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THE NORTHERN 8TAR _ 1'kbruary 10, m^ *_ ...
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THE NORTHERN STAE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1S49.
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IRELAND AND THE ENGLISH. During the long...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. Ministers had a na...
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A _MOKTliLY mCOiW OF OEffiOGRATIO _, 3081-1 & I 8 DU 8 TRIAL PROGRESS "THE COMMONWEALTH'' v . _iUbe the _Representr . tive of the Chartists , - socialists , and Trades' Unionists , in the Monthly Tress . coxtests : 1 . Gold Region of California . 2 . _Tauperism and _Toor Rates . 3 . The Spy System . 4 . Louis Blanc . 5 . The Epoch ofthe Revolution . 6 . Productiveness of Small Farms . Communications for the Editor , Books for Beriew , & c , to be forwarded to tlie Office , 16 GREAT WKDMttL STREET , _LOSDOX . To he had of all _Booksellers in town a nd _County
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iv _VPPE _VL TO lTE CHARTISTS kla - _^ _Y £ . Ah _l-V _\ manner _tjie People ' s A _VROPER ; _d'W _^ v tobe inadeaBeality . By _Cliarter may be rendereU « orui . - _Uie " _^ _S _^^ M- _^ ran and Co ., _-VrindmiU-street
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_IMPORTANT SOTICE . VEW TEAR'S GIFTSTOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF TIIE CHARTIST VICTIMS . THE PRESENTS " ALREADY RECEIYED far exceeding in number and value what was anticipated ( with promise of numerous others ) , and as ma-iv ofthe tickets still remain unsold , the committee have decided on postpouing the final disposal of the Gifts till MONDAY , FEBRUARY 19 ra Tickets , Sixpence each ( which will entitle the holders to an article of value ) , may be obtained of Mr . James Grassby , S Xoah ' s Ark Court , _Stangate , Lambeth ; Mr . Stalhvood , _llainmersinitli : Mr . Greenslade , * 21 , Allerton-street ,
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PAPER MILL . —Mi-. MARSH lias been favoured with instructions to dispose of , by private Treaty or Let on _Liase ( with immediate possession ) , a compact Machine Paper Mill , situate within an easy distance of London , and contiguous to railway and watercarriage . The _washing water has been pronounced b y the first authorities to be of tlie finest description . For terms and iiarticulars applv to Mr . Mabsh , auctioneer , and estate agent , 11 , _Buctlcrsbury , Mansion-house , London .
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_niHE BEST APERIENT AND ANTI--L BILIOUS 2 Iedieiiie for General Use Is Frampton ' s Fill of Health , which effectually relieves tlie stomach and Dowels hy gentle relaxation , _withou *; griping or prostration of strength . They remove head-ache , sickness , dizziness , pains in the chest ic , are highly grateful to the Etomach , promote digestion , create ap-H-tite , relieve languor and depression of spirits ; while to tii-se ofa full Iiabit and free livers , who are continually sufl ' _ui I 115 from drowsiness , heaviness , and singing in the head and ears , they offer advantages that will not fail to he appreciated This medicine has for many years received the approval of the most respectable classes of society : and in confirmation of its efficacy , the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr . Prout , with permission to publish it and , if requisite , to refer anv respectable person to its author : —
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_JfO MORE PILLS , nor any other Medicine for Indigestion , In * egularity of the Intestines , Flatulency , Palpitation of the Heart _' Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , Servousness , Biliousness , General Debility , Despondency , Spleen , ie . Price Gd ., or Sd . post-free , royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free by post , 2 s . Gd . ( in stamps ) , Fifth Edition of D _tTbariit's popular treatise OS ISDIGESTIOX and _COXSTIPATIOX - the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Complaints , Spleen , o _* c ., ' and _theh-RadicalBemoral , entitled the " Natural Regenerator of tlie Digestive Organs , " without pills , purgatives , or medicines of any kind , by a simple , pleasant ; economical , and infallible means ; adapted to the general reader . Du Barrr and Co ., 7-5 , _Xew Bond-Street , London ; also , of Gilberts ; and all other booksellers . Sent post-free at the same price to Prussia .
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PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COUGH , In Ten Minutes after use , and a rapid Cure of Asthma and Consumption , and all Disorders of the Breath and Lungs , is insured by DR . LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . The truly wonderful powers of this remedy have called forth testimonials from all rauks of society , in all quarters of the world . The _following have been just received J—
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rniiF \ \ TTON \ L _GUARPS _^ _LiN , hl _^ _SSSS _* S * _* _Q-e _^^ -P aSSa = _> rat € nK > Sterrow .
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7- _Zt _tvhat it hasdone ; what it has not done ; " -The ft * . ! " ¦« _£ _, _$ _•& * The claims of Lord Jons llvst _^ i f _^^ _V _^ 1 ' " UlCHABD s ' Esq . ' . considered . ' , ¦ _,-.. i PUBLIC MEETING will be held in A the _LITERACY INSTITUTION , John-street , _Fitzroysraare 7 on the Eresiso of _Toesdat , the _istn mst ., to _couci-rlpr the above subject . _-, « .- _« . -. " jfc-S-L _JntUN WsEr , P M'Gbatji W . _Dkon , T . CtAHK , E , Stallwood , and S . _L . t » d , will take part in the discussion . . „ , _ ... Chair to be taken at half-past SeTen o ' clock . Admission to the Body of the Hall , Id . ; Gallery , 2 d . K . B . —Free Discussion . All parties invited to attend .
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_CTAJVDARD THEATEE . —All persons - _^ holding Tickets or Cash on account of the late Benefit held at the _' above hoiise , on the 7 th inst ., are requested to settle the same on or before Thursday evening , the loth inst . The Secretary , pro tern ., will be in attendance at the Committee-room , 114 , Hig h Holborn , to wind up the affair , on the evening ofthe 15 th inst ., from eight till ten . E . Stallwood , Secretary pro tem .
