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    • IRE NORTHERN STAR SATl/llDAV, JtJXE 27, 1816.
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    • RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
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      The Daily News,

      THE DAILY NEWS ,

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      Ire Northern Star Satl/Lldav, Jtjxe 27, 1816.

      IRE NORTHERN STAR SATl / _llDAV , JtJXE 27 , 1816 .

      Russell And Tiie Ordinary Law. In Our St...

      RUSSELL AND TIIE ORDINARY LAW . In our Sth page will be fund au article from the Morning Chronicle of Monday last , akiud of justification for Lord _Jui . v Russell ' s timely opposition to thc Irish Coercion Bill . It is invariably tbe practice -with journalists io purif y their party ofall delinquencies npon the eve of its accession to power . We Sud no fault with Russell ' s opposition to Irish Coercion , while wc urns ; confess our difficulty at Cndin" anv substantial reason for Russell ' s opposition to the present measure . In _1 _S-153 tbe Iri . sn people wen : roused to madness by tlie extensive promise .- ' of good held out b y the _Whijrs in thc event of their n « _lnr : i-

      tion to power . While England was in a state burdering upon revolution , it was not ast ' . _'ui » _biug that Ireland , more susceptible ofthe Jlnmua nf _a-jitatiun _, whicli promised so many _btiidks lo an enslaved people , _should bave participated in the national rejoicing , nor was it wonderful that tir . se slaves whose rivets the \ Vbi _44 promised to loosen , ibould have evinced a cli : ii _- ictcri _* tii ; enthusiasm ainoiintin" to temporary insanity , but it was wonderful that the first act of thc favored government should have been tbe most bas-.-, bloody , and brutal act , that ever deformed the Statute Bonk .

      "What beyond its unscasonaUcness is there in _Puel's Coercion _l'i-1 to be compared with Russell ' s Coercion Bill ? Whut so bloody in its enactment or so atrocious in iU administration ? Besides the domiciliary visits , now so fraught with the odium 0 ' spyism , had wc not Courts Martial established as a substitute for the ORDINARY LAW ? And yet the Chronic ' e , in its endeavour to whitewash Rcssell , endeavours to show us how the Whi « _partyf relied U I _tue ordinary law , and upon it alone , for thc suppression of Chartist violence and outrage . Let us see whether there is truth in this assertion . From the time of _Nobmajiby ' s appointment as Viceroy of Ireland , to the hour that the

      Russell And Tiie Ordinary Law. In Our St...

      Chartists hurled the Whigs from oflice , that faction relied upon O'Conneix , and upon _O'Connbli . alone , as a means of resisting public opinion , and bidding defiance to the ORDINARY LAW , and therefore tbe ORDINARY ACTS of the whole Whig section must be reviewed . There is this difference between coercion and the ord i nary law . "Whereas , the horrors of an unconstitutional measure may be mitigated by ' watchfulness and circumspection , the straining of the ORDINARY LAW is allowed to pass current , as the usual practice . However , we shall test the two powers . We , amongst others , denounced the Irish

      Coercion Bill , and denunciation and watchfulness , public jealousy , and the power to appeal , rendered it a dead letter upon the statute book ; while , as we shall show , the "Whigs not only strained the ORDINARY LAW , but used threats and intimidation unprecedented , and contrary to all law , When tlie Chartists met , and merely expressed their disapproval of Whigtreachery , their prop and mainstay volunteered to send over FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND FIGHTING-1 _RISH MEN , to annihilate the rascally Chartists . Two Chartists went to Dublin to propound the meek , the pure , and holy principles of Chartism , and their lives were assailed by the Janissaries of the liberty-loving Liberator .

      In 1839 , Mr . Justice Littledale , in charging the Grand Jury of Warwickshire , composed cf landlords , designated the Chartists as a body who sought to possess themselves of the land of the country , and gave Lovett and Collins in charge to the petty jury , with the same brand of ORDINARY LAW upon thera . Mr . O ' Connor was twice tried in 1839 lor libel , and in each case was proceeded ag unst by ex officio information , and was tried by Special Juries selected by the Crown . In 1 S 39 , following up the policy of O'Connell , Lord John Russell armed the Volunteer Corps , thirsting for the blood of the

