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4 4 THE NORTHERN STAR, January 23, 1847.
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THE NORTHERN STAR SA TURDAY JANUARY 13, 1847 .
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TIIE IRISH BANDITTI. In days of yore, in...
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THE FAMINE. As famine is not likely fo b...
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THE LAND. As we have commented elaborate...
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4 4 The Northern Star, January 23, 1847.
4 4 THE NORTHERN STAR , January 23 , 1847 .
Price Threepence. The Daily News,
PRICE THREEPENCE . THE DAILY NEWS ,
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London _TCoraing Newspaper , in Time for the "Morning "" Tails . 1 It is _TomaThaWe , tbat more than a century « incc there The Daily News is tlie same size as all other journal ! we vrer < - * - _' : ; A' . - _e-H papers published in London , daily or three were within seven years ; itis larger than many nf tm tin tunc- , a week—while uow _ttn-rc ave only fifteen . ' In tlie high-priced daily journals are now ; and , in every par . Cil City _.-fXew York , more daily papers are published than _ticular of interest , it contains as much information as the in in all England , Scotland , and Ireland , put together _, most successful amongst its coiiitempuraries . "The W What , is the cause ' —Price ! Daily News''is _expeiie ' ve ; and double sheets are given Thnt the pubic know the advantage of having a Daily whenever . Vews , important Debates , or Advertisements P ; Paper is manifest , fr » m the _tVie-usands who vav three- require it . pe peine f > r a paper the dav after publication . What . then . Every News Agent will , wo hope , supplv the paper bv ar are the causes wliich maintain thc high price ? Frst , the post , at Threepence , " where payment is made in ad . ca capital re < iuircd to be invested . " Next , the various talent , vaoce ; " when credit is given , it is a matter of priviti kt _knowledge , and experience which must combine to pro- arrangement with which the proprietors have nothing te dt due * i ' ie result The number orthe re . iuirements have , _elo . A * , however , iu an undertaking so bold it is adris in intr' -. t ' i , occasioned something very like a monopoly— and abU * to guard against possible inconvenience the proin a 2 Cn »} _^ -ly alwavs commands its own price . Thus , whilst urietors will undertake to get all person * supplied who en _caiiitsi and competition had been doing good service m shall forward a Post-oflico order , made payable to Joseph al all .--her things , nothing had been attempted for thc po- Smith "Dail y News" Office , Whitefriars , London , af the HI _Ktu-al and social wants of three great _natit-ns ; anil a rate of 19 s . 6 d . for erery three months _, eh daily London Newspaper remained , until the establish- An Evening Edition under the _Tithi ef m ment ot The _Daut News , a costly luxury , in which only THE EXPRESS _, tt the w _ealthy could indulge . _m / _xm ls published every day at Four o ' clock , containing full re . Tin * Daily Sews looks for support , not to a com- ports of the Markets of the dav . p par ..: mly _fewreaders a t a high price , buttomanyata Dauv tows Office , _Wiii-. _-efiuars _, Fleet Street , price . London .
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Sow _reaily , _l'rii't One Shilling . THK _tSCeSD EDITION OF MY _III-E . OR OUR -SOCIAL STATE , Purr I . a Poem , bv ERNEST JONES , " Barrister at Law . F _' . 'i _, * . f wild dreams , strange fancies and graceful i image _.:, _inter-yersed with many bright and beautifu-1 _thu-igi . _'** , its chief defect is its brevity . The author ' s in l sph ¦' . _v : t » see-in to gush fresh and sparkling from _Hippol ct * _i--. lit- will want neither readers nor admirers . —J / orn i ina * ""''• " it . _-. _ii-ains wore pregnant _thouchts , more bursts of j lyric _j-. _- ver . more , in tine , oftlie truly -.-rand and beauti-1 flil , ; _t-.. ** any poetical work , which has made its appeari _ant-t . ' •••• years . We know of tew things more draraatii all . * i _..- _* * _nse than the scenes betweer Philipp , Warren : and ' . \ _-: . —New Quarterly Reekie . r-. ' . _*' V ; _-ed by Mr . _XewVy , 72 , Mo . timer-street , Caven - dih _* : _¦• ' ; : _ire . Orders received by all _booksellers .
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By the same Author THE * WOOD SPIRIT ; An Ifistoric . il Romance , in Two Vols . A- ' u _^ _cjuivocallystramgeandeve- _'tfuUvistory—Ossianic in it- _-i' ! _. ' _itj . — . _Vt » i-iiiii _£ _Iternid , \ _ie- \ evv page before * us may he dise _' . ivcred some fresh _, _vij _.-fi-i _' -s ' -. nd poetical conception . The fearful breaking dowt _, oi * ? ie dykes is beautifully brought into the mind ' s eye . — . _.- _* r 111 3 Post . I * . - ; -. - ! * 'iig * '' The Wood Spirit , " we _w-. ulel , were it pos 6 ibl . '' . _ily seize the author ' s pen tei paint its merits and - " j _:: ¦ - _•«* forth its excellence's in his onii poetie lan >; 'i . -. We turn to such a work as "The Wood Spirit' wrli sensations somewhat similar to those of the wear ; .. a _ellers in the desert , when they appreiach those Spris _. _?* -1 ' : in which they draw renovated life and vigour to c it ' .:. ' .-.: their course . _—Rui-y and ¦ '•• iffulk Herald .
