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44 THE NORTHERN. STAfi. November 27, Tfi...
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SB5SI0S5. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES, That the Michaelmas General Quarter "" essions oftb2Peace, for the West-Hiding ofthe County of Tork, will beheld by adjournment in tte Committee-Room, at the Douse of Correction, at "Wakesieui, on Thursday, the ninth day of December next, at twelve o'clock at noon, for the purpose of inspecting the Ridin* Prison, (the said House of Correction* and for eiamioiDj the .* ccennts of tbe Keeper of the Said House of Correction, making Enquiry into the conduct of tbe Officers snd Servants belonging' to the same; and also into the behaviour of the Prisoners, and their Earnings, C. H. ELSLEY, Clerk ofthe Peace. Clerk of t' ae Peace's Office, 'Wakefield, 24th November, 1817.
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TflE NORTHERN STAH SATtmDAY,NOTEMBER27, 1847.
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THE UNION. Helvetius said truly, that -'...
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HURRAH FOR THE CHARTER.. The appeal of t...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. After disposing ef...
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Co heaters # Corrceyonnert &
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44 The Northern. Stafi. November 27, Tfi...
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PENCE . _jpHpHE LONDON TELEGRAPH , PRICE IL _1 L THRBBPBKCB , WILL BE POBLISHBD EARLY _JX TS THB KfiW YEAR , 1 M 8 . Iu Iu announcing a new Loudon Dally Newspaper , the _JJtot'Jtovr . e . tOM -, _** l endeavour to state tbe pToipects aad * i _* _rou * _-ronnds ou which they rely for sufficient P ublic support ; irad and they will _p-rticniarly avoid statements and promisee lhat hat cannot be supported by facts . , Er England , wi » h her wt _popnlation . _produc-srelattTely _fitewetewer Dally Pap * r- than any part of * e _civUued world ; tthi 8 thi 8 ' _pwdty of areal necessary of life w _« m _*** - ' _""^ lby thy tie late _enonnons S tamp Duty of _^ e e . " _^ . _Kre-K-eat - y rcdnc-i the numb * of J _^ _Hj- _' _-lSSl _" ¦ LouLoudon . Fifty years ago . without the duty , - » - _»«« _imoimor . Daily _re published ia London than _atthepre-, I **** . When the Stan , p Duty _yaa reduc _* " to <»» £ »»? _.. _aWv _, the public exp _^ _ed an lM . t _~ . ef _fady _P-peW ¦ _eoueoiieqa-nt on such reduction , but with only one _excep-. _Uo-Uon _ii ten years , only one new Daily Paper was offered
West Riding Of Yorkshire. Wakefield Adjourned Sb5si0s5. Notice Is Hereby Gives, That The Michaelmas General Quarter "" Essions Oftb2peace, For The West-Hiding Ofthe County Of Tork, Will Beheld By Adjournment In Tte Committee-Room, At The Douse Of Correction, At "Wakesieui, On Thursday, The Ninth Day Of December Next, At Twelve O'Clock At Noon, For The Purpose Of Inspecting The Ridin* Prison, (The Said House Of Correction* And For Eiamioidj The .* Ccennts Of Tbe Keeper Of The Said House Of Correction, Making Enquiry Into The Conduct Of Tbe Officers Snd Servants Belonging' To The Same; And Also Into The Behaviour Of The Prisoners, And Their Earnings, C. H. Elsley, Clerk Ofthe Peace. Clerk Of T' Ae Peace's Office, 'Wakefield, 24th November, 1817.
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SB 5 SI 0 S 5 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES , That the Michaelmas General Quarter "" _essions oftb 2 Peace , for the West-Hiding ofthe County of Tork , will beheld by adjournment in tte Committee-Room , at the Douse of Correction , at _"Wakesieui , on Thursday , the ninth day of December next , at twelve o ' clock at noon , for the purpose of inspecting the Ridin * Prison , ( the said House of Correction * and for _eiamioiDj the . * ccennts of tbe Keeper of the Said House of Correction , making Enquiry into the conduct of tbe Officers snd Servants belonging' to the same ; and also into the behaviour of the Prisoners , and their Earnings , C . H . ELSLEY , Clerk ofthe Peace . Clerk of t ' ae Peace ' s Office , 'Wakefield , 24 th November , 1817 .
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TO TAILORS . " ffow Beady , by approbation of her Majesty , Queen Tictoria , and _H . R . H . Prince Albert , THE LO' < DOSand PARIS AHTCJ _4 N and WRITER FASHIONS for 1847 and 1848 , by Benjamin Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London , _uidby fi . Berger , Holywell-street , Strand , London ; a most magnificent and _snperbly-coloared Print , _surpassing _everyt'dug of the "dad previously published , acepmpauied with the most fashionable full size Dress . Riding , "Frock . _HuaHuj * , and Wrapper Coat-patterns with _crei-jparticular part fur each complete . Also , tbe _ni-sttashlonable and newest * _-ty le Waistcoat Pattern , including the manner of Cutting amd _makinjup the whole , with inf' . rmation respecting the new scientific system of _Cnttins , whirl ) . wiU be published Jan . 1 , 1858 , aud will supersede _everythiug of the kind before conceived . Price 10 s : or , post _fnw , to all parts of the kingdom , lis . Patent Measures , w ; tb fall explanation , S . the sat ( the great-« iimprovement ever known in the trade ! . Patterns to _casore sent j * k > C fre * to all parts of the kingdom , ls
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IHPORTANT NOrlCE . T _1 V TONDONERS nAVE BEGUN A HOME FOR "IS - _oauj _* HO EST _LVDUSTRY . _« tf « w » -T S Duneombe , Esq ., M . _P-, T . Wakley , _^ _rkr , B . Bond Cabbell , Esq ., M . P . Hare you read the Tract •¦ tba Land and Building Society for the Working HUlions ! If net , get it . read it . Mc-onlv One Peanv . Published for the Society , by G . _Ber- * " er 19 HolyweU-street , Strand . Sold by all cheap hoikseileri and tke Society ' s agents : alio to ba had , with full information , of Daniel WiuuMiRafty , secretary , _JJffires ofthe Suciety , 13 , _Tottenham-eonrt , New-road , St Pancras , London , by sending three postage stamps .