      Chartists , and under that odious designation set every man with a particle of property against those who struggled for the rights of their order . In the same year the Staffordshire magistrates finding it impossible to contend against the growing spirit of Chartism , and having discovered that the ORDINARY LAW was powerless against the national mind , they consulted the prime minister , ( Lord Melbourne ) and what was the Whig premier ' s advice ? Didhe say ' ; Rely upon the ORDINAR YLAW ?* No , his answer , his memorable Whig answer was , * RUIN THEM WITH EXPENCES . ' Was this in

      conformity with the ORDINARY LAW ? or was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that the Whig government , by their own confession , sent a train of spies to follow Mr . O'Connor through Scotland to watch , to fabricate , and report and to transmit an account of the STATE OF TUE HARVEST . Was ifc in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that _Pudoie was offered £ 500 a year and his liberty , to put the rope round FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S NECK ? Was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that _IIabbisox , the horse stealer , the coiner , and thief ,

      received £ 70 from Government to swear _against Peddik _, IloLBEiurr , and Clayton ? Was it in compliance with thc ORDINARY LAW that Mr O'CoNxon should pay £ 105 traverse fees out of libowu _xnn . i . _^ 1 _Lofo _.-o _+ i _, Chartists o ' ' T _-ivcroool would be allowed the poor privilege of trial ? Was it _according to tbe ORDINARY LAW that working men should pine for six months iu prison in default ol finding bail to the amount of £ 1000 ? Was it ii < compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that woiIcing men should be confined with felons , miirderers ,

      and robbers , for merely listening to what _privilegiconsiders seditious speeches ? Was it according ti-ORDINARY LAW tbat their hair should be cropped , thatthey should be in solitary confinement , aud put to hard labour for two , three , four , or five years ? Was it according to ORDINARY LAW that , in defiance of professional representations , working men should be allowed to die in prison ? Was it according to the ORDINARY LAW that juries were packed , judges selected , spies hired , and witnesses bribed to _persecute and bunt down the English Chartists ?

      Was it according to the ordinary law that the DORCHESTER LABOURERS WERE TRANSPORTED ? And was it according to the same ORDINARY LAW that the Glasgow Cotton Spinners were sentenced to transportation ? Was it according to the same ORDINARY LAW that Frost , Williams _, and Jones were _transposed without trial , and that Tom Phillipps was knighted for bis breeches . In short , was it according to the ordinary

      law that " the base , brutal , and bloody Whigs " perverted all law , violated all decency and custom , U overthrow a political party whose enthusiasm was raised to madness by Whig perfidy and treachery ? There is an apparent mildness , but a positive ferocity in the straining of the ORDINARY LAW , unknown to unconstitutional measures . In the one case , there is sympathy for those who have sufiered , iu the other , tbere is no compassion for those who hive had a FAIR TRIAL .

      Such is the black catalogue of Whig ORDINARY LAW , and yet we hail the restoration of the puppets to power . From a statesman like Pee _i , , and with the representative system like ours the country has nothing to expect but a fair adjustment and halancing of commercial interests with the ministerial HOPE , tbat the working classes MAY derive some benefit from the change , while the Whigs can no longer hold power except upon popular sufferance . We now want a ministry so weak , that we can say DO THIS or TAKE THAT , ( the walking paper ) . We

      do not desire to see a strong minister ' s hands strengthened for seven years longer . We do not want a despotic master , wo want a PLAYTHING . Russell knows that his onl y chance of preserving power is through a more liberal constituency . We know that tho difference between AVhigs and Tories is just this / that , whereas the Whig constituencies arc too liberal for their representatives , the Tory representatives arc too libeial for their constituencies . "VnTh J ' km . it is onward for peace , commercial prosperity , and middle class support ; with RusHbll it in pali _' _itc-eii , by any means he can

      _pro-Clir'i it . However this _slrn-jglii _niny end , wliich has now f airly _ciinimejictd , thu ( 'iiuili . ii parly ' niimt so put their house in order ns . In bid tliillnuce to coercion , and steer clear of this ORDINARY LAW . To struggle fur such a representation of labour as can hold the balance of power between contending factions , and snap administration after administration , until thc people shall find themselves fully , freely , ami fairly represented in the House of Commons , and then they may bid defiance to COERCION and WHIG ORDINARY LAW .

      Tiie Change. In The Midst Of A Comparati...

      TIIE CHANGE . In the midst of a comparatively settled state of things , when bumbled labour is satisfied with its humble fare , or prefers it to the degrading stigma of pauperism in a workhouse , it was not easy to convince tbe labouring classes that any event , however unforeseen , unexpected or sudden , could proximately or remotely affect their condition . They were led , if not to expect all they des ' red , at least to antici pate some improvement from the measures of Sir

      Tiie Change. In The Midst Of A Comparati...

      Robert Peel , in the discussion of which their several advocates were compelled to base approval upon the advantages which labour was sure to derive from them . In a country like England , where the bludgeon , the justice ' s fiat , or the terror of the law goe 3 far to arrest the expression of popular feeling , it is no light triumph to enforce even an affected consideration for the condition of the working classes from their superiors . We are , however , upon the eve of that time . when reality must follow the metap hor of party ; and when something more than "LIVE HORSE AND YOU'LL GET GRASS" must be

      labour ' s share of a struggle in which the strongest Ministry that ever held power in the country has been wrecked . There was a time when the mere transfer of power from the hands of the conquered to the conqueror would have been participated in as a national triumph , but that day ia past and gone . And so far from the quiet indifference with which the working classes received the great changes now being made , marking their increased loyally or confirmed submission to power , it but proves the severance ofall reliance on , the abandonment of all hope in , the present system of representation .

