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THE NOKTHERN STAR. SATURDA-I , JUNE 13, 1848.
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¦ THOMAS COOPEB , THE CHARTIST'S WORKS . To fee had of Jofe-tC leave , and all booksellers , ( _trloo One Shilling . ) TWO ORATIONS AGAINST _T-iBm < 3 r AWAY HUMAN _MFE , UND _"" d & ANY _CIRCUMSTAN'C'ES _, « Hr . _hooper ' s style is intensely 'clear -sod forcible ; it "displays great earnestness , and fine human sympathy ; aea is in the highest degree iaauyf -plain , and _-ylgoeOUs . Mr . 'Ocoper has evidently _-espensled much time , fcsel 6 cuItivation , andis of a high and noble order of i mtelleek— - _fiw-niiij Advertiser . "Sure" we are that Mr . _<* _ooper—much as he has already - _'dcne to prove his _3 stle 'to the admiration of ¦ h is countrymen—has never yet _*« krae anything more _-fcondurabie alike to his character as a man and his reputation 'asa poet , than thk _large-hearted-outoouriDg of the purest and most heroic 'philosophy . '' —SiMtineL .
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HAT S CHEAPER AND BETTER _'iWff EVER .-PERRING has now on sale a new , _ilegant , and extensive Assortment of _VELTET HATS , « f superfine q ualities , of the most fashionable shapes at . 9 * -. ft * , each ; superior Beaver , at 14 s . and 16 s . ; the best .- & at can be jnade ditto , at 21 s .: Gossamer Hats , finished in the first Style . 6 s . 6 d *; Youth ' s Hats , 5 s . 6 d . ; Velvet < iitto > Ss . fid . ; ladies'Riding Hats , 6 s . _6 d . to 12 s . ; Kveiy Oats , 10 s . to 36 s . ; Touths Eats and Caps of every _description , from 2 s . 6 d . ; Gentlemen ' s Travelling and other Caps , xrom Is . patent velvet flexible ventilating Hats , 13 s . ; paten . * - ventilating Beaver Hats . 16 s ., 18 s ., and 21 s . 85 , STRAND , and 251 , REGENT . STREET . i 6 , 000 of the Flexible Velvet Hats , 13 s ., were old _laftl year , sue " * js the universal call for them .
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AN ORATION AGAINST WAR , AND THE PUNISHMENT OF . DEATH , WILL _-BS DELIVERED IN THE AMPHITHEATRE , LEICESTER , On Monday night next , " the 15 th inst . " By THOMAS COOPER , the CHARTIST POUT , Author of The Purgatory of Suicide ' s , ix . o ! c _Tfeeproceeds Ofthe discourse , after _paymentof expenses , * *> be applied 5 ; o the relief of Mr . Frost . Mr . Cooper will read to the Meeting the letter wliich has been received "from the afllicted esile . V Mr . Oooper will deliver orations on "the same _stfejects , and ' _-fov Mr . Frost ' s relics ? , on Tuesday evening , the 16 th inst . * at _Sheffield , aud on "Wednesday evening ,-thes . 7 th inst . at £ ieeds . ,
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_^——^——— _^ _Ma _^ _w . _^ WEST HIDING OF YORKS _& IRE . 1 "MIDSUMMER SESSIONS . _« TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Sprinc ¦ JlS Genzbm , _Qu-iwrsai Sessions of the Peace , for the "West Ridim- of the "County of York , will be opened _-atSKIPTON , bri-TUESDAY , the 30 th _* day 6 f June inst st Teu of the Clock totoe "Forenoon- ; and by Adjournment _Srom thence will beSioldea at BRADFO & D , on WEDNESDAY , the 1 st day of-July next , at Ten ofthe Clock in the Forenoon ; and ateo _, * by further Adjournment , from thence , wiU he hoaddn _« t ROTHERHAM , on ilOMDAY , the 6 th day of the-same month of - "July , at half-past Teu of the Clock in tbe "Forenoon , when all-Jurors , Suitors ,
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Just Published , Price Three Pence , By . the"Executive . Committee of the National Association , AN . EXQUISITELY . FINISHED STEEL PORTRAIT OF TH . OMAS PAINE , Author of tht Rights of Man , -Common Sense , & c . Also , a beautifully _sxecuted Copper Plate engraving , ofthe sanguinary field } f PETiERLOO . Plain , Sixpence , coloured , One Shilling , Also , the complete _^ Political Works of Thomas Paine , in Five Parts , -. with Portraits -of the Author and a copy . f the People's-Charter , Price 2 s . Cd ,, bound 3 s , 6 d .
