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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATCKDAY, AUGUST 23. 184e.
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LABOUR ' S JUBILEE . TliclJth of August , 1846 , will ever be a day memorable in England . For the first time in the history of the country , or indeed in the history of anr couatry , thousands of the working classes witnessed what may be made national by a co-operation of their order . The valuable and instructive lesson to be ] ean ; ed from Monday ' s demonstration is the fact , that throughout all ages the rich oppressors have useil the poor oppressed for their own convenience and aggrandisement , while it has stamped upon the minds of all who witnessed the value of cooperation , the fact , that to complain of misgoveniment is but to complain ^ of man ' s own slavishness and cowardice .
The people have had a great practical lesson to learn , they have had to be taught that there is no wealth in the world save that which is created by labour , and that there is no combination in this world save lhat which Is established by labour , which is capable , or willing , to render to the labourer anything like a fair proportion of the fruits of his « wii industry . The labouring classes have
learned that the contention of faction is for the appropriation of the lion's share of labour . And they have also learned , that the natural slalfcof the husbandman is the only situation in which the individual labourer can work out his own salvation . They have learned that the power and abuse of machinery has overthrown the manual labour of the Individual operative . And they have learned , that the increase of population has given an increased
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value to land , while it has also increased that com petition in the labour market , which makes it difficult for the disinherited slave to prolong a wretched existence for another hour of misery . They hear of national industry , and they know that they are its only promoters ; while at the same time they " are mocked with the increasing destitutiou of their order . They see wealth heaped upon
wealth , as if by magic , while those who create it are allowed but the poor privilege of honouring and obeying its possessor . On Monday last , for the first time in this country ' s history , the agricultural slave , the manufacturing operative , the metropolitan mechanic , artificer and artizan , met together , and cheered together , and vowed together , for the accomplishment of what , to all England now appears to he the nation ' s darling
object—THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND not by plunder , not by force , not by conquest , but by purchase out of the parings from their humble board . The association , of whose complete work Monday ' s exhibition can be considered but as the miniature , has not been in active operation more than twelve months , and yet we are bold to assert that no society ever made the same practical progress within ten times that period ; and that all the acts of parliament from the Reform Bill to Free Trade are looked upon as mere drops of water in the ocean when compared with the practical result of the societv ' s undertakine .
To judge fairly of the exhibition , those who were not present must receive their impressions from those who have visited the People ' s Paradise , and when they reflect they must bear in mind that , contrary to all former practice , not a shilling has been spent in advertising the plan , and although consisting of numerous branches , all having working men for their secretaries , that no officer has been a defaulter to the amount of a fraction . Now , these are
things that we love to dwell upon , because a knowledge of them is necessary to inspire an oft-deceived people with new faith and confidence . To us , Monday was a day of triumph such as no conqueror ever witnessed before . If there is glory in a victory gained by carnage and bloodshed , the heart of the most savage must he stung with the reflection of the misery he has cause / 1 , nhile in our breast there is rut one unalloyed feeling of thankfulness that we have served all without injury to any .
The infant has now become a monster , at : d to guard it , not from its own ferocity , but from the danger that it threatens to noxious animals , it will require the united judgment and discretion , not only of the directors , but of the whole people . It matters not whether tyranny ' s power is threatened with the cannon or the sword , by ~ fasting or praying , whatever tends to diminish it will be looked upon by its possessors as an assault upon their prerogative . But we think we have arrived at a time of day , and at a judgment that may defy even the malice of the Whigs .
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of their FIVE POINTS , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings . " What then , great Mentor , founder of the reading schools , ballad singer general chief instructor of the Irish nation , powder monkey of the physical force department , and expounder- of Ireland ' s ancient history , have you too , from your infancy upwards , been engaged in abuse of the Saxon and denunciation of Chartism , while you are yet ignorant of the number of its points ? Were you aware that you were casting abomination upon your chosen chief , upon your illustrious Liberator , when you thus cast abomination upon five sixths of his adopted child ? Were you aware that the Liberator attached his honored name to the document
entitled the People ' s Charter ? And that it consists of six , not of five points ? And now , tell us which to you is an abomination ? Is it an abomination that Parliament should be annual , for that ' s number one ? Is it an abomination that every man of twenty-one years of age , of sane mind and untainted with crime , should have a vote , for that ' s number two ? Is it an abomination that he should give that vote by ballot , for that ' s number three ? Is it an abomination that the country should be subdivided into equal voting districts , for that ' s number four ? Is it an abomination that the confidence of a constituency , instead of
land possession , should constitute the qualification of a representative , for that ' s number five ? And is it an abomination that the servants of the people should be paid a stipulated salary by those who employ them , rather than by a fancy price by those who corrupt them , for that ' s number six ? Annual parliaments , universal ' suffrage , vote by ballot , equal electoral districts , no property qualification for representatives , and the payment of members , are the six points of the Charter , and now we challenge you in support of what you have written , and in the face of the world , to point out your objections to all or anv of the above points .