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CHARTIST _I'OE'IS , BY ERNEST JONES . Fric _* Three Pence . -.- _eBTH EDITIOX , BEVISED 4 X 1 ' CORRECTE _**" 1 ' _Hf f . '• .-: - ¦ . vith the fire of genius , and poetic powers oftlie very ;¦ _* . - ! .-1 order , fe . r eloquence and destructive power , the * . "; 'i _,.-. ' * , to a- - , almost _uiirir-illt-d . We say "destructive _, i ' _-y : ieir tendency is "worse than Democratic . "Airir ' , "• ¦ •• _- ' ¦ rlv Reticle . —( Tory . ) T _.-i- ; - •• _e-nis have earned for their author the admiration • : tis usands . They may be c _' assse * d together as grin ';;• .: ' •• I truly poetical sppeals . which must command the : <• ' ¦ ¦ .: ¦ ¦ - .:-e of the mighty multitude . —Northcn > -tar . Tl- -, ms may very appropriately bi- styled the outpow :- > . _^ - _: ' a Seiul " inspi red by a devout love tor ' iet > emr " s cau * - _i-ii _.: intent on the achievement of the eniancipatien : * r .- > iustry . The poetry will come _ho-ne with pon . * .. _,... euv a _eyireworn heart , vr- ' _-iweo au i * ittW . sce on ti _r -., _!• i of millions , and do its part towards keeping aliv : *•¦¦••! - ¦ me of hope ill the souls of the toiling . —> ' ottinqi ¦¦¦¦ ' . ' _--ie'ir . 6 ; . ; - _reeived hy the autbr . r and Mr . Wheeler , at the i : _" ' . ¦ . ¦ -. f the Sational Charter Association , s : _i . Dean Stm _- . _.-:. ¦' . , London , or by M'Gowan k Ce . „ Printers , 16 , '• ' _s . jt Windmill Street , Haymarket , Loudon , where copi " _:.-.. . * be procurt _* d .
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f " . « IIE INDUSTRIOUS MILLIONS . Oi . - ¦ - - day Next , January 3 ' th , - will be Published , >" . 1 rice One Penny , to be continued weekly , of TUE TRIBUNE ; A \ _0 r . C & RDIAN ! F _lSD'CSTRT . Tl' _. - lincnt features of this Work v . ill be jet -vkly ehgestof _theproeeteliiigs e _. f the sanatory and i - . - _* f towns associations . 2 _n- * _ibstrae-t of the progress of the-short time- : ; nd e * rl . ¦ • _••; movements . 3 r < - .-sly sketches of joint-stock anel benefit a _* . _soriati * -tablished for the _advane'CiiKtu ami _.-levation oft ! .- '• _!• • . _irious classes . 4 t : * _ia-st of important _Pavli-xn » ivtary _di-e-nnients and * ¦¦ puMie- interest ard valu _.-. arranged and edited by a ¦ -ter-at-law . 5 ti . -. - _ite-d gallery sketches of leading members of ark -. i , _« itii " scenes" in the "' . -UK-, by a committee _ofre-i - sin cemne . Tie . il with the daily press . Ar . ' _--t , tut not le-ist , Leapisc articles on all thc _gtcat ¦ - ¦• _; - s of the day , esp ? cially on the- best menus of meet - - national crisi _* . and _he-n-fie-viHy employing the _v people y a system of home P . ud ioreign coionizatie ... E . - :-. . le . 42 , _Ilolywell-street , and all _Booksel ' _-a's .
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_MT'IOGRAl'IHC K . _V'JltAVI . _VGS OF TIIK ]) I' N C 0 M li E T b" S T 1 M 0 N 1 A L . MAY sti _' . i be had at the _Oi'ii-e of . Messrs . . M ' i ' _ovax _ sndi _' o ., 1 » , Great _Wimi-niil _ritivet , Haymarket . London ; tlir . oigh any _respc-e-tab . e bo . k * el : er in tmvn or _tou' _. trv ; or al any » f tlie agents of the Norihcni _•**(<( _,-. Tl . ee :: _^;; . _viii !; is e _. n a iar _^ _-e seek-, is executed in the most _linishe-d style , is finely printed en _tinte-el paper , and I _tves a . uu ' _.-. _' . ' . Vi A _«**« i . vtieitt of _t ' . ie Tb _*> t \ u \ tiuiai , ami has Inscription , if ., etc , engraved upon it . PIUCE F 0 U 1 'PENCE .
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WILL BE PUBLISHED 0 _A FEBRUARY 1 , A _' o . - ' , ( price 6 d . ) of TIIE LABOURER , A Monthly Magazine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , etc . Edited by FEiBODs O'Ce . vsoB , Esq ., and Ebsejt Jones , Esq ., ( Uarristers-at-Law . ) The Democratic movement in this countrv being wholly deficient in a monthly organ , the above magazine is est . - . ' . hlulwd t « remed y this deficiency . Placed by lowness of price within the reach uf all , yet equal in every respect * to its more expensive competitors , it will embrace the followinB features : — 1 _.-THK LAND AND THE LABOURER , or the progress and position of the Chartist Co-operative Land Coinpany , and all interesting facts _connected with tinculture and product ; ofthe soil , to which will be added , 2 . —THE POOR MAN '* - LEGAL MANUAL , ( by an eminent Barrister , i giving nil necessary legal information for the express use of allottees on the land , and the working classes in general .
