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      4 . The Northern Star. * • ' •- ¦ ; - " ...

      4 _. THE NORTHERN STAR . * ' - ¦ ; - " ' _^ ' - _¦ ---- ¦ i September - -ft 1840 .

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      FROM THE 1 st OP SEPTEMBER , THE EXP RES S . THE _TMCMHtA-S-r _SC-CCESS of the _"Daiix -News ' - has led to numerous inguirics _, whether ft might not be _» _. _^^ J ? * " if " » _^ "S _^ _twn , containuHj Reports of Prices and Proceedings ui the difercM Markets on the tlay of _pubUextton . TUe Proprietors of the «* _Daii v Nfw « " have resolved to comply with tbe wish of the Public ; "but , to prevent confusion , the i , a , K » r _willapnear und _« aduTeren _^ t _naroe--tl « t of TIIE EXPRESS . The EXPRESS will contain , in addition to flit " news _hithal _^ nnna _^ nT _^ ta iASS of the HOME and FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE _wiricit may arrive -on the day of nublreation THE EXrKESS « - * ffi _! iave the advantage of Foreign Expresses , _Con-espetaacncB _, and _tither _tjosflv _character * *'* ., * <* fi Moraine Journal But the full and carefully prepared UEPORTS _tS-ae MOSSY , IIAILWaY PRODUCE , C 051 N , _« ATT 1 E , and other MARKETS will he the marking eature . ' As , _notuwer , _Sr interest ** _such a paper imrS _-necessmay lie limited to a Class , or a locality , the Proprietors _canx _« _ht ; pc _* _rhateirhfcTtbe-sale « ortheadvertisomeBts will-he so extensive or remunerative as those of a Morning Paper . _ISiey _lo-etpose , therefore , that _THKEEPENCE shall be the price to "the public of THS EXPRESS .

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      _HowTcauv , Price One Shilling . THK SECOSD EMTION OF MY LWE , OR OUR SOCIAL STATE , Pabt I . a _Toem , ¦ by ERNEST JONES , Barrister at Law . Wc hope theauthor will be encouraged hy the _pubHo to continue his memoirs . _—Literary Gazette , An nnequivocallv strange _andtventMlristorj— € ssiivnic in its quality . —Horning Herald , Published by Mr . Xewby , 72 , "Mo ; - timer-street , Caveniish-square . Orders _reeewed "by all booksellers . Inthe Press and shortly will be published , MY LIFE , Part II . Bv the -same Author

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      IITHOGKAPHIC _ENGfiAVIXeS OF THE DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . MAY still be had at the Office of Messrs . M'Gowan and Co ., 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London ; through any respectable bookseller in town or country j or at any of the agents of the Xorthern Star . The engraving is on a large scale , is executed in the most finished style , is finely printed on tinted paper , and gives a minute " description of the Testimonial , and has the Inscription , & c , & c , engraved upunit . PRICE FOORPEXCE .

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      _TTEST RIDIKG OF YORKSHIRE . _TVTOTICE is Hereby Given , That a SPECIAL ± \ GENERAL SESSIONS of the PEACE , for the "West Riding of the County of York , will be holden by Adjournment at the Court House , in _VTaskfield _, on Tltursday , the Tenth day of September instant , at twelve o ' clock at noon , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of Occupying part of the _Xaw Prison as a Temporary Asylum for _Tauper Lunatics , and making such order thereon as the Justices , then present may think proper 5 and also on other Special Busi-XeSB . C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk ofthe Peace . Clerk ofthe Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , 1 st Sept , 1840 .

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      TIIE _NATIONAL REFORMER , EDITED BT BRONTERRE O'BRIEN AND "FRIENDS . Price lid . Free of Post . 3 . B . O'BRIEN has great pleasure in _announcing the Revival of this Journal . _Ho . 70 , shall appear on SATURDAY . 3 d OCTOBER , 1816 ; and each weekly Number shall be issued in time to reach all parts of die United Kingdom on or befure the date of publication . The NATIONAL REFORMER will be tlie Organ ofthe Keal Reformers , Political and Social , ofthe L ' uited King doni . There iriil be no _raistakingits principles 1 FRIENDS OF THE CAUSE ! send your Orders in time toyour Newsmen , or to the Office , No . 40 , Dck _& stbeet , DorciAS , Isie or Mas , where all Communications forthe Editor are to be _addressed . Yearly Subscriptions , Six Shillings ; half-yearly and quarterly in proportion . The quarterly may be remitted in _Eighteen Postage Stamps . J . B . 0 * Bbie . v .

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      TO TAILORS . Sow ready , THE LONDON and PARIS SPRING and SUMMER FASHIONS , for 1 S _40 . By approbation of her "Majesty Queen Victoria , and his Royal Highness Priace Albert , a splendidly coloured print , beautifully executed published by BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , _Hartftreet , Bloomsbury-square , Loudon ; and G . _Bergt-r , Boly well-street . Strand , London . Sold by the publishers and all booksellers , wheresoever residing . This superb Print will he accompanied with full size Riding Dress and Frock Coat patterns , a complete pattern ofthe new

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . UBSDELL AND CO ., Tailors , are now making np * complete Suit of Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 ; Superfiae West of England Black , £ 3 10 s . ; and the very best Superfine Saxony , £ 5 , warranted not to spot or change colour . Juvenile Superfine Cloth Suits , 24 s . ; liveries equally cheap—atthe Great Western Emporium , J ? os . l and 2 , Oxford-street , London ; the noted house for rood black cloths , and patent made trousers . Gentlemen ean choose the colour and quality of cloth from tbe largest stock In London . Thc : _» , t of cutting taught .

