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THE NORTHERN STAR September 9. 1848.
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A LIST OF BOOKS vn* prrBLTSHlK«r Bt
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RECEIPTS OF THE KATZOXTAXs LAND COMPANY.
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FOB THB WEEK ENDING THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ...
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Tbe bona fide debts of the Duke of Bucki...
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PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL
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MR O'CONNOR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. On Mon...
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THE NORTHERN STAtt, 8AT0SDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1848.
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LABOUR, THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH. It is ...
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IRELAND.
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The session which...
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The Northern Star September 9. 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR September 9 . 1848 .
A List Of Books Vn* Prrbltshlk«R Bt
A LIST OF BOOKS vn * prrBLTSHlK « r Bt
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B . D . COUSINS , 18 , DUKE-STREbT , _trscois's-n'K row * , _torroon . rpFpBE SHEPHERD , by the _Rav . J E . Smith MA . U . I ToLI . prio £ 5 S . 6 d .-YoI . H , price 8 s . -Vol . HI , p- % Zl \ s 6 d . doth bo « 4 _* -o- _" _« _*?¦* " » _«* os oae _hali-bouod ia calf m _* lettered , price K * . _JS _* ££ _ofO-renl . _* . _* _, <> ., MWI , of _Worcester ; mi with a reply , by the B « r . J . B . Smith , M . A . 1 * . Zk « _Cbri-tUnW ; or the _Reg ion of St Simon , with a , eo coloured Portrait of St _Simonlan Female ; translated bj by the Rev . 3 B . Smith , M . A . Is . the [ he L ttle Boot , addree-ed to the Bishop of Eseter acd B R ) brriO « ren , by the _Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . 63 . ;
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TUE IABUUR LEAGUE ; or , Journal of the National Tbades * Association . Published Weekly , Price One Penny . Especially devoted to the _elevation of the producing _claste ? , and to the expomre of the causes which lead to their present degradation . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head passage , _Paternoster-row , and soM by all booksellers and news agents ; and at fie office of the National Trades'Association , 11 , Tottenham-court-road .
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HOW AND WHERE TO EMIGRATE . This day is _publisherL _^ price Is each , by J . C . _Btbite , Esq ., Author oi' Twelve Tears Wandering in the British Colonies . ' THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . With a Map of the Colony . THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDS TO NEW SOUTH WALES PROPER , Australia Felix , and South Australia—( Filth Editirn . ) Also , by the same Author fin afew days ) , THE EMIGRANT ' S GUIDE TO NATAL . With a Map . London : EfEngham Wilson , Commercial ant Colonial Bookseller and Stationer , 11 , Royal Exchange .
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TO BE SOLD A FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , at Lowbands , well cropped } wbeat , _fpne acre and one t « _ed ; bailey half an acre , cut and / stacked . There are seventy fruit trees , a pig-sty _capihls of containing from six to ten pigs , with a _wellfenced-ir Commnuicatic ' ¦ addressed ( with a postage stamp enclosed ) to J' , schoolmaster , Lowbands , Redmarley , neat
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TA \ 'ed ia a day or two , " THE TRIA "DOUALL at Liverpool , on the August last . Printed and p ? y Mr A . Heyweod , of Man . cheater .
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I END . TO BE SOLD , A _THu ACRE ALLOTMENT , well cropped , consisting o _. _larley , Potatoes , Turnips , Vetches , Peas , Cabbages , & c . Application to be made to W . G ., No . 9 . Snig's End , or to the Directors , 144 , High Holborn , London .
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MINSTER LOTEL . TO BE SOLD , A FOUR-ACRE FARM , ( full cropped , Three Pigs , Tools , and Implements , with various additions to tbe House and Premises . Apply to T . Gilbert , 34 , _Brizenorton-road , Minster ) Lovel , Oxfordshire , or to the Directors , 144 , High Hulborn _, London .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation ef Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . '
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TOOTHACHE . WHEN YOU hare tried all other Enamels , and found them USELESS , make one trial only of BARKER'S GENUINE ENAMEL , invariably acknowledged to be the best discovery yet made fer curing toothache , filling decayed teeth , and rendering them USEFUL and ORNA . MENTAL through life . Enough for six teeth , sent post free , with _directions _. & c , on receipt of One Shilling , and stamp ; by Aitsed _Basub , 12 , King-street , Long-Acre , London . Agents wanted .
