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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATD-RDAY, MARCH 29, 1845.
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      Ba5kr0p18. (From Tuesday's Gazette, Marc...

      TBE SALT-HILL "MURDER . _Atlesbctv _, _TnunsnAV Evssko . The convict yesterday passed a restless night , a drcumstance -which ne attributes to having taJten finalleave of his wife . He is now perfectly aware that his doom is fixed for to-morrow morning , _^ oon hiM being asked whether he was a _^ _- _^^ _iJ'Jf what would soon occur , he said , " Yes , _^ PP _^ morrow is the day ; I thought as much- _WI have -noco mplainttomakc . " Hedidnotappeartobeunusu _^ _vls _tdoTOrinae _^ _hehasespre _^ d _tosa _^^^ tnac _lunaH

      that the event isso _closeat hand , and wiU be soon relieved from their F _^ . _£ _»»™« position , Notaline _h-wbeen _-rewivedbytheautho-Sfies to interrupt the regular course of the law although great exertions have been made in high miartCTs in favour of the prisoner . The Queen , Sir James Graham , and Baron Parke , have been petitioned ; butthesummmgun of the latter seems to lave shut out all grounds for interference , and the _extnanejienalty ofthe law will be paid by the convict to-morrow morning , at eight o ' clock . Oalcraft , the executioner , comes down to-night by the last train .

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      Execution And Confession Of Tawell. [Bt ...

      EXECUTION AND CONFESSION OF TAWELL . [ bt - express . ! AYLESBURY , FRIDAY . Thehour announced for execution was eight o ' clock , bnt about a quarter of an hour before eight a sudden motion ofthe crowd showed that the moment had come . The most Intense silence prevailed , not a word escaped after the crowd had said "He is coming- " The wretched man was greatly moved ¦ when lie saw the crowd ; he trembled exceedingly , and was scarcely able to stand as he stepped on the platform under the drop . The -nightcap having been immediately drawn over lim , he knelt down to pray , which he did with the most apparent fervour . After he had been praying

      for about a minute or a minute and a half he was assisted to rise by Caleraft , who proceeded to place the jope round his _' neck . The meek demeanour of the wretched man from the time he first appeared on ihe scaffold seemed to excite theutmost sympathy on the _jpari ofthe spectators . When the cap was drawn over Jiis eyes he placed "his hands together ( as far as the cord . by which he was pinioned would allow him ) , as in an -attitude of prayer . The _^ rope , we have said , was _^ alreadyplacett round his neck . The work of _fasteniingitocenpied nearl y half a minute , but it must have _fbeen a period of terrible suffering to the unfortunate

      - _c-cnlprit , as it undoubtedly was to every witness ofthe - scene . _'T _^ _peifoimeithedropfell , andthewretched anan became at once violently convulsed and his whole ¦ frame quivered—Mb arms and legs contracted—they _i fell again— -were again contracted—fell again , again _c ontracted—and he hung a motionless corpse . It w . -aslexpected . that . the wretched man would _bere-^ _gv tv ed with groans and execrations by the crowd , but no such disgraceful proceeding took p lace . On the con . _irary , a most decorous ana becoming silence was obse 'cved . The body was allowed to hang for an hour , _auj -was flDen taken , but not cut , down . He was e _secnied in the _Quaker ' s dress .

      Tig length of drop allowed him was so little , that he stn _* _%$ b & _m _* _** _" violently . His whole frame was convuls le < _*« ae _withed horribly , and his limbs rose and fell _z _& ha "repeatedly , while he wrung Ms hands , Ms arms ' _-having been previously pinioned , and continued to * " ffr _- ng J * - * bands for several minutes , they _bejjjg . _< . _£ _•] I clasped as though he had not left off _prayinff / lt was nearly ten minutes after the rope had * been - _^ xe _^ De f ° ** 1 ? contortions wMch indicated his extreme suffering ceased . It is not intended to _cj _**• ' _° bxme npon any one connected with fhedreadful fulfilmentof this law ; but the mechanical _arraneement sought to have been so perfect as entarelvtonrev . _mi > * - punishment being little more than an act oi' _'tortnre to the -malefactor , who was so short and smai _Imperainthathecoiddsrai _^ yhave weighed more ™ an se"m " * or ei £ ht' stone . He died "hard " as the p hrase is ; and his light body dangled _' 1 _ackwards and forwardsand und

      in thetreeze 1 , ro about a most bitiable and melancholy spectacle . What " was the ' effect upon the spectators ? It produced a feelL W ° / _f ™ _- _* ' for _* e casmnaL There was nothin * _*« hoPt iae _^^ T _^ _JT it the force of a warning , _example of the badly disposed . It took place belore the accustomed and expeeted time ; thei _« were no officialpersons present © nine scaffold , excei *» tthe turnkey and the hangman ; neither the _skerifl _*; a _^ eisS ' _^ f _^^ "If visible ; and below ~ in - the _3 _*** _*>? fore * he Gami _*' laH . there was not ev en a _WnpaiSB , P _^ _^ P i ° _? javelin-man . There v _vas _no-w of authority about the proceeding ; nor _wa ' _*•» * W P ubllc dls P X ° f sdemnity suited to it . The consequence was that the _aibdued _exclamatl _. * of Populace uttered _"" more in sorrow than in \ £ _®*> . V _™ H turned Mm off like a do 2 ! A just observation ; it

      v ? _S £ truly ahang-dogaffai r * „ , Tawell ' s < W ™ .- f ™ - f _** " P a _" _-ft _-aWKftAi _i £ _Slnl _§ _ssarstti . _yssB _& s _pubuethatittahesawayaQd _Sfg _^ _-tf _J occasion , in September last , ass _^ J _^ 2 _?* fi : _SSo _confessed that he didnot _tSK fiU -oecnniary motives , bat from _% _J _^ S ± Sm _S _uTinwhichhestoodtowaids _f-irah Hartwuld transpire , and eome to the ears of h w WiIC '

      ( From the Bucks Herald of _^ _fUJ Not until last night did John T * _« _g _« $ _* paper the declaration wMch was expe _««? _™™ _- ft was observed that he had ma / e _%£$%£ document , hut he kept it in his side-pi _^ _fl _^ X out the early partof the night . during * , , * S _ _™! _^ took it out several times , as though re . ™ g ™ 6 _« P ° " ite contents , and hesitating in deliverint * _SL _^ had previously inquired of the governor _~^ had not engaged to makca written stat « _TxT J npon being reminded that he had promise- _JZJZ" Z _% r _i _» _. _x . __ __« _-. _™ o _= _^^« * _T > _o ooservea and that such act expectedhe _Jfi

