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    • How Dn. Kxox became a Successor of the Aposiies.—In our last we stated, on the authority
    • Mr. THOMAS OOOPER AND MYSELF
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    • THE NORTHERN STAB SATURDAY, APRII, 21. 1SJO.
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      4 The Northern Star _ Apbil 21,1849.

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR _ Apbil 21 , 1849 .

      Tiie Aieitest Editio.X Ever Rcbmshed. Priee Is. Cd., A New And Elegant Edition, With Steel Plate Of Th* Author, Of

      TIIE _aiEiTEST EDITIO . X EVER rCBMSHED . Priee Is . Cd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of th * Author , of

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      _PAIHE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Sow Ready , a Sew Edition of MR . O'OOHHOR'S WORK OM SMALL FARMS . THE LABOURER MAGAZ 1 HI . Vols . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , may still be had , neatly ¦ bound ; _jtriee 2 s . Gd . each S _* . 4 , the _dumber _coataimns Mb . 0 _'Co * SM »' fl «* _Treatise on the National Land Company ;' $ _« 10 , the one containing Ma . O'Cosj . ob ' s Treatise « < _Jn ' the _Xatioual Land and Labour Bank an connection with the Land Company : — Have lately been reprinted , and maj _beiad on _applica-Siioii _, Price fid . each . Imperfections of the -Labourer Magazine' may « tiU be "had at the Publishers . In a neat Volume , Price Is . fid . " The Evidence taken by the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the National Land Company . " This Volume ought to be in the hands of every Member Of the Company , as it _strHnngly _iUostrates the care and economy that have been practised in tlie management of the Funds of the Company , and proves , beyond contradiction , the practicability of the Plan which the Company was _established to carry out Just published , J ? o . III . Price Sixpence , of THE COMMONWEALTH . " THE COMMO XWEALTII" win be the Representative of the Chartists , Socialists , and Trades' Unionists , in tlie _MontUs Press . cos-tests : 1 . What is to be done with Ireland ! 2 . The Weaver's Daughter . 3 . _E-itinctiou of Pauperism . 4 . _Topular Clause in Europe . 5 . Social Effects of Peasant Proprietorship . 6 . The Tlero . i . Events ofthe Month . IMPOKTAKT _pTJBI . IC . a . TIONS . Proceedings of the National Convention , which assembled at London in April , 1 _& 48 . Thirty two very large and solid pages : price only Threepence . The Trials of the Chartist Prisoners , Jones , Fussell , Williams , Vernon , & Looney . Twenty four very large and fidl pages : price oidy Threepence . Sold by J . Watson . Queen's Head Passage , Paternosterrow , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester ; and Love and Co ., 5 , _Xelson-street _, Glasgow . And by aU BookseUers in Town and Country .

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      _O'COXXOKYIIiLE . THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY will take place on TUESDAY , Mat 1 st , 18 i 9 . Theproteedings _viU consist of a Public Dinner , Meeting and BaH . The Directors will attend . Mr . O'Coxsob and other friends have been invited . Tickets to be had of Mr . Dixon , at the Office , 144 , High Holborn : also , of Mr . T . M . Wheeler , on the Estate .

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      TO THE READERS OF _"REYNOLDS'S MISCELLANY . " On Saturday , April 28 th , to every purchaser of Number 45 ( Price One Penny ) ofthat highly popular and beautifully Ulustrated Periodical , REYNOLDS ' S MISCELLANY , will be presented , gratis , the First Number of a Reissue ofthe beautiful Domestic Tale , entitled GRETXA GREE _3 f ; OR , ALL FOR LOTE . BY SUSANNAH FRANCES REYNOLDS ( JIKS . G . W . Jt . _BETNOIDS _* . The re-issue wiU be in Weekly Penny Numbers and Monthly Sispenny Parts , in the same torm as " Tue _Mvsteiues of the Codrt of Losdos , " printed oiv equally good paper , and with _Dlustairions by the same popular artist , Mr . Henry _Anelay . London : ' * Reynolds's Miscellaxi" Office , Wellington-Street North . Strand .

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      STARTLING PROPOSAL . THE CREATION OF WEALTH ; or , LABOUR'S TRIUMPH , being a practicable plan or an EMIGRATION AND HOME COLONISATION LEAGUE , by which a family may emigrate to America and have a free passage and a fruitful farm for Six Podsds ; whilst , for nearly every family thus emigrating , another may be established gratis , on a Ten-Acre Parm in Britain . See THE REFORMER , weekly periodical , price Two Tesce . London : _Wrsx , and all Newsagents and Dealers in Town and Country .

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      BERRY EDGE MEETING . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO the members of the 1 VISTONE branch of the National Land Company , that a meeting wiR be held at the house of Mr . _JasasFiKLEr ( who is about to emigrate to America ) , on Sunday , April ~ nd , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , when all * the members of the branch are requested to attend , as business of great importance wiU be laid before the ineetin ? .

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      TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert . Now Ready , THE LONDON and PARIS SPRING and SUMMER FASHIONS for 1 S 49 , by Messrs . BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and by GEORGE BERGER , HolyweR-strcet , Strand ? a splendid PRINT , _elalxjmtely finished , and superbly coloured , the LANDSCAPE , a correct view in tbe Quceifs Botanical Gardens , London , ( by special permission , ) the most magnificent place in Europe . This beautiful picture wiU be accompanied with tlie most novel , good fitting , and fashionable Dress , Riding , Frock , and Hunting Coat Patterns , both double and single-breasted ; Hussar ' s or Youth ' s round Jackets . pl ; un and with skirts ; single and double-breasted Dress , Morning aud Evening Waistcoats ; also the most fashionable and newest style Habit Pattern ; every particular part of each pattern fully explained , and an _^ lustration of everything respecting Style and Fashion ; price 10 s . Sold by Read and Co ., VI , Hart-street , Bloomsliury-square _, London ; G . Berger , IlolyweU-street , Strand ; and _' aR Booksellers in Town and Country .

