader peruse the Ex-Chancellor ' s commentary upon the labourers' case . Here it is : — *!' . -. '• ¦ ¦ -i _;
ORGANISATION OF LABOUR . Lord Bbougham presented a petition from the trades of Londonderry , praving the House to adopt measures to prevent the downward tendency of wages in consequence of the competition of labour and for the appointment of a Minister of Labour .- Now this was just the absurd theory of Louis Blanc , arid the persons who would suffer the most for the adoption of such a" plan would be the petitioners themselves . If there were no competition of labour , there would be no competition of capital , and if there were no competition of capital there would be no wages for labour . He had the greatest respect for these petitioners , but tho greatest contempt for , and indignation against , those who , knowing better , had misled them . ...
Now , what would become of the Ex-Chanceixor's salary of £ 5 , 000 a year for doing nothing , if . the Labour , Question -was so . far settled thatacontented and happypeoplewould not require the construction of law quibblers to establish their rights . Has not this Labour Question—no matter whether as described by Adam Smith , Proudhon , Louis Blanc , by Protectionists , Free Traders , ' shopkeepers , and employers of every description—led to more wars , revolutions , bloodshed , litigation , murder , and plunder , than all otherquestionsput together ? And yet , in this age of reason , Avhen all countries are engaged in the proper adjustment of this
complicated question , it is reserved for an Ex-Lord Chancellor of England—the keeper of a dead King ' s conscience—to proclaim the impossibility of interfering with the question . It may be that the trades and working people of England have been urged on , and properly so—to the advocacy of the rights of labour ; bat if there is any country in the world in which interested demagogues and agitators have studiously avoided all discussion of . the Labour Question—that country is Ireland ; and of all parts of Ireland which would be least likely to propound any Communist or revolutionary doctrine , that town is the royal-loyal Orange town of Londonderry .
Now , in the petition , or rather in the naked comment upon it b y " Comical I _^ ARRY "— -what identity , of the most distant nature , does it bear to the principles of Louis Blanc ? and b y what rule of reason are the people to understand that the competition of capitalists for labour in an overstocked market , is the greatest benefit to those who have their labour to sell ? We trust that the day is not far distant , when the £ 5 , 000 a year paid to a willing idler , will be applied to the employment of reproductive labour ; and then , ' perhaps , when our comical friend is again compelled to live upon his wits , he will understand that the labourer is worthy
of his hire , and that that hire is not to be based upon the caprice of an _ioUeprofitmoHgei _*—measured by the necessities of an unwilling idle competitive reserve . Howbeit , we rejoice to find that theroyal-loyal Protestant Orangemen of Ulster , have at length discovered that to them , as well as to the English people , and then' Irish Catholic countrymen , the Labour Question is now THE QUESTION—the knife-and-fork question — the life-and-death question—and , as with love so with loyalty ,
" when poverty comes in at the door , even the Londonderry loyalty flies out at the window . " We rejoice to find , that as " a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind , " our Irish friends have at length embarked in the life-boat with their English brethren . We regret extremely we have not been ablo to procure a copy ofthe petition , as from it we would most possibly discover that the English and Irish Labour-mind , are now set by the same dial , and , for the first time , embarked in the same cause .
Parliamentary Review. After A Long And T...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . After a long and tedious gestation , the House of Commons has at length been safely delivered of the two great (!) measures—the Rate in Aid Bill , and the Navigation Laws Bill . It remains to be seen how the Upper House will deal with both . In the meantime , having "turned out" these two specimens of legislative workmanship , the Commons have set : to work upon another measure intended to improve the condition of Ireland , and which was very clearly introduced by . Sir John Romilly on behalf of the Government . The
object of the hewBill is one which all parties unite in declaring to be absolutel y necessary , and , in fact , an indispensable preliminary and foundation for any future permanently remedial plans . All admit that facilities for transferring encumbered estates , ; together with undoubted . titles , from the bankrupt or deeply mortgaged nominal owners to new proprietors possessing capital and enterprise , must constitute the initiative of a long series of other measures . As long as the soil remains in the possession of these beggared landlords , it is useless to them , and to everybody else—its liberation is the very first step of the curative process . „
