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fHENOR THERN STAR September 9, 1848. ^ ^...
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" ? MR O'CONNOR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
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On Monday week, tbe 18tli instant, tlie ...
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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 1818.
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LABOUR, THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH. It is>...
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We pass over every General Election, fro...
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. The session which ...
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Fhenor Thern Star September 9, 1848. ^ ^...
fHENOR THERN STAR _September 9 , 1848 . _^ _^ _^ _ BE
——M^—Z-Wm-^Bmm ___________M----** ___________ --- \\______Z A List Of Books Now Pubushtto Bt B.D. Cousins, 18, Duke-Street , Likcoiik'b-Is'!! Fields, Lohdoh.
_——M _^—Z-Wm- _^ Bmm ___________ m---- _** ___________ --- \\______ Z A LIST OF BOOKS NOW _PUBUSHttO BT B . D . COUSINS , 18 , DUKE-STREET , LIKCOIiK ' _b-IS' !! FIELDS , _LOHDOH .
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THE SHEPHERD , by the Rav . J E . Smith _M-A . Vol . I , price 5 i . 6 d .-Vol . ir . Pri < " _»«• - _* 111 . _prico 6 a . 6 d . cloth _boards ; or the three volumes in one , _haU-bouod ia calf and lettered price IBs . _efataHon ofO _^ _nUm _. b _, _••****' ' _ J ™**' with a reply , by the _Eev . J . E . Smith , MA . If _JotoS partMK of aStSimonlan _FenicIe ; translated by theBev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is The Little Book , addressed to _theBahop of Exeter aud _Rnhrrt Owen , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . 6 d . ;
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AnEttrnal Hell : —Twelve Reasons for not Believing in the Doctrine . The Almighty God : —Twelve Reasons for Believing is liis Existence . he D _^ vil : —Twelve Reasons for _koz Believing in his . Existence . The Immortality of the Soul—Twelve Reasons for Believing the Doctrine . TheLake of Fire , —Hell , mot a Place of Punishment but of r Progressiva and Endless Felicity ; proved by Scripture . N . B . _—Prica of each ofthe above Pamphlets , 2 d , if by post , three penny post stamps . '
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! n one volume , eloth boards , priee Ss . 61 , post free , the iedieal Monitor . _ByDrDePrati . This work may also be had in Parte , each Part containing a Treatise on an of the Diseases of the Human Frame . _ttmVUm , ~ T * ? oa Consumption , price One Sail-« n _* c ; by post , Is . ii . ' _iwSmT 0 " _!^* ' 1 > i , eMM of b ° th Sexe s . Price _OneShiHtogand _Sixpecce ; by po , t , _ls . 8 d . posSs id l 041 « _^ ' _Priee 0 ae Shilling ; by _J ' _i 'T ° . ? .. _™ filIa » and _Diwaseaof the Skin , price One _SaUllng and Sixpenee ; by post , ls . 8 d . The Farthing Journal . A _pesrl of small price . In "x ty . ua numbers , at One Farthing eaoh ; in Six Parts , at Threepence each ; or In One Volume , neatiy _boaal- _gut lettered , for Two Shillings , ihe _ninely-MattediKo , ofthe Farthing _Jouraal , the Wonder ef _Twp * the eBVy of "nr » uidlng booksellers _, j . 8 Journal _sEat in a volume , post tree , at tbe published prioe . Sead tweaty . foar _peany ¦ samps
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THE LABOUR LEAGUE ; or , Journal of the _Na-TIOBAJ . _TBABES' A 8 SOCUTION . _lublished Weekly , Price One Penny . Especially devoted to the e ' ovation of the * producing classes , and to the exposure ofthe causes which lead to their present degradation . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head passage , Paternoster-row , and sold by all booksellers and news agents ; and at tbe office ofthe National Trades' Association , ll , Tottenham-court-road ,
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HOW AND WHERE TO EMIGRATE . This day ia published , price-Is each , by J . C . Btbke _, Esq ., Author of' Twelve Tears Wandering in the fili British Colonies . ' THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . With a Map ofthe Colony . THE EMIGRANT'S GUID !* TO NEW SOUTH WAIE 3 PROPER . Australia Felix , and South Austraba-( Filth Editif n . ) Also , by the same Author fin a few days ) , mHE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO NATAL . J _ With a Map . London Effingham Wilson , Commercial and Colonial Bookseller and Stationer , 11 , Royal Exchange .