      After a storm comes a calm , and , as we have before shown , it was not the interest of any party in the state to have broken that long and dreary calm which is about to give way to a dreadful storm . The snapping asunder of governments is the life of democracy —the quick step of progression . If the movement party accomplishes no single one of its purposes , it nevertheless strengthens itself by the multiplication of its adherents ; and increases its streng th for the day of general action . Nothing but the bold policy of Sir Robert Peel could have kept the bubbling mind of tV . is country , so long in abeyance . If the Whigs had been in power during the last few years , and , as has been their invariable

      practice , had retained power by pandering to the prejudices of . tho English middle classes , and by bestowing patronage upon the most subservient , the most truculent , and venal faction of Irish place-hunters , the future might have been an easy period for their successors . But the bold and gigantic measures of a great statesman , not less than the bold and startling truths spoken by labour ' s advocates in the House of Commons , has opened a new path , and interposed new obstacles in the way of all future governments . For instance , we much doubt that the old system of keeping the Whigs in with no better object than to "keep the Tories out" would now satisfy what are called the liberal constituencies .

      There i 9 something to be done next whioh neither Whigs nor Tories have , as yet , dreamt of , but upon which the industrious portion of society has made up its mind ! The questions of representation , of production , and of distribution , however they may have slept under the mantle of the free trade measures , and however the occult science of political economy may have smothered truth and perverted argument for a season—yet will tliose hobgoblins of Whiggery and monopoly once more awake , and present greater ob

      stacles in the way of Sir Robert Peel ' s successo * than even the Irish Church , with all its cumbrous and growing difficulties . While we write , SirRoBEni Peel is still Prime Minister of England , with a party large enough to sustain him in power so long as he undertakes the responsibility of smoothing the way of his o pponents to office . But before the Star shall have reached its destination , and when Sir Robert Peel ' s greatest triumph shall have been achieved , the long calm will bave passed away , and the storm will have commenced .

      The Chesham House coalition gives painful earnest of Lord Joiin Russell ' s future policy _, [ laving , for a long period , retained office by permitting Mr . O'Connell to distribute Irish patronage , he vainly hopes ( 0 try his hand once more at the same game . O'Conkell is again ready to SINK REPEAL for a real union , thc meaning of which is , the restoration of Irish pal ronage ; but we are glad to find that a now Irish difficulty has sprung up , _a » d tbft * _-. tho " Young Ireland" party FOR THE PRESENT , more wedded to principle than "to patronage , have registered a damaging vow in favour

      ofa process by which they ultimately hope to have a share of the loaves and fishes . Ireland , it is true , can never expect a _redres-s of grievances except by a thorough union of her sons , but tliat union must be formed upon the principle of progression ; and out ot the sparring of faction we hope to see it accomplished . That O'Coxxei . l , at bis time of life , will look for ease in patronage , throwing much of the responsibility upon those who bestow it , no one can doubt . And that those who have so long lived in idleness upon his policy , will still rely upon him as a salesman , is equally certain . BUT ,

      NEVERTHELESS , HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED , his power is shaken , his throne is tottering , his influence for mere Whig purposes is gone , and those who have caused the rupture must look to other than mere local appliances to sustain them in so unequal a struggle . A majority of the Roman Catholic priesthood ol the higher order of clergy will range themselves upon the side of the Liberator and case ; but the young priesthood , sprung from Irish farmers , whose families have tasted the bitter gall of oppression and religious inferiority , will flock to the standard of Young Ireland and nationality . As yet TIIEY . have no hope of patronage . No

      expectation of possessing other power than that which is derived from a fiery , enthusiastic , credulous , and confiding people . Many of the Young Ireland orators are related to Roman Catholic clergymen , and to our knowledge many of the young clergy have been with difficulty restrained in subjection to the O'Connell policy , by the austere discipline of tlieir superiors : a discipline , however , which is being daily relaxed , a discipline from which a large majority wonld bo gladly released . This young party , when the struggle commences , will be compelled to look elsewhero for aid to sustain them jn the contest , and if tliey are sincere of purpose , they will find that aid in co-operation with the IMPERIAL CHARTISTS , and from them alone .

      Parliamentary Review. We Are Hurrying To...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . We are hurrying to the close of one of the most eventful and exciting sessions of ' modern times . It will be distinguished for having engrafted the axioms of a new system of political economy on the stock ot an old monarchy , and perfected a bloodless revolution in thc commercial policy ofthe greatest trading nation in tbe world .

