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    • THE NORTHERN STAR 8AT0KDAY, JANUARY 16, 1847.
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      NATIONAL LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS . \ jl 7 ™ "V ? ame ' " unwarrantably used in connexion \ V with tne , above Associations , notwithstanding my re peated orders to the contrary , and to formal notic . s sent to each committee member ; and as the following state menti well calculated to mislead the unwary , hive for mouths buck been published through the " Commonweal " and at public meetings , " That the purchase of IOci acres offrecbold land for the use of the Associations has been completed , " and also " that sums so paid in , stand in the name of respectable trustees on behalf of tbe Association , and are 'iroiii time to time invested in the purchase of free . holdestaUs , " I hereby give public netice that no "monitjs or lands of any amount or kind have been paid to any trust account ppenud in my name , nor have any been tendered to me . Having long giuce declined to act as a trustee , I shail take legal step ; if necessary , to disconnect iny naino from the above Associations . T T . W . Mcskktt . Grove Lodge , Bnxton . Jan . 1 . 1847 .

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      Gbatitudb . —The coloured citizens of Cincinnati held a public mtet ng on the 2 nd ult .. and passed resolutions eulogiatie of the late Thomas Clsrkson and regretting his death . They also resolved to wtar mourning for thirty days , and recommended the pas-Mm ot their churches t » deliver discourses appropriate to the occasion . rK r Scimce v . HTKEK . _ The Laneasternnd Carlisle Rail , way is now opuned throughout , and , as it onstitutwthe route to the far-famed Grotna , if the electric telegraph should be adopted by the directors ou that line , elopemen t * woula become almost imuractieable . What an enemy science i » to romance and love I CiutTiST WiDDWo ^ -On Monday , January 11 th at All Saints Church , Fulbam , by the Vicar , iheRer W Baker , Philip M'Grath , President of the National Char ter Association , and Correspondin g Secretary to the Na tional C ( M > peratiTe Land Company , to Eliwbeth Alice second daughter of Henry Cullingham , foreman to the Company' . Works , at Lowbauds , and Rednurley , Wor cestershire ^ "

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      JUST PUBLISHED , Ho . l ,: ( prieeSd . ) of THE LABOURER , A Monthly Magazine , of Politics , Literature , Poetry , &c Edited by Fkaeqds O'Coknob , Eiq ., and Ebkist Jomed , Esq ., ( Barristers-at-Law . ) OHTENTf OF HO . I . 1 . A Christmas Carol , by Ernest Jones . 2 . New Tear ' s GreetiBg . 3 . The Insurrections of the Working Olaiees / 4 . Ireland . 5 . Tbe State of Parties . 6 . The Romance of a People . 7 . The Trades' Unions . I . The Land and the Charter .

      The Northern Star 8at0kday, January 16, 1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR 8 AT 0 KDAY , JANUARY 16 , 1847 .

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      TO YOUR TENTS , OH CHARTI S TS ! We have no ordinary pleasure in calling the reader ' s attention to the letter of Mr . O'Connor . To the principles , policy , and tactics contained in the document we give our most unqualified approval . We feel assured , that those who rested their hope of founding a spurious party upon the ruins of Chartism will receive the missive as mournful

      intelligence , while the faithful and confiding will hail it with gladness and joy . We have not condescended to malce frequent remarks upon the insane cry , that the Land movement was calculated to injure the cause of Chartism , and for this simple reason , because , to our knowledge , the Land Company numbers among its members the best , the bravest , and most resolute of the Chartist body . Like Mr . O'Connor , we , too , have witnessed the evils of b

      long , a drowsy , and flagging agitation . That execution should follow upon the heels of design was the policy of Peel , adopted from his knowledge of human nature ; it was the strategy of Wellington , borrowed from Napoleon ; it was disregard of its value that lost Espartero the regency of Spain , and its observance by the leaders of public opinion 'i likely to put a new and smiling face upon our old sleepy friend .