Perhaps in your finicking study of elegant extracts you have read Theodore Hook ' s definition of Chartism , and mistaken it for the people ' s principle . That funny fellow defined Chartism to mean triangular parliaments , universal suffering , and vote by bullet . Can it be possible that a journalist seeking the honour of now rousing and anon curbing the fiery mind of enthusiastic Irishmen has lived in ignorance of the only principles by which their liberties , if achieved even by force , could be subsequently defended ; or can it be possible that the same journalist has been contending for the establishment of a class legislation Parliament , iustead of one fullv freelv anil fairly chosen by the
whole people ? We now tell the Nation , that without the six points of the Charter , the greatest evil thatcould befal Ireland would be the representation of the Irish people by taskmasters , elected by their own slave ? . And if English co-operation be necessary , or if English neutrality be desirable for the achievement of Irish independence , the Nation , by its eleven thouehtless lines , has done more than any
other paper has heretofore effected to disgust every right thinking person with the whole process of Irish agitation—if the end and aim of all is but a transfer of power from the Saxon to the Irish oppressor . We are told that the spirit and tone of our proceedings , though well enough for England , are 90 essentially English , that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable or at all desirable . To this we fullv assent . The tone of our
proceedings bespeak the national will . Here there is no intolerance or niasterdom . Here there is no tax for the support of a venal press . Here there is free discussion , an inexpensive agitation , and a BALANCE SHEET . Here labour tells its own tale , defying the tyrant and the capitalist to overwhelm its order , now by the charm of patronage , and again by the threat of the despot ' s displeasure .
Here we have no committees to mould a nation ' s will to an individual ' s caprice ! Here we have no adoption of a principle to day and repudiation oi the same principle to-morrow . Here we do not exhibit the double face of prosy adulation and poetic damnation ! Here we do not see in juxtaposition fulsome praise of the Liberator in a column of prose , and side-stabs in a neighbouring column of poetry .
What we do here not only bears inspection , but defies criticism . And yet these trembling infants , not yet out of their swaddling clothes , and scarcely able to limp , proclaim to the world , that between us and them " there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider aud deeper . " How magniloquent ! How exquisite ! How Irish ! How patriotic ! The scribbler falsely presumed that the gulf that separated the Irish resident in England and the English Chartists , was as wide and deep as he and his Liberator had tried to make
it ; and calculated upon the chance of retaining a portion of his English circulation , as a set off against the Irish loss , by abusing the English Chartists . But we beg to tell him , that we have bridjed the gulf over—that the Irish people have learned to distinguish between their friends and their enemiesaud that the rejected of Conciliation Hall will fail in their attempt to make merchandise of the old profitable ware of dissension . Again , we challenge the critic of our principles to declare openly his objection to those points which he designates as an abomination .
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The task of Legislation hastens on apace to its conclusion for the jear , and the present , the last week of the session , h quite as remarkable for what has been abandoned , as for its positive
enactments . When the present Government , in the face of the receist vote against Coercion for Ireland , by which they climbed into power , resolved to bring forward a new Coercioa Bill , under an name , it might fairly have been presumed , that for so outrageous and flagitious an abandonment of principles so much vaunted , ») id profusions only a few weeks' old , they would at least have been ab ! e to adduce the pica of an overpowering necessity ; tliat they would have proved the state of Ireland to be of such a threatening and imminent description , as to render
imperative such an obnoxious enactment fu a temporary period , until better , more conciliatory , and more permanent measures could be devised . That no such necessity did exist has been conclusively shown , by the " withdrawal of the Irisli Arms Bill . " No credit whatever can be claimed by the Ministry for this concession to public opinion . In bringing it forward they showed either a want of judgement , s <> great as to rentier them unworthy of public confidence , or a shameless want of principle , which was disgraceful in the rulers of a great country . In abandoning it so hastily , they hare shown a pusillanimity equal to the temerity which they exhibited when thev dreamt not of opposition to tlio
re-enactmeat of the Ciercion bill . O'Connflland his tail they thought were comfortably—we do not say by prearraugement—out of the way ; and it was a capital opportunity to smuggle through the house such a gratuitous piece of Whiggery—a Bill so much according to its own heart , aa that-which unexpectedly brou"ht Duncombe and a host of objectors about their ears . They did not dare to face that opposition again . The tocsin was sounded . Tlwy dreaded a defeat on Mr . Escott's amendments—they were not prepared to resign place and pay , when just in sight of the recess , and the consequent six months' snug enioyment of these luxuries—therefore they beat a retreat , and hurried in « loriously fvora the strugglebeaten , soundly , deservedly beaten .