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TO BE SOLD . A FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , at Lowbands , well cropped ; wheat , one acre and one reed ; barley , half an acre , cut and stacked . There are seventy fruit trees , a pig-sty capable of centaining from six to ten pigs , witha wellfenced-ruu . Communications to be addressed ( with a postage stamp enclosed ) to Mr O'Brien , schoolmaster , Lowbands , Redmarley , near Gloucester .
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Will be published in a day or two , THE TRIAL OF DR M'DOUALL at Liverpool , onthe mhov _Angufttlast . Printed and published by Mr A . Haywood , of Man-Chester .
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SNIG'S END . _~ TO BB SOLD , A _THREE-ACRE ALLOTMENT , well _cropped , consisting of Barley , Potatoes , Turnips , Vetches , Peas , Cabbages , & c . . Application to be made to W . G ., No . 9 . Snig ' s End , or to the Directors , 114 , High Holborn , London .
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MINSTER LOVEL . TO BE SOLD , A FOUR-ACRE FARM , ( full cropped , Three Pigs . Tools , and Implements , with _various additions to tbe House and Premise * . Apply to T . Gilbert , 34 , _Brizenorton-road , Minster ) Lovel , Oxfordshire , or to the Directors , 114 , High Holborn , London .
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TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , aad H . R . H . Prince Albert . ; NOW READT , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ ind Co ., 12 , Harfcsfreet , Bloomsbury . sq . uare , near Oxford _, street , London ; and by G . _Beboeb ,. Holywell-street , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely execsted and _mperWy coloured PRINT . The elegance ef this Print excels _anybeforepnblished _, accompanied with the Newest Style , and _extra-fitfing Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable _dreBsWalstcoat Pattern , and an extra-fitting Habit Pattern of *• he newest and most elegant style _offashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price l 6 s . postfree lis . of for
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_RECEIPTS OF THE NATIOWAI . _IiBWB COMPANY , FOR THB WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 7 , 1818 . PES MR O'CONNOR . IHABE 8 . £ _f . d . Butterley ~ 2 0 0 Stoney Stratford , Stockport - 10 0 0 Watson .. 411 6 Easington Lane 010 0 Oldham .. 0 6 6 Rochdale .. 1 15 0 Atherstone -. 0 15 0 Nottingham , _Newark-on-Trent 215 o _Swest m S 5 9 Loughborough .. 8 12 11 Blandford M 110 Preston . Liddle 6 12 S Manchester - 2 2 6 Westminster » 0 5 0 Chelsea - 213 0 Tbos Thornberry 0 14 0 Windy Nook .. 0 9 0 John Anderson .. 10 0 . £ 46 8 1 _SXPBNSB FUND . / , Thomas Thorn- _NottingHam , berry .. 0 2 0 Sweer .. 0 3 6 Rochdale M 0 6 0 _Newadc-on-Trent 6 3 9 / £ 0 13 3 Land Fund ..-M <•• 46 8 1 Expense Fond ... ... ... 0 13 3 l ml 1 " -I 'Bank m .- \ _£% , ... 58 0 0 il 05 _ 1 __ 4 Wm . Duok . _Chmitophm Doilb , Taoi . Cum , ( Cones . Seo , ) Pauu M , 'Qii . ia , ( Fln . Seo . ) FOR _FAMILIeToF VICTIMS . XEOEIVED BT W . BIOIS . HMBBrigg .. 0 10 Pottery Field , Rugeley , per C Leeds , per J Hill .. 640 Page ' M 950 Coventry , per W Afew poor Devils , Hosier .. 0 S 0 _Carlisle , per W . _Swansea , per J HaU M 0 2 9 | Phillips - 010 0 £ 17 9 i r r To Mr PhjjXUfs , Swansea . —I beg to say that I have not received the Ss . lid . for tbe Victims , directed for me at the National Land Company ' s office . I cannot say why Mr Phillips ' s letters are not answered . Wh . _Ridei . _xscxived it lwv office " . A few Friends , Wm Davism - 0 1 0 Greenwich , per An Znerm te Mr _Whitcoaibe 014 0 Oppresjon „ 10 0 Mr Sims .. 0 6 0 Ditto Mt « 0 5 0 M £ 2 6 6 DEFENCE FVD , MOEIVra XT _^ RlDBB . Nottingham , per jffa Gale , St J Sweet ~ 0 13 _Sleliers , Jersey 0 0 6 Jrtf Anngien , Ely 0 4 0 \\ m f .. mmm . / £ 0 5 9 FOR DR M'DOBALL'S DEFENCE . ' EECBlVElf BT W . RIDKB . Nottingham Shoe . I New _Basford , pe makers , per f J Fletcher .. n 9 0 J Fletcher _« 0 2 | 6 Old Radford , I perditto „ o a o F _JMliJi THE IlBERTY FUND . " Ten Chartists , Kiddeiftinster , per _WYeates * 0 2 6 FO # THE J 5 XECOIIVB . Pottery Field , I « efl / per J Page .. „ „ o 5 o FOE UBS M _' _DOOilL . Tea Chartists , Kidderminster , per J _Teates „ 0 5 0 m _* _MBa
