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THE NORTHERN STAR. - ¦ -._ .. February u...
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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1846.
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The Northern Star. - ¦ -._ .. February U...
THE NORTHERN STAR . - ¦ _-. _ _.. February u , me . 4 __ _ -- ' r— .. . , . ¦ - ___ : - ¦ — - _¦¦ - — i m _irnirar-n i " i "
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THOMAS COOPER . THE CaABTIST'S _^ WOSKS .
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WEST-RIDING OF IORK SHIRE " _—TrtnKiTtfAS SESSIONS _ADJO-MMENT OF THE _OfflHSJJJ FOR THE TRIAL OF MWW _^ _( _y _, _^ _, NOTICE IS HEREBY _OITES . _^^ _t j _,, _^ General _Qnarter Sessions of tn _^ hoWett _^ _^ Riding ofthe County of _J _?™^ the _Tvrenty-sixth day ment . at Sheffield , on * _^ _^^ ae Forenoon > of February ' _»* ' _*? " * ' ent from thence will be holde ; _^ _^ _iTTSay , the _Setond da , of Ms _^ ** T » t Ten o'Clock in the FoW * oon _, for tkeTrW of _¦ e _. ana Persons Indicted * fcr Misdemeanor * , when 11 Jurors , Suitors , Persons Who stand upon . _Recognizee and others _havine b _« iness at the said . Sessions _^ e r _^ uired to a ttend the _tleurt . Prosecutors and Witnesses in cases _tf Felony and _Miidemsanor from the Wapontakes of Strafforth and
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REMOVAL . J WATSON , BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER , announces to his FRIENDS , ths PUBLIC , and the TRADE , that his business will , for the future , be carried on at No . 3 , QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE , PATERNOSTER-ROW , where all orders and communications must be addressed . s . d . Palmer's Principles ef Nature , one vol ., Cloth . 2 0 do . do . do . in a wrapper . 1 6 Cooper ' s Holy Scriptures , analyzed 0 8 Scripturian's Creed . By Citizen Davies 0 2 Letter opening at the Post-office , with some account erii « nrothsrs Bandtcra . By J . Mauhu . 0 4 Shelley's Queen Mab _. complete 1 0 - — Masque of Anarehy ... 0 3 Central Physiology and Materialism . By . W . C .
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THE REV . T . WILSON'S CATECHISMS . Jits .-PuM _ _- * ie __ , Priee 9 d . _fTlHE CATECHISM OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR Also , New Editions of Vie following Catechisms , bg tht Bee . T . Wilson , Price Od . each . First Lessons in Natural Philosophy Secend Lessons in Natural Philosoph y Third Lessons in Natural Philosophy First Catechism of Common Things Second Catechism of Common Things Third Catechism of Common Things Catechism of Bible History Catechism of English History The First Catechism of Geography The Catechism of Music . LONDON : BARTON AND CLARK , HOLBORN HILL
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ROYAL _MARYLEBOXE THEATRE . LESSEE , MR . JOHN DOUaLASS . _I 75 TIRB CHANGE I—First Sight of a new drama , _ - entitled tbe "Minute Gun at Sea- " in which Mr . John Douglass wiU appear . Engagement of Professor Fleming and his two Sons , and Signor Bradbury , the FlyiHg Vaulter . " Linda ; or , the Gypsy ' s Curse , " at half-price . On Monday and during ihe week ( Thursday excepted ) to commence with the "Minute Gun at Sea . " Charles , Mr . John _Douglass ; the other characters by Messrs . Xeviile , Rayntr , Harrington , Bennett , D . Lewis , Marchant , Robberds , Lickfold , Miss Pearce , 4 c . To be followed by Signor Bradbury ' s Flying Feats on the Rope , After which , the celebrated performances of Professor Fleming and Sons . To conclude with " Linda , or the Gipsy ' s Curse , " supported by the _companys On Thursday ( by desire ) " Macbeth ; " Macbeth , Mr . Grattan Dawson . Various novelties are in course of active preparation . Stage Manager , Mr . Neville . Boxes , 2 s . ; Pit , Is . ; Gallery , Cd .
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DIXON'S TEMPERANCE HOTEL , - To . 93 , GREAT AXCOATS-STKEET , JIAKCHESTER , _P _' _sBl # wr to the Cotton Tret Jim ) . WD . begs respectfully to inform his numerous friends and the public that ha has opened the above Establishment , where he hopes , by strict attention to the comfort of tbose who may favour hira with their commands , combined with the reasonableness of his charges , to merit a share of public support . Parties from the country , visiting Manchester on business or pleasure , will find this Establishment very convenient , owing to its central situation and proximity lo the various Railway Stations .
