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    • THE HOBTHEBN STAB SATURDAY, BIAK«JJ& 10,1S49.
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      FIXSBUHY . LECTURE ROOM , Si . _CLERKEXWELL-GllSEX . StSDAY EVEXISG LECT-. 1 -1 ** .

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      March llth . Mr . Lot . —Subject : — ' Myths of the Ancients . " March lSt h . Mr . _M'Graih . —Subject : — "Cponthe Science of Astronomy and its progress . " March * 23 th , _H - _^ . _'G _11 _" _* -- _—Sulgect : — "The ImpoBtic , _Tnjusi , -ni Anti-Christina Character of Death Punishments . " A Parliamentary DebatinK Society , meet every Wednesday Evening .

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      TOWER HAMLETS . A _JEEETIXG of the Chartist Councils of the various Localities vrill he held on TCESDAT EVENING NEXT , at the CROWN AND _ANCHOR , Chester-Street , AYaterloo-to _* vn , to consider the propriety of calling a rublic Meeting tb adopt a Petition to Parliament in favour of the People ' s Charter .

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      TO BE _DISI-OSED OF , in consequence ofthe party going abroad , a FOUR-ACRE SHARE in fc i 3 a , s _»** *—¦ . _« _™>—Bridge-place , Caledonian-row , Islington .

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      TO BE SOLD , A TWO-ACRE _ALLOTMENT at MINSTER LOVEL , partly mopped ; soft of firstrate qualitv , and well situated . For further particulars apply to T . Gilbert , 34 , _Brizeuor ton-road , _OiarterviUe , Witney , Oxon ; if by letter prepaid , and stamp for reply .

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      FOR SALE , OXE FOUR-ACRE SCRIP , balloted in August , 18 * 7—stands the first chance of location . Also , TWO FOUlt-AGRE . SCRIPS-paid-up . The whole must , unavoidably , be sold ; either separate or together . The first reasonable offer wiU be taken . Address in care of Taos . OB _* f _** snr _* _n _, 52 , Bridgwaterstreet , Manchester .

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      TO BE SOLD , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in the NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Price £ 3 . 5 s ., _eliiriWe for the liallot . The party wishing to dispose of it "residing some distance from town requests all communications to be addressed ( pre-paid ) to N . H ., care of William Eider , 5 , Macclesfield-street , Soho , London .

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      MARKET-GARDEN LAND . TO BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS and Others . To let , in a populous town , seven miles irom Xondon . Three Acres of Land , with a Six-roomed House , Washliouse and Dairy , Pigsties for Fifty Pigs , ' with indosed Manure-yard , Cow-sheds , Stabling , Lofts , and _Out-Jbouscs—a portion of which are let for nearly half the rent The Land is inclosed with wall , and stocked with all kinds of Fruit _* Tree 3 , cropped with Vegetables and Flowers . The - whole of the produce can be sold , retail , on the premises . The Boot trade is all bespoke and ofthe first respectability . "The fittings and utensils in trade can be bad together or separate . It win be parted with on very low terms to any person taking possession directly . AU letters to he post-paid , inclosing a stamp for reply , to It _3 L , at Mr . Parks , 32 , Little Windmill-street , _Goldensquare , London . Also FIVE FOUR-ACRE SHARES in the National Land Company , two of which are paid up . Price Eight Guineas .

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      _N EWCASTLE _BRANCH OF THE 2 sA-± \ TIONAL LAND COMPANY . The following resolutions were agreed to at the last Sunday meeting , March 4 th : — First "That a fall meeting ofthe members take place on Sunday _afternoon , the llth inst ., atfive o ' clock precisely , to hear the quarterly report , and to consider and fix the future _expenses of tlie Branch . Members not present _wiR incur the usual penalty . " Second . " That it be decided also , whether any further time be allowed to those members in arrears of shares , or whether tlie time feed by Conference be stood by . " Thos . Foebest , Secretary . P . S . —Mr . _Neshit having declined the secretaryship , all correspondence to be sent to T . Forrest , care of M . Jude , Cock Dm , Newcastle .

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      TICTIM FUND . TO THE DEMOCRATS OF GREAT BRITAIN . THERE will dd " DISPOSED OF , by SUBSCRIPTION , on the principle of Hie Art-Unions , TWO BEAUTIFUL PLAIDS , OF O'CONNOR AND DUNCOMBE TARTANS . They are of the finest quality , are suited for the wear of either Lady or Gentleman * , and ' vrill lie , for inspection , at the shop of Mr . _RicnuiD _Buhseit , stationer , 177 , Fountain Bridge , Edinburgh . They wiR be forwarded to the successful subscriber hy such conveyance as he may desire . Tlie Subscription Sale wiU take place in Ross ' s "University Temperance Hotel , 59 , South Bridge , on the 21 st of _ilarch , at Seven o ' clock in the Evening , Proceeds to be given to the Victim Funds of England and Scotland . _SusscaiFnoxs : _—Sixpenxe each , to be paid or remitted in _J-ostage Stamps or Post-office Orders , to Mr . Burkett , as above .