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MR O'CONNOR'S PROPOSITIONS . TO THE MEMBERS O F ~ THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . As it is the intention ofthe Directors to visit each branch of the Company in support of their views for , _ts future mangement , and to abide by the resolutions of the members , we think it impolitic , and a useless encroachment on the columns of the Mar , to publish resolutions adopted previous to the contemplated interview of the Directors with the members . _STAiJBRaog . —At a large meeting of the members of the Land Company _. held at the Foresters' Hall , on Wednesday the 23 d nit ., and comprising the ABhton _, Uakenfield , Mottram , and Stalybridge branches all of the alterations , as proposed by the Directors , were agreed to . Messrs M'Grath and Clark were present to give suoh explanation a ? might be required trom them .
Mextihqs _, at which Messrs M'Grath and Clark attended , were held at Stockport , on Thursday , tte 24 th ult . —Oldham , Friday , the 25 th—Rochdale , Monday , the 28 ; h—Bnry _, Tuesday , the 29 * h—Preston , September the 4 th . At eaoh of these neetings the propositions of the Directors were agreed to with great unanimity . Chartsevillb . —Since tbe fine weather set in tie allottees have bean very busy getting in their harvest crops—and st the backs of many of the cottages may now be seen staoks of either wheat , barley , or
eatsthey are Btill active , getting in potatoes , etc . The milldew has slightly affected the corn and the _diseue slightly damaged the potatoes , bat , generally , they are fine and more healthy than these in the surrounding villages , and will brirg seven shillings per _saok en the gronnd . Mr S . Kydd paid a visit on Sunday , and leotured in the School Honse to a numerous audience , —some portion of the audience having come a distance of thirteen miles to hear his lecture on the' Organisation of Labour , ' which save general satisfaction ! , _WHPff
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TO BE SOLD , a COTTAGE FARM , consisting of an exoellent dwelling houae , quite new , with dairy , back-kitchen , _ooc-honse , piggeries , Btabline , and other conveniences , enclosed with a high wo !! . The dwelling : ia in tho centre of the farm , consisting of * onit acres of exoellent land , in high cultivation , facing the highway ; air pure and salubrious , and the water excellent . A similar farm with Fivb Acres . Also , Two Aches , with an excellent frontage , bul without a dwelling . A _FdrmofSixir-nru Acbb 3 with a oottage d weJling , two lar 6 e yards for cattle , with extenaive _Bheds , and an excellent bam . Two thirds of the purchase money can be obtained on mortgage . Application to be made to Mr Allsop , Royal _Exchange , London .
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Price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING
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PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL . Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first vie tira of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits . '
" ? Mr O'Connor And His Constituents.
_" _? MR O'CONNOR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS .
On Monday Week, Tbe 18tli Instant, Tlie ...
On Monday week , tbe 18 tli instant , tlie bon . member for Nottingham will meet his constituents in any public p lace tliey may select , and will carry into effect tivo Points of the Charter , namely—Annual Parliaments , and Universal Suffrage , by tendering
his resignation to the / _ieople ; and which , if accepted , he will chjferfully resign the ofiice of their representaJrve , and / if refused , lie will accept their Knewed confidence as the tenure of office _^ Vlr O'Connor upon that occasion will review" the acts of the past session , and invites the Government reporters , policemen , spies , detectives , and informers , to chronicle his words .
The Northern Star, Saturday, September 9 , 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR , _SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 9 , 1818 .
Labour, The Source Of All Wealth. It Is>...