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SHEFFIELD . THE QUARTERLY MEETING OP THE SHEFFIELD BRANCH of the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY will be held at Mr . Cavul ' s , Temperance Hotel , S 3 , Queen Street , on Monday evenin--, Feb . 12 th . Chair to be taken at Seven o ' clock . By Order of the Committee , Geo . Poules , Chairman .
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PRIZE . TO BE DISPOSED OF , FOR £ 15 , A FOUR-ACRE PRIZE CERTIFICATE , drawn ir . the November ballot in 1847 ; also , a PAID-DP FOUR-ACRE SHARE , for £ 310 s . As the above prize was drawn in the second unlocated ballot , the purchaser will be entitled to an early location-Immediate application to be made to A . T ., at Middle _, ton ' s , South Stockton , county Durham .
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A BARGAIN ! _fT _^ O BE SOLD , by a party about to eini-JL gnte . TWO TWO-ACRE SHARES , ONE THREE . ACRE SHARE , and ONE FOUR-ACRE SHARE , each paid up in the National Land Company . Price , £ 10 ; or may be had separately at the most reasonable offer . Address ( post-paid ) to Mr . Joseph Swift , Hope-street , _Wisan .
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TO BE SOLD , A TWO-ACRE ALLOTMENT , o n the XI . CHARTERVTLLE ESTATE , MINSTER LOVEL , pleasantly situated on the hig h road to Cheltenham , partly cropped with wheat Company ' s demands paid up . For particulars , inquire of _Feascis Caulk , Minster Lovel , Oxfordshire .
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FOR SALE , TWO PAID-UP TWO-ACRE SHARES in the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY ! Price £ 110 s . each . Early application is requested , the party being about to leave the country . Apply to B . Rogers , Cooper , China-square , Lambethwalk .
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SOUTH LONDON CHARTIST HALL , Corner of Webber-street , Blackfiiars-road . FOUR ORATIONS will bo delivered at the above-named Hall in aid of the Fund tor the support of THE WIVES AND FAMILD 3 S OF THE CHARTIST VICTIMS .
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S . Saunders has received 2 s . 6 d ., for the Victim Fund , from "William Swalley and others , and requests the Chartists in his neighbourhood to come forward to support the victims of oppression . Join * Vkcent . —We have no room for reports of Emigration Societies . Female Chaktisis , Manchester . — -TVe have no room tor your address . Somebsetshiuj * . —We repeat , we cannot answer questions respecting Emigration Societies . People must inquire and _judge for themselves . _Axthokt * Haigh , Hawick . —No room . To _Cobbesposdests . —We have received several communications from the sub-secretaries of the Land Company , calling upon the members to pay their local and general levies ; tlie addresses of Land and Chartist sub-secretaries to whom communications are to be addressed—and announcements of meetings z ive cannot insert such notices unless they are paid for as advertisements . J . H . Ceook—Received . Mr . F . Caclk , Charterville . —The charge is 4 s . fid .
The Northern Stae Saturday, February 10,1s49.
THE NORTHERN STAE SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 10 , 1 S 49 .
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IRELAND AND THE ENGLISH . During the long aud complicated straggles which have taken place between the English and the Irish people , from the time that Daniel O'Connell measured his value to a Whig Government , b y the st a n d ar d of th a t ungener o u s dissension created between the English and the Irish democracy , and upon -which Whig s t r ength depended , we have throug hout discriminated between the English people and the Eng lish oligarch y . "We have shown—and not without effect—thatthe labouring classes of Engl a nd a re as mu c h o ppre ss e d by that oligarchy , as the labouring classes of Ireland
are . However , the question of national dissatisfaction , arising out of class-legislation and unequal representation , is one which requires deep thought before the needed correction can he applied ; and heing a subject novel to the people of both countries , i t r e quire d long an d continuous training to bring the mind steadily i to hear upon the monster evil . "We were alwa ys prepa r ed to go with any party whose mere professions were calculated to confer the slightest benefit upon the labouring classes ; detennined , nevertheless , to use any slight advantage for the furtherance of the cause of Democracy .
We opposed the Free Traders in their agitation , so long as it was confined to a mere red uct i on in the price of bread ; while the fact rem a ins upon recor d , that at every Free Trade meeting attended by Chartists , at which an amendment was proposed , that amendment in no case repudiated the principle of Free Trade , hut merely proclaimed the necessity of extending it beyond the mere question of Dread ; and , as soon as the Free Trade party directed then' attention to the further question of the extension of the Suffrage , th o ugh not reaching the popular standard , we gave them our support , still adhering firmly and consistently to the WHOLE ANIMAL .