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disinterested and patriotic defenders of their liberties , who , in the absence of thO well-paid and exclusive advocates of Ireland , stW « P to oppose this tyrannous enactment . They will . remember , that neither to Russell nor to O / Connelldcr . they owe their deliverance from domiciliary visits , and afJ the hateful machinery which brands them with political « nd social inferiority . The Parliamentary leader of the
Chartists , of that party whom they h » ve been taught toguspect , fear , or hate , by the wiJy andselfisk demagogue who has so long governed Ireland , was their advocate on this occasion . The Saxon representatives of Saxon constituencies were those upon whom the defence oi Ireland and her rights devolved . In these facts are to be found the reply to all the bluster , declamation , and falsehoods , of a thousand harangues , intended to set the people of the sister
island by the ears , m order that the declsumers may pick pockets during the squabble . The c onsistent and honest conduct of the Morning Chronicle ontha subject should not be passed without notice . It opposed Coercion when proposed by Pbei , and was equally opposed to it when brought forward by RhssklIi . To the Times and ths Weekly Chronicle was left the glory of finding arguments to combat tho * e which but a few weeks previously had filled their own columns . The . KW * has long been' famous for the facility with which it " can turnabout and wheelabout , " and the cleverness with
which long practice has enabled It to execute the manoeuvre of turning its back upon itself , but the poor Wearlt Chronicle does not yet understand the dodge of turning the corner so cleverly . To be sure there is something marvellously pleasant in an undsr-Secretaryship , and " Gkorge Hekrt" in gratitude waa boutid to do hw best , but " bad was the best . " The poor man was compelled to hare recourse to the' cast-off weapons of those whom he so recently assisted to defeat on the very same battlefield . Thus apeaketli he in ltis paper of last
Sunday" Perhaps , the Arms Bill is not , in operation , so effectual for the prevention of Crime , as its Contrivers might wish ; but it is folly to say that it throws no impediment in the way of murder ; and to have left Ireland suddenly , in the face of a failed Potato Crop , —and ita consequent wretchedn « s 3 , and temptation , —without swne restriction on the possession of deadly weapons—after half a century of such restriction , would hare been to hare delivered her up to a winter of assassinations . Under those circumstances , the Minister proposes to renew the
expiring Bill for Six Months only , contemplating itssupercession by some measure , in the mean time , more consistent with his recorded feelings in favour of T re and . He proposes also to relinquish the more objectionable Clauses , as those relating to domiciliary visits : with regard to the Branding Clauses , we do not see that they are more objectionable in principle , than the Goldsmith ' s mark ; unless the sa f ety of Life be of less consequence than the purity of Gold . More than this we donot think the Premier could be expected to do : less than this , we think he would be conaurable in doing .
This was published on Sunday , on Monday "the Premier" announced his intention to drop the bill altogether ! Unhappy Under Secretary ]! to belong to an " opea question Cabinet , " in which nobody knows what anybody means to do ! Transcendency unfortuna t e apologist of Whig rascality ! to be putting forth such an earnest plea , dressing up such a " raw head nnd bloody bones" a 3 an excuse for retaining at least
" the branding clauses , " in order that Ireland may not " be delivered up to a winter of assassinations , " proclaiming that" less than this the Premier will be censurable in doing , " when on the day following the publication of this declaration the Premier publicly abandons the whole bill , and leaves Ireland to all the horrors conjured up by your " lively imagination . " Really our contemporary in its future articles on "the Russell Cabinet" must be discreet . The
Russell Cabinet is a sphere which not even so accomplished an iKdipus as the under Secretary to the Admiralty can unriddle , "We have only one bit of advice to give him as to his future articles : never assume for a moment that a Whig will stand by his professions . The political principles of that party are pre-eminently typified by pie crust , i . e . " made to be broken . " The failure of the potatoe crop in Ireland , which all accounts concur in representing as total and complete , forced on the Government the duty of devising measures to meet the consequences of that
failure . On Tuesday , Lord John propounded his plan . He had the good taste , which Mr . Labouchbrb the new Secretary tor Ireland had not , to give all credit to the late Government for the laudable promptitude and liberality which distinguished their conduct and mensures under the pressure of a severe and novel calamity . He also acknowledged the great advantage derived by the present goverment from the experience of the officers appointed to superintend the carrying of those measures into effect , and the valuable information they had ftimjshpd . Upon principle , however , he
was opposed to the plan of the government supplying tho people with food . It led , in his estimation , to great evils . It injured the regular trader who supplied the market , because he was incompetent to compete with the government , and it prevented the people from looking for employment elsewhere so long as they could rely on receiving even the scanty relief afforded . For these reasons , —while admitting the value of the late ministerial measures , under the circumstances in which they were introduced , it was not his intention to continue « imilar measures . His plan ia to empower the Lord Lieutenant to summon a barony or county session , to promote works of relief . The choice of these