Receipts Of The Katzoxtaxs Land Company.
RECEIPTS OF THE _KATZOXTAXs LAND COMPANY .
Fob Thb Week Ending Thursday, September ...
FOB THB WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1818 . PE * _MRO'COHNOR . BABES . £ I , 6 , _Butterley n 2 0 0 Stoney Stratford , Stockport ~ 1 J 0 0 Watson _« ' 4 II 6 _Eusington Lane 010 0 Oldham M 0 6 6 Rochdale .. 1 15 0 Atherstone . 0 15 0 Nottingham , Newark-on-Trent 2 15 0 Sweat .. S 5 8 _Loughborough .. 3 12 11 Blaudford .. 110 Preston , Liddle 6 12 8 Manchester .. 2 2 6 Westminster - 0 5 0 Chelsea ~ 213 0 Tbos Thomberry 0 14 0 Windy Nook .. 0 9 0 Jobn Anderson .. 10 0 US 8 I BXPBN 8 B FUND . Thomas Thorn . Nottingham , berry .. 0 2 0 Sweet .. 0 3 6 Rochdile M 0 5 0 _Newark-on-Trent 6 3 9 £ 0 13 3 Land Fund ... ... ... 46 8 1 Expense Fond ... ... ... 013 3 47 ll Bank m •¦« ... •»• 58 0 0 £ 105 11 Wk . _Dixob . _CEBiBtornea Dons , Tno * . _Cisbk , ( Corre _* . Sec . ) _Faixrr M ' Gi « H , ( Ftn . S _* o . ) FOR FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . IECEIVE 0 BT W . 1 IDEB . HMBBrigg .. 0 10 Pottery Field . Ru ? eley , per C Leeds , per J Hill - e i 0 Page ~ 4 5 0 Coventry , per W Afewpoor Devils , Hosier ~ 0 5 0 CarliBle , per W . Swanrea _, per J Hall ,. 0 2 9 Phillips „ 0 10 0 £ 17 9 To Mr Panurs , Swansea . —I beg to say that I have not received , ihe 6 b . _Gd . for tee "Victims , directed for me at the National Land Company ' s office . I cannot say why Ur PMUips ' s letters are not answered . Mas S . Sihxosd 3 . —We kave cot beard of the seven shillings _sant to the Central Committee for the Defence Fund . Write to the party to whom you remitted . Wu . Rideb . BBCEIVBD AT LA » T > OFFICE . A few Friends , Wm Davis _„ 0 10 Greenwich , per An Enemy to Mr Whitcombe 0 It 0 Oppression .. 10 0 Mr Sims _M 0 6 0 Ditto _« , 0 5 0 £ 2 6 6 DEFENCE FUND . _—*—» BSCEIVED BT W . BIDES . Nottingham , per John Gale , St J Sweet .. 0 13 Helier 8 , _Jersej 0 0 6 HJIAnngien _. EJy 0 _i 6 £ 0 5 9 _FOR-DB _MDOUALL'S DEFENCE . RECBIVBD BV W . _RIDKR . Nottingham Shoe- Now Basford _. per maker * , per J Fletcher -. 0 9 0 J Fletcher H 0 2 6 Old Radford , per ditto .. 0 2 0 £ 0 13 6 THE _LIBERTT FUND . _™^™^ Ten Charfist * , Kidderminster , per _WYeates ., 0 2 6 roa thb _bxecotivb . Pottery Field , Leeds , per J Page .. „ „ 0 5 0 job kbs _h ' _douiix . Ten Chartists , Kidderminster , per _JTeates _» 0 5 0
Tbe Bona Fide Debts Of The Duke Of Bucki...