Again , when Mr . Cobden proposed his Financial Budget , in it we saw the gleam of Chartism , through _diminished patronage occasioning Whig destruction . And now , in the first week of this important session , when nothing is proposed for the improvement ofthe condition of the Eng li s h , and the Irish axe once more compelled to bear then- sufferings w i th o ut a murmur , and to die without complaint ; we now—havingfrequently forewarned the oligarchy and great gentlemen of England—tell that party that then- support of the policy of a Ministry to whose principles they
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arc repugnant , but of whom , nevertheless , they are the most active coadjutors when the rig hts ofthe people are to be invaded—we tell that party , that our battle now shall bo BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND TILE
ARISTOCRACY . We have stood up for the ri ghts of that aristocracy , so far as the just exercise of those rights mig ht confer a benefit upon the people . Wedidhopethat they would bid , under-changed circumstances , for popular favour and support , while we find them , at . the commencement of the Session , not only , the subservient tools , but the inciters ofthe Whig .. Government to acts of tyranny and oppression . They do not require to hear any argument , for or against the most tyrannical propositions of Government : their mind , trained from infancy in
the school of old Tory principles , cannot he warped from the support of those principles , except by the pressure from without ; andthe very fact of Mr . Disraeli , and others of that school , repudiating the right ofthe people to influence the decisions of that House , of itself proves that they are incompetent to legislate in accordance with the requirements of this age of progress ; while their adherence to thc old system of corrup ti o n , constitutes the chief power ofthe Whig Ministry . So that the necessity of placing all parties in the House of Commons in their own distinctive positions , must at once strike the mind of every thinking
man . The Whigs in oflice repudiate Whig principles , and merel y hold power by . the connivance ofthe Protectionist party , who , conscious of their own inability to ' regain t h e i r former position , are urged on to acts , wliich must ultimately produce a most calamitous conflict , by mere hatred of Sir Robert Peel and his party . •' . _, Since the return of the Whigs , to office , wc have called the attention of our _^ readers to thc
fact , that the country , until awakened from its lethargy , would be governed upon the maxim of hatred to Peel . We have shown that the character of Whig and Tory has now merged into "IN" and "OUT . " Tories in , and Tories out trying to get in . And not only does this anomalous coalition apply to those parties in Parliament , but it equally applies to those out of Parliament , as is most characteristically illustrated by the fact of Mr . Bainesthe New Poor Law official—at his recent
election for Hull , _oeiflg proposed by a Conservative , and seconded b y a Liberal . Perhaps , o ur r ea ders ask , how this anomalous coalition of parties in the House can be successfully destroyed ; and with the fear of the Gagging Bill before our eyes , it may be difficult to answer this proposition , were it not for that divine veneration entertained for precedent , and that constitutional maxim -recommended by a Whig representative of monarchy in Ireland . That Viceroy said , —
" AGITATE ! AGITATE ! AGITATE !" and now that the law , the Constitution , and all authority , has merge d i n v i cereg al perception and omnipotence ; in the loyal . words ofthe loyal represer-tative of the constitutional _^ monarch of England , who _reputed the title of divine ri g ht , and preferred to base his title upon the blood of Englishmen , we say , in conformity with the recommendation of the _representee of that monarch—•• Agitato ! agitate !! agitate !! !"
England—notwithstanding the Whi g snare s set in every political path and track—has still preserved her right to free discussion ; and as Mr . Canning proposed the Eng li s h st a ge as the fit arena for the adjustment of Irish disputes , we call npon the Irish members and the I r ish peop le resident in Eng lan d , to transfer Irish agitation from the Viceroy's sea-bound dungeon to tlie open field of English discussion , and we pled ge ourselves that the much-reviled English Chartists will throw no impediment in the way of such a movement .
The Chartists , though schooled in adversity , s t i ll adh ere sternl y' and steadfastl y to their principles ; their folly of to-day will be the accepted policy of all upon the moTrow ; and the Irish agitators , pursuing such _«* i course , will n o t hear so much of p hysical force as they did when the advocacy of the principle was necessary to secure patronage for the propounder ; while , upon the other h an d , they will find it difficult to p lay fast and loose with English opinion an d Eng lish resolution . We have ever contended that the Repeal of the Union , unaccompanied by the principles of the
Charter , would be a curse rather than a blessing t o I r el a nd ; while the pr esen t s t a t e o f Irish representation in the House of Commons , convinces us that there is no hope for that country , except in the pressure from without . Can any Irishman reflect without horror upon the fresh onslaught made upon the liberties of Ireland ? and can any fact be more conclusive of the weakness , the tyranny , and incompetency ofthe present Ministers to govern that country , than the _proclaimed necessity of damming up the only source through which the required inform a tion to ' correct national grievances could be {' communicated ?
And can any man doubt , alter the weak and impotent speech of Sir George Grey , so graphically described and pnngently satirised by Mr . O'Connor , th a t , as regards Ireland , the policy of the English Minister is to tickle the tyrannical feelings of his Tory supporters ? If it is not legitimate or natural , it is politic , for those out of oflice to acquiesce in measures which one day , in oflice , they themselves may be compelled to appl y for , and how cheering to their feelings that , when that day arrives , they can flash the measures and the speeches of Lord John Russell and his colleagues in the face of opposing Whigs—but how ready
the answer . [" Yes , sir , " says the nohle lord , " I admit all that the right hon . gentleman says , but then I contend for it , that circumstances were different in the two cases . As regards oar policy , we urged—and , I must say , with a full concurrence Ofthe House—those exciting _circun-stunct-s -msshig around us in Europe , as a justification for a resort to a temporal *** Suspension of the Constitution , as thc means of preserving domestic tranquillity , and , thereby , proving to turbulent nations and disaffected agitators thc power , the strength , and efficacy of English law , as a substitute for brute force . " ] Such , no doubt , would be the response of the noble lord , but yet the answer would be read y : — '
- ' These convulsiona and this turbulence only existed in the mind ofthe Queer ' s . Viceroy , and the electric spark from his haunted imagination communicated portentous forebodings and revelations to the susceptible mind of the English Minister . " Why , Lord Burleigh ' s n o d was in s i gnificant and equivocal , compared to this optical illusion , operating upon the mental faculty of Lord Clarendon . Butenough _^ Englishmen , in Ireland , you who have been banishedfromtheland of your birth by English oligarchical oppression and misrule , and not hy popular t yranny and indifference « rouse yourselves—throw off your apathy—in the words of Mr . Canning—make England , the free stage of England , contracte d b y
THIS siDis WUN _^ SofWhiggeryi-makethis England—the reviled of your great leaderthe stage of Irish agitation ; the reviled Eng lish peop le will not be an unwilling or a cheerless audience keep within the narrowed limits o f Whi g law , or rather caprice , until the confluence of English and Irish minds shall create that flood of knowledge which will breakdown all the dams and barriers of bigotry , intolerance , and ignorance * , and- establish for that seabound dungeon—where nought is now heard but weeping , and wailing , . ' and gnashing of teeth—a Constitution whose principles no tyrant will dare to invade ; a Constitution , in defence of which all Irishmen would cheerfully offer their lives as a sacrifice .