The Nokthern Star. Saturda-I , June 13, 1848.
THE NOKTHERN STAR . _SATURDA-I , JUNE 13 , 1848 .
The -Struggle. Lv Commenting Upon The Di...
THE -STRUGGLE . Lv commenting upon the different view taken of tJhe Reform Billand the 'Repeal of the Cera Laws by the House of Peers and , indeed , by the landed aristocracy generally , we have endeavoured to show the distinction between -the surrender of a portion of political power , with enough left to preserve tights , privileges , . andiproperty , and a measure calculated to diminish property and ultimately to abridge political power , _"We-were steadfast in the optaion that the Bill-would not pass unmutilated , or that , if it did _pass tthe sufferers from the charge would rally for another-skirmish ia the hope of _regainisjg their lost rights , . and _ofagain restoring their diminished property -to the scale of those necessities " built _^ on the pTesujmpticci that _ifietion ' s doomsday was nearer to arrive .
The week before last , 'When all . was dull , calm , and quiet , and when tie-several morning messengers of national composure were endeavouring to lull us into thefcelief _* , and to soothe-us into-the hope , that their prognostications bad _restored . trade in Manchester , asd driven all evil _> bodings ; from Liverpool we ventured . upon the following prediction _i—His dream-is out , andso will he be ' ereilong . ; for the Whigs will net bear his _monopoly-of office , and the betrayed _Protectionists will not tolerate his contintance in giower .
Since the assurance of restored confidence and improving trade ,. our morning . contemporaries Shave -begun to think aa we thought when we wrote the _abwe . They now . 'begin to _bedseve in that combination of foul elements to whieb the office rather than t & e measures of the Prime Minister was sure to _besubjected . Reformed Whiggery was , spurious cross , a kind of political mule , between popular anticipation and Whig _assurance ; and if the greatest minister _tfaat ever England could boast of , is now to fall , it will ie before a combination of patronage and treachery . A combination , however , sufficiently powerful to substitute Russell for Peel , will not be sufficiently tractable under ike management of the former to preserve him in an office for whieh nature never intended him .
If Peel falls he will have earned with him the respect and admiration . of all honest men , when Russell rises it will be but to . expose the weakness of his party . When we hare _canvassed the position of Sir Robert Peel , and when me have spoken of obloquy and censure , we merely measured the treatment he was likely to receive by the feelings that his betrayed party was certain to entertoia . Throughout the long and uninteresting straggle for the preservation of landlords rights , we have attached but one indelible stigma npon Sir Robert Peel , asd that is net having given his party an opportunity of testing the feeling upon a measure which he said popular demand and popular requirements had forced upon him . If Peel had appealed te the country , the country would have sustained bim if it _desired the measure ; and . there-
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' -. " -il" , r * . . . V . . ' -.- f-Si . Tl ¦* . i . fore , his fsf . ot was in basing it "upon * popular approval , -while he refuses to Bubm | t ; tp . popular , deoifliph ,: It is now pretty nearly understood that the Peel Ministry is destined—that its days are _numbered * , I and that Lord JohnRussell is all but installed as Prime Minister of the country . Itdo _^ snot \\ eem to have struck our contemporaries tha ' e thi ** anticipated change of ministers may lead to an unexpected change of policy . They do riot seem to see that if Peel should wriggle _successfully out of the Coercion Bill , that his tottering _portion will embolden many Peers who would _otherwise support his Commercial |
Policy , to rat upon tha _* question , If the Duke ' s assertion is true , that hia adhesion to the measure was based upon the _necr _^ _ssity of having a Ministry , his Grace may now ba taunted with the facility with which two Administrations may be formed—the one of the Ultra-Protectionists , living in the hope of once more _relying THE JANNISAR 1 ES—theothe ' r of the Whigs , lingering out a hopeless existence upon a surplus exchequer and popular -excitement . For _onrsfilves we lean not from affection , _( but from
interest , to the Whig party . From their accession , and -certain overthrow , we anticipate a great forward march in the party . They will have discovered the impossibility of holding power with no better support than that derived from the pliancy of Irish policy and Irish patronage . They will discover that all hope of _victory in tbe Registration department is vain and hopeless , so long as the present Franchise continues ; and if beaten upon another general election , they will bid for such a popular Franchise as will secure the final overthrow of Toryism .