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FUNERAL ECONOMY ! THE CEMb'TBaY and GENERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with SHILLIBEEil'S PATENT FUNERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully invite publie attention to the economic and convenient arrangements fov performing every description of Funerals complete , at charges so moderate as to defy coinpe tition _. and no extras , by which the comfort of bereaved families will be materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next _Buuhill-fieids Burial-grouud ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenham-court-road ; and 131 :, Union-street , Southwark . _Smllibeer ' s Patent Funeral Carriage , with two horses , £ 1 lis . Cd . ; Single Horse , £ 1 ls . A respectable Carriage Funeral , combining every charge , £ 4 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coadies . Catholic Fitting * . Four Horse Funerals . £ 1212 s .
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_Cttr Chartist H « . _ , 1 , Turnagain-lano . —Tho public discussion will be resumed at half-past ten on Sunday morning next , Feb . loth ; and in the afternoon , at three precisely . —The Metropolitan district conncii will meet for the dispatch of business . In the _evening _. At sewn precisely , Mr . M'Grath will lecture on " The events of the present day . " Westminster . —Mr . T . M . Wheeler will lecture at the Parthenium , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane , ou Sunday evening next . February 15 th , at half-past seven . Subject , —" War— its atrocities ; War Establishments—their consequences ; the Militia—its advantages under good government—its tyranny under class legislation . " Mart ___ ho _ e . —Mr . Doyle will lecture at the Coach-Painters' Arras . Circus-street , on Sunday evening next , February 15 th , at half-past seven . Subject , — " Sir R . Peel ' s policy . "—A racnibers' meeting will be held at six o ' clock .
Caubekweu . asp Walworth . —A meeting will bc held at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , on Monday eveniug next , February I 6 t _ , at eight o ' clock . Hammersmith . —A meeting will be held at the Dun Cow , Brook Grccn-lane , on Tuesday evening next , February 17 th . at eight o ' clock . Somers Tows . —Mr . John Sewell will lecture on _Sunday evening next . February I _. tli , at Mr . _Dttddrii _^ c ' _s . Bricklayers' Anns , Tonbridge-street , Newrt aif Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Th * _tii'ARTisT- of Westminster , Pimlico , Chelsea , Ac will me- tou Sunday evening next , atsix o clock , nf i' Z ! . i _» . _" _'Uvc , Castle-lane , Westminster , to take at the Lee i . tv 0 f forming a locality . _?{» _^ _^ _^ i _? _Kw « on 4 K « i & from the All friends who re _« _, M - tj ftr t _, committee on behalf o . "TV wmipsted to ° ittend Chartist exiles are partieu . ** / _1 uestca t 0 , ltlcna _*
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_Gr-Bnwich , DKraowr ) , _& _o- . —A . public meeting will " be held at the Lecture Hall , Royal-hill , Greeav _wich , on "Wednesday evohing next , tho 18 tb 0 f February , for thf _^ purpose of . adopting a _potion to the House _tjf Commons for the _resto _* _^^ f Frost , _Wvaiams , Jobss , and Ellis . _^' he _daifto be _^ _taicen at ei ght o ' clock _preci- ' _^ _Fcargui ' O'Cwnor , Esq ., will attend and address the meetine . Admission free .
The Northern Star. Saturday, February 14, 1846.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , _FEBRUARY 14 , 1846 .
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_MINISTEBZiAL CONFESSION OF GHABTIST STRENGTH . _Wsaievbr -may be the fate of Sir Robert Peel ' i gigantic and statesmanlike measure , itis , after all , bat theoxp-riment ef a wise and far-seeing caution , which irresistibly forees upon us a belief that the policy _tif Sir Robert Peel so far differs from that of his ¦ Whig opponents , that he looks beyond the mere _prftehiag of the thing , and aims beyond the paltry 'desire of making it last his time . Doubtless , much ' _. f the material with whieh he has to work is of hiB
own creation , while , nevertheless , his mind seems capable of grasping the great collateral questions , which , if not met by a comprehensive course of legislation , may be brought into antagonism with his general policy . lie has not been awed into inconsistency by the more _deaire to ensure the possession , or even the permanency of office , by pandering to the caprice ofthe Com Law League , neither has any im mediate dread of famine induced him to make an onslaught upon that interest which he was pledged to protect and defend against the assaults of its op . ponents .
He sees that the present move , not only in England and Europe , hut throughout tbe civilised world , is an amalgamation of science and industry , of conception and thought , against long , cherished dogmas and idloneis , worn-out privileges , and usurped authority . Pkl has found it impossible to govern the growing mind , strengthened by over thirty years of peaceful teaching , by antiquated statutes , which but mark the ignorance of their founders on thc one
hand , or bespeak the contrivances of the wily upon the other . He has read of , or witnessed , the great revolutionary changes tbat have taken place in England from 1683 to the passing of the Reform Bill , and in one and all he has discovered the one great deficiency , thc absence of all popular triumph and popular amelioration—that is , that that comparative scale of improvement which should equally distinguish the elevation of the several classes has not been observed .