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DOMESTIC M 0 . V 1 TOK . On Saturday , January the lfith , _« a < _published , pries One Penny . A ' -- V . of THB DOMESTIC MOXITOK _, Or Literary , ¦ _" _cientifii ; , Legn _* _. -nd Medical Adviser . E . iited by _Heioits . To b : * continued Weekly . Contents—Austria as it is in the year 1 _^ 47 . Don _Itodri' _!•^ the Forbidden Wedding . ' Ihe Nosegay . The _Pro-jitcts of Labour : Death by Starvation . _C-jrrespuiideiie _: en Scientific , _Lit-. _ra-y , Legal , and Medical Subjects . Dom-otic Herbal . _Pi . blif _i K'dbv E . Mackenzie , Ul . Fleet Street , anil to be had -A all iV _. _-kseller- and News _vend _. _¦••« . . _Lettert to !)• - addressed , post _paiei , - Hermes , 31 , _Te _.-ibridge Place * , Sew _lloid .
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A GOOD FIT _WAvtlUNl'E ! _-. * T tha great western empcri , - i * X « _" _'•' . ' and _<'« ., _praetie-:. :. .- •'* ' ¦ - ' - ¦ * _sfc _*!' .: t of superfine _i- ' •'¦• ' " •'• ¦ ' -- " - - ; sple > : ' _* : _i ' -..- proof over _ceKits- . -i : ¦ : . •¦• ¦ : aml . v .- ' _iii . _* . .. ) rf _* . _rfiiieiiuu for - - *• ' e chei ., "' : . . est in London , f- •• '• • _"'•'** _•' . '¦ - scri p-. ! -- ' - , iay bese _* n by se-., v ¦ ••'• . _•'•! • = > of la- ' ¦'• •• _¦; * _.-ptember . and _>'• • Hd _-. _..: ' es toaud from the ¦ : - * • •¦ limenl-. " _mute ofthe day .
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NEW ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY PERIODICAL . Price l d . ; Stamptd 2 \ d , H OWITT'S _JOVllSAL OF LITERATUIeE ASD PROCESS . Edited bv Wiluah and Mart Howitt , supported by the first talent _« f the age . Early ¦ umbers have , and will c ontain articles by Leigh Hunt , Hurry Cornwall , Dr . _Soutliwood Smith , W . J . Fox , Miss Mitford , Miss Bremer , Douglas Jerrold , Dr . Bowring , George Thompson , R . IT . >* orne , etc . etc . The unprecedented success of this Journal , having within tht first month roached a circulation of twenty thousand , renders it an admirably circulating medium . Advertisements intended for the Monthly Part should not be sent later than the - ' oth inst . Published . for thi Proprietor ) at 171 , Strand , comer of Surrey . Street , and sold hy all booksellers
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THOMAS PAIXE . LITERARY INSTITUTION . Joou-street , _Piizroy-square . OK Friday evening , January 29 th , Inst ., a Friendly Tea Party will he held in Commemoration of the _"Yirthday of Thomas Paine , author of" Common _Sensn , " Ac . Tea on the Table at Seven precisely . THOMAS COOPER ( author of "The Purgatory of _Suie-ide-s " . ' in the Chair . Tickets One Shilling each , To be had of Mr . Truch . ve , Beiokseller , next doer to thc Institution ; Mr . Watson , S . Queen ' s Head-passage-, Paternostcr-row ; and Mr . Hetheriiigton _, 57 , _Judd-street , HrunsiiicJi-square ,
The Northern Star Sa Turday January 13, 1847 .
THE NORTHERN STAR SA TURDAY JANUARY 13 , 1847 .
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TIIE IRISH BANDITTI . In days of yore , in the good old days when tilings were called by their proper names , and when the conquerors rule was " touch and go" " catch and keep ; " when piracy and adventure had their dangers a 3 well tlieir brighter prospects ; when even the ocean itself was but an uncertain boundary to Ihe native possessor or foreign usurper , then pirates and _^ adventurers met in conclave , in the dark cavern or some dingy hall , to talk over the chances of death , or prospects of success —even in those bavage days secrecy was observed , whether from fear of apprizing the victim or of the consequences
of detection . Well , but those barbarous days of bashfulness and secrecy are gone , and why shmthl ' ut plunder as well as commerce have its civilised code of laws ? The old barbarian was but a man amongst men , the new barbarian is a host in himself , and in his own proper person swallows tip , some a county , some a jity , some a town , and the most moderate a borough . Of old , arrow ranked with arrow , and tha bowman ' s skill alone gave preference . Strength—God's gift—was , then , man ' s reliance , but now , the pigmy voice of some stall-fed abortion , or crippled half-begotten tiling , stays the arm of unarmed legions , and checks expression on thc threshold of conspiracy .