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      fiO MORE PILLS , nor any other Medicine for Indigestion Irregularity of tlie Intestines , Flatulency , Palpitation of the Heart , Torpidity of the Liver , persisting Headaches , Servonsness , Biliousness , General Debility , Despondency , Spleen , & e . Price 6 d ., or Sd . post-free , royal , gilt , 2 s ; or free by post , 2 s . Cd . ( in stamps ) , Fifth Edition of DU BARRY'S POPULAR TREATISE ON INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Comnlaints , Spleen , ia , and their Radical Removal , entitled the " Natural Regenerator uf tue Digestive Organs , " without puis , _pur-atives , or medicines of any kind , by a simple , pleasant , economical , and infallible means ; adapted to the general reader . Du Barry and Co ., 75 , New Bond-street , London ; also , of Whittaker & Co . ; and aU other bookseUers . Sent post-free at tbe same price to Prussia .

      How Dn. Kxox Became A Successor Of The Aposiies.—In Our Last We Stated, On The Authority

      How _Dn . Kxox became a Successor of the Aposiies . —In our last we stated , on the authority

      Ot The Dublin Rress, That Tne Present .P...

      ot the Dublin rress , that tne present . Protestant Bkhop of Limerick lives out of the country to avoid his creditors . In reference to another Irish prelate , the new Bishop of Down and Connor , whose emoluments amount to from £ 3 , 500 to £ 4 , 000 per annum , the Daily News says : — " Dr . Knox is nothing particular , he has done nothing particular , and he is not gifted with the faculty of saying anything which the world is particularly curious to hear . What , then , has made him Bishop of Down 1 Our Irish contemporaries explain the mystery in a brief , and , we fear , undeniable manner . Dr . Rnox is the relation by birth of one Tory Earl , and the connexion by marriage of another . Lord Ranfurly possesses large estates in Tyrone , and Lord Clare possesses considerable property in Limerick . It

      seems to the wise Whigs more politic and just to try and propitiate personages of this description than to earn the confidence of their own party , or the respect ofthe public at large . " * * A more consistent Tory than the Earl of Clare the Upper House does not contain . For that reason he was made some months ago Lord-Lieutenant of Limerick ; and for the same cause , amongst others , "has Dr . Knox been now promoted to the bishopric of Down . The family of Knox has for many generations thriven by Castle favour . They have , it is said , generally contrived to have always one or two mitres in their keeping , with an appropriate complement of subordinate dignities and benefices , Not one of them was ever heard of as an eminent divine , eminent scholar , eminent writer , or eminent preacher . The only thing they have ever been eminent for is the knack of getting preferment of every kind , and of outliving all their aristocratic competitors . —Nonconformist .

      Axotheb . Gcbe or _Dbotsy bv _HoujowAv ' s Pum . —Mr . Duncan , an extensive tanner , residing at the Elms , near Boston , had bean for years in a bad state of health ; the disease assumed a swelling in the feet and ankles which _graduaUj ascended until the whole ofhis body was affected . Convinced , from ad-rice , that he was labouring under a confirmed case of dropij _hs consulted many of the most eminent of the Faculty , and used their remedies , from which he derived no benefit , but became worse . In this state he determined to try HoHoway ' s Pills , and to the wonder of all , this superior medicine cared him in aa incredible short space of time .

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      i-noe Sixpenc _g , WILLIAM THE NORMAN , or the _TYRAXT DISPLAYED , a Tragedy , " by R . Oner . _WOS-SS-PCSO . _-IS-XEO BT B . Om _.-EV . B . _d . _WEILEYAX PARSOSS . a Satire .. .. O G OX THE ORIGIN OF EVIO .. .. .. 0 3 FREE TRADE , a letter to H . G . Ward , Esq , .. 0 1 _J _ABLACKDaXUSITTFORTnECANTw-ELLS ,, 0 I READY FOR THE PRESS . CHRETIAH _PANTHEISM 4 0 TOMVRIS , a Kemance , in _t-ro vols . THE DEMON OF DESPOTISM . Published by J . Watson , No . 3 , Queen's _Hcad-passaTC Paternoster-row ; and H . Beal _, Ifo . 2 , Shoe _. Ians , London , and all Booksellers . For the ¦ " Christian Pantheism" thc author has already eighty purchasers' names ; when the number is one hundred , toe work wiU immediately l * e sent to press . Orders may be sent _lo R . _Otle-t , Sheffield , and may be had through any London bookseller .

      Mr. Thomas Oooper And Myself

      Mr . THOMAS OOOPER AND MYSELF

      I Have Received A Letter From Mr. Cooper...

      I have received a letter from Mr . COOPER a resolution from the Westminster localit y , and a letter from James Loud , of Bolton _^ No . 5 , Back Mawdesley-street—all relative to the same subject—and all shall appear in next week ' s Star , as this week I should not have time for a single comment ; and I think I shall he able to show that my Westminster friends imagine that I am to be a target to be shot at with impunity without daring to return fire .

      ' I think it will require no more than the mere publication of Mr . Cooper ' s letter as corroboration of what I have stated , while my Bolton friends I must refer to James Lord . But , meantime , I beg to assure all parties that I will neither be a target nor a tool . As to Thomas Cooper , he is still a man for whom I entertain a _rery strong regard , but he is not a man ( nor ia there any man ) that I will allow in any , the most roundabout , way , to interfere with my character , my consistency , or honour , without being put to the proof .