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      n _^ HE BEST APERIENT AND _ANTI--L - BILIOUS Medicine for General Use is Frampton ' s Pill of Health , which effectually relieves the stomach and Imwels by gentle relaxation , without griping or prostration of strength . They remove head-ache , sickness , _dizziness , pains in the chest & c ., are highly grateful to the Stomach , promote digestion , create appetite , relieve languor and depression of spirits ; while to those of a full habit and free livers , who are continually suffering from drowsiness , -heaviness , and singing in the head and ears , they offer _ad-TanLiges that wiU not fail to be appreciated . This medicine has for many years received Ihe 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 any respectable person to its author : —

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      THE EXTRAordinary properties of this medicine are thus described by an eminent physician , who says : — L * ' After particular _obserjvation of the action of IPabb ' s Pills , I am dejtermined , in my opinion , [ that the foUowing are their true properties : — "First—They increase the strength , whilst most oilier medicines have a weakening effect upon + _Tia _f—ct-nm I t-i- _i \ Y \ V / inn

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      Sow Ready , a New Edition of Mil . O'CONNORS WORK ON SMALL FARMS . Just published , No . II . Trice _SaT-SCE _, OF THE COMOffWElLTH : A MONTHLY IlECORD OF DEMOCRATIC , S 0 GIAL & INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS " THE COJIMONWEALTH" wiU be the Representative of the Chartists , Socialists , and Trades' Unionists , in the Monthly Press . costests : L The Crime of the Government against the People . 2 . Home Colonies in the Netherlands . ¦ <¦ . 3 . The Law of Representation . - 4 . Louis Blanc . 5 . Dream of Liberiy . 6 . Review of the Month : I . Foreign Affairs . IL Home Affairs . Communications for the Editor , Books for Renew , ic , to be forwarded to the Office , 10 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket , London . Sold hyJ . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosterrow , -London ; A . Hey-vood , Oldhara-street _, Manchester ; and Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And by aU Booksellers in Towa and Country .

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      NEW TALE BY G . W . M . REYNOLDS . An exceUent opportunity now presents itself for new Subscribers to commence taking in REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY EDITED BY 6 . W . M . REYNOLDS . Author ofthe First and Second Series of " The Mysteries of London , " "Paust , " " Wagner , the Wehr-Wolf , " "The Mysteries of the Court of London , " & c . 4 c . & c , WNo . 38 , wliich was published yesterday , commences an entirely new and original Romance , by George W . M . Reynolds , entitled THE BRONZE STATUE ; ' OB , THE _VIBGIU ' s _KHiS . "RurxotDs ' s _Misceilani" is the largest , best , cheapest , and most beautifully Illustrated Penny Periodical ever published . Each Number contains an infinite variety of amusing , useful , and instructive matter : such , as Tales , History ,. Science , Biography , Toatry , and the most copious and comprehensive Notices to Correspondents . Moreover , each number contains at least three , and sometimes four or five , beautiful wood-engravings by the most eminent artists ofthe day .

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      ON SALE , A PAID-UP FOUR-ACRE SHARE in ii tlie NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Price £ 3 , as the holder is about to emigrate . Address , X . Y . Z „ Post-Office , Clitheroe .

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      J. Sweet Acknowledges The Receipt Of The...

      J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums tor the Defence Fund ( sent herewith ) . —Mr . Knott , 3 d . ; Goulder , 3 d . ; Chipindale _, 6 i ; Smith , 6 d . Ur . Obmesheb , Manchester , has received 6 s . from the iliddleton Council , for the support of tlie prisoners in Kirkdale , Mr . J . Evaxs , Trowbridge . — If the agent wiR _caU at our office he can obtain them . We charge 2 d ,, in addition to which the agent has carriage to pay . Mr . Hollis , Cheltenham . —We have not got any of the numbers you reguire . Thomas Sowebbt , Dalston , Cumberland , who sends 3 s . to the Defence Fund , offers the foUowing proposition forthe consideration of the Chartist body : — " Supposing the circulation of the Star -to be 12 , 000 copies weekly , and instead of sending them to newsvenders , if each locality formed a committee to distribute them , you- would save one penny on each copy , which would amount to £ 30 per week . Supposing _seventy-five per cent , of that be given to the Defence Fund , which would be £ 37 10 s . weekly ,

      and twenty-five per cent , to defray expenses incurred , which would he £ 1210 s : this could be carried on until the debts incurred . for the defence" of Chartism were wlioUy _Hquidatcd , - and afterwards be appropriated to the advancement of the cause . The gross sum of £ 50 per week would be £ 2 , 600 a year . " Tf _.-IL Smith , —So room . We have more poetry than we know what to do with . B . Reabdon , Soho , —We have no room . John * Oxfobd , Saddleworth , had better send the name of the testator , and the date when the vrDl was proved , together with twelve postage stamps , to the Registrar , at _Doeltrs Commons , requesting Mm to search for the will , and asking him the charge for a copy . _BhiAMDt Pilling , Saddleworth . —Bead the Chartist" Tracts forthe Times . " We cannot answer your second question . W . G . Wabd , Tfalif- * _. _-- _* _. —The non-acknowledgment of your letter was an accidental omission . We had not room for its publication , .

      The Hobthebn Stab Saturday, Biak«Jj& 10,1s49.

      THE HOBTHEBN STAB SATURDAY , _BIAK « _JJ & 10 , 1 S 49 .