What the Maker meant as man s distinction , the weak , through jealousy , has thwarted to his disgrace , as the able-bodied man must sorrow at the controul of his pigmy superior . Who will say that the bold , the daring , and unblushing resolution of the IRISH BANDITTI , _discussed in open day and resolved in open council , does uot deserve so much prefatory observation . Perhaps OUR READERS are not yet aware that the fright of famine has at length roused the apprehensions of its creators , and that Saxon and Celt , Protestant and Catholic , Whit !
and Tory , Repealer and anti-Repealer , Jew and professing Christian , have had tlieir senatus cowmltam in the Rotunda , and that the Irish landlords , armed with the weapon of millions—THI ' " VOTE—and , headed by their Parliamentary gang , have invaded Britain in thc hope of sacking her Exchequer , and carrying off that portion of thc spoil , to the abstraction of which they cheerfully consented as long as no part of tbe amount came from their own coffers . No , so long as they could plunder industry for idleness , and that the British Minister ' s support
was given in return for tlieir subservience , then thete was no charge of plunder , but now that labour ' s lemon lias been squeezed dry , the bandit cries out RESTORE ! RESTORE !! RESTORE !!! These _tender-huarted philanthropists have paraded nearly forty crying grievances of their own creation , and of over forty years' unheeded existence , as their _castts belli , unexpected famine , has reminded them of the _dau-rers of property as well as its duties ,
and in order to protect themselves against the one , they seek to chuck responsibility of the other on other shoulders . Did it require famine to tell tbem that the land required draining ; that the poor required productive employment and a suitable provision , if unwilling idlers or unable to work , to convince them that the Law of Settlement required improvement , and that facility should be given to assist reta'l _registration : that the Grand Jurv Laws
were bad ; that compensation should be given to tenants fortbeir "lahoHr and improvements ; " that the Law of tenure should he altered , and that the waste lands should be brought into productive cultivation . No , those were aU old standing grievances and so was the OLD HOVEL AND OLD MISERY ofthe pauper class , but for the means of correcting or
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mitigating all of those long standing abuses , they come to Parliament , with ( heir fingers in their mouths , with an astounding , suspicious , and disgusting unanimity upon the great question , GIVE . In all else they are at deadly war , but upon the princi ple of " catch and keep , " they are marvellously unanimous . Even the hovel , ruined by their own indifference and neglect , is to be rebuilt , and the condition of their serfs , degrading to the very name of man , is to be improved , but all at the expence of the English Exchequer .
The plain and simple fact is this , but docs not appear to have struck our contemporaries—that the _irish landlords strive to make a GOD-SEND OF THE DISPENSATION . They , and they only , are answerable for the consequences of the calamity ; they , and they only , are responsible for every death , or rather murder , committed by their own dispensation ; and yet do they now seek to turn the calamity to the improvement of their owu properties . We admire Mr . Smith O'Brien ' s boldness in a political sense ; it is right to hold the drawn sword over the
oppressor s head , nut he must not forget there arc such things as social duties . He must not forget that the government does not forbid or prevent the Irish landlords giving compensation to their tenants for skill and industry ; that the Government does not compel , or even encourage , the middleman system ; thnt government does not tie up properties , or sew them up in parchment , to an extent that will stop improvement , and create unnatural indifference ; that the government is not the purveyor of local jobbing , and county and parochial abuse ; that the
government does not throw a blight over the waste lands , and forbid thcio cultivation ; that the government does not prevent , or stop the process of , draining ; hat the government bas not been the architect , nor yet the constructor of the mud hovel ; nor has government denied to each landlord the right or power to erect school-houses forthe education of the families of his own tenants and labourers ; that all that has been done hy Government , has been done upon the recommendation , enforcement , and worry of those very Irish landlords themselves ; and ,
therefore , do we emphatically pronounce against the pro . posed plunder--not because it is intended to come from English pockets to relieve Irish distress , but because it would be an injustice to the Irish people . _, because , if the sore _isjskimmed over , instead of being probed , cleaned , and healed , the abuses which have led to it will be allowed to continue . We say by all means lend , advance , and accommodate— -hut CONFISCATE for security . Open the path for the Jew to the Irish doranins ; and let the Jew be secured even in the pound of fle * _. h , provided it comes from the real debtor .
But herein will he the minister s greatest difficulty—it will be impossible to mortgage the property of the real _effender for the discharge of his just debt , without multiplying thc grievances of the innocent sufferers—the poor—and , therefore , the pointupon which the government will require most watchfulness and jealousy is , so to frame its measures , that the spiteful landlords shall not be able to take vengeance , for government justice , upon those who have no government protection—and whose social grievances are one and all consequences of landlords ' oppression ; and
to the consideration of which , landlords of all shades of politics have agreed to confine the question ; and thus they have not only justified , hut have invited discussion upon the subject , on its own proper merits—ITS SOCIAL BEARING . Perhaps no question of equal magnitude , as regards Ireland , has ever been discussed in the British senate ; ami , therefore , we shall not apologize for dealing largely and comprehensively with the subject . The English people then must he firm to the great principle of
justice , and must not allow their judgment to be blinded by tbe dust of the guilty humanity-mongers . They must be prepared to stand up against the torrent of filth and unjust reproach that will be heaped upon them , in the following terms : — " _Oit ! our struggle for Irelaud would have heen successful , hut for the cold blooded indifference of the English Chartists . Did not I always tell you that they were your enemies ? What Irishman will henceforth tolerate a set of ruffians who withheld food from his