For many years of his more youthful life he was a zealous advocate for the ascendancy of an oligarchy , ard evinced a strong disposition to walk in the path of the " GREAT STATESMAN NOW NO MORE ;" but the sudden rush and crowd of circumstances that have sprung up , as if by magic , in this new world of active thought and quick conception , has convinced him of the fact , that we live in new times , and require new ideas to mould them to fresh necessities . When _Rdssbll proclaimed the Reform Bill to be a final measure , we told him that he might as well
attempt to stop the sun in his course , as to stay the onward progress of mind . We told liim , whon he gave expression to the folly , but a few years after the perfection of that machinery , from whose working so much good was anticipated , but which had even then failed to . keep pace with the progress of mind—we told him , that as well might he attempt to stop the tide of ocean , as to arrest the rushing streams of _knowledge , by sitting before the flood-tide of public opinion , and saying to the mighty swell ef mind and thought , " thus far shalt thou go , but no farther . "
It was this hopeless struggle to uphold practical tyranny , amid the boast of theoretic freedom—it was tho law ' s antagonism to public opinion , that drove Russell and his colleagues from power . Peel sees that he cannot safely follow the policy of Pitt or Rossell , and , to hold power , he is compelled to extend his views beyond the narrow limits which circumscribe the one , and to contract them within a narrower sphere than that which capriciously bounded the ambition ofthe other .
It was Pitt's policy to turn England into a leviathan hobgoblin , to affright the revolutionary spirit that was spreading its influence , and casting a halo around every crowned head in Europe . It was Russell ' s policy to hold office with the motto , "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof : let the morrow provide for itself . " It is Peel ' s policy to preserve as much monarchical power , and for as long a period as the continuously changing circumstances of the times will warrant or permit . Although the corrupt press of England and of Europe will only convey that description of intelligence calculated to
serve tho _intercuts of their respective parties , yet tht very facts admitted by Sir James Graham inhis speech on Tuesday night , prove that there is a possibility of conveying knowledge , and eve * , terror , to the ear of the Minister , wbich it might be prudent to withhold from tbe community at large ; and while the League and the Whigs werc trumpeting forth tho victory that they had achieved over tbe consistency and long-cherished prejudices of the Minister . Grauau thus strips them of their laurels , and _gives the honour of triumph to thc Chartists , whoso power was only communicated to the superintendent of police and the Horse Guards . " This measure , " says Gkahau , "isneither to mark the triumph of the
League nor the humiliation of the landed aristocracy ; it is a step rendered necessary to ARREST THE PROGRESS OF CHARTISM , and to avert such another calamity as the country was threatened with in 1812 . I ( says the Home Secretary ) was in daily communication with the police authorities and the Horse _Gnards for six whole months ; and never was anxiety and suspense greater than that felt by her Majesty ' s advisers during that long and critical period . Nightly assemblages of Chartists were held ia Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , aud throughout the metropolis . This state ef things was brought about by high prices and low _wageB , and I am sure that no honourable member would desire a return of such
tiinc 3 . " What other construction , then , can we possibly put upon the proposed measure , than that it marks the progress of Chartism , as avowed by a Minister of the Crown , —a terror , as wo learn , participated in by every one of that Minister ' s colleagues ? It is not ' the Secretary for Foreign Affairs—it is not the Secretary forthe Colonies—neither is it tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer who speaks thus . No ; it is the most vigilant , the most prying , the most spying Home Secretary tbat England , or the world ever saw ; thc Secretary , whose especial duty it is to receive and
digest for the Cabinet the tittle-tattle and idle gossip ofthe back parlour , sis well as the opinions publicly expressed upon the platform * , io fact , he is tho digester of thc Home mind . for the Cabinet , and through him alone can they receive its impression and such is tho impression that the threatening position of Chartism forced upon him , and , through him , upon thc Cabinet ! Hence , we learn that tho police force and the Horse Guards are to Chartism what the press is to the faction ; but if the dungeon , tho dock , and the scaffold—torture , starvation , imprisonment , and outlawry , and all the appliances at the disposal of tyranny , together with the
crushing silence of thc press , have not had the effect of smothering the Chartist cry * , if , upon the contrary , despite of nil , it is the Ministerial bugaboo , the police hobgoblin , and thc bogie of tlio Horse Guards , is it not high time that some more prudent concessions should be made to its power , its acknowledged strength , and just demands , than tho poor , though proud and tardy , tribute paid to its threatening influence and commanding position , by the English Home Secretary ? Sir Robert Peel may rest assured , that while wc admire the difference- between his sweeping policy and the niggling of Iho Whigg , that , nevertheless , he will , erelong , bu compelled to