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      JUSTICES' JUSTICE . 'Foregad ! we live in funny times . Macbeth' s cauldron was but an egg-saucepan compared to our bubbling pot of necromancy and the witches wero dull drones compared to our necromancers . . " We livein newtimes , " say all , " and we must suit the altered circumstances to the interests of all . " " But , " says the Minister , "there must be a perfect concord as to the change before we can adopt it . "

      The Government of old used to be the designers , but in these days of novelty the Government are bnt the arbitrators . "We want this , " say the Free Traders ; "We want that , " say the Protectionists ; and "We want t ' other thing , " say the people ; and " That's all right , " say the Government : " but as our tenure of office depends upon your antagonism and difference of opinion , you must agree among yourselves before we can decide . "

      _ISow _, this is a remarkably agreeable position for the English Government ; but when those several contending parties do agree among themselves upon any point—which is not only doubtful , but next to an impossibility—but should they agree ,, we doubt that they would constitute the Whig Government the court of arbitration . We live in new times , and we require—if not' new men , at least , men with new ideas , adapted to the circumstances of the times , to govern us . People , Protectionists , and Free Traders , never will agree ; and for the simple reason—because Protectionists and Free Traders , respectively , live ,

      thrive , and prosper upon the disunion of the people : but the moment that the people are united , the Protectionists , Free Traders , and the Whig Government must surrender their necromancy to the sound and commanding wisdom of an all-powerful and justice-loving Democracy , whose natural ascendancy would make a pitiful minority subject to thelawsof an overwhelming majority—make the rich richer , and the poor rich—make the now disloyal , obedient to the laws of their own creation—make the ignorant wise—the thief honest—the prostitute virtuous—the labourer ' s chief pride to consist in the modest comforts of his condition—and

      England the envy and admiration of surrounding nations . And to this conclusion we must come at last ; and at it we can only arrive by allowing those who bear the burthens to share the honours of the State , and that we can onl y accomplish by bringing all within the pale ofthe constitution by the enfranchisement of the millions ; and then the flood of knowledge will break down the barriers of ignorance . We shall hear no more of the corruption of the few , who , as trustees , barter the rights of the many for base lucre , and the proud Englishman will be relieved from the disgrace of hearing Ministerial justification of electioneering bribery and corruption .

      With so much of a preface , we now turn to our

      text—LANDLORDS' LOYALTY—JUSTICES ' JUSTICE . We remember during the last Session of Parliament , how the Honourable Member for Notting ham was scoffed at when he measured the loyalty of bishops , parsons , landlords , merchants , traders , arid manufacturers , by the standard of self-interest ; and how the great gentlemen of England bristled up when he said : " Take away tbe rents or the privilege )} of

      the landlords to-day , and their loyalt y will follow them to-morrow . " Is there a reader of the "Northern Star" who does not remember the " Oh , ohV and groans with which the honourable gentleman was assailed ? But what will the same readers or the same growlers say , when they read the announcement of the Honourable Member for Downpatrick , "That every Justice of the Peace in the county would resign Ms trust ifthe Six-

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      penny Rate in Aid was passed by the House ' C * Commons ? " _And-what will they say when they find the pious representative of the ' Protestant University of Dublin , basing the religion , the loyalty , and the industry , ofthe Protestants of Ireland , upon exemption from taxation to aid in the support of their Catholic countrymen ? Do they forget , that in . the good old . days of corruption , tbe Protestants of Ireland were quartered upon Catholic industry—when the few lorded it over the many—when no Catholic was eligible to office—when no Catholic was eligible to wear . a silk gown , . and to be admitted inside the Protestant-bar—when a

      premium for disobedience was ., held out to the Catholic child—when no * Catnolic could hold land except under severe restrictions—when any Protestant might compeiany Catholic to dismount from his horse , no matter what its value , and transfer it to the privileged conqueror for £ 5 ? In those goo _* d old times , the Catholics of Ireland bore the burthens both of England and Ireland , while the Protestants of Ireland , not only shared , but monopolised , patronage , emolument , and profit . And now their Protestant dignity and loyal ascendancy rebels against the foul impost of a Sixpenny Rate in Aid !

      Those of the North have become the proprietors ofthe confiscated estates of the legitimate Catholic owners ; they have fattened upon Catholic bondage , and now when called upon to disgorge a portion of the plunder , they threaten the _abandonmenfrof reli gion , the renunciation of loyalty ,. ; and relinquishment of industry . Not , however , to be outdone in the House , the ; apostles abroad are determined to be foremost in the-crusade against English legislation , when it militates , not against Protestant ascendancy , Mt in favour of the preservation of Catholic life . . We almost fear to publish the treason of Mr ; Dolling , Justice of

      the Peace , lest the Attorney-General should subject us to the _tender * ' mercies of Whig clemency . However , as we do so , not as an example _worthy of imitation , but for the purpose of reproach and reprobation , perhaps we may escape the grasp of the official . Here it is , copied from the "Morning Chronicle , " who , if we are guilty in the eye of the law , is particeps criminis , and ire shall have no objection to he coupled in the indictment with our contemporary , provided always that we should be tried by THE SAME JURY . This is an important reservation , as the Jury who would acquit the mouthpiece of Peelism , would be certain , upon the same evidence , to convict

      the MOUTH-PIECE OF CHARTISM . Here goes , then , Mr . Dolling ' s standard of loyalty . —