starving family . The answer is , that the English people proclaim the right of the Irish to food and to immediate relief , whether they get work or not , but that the relief MUST COME FROM THE POCKETS OF THE RESPONSIBLE GUILTY . That , if relief comes from England , Irish abuses will he perpetuated , nay multiplied ; that Government should hold the GODSEND as a lash to whip the guilty to the performance of their natural tluties . The justification' is , that the Irish landlords pav no direct
and but trifling indirect taxes that they have received a _l-oiiii _** of twenty-five per cent , upon church property to coax them into the performance of their duties ; that they are all but exempt from the support of their poor ; that they are exempt from property and income tax ; that they have the advantage of cheap labour and dear markets ; that their estates are let on rack rents ; that living is cheaper in Ireland than in any other country in the world . Nay , wc go further , ami viewing the calamity as it really presents itself , we pronounce against
the right of interfering with any _siiigle vested interest as far as the landlords are responsible ; against the justice and prudence of reducing the interest upon mortgage debts , personal contracts , or provisions for younger children ; against the justice , hecause the mortgagees are not particeps criminis , and have had no share in producing the ca ' amity , and no poi lion of the immunities conferred upon the _landlord class , to induce them to perform their duties ; against the prudence , because the step wou . _' ii lead lo the confiscation of three-fourths of
the landed property of the country , just when such an event should be home exclusively by the poor Let the church property and the landed property be opened for its proper liurden , and which it should justly bear , and let Government be the mediator _, between the lender and the borrower . Wc must lie prepared for the landlords' threat of— " If you rule us thus , you will force us into the Repeal ranks ;" hut that would not give us much annoyance , nor will one single one of them carry the threats into execution . We must call the attention of the
reader to an article upon Ireland , that appeared in the " Labourer , " of the present month , and iu which thc writer pointed out the fact , that the attempt of the landlords to uphold abuses , which are the harvest of famine , would be the minister ' s greatest difficulty;—the impossibility of severing tbe landlord from the labour question , and the consequent necessity of enabling the former to perform his duties to the latter , by generous loans , to be recovered by EXTENT ; the probability of the landlords making a stand upon the famine side of thc
precipice , to draw attention from the abuse side , and thc indispensable necessity of an alteration in the law of tenure , whereby the producer may be secured iu the uninterrupted possession and enjoyment of his own industry . That article was published in December , and we now ask the impartial reader , whether the resolutions of the Banditti , and the few short speeches made by Irish members in the House , do not critically realize the predictions of the writer . In conclusion , we shall narrowly
watch and fearlessly criticise every measure-of the Government in connection with Ireland and the famine question , treating it , as the Irish landlords desire , upon ils mere sooial merits , and wholly irrespective of theirs or our political feeling or bias . We shall give the minister credit , if his measures deserve it ; shall give him thc benefit of our experience and reflection , and our best aid , in compelling those who have produced the calamity to mitigate it 6 severity , reminding him that whatever nre-
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cedent is now established in the case of Ireland , will very speedily be brought into operation ON THIS SIDE OF THE WATER , as his best endeavours cannot possibly avert the monster ' s march . TO HE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMEDtnerefore Itussell , THINK .
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THE FAMINE . As famine is not likely fo be confined to Ireland , and as the laws of the landlords cannot establish any cordon to arrest the monster ' s march , wc are bound to consider the question in all its bearings and relations . Firstly , then , we mnst reasonably presume that the Exchequer will suffer , and materially too , in the naval and military department , as we are not aware that the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty ' s Government will be able to insert a clause in the
Free Trade tar in favour of thc provisions and rations of soldiers and sailors , nor will he find it convenient to limit the amount of those important items , when the services of the recipients may be so urgently required to reconcile the less subservient to short commons . In truth , both the minister and Mr . Labouchere have told us , that all tbat is to be expected is a MITIGATION OF TIIE CALAMITY . Oh for a nation of Cavagnahs , in this thc hour of our tribulation , when the gift of fasting would be indeed a heavenly dispensation !
The precedent having been established in Ireland , that property not only has its duties , but must perform those duties , will shortly he called into practice in THIS COUNTRY , and therefore it becomes the duty of all to furnish the minister with all the material for that ready reckoner , to which he will he obliged to refer at breakfast , dinner and supper , if the economy of three meals a day is to be preserved . With this view we cheerfully furnish him with onr fair portion of figures . We find that the Income and Property tax then , from a tax of
something less than three per cent , produces over five millions annually ; That amount is a peace tax , hut now we are at war with the most deadly enemy , who spares neither age nor sex in his ravages , and whose march and tactics cannot he arrested or circumvented by ordinary military tactics . The capitalists and landowners of Eng ! nd submitted to a property tax of ten per cent TO KEEP BONEY OUT _; hunger is a more watchful , more subtle , less manageable and more powerful enemy , and therefore wonld demand as large an amount to resist its aggression .
Allowing the fire millions to he required for the idle and indolent as hush-money for the discontented , and pelf-mouey for the easily-satisfied , au additional seven per cent ., makin g the whole amount ten per cent ., would place a fund of nearly twelve millions at the disposal of the Government , while an additional fire per cent * , upon funded property , allowing that it is partly embraced in the twelve millions , would add a million to the fund ; while an
additional tax of twenty per cent , upon Church property , surely not too much to expect the shepherds to give the starving flock to meet the ALMIGHTY ' S DISPENSATION ; would give an additional two millions—no great OFFERTORY from Ten Millions a-year . Thus , the Minister would , at once , he in _possession of a war tax of over Fifteen Millions , over and above the amount required for the usual appliances and to meet the common enemy .