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go *> yond tlie mere a _^ _wstraont Of peculiar interests by any _Bliding system of mutual concessions to general Heoessities ; he rauBt not hope , he cannot expect , much longer to legislate for inn _PEorue without ins _ruoPLB . In the old dull times of parchment government , when the Statute-book was sacred as the Bible , and when he who transgrewed any one of its provisions looked upon every bush as an officer ready to avenge any insult to the law , which the poor equally with
the rich had an interest in . upholding , such a sweeping measure as that proposed by Sir Robert Peel would have been considered as a firm foundation for centuries ' for any legislation that folly might think proper to pile upon it ; but a _succession , of eventful changes , from 1829 to 18 ___ -fro _ - the passing of _Emancipation to his extended Tariff of 184 ., should have convinced htm that each page in the country ' s present history stands for more than a volume _^ of antiquated rubbish ; each day is a reign , while each reign reminds monarchy that its days aro
numbered . . Tlte Emancipation was intended as a final measure . The Reform Bill was intended as a final measure . The Tariff of 1841 was intended as a final measure . The Tariff of 18-5 was intended as a final measure ; and yet has the infinity of machinery disturbed thc finality of one and all . No man , not the wisest statesman in existence , can judge , not only of what may be final , but of what may continue to give a single year ' s satisfaction even to its own propounder . In legislation nothing can be final . Wliat we are to look for is the adaptation of existing circumstances
to immediate rcqn . reme . _ ts ; and it is out of tho power of the most subtle or astute to devise other means of accomplishing' this end , otherwise than by Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments ; Vote by Ballot , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , and the Payment of Members . From such a combination alone can we expect the fitting machinery to adapt tlie world ' s progress , the country ' s improvement , and the nation's wealth , to the requirements of justice and the necessities of the people . And these truths the landlords , shorn of . their
prescriptive rights and usurped privileges , are already beginning to see , inasmuch as , when threatened themselves , they now begin to brand as abuses tho very evils of whieh tho Chartists have complained , and to correct which Chartism was established . We have no reason to despond , then , but , on the contrary , every reason to hope ; arid after the tardy tribute paid to our strength by Sir Jambs Grahau , let the cry , "Onward , and we conquer ! backward , and we fall ! " "The Charter , and no Surrender ! " once more be the watchword and rallying point of the Chartists . _Al' _>^ _tfN _^^ _J _% _^ - _»_ _« ---- _^__________« i--- __*^ _rfS _»^ __!¦_¦_» ____ _ ¦ _»_
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_^__ _" _*' _^^*_ NO VOTE , NO MUSKET . As there is no single principle that has been dearer to us through life than the uninterrupted preservation of peace , there is naturally no proposition which more silarms us than that of , a threatened recurrence to war . Up to the proclamation of peace in 1815 , and for many years subsequently to the cessation of European war , England had no other mind than tliat _whichjemanatcd from the fostered prejudices of an ancient and pampered aristocracy , whose title was plunder , aiid whose mode of _supporting it was , War !
War !! War !!! War , however , in which they only participated to reap the . laurels of . chivalry , a _disvinction and an honour for whicli they paid heavily . while the ignorant poor were seduced by bounty , coerced by law , induced by poverty , or pressed by brute force to fight the battles of their oppressors . Every brutal act that appears upon the Statute-book , and that befouls the country's records , is an emanation from that confidence or fear inspired by the terror of our arms or the splendour of our triumphs .
With us " peace is no new doctrine , while we have cheerfully borne all the odium that the advocates ot physical force who have deserted our ranks entailed upon our party , rather than injure the popular cause by an over-nice censure of the enthusiasm of ardent minds . We are , nevertheless , able to quote from imperishable records what our earlier and present impressions have been . From time to time we have expressed ourselves in the following terms ;—Wur is to trade what the hot-bed is to tho plant , it forces it , but _strengthens it not _| in its growth ; while peace is as the pure air of heaven , wliich forces it not , but strengthen- it till it arrives at a _wliolesomu maturity , — Speech delivered ™ Cork , 1831 .
1 trust the day will jet arrive whan all matters iu dispute between nations will be left to the impartial arbitration of the wisest selection from the industrious classes , who haye the greatest interest in the preservation of peace , because in war their oppressors triumph and they suffer . —Speecli at _-ftwroom , 1831-What do you call this but peaceful resistance to tyranny , although threatened by thv presence of yonder martial army ? But I tell those who are now armed fer thcslaught-r , that the voice of knowledge will silence the cannon ' s roar , and that the peaceful universal shout of liberty will be louder than the neighing of the war horse . — Speech at Fermoy , 183 i .
