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    • FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS.
    • PORTRAIT OF CUFFEY. .. ••
    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1818.
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      A The Northern Star October 14, 1848.

      a THE NORTHERN STAR October 14 , 1848 .

      For The Working Millions.

      FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS .

      A Homb For Every Isd Dstrlopsj Mas And H...

      A HOMB FOR EVERY _ISD _DSTRlOPSj MAS AND HIS FAMILY . T - UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS * ' "' " _^ QmiABLrifAND AND BUILDING ' BENEFIT SOCIETY , , - BnroUed and Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . 1 patrons . -T . S . DoacoiaE , Esq ., M . P . _Thojus _Wakxix , Esq ., M . P , B . B . Cabbeii , Esq ., M . P . _tsmdon Ogee . —No . lh Tottenham Court , New Road , St Pancras , London . _—Dauiel _Wiliiah Bern , Seeretary Arranged is Thbec _Sectiohs Value of Snares and Payments for Investors . ' _Foli Ssare ... 'fi 129 payment ef 2 s . fid . per Week , or 10 * . 6 * . per Month Hall Share ... 60 — 1 2 * — 5 S — Quarter Share ... 3 D — 0 7 j — 2 8 J — Applicants are _r-. gasa ' xd to ttate ia their form the _seollon they desire to be a member of . No STjavEXOBs _' _, Solicitobs ' , or Reoekfiio _** Fees . The _nresent Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Roles , tfec , is 4 s . per Share , and 2 s . for any part of a Share . * _^ Price of Rules , _incladiag _Puatage , Is . <• OBJECT * . lit . To enable members to build _Dwelllsg Houses . 1 5 th . —To give to depositing members a higher rate of ___ -To afford the means - of purchasing both Free- _^«« " than Uyirid _^ by ordinary modes of investment . m , t _* , m t » _~ _** -, _-... _« , _r , ~ a 6 : h . —To enable Parents to make Endowments for . _feold and Leasehold Prc-pen . es or _Lind . _^ _^^ _^ _^^ _^ _^^ _^ _g-d . —To advance _Mortgages on Property held by ria |{ e Settlements _, -aembert . 7 th . —To purchase a piece of Freehold Land of _auf-< t I , To enable Mortgagors being members to redeem _ficlentvaluetogive a legal title to a County Tote for _tkelr Mortgages . Members of Parliament . Section I . —By joining this section every person in town or conntry can become the proprietor of a Honse and Land in his own neighbourhood , withont being removed from hit Friends , Connexions , or the present means himself and family may have of gaining a livelihood . Sectioh II . —To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide the y _* nd Into allotments _frsm half an aero upwards , in or near the towns of the various branches of t _* -e society , The property to be tbe bona fids freehold ofthe member after sixteen , eighteen , or twenty years , from the date of location , according to his subscriptions . Sectioh IIL—Saving or Deposit section , in which members not wisnlng to purchase are enabled to Invest small sums , from 7 § d . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate of S per cent , per annum , on every sum of 10 s . tne _npwards so deposited . ' St & stription Ojfoe . —i 92 , Nbw Oxfobs-Stbeet , where Meetings are held , and Members enrolled , every _Wedaeidsy Evening , from Eight to Ten o ' clock . _g B . —Froa £ 300 to £ 500 will be advanced to the members of tbe first Section ia December next , when _•& persons who have and may become members for Shares , or parts of Shares , on or before the 3 rd of December next , and who pay six months' subscriptions in advance , or otherwise , will be eligible for an advance . " ALSO , FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Enrolled pursuant to Act of Parliament . Thus securing to its _memberethe protection of the law for their funds and property . Legalised to extend over the United Kingdom , with the privilege of appointing Medical Attendants , Agents , < fcc . An opportunity is now efftred to healthy persons , up te Forty Yeart of Age , of joining these flourishing iBEtitntiont in town or conntry . loiroon _GvncE . —13 , Tottenham Court , Ntw Road , St Pancras , ( thirteenth honse eastward from Tottenham Court Read ) . —Daiciel WiuiAJt Rofft , Secretary . Patrons . — T . S . _Boscohbe _, Esq ., M . P . T . _Wakiet , Esq ., _if . P . B . B . _Cibbeu , Esq ., M . P . F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P . L . J . Havbasd _, Esq . In the _shert space of four years these societies bave paid the following benefits to tbeir membert . _SOMMAKT OF CUIUS . Sickness and Superannuation ... ... ... £ 2674 1 $ _ Acconchmentt ... ... ... ' ... ... 930 IS 0 Funerals ... ... ... ... ... 714 18 1 Lost by Fire ... ... ... ... ... 84 13 0 £ 4354 7 9 _§ Present Capital funded in the Bank of England ... £ 1789 12 2 These Societies are in six divisions or sections , fer the Members to _rtceive the following Benefits according to their _Subscriptions : — FIRST DIVISION . FOURTH DIVISION . Btrance according to age , from 5 s . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to ape , from 3 s . 63 . to 8 s . 6 d , tribution for Sickness and Management , 2 s . 7 a . Monthly Contribution for Sickness aad Management . is . id . £ a . A . _Alewance _; in Sickness , per week .. 018 0 fis . d . j / enhLv _' g Funeral .. .. .. .. SO 0 6 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 9 0 . fKtto Wtfe _' a or Nominees ditto .. .. 10 8 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 10 0 0 Wife ' s Lying-in .. .. .. .. 200 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 500 _jibst by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 _OtoSO 0 0 Wife's Lying-in 100 guperannuarion , per week .. .. .. 0 6 0 Loss by Pire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 * SECOND DIVISION . Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0-Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . 6 d . to 9 s . 6 d . FIFTH DIVISION . Monthly Contribution for Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age , from Ss to 8 s . Monthly Con . 2 s . Id . tribution for Sickness and Management , ls . Id . Allowance inSickaess , per week .. .. 0 15 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 7 0 Member's Funeral .. .. 16 0 0 Member ' s Funeral .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee's ditto .. .. 18 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 8 0 0 Wife ' s _Lyiag-in -. - . .. 1 15 0 Wife's Lying-in .. o 15 0 loss by Fire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to 15 0 0 Loss by Fire .. .. .. .. 500 Su perannuation , per week „ .. .. 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week ,. .. .. 9 4 0 THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . to 9 s * Monthly Coa- Entrance Money .. .. ., .. 080 tribntion for Sickness and Management , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution .. .. " .. 0 10 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 11 6 Allowance in Sickness .. .. .. 0 0 Member's Funeral 12 0 0 Member's Funeral .. ., ., 210 0 Ditto Wife's or Nominee ' s ditto .. .. 600 Wife ' s _Lying-iH .. 119 9 Ho Levies in this Division . lots by Fire , from „ £ 5 0 0 to 10 9 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. .. 0 4 0 Levies according to the demands on each division per quarter . N . R . —The only difference In the two Societies is , the Patriots bave an Accoucbment benefit , tbe Patriarch "have not that benefit , therefore do not pay _levtet for it . j __— Applications for Agencies requested from all parts of the country ; information for appointment of Agencies can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing a postage stamp . Blank forms and information for the admission of conntry members can be obtained by letter , prepaid , enclosing three postage stamps , to _Dabiel Wiluam Rcfet , General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , New Road . St Pancras .