_Ourlchargejagaiiist Whiggery has been , whereas the Reform Bill promised the final overthrow of Toryism , its effect was to give to that party a much larger majority than it could ever boast of under the old boroughmongering : system . Upon the other hand , we have shewn that much of the benefit of reform was "tost by the apathy of those electors who were qualified to vote under its provisions , and now we rejoice in the coming change , because ' no Whig limits can be safely applied to the extension , ' of a mere Whig constituency . The question of the franchise is the one , the only question , in which the
people should feel interested in the change , and as it is bow sure to come , again we invoke , we implore , every Chartist constituency in the kingdom to elect without a moment ' s delay trustworthy delegates , who will be prepared to meet wherever the directors shall summon thein with twenty-four hours' notice . The resignation of Sir Robert Peel and the appointment of Russell as his successor is no longer matter of speculation , nor can the event be long deferred , although the circumstances which lead to . it may he something mitigated in their character . Russell is
perfectly aware that he cannot build upon the support of the Bentinck party , and that he must go to the country wilh some new CRY . He will discover that neither timber , corn , nor sugar will satisfy . the present appetite , and that upon the country , and the country alone , must depend the fate of Whiggery . In such a crisis it will become the people ' s duty to secure for themselves representatives , be they many or be they few , who will teach the Whigs that their continuance in place must depend solely upon their deference to public opinion .
Eight or nine pure , shameless , and dishonest Whigs , who profess to dissent from Whig policy , nevertheless kept that party in power for three years upon the cuckoo cry of—'' Keep the Toriea out . " Now it is for the purpose of getting a real army of observation , of some ten or dozen veritable Chartists , who , at any given moment , can kick a Whig or Tory administration out , that we call upon the Chartist body to be prepared to furnish such a staff . This will be the principal business of the forthcoming IConvention , and the Directors upon their part undertake to be prepared with such a plan as , if adopted and acted upon universally , will inevitably secure our object .
It is a fact that the people are now in reality the source of all power . It is a fact that all parties look upon them with trembling awe . It is a fact that power is ready to be ceded to thera if they are prepared to demand it like freemen , and with one voice . It is a fact that whilst we prefer Chartists to all others , we much prefer Complete Suffragists to either Whigs or Tories , and failing the best we must secure the second best .. Never were the times so full of import as at the present moment . America , while involved in domestic brawls , is gnashing her teeth at England . The Italian States subject to the Pope are ready for revolt , which the death of Gregory may hasten .
A popular revolution has triumphed in Portugal , No monarchical power of Spain can resist its progress in that country . Austria , Prussia , and Switzerland , are all upon the eve of convulsion . Saxony , and the petty states of Europe alone , where the people possess the land , are secure from those shocks by which monarchy vainly hopes to preserve its ascendancy and priestcraft its power . France is ready for an explosion , and England is the centre to which all are looking for the watchword . Can then there be other than danger in the coming times ? Danger to the popular party if unwisely directed ; danger to usurpation if judiciously governed .
How often bave we told the people that there are three great stages in a political movement—creation of public opinion—the organization of the public mind —and the direction of the public strength ? Itis to the last stage that the Chartist Executive and the people , are now called upon to direct their energies ; while , for ourselves , we need notjassure our party of our willingness once more to take the post of danger and of labour , while we shall endeavour to protect our party from the assaults of the law and the vengeance of faction . While upon the other hand , if
circumstances should occur to lessen our regard for either , or for both , we shall not be squeamish as to the measurement of their power , provided the success of our cause depends upon disregard of them . In conelusion , we say to the chartists , your hour has come , and your future fate depends upon the manner in which you use the present opportunity , elect your delegates , and if you fail to discharge that portion of your duty which your country demands while your Executive are ready to perform their _* s—blame yourselves if defeat should follow apathy .
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THE TRADES' CONFERENCE AND TIIE MOVEMENT . IV our hasty glance at the Conference of the Trades in Manchester , last week , we could only casually notice some of the more prominent features of that _Biovement . But the position assumed by the Association of which the Conference was tho representative body , the questions which it directly or inferentially raises ; the present state of parties and its present and [ probable relations to these parties , no less than the _decisions of the Conference as rto its own immediate affaire and future policy are full of matter for reflection and demand ampler _notice .