The proposition will , no doubt , appear farcical to many , while , to our mind , it is much more farcical , nay , tragical , to read of Royal entertainments and Ministerial banquets , while our eyes are shocked with prancing horses , bloated menials , and gorged peers and senators hurrying to the stage to consult how thev can best secure their persons aud their
properties against the ravages of their own distemper . It is mortifying to see sleek and fatted , aye , and well clothed horses in the _brevri-r _' s and distiller ' s carts carrying poison through the ranks of naked , houseless , starving paupers . Some may smile at our proposition , but we tell the Minister and the aristocracy that we have set a ' low figure to meet what will inevitably be a national
requirement . The Prime Minister has pompously told us that it would have been imprudent and injudicious to have summoned the Irish Landlords three months ago from the performance of theii local duties ; but he appears to forget that March , April , and May , are the very months of tbe year when the presence of the landlord would he required to encourage agricultural pursuits , and that their attendance during spring aud seed-time , would have been cheaply purchased by their absence in November , December , and January . The duty of the Minister wa 3 to have
called Parliament together in the season when nature intended the land to sleep ; to have performed the requited work during seven days of the week if necessary , ( armies fight on Sundays and famine never goes to church ) , to have spoken less and done more , and if seven days in the week for three months was insufficient for the performance of the farce aud the epilogue , then to have allowed the performers in the tragedy to return to their vocations , when nature roused tlie Land from its slumbers , and to have consigned the squabbles oi jobbers and speculators to a tribunal competent to arrange tlieir differences .
Now the noble Lord will be compelled to prorogue Parliament after a short sitting , in order to allow the local guardians an opportunity of _experimenting upon his novel measures . We give the Minis terone hint , and that is , above and before all other considerations , to establish airy , dry , well ventilated , ami convenient depots for the reception 0 / the largest , amount and best _description of all kinds of seeds that can be purchased for love or money ; and to furnish those seeds to tenants and labourers ,
holding THE LANDLORDS AND THEIR ESTATES responsible for their repayment . This is the way to clip the monster ' s wings ; if this be omitted , the famine of this year will he succeeded by the plague of the next . Irelaud , vre ave told , is ONLY DECIMATED-, omit this necessary precaution , and next year will see it DEPOPULATED . Has the noble Lord ever considered that 4 Slhs . of corn per day , estimating all ihe horses in Her Majesty ' s military and police service at 20 , 000 , would amount to over forty tons per day .
Now if wc estimate the abstraction from each man ger at four pountis and a half per horse , we find that the deduction from each would support a man his wife and three children , daily ; or that the whole amount would secure food for a hundred thousand daily . We may over estimate the number of war horses , hut if they amount to ten thousand , that abstraction from their daily rations would furnish food for fifty thousand human beings daily , while the loss may be made up in hay and chaff ; but we contend that onr service would not be injured by the reduction . BUT WE RAVE ; HOW FOOLISH , TO THINK OF STINTING THE QUEEN'S HORSES WHILE TIIE QUEEN'S SUBJECTS ARE STARVING .
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THE LAND . As we have commented elaborately upon the stock piece of the St . Stephen's management ( Ireland ' shall we now call attention to what is likely to hi the great movement of the Session . As to thc
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Montpensier marriage , those members who have spoken upon the subject appear to think with usthat is , that any interference on our part would be but a busy meddling in an affair in which the English people have not , and take not , the slightest interest . In fact , Guizot took advantage of a change of jockeys for a cross , and the Orleans pet jostled the Cohourg out of the race . As regards Cracow , we have yet to learn what a Royal protest means ; whether from it we are to infer the Queen demands the restoration of the Republic , or contents herself with expressing her dissent , with the
hope that it . WON'T OCCUR AGAIN . In truth , the perusal of Jim Crow Polk's postscript to his long yarn , delivered to Congress , convinces us that authority exercised hy the landed over the landless , whether of the monarchical or republican stamp , will sooner or later merge into tyranny . Polk ' s last audacious message to the senate appears to have roused none of the angry passion , jealous suspicion , or indignation of John Bull , while a characteristic and expected act of tyranny by the despots of Austria , Russia , and Prussia , appears to astonish , alarm , and offend him .
What have the three Powers done as regards Cracow that Polk has not more barbarously attempted as respects Mexico ; and meagre , cold , and unsatisfactory as our Queen ' s Speech is , and as Royal speeches generally are , yet it is balm compared to that of the President of the Republic of America . He parades the POMP of international law , the RIGHT OF CONQUEST , the HUMANITY of forcing civilized institutions on an uncivilised enemy , and justifies the worst system of tyrannythe law of might—by the cold-blooded assurance , that THE CONQUERED will be benefitted by the change of masters .
We observed , last week , that Polk was fast administering the Pitt policy of uniting the rich oppressor to the poor oppressed by the golden link of servile dependence . The Exchequer is exhausted , new taxes are to be levied , and a new bond of union , in the shape of a National Debt , is to be established ; and hence , the American Pitt will have achieved financial greatness upon his country's ruin . So long as fools and tyrants can secure the hired assassin ' s service , so long will might triumph over right ; but the moment that social comfort beams through
tbe cottage window , and when the rich oppressor is obliged towage battle for himself , the voice of knowledge and din of busy industry will silence the cannon ' s roar and stay the murderer ' s arm . Is any peasant , possessed of four , three , two , or even one acre of land and a cottage , to be found in the ranks of Polk ' s mercenaries ? No , not one . Armies are not recruited from the nest , they are enlisted and mustered from the cellar and the garret , from the hospital , the brothel , the workhouse , and the beershop—haunts unfrequented b y him who has his labour-field to work in , and his nest for repose .