      MOVEMEST kOAXS ~ THE B . A . TE IK AID . Accounts of further meetings held yesterday , and of requisitions for others , have been received in the course of this day . Every available opportunity is taken to denounce the rate in aid , and the language uttered by the usually cool and calculating northerns , under the excitement produced by the Ministerial project , resembles the vehement harangues of tiie Southern monster meetings in 1843 . As a sample , I take the followingpassages from ff speech delivered by Mr . II . Dolling , J . P ., at a diimei * given in Banbridge , on Thursday ,-to the ageutof the Downshire estates , by the ' tenantry .: — ' .. ' . ' " There aro few counties in Ireland which could present such a bright _spectaicIBa ' sI see before me . this evening ; but ;

      oa the contraiy , too .-hany where the landlord is looked on as a tyrant—the _agejit as a petty tyrant . ( Hear , hear . ) I hope tliis state of _things amongst us here \ vill long continue . Weare industrious before God , our Queen , and our country ; we are able to meet our engagements and pay our debts ; but we wiU never allow ourselves to be robbed . ( Tremendous cheers . ) I say and act on the principle , that property has its duties as well as its rights . Live and let live is our motto here . Let the landlords in the South and West do as we do , reside among and encourage our industrious , _truth-telUng tenants , asking only a fair rate for their land ; let them do this , and not spend their time in hunhng , horse-racin- » , and cock-fighting . ( Tremendous cheers . ) Before the Queen and country we say this , that to tax the people here to mako up for the improvidence

      of tlie landlords in other parts of the country is the most monstrous —¦ most unjust — most iniquitous — most damnable measure that- ever was heard or thought of . ( Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering . ) _I'U ask you one question . Tho owner ofa bill maybe not worth a straw ; if he get a good man to endorse it , it is all riiiht . I may be worthless ; but if yon endorse my question with your cheers , it will pass . The question I am about to ask is this—and I hope the Fourth Estate will record tliis fact—I hope the Times , the slanderer , ef Ireland on this occasion —( loud cheers)—wiU notice it—a crusade must be raised—a crusade against this most iniquitous measure ; and * - * _Ul you _endorsfc- tliis , that , with the assistance of Almighty God , we'll oppose this

      measure to the last—and we'U never pay the tax ? [ The enthusiasm that prcvaUed here is perfectly indescribable . The cheering and applause lasted several minutes . ] There ' s not the slightest mistake in that , answer . ( Renewed cheers . ) Another thing * . the government have been used to play -with agitation in the South and West ; it has been a kind of plaything for them , that they could put in their pocket , or throw over their shoulders , when they wanted to get rid ofit . ( Laughter . ) __ But tell Lord _JohnRusseU , we'U give him an agitation in another quarter and of another kind . ( Great cheering . ) Let me tell him it will be a _diiferent thing ' when the sturdy , solid , sound , sensible men of Down are roused . ( Great cheers . ) Not a few paltry places , not cajolery , or " soft sawder , " no insignificant measure about the franchise , which satisfies the south , _| will turn us from our object . ' We tell Lord John Russell tliis ,

      that the Spirit of __ ' 82—( enthusiastic burst of applause )—the spirit that animated the volunteers of Duugannonstill lives ; aftd will men submit to be robbed of the fruits of their industry for the support of the South and West ? ( Renewed applause . ) We'U preach a crusade against it , and I ' m happy to say I ' m one of the first apostles . ( Laughter and cheers . )" Tlie Monaghan Standard thus describes the excitement in that part of Ulster : — " They who always supported law now talk openly of resistance ; and those who have for years administered law look ominously grave as they foresee the consequences of the measures . We predict that this impost will never be levied except at the bayonet's point . To be sure , England may garrison Ulster with 40 , 001 ) troops , and harry the cottages of the yeomanry and the houses of the gentry . But it wfll be a sorry sight to see !"

      ... Now , then , what think you of that , you loyal Protestants of England ? A Protestant crusade isproclaimed against Catholic life by a Justice of tho Peace , indorsed by his audience an _&^ backed by the . assistance of Almi ghty God ; not , " according to commercial practice , to pay , but by the declaration never to pay a tax imposed by the Imperial Parliament . What will the Protestant say to the agitation ofthe sturdy , solid , sound , sensible , well-fed Protestants of the North , as compared with the paltry cajolery and " soft sawder" of the men of the South ? what will they say to the revival of "that spirit that animated the volunteers ofDungannonin' 82 , when their cannon had a most significant motto under its touch-hole ?" And what will they say to the first apostle in

      this crusade of resistance being a Justice of the Peace ! and administrator of English law in Ireland ? What will they say to the bursting , the overflowing , the enthusiastic loyalty of Protestant Ulster , rejoicing in the declaration of the Protestants of that province , that ' 'They will ofier open resistance to the law ? " "To be sure , " - says the scribbler , "England may garrison Ulster with 40 , 000 troops ; " and to this we answer , "Serve them rig ht , as turn about is fair play ; " as when Protestant patronage depended upon Catholic subjugation , then Protestant Ulster was ready to garrison Catholic Munster and Connaught , not with 40 , 0 § Q troops-of the line , but with unlimited battalions of bloodhounds , to wade knee deep in Catholic blood .

      We hail this Ministerial measure as the means of consolidating and wedding Protestant and Catholic interests . The Protestants have had the fat , now they must take their share of the lean ; while , though tho very announcement of a sixpenny rate arouses them to madness , they have not the " nouse " to see or understand that the Ministerial proposition , so revolting and distasteful to Protestant Ulster , is but a sprat to catch a mackerel . They have not tho power of divination to understand that the sixpenny Rate in Aid will be advanced from the Imperial Exchequer ; that at the commencement of the next Session , the Chancellor of the Exchequer will announce that the necessit y for the advance was

      urgent , pressing , and indispensable , to save life ; that the Government had not calculated upon the difficulties attending the collection of the Tax , and that it now stands in thc balance sheet as a debt of £ 300 , 000 due by Ireland , in addition to the £ 1 , 200 , 000 advanced for tlie erection , of workhouses ; and he was sure that no honourable , gentlemanin that House would object-to this paltry addition to the Irish debtwhen the timel y advance was the means of saving thousands—nay , hundreds of thousands of lives during those months preceding the harvest , which are always the most disastrous , and during which no employment could bo procured . Then the Grange Protestant howl will be