This " great fact" was , however , _iquite as apparent ,- and quite as commonly admitted last year , _atid the year "before that , as it ia this . So common , so apparent , that those dullest of all . dullards , Whig Ministers , ; perceived that the time had come for the _thingito be done . They accordingly essayed the task , ' and , after much delay and many chopp ing--and changings , at last , succeeded in passing a measure so emasculated , mutilated and puny —by reason of their deference to landlord and lawyer influence—that , every one who knew anything of the subject confidently predicted , it would prove an abortion . It has done so . Is was one of their boasted remedial measures
of last year , and it has utterl y failed , - because it was like all the other plans proceeding from Whigs—altogether incommensurate with the evil it professed to remedy . _., Sir . . R . Peel , however , in his outline of a scheme for replanting Ireland , proposed a _Corftmissionfordoirigtheworkapartfromtheclumsy cumbrous ; and most expensive machineryofthe Court of Chancery ? . The mischief is _jireBsing , and demandg / immediate and practical _abatement f whereas , ; everybody . knows that howeYer _numeraus the--r _^ _dV , info Chancery , may : be--few indeed , are , they who ever find thw way
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_sus : * _„„„•;* The present Lord Chancellor _&^&& , _^& _^ ** after his long ** Pf eDCC ° _tJj & V _' . E which he preside ! , he would ccrtamly advise any _friendbf his to _submit to _^ _rf any c _^ ceivable lessor injury , rai _der than go . into the Court of Chancery . The fe . el . ng 5 all classes when they hear of a Chancery suit , is , that the case is hopeless and we have P _^ en thought that the celebrated line from Da _^ 'TE s Jnf erno , " " Alt hope abandon , ye who enter here _,-^ "" _,-, ' -ri , fl _nresent Lord Chancellor
might be , with great propriety , inscribed as a motto over the entrance which leads to the dark and mysterious regions in which " Masters" and _Vicc-Chancellora" hold the souls of suitors ' in torture , and their property in pawn ; . , , f Butthe Whigs had not the . courage to dream of superseding this clumsy and useless , if not obstructive , piece of machinery . In their bill of last year they referred its working entirely tothe Court of Chancery , because that Court _hai » hitherto been entrusted with the settlement of all conveyances of property , involving
equitable considerations , and the balancing of opposing claims . Its utter unfitness to discharge the particular duty they _tlirustupon it , in anything like time to produce the effect intended , was , we daresay , as plain to them as to any one else ! But Chancery was far too powerful a giant for them to grapple with . No sooner , however , did Sir Robert Peel propose to set it aside , and create a tribunal expressly for the purpose of attending to this business , and that with powers and under arrangement that would make it efficient , than the Whigs caught up the idea , and with a complacency
and a smirking smiling air of superior wisdom , —which is quite diverting when one thinks of its origin—have embodied it : in a new Bill for Facilitating the Saleof Encumbered Estates in Ireland . Sir John Romilly judiciously _jsaid iVery little about his still-born progeny of _' Iast year , under a very similar title , and while we give him credit for the unusually lucid expknanationoftheleadingprovisions _- _andgeneralscopo of the Billjust introduced , we think he showed bad taste in not frankly acknowledging the obligation the Government were under to its real author . Sir Robert , on the other hand , deserves all the credit due to him for a frank and cordial approbation of the measure , without
in the slightest or most remote way reminding them of that obligation , or taking , credit to himself for having suggested it . We shall in future stages have ample opportunities of _discusshig the measure in detail , arid therefore , will merely say at present , that while ; generally speaking , the machinery seems M _* ell calculated to effect the specific object aimed at , —namely , the transference of estates from beggared and nominal , to wealthy and real proprietors , —the concoctors of the measure must not forget that that is only one of the series of large and important measures which are required for the complete and satisfactory settlement of the Irish "difficulty . " ' These measures should be framed with a view , to
their connexion with , and bearing , upon , each other , so as to form a consistent whole . So far as we have yet seen , we very much doubt the possession of the power to devise such a policy on the part ofthe present possessors of power . As , however , they have commenced by _stealiugetwjimpevta , ntpartof Sir R . Peel's scheme , we do not see any reason why they should refrain from appropriating the remainder wholesale , with such other " waifs and strays" as they can most convenientl y p ick up in other quarters .
