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held on the body ot lhomas Kichardson , thirteen months old . The parents were at variance with each other , and having two children , the father agreed to keep the elder one , and the mother the deceased . From the 7 tu of last month to the 22 d , it was repeatedly left at the workhouse , and removed from there at night , the deceased not being weaned . On the 22 d it was left there , being in a deplorable state and from tliat time it was under the caro of Mr . Wilson , the parish surgeon , who prescribed for it arrow root and wine , but it sunk daily , and died on Saturday . —Verdict , ' . Natural . Death . ' IurwsosMEXTFOB Stealing Walnuts . —At AVands-¦ frortU Police-court , two young men were sentenced , on Monday , to-be imprisoned for seven days each ior having knocked down some walnuts off a tree in an enclosed field at Barnes , belonging to Lord Lonsdale . ( The pretence for the prosecution was not the value ~ h walnuts , bat the damage done to the fences . )
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r ? ™ 9 * Asot- chawbt— Miv K «* ert . « , i chffe , of Kno ^ , w 0 od ncar Todmorden died o , Wednesday . , «{ , e Soth September , in the 56 th year o his age . rfft was fojjowed to his last home , the grave , Of ' % « c 4 &y the 4 th last ., by a numerous and rcspeet-- -. ofenarty of relations and friends . He was an affectfcraate and foving-husband , a kind and indulgent father , a truly charitable and pious Christian , and a sincere , aalous . and indefatigable Chartist . Next to his < Jod , his whole soul was devoted to the ^ sacred and Imperishable truth of Ihc glorious principles of the -People ' s Charter , and the People ' s right to the Land , what he could not accomplish for want of means , he cordially recommended to his children to have-sharcs in the land ; two of them have followed his injunctions . This aclieme he dearly loved , and wished to see accomplished . He was much beloved and respected by his neighbours , and deeply regretted by 'tis relatives and friends .
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"THE NATION" AND "THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed tddress from ( he Chartists ofEitgland to the Irish people , with a request that we should insert it in the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation between the Irish people ant the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of -physical force , " but simply because some of heir five points are to tis an abomination , and the whole sph'it and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that tkeir adoption in Ireland woidd neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to hridyt it over , lut to make it wider and deeper . " From the " Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 .
ABOMINATION , No . VI AND LAST . PAYMENT OF MEMBERS . The payment of members has a negative as well as a positive meaning . It not only implies that every member of Parliament shall be entitled to an annual" wage " for his public services , but , it also implies , that he shall NOT BE ENTITLED to , or receive any other gratuity or reward whatever , beyond that pleasing and gratifying recompense which is ever sure to be the reward of integrity
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE . The Charter , having for its main objects the improvement of our national resources through INCREASED LABOUR , and the more equitable distribution of the produce through REFORMED LEGISLATION , has been painted to the affrighted imaginations of THE SATISFIED-WITH-THINGS-AS-THEY-ARE , in all the horrors of destructiveness , lewdness , and infidelism , in which the most fanciful could present it to the most ignorant ; and hence has arisen the ridiculous notion that none but blood-thirsty brigands and plundering adventurers , could possiblv be
acceptable as representatives of such men , and such evil propensities and passions . Such , however , vat the prediction as to Reform . The mouth of respectability , which meant CHARTERED CORRUPTION , was full of the indignity offered to education and civilization ; and prophecy doomed posterity to the licentious rule of a rabble . " Who would sit in such an assembly ? " or , " Who will now attempt to stem the torrent of fierce Republicanism ? " was the foolish " cry " of the deposed and real brigands and freebooters . However , we did not discover any greater disinclination upon their part to contend as
unscrupulously for a participation in the new barbarism of representation , than had been evinced under a more civilized rule . On the contrary , many DEVOTED PATRIOTS were willing to SACRIFICE themselves for the good of their country , by standing iithe way of a headlong jump to anarchy and repub-Hcanism . However , let the motive he what it may . whether dictated by a desire for a share in tin scramble , or by patriotic feeling , it is an indisputable fact , that the desire of . the high minded in . suited respectables to become part and parcel of this * licensed brigandism , was rather increased than
diminished—a fact , susceptible of easy proof , by th c numerous charges of bribery and corruption , am ! even perjury , brought home to those very Tory members whose nice feelings prompted them t <; loathe the barbarous measure . We are fully prepared to admit , that the first crop of reformed legislators was a disgrace lo a RESPECTABLE BRO THEL , and would have been esteemed unfit associates for a RESPECTABLE band of smugglers , oi a high-minded gang of brigands , governed by tin principle of honour among thieves .. We merely mention the fact of the Tory party , so much disgusted