      , __ , an was , _* hj _„* i "Well , then , I will ; I will do it . " Thepan _^ _**™* f he has committed to ihe charge of _thechapl _^™' tains a distinct avowal of his guilt . He . _~™ _° Y led _^ estohavmgattempted tiielifeofhhunfo ™ 3 ?* r -victim , Sarah Hart , upon the occasion spoke , ™ ° t ? the trial , when _ehu was said to havebeei _¦»™ The poison which he then administered was i _1 *" i _^ the same description as that with wMch he , _^" * mately effected his purpose . Themalefactordecl •" ™ Jj that he was not tempted to his determined , u _^ " * berate , and diabolical deed by any pecuniary moti \? i The pittance allowed by him to Sarah Hart he d _-g not grudge . He was in constant dread of Ms wii *? _becomins aemiainted with his connection with tha . _s 1- J . ? _t

      woman , and a fatal desire to rid himself of her took possession of his mind . Her death seemed to him to be the only means of escaping from the disgrace and domestic mmapniness that would result from an exposure of Ms position with regard to her . In proportion to . Ms great regard and respect for his wife , was the apprehension of falling in her esteem and affection . Independently of tea wish and constant endeavour to stand well with the world , he was anxious to o bviate the disclosure of _inreumstances wMch would distress his wife , and alienate her from him . With these feelings he did not scruple to

      commit murder—murder of the least inexcusable , the mast deliberately cruel , and of the most cowardly nature . He never imagined that he had been familiarly mentioned by Sarah Hart in the neighbour hood where she was , as it were , Mdden—and __ he never supposed but that he should get back unnoticed to London , and so escape detection—so blindly guilty was the infatuated and cold-blooded assassin .

      Execunos Of Jimes Tjffpmg.—James Tapping...

      ExEcunos of JiMES _TjffPMG . —James Tapping , who at the last sessionsof the Central ( _""riniinal Court was convicted ofthe wilful murderof Emma "Whiter , at Bethnal-green , by shooting her with a pistol , expiated his offence on "Monday morning , by suffering on the drop in the front of Newgate , in the presence of a concourse of some 5000 or 6000 persons . It had been expected that the crowd , from the fact of its being holiday time , would be unusually large , and strong barriers had , as usual , been erected to prevent accidents . This was not , however , the fact , for the assembla ge "was smaller than in the generality of such cases . The wretched man , who had all along preserved his firmness and self-possession in a very remarkable degree , aud had almost up to the last nersistedin denying that he shot the girl Whiter ,

      rose , shortly after five o'clock in the morning and wrote a letter taking leave of his brothers and sisters . He -was subsequently visited by the Rev . Mr . Davis , theordinaryoftheprison , who has beenmost assiduous in his attentions to him since Ms conviction , and most earnest in his exhortations that he would confess his crime and seekfor pardon through the atonement of _theSa-raonr . The prisoner to the ' very last , however , evaded the question , and although by his language and Ms frequent repetition of the words , " I hope _Godwill _fo-rgive me , as I forgive every one else , " Mr . Davis was induced to look npon this as - virtually an acknowledgment of Ms guilt , he did not make any direct confession . Shortly before seven o ' clock breakfast was sent in for the prisoner and the two persons , named Humphrey and Abdale , who were

      with Mm . On its arrival he said to Humphrey - _"Nowlshall recommend yon and your colleague to make a good breakfast , for I mean to do so . " This "ffasnuldly and coolly said : and there was nothing of levity in Ms manner of saying it . A hearty _hresikfast , indeed , he did make ; for he took two caps . of coffee and two cups of tea , and ate _tootous and around of toast . A little after seven . * ne Kev . Mr . Davis visited him , accompanied "by _S ! i _= fi _? Sidney a 11 * Hunter , and the under _irSr - _" _S * 51 * and _Ashuret , and two or three other f _^ _MmST ieT _\ gi _% ntleman and the sheriffs urged j _^ _hjintte _aw fui _aituation iu wnich he stood , and

      Execunos Of Jimes Tjffpmg.—James Tapping...

      the necessity of his confessing his crime , and endeavouring to make his peace with an offended God . He assented to what was said , but made no disclosure . The sheriffs , under sheriffs , and other persons present then retired , leaving him with the rev . gentleman only , who prayed with him for some time . At about a quarter before eight o ' clock the sheriffs again ; entered the cell , and took leave of their prisoner , shaking Mm by the hand , and expressing to him their hope that he would find forgiveness with hia Heavenly Father . Sheriff Sidney , as the last words he should address to him , urged upon him the awful change he was about to undergo , and entreated him to repent . He replied , "Yes , I know what you mean ; I understand r and appeared very

      sensible ofthe kindness he had receive d since his incarceration . In a few minutes after tMs , Caleraft , the executioner , entered the cell , and performed the operation of pinioning , wMch the prisoner bore with great fortitude . A sort of gasping for breath , and an intense dilation and brilliancy of the pupil ofthe eye , nevertheless showed that he laboured under very great mental excitement ; and the ordinary stated that he was obliged to be exceedingly careful in Ms manner of addressing him , on account of the great excitability to wMch he otherwise became a prey . When the collar of his shirt was turned down , it discovered a mark on Ms neck of a wound , wMch he had , according to his own statement , inflicted in an attempt to commit suicide previously to Ms coming

      to _Newgate . All being now in readiness , _theshorifl s and under sheriffs once more took leave of him , and he thereupon said— "I have one request to make , wMch I hope will not be demed me . " The sheriffs asked him what it was ? He replied , " I have _somcthing wMch I wish to say on the scaffold . " One of the functionaries present said , "Had you not better say it here ? There are persons present connected with the pr ess by whom it will be made known , and I think you had better say it here . " Theprisoner , with a look of entreaty , answered " No , sir ; I wish to say it on the scaffold . It is my last request , and I hope it will not be refused me . " The snerifls then at once said his wish should be complied with , and the procession moved along _tM-ouen the different

      yards and apartments leading from thc cell to the scaffold , the rev . ordinary reading the customary portion of the burial service , while the chapel bell tolled the knell of death . The firmness of the prisoner ' s step , and Ms entire self-possesion during this awful period , were extraordinary . Whatever might be his mental sufferings , it was quite evident that his bodily strength and physical energies never for a moment failed him . lt had been expected , from the request that he made , that he was about to address the people from the scaffold ; but on his arrival there he walked deliberately forward , and bowed ( thrce times in a somewhat theatrical manner , turning his body first to the west , then to the south , and lastly to the north , while tie populace