      Since our last " review " the peers have been almost exclusively occupied with tlie Corn and Customs Bills . A iinal stand was made on the former on Monday night , when Lord Ashhurton proposed a resolution condemnatory of the immense stores ot corn now in bond being allowed to be poured illtn thc market under the reduced prices of the new scale , and that too at the time when tbe Englis ' . farmer is preparing for his harvest , and will in consequence be compelled to send to market and pay old rents out of new prices . The misgivings of his Lordship as to tiie effect of this upon the hoinr

      growers were natural , but , unfortunately , he did not suggest any practical mode of obviating the injury which tbey might receive , and the government did not feel it to be their province to do so . Lord Dalhousie , however , endeavoured to allay his brother peer's alarm at tlie prospect of "letting in an enormous quantity of grain witliout any precaution at all , " by assuring him "tliat so far from expecting an increase from foreign countries , tbe prospects of the forthcoming harvest indicated a very

      different result . Nature appeared to be setting her elements in conspiracy against them . If they would refer to the history of Europe for the past year _, they would find that in the north there had been a deficiency on account of wet , while in the south a similar calamity had occurred on account ot drought . " This assurance [ pacified some of the " non-contents , " and the resolution was negative * " _, by a majority of 23 . That was the last fight and tbe last division against the Cora Bill , Lord

      Parliamentary Review. We Are Hurrying To...

      Stanley announced on the part of . the Protectionists that they would content themselves on its third reading on Thursday ( this evening ) by simply entering thoir protest against it . Its fate therefore ia certain . Protests do not arrest the progress of successful measures . " The remainder of their Lordships' sittings have been principally occupied by the Customs' Bill , on the various items of which there have been many dis-- - ¦ - ¦ .... I-- pPni ; nf , t , inniRf , s

      cussions arid several divisions . Richmond , Stanhope , and Stanley , successively tried to throw the shield of pr otection over native industry . They fought for the hop grower , the paper stainer , the lace weaver , the shoemaker , and the silk weaver , but in vain . The resistless torrent of Free Trade Bwept every thing before it , and on Tuesday night the Customs' Bill was declared to have passed the ordeal et the Committee unscathed ; was reported , and ' ordered also to be wad a third time and passed , on Thursday

      evening . We confess , that we think the case made out in favour of a hi » her protecting duty being retained in the several trades we have mentioned , was very strong . Lace , for instance , is a luxury which need only be indulged in by those who can well afford it , If the present rates on the importation of foreign lace have the effect of giving more encouragement to the native manufacture , why should the home market be depreciated simply that fine ladies may have French lace borders to their caps a little cheaper ? The effect on the paper-stainers ofa reduction in the existing duties has been already _thown in the Star ,

      Before the reduced duties have had time to take effect , the masters , by anticipation , hf . ve reduced the wages of the journeymen from Is . 4 d . to ls . 3 d . of their present earnings . In . the shoe trade , increased competition with the cheap and showy goods of France , must lead to decreased wages ; and , above all , 'the silk trade constitutes , as we said , nt the time the question was before the Commons , so clear a case for exemption , that we do not wonder the weavers employed in the trade , proposed to make it a special one for examination at the Bar of their Lordships Ilouse , and instructed counsel to appear for them there , if _permis-ion could be obtained .

      The Duke of Richmond , however , to whom their petition was entrusted , failed to secure the boon they sought , though it was only denied by the use ol proxies in a most unusual and unjustifiable manner _. We have , however , virtually arrived at the end of the session . Its one great task is done , and , strange to say . all the rumours among political circles , tend also to establish the almost certainty , that with the termination of their successful struggle for Commercial Reform , will also terminate the power of the present Ministry . Sir Robert Peel falls at the moment of victory- ! It is confidently asserted , that

      triumph in the Lords on Thursday night is to be followed closely up by defeat in the Commons on Friday night , on the Coercion Bill . The son of the cotton spinner has beaten the old aristocracy , and cotton spinners and merchants , clutching at the benefits of his labours , are content to let the combined Whig and Tory aristocracy oust Aim from office , and wreak that vengeance personally wliich they cannot gratify in any other way . This may be political , / but it is by no means , to our thinking , moral

      justice ; nor is it likely to hold out encouragement tu other Premiers , to outstep , in future , the narrow boundaries of party . If they look to itatall , it will be as a warning , not to leave the safe and beaten track ot partizanship _, for the broad but more perilious path of national reforms , and national support . Instead of pursuing with free and firm step , the read that leads to general improvement , they will more likely , with this example before them , bend to the miserable necessities of their position , and move crippled by the bandages and swaddling clothes of party

      policy . But though this is the most obvious tendency ol the resignation of Sir Robert Peel , at the very moment when months of . anxious labour , of the endurance of fierce invective and unmeasured vituperation from former friends , and of ill-timed taunts from old political rivals , have been crowned with success ; we are not without hope that its deeper moral will prevail . We cannot believe that the almost unexampled manner in which Peel abandoned old and cherished

      opinions , and old personal friendships , to obey what he considered the voice of a great majority of the peoplt , and to make concessions to what he believed a great publie necessity , will be forgotten by thc people , wheu the passions , excited by the struggle , have passed away . It is the interest of the masses that the Minister of the day should be as little as possible hampered by the trammels of party connection ; and it was precisely because , from the beginning , we saw the strong tendency of the course pursued by Peel to brc k up the oligarchical system of government wliich has so long prevailed in this country , that we gave it our hearty support .