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MINSTER LOTEL . A T 3 RRE-A . CRB ALLOTTEE , ballotted for oa the 2 Bnst-r i _ _ovJ E- -tAte , wishes ta exchange fora _f-l-BR-ACES , ballotted" for ou the mum Estate . Any _wrioa who U willing to _miko au exchange willbe treated _£ _tu _; . v _appUi ? _( _statiB ; _Vjemmxn required ) to I , O . R _, _Post-oSlcB , -Sudbury . _Soifolk
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COMJU-KCIAL . B . O . _'RVUfG .- CObl " MDIA HOUSE . _T _4 . T 0 8 . Cbarterhousa square , London , is open for the-J \ reception and accommodation of Commercial Gen tl-men Tisiting ; London . Thia _ErtablishmanSu centrally situate near tbe General Post-office , and combines economy with comfort . Terms—Por Bei aud Breakfast , Ss . ta . Dinner and other requirements equaUy moderate , and no charge for Servants .
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FOUR-ACRE FARM to be let at NEW _HOLLAND , near Wilsden _, with good _Four-roomed House , Barn , and _Cotr-hoose , Piggery , _Mnek-ahed , and Tard . The Crops bava been ef tbe best quality and abundant produce . . Apply t * Richard Etsworth , the present tenant , who is leaving on account of bad health .
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MONMOUTHSHIRE . TALE OF U 3 K . mr _^ fi _flfESSRS CAFE . SON . and REID will SELL by JX AUCTION ( by direction of the Trustees of the Settlement * of _Mrasd Mrs Coltbnr-t Bateman , ) at Garraway's Coffee house , London , on Tuesday , November 30 , at twelve o ' clock , in seven lots , if approved bythe company who shaU attend tlie sale , or otherwise in seventeen or eighteen lest ( nnlesssn acceptable offer t o previously made by private ContractMM PORT ANT ESTATES ; consisting ofthe _MAVSrOJ" of _BETHOLEY , formerly the residence of Johu Kemys Gardner Kemys , Esq , and recently of Colthurst Bateman , Esq ., situate about four miles from _Usk- five from Caerlon , eight froni Mewport ,
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On the 1 st of December will be Published , PBICE S 1 XPENCB . NO . XII . OF " THE LABOURER , " With an Engraved Portrait of F . _O'Conuor , Esq ., M . P . Letters { pre-paid ! to bo addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders _reeeived by all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
O'Connor And His Slanderers
O'CONNOR AND HIS SLANDERERS
We Beg To Assure Our Readers Tbat Not An...
We beg to assure our readers tbat not another line of tbe Star sball be devoted to tbe furtber slaying ot tlif dead . Tlie People must now deal with tbeir own enemies , who would willingly assassinate their best friend .
Tfle Northern Stah Sattmday,Notember27, 1847.
TflE NORTHERN STAH _SATtmDAY , NOTEMBER 27 , 1847 .
The Union. Helvetius Said Truly, That -'...
THE UNION . Helvetius said truly , that - ' tbe virtues or vices of a State , are the effects of its legislation . " The iron men of Sparta owed their military domination to the laws of Ltcdkgvs . The Athenians were not a little indebted to their democratic institutions for their intellectual supremacy . The Roman Commonwealth gradually absorbed surrounding States , and , ultimately became mistress of the world , because the citizens of that Republic were influenced by its laws and customs to regard tbe courage and endurance of the soldier as the chief of virtues , and conquest the greatest national good . When Alfred reigned in this country , his laws changed England from a den of anarchists and robbers to a home of
free , ordeily , and contented men . Under Cromwelt , the nation was heroic and invincible , and under tbe second Charles corrupt and effeminate . In our own day , Russian despotism degrades millions to the levelof the beasts that perish . The Germans , notwithstanding their natural qualifications for intellectual greatness , are reduced , by tbe withering despotism of their Kings and Princes , to a state of abject slavery ; owning for their masters the most contemptible set of knaves and fools on the face of the earth . Behold Trance , too that France so great in ' 89— ' 93 , abased , politically , socially , and morally , to almost the lowest depths of shame—the natural re .-ult of Louis Philippe ' s rule , and the legislation ofthe money mongers .
To the general rule laid down by Helvetius , Ireland is no exception , but on the contrary , is the most striking example of that rule . Seven hundred years of conquest , rapine , religious proscription and the most infernal laws ever devised to break the spirit of a people , naturally produced the like term of rebellion , anarehy , religious hatred , and hostility to all law and order . What , though , within the last generation or two , concessions have been grudgingly granted by the rulers to the ruled ; what , though
some of the odious penal laws have been repealed , some of them modified , and others permitted to fall into disuse ; is it natural to expect that the " wounds of deadly hate" caused by those laws can he at once healed ? What , thouglt ' religious tolera * . tion , though not full religious right _. bas been granted , and some disposition shown to abandon the sword iu favour of ' * soft sawder , "—is it reasonable to expect that such paltry substitutes ftr justice will suffice to render the Irish people orderly and contented ?
But the bad legislation of the past is not all that Irishmen have to complain of . They remember that for a brief term in tbeir country's history they were permitted to enjoy something like legislative _independence , aud tbat during that time , notwithstanding the evil of Protestant ascendancy , Ireland greatly progressed in agriculture , manufactures and commerce . Irish interests were represented , and Irish wants cared for . Improved legislation produced its natural fruits—industry , wealth aud order .