      It is very strange that when I am abused most unlimitedly no one ever calls out ; but when 1 defend myself , then it is , "Oh , don ' t divide us . '" But as a little "leaven Ieaveneth the whole lump , " and as every "little makes a nrickle , " and as my character is very dear to me and to millions , and as I have established public opinion as the only tribunal before which I will consent to be tried ; I will bow before no authority , I will submit to no dictation , in matters connected with my character , nor

      will I—and let this be perfectly understoodsubmit to any , the slightest , dictation or interference with the control or management of the Northern Star ; it shall advocate my principles , which are the purest principles of Liberty and Preedon , and I will submit to no interference , to no dictation , or control , as to who shall be my editors or reporters ; and , as I have often stated , the English Exchequer could not purchase the insertion of one line in the Northern Star which was at variance with

      my own opinions , Feargus O'Connor

      To Correspondents. Being Absent From Lon...

      TO CORRESPONDENTS . Being absent from London during last week , I have been compelled to leave several letters unanswered : this , I trust , will be an apology to my correspondents . Feargus O'Connor .

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      <F. Gublixg, Isle Of Thanet — Watson, Qu...

      < F . Gublixg , Isle of Thanet — Watson , Queen ' s Head-pas sage , Paternoster-row . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: — Fob the Victim Fvsd . —From Ca \ verton , £ l - fromMr . Smith , ls ; fromMr . C . Hall , 2 d . Kirkdalb Prisoxers , —Thomas Ormesher has received the following sums : —Radcliffe IJridge , Richard Hames , Is Gd ; a Friend at _Kodd's , Is ; Jliddleton , a Few Friends , ls 7 _$ d ; Crag Yale , John Smith , 2 s ; Hebden Bridge , John Stott . lis 6 _'d ; Manchester , W . Roach's Book , 3 s 8 d ; Swineshead dough , near Todmorden , per Richard Barker , 8 s . Whit of Eanon , —Higher-lane , Pilkingtou _, J . Eastwood , 7 s ; Lcvensholm , a Few Friends , Is Cd . George What , Leicester . — The grievance of which you complain would be best published in the law courts , but we fear you have no remedy . John _Hendeusos , Alloa . — We cannot answer your question . 6 . Anderson ; Holjtown . —We have no room for so lengthy a statement A . B „ Middlesborough . —We do not answer legal questions .

      The Northern Stab Saturday, Aprii, 21. 1sjo.

      THE NORTHERN STAB SATURDAY , APRII , 21 . 1 SJO .

      The Land. "The Folly Of To-Day Is The Wi...

      THE LAND . "The folly of to-day is the wisdom of the morrow . " Volumes have been written , speeches have been made , and experiments have been indulged in in connexion with the Land , but all—one and all—havin g for thenconclusion and object thc achievement of patronage and wealth through political power acquired by landed possession . Until Charles and James issued their writs to rotten boroughs , conferring upon them a representative

      power , the land alone—and especiall y in Ireland—was the standard of representation . And although forty Irish boroughs were created , at one and the same time , to neutralise the power of the landed interest , that interest very speedily not onl y converted those boroughs to their own " sole use , behoof , and benefit , " but made then' possession the means of title , distinction , and wealth conferred upon the owners for prostitution .

      This system not only applied to exclusively agricultural Ireland , but up to the year 1832 —the period whimsically called the Reform—England was equall y subject to exclusive agricultural representation ; and fromthe period of Reform downtothepresenttime , thewholequestion of the Land , as of yore , has been treated in its mere political phase , until , at length , not only those who are robbed , impoverished , famished , and starved to death ; but those who heretofore manufactured the soil into political patronage , are now—ono and all—beginning to reflect upon the danger of longer withholding the Land from its natural purposes—the employing , the feeding , the clothing , the housing , the warming , the satisf ying the millions .

      We have made the question of the Land our life ' s study—not theoretically , but practically ; and if we were called upon to explain the vast and appalling increase of pauperism in Ireland , we would date it from that period when the champions of civil and religious liberty consented to the destruction and sweeping from the face of the earth over three hundred thousand Catholic forty-shilling freeholders , as the condition that those champions might have a seat in the Saxon Protestant Parliament . Can we give a stronger illustration ofthe fact

      that the land in Ireland has been used for mere political purposes , than the knocking of those three hundred thousand freehold tenements into large farms , as soon as the serfs , who had prodigiously increased their value , had ceased to be political engines ? That ' s for Ireland ; and then , as regards England , even the Reform Bill has failed to wrench this anomalous political power fromthe hands of tho landlords , inasmuch as the rural constituencies number about one hundred and eight thousand _£ 50 tenantsat-will , or over one-fourth of the whole rural

      constituency , and from their required subserviency constituting that balance of power upon which landlordism still holds its obstructive policy . The Catholics of Ireland gained but little by what is called Emancipation , beyond the honour and glory of being sold to tho British Minister by the professors of their own faith , and the pride of being most persecuted b y judges and legal officials of their own religious persuasion ; and the working classes of England received no greater boon than that of being transferred from the tender mercies of landlords to the merciful consideration of cotton lords and _profitmongcra . And it is a fact , which the boldest cannot deny , that these two boasted triumphs have been replete with the most evil

      The Land. "The Folly Of To-Day Is The Wi...

      results . And why ? Because each has teuded to narrow and circumscribe the field of natural and legitimate Lahour , in order that the new recipients of political power may traffic upon its dependents . The reader , however , will learn from the Mowing pith y morsel , extracted from the " Times" of Thursday last , that "the folly of to-day maybe the wisdom of the morrow , " as from it ho will learn that the only alternative now is CONFISCATION or wise legislation . Hero follows this delicate morsel _;