Tbe bona fide debts of the Duke of Buckingham are said to amount to a million and a half sterling ! On Wednesday afternoon , between three and four o ' clock , a fire of a somewhat serious character occurred at the rear of the Salutation Tavern , Princes-street , Stamford-street , Lambeth , by which a man was so severely injured as to be obliged to be removed to the hospital . It appears that a party had been engaged pitching a large wooden tank , wbich was placed in the yard
adjoining the back of ths house . From some cause which could not be ascertained , tbe inflammable substance took fire , and burnt with such fury that the wooden balcony and the roof of the bagatelleroom became ignited ; the back windows at the same time were demolished , and the unfortunate man who had been preparing the tank was frightfully burnt . The West of England and brigade engines promptly attended , and owing to the exertions of the firemen the flames were speedily extinguished . Mr White was fortunately insured .
Voltaire ' s Property ; at Ferney , with his It i ! e , and all its h ' _storical and poetical _recollectii w „ is advertised for sale , and the advertisements setting forth the glories and beauties of this ' desirable dwelling' bring us back to the halcyon days of the deceased but ever-memorable George Robins . The sale will take place on tbe 11 th of September , and tbe distant view of Mont Blanc , and the proximity to the Lake of Geneva , are descanted upon in glowing terms by the composer of the affiche .
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ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN . TO BE SOLD , a COTTAGE FARM , _cow _' _sting of an excellent dwelling house , quite new , with dafery , back-kitchen , cow-house , piggeries , stabling , and rther conveniences , enolosed with a high wall . Tho dwelling is in the centre of the farm , _consisting of four acrb _* of excellent land , in high cultivation , facing the highway ; air pure and salubrious , and the water excellent . A similar farm with Fivb Acrkb . Also , Two Acres , with an excellent frontage , but without a dwelling . A Farm of _Sixtt-uivb Acbm with a cottage _dwelling , two lar _^ e yards for cattle , with extensive sheds , and an excellent bai n . Two-thirds ef the _purohase money can be obtained on mortgage . Application te be made to Mr Allsop , Royal Exchange , London .
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Prioe Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( hefere Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . Br _Ekhssx Jones . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the cottr _<" , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken .
Portrait Of John Mitchel
PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL
Specimens Of A Splendid Portrait Of The ...
Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first victim of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith . O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .
Mr O'Connor And His Constituents. On Mon...
MR O'CONNOR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS . On Monday week , tbe 18 th inslant , the hon . member for Nottingham will meet his constituents in any public place they may select , and will carry into effect two Points of the Charter , namely—Annual Parliaments , and Universal Suffrage , by tendering his resignation to the people ; and which , if
accepted , he will cheerfully resign the office of their representative , and , if refused , he will accept their renewed confidence as the tenure of office . Mr O'Connor upon that occasion will review the acls of the past session , and invites the Government reporters , policemen , spies , detectives , and informers , to chronicle his words .
The Northern Statt, 8at0sday. September 9. 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAtt , 8 AT 0 SDAY _. SEPTEMBER 9 . 1848 .
Labour, The Source Of All Wealth. It Is ...
LABOUR , THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH . It is a fact which cannot be too often reiterated , that " Labour is the source of all wealth . " And it is also a fact , that ignorance , Btolid and inveterate ignorance , of the Labour question , has become the dethrone * " of kings , the alarmist of monarchs , the hobgoblin of capitalists , and the ghost ef Governments . It is an irrefutable fact , that the operations of machinery have stolen upon the watchmen of England ' s constitution , and , the English system , like a thief in the dark ; and that , so profitable was the sudden change in its infancy to the revenue , the capitalist , and the fascinated labourer , that there are no laws
upon the statute book to control the monster , save the abortion of a Teh Hours Bill , passed when infant labour was a drug , and the infant population had become dwarfs , and so crippled as to threaten sterility and non-production . The Government , charmed with an exchequer filled by increased and unnatural dissipation ; the capitalist , exulting in the new discovery of coining infant-sweat into gold ; and the reckless parents , who abandoned their " cold , quiet home "—the country air , and comparative contentment and peace , and sold themselves and little child ~ en at the flesh
market , were so overjoyed with the first flush of prosperity , that the Government , capitalists , traders , merchants , traffickers in blood , and the duped people , all joined in one common league to establish that political reform which would give to the possessors of this new wealth a control over every other class of society . AnJ that change was to secure Peace Retrenchment , and Reform—that change was to enable Britain to def y the world in arms , and to rivet affection for tbe constitution in the breast of every . Englishman .