But Irish liberty was distasteful to the English Aristocracy , and occasion was soon sought and found to extinguish the new-horn hopes of the Ir ish people . Force and corruption were employed to undo all the good that _** independence "' nad effected . Legislation was poisoned 8 t its source , and then came anarchy and bloodshed . The people were goaded to rebellion , and their revolt made the pretext for depriving them of the last vestige of their independence .
We pass by the crimes and horrors of that period , so fatal to Ireland—so disgraceful to England . The " Union" has now existed forty-seven years—let it be judged by its fruits . Within the past few months tens of thousands of the Irish people have perished of famine , or of pestilence , the natural consequence of tbat famine . At this moment tens of thousands have a similar doom before their eyes . A war of classes is raging in several counties ; landlords , land-agents , and
money-lenders are in course of being daily despatched to the other world , •¦ with all their imperfections on their heads , " and anarchy and terror stalk through the land . To crown all , Parliament is summoned at an unusual season by a speech from the throne , full of " deep concern and lamention" from beginning to end . If the vices of a state proclaim the character of its legislation , then there cannot be two opinions as to tbe effect of Imperial State-craft upon unhappy Ireland .
Legislation may be negatively as well as positively evil . If , year after year , the lawmakers of a country witness the most frightful social evils , and neglect even to attempt to provide necessary remedies , they make themselves responsible for those evils . It is notorious tbat the relation between landlord and tenant is at the bottom of the assassinations now going on . Over and over again this has been proved by the friends of Ireland , and admitted by successive governments ; but nothing in the way of amendment has been attempted . The murders in Ireland are the natural results of the criminality or incapacity ofthe Imperial Legislature .
Endless calumnies are directed against the Irish people . They are denounced as lazy , improvident , and bloodthirsty . But what encouragement have men to be industrious and frugal who have no security for the fruits of their labour ? There are murderous landlords as well as sanguinary peasants . Murder by ejectment is as common in Ireland as is murder by the musket , with this difference , tbatthe executioner of •¦ the wild justice of revenge" is usually -Atiafied mth one * iictim , _*« he- * eas _thulandloid s victims number many , sometimes scores .
The Union. Helvetius Said Truly, That -'...
In England and America , and throughout our vast colonial empire , the natives of Ireland ar _« _neither idlers nor assassins . On the contrary , they perform the hardest toil , and . are no more given to Wood-spilling than are their neighbours . The Irish are proverbially grateful , chivalrous , and kindhearted ; such are not the usual qualities of
assassins . *• Still it cannot be denied that revolting acts are committed in the sister country . Parliament having assembled , the Whigs find themselves compelled to legislate for Ireland , and characteristically they commence with coercion , promising to end with some paltry measures of" reform . " Whig ¦' reforms" are —• ' Like dead . se * frnlt- that tempt the eye And turn to ash-sou the Up _«" but their coercive measuresare usually of a more decided character . On Tuesday evening , Sir George Grht gave notice that on Monday next he wonld move for leave to bring in a bill _•« for the better prevention of crime and outrage in certaiti parts of Ireland . " The way to prevent crime and outrage , is to remove the causes of those offences against society , bnt a Coercion Bill or an Arms Bill can have no
such effect . Ireland needs justice not terrorism . The appeal for extraordinary powers on the part ofthe government is a proof that ministers are unfit for their duties . It is for the English peop le to say how much longer they will tolerate the rule of the " Incapables . " Let every Irishman , and friend to Ireland , read Mr O'Connor ' s heart-stirring appeal to his countrymen , which appears in the _firft column of our first page . Petition I Petition Petition ! Agitate I Agitate 1 Agitate ! No Coercion ! Down with _the'Whigs ! _.- ¦ ,.-. ,, ¦ On Tuesday Mr _O'Coskor gave notice of the fol . lowing motion . _*— ¦ V _J ' ¦ •'
_„„„„ REPEAL OF THB UNION . Mr P . O ' _CoBWaa gave notice that on Tuesday , tbe 7 th December , he should move for the appointment ofa select committee te inquire into , aad report upon , ths means by which the dissolution of the _PurHament In Ireland was obtained , and _upsa the effec ts ot that measure ogi Irel-nd , and upon the UbouT- of tin-t >»*»< lmen and the property of manufacturers In England , and Into the probable consequences of tbe continuance ofthe legislative union between tbe two countries . The _Jfcriwsneeringly recommends Mr O'Cossou to postpone his motion until means have been taken by Government to put an ond to the present disorders in Ireland . A wise physician wiU first
thoroughly understand the disease of his patient before he prescribes for him ; and the speediest way to put an end to Irish disorders is , for the Legislature first to understand the nature of the disease , and then provide an efficient remedy . The great mass ofthe Irish people lay their present complaints to the account of the Act of Union ; let , then , Mr O'Conkor _' s Committee be appointed to investigate the subject , and it may be that that Committee wiil discover that the means to put an end to agrarian _orime in Ireland , and relievo _Eas-Jand froni the destructive influence of Irish pauperism , is to repealtheAct of Union , and give to the Irish people their own Parliament , elected by Universal Suffrage .