      The utter and disastrous failure of the Irish soil , under its existing management , to maintain the Irish people , is a case for interference both with the people AND THE LAND . We will not be saddled with the products of the machinery without claiming a voice in its management . A great nation cannot close its cars against the appeal to its benevolence . If the cry of Irish destitution be raised , not seven times , but seventy times seven , it will still be attended to . But THE LAND must go with the people . Wc demand the whole lot ; not that we may wrest the land from its present owners , or indulge our own cupidity or caprice ; but simply that wc may the better meet that responsibility which the Irish landlords themselves impose upon us . None have been so loud in their demands on the Imperial Exchequer , or have so unreservedl y upheld the doctrine that it is the duty of the Legislature , at any cost , and at lesser to

      any injury particular interests , to avert a general starvation . For the sake of the poor , and for tbe relief of their pressing necessities , we insist on a move summary and vigorous dealing with their only means of support They who throw on us their poor , do in fact offer us their land ; and they who require us to maintain their pow without compensation do , in fact , surrender their land without price . Thus the LAND solves the question of the poor , and the poor solve the question of the LAND ;—not indeed to such an extent as to justify a sweepin" CONFISCATION , but at least so far as to compel' whatever measures may be necessary to put the land under better management . England eannot maintain the Irish , and let Ireland alone . If it have one , it must have both ; and if it is driven to a ruinous expenditure for the maintenance of the people . it will insist on measures of a proportionate magnitude and efficiency for the better CULTIVATION OF

      THE SOIL . Now , can the reader peruse the above without a smile of satisfaction , and without coming to the conclusion that our folly of a quarter of a century and two years , is the wisdom of the present day ? Here is not only the admission that the application of the Irish land to its proper purposes , can alone save England from the penalty of Irish destitution , but in the distant horizon we see the dim shadow of

      CONFISCATION . We would remind oar pupil of Printing-house-square , however , that Irish destitution , Irish misgovernment and misrule , has been the lever by which many thousands of English capitalists have sprung from their clogs into Spanish leather boots , from the dung cart to the carnage , from the cellar to the mansion , and from poverty to unbounded wealth . When the Irish were required here to compete with English industry , then she was over-populated ; and better would it have been for the people of both nations , if the land of both countries had

      been covered with an incrustation of lava , and rendered sterile , aud non-productive . But , now alas ! when population presses hardly upon tho POLITICAL MEANS OF EXISTENCE for its support , the Ministerial organ —the " Thunderer" —the veritable conqueror of Free Trade , our then shortsighted , but now far-seeing pupil , has put on his goggles , and can only see British salvation in the appropriation of the Irish land to the support of the Irish people . Why , how does this square with the much lauded doctrine of the Honourable and

      Reverend Baptist Noel—the Free Trade pamphleteer—whose wadding was rammed under every peasant ' s door , or crammed through every cellar keyhole ? This p ious Divine , whose duty it was to teach his flock to pray that God might preserve the kindly fruits of the earth , so that , in due time , his people may enjoy them—this man , whose duty it was to tell the people that man was composed of the elements , and that his Maker bestowed upon

      him the birds ofthe air , the beasts of tbe field , and tho fishes in the sea , and commanded him to live by the sweat ofhis brow—not in a rattlebox ; not as a prostitute upon the labour of his wife and little children , but upon his own industry , applied to the cultivation of the laud , the netting ofthe fish , and the catching of the birds of the air—yet this pious Divine has told his flock that they were created for an artificial life , while the people of all other countries were destined for agricultural pursuits .

      Howbeit , here we are in the nineteenth century , with the leading statesman—not of the day , but of the age—advocating the better application of the land of L'eland , and the leading journal of the world assuring us that there is now but the choice between the wise

      APPROPRIATION OF THE SOIL TO TBE MAINTENANCE OF THE PEOPLE , OR THE CONFISCATION OF THE SOIL . But , is this dispensation to be achieved through the instrumentality of a reformed Parliament , in which those who depend upon the mal-appropriation ofthe land for the accumulation of inordinate wealth , hold the balance

      of power ? No ; it is to be accomplished , it can be accomplished , and it SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED , by the people themselves . And the landlords of England , who are not as deeply sunk in the slough of extravagance as thc landlords of Ireland are , will discover , and that ere long , that they have but the alternative of confiscation , or wise , legitimate , and profitable appropriation .

      Tho Free Traders are not prepared to make a greater experiment in this direction than will merely secure for them the balance of political power in some Protectionist counties ; while the landlords arc under the influence of tenants , who fear that a more extensive distribution of the soil would increase the rate of wages iu the agricultural market . But mark the result ; cheap and dear , as we have often told our readers , are relative terms , and presently we shall see a country glorified for the cheapness of its food—which of course must he consequent upon the cheapness of its labourburthened with an amount of taxation , which , relative to the remuneration for industry , will be doubled in pressure , although not a figure may be altered .

      In the very last number of the ' Labourer , " we predicted that the Prime Minister would meet his Irish difficulty in the present Session of Parliament by consenting to the appointment of a Committee upon Irish Poor Laws . We now speak of what is printed , and we told our readers that during the deliberations of that committee , the _L'ish members would be the most servile hacks of the Minister ; as proof , witness their all but unanimous howl for the renewal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act : but we predicted the impossibility of satisfying the demands of Irish members , and that the Minister would again find the question of Irish Poor Laws to be his great difficulty .

      The truth of this prediction has becniuUy verified , and now we will venture upon another . It is : " That before twelvemonths from this date , the Government of England —no matter whether Whi g or Tory—will have but the alternative of national bankruptcy , confiscation of the land , or its legitimate arid profitable application to the wants and necessities of the people . " And let it be always b in mind

      orne , that we live in the age of progress ; that sentiments , feelings , and opinions , are now communicated with the rapidity of electricity ; that the feeding of the idle few upon the capriciousl y employed many , can no longer be allowed to exist ; and that six months—yea , half the time—in this age of railways , _ateam navigation , electric communication , the printing press and penny postage , is equivalent to half a century of the old

      jogtrot age , when tradition was all but oral , and when the incidents of to-day were new to the few who heard them this day week . The legitimate demands of the working classes , boldl y , manfully , and continuously advocated and forced upon the consideration of Parliament , must henceforth be the dial by which legislation must be regulated , as with our consent the industrious classes shall no longer be made simple instruments in the hands of either or any faction for the achievment of political power . The mop \ e—if _wi-je united , consistent , « _sd indeiati gable _^ -can

      Achieve The Emancipation Of Their Order,...

      achieve the emancipation of their order , and if they < io not adopt these legitimate means for their salvation , our fervent hope is , that they may be goaded , tortured , aud persecuted by their oppressors .