      Another reason why the Peel policy of 1810 should be held up for example is , that it laid down , for the first time in official life , the great truth , that adherence "to old opinions is not a virtue , but a vice ; that consistency is a child ' s virtue ; and that manhood ' s highest character is progress . Win -hould thc man of forty be bound by the crude and unnatural opinions of fifteen ? Are we never to learn ? Are wc to shut our eyes and our ears—or , seeing , see not—and hearing , understand not ? Is the " wisdom of our ancestors" to be the " ultima Tlmle " of human know ! td » e ? No ! Progress is the

      highest attribute of humanity ; and nowhere is it so desirable to see that attribute actively at work as among those to whom the destiny of nations is ennwtsted . The world bas too long been governed on old traditional maxims . The time has come when rulers , as well as people , must , in the words of the American poet-Act , act , in tho living present , Heart within , and God o ' erhead .

      Science and machinery , and the press , are daily multiplying new facilities for attaining a higher scale of political and social existence than has heretofore been achieved by man . It is only by the people and their rulers working together in good faith progressively , that these facilities can be turned to their proper uso . To that use they must bu turned , or instead of being beneficent genii , working for all and blessing all , they will realize the fiction ol Frankenstein , and become monsters incessantly hunting , and devouring tlieir creators .

      VVe must not pass over without notice the magnificent defence of Peel , on last Friday week , in reply to the personal charges alleged against him by I 5 estisck and D'Israeu , as to his treatment of Canning with reference to the Catholic Emancipation Bill . Though urged by the one with all the force and bitterness of a relative of Canning , aud a deadly political foe _, and enforced bytheotherinaspecch evincing at once his well known ability and envenomed hatred of Pkkl , the minister succeeded in turning

      what was meant to be a most crushing : attack into an occasion for a grand triumph . Those whose accusation it was , that 20 years ago Peel " hunted Canning to death , " were foiled in their barefaced attempt to do the very thing they charged against him . The stag stood at bay , and nobly tossed his assailants into political obscurity . Lord George must learn discretion in his language , and D'lsraeli candour in his statement of facts , ere they again venture to appear in the arena .

      ' 1 he other proceedings in the Commons have been of a common place character , but the safe passage of the twin measures through the Lords to night will change the scene of battle . Whatever Interest attaches to the remnant of the session , be it short or long , will after that be principally confined to tbe " lower house . " Nest week , however , we may in all probability , have to announce that a new ministry is formed . That Lord John Russell has succeeded Sir Robert Peel . " Oh what a fall will be then , my Countrymen !"

      POSTSCRIPT . SATUnDAT MOBNINO . The Corn Bill and the Tariffare the law ofthe land ; and their author is virtually driven from office . _TLa

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      two measures which have constituted almost theon \ real public business of the _tession were finally passed in the Lords on Thursday evening , after some additional surplusage in the way of words ; and yesterday afternoon the Royal assent was given to thera by Commission , together with sixty other public and private bills , thus clearing off the work of the present Administration . The intelligence of their having finally received the sanction of the Lords was communicated to the Commons the same evening , and the _billi « ... . ... .

      brought down from the upper House . All pretext or cause for delay was thus removed , and the long pending battle ostensibly waged upon tho Coercion Bill , was brought to a dose . Ministers were defeated by the astounding majority of SEVENTY THREE ! _i Of course Peel will immediately retire from office His determination to do so to-day , was well known previous to the division on Thursday . That division only accelerated his resignation one day . He went down to Osborne House yesterday , and on Monday will make his fiual appearance as Minister this

      . Of course , no one believes that Peel has been driven from office by the people . Nobody dreams or whispers that he does not at this moment possess more of the confidence , esteem , and gratitude ofthe most powerful sections of the community than he ever did at any period of his life . Nobody dares to insinuate that he has lost the slightest atom of real

      political power . He falls—if we must use the word in relation to a retirement from office under circumstances almost without a parallel in our political history—he falls in consequence of a foul and unnatural combination between two parties who have not a particle of sympathy for each other . Whig greed of office , and . Protectionist love of revenge , compel for the moment the resignation of a Minister in whom the NATION has the highest confidence .

      His successor will however speedily find he has jumped into a fine kettle ot * hot water , although whatever troubles he may have to encounter will be but a righteous retribution for lending himself to so palpably selfish and mean a movement . His hypocrisy in pretending to feel more favourably towards the Irish people than _Pj-el , is upon a par with that of the Tory party who have been his allies on this occasion . If Ireland would gain by the defeat of Minister's , we should rejoice at it , but if the proximate Premier should even venture upon proposing remedial measures he will find himself at once deserted by those who have made Ireland the mere stalking horse for gratifying their revengeful feelings .