Irishmen ! your ri ghts are not destroyed , but invaded . Englishmen ! the blow at Leland is aimed at you . Irishmen and Englishmen ! you have one common interest— " United , you s tand ; divided , you fall . " Cast aside every national prejudice , no matter whether you be
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Catholic or Protestant * enter the list in Freedom ' s cause , a nd bear in mind , that " Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft is ever won . " Up , then ! English and Irish , and let your battle-cry be— "The erection of Freedom ' s monument up o n Tyranny ' s ruin !"
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Connected with the subject of Ireland , which it is p lain will occupy a . large portion of the session , we may notice the appointment of a " Committee to inquire into thc Operation of the New Poor Law in that country . " We cannot tell what there is to inquire about . The evils and thc abuses of the law are manifest to a ll wh o ha v e paid the s li g htest attention to the subject . In the reports of their own officers , and in thc communications from other parties , Ministers have all the materials for an immediate and definite measure . All that -will be done by the appointment of a Committee , will be to cause the examination , at a great
expense , ofa number of persons , whose evidence Avill be printed about the end of the session , in a Blue book , accompanied by a vague Report , neither of which will be read by anybody ; and there the matter is likel y to rest , until thc depopulating and desolating process has boen carried so far , as to render any f ur ther leg islation unnecessary . But this mode of dealing with important matters is , as our readers are aware , an old trick with the Whigs . It is a convenient " Dodge , " and while it has a wonderful air of liberality—as if it gave those interested a voice in thc settlement of difficult questions—it saves them the trouble of _attemptinsrthat settlement themselves .
Amidst the general ignoranco ot sound princip les , and the absence of everything like practical views of thc real position and wants of the country , in the present cri s is , it is qu i te a relief to fall in w i th a true idea , or one that goes to the root of the evil . In referring to the last sheet anchor of the middle classesreduction of taxation—thc Marquis of Ctranby hit the right nail on the head in one short sentence—¦ " What the people wanted was more profitable employment . " True , my Lord ; and until the means of providing that a r e d ev i sed a nd set in moti o n , a ll the o the r
talk in Parliament is but "leather and prunella . " If the Protectionist party—of which Lord OJRANBY is not an undistinguished member—would devote their attention and energies to this question , instead of fighting about the abstract merits of the defunct system of Protection , thoy would t a ke a practi ca l , and , we believe , a speedy path to the restoration of their party to power . There is a proverb in Lancashire , very applicable to their case"Its o' no us e cryi n g o 'er shed milk . " Let thorn accept the doom of Protection as definite
in the meantime , and betake themselves earnestl y , as beseems the owners of the soil , to the wo r king out of me a sures by which the people may be fed and employed at homo , and we predict that the mere hypocritical pretensions o f the Whi gs , and the vulgar fallacies of the " cheap and nasty" pedlars , whose whole wisdom is comprised in pounds , shillings , and pence , would speedily be at a discount . If the Protecti o nist s do not t a ke thi s c o urse , somebod y else will ; for nothing but that can save Groat Britain from sure decline and
destruction . Among tlie business talked of , have been some alterations in the Sessional orders , with the view of economising time . It will be remembered that at the close of last session , Sir . O'Connob gave notice ofa motion to restrict speakers , with certain exceptions , to a limited time . A strong leaning in favour of that course was also shown in Mr . Evelyx Denison ' s Committee , wliich sat and reported on the subject last year . But Lord Jonx and his colleagues , in their usual timid style , were afraid of adopting any p lan re a lly calculat e d to cflect the object aimed at ; and therefore
proposed a lew unimportant alterations , thc principal one being a partial waving of privilege in regard to the House of Lords , who at present are precluded from originating any Bill of which money clauses form a part . In future they arc to have that power under certain restrictions . The great and crying evil , that most urgently required reforming , was , however , left untouched . Long and useless speeches — in which dull common-place speakers repeat for the fiftieth time , arguments that havo been worn to rags by previous orators , as common-place as themselves — are to have no limit
assigned them . The House may cough , talk , a nd in other no is y and contempti bl e wa y s s ho w its desire to get rid of abore ; but , if the bor e have only a tolerable share of vanity , and pertinacity sufficient to withstand coughing , shutfling of feet , and " cries of ' divide , ' and ' question , '" he may , as far as tho rules of the Houso a re concerned , go on spouting until his lungs or his legs fail him . There was , to bo sur e , a general understanding that short speeches
would be best , and most advisable tor all partics ; but thc habit of spinning out the most meagre and attenuated materials into diffuse and wordy harangues , has taken too deep a root in the Legislature to be easil y eradicated . We heard a German recently say , th a t i n the new Legislatures in that country—say the Diet at Frankfort—half-hour speeches are considered long ones , an hour would be a wonder and a monster , and as tor three hours , or three hours and a half—which is not unusual in our
House of Commons—the mention of such a thin g is set down unhesitatingly as a fable—a trial upon the credulity of tbe party to whom so monstrous a fabrication is told . Happy Ger ma ns , who have not yet acquired the art of word-spinning . A second evil of considerable magnitude , was the number of times the question has to be pul upon every measure before the House . It is , no d o ubt , most desirable that every precaution should be taken to prevent Government from hurrying measures through Parliament before publi c op inion can be ascertained upon them , when such is necessary . But many of these forms seemed expressl y c o nstitut e d to w a ste time and , however it mi g ht have suited our