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      METEOPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 7 th and 8 th Vic ., cap . Ho . ) Temporary Offices , 39 , _Begent-street , Waterloo-place , Londoa . TRUSTEES . Richard Scooter , Esq ., I Spencer Horatio Walpole , M . P . 1 Esq .. M . P . Edward Vansittart Neale , j Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esq . I DIRECTORS . Bobert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lomax , Esq ; , St _TnurloTV-square , Bromp- John's Wood _, ton ; Samuel Miller , Esq ., _Lin-SamuelDriver , Esq ., White- coin's Inn . _haJL Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , Weary Peter Fuller , Esq ., Richmond . Piccadilly . Edward Vansittart Neale Palk Griffith , Esq ., Esq ., South Audley-street _Ironmoager-lane , Cheap- William A . S . Weftoby tide , Esq ., Hyde _Patk place .

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      FAMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , Blackfriars _, London . CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . DIBECTOHS William Butterworth Bayley , Esq ., Chairman . John Fuller , Esq , Deputy Chairman . Ht Bruce Chichester , Esq . Elliot Macnaghten , Esq . H . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . G . H . Latouche _, Esq . Joshua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . _Maier Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Thirty per cent Bonus was added to the Society ' s Poll . ties ou the profit scale in 1845 . Tbe next valuation will be in January , 1852 . AKSUAT . _IBEJflUMS WITH FBOEXTS .

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      HO MORE PILLS FOR INDIGESTION . _Cosstipatian , Torpidity ofthe Liver , and the Abdominal Viscera , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Bilious _ness , Despondency , Splees , etc . _"P-Mshed by Du Barry aud Co ., 75 , New _Boad-street , London ; and to be obtained through all Booksellers * Price 6 d , or 8 d ( in letter stamps ) , postfree ; A POPULAR TREATISE on INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the maincauses of Nervousness , Bliousuess , Scrofula , Liver Complaint , Spleen , etc ., and _lae-rBadjcalBemoral , entitled the _'Natokai , _Rsazse . tiXoz or me Digestive 0-. o-. ks ( tte Stomach and _Intestmes _) , without pills , purgatires _, or artificial means of say kind ,

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      FARMS OS SALE . A TW n ° - _^ _MARU at _HiMterLovel - A TWO . ¦ _ftR _^ Sn 4 ' s EnulL 0 'rk SBdS _- _--Tff 0 _™ ° -ACRE 0 _& A r _?^^ * _f *• _Dta- tors , at their BSce , 14 * , Sign Holborn , Loudon ,

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      Now ready for delivery , uniform with Tallis ' _s Imperial Histories of England and America , Part I ., Price One Shilling , rE HISTORT OF IRELAND , from the earliest period ofthe Irish _Aunals , to the Rebellion of 1818 . By Thomas Wright , Esq ., M . A ., F . S . _A- " , & c , & c . Corresponding Member of tbe National Institute of France ; Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature , & c . ; author of'England under the House of Hanover , ' ' The Biographia Britanniea Literaria _, " Essays Illustrative of the Literature , History , and Superstition of Eng . land in the Middle Ages , ' aod other works illustrative ot English History . Each part embellished with a beaut'fui steel engraving , _chitflj from Original _Drawisgs . By H . Warren , Esq ., President ofthe New Water Colour Society . London : J . and F . T-iLis _, _los , St John-street , and all booksellers .