      We see great force in the opinion , that the laws will be more cautiously used for the suppression of a politico-social movement , than for the overthrow of & mere political agitation , and , in truth , we have yet to learn that the co-operation of a well-fed , wellhoused , welUatisfied operative is calculated to injure rather than serve a great national movement , and the more especially when we find that , by his own devotion , he has armed himself with the defensive weapon , THE VOTE , which his class contends for . To us , at least , it is evident that thenext Chartist STIR will possess the advantage of a great social adjunct ,

      while none will be hardy enough to deny , that the old aristocratic enemy must fight the next battle of might against right with LAND MUFFLES upon both hands and A GAG UPON THE LAWS . Had Mr . O'Connor undertaken Ihe labour , which he now seasonably imposes upon himself , some months since , the excitement created by his agitation would have passed away without leaving a trace of its usefulness behind , whereas , by " nicking the time , " as he terms it , he secures the anticipated advantage of fresh

      and feverish excitement . Moreover , it was right that such a missionary should have waited the opening of the Session and the Minister ' s BID . It was right , too , that he should have been present at the proposed demonstration in honour of the Chartist Chief and Labour ' s Parliamentary friend ; it was further right , that he should withhold his assistance from those who are too indolent to assist themselves , and , therefore , we approve of his refusal to visit any locality where devotion to the cause has not been

      evinced in signing a petition for its aid . But , above 11 , and before all , we approve of the singleness of purpose upon which the agitation is to

      proceed—THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER unmixed and unalloyed , not even blended with the interests of its younger brother , beyond the insepa . rable unity which must ever exist between political rights and social enjoyments * It will have been five years since Chartism made its last Parliamentary exhibition in tho Metropolis , » nd it now rests with the disciples and advocates of the measure to prove to its enemies , that , if the noise has ceased , the work has gone on , and the love of the principle increased . We are aware , that not only Europe , but America , are now looking to England for the next POLITICAL RESOLVE . Let it be then for

      THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER . At all events Mr . O'Connor cannot be blamed , if apathy should have stripped the principle of any of its fair proportions ; and let the noisy gabbler say what he will , we declare that the man who will not sign his nauSe . however SMALL THE HOPE OF BENEFIT MAY BE , IS UNWORTHY OF HIS FREEDOM , AND IS NOT FIT FOR THE FRANCHISE . Nor can any deny the powerful and itunning effect that the muster-roll of the national w ill , signed by FOUR MILLION MEN AND

      WOMEN demanding tbelr freedom , is calculated to produce upon tottering thrones , a disbanded aristocracy , and dying parliament . Let every Chartist , then , within reach of the Metropolis , attend at the White Conduit House , on Monday evening next , to hear his chief proclaim his tactics and his hopes ; and let those in the provinces prepare the TROUBLESOME PLEASURE of well-signed Sheets for the Chartist missionary . Adding our condemnation of all old women ' s rubbish to the jast censure of Mr . O'Connor , we say , with him ,

      ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , BACKWARD AND WE FALL ! THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER and NO SURRENDER !

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      THE LAST KICK . While ministers in etse , ministers in posse , ministers in embryo , " and some whose hopes may be ranked in the paulo-post-futuro , are maturing their plans for corruption ' s LAST KICK , our readers may rest assured that the Irish Metternich is prepared with a DODGE , if not with a measure . Ireland is acknowledged to be the English Minister ' s great difficulty , while we may truly assert , that Daniel O'Connell has been Ireland ' s great difficulty , and greatest curse . This cunning man has ever relied upon the pliancy of the Irish character , rather than upon the success of his advocacy of anv defined

      policy , for his popularity . O'Connell ' s excuse for tolerating this or that Ministry , has ever been upon the pretence that their policy or promises , if realized , would be a part means to his promised end . Tranquillity amid unparalleled suffering and provocation ; obedience to his commands , however repugnant and contradictory ; and contributions , however poor the contributors may be ; have been the conditions , the harsh , but yet satisfied conditions , upon which the success of IRELAND'S ONLY MEA .