with the insulted honour of representation , stili preserving their anxiety for the lowered dignity , as a balm to the weak-minded , who fear thai the result of the Charier would be to frighten intellect , educaton , and honour , from the Senate House ; and we have no doubt upon our mind , that Sir Rohert Peel and Lord John Russell would be members of a Chartist parliament , and as Peel said that Reform and progression must henceforth be the rule of legislation , so would Russeli be compelled to say now that we have the Charter we must endeavour to mitigate its pernicious
influence , by the infusion of as large a corrective balance as possible . In truth , when the power of selfrepresentation was placed in the hands of the whole people , we should be sorry to see the influence of education and thought , when controuled by jealous circumspection , disqualified from taking part in national representation . Education is a mighty instrument , which under proper direction and wholesome controul , might be made the means of universal greatness—while , turned to ciass purposes , it is a dangerous weapon in the hands of the cunning . There is much difference between the qualification of
a representative , and that of an elector ; and while we stoutly deny the necessity of the educational test as a necessary qualification for the latter , we as stoutly contend for its necessity as a qualification for the former—nay , we go further , and assert that the most ignorant constituency would look for a protection against their own deficiency in the education of their representative , upon the same principle that a constituency of confirmed drunkards would elect a teetotaller , and a constituency of thieves would elect a representative of the most unblemished character . And although -we contend for the payment of
members as a most necesssary part of the great whole , yet it by no means follows that none but paupers would be elected under the Charter constitution , any more than it would follow that £ 600 a year , and £ 300 a year , being now the minimum qualification for county and borough members , limits the choice of constituencies to persons possessing precisely those amounts . The object of the Charter being to destroy class legislation , it would be impossible to make even Universal Suffrage a complete system of representation , so long as a single barrier as to choice stood in the way of a constituencv ; and although no
property qualification was needed or required as a test ; yet the impossibility of an honest poor man discharging the functions required of him , would of itself limit nay , destroy , the value and very principle of Universal Suffrage . The payment of members then becomes necessary , not more for the purpose of giving free scope to the choice of the constituent body , than to save members themselves from the taunt , the suspicion , or temptation , of bribery and evil influence , consequent upon poverty placed in the
most trying position ; when a poor man is placed upon an equality with the wealthy in point of rank and situation , but marked by poverty as his inferior . No situation could be more galling or open to temptation than this ; and although we contend for the rights of labour aud the ' poor , we must , nevertheless , be always understood as contending for a system most likely to develope the virtues ami controul the vices of man , and we feel assured that a poor man is just as susceptible of evil influences t . s
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z . — the rich man . We must presume that the election of a Chartist membet implies every hoar's attendance upon his duty , and ftherefore his presence in London and absence frouV his business and home as inevitable consequences of his return , and therefore a suitable provision for his comfortable and honourable support becomes necessary , nay indispensable . Kings aurt their ministers have always relied upon pauper members of bankrupt fortune and fame , and luxurious habits , as the most fitting instruments of tyranny , and so great is our respect for the
honest poor man who can resist temptation , that we selected Andrew Marvel as the first patriot whose portrait we gave with the Northern Star , in consequence of his triumph over a profligate monarch in the contemptuous rejection of the royal bounty intended as the purchase money of the representative conscience and vote . " Boy , " said the representative of Hull , in the hearing of the royal pander who was sent to bribe him , " what have we for dinner to-day ? " ' The cold blade bone that was left yesterdav , sir . " " Go , " said the representative , " and
TELL YOUR ROYAL MASTER THAT ANDREW MARVEL'S DINNER IS PROVIDED !! " What a rebuke . Now it is in order that our Marvels may not be disqualified by poverty , or subjected to royal or ministerial intrigue by want , that- we demand the payment of members . We also demand the payment of members , in order that no obstacle whatever shall limit the use and value of the
franchise . We demand the payment of members , as a means of breaking down class-legislation , by placing the representative of labour upon an equality with the representative of capital , and as a means of protecting his constituency against the advantages which dexterously used wealth ever has over-necessitous poverty . We demand payment of members as a more fitting and honourable principle
of remuneration for public service than ministerial favour and royaFbounty , manifested in the . shape of public plunder to secure representative prostitution . We demand the payment of members , as a means of placing honest and educated poverty upon a political equality with prostituted ignorance , bribed to ministerial purposes by the produce of the poor man ' s sweat ; and , above all , we demand the payment of members as an indispensable part of a great whole THE PEOPLE ' S CHARTER .