      Killing No Murder. English Law Is Like A...

      KILLING NO MURDER . English law is like a spider ' s cobweb . It catches the small flies , but the big ones broak through it . In proportion to the magnitude of the offence , and the wealth ofthe offender , the chances of escape from the punishment due to the crime are multiplied . If some poor ignorant and neglected wretch—depraved in consequence of that neglect , and left a prey to his own unregulated passions—kills a fellow creature in a moment of excitement , or under the stimulus of want , the law is powerful enough to bring him to condign _punishmenti But , as the case of the keeper of tho Tooting Pest-house clearly shows , it cannot touch the

      man whose conduct has been demonstrated to have caused 150 deaths . The circumstances connected with the so-called outbreak of cholera in the Do-the-boys Hall , under the management of this second Squeers , need not be recapitulated . Our readers are familiar with them , and we believe that the public opinion of the whole country heartily responded to the just verdict of the manl y Jury who first branded _Dkouet as guilty of ¦ Manslaughter . ' ' His acquittal at the bar of the Old Bailey does not , in the slig htest degree , alter his position in the eyes of the world . The same facts were proved , -and their conclusive bearing upon each other , the direct and inevitable inference to which they pointed , were as plain and as strong in the one place as the other .

      But Drouet was fortunate in having a partisan Judge , whose whole conduct indicated a foregone conclusion . It is , we know , a maxim , that the Judge ought to presume every man innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; but there is no good reason wh y he should convert himself into counsel for the prisoner . While he is bound to see that the innocent do not suffer , he is , at the same time , equally bound to protect the public against the consequences of leaving . guilt unpunished . Mr . Baron Platt has gained an unenviable notoriety as a partial and prejudiced Judge . His mind seems to be deficient in the most

      essential element of the judicial character . He cannot impartially and dispassionately hold the scales of justice in an even balance , but must run into one extreme or other . Either violently and unreasonably against the persons tried before him , or as violently and unreasonably in their favour . His conduct towards the Chartists who were tried before him was of the most discreditable , prejudiced , and bullying description . In their case he assumed the character of counsel against the prisoners , and although Sir John Jervis needed no assistance whatever , being possessed of venom enough to serve for a whole bar , Baron Platx exceeded that worth y functionary in the _offensiveness of his manner , and the recklessness of his partisanship .

      The grounds on which he directed the acquittal of Drouex to be pronounced last Saturday , were certainly—to our thinkingthe strangest that ever were laid down by an English judge . The leading facts , as established b y medical and other unimpeachable testimony , were these : — Drouet had crammed into his pest-house nearl y twice the number of boys aud girls that it was capable of accommodating . He did this for the sole and mercenary reason that he made money by

      them . " The more the merrier" for him , at all events . These overcrowded little wretches , in addition to suffering the evil arising from being herded together in close , unwholesome , unventilated sleeping rooms , were badly fed and badly clothed . This was shown in a way that could not be gainsaid . The evidences ofstarvation and scanty clothing wero stamped upon the persons ef these poor unfortunate victims of cupidity and avarice . It did not require the reports of visitors to prove that thev were ill-treated . Their skins were

      covered with loathsome diseases—the consequence of _uncleanliness and crowding . They were what is called " pot-bellied ; " an invariable accompaniment of innutritious . and insufficient diet . They were thus all in an abominable state—predisposed to be attacked b y any epidemic that might prevail for the time being . All at once what was called the cholera makes a swoop at this den of infantile wretchedness . The poor victims arc stricken down by hundreds , and . in tho course of a very few days , 150 are carried to the grave . At the same time not a single person—man ,

      woman , or child—in the village of Tooting , suffers from this so-called cholera . Its ravages are entirely and exclusively confined within tlie limits of Drouet ' s ' -child farm ; " and the medical evidence is decided and conclusive , that the treatment we have summaril y described was the sure precursor of such a result . But Mi ' . Baron Platt—notwithstanding these facts and this evidences—declined to give any opinion as to whether or not Drouet was chargeable with manslaughter ' by reason of his having reduced the constitutional energy ofthe child so as to render him unable to resist

      any disease b y which he mi ght be attacked . " Why , it appears to us that this was the very point at issue . It was that upon which the _CoROSER ' sjury mainly founded their verdict , and to prevent that point from going before the jury at the Central Criminal Court amounts , we think , to such a misdirection on the part of the Judge as invalidates the trial altogether . Not content , however , with this suppressio veri , the learned Judge proceeds to the suggestio falsi , and directed an acquittal , on the ground "that there had been no evidence adduced to show that the deceasedwas ever in such a state of health as to render it probable that he would have recovered from the malady but

      for the treatment of the defendant . " If it had been shown that the treatment of the defendant was what it should have been , there would have been some show of reason in this decision ; but when tho testimony of all the witnesses—professional and non-professionalso unanimously and conclusively showed that treatment to have been of the very worst _character , and its injurious consequences were so palpable and so general , wo must say we are astonished at the perversity of the intellect b y which it is put forward . Such , however , is really the ground upon which the principal actor in this disgraceful tragedy has been allowed to escape justice .