But let us ask in how far this political change has improved the social condition of those by whose co-operation it was effected ? Who amongst them that undertook to supply the deficiency of old times , has ever spoken a word or written a word , in favour of the _peoples share of that change ? but , upon the contrary , while Parliament is nightly _ensaeed in passing laws f _„ r the protection ; not only of the property and rights , but of the privileges , of the monied classes , do not Hume and Cobden , and the disciples of the Manchester school , violently protest against the right of Parliament to interfere in the Labour question ? Ihey say , "Arm us with now *™ tn
curb the disaffected , and to enable us to make merchandise of the destitution of the poor and wewill _grantyouthesuppliestoarmyourpolice , to pay your detectives , to march nod counter ! march your troops , to erect your tents , to man your fleets , to prosecute your victims and transport your felons ; but touch not our profits , by interfering with labour , by creating a market for its free exercise , or we will hurl you from the seat of power , and establish your enemies upon your ruins . '' :
We have laboured hard and incessantly to prove that every class in societ y i 8 irreparably injured by the injustice done to the labouring classes . A five-pound note is a five-pound note , and can be exchanged for five _sovereigns and every soverei gn can be exchanged for twenty shillings ; but there are intermediate classes who look upon the note , the sovereign ,
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and the shilling , as the link which binds them to the system ; while from the _lowest to the highest order of the middle-classes , and the aristocraey , none have the brains to understand that they are one and all directly dependent upon the labourer . § We will not go into the solution of the Antediluvian problem , that if some didn't work , all should starve , but we will take a review of the relation tha t subsists between the labourer and all other classes . Colburn , the aristocratic publisher , may say . in his _grandeur and mightiness , " What have I to dj with the
vulgar labourer ? he does not read my publications ; he is no customer for my wares ; but his disaffection , disloyalty , and discontent may jeopardise my trade , and cause my poverty , therefore , tax me to keep him in subjection . ' * The wine merchant , the silk mercer , the paper maker , the aristocratic boot maker , the clothier , the merchant , the banker , the broker , the peer , and the queen , may all hold those opinions as to their independence of tbelabourclass ; but let us show how links of the great
social chain , of which labour is the strongest , and that from which alone all others extract their strength , mutually depend upon each other . Colburn says , " No labouring man reads mv books , and therefore I am independent of labour ; " thesilk mercer says , " No labourer ' s wife comes to my counter , and what care I for labour , " the wine merchant says , " Talk not to me of the prosperity of the labourer , he quaffs no wine "—but see the link by which they are bound together .
The Labourer at full employment , at remunerative wages , wears clothes , and shoes , and a hat ; atid his tailor , his shoemaker , and his hatter then deal more extensively with the chandler , the butcher , and the baker ; the chandler , the butcher , and the baker deal more extensively with the mercer , the haberdasher , and the grocer ; the mercer , the haberdasher , and the grocer deal more extensively with the silk merchant , the wine merchant , and the more aristocratic tailors and shoemakers ; the silk mercers , the wine merchants * , the tailors ,
and shoemakers , deal more extensively with Mr Colburn , with bankers , and with merchants ; the Commoner and the Peer have better markets for the produce of their land , and greater security for their rents ; the Government have a more extensive Exchequer , flowing through so many channels from Labour , its spring and source ; the Quern has a more secure seat upon the throne * the expenditure of the country is less ; the confidence of all is greater , because the comforts of all are increased .
Under these circumstances , will those who float upon the tributary streams , all springing from the one great source , deny their dependence upon Labour , or dare to assert that the stability of the throne , the security of England ' s Constitution and institutions , do not mainly—nay , wholly—depend upon the profitable employment of the labouring classes ? Talk not to us of the dark age of Toryism , of the " bloody old Times , " and the darker ages ,
when Pitt possessed the ina « ician _' s wand , and , with talismanic influence , commanded money to any amount—* ho , with a touch of the magician ' s wand , s ; iid , " Open Sesame . '" and tbe chest gave forth its abundance and superabundance . Those may he called the days of monopoly , of reckless expenditure , and coercion ; but contrast the condition of the working classes in those days of England's degradation , with their present condition , in the sixteenth year of the Reformed Parliament .