1 Tie labouring bees of the human hive have long heen iold that it was their own intestine divisions which _constituted the strength of the drones . Unity and intelligence on their part would long ere now have . compelled such a distribution ofthe fruits of their labours , as would have at once satisfied tbe demands of equity , and produced harmony in the political and moral world , instead of the discord and misery which result from the present unjust arrangements for the production and distribution of wealth , These truths have , we say , been proclaimed ,
by the teachers of the people for many years , and are no novelty in words at least . Nor have attempts ! to give them a practical -value been wanting . From time to time , the forseeiJig and the enthusiastic among the working classes h _& ve arisen as apostles of a new order of industry and striven for that universal confederation of the sons ol " labour , which they felt was an indispensable _preliminary to its emancipation from the shackles of capital . Tiieir efforts met the common fate of all premature movements . They tailed in producingiimmediate results ,
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but they cleared _^ to ' the g _^ i they , aimed at-, and madetbe path ; e * wier to ' those who " followed .: Though one 8 walIow : does , nc * L make a summer , it is a sign that it is not far Off . ' . *' ; . ' , '" _" ¦ ' . ' -. _" _'¦ ' ' _¦ _:- ' _, " „ . - The last great mmpi at a General Union of ; the Trades was in the years 1833 and 4 , shortly after the working classes discovered as a body that the Reform Bill , whic h had
proraised so much , was _"ft hollow mockery to them at least ; that , however it might have feathered the nests of Whig , politicians , and realized the anticipations of unprincipled p lace hunters , it had not in the ; slightest degree altered their condition . Few of our readers , we imagine , are not familiar with the movement at that time , either by having been personally mixed up in it , or by hearing frequent descriptions of its leading occurrences . It was a formidable movement . The Government and
the Capitalists were equally alarmed at its extent , and its power , and they showed at once their terror and their hatred , by striking , not the Grand Consolidated Union—not a Metropolitan trade—not at the * members of a Manchester , Birmingham , or Leeds association ; but at six poor Dorchester Labourers . A Wliig judge was found infamous enough to try these men under the provisions of an obsolete Act of Parliament , resuscitated for the purpose , and which had no more reference to these peasants than to the man . in the moon , inasmuch as the preamble expressly limits its enactment to " soldiers _, ' and sailors
in his Majesty ' s service . " But the new-made Judge and dirty tool of the Whigs , was too grateful to his employers for his elevation to stand npon such nice _points of law as these , and sentenced the Dorchester Labourers to seven years' transportation !! Thank Heaven ! the Working Men of Great Britain brought them back triumphantly from their exile . But let not the fact be forgotten , nor the cognate fact tbat the attempt ofthe Government , at the instigation of the Capitalists , failed in intimidating the tens of thousands who had associated for the noble object of elevating the condition of the working classes . ' ' .. ,
But what thefrown 3 of Government , the influence of wealth , the tyrannical and illegal terrorism of a prostituted Bench failed to effect , internal divisions , mutual misunderstandings , aristocratic prejudices , and democratic jealousies among the high and lowpaid trades , together with complex and unwieldy machinery , speedily consummated . A mighty association dissolved like snow under a July sun . Its elements , however , were merely dissolved , not destroyed . The eternal strife between right and wrong , justice and injustice , was renewed in other forms , and under other leaders .
All this time the people have been learning . Failure and persecution , and sufferings , have been their teachers . They have graduated in a practical University , and are now again applying their additional knowledge and experience , to the organization of a fresh campaign against the deadly foes who press the life-blood from out of the heart of Industry . That they have made immense advances in the knowledge of the true objects to be aimed at , and the manner in which they must be achieved , must , we think , be evident to every one who will attentively peruse the preamble to the . twin associations , over which Thomas Slingsby Duncombe presides . The
one is for " the Protection of Industry , the other "the employment of Labour in Agriculture and Manufactures . " They are , in fact , but two separate departments of one association , but each differently organised for the special work it has to perform . The one is a popularly constituted body for the purpose of acting legally , constitutionally , and peaceably on the masses , and of bringing their united strength to bear on any given point ; the other is the working hand , by which the capital , skill , and labour of the association is to be used reproductively , and the waste , mischief , bitterness , failures , and disappointment of strikes to bejabolished forever . ,
Each of these departments is , as we have said , differently organized . Small payments and simple machinery , but with an expanding power equal to any emergency , characterize the first . The second having to deal with lands , houses , manufactories , workshops , machinery and industrial implements , has the machinery of a joint-stock company . The great object of the Confederation is the industrial , educational , political and social elevation of the masses , and more immediately to bring the influence of a powerful association to bear upon all disputes between employers and employed , as to rates of wages , hours of labour , and similar questions . This it is
proposed to do hy " mediation , arbitration , and legal proceedings , " The Times , in a late article , after " bitingthe file" in vain everywhere else , thought it had discovered a soft bit in the part printed in italics , and gravely shaking its awful head , hinted that these words " savoured of champerty , and maintenance . " If so , Mr . Walters , the President ofthe " Poor Man ' s Guardian Society , " and principal proprietor of the Times , is at this moment guilty of these terrible crimes in having sanctioned an attempt by that Society to obtain legal redress for a brutal and savage outrage on a female pauper by one of the cowardly wretches who carry out the orders of the Cerberus of Somerset House .