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED atthe Great' _Western ¦ Emporium , I aad 2 , Oxford . street . Ubsdell and Co . are now making to order a Suit of beautiful Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 Is . Patent made Summer Trowsers , 16 s ; Registered Summer Over Coats , 20 s . The Art of Cutting taught Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and sent ( post free ) for Is . 6 d , eacb , or eighteen postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , I acd 2 , Oxford-street London .

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      IU 1 A . _11 _AWS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert . HOW REAM , THE LONDON AND PARIS AUTUMN AND WINTER PASHIONSfor 1818-19 , by Messrs BENJAMIN HEAD and Co ., 12 , Eart-street , _Bloomsbnry-square , London ; and by Q . Besses , Eolywell-street , Strand ; a Tery splendid PRINT , superbly cr loured , accompanied with the most asliionable , norel , and _extra-fittiog Riding Dress , Huntrig and Frock-Coat Patterns ; the Albert Paletot , Dress and Morning Waistcoats , both single and double-breasted . Also , the theory of Cutting Cloaks of every description fully explained , with diagrams , and- , every thing respecting style and fashion _illustrated . The method oi increasing and diminishing all the patterns , or any others particularly explained . Price 10 s .

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      TO BE SOLD . OR LET , AT LOWBANDS , A FOUR-ACRB ALLOTMENT , iu an excellent state of cultivation , one of the highest rated on the estate , containing the produce bf one acre one rood of when , several bags of good potatoes , about five tons of carrots and parsnips , some beans and peas , half an acre of Swedes and turnips , a bed of mangel wurtzel , about 3 , 000 cabbages ( now fit for use ) , celery , & 0 . ; two good pig-sties , with yards , tank , & c ; three strong pigs , agri . cultural implements , _< fec . It has on it six large fruit trees in full bearing , besides _thirty-seven young ones . fgAuy communication addressed to Mr O'Brien , schoolmaster , Lowbands , Redmarley , next Ledbury ( with a stamp enclosed ) , shall receive due attention .

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      AN UNUSUAL OFFER , TO BE SOLDJOR £ 220 . i _TWO-ACRE ALLOTMENT and a _isttr-roomed li . _Tsriek-built house ( two roomB up * and two dowa stairs J , oa the Snig ' s End estate ( near Gloucester ) ef the National Land Company . It adjoins the old farm heme ; n j rent ever to be paid , as the amount demanded was oaidinto the Land Purchase Department . On it are between forty and fifty apple and pear trees in full bear _, ing , yielding annually as mueh fruit i as would make ten hogsheads of cider ; at present there is on the trees as much as will produce five hogsheads ; alto , half an acre of barley ; a . rick of clover ; two dosen hurdles ; several agricultural implements ; a sow and seven small pigs ; a sow half gone in pig ; two good ewes ; a strong ass and cart ; Swedes ; turnips ; mangel wurtzel ; cabbages , & c _. Immediate _possession given . Communications addressed to Mr O'Brien , schoolmaster , Lowbands , Redmarley , mear Ledbury , shall receive immediate attention .

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      TO BE SOLD , A FOUR-ACRB SHARE in the National Laad Company . For particulars , inquire of Mr Carlos , 12 , Qaeenstreet Percival-street . Clerkenwell .

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      rVHiniNOTON _, asd Cat , Chohch Row . —A general meeting of all the branehea of tke National Land Company in the Tower Uamlete _, _rvill to held on Tuesday evening , October 17 ib , afc eight o ' clock , when Mr M Grath will explain , the propositions of Mr _O'CouKor . Chair to be taken precisely at eight ¦ J dock .

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      Price Threepence , A VERBATIM KkPORT ( P T 11 K TRIAL ! OP ERNEST _JONE- _t S _, _AlfD _^ THE . OTHER ,., CHARTIST LEADERS . _>¦* _*• ' ' _, . ..-Now Beady , _oHe-wBrMon of -MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS , '• r ' ' - ————TBE _CHEAMSTIDmON EVER PUBLISHED . Price . Is . ( Jd ., ' ' . . A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of he Author , of _PAIHE'S POUTICAL WORKS . Jast published , prioe 3 d ., i THB EVIDENCE GIVES BY JOHN SILLETT , Id his Examination before the Committee on the National Laad Company . Thia important bftdy of eTidence forms sixteen closely prip _' ed pages , and _conclusively proves what may be done , to explaining what John Sillett has done , with Two Acres . ' No 22 , OF "THE UBOUREB " Is now ready , _COHTAIKISO XWO ARTICLES BT MR . _EBNE 6 T J 0 NEB , © 0 » T * ITS : — , _Mirabeau national Liter ' . tnre M < -K-ria System The Murdered Trooper The Ere of St . John Just Published , price ls . 6 d ., forming ; a neat volume , _EVIDEKCE TAKEN THE SELECT COMMITTEE Appointed to inquire into Thb _NatioiIaIj Land Compast ; with a review of the faee , and an Outline of the Propositions for amending'the Constitution of the Company , so as to comply with the Provisions of the Law . Watson , Queen ' s _Head-passafte , Paternoster-row , London : A Hey wood , Manchester : and aU BooKsellere in Town and Country .

      Portrait Of Cuffey. .. ••

      PORTRAIT OF CUFFEY . ..