The long-delayed Bill , by which it is proposed to enable Baron Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament ; stood for another reading on Monday night . The " Times" of that day , however , contained an announcement , that in consequence ofthe State Ball at Buckingham Palace , which was to come off in the evening , the Bill would be furtlier postponed till next Monday , when , if the fates are propitious , it is , after the interval of many weeks , again to make its appearance on the Parliamentary stage . We are almost inclined to say that the citizens of London and their Jewish
representative deserve to be treated in this cavalier way , for the supineness and indifference they have shown in the matter . Lord JOHN knows he can calculate upon their asinine qualities , and , therefore , " takes it coolly . " It is curious to look at the position in which the City has been placed ever since the last GeneralElection . Lord John , of course , is too much occupied with the duties of his position , as First Lord of the Treasury , to have much time to spare for his constituents . If he had more , it is questionable'how far the duties of a representative of a particular
constituency are compatible with the discharge of Ministerial and Imperial functions . Having thus practically lost one Member , one would have thought that the citizens would have been peculiarly c & veful in their selection of the three other Members , in order that the interests of the largest , most populous and most wealthy commercial city in the world might be properly attended to , and the deduction of one Member be compensated by extra energy and ability on the part of those who really could attend to their business . So far from that , one of their Members has never yet taken his seat ; one of them is in very infirm health , and can but seldom attend
personally to Parliamentary business . The other is also an aged and failing , though highly respected gentleman ; and the consequence is , that the city may be said to bo practically unrepresented , as far as its own choice of Members is concerned . We should imagine that tho : Jews , ' -at the : next general election , will remember , the tardiness which Lord John has shown in carrying out those engagements , on the faith of which they gave him their votes . Futile and unsatisfactory as were the excuses for previous shortcomings and delays , the last must have " capped the climax "—think of an important act of national justice being delayed because there was a dance at the Palace !
Ah ! Lord John , what between the falling away ofthe Dissenters and the Jews , we suspect that you will not long have to boast , as you did at the Lord Mayor ' s " spread" the other day , that you united the dignities of First Minister of the Crown arid Representative of the first City in the Empire ! Instead of the Jew Bill , the working Members of tlie House were treated to the Navy Estimates , in Committee of Supply , after having had a few last words on the final stage of the Rate in Aid Bill , After the dancers had departed to- don their new clothes and
" bravery , " a small knot of Officials _^ : condemned to do "fatigue duty" —of Economists ; who have no brains in their heel *—and of unfortunates , "who had not got an invitation tothe dance—rsetto work in a . very humdrnni sort of way , to talk about small savings _^ , and old . topics connected with the abuses and misinanagement of the Navy . ;¦ _- _. and upon these they continued to make a very lato ¦ sederunt' ? —as _the-Scotch say—reachingeven _^ into .-. 'the wee ' short : h ' oui * ayont .. the twal . " How much benefit the nation received from their patrioticahd self-sacrificing devotion , deponent _Mith _/ hot . ¦¦'¦' ' - • ' •'
The division upon Mr . Ewar t ' s annual motion for the Abolition of Capital Punishments , proves that the question is ripening 'for a settlement . At first the House was " alinost ' invanaUy _^ counted out , " when the motion stood for discussion ; next it -was somewhat , 8 umm , _**? Y & nd contemptuously negatived by large . majorities .. : Persever ance _: _afid , dete _/ mmation , umted to industry and eare in the collection and selection off * ctsandarguments onttie _. paitdf _^ 9 advocates ; . have : _at-1 en _£ th P * _we « r tne question _^ such : a ' position within ' Pavhament , that its _^ _finali / _s _^ tfle _' m _^ l ; -is _' now merelya _^ _ertioa oi _tuae , Sw _awRGE _tol'S
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official spee ch in opposition , was but the ghost of his former vigorous . _defences of the gallows and the hangman . The success and approaching triumph of the . anti-hanging party should be a stimulus and an example to the friends of a Manhood Suffrage . Di this country everything can be _achievedby . means of sustained , continuous , and determined effort . Without these-qualities nothing catr be achieved , and the people who will not make such efforts , show that they value but slightly the liberties of which they are deprived . '' , , . .... _„ _, _. official speech m opposition , was but the
A specimen of Irish landlord legislation , something akin to Sir H . Barron ' s famous Offences Bill , " which Mr . Drummond humorously described to be a Bill for enabling everybod ) in Ireland to arrest everybody else—was discussed on Wednesday , and , liko its predecessor , thrown out . It appears that the poor famishing wretches in that country cast an unholy arid covetous glance at the flocks of the . landlords and farmers , and the conversion of sheep into
mutton , without the usual preliminary process of paying for them , is growing alarmingly common . In order to stay the progress of this war upon the sheep , Mr . Bouuke proposes that every man in whose house mutton is discovered shall be dragged hefore a magistrate , to give an account of the manner in which he came by it ; and if his explanation was not satisfactory , that he might be treated as though he were a criminal ! These are singular illustrations o £ the force of habit and education on the