All that the Association proposes by these words is to constitute , wherever necessary , suits in law or equity for the protection of the weak against the strong , and thus to fight oppression with the law , instead ef arming it with additional power by ignorant , ' rash , or intemperate resistance ; and if Mr . Walter and tho Poor Man ' s Guardian ' s Society , Lord Ashley and the Short Time party , the League and other bodies , can with impunity pursue this course ,
we should like to know on what grounds the same power is to be denied to this Association ? The truth is , that the Association , both as to its objects and its constitution , is perfectly legal , as the Times itself in despair confesses , and the only way in which it can be touched by its opponents through ihe law is by enacting a new law specially to put it down . Will they dams to attempt this ? If they were so audacious , could they succeed ? We venture to answer both questions in the negative .
So mueh for the objects , and the external and legal aspect of the new movement . Let us now briefly glance at the elements of which it is at present composed , and its principal machinery . The late Conference consisted of 126 delegates , representing in the aggregate 40 , 000 members of a great variety of trades , in every part of Great Britain and Ireland . It was in the variety of these elements that the greatest danger was to be apprehended . It has in every former attempt been found almost impossible to bring what has been termed the aristocracy
of the trades and the democracy together , to work for one object . The mechanic , or engraver , with three or four guineas weekly , had no feeling in common with the handloom weaver , whose miserable pittance was three or four shillings . The joiner , or mason , receiving thirty shillings , looked over the head of the framework-knitter with five shillings aweek . The factory trades held aloof from all general movements . In short , the curse of selfishness and ignorance was upon them , and they fell an easy prey to Capital , whicli mowed them down in sections whenever it suited its convenience .
The bitter lesson , that it was vain to resist aggression while these divisions existed , has been often learned ; but the intellect is frequently convinced a long time before the feelings can be schooled to accord with its _convictions . We have always felt that the point we are _ntfw alluding to was the _rocka-hcad of the new _association , * and that , if it weathered that safely , it would escape its most imminent and immediate danger . Thg decision of the Conference
with reference to it is or so judicious , sound , and practicable a character , that we have now the strongest and most sanguine hopes of ultimate and not distant success . The principle of an Assurance Company has been adopted . The members ofthe various trades composing the association are to pay in proportion to their means , and receive benefits in proportion to their payments . No injustice will be tJone to any one ; but all will be benefitted by this
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plan . . Independentof _^ the pecuniary support which eachi wili be entitled to , all will enjoy th ' e . incalculable advantage of the influence and name of a mighty association , which , we confidently anticipate , will do more to " prevent aggression than the actual expend _^ ture ol millions . _—«^ . "' This influence will rest upon a firm basis , Ar . ' pther decision of the Uonferflhce was , that & , permanent fund , of at least * e 20 , 0 ( JQ , sha . il be raised by small continuous payments ! also levied in proportion to
the earnings of the members of the association . It was judicious , we think , of the Conference to fix the amount of the permanent fund so low . it will not startle the timid nor provoke the sneers of the incredulous . But five times £ 20 , 000 are as easily within the reach of the working classes , by-such means ; as one ; and we do not despair of seeing Labour ' s League in the command of funds as ample as the League of millowners—aye , and exercising , too , an equally resistless influence on the government and the Legislature .
But—and here we come to an essential point , one in which this association differs from its predecessors , this fund is hot to be expended as of old , in keeping men idly walking about the streets , or engaged in the _picqaetting and bickerings of astrike . No ; it is to be invested in the funds of the twin associations , and employed through its medium , as having been expressly constructed forthis purpose , in withdrawing from the market of the competitive capitalists that surplus labour which is his most effective instrument for
grinding industry to the dust . We should suppose that skeleton establishments , with all the requisite implements and machinery for immediate action , would be organized by the association in these parts ofthe country to which the various trades are , we may say , indigenous , and that whenever the other association failed by " mediation or arbitration to settle a dispute betweentheemployers and employed , tho latter would be immediately drafted to these establishments , and set to work in the occupation to which they have been accustomed .