Before we conclude , we roust direct the attention ef our readers to Mr O'Connor ' s able speech delivered inthe House of Comnioua on Tuesday even ing . It will be seen that the honourable member for Nottingham exhibited the true cause of Irim anarchy , and the remedy for that anarchy . Both Englishmen and Irishmen may be proud of Mr O ' Connor . He _hasse _' zed the very first opportunity to proclaim the Land as the source from which social reform and political tranquillity mast be Obtained ; and , forgiving the past , he has demanded the union of all Irishmen to effect the regeneration of their country . The following patriotic appeal should be published throughout the length and breadth of Ireland : —
He would notv appeal to the different sections of Irish member-, whether of the Irish Council , of tbe Old Ireland , tbe Young Ireland , or the Confederate party , t » merge tbeir own little _differences , whatever thoy might be , in one common feeling of patriotism ; and notwithstanding the taunt of ths hon , member for Marylebone levelled at tbe declaration of tbe hon . member for Kilkenny , that he would become a victim in the cause of Ireland if uec . _ssary , he , ( Mr O'Connor . ) although an English member , did not forget that he was an Irishman , nnd his resolve was now the same as in 1833 , to enlist as an Irish soldier , to resist coercion to th « death , snd if all the Irish member- were impressed with bis feeling they would sit in that house , stand in that heme , sleep in tbat house , and die in that house , if necessary , rather than allow their country to he coerced . ' ( Cbeers and shouts of ' bravo' from tho Irish members , wbich were followed by a general cry of ' OrdPr , order . ' )
Those shouts of " bravo' augur well for the future . Let the slaves of faction , the sycophants of power , and the gorged recipients of the loaves and fishes shout " Order , " if they like , till they are black in the face ; no matter , the order of tbe day must be the union of all true Irishmen , and the union of Irishmen with Englishmen , for the common salvation of both countries . Now is the time for Union , not an Act ol Parliament Union , but a Union of hearts . By the perishin *; millions in Ireland , by the starving milliens in
England , by therizhts robbed from the peopleof both countries , by our common hopes of Freedom , let us unite . Be the bitterness of the past between the two nations forgiven and forgotten . Let the hostility of both be directed against the enemies , the oppressors of bath . Englishmen , you will not allow your brethren to be scourged by military law . _Irishmen , you will no longer refuse to unite with your brethren to obtain the blessings of self government . Now is tbe time for united action ; Englishment and Irishmen . —Forward !
' Oh ! Where ' s the slave so lowly , Condemn' ! to chains unholy , Who could he burst His bon " _s at first , Would pine beneath them slewly !'
Hurrah For The Charter.. The Appeal Of T...
HURRAH FOR THE CHARTER . . The appeal of the Chartist Executive , published in our last , has already met with a hearty response , as the resolutions and movements of meetings in different parts of the country abundantly show . The best response , however , is that given by a number of the People ' s " Leaders , " in the shape of pecuniary contributions . The list will be found elsewhere , and will , we hope , stimulate all good Democrats to do likewise . When the leaders talk , and work and pay—surely the people will do their part . We perceive with pleasure that the Metropolitan Delegate Council has taken np our suggestion respecting a grand central place of meeting for tbe Chartists of thc Metropolis . We trust that the efforts of the Council will be zealously supported . Now , men of the Provinces , men of Wales and Scotland , now is your time to move _likewise . Now for a long pull , a strong pull , and a pull altogether ! " Hurrah for the Charter , and No Surrender !"
Parliamentary Review. After Disposing Ef...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . After disposing ef the usual preliminary formalities consequent upon the assembling of anew Parliament , and electing for tbe third time , Mr Shaw Lefevre to th _« high position of Speaker to the Hdtase of Commons , the Senate of the nation actually commenced business on Tuesday : when , what is called by courtesy , " tbe Queen ' s Speech , " was read by a Commission of members of the Upper House . Making allowance for the tendency in human nature to look at the disagreeable and painful incidents of the past , through a softened medium , and upou the difficulty , immediate or prospective , with
somewhat exaggerated feelings and apprehension , we think there is sufficient in the tone of that document , in the melancholy nature of the topics to which it refers , and the language it employs , to justify the statement , that never did a British Parliament meet under more threatening or gloomy auspices . As Lord Stanley truly says ;— ¦¦ In every sentence there was deep concern and lamentation . " Whether . the subject was the breaking out of civil war abroad , and our general relations With foreign powers , the state of trade , commerce , and finance at home ; or the condition of Ireland—all was lamentation , anxiety , and deep apprehension .
Nor are these expressions merely the rhetorical exaggerations of party speechraakers . They are amply justified by the magnitude and variety of the difficulties by -wbich the country is surrounded . After upwards of thirty years of peace , and while the eountry haa during the whole of the intervening period been growing rich in all the essential dements of wealth , prosperity , and happiness , such has been the ignorant and erroneous policy pursued by our statesmen and legislators , in applving these resources , that an almost universal paralysis has smitten every department of national industry and enterprise ; and thc state of one portion of the empire , « unhappy Ireland , " is so wretched , so miserable , so disorganised , that it has become a standing disgrace to this country , and a Wot upon the boasted civilisation ofthe nineteenth century * .
But the programme of the policy of the Govern _, ment-for such in fact the document to which we r efer must be taken to _be-white _copiotu ia its la mentations over the evils ( which it is hopeless to attempt concealing or denying , ) is singularl y bar-
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ren with reference t 6 "' tlie causes " of these evils , or the means by which they are to be remedied . We are disposed to make every allowance for the habitual and traditional inanity and _unmeaningness of Queen ' s Speeches , " which are avowedly framed on the principle of Talleyrand , "that speech was given to man for the concealment of his thoughts . ' * But after making all due deductions on Jthat _accounti we must say that the utter absence of any g limpse of measures of a practical and remedial character in that document , is a strong proof that
its concoctors have no conception m their own minds of the possibility of such measures . If a maa or a body of men , in a collective capacity , hare really a positive idea in their heads , it will slip out or betray its presence , in spite of any attempts to hide it , but aa the trite Latin proverb bas k » — « B # nihil , nihil ft , " out ot nothing , nothing comes . Our present rulers have not the practical knowledge , and , if they had it , they have not the moral courage to app ly to the diseased and rotten state of society , those remedies which can alone restore it toa state of health .