      The Above Portrait, Taker* By His Fellow...

      The above portrait , taker * by his _fellow-sufferer , Wm . Dowling , is new ready . Price 64 . ' Orders received by Mr Dixon , 144 , High Holborn . . .

      Portrait Of John Mitchel. This Portrait ...

      PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL . This _portrait will be given with the " . Northern Slar" on Saturday , tbe 1 J th of November . Price , with the paper , SEVENPENCE .

      "Tn Portrait Of W. Smith O'Brien. We Hav...

      "tn PORTRAIT OF W . SMITH O'BRIEN . We have now in course of engraving a splendid likeness of W . Smith O'Brien , specimens of which will shortly ; be in the hands of our agents . Also portraits , of Meagher , O'Gorman , and puffy . ' i >

      Mr O'Connor's Tojir. . - ; • In Reply To...

      MR O'CONNOR'S TOJIR . . - ; In reply to several applications , we have to announce that Mr O'Connor ' s present intended tour in Scotland cannot / exceed _^ six days , and therefore it is out of his power to attend the numerous places to which he has been invited ; as it appears , tbat Thursday , the 26 th , the day appointed for Mr

      O'Connor s visit to Glasgow will be an inconvenient day , as being the annual , fast day in thai town , Mr O'Connor will have no objection ,, if tlie men of Edinburgh and Glasgow can agree amongst themselves , to alter his route b y being at Glasgow , on Wednesday , and at Edinburgh , on Thursday " ; but intimation of the change , if made , miist be communicated to Wm through next Saturday ' s "Star . "

      Land Company. Mr O'Connor Begs To Acknow...

      LAND COMPANY . Mr O'Connor begs to acknowledg e various communications fmm different districts , containing very useful suggestions ; all of which-shall have his best attention , and be submitted to the Conference , if not brought forward by any other delegate .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, October 14, 1818.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , OCTOBER 14 , 1818 .

      The Treason Government. "Thereis Bnt A S...

      THE TREASON GOVERNMENT . "Thereis bnt a step between the ridiculous and the sublime . "' ' ,, ¦ . ' It is not our intention to swell bull-frog Whig Felony into sincere and patriotic Treason ; no _> itheir treason merits no such distinction ; but having traced them from felony to rebellion , it now becomes our duty , as loyal subjects to the constitution , to arraign them before an unprejudiced tribunal of . High Treason , undistinguished hy the high

      attributes of devotion and patriotism . In the case of Cuffey an < 1 others , the evidence of their coadjutors , the _eunning of their [ official , arid , the energy of their Judge , convicted them of the crime of Conspiracy and Felony ; while the evidence . of Dobbins and his associates , at Clonmel , convicts them of _having fomented the Irish Rebellion ; and , to their' shame be it spoken , the letter of Tom Young , of the Home Office , and Private Secretary to Lortf Melbourne , Prime Minister to William : IV ., addressed officially , and no doubt written officially , to General Napier , convicts them even beyond the hope of mercy , of Hi gh Treason .

      Can we write without a . pang—can we think without a blush—of the position to which those unhappy rriscreants have reduced not only themselves , but the disrepute they have cast upon the administration of justice in this country ? Our readers will bear in mind , that the disclosure of General Napier , so timel y , so honourable , and so damning to the conspirators , was not a secret to us . This gallant officer not only refused to become a party to Whig Treason in 1832 , but he used his know _, ledge ofthe mode of carrying the Reform Bill as the means of saving Frost and his associates from the gallows , . The Dresent Chief

      Baron , Sir Frederick Pollock , who defended Frost , at Monmouth , urged by compassion towards his client , made three unsuccessful appeals to the Whig Minister - ' when Lord Brougham , still clinging to hope , tfnduced him to make a fourth application , which , however , was equally unsuccessful ; when , by a lucky accident , an express arrived from General Napier , informing the Whi g Minister that if the sentence upon Frost was executed , he would then divulge . the act of Whig Treason , which has remained a secret until its disclosure was rendered necessary by the _trwiphprv of the Whigs in 1848 . Y treacnery 0 I

      Whig Minister I rost and his associates owe their _lives-to . General Napier , and not to the merciful _considerahon of the Tipperary _Protesantjury , Smith O'Brien will owe his life ; and to the same honourable and gallant general the people of England will owe their gratitude as the destroyer of that faction which ! for the ast 160 years has kept this country and Ire-I ii ™ _^ _erf . incipient _resolution , or open rebellion , for their own gain and aggrandisement . However , the awful disclosure made by _General Napier may but constitute it-rounds

      tortheimpeachment of the treasonable Whigsthe insulted people will be as active in searching and procuring evidence for their cen viction ,. their menials and officials have been to procure evidence for the conviction i l I' J ? > and others ; and although the Dead _Letter-office has not become as fruitful a source of information as the illegally stolen Iportmanteau of Smith O'Brien .