      The occurrence of such cases is , in the highest degree , injurious to public morality ' and well-being . When the poor see a Judge of the land aoting the part of apolitical partisan , and next apparently screening a man from punishment because he is - ¦ respectable , '' and has amassed money , they will lose all respect both for the law and its administrators . They will come to the conclusion that justice is not administered upon fixed and definite principles with rigid impartiality , but is dealt out in accordance with the whims and prejudices ofthe moment . Nothing can be more injurious to a country than for such a > conviction to gain a footing , and the men whose conduct tends to

      produce it are the most dangerous enemies of society . In this case , we find that the 150 children of the poor have fallen victims to a systematic course of bad treatment , the sole object of which was to make money ; and yet the law is powerless to punish . Whereas , in the case of the Chartist prisoners , convictions were speedy and sentences serene—not because these people had committed any actual offence against societ y or individuals , but because they held political opinions obnoxious to Jurors and Judges , and because these latter feared the men they oppressed . We verily believe , that if a man had been called a Chartist , and placed at the bar accused of intending to set fire io tho Thames , that the intelligent middle-class''j

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      Jurors , who were to j udge of the evidence , and the Judge , who was to lay down the law to them , would have found him guilty , and the verdict would have been followed by such an unreasonable and severe sentence as that passed upon poor _Cuffey and his associates . These things sow the seeds of dissension and mutual dislike between the different classes ot society . They tend to the subversion of its very foundations , and eliminate the materials out of which revolutions are formed . Evenhanded justice is the best safeguard of nations .

      THE KIRKDALE CHARTIST PRISONERS . Wo beg to remind our readers and the Chartists generally , of the Address which appeared in last Saturday ' s " Star , " appealing for funds for the support of the Chartist prisoners at present suffering in Kirkdale House of Correction . It appears , that whilst the Manchester

      Chartists have contributed thirty-ei g ht pounds to the support ofthe Kirkdale prisoners , only ten pounds have been contributed by the Chartists generally , independent of Manchester , It is true _' that tho latter have had to bear the burden of the General Defence and Victim Funds ; but , on the other hand , the Manchester men have also contributed to those funds , ill addition to subscribing so generously for the support of the Kirkdale Chartist

      prisoners . We observe that there has been a partial response to the appeal ofthe Committee , but we trust that a general and generous response will be forthwith made by the Democratic party throughout the country . A correspondent , upon whom we can rely , informs us that our friends at Kirkdale are subjected to a system of vexatious tyranny by the governor and officers of that prison . Their visitors both male and female , are searched as if they were thieves . On Monday last a female messenger had her breast felt by tho fellow who keeps the outer-gate . On our friends remonstrating they were informed that a female turnkey Would be appointed to overhaul female visitors for the future . Other insults and

      annoyances have been reported to us which Ave refrain from noticing this week . Three months ago our incarcerated brethren memorialised Sir George Grey for an inquiry into , and redress of grievances ; but up to this time no answer has been received b y the memorialists . We are sorry that the Home Secretary should exhibit such a disgraceful indifference to his dnties as a public servant and adviser of Her Majesty . At this moment it is more than ever necessary that the Kirkdale Chartist prisoners should have the support they merit . We entreat our readers to set about the good work without delay .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The House of Commons resumed its sittings on Monday , and the Lords re-assembled on Thursday evening . As far as work was concerned , the Commons might as well have postponed meeting till the same night . In fact , Ministers were not prepared to go on , and the consequence was , that Monday ni g ht was occupied by a debate on Colonial affairs , which ended in nothing . On Tuesday night the House " countedout , " at an early hour . And on Wednesday , ono of the very few Ministerial measures which proposed to deal with real business , was withdrawn . The cause

      of this apparent dead-lock is to be found in the fact that Ministers are nonplussed , and do not know what to do . They have neither the comprehension nor the courage required by tho crisis , and their hesitating , temporising , and faint-hearted conduct has produced universal contempt aud disgust . Lord John Russell speaks aud acts with the air of a man who has no faith iu himself , or in anybody else . Responsibility , such as that belonging to his position , he religiously eschews . It is some time since hc broadly propounded the

      theory of Ministerial con-responsibility , and laissez faire , * and he has at least thc merit of having consistently carried it into practice . His last exploit in this way deserves commemoration , as an innovation upon constitutional usages , of rather an unusual character . He sent an invitation to the Irish Members to meet him at Downing-street , and when there he put the two alternatives to them—whether they would have the Hate in Aid , or an Income Tax , with some others—not specified—tackod to its tail ! To Irish Members this must have been

      about as pleasant as the poisoned bowl , or the dagger of the jealous Queen , to poor Rosamond . Taxation is an unpleasant thing to every human being , but especially is it dreaded b y Irish Landlords ; Lord _Jonx , howver , after propounding this remarkably interesting question to them , bolted from the room , telling them he would feel obliged by their answer next day .. At the given hour the Irish

      Members re-assembled , and told his Lordship they had no answer to give him . They would meet him in the House and act upon their convictions there . Perhaps , the meaning of this "dodge , " upon the part of Lord John , was a desire to place the Irish Members iu a false position , and to shift tho responsibility of failure from his shoulders to theirs . If he could have averred , with any degree of truth , that Irish distress was unrelieved because ofthe

      disagreement between Irish representatives as to what should be done , it would have been , in his estimation , a capital plea for doing nothing . But the Irish Members have foiled him , and the consequence was , that the exploded and miserable make-shift of the Rate in Aid was again reproduced on Thursday , as the Irish measure of the Session . Lord John , in explaining the grounds on which he proposed an advance of $ 100 , 000 on the security of the Eate in Aid , stated that if the Bill was not passed , hc should ask the House to make a positive grant of the few thousand pounds that may happen to be required in tho meantime , and that being done , he will propose no further grant or assistance , but leave the Irish laudlord to fight their own battles .

      Everybody is heartily sick of thc men now ill office , aud the conviction gains ground in all directions , that "they must go out . " Out they would have been long ago , if anybody had been ready to "go in . " But as yet wc do not see where their successors are to come from , and until they can be found , the present occupants of office will stop where they are , a memorable instance of greatness thrust upon a body of men , who , individually and collectively , exhibit an utter want of the intellect , political honesty , and constructive skill , which should characterise men entrusted with the management of'national affairs .