works is not altogether to be left to them , but is subject to the approval of government , and if so approved , advances from the treasury will be made to carry them on , to be repaid in not less than ten years , and to bear interest at not less than three-and a-half per centi To re-pay these advances , a rate is to be levied on tho barony or county , on the valuation to the poor rate , by which means the very poor will not be called upen to contribute . In very poor districts this mode of action is not available , and therefore , a special grant of , £ 5000 is to be set apart for the furtherance of works of public utility in these districts , to be designed and executed entirely by the government . Commissariat OfKcers are also to be stationed in different parts of tke conntry , to
communicate information to the chief Commissariat Commissioner in Dublin ; for though the government no longer intends to supply food , it would appear it is intended to exercise a general surveillance on the way in which it is supplied by the regular dealer in provisions . Such 13 a brief outline of a measure intended to meet an important crisis . The only merit that we can accord to it is that of being sound in principle . As a means of meeting and effectually coping with the probable famine and distress in Ireland it is ludicrously inadequate . The whole sum to be granted for the purposes set forth is , as we
understood the Premier , somewhere about £ 200 , 000 , an amount , which might be expended in a distressed country in a month , instead of being estimated for the wants of all Ireland with such a dreary prospect before it lor tho next six months . Should the apprehended calamity really fall on that unhappy country , the Government will bo compelled to advance more than the estimated amount , and to take an Act of Indemnity next session , but the more manly and straightforward course would have been to have made a grant at once somewhat commensurate with the extent of the distress requiting relief .
It is the curse of Whiggery , even where it means well , to bs unable to carry out its own intentions . If by chance it gets hold of a good principle , it readere it useless by the paltry and fearful spirit in which it is applied to practice . In the plan of whieh we have now given an outline , we see a principle recognised which 1 ' uUy ^ acted upon will effect , perfect transformation in Ireland . It is that tslift Government are bound to provide employment for the population when they are unable to obtain it elsewhere , and that it is better to exuploy the industry of the country in adding to ua wealth , convenience , and comforts , by tho appli cation of national fumls ,
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than to dispense these funds in the shape of elemosynary relief to those who are made forcedly idle . This principle must not be lost sight of , nor the feet of its admission in practice by the Government . It will form the base of a magnificent structur ehereafter . ¦ ' [ . Lord George Bkntinok " the future Premier of the British Empire , " as he has been dubbed by his party , brought forward on Tuesday , what he considered a fresh " raw" in the hides of the late
Ministry , and thrashed at it con amort . When he laid down the whip ifc was taken up by Disraeli , who administered some strokes with all the cordiality which his well-known love to Pmv eould incite . Tfiat the straightforward onslaut of the one , and the fierce sarcasms of the other were acutely felt , was shown by the indignant and touchy manner in which tbe subordinate members of the late Caba : t who were present replied to them . If its chief . d been there , he would have been more politic if less natural .
Thecauae of attack was an alleged ministenaljob , " perpetrated when the late administration were hi extremis , when in fact they had ceased to hold the seals of offige , Such a charge against a Ministry of which P . xel was the head , was a new one , for we believe that it is universally admitted that a more uns - •• disinterested distributor of public patron , ajje never held power in this country than the ) ate Premier ; whatever other sins have been alleged against : him , nepotism has not beea among the number . But it was stated that this job was without bis
eognizance , and was a nice little drama in which Lord Brougham , Lord Lyndhurst , the Earl oCRipon , and the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , variously and with different degrees of merit appeared as the principal characters , the animating motire being to provide for the comfort aud convenience of sundry gentlemen , friends and serviceable allies of these parties . Our readers will find the details of the alleged " job " in our Parliamentary columns . It is unnecessary to give them here , because , in the first place , the charge was on the following day withdrawn , with an ample apology to Lord Lyndhurst and LordRipon , bv Lord
George , who must be more careful in future , if he really wishes to secure the Premier ' s place ; and because , secondly , it actually consumed a whole ] day of Parliament—for the Small Debts Bill , which was to have been the business of the day , was merely considered profomia , in consequence of the length of the discussion ' , —and lastly , because it shows the fierce and yet unappeased anger of the Protectionists against the late Cabinet . In looking forward to a General ; Election tliia is an element in the present state of parties not to be lost sight of .