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      DAGURREOTITE AND CALOTITE . THE APPARATUS , LE . YS , CHEMICALS , PLATES CASES , and every other artici ; used in making and Bounting the above can be had of 4 . Egerton , No 1 Temple-street , Whitefriars , London , _descriptive Cata logues gratis . LEREBOURS * celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET LENSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the ceuntry at the following prices : —Deep Power , 68 s . ; Low T _* _ower , 25 i . Erery article warranted . Practical _instrucnons . Three G _lineas .

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      ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . LESSEE , MR * _Jon-S DOUGLASS . FIRST APPEARANCE this Season of Mr . T . lee and Mies Martin , the highly popular comic favourites . To-morrow ( Monday , Sept , 7 th ) , and during the week , tlie entertainments will commence with , first time at this Theatre , a Drama , entitled , "The Rats of Rat ' s Castle ;" after which , on Monday and Tuesday , the Farce of the « _'IrifchLiou , "in whieh Mr . T . Lee and Miss Martin will _SUSt-tin principal parts . To Conclude each even _' ng with "The Little Devil , " TheZittfe /> eci { , Miss Martin . Doors open at half-past Six—Commence at Seven . Acting manager , Mr . T . Lee .

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      £ » Ihc € _" h . ibtist Estate . "— In reply to several corre" _apondenls I beg to say tbat the engraving of tlie Cuartist Estate will he executed upon steel , by the very best artier , and will be printed upon the very bast paper , and finished in the best style , and will be a much larger size that the * ' petition plate , " and fully double the size of the large portraits of Oastler , O'Connor and Stephens . In fact our readers may rest assured thatit will be * ueb an engraving as will do justice to the subscribers , and credit to the artist . I must add tbat there never were such plates given with a newspaper as those giren with the Star , and that the expense entailed npon ma hy _agents not taking tlte number ordered has amounted to nearly £ -d" 0 : nnd thirefnre no more of the promised plate * Ul _« : . ? - : plied tha :, ;• .: ¦;{ _isiaWriV _** " f * *" F . _O'C .

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      Mr , Brewerton , Greenwich . —We have spoke with the agent on the subject alluded to . All will be right . Vou will have them in a day or two . "" . O'Colham . —One insertion of the _advertisemtnt will be seven shillings , two insertions twelve shillings , three insertions fifteen shillings . 5 . S . —The song _"Temple ' s First Estate" is reduced to one halfpenny each , and can be obtained of T . II . Wheeler , 83 , Dean-street . _Korthcen Stabs Wanting—1844—April 13 th , No . 335 ; 1845—March 15 th , 2 Jo . 3 S 3 ; 1845—June 21 st , No . 397 ; 1846—January 24 th , No 428 . If any of my friends can oblige me with copies of the above dates I will return them the value in any shape they may desire . 6 . Julian Habnet . Address to the Northern Slar Office .

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      O'CONNORVILLE . Mast persons having expressed a wish to be [ possessed of an engraving of O'Connorville , which may be framed and kept , we bave now the pleasure to inform our readers that we have engaged the first artist of the day to furnish us with a correct sketch ofthe People ' s first Estate , in which every house and every important object , with a view ofthe surrounding district , will be faithfully represented . The engraving will be ofa large size , and will be executed with great care and in the best style , so as to make it worth the keeping and framing ; to be given to subscribers onlv , from Saturday , the 12 th of September till

      the plate is ready tor presentation . It should be borne in mind f hat , in order to give a sketch ofthe farm in the Star containing an account of the Demonstration , it was necessary to commence the work long before it was in a finished state , and , therefore , the same exactness could not be expected as can be now secured . However , we pledge ourselves that full justice shall be done to the engraving about to be given , and that it shall be superior to any thing ever presented with a newspaper . It must be distinctly understood that none but subscribers from the date we have stated , will be entitled to the plate at any price , as we shall only print the number ordered .

      Notice. Mr. O'Connor Will Attend The Out...

      NOTICE . Mr . O'Connor will attend the out-door meeting and tea party on Monday next at Newton Abbott .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, September 5 . 1846".

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 5 . 1846 " .

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...

      "THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England io the Irish people , with a request that » re should , insert it in the " 2 Vation . " We desire no fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of "physical force , ' ' but simply because some of their Jive points are to vs an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of tlieir proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland icould neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make il _icider and deeper . " From the " Nation" of Jug . 15 , 1846 .