Instead of proposing anything in the shape of a remedial policy , they are retrograding in the cure oi Ireland , to a policy which after their deteat of Sir R , Peel last year , on the Irish Arms Bill , we imagined even the Whigs had abandoned for ever . They are unable to break through tbe vicious circle of Irish policy , which beginni » g in injustice , breeds retaliation and disorder , and prevents timid and ignorant politicians from attempting measures which would really regenerate the country , by doing justice to the whole people / The brutal , foolish , and nugatory Coercion Policy of by-gone times , tried so long and so often , _withonl effect , is again to be had recourse to ! There are some people on whom the teaching of time , and the lessons of experience , seem to be utterly thrown away ; and Lord John and the present Cabinet , seem to belong to that class . :
In the article two weeks ago , on " the November Session , " we put the Irish question , before even that of . the currency , pressing and important for this country as recent events have shown a proper settlement of that tobe . The House of Commons agreed witb us in ! our estimate of the . relative urgency and importance of the two subjects' . The first night's debate on tbe address was exclusively an Irish debate . The great fact was pressed upon the most obtuse English intellect , that until the Legislature really grapples" with , and settles in SO" *"!"" way or other the Irish difficulty , it will remain , as it has been , the " chief difficulty" of all British statesmen . Mere abuse of the Irish landlords will
not avail to meet the question , or avoid the necessity for comprehensive , radical , and practical measures . It may suit surface reasoners and popularity hunters , like Sir Benjamin Hall , to earn a cheap notoriety , by pandering to the vulgar prejudices , and appealing to the breeches pockets of the English middle-classes on this subject , but the question is too grave to be dealt with in that fashion . Calling names or setting classes against classes , can iu this case be of uot the slightest service to anybody . What is required , wbat must be bad , is that all parties shall suffer * ' bygones to be bygones , " and set themselves seriously and in all earnestness to devise and apply plans wnich shall give " Ireland to tbe
Irish ; ' marry to ' the untilled , but fertile soil , the involuntarily idle labourer-open ont the sources of wealth which lie latent in the mines and fisheries of Erin ; and put down outrage , murder and violence , not by -vainly attempting tbeir forcible repression , but by striking the evil at its root , and with drawing that idleness , poverty , and destitution , —which are the proximate causes of these lamentable occurrences . That is not only the cheapest , but the only effectual policy . The mere application of force , on however costly a scale , can only be effective to a very limited degree , and during the time it is applied . The moment it is withdrawn , the old evils will reappear , because nothing has been done to stop up the fountain from whence they flow .
The Time / takes Mr 0 'Connor to task for mtend-. ng to fritter away the public time in the House of Commons , by an untimely or useless motion . It thinks that his motion on the Irish Union , might be postponed until after Christmas , without auy dettiement to the public service , and , in short , all but the most necessary business should be so postponed . Well , Mr O'Connor thinks , and we think with him , that an inquiry into the state of Ireland , past and present ¦ how far the Legislative Union between the countries has contributed to produce it ; and iu what extent , and in what way its repeal or continuance willl affect that country in future—is the most necessary business that can be transacted ; Grant
the motion with a Jono _^ _Jeintention inquiry shall be _thorough-searching and sincere , and then go on to the next question of importance , whatever that may be . If this be done in a straightforward manner , the month that has to elapse before Christmas , will be quite enough to do all the needful business of the extra session . The next important topic—the Currency Question , —which was passed by with afewjncidental allusions , in the Commons on Tuesday night , formed the subject of a supplementary debate on the bringing up of the report on Wednesday . It is evident that roe Peel and Wood school arc not to have it all their own way . There are numerous and determined exponents in the House ot the aidtietary policy ,
which rests upon the principle that money is only the symbol of wealth , and medium of exchange , and that a country increasing in real wealth , increasing in population , and wiih daily and yearly multi p l ying transactions , in consequence of the combined operation of these two causes , ought to possess a currency capable of expanding with the requirements of the country . The Procrustean bed of the _bullionists has inflicted too much torture . and loss upon the nation , for it longer to submit in silence to having its capacities of producing , exchanging , and consuming wealth , fettered by the quantity of a foreign and scarce metal , which may happen at a particular day tobe in the coffers of the Bank of England , and available under the act of 1844 , for commercial
purposes . The Proteationist party , in general , aeem disposed to take this view of the question . In the House of Peers , Lord Ashburton , who is a great authority on this subject , strongly _condemaed the act of 1844 , and ascribed to its operation the ruin of dozens of our large cpmmeicial houses . Lord Stanley , in what was in others respects an extremely clever speech , also attacked the act ; and botli he and Lord 6 , _Bkntinck , who spoke in the Commons on
Tuesday , concurred in attributing all the disasters we have passed through and are still suffering from , to the combined operation of a defective currency , and the Free Trade policy of late years . As , however , the whole question is to be brought before Parliament next week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , we shall have more ample material for comparison and comment , as to the views of the differing parties than at present , and merely refer to it now , as an important question with which Parliament must fairly grapple .
Among the class of minor questions which will be mooted , wili be tbat of the admission of the Jews to sit in Parliament , and the abolition of . the Navigation Laws . But it is probable that the latter , at any rate , will not make its appearance on tbe boards until after Christmas ; and the Jew question is one of those that we think even the Times will concede , should be postponed as not falling under the category of " the most necessary _busiuess . " We are not insensible to the importance of the question in itself , but there is a " time for everything under the sun , " and when wc have loosened the strangling band of famine from our throats , it will be time enough to take up the question of reli gious citizenship , involved in the right of Baron Rothschilo to sit in the House of Commons .