      The Treason Government. "Thereis Bnt A S...

      nevertheless , the ghost of the self-destroyed Colonel Brereton , of the I 4 th Dragoons , must ¦ haunfotbe trail ; ors ;] as many of his most intimate ;| nends * ai ; e _^ ell . aware _. thaUthat gallant officer _wasi forced to the commission of suicide by the neglectof dirty , to . which , he . was Urged by the traitor Whigs when Bristol was in flames . How often , and how truly , have we charged these traitor " conspirators with fostering the p 0 Wer _ the _delusive . power—of _DanielO'Connelli as long as that power was made the

      instrument of , Whig strength ; and how indignant were the traitors , when Sir Robert Peel and his Government , not . haunted by , the dread of the living Napier or the ghost of the departed Breretoh , sought to make the archr consp irator amenabl to the jaw ; and how their majority , in the last appeal , declared the law to be " a mockery , a delusion , and a snare , ' ' when wielded against their own coadjutor ; while , now that they fill the Treasury Benches , we find every official , from the judge to the informer , not only active , but zealous in the suppression of evidence calculated to convict their patrons . i .

      The Irish Press has been all but annihilated ; while , in 1832 , the chief Organ of-the'Whigs recommended the embodiment of a National Guard to carry the Reform Bill ; while , with characteristic prudery , but miserable tact , the same _treason-fomentor in 1848 * _assures us that what was'meant by a National Guardin 1832 was to consist , not of a Garde Mobile , but of a juste milieu corps , to be armed , and hold the balance of power between the aristocracy and democracy of England . They were to . be bottle holders to the Whigs , and umpires between the head and tail of society . Their duty was to . take the necessary precaution that the artistocracy should not revolt against the national will—that the national will should not revolt against the oligarchy ; but ,

      according to the old school-boy custom , they , as umpires , should hold the garter , and the belligerents should fight _iiTout without closing . , However , ' the one sentence quoted from the " Times" by Mr Whiteside , will serve but as the index to the volume of" Times" treason in 1832 , as , we propose to furnish our readers with a more complete hash from the cold larder of Printing House-square . Our readers will peruse the letter of General Napier with surpassing interest ; while , mayhap , Powell—like the present Prime Minister—will deny all

      participation with the antiquated Melbourne ; and a greater latitude pf p leading will be allowed to him than in the English felony and Irish treason case _* . But if , as laid down by the Judges , the whole evidence is to be taken in connexion , then , we would ask _, how the present little gentleman will divest himself of responsibility , criminality , and conspiracy , when he reads his letter of thanks to the 150 , 000 Brummagem sympathisers , who were also read } * 'to take the field ? And how will the gallant General , the member for Westminster , translate his words to a Whig Judge and a packed Jury , in which he declared his readiness to march a hundred thousand armed men upon London ; of course a detachment of the'Natiohal Guard , to act as

      umpires between the democracy and . the oligarchy ? ' .. . ¦ .. . ¦ With these startling facts now staring us in the face , inculpating men filling the highest offices ofthe State , it is almost needless to comment upon the evidence upon which Smith O ' Brien has been convicted ., We have set it forth at length , together with what the " Times '' calls the impartial charge of the Chief Justice ; and we would ask the most ' partial—nay . the greatest Whig partisan , whether , throughout , the Bench has not acted aa the tool of administration rather than the impartial administrator of the law I and we would especially call attention to the fact to which . we have before adverted—namely , the difficulty , if not the impossibility , of refuting the evidence of a hired perjured informer .

      A respectable man , upon seeing the evidence adduced against Smith O'Brien , and conscious of his ability to refute it , was about to start for Clonmel w hen he was arrested for high _trecson . Such was the treatment of Mr Tranton , who , was allowed to remain at liberty until the eve of his departure , although , ' if . at all implicated in the Whig rebellion , his criminality must have been known to the Arguseyed officials of Dublin Castle , who , nevertheless , as in the case of Cuffey and others , did HESITATE until his arrest was considered necessary for the conviction of O'Brien . Again , with regard to the evidence of Dalton , with

      whom the villain Dobbins was confronted , can anything be more satisfactory than the character , the evidence , and demeanour of that young gentleman ? while the " Times '' would throw disrepute upon him in const quence of the shabbiness of his dress , and because so great was his excitement that he frequently require ! a drink of water . This young gentleman produces the most unquestionable character from one of the Jury , in whose family he had lived as private tutor for two years ; he gives the most faithful and simple account of his every day , his every place of hdging , his means and mode of life—but his dress is shabby , and he required : > drink of water _l- '

      Now , let as see if w e can furnish the " Times" with a precedent for wardrobe and thirst ., _. Plunkett , the late Chancellor of Ireiand , was a pensioner in Trinity College—was educated , fed , and clothed bv charity . M'Gee , the late archbishop of Dublin , was also a pauper student . Curran , ; the . luminary of his country , was what is termed in Ireland "A POOR SCHOLAR ;" -he-tramped the counj try barefoot , and begged the means to procure pen , ink , and paper , and Jived upon charity ; and when he became Master of the Rolls , neither his former thirst or garb was urged . against hh efficiency . Eldon was a butcher ' s son , and subsequently became the keeper of his

      King ' s conscience . Sugden was a barbers son , and subsequently became Chancellor of Ireland . ' Sir John Elley was a barefooted peasant , when he enlisted in the King ' s army , and afterwards became a General officer . Cobbett was a labourer and private soldier , and became a Member of Parliament . It was the ; boast of John" Fielden . in the House of Commons , that he had worked at the loom in infancy ; and has it not . been the eternal boast of . this new organ of Whig Treason , that the course of promotion is open to all under our free constitution , while a young gentleman of unimpeachable character and admitted acquirements , is damned for his poverty and his thirst '?!