      SURE was to depend . We have witnessed an unmanly forbearance in the midst of grievous provocation , an obedience the most servile , and contributiom the most lavish ; and in exact proportion iu which the stipulated requirements and conditions were complied with , we have witnessed the retrogression , the retreat of the SPLENDID PHANTOM * Nevertheless , though we , who were behind the . scenes , and could see the juggler ' s SHOW BOX , and wer e , therefore prepared for every fresh t w i s t and t urn o f t he w onderful p a per , were bound to

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      censure and cry " ware hawk" yet we have never denied the value that society was likely one day to derive from its credulity , confidence , and ignorance . We have frequently said that however the career of this bad old man should end , that he would " LEAVE

      THE WORLD BETTER THAN HE FOUND IT . " We said so , because of all experience , that which is dearly bought is best , and , heaven knows the Irish have paid dearly for the knowledge he has taught them . We sometimes mourned , lest the posthumous fame of the juggler might stand as a barrier in the way of another and a better system , and , God forgive us ! feared lest he should not be honest or bold enough to commit suicide , and thus

      release his country from that interregnum of hesitation and doubt , which must have been the inevitable result had he died unimpeached and unconvicted . Fortunately , however , God's vengeance and man ' s oppression has applied the touchstone to his nerve , the test to his patriotism—the reader will pardon us for the expression in connection with Daniel O'Connell—he is now about to visit the Saxon Parliament , and , under any circumstances , we predict for the LAST TIME .

      When he broke up the IRISH PARTY , according to the conditions prescribed by his Whig patrons , our readers will remember that we attached more significance to the part likely to be acted by the young and enthusiastic of the inferior Catholic clergy than to the easily satisfied consciences of the Catholic hierarchy , or the most violent of the Catholic laity . We have witnessed the effect produced upon the iron Liberator by the speeches of two Catholic clergymen at the Rotunda meeting of the IIALANX , and the immediate surrender of the

      INFLEXIBLE PATRIARCH OF HALF A CENTURY . He has attempted to ' stem the rapid current of Young Irelandism , by the mean , the dastardly , the shuffling and hypocritical subterfuge of thwarting one of their stipulations upon which a conference would be consented to , into an attack upon the Catholic church , or a denial of the right of the Association to interfere prejudicially with the religion of any . This heretofore successful weapon has been shivered in bis trembling hand , and now the reader is on tip-toe , anxious to hear the course the Liberator is most likely to pursue in the coming and ending struggle .

      If the Whig Ministers are bold enough to propose and strong enough to carry measures the carrying out of which will involve extensive patronage , and of a nature that the Liberator can monopolize the lion ' s share , thereby substituting the popularity and support of a greedy section , for the admiration and devotion of a nation , he will be the Minister ' s most servile and slavish tool ; J but if , upon the other hand , the plea of poverty should stint his gluttonous appetite of a portion of the mess , he will return like a disappointed HARPY , convene his quondam serfs , and address them thus . —

      • I have made the lust trial In the Saxon Parliament , and now in the winter of age , though , thank * be to God , in the freshness of affection for Ireland , I renounce the Saxon connection and from this spot I declare the UNION REPEALED . Oh ! what pangs I have borne to afford the Minister an unopposed opportunity of doiug justice to my loved country . Hare I not tcvercet myself lrom friends that were dear , lest their presumed intemperance nhonld afford tha euemy u pretext for withholding aid in the hour of a national calamity . Yea , but notr , a * It eland is dearer to me thun life itself , I stretch out the right hand and open my arms read ; to embrace all

      Irishmen , without distinction , who are ready to struggle with me for a repeal of the BLIGHTING UNION . I would now rather relj upon the enthusiasm of tbe joung Inlander than upon the philosophy of the coldblooded Saxon . Ah , the ; hate us . The young gentle , men who seceded have given the assurance , that tUey meditated no weakening of those ruligious bonds by which Catholic Irelaud has preservad . her religion through centuries of bloody persecution , That is all the guarantee 1 require , they have given It ; I fling all physical force consideration to the four winds of heaven , and call upon them to join me in the last struggle for Irish freedom . Oh t if the ; require U I will humbly beg their

      pardon . I was wrong , O'Brien was right . I was too confiding , his family suffered from Saxon oppression befote , and 1 honour him for his obstinacy , and pity my old age for my childish credulity . None but Irishmen and Repealers shall henceforth represent Ireland in the Saxon Parliament ; and the ; shall confine their labours within those walls ; and to Ireland , I bur ; the terms Young and Old Ireland W « are the IRISH PARTY , and will struggle for Ireland on Irish ground . On Monday we meet under this sacred roof , where all Irish differences shall bo buried , and I will be the first to beg pardon , if any I have offended . I was in the wrong ; but the fault was an amiable weakness , and in an old man ma ; be forgiven . ( Uproarious blarne ; . )

      Now , such , in the extreme case , will be the Liberator ' s speech ; and who will venture to deny the effect it would have till the general ELECTION WAS OVER , when , GLORY BE TO GOD ! he would find himself strong enough once more to beard the Engligh ^ lion in his den , which , bring interpreted , means , WORTH PURCHASING , with another long tail looking for TITLES , JUDGESHIPS , PLACES , PENSIONS , and SOUP .