      ABOMINATION NO . II . UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . In this age of simplicity , the value of the most complicated machinery is the facility with whicli its apparently irrelevant parts may be so harmonised as to constitute one great working whole ; the tangled state of our franchise must strike the thoughtful as a conundrum . When , upon all hands , we see ready reckoners introduced into all the relations of this great

      commercial country ; when we are startled with assurances of the necessity of introducing the principle of centralization iuto our representative system , and the prudence of relying upon the wisdom of one man for a reasonable digestion of public opinion , rather than submit to the crude notions of sectional or individual whim — all must admire the adroitness with which the interested have preserved complexity where simplicity is , of all things , the most needed .

      Men , and even women , wholly uneducated , and whose want of education is urged as a justification for withholding the franchise , are entrusted with the every-day management and sole control of those new and complicated productions of art , which astound the world and astonish even the inventor . No man , upon taking his seat in a railway carriage , dreams of examining the engine-driver as to his qualification , or for a moment hesitates to entrust his life to his guardianship . It is scarcely susceptible of belief , that cotemporaneously with this delicacy of entrusting the ignorant with the

      government of their own property , we should , nevertheless , find the very lives and properties of the monopolists of political power necessarily entrusted to the most ignorant of the ignorant , and from whom no further qualification is required beyond the mere slavish performance of menial service . The age appears to be one of emancipation in all else save that which most requires it , The emancipated horse is stripped of the cumbrous breecliin , tight collar , and teasing bearing rein worn by his shackled sire ; the plough is stripped of its unwieldly mould board , every fragment of the superfluous is cast aside ,

      for the better and easier working of tbe machine and the brute , while contrivance appears exhausted in ihe invention of new and more galling fetters for the mind and free action of man . More we enter upon the simple question of right , and the indispensable necessity of substituting a simple system of franchise for a complex system of enfranchising , we shall call attention to thc present patchwork , composed of indefinite shreds and patches . " We have a House of Commons returned by 40 s . freeholders , £ 50 freeholders , £ 50 tenants at -will , £ _1 Q leaseholders , with a

      beneficial interest , and £ 20 leaseholders without a beneficial interest , by £ 10 householders and freeholders , by freemen by birth , freemen by descent , freemen by servitude , and freemen by education , hy pot walloppers and scot and Jot voters , by fabricated votes and faggot votes , the dependents of the several classes being mere tools in the hands of the owners of the property out of which the vote is created , and sufficiently numerous to overbalance the independent minority , and before even this mysterious privilege can be possessed , the anxious expectant has to run the gauntlet of overseers , with the formality of notices and required technicalities , the tax collector and bis demands , then comes the bias of the

      partisan revising barrister , the interested support of the friendly lawyer , and the factious opposition of the antagonist , and then the caprice of the assessor against whose partiality there is no appeal save to that dread tribunal a committee of the House of Commons , where reduced faction gives final judgment , according to its party ' s interest , thus making merchandise for party purpases of man ' s dearest right and most valued privilege . Nor does the complexity end here , as we have _reeently ( seen in the further threat of ent anglement by the creation of free trade voters . What we demand , therefore , is the application of the new _ scicnc _3 ol _simplicity to our complicated

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      conundrum of franchise , m the substitution of man suffrage for house suffrage and the simple parish register of his birth for those mazes and labyrinths through which the claimant is now compelled to pass ere he can secure his natural ri ght to vote for the representative best suited in his judgment to protect his life , his liberty , and his property , and to adjust the profits of his labour with justice to society and without detriment to the owner . What we demand , therefore , is , the restoration of the

      suffrage to every sane man of 21 years of age and at large on the day of election , as the only means of securing a constituent body sufficiently large to defy bribery and corruption ; sufficiently varied to insure the representation of all classes according to their number and usefulness , sufficiently intelligent to distinguish between a good or a bad servant , and sufficiently simple to admit of definition without the aid of the barrister , the lawyer , the overseer , aud tax gatherer .

      As it is an admitted fact that labour is the source of all wealth , it naturally follows that the primary aim and end of all governments should he care of that spring from whence the refreshing waters flow , and it follows as unerringly as effect follows cause , that neglect of the source must lead to irregularity in tbe several streams that should mutually and evenly contribute their supplies to the one great reservoir . In our treatise upon Annual Parliaments , we trace ministerial difficulty from the folly of an obsolete age to the wisdom of the present , and we shall now

      proceed to trace the embarrassment of the several represented classes to its natural causes , namely , the disfranchisement , and therefore neglect , of labour , which is the source of that wealth , that only wealth which all enjoy and would vainly hope to increase by restricting instead of extending . the limits of the fountain from which it springs . We have asserted and have not been answered , that if society is composed of an indefinite number of antagonist interests ,

      all represented , while labour alone is unrepresented , jt will be impossible to secure harmony in the representative system , so long as the contest of faction is fbr the lion's share of labour ' s produce , while , on the other hand , inasmuch as capital and skill will ever possess their legitimate share of influence and power , if the anomaly of class legislation must continue it would be incomparably more beneficial to society at large , that labour alone should be enfranchised than that labour only should be unrepresented .

      The major device of the day is the means by which our national resources may be better cultivated while the loudest cry is PROTECTION TO NATIVE INDUSTRY . If , then , we can prove beyond the power of denial , that the enfranchisement of lahour is the only means by which this double object can be achieved , and that the desired benefit can only be insured by Universal Suffrage , we establish a claim for the principle , which can only be resisted by the tyrant ' s plea of expediency—a plea , however , which is being daily weakened by the growing intelligence of the age .