LABOUR , THE SOURCE OF ALL WEALTH . It is > fact which cannot be too often reiterated , that "Labour is the source of all wealth . " And it is also a fact , that ignorance , stolid and inveterate ignorance , of the Labour question , has become thedethroner of kings , the alarmist of monarchs , the hobgoblin of capitalists , and the ghost of Governments , It is an irrefutable fact , thatthe operations of machinery have stolen upon the watchmen
of England ' s constitution _, and the English system , like a thief in the dark ; and tbat , so profitable was the sudden change in its inf ancy to the revenue , the capitalist , aod the fascinated labourer , that there are no laws upon the statute book to control the monster , save tbe abortion of a Ten Hours Bill , passed when infant labour was a drug , and the infant population had become dwarfs , and so crippled as to threaten sterility and non-production .
The Government , charmed with an exchequer filled by increased and unnatural dissipation ; the capitalist , exulting in the new discovery of coining infant-sweat into gold ; and the reckless parents , who abandoned their " cold , quiet home "—the country air , and comparative contentment and peace , and sold themselves and little child-en at the flesh market , were so overjoyed with the first flush of prosperity , that the Government , capitalists .
traders , merchants , traffickers in blood , and the duped people , all joined in one common league to establish that political reform which would give to the possessors of this new wealth a control over every other class of society . Anj that change was to secure Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform—that change was to enable Britain to defy the > orld in arms , and to rivet affection for the constitution J in the breast of every Englishman .
But let us ask in how far this political change has improved the social condition of those by whose co-operation it was effected ? Who amongst them that undertook to supply the deficiency of old times , has ever spoken a word , or written a word , in favour of the people ' s share of tbat change ? but , upon the contrary , while Parliament is nightly engaged in passing laws for the protection , not only of the property and rights , but of the privileges , of the monied classes , do not Hume and Cobden , and the disciples of the Manchester school , violently protest against the
right of Parliament to interfere in the Labodr question ? They say , " Arm us with powers to curb the disaffected , and to enable us to make merchandise ofthe destitution of the poor , and we will grant you the supplies to arm your police , to pay your detectives , to march and countermarch your troops , to erect your tents , to man your fleets , to prosecute your victims ' and transport your felons ; but touch not our profits , by interfering with labour , by creating a market for its free exercise , or we will . hurl you from the seat of power , and establish your enemies upon your ruins . ' '
We have laboured hard and incessantly to prove that every class in societ y is irreparably injured by the injustice done to the _glabouring classes . A _five-paund note is a five-pound note , and can be exchanged for five _sovereigns * and every sovereign can be exchanged for [ twenty shillings ; but there are intermediate classes who look' upon the note , the sovereign _.
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and the shilling , as the link which binds them to tbe system ; while from tbe lowest to the highest order of the middle-classes , and the aristocracy , none have the brains to understand that they are one and all directly dependent upon the labourer . We will not go into the solution of the Antediluvian problem , that if some didn't work , all should starve , but we will take a review of the relation tha t subsists between the labourer and all other classes . Coiburn , tlie aristocratic publisher , may _sayjn his grandeur and mig htiness , " What have I to da with the vulgar labourer ? he does not read my publications ; he is no customer for my wares ; but his disaffection , disloyalty , and discontent may jeopardise my trade , and cause my poverty ,
therefore , tax me to keep him in subjection /' The wine merchant , the silk mercer , the paper maker , the aristocratic bootmaker , the clothier , the merchant , the banker , the broker , the peer , and the queen , may all hold those opinions as to their independence of the labourclass ' , but let us show how links o f the great social chain , of which labour is the strongest , and that from which alone all others extract their strength , mutually depend upon each other . Coiburn says , " No labouring man reads my books , and therefore I am independent of labour ; " thesilk mercer says , " No labourer ' s wife comes to my counter , and what care I for labour ; " the wine merchant says , " Talk not to me of the prosperity of the labourer , he quaffs no wine "—but see the link by which they are bound together .
The Labourer at full employment , at remunerative wages , wears clothes , and shoes , and a hat ; and his tailor , his shoemaker , and his hatter then deal more extensively with the chandler , the butcher , and the bakerj the chandler , the butcher , and the baker deal more extensively with the mercer , the haberdasher , and the grocer ; the mercer , the haberdasher , and the grocer deal more extensively with the silk merchant , the wine merchant , and the more aristocratic tailors and shoemakers ; the
silk mercers , the wine merchants , the tailors , and shoemakers , deal more extensively , with Mr Coiburn , with bankers , and with merchants ; the Commoner and the Peer have better markets for the produce of their land , and greater security for their rents ; the Government have a more extensive Exchequer , flowing through so many channels from Labour , its spring and source ; the Queen has a more secure seat upon the throne the expenditure ofthe country is less ; th « confidence of all is greater , because _| the . comforts _| X ) f all are increased .