ancestors to proceed at a dignified , slow , and statel y pace , the business , both public and private , no w brought before P a rliament is so vast , that acceleration has become a paramount necessity . Above all , the practice of "counting out" a House upon an ¦• inconvenient" motion , an d thereby losing a whole evening , ought to have been put an end to . Frequently , docs this take place just at the very time when public business most requires attending to . Upon the whole , we see nothing in the alterations yet made to induce us to hope for any material improvement as regards the debates , and the business generally , and we shall , probably , have the Session protracted till the end of August with the same beggarly results as last year .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Ministers had a narrow escape in the House of Lords , in the debate on the Address . Their whole policy—forei gn , domestic , and colonial , —was assailed by Lord Stanley ; and his amendment was onl y lost by two votes . Tliis is a significant intimation of the estimation in whi c h th e y a rc h e ld b y one branch of the Legislature . In the Commons , Mr . Disraeli proposed a similar amendment , but after two adjournments withdrew it , without going to a division . Attacking , as he did , the Free
Traders and Financial Reformers , as well as the mere "Whigs , lie would have had Peelites , Cobdenites , and Treasury hacks , all against him ; and , theref o r e , exercised a wise discretion in not pressing his amendment to a vote . With fe w ex c ept io n s , however , the speeches iu both Houses were neither worth hearing , nor reading . Not that there were no able ones among them , but because thc subjects debated were a lt o g e th e r ir re le v ant t o those questions in which the pe o ple fe e l the deepest interest , and by which they are most nearly atiected . For instance , in the Lords , a very great portion of tho debate turned upon Lord Minto ' s
intervention between the King of Naples and the people of Sicily ; and the same subject constituted a very largo portion ofthe discussion in the Commons . Now , no doubt , it is quite ri g ht th a tthe foreign poli c y pursued b y a Government should be duly criticised , but we submit , that its home policy should occupy thc primary p o sition , and challenge the closest scrutiny . Not so , thoug ht our legislators , in both Houses . Great Britain sunk into insignificance beside Naples , Sicily , Brazil , & c , & c . ; and our own vast and wide-extended Colonies were not deemed worthy even of an allusion in thc Royal Speech .
Of course this omission was intentional . The Whigs had the selection of their own top ics , and they were scarc e l y likel y to ch oo se one in which their administrative incapacity has boon more injuriously , and more flagrantly exhibited than in almost any other department of the Government . Earl Grey , as head of the Colonial-office , has , like a true Whi g , acted in the teeth of every principle he laid down on Colonial policy when he was Lord
HowiCK , and bidding for office . He has crammed tho Colonies with his relations and dependents , whoso incapacity and ignorance the col o nists h a ve t o p a y de a rl y for , not onl y in positive salaries , but tho mischief inflicted thereby , and , as far as any chance of the establishment of constitutional and representative government in the Colonies is concerned _., they have muoh less now than when the management of affairs was in the hands of the Tories .
Mi * . Grattan moved an amendment with reference to that part of the Address which threatened a continuance of the deprivation of Constitutional Eights in Ireland ; but of course that was speedily disposed of . About a dozen members only could be found to sympathise with the political rights of Irishmen , and the question was settled the first night . The present Parliament has quite acquired the knack of dealing arbitrarily with Ireland , and seem to like it . There was an evident gusto in the manner in which thev proceeded , on Tuesday evening ,
formally to re-enact thc tyrannical Bill of last session , for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act . One would have thought th : vfc prostrated as Ireland now is—with its land a lying waste—its landlords impoverished— : 'ts tenant farmers either fled to America , or in the workhouse—and its peasantry stricken by disease and famine—there could have been small need for coercive and repressive measures . But tho Whigs know that we hold Ireland by force alone . Our occupation of that
countryis a military one , and the slightest withdrawal of that power by which the natural feeling of the pe o p le is suppressed—and all but stifled , would be immediately followed by an insurrectionary explosion . Such are the melancholy results of centuries of English rule in Ireland . The Lord-Lieutenant himself , in that letter which forms thc basis of this renewed Suspension ofthe Constitution , gives what avc have no doubt is a faithful description ofthe popular feeling in that country : —
On the part of those _enj-aged in the late treasonable movement no indication whatever of sorrow or repentance for their misdeeds has been observed . Their regret is confined to their failure , and their hopes arc directed to a more favourable issue on the first opportunity ; nor does the orderly conduct of the people proceed from any improved feeling as regards the law or thc executive government . A pleasant prospect , truly , to lo o k f o rward to , is the future government of Ireland . ' But repressive and arbitrary measures cannot last always . They are , to say the least of them , extremely expensive , as well as unsatisfactory in their operation . It is no _slight
mattor to think of a large army , and an expensive staff of civil officers and constabulary , being maintained for the purpose of making a whole island into a desolate waste—of driving its landlords to beggary—its fanners to emigrate to other lands with their capital—and its peasants to death in workhouses or fever-hospitals . Yet , that is practicall y the result o f our policy . The paltry loan of fifty thousand pounds , proposed on Wednesday for thc socalled relief of Irish distress , is simply
ridiculous in such circumstances . Lord John refused to promise that more would not be asked _» br , and so we may make up our minds that more will be asked for , but is it not time that a stop should be put to this horrible system of ; plunder and injustice by -which thc Whi gs first create wide-spread destitution and disco ntent , and then call at once tor money to maintain a large organised force for repressive purposes , and to food in hopeless pauperism the peop le , who are compelled to become idle burdens upon this country ?