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Is it a fac , that there ig ft great scarcity of too < such a ftcatctty as betokens a real famine ? Nothing of the kind , the famine is , as , we predicted , caused , oc at least , considerably augme nted , by the discharge of over 70 per cent of the agricultural labourers , a circumstance produced wholly by the dread of the free trade measures , nakedly thrown upon the world instead of being clothed with general protection until the working of the new system could be estimated , or at least , fairly guessed at . But faction clamoured and expediency re-echoed the " CRY" without other consideration than that
which leads to pelf , even through famine and bloodshed . The Whigs are an ill-omened race , their restoration to power is ever the precursor of some grievous national calamity , and of all the spots in this Whig-bating land , Ireland has been the most fatally struck by this curse . From coercion in 1833 to famine in 1846 has been a succession of plunder , deception and misrule , but we may yet hope that the nation is not spell-bound , but that famine , if in truth & dispensation from God , is meant as the omen of Whig destruction . Lord John Russell has declared the criminal law to be a problem that has yet to be
solved , but the condition of Ireland is a puzzle which the master jugeler will not allow him to unravel . Land is the staple commodity of Ireland , the country is almost exclusively agricultural , and , as a matter of course , the viceroy should be selected for his knowledge of agriculture , while , within the last eleven years , Ireland has been blo 6 t with four Whig viceroys , a bankrupt soldier , a bankrupt landlord , an old woman , and a good-natured tool . How then , can Ireland be otherwise than misgoverned and oppressed , when the only qualification requisite for the high office of viqeroy
is that of partisan and tool ? She has been comforted with the hope of good results from a Land commission to enquire into her agricultural condition ; and another faction selected as the head of that commission a nobleman , whose very drawingroom requires draining ; and , in truth , we were at a loss for a key to Lord Devon's qualification for this high and important office ,. until we surveyed his estate at Devon Castle , and when we saw land worth JG 3 an acre dear at 5 s . an acre up to his very hall door , for want of draining , his appointment was no longer a riddle . It was solved by his manifest ignorance
furnishing his masters with plausible pretext for rejecting his recommendations . We much doubt that theEnglish people yet understand that the niisgovernment of Ireland is the greatest evil of which they have to complain ; that the negligence of government , the oppression of landlords , and prostitution of patriots , costs the English labourers over ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS PER ANNUM , consequent upon a pauper competition in the labour market . There is more than thirty millions a-year paid to Irish labourers in the English market , not a man of whom would be a competitor if he could live at home ; and
the competition has the effect of reducing the wages of the English labouring classes by fully SEVENTY MILLIONS more per annum ; and hence , Irish poverty is the English capitalist ' s greatest wealth , and the English labourer ' s greatest grievance . And yet , a silly , weak-minded , contemptible government , is allowed to dupe the Irish people by a specious system of baronial assessment—which means moonshine , and nothing more—as 5 s . in the pound will never be levied for the benefit of the people ; and
jobbers and speculators will pocket 70 per cent , of whatever poor pittance is raised . What we require of the Irish people , then , is , to throw off their purchased bribed leaders and jugglers , and to struggle for Ireland's regeneration by the destruction of her two greatest enemies—LAND MONOPOLY and CLASS LEGISLATION ; as they may rest assured , that a Parliament of their own choosing , by the present constituencies , would but multiply sorrow , and increase national complaint and distress .