      We may be met by the rejoinder , that what is an object with labour is also an object with government ; , that government has a paramount interest in the cultivation of our national resources and in the protection of native industry . We admit this assertion as a fact , while it must be remembered , that government is the mere creature of those classes who prosper upon an inequitable distribution of labour ' s produce ; and that government must hold the balance of power unequally , between those whose servants they are , and those whose property they are appointed to distribute , and whose servants they are not , and to whom they are in nowise responsible .

      The represented classes , whose sole property consists in traffic in labour ' s produce , will only allow their government to cultivate our national resources , and protect native industry , to that extent and limit , to which the experiment can be safely made , consistently with thc security of class-appropriation . For instance , the profit-mongers would much prefer an annual return of THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS from national industrv , with Two Hundred and Fifty

      Millions as their share , to a return of a Thousand Millions , with Two Hundred Millions only as their portion . All men must confess , that the main object to be achieved by the representation of labour is , the securing for its order a larger share of its own profits , while few will be found sufficiently hardy , or insolent , to deny that the object of the speculator is to limit produce to that point which best secures the lion's share for themselves .

      The true meaning of Universal Suffrage is , the better cultivation of our national resources , and their more equitable distribution , with the Vote , as the legitimate protector and guardian of native industry , and a House of Commons as the medium of its equitable distribution . The anomaly of our present system is strikingly manifest in the fact that each succeeding government is compelled to ferret out the property of the weakest political section , as a scramble to appease the rapacious appetite of the more powerful ; while the plundered are allowed to make good their losses

      by filching from the poor . Hence , Lord John Russell declared that the object of the Reform Bill was to give to the landlords a preponderance in legislation , and forthwith the action is suited to the word , by the plunder of the poor for the benefit of the rich . The Irish landlords demand their share in the _jiolftical scramble , nnd 25 per cent , of thc church property is offered as a sacrifice to their power ; with the additional advantage of being able to make a profit upon the transferred liability . In turn the landlords are sacrificed to the growing power of the manufacturing interest , and the loss is threatened to be made up from labour's parings .

      The paper hangers , boot makers , silk weavers , cork cutters , and thousands of other branches of native industry , are sacrificed as compensation to those who have suffered in the whimsical adjustment of class leg islation . None are satisfied , while labour is the most plundered , and hence we prove thc impossibility of a parliament of represented classes ( labour , the only source of wealth , being excluded ) adjusting the affairs of those classes to their mutual satisfaction , or at all to tbe satisfaction of that class upon whose industry they live , and for whose legitimate property they contend .

      We affirm , therefore , that oor whole system of Poor Laws , with their grinding rule and degrading propensities ; the contention and strife of represented parties ; the impossibility of government to hold the balance of power even between the represented aud unrepresented classes , the enormous fund raised for the support and enforcement of our criminal law , the huge amount of mouey expended in litigation , the unchristian tax for the support of a standing army and police force , the pauper prosecution fund , the transportation of system-made thieves fund , the

      expense of strikes , sick clubs , benefit societies , odd fellows , mutual relief clubs , _^ anti-militia clubs , repeal associations , Chartist associations , anti-slavery associations , emigration societies , mutual protection societies , class and party distinctions and feuds , election rows , criminal prosecutions for speaking the truth , the hatred of man towards his fellow , the jealousy of the misgoverned , and dread of misgoverning , the disparity between man and man , the growing

      tendency towards infidelism , drunkenness , ignorance , licentiousness , theft , dissimulation , idleness and dissipation , tbe limitations of our national productions , and general discontent , arc one and all consequences of class legislation , and which can only be destroyed by Universal Suffrage , The g reat , importance ol this ABOMINATION compels us to divide its consideration into two parts—the second of which shall follow in our next .

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      TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF AN ATROCIOUS MURDERER . Since the death of Cobbett , the title of chief opponent ofthe DAMNABLE ACT , with all its appurtenances of hatred , vengeance , horror and _revenge , has devolved upon us by survi vorship , and if the monster shall outlive our time , which God and the people forbid , we shall bequeathe its destruction as a legacy to posterity . Our position with respect to the monster , from conception to birth , from birth to maturity , and from maturity to rottenness and consumption , must not be lost sig ht of . While in the Whig womb we assisted in administering , nightly , poisonous concoctions composed by Cobbett , in the hope of promoting abortion . We assisted to insure a painful labour , and met the young monster at its birth with every species of opposition , in the

      hope of stopping its growth and strength until awakened popular indignation and resistance should aid us in its total destruction . If the fierce and continuous opposition of the few and determined within had been backed by the pressure from without , the beast would have heen strangled \ but , alas 1 tha people accepted the Whig Reform Bill as the nation's triumph , and stood by in listless apathy while the real victors were demolishing every vestige of Labour ' s ri g hts . We implored and p leaded , but in vain , till 1836 , when the threatened machinery and details sounded the alarm , and then tardily half a million of the sufferers assembled on Peep Green , attempting to undo what their timely resistance would have prevented—to repeal the law .