      cheered and clapped their hands . All this was done with the coolness and much of the manner of an itinerant player or quack doctor , rather than of a person the next moment to be launchedinto etermty . But neither bravado nor levity was intended by the prisoner ; and it was apparent thathe did intend to say something to thc mob , but that his heart or tongue failed him . As soon m he had thus bowed he shook hands . with tha chaplain , and said , "I acknowledge the justice of my sentence , and hope God will forgive me as I forgive every one else . " Ho next shook hands with Sheriff Sidney , and fervently kissed liis hand as he parted from him . The cap was immediately drawn over his face , the rope adjusted , and the unfortunate fellow , whose firm nerves sustained Mm to the last , was turned off , and died without a struggle . After hanging the usual time

      the body was cut down , and was buried in that portion of ihe prison in wMch the bodies of Greenacre , Courvoisier , _Blakesley , and others , who have suffered for the crime of murder , lie interred . The cell wMch this wretched man left for the scaffold was immediately under that occupied by Thomas Hooker . After the execution was over the great mass of the crowd quietly dispersed , but some remained until after the body had been cut down , and the scaffold removed , The prisoner was only 22 years of age , and a young man of rather prepossessing appearance . He wore a black velveteen shooting-jacket and grey striped trousers , and had a very clean and neat appearance . The present destitute state of the culprit ' s family has excited a feeling of much commiseration , and a subscription has been set on foot amongst the tradesmen in Bethnal-green to in _aome way alleviate their sufferings .

      The late Eeplosios at Blackwall . —Mr . Lowe , the managing engineer of Messrs . Samuda's factory , against whom a verdict of-manslaughter was returned by the coroner ' s jury , has not as yet been apprehended on the warrant which has been issued against Mm . It is , however , understood that he wifi surrender at the next sitting of ihe Central Criminal Court to take his trial , and that several eminent engineers will be examined on his behalf . The trial is looked forward to with much interest in the engineering world . The poor fellows who were removed to the London Hospital are still going on very favourably .

      Powobr Mill _Extlosion . —On Tuesday night , about half-past eleven o ' clock , an explosion took place at one of the powder-mills belonging to Sir Henry Brydges , and situated on EweU Marsh . Fortunately there were no men at work at the time , and the damage was confined to the blowing off of the roof . These explosions are of frequent occurrence , and it is seldom that they can be satisfactorily accounted for .

      The Northern Star Satd-Rday, March 29, 1845.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATD-RDAY , MARCH 29 , 1845 .

      ? Labour's Parliament. For The First Tim...

      ? LABOUR'S PARLIAMENT . For the first time in England ' s history have we an assemblage of mihd and _rowire worthy of bebg considered a REPRESENTATION of the toiling masses of our land . Wo have had , it is true , Conferences and Conventions before-time ; but all these have been more or le 6 s sectional—more or les 8 _jwr £ _i / -hued —more or less the representation of a peculiar " set " of opinions , rather than of the general opinions oi the general working * people . The present is the first gathering that can fairly lay claim to such a title ; and even to it such title can only be accorded in o !« gree .

      Considering the present state of apathy prevalent throughout the country on all questions that are wont to agitate the public mind ; considering , too , thatthe calling ofthe Conference haa been somewhat hasty , and necessarily imperfect ; considering that the object forwMch the delegates were to meet was not , and could not , be clearly defined and made clear ; considering that no settled plan of election had been decided on , or pointed out ; considering + hat no scale of representation was adopted , but ih 'at the idea of holding such Conference was a s 01 -fc of general idea , thrown generally out , to be

      eenv erally acted on , or not , as might seem nieei * to tfle P arties addressed : considering all these thing " - _* ' _** * 's no co-mmon _s-ght , nor no uninstructive lesson _* ° see onc _hundrert an ( * - delegates sent by bodies ** _^ _WOT-k er ' * - *•* P _*^ ° f the country , to devise son . , e Jacsss or ° t ner Dy "which Labour can secure its due n lrar ( * am * maintain its few remaining _privileges . - _*^ " - , are _^ _ked fact , of so numerous a

      body being sen * ' _^ P _sucu an errand , in response to 8 uch an inv . " _" _^ ion , speaks trumpet-tongued as to the condition of tne labourer . Had Labour been easyhad it been s ** *** •"* - * - _¦• satisfied—we should not have seen such a dehgati _<* ' _afld the fact , that Labour is thug seeking to reli . 8 ve itself from rank oppression , ought to enter deeply _~ ** nto _^* e consideration of those who fancy themselve *• *• " interested" in maintaining "things as they a re _* "

      Still the _hepbi-s * _* . _raiioN ofthe workers is far from being perfect . Itis ' far from general . It is more so than we had any reat , "On to hope it would be , from the causes we have namv w : it is sufficient to initiate measures , and take si * P * "which will lead to such perfect nEPEES-eNTATios - but it is not such of itself . We should only be de . » iving ourselves and the country were we to persu . _* de ourselves that it were more than it is , Wales is a * sent ; Scotland is absent ; Ireland is absent * . many pai ° t * of England are absent : _stillitis _^ « wrfj _** r / ectrepret . _station ofthe working

      classes thathas yet been seen . I' is the first body to whom can be applied . _&<" - tcrm _Labour ' s Pamiament . It is sufficient "to " - eaten the whole lump " : and from this _daV forward Labour must hold , in all questions rf political and _wcial polity , a far different posh'ion , from what it Mtherto haa done . Statesmen an _* d senators must consider it an element worthy of ca . Umlation : and they will speedily find it of that weight and importance , as to give a tone and colouring . to all their

      legislation . . To the deliberations of the delegates _iv-e invite special attention . The masterly opening of the _President , Mr . _Buncombb , _roll afford " _materials for thought" for the labouring poor , for many a long day after the Conference has dissolved . The hints and suggestions that that gentleman has thrown out will sink deep into the _-minfia of . the thoughtfiu , and

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      give rise to modes of action in relation to Labour questions that few would have deemed possible , only a little while ago . He has scattered good seed , which will take root , and fructify , and grow . He has set r equiRY at work—instigated the Trades to an examination of principles of action , and the result is sure to be an elimination of mind , leading directly and inevitably to improved modes of applying the power that knowledge gives .

      At present our remarks are purposely of a general nature . The sittings ofthe Conference are not ended . It will ill become us either to praise or condemn what has been done , or to anticipate what may be done . The delegates are here themselves to do their own work : as far as we are concerned they shall " fulfil their mission . " Aswe before observed , they will prepare the machinery for convening a TJJLL AND PERFECT RBrBESBHIAIION OF IHB _ORUER op labour : and if this alone was to be the result of their gathering , it would be worth ten times the cost and ten times tho labour that it haa taken to bring them together .