Meanwhile the Parliament of 1847 has commenced its labours . The times in which it does so , are troublous , and the aspect of the future far from cheering , but if the men of the movement party in it are earnest , sincere , and united , they may change our mourning into joy , and adversity into prosperity , and out of evil educe permanent good for all classes of their fellow subjects in every part of the empire . It is in such perilous and startling times as the present , that political and social changes have the best chance of beinp- effected . °
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•»* In consequence ofthe great extent of _snacs _nln . _Wua hy Mr O'Connor ' s Letters , 4 c , we _haveTad r . _fid upon our bands _. by the printer , a mass of communi cations , which had been ' given out' for pubKo , They -lull appear in our next . _Half-a-coluW , nf < _v !' tices to Correspondents' are iut , pe , but _uTah _^ n * avoidably postponed . ' * ' * aI-ouu . _MacchsweIiI ) . —Julian Harn ey has reoi « _fl . » . , Macclesfield , per H . B . _Lsechffor the Genii vi _.. ° Fund . J . H . has forwarded £ _PolS , B ec Grassby , p » r Mr Boonham " _«» Urder to Mr ° _^^ _J _^ SSmmmm _^^^^^^ I « . Mr DowN « , i ; Campsle _.-Beceived , We hava a few on _DfiMia _Dvtaikb denies that Mr _O'Le & rv «„„ ri _«* . _— 1 _» -,
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A PLAIN TALE IS BEST BEING PLAINLY TOLD .
TO THE WORKING CLASSES , My Friends , As thia is the last letter that I mean to devote to the condemnation of tie wretched oreatures who have hoped to build a little bit of fame upon falsehood , I shall preface the conclusion of Mr Hobson ' s conviction with a few brief observations , before I proceed to tbe demolition ofhis last whimsical facts .
This fellow , relying upon a peculiar knack of mystification , undertook to unravel entanglement , and bas ended bj making confusion worse confounded . I suppose it has never fallen to the lot ofthe reader of conundrums , to have submitted to his puzzled pate a more complete and entire web of puzzle , than this plain writer of p lain facts has jumbled together . But the facta which will strike you as the most extraordinary , are that this fellow abandons tbe defence of his own character , stamped by Mr Ardill in his two letters of
December , 1842 , and betakes himself , almost exclusively , to the defence of the character of his accuser , as in tliose letters Mr Ardill has accused Mr Hobson of direct and palpable fraud . As to his reply—his weak and lame reply— -to Mr Rider ' s charges , I can only say that Rider is a working man * that my belief in his integrity is tested by entrusting him with the receipts of all my monies : but if general report is preferable to individual predilection , I believe that Mr Rider _willhaveno objection to place his character in comparison with the characters of Messrs Ardill and
Hobson ; the judges to be the townsmen ofthe three individuals . The time has now come when I cannot _derote even my Sunday , as I am this day doing , to exposing the fabrications and falsehoods arising out of the angry feelings of these vipers , and therefore , 1 shall make this—my lastnotice , a finisher . You recollect how the dismissal of every
servant from my office has been met by the publication of the same description of falsehoods , and a _ripping-up of all my private affairs while not a single one of those persons , so long in my employment , and professing such an intimate knowledge of my every transaction , has dared to charge me with one single act of political meanness , or one single equivocal public aet .
Now , all who know anything of the intimacy which must subsist between the proprietor and editor of a newspaper , will be forced to the admission , and to the conclusion , that the Northern Star newspaper has been conducted upon principles of honour and integrity which are unknown and not recognised by the newspaper press generally ; as all will admit freely that the slightest act of political doubtfulness— -not to say meannesswould have been a God-send to my disbanded staff .
The Rev . Mr Hill tried his hand at exposure , which was so crushingly met by Joshua Hobson and John Ardill , in their reply to his pamphlet of ' 1844 , that he has not since returned to the charge ; while Mr Joshua Hobson , who was dismissed from my service , after being- eight years employed , has not been able , and is not able , to establish p , single fact injurious to my character as a gentleman and a public man . But now , my friends , I come to this question in its entirety and real bearing upon society . The solicitor who divul ges the case of his client is not admitted as _evidence
against him ; while the communication of one particle of evidence , entrusted to him , would forever professionally destroy him . "Well , the confidence between the proprietor and editor of a newspaper , should , if possible , be more sacred ; but what do you learn from this base man ' s conduct ? You learn , from his apparent knowledge of my debts , that he opened all my private letters ; while you learn , from his own admission , that he has made the Manchester Examiner office tKe _depositary of all my correspondence , and the honourable proprietors of that paper the exhibitors of that correspondence tothe curious !
Now , this is the light in which every rightminded man must view this question ; while I beg to assure all , right-minded and wrongminded , that neither Ardill , Hobson , nor any man living , has a scrap from under my hand that I would care to see printed in large type and posted at every market cross in Europe . Not a scrap ; but yet all who understand the trickery of the press , the mystery ofthe press , and the _vindictiveness of a dismissed official , will be able to attach the proper importance to the horrifying announcement—the hobgoblin threat—that all these documents are placed IN THB HANDS OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE " MANCHESTER
EXAMINER" FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION . And now , to carry out the intention of Mr Hobson , and the GENTLEMEN of the Examiner , it is the duty of every , working man within ten miles of Manchester to go to that 'registry office for private ] correspondence , ' and to demand an inspection of those papers ; always taking care to be accompanied by Mr Edward Birley , or some person who is acquainted with my hand writing , to be able to test the authenticity of those documents- and if the working classes will accept the invitation held out by the Manchester Examiner _, they will be highly edified .
Another thing which will strike the reader as curious is , that Josh , and John profess to have kept copies of every line they wrote to me for eight years . Now , this looks suspicious ; because , from the specimen of one published in one of Hobson ' s' long yarns 'the only one-I declare to you , that 1 never received such a letter ; he never wrote such a letter ; and if he had , there was nothing in it but the mere communication " of the opinions of a Mr Stead , of Huddersfield . However , it smells queer that those men , who were so overworked , should have kept copies of an eight years correspondence . Now , I onlv Sf _whtftrat from _k"ers ' the _^ henticity ot which can be vouched for .