The importance , then , that we attach to the present Session is , that the grand principle that the Land alone , audits proper cultivation , can secure man _auain * t famine must be conceded ; and that , as far as speeches anil motions can foreshadow the future , we find cheering earnest that the _lc-cked-up Land of the country is to be stripped of those anomalous and pernicious barriers whieh withheld it from the retail
market . That the law of primogeniture , of settlement , entail , enfranchisement , with all their blighting concomitants , are to he DISCUSSED ; and , in such cases , discussion means condemnation , as it is impossible that tbe absurdities of barbarous ages can withstand the torrent of civilization . Perhaps there is no question in wliich the working classes are more interested than that of enfranchisement and cheap registration .
Enfranchisement means converting copyhold into freehold . As the custom of copyhold now stands , no man can build , no man can plant , improve , or safely possess himself of stock , furniture , or property which he can consider his own . No matter who the proprietor of the Land may be , the power to withhold improvement rests with the Lord of the Manor ; and who , in many instances , demands more than the value of the Laud , as his terms of enfranchisement . The heriot _, or gift to him , upon the
death of the occupant or proprietor , is in many cases enormous ; while his unnatural interest makes him indifferent as to the improvement of the property . He is the high priest of the soil , and his power is more blighting than that of the parson . His obstinacy checks improvement , his will limits representation . For these reasons we had no ordinary pleasure in reading the following notice of motion , by Mr . Aglionby , the excellent and spirited Member for Cockermout ' f .
COPY . HOLDS' ENFRANCHISEMENT . Mr . Aolionut gave notice that it was his intention on an early day to pnt » question as to the report of the committee on thc enfranchisement ef copy liholds , and to bring in a bill on the enclosure of common lands , which should include the compulsory enfranchisement of copyholds , and enable such holders to hold in freehold . The reader may rest assured , tbat every false po sition by which the landlords have so long retained their estates in an unproductive condition , and wliich above all other circumstances lias pressed hardly upon the means of subsistence , will be
assailed and overthrown . This session , tben , promises to be one fruitful in social improvements , with those who will see the necessity of relaxing some of their harsh conditions , lest they should be called upon for the performance of others less congenial and satisfactory ; while the working classes , who have achieved a knowledge of the value of Land , as if by magic , must , on their own behalf be prepared for the coming political struggle , as the means of turning those social changes to national instead of class advantage . We never tire of giving , and they should never tire of receiving knowledge , upon a subject upon the thorough understanding of which depends national greatness and man ' s redemption ,
Let the reader then gain courage and consolation from the following fact , namely , that the absurdities of landlords may yet be turned to the account of universal prosperity . Here is the illustration we give of our assertion . A landlord leases , say one hundred acres of land , cramping the tenant with anomalous conditions , which restrict industry , bar improvement , and considerably lessen the real value of the holding . Thus A leases one hundred acres of laud to B , upou condition that such and such things
shall not be done , the performance of which would be beneficial ; and that such and such things shall be done , the doing of wliich may be injurious * Thrce-fourths / and sometimes a larger proportion , is to be retained in unproductive grass ; and hence we know of thousands of instances where farmers pay a stipulated rent under those conditions , whereas if free to freely apply their industry , skill , and capital , they would willingly give more than double the rent , aud would return more than double produce to society . Here then , is a great , a monstrous , an unnatural and blighting tax ; a tax which restricts production , and limits the expenditure of labour and capital , Talk of the National Debt , tithes , the army , navy ordnance , oivil list , pensions , placemen , tax-eaters , and salaried officials , they are but as molehills compared to this mountain ; mere bubbles on the water ' _t surface—destroy it , and away go seven million ! 0 poor rates , their concomitant legal expenses , thei heart-burnings , and a bloated rural police . Thi system has , thank God , retained the grass land of th country as a savings' bank—and its destruction wil equitably distribute the deposits between landtortl tenant , and labourer ; and would , we pledge _ourselvei dispel the cuckoo cry of Sir-tain ' s incapacity to main tain her own sons . Ireland alene , if cultivated t its capability of bearing , would produce twice as muc as every Englishman , woman , and child—ever
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Scotchman _, woman , and child , and every { t \ % \ . _^* _woman , and child , could consume while it _^* _" ' transform millions of beggars into wholeso _" _^ customers in the manufacturing market , thus m _l- _" machinery man ' s holiday , instead of man ' s c ' _^ and securing , within arms length at home , a laree *" ' better , richer , and more constant class of _custcrm _, ' than the serfs of foreign nations ] or barbarous _trij _'' can furnish . * Let ihe Land then , and its restoration to rutin purposes , be the morning thought and dream of " _^ who , for want of it , are compelled to offer their iabo to those who will condescend to purchase it in fJ competitive slave mart .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . At an unusually early period the legi _^ f ! body of the country has been called _ity- eth _^ to discuss grave , pressing , and _mementous q- _aes _tions and the crowded appearance of both houses on th ' first night of the _sessioi , showed that the member * of each are alive to the critical nature ofthe _poaittQ in which we are now placed . The Ministerial programme for the session , eon taincd in the Queen ' s Speech , was remarkable ml only for what it indicated , but for what it omitted
andjin each _casecariously characteristic ofthe genius of the party now in office . Bold and frank in matter , where general concurrence was _expeeted , it either passed over entirely , or alluded in the most va . > u manner , to topics on which opposition may arise . ° b is elaborately distinct about temporary stns . {{ m _^ sures , such as opening the ports , and letting the brewers have liborty to make beer from Sugar ; while on the permanent question of Education it is totally silent . The state of the revenue , and of our colonia l and foreign dependencies , are also wholly unnoticed in the speeoh .