      We predict a speedj return to power as the People ' s Minister , of the man who has now been beaten by the combination of two factions , neither of whom luwe the confidence of the country nor the requisite abilities to retain office under the new circumstances , that must inevitably arise out of the great _revolution which has only been commenced by Sir R . Peel .

      Mr. Cooper And Douglas Jerrold's "Newspa...

      MR . COOPER AND DOUGLAS JERROLD'S "NEWSPAPER . We have received the following note 'West Lodge , Lower Putoey Common , June , 23 . Sia , —In your last you have the subjoined paragraph " A Weekly Newspaper is to be started under the name of Douglas Jekrold ' s Weekly Newspaper , the political in anagement of which , so say s report , is to be in thc hands of Mr . Coopeb . " This-is not correct ; the " political management" of the projected paper will be in no other hands saro those of Your Obedient Servant , DOUGL 4 S JERRC J _* _.

      We give to the above correction the same publicity we gave to the error it corrects . If , under tbe management of Mr . Jerrold , and free from the ravings of unscrupulous libellers , the new paper shall be conducted in tbe spirit of the Shilling Magazine , we shall hail it as a fellow-labourer in the cause of human progress , and be glad to witness its success .

      Division On The Irish Coercion Bill.

      DIVISION ON THE IRISH COERCION BILL .

      MINISTERS DEFEATED BY A MAJORITY OF 73 .

      At half-past one on Friday morning the house di viden when the numbers were—For the second reading 219 Against 202 Majority 73

      The Ministerial Crisis. Northern Star Of...

      THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS . Northern Star office , Saturday Morning . A Cabinet Council was summoned yesterday morning , to meet at the Foreign-office , Downingstreet . At one o ' clock the following Ministers assembled : —Sir Robert Peel , the Duke of Wellington , the Lord Chancellor , the Duke of Buccleuch , the Earl of Haddington , the Earl of Aberdeen , Sir James Graham , Mr . Secretary Gladstone , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , the Earl of Ellenborough , the Earl of Ripon , Lord Granville Somerset , the Earl of Lincoln , the Earl of Dalhousie , the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , and the Earl St . Germans . The Council sat half an hour .

      We understand that Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday , by a special train on the South Western Railway , at four o ' clock , on his way to Osborne Ilouse . The object of the ri ght hon . baronet was understood to be to lay before her Majesty the decision ofthe Cabinet Council previously held . Her Majbstt , it i _' b said , will come to town on Monday for the convenience of the rival politician * - , but probably before that time will invite Lord John Russell to another trial of his marshalling and conciliatory powers . The Marquis of Lansdowne , it is said , excuses himself

      on the score of his age and infirmities from ' this most onerous of duties . The present Ministers , l t is understood , will consult their own and the public convenience by retaining tlieir places until the middle of next week , though the Ministerial expla . nations will not be deferred beyond Monday evening . It is quite understood that Sir Robert Peel has for some time had his mind fully made up to retire and thathe will immediately proceed to the continent . Several days ago part of his luggage was forwarded through Paris to the southward , and on Wednesday last Lady Peel passed through that city , en route for Italy .

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      D. Gloveb.—We Canuot Find Room For Your ...

      D . Gloveb . —We canuot find room for your letter this week . John abnott must impute the error complained of to accident , not to design . We were so overwhelmed with letters last week , that in the hurry of getting up the Paper mistakes occurred which otherwise would no ! have happened . The letter describing the route to " Carpender'sFarm" came to hand too late for insertion this week ; it shall appear in our next . The Residents or the Vauxiiall Road , the lower part fcc

      of Westminster , Pimlico , < ., < fcc M are informed that they can be supplied with the Northern Star , by Mr Gimblett , 3 , Uowick Terrace , _VauxhallRoad . Case of Mr . Frost . — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of 3 s . in postage stamps , from Mr . G . Ashwell , Baventry . His letter has only just been forwarded to me from London . —Thomas Coopeb , tue Chartist Rawdon , near Bradford , June 24 . Mr . T . M . Wheeler , respectfully informs J . A . Barnstaple , that the price ofa four acre share is ( _eauds and rule 3 included ) 4 * 5 Is , 6 d . Mone _) by post-office order on the London post-office .

      $ 8- On Thursday we received a pile of letters contain ing addresses , " " resolutions" _fcc ., respecting Mr Cooper's doings , most of which were adopted at meet ' ings Held on Sunday and Monday last , and ought to difficulty _^ _nLg- elXZel _^ _inZ _^ Z and were compelled to give _outfitter ! some o ? wh 2 u might havo been withheld bad wo had the ° _ietos » which came pouring iu on Thursday . We benour correspondents to see to this ; particularly our London

      D. Gloveb.—We Canuot Find Room For Your ...

      correspondents . Why should they keep back thtir letters till Thursday , when we might and ought te have them on Tuesday . F . E ., Brussels , —Received , —The offer accepted . Ad . dress the Debat Social , weekly , to G . H . ' s residence " at Brompton .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative Land Society.