Thc real truth is , that Ireland is completely under the government of one of the most pestiferous and mischievous sects that ever _c-iirsed any country or age by their doctrines and their practices . The Political Economists destroy -whatever they touch . They are unchecked and uncontrolled iu Ireland , and wo see the consequences . In England , as far as they have succeeded in getting the working classes , or any portion of our industrial system -under
their power , they have produced similar results . Destitution , p a uperism , discont e nt and crime follow surely on their track . They inflict miserv and wretchedness more widelv , and quite as deep as the conqueror , who marks his way by flame and devastation—thoug h b y different means ; and unless the wise and good of all parties unite in resisting them , they will , in a few years , reduce this country to the same condition as they have unfortunate Ireland .
It is owing to thc influence of the doctrines of this sect , that such self-evident aud practical propositions as Mr . ScRon _*'*? , f o r the e mp loyment of the people in reproductive labour , are rejected , almost contemptuously , by the Legislature . What can be more demonstrable than that the labour ofthe able-bodied Irish , applied t o the now uncultiv a ted la n ds b y means of a loan upon the security ofthe produce of their toil _. would suppl y the means of at once sust a ining the p eo pl e i n honest i n du s try in f u ture , and repay the cap it a l o ri ginally advanced % But because this would violate ' some ofthe
absurd and - false canons of the so-called "Science" of Political Economy , we arc doomed to see millions wasted annually in producing poverty , desolation , and despair , in a country whoso natural resources arc admitted to be the most abundant of any countr y in Europe , of equal surface extent . "
Robberies Os The Great Western Railway.—...
Robberies os the Great Western Railway . —On Wednesday , at the police-office , Marylebone , It . Frost , a < -uard on the Great Western _llailwa * , * , was finally charged with having stolen a quantity of haberdashery , Ac , from a package which was left at the Heading station , also property belonging to tlie Karl of Craven . The evidence given upon the former occasion has already appeared in this journal . The prisoner , when his guilt was made known to him by March , the chief guard , who discovered the stolen things in thc prisoner ' s basket , threw himself from the train while it was going at tiic rate of twenty miles an hour , and received severe injuries A gold musical seal , forming a portion of tbe property belonging to Lord Craven , was found to have been in the prisoner ' s possession , and it was produced by Mv Collard , and identified by the Karl of Craven ' s steward , it had been pawned at a Mr
Crawley s -Mr . Justins called additional witnesses m support of the charge , and no doubt whatever could exist with ngatf to tho prisoner being the guilty party m both of the robberies alluded to .-Mr . _Collai-d . superintendent of the company ' s police , remarked that torn- other trains , of which prisoner was guard , had lately beon robbed of propevtv . -The prisoner was asked if he had anvtliin- * to say when a solicitor , by whom he was " defended , saw , He has nothing to say , in exculpation of himself , as to what he is charged with now , but 1 am instructed by him to state that lie means to criminate another of the company ' s officers wbo is now present . "—Mr . Broughton observed , tbit he would have an opportunity of doing so at the Old JJailey , and committed him for trial . — _Je have been rcquosted to state that tho _prisoner is not Robert I Miles Frost , iu tho service 'J thc Great 'Western llailwav .
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_^'^*^''> _^ - _* m —m __ m _ _ _DEl-TATF . AND VICTlM PU _^ _p It is especially requested that iu thn t _* _-., mission of monies to thc above fiuUl _< li strict _tttteiiti-- ; i be paid to the f ollow _^ ¦ _structiong : — B '" All moui _.-.- , t ' . » v the Defence Fund mUst forwarded t „ 'W illiam Rider , 5 , Macclcsfi ' ii street , Soli-.: !•*• Post-office order ONLY . payable t _-, Vk . uwus O'Connor , at 7 Charing CW I tat Office . tllt ! All moni _,.. to .- the Victim Fund to be - _•„ toJoHsrAiixiriT . 11 , Middlesex-place Son , Town , London ; by Post Office order < nJr * not being available ) , and made payable tn _iat the Battle I ' . ridge Pest Office . Ul " William RII ) Eb John AnsoTT . '
Reoeipts Of The National Land Company , ...
REOEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY , For nn- ; Week Ending Thursday _Kkbhuaby 8 , 1849 . SHARES . £ s . d . ,. Mountain » 5 0 Leicester , Astill i" - 1 ' 1 ' inouth .. i > io 2 l _' rcston , n ro _-y , i i ' . ' . ' ! _llur-iii-f- ' ioUl .. i ) 11 0 Newton Heath . ' •¦ _« _'" Uxbiidge .. 0 IS 0 Newbury , ' ' - ? . ' * _Wiiii-l-comb .. i ) 5 0 York _| _, _,. " Winlaton . - 15 0 Bridport . ' „ [ ' ! Birmingham . Tunbridge Wells n n 1 Ship .. 'i 5 0 Kiiaresborough . ( , ,- ' Bury 7 0 0 Hawick .. -, , South Shield . " .. + 15 0 Warwick . ij 1 ' _Stalybiidge .. - 10 0 W . Baillie . ' o ' i 1 ltutherliiiiu .. I 18 O R . Pattisuu . o ' Coventry .. DY 2 0 B . _Trumble .. nil Boston .. ' 14 0 W . M'Lean .. n : j Stroudwater .. I 0 u J . Vigurs .. o l ,-Belper , Greg-n u 10 0 C . Mowl .. n j , j _Nuttinghiiiu , J . Tarponter .. m i , Sweet .. ' * 17 6 J . Arthur .. n ¦ , Hull .. * - ' 0 0 J . Heftcnian .. o i _,, Manchester .. 1 17 6 Welch Kover .. « * _,, Northampton . _UiU'risun .. ' » 14 i JE : " iii ; , EXPENSE FUND . ' Birmingham . York .. o j Ship o 2 0 J . Gilder .. o ' , ' South Shield- .. ' _i 5 0 S . Francis .. o -, Coventry .. _< i 4 0 F . Jackson .. n j '' Stroudivater .. « t i" 0 - — - —J Nottingham .. 4 3 i'l ; I _' restuii , _Bi-i . i > ii ii 2 " ¦ _*^' TOTALS . ~ ~ _" Land Fund ... ... ... ... 50 * - i Expense ditto ... ... ... 1 * ¦ _, ' , Bonus ditto ... ... ... 311 f ; i Loan ditt" ... ... ... 1 '• ' , Transfers in : ; I £ i _) tfi 7 ' i Ebiuti _**! . —Im hist » _- . _* ek ' s Star Edinburgh _should"C been £ •" , not _?•> . Tin- : _¦* ¦ _* . count for £ -1 in the sum _., , _, ¦ _, ' \ v . Hixo * . * , C . Doyle , T . rums ., Cor . Sec . !* . M'Grath , Fin . Sec .