The old juggler , who has so often shed crocodile tears o er Irish suffering to extract another mite from the widow ' s small hoard , now lolls in luxurious case , while the starved and maddened poor are being shot for poverty , which he has preserved as the surest prop of his destructive influence . When Ireland joins England for ( he Charter , then the hired soldiers of one country will not dare to murder the starving people of the other ; then the harlequin mantle will fall from the shoulders of the
magician ; the people will possess the land — their votes will protect it ; their country will be free , and they will be happy ; but so long as they lend themselves to a spurious agitation to secure wealth , pelf , and patronage , for punch-drinking , profligate hirelings , so long will plague , pestilence and famine , battle and murder , and sudden death be their portion . But , in spite of the juggler's influence , the Irish people will shortly raise the
BANNER OF CHARTISM . Meantime the English people must seize the present opportunity of convincing their Irish brethren that they are no parties to the murders now being committed in that country . | That it is not with their consent thai the bullet of the soldier should be the response to their demand for bread , but as hunger is the leveller of all distinction , and as that monster is nearing this land with rapid strides mayhap our gallant soldiers , with the stripes of regimental honour upon their hack , recruited , as their officers have told us , from the dregs and oftscourings of society , may shortly be engaged in the honourable service of shooting their own fathers , mothers , and
brothers , for asking their own government for the means of prolonging a wretched existence for another hour of misery . Alas , the working classes are too forgiving , aud the murder of the poor Irish in Dungarvan is but a sorry return for the national sympathy bestowed upon the murdered White . This winter promises a fair crop of luxury to tyranny * but as we have ever stood between the people and all threatening danger , we pray them , we warn them , we beseech them , wa implore them , to abstain from all collisions with armed authority , from all secret associations , and from all snares that tyrants may lay to entrap the hungry with the view of terrifying the wealthy into armed resistance to political rights .
The Whigs and their place hunter who writes his missives from " His cold quiet home , " will fake advantage of every hungry outbreak and every famine howl to justify armed resistance to po litical principles . While the blood of his deluded dupes flows in the streets of Dungarvan , sold to his patrons , he never mentions the murder in his last missive ; but , on the contrary , eulogises the Saxon Lord-Lieutenant under whose sanction the foul deed was done . The Irish are crying for food , while he is howling for an Orange representation of his countrymen ; and while the nation is starving , he is
boasting of his own elevation , achieved by a triumph over the Young Irelanders , who , to say the least , are free from the charge of dishonour and peculation . The rent still goes on , and is still . expended on punch and dissipation for the recreant idle None of it flows back to the wretched hovel from which it came , and which has yet to be sac&erf for the annual tribute to him whose ihirty-iive wears service Uas ended injjnational famine , his country ' s degradation and sale . Then Hurrah for Repeal ! For Repeal Hurrah ! who ever lives to see it .
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they will no longer submit to be famished unresistingly and in silence . The only consolation which can be gleaned from the present awful condition of the sister island is , that things have come to that pass which proverbially accompanies an excess of evil . We have arrived at a crisis . It is impossible that ( . he singular and anomalous state of society which , to the disgrace of Great Britain , has so long existed in Ireland , can longer be held together . It is true that the first efforts of the frightened landlords , now thoroughly awakened out of their former apathy , are short-sighted and miserable enough . It
is true that Whiggery , with its accustomed feeble and temporising policy , " letting I dare not wait upon I would" is deterred by the dogmas of political economy from boldly grappling with the heartcousuming disease of Ireland ; it is true , also , that O ' Connell , * and the mercenary traders in Irish distress , who haunt Conciliation . Hall , have as yet shown little more than a disposition to turn its hunger , its desperation , its outbreaks and accompanying bloodshed , into the means of bringing grist to the agitator ' s mill ; but , notwithstanding all these drawbacks , the ultimate consequence must be the commencement of a better system in that island .
The proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant tills week , announcing that he will " aid improvements on the land , or what be terms " works of a reproductive character , " such as draining and sub-soil ing , both of which are specifically mentioned , is a proof that the pressure of the famine is so great—the evils to be met so imminent , that even Whiggery has been forced into common sense . It is surely better , ;; erse , that the . su ms granted in aid should be laid out in improving the soil , adding to its fertility , and increasing its products , than in making
roads which nohoriy wants , or be spent on miserable work of a similar nature , equally "irksome to the poor peasant who has to perform ir , and valueless to the public when done . So far we can approve of the announcement of Lord Besborough But an important question is thereby raised : to whom are the lands so improved to belong ? to the landlords exclusively , or the Governnment and
people , who have , by the expenditure of capital and labour , so largely added to their value . Repayment by the landlords , even if we were certain of itwhich the fate of past grants makes by no means an assured event—would not , in our opinion , meet the requirements of the case . An equitable and a beneficial interest in the lands thus improved , ought to be vested in [ the government as trustees for the nation .
The Labour Rate Act established a new principle of legislation for Ireland , O'Connell and the landlords have always violently opposed a Poor Law for that country , but the Labour Rate Act went further in principle than any modern Poor Law was likely to have done . It re-enacted in a simple form the principle of the old laws of England with respect to the employment or maintenance of the poor . Modern theories have denied this right ; the Irish Labour Rate Act re-enacted it . This is a groat innovation on fashionable legislation , but it is merely the precursor of greater . The providential visitation by which the accustomed food of millions has
been ' annihilated , thus reducing them to helpless destitution , and utterly depriving them of the means of paying rent , must convince the landlords , that , even for their ownsakes , a change is imperative . It is evident that they by no means feel upon a bed of roses at the ' present moment . The complaints of the Marquis of Westmeath and Earl Mornington to the Times , and the resolutions at various baronial sessions , arc forcible illustrations of their unsafe and uncomfortable position . Self-interest will dictate a sweeping alteration . in a system which thus entails wholesale destitution and disease upon the peasant ; anxiety , burdens , losses , and even fear of violent death , upon the peer .
As to O'Connell ' s panacea—a parliament of Irish Landlords in Dublin—it would be o ~ ly wor ^ h a laugh if proposed in simple earnest ; but it is proposed in no such spirit , and can therefore only elicit disgust and indignation . At first be ventured only on suggesting a meeting of delegates to make suggestions ; this week his letter goes further , ; and suggests a permanent Committee of Landowners to assist the Government . How easy it is to see t he cloven foot here ; what a Godsend would snch a committee , cleverly used , prove to the attenuated funds and diminishing popularity of Conciliation Hall !
Above the well-defined outline of Trisli suffering the shadow of English and Scotch scarcity begins to project itself , and render the future still more gloomy . It is now ascertained that all the crops of the season were a failure except the wheat crop , which was not more than an average crop . Upon the continent a similar failure is reported to have taken place . The price of every kind of provisions advances weekly—a sure indication of scarcity ; and researches into the available quantity of corn , either at home or iu foreign markets , seem to point to the melancholy conclusion , that a comparative famine will afflict our own side of the Irish channel ere we can reap another harvest .
In the meantime , the enormous rise of prices which has already taken place , must bear heavily on the scanty incomes of the labouring classes , stinting them both in the quality and the quantity of their subsistence , and notwithstanding the extent to which the railroads in construction contribute to employ labour , aud circulate money , we fear that a season of great suffering and destitution lies before us . It is clear , so far , that the boasted powers of the manufacturing system under a free trade , to give employment and bread to the population , have lamentahlv failed to do so . Instead of increased
work and wages we hear only of short time and reduced pay . To this complexion have the magnificent promises of the League come at last ! The god of the commercial classes has proved but a wooden idol after all . The recent Cabinet Councils have , it is rumoured , been occupied with a similar question to that which engaged the attention of Sir ft . Peel ' s Ministry last year , about this time—namely the opening of the ports . Lord John is very severely blamed for not having adopted the measure already , and comparisons , by no means nattering , are instituted between Sir Robert's promptitude and energy , in the prospect
of difficulties much less threatening , and the dilatory , uncertain , and feeble policy of the present Premier . Even John O'Connell , at the last meeting of the Repeal Association , cast a lingering longing look towards Peel , the Minister who could and did provide Ireland with subsistence last year , as compared with Russell , which appeared somewhat ominous for the continued allegiance of the "Agitator" and bis tail . Lord John must bestir himself , or he will find that his astute and powerful rival will once more , by universal consent , be chosen "to weather the storm , " and the seal of efficiency be stamped for ever upon him , as a practical statesman .