      This has ever been the besetting sin of the popular party . It stands by in sulky , sullen silence when action would be successful , and it splutters in frothy rubbish to undo what never would have been done if resisted in time . In 1839 we were honoured by the Whig Attorney-General with a criminal prosecution for our opposition to the Act , and we much doubt tbat one in one thousand even of the working classes are yet aware of the fact that we were the first victims to Whig wrath in those days , or are at all acquainted with the circumstances of our first trial , conviction and incarceration . However , as we are once more about to renew the war against the tottering monster , the time is favourable for the recapitulation of some forgotten facts .

      We have now before us the Star of December 22 , 1838 , in which was published that libel , for which Mr . Justice Littledale , in delivering the sentence of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , said that he would award us eighteen months' imprisonment , nine months upon the alleged Poor Law libel , and nine months for the publication of the speeches of Mr . James Bronterre O'Brien ; and here follows , not a garbled extract , but the whole , every sentence , word and syllable , of the libel for which we spent nine months in solitary confinement ima condemned cell . Warminster Bastile . —A little boy , last week , for some small offence was confined in one of thc cells

      belonging to the above workhouse , and was literally starved to deatli . The poor little tellow during his confinement actually ate , in consequence of hunger , two of his fingers and the flesh from his arm \ 1 * . Now , reader , we did not suffer nine months impr isonment for the above libel by process of law , we suffered it from your culpable apathy , from your treason to your order , and for our own folly in fighting for others who were too cowardly to fight for themselves . However , still willing to trust to the growth of opinion for protection from the law ' s tyranny , we now republish the paragraph , with the

      addition that we believe every word of it . That we believe that Englishmen and women have feasted upon the pickings from , perhaps , the hones of their fathers , their mothers , or their children . That the destroying monster has committed countless murders , and that those who framed , and sanctioned , and administered the Law will one day appear as murderers before that great Judge into whose councils neither the dictum of a cabinet , the quibble of a judge , the prejudice of a jury , or the rule of a devil king , will dare to enter , where murder will be adjudged as sucb , not by construction of human law or political ingenuity .

      For that poor assault upon so great an offender , we were denied tbe judgment of a grand jury , and treated to an ex-offich prosecution and a special jury of Yorkshire landed proprietors , who were themselves particeps criminis , co-conspirators with the Whigs , thc devil king , and the law , in the plunder , starvation and murder of the poor , the rightful owners of tbe stolen property ; and yet , although we suffered thus unjustly then , when we stood alone upon the watchtower , and when we alone dared to cry thief at thc thicPs approach to the manufacturing districts . Then , when faction , like the crawling caterpillar , had other legs enough to crawl upon , not a newspaper vouchsafed a line in condemnation of our unj list suffering , not an agitating lip lisped a single wnrd in our behalf .

      No , faction would have kept their last leg for a seasonable crutch in its old age and last extremity . Having thus traced our opposition from conception to consumption , wc shall now proceed to revel in the torturous agony to which the administrators of the Whig law are subjected , while we shall , meantime , justify one much complained of abuse of Joseph Hume and other supporters of the measure . When the Landlords , —with that preponderance of power which Lord John Russell said the Reform Bill was meant to guarantee to their order—asked for the substantial symbol of the great national victory , the men in power under its provisions said : —

      Behold it , take unto youselves and for ever , divide among ye , and bequeath as a _legacy to your children , and your children ' s children and to their offspring for ever , yea , to the very end of time , all thc lands that the Lord our God gave unto the poor and tlieir children , as the means whereby they may live , and through which they may glorify the name of the Lord . Take thera , we say unto you , for the Lord ' s name is to be no longer glorified in a land where the Lord's ordinances can no longer be kept by man , as they are at variance with the supreme laws ol traflic and gain and lucre , whicli must henceforth be governed by the laws of political economy .

      And the lords of the soil said , Verily we thank ye , but howbait _, if the Lord of hosts , angered by our possession of his people's property , should raise his hungering children and lead tlicm against this our new property , when , mayhap , the devastating army in their inarch may nuke no distiuctien between the land-marks of Parliament and the kind-marks of the Lord of hosts . And tlie Whies answered and said , Behold we will give you a Cerberus , whose deep growl shall be obeyed as a law , to guard your gates and your

      avenues , and a rural Police Force to guard your extended domains , and wc will surround your new possession with ramparts of steel and iron , and we will give _unt /*! you a body guard of local chiefs , who snail have equal interests with yourselves in this new sub-ilivision of the land , and we will erect bastiles , and _gasls , and dead houses , for tliose who shall dare to murmur or complain ; for , behold , it is our command , tliat all the nations of the world shall confess our civilisation , made manifest in the increased misery of thc poor .

      And lo , the Lords of the boiI were no longer afeard _, but defied the Lord of hosts and his people , and tlianked the lords of parliament for the lands of the noov , ot which , thej uoasessed _tkWiilvos , yea , even to the last inch . But now , behold thc _daepoilers ofthe poor begin to tremble , for the Lord of hosts has strangled their Cerberus and scattered their guards ' , and has cried out with a loud voice whicb rings through the land ,

      "RESTORE ! RESTORE 1 ! RESTORE !!! unto the poor their full share of the land , which _tliou hast stolen from thein , and if yc disobey my commands 1 will destroy the land marks of your unrigliteousncs ; for , verily I say unto you in my wrath , that the poor shall no longer starve in this land overflowing with milk and honey , made i wilderness by the covetousness of man , for tliey are thc people of my pasture and the sheep of my f old .