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      converted into a royal loyal cheer , and JoilN Bull will say , " Well , if it was necessary to preserve Irish connexion we will pay it , but it-MUST BE THE LAST . " But we assure John , in perfect good faith , that it is neither the last nor the second last ; we admire liis generosity , but as long as the connexion is to be continued there will he a perpetual and incessant draw upon his humanity , p hilanthropy and charity , until he shall have discovered that he has quite enough to do at home , and . that Ireland , ifthe relationshi p were severed , would have less claim upon his generosity . It is hard to see a sister want , while we may allow a neigh b our to struggle , although we are told to

      love him as ourself . JOHN , thoug h very religious , knows , however , that there is a difference between professed love to our neighbour and compulsory aid to a sister . The one he may measure by whim , the other must be obeyed by compulsion . And it is for the effect that these , and , such like just and necessary appeals , are likel y to produce on John's mind , that Paddy should hail all such propositions with pleasure and delight , as they must inevitably lead to . that severance of an unhol y connexion , which has impoverished both ' countries , and to the establishment ofa union which will aggrandise . and enrich both , making them independent relatives instead of begging slaves and unwilling donors .

      In conclusion we must observe , that during the four nights' most prosy debate upon this sixpenny Bate in Aid , and while much Pro testant enthusiasm , landlord devotion , and tenant interest , was spouted , the name of the Labourer was never even hinted at ; but , as the question . of the resolutions has only heen disposed of , perhaps we may hear something of the most valuable party to the contract—THE LABOURER .

      Dr. M'Douall.. "We Are Now In A Position...

      DR . M'DOUALL . . "We are now in a position ' to set at rest all doubts respecting the ¦ intentions of Dr . M'Douall and his legal advisers , with regard tothe "Writ of Error . " Notwithstanding anything that may have appeared in this paper tothe contrary , it is Dr . M'DouALt ' s final detennination to sue for a Writ of Error , with the view of setting aside the judgment under wliich he is at present suffering . A re-consideration of all the material facts on which an application for a Writ of Error will he founded , lias inspired Dr . M'Douall and his legal advisers , with sanguine hopes of the happiest results .

      ¦ Mr . Richari- B . B . Cobbett , of — , Marsden-stveet , Manchester , will conduct the case . Dr . M'Douall ' s imperative instructions are , that all monies collected for him , be forthwith sent to Mr . Oobjbett , who is only waiting for the necessary funds to proceed in this business , so important to our per . secuted friend , and his bereaved family . _[ W Mr . Cobbett is requested to furnish his name in full , with the number of his residence , to Mr . Rider , Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , London . ]

      Mr . Cobbett requires a sum— £ 20—which might be collected with ease in the course of a few hours , provided Dr . M'Douall's professed friends would bestir themselves , and make an earnest effort to obtain the money . Is Dr . M'Douall to remain in prison for the want of 20 / . ? Shall he continue to suffer a felon ' s fate—a felon ' s fare ? Shall his family continue to suffer , under the affliction of his loss to them ? Shall Chartism be dishonoured for . lack of so paltry a sum ? When a few shillings collected in each locality will make up the required amount , surel y the working classes will not inflict upon themselves the disgrace of neglecting to respond to this appeal , . ¦ , .

      We believe that the sum already collected is about 61 . We look forward with confidence to seeing the remainder—and we hope something more—collected within a week from the present time . No one need hesitate to . give , or collect the contributions of others , under the impression that too much money may be collected . . Even supposing that a larger sum should be collected than the lawyers will require ( and that does not often happen ) , Dr . M'Douall ' s family would be none the worse for the surplus being applied to their aid . We understand that Mrs . M'Douall has commenced business in Liverpool in the general news and bookselling line . Of course , her success , and the

      consequent support of herself and children , will principally depend on the support afforded her hy the news and hook-reading public of Liverpool . We say " principally depend , " for it will be all the better if assistance is rendered from other places . Some amount of capital—little or much—is necessary to enable Mrs . _M'DoirAiiL to make a fair start . Credit is not always obtainable , and never desirable . A Committee of the Liverpool friends was-formed some time ago to collect subscriptions to establish Mrs . M'Douall in business . All monies ( for that purpose ) must be sent to the Treasurer of the Committee , Mr . Andrew Watt , 5 , George's-buildings , Dryden-street , Scotlandroad , Liverpool .

      The friends of Dr . M'Douall will shortly have afforded them another opportunity of serving their incarcerated advocate and his family . A poetical work , and a work on "Agricultural Chemistry , " both from the pen of Dr . M'Douall , are now in the press , and will very shortl y be published . If Dr . M'Douall ' s active friends in the several localities form themselves into Committees to promote the sale of the works as soon as published , each Committee appointing trustworthy canvassers , and a Treasurer and Secretary , a large sale will be ensured , and some considerable benefit derived therefrom by the famil y of the imprisoned patriot . Mrs . M'Douall has four infant children . What

      more need we write ? Not one word to those who believe , with the poet , that " The drying up one tear has more Of honest fame , than shedding seas of gore . "

      Parliamentary Review. After. A' Protract...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . After . a' protracted debate , the House of Commons affirmed the principle of the Government plan for meeting the present difficulties and distresses in Ireland . That plan is simpl y that , for the next two years , every union iu Ireland shall pay a rate equal to sixpence in the pound on each electoral division in such union , towards a general fund for the relief of the poor , and that the amount so collected shall be distributed in such manner as the Imperial Parliament may direct .