Upon tbe whole , the week has been a busy and an important one . The Sugar Duties Bill received the Royal assent on Tuesday . Its passage through the upper house was merely one of form . The Bishop of Oxford , who did not expect that the debate would take place on the first reading , and who . as a son of Wilberforce , lias a sort of vested hereditary interest in the slavery question , made a speech on the second reading , in which the arguments of the antislavery party were put with that peeuljar force and logical style which distinguishes his speeches . The bishop is a powerful debater . He wa 3 followed by the sleek Charles Jasiks of London , who also considered he had a reputation for philanthropy to support , and there the speechification in opposition terminated .
By seizing the nick of time , the little lord ha > cleverly jockied the West Indian monopoly , and given the finishing stroke to the old system of commerce . It remains to be Seen how the new one will work . On the same evening the Royal assent was givei to another Bill , which deserves notice as a proof oi the advance of the age in enlightened toleration . The Religious opinions Relief Bill , sweeps from the Statute Book a great many dozens of those relics of the wisdom of our ancestors , which manifested itself in pains , penalties , and persecutions for a difference of opinion upon subjects of which no man can predicate anything with certainty , and upon which , there fore , every man should be humble and tolerant .
There is yet much work of this description to be done , but in the meantime this clearing out of ? heap of old rubbish is a hopeful beginnin * , ani > heralds the way to a more complete assimilation in law , to the now daily increasing tolerance , and enlightenment of the public mind on these topics . The Standard has a rumour of a dissolution in October , which it states to be based on certain information . The Globe saya ita evening contemporary merely puts that forth as a feeler to ascertain what the intention really w , but the ministerial evening organ declines to aid the ruse . It ia by no means
improbable , however , thai the Standard is right . The short experience Lord John has had of the present House , thinned as its benches are by the moors , the game covers , and the racing season , has been sufficient to show him that no pig driver in tbe werld ever had so difficult a task before him as he will have should he venture to meet it again . We may also wish to know what kind of measures he will venture to propose , that is , what it will I * safe to propose , with a chance of keeping his place next session . A general election during the autumn would very much help his deliberations on the sul
ject . We trust that if he does " screw his courage to the sticking-place , " and appeal to the country , that the resolutions of the late Convention will not be suffered to remain a dead letter , but that at least a score of vigorous and all-alive Chartists will be sent to back the indomitable Duncombe , and the monster petition of next year . Lord John will in that case re-consider his speech on " the Fiv f Points , " forego his opposition , and abandon the monopoly of Legislation with quite as much facility as he did his eight shilling duty for free trade in corn—upon compulsion *
Before we again address our readers it is expected this long session will have come to a close , and in a valedictory "Review" we will endeavour to give a resume of its "lift , character , and doings . "
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WEST RIDISG DELEGATE MEETING . This meeting was held nccordins to notice iu the Working Man ' s Hall , Halifax , Mr . Thomas Wilcock in the chair ; after the money matters were settled , the following resolutions were passed : — I : That the minutes of the last meeting be confirmed . 2 . That the DelegzteB from each locality bring Hie cash book for iuspection , to tbe next delegate meeting . 3 . That a levy . > f ona halfpenny per member be made to defray tbe expences of the West Riding Delegate Meeting . 4 . That the Secretary do write to T . S . Buncombe , Esq . M . P ., requesting him , at his earliest convenience , to pay a visit to the principal Towhs in the West Riding of York .
5 . That this meeting wish to impress upon the Chartists the necessity of acting on the advice of the Convention , by attending to the Resistratien , ice , in order to secure tho election of as many Chartist Candidates at the next Genenii Election . C . That the Delegates of the West Hiding , hero assembled , view with astonishment and disgust the couduct of the present Ministry , who , after havibg ousted the late Government , by voting agaiiut the Irish CoBreion Bill , should be so base as to propose a continuation of the Arms Bill for Ireland ; and that we have no confi . dence in a Ministry who can trick and shuffla with the feelings of the peop le—that we will do aH we can to hurl them from office , as not baring tiie cwifidenw of the people to rule otct the destiacs of this great nation . 7 . That a Camp Meeting be holden at tha New Holland Farm , Wilsden , on the second SttBtby in September at two o ' elock in the afternoon .