      ' Again calling attention to the reports of the deliberations in this day ' s Star , and promising to return to the subject when those deliberations are ended , we for the present take leave of it , with the expression of a fervent hope that a sttccessfid end may wait on what has been so happily begun .

      The "Infernalpaper-Money" Scheme, And It...

      THE "INFERNALPAPER-MONEY" SCHEME , AND ITS HIRED ADVOCATE . Op all thc duties that society imposes on the public journalist , the most thankless is that of having to e _* Kpose the tergiversations , the inconsistencies , or the downright apobiact of a living writer : the more especially if that writer happens to beonewho has made himself notorious as an advocate of the principles and political policy expoused and enforced by thejournalist making the expose : and the more especially still , if the two should happen to be conductors of different portions ofthe public press wliich respectively seek for the support of the labouring portion of the community , on the ground that each knows the causes

      that have operated to render their position in society one of almost unendurable misery—and that each also indicates and advocates the measures which are alone calculated to secure to the labourer the just return for honest toil , and place all sections of the community in a just and equitable relative position . The motives that actuate such journalist in unmasking hypocritical pretension , may be easily questioned ; his honest attempt to guard the sacred cause of human liberty from the polluted touch of the hired mercenary , who seeks the people ' s confidence that he may betray it into the hands of the most " greedy and most inexorable of tyrants" for filthy lucre , may be , by inconsiderate and unreasoning

      "disciples , " interpreted into an attempt "to drive a rival from the field ; " bis attempt to discharge a sacred public duty , may be met by torrents of vituperation and by coarse and unmeasured abuse ; hia statement of facts , and his fail * and legitimate inferences may be met with brazen and impudent denial , and all the powers of ridicule and sophistry possessed by an unscrupulous antagonist brought into full play , to avert attention from the real point at issue , and to set the public on a wrong scent , while the real fox gets safely earthed ; his incorruptible integrity , which impels him to sound the note of alarm whenhe sees the interests of the producing mass made matter of " bargain and sale , " becomes the mark at which malignant and _DisAPpoiNTED ENVY shoots her

      envenomed darts , and himself the object of the rancorous and deadly bate of the degraded being whose machinations he may have . timely thwarted ; and altogether the difiiculties and personal _liarassings attendant on such course are so great , so appalling , as to have detered many , even strong-minded men , from engaging in such contests : and thus have the " most greedy and most inexorable of the people's tyrants" been enabled to make the people instrumental to their own degradation and slavery , through the _cosriDESc-e which they have been led to repose in the teachings and suggestions of pretended but perfidious and false-hearted "friends !"

      Such fears , however , have not hitherto operated with us . The difficulties and thc harassments to which thc honest and truthful journalist ia ever exposed , have not either been to us unknown , or unfelt ; BUT 1 HEV HAVE SEVER TET ¦ _DBTMlREn "FROM IHB FEK--eoRMANCE op duty . We should despise ourselves , and deem ourselves totally unfitted for the post we occupy , should we allow such a cause to operate such an effect . Please whom it may—grieve whom it may—we have , on all occasions , freely examined the " bubbles ofthe hour , " and canvassed the pretensions of tlieir pro

      motel's : and whenever we have seen the " wolf " of "inexorable tyranny" presenting itself in the fold of labour , clothed in the " sheep-shin " of pretended sympathy and assumed championship , we have " doffed the hide from off the recreant limbs , " and exhibited the mass of rottenness and hypocrisy as it ought to be seen . This courso we have invariably pursued in the past , whenever doty called on us , regardless of the consequences to ourselves from thc causes we have above enumerated : this course we shall as invariably pursue in the future , as long as the pen can write or the tongue can wag .

      The paramount call of duti has led us , during the few weeks last past , to call attention to THE FACT that one of the _soi-disant" advocates of the people ' s rights j" one who has designated " _Volnby , Paine , CARrwniGHT , and Cobbett , as men without real knowledge , and himself as the only wise man ; " one who lays claim to the distinctive appellation of " the schoolmaster , " because of his having taught the working people who is their "friend" and who are their enemies ; we have had to call attention to THE

      FACT that this man—this man of men—this most distinguished of all politicians ; this stern , tins unyielding , this unflinching , this inflexible , this fearless , this incorruptible , _thisttnpurchateablcvZEEisDERofthc poople against their " most greedy and most inexorable tyrants : " we have had to call attention , we say , to THE FACT that this man , of all men in this world ; this pure and undeviating patriot , has lately become the publie advocate of a scheme which he has HIMSELF characterised as one which would "ROB

      honest creditors of half tlieir debts—enable bankers to accommodate demuinsolvents with fictitious capital —overrun the country with fresh swarms of middle-men usurers—and operate as an all-absorbing engine to suck the wealth of society out of tho hands of those who produce it , and silently transfer it , as it were by magic , into the hands oi commercial speculators , who , at the same time that they produce nothing , are the greediest and most inexorable of tyrants ;" that he has become such advocate in the teeth of

      the professions and teachings of a somewhat long political life ; and that he has done so because he is bikbd by a set of «» the greediest and most inexorable tyrants , " who have placed at his command a newspaper , which , it is notorious does not pay its own expenses—to set up which he had himself no meansand whose existence from week to week is only maintained by the "supplies" of those who require the apostate ' s aid to popularize a scheme which would enable them to " suck the wealth of society out of the hands of those who produce it . "

      Now , we admit , unreservedly , that tliis is a serious charge to make . We admit that such a charge , if ¦ made on light or frivolous" grounds—if made without proof , or semblance of proof , ought to cover the preferrerof it with infamy as black , with disgrace as overwhelming , as that which all good men will attach to the object of such charge , should it be true . And though the causes above enumerated have , no doubt ,

      operated much mischief in preventing needful exposures , yet there can be no doubt that they also have a beneficial effect in preventing needless and wicked _awiisationsfromliemgprefeiTed . If a public journalist hesitates to tell the truth , respecting a " brother of the press , " for fear that his motive may be misunderstood , and himself made the object of unceasing abuse , how much more will he hesitate before he _ventures distinct and palpable _ciarges of _yenality with-

      The "Infernalpaper-Money" Scheme, And It...