      Now , ' apart from the obvious political injustice of such a plan , and the plain and incontestible right of the Irish people to appropriate and apply funds _which-they exclusively contribute , there are many other weighty objections to it , and we do not wonder at the gallant and protracted resistance of the Irish members , of all political creeds , to such a scheme . It has still many stages to go through ; and the manner in which the people of Ulster especially , on whom the burden will fall most heavily , are bestirring themselves , threatens a more determined and prolonged

      opposition . The people in the North of Ireland , who have beon so often complimented upon their loyalty , thoir industry , and their peaceableness ,. ask very naturall y why these qualities should cause them to be singled eut for the-imposition of this exceptional tax ? They say , and . truly , "Youtell us thatthe Imperial dominion of Great Britain must be maintained ; we havo supported you in that , and it is too bad now to throw upen our shoulders what ought to be an Imperial burden . Why should not Lancashire and Lanarkshire be taxed for such a purpose as

      Parliamentary Review. After. A' Protract...

      well as we ? 'Equal burdens break no backs , '' and that which may be ruinous and oppressive when confined to us , would scarcely be felt , ' if equitably apportioned to thetax-paying powers of the Empire . " Besides this objection , however , the whole scheme is tainted with the usual disease of Whig policy . It cures nothing—it effects no real amendment of the . evils it is professedly meant to remedy . After the lapse of two years , and the expenditure of perhaps a . couple of millions sterling , Ireland will he—so far as this scheme is concerned , or anything that may

      be expected from the present Ministry—in precisely the same position , as she now is . The onl y hope which Lord John Russell himself holds out ofa cessation or diminution of the destitution which calls for these extraordinary advances , is of a truly melancholy character . He thinks that within the next two years one of two things will happen ; either the potato will become p lentiful again , and the Irish peasants return to their old half-starved mode of existence—or they will be thinned off by death and emigration , so that there will no longer be need to support them b y rates of any kind ' This is the utmost stretch to which his _Loi'dship ' s mind can go in speaking of the evils of Ireland or in imag ining how they are to be got

      rid of ! In the one case , Ireland would continue to be inhabited b y a population whose poverty and destitution , in the best of times , has been a standing disgrace to this country for centuries ; to which all travellers have pointed as the great blot upon modern civilisation . The half-employed , half-fed peasantry , dependent upon their potato patches for subsistence , would , in case

      ofa recurrence ofthe potato disease , be again thrown upon the resources of this country for support , and another ten or twelve millions would have to be raised for that purpose . In the other case , Ireland would generall y become a waste , and uncultivated desert—as it is now in many places . Landlordism and Whig incapacity conjoined , would have consummated their work by depopulating one of the most fertile and favourably situated countries in the

      world . . . Forthe first two nig hts of the debate , no indication whatever of power to grapple comprehensively and earnestly with the vast and difficult problem of the futurelof . L'eland , was manifested . The same bald , disjointed , petty , and . selfish propositions , which have been heard of for the last ten or fifteen years , were reproduced , as if they had been novelties . The Government p lan—ill-digested , futile , and effervescent as it was—seemed , after all , the only thing that could be done , simpl y because

      nobody was prepared with a better . On the last , however , appearances altered . Mr . Osborne made a speech which touched effectuall y on the real causes ofthe evils of Ireland , and made some suggestions ofa really remedial character . He was followed at the early hour of six o ' clock by Sir R . Peel , who made a speech which certainly took by surprise all who heard it , and which , whatever may be its defects , contrasts singularly with the barrenness of Ministerial invention—the purblind nature of Whig policy—and the feebleness with which the reins of Government are held

      by them . Sir Robert must have deeply pondered on the question before he screwed his courage sufficientl y hig h to venture upon making so revolutionary a proposal as he did on Tuesday night . Had it come from any one else it would have been denounced as emanating from the Socialists and Anarchists , and received with a stormy outburst of landlord indignation . This proposal is nothing less than that Government should buy up all the pauperised and bankrupt Unions in Ireland , and " plant" the territory thus acquired with a young and fresh colony in something like the way as Ulster was " planted" by James I .,

      with this difference—that , in the new plantation , he would make no religious distinction . This is , in effect , a social revolution on a large scale . He suggests a Government Commission , authorised to buy with _national funds these now beggared , unsaleable , and uncultivated districts ; that , having purchased them , the Commissioners shall employ the population , if necessary , in opening up and improving the territory which has thus become national property , and that they should be empowered , at then * discretion , to sell the land with a Government title to fresh colonists , with a limitation of liability for poor rates .

      The sources from whence the ideas on which this p lan is founded are derived , will be manifest to our readers . It is essentially and virtually an adop tion of the principle of those plans for the regeneration of L'eland , which have been scouted and denounced by the Political Economists , and the Landlords , as the height of ignorance on the one hand , and the most audacious wholesale robbery on the other . "The sacred rights of private property , " about which so much has , been said , are no more respected by this plan of Sir R . Peel ' s , than they have been in all the plans of social reform propounded by those who have , for years , urged plans similar to it in princi ple upon the attention of the public . The only difference between Sir Robert and those from

      whom he has borrowed his ideas , is , that instead of using the territory thus acquired to create a new race of landlords , tenant-farmers , and agricultural labourers—after the model of Hants , Wilts , or Dorset—they would have created a small yeomanry , and have ensured all the social benefits of a peasant-proprietary . It is , perhaps , natural that the _cx-Premierfrom his habits , and association of ideasshould , at first , have shrunk from going the full length to which his newly-adopted principles and convictions would lead him . But , we venture to say , that subsequent and deeper