Under these circumstances , will those who float . upon the tributary streams , all springing from the one great source , deny their dependence upon Labour , or dare to assert that the stability of the throne , the security of England ' s Constitution and institutions , do not mainly—nay , wholly—depend upon the profitable employment of the labouring classes ? Talk not to us of the dark age of Toryism , of the " bloody old Times / ' and the darker ages ,
when Pitt possessed the n ? a _<* ician s wand , and , with talismanic influence , commanded money to any amount—who , with a touch of the magician ' s wand , said , " Open Sesame 1 " and the chest gave forth its abundance and superabundance . Those may be called the days of monopoly , of reckless expenditure , and coercion ; but contrast the condition of the working classes in those days of England's degradation , with their present condition , in the sixteenth year ofthe Reformed Parliament .
The middle classes and aristocracy of this _tfonntry were wont to look upon the Exchequer as the horn of Amalthea , from which the more you extracted the more remained behind ; but now they have discovered the value ofthe policy that pauperises one class that another class may live upon their destitution . They , have found out , that , if 20 s . make a sovereign , and five sovereigns a five-pound note , that those coins and that " rag '' receive their value from the sweat _^ of the working man ; and the working man has discovered that there must be something rotten in a system which
consigns him to degraded pauperism , while the land of his birth is sterile and dry for want of his muscle and his sweat . And he is beginning to discover that there is something unnatural in the policy which reconciles all above him to the infliction of increased taxation , for no other purpose than to secure passive obedience and non-resistance , even to the suppression of complaint or murmur , while he and his f amily are in a state of starvation . Do the rulers of this land hope to substitute the f alsehoods of the Press forthe loyalty o f the subject ? The Morning Chronicle assures its readers that her Majesty was received , on
Tuesday last , with the most rapturous applause of her devoted and loyal subjects ; and although we can be as loyal and devoted to a system—to . a constitution—and institutionswhich do even-handed justice to all , as any other person ; yet we declare , from our own knowledge—our own senses—and our own ears , that the progress of the Queen through her devoted and loyal subjects , on Tuesday last , was dumb show—a perfect pantomime We w alked part of the distance alongside the royal cavalcade , and we declare , upon the " true faith of a Christian * ' that there was not
one single cheer , with the exception of a f aint attempt by about a dozen ladies and gentlemen standing upon the steps ofthe Solicitor to the Treasury ' s office . Now , we ask with what show of deceucy this apostate journal , that has turned from physical force Chartism to physical f orce reform , from physical force reform to moral force Whiggery , and from moral force Whiggery to vapid , puling , and imbecile Toryism , can thus hope to prey upon the credulity of its dupe 8 ? We have now shown that Labour is the source of all wealth—that it is the main link , nay , ithe centre of the social chain—that once snapped , society
becomes convulsed—once weakened , society be * _, comes disorganised . And however traders in fear may flatter themselves with a notion that rampant Chartism once suppressed the rolling ship rights herself , we would caution the oversanguine not to entertain a notion that shillings , sovereigns , and five-pound notes grow in the Exchequer ; but to believe that their transfer from hand to hand , however manufactured , wholly and entirely depends upon tlieir first pass ing through the hands _efthe honest labourer . While in passing , although not looked upon as an authority by profitmongers , we would call the attention of our readers to the
announcements made by Mr Feargus 0 Connor in his place in Parliament , and published in the newspapers of the day . Upon the question of Repeal he said , "There is Irish vengeance pent up in America , and the Americans look upon England with a jealous eye , and will be prepared to take advantage of England ' s weakness . " Again , "While you are coercing Ireland at home , take care that Canada may not seek to throw off your dominion . " Again , " If you pass this Gagging Bill
f or the suppression of public opinion , you . may rely upon it that secret clubs and societies will be established , against whose machinations you may not be so well prepared to defend yourselves , as against ' open and advised speaking . "' Again , if this , weather continues for another fortnight , no matter what your harvest weather may be , your crop will be miserably deficient , as the seed will have perished in your clay lands , your cold lands , and your wet lands . ' '
This was predicted in the middle of April , and the result proves its correctness , as the most practical men now agree that under the most favourable subsequent circumstances , the wheat crop will be miserably deficient . _IBng . land is not able to bear another famine , and unless England ' s rulers are prepared to work a miracle , they will not much longer he able to reconcile the f arming class to the pay ment of rents measured by protection j the payment of tithes , measured by indifference occasioned bv prosperity ; to have the produce of their dear land , with rents , rates , taxes , and tithes , measured by protection , placed in competition with the produce of cheap land , low rates and