Having now _Gripped this hobgoblin of ts horrors , I beg to submit to you the _Lcrip-SSLSEW _"" * _inqulrers recei _™ _" reterence to this curious correspondence . Here is a specimen ;— e _Openshaw , n « ar Manchester , Nov 17 1 R 47 _niXtTo IL L _^ r _^ 0 inforra y ° « ' _"a I wentla 8 t sent bJ _% anhtr mCet ° _^ ot tho documr _:. _* - _scnt by j , Hobson , and I will t . U you bow l aot on . worn _f l 0 ffl i . 00 Bl _^ _"ty _five _niinuterplK _ZwSnZt * £ _^ ' tm them wha - * « 23 uue _whlap-red to tho other . They -aid that the editor " ¦ " ' -iri in _fewSSK
£ _t _^ lTJ' . . _"• . _** a One of thera then said to the other " Is ll _-vl I and aaid that I ma « t call again . I did LiloLbZl -md ten minutes . Another _owum « . » \ l S . « , . aid . ? I . tho _eiiur , ome ia _, _' - JJ ft _^ l th-n sent me up si Ar t to the _edltoV ' _s reom ° i * v _" _? _, at tho door ; it WM openea by _aVervtSl -L kn 0 eked with a Scotch accent ' _Wrfi „•! . _?! 7 _™ robu m » n be . I arid'I am oom . 7 o inspectthed ° _WMr " _" b _, Joshua Hobson , _r-latlv _, _tlTth ! . * * WWtt _«»» _•»» O'Connor . ' He then « SuI "Th * Si - 8 " Cter of Mr _hasgot thekey , _TteW _^ 2 ° _^' ¦•* » andhe can , oa oaU in to » r _^ _^ _^ aoc , UM _- _** o ' clock ! ' [ slid _I'ZrZ B , WUt bn ] t ' _^ _elewn m „ . f . Jv _... * . . _^ ° » x havo coma four mli » . «*
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must I say to those who have seat me » ,, _N here three timet and heard three diff , ? * * _*» . _boutif He .. id * Wen , I canno J" «* ee _^ has got the key . and he went awa , „ » a l _££ \ < I « _alr | _« I was here at a quarter past L . * 0 ft * *' men , told me that he was rot here . 1 / * " ' _*¦ _*• _*«^ way you mny expect to hear of it ; by what aon _" _* ' ' hi * the Examiner we expected we could see the d ei any time . ' He then sent out for a man to _^ pick the lock , which was done , and the docutt _^ an 4 _duoed , and when I had seen thsm , I said « n _t *" - tend , to tell me that Mr O'Connor has _wW _^ * _* . Mr _ArdlUor Mr Hobsou , ot any one el , _j » *¦ _„ _* _' _* * ' No I _doa't know anything about that . What > % _[ i to show is , that parties are _putting _theirmonies fa * " ,, _* bands , as the society is not enrolled . ' I _.- _, * , _^¦ _'" fc hare known and walcbed that gentleman ever I * came to this country , and I have never 8 eeu oi nca _^ of a dishonourable or dishonest act , not even on 8 tti "*' for * I sball still continue to pay _-rhgt j { ti - 8 , th _"« . to the Iiaad Company . ' _CiB ! Pait
Tours truly , ( Mr O'Connor . ) _kJSStJS Now , from the above letter you will le tbat all thia correspondence consists nf "' farrago of Joshua Hobson as tothe _shh ; _- . of the National Land and Labour B _& Hobson ' s friend , Ardill , is lying by in a wgon , biding his time ; but if he will give ! an undertaking to bring an action against 2 for libel , I will bring the question _oracconS to an issue in next week ' s Star-it his soVi ciS will give an undertaking to bring an action !! and thus tho question of accounts will be sak mitted to a court of justice , and Mr Ardill will be entitled to his damages if I have _f-jj fied those books to the amount of one sineU _figure . Now . thfirfi _arninni-. _nnaalUU , i , 0 - > a .- ?* ¦
_/ — - - j — * _d-u w-. v * y W %% 1 Q | III **] challenge than this—if Mr Ardill ' s solicitor J undertake to bring an action for libel against me , I will put the question of character to an issue in a court of justice in next week ' s Star , I now proceed to the refutation of every oa _& of Mr Joshua Hobson ' s conundrums ; and , as * plain tale is best being plainly told , I sball pursue the same course as I adopted in last week ' s Star , giving the reader every one of his charges as they appear in the _Uanchesl Examiner : —
l .-From a letter of Mr O'Connor ' s to Mr Ardill , be » rindate April 23 , 1816 , and now 1-ing before me , I find tha * the md " balance" was taken on tha 8 th ol Au gust ?« that year . There then wanted Mr ArdiU ' g nine month } salary entering in the book , before an accurate balanc * could be struck—that salary only being charged in tba account yearly . There also wanted the weekly - \ a » of the establishment entering up from the _wage-boot which was only done , as a rule , quarterl y . If these itenu had been properly placed to the credit of John Ardill the 1839 balance would uot have been against him , but ia bis favourIt is to
. very easy make a balante out against any cashier , if you keep out of the account several of fa books and _payments ; but an honest man would - com ta seek sucb " evidence ** for a purely concocted libel . Answer—He has no such letter stating any such fact from me . The whole of the weekl y charges , postage , and petty cash account , a _» _a entered into the books up to tho date , and Mt Ardill ' s nine months' salary would have made but 751 ; but it is straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel ; the gnat is the 1201 ., and the camel is the 2 , 300 .. and odd . Perl
baps , under this head , I may as well refer to the assertion of Mr Hobson , "that from the cs . tablishmentof the ( Star— -yea , from thefirst week to the last , he and Ardill were cri ppled in their own resources , to assist me from their exche « quers . " Now for a more curious fact than Hobson ' s repudiation of his reply to Mi ' s ' Scabbard' of 1844 . JThe reader will remember how Ardill and Hobson were always borrowing to support the Star , and how I was always taking
away the money , as they presumed , to pay my old debts and electioneering expenses . Now , I told those men that the more they stirred the more it would stink ; because their assertions would induce me to look for proof to the only record in existence—my account books . And now , reader , read the following , attested by accountants , who have gone over every page of those books with me , from the commencement of the Star , to July , 1839 : —
We certify , after inspecting every page of the cash book in which the account * of the _Northern Star arj entered , from the I 8 th of November , 1837 , to the 12 th June , 1839 , that within that period Mr O'Connor made payments of _tooniee to the clerk to Uie amount ol £ 1 , 988 . 6 s . Cd . ; and that so minutely were those accounts kept that , in several instances , Mr O'Connor has ben charged 4 ' d . _forjport ? aits that _hejgave away . And w _^ also find , that within that period Mr Ardill only advanced j _^ l 8 ., tbe balance in his hands as treasurer of the Leeds shares ; and that beyond that amount of £ IS ., neither Mr Ardill nor Mr Hobion advanced one farthing to the Star .