      consideration of tho subject will show him , that in order to meet well , and wisely , and effectually that fearful " future , " which has alread y driven him into the proposal of such a plan , he must go farther . Even if Connaught and Munster were colonised by new -- planters , " in the fashion he proposes , there would still be a large number of persons for whom tho modern system of agriculture would not find work . What is to be done with them ? They must either be shipped off to the Colonies Avholesale , or allowed to provide a sustenance for themselves at home . The other alternative—that

      of supporting them in idleness—belongs to the Political Economists , and the Whi g Government ; we repudiate it altogether , and of the first two we infinitely prefer tbe latter . Sir R . Peel confines his attention exclusively to the lands which have heen cultivated , but are now altogether or partially abandoned , and lying , as described b y a Government official , as completely waste as if they had been devastated b y an enemy . To this we have no objection , while , at the same time , it must be recollected that a wide expanse of waste but cultivable land also exists in

      Ireland , which maybe made available if needful . In the meantime , however , the formerly cultivated lands will he sufficient , if in addition to the 2 , 000 , 1 , 500 , and 1 , 000 acre estates , proposed by Sir R . Peel , the Commissioners were empowered to sell , or lease with a power to purchase , small estates of from five to twenty acres , with a Government title . The contract or leases might prohibit subdivision of these small holdings to an extent likel y to he injurious , and might also lay down a certain

      rotation of crops . This addition to the plan would , we are persuaded , be hailed with deli ght by the people of Ireland , for it ia utter nonsense to say , that men who cross the Atlantic or Pacific for distant lands , lured by the hopei thaVthere they may secure " alabour field of their own-and who , when they do , exhibit untiring industry in its cultivation—would not exhibit the same qualities it allowed to live and work oa their own estate in their native laud . Meanwhile , the enmaftiation ofa plan _recog nising smb . pria _^ ies _, by * maa _poBBwuing

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      the immense _pohv . al influence and t ) ""sight ofthe _ex-PniME Minister is ni ,- ° ! 0 r _< - * tion of better times . The great mass _° _~ are content to tako their _opinion _m _, _* _? 10 They require to have them , _ho-Zff _' stamped by some recognised authority L _?' they can pass current . Now that Sir _n Peel has issued such notions from *• r _* we may expect that they will rapidf- _^ _^ into common use . If so , it will her n ° downfall of the present abortion of a o ! _T- , le In the midst ofthe dreary aridity 0 f * et tion and idea , which , for the last two v _^ _^ more , has characterised the occu pants / 0 r Treasury bench , it was positivel y S _' ° , i _.- he and refreshing to hear somethin _* - liK u 8

      tical statemanship , even though th _^' did not come up to our own mark ° _y _> sell and Gre y felt that the bell an ing their dismissal from office , _stmcki " Peel ventured to grapple in that « ,, * the " chief difficulty , " and their _coni _^ ' manifested themselves by the even u obsequiousness of their manner towards ? man to whose support they mainly mr 5 ° retention of office so long . J _c " _* e Mr . Drummond has succeeded iu _dofW _' if not the Government , at least the _ATionv _" 2 , General , _Solicitor-Gexerai and T Advocate on his Transfer of _MpJ 2 Bill . We have given a prett y fuU abstr J _^ hw speech in moving the aecond _reading

      wnicn contains an interesting di gest of tf mode in which the feudal tenures were o ginally acquired , and the mode in w _* , _- !' the present monstrous and _oppress system has grown up , for thc benefit of the lawyers , and the injury of every other class of the community , jj . * Home Secretary tried to persuado _\ DltUiMMOND into the withdrawal of his Bill , oi the complimentary ground that if he - _. visiJ merely to have an expression of opinion from the House in favour of the princi p le , hcW got it ; and that the Government would tak the hint , and as soon aB possible do what th ' could with so difficult question , fc _^ pogs _aj-Mi * . Drummond has the same faith in _^ _-j , ; promises and Whig ability that we have- K

      had no' notion ot wasting the time of Parlia ment by merely talking about a Bill , aiid _' _the-l withdrawing it , so he persisted on _gobo- t 0 . ' division , whereupon Sir John JERyfs Jji snappish , and moved the second readin g thai day six months . _^ He was beaten on the divi sion by a majority of ten , and showed hi ! mortification and ill-temper at the defeat bv the angry and bitter tone of his replv to ail

      attack upon his legal wisdom , whicli wa _* _-h--mediately afterwards made b y Captaiii Pechell in some matters connected with th * Poor Eemoval Act . We hope that lb Drummond will be able to get a Committee from which , as Mr . O'Connor says , evcrv lawyer shall be excluded . Thero will be some chance then of a practical reform in a matter of deep public interest .

      One of those questionable but wcll-meani efforts , which Lord Ashley is in the habit -. _; making , has occup ied the attention of tin House , and given rise to rather a smart d _* bate . His Lordship , after giving at grea : length the statistics of what he _termed " Spiritual Destitution , " proposed to split tr all the large parishes of the kingdom in _* l small ones of 4 , 000 a-piece . Each clergyman , he thinks , would then have time and cliamv

      to look after his flock , and suppl y them _ivili spiritual nourishment . He succeeded in earning his motion for a committee upon the sut ject ; but , really , what good can come ofit * v ; are unable to see . When ten new chuvclifc were recently built in Bethnal-Green an : Sp italfields , great things were expected _fron them . What has been the result ? Whv , that they have merel y opened ten new _shop for as many parsons , who had no shops before . The poor silk weavers have neither time , it clination , nor clothes , to go to church , Thej are compelled to work on Sundays as well ai on week-days , when their looms are in gear , because the devilish gospel of Mammon ,

      helieved in and practised by the capitalists , hai screwed down prices so low that six daysVoii will not support them . If Lord Ashle y fc really in earnest in his endeavours to tacfj the poorer classes , let him betake _hinuel vigorously to convert rich capitalists , speculating manufacturers , and monopolising Id owners , from their evil ways and their grc heathendom . The ignorance and poverty froi _; which flow the destitution , misery , and _criinhe wishes to cure , are mainly attributable to those in high places . It will be wiser to : him to attempt the stoppage of the evil at the fountain-head , than waste his time in _fruitles : efforts , when the stream has become too powerful to be arrested by such small and incommensurate efforts as those to which we refer .