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY .

      Section No. 1. Per Mr. O'Connor. Shares....

      SECTION No . 1 . PER MR . O'CONNOR . shares . £ j d Ashton-under-Lyne , per E , Hooson .. ' „ 4 i ' r r Elland _, _pei'J . KinnerSley g £ S Busby , per n . M'Gookin .. .. . 2 AS Torquay , per R . H . Putt .. .. .. 4 „ S yde , per T . Hough f J » Wigan , per T . Pjre 5 j ? 2 Plymouth , per E . JRobertso » 4 19 fi Dewsbury , per J . Rous 9 x 0 0 Norwich , per J . Hurry 2 0 0 Birmingham , per W . Thom .. .. .. 6 5 0 Edinburgh , per J . Cumming 10 7 0 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell 3 11 fl Nottingham , per J . Sweet 2 0 6 Lambley , per ditto .. 3 18 Stockport , per T . _Woodhouse .. " . COO Ratcliff , per J . Cundall .. _„ .. 500 Leicester , per J . Adams 10 0 Halifax , per C . W . Smith 12 13 0 Todmorden , per J . Mitchell 4 10 0 Bradford , per J . Alderson .. „ „ 10 0 C Huddersfield , per J . Stoad 2 18 { Leicester , per ' _/„ Astill „ „ . ' 4 8 C Leeds , per W . Brook .. .. .. „ 7 0 t Artichoke Inn locality , Brighton , per Wm . Flower .. .. .. „ .. 4 19 6 Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. „ 13 2 5 £ 137 12 J SECTION No . 2 . Busby , per It , _M'Goohin 0 7-8 _Nottingham , per J . Wall .. .. .. 1 2 C _IVigan , per T . Pye .. .. .. - .. 0 4 4 r olm Coom Avonclift .. ,. .. ' 5 4 I Mdham , per W . Hamer 2 0 0 _le'vslrary _, per J . Rous _.. • _.. 2 2 4 tochdale , _pei'E . JIiteliell 1 9 I rottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 2 11 ( V . Cole , Northampton .. .. .. 2 12 4 itockport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. 10 C _lorwich , per J . Hurry .. .. .. 4 3 2 Ialifax , ner CW . Smith .. .. .. 0 19 0 _Jhepstow , per C . Walters .. ,. .. 1 7 £ Jlajton West , per E . Evans .. .. „ 2 2 11 jeicester , pur 'A . Astill .. .. .. 1 0 0 Aanehester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 6 4 11 _ £ 34 _ PER GENERAL SECRETARY . < _^~ * SECTION No . 1 . SHARES . £ s . d . £ _s . d , Hull , P . Toy - 2 12 2 Clifheroe - - 4 15 6 City , London ( Jas . Greenwich . - 2 18 0 HorleyJ - - 3 14 0 Lambeth ( T . Bald-RarnoldS'vick - 1 0 0 win ) • - 1 6 2 Westminster - 2 14 0 Joseph Barnett - 0 lo 0 Chorley - . 16 0 Burnley , per Derby - - - 4 IS U Thornber - - 10 0 0 [ iiunbeth - - 8 10 0 Todmorden- - 0 { 5 0 Bilston- - - 5 0 0 Bath , per Frank . South Shields -200 Un- . 300 £ 58 18 Hi

      SECTION No . 2 . Samuel Dowling - 0 5 4 Kensington , per A , Shaw , Stoke Bowlting - -550 Rocheford - 3 18 6 Clitheroe . . 540 George Taylor - 1 0 0 Longton- - . 094 Strood _, Rochester , Greenwich - . 2 14 0 per Willis - . 3 8 0 Cirencester . - 0 1 6 Westminster- - 0 18 8 Hull - - . 2 12 6 John Stanton -546 Teignmouth - - 0 11 8 Hammersmith . 550 _ £ _36 18 0

      TOTAL _LASn FUND . TOTAL LAND FUND . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 137 12 3 Mr .: Wheeler „ „ ... -58 18 113 £ 196 li 21

      Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 2 ... 34 10 9 Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... 30 18 0 _ £ 71 _ 8 _ 9

      RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION

      PEB GENERAL SECEETABr . Dewsbury - - 0 3 4 Halifax - - 9 2 0 Bradford - . 0 6 1 Whittington and Ditto ( O'Connor Cat ( cards ) . 2 9 Brigade ) - . 0 5 0 IN AID OF SOUTH LONDON HALL . Mr . Barker - 0 2 C Thomas Martin Wheeled , Secretary . Several errors in regard to the Sections , iu which money was acknowledged in the two last lists , have been duly rectified in the hooks , in future lists the Levies and Receipts for Cards and Rules will only be acknowledged once per Quarter . The Directors have to announce that Mr . Ilaron , o £ Leeds , one of thewiimers of the tivo acre allotments , having commenced _business , has declined his location , and the lot consequently falls upon No . 20 , William Greenhow , of Manchester .