      We have only cited instances of men having sprung from mean attire to the ermine , the woolsack , and the _uniform-r-and now turn we to thegrave and more _oft-repeated charge of THIRST , " "MORE WATER , " "ANOTHER DRINK , " and " WATER AGAIN . " For this we can also furnish a . precedent . When Ravens , the Poor Law Commissioner , was examined before the Land Committee , a Page

      was appointed , to supply this burning official with water . His examination was constantly stopped till a fresh supply arrived and , instead of thirst being made the grounds of suspicion , the impartial Judge Advocate attributed it to LAUDABLE EXCITEMENT . But one was a faithful witness for the traitor , and the other . was a faithless witness for the tool .

      Whatever may be the fate of O'Brien , the traitor Whig 3 may rest assured that they have not yet heard the last of their Felony , Rebellion , and Treason , either in England or Ireland—as theEnglish and the Irish , once goaded to vengeance by acts of such deep and damnable treachery , will rise in their majesty and might , and set themselves but one task—all other business for the pres ent being laid aside —and that is the utter annihilation of the Whig traitors . They may gloat over their victims—their Chancellor of the Exchequer may hug himself in the fond hope that he has established good grounds for another appeal to the loyalty of John Bull—but we have made but a wrong estimate of the representatives of that animal , if they do not insist upon an ex-

      The Treason Government. "Thereis Bnt A S...

      _planation of Napier ' s letter , Russell ' s letter , Brereton ' s death , the recent acts of _English felony and Irish treason , before they coiitribute a ., far . _thinft . to the support , of the Felon ,,. Rebel , and Traitor Whigs . . . . ... ¦| S ***» "'

      The Spy Davis. Our Attention Has Been Di...

      THE SPY DAVIS . Our attention has been directed to a portion ofthe examination of Davis , at the Old Bailey , on the 2 _/ th ult ., which had escaped our notice . The following appeared in the " Times" report , and we believe only in the " Times : ' 'The resolution respecting the * ' Luminaries" was adopted on _^ tho 14 th , at the Orange Tree . * " * At the same time the editor of the _Norihkbh Stir oame to make a statement in _consequence of a oharge Baid to have been made againat bim of being a spy . He was Jurnedont .

      Either this story about " the editor of the ' Northern Star'" is a lying invention of the fellow Davis , or the reporter wilfully , or by mistake , has mis-stated the informer ' s words . Neither Mr O'Connor , nor anyperson engaged editorially upon this paper , was ever at the Orange Tree , nor knew anything of the meetings held there until the evidence of the spies appeared in the daily newspapers . About the time of the arrests a person employed by Mr O'Connor to take reports of meetings in the metropolis was accused of having some connexion with the police , and was thereupon

      discharged from Mr O'Connor ' s service ; perhaps that person is the party spoken of by Davis . But if so that person was merely connected with this Eaper as " a reporter , and could not have called imself editor of the ' Northern Star . '" The " Editor'' is an invention for which either Davis , or the careless , if not unscrupulous reporter of the _^ ' * Times" is responsible . The Editor of the " Ntrthern Star , " never was at the Orange Tree ; never to his knowledge saw Davis ; and was totally ignorant of that person ' s infamous proceedings until divulged by himself .

      It may be well to add , that the person we have alluded to as having been employed as a reporter for the " Star , " is not Mr Stallwood , against whom suspicion has never breathed a word of dishonour .

      State Of Political Parties. Lord George ...

      STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES . Lord George Bentinck ' _s sudden death will most probably cause considerable change in the future construction and relative positions of parties in Parliament . While ; he lived to animate the Protectionists by his unswerving adherence to principle , undaunted courage , and unwearied perseverance , there was no chance bf a reunion of the severed sections of the } great Conservative party , formed by Sir R . Peel . The much-lamented Protectionist leader had almost all the qualities that

      could ne possibly desired for the situation , whatever may be thought of his general knowledge , or his _^ acquaintance with matters which are all-important to * the school of official red-tapists , who presume to call themselves statesmen . There was a thorough and hearty honesty—a straightforwardness of purpose , and a frank and fearless manner of _calling things by what appeared to him their right names , which peculiarly fitted him for leading an English and a "Country Party . "

      His very prejudices and crotchets—his dogged obstinacy when once he mads up his mind to take any particular course , —his instinctive detection of anything mean , dirty , or lying , and his scorn of all tricks of expediency , were racy of the soil and people . He was a capital spe cimen of the virtues and the failings of honest John Bull ; and , as a consequence—notwithstanding the incessant attacks of his political opponents , he achieved more popularity and general respect than was ever before secured by any public man in so short a time . '

      Some time before his death , the " Morning Chronicle , " which is understood to be the organ of the Peelite section' of the Conservatives , made evident overtures for a reconciliation , which were promptly repudiated by the " Herald" and " Post , '" on behalf of the adherents to Protection ; although they admitted that the state of the country , under Whig misrule , __ was such as to render the driving them from office a matter _' of national importance and necessity . There the matter apparently rested—no progress towards a junction haying been made . Since the decease of Lord George , however , renewed signs of an agitation with this view are observable , and it is not improbable but that it may be ultimately attained .