, The three points now successively enumerated , are cardinal ones . ' Upon these pivots the whole association turns . They constitute the difference between it and its predecessors ; and when in addition to this we remember that it has opened its arms to receive the toil-worn wives , daughters , and children of the working man , we think we are justified in saying that no former Confederation of the working classes ever combined so many of the qualifications requisite to success .
But it may be asked by some , will not such an association be dangerous ? Not at all . The honourable and just among employers of all kinds , will speedily learn to regard it as their best friend and ally against the unscrupulous of tlieir own class . An association occupying such a prominent position , with a member of the Legislature at its head , _Vgives hostages to fortune . " It is bound by stronger ties to the maintenance of an impartial , reasonable ; aiid just course , than a congeries of small sectional societies , composed of partially informed men , and liable under the impulse of the moment to commit actions of a violent character , in the absence of an intelligent restraining power . Employers and employed will be mutually benefitted by its existence and its operations .
Such is a brief outline of the proportions of this infant Hercules , destined , we trust , to perform labours more gigantic , and a thousand times more beneficial than the mythological hero . It appears on the political horizon at a critical period . The old parties are dissolved or dissolving All around us is in a state of rapid transition and mutation . The commercial idea of buying cheap and selling dear , which has so long excluded all others from the popular mind , is on the point of legislative fruition . The political convulsions which have attended its parturition has shaken to pieces the old system of partizanship ; and the new circumstances which must inevitably arise out of . the new position we are about to _ocoupy , will make it impossible for it ever to resume its old position .
The advent of such an association as that under notice , is therefore most timely . Its incipient _Btages are passed . Its preliminary arrangements are perfected . It is in the field ready for action . The pbople must rally round it . The elevation of man is its object . WEALTH as the means , MAN as the end , of all social and political institutions , is its leading principle ; and truly the time is come in this England of ours , when we should no longer jabber like apes the miserable verbiage about farthings and halfpence and half hours , which seem the highest point to which the imaginations of our legislators can soar .
Never in ancient or modern times did there exist a nation so teeming with an abundance of all the means of procuring universal abundance and happiness among its people . A kindly sky and fertile soil , rich mineral stores beneath , are our natural inheritance . Over the surface of the broad land gleam and flash the fires , and blank the hammers and run the wheels , and roar the engines , wliich with more than magical rapidity pour forth exhaustless wealth . How long shall we be the slaves of our own inventions ? How long groan and be crushed under the Juggernaut we have erected ?
The time has come when continued endurance will be a crime . The indestructible aspirations of humanity after happiness , tbe superabundance of the elements for securing to all a superior position , education , and enjoyments—the diffusion of intelligence } and the spirit of freedom among the masses , proclaim that the dawn of the day of liberty has arisen . We hear its matin hymn singing around us . Henceforward let there be no party but the People . Henceforward no institutions , but those which minister to the welfare of the People , Henceforward no wealth which the People cannot enjoy , as they create , — no privilege in which all may not freely share . .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . In the postscript to our last " review , " announcing the victory of the Ministry in the Lords , previous to the breaking up for the holidays , we intimated the possibility " . of a movement for the purpose of ousting Peel from office . The event has justified the prediction . The short recesss was scarcely begun when rumours of an intended change became rife . The papers announced that Lord J . Russell had a
meeting at Chesham-place of what are called " liberal members , " and informed them of his intention to make the Irish Coercion Bill in the first place , the Sugar Question in the second , his two battle horses in the struggle to displace his political rival . At the same time statements of a coalition between the Whig leader and * Lord G . Bentinck obtained currency , and the journals generally looked upon as best informed on these topics , spoke in a tone that indicated that in their estimation the days ofthe Peel ministrv were numbered .