Ours is the battle of right against might , of knowledge against bigotry and intolerance , aud of justice against oppression and misrule , and argument and reason an the only weapons _we'il use . —Speech at Marylebone , 1835 . You are to receive me here , not in that character in which the press has heralded me to your notice—not as a _revolutionist , anxious to set man against man , but as a peaceful propounder of the righteous principles of juetiae , _assuriiigyvu thatI would rather bear all the ills of which I complain , and ten thousand times more , or even sacrifice my own life , than be the means of sh _.-dding one drop of human blood . —Speech at Glasgow , Edinburgh , Paisley , and otlier parts of Scotland , in 1 S 3 C .
I'll tell you what y <_ u ure doing ; you ' re _appealing to ine as a barrister upon a .. _iilyecr , Die . very discussion ot which may enable tyrants to question tlie legality of our meeting , Wliat business have you , what necessity is there for mentioning muskets or physical force at all . You but delude the people , aud furnish the government with a justification for exciting all the evil passions of the timid against you . The only opinion that I shall give you is , that it is not only impolitic but unsafe even to discuss the question . —Speech in th * Convention 0 / 183 S > . I am asked to define the difference between moral and
physical force . The difference is this : moral power is the deliberative quality in each - . nan ' s mind which teaches him how to reason , how to endure , and when forbearance becomes a crime ; and sliould that fail to accomplish far man all that he is justly entitled to possess , anil should physical force be necessaiy , _vrhinh Ood forefend , it will come to its aid like au electric shock ; but tho man w _ o attempts to martial it , destroys it by alarming the tbe , und the rann who recommends it is cither a fool or a traitor , and will be the first to desert tho standard . — - ¦ _pecc / i at _Btrminpnam , 1840 .
You bawl for the Charter , you shout for the Charter , you roar for tho Charter ; but work for the Charter for a month , as I have worked for years ; let each sry to himself , " Upon my exertion alone dep . nds tho Charter j" and then if justice is refused to the moral appeal ofthe united people , and if tho tyranny of oppression still continues too strong to bear , when you are ready to claim by force what has been refused to justice , then , if you can find no better leader , I will lead you on to death or glory . —Speech at Palace-yard , 1839 . I tell you that I will not listen tamely to the speeches delivered by Mr . Cooper , and others , in this Convention . If his Shiiksperians aro prepared to fight , I am not prepared to lead an undisciplinod _, unarmed multitude against a disciplined and armed soldiery ! I will take my stand with thc country , and when the country rusumas its judgment , it will do justice to my courage . —Speech at tke Delegate- _Mcetinj , at Manchester in 1842 .
Now sueh , with countless other quotations , haye boen out notions with regard to the potency , not to the justice , of repelling force by force ; and although somewhat hazardous to the moral progress of Chartism just now , we shall uot allow the adoption of new doctrines to scare us from the performance of a sacred duty . While , then , wc nevor will countenance the notion of achieving political power by physical force , because we feel as sured of being abk to succeed without it ,. nevertheless , we shall not prostitute ourselves , to the beastly , the unchristian , the unmanly , the debasing doctrine of non-resistance to physical aggression . Nay , we go further we
justify physical aggression against armed or unarmed tyranny if it cannot bc otherwise destroyed . We are induced to make these observations in consoquciice of the systematic intrusion ofa new doctrine by Mr . Coo . Ki .--m intrusion which , while it may bespeak a placid conversion from revolutionary thoughts , that old women may embrace as charitable christian , and balmy , must , nevertheless , wear the appearance ofa stern necessity upon the part of Mr _Cooi-kb to resist a doctrine which of itself has died away . Mr . Cooper , of course , is wedded to his new _banting and cannot sec tho d anger of exhibiting it to as _nstoMBhctl _aiulk-iwo _, jjc _camwt w mil not see
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the evil he is _doing- _^ nevil , however , which is more than manifest in . the angry , aud even personal criroi-B & tionaud recrimination to which it has given rise at the several meetings where he has propounded it . Mr . Cooper has sense enough to see , not . only that his principle is unpalatable , hut that it is likely toremain so . He must have discovered that it is but calculated to lead to a discussion as to the relative merits of moral and physical force , * moreover , he must gee that the introduction of it into petitions for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones is absolutely childish , if not idiotic . What business has
it there ? And if it has no business there , what business has Mr . Cooper to attempt to thrust it in ? Mr . Cuuk well illustrated the practical working of this non-resistance doctrine . He said , " I will put a case to Mr . Coopkr . In the county of Wicklow , in Ireland , a militia soldier broke into a peasant ' s house , and violated his daughter , seventeen years of age , before his face . Now , I ask Mr . Cooper if the mere remonstrance , ' you ' re wrong , sir , ' would have been the only vengeance his nature would prompt liim to take upon such a ruffian ? " Again , Mr . Harnet , ina most powerful and able exposition ofthis slavish
doctrine , observed . " IIow can Mr . Cooper wconcile to himself the high encomiums that he has passed upon Hampdek , Wiuiavi Tkll , and others , and come here to propose such a doctrine to this meeting ? Again , I ask him , if he thinks the conduct of the crew of tlie Tory , so inhumanly butchered by their brutal Captain _( _Johnbtokb ) , was praiseworthy or otli 3 rwisc ; or , when they saw the ruffian bent on the extermination of those whose liveB were oommitted to his care , wonld it not have been better to chuck ono murderer overboard , than that several should suffer , from his cruelty ?"