8 . That this meeting adjourn to the second Sunday in October , to be holden at the "ffoolcombers' Ajuis , Bradford . Thanks being voted to the chairman , the maeting separated .
CARLTON . The Land . —A public meeting , on the subject of the Land , was convened here on the 13 th mat . Mr . Hastings in tho chair , who opened the proceedings with a few brief remarks . A Me . Orange , then rose to address tho meeting on tha lenejih to be derived (?) by the members of "The , Land Saving ' s Bank and Building Institution . " Being a man of few words he remedied that def iciency by tautology , of which commodity the meerimg were no adniirera . ' In the course of his " vai ' a repetitions , " he told the meeting that the trustees of the said Society were
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out of pocket ; aa they lent the money to goreroment at £ 3 IBs . per cent ., while they guarantee £ 4 pec cent , per annum to the shareholders . This assertion was contradicted by a person present , who observed tnatalery of one per cent , was imposed upon the subscribers , for expenses ,--thus reducing the rate ot interest given to members to 3 percent . In reply to a question , Mr . Orange stated that the trustees were repaid by a voluntary subscript ion . Anaroendraent , based upon the principles of the Friendly Societies , was then proposed , and carried by a large majority , against the proposition made by Mr . Orange ia support of the Institution of which he is the worthy mouth-piece . At the conclusi on w we proceedings , it was announced that a meeting would be holden , in the course of a fortnight , in furtherance of the objects of the Chartist Co-operati ye L 3 nd Association .
MANCHESTER . On Sunday afternoon August 10 , the Hall was crowded to hear Dr . M'Douali , who delivered » rery interesting lecture . On Monday , we had s tea party in honour of W 0 People's First Estate . Three hundred persons par took of a very comfortable repast , when the Doctor delivered a second address , which gave great satisfaction . All communications to the Manchester Locality , must be sont to 'Ihomas Roberts , No . 25 , Mount * itreet , Hulme , Manchester .
NOTTINGHAM . The report of tho delegate to the late Convention has given the greatest satisfaction to the members in this district . He receired a unanimous tote ei thanks for his services to the Chartist Cause genfifflllv On Monday last , the members and friends of the Land Society , celebrated the taking possession of the ' People ' s First Estate . " Mr . Sweet was unanimously called upon t » preside , Mr . Wingfield officiating as vice-president . Short addresses , recitations , sangs , toasts and sentiments upon the all prevailina topic—the Land—were given . Votes of thanks to the directors , also to our highly respected treasurer , cheers for O'Connor , Duncombe , The People s Charter , and the speedy return of our exiled friends , I mat , Williams , Jonts , and Ellis was heartily responded to . The company which were very numerous , did not seperate until a late hour .
HUDDERSFIELD . The Chartist 3 of Huddersfield are about to re-organise themselves . Meetings will be held every Sunday , at three o ' clock , at Armitage ' s Temperance hotel , Paddock . All persons wishing to become members are invited to attend .
SHEFFIELD . At a meeting held at Mr . Carill ' s Democratic Temperance Rooms , on Sunday evening , Mr . Jackson in the chair , it was resolved , 'That a subscription , be entered into for Williams , Jones , and Ellis . ' The collecting books were ordered to be issued immediately . BIRMINGHAM . At the weekly meeting of Chartist 3 , held at the Ship Inn , Steelhouse Lane , on Sunday evening last , Mr . Linney gave in a report of the proceedings of die late Convention , when he received the thanks of
the meeting for his services as delegate . Mr . Linney then handed in Us , 10 d ., moneys collected iu the convention for Mrs . Roberts of Birmingham . It is the desire of the committee acting on her behalf co send her out to her husband as soon as possible ; they therefore earnestly request those parties who have not already subscribed their mite towards so aralseyrorfcby on object will do so without delay . The committee also request that any locality having money to transmit , will direct to Mr . James Smith , Ship Ini , Steelhouse Lane , Birmingham , or to Mr . John Newhouse , secretary , No . 7 , IIanley . street .