      out foundation to rest on ? With all this before our eyes ; with no disposition to underrate the powers of the party we are now pitted against ; with a vivid knowledge of his disposition towards this journal and all connecte d with it ; knowing , as we do , that tho mere mention of the name of the proprietor of the Northern Star in _thepresence ofthepartywearc thus tackling is sufficient to send him stark , staring , ranting ' mad- to make him rave , and curse , and swear , and blaspheme , for hours together ; knowing that such m ere mention of that name is sufficient to give our "friend" the " bowel complaint , " as it did at Leeds , where he lay for weeks together « _cft _« r < 7 « on the hands ot old Mr . and Mrs . Hotchinsoh , the latter of .- ,., n . _<•

      whom was a bsolutely horrified at the dreadful imprecations belched forth by the " classical teacher " on the head of one whose only fault was that he had administered to the necessities of " our Gbatefm ,, " and actually maintained liim during a long and tedious imprisonment * . aware of all this ; having a perfect knowledge of the sort of man we have to deal with—still non calls on us to prefer the charge we have above put forth , because we have proof that it is true ; and because , if we did not thus expose and frustrate the deep-laid and sinister designs of the " greediest and most inexorable of tyrants , " we should be fairly chargeable with _coimivawce in the schemes ofthe Bank-note schemers , who " wheedle the farmer out of his produce , '" and " suck together and concentrate the means of subsistence for

      nonlabourers . " As before intimated , we have made our charge . This was done plainly , distinctly , unequivocally , a few weeks ago . That charge has been replied to . It is denied . The denial we give in the language of the apostate . With that denial we then join issue , and proceed to adduce moors in support of our charge . Here is the denial : — Mr . O'Brien never advocated a metallic in preference to a paper currency since he was born . Mv . O'Brien has been , all his life , an advocate for a purely BjmboHc money , and never an advocate for money of intrinsic value , unless 86 an international currency for the

      liquidation of balances due from one state to another . And not even then ; but that gold and silver , heing in uni versal request , and less liable to excess and scarcity , as commodities , thau any other production of human labour , or than labour itself , and are , therefore , less exceptionable , as measures of value , than any other commodities that could be named , less exceptionable even than labour itself , -which is hardl y of the same marketable value in any two countries . But , if human labour were everywhere paid and protected as it ought to be , so that equal quantities of it might be equally productive and remunerative everywhere , Mr . _O'Bi'ieu would then he for a paper or symbolic currency only , for foreign as well- as home

      trade . Por labour would then be , what it ought always to have been , the true standard of value ; and the currency would consist simply of stamped bits of paper representing so many hours' , days' , weeks' , months ' , or , years' labour . This is the currency Mr . Robert Owen has advocated ; and on _thig point Mr . O'Brien has always professed and advocated the same doctrine as Robert Owen . At present , labour _isnot protected in England ; so , labour cannot be made the standard to which all measures of value should be referred . But we look forward with hope to the day of "Labour ' s emancipation , when labour _Bhall be tho true standard , and the labour note the only currency . To this consummation we have contribute *! one

      man ' s share , at least . With God ' s blessing we shall continue to do IO . But , while in pursuit of ihzoe reforms which can alone render the true standard and a perfect currency realizable , we shall miss no opportunity to promote tho best currency reform the circumstances of the timee may admit . For this purpose we advocate Mr . Taylor ' s views as the best adapted we have yet seen to existing circumstances . They oft ' er an effectual cure for Peel ' s destructive Act of 1819 . They are fraught with relief to tbe struggling debtor interest ! of the country . They demand no more than strict justice for those who have suffered , and are still suffering , by the arbitrary appreciation of our one-pound , or unit of account . Above

      all , they afford the only relief that is possible fer the productive classes , under the existing system of landed monopoly and commercial competition . They do not comprise all we look for , far from it ; but they are good as far as they go , better than anything proposed by tlic factions that rule us ; and , as we make it a rule never to oppose anything that is good in itself , however » hort it may fall of our desires , but , on the contrary , always fire it our feeble support , on this ground , aud this only , we have advocated , and shall continue to advocate Mr . Taylor ' s Currency Reforms till we can get the country up to the mark to help us to those more extensive and enduring reforms which shall make the land national property ,

      restore to every man his right of occupation , extend those advantages of credit , now monopolised by the upper and middle clauses , to every producer of wealth , and revolu ionise the whole system of commerce and exchange , in the ways we have so often described , so that no workman will need to ask a profit-monger ' s leave to hea slave , to save himself from starvation , and that every producer of an article will be able to obtain at once the full value of his produce at a public mart or exchange bazaar , in goods of equal value or in a labour note that shall give him a claim to such goods whenever he chooses to present it for payment . This is the doctrine we have always held . The man who pretends the contrary to the working dosses , is an impostor .

      The writer denies that he ever advocated a metallic currency—and asserts that he was " always" for a paper currency of some sort or other . We rejoin , nicA statement is not true . It is in the teeth of fact . The writer of the above denial has been long known , both as an adherent to the principle that" money " should , of itself , _ha-ve an " intrinsic value , " and also as an opponent of paper money . . This we shall prove . It shall not rest either on our assertion or his denial .

      To hia works we shall go . They shall speak both for him and for us . His own words—his own avowal of currency principles , in his own language , shall be given ; and then it will be seen who is the . [ We were going to quote a word here , _composed of four letters , which our angry " friend" has in constant use . As , however , we have not had the advantage of a " clamcal education ; " and as such a word might subject us to a charge of vulgarity , we abstain . ]

      It was in the beginning of the year 1831 that the man who " never advocated a metallic , in preference to a paper currency , " wasfirst heard ofinthe Radical world as a writer . He published a few articles in " Carpenter ' s Political Pamphlets , " under the signature , Brohterre , At that time Ms means of living were but slender . He had come up "to town" to obtain employment as a " classical teacher . " By some means or other he was thrown in among the Democrats , and got his feet thvust under Mr . Hdht _' s mahogany . Mr . Hunt , it is well known , was no writer . Whenever anything particular in that way

      was needed , he had to depend much on the aid of others . Therefore he had to form acquaintanceship and keep up connection with parties who found such connection operate to their advantage . At the time we speak of , the "Poor Man's Guardian" was also in existence . The main writer in it was a Mr . _Mathbw , a gentleman who had been concerned , we believe , in originating the publication . The articles of _Bbontjerbe in the Political Pamphlets having attracted attention , arrangement * were made for his conducting the Poor Man ' s Guardian ; and it was placed unreservedly in his hands .