The middle classes and aristocracy of this eoantry were wont to look upon the Exchequer as the horn of Amalthea , from which the more you extracted the more remained behind ; but now they have discovered the value of the policy that pauperises one class that another class may live upon their destitution . They have found out , that , if 20 s . make a sovereign , and five sovereigns a five-pound note , that those coins and that " rag '' receive their value from the sweat _' of the working man ; and
the working man has discovered that there must be something rotten in a system which consigns him to degraded pauperism , while the land of his birth is sterile and dry for want of his muscle and his sweat . And he is beginning to discover that there is something unnatural in the policy which reconciles all above him to the infliction of increased taxation , for no other purpose than to secure passive obedience and non-resistance , even to the suppression of complaint or murmur , while he and his family are in a state of starvation .
Do the rulers of this land hope to substitute the falsehoods of the Press for the loyalty of the subject ? The Morning Chronicle assures its readers that her Majesty was received , on Tuesday last , with the most rapturous applause of her devoted and loyal subjects ; and although we can be as loyal and devoted to a system—to a constitution—and institutionswhich do even-handed justice to all , as any other person ; yet we declare , from our own knowledge—our own senses—and our own ears , that the progress of the Queen through her devoted and loyal subjects , on Tuesday
last , was dumb show—a perfect pantomime " We walked part of the distance alongside the royal cavalcade , and we declare , upon the " true faith of a Christian ' ' that there was not one single cheer , with the exception of a faint attempt by about a dozen ladies and gentlemen standing upon the steps of the Solicitor to the Treasury ' s office . Now , we ask with what show of decency this apostate journal , that ha 9 turned from physical force Chartism to physical force reform , from physical force reform to moral force Whiggerj' , and from moral force Whiggery to vapid , puling , and imbecile Toryism , can thus hope to prey upon the credulity of its dupes ? We have now shown that Labour is the source of all wealth—that
it is the main link , nay , the centre of the social chain—that once snapped , society becomes convulsed—once weakened , society becomes disorganise : ! . And however traders in fear may flatter themselves with a notion that , rampant Chartism once suppressed , the rolling ship rights herself , we would caution the oversanguine not to entertain a notion that _shillings , sovereigns , and five-pound notes grow in the Exchequer ; but to believe that their transfer from hand to hand , however manufactured , wholly and entirely depends upon their first pass _, ing through the hands tf the honest labourer . While in passing , although not looked upon as au authority by profitmongers , we would call the attention of our readers to the
announcements made by Mr Feargus O'Connor in bis place in Parliament , and published in the newspapers of the day . Upon the question of Repeal he said , "There is Irish vengeance pent up in America , and the Americans look upon England with a jealous eye , find will be prepared to take advantage of England ' s weakness . " Again , "While you are coercing Ireland at home , take care that Canada may not seek to throw off your dominion . '' Again , '' If you pass this Gagging Bill
for the suppression of public opinion , you may rely upon it that secret clubs and societies will be established , against whose machinations you may not be so well prepared to defend yourselves , as against ' open and advised speaking . '' ' Again , " If this weather continues for another fortnight , no matter what your harvest weather may be , your crop will be miserably deficient , as the seed will have perished in j'our clay lands , your cold lands , and your wet lands . "
'I his was predicted in the middle of April , and the result proves its correctness , as the most practical men now agree , that , under the most favourable subsequent circumstances , the wheat crop will be miserably deficient . Eng . land is not able to bear another famine , and unless England ' s rulers are prepared to work a miracle , they will not much longer be able to reconcile the farming class to the payment of rents measured by protection ; the payment of tithes , measured by indifference occasioned by prosperity ; to have the produce of their dear land , with rents , rates , taxes , and tithes , measured b y protection , placed in competition with the produce of cheap land , low _xsstes and
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taxes , and an inexpensive government . Let us draw the picture ; here are two bags of wheat in Mark-lane Market—American and English produce . The miller opens the English bag . and straightway out hops the Crown and Sceptre , the Crozier and Mitre , the fund lord , the tax eater , poor rates , the parson , the curate , the army , the navy , the pensioners , the police , the detectives , the judges , the placemen , the Income Tax , the Window Tax , high rent , and Kennington Common , with the innumerable et ceteras ; then he opens the American bag , and sees a cheap President , cheap land , and
light freight . Now , we would ask , in the name of common sense , how the producer of the English bag of wheat can stand competition with the produce of the American bag ; and let it be borne in mind that wheat establishes the value of gold , and that the loss of five millions worth of English wheat , would cause more serious disasters than the loss of twenty millions worth of manufactured goods . Thus we show , and indisputabty , that before confidence can be restored , the Labour question must be considered , and justice must be done to the Labourer
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_sophers to distant regions ; she has preserved her religion , her patriotism , and hospitality , against the might of the oppressor ; and , although there has been a dark cloud e ' er the destinies of Ireland , in the distant horizon we see the dim shadow of Liberty , and the heart gladdens . " In oar _cxiacy ne exchlm , Csb it be !' Yftjbna Yoicere _* pond » ' TJn' . onand Liberty ' "'
Ireland.