So it is likely to turn out . Monday night witnessed a coalition in fact , if not in word , between the Protectionst opponents and the Whig rivals of the Premier , ofa singularand , as we think , disgraceful description . Russell and Bentinck disavowed any ionnal mutual agreement , but both joined in hunting down their common game . With what _different feelings ! We can to some extent sympathise with the upholders of the Protective system , and their exasperation at being , as they conceive , betrayed and deserted by their former leaders . We can understand their
desire for revenge on those who have , as they think broken faith with them , and handed them over defenceless to the Free Trade party ; but we cannot account on any honest or honourable principle of action for the indecent haste , the hurrying eagerness witti which Lord J . Russell and the Whigs rush for ' ward , almost before the work is done , to seize the places of those who , whatever may be their demerits in the eyes of Protectionists , at all events deserve the credit of being much more successful and practical "Liberal" statesmen than those who rejoice in tliKt name . NoJhing but a greedy hankering after office can explain this movement on the part of the Whigs ,
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anditecowardiceyw _^ a _^ They did not dare t _& attempt .. the carrying of Ceramereial _Reform themselves _^ -how that _^ these are , as they thir _' _^ secure ) they are anxious to jump into f « e , and the emoluments , - patronage , and enjoy _, taents appertaining thereto . They are political cuckoos , whose penchant it is to lay their eggs in nests not built'by themselves . '
While the great mass of the people are excluded from all direct participation in political power , -it matters comparativel y little to them who is "Out " or who is " In , " and therefore this war for officethis Ministerial crisis , is to them a minor matter But at the same time , all Englishmen like to see fair play ; and it seems to us , that the junction between Russell and Bentinck at the present moment is by no means so to be designated .
In addition to this , we believe that ike pcopkhave much more to hope for from Piebl than Russeu ,. The former has avowedly linked himself with the progressivespirit of the age . If he halts every now and then , and deviates from the straight-forward path occasionally , there is a reason to be found in his previous education , sympathies , and associates . He was brought up iii the " stand-still school , " but the heart and tendencies of the man himself are evidently onward . All his changes have been from tho sectional to the universal—from the crude and petty notions of a limited and party education , to the more
comprehensive ideas of a ripening and expanding political manhood . Toleration of opinion in religious matters , extension of education , the humanizing of our sanguinary criminal code , the introduction of greater relaxations into our commercial system , in short , with the exception of the political question , all the other reforms ofthe age have been largely indebted to him for their practical introduction . The very reverse has been the course of his wouldbe rival , Lord John ' s career has been a succession of lucky hits , independent of the man himself—wherever he has shown his real nature , it has been that of a
small narrow-minded partizan brought up in a hereditary school ef politicians , the first article of whose creed it was , that they ought to have the government of this country in their hands . Why , it would be difficult to say . To be sure they professed liberal opinions ; but they never w ere in oflice without basely and brutally trampling upon those who had raised them there , because they believed them sincere . They never were entrusted with the control of the affairs , or the finances ofthe country , without leaving them in confusion and dilapidation , They never held power without using ; it to fight against and suppress the very principles which had helped them to it .
Of ; the Whig clique Lord J . Russell is about the most incapable of learning , He is not in love with , but afraid of , the onward spirit ef the times . He is continually whining about " Finality . " We hold that the utterance of such a word is sufficient of itself to preclude any man from assuming to guide thc destinies of a great people . But enough of this . Time will shortly show how thc battle goes between the curiously mixed combatants , on the political arena . Should victory for the nonce
incline to the Coalition , it will only be a temporary triumph . In selecting the Irish Coercion Bill to he defeated upon , if his political enemies can beat him , Sir R . Peel shows his accustomed acutenesss ., It is , after all , more to be looked at in the light of a _measure of administrative detail , temporary initsnature and duration , than embodying any general and indestructible principle . Sir Robert will never again i go out of office upon the latter . If defeated on the present occasion , he will "bide his time . " Can thc country do without him ? If so for how long ?
Meantime a General Election must tell for the People's cause . The breaking up of parties will be aided by it , and the emancipation of the most astute and practical of our statesmen from the old trammels , will leave them free to head the new legislators , whom the growing intelligence of the time will send to Parliament . We shall get out of the barren and circumscribed boundaries of party questions , into the pleasant and far-extending regions of national amelioration . Political enfranchisement , Educational ' improvement , sanitary reforms , equitable distributive arrangements , all show themselves above the political horizon . The FUTURE is full of Hope .
The topics discussed in Parliament this week have been few , and- as all of them will recur again , they will be more effectually criticised when riper for settlement .