      It is from that publication that we are about to quote . We shall not give extracts from " communications , " or from " articles of news , " but from the Guardian ' s own "leaders . " The question of the Currency was then no new question . It was one that had been brought prominently before the public . The Currency measures themselves had forced it on public attention . There had been " Rank Restriction" during the war ; there had been the efforts to resume cash payments at the end ofthe war ; there had been the wonderful ebbings and flowings of " temporary prosperity" and devastating misery ; there had been the " setting of the currency question at rest for ever'" by the passing of Peel ' s Bill of 1819 ; there had been the

      insolvencies , the bankruptcies , and the general alarm produced by the attempt to put that Pekl ' s Bill in force ; there had been the putting out of the onepound notes again in 1822 ; and there had been the unseeml y _fioctstjof _Paosnoa- nr Robinson in 1824 there had been " THE PANIC of 1825-6 , when more than one hundred banks blew up , from sheer " PROSPERITY" alone ! when the _rtZrtZ _counii-y were m such a state , that one of the Minis - ters himself averred that " we _«¦«•< within forty-eight hours of _im ? there had been the suppression of the one-pound notes again ; and there had been the woe , and want ,, and ruination , caused by the second attempt to carry into force the provisions of the _iCAsn-PAVMi-v , _Bna- of p * there had , hesideaJHEs , been the teachings of Wiluam Cobbett

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      who , from the year 1810 , had made the Currency question his own ; and who , in his Weekly Register , had reasoned on it so acutely—had stripped it of all mystery—had rendered it so plain , and so easily to be understood , that it had become " as familiar as an household word" to the tens of thousands who weekly read that great man ' s writings . His opinions on the matter were well known , lt was _impostibh to mistake him . He was " always , " from the publication of the first portion of his " Paper against Gold , " when confined in Newgate for libel , in 1810 , to tbe last hour of his life , the advocate o f a _golu currency—and totally , wholly , unreservedly , opposed to all systems of paper-money . « _ _i _» at , * .. _„«* . _1 Q 1 A \\ aA _-moiIa _flift _Piiwnnnu

      But while Cobbett was thus teaching , there was a party in the country who taught the opposite . At the head of this party was Mr . Thomas Attwood , the banker , of Birmingliam . He and his friends were continually calling for the re-issue of the one-pound notes , and for the re-enactment of Bank-Restriction . In other words , they were continually calling tor immense issues of " Promiscs-to-pay ; " with astatutary provision that the parties so promising should not be called on to pay : and that if they were , the law should protect them in tlieir refusal ! Such was thc Atiwooo plan . It is hardly necessary to say that such apian met with no mercy from " Old Cobbett . " He

      exposed its inherent dishonesty—its flagrant injustice—its utter foolishness—in his own inimitable manner . Still the Attwood men kept the field _. Still they kept reiterating thoir demand for the abolition ofthe Gold Currency and the substitution of Inconvertible Paper . At length , on the 19 th of August , 1832 , Ms . Cobbbti was induced to give Mr . Attwood and his " Birmingham Council" an invitation to a public debate of their respective opinions and plans , on the subject of the Currency , " before the people of Birming ham . Such invitation waa accepted : and the " debate" took place on the 28 th day of the said month of August , 1882 .

      We are not about to give a report of the " debate " on that occasion ; but wc must give the propositions each party laid down , as those that they would defend and maintain . This is necessary to enable us to fully understand the " INFINITE PREFERENCE" of our present _Papcr-Money " friend , " to which we shall , just now , have to call attention . Those propositions , therefore , we give—calling special attention to THE PRINCIPLES involved in eaeh

      set . Mr . Attwood appeared to advocate what ho called " mi action on the currency , '' which said " action " was described in an address to Lord Grey , presented some little time before to that Minister , by the "Birmingham Council * , " and Mr . Cobbett was allowed to take that address as defining the tort of " action" Mr . Attwood meant to defend . From that address we givo the following proposals : — 1 . The making of silver a standard of value and a legal tender , as it is in every other country in the world , and as it was in England , from the commencement of English history , until the disastrous monetary measures of 1816 and 1819 were adopted .

      2 . The allowing of the Bank of England to issue £ 1 notes , and the making of Bank of England notes legal tenders from all persons whatever , except the Bank of England itself . 3 . The inducing the Bank of England forthwith to issue the bank notes , which have been recently withdrawn from circulation , and to increase its circulation permanently , from the present reduced amount of seventeen millions at the termination of the quarter , to at least twenty-five millions at the termination of the quarter , which in the opinion of your _mcmoriiiliets is the lowest amount under which tho necessary profits of industry and the beneficial employment of labour throughout the country , ean he restored and preserved .

      That your memorialists apprehend that your Lordship must clearly foresee that a period is rapidly approaching in which this great subject must be grappled with , and in wliich it will "be found absolutely necessary for Parliament either to adjust the monetary system of the country to the existing state of society , or otherwise to cut down the public and private burdens of society into conformity with the present monetary system ; and your memorialists respectfully represent to your lordship that in their opinion the latter process will be found to be utterly impracticable , aud that if attempted it will result in universal anarchy ; and your memorialists further respectfully suggest that it would be most unwise to defer the decision of this great question until compelled by _circumitances , the pressure of which will allow no time for reflection . Mr . Cobbett _' s propositions were : —

      1 . Not by any means to depart in any degree whatsoever FBeM THE PBE 8 ENT MONEY STANDARD OF THE COUNTBI , 2 . To take all the public property ; namely , the crownlands , the crown-estates , the woods and forests , the Duchies of Cornwall and of Lancaster , the real property now possessed by the bishops , deans , and chapters ; and to enforce the rigid payment and collection of all arrears due to the public from defaulters ; and , in case of their being dead , pursue their heirs and assigns rigidly , according to the letter of the well-known aud most admirable " Statute of Public Accountants , " passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , and still unrepealed ; and to make the receivers of all unmerited pensions , sinecures , and grants , " public accountants , " and pursue them and their heirs and assigns accordingly .

      8 . To take the whole of what is called the national debt ; and , in the first place , reduce it one-half in amount , we having , for many years been paying twice as much interest as is due to the fundholders , even supposing it to be a debt that we are bound to pay at all . 4 . Then cease to pay interest upon a quarter part of this half at the end of six months , and soon iu order that interest might cease to be paid upon any part of it at the end of two years . 6 . Then appoint a board of five commissioners to receive and examine the claims of suffering fundholders , and leave it to that board to make such compensation as might be found "consistent with justice to the nation and humanity to the parties , but of the proceeds of the property mentioned before .

      e . To disband the standing , army , abolish all _internal taxes whatsoever , raise a revenue of from , six to seven millions a year in custom-house duties , making this Government as cheap as that of America , and never _suft ' ering an Englishman again to see the odious face of a taxgatherer with an ink-bottle at his button-hole , leaving for the people to keep for their own use the fifty-four millions a year , now pocketed by the tax-collectors in part , while the rest is sent up to London . 7 . To make au equitable adjustment of all contracts and debts .