The immediate and temporary measures recora raonded hy the Ministry , arc in fact an impeachment of their own past policy . If the opening of the ports and the suspension of the navigation laws could have been of any service at all , it was three or four months ago , before winter had blocked up the shores of tho Baltic , or France , Belgium , and IIol . land exhausted filestore granaries of the Continent , The wisdom of shutting the stable door after the steed was stolen , has received a practical exemplification in the policy of the Whig Cabinet . While other nations , either actually suffering from scarcity
or _^ wisely anticipating its probable pressure abolished all imposts on tlio importation of food , and took active measures for _supplying themselves' with grain whereever it could be found , Lord John Russell , on some unintelligible ground 0 , other , resolutely refused to open the ports when urged to do so , not only by repeated deputations , but by the " Chronicle , " the old and staunch organ of the Whig party . It was said in CXCU _86 for this obstinacy , that his Lordship was unwilling to break a compact made last session that the arrangement
as to tho Corn Laws should not be in any way dij , turbed _, but Lord G . Bentinck , on the part of tho Protectionists , on Tuesday night , utterly repudiated any SHch compact , denied all knowledge of it , and said that , so far as his party was concerned , the Pre * mier might have opened the ports when he liked * For not doing so , therefore , he ia clearly _response ble , and for the consequent evils which such errors may entail upon the country . His own late adop . tion of the measure , pronounces his most emphatic condemnation .
Its adoption now will produce no sensible benefit . Even if there be corn to be had abroad , wbich is at best a doubtful matter , the elements are against us . The season of the year will prevent importation * for some time to come , and the very rigours of wiater , whioh aggravate the misery of the poor , wiil interpose a barrier to the transit of thc supplies which are so urgently needed . The permission to use sugar in breweries and dis tillerics lias been explained by the Premier to te
virtually a permanent measure , though in the lirst instance he will only ask for a temporary act . On the face of it , the change is a beneficial one , but it must lead , if adopted , toother and greater changes which we suspect the Whigs , who are but very in . different financiers , are by no means prepared for , It will , we apprehend , be impossible to maintain the Malt Tax in the face of such a measure , & ndw ' _vetr . * Lord John is prepared to give up the millions an . _nually derived from this tax , may be safely left to his own consideration .
As to the " permanent measures" of the ministry j they are as yet merely indicated . They are stated to be intended " to raise the great mass of the poople i » _cenifort , to promote agriculture , and to lessen the pressure of that competition for the occupation of land which has been the fruitful source of crime and misery" in Ireland . The specific means by which these objects are to be attained , are to be developed on Monday , and till then we shall re . serve all comment or anticipatory conjecture .
Ireland has tho "lion ' s share" ofthe speech , as it had of the debate . The Montpensier marriage and the annexation of Cracow , were the next points considered of importance by the members of both houses . England was apparently altogether forgotten , the only allusion to it , the only indication tha *; its condition had in the slightest degree occupied the attention of the Ministry , is to be found in a vague mention of a measure for improving the
health of towns . The great measures of Social , Sanatory and Educational Peform , which Lord John Russell somewhat pompously emblazoned on his election banners in the City of London en his acceptance of office last year , have dwindled down into one . This , for John Bull , who has to " pay the piper , " is disheartening enough , and if fhe opening debates may be accepted as an indication ofthe staple materials ofthe session , he will hardly get a word in edgeways for any of his grievances .
Ireland , its state aud prospects , its evils and their remedies , constituted , and will constitute , the theme of every orator and of all parties . There was a wonderful unanimity among them as to the necessity of " something being done , " but what that " something" was to be , did not appear to be very clear to any of the members whose eloquence has hitharto been displayed on the subject . One very suspicious point in onr opinion , and observable in almost every speech in either house , was the evident leaning jo the Irish landlords . Lord Stanley , in the Lords emphatically called upon tho Ministry to walk in
the path of the constitution , and especially to take into their counsel , the landlords of Ireland , upon whom ho passed a high _oncominm . If _tlicf did this , they were assured of his co-operation and that of his party . The same song was sung in the Commons , and the ministerial rejoinders are sufficient to shew that , be the coming measures what they nuy , they will not alarm tbe most timid conservator of " the rights of propertv . " Peel has for thirty-eight years in his Parliamentary and
Ministerial capacity , been attempting to keep Irish Society together on its present foundation ; and ha * { ailed—lamentably failed . The patchwork will not hold . All measures which do not grapple with the causes , aro " a delusion , a mockery , and a snare ;" and if Peel , with his superior administrative abilities , has wretchedly broken down , in the endeavouring to maintain the incongruous superstructure of Irish Society on its present foundation , what hope is there that Russell will succeed .
Anything short of radical and sweeping measure * * will be futile . A different relation must bo established between the property and the poverty of Ireland . The land must in fact , as it does in equity , be m _* vd a to belong to the people , and by kindly and fosteiiuS measures , the labour and the productive energies oi the sister island be so develope _at _* d distributed as to produco abundance for nil , This is one of the great tasks whioh lio below Mi * tasters and Parliament ; _whetlior the _presout O _. t * ic _* _- ' and thc present Legislature are capable of ao ' _liiefi _* _* it , or we must wait for a new Administrat ' . on and * new Parliament trill bo , to a _wnsid . erable- _«**
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 23, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23011847/page/4/
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