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taxes , and an inexpensive government . Let us draw the picture ; here are two bags of wheat in Mark-lane Market—American and English produce . The miller opens the English bag , and straightway out hops the Crown and Sceptre , the Crozier and Mitre , the fund lord , the tax eater , poor rates , the parson , the curate , the army , the navy , the pensioners , the police , the detectives , the judges , the placemen , the Income Tax , the Window Tax , high rent , and Kennington Common , with the innumerable etceteras ; then he opens the American bag , and sees a cheap President , cheap land , and
light freight . Now , we would ask , in the name of common sense , how tbe producer of the English bag of wheat can stand competition with the produce of the American bag ; and let it be borne in mind that wheat establishes the value of gold , and that the loss of five millions worth of English wheat , would cause more serious disasters than the loss of twenty millions worth of manufactured goods . Thus we show , and indisputably , that before confidence can be restored , the La bour question must be considered , and justice must be done to the Labourer
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We pass over every General Election , from the period of Emancipation and Reform , when Catholics were admitted to the Legislature , and when the honest and unpurchaseable votes of the brave Catholic people were given to candidates of their own creed , in spite ofthe threats , and in defiance of the persecution of their Protestant taskmasters . It is painful to review those times which bring to our recollection the patriotic pledges of the candidate the heroic devotion of the electors , and the sordid , the base , and contemptible prostitution
IRELAND . The _arguments used in our comment upon tte Labour Question , will equally apply to Ireland as to England . Ireland is a fertile country , and the energies of her people have been wasted for more than a quarter ofa century in the visiona _l pursuit o f a handful of moonshine . They have been instructed to disregard all measures save that one which was calculated to restore their nationality—and , as upon former occasions , it now becomes our duty—and a painful one it is—to review the mode adopted by the Irish people and their accredited leaders , for the accomplishment of their darling object .
of their chosen members . The result of every contested election since the Reform Bill , was capable of achieving the nationality of Ireland , had not her representative power been basely bartered for Saxon patronage , for pelf , for title , f or place , emolument , and distinction . And what is Ireland ' s reward ? The flimsy boast ofa few degenerate Catholic Judges , an apostate Catholic Attorney-General , a set of degraded Catholic officials , who would establish their claim to impartiality by being the most violent persecutors of their persecuted
race . It was to be hoped that this wholesale confiscation of Irish loyalty would have ended with the demise of the National Salesman , and that Irish members , left free to act , unfettered by the dread o f denunciation , and linked together by the love of f atherland , would have risen superior to by-gone prejudices , and , confederated together , would have stood like a cemented rock against the storm of Saxon oppression .
If , in all previous parliaments , the Irish members were armed with the pretext that they were but so many arrows in the great archer ' s . quiver , and that bowing before his uncontrolled leadership was the surest mode of acquiring the confidence of their countrymen , the same reasoning does not hold good as to Ireland ' s present representatives—God fop give us—Ireland forgive us—Justice forgive
us—lor having used the term . If the present representation of the Irish people is a correct and faithful miniature of the full-length portrait of Irish _nationality outlined in the Repeal of the Union , our humble but sincere prayer would be , that the destinies of that country should never be committed to a whole Parliament of such cripples , mercenaries , and _political apostates .
Since Parliaments were established to the present moment , —nay , since society was established , and since every class had its rabble , there never was such a rabble of any , the most profligate class , as the Irish rabble ofthe House of Commons . As landlords , they surfeit us with their fulsome jargon about the area of luxation and the administration of the Poorlaw , * as Protestants , they disgust you with their antipathy to the Pope and the Popish religion ; as barristers , they are contemptible f or their narrowness of conception , prejudice , and ignorance ; and as liberal , " save the mark , " they are contemptible for their sycophancy , their venality , and prostitution . The slaves return the ministerial nod as if it was
condescension to be recognised ; they accept a ministerial invitation ' to feed , " as though it was an-honour conferred upon their virtue , their talent , or their integrity ; they bluster about Saxon oppression , but yield submissively to the Saxon yoke . Upon the most important questions , even connected with the lives of millions , Ireland can furnish her jester ; upon matters of religion , her fanatic ; and upon matters of policy , her buffoon . In short , allow us to pick the odd number of five f rom the scabby lot , and a more contemptible set could not be selected from the rabble of all classes , Notwithstanding this glaring and irrefutable fact , staring the Irish people in the face , they seek for a national representation of such a set of prostitutes .