      On the 15 th of September , 1882 , tho man who now says that" he never advocated a metallic in preference to a paper currency since he was born , " and who "hasbeen all his life an advocate for a purely symbolic money , and never for money of intrinsic value , " thus wrote ofthe great Birmingham Debate identifying himself with the proposals and the _Currency-prineiplegofCoimuTT _. and _deckringayatwahose of Mr . Attwood , whicli latter are precisely those that he now holds ! We beg careful attention to the following extract . It is valuable , not only for the

      proof it affords that our charge of apostacy is true , but also for the vivid and truthful description of TIIE EFFECTS that must follow the adoption of the paper-money scheme which the writer so ably exposed and denounced at that time , and which he NOW so mendaciously advocates , His own words form thc best answer that can be given to his present pleading for a measure which would "just yield a bubble , of prosperity , which would soon disappear from the surface , and leave the surges of society more troubled than ever . " Do hear them : and let the writer of tliem upset his own positions if he can —

      Friends , Brethren , and Fellow-Countrymen , —You have all heard ofthe great fight at Birmingham between citizens Attwood and Cobbett , on the Currencv Question "We should have noticed it sooner , but _, hav n ? oE fish to £ _^^ to _*^^^«« J « S 32 w _2 Respecting the monetary system , these gentlemen arc AZoS . 1 Tr eaa ° f tW ° 0 PP _<»^ te schools . Mr . Attwood s plan of relieving the country Is ( what he calls ) " an action on the currency ; " that is to say , such an expansion or _im circulating medium as would _opjeeate TO A VIRTUAL ABOLITION OP ONE-HALF OP OUE PUBLIC ESTA _BLISHMENTS , AND A REDUCTION OF ALL OCR DEBTS . PUBLIC _Asn _raiVATB _, X 0 ONE HALF TUEIft _tuaSHT AtSOVST This m a glorious scheme for insolvents ! and indeed for every man ( and they are a great majority ) whose debts exceed their credits , and who would therefore ( to use an expression of tho ' rimes ) rather pay in surface than in Cobbett

      weight Mr . , on the ofher hand , would do directly and " above board" what his antagonist would do ituil rectlj ,, _hkeaUiiefm . the _iiight- " that is to say , hcvZtd attack the establishments instead of the _cuBaENcyW cast thm down , as also their monied _obligate , to ( he _PKESENT METALLIC STANDARD , by _RETRENCHMENT AND " EQUITABLE AD _. _USXMEVT . _" He * „ l _aj _^ _^ _^ _-makeaaleof the tithes and _church-lands-confiscate th ,. revenues of corporationS-a „ d with th d proceeds of other public property , pay 6 ff an adjusted portion of , the " National" Debt . To ' the rich _crS _* who hid knowingly invested his property , in the funds he would very proper y , give nothing . _Theloan-jobbers and gambling scoundrels who live by " watchino- + i , » ? * the market , " he would refer for _Spen f a _« on T _^ Devil on whom they- have a f _. ir _^ _ZS _^ _l 0 _tl their _hves to his service ; but as reMwl Q + CI , 1 _ueJot *< - holders , and especiall y tUe _% ? £ _&& _££ * _£

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      were plunged into the stocks by guardians , chancellors , fee , without their knowledge and consent—to these and the like , Cobbett would , on the score of humanity ( for humanity enters largely into all his views ) yield a moderate compensation , proportional to their several claim * , and to the proceeds of public property already specified . Of the two plans , "WE INFINITELY PREFER COBBET T'S ! Without denying that Attweod _' s scheme would yield temporary relief , or pretending to say that tftat of his opponent would be productive of all the advantages he wnrA _tilnnirpd into the ctnnke bv cuardians . chaiicellorR

      anticipates from it , we _mwstpronomcc Cobbett ' s plan to be , BEYOND all COMPARISON , *** best for the working dosses . Itis the best , for the very reason Attwood considers it the worst , namely , because " it leads to the destruction of thc present commercial system . " You have onl y one chance of salvation ( independently of your own exertions ) , and that is the pecuniary embarrassments of the middle claHes As long as tliey enjoy " prosperity , " _wlkcfter b y an _artificial papeb . credit , or any oilier means , so long there U no esflape for you ' from slavery .

      Why were labourers in England better off six hundred years ago than they are now , aud this notwithstanding that their facilities of increasing wealth are enormously multiplied ? Simply because society was then less _artificial th 3 fi itis now . The aristocracy were few iu number and there was hardly a middle class at all . But in latt » _Umws , "ESPECIALLY SINCE THE l _* S 1 UOI > uO'nON OF _TAYElll & _OXFiYandmachinery _. _thcnoii-prodiioticeclasstshave enormously multiplied ; and TIIE CONSEQUENCE is , that we have now five idlers at least io maintain , where ouninccjtor _* had one , and our industry is forcibly employed Jn _produwne all manner of luxuries for these , instead of necessaries for

      ourselves . This is the real cause of our misery ; and until it is removed , there can never again be prosperity for the workmen of England . Now , _Uu ( ffed of Aliwood _' scurrently scheme would be TO AGGRAVATE THIS ARTIFICIAL STATE , so ruinous to industry ; it would opebate as ah act of insolvency for half the traders iu tlm country and just put them into a condition to commence a new career of " commercial prosperity" and fortune making unless , indeed ( what is almost certain ) some tremendous explosion , like the panic of 1820 , should blow tlic whole _FHA-UBULENT SYSTEM to atoms , in consequence of the banking and other speculations to which it would give

      rise . WE HAVE A PERFECT ABHORRENCE OF ATT . WOOD'S SCHEME ! It would be a flagitious robbery on all servants , clerks , annuitants , » nd _otlic-r persons employed at fixed salaries for specific periods of time . Qua main objection is , that it would , even if successful , onh make society more artihcial than ever . The best that can be said of it is , that tt would le a godsaul to bankrupt merchants and insolvent tradesmen ! To these it would jnst yield a bubble of prosperity , which would soon disappear from the surface , and leave the surges of society more troubled than ever . —[ Jams Bronlerre 0 'l } ri '* n ,- « tA « Poor Man ' s Guardian , Sept . 15 (/ i , 183 * 2 , before lie liad bun hired by " a set of the greediest and most inexorable of tyrants " to write exactly the opposite . ]