For ourselves , we need no additional proofs to convince us that this is the case—hut it will be so much gained if the nation is prevented from in fut Tire placing any confidence in a Minister , who is cqu , tily unfitted to progress with the sqU < 1 political aud t wcial improvements , which a time of calm and prospi ' -r&y should give birth to ; or to originate and cai TF into effect those bold and effective measures dc . ¦ Banded by emergencies of so pressing and direful a nature as those which require a master head and l > "d to jncet .
The Rev . s - G . Osljornc has somewhat distinguished himi'clf by the . perseverance anil courage he has cxhibitt * tl Jjv his numerous revelations ol' the
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state of the peasantry in Dorsetshire , and in sora ^ parts of the adjoining counties . His last ey ^ gaf tion had reference to the doings of the fr , ^^ j Ryrae- Having had occasion to visit thut . parish , he was brought into contact witr ^ ^ jmmbeT of the labourers , from whom he leaxnfc the extensive prevalence of the truck system , and the abominable practice of the farmers in giving as food vile carrion , which should , nat even have been given to dogs : Mr . Osborne riuly chronicled the result of his enquiries in tlje Times , on the 24 th of last month . His statement roused the farmers in defence , and ,
in concurrence with their wishes , an investigation was held on the spot last week , at which both labourcrs and farmers were present . Notwitbstand' ng that each witness might be said to speak with a halter round his neck ,-all the allegations of Mr . Osborne were substantiated . It was proved that the average wages were not more than 7 s . a week ; that even this pittance had principally to be taken out in goods from the farmer ; that a portion of these goods consisted of " tailings , " or-the light wheat ,
which is separated from the sound grain in the process of winnowing ; beef and mutton , cut from animals which were found dead in ditches and folds ; carrion so pernicious that it made those who partook of it sick—as one of these " jolly farmers " said , '' It made a d—d deal of difference paying in goods and paying in money , by at least a shilling aweek . " So that , by their own confession , they rob in this manner the poor fellows dependent upon , them to the extent of one-seventh of their miserable
and scanty earnings . Yet they , were so accustomed to these practices that they did not see anything wrong in them . One of them set up a brutal horselaugh at the recital of the most disgusting part of the evidence ,. which was duly echoed by all his brethren . In fact , thesn demoralizing , oppressive , and loathsome practices , have been so long in existence , so completely an every-day occurrence , that the yeomen of Dorset are not now awave they ate offending the moral sense of every unpolluted and undebased
man who hears of their conduct . Nay , one of themr " Farmer Brake , " boldly avers that he never knew the labourers more contented and ; happy than they are at present . He thinks they would continue to be so , " if officious persons , pretending to be philanthropists , would not come among them and persuade them they were badly treated . " Heaven help the peasantry of Dorset say we , if this be true ! For men who could willingly acquiesce in such deep degradation , there could be no redemption . But we do not believe the statement . The manner in which
they gave their evidence , with the eye of their master upon them , and the fear of dismissal in terrorem , proves that the old Saxon spirit is in them yet . A day of reckoning will come , when the account between the people and mammon-mongers whether they lord it over poverty in the mills o Lancashire , or the downs of Dorset , must be settled Meanwhile , these exposures are useful in' keeping public attention alWe . to the subject .