landlord-intellect of Ireland , and they throw a sad light upon the nature of the relations wliich must have subsisted between them and the people , when landlordism was rampant . Thank heaven ! the potato rot has overthrown that tyranny , and we trust that ho means will be left untried by the friends of humanity to prevent its restoration . The question of the Slave Trade , and , indirectly , the propriety of maintaining the African Squadron , for the professed purpose of putting it down , has been brought under the notice of the Commons by Mr . M . _GiisON . . The case
altogether presents a curious illustration ofthe contradictions which exist in the national character . At the instigation of the Anti-Slavery Society , we , some years ago , abolished slavery in our own Colonies , forced our colonists to ; sell their slaves to us at a price we named ourselves , and commenced , in conjunction With other maritime nations , a crusade against the Slave Trade , which was declared to be piracy and ordered to be treated as such . For years this went on , and everybod y held his head up with pride , on account of the philanthropy , purity , and disinterested benevolence
exhibited by the nation in this matter . By and by another society , by means of a vigorous agitation , inoculated the public with the opinion that to . "buy , cheap ; and sell dear " was the alpha and omega of . political , commercial , and social _knowledge . . The restrictions which prevented or neutralised the importation of slave-grown _^ sugars were thrown down , or so much modified , -that in fact they ceased any longer to act as a barrier to their importation . Our Colonists ; who were prevented from availing themselves of the labour of the slave , were forced to compete with the
planters of Brazil , Cuba , and Porto Rico , who , in spite of our pretended African blockade , get as many slaves as they want . The consequence is , that our Colonies are ruined , and in such a state of disaffection ,. " that they are not unlikely to cast off allegiance to this conntry ; while , at the same time , after the expenditure of millions sterling , and" the loss of thousands of lives upon a pestilential coast , the Slave Trade is universally admitted to be
larger than it was in 1807 ; and the horrors of the middle passage have augmented in like proportion . O ur policy has neither been based upon one principle nor the other . We have neither been consistent Free Traders , nor consistent Philanthropists ; and , the consequence ; is , it has resulted in mischief to everybody . Above all , it has failed to put down the Slave Trade . But , despite this failure— 'despite the fact , apparent to every man of common discernment , that from the inherent nature of the
case , our continued interference must be as mischievous as it has been hitherto , Lord Palmerston clings to the antiquated squadron which constitutes _suclv a drain on the treasure and the lives of Englishmen . The House of Commons agrees with him , and so to that sore place no plaster is to be applied . Sir J . Pakington ' s renewed attempt to prevent Bribery and Corruption at Elections , i does not promise to be a very successful one .-Members of all parties are exceedingly vb > tuous in the abstract , but when they come to ;
matters of business and detail they exhibit a ; sensitive nervousness which ia very diverting . ' Good , innocent souls ; they are all Yerv anxious and most sincerely desirous to put a . stop to bribery , but they do not know how to do it , and in every plan submitted to them for the purpose , they find so many flaws that the evil remains untouched , Mr . Hume made an open confession on the subject , accompanied by a suggestion , which we hope will not be lost sight of in future discussions on this subject . The . 'Member for Montrose thought , twenty-two years since , that bribery could be repressed by
legislative enactments . He is now convinced of his error . Be sees that it is utterl y hopeless to try it in that way . But he has discoi vered an-effectual remedy—Extension ofthe Suffrage and the Ballot . Give us that , and bribery and corruption will be effectually and permanentl y extinguished . But honourable , ingenious , and pure-minded Members laugh and shake their heads at that suggestion . It is by far too sweeping and radical a remedy for their tastes . They have no objection to dabble little
a in " smallgoes" and talk purity just for the sake of keeping up appearances , but to make such changes as would deprive them and their class of the monopoly of political power and influence which they now enjoy—no ! "that is rather too much of » good thing . " Thus the purity and political virtue of the House of : Cpmm 6 ns expends itself in words—political Pharisees , they : are capital hands at making professions of faith , but their practice b y no means squares with their pro . tessions . Humbug for " ever ! "
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. A Sign of the Times . —Attention need hardly be directed to the offer of a Prize -of Three Hundred Guineas for an-Essay ; oh Royalty , " Aristocracy , and Democracy , in our Mvcrtisin _^ _Coluriuis . _,,,. > Mb . Hudson , M . P .,- and his' _CoNsiiTOESts . _-Tne ¦ LeedsMercury states that the friends _of-Mr . Hudson , ¦ M . _-P , _- _,-: ur Sunderland- have been canvassing thc electors of the borough : for signatures to an address expressing confidence in him . The address denies
_thatthe-ch arges -made _atgainst Mr . Hudson ff *» respeot _^ railway mattershave been proved , and is so worded as to imply _anlapproval _ofliifl political as well as commercial ' conduot . ; ¦ > ' '" _CfflSAPGAs .- _^ -Petition * from 5 , 996 gas consumer and . inhabitants-df-vthe ? citf of 3 London , and tbe parwhesitif ; B 6 w ,-Whiteehapel- « c ., _'hive been _presehtod to th » jHouseef- Commons in- favour of toft _^ _Jifoat Central _Gai _^ _onsBinew ' - C 0 Bipan _* f s Bill «> tending thoir _liauX
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 5, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05051849/page/4/
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