Executive Fund. Per S. Ktdd. I'R.>Ston, ...
EXECUTIVE FUND . Per _S . Ktdd . i _' r . > ston , J . Brown , 6 s . ; Preston _.- . Cards , 4 s . ; _Wiilliii-jfnrd , G . Phillips , 5 s . ; IV S . _fc ; i : ' His , ( id . 1 Vi . -j . am ) Office . —Marylebone , : ' s . ij .-jl . " Merry , lid . VICTIM FUND . Per S . Kti > _i > . I . . wih . J . Twaites , as . ; WalliivM p Phillips , Ss .- IVi- I . akd Office . —It . ( J . Bland / is . ' y : ' Knowles , per Mr . _tiiles , 2 s . ; Two Friends , ditto , " _- . _;]> . liouse _, IDs , DEFENCE FUND . Per Land _Offh-k .- I ( . G . Bland , Is . Per Rub —W . Lund , "Sr > v | ... rt L _' _ngnell , ls . ; Holmfirth , j . mceH _. Sch-ec , pur 11 . _Minsileii , 8 s . ; Derby , per W . Short k Sheffield , . 1 . Ward . _pi-rG . Cavill , Is . ; . _Mieflicld , il . I'a . fc per ft . ( . ' avill . Ud . : Nottingham , per J . Sweet , ( id . ; |; ,, i dale _t'liartisl .-it" pay M . Nixon ) , per A . _Crabti- er . 5 .-.. ' _FsiuMers , _Diinl ' _.-rmlin _.-, ( id . ; Cigar Makers , 15 s . The sum ( _Tci-t-d from Delford , per J . linta . ; . Defence Fund . » as _aniiounci-d in our last as btiiii * : >> . '¦; It _slmiilil _liavi' _lici'ii !> . « . Sd .
M ' DOUALL S CASE-FOR WRIT OF ERROR Per Wm . Rii-ku , _Inland , per T . Broadbent , Ss . IKtirth , proceeds of Soiree , per II . Marsden , !) s . ; W . ' / .. 1 '• . ley , Malmcshin-y . Is . « d . ; F . L ., Sheffield , per 6 . Uivill . i , ; Notting ham , *» _-v . » . Sw < et , 18 s . lid . J . Ball , _MsmstitlU Mr . Ford , bal »< _-r . Urn * ids-street , 2 s . Cd . ; _Colici-ted Ix Jt-TrieUey , ut _Leii-i-st _.-r . ::. ¦ _* . 4 d . FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Per Wm . BiriKR . Holmiirth , proceeds ot Soiree , per * Marsden , Ss . : W . ' / .. Bowley , Malmesburv . 4 s . - . )! : Marshall . _Mieilii'ld . per G . Cavill , Is . Gd . ; Nottingham . ; - J . Sweet , lis . "« I . : Ivi-nrish Town , per Osinondie . Mantis . I'M . - , Oldham , _p- _' _u- _'r teds of Lecture by the u « v . J . I . kw , per T . _Trism-iii . £ -5 .
NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUNDPer Jou ** AiiMvi-r . - The Female Democratic-Silk _fe Of Keighley , i ' l ; William Lane , Newport I _' _- . _vguell . ; Kentish Town . i » _-r . Mr . Limn , 5 s . ; Coventry , _pi-r He Freeman , 7 s . ( id .: _l- 'insbury , per Mr . Salmon . 4 _> . ¦ Westminster , per . lames Grassby , 4 s . 2 d . ; Mr . KUtr . per Star , . £ ( _il _> 7 . 1 . : _( _"ic-ar Makers , per Mr . Finch . _5 . _" .: 1 llitrrisoii , per Mr . _Jl-i . _' rath . Is . ; Whittington and _1 ' av . Mr . M'Grath . K Id . : _Cartwri-jht ' s , per Mr . Kaa _:-Ciirtwri _g hfs _, ]"•> ' Mr . I _. rown , ls . ; Crown and Anch » r .: Mr . Pelteret _, £ \ : Mr . Kydd , as per Stur , 13 s . ; Kn . Jones Locality , per Mr . Uarrap , 3 s . 3 d . ; Land Oflice . ¦ ¦ ' •' Star , !) s . lid . The rominittee present their thank .- '»' men of Oldham ami the Female Democrats of _KefeM- ; their kind and v-dit-ihle support .
Disastror* Ki.«I'Jd.—Wo Reported, In Our...