      And behold , thc whole earth trembled at the voice of the Lord of hosts , and the lords of tbe soil were sore afraid , and exclaimed , Strike down the land-marks of parliament , we beseech you , and restore unto the poor the lands which they unrighteously bestowed upon us , for verily our

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      eyes are opened to the injustice of this great iniquity . We Shall now proceed to examine the pretext upon which the 43 rd of Elizabeth was repealed , and we shall then justify our denunciation of Joseph Hume and the Malthusian Whigs , for their support of the new measures . The ground work of the damnable act was the report of a commission appointed fo nose out all the irregularities of the several governing and managing bodies entrusted with the administration Of the Old law , and the commissioners had for the most part a strong interest in its repeal , and

      in the substitution of an act which , would enable the rich to p lunder the poor . There was no pauper , no poor man , no poor man ' s friend , upon that commission ; and , nevertheless , throughout the whole report , not a sentence appears in condemnation of the old law while the several parties examined condemn its administration by the existing local boards and acting officials . The people themselves may be well excused for their temporary , and otherwise culpable , apathy , by the fact , that being the greatest sufferers from the mal-administration of the old law , they also desired

      some change , and naturally enough anticipated the re quired Reform from that Government which they had helped to power . _Although wehave frequently censured the working classes for their indifference to the new measure , we can yet find a plausible excuse in their young confidence in their new allies , and the difficulty in believing that a measure , supported by so many of those old and loved leaders , could be as bad or as dangerous as described by some friends always found in opposition . It required the foresight of a Cobbett to see the evil future which has now overtaken

      the friends of the experiment ; and it required at least the first pinch to convince the more ignorant and less thoughtful of its probable effect upon the labour market , upon the comfort , and even the very existence of the poor . If , however , we can find an excuse for the ignorant and unconfiding—if we can pardon the amiable simplicity of those who expected a reform in their institutions , as an instalment ofthe wholesale measure to which they had helped others , we can find no such excuse for Hume and Co ., nor

      will it satisfy us now that Mr . Hume and his friends should purge themselves of popular disrespect and hatred , by unseasonable abuse of the administrators of the Damnable act . They must do more , they must repeal it , trample upon and leave not a vestige even of its ashes behind . Our charge against Mr . Hume is not thatthe ADMINISTRATION of the law was left to irresponsible brutes ; our charge was , and is , that he and his Malthusian friends , with their eyes open , allowed those brutes to MAKE the law , and to administer it as suited their whim .

      The old law was repealed in consequence of the peculation , neglect , and plunder of those who were intrusted with its administration , and we cannot grant the Malthusians absolution , until , acting upon a like principle , they shall now repeal a law which is more clearly damned by official plunder , peculation , cruelty , insolence , and culpable neglect , the more culpable and unpardonable , because numerous unexposed murders have been committed upon no better plea than an expedient irresponsibility conferred upon the mutes of the rich to thin the ranks of the unprotected poor .

      "We rejoice that Mr . Hume has sorel y felt the loss of long-earned popularity and confidence . There are few instances of a fall so humiliating and rapid _, or more deserved , than his . And , in order to convince him that the feeling of disgust was general , naught now remains for us but to pass sentenee upon tlie convicted torturers . You , Mr . Franklaud G . Lewis , Sir Francis Head _, and Mr . Nicholls , have been found guilty hy a jury of your countrymen , after a long and patient trial , in which you had all the advantages that station , influence , and wealth could bestow ; as well as the

      assistance of the _profetsional skill of tliose learned gentlemen to whom you have very wisely intrusted your defence . If you have any just cause of complaint , it is against those whose duty it was to have warned you of your first transgression ; in the hope of saving you from that ignominious end to which your multiplied and repeated sins against the laws of your country , and your God , is now about to consign you . Your fate will , we trust , act as a warning to all who vainly hope to escape the eye of Him , from whom no secrets can be concealed ; and will teach others , that , however they may evade justice

      for a season , yet the arm of the law is too strong , and will , in the end , be found too powerful for the most cunning . The crime of which you have been found guilty is the highest known to our laws , inasmuch as you are told by the Scriptures—which we fear you have neglected in youth , that" they who die by the sword are better than they who perish from hunger , for their bodies pine away , stricken through for want of the fruits of the field . " Hence , you see , that you have been found guilty of a higher moral and legal offence than if you had slain the thousands that have perished from hunger , by the

      sword . And , therefore , having given your case our most calm and anxious consideration , the sentence of thc court is , tbat you , Mr . Franklaud G . Lewis , Sir Francis Head , and Mr . Nicholls , be taken from the place where you now stand to the place from whence you last came , and from thence , upon a day to be appointed by the people , you shall be drawn upon a hurdle , each of you being represented in effigy , and , respectively burned by the hands ofa pauper selected for the purpose , [ amid the most vociferous popular acclamation ;] and may the Lord have more mercy upon your souls than you had upon the bodies of the poor .