We argue the question thus , as the Irishman who argued the converse , when he tasted the quince in the apple pie , and upon asking what it was , when he was told it was a quince , exclaimed , " If one quince makes an apple pie so good , what the devil would an apple pie be i f it was all quinces ? " So we say , " Ifa hundred and five Irish Members make a Parliament so bad , what the devil would a Parliament be if it were all Irish Members : ' ' While a set of place-hunting beggars have
heen roaring for a Repeal of the Union , and denouncing Chartism , we have witnessed the profligacy of pledged Repealers ; we have witnessed the manner in which they are bought and sold _. in the Saxon Parliament , and , notwithstanding their degeneracy , we have looked to Annual Parliaments , Universal Suffrag * , Equal Representation , No Property Qualification , Payment of Members , and vigilant popular control as a means of securing a fair representation .
We do not include Vote by Ballot in the Irish Charter , and for this plain and simple reason—because , instead of requiring the mask , which the brave Irish people would look upon as an insult , every Irish elector would glory in being enabled to boast o f the independent manner he voted for the man of his choice . But , although we have placed the dark side of the picture before our Irish brethren—and although the pigmy Saxon Prime Minister is now upon a spying tour—and although the voice of complaint is lulled—altheugh the f amishing must die without a moan , and the over population is to be thinned by transportation—although the Saxon law is as desolating as the Saxon sword—and although obedience
passive and non-resistance are preached by the pastors of the people as the Christian doctrine , we are , nevertheless , not hopeless . They may pack their juries , suborn their witnesses , decorate their soldiers , reward theiv policemen , and commend their Judges , their officials , and their lickspittles , the day will yet arrive when the voice of Knowledge will silence the cannon ' s roar—when Right will overcome Might-when the felon , Mitchel , will return to the fond embraces of his disconsolate family—and when Ireland will be herself again . - Aforetime , when trade was in its infancy , she carried on commerce with | distant countries ; when literature was a novelty iu other countries , she aeat her philo
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sophers to distant regions ; she haa preserved her religion , her patriotism , and hospitality , against the might of the oppressor ; and , although there has been a dark cloud e ' er the destinies of Ireland , in the distant horizon we see the dim shadow of Liberty , and heart gladdens . " In our _extaoy we exclaim , _« C in it be !' _Wlien a _volceretpondt • Dnlonand _Llbtriy l *"
Parliamentary Review. The Session Which ...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW The session which seemed as though it would never come to an end , has , at length , succumbed to the great conqueror—Time . After nearly ten months' duration , it was formally closed , as it had been opened , by the Queen in person . A contemporary has taken the trouble to reckon up the number of sittings , the number o f hours consumed by these sittings , and the hours per diem which each working legisla tor must have been occupied during these ten months . The calculation is curious . The House of Commons met J 68 times , and the House of Lords 136 . The duration of each sitting ofthe House of Commonscannot
, be reckoned at less than an average of seven hours ; it has , therefore , since last November sat in full conclave about 1 , 176 hours . If , addition to this public business , there have met 44 public committees , with an average on fifteen members on each ; 28 election committees , with five members on each ; 14 railway committees , each with five members ; 17 private bill Co mmittees , with five members each ; and 112 other committees , 15 of which had five , and the rest three members each . In all during the session , 215 Committees , requiring 1301 members to constitute them . If the work had been equally divided , every member of the House must have served
on two committees , but scarcely more than onehalf of the members have been really working men , so tbat upwards ot 300 of them must on the 168 days on which nocturnal sittings took place , as well as committee meetings , have been labouring for twelve hours a day , and for seven hours per day on the other days when no Committees met . It is no wonder that human patience and fortitude should have broken down under such fagging task work , more especially as no profitable or satisfactory results followed these interminable labours . It is no wonder ] that everybody , within and without Parliament ,
hailed with delight the close of a session whose barrenness was in the direct proportion to its length , and that the prorogation should have been one of the most pleasant and happy days of the whole season . It would almost appear as if the weather itself had participated in the general feeling at its termination . The chilly _airland cloudy skies which bave mocked the name of summer during the greater part of the season were in keeping with the wretched temperature of Parliamentary oratory , and the nature of Parliamentary business . The bright sun and clear sky of Tuesday admirably typified the national rejoicing at getting rid of a national nuisance , for a time at least .