      We commented last week upon the meagre performance of the ante-Paschal Session . It appears certain , now , that unless some unexpected incident oecurs , that future , which is to come , will be equally barren . We can now tell with tolerable accuracy what the conclusion will be ; the third session of the Whig Parliament will separate , "barring accidents , " having done nothing in the midst of circumstances demanding prompt and vigorous action .

      Sovereigns The Peoplh'b Stewards.—But If...

      Sovereigns the Peoplh ' b Stewards . —But if governments arise from tho consent of men , and are inatituted by men according to their own inclinations , they do therein seek their own good ; for the will is ever drawn by some real good , or the appearance of it . This is that which man seeks by all the regular or irregular motions of his mind . Reason and passion , virtue and vice , do herein concur _thuugh they differ vastly in the objects in which each of them thinks his good to consist . A people therefore that sets up lings , dictators , consuls , _praters or _emperors docs it not that these may be great , _gkrioLXs , rich , or happy , but that it maybe «? . * * themselves and their posterity . —Algernon _Sydtuttfs _Xfacou ; "Sts concerning Government .

      Sovereigns The Peoplh'b Stewards.—But If...

      RECEIPTS OF THE RATIONAL LAND COMPANY For the Week . En-ding Thursday , April 19 , 1810 . SHARES . £ _s . d . £ s . d J . Vigurs .. 0 ' 2 G Banbury " .. lid Glasgow .. 0 6 0 Trowbridge .. 1 i ) 0 Wbittington and Xorwich , Spring-ill 0 2 0 Cat .. 2 5 11 ff . M . JI'Lean .. 0 2 0 Hyde .. 2 0 0 T . Hodges .. 0 4 0 Lambeth .. 0 310 G . Mow ! .. 0 16 Wigton , per Bell 0 9 € J . Gulleford .. 0 7 8 Bilston .. 5 0 0 II . Gulleford .. 0 7 6 Cirencester .. 0 19 7 J . Thompson .. 10 0 Nottingham .. 114 Malmsbury 2 13 0 £ VJ 11 2 EXPENSE FUND . Whittington and ' Malmsbury .. 0 2 0 Cat - 0 2 0 Lambeth .. 020 £ 0 14 _ 6 Nottingham .. 0 S 6 bwm-m TOTALS . Land Fund 19 11 2 Expense ditto ... — — J > _H 6 Bonus ditto I " 6 5 ° Loan ditto ... — ° _? 0 Transfers ... 0 o 8 £ UC 18 5 W . Dixon , C . Doyle , T . Clark , Cor . Sec . P . M'Grath , Fin . Sec . FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by Wm . Kideb . —Philanthropic Society of Ladies' Hoot and Shoe Makers and others , per Mr . Waddington , _Gs . _OJd . ; ltetford , collected by T . Dernie and W . Clavton , 10 s . ; New Radford , per James Saunders , collected by H . Lowe and W . Smallcy , 7 s . Sd . ; Hartlepool , a few Chartists , per M . Parkinson , as . Gd . ; Todmorden , per R . Barker , os . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , £ 1 ls . 2 d . ; Cheltenham , per J . Hemrain , 9 s . 6 d . ; liotherham , collected by J . Turner , 4 s . 9 d . ; Edinburgh Democratic Club , per J . Gray , 5 s . ; Bristol , per W . Hvatt , 10 s . ; lhmsM , near Leeds , pa < J . Smith , 5 s . Received by John Ausorr . —Toyuuuy , per Mr . _1 _'itts , 3 s . ; Mr . Moore , ls . ; Mr . Kydd , as per Star , 3 s . 0 d . ; Mr . Uider as per Star , £ 4 7 s . 4 _JU . ; Finsbury , a few friends met to celebrate the 10 th of April , per Mr . Allnutt , 3 s . ( id . ; Mr . Kendriek _, Tower Hamlets , per E . Stallwood , 5 s . ; St . Pancras Charter Association , per J . lioulton , 5 s . ; Lecture Hall , Philnot-strcet , per Ed . Warren , as . Gd . ; Globe and Friends , per Ed . Warren , is . 2 d . ; Proceeds of Silk Handkerchiefs , at ditto by ditto , £ 1 ls . ; 28 , Goldenlaue , per T . Brown , 4 s . 7 d . ; Crown aud Anchor , per , B . Newby , 5 ? . ; Crown and Anchor Hall Locality , per J . Allen , 12 s . ; Ernest Jones Locality , per Mr . M'Yeigh , Gs . 3 d . ; G . W . per Laud Office , ls . _M'DQUALL ' 5 CASE-FOR WRIT OF ERROR , ( OU OTHERWISE ) . Received by Wm . _Ribeb . —J . Taylor , Stour _Trovost , ls . ; Hartlepool Chartists , per M . Parkinson , 3 s . 6 s . ; Cheltenham , per J . Hemmiu , 7 s . Gd . ; Wolverhampton , collected by W . llohnan and M . _Whittingham , 8 s . ; llotherh-un , collected by J . Turner , 4 s . ; Malton , Old Guards , per J . Willcy _, 4 s . ; St . Pancras Charter Association , per J . Roultuii , 5 s . 8 d . EXECUTIVE FUND . Received by S . Kydd . —Manchester , £ 2 ; Sutton , 5 s . ; Birmingham , per J . Ncwhouse , 10 s . ; Todmorden , per S . Stott , 8 s . lid . ; Rochdale , 10 s . Halifax 10 s . ; Mr . Martin , ls . Received by Wm . Rider . —Cheltenham , per J . Hemmin , 4 s . 6 d . DEFENCE FUND . Received by Wm . Rideb . — J . Mayman , Ramsgate _, 2 s . ; Cheltenham , per J . Ilemmin , Ss , ; Cheltenham Mutual Improvement Society , per J . Hemmiu . 5 s . ; Mr . Giles , per Land Office , Cd ; u Friend , Rochester , ls . _VERNONS DEFENCE , FOR MR . NIXON . Received by Wm . _Rideb . —Cheltenham , per J , JlemniiD , 2 s "Mr VICTIM FUND . Received by S . Kydd . —Sutton , Ss .