We rejoice to find that Mr . Cooper's amendment shared the same fate at the National Ilall , on Wednesday night , that it has met with upon the several occasions when it has been propounded . Loth as we may be to enter upon the subject at all , we have nevertheless felt it to be our bounden duty to arrest the progress of a slavish doctrine while in its infancy , instead of being compelled to reason against the absurdity when it had achieved strength through mistaken lenity . Wo shall here , in order that our
opinions may stand of themselves distinct and apart from the notions of others , print them , and stand by them . We hold , then , that it is right to repel foroe by force , and that resistance—armed resistance to tyranny , is a question of policy , not of principle—no doubt existing as to thc justice and the right ; while we hold that doctrine which recommends nonresistance under all and every circumstance , slavish , debasing , cowardly , unmanly , un-Christian , and un-Chartist .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Parliament has this week been almost exclusively occupied with tho discussion on the new commercial cherae of the Premier . Other aad important subjects have been incidentally mooted , but the real strength and interest of mem-are haTe been concentrated upon this measure , which , for the time , being , throws all others into the shade . Nor is the measure itself unworthy of the prominence given to it , and the interest it excites . The Times has truly
remarked : — " It is indeed a great commercial scheme . It is also something more than a { peat commercial scheme . It is a , revolution—a social revolution ;" and though we may be . less sanguine as to its effects than it suits the present purpose of " the Thunderer '' to be , it is impossible not to perceive that it is but the commencement of a long series of political , financial , and social changes , wbicii must , in the natural progress of society , have conic sooner or later , but the advent of which will be mightily accelerated by the impetus derived from the passing of this
measure . As to the debate itself , it has , np to the time at which we write , been more novel in the manner than matter . The old arguments in favour of free trade in corn have been Hrged , but by new men . With the exception of Lord Jou . v llnsssu , no speaker of note has risen on tlte Liberal side of the liouse . While the Ministerial benches have exhibited the strange spectacle so graphically described by Sir R . Inglis , of " a numerous and once respected party , firing into each other ' s _shipu . " I
Some of tbe new converts to the doctrines of the League have shewn themselves not _inaptvecriiits , and handled tlieir weapons with considerable dexterity and address . By far the most hopeful ol the new pupiis of Messrs . Villiers and Cobden is Mr . Sidney _IIeiibekt , the Secretary at War . He " pronounced" against protection in a style which must have excited the envy of many of the League orators ; anil which at any Govcnt Garden meeting would have carried off the laurel from Mr . J . Fox himself . As to Sir James Graham , the only other occupant of the Treasury bench who lias spoken up
to this time , little surprise can be excited by liis familiarity with the free trade view of the question . The lion . bart . has so often changed skies , tliat any change now can merely be back into some former position . At the command of Sir Robert—a la militairc , " as you wero" —the Home Secretary has gone back to his youthful opinions ; and again swears bythe disowned and celebrated " Corn and Currency * > pamphlet . Other converts bave at least the graceful and plausible apology of changing from the immature and crude opinions of inexperienced political boyhood to the moro enlarged and comprehensive
views of manhood ; but Sir James has no such excuse to offer . lie is die most unfortunate of politicians and statesmen . He cannot even do right in the right way . This unhappy idiosyncrasy of the hon . baronet showed itself forcibly in that part of liis speech in whieh , after professing himself ready to submit to any sacrifices to promoto the we'fare of the poorer classes , he declared , first , that the operatives liad changed their opinions as to the relation betwe en wages and the price of food , and then proceeded to eulogise the recent conduct of Lord _MonrBni with reference to the Tes Hours' Bill . He professed that "it would be the happiest day ofhis life to see that measuro cavried into effect . " but
lie will take no steps towards securing himself that happiness . It must be brought about " by the mutual agreement of the masters and men " If the former will not consent , so far as Sir James is concerned , the latter shall have no help from the government . Tliis gratuitous , and at the same time uncalled-for declaration , is only a spoohnen of thc manner in wliich tlio Home Secretary contrives to spoil even his own efforts to be popular . It should at the s ame time incite the Short Time Committees throughout the country to active efforts , in order that Mr . Fiklden , in the prosecution of the bill now before the House , may have the benefit of that power which Sir James ' s own speech shows to be now omnipotent—namely , public opinion .