DiSASTRor _* Ki . « i ' jd . —Wo reported , in our : number , th ** d--- _> _ti-uction of the bridge at In vein-. The _litvernef ' '• _..-, , " . ¦ , says : — " Wc have this « - to record a _> _i'i-i _.- > of floods unexampled , _acoopl to oral and _writn-n testimony , in the north ' west Highland * . Long-continued . and heavvni : accompanied hy a remarkable prevalence _offening _, had fallen river the various districts in w _[' our principal rivers have their sources , _andfr which they derive their ordinary supplies . 1 floods extended _.-i .- far irest as _Xioehniii-ii-W ! .. *
included the _districts watered by the _Quoii'li .: Garry , the _Arliai-r . the Oich , and lesser siw « _- whence they were precipitated into _Lwl _* _- " _* Loclt-Lochy , and l . och-Xess . The river nm }> _- from the first nf these lakes has carried _oti ; bridges of Abeivhalder and _Fort-August-i _* _- , _b-- _* occasioning " _- evend breaches in the hanks of : , Caledonian t . ' anal . The streams entering ! Lochy havo _lu-tdien up the roads and _dev-istf ! fields and plantations , including the _pieim _* -: . _'; grounds of Arlnmearry , the scat of _Lochh-1 . L * ¦¦< itwide
Ness , over * - expanse of twenty-four '" -, / _£ : ' rose about _foni-rei-ii' feet—a height iinprerril ' . _'" _^ ' _@ rp the district , on irs banks various land-slip ;• _^ _iri place , and _linn-li damage was inflicted : Wi ' ; _ifilfj have been trivial _i-umpared with the etiW't * ' ' ' _-ffij waters on tlie river and towns of !«' ' ' _-jmfness . Never wa _« the Ness seen in suoh ' •'" ' _^ f _«; volume and flood . It attained its full hei _*• - 'fife rapidly in _i-oiiM-i-uence of nicotine « _i'l' : Si " waters of the ' _" _.-mal . All were plaeed " on em - " _'Jfr- * - suid a breach wa- made in the canal hank . : ! $ _pthe lock at l ' i _h-rarrocli . Bv _iiniviiiiiro' ' : «
strenuous _exei-tiitim this breach was previ > iiu ' f | widening ; hut the accumulated waters _i-iisho _^ ' ; thciv course -d" ftve miles , overflown- ; .: the _a-lj- _* ? grounds , and finally destroying tlie _iiMpol'tilH ! ' ' J bridge at _In-ci-de-.- _- _, . and _' submer-ri ' iL * jeM _' "' m third of the town . The alarm of " live inlw _^ . ii was _indoseril' _-ible . the losses and privation * "M been great , but in the whole circuit and l' ° " _r . ' H these Hoods « e have heard of no loss of life , _ty . ji ing from our own severe calamity , we tii "' ' _> _ further north in this country , the district _of- •' _fflj glass also _siilfei-ed . Glen-AfMck , Olen- _^ . _iS and the course ,. f tlie river _Beauly , were i " , i :, ; 'JH On tin * estat e of Lord Lovat farms _havv _^ 'H
stroyed , embankments carried off , mills . w _' _t ings ruined , lu _lloss-shire , the sources _ofi' ' v the Oarve , and the t ' onanrose to an imp ' '' ' : height . Several houses * . vere thrown ; in the villa . "e uf _Cunun , and roads _amlA _'' .. ' injured . The _lii-rlt grounds of _Badeiiwl _' . j " : tlie _tSpey takes it-- _t-ise , have also boon Urn * _muehdama-je done to embankments ami f _^ 1 '" 1 . ' parts of the _mn-ih , indeed , floods _have'io-- ' !' it is in the --our f the principal _iiiohh- ; " ' that thc _re-ults have teen so remark"lif-J loss in many instances will be _irivpi- _* w fj severe ; and years must elapse boiWe ilif ) I obliterated , _ivivatn charity ami _bem'Vi'l _' _' " "'/ be freely exerted , hut much will still _i ;* - _™* _^ A correspondent at Lagan says : — " J " - ' , _, ' . in torrent * in thi- •• _uartcr from the ' 2 *) W lv " ult . , without anv intermission . _'N- ' _- . _'Tyan _liimi' _-wden-.., ! _heiaht—envprw : i " v" .,
to the depth ., f several feet . To a _sti _** < whole _disii-i _.-t would have appeared- ' ' -J tossed into foam _Uvthe fearful » _'inds-to'V arm of ti a , or outlet from it . * " _* _-, f _, great damn - has been done . ' } ¦ * - M ; ' ! . - " ' _,,, )• "j corn ' s _lodi- _' e _« as surrounded with vat" i _' _^ , j tothe -un . i of about iUiOO nittieted . . _^ was shattered , and the _ohain-bridge _orok The property _,. f rluuy _. _^ X ' _Zl'j embankm-m i- injured . On the * -stat _' truim the en _. bankn . cnt has _giyen «• V _; places , and il .. * meadow is whol _> _^ - Utcr . ' The s _,. ey is halfway _^ _^ - higher than ever it was known betoi . < _, , -one on tli" burn of Breach )" , m \ tba ot" - to the cast - a re destroyed . " . :
. ... , German r-n .-TiiKi-HOOD . -Asocict ) . _**^ ] in Berlin I ' m-uniting in one t-oim » _ew- r , , thc native- of < ieriuany , scattered as u ; . , America , _AiiMrali-.. and all other coin '; J world . Ii > - ealled the ' _- ' _Cosmoi-oli _* . '" J Brotherhood . and has already trom . ' , ; , | members in Berlin . A systematic euiii ; , _| colonisation i- to t » . attempted ; a tre . » _-., , mereo is t » bind ; . ll Germans , wherever be , to _continue , a- far as possible , _« cr *; . factures ; th- ' ' » r _«* rit 3 ofa barter trade « _n . . niun colonist- is co be divided among _•** member--ofthe - < . « _-ic ; ty _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10021849/page/4/
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