      ; We infer this from the very earnestness with which the more extreme and honest members of the Protectionists disclaim all idea of again serving under the Parliamentary leader who , as they think , betrayed _thej cause into the hands of the Free Traders . At a recent agricultural meeting in Essex , Sir J . Tyrrell and Major f Beresford , the Members for the county , both alluded , at great length , to the irreparable loss which' Lord George's death had inflicted oh the Protectionists . Sir John said"It ' is impossible to say what will be the result _tOjthe Country Party , " | and to the country generally _^ in the endeavour to fill up the void created by that loss . All I can say—and I do so individually—is , that no earthly

      consideration shall ever induce me to rally again under the head and leadership of Sir Robert Peel . " _This'declaration was received with loud cheers ; and when Major Beresford—after giving some interesting-details as to the way in which the late leader of the Party devoted himself to his work—stated his coincidence in the views of his colleague , the applause was renewed . The very fact of the necessity for such open declarations , shows that , something is stirring in the straw , and that a re-construction of Parties is'probable . This may take place without causing Sir John Tyrrell , and members of that class , to falsify the statement that they will never again rally under the head and leadership of Sir It . Peel . " It is generally believed , that the ex-Premier has no wish to resume the

      active duties of office ; but the junior members of his Party are not equally disinclined to occupy the Treasury benches . They possess , as a body , _»* considerable business talent and aptitude , and if they could prevail on the other section of the Conservative Party to join them , the Whigs would speedily be driven from place . But , though Sir R . Peel might neither have a seat in the Cabinet , nor a" place in the Government , his would be the ruling mind , in the case of such a combination , He would pull the strings which moved the puppets , and virtually . the Protectionist Party would again

      come under his leadership . This is the more likely to happen when we look at the composition of that Party , and the few men in it who have " show ri any offici'il aptitude , or power to form and direct Party combinations . Mr Disraeli is , and was , unquestionably , the ablest man , intellectually speaking , among them ; but he neither . possesses the personal and hereditary standing required by the Party in its leader , nor are , his political opinions of that plain and fixed character which are peculiarly required for the "Country Party . " They admired him as the brilliant orator and friend of Lord George Bentinck , but they will hesitate long before they instal him in the vacant place of that nobleman . In the forthcoming Parliamentary campaign , therefore , the

      Protectionists must either submit to carry on a _guerilla kind of warfare , in which every man will , like the Smith in Scott ' s novel , "Jfecht for his ain hand , " or merge into the more compact , better disciplined , and really more able , though small , section of Peelites . . Anything which in the remotest degree promises to emancipate the country from Whig despotism and misrule will , we are certain , be joyfully hailed by the nation at large . Whatever defects any other Government might have , it would have this crowning excellence—that it put an end to an Administration which . has shown itself throughout powerless for good , and strong only in its capabilities and disposition to do evil . As for _theWhig-fcuiical and the Free Trade sections of Parliament , vie have no hope what-

      State Of Political Parties. Lord George ...

      ever from them . They are too much split im into coteries , and isolated from each other , to be capable of- effecting _jany . practical change and > _-if they _, wer _^ otso ,. _? tii . e . nature _^ q f _, th eir crotchets , and the " selfishness of their princi pies , would only _caufce-them to do more mischief , ia addition . ; , to what they have ., donealready . . !; The great and crying want of the age is , a representation of the _people—aparty ia Parliament representing the people—not classes , and particular interests , The Landed Interest , the Railway Interest , the . Colonial Interest , the Banking Interest , the Manufacturing Interest , the Commercial Interest , the Lawyer Interest —all are represented in Parliament save

      onetlie Labour , Interest , which supports all the other « . Until this monstrous anomaly is remedied , we shall neither have just nor cheapgovernment , nor will discontent with unjust and dear government be put down . The Whigs must not lay the flattering unction to their souls that , because they have secured verdicts in the recent trials for political offences , that , therefore , the spirit out of which these offences originated is destroyed , Not so . The social and political evils which generated disaffection , _^ yet press with intolerable severity on the great bulk of the community , and until they are removed , no verdicts—no amount of mere repressive force , can give peace or security to society .

      The Revenue. The Quarterly Official Stat...

      THE REVENUE . The quarterly official statement of the Revenue , issued this week , shows an Increase of receipts , as compared with the preceding quarter , of £ 772 , 296 . The last quarter s tables presented a decrease both on the quarter and the year . In the return just issued the decrease on ; the year , as compared with 1847 , is _i' 308 , 183 . Last year , however , it will be remembered , was a peculiarly disastrous one , and therefore , though the revenue is , this quarter , nearly three-quarters of a million more than the corresponding quarter of 1847 , it is still more than half a million under the , same

      quarter of 1846 . The increase arises from the Customs , Excise , Taxes , and Crown-lands , in all of which the receipts have augmented , while there has been a considerable falling off in Stamps , Property and Income Tax , and Miscellaneous , The $ ost Office revenue is less by £ 1 , 000 . More than one-half of the ' augmented revenue , this quarter , has been derived from duties levied , on the importation of foreign corn , under Sir R . Peel ' s Transitional Act . This duty will cease on the 1 st of February next , when the foreign corn grower will bring