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Considerable consternation pmailed in the neighbouriood of Blanket-row , at an early hour on . Wednesday tnorning , in consequence of a rumour that Thomas Green , a mariner , had murdered his wife . Policenwa G-ordon entered Green ' s apartment , which is on tbe second floor of a house in Hattert-square , Martin ' j- ally , ¦ vhere he found Green seated in a chair , with a handcerchief before his face , and apparently very melancholy . A . short distance frsm him his wife was laid a corpse in the floor , being' corered with » blanket . Got- - Ion immediately sent for Inspector Dorsey , who was oa luty at the Blanket-row station , and , on Green being ; isked if his wife was dead , he answered in the affirmative , ind , without any further interrogatoriei being put , entered
nee a statement of the circumstances connected with the Ireadful tragedy . It seems that his wife was an habitual Irunkard , and on that accouut they frequently quar . elled , On Tuesday evening , ' his brother called at his louse , and invited him to accompany him to JJrypool feast , t » which he consented , but , previous to leaving borne , is placed in the hands of his wife about 50 » . He re-. urm-d home about two o ' clock nest morning , and , ia ¦ scending the staircase he Btambled orer his wife , whtt v ; is laid drunk , and unable to proceed any further . Perceiving the state she was in , he took the door key from ier pockett and , harinff obtained admission to the room , e returned to the uufortunate woman , and tiien . ommenced a succession of acts of violence which proluced death . The first inquiry of her husband was with . i-espoct to the money , but his wife was unable to answer , 1 m . from the combined effects of the drink she had par * caken of , and the injury she had sustained about two tours before the arrival of Green , by falling very
learily down stairs . Her husband became greatly . jnragecl ; he dashed ker head several times against : he stairs , and then , seizing her by the hair of the iiead , dragged her into the room , where he searched or his money , but did not succeed in finding it . H& then left hold of her , and she full on the floor . Whil » t in that position thehusbanJ got into bed alongside his . two sons , the eldest of whom is not more than twelve years of age ; but after being there about half-an-hour , he darted out of bed , and again attacked his unfortunate rictim , by jumping upon her body . He likewise struck ind kicked her , and eventually knocked her head-fore-• nost down stairs , where she lay moaning for a length , of time , when the husband carried her up stairs , laidher oi » t la floor , and then ietired to rest . On rising shortly nefore aix o ' clock he was horror-struck on finding that h \ brutality had ended in the death of his wife , and hi * e de 3 t boy called in a neighbour . He was soon afterwards taken into custody .
Ah inquest was held on the body the same afternoon , . rhich was adjourned till the next day . On Thursday , the jury returned a vsrdict of " Wilful ifurder" against Thomas Graen , aud ke was committed to prison for trial .
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v . « .-rV'' *^ - ' «* " -- "'* " ~ ' - ' - ""'~ ' ~ ' ' ^ ' —~ IIiyBi Whallev , Berwick-on-Tweed . — You were wrong . The order should have been made payable to Mr . Feargus O'Connor . Mb . J . Rider , Duvonport , —• You must retain the profits derived from the sale of the £ tar in your own bands , and appropriate it to whatever fund you think proper . The method proposed would subject us to a system of Recounts rather complicated , and empower us to dispose of monies over which you alone hare the entire right of control . Mb . W . Beaton , Buckhaven . —We have not a copy left on hand . Jltt . THOJU 3 YCiicock , Bradford , has sent us notice * of two forthcoming meetings , to be holden at the Wool . . combers' Arms , in that town , but he does not > pecify on what dates . The one ii to be a meeting of the members of tho National ChOTter Association ; the
other of the members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society renidsnt in that locality . Tnosus Wiicock , Bradford . —The Post Office is not bound to return the money for the order until satisfactory evidence has been adduced as to the reason of its . not being claimed by the person in whose favour it was procured . Northampton . — Tne Chartists of Kortbampto" ™« sfc stand alone , avoiding all connection with the political pedlur , who lias been the ureatest enemy that ever Chartiam was cursed with as far as his little ability would go . The separation of Church nnd State is a mouthful of moonshine . This fellow plays saint and and sinner as suits the taste of his audience and hi * own convenience . The Northampton Chartist must b& made to require any instruction or advice as to the mode of dealing with such shameless renegades . Hfe belongs to the rspectables and they are-welcome t » him .
J . P ., Oldham . —The Rev . James Fox has- stepped into Publicola ' s shoes , He is the present Pahlicola of the * Dispatch . Good Samaritan must nave fcoown that > he mattes sent could only be inserted a& an advertisement . John Parkin , Ashton-under-line . —We oerer gave any opinion upon the case- He stutvs we merely oau » Kt a word here and there of the complaint , and said thafc we would refer it to the Directors , which must bo taken as our answer to his present communieation . James Betterton , Liverpool . —We sn « no obstacle «* at » ever in the way of liis managing an allotment with the assistance of his brother and such other aid as he may find necessary to employ , until his children are » i £ ab } e to assist him . Charles S . Swain The lines shall appear in our next
number , we have no room for them this week . Cordwainers Association We have received a Statement , from this Association ,, in reply to a paragraih which appeared in our last number , from tho City of London Beot and Shoemakers , which statement , we are compelled by pvc&s of matter to postpone till next week . . J . Adams , Leicestor A pensioner can join the hociei } without fear of the rasult he mentions . „„„„„ Sobwioh , the names of nil p » W . « p nwmtew , no matter > v !> erc resident , were placed in the telloi boxes aad each had an equal chance of success . A rHoNOGBAW . EB .-Your letter hai been forwarded to
Mr . O'Connor . vn , CMAKLK 3 Fkntos , Northampton . — We do not keel ) the document you order . It niay be obtained of Mr . J . Cleave , I . sWbue , F . le . « V « sri : et ,
The Northern Star. Satckday, August 23. 184e.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATCKDAY , AUGUST 23 . 184 e .