      Receipts Of The National Land Company Fo...

      RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND _COMPANY For the Week Endixo Thursday .

      March 8 , 1849 . SHARES . _£ s . a . £ s . d Newcastle-upon- Hawick .. 212 , Tyne .. 3 0 0 R . Pattison .. 0 1 ' ' Devizes .. 15 0 P . Truinble .. _H ; HasUngdon .. 3 12 6 J . Vigiirs .. »!' Hull .. .. 1 12 0 C . _Yigin-5 .. 0 l \ Torquay .. 0 5 0 W . Brvson .. 0 3 ' Norwich , Hurry 2 0 0 Mr . Simmonds , Lower Warley .. 11310 Uxbridge .. 3 ! Calais .. .. 0 10 0 G . W ... .. 0 0 * Manchcster .. 2 0 0 ltoyton .. " 6 Nottingham .. 0 9 3 A few Red Re W ootton . uii-lcr- publicans , by Edge .. 0 12 0 J . Sugg .. 0 ¦ ' Halifax .. 0 10 0 —r _] Rochdale .. 16 2 ££ 5 _ j _ j .

      EXPENSE FUND . _Haslingde-t ? .. 0 IS 0 Hawick .. ° ' _Middleton .. 0 2 0 J . Taw .. J ' ? uU .-. " 0 2 0 P . Bcnbick .. J . Lower Warl ey .. 0 2 0 A . Oram .. ° _* _, _iM-ttn-gham .. 0 14 S . Oram _"; Wootton-under- h . Oram . ° Edge .. 040 - -rrr , Halifax .. 3 11 0 _ ]_ TOTALS . ,, Land Fund ... 2 o \ ; Expense ditto a !'; Bonus ditto 1 * _;' 3 _toan . ditt 0 !' j Rules 0 -

      W . Dixon , C . Doyle , T . Clamc , Cor . Sec . P . M ' Grath , Fin . Sec ,

      Executive Fund. Jw S'L™-Fh-Ffield. V^Rqr...

      EXECUTIVE FUND . Jw _S'l ™ _-fh-ffield . V _^ rQr . Cavill . 3 s . Hi . - ft ** Per „ 7 ' "ow . 10 s . 2 d . ; Cripplegate per Mr . _** _, 2 s . 6 d . Tunbwdge Wells , _pei-Mr . _wtn-en , to Cards , ! ' ¦' Per J . _AriNOTT—Sheffield , per W . Homo .- ! , 3 d . DEFENCE FUND . .: ••»?? _£ _? * i * - _** 1311 —Nottingham , per J . Sweet , * _ft Bndhngton Quay , per J . Vickerman , 5 s . ; Dalston , P- Sowerby , 3 s .

      FOR MRS . M'DOUALL . Per Wm . _RiDEB—CarUsle , per J . M'Kenri * , Ids-VERNON'S DEFENCE , FOR MR . N'X « N- p PerWM . RIDI 3 B .-A . Wesleyan , Stroud , Is . fa—LAMD _Omca-G . W . _6 d . ; Royton _, 5 s . fid . NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE _FUNJ _^ _cu e I _« _Abnott . —Portsea , per J . Stroud , _# - * r i Sheffield Council , National Charter Association- k _^ Cavil , 10 s . ; Sheffield per W . Holmes , 5 s . ftt j . fl fi per W . Flower , 10 s . ; Wm . Muir and _J _. _Cha _^ _ceDu'V _, _• _. to " Deptford and Greenwich , per G . Floyd , 6 s . _w- ' _, ) _* mmster _, per J . Grassby , 3 s . ; Ernest Jones toc-J _*> _. C _> 1 Harrap , 7 s . 6 d . ; 28 , Golden-lane , Cripplegf ' _? - £ r $ Brown , 3 s . 7 d . ; Mr . Kendrick , Tower lhaaU _»< k , S Warren , Mr . Turner ' s Book , Somers town , " L . fn Pancras Charter Association , per C . Wyatt , ss - - ceeds of Orations , at South London HaU . £ 2 _* _*

      Chartists, • •• •J *'• You Will See That...

      CHARTISTS , _•• • j * ' You will see that a separate Fund is ° P _*;* L -inthe payment of Mr . _Nkon . Many lettf _* . * _, ib * - _biguous ; therefore leb remitters be ex P " Ve !» . monies may not be _-n-dsappropri-ited in con _g _^ _-r _' of a mystified mode- of _correspondence- . _$ _> Defence Fund is oae thing , _Yerawft _N * _J f V t _* ther . Some £ 350 is yet required to »» r fr _*» _La-ftyera . How _arethewisoneistow _^ -fo' _^ oakum , picking ? . _& 'M * _T . O'Connor _ . J \* ji an _^ ghtfcr aSL * * ' tf * *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 10, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10031849/page/4/