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The news this week from abroa d , loth CoJonia and Foreign , is not very interesting . Some later accounts from the Cape of Good Hope have cometo hand , the general tenor of which h not more satisfactory than previous advices . The military are still in pursuit of the Caffres , but somehow , like the French in pursuit of Abd-el-Kader , the pursuers generally contrive to be just too late to catch the Caffres . At the same time that one b"dy of the Caffres are being pursued In one direction , another
body of them pounces upon the defenceless colonists in another quarter , and plunder and ravage at pleasure . Others of our African neighbours are txpected to put in their claim for a share of the plunder , some " , of them " our friends and allies . " The " pacification" of the Cape is evidently yet distant . ^ The news brought by the Overland Mail this week from India and China was anticipated by Lieut . Waghoru ' s extraordinary express , which arrived in London last Saturday morning . These : accounts foreshadow mure gore and glory , more pillage , and
more " annexation . " The Punjanb is in a state of anarchy , bordering upon revolution . The profligacy of the Queen-Mother , the dissolute conduct of the chief minister , Lall Singh , and the incorapetency of the Maharajah , Dhuleep Sing , combine to excite the universal disgust and hatred of the Sikh population . The Government is entirely sustained by the British forces , and those forces once withdrawn in all probability a general massacre of the present Government , with all supposed to be favourable to British
interest , would ensue . Gholab Singh is intriguing to overthrow the young Maharajah and place himself ' upon the throne of the ancient empire of the Sikhs . The Governor-General of India is preparing for coming emergencies by the collection of a large force in the neighbourhood of Lahore , nnd the probability is that ere long we shall hear of new conflicts between the British and the Sikhs , followed by the annexation of the entire Punjaub to the British , territory . In the Nizam ' s territories confusion worse confounded reigns supreme , affording a favourable
pretext for the British to interfere , which they are about to do . This friendly interference will of course be followed by the usual result , Mohammed Akhbar Khan is threatening to bring down the Affghans upon British India . Is is said ,, that Persian ( which of course means Russian ) intrigue is at the bottom of this threatened onslaught . If Akhbar unsheathes his scimitar , the Chronicle threatens that if taken prisoner he shall hang on the nearest tree . We tell the liberal Chronicle , that
the Affghan chief was as much justified in destroying the invaders of his country , as was Bruce when he destroyed the English ; or Tell when he destroyed the AuSfrians . If it be praiseworthy in , Abdel-Kader to punish French rapacity , it vaeequally praiseworthy for Akhbar to smite do ' . vn British domination . When the Chronicle threatens Akhbar with hanging , it is well that the threat is aecompanied with , the sitting clause — " when caught . " First catch your hare ! "
Ihe West Indians are growling at the loss of their Sugar Monopoly , and the North-American " Britishers " are complaining at the loss of the privilege they have hitherto enjoyed , with regard to " bread stuffs" shipped for 1 lie English market . Thus " free trade " seems to cause almost universal dissatisfaction , abroad as well as at home . The bread riots in Paris were continued several evenings last week , and in other parts of France the cry has been raised , " down with the tyrants , " "bread at five sous , "—accompanied by the singing of the Marseillaise . The celebrated M . de
Lnniartme , more celebrated , however , as a poet than- as a politician , has furnished to he Paris journals at paper on scarcity and subsistence . He calls it " La Crise des Subsistences . " He adopts the idea of an analogy betwen political government and family government , and he appears to consider that as a prudent head of a family provides in due time for his household and himself , so ought the Government to do for the people committed to its charge . In his view , corn , or the subsistep .-e of
the people , cannot be completely and absolutely regarded as private pvopetty . He does not recognise the principal that a man may do what lie will with his own , as far as corn is concerned . The Paris , like the London journals , are still occupied with the Spanish marriages question , but in neither do we observe anything ; worthy of comment or extract , unless we except the following bit of truth from the ( London ) Noni ' my Post : — " Louis Philii / ije if been called the Napoleon of peace . It
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THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 10 . 1846 . -
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IRELAND . MONOPOLY OF THE LAND . CLASS LEGISLATION . It is the duty of the -journalist to grapple with existing grievances , and , regardless of the laws terror , or society ' s pernicious fashion , scrto probe the wound and expose it to the naked eye , that those who have the power , and whose duty it is , to healthe sore , shall not be able to plead ignorance of its