      Any _sub-Secretary not having reeeived the last Quarter's Balance-sheet will please to apply for the same , any Shareholder can be supplied with the Balance-sheet upon the receipt , by the General Secretary , of two postage stamps , Thomas _Matitin Wheeler , Secretary .

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      The Chartist Co-Operative Land Society. ...

      THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . Meetings for the purpose of enrolling members , and transacting other business connected _therewith are held every week on the following days and places : — . SATDKDAY EVEKIKO . Shoreditch , at Chapman ' s Coffee House , Church Street , at eight o ' clock .

      SUNDAY EVENING . South London Chartist Hall , 115 , Blackfriars-road : at half-past six o ' clock . —City Chartist Hall , l , Turnagain-lane : at six o ' clock . —IFestminster : at the Parthenium Club Rooms , 72 , St . Martin ' s-lane-at half-past seven . —Somers Town : at Mr . Duddrege ' s , Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridge-street , New-road , at _half-pastseven . —Tower Hamlets : at the Whittington and Cat , Church-row , Bethnal-green , at six o clock precisely . —Emmett ' s Brigade : at the Rock Tavern , Lisson-grove , at eight o ' clock precisely . —Marylebone : at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street , at halfpast seven . Gray ' s Inn Road , Mason ' s Arms , Britannia street , // a « i ! crsw !(/ i - atthe District Office , 2 , Little Vale Place . —Shareholders enrolled every day from eight o ' clock in the morning . The weekly meetings of the Shareholders will be held at the above office every Sunday morning , at ten o ' clock precisely .

      MONDAY EVENISO . Rochester . —At the Victory Inn , at half . past seveH . Cambenvell : at the Montpelier Tavern , Walworth , at eight o ' clock precisely . Kensington . —At eight o ' clock , at the Duke of Sussex . Limehouse : at the Brunswick Hall , llopemaker ' 3 Fields , at eight o ' clock . Chelsea , at the Temperance Coffee House , Exeter Street , Sloane Str ee t , at eight o ' clock .

      TUESDAY EVENING . Greenwich : at Mr . Paris ' s , Cold Bath , at eight o ' clock .

      City Ot? Losnos Locality.—The Members Of...

      City ot ? Losnos Locality . —The members of this branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society are requested to meet at the City Chartist Hall , Turnagain-lane , on Sunday evening , June 2 Sth , at six _o clock precisely . N . B . —It is particularly requested , that all members will attend . And in order to insure their right to the Ballot , they are requested to pay up all levies . Elijah Nobbs _, Sub-Secretary . A Meeting of the Somers Town district of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society will be held at Mr . Duddrid ge _' _s , Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbridgestreet "New-road , on Wednesday , July 1 st , at eight o ' clock precisely . City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnagain-Lane . —On Sunday morning , the 2 Sth inst ., at half-past ten , the public discussion will be resumed .

      MABTLEBOM . -Mr . T . M . Wheeler will deliver a public lecture at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circusstreet , on Monday evening , June 29 th , at eight o ' clock . Subject : — "The Law of Primogeniture , and its effects on British Society . Somers Towx . —Tho first monthly meeting of the Somers Town Chartist Philanthropic Emergency Society will be held at the Bricklayers * Arms , _Tonbrulge-street , New-road , on Wednesday evening next , July 1 st , at eight o ' clock . —John Arnott , Sec- . pro . tem . The _Easteih * Philanthropic Emergency Society held at Mr . Drake ' s , tbe Standard of Liberty , Bricklane , Spitalfields . A concert will take place on Monday evening next , in aid of the funds of the society j and on Wednesday evening next , the 1 st of July , tho first half-yearly meeting will be held . Chair-will ba taken at halt-past eight each evening .

      : 1 . ? op r _* _"V , 20 _tW 0 R _' -The committee appointed by the City locality to call a public meeting ; to hear the charges m the above case , met at Mr . "Wheeler ' s , Dean-street , Soho , on Monday evening , when business ot a preliminary nature was entered into , letteys to the above gentlemen were ordered to be sent , _lntornnnsj them of our intentions and requestin g their attendance asearl y as possible . The committee afterwards adjourned till Tuesday evening next at the same place at half-past eight precisely . Daniel . . L-ovEn . Jun ., Hon . Secretary . Demonstration to Hermngsoatb Farm , on Monday , the 17 th of August . —The next meeting ofthe general committee , will be held at the Chartist Land Office , 83 , Dean-street , Soho , on Sunday afternoon , July 5 th , at three o ' clock . All the delegates are requestedto attend ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 27, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27061846/page/4/