      his grain to market on the same footing as the Kent or Yorkshire farmer , and that source of revenue will be cut off ; whether our own heavily taxed farmers and labourers will be able to make up the deficiency , when they have to enter into a more keen competition with the lightly-taxed foreigner , we leave to the common sense of our readers to determine . One thing is quite certain , that when the present duties on foreign corn are taken off , there will be a reduction in the produce of Customs duties of probably a million and a half or two millions per annum , and that , added to the

      deficiency announced by Sir Charles Wood in his last Budget , will make a very pretty item for John Bull to look at . Our inimitable Chancellor of the Exchequer Bill then have to borrow at the rate of five _millions a year to make up the deficiency , instead of two millions and a half . In the meantime , the Ministerial journals make tbe most of the improvement in the quarter ' s revenue , and venture on predictions as to future prosperity , which seem to us very like moonshine . They say , we are at the end of this period of commercial depression , and about to commence one of steady and

      gradually increasing prosperity . For our own part , we * ee no symptoms of this in the accounts as to the state of trade in all the principal industrial districts . Trade seems smitten with a general paralysis , and appears to us as if it would grow worse , instead of better , for some time to come . As to our foreign prospects , it is admitted even by the Free Trade journals , that they are anything but cheering _andthat , in the meantime , the Home Trade is the best one for Manchester . By and by , perhaps , our manufacturing Solons and great financiers will learn the A B C of true national economy , and the country will get better balance sheets .

      Oastlerfor The West-Riding. A Vacancy In...

      OASTLERFOR THE WEST-RIDING . A vacancy in the representation of the West-Riding has been caused by the death of the Earl of Carlisle , and the consequent elevation of Lord Morpeth , his eldest son , to the House of Peers . It will be interesting to see whether that great constituency still holds by the economical creed which induced them to _sfitul Mr Richard Cobden to Parliament .

      Short as _, the time is > hich has elapsed since his election , it has been sufficient to show the fallacious and injurious character of the policy of whioh Mr Cobden has been the chief advocate and upholder . Whatever may be the dependence of Manchester , and Lancashire generally , on foreign markets , the trade of Yorkshire is mainly . dependent upon a good home demand , and that has not been created by Mr Cobden ' s measures . They have failed , and the free trade Coryphfflus has brought forward nothing better to supply their pla & s . He seems to have had but one idea in his head , and that disposed of , he is " used up , " and practically j laid on the shelf .

      We observe by an article in the " Morning ' _jPot _f , " that an intention exists of contesting the Representation of the Riding with the Free _Tinkers and Manchester men who have foisted Mr Cobden upon Yorkshire . Our old friend . Richard Oastler , the "King Dick" _o- the Factory child , is talked of as the man se- - lected to head a movement in favour of native industry and common sense , in opposition to > the " buy-cheap and sell-dear" policy of : Messrs Gripeall and Co . It is unnecessary to ) say , that on many vital questions we totally f differ from Mr Oastler , but we do believe that t thrt honest and hard-handed Labourer would d

      find a true and warm-hearted Representative e in him , and on that ground alone we should d be happy to see him in Parliament . Besides ; s this , however , it appears to us that a period ot jt re-action—adverse to the false , foolish , and id mischievous theories of the Free Trader—i 3 is fast approaching , and it would be of immensese value to have an exponent of the reasons _andid grounds of that re-action , so well _quaMeA WW do justice to | the subject , and so fully _ac-cquainted with it in all its bearings , as _Mr-lr Oastler . We shall watch with deep _interestist the progressof that contest , if it brings into . to direct collision the representatives of twOiVO principles so completely opposed to eachother , _? r as those represented by Mr Cobden and MM Oastler .

      £O Heatora & ^Oxxmoimnt^

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      J. Swbet Acknowledges The Receipt Of He ...

      J . Swbet _acknowledges the receipt of he following suffl' ffl ' forilrM'nouaU : — MrBcwley .. ., .. .. 0 0 _. ) _. — Shepherd o 0 p _>; n -Lcc 0 8 * 8 * — Chipiiidale .. .. _., .. ODD From the'Colonel Hutchinson' .. .. _"• - !¦ !! Mrs _Peridns .. .. ,. o 0 ' 0 " Port Victim Fohd : — MrBirgin 0 1 ' 1 t ; W . AfDBPnr , _fluddersfield . —We beliere not . Bkistoi—Mr D . Morgan , of Merthyr Tidvil _, wishes l fll {! know the address ot the Bristol district secretary ..-

      Notice . —No meeting wiU take place at Mr Dixon ' Si o-s _, c Sunday , the 15 th . S . _Kvdd . _jp , MrR . _Knowlss , Hulme .-The charge for one _insetti _^ _rtU * ofyouradvertis meat will be four _shillings and' " , Is " ,, pence , payment in advance . A Constant Reader , _Birkenshaw Bottom . — ScndoRloP : shilling ; , which will cover postage . Give jour «•* r K * - addresB . Notice to the Proprietors of the O'Connor Tartan .- ' ' - ' , intended tbat the plaid which was proposed to bep' _^ p' _'; sented to Mr O ' Connor lait year , shall be _pvesentrf- ; _d- ;; ? . he 23 rd , at Aberdeen . The proprietors will please ye " bDtaraunieate immediately with D . Wright , _wrr * ' _^ _ponding secretary , j _, 48 , Skene-strcet , Aberdeen , _, 'n , " that it may be psb'lcly announced iu the bills _« # _'« # " _d'ately .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 14, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14101848/page/4/