      There is an old saying in Ireland , " Keep the bone and the dog will follow you . " Dan has been too long followed by the hungry dogs to part with the bone to Smith O'Briei ^ , and the young Irish leader will find himself woefully mistaken if he supposes that King Dan is going to be baulked in the appointment of Master John as his successor , according to the laws of

      TANISTRY . NO ; THERE IS NO KILLING AN OLD FOX . " Dan has been often " bagged , " " run to earth , " and " taken above ground ; " but he has as many lives as a wild cat , and when pitched out of the Saxon barn , he will either have his share of the mice , or wiil light upon his legs in Conciliation Hall among the rats , and once more shout" HURRAH FOR REPEALS ! FOR REPEAL HURRAH III "

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      THE GREAT DIFFICULTY . We live in a strange world , in strange times , and with strange people , having strange ideas . The hour for solving the " GREAT DIFFICULTY " once more is at hand , and it is not many days since an able writer in " The Labourer " reminded us that the Irish landlords would constitute the Minister '! insurmountable difficulty , when , lo , we have the prediction verified from the mouths of those very worthies , and confirmed by our friend the Times . Now we have no objection to the Thunderer demolishing the little noise of our friend of the Quarterly ; but , in sober earnest , it is not fair , right , or Just , that even GREAT JOVE himself should charge

      his battery from THE LABOURER'S arsenal , without acknowledging the compliment . In plain words , the Timet has seized the far-fetched opportunity afforded by the Cavan landlords , for using an article upon Ireland from " The Labourer , " body and sleeves . That is , the plain , blunt , and unmis-Ukeable article upon Ireland has been metamorphosed into mysterious Editorial phraseology , and paraded to the world as a hit—the last hit . The " Labourer" announced that the Minister would fail in his next Irish experiment , from the impossibility of dealing with the abuses of the Irish landlords ; and so say we .

      Itnow appears that those worthies , not satisfied j with the slaw process of depopulation tecured by I their OWN FAMINE , liave come to the magnani-l mous resolution of enforcing a more extensive ] system by what is fancifully termed EMIGRATION , That is , that the English governtne » t is to furnish the means to the Irish landlords of clearing-their estates ; of consigning what famine spares to transportation . Sucb , then , is the mouse produced by the mountain ' s long and painful labour ; while , to meet all and cure all , the " Times" says " No , a good system of . Poor Laws is the thing . " A t any other time this proposition may be reasonable and may appear feasible , but , just now , when workliou » e » and

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      hospitals are filled , three deep , i t is wholly inadequate as a means . Well but , says the Times , "We are not bound to propose a permanent remedy for a mere casual calamity , what we say is , let Irela n d have a Poor Law , such as England has . " What we say in reply is , GOD FORBID , while , especially in Irel a nd , any system of Poor Laws will be found inadequate to meet the evil it is proposed to remedy . The law that Ireland requires is the law of TENURE , which will , as if by

      magic , open every pore of industry , and bring every farthing of available capital into the market . There is not a people on the face of the whole earth to wholly unprepared for the experiment of a pauper rate as the Irish . A pauper rate means the estrangement of friends , and the Irish are hospitable ; it means a brand upon the idle , and the Iri s h are UNWILLING IDLERS and should not be stamped with their oppressors' infamy ; a pauper

      rate means a whip in the hands of the strong to scourge the weak ; a pauper rate is the tyrant ' i surest means of reconciling slaves to mere bearable misery , and of perpetuating an odious comparison between the comparatively comfortable and hopelessly destitute . Besides , under a proper form of government , no pauper rate would be required , at tyranny makes paupers , justice makei industrious freemen .