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Leicester . —In reply to an enquirer in the Star , the address of Mr . Samuel White is So . 36 , Garden Street , ¦ Bclgrare Gate , Leicester . _Biteaboct Miners Trial . —William Daniells begs to acknowledge the following sums for assisting the miners to carry on the above trial : —Lancashire District , 6 s . ; James Gardiner , Berry Edge , ls . ; Dawson and Defty , 9 d . ; a friend , 6 d . Case of Mr , _Fbost , —I beg to acknowledge the receipt ef the following sums for Mr . Frest ' s relief : —ChartistB of Merthyr Tydvil , £ 1 10 s . ; Evan Williams , butcher , of Mertbyr Tydvil , _fllOs . _j Chartists of Newport , Isle of Wight , £ 2 ; Titus S . Brooke , Esq ., Dewsbury , £ 1 ; Jir . Samuel Cook , Dudley , 58 .: Mr . W . Leach , _Finchingfield , _Esser _, 5 s . ; Mr . ThomasBroweth , London , 2 a , 6 u , ; -
Mr . James Perry , do ., 2 s . 6 d . ; Mr . H , _Shelhker , do ., Is . ; Mr . George Mogg' do ., ls . ; Mr . James Wells , do ., 2 s , ; and also the sum of £ 3 from a patriot and philanthropist , whom I am proud to call my friend—Joseph _Stiirge of Birmingham . I feel it to be a duty to transcribe a part of Mr . Sturge ' s letter , and at the same time must observe that I think its conscientiousness worthy of imitation : — "This thou wilt please to haveclearly understood , I give from sympathy with John Frost , as a fellow creature in distress and in exile—but with an unaltered conviction thnt his conduct at Hew . port was wrong . " AU letters for Mr . Cooper to be addressed for the present to 53 , Goswell-road , _LoHdon . THOMiS COOPEK , P . S . —Received since the above , 9 s . from Nicholas
Morgan and friends , Monkwearmouth , Durham , and 6 d . from Robert Roberson , _Crayford _, Kent . Mr . Julian Harney has received for Mr , Prost , £ 1 from Mr . Seuell ; 2 s . 6 d . from Mr . Jaraea George , Windsor ; a Post-office order from Mr . Wiiliam Smith , Manchester , for 14 s . 6 d . At the time of writing this notice , Mr . Harney has not received cash for the _abo- » o post-order uot having had time to present the order atthe office . Mr , Smith's letter containing the items of the Us . ed , , will be found in eur Chartist Intelligence , under thc head of " _Maachester . " _Jgr Should any further monies for Mr . "Front be addressed to the care of Mr . Julian Harney , Mr . H . requests that the same may be made p ayable at the postoffice , 85 , Piccadilly . Vale of Leven . — Petition and letter receives mth
thanks . Joseph Hobneb , Newport . —We think him perfectly right in his observations , and would much prefer having the money sent by a banker than baring it sent by a private hand . He says that the people do not know Mr . Rogers , and that there is a large sum of money collected if Mr . O'Connor will receive it . Mr . O'Connor lias such perfect faith in Mr . Rogers , that he has sent . him the £ 15 voted out of the Victim Fund , together with all monies transmitted for Prost . However if that old confidence still continues , aud if there is the old desire to transmit all through the Star , Mr . O'Conuor will cheerfull y receive it , acknoivledgeit _, and transmit it to Mr . Rogers . One thing should be borne in mind , that any exertion that is to be made should be made within the following week , as the demand is
pressing and should be immediatel y met . All _pereous sending _post-offlce orders , should send the name ofthe person who obtaiued them , and the name of the person to whom they are to be paid in London . Our excellent fiiend , David Potts of Birmingham , who has sent £ 10 also expresses the dissatisfaction of the Birmingham people at sending the money by private hand . Thomas _M'Dowall , Whippany , North America , wishes to know whether be can purchase a share in the Land Society , us he is anxions to return to his family . He worked with P . and R . Barnes of Manchester , and if this should _mett the eye of any of his family we request them to write to him to tell him that lie is at perfect liberty to join the Association . —It is odd that people
in America should be anxious to join the Ciiartist Cooperative Land Society . -Wm . Rowland . — As one of the Chartists who received the half crown at Herringsgate . returns ls . 4 d ., a penny being thc interest for his share J . _M'Kowen . —Many thanks , Mr . narney will _communsnicatc with you next week , or the week after . E . B . Manchester , appeals to the Chartist Lecturers , and " others to stir up the people to do their duty to John Prost , by subscribing largely and immediately for his assistance , E . B . says he lias commenced a subscription amongst his friends , aud will forward the amount collected early next week . Several Lettebs addressed to Mr . O'Connor must wait
that geutlemau ' s return to town next week . S _« jdike _Auxr , Bradford . We are compeHed to omit your letter this week ; it shall appear iuournat .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 13, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13061846/page/4/
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