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The _arguments used in our comment upon tV . e Labour Question , will equally apply to Ireland as to England . Ireland is a fertile country , and the energies of her people have been wasted for more than a quarter of a century in the visionar * pursuit of a handful of moonshine . They have been instructed to _disregard all measures save that one which was calculated to restore their nationality—and , as upon former occasions , it now becomes our duty—and a painful one it is—to review the mode adopted by the Irish people and their accredited leaders , for the accomplishment of their darling object .
We pass over every General Election , from the peiiod of Emancipation and Reform , when Catholics were admitted to the Legislature , and when the honest and unpurchaseable votes of the brave Catholic people were given to candidates of their own creed , in spite of the threats , and in defiance of the persecution of their Protestant taskmasters . It is painful to review those times which bring to our recollection the patriotic pledges of the candida te , the heroic devotion of the electors , and the sordid , the base , and contemptible prostitution
of their chosen members . The result of every contested eluction since the Reform Bill , was capable of achieving the nationality of Ireland . had not her representative power been basel y bartered for Saxon patronage , for pelf , for title , for place , emolument , and distinction . A . nd what is Ireland ' s reward ? The flimsy boast of a few degenerate Catholic Judges , an apostate Catholic Attorney-General , a set of degraded Catholic officials , who would establish their claim to impartiality by being the most violent _persecutors of their persecuted
If , in all previous parliaments , the Irish members were armed with the pretext that they were hut so many arrows in the great archer ' s quiver , and that bowing before his uncontrolled leadership was the surest mode of acquiring the confidence of their countrymen , the same reasoning does not hold good as to Ireland ' s present representatives— -God forgive us—Ireland forgive us—Justice forgive
us—for having- used the term . If the present representation of the Irish people is a correct and faithful miniature of the full-length portrait of Irish nationality ; outlined in the Repeal of the Union , our humble but sincere prayer would be , that the destinies of that country should never be committed to a whole Parliament of sucii cripples , mercenaries , and political apostates .
race . It was to be hoped that this wholesale confiscation of Irish loyalty would have ended with the demise of the National Salesman , and that Irish members , left free to act , unfettered by the dread of denunciation , and Jinked together hy the love of fatherland , would have risen superiur to by-gone prejudices , and , confederated together , would have stood like a cemented rock against the storm of Saxon oppression .
Since Parliaments were established to the present moment , — -nay , since society was established , and since every class had its rabble , there never was such a rabble , of any , the most profligate class , as the Irish rabble of the House of Commons . As landlords , they surfeit us with their fulsome jargon about the area of taxation and the administration of the Poorlaw ; as Protestants , they disgust you with their antipathy to the Pope and the Popish religion ; as barristers , they are contemptible for their narrowness of conception , prejudice , and ignorance ; and as liberal , ( save the mark !) they are contemptible for their sycophancy , their venality , and prostitution . The slaves return the ministerial nod as if it was
condescension to be recognised ; they accept a ministerial invitation '' to feed , " as though it was an honour conferred upon their virtue , their talent , or their integrity ; they bluster about Saxon oppression , but yield submissively to the Saxon yoke . Upon the most important questions , even connected with the lives of millions , Ireland can furnish her jester ; upon matters of religion , her fanatic ; and upon matters of policy , her buffoon . In short , allow us to pick the odd number of five from the scabby lot , and a more contemptible set could not be selected from the rabble of all classes , Notwithstanding this glaring and irrefutable fact , staring the Irish people iu the face , they seek for a national representation of such a set of prostitutes .