      Now , in reading the above , lot the principles in . volvetl in the writer ' s " _INFINITE pkeferekce" be borne in mind . Let it be remembered that Mr . Cobbett always pleaded for a " metallic" currency , and scouted " paper" of all sorts ; that in this debate he had done the same ; that his first proposi tion _statce the principle ; that gold ( how very like a " metal ! " ) was then , as now , the only " standard ;" that to these notions—these principles of Currency , advocated by Mr . Cobbett , the Poor Man ' s Guardian , declared his "INFINITE PREFERENCE ! " and " pronounced Cobbett ' s plan to be , beyond all comparison , the best for the working classes ! " We also desirethereadertonotice " THE CONSEQUENCE "

      of thc introduction of paper-money ; " as well as the effect described aa sure to follow an expansion ofthe circulating medium . Let him read the above extract three times over , or even oftener , until he has got all the reasoning and all the representations in it firmly fixed in the mind : and then let him inform himself that the very same writer that penned the above indignant denunciation of " FLAGITIOUS ROBBERY , " now advocates an _cspansfon ofthe cuneney precisely similar in principle to that of whicli he had formerly " a p _eufeci ABHORRENCE ! " but an _t » - pansion more than double in amount to that proposed by Attwood--and consequently carrying with it more than double the amount of evil described

      as appertaining to the " godsend for bankrupt merchants and insolvent tradesmen !" Aye , hut we have not yet done with our" _ecliook master . " It was not one lesson only of thc above character that he taught . There were many of them . On the 27 th of October , 1832 , he held forth as follows . The occasion was the announced determination of the Birmingham working people to be liolonger " led" by the nose by the "Birmingham Council ; " bat that they would start a National Political Union of themselves ; for working men seeking Universal Suffrage . Commenting on that avowed determination , and on a projected meeting on Newall-hill to carry such determination into effect , our Anti-Paper-Money teacher said * . —

      We want men who will give unto others as well as tabs to themselves . * We want patriots who can see the " prac ttcaoiiitjl" of a hill of Reform for us , as well as of one for themselves . We want patriots who can look forward to Reform for other benefits besides that op a DEPaEciATBD cobbencv which would rob honest creditors of , half their debts—Gmlle banters to accommodate dmi-imol * ' « ntj with FICTITIOUS CAPITAL—overrun ihe country with fresh swarms of middle-men usurer **—and operate as an all-absorbing engine to suck the wealth of society out of the hands o ( those who produce it , and silently transfer it , as it were by magic , into the hands of commercial speculators , who , at the same time that they produce nothing , are the greediest and most inexorable of tyrants . In short , wc

      want Reformers who , when they may require our services , will use us as fellow-citizens , not servants , and _co-operaU with us as equals , not dictate to us as masters . This being the description of men we want , we must have nothing to do with those " expediency" politician ! , Who owe all tlieir patriotism to Peel's Bill , "We must keep aloof from those wily con-formers ( _reformers they are not ) who have been / orced into our route only by the return to cash payments , and who would persuade Earl Grey that the " Reform Bill has opened hell under Our feet unless he will put out the one-pound notes again ! " With orators like these we must have nothing tO dO , _unlCBS they will descend from the stilts of

      leadership , and consent to enter our ranks as common privates . If the Attwoods , the Muntzes , the Joneses , the _Kadlejs , Ac . & c , will condescend to do this , then , fellow-countrymen , receive them with open arms , and raise them to the highest post of honour which a people ' s confidence can . bestow ; but if they make it a condition of tlieir service--that you must first renounce Universal Suffrage , and consent to get "POSSESSED" OP THE SEVEN DEVILS OF PAPER . MOSEY— . spurn at once tlieir contaminating patronage , and trust only to yourselves and to your Radical leaders . —[ James Bronterre O'Brien , in the Poor Man ' s Guardian , Oil . 27 tt , 1832 , before he _soUhimself to those "POSSESSED OF THE SEVEN DEVIL S OF _PAPER-MONEY . " }

      There ' . what does the reader think of that ? Th © KKrecxs of a DEPRECIATED _CUIUIENCY are pretty well described : and honest folk would have imagined that the bare recollection of having one * written as above , would have prevented any man , the most shameless and most unprincipled that ever lived , from publicly advocating a DEPRECIATION more than double in extent and action of the one he there so indignantly reprobates . But our proofs are not yet exhausted . We shall give onc or two more . Whenever we undertake a task , we like to go through with it . A job half done is not done at all . Ours , this time , shall be cofli » plete .

      The meeting of the Birmingham working men , above spoken of , was held in Beard-jail ' s Repository . Independence of the Attwood '* Council '' -control u » proclaimed . This threw the " Council" into sisira They had hoped to retain their hold of the " masse *" in Birmingham , as a means of forcing from _Eiwl Grky ' s Government the measure which would " ¦ ' - honest creditors of half their debts . " "With thc people went all chance of success for the " execraW scheme . " Loud and lugubrious , therefore , were the lamentations of " the Council : " and on those lamentations our Anti-Paper Money "friend" thus discoursed

      ;—Muntz says the Whi g Reform Bill will be a " very < - " *• blessing and advantage , " hut that Universal SuliV ** _8 " would not benefit any class . " Aye , to be sure , Mun _» the Whi g Bui will be a great blessing ( o you and the W « _fl s ou . It will , in all probability , give you a llouse of Commons , that will give you the one-pound notes again . Itm _<*/ enable your insolvent Council to om bid of uALt thtv ( kbtS BY A CENT . PER CENT , DEF 8 _"SCTAT _10 N , ana" fiout t *« ' sinking establishments once more on the spring-tide of a flC " _xmo-js _cAriTAt . It might indeed prove a great bless *" * to sou aud them , by restoring the _ciobioos days of ft ** AND _PAW-n-MOJ-ET _, when the middle-men made fortunrt as fast as they made children , but at the same time hid •*»

      FOraUATION OF TEARS AND SLAVERY FOR TUB NATION AT LARGE . Look at this moment to the environs of Birmingham ; see all the beautiful villas on ** roads leading from the Five Ways Turnpike . Ask *« M are the lords of these mansions , and you will find ** ' are all retired middle-men , who made _fomphis * _*" palmy days of Pitt and paper-money . They are uow lirif inluxurj and idleness , onthe sweat of the people ; _*« incomes being but so many mortgages on the bones and tn _** ' of the wealth-producers . Ryland is said to be worth _a _» least three hundred _thousand , pounds . ScholefieW * tb * banker , is worth . half as much _. The Tanners , _& 9 Busbys , and even the Attwoods are all of the same gem * Though _Attwood _' s grandfather was a common nailer a *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29031845/page/4/