But to return to tlie debatu . The majovity of thc speakers on thc first two nights were I ' _rotcetioiiistei , Tlie arguments principally adduced in defence of the existing system , and in opposition tothe Ministerial measure , were .-First . That though the Premier , and all his supporters , had justified the introduction of tlio Measure mainly on the ground of the failure of ( ho potatoe crop in Ireland , and a consequent apprehended ( amine in that country , such a famine grievous as it would be , was uo _wificiont basis for so great a change . The evil , however great , could be but temporary in its duration , and might be met by temporary remedies ; whereas _theMinisteruil scheme invlv dicl
oed a raa and permanent change in the in _stitutions of the country . Secondly . Alarm , nol onlv at tho nature and extent of tlio proposed _ehan-M but at the greater and in & finito ones to which they would lead , and to which thev were onlv the prelude . Thirdly . That the e ' ountrv hid nourished under a protective 8 y 8 toni aml t , fc each successive relaxation of that system , during the tat twenty yea ,. 8 , had k . „ - _^ - onrtWr . That there was no parallel between manufactures anil _a _- _griculti . _ro , inasmuch as tho one could bc carried on in all g _^ _sons mi at a . l hours ,. , while the other was subject to nil tlie v « v » anoi . sof season * and weaUwv . . Fiai . lv . hattl »
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burdens on farms in respect of poor and other rates were much greater than © n mills , when the annual returns from each were taken into consideration . Sixthly . That protection should be given in propertion to the manual labour employed in the produc ,. tion of any article , but the present measure gave the least protection to agricultural produce , which was almost entirely produced by manual labour , and the greatest te manufactures , which were altogether ot partly produced by machines . Thc idea of exclusive protection to . agriculture was disclaimed , and the right of every department of native industry to its benefits emphatically asserted . .
The main force ofthe opposition to the measure , however , was concentrated upon the inconsistency of the Ministers who proposed it , and the shock that such a profligate abandonment of principle was calculated to give to confidence in public men . Whatever change may have taken place in the opinions of the Premier , he had no right to demand that a Parliament , which was elected to support the principle of Protection , should turn round at his bidding , and vote directly the contrary , in the teeth of all their former professions , and of that confidence in those
_profcssions which induced their constituents to elect them . If the present professions of the Premier were not as baseless and hollow as his former ones ; if he was really convinced that the country wag prepared for his measure , let him at once dissolve Parliament , and , by an appeal to the people , save the character and consistency of a large body of men , who still wished to be useful to their country , and were unwilling to sacrifice that character which could alone enable them tobe bo ; and , at the same tinio _, test the statements made as to the popularity of free trade doctrines and measures .
What answer Peel will make to this , _remans to be seen . Of its reasonableness there can . be little doubt . If the great majority of the community really are converted to the political economy of the League , its application to practice _, could Only be delayed ; while such a course would prevent that wholesale abandonment of previous professions , which even for the attainment of undoubted publie benefits is to be deprecated as a great public evil . Whatever may be the result , one thing is certain . The great Conservative party formed by Sir Robert Peel with such pains and skill , after the passing of the Reform Bill , is utterly broken up and disorganised . In five years he has destroyed that which ii took him nine to construct . Into what new
forms the elements thus decomposed will hereafter combine , it is impossible at the present moment to predict . But thero are at least strong grounds for the belief that henceforth the party of Progress will be in the ascendant . The unqualified admission of the power of public agitation , and of an organised public opinion , directed against any flaw in our institutions , lays the foundation of a new era in national progress . It is a lesson which will never be forgotten and the mighty influence of which on political and social well-being , posterity alone will be able to appreciate . The press and public meetings aro henceforward the most potent weapons of the Reformer . Against these , when skilfully wielded , error , either in the abstract or the fact , has no chanee of maintaining its ground .
Thc progress onwards to more liberal institutions , to the embodiment in practice of what has heretofore been a barren axiom , " the greatest happiness of the greatest possible number , " will be greatly accelerated by . the settlement of this Corn Law question . It is ripe , and ready i ' or plucking . Its disposal will clear tho board of one fallacy which lias long misled superficial reasoners ; and when the exaggerated fears of its opponents , and the equally if not greater exaggerated hopes of its advocates
have loth been disappointed ; when the great mass of the evils peculiar to the present system shall be found to be untouched by this vaunted and popular panacea , a more profound ' analysis of the causes of these evils will be forced on the national mind . The questions of the franchise ; the right of LA _ o . it—its participation in the wealth it creates and its better organisation , will command that attention , and ultimately secure tbat triumph , which is guaranteed by the present aspect of an important but still inferior agitation .