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THE JUVENILES . We extract the following from the Nation of last week . We have received a jrinted address from the Chartists of Englan' ! to the Irish people , with a request tliat we should insert it in the Nation . We desire no fraternisation between the Iri-h people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of '' physical
f iree , " but simply because tome of their five points are to us an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enou-h for Kuglanri , are .-O essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between n « and them there ia a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider and deeper .
Poor silly simpleton , poor trampled worm , poor slavish thing , willing to wound but afraid to strike , did vou hope to regain the lost smile of your taskmaster , by proclaiming your own political ignorance , and by reprobation of principles of which you appear to be wholly ignorant ? You desire no fraternization with the English Chartists ! When they ask your a : < l , vou may withhold vour bit of poesy and your
ginger-beer prose , but wait till you are asked . The English Chartists desired not , courted not , fraternization with you , they merely desired to make your columns the vehicle of their defence against your parly ' s slander and falsehood . Uut spurning a cooperation that we shall presume wa * offered , from whence are you to draw your strength to aid you in the Struggle with your conquering tyrant ?
You yet hope to diminish Ins wrath , if not to repurchass his countenance and patronage , by bartering fulsome adulation for unmerciful castigation . It was not enough that yon were compelled to plead the expediency of time as the atonement of crime , but , slave like , you harp upon the string that you hope will convey the sweetest music to your master ' s ear . You are not intimidated by tbe bug-bear of " physical force , " but bv the " ABOMINATION o ome
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IRELAND . Axd so , after the many escapes that this fairy land has had from Whig tenderness and patriotic affection , after having escaped the Coercion Bill of Peel and the Arm ? Bill of Labonchere , slieis now threatened with a most punt and horrid monster ) which far outstrips its predecessors in atrocity and duplicity . After Duncombe , in the absence of the Irish Patriots , had defeated the Arms Bill , the Whig minister ,
aware of the inevitable effect of his time serving policy , has proposed a measure iu the last hours of the sessios by which trial Jliy court-martial is unnecessary , domiciliary visits are unneeded , the protection of witnesses is uncalled for , as the power of all is merged in the clemency , the judgment and discretion of the very whig Lord Lieutenant , to whom , in 1836 , the Liberator first sold his countrv .
This closing act of Whig atrocity is the most uncalled for , the most tryannical , and the most base , bloody , and brutal , ever concocted by the hase , brutal , and bloody Whigs . We give it at full length , it has come upon us like a thief in the dark , and we ask the English people whether they will submit to be taxed for no better or more laudable purpose than that of bestowing Whig patronage among Irish place hunters to the end that they may be blessed with the mild rule of Whig . O'Connell domination , We know that this thimble-rigging system of policy cannot last long , else would we rouse the country from north to south , from east to west , to throw off this Whig incubus .
We protest against this bill as unconstitutional ; we protest against it as uncalled for and unnecessary ; and we protest against it , because its object is to confer favours upon the Irish landlords at the expense of the English working classes . The demand upon our columus this week precludes the possibility of favouring the monster with the notice it so justly merits , but we ask the working ciasaes to read it , and to judge for themselves , and to read its exposure , and the exposure of its propounded b their champion . Where , we would ask , is the big
beggarman ? In Ireland now , while his Whig patrons are secretlv establishing the despotism of an Irish Lord Lieutenant . Is it not melancholy to see the lickspittle Pigott , ( a Roman Catholic , ) coming over here at the close of the Session to qualify himself for the judgment seat by aiding the Whigs in their assaults upon his country , and is it not deplorable to find a people so deluded as to receive stones with cheerfulness when they ask for bread . But we tell the Whigs , we tell O ' Connell , aud we tell their lickspittles , that no false clemency , no forced charity &hown to tvratit landlords , will reconcile a nation to
starvation . Alas . ' poor ' couritry Almost afraid to know itself .
Cftartist Intdttgence.
Cftartist intdttgence .
Murder In Hull.
MURDER IN HULL .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 22, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1380/page/4/
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