      We have no small pride in bringing our friend of Printing House-square back to old times , not long past , but which , no doubt , would be gladly forgot , ten . We refer to our awkward predictions of August last , when the flush of harvest blinded our short-sighted cotemporary . Then we answered the boastful prediction of plenty staring us in the face , with the assurance that winter would bring crowdtd poor-houses and deserted fields ; that the farmers would dismiss their labourers , and that the landlords would abuse the farmers ; that , in short , all agricultural pursuits would be abandoned from fear or

      famine—it mattered not which . Has our prediction ' then , been verified , or not ? Again , we denounced the Archbishop ' s blasphemy , which ascribed famine to God . Well , what says the Timet now ?—we admit a very doubtful authority on so sacred a subject , yet worth quoting to shew that the Thunderer was ilent when the Archbishop blasphemed ; but is indignant when the Irish landlords use the blasphemies—the Times now speaks thus : —

      The introduction of " Divine Providence , " for such a purpose , as though " Divine Providence" ware the author of the whole calamity , is nothing less than blasphemous . When a drunkard pawns all his clothes for liquor , and "Divine Providence" se ^ dsasharp front , who is the author of his death , or his Tery bad cold . ? " Divine Providence" sent a like dispensation in 1822 , and again in 1831 . By this time it ought to have been reckoned upon . If it is now rather worBethan usual . it has also come after a rather longer interval than usual . Having thus , however , thrown the calamity upon " Divine Providence , " they proceed to repeat the well-known and most diBeraccful

      assumption , that the " potatoe-crop" is " the main support , not only of the labouring classes , but also of most of the tenant-farmen . " The more shame tor the landlords . There you have at once the fact , which , and not "Divine Providence , "has " plunged the population of Ireland into the moat dreadful state of destitution and of want . " If the landlords , in ¦ Pj * of continual warnings , persevered in a system which made the poor , the labourers , and even the tenant-farmers dependent on a crop , which , besides its usual inferiority for the food of man , is subject to a decennial failure , it is arrant blasphemy in them to tather upon "Divine Providence" their own want of humanity and forethought .

      Again , fhe Times appears to have learned , for the first time , that the Irish farmers were as badly off . many of them , as the labourers ; although , if anxious for knowledge upon the subject , our friend might have read the following fact from one of Mr . O'Connor ' s letters to the Irish landlords "A farmer who has occupied 100 acres of land for 25 years , and who has lived upon stinking milk and potatoes during the whole time , will consider himself happy if , at the end of that period , he has » aved £ 250 , or £ 10 a year for interest of capital , and remuneration of labour , and that sum you will have squeezed out of him as fine for a renewal of his lease at an INCREASED RENT . "

      It is needless to multiply instances of the Thunderer ' s folly . The fact is , that a great journal must handle great subjects , and the Irish one in its present phase is so novel , that we must allow the novice time to gain ^ knowledge from experience , before we can expect much sound sense from him . Not to write about Ireland now , would be to be out of the fashion , and the adage goes , " Out of the fashion , out of the world . " What with the false reasoning of the Times , the false position of the Irish landlords , and the falte heart of Daniel O'Connell , we shall be agreeably surprised if we do not see many false steps taken by our false ministers .

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      WEEKLY REVIEW . Famine , pestilence , and death stalk with gigantic strides over the "green isle . " The accumulated curses of a long system of oppression , misgovernment , and neglect , have fallen upon it all at onoe ; and , as yet . there is scarcely a practical or a statesman-like measure adopted by the Government to rescue Ireland from utter ruin . The succeeding winter threatens to be more terrible than the present ,

      The only approach to efficient remedies hitherto indicated is that to m found in tho resolutions agreed to by the Re-productive Employment Committee oi Landlords , to be submitted to the meeting of Peers , members of the House of Commons" and Landowners , in Dublin , on Thursday . No details of the proceedings or deliberations of that body have reached us at the time ef writing , but a glance at the subjects which will occupy their attention , may not be unprofitable .