      Now , such being the sentence , we earnestly hope and trust that an early day will be appointed throughout the land for carrying it into execution , an example that will yet do more to awaken Hume and the Malthusians to a sense of their duty than all the exposures of the press , the condemnation of coroner ' s juries , or the censure of the House of Commons . * We must now destroy the monster , or it will crush the system-made poor to the dust . We will _stnitjgle for no amendment—our motto is , RESTORE ! RESTORE ! RESTORE !

      Oastler And O'Connell. "The Would" And "...

      OASTLER AND O CONNELL . " THE WOULD" AND " TIIE NORTHERN STAR . " A hand of genteel politics after a week of party contention is like a quiet game of whist after a boisterous romping match , and as The World newspaper is the only companion with which we can enjoy this unusual tete-a-tete _^ we have no objection to accept tlie polite invitation of our cotemporary . We commence the game with the following card from our cotemporarv's hand : — AN EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT ,

      The Northern Slar assumes to be—and , we believe , is , the organ of the Chartist body ; that is . of the industrial classes of England , Scotland , and Wales , and labours to advocate democratic principles . It was _UlCV . _fotC with no little astonishment we noticed ¦ i letter in it from Riclwrd Oastler , horn whicli ire have taken thc following paragraph : — " Be it remembered , however , that the game once lost , enn never be _regained ! Free Trade in commodities _imi'lies Free Trade in institutions ! The _let-elling spirit , will uot Stop at corn or cattle , or goods , or labour . It will if not resisted , ride roughshod o \ TK CUOWSB ASD MITHES and coronets—AYE , ASD FUNDS .

      " The spirit of the Constitution being once broken , we shall be _i ; ovenied hereafter by the sordid spirit of commerce , uron the principle of ' buy in tho cheapest market . ' "Gain will change place wilh honour—the high and noble spirit of chivalry will yield to the sordid trickster ' s grasp ing resolutions to obtain wealth ! The Crown may still glitter , but it will bk held in subjection ur the mean ! Tue _Cohoket hay . buike , but . ' sot os ¦ nit IIKOW OF TUE NoUtE !

      " Well , well , if it must be so , the glory of England is faded , and her most sordid sons will be ber proper rulers _.

      Oastler And O'Connell. "The Would" And "...

      "If her nobles consent , they _dsservo their doom ! If they dare not resist , they prove that they are not true sons of their reputed sires 1 " "" Now , mark ! the Northern , Star , which is constantly abusing Mr . O'Connell , publishes the above without a line of comment . We would have at least expected that our cotemporary would have reminded Oastler that" free trade institutions" might not be so bad & thing foi * the people .

      Now our answer is , that while our social feelings run evenly in the current with those of that excellent English gentleman , Mr . Oastler , we have no one political bias in common with him , while , if our cotemporary had used his usual nice discrimination he might have discovered that Mr . Oastler _' s strictures upon free trade rather had reference to the parties by whom and for whose interests it was carried , than to the principle of the measure under

      circumstances which would admit of its equitable adjustment ; and when he states that free trade in commodities implies free trade in institutions , whicb may entail damage to crowns , and mitres , and coronets , and funds , he implies no censure upon free trade institutions other than those which will be held in SUBJECTION BY THE MEAN . Mr . Oastler is speaking of the probable effect of the measure under the rule of a Free Trade government emanating from Free Trade traffickers , and not ofthe effect of the measure under truly liberal institutions . We shall now take another card from our opponent ' s hand in order to assist us in the game to which he has recently challenged us . He has challenged us to prove a single instance in which he abused Mr .

      0 Connell , and now from his own lips we are enabled to reply . From the beginning to the endyea , even to the end of THE WORLD . In the same number from which we select the stricture upon our publication of Mr . Oastler's letter , we find the following exultation ;—

      A REFORMED POLITICIAN . We had for some years lost sight _ofMr-HuonKs a young gentleman of great genius—a poet—linguist —philosopher— " a travelled Thane "—a ripe scholar —and , like all Hibernians , a patriot ; but we are now happy to announce that the gifted author of " The Ocean Flower , " has reached land , bringing with him a little volume full of gall and honey , in which he lashes critics and Repealers , and feasts us with " some orient pearls , at random strung . " Mr . Hughes once was a " Young Irelander , " and had nearly started a paper , which was to havo blazed forth as "The Sun , " to promote tbecauseof nationality . He is now an older and wiser person , nnd behold how bespeaks of his former chums : —

      This unwonted operation of _blushing must have re cently proved its practicability even on the facts or Irish _ItErEAtEns , had they witnessed , as I have been forced to do , the contemptuous comparisons which wretched Spaniards and Portuguese have of late been accustomed to form between their own intolerance of oppression and frequent armed resistance on the one hand , AND THE COWABDLI MENACES AND INSANE MOUTHING IN Ireland AGAINST A BEXEFICENT _GOrERNMEjar ON THE OTHER . Talking the Kraken , and _actfifc the sprat , is the surest warrant to be despised . It waB

      but yesterday that I heard this humiliating subject _discussed here by a party of Spanish emigrants from Gallicia , and of Portuguese fresh from the late successful insurrection . With what blistering mockery and scorn they ridiculed the _splfhtr-fizzings in the air , and SA . bee-slashes in the watbr , of men who declare their wrongs to be immeasurably _ureater than THOSE OP ANY OTHER SECTION OF MANKIND , and yet , said the Spaniards , were * tan _cobarcUs para charlary no hater nada '— ' such cowards as to prate and do nothing l " Again : —