existence or the seat of the disorder , and seeing the wound , and knowing the remedy , it then becomes a duty and a virtue to stamp them with the deepest brand of infamy and public reprobation , if they shall fail 10 uerfovia the Cure . When the people of a whole nation , called the sister Kingdom , are visited with famine in its most intense and frightful form , and when their demand for labour at the miserable pittance of 6 d per day , is met with the soldier ' s bullet , fired by order of some resident magistrate , it requires stronger trammels than the law of libel to controul the proud spirit of offended man within the bonds of
legal phraseology , which means the measured language of sycophancy , agreed upon by hirelings , as the protection of tyrants and veil of hypocrisy . We fling all such expedient trammels to the winds when innocent industrious blood flows for no other crime than that of honestly demanding the means of subsistence . JWhen the widowed mother ' s frantic howl is heard , and the destitute orphan ' s protector lies weltering in his blood , as a scarecrow to affright the starving from any participation in the produce of their own labour , we can only offer the spiritual consolation to the
MURDERED" That they who die by the sword , are better than they who perish of hunger , for their bodies pine away , stricken through , for want of the fruits of the field . " But we cannot allow the unnoticed and unconderaned murder to furnish an example as the rule of future rig ht . MONOPOLY OF THE LAND , and class legislation , which protects its unjust possession , are the two master grievances of which the Irish people have to complain , while the system sanctified by this double tyranny is what we seek to destroy ; aud in order to pourtray it iii its most hideous form ,
we need but remind our readers that no law , no word of command , could have destroyed the poor Irish lately MURDERED in Dungarvan , if those of thenown order , flesh of their flesh , and bone of their bone , had not been ready and willing to fire the ikadly shot in obedience to their commander ' s order , and then let it be borne in mind , that the monopoly of the land has led to class legislation , and that class legislation has led to the necessity of a standing army , and that a standing army has led to the murder of millions of good , honest , virtuous men
and recently to the murder of ? the poor Irish , WHO ASKED FOR BREAD in Dungarvan , This we think is but a poor return for Dungarvan's recent sycophancy in the election of a ministerial tool ; however , it should be borne in mind , that the soldiers who shot the people , were protecting the property of the Whig electors , while the victims had no vote ; and if they had , their soldiers would not dare to shoot them in the first place , and they would not be driven to the sad alternative of taking a portion of their own produce to preserve life , in the second place .
If then the monopoly of the Land and Class Legislation are the two master grievances , not only of Ireland , but of the wide ¦ world , there is no hazard too great to run , no danger to imminent to risk . to destroy those two enemies of civilization and of MAN . We shall now treat of the value of the land , as compared with all other raw materials . and shall show the little protection and slight importance extended to itas compared with the most insignificant article of its produce , when it constitutes the staple of speculation aud traffic . When famine strikes Ireland , the
Government , for the protection of trade , lays its hands upon the least protected commodity , and subjects the raw material of the landlords to an assessment for the support of the people , while the same government dare not subject cotton , or wool , or iron , to any poverty requiring tax , not even to the amount of a fraction , though famine stared the English people in the face . This fact clearly shows that those raw materials in which capitalists can dabble with hired and artificial labour are protected , while that article in which free labour may be
employed is reserved as the Government Experimental Fund . The government supposes that extra taxation upon Irish land will lead to an im proved system of agriculture , while the same government is conscious , that any interference with the raw material in which speculators in artificial labour trade , would be met by a total cessation of production , and , consequently , attended with increased difficulties and dangers . If the landlords who have neglected their duty , have a right to complain of free trade , they have a much greater right to
complain of being subjected to all its evil consequences . It is idle to tell us that the present famine in Ireland is wholly consequent upon the failure of the potatoe crop , and the fact must not be lost sight of , that in our several articles upon this extensive and intricate question , we have , over and over again , asserted that it would be impossible to avert the present state of things in Ireland if the Corn Laws were repealed without much more prudent and extensive concessions than those hinted at in the Russell Edinburgh philippic . The facts , the naked facts , must not be lost sight of , and what are they ?
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WEEKLY REVIEW . j Thb extent and severity of the calamity which has overwhelmed m . happy Ireland grows daily more palpable and distinct . Every post adds to the Kit of outbreaks , or conveys rumours , from various j quarters , based , no doubt , on too good foundation , ! that the starving peasant / y is exhausted , and that
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 10, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1387/page/4/
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