_Saturdat Monsixo * Since the preceding was written , other two _ni- 'lrll of the debate hare passed without presenting any material alteration in its character . The same studied silence is maintained on thc _Opposition benches we have already commented upen . Lord Jons Russell seems to have made the speech for his adherents . The speech of Lord Morpeth was called forth by the peculiar position he occupies , and the understood arrangement _seeMs to be that the party hitherto called Conservative shall fight it out amongst themselves . We should probably ere this have had a declaration from Mr . Coboex , or the
part of the League , similar to that of Lord Jou . v , but that gentleman has been prevented from attending the house during the whole of the week by severe indisposition . We understand that he is expected to speak on Monday night . At the commencement of tho debate , it was expected that it would have been closed by a division this niornin <' , but thc Protectionists are evidently determined to "diehard , " audits adjournment last night by tbe Earl of Marck , together with the number of members who have presented themselves , but have hitherto had no opportunity of speaking , induces the general belief that it will now last all next week .
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_IfO-Hl-LB OPraESSlON BT I ' BEE TRADE MlLLoCIUTS OF Dundee . —Mr . O'Connor has received the l ' _ollowiiiletttr from a correspondent at Duudee , whose veracity and trustworthiness is unquestionable : — " Dear Sir , — There lias been a case of great cruelty and injustice perpetrated here on six young factory girls , by their masters , who are great millowners , bankers , and shipowners , of the firm of Baxter and Brothers . These poor girls , for being _absent one afternoon from t _' . _it-ir work , have been cast into prison , and underireut ten
days continumont , with hard labour . _Tlu-y hud r . i > . a fair opi'll trial , but wero tried in a piivute manner , by some justices of the peace , friends of the _iniisui-., What makes the cast still worse , is , . lieyoiuigo-tuf these girls , who is only thirteen , is an orphan without father or mother . Four of the girls _havu no fathers , aud their widowed mothers depended on tliem fer support . They had been in thc same work from _tlu-ir _inf- _'iicy , and had ' never given _oftVnee till now ; they even got a _t-oo _ character from the _. nanagor , but -U was of no effect . The council of the Chartist AssucintioH gave these poor girls some relief when they
came out ot prison , and till thoy were able to get _«« " * elsewhere , " though ¦ their masters would have _g _laiiiy taken them back . A few friends of humanity got up - meeting on tlieir behalf , and it was a bumper , at which a memorial to the Lord Advocate , praying I ' or an investigation , was unanimousl y adopted . His lordship ordered an inquiry , nnd we wrote to him , stating that Mv . M'Donnld , Air Kidd , and John _M'Crao had been appointed on the part of the publie to superintend this case , and we did not think the ends of justice "'ould he served , or the case clearly made out , ' unless we were present , or a luiv a » ent ou behalf of the s irk _to-iH _^ _t _^ _SUCll questions as might seem of utility . This was refused , and , so I ' m * ns we can learn from the ¦ _vitiu'S * _- _^ .
it was rather an inquiry us to who got up the me-tii'l .. Who spoke at it , imd _' fio forth ! The fact is , tlic « masters have such powerful inlluence here , that very few could begot to take pars in the proceedings ; a _« _'l . ' ' - lieve _, Mv . Kidd has already sustuiiud _eoasidsraWe Iv _** _--hy taking part iu this nutter . Since the _im'estig . iti ''» the Lord Advocate has refused to answer our communication .. Weyesterday sent _oil'aeopy ofthe _ineiiiuri'il , the _com'spondenceof the Lord Advocate , and all the uelaiis to M r . Duncombe , requesting him to move for ii _"W ofthe investigation , and other papers connecUd _inta this ease . We feel convinced that nono of the proceedings have been legally conducted , _ _««'" lilt _^ the Lord Advocate is against doing j _«*» t" - ' tt _™ tio ,. working-classes . No case has excited move at < - » ¦ t
than this among the working-classes tV"' 1 ! i ; 1 ! l _- ' * ' \ . day . We fuel that this has , iu some _dtgwe _, been m _^ a Chartist cause , seeing ihat the leading parties i » _^ feuding the poor young gills are the leading _Charti- * nlso . 1 may : i ! so mention , that one _l- 'loridew , a write ! bore , took up the case , on condition that the brother _.-i one _i . i ' the i ; irls would raise a pound . V" , _£ , ; _., . _„» is a mill-worker , got a pound and gave >>»> . , n letter to tho Lord Advocate , setting to " _^ . _^ and ofthe case , but he refused to »| i «« ' . _^ Jjuund for would do no more in it , » llf- _^^^ , jS is a ease that merely writing this one k _* twr . ( j _^ . . I 1 | ti investigation I am sure you will « " »" V , . of Parliament io support
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 14, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14021846/page/4/
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