      Whether were the Mamans and Samnites _, or are the Irifch by tbeir mode of preceedure tbe _greater Barbarians ? Having spent many yearsof my Hfo In various parts of the continent , I can vouch that the dignity of beiug a British subject to-day is as great as was that of being a Roman citizen 2 , 000 years ago , and that if ( which Heaven forbid !) the fatal delusion of Repeal ivere to succeed , with its inevitable consequence , Separation , _Irelanrt ar . d IceUnd in the estimation of continental Europe , would differ only by a letter . The Irish imagine that they

      HAVE A HI 8 TORT A _!« 0 LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN to Sustain an independent national character , but their bards and annals do not surpass the Icelandic scalds and sages , and they have no modern literature , worth one farthing which is not 6 teeped in Shakspeare and his successors . I , an Irishman , say this , knowing enough of the ancient language and the ancient and modern literature to laugh at the claims of factious scribblers . Now for a bit of the honev _: —

      "THE DIRGE OP REPEAL . * " Strepunt Hibern'i ' a . . . _curgidi ! Hobat . Cam , iv , 12 . ' RepiaV _' s the _Irith word—' tis well > , With Britons be the word , Repel ' . ' ' EepeaV ' s the shout—ah , _well-a-day , When will the shout _^ rise , Rep at V " Wc must have another morsel : — "— Juvomunte re » o « uitpreees Horat . Carm . iv . 1 . Lreve caput , madidique infantia nasi .

      . lev . Sat . x . 109 . Young Ireland '—young , 'tis plainly seen ' Green Erin '—ah , how deeply preen ! For coxcomb boys not e ' en half learn'd t And bad old man your pence are earn'd . Your heart ' s too warm for thoughtful head Your brain with air-drawn fancies fed _. Keep back your coppers from the rogues—AND BUT _TOr-RSELF A PAIR OF BROGUES !" The poor gentleman makes the following confession in a foot note : —

      I was once smitten with the Repeal mania , and wrote some verses in its favour eight years ago , before the real character of the movement became apparent , and when I was incapable of fovming a solid judgment . I was then an enlightened politician of _four-and-twenty ! One mouthful , and we have done : — I once was an admirer of O'Connell , but his course _di ; bing tiie past seven _uars has expunged every feeling of sympathy . Ileigho !

      Now , from the above we learn that " Mr . Hughes , a young gentleman of great genius , " and formerly an enthusiastic Repealer , lias now become AN OLDER AND A WISER PERSON , —that he has abandoned the wild notions of his youth and arrived at the sober discretion of manhood , and for his conversion from love of nationhood to love of provincialism is entitled to THE WORLD'S commendation . Here , then , is our reply to the challenge of our cotemporary , who understands " that praise undeserved is censure undisguised . " Our cotemporary is an avowed Anti-Repealer , and the most zealous champion of

      Daniel O'Connell , a professed Repealer . What other construction , then , can we put upon his championship of O'Connell , than that in his policy he sees the success of THE WORLD'S principles ; and hence , is his \ iraise of the Liberator censure in disguise . Can THE WORLD be sincere in its opposition to Repeal , end also sincere in its lavish encomiums upon him who bas pledged himself to the death to its accomplishment ? Or , rather , does not the strained etiquette between the juggler and the Editor , strongly remind us of those conventional habits of intimacv which exist betwen the

      fox and the badger , when those animals are copartners in and joint occupants of the same '• earth . " Whether by natural or prescriptive right , or by compact , the fox takes the tit-bits of tiie wild animals , and the birds of the air , and domestic fowls provided by himself , while the badger luxuriates on the guts as his share for keeping the house clean . Now , does THE WORLD suppose that whatever its adulation of the Liberator may be , that the badger can live in the hole with the fox , or THE "WORLD with the Liberator , upon any better terms than we have cited ? Or is THE WORLD not aware that the old fox only allows to THE WORLD the privilege of being read so long . as it performs thc required duty of playing the badger ' s part . If THE WORLD has any doubt of the Liberator ' s relapse to Whiggery , we beg to furnish our contemporary with the following damnatory proof from the columns of the Northern rRiiy . ' * The tone oi * Mr . O'Connell ' s speech is very good , with respect to Ministers . They are anxious to do _^ for Ireland all the good in their power * , and we are glad to find that he seems disposed to second tlieir efforts , without permitting Repeal absurdities to stand in the way . lie is acting in a complete Whig spirit ; and we arc glad that ho is so . We wish , also , to give Mr . O'Connell praise for his quiet , but c-VectuaLcxy . _bsuvfc ofthe injustice of Dr . Mac Hale , ia his letter to Lord John Russell . The haughty and unjust prelate speaks with all contempt ot the vote of £ 50 , 000 for the relief ef distress in Ireland . _Yt e [ submit , that it is a sum not to be despised . '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 5, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05091846/page/4/