We also find , that up to _page 83 of the cash book , the accounts wore kept by Mr Williams , and that in page SS , in an entry made by Mr Ardill , who succeeded him , tbere is an error of £ 2 o . in carrying over Mr Ardill ' s credit from tbe bottom of one columu to the top of the oth _« - . the amount at foot of page 85 being . 4 * 1 , 351 ISs . 54 , and the amount carried forward being £ 1 , 871 , 18 s . Sd . ; ( of course this is an error that a practised accountant might commit . ) We further find that at the commence _, ment ofthe Northern Star the exact amount payable to the printers , weekly , is acknowledged as _received ( rom Mr O'Connor . 6 . A . FLS 51 IN _0 . 6 . J . _Harhey .
D . M'Gowa _** . Now , my friends , what do you think of the "Lucky Boy and his host ' s" hardship in scouring the country for loans to keep up the Northern Star ? but I havn _' t done yet . "We had an immense office sale in Leeds , and very large weekly payments made by large agents , and all that was banked by the clerk as soon as I opened a banking account ; and before I have done I will frame these accounts , and make them as plain as panels in a door , from period to period , until I bring the charge of falsification into so narrow a compass that be who runs may read . Cunningly enough , thia cunning advocate of the " Lucky Boy" has tried to jumble them by spreading them over a period of eight years ; but I will trace them , step by step , from the commencement to the close : —
' J ma _« " > - "" » ibe 'great balance of 1841 isIncor . rest . O'Connor knows , no mnn better , that Ardill never claimed to have owing to him the sura of £ 2 , 353 ; that he never even dreamed of such a thing . O'Connor know that when he and Ardill sat down to ascertain what the real balance due to the latter was , they took all the elements into their calculation ; they had together ail tbs books j they ascertained the expenditure and the income on the several funds which had been kept separate from the Star '* general cash book ; and thoy entered in the proper place the balance of those separate funds and payments ; and then struck thk genua * , baiancb . This was , indeed , the only course by which the actual balance could he ascertained ; and nothing could be more / eulordl 8 honeit'han O'Connor ' s taking the cash boot alone at that period for his statements , before the othtr balances were posted up !
Ihe apparent balance of £ 2 , 353 was made up thus :-During 1840-1 thero were several public funds , which were received by Ardill for O'Connor , at the office . Of these funds Ardill kept separate and distinct aammts , wholly independent ofthe star account _boeks . But tbe money was regularly paid into the bank to _O'Cennort credit . I have before told you of the state in nhieh 0 Connor left us at the office ; wiih heavy debts to contend with ; with heavy current payments to meet , without the whole of a diminished and diminishing income to meet tbem ; a-idrttid you that even ' with the money from a certain source , * we were dreadfully short . This Y > ai that ' eertain source . ' These public funds were used "JO Connor ' s private business . Had they net been so , 0 would not have
Connor had oae atom of property when _„? _? r , o . o _* Based - ? ' then h ° w _thisajnarmf 'balance ' ? _Lf _?' 353 was _i nad 8 u P :-Thcre was received during 184 W , on the Frost ' s Defence Fund , unwapis of £ S _® i on the Stephens'Defence Fond , £ 200-on tha National Defence Fund , £ 200 ; besides smaller sums on several minor funds : Jn all amounting to more than £ 1 , 300 . The _inwmeef these soveral funds did not appear in the general cash book of the Stor , but in separate and distinct books for each fund-rthe books are still in existence ] :-out the payments on the Star account did appear in tbe cash book ; and thus there would necessarily appear to nave been much more paid than received . Ultimatel-i when Mr O'Connor had examined these several account " , and ascertained tbeir correctness , the amounU teen
entered w hu genera " , _cosll booh , and the actual balance due to Mr Ardill ascertained and acknowledged . How trul y infamous , that , with a knowledge ef these fact " . _0 _tonnor should havo dared to slander away anothef man ' s character , to divert attention from his own curioa * position iu relation to a public fund . Now , then , hath not the Lord delivered th « incomprehensible fool into my hands ? I w'J | go on , seriatim , to unravel this "long yarn-1 never had all the nccount books before me m my life , and the one thing which I wish you to keep clearl y in view , and never to lose sig ht of is , that if I had all the books before me , and
if Cocker had them all before him , he couMn t make anything of them , and for this p lain an » simple reason—that from page 86 , when . ' *' Williams handed over the books to Mr ArdiJI j not a single column . was totted up—not _ot _# > for five years after . Now , then , what does tlie reader say to that i But mark the sequel , - do not ask you to take one word ' upon i » y authority , but read the following—* _, we certify tbat vrtum the balance _dua to Mr Arum 8 p _* pear * u bo _j M _, at j . _* * . 6 _o * ., it is a net balance in _moM claimed by him , and that there is no explanation , In eo »« _nection with that entry , attached to show that It wai drived from any public funds whatever , but the _bala" * - _appear- _MduetoMrAidill , Q . A . F _lU" " _* _' 0 . 3 . _Hashit . D . _M-eo _**** * -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27111847/page/4/
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