Of course the fineness of the weather , and the usual exhibition o f regal pomp , attracted a large number of the spectacle-hunters who abound in the metropolis , and a few of the exceedingly loyal and sentimental denizens took occasion to parade their attachment to the Throne and Constitution , in a somewhat conspicuous way , whereupon the veracious Time * indited a flaming and most sentimental panegyric on the loyalty of the nation , and drew a contrast—in its own slashing stylebetween happy Britain , under such a Queen , and other countries that have had the
misfortune to quarrel with their old rulers . Now nobody has called in question the personal conduct and bearing of the Sovereign of these realms . Whatever unpopularity may attach to her Ministers , we believe that a sentiment of loyal respect and esteem f or Queen Victoria pervades the country . But , at the same time , that feeling of personal respect is quite compatible with the existence of a general feeling of discontent among the population with the working of our institutions—a discontent which such sessions as that just closed will do little indeed to allay .
The cheers which greeted the Toyal cavalcade , on its way to the new Palace at Westminster , were no more indicative oftbe contentment of the people at large and of their attachment to our institutions than the applause which fellows the brilliant close of the pyrotechnical spectacle at Vauxhall . People shout from mere excitement at the sight of a fine show . But the excitement is evanescent when the rockets which went up so splendidly have come down again as naked sticks . When the fiery serpents have whizzed into darkness , and blazing stars and revolving wheels have
flashed and disappeared , the excitement vanishes too , and nothing but a smell of wasted gunpowder remains behind . Much the same with the gaudy clese of a useless session , in which much breath was needlessly spent that would have been more profitably employed had it been even applied to the humble task of cooling the porridge of thc speakers . We have so constantly and so regularly tracked the proceedings of this do-nothing session , that to enter at any length into a review of its course now would be _afwork of supererogation—another killing ofthe already
thrice-slain . I he subject is worn threadbare , and we are sick of it . To waste many more words upon it would almost be repeating its own sin of making " much ado about nothing , ' ' Briefly , then , let us endeavour to sum up the results o f this ten months u palaver . " The Session has produced _nhout 100 matter of form routine bills—five or six measures of general utility , such as the Encumbered Estates Bill and the Public Health Bill—but in such an emasculated and mutilated state , that their practical value must be estimated very lowly indeed . Even the Ministers , while
taking credit , in a separate paragraph of the Royal Speech , for the last-named measure , speak of it only as a "foundation for continual advances in this beneficial work , " showing that they were so fully aware of its defects , and felt that the public were sd likewise , that they did not dare to go beyond that very mitigated commendation of their handiwork . To counterbalance this want of useful and remedial measures , there Ins been no lack of mischievous and coercive ones . Ireland has received from the hands of a Ministry—who took office solely on
condition that she was in future to be governed by a remedial policy—no less than four editions of coercion , each more stringent than the other . In Finance , after four different Budgets were propounded by that incomparable Solon in mosey matters—Sir Charles \ Vood—the business ended by saddling the country with two millions more debt , and the prospect of double that amount , perhaps , to be added next year , should the country continue to be cursed with Whig mismanagement so long . So completely was everybody worn out by the purposeless and futile labours of the Session , that this last achievement was performed in a house consisting of fewer members than the number required by the rules of constitute " a house . " Sir Charles propounded his last Budget to thirty-eight members only , and to these
we noticed several who were most comfortably asleep . II it had not been out of courtesy , the thread _ofhis discourse might have been cut short , and the House counted out . On Monday night the third reading of the Commission of Sewers Bill , which affects the Metropolis in a very important and vital manner , was carried in the House of Lords by a majority of five to four , thus showing that in tha upper branch of the Legislature attendance had dropped to zero . If the Prorogation , had been delayed a week longer , there would have been nobody to address as" My Lords and Gentlemen , " save the Usher of the Dlack Rod and the paid officers of the two houses , for even the Ministry were seized with the desire to get away from it . Lord John ltussell , airangely enough , scampered off to Ireland before tlie close _; and the other membera of the
Administration were equally eager ts _escape . Most of them had done so , leaving to the Queen the task of , putting an extinguisher upon a Session whieb has done more to bring popular legislation and _popularly constituted legislative bodies into CQate 3 p . pt , thaa
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_09091848/page/4/
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