We " argue the question thus , as the Irishman who argued tlie converse , when he tasted the quince ia the apple pie , and upon asking what it was ,. when he was told it was a quince , exclaimed , " If one quince makes an apple pie so good , what the devil would an apple pie he if it was all quinces V So we say , "If a hundred und five Irish Members make a Parliament so bad , what the devil would a Parliament he if it were all Irish Members ? ' ' While a set of _place-hunting beisgars have
been roaring for a Repeal of the Union , and denouncing Chartism , we have witnessed the profligacy of pledged Repealers ; we have witnessed the manner in which they are bought and sold in the Saxon Parliament , and , notwithstanding their degeneracy , we have looked to Annual Parliaments , Universal Suffrage , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , Payment of Members , and vigilant popular control as a means of securing a fair representation .
We do not include Vote hy Ballot in the Irish Charter , and for this plain and simple reason—because , instead of requiring the mask , which the brave Irish people would look upon as an insult , every Irish elector would glory in being enabled to boast of the independent manner he voted for the man of his choice _. But , although we have placed the dark side of the picture before our Irish brethren—and although the pigmy Saxon Prime Minister is
now upon a spying tour—and although the voice of complaint is lulled—although the famishing must die without a moan , and the over population is to be thinned by trans _, portation—although the Saxon law is as desolating as the Saxon sword—and although passive obedience and non-resistance are preached by the pastors of the people as the Christian doctrine , we are , nevertheless , not hopeless .
They may pack their juries , suborn their witnesses , decorate their soldiers , reward their policemen , and commend their Judges , their officials , and their lickspittles , the day will yet arrive when the voice of Knowledge will silence the cannon ' s i oar— when Right will overcome Might—when tha felon , Mitchel , will return to the fond embraces of his disconsolate family—and when Ireland will he herself again . Aforetime , when trade was in its infancy , she carried on commerce with distant countries ; when literature was a novelty in other countries , she . aaat her _philo-
Parliamentary Review . The Session Which...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW The session which seemed as though it would never come to an end , has , at length succumbed to the great conqueror—Time . ' After nearly ten months' duration , it was formally closed , as it had been opened , by the _Queert in person . A contemporary has taken the trouble to reckon up the number of sittings the number of hours consumed b y these sittings , and the hours per diem which each working legislator must have been occupied duringthese ten months . The calculation is curious . Ihe House of Commons met 168 times , and the House of Lords 136 . The duration of each sitting of the House of Commons cannot
, be reckoned at less than an average of seven hours ; it has , therefore , since Jast November satin full conclave about 1 , 176 hours . If , addition to this public business , there have met 44 public committees , with an average on fifteen members on each ; 28 election committees , with five members on each ; H railway committees , each with five members ; 17 private bill Committees , with five members each ; and H 2 other committees , 15 of which had five , and the rest three members each . In all during the session , 215 Committees , requiring 1301 members to constitute them . If the work had been equally divided , every member of the House must have served
on two committees , hut scarcely more than onehalf of the members have been reallv working men , so that upwards ot 300 of them must on the 168 days on which nocturnal sittings took place , as well as committee meetings , have been labouring for _toelvehoursa day , and for seven hours per day on the other days when no Committees met . It is no wonder that human patience and fortitude should have broken down und er such fagging task work , more especially as no profitable or satisfactory results followed these interminable labours . It is no wonder that everybody , within and without Parliament , hailed with
delight the close of a session whose barrenness was in the direct proportion to its length , and that the prorogation should have been one of the most pleasant and happy days of the whole season . It would almost appear as if the weather itself had participated in the general feeling at its termination . The chilly _airland cloudy skies which have mocked the name of summer during the greater part of the season were in keeping with the wretched temperature of Parliamentary oratory , and thenature of Parliamentary business . The bright sun and clear sky of Tuesday admirably typified the national rejoicing at getting rid of a national nuisance , for a time at least .