      Dr. M'Douall's Writ Of Error Case. Dear ...

      DR . M'DOUALL'S WRIT OF ERROR CASE . Dear Rider , —I am sure there is no one would feel greater satisfaction than myself at the successful issue of the Writ of Error on behalf of Dr . M'Douall , but thinking that thc 3 _E 20 must be ere this subscribed , for which Mr . Cobbett stipulated , I write to ask -whether it is so or not , as the committee with which I am connected regret the numerous appeals that are made , _tending as they do to distract the public mind , and leave the wives and families of the victims to starve : and I also trust , that should the amount have been forwarded , that the friends of Dr . M'Douall will lend their support to the general fund , as MrsTM-Douall is a regular recip ient therefrom . I am , yours truly , Jonx Arnott , Sec . to Victim Committee . 11 , Middlesex-place , Somers Town , April l _" th , 1849 . April 19 th , 18-10 . Dear Arnott , —In reply to yours of thc 17 th , allow mo to lay before you a statement of thc monies I have received on account of the £ 20 required by Mr . Cobbett , in the Writ of Error ease . I received , as you will find on reference to the Northern Star , during thc week ending : — 1840 , £ s . d . Feb . 3 rd Ill „ 10 th 1 19 D „ 17 th 3 5 10 ,, 24 th 0 9 0 March 3 rd 0 10 „ 17 th \ 1 \ 24 th 2 7 1 " aut - sm _* April 7 th 1 IS 7 ., Htli 1 HU ¦ 'Ibis week , to present time .. . 1 t > 0 £ 1 S 11 8 March 23 rd—Remitted to Dr . M'Douall 0 10 10 March mh—Ditto Mr . Cobbett 10 o 0 . 10 10 10 Balance in hand .. .. £ 8 0 10 You will , from this , perceive that 1 have received the wholo amount requested to be advanced , except £ 1 Ss . ld . I am not aware ofthe sums sent direct by subscribers to Mr . Cobbett , neither do I know the amount held by local committees , or by the Directors ofthe _National Land Company . An account of such sums will , no doubt , be published . I fully agree with you that those multitudinous appeals are calculated to distract the public mind ; but " the base , bloody , and brutal" tyrants , who gnaw the vitals of tho people , have made these appeals necessary . It is rig ht you should inquire if the requirement of Mr . Cobbett has been met . The fell monsters have done their utmost to crush some of our best men , but I hope Englishmen will not gladdon the eyes of our common enemy with a sight of the wives and families of those men fallen a prey to grief , neglect , hunger and death . Yours truly , Wm . Rideh .

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      _** , n * r _*** _*** s _* _+ * _+ _~^^^^*** ******* _**** _j _>*^ PARLIAMENTARY REFORM . We extract the following from tho _BucksAdvenhtr and Aylesbury News of April 14 th : — " The agitation for Parliamentary Reform has ceased at present . Mr . Hume and his friends rind they liave enough to do in funning the flame fw ilic reduction of extravagant expenditure . As a matter of policy , we think he is wrong in not taking tlie bull by the horns at once : the reform of thc legislature Is the only measure wliich can effectually ' '• _;•'•} Wish justice to all classes of the community . This gained , _everything else would follow . Ue * * ides . _ uo movement could he half so popular as one which

      proposes to regenerate the legislature hy bestowing full suffrage upon the people . All reformers have tho sense to see that this would suffice ; and is it not reasonable to suppose that a well conducted agitation for Parliamentary Reform would rouse Tne whole land move easily than the organisation of parties to work , out certain details of financial , legal , and ecclesiastical amendment ? We perceive that many genuine Radicals have , in other towns , determined not to let this great question slumber . The following is a copy of the petition whieh thoy Iwto adopted , which we insert chiefl y for the _sakeoi ' inc valuable information and opinions which it etatains" : — [ Ucvg follows the Chartist petition , fovravtomen _* tary Reform . ]

      A Ghost Is Love. —The Abeille Cauchoift ...

      A Ghost is Love . —The _Abeille Cauchoift _^ tlie following story : — " A fow nights _ago a _wonty farmer , living near Yvetot , who has lately bccoiw . ' » widower , was aroused at midnight by tiie _M barking of his dog . On going to it the animal disp layed extreme terror , whereupon thc farmer took his gnn and proceeded to an inspection . All _M 0 " he saw a horrid phantom , clothed in a white saw , rise behind the hedge . The farmer turned _dww pale , and his limbs shook with dismay . Ue , _WN ' ever , contrived to ejaculate , 'If vou come- " * , God , speak _; if from the devil , vanish ! ' ' Wl'ptC _j t ; exclaimed the phantom , -1 am your deceased vriii come from the crave to warn vou not to niaiw

      Marie A , to whom you arc making love . •¦ is unworthy to share my bed . The only w 0 , n ! l " ,. succeed me is _Iloni-iette B . Marry her , , or F , , secution and eternal torment shall be your d 00 » This strange address from thc goblin , instead oi ' _^ maying the farmer , restored his courage , _w ' ¦ cordingly rushed on the ghostly visitor , aiW , _«^ ping off its sheet , discovered the fair Henriette n- _^ herself , looking excessively foolish . It is _sau _^ the farmer , admiring the g irl ' s trick , has nau bans published for _hia marriage with her . - _^ Thk Weather . — Loxdox , Thursday . -- _^ weather has been very tempestuous througnou _^ week , but more especially to-day . We * L _^ j regular snow storm , with a heavy gale iro- _^ . north-east , which lasted several hours . l _" momcter is down to 28 . _TtsHEft _* - A Sharp Look-out yon the Loaves and * ' t | ie There aro nearly one hundred candidates _» _^ perpetual curacy of Hanley , the right of V tion to which is vested in trustees .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 21, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21041849/page/4/