Of course the fineness of the weather , and the usual exhibition of regal pomp , attracted a large number of the spectacle-hunters who abound in the metropolis , and a few of the exceedingly loyal and sentimental denizens took occasion to parade their attachment to the Throne and Constitution , in a somewhat conspicuous way , whereupon the veracious ¦ Times indited a flaming and most s entimental panegyric on the loyalty of the nation , and drew a contrast—in its " own slashing stylebetween happy Britain , under such a Queen , and other countries that have had the
misfortune to quarrel with their old rulers . Now nobody has called in question the personal conduct and bearing of the Sovereign of these realms . Whatever unpopularity may attach to her Ministers , we believe that a sentiment of loyal respect and esteem for Queen Victoria pervades the country . But , at the same time , that feeling of personal respect is quite compatible with the existence of a general feeling of discontent among the population with the working of our institutions—a discontent which such sessions as that just closed will do little indeed to allay .
The cheers which greeted the royal cavalcade , on its way to the new Palace at Westminster , were no more indicative of the contentment of the people at large and of their attachment to our institutions than the applause which follows the brilliant close of the pyrotechnical spectacle at Vauxhall . People shout from mere excitement at the sight of a fine show . But the excitement is evanescent . When the rockets which went up so splendidly
have come down again as naked sticks ; when the tiery serpents have whizzed into darkness , and blazing stars and revolving wheels have flashed and disappeared , the excitement vanishes too , and nothing but a smell of wasted gunpowder remains behind . Much the same with the gaudy close of a useless session , in which much breath was needlessly spent that would have been more profitably employed had it been even applied to the humble task of cooling the porridge of the speakers .
We have so constantly and so regularly tracked the proceedings of this do-nothing session , that to enter at any length into a review of its course now would be a work of supererogation—another killing of the already thrice-slain . The subject is worn threadbare , and we are sick of it . To waste many more words upon it would almost be repeating its own sin of making " much ado about _nathing . ' " Briefly , then , let us endeavour to sum up the results of this ten months " palaver . " The Session has produced about 100 matter of form routine bills—five or six measures of
general utility , such as the Encumbered Estates Bill and the Public Health Bill—but in such an emasculated and mutilated state , that their practical value must be estimated very lowly indeed . Even the Ministers , while taking credit , in a separate paragraph of the Royal Speech , for the last-named measure , speak of it , only as a ° foundation for continual advauces in this beneficial work , " showing that they were so fully aware ofits defects , and felt that the public were so likewise , that they did not dare to go beyond that very mitigated commendation of their handiwork .
To counterbalance this want of useful and remedial measures , there has been no lack of mischievous and coercive ones . Ireland has received from the hands of a Ministry _^ who took office solely on condition that shewas in future to be governed by a remedial policy—no less than four editions of coercion , each more stringent than the other . In Finance , after four different Budgets were propounded by lhat incomparable Solon in money matters—Sir Charles Wood—the business ended by saddling the country with two miUbns more debt , and the prospect of double that amount , perhaps , to be added next
year , should the country continue to be cursed with Whig mismanagement so long . So completely was everybody worn out by the purposeless and futile labours of tlie Session , that this last achievement was performed in a house consisting of fewer members than tlie number required by the rules of constitute " a house . " Sir Charles propounded his last Budget to thirty-eight members only , and to these we noticed several who were most comfortably asleep . If it had not been out of courtesy , the thread of his discourse might have been cut short , and the House counted out . On Monday night the third reading of the Commission of Sewers Bill , which affects the Metropolis in a very important and vital manner , was carried in the House of Lords by
a majority of five to four , thus showing that in the upper branch of the Legislature attendance had dropped to zero . If the Prorogation had been delayed a week longer , there would have been nobody to address as" My Lords and Gentlemen . " save the Usher of the Black Rod and the paid officers of thfr two houses , for even the Ministry were seized withi the desire to get away from it . Lord John Russell , s'rangely enough , scampered off to Ireland before the close ; and the other members of the Administration were equally eager ta _escape . Most of _theur had done so , _leaving to the Queen the cask of putting an extinguisher upon a Session whieh has done more to bring popular legislation aud popularly constituted legislative bodies into coatemut _, than
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09091848/page/4/
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