      The resolutions , wo find , repudiate the direct employment of the great mass of the able-bodied people by the State , as having a tendency to paralyse industry , and substitute artificial for natural labour ; they object to any kind of employment which docs not lead to the increase of food , or articles which may be exchanged for it ; and assert that all measures of relief for the able-bodied , should be based on the principle of encouraging the employment of labour by private individuals . The absorption of surplus labour by the State , and the provision of

      facilities by the State for private employment , the committee propose to absorb this surplus labour , and at the eame time increase iood , by the erection of piers and harbours fov fishery purposes , vrith model curing-bouses and salt depots attached , aleng the coast ; and farther , for tke especial purpose of increasing the food supplies , that a systematic plan should be adopted for tha reclamation , of waste lasds throughout the country . On thia bead we present the words of two of the . resolutions agreed to by the committee : —

      '' That in such system an option should be given ! to the proprietors of waste lands to undertake the reclamation themselves : and , in order to enable them to do so , means should be placed at their disposal for obtaining public loans for that purpose—the security of such loans to bo confined to the land improved—and { subject to due protection of reversionary interests ) every possible facility Bhould be afforded them of alienating their vasto lands for the i purpose of reclamation . "

      It will be seen that by this resolution the land * I lords are wide awake to their own interest , and have no objection to havo the present unfertile and waste lands in their possession made productive and rentpaying by means of advances of public money . From this course wo totally dissent , If th e S tate is t o ac t ' upon the principle laid down by the landlords them-I selves , namely , to abwrb all the surplus labour by publio works and the reclamation of waste lands , let I the State , or its constituents—the people at large—1 be the gainers by this expenditure of national fuud >

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      and not any particular class . The landlords have had privileges enough already without making thig severe calamity a means of bringing more grist to their mill . The next resolution is not very dear thou g h it p oints t o som e thin g lik e w h a t w e s h o uld wish to be done . After ' stating that the Governroent should also construct naval dockyards , safety harbours , packet stations , * nd other works of a national character , the Committee

      say-In addition to these measures , a scheme of gyg teroatic colonization would , in our opinion , provide the means of subsistence to a large portion of jour destitute population—would relieve many districts in this country which are now unable to support their inhabitants—would benefit the colonies by sub . plying them with laboHr-would increase the supply of food throughout the world by bringing fresh land into cultivation—and would largely extend the market for home manufactures . ^

      If this means a system of proprietary Home Co lonies , established under State superintendence , with the resources of the State , for the benefit only of those located in such colonies and the national finances , we think that the proposal of such a measure does great eredit to tbe political wisdom of the Committee ; but , as it stands , it is bo yague , that it is quite possible it does not mean that . We must wait and see whether the debate * at the Reneral meeting will enlighten us . The resolutions furthw embody direct encouragement to emigration—tho simplification of the Drainage Acts—the amendment

      of the laws affecting estates under the Courts o * Equity , so that facilities for selling portions of their estates may be given to landowners ; and , with tho like view , the introduction of cheap and airaple modes for the transfer , partition and exchange of landed property . The amendment of the grand jury system—the improvement of the social condition of the agricultural labourer , by improving their dwellings , and , through the medium of proper sanitary regulations , ensuring to them good and healthy habitations—the dissemination of agricultural knowledge—compensation to tenants for permanent im .

      provements , and taxation on absentee proprietors , form the leading outlines of a scheme , which , if wanting in some important elements and particulars , is yet by far the most business-like and prac . tical that has yet emanated from the other side of the Irish channel . To most of those measures we do not see how the Whigs can make any opposition . While , if Russell has the wisdom to secure a solid title to the name o , which he is ambitious—that of a statesman—ho wil [ thus forewarned with the Irish landlords , do as Peel did with the Whigs—outbid them ; and , by something like a decided and bold plan , at once conciliate the support of the Irish people , and neutralize all opposition in Parliament , which could do him any SOrioilS damage .

      In noticing the movement of this new Irish party last week , we augured that it would prove a great benefit to that country , and if the general meeting entertain , and agree to anything like the schema which the Committee intend to submit to them , it will materially promote the great object in view . The subject will come before Parliament with weight and influence , and in so connected and tangible a shape , that it may be both speedily and effectually dealt with . If so , 1847 will , we trust , lay the foundation for a new political and social system far Ireland .

      Nothing has as yet transpired as to tho actual intentions of the ministry , with reference to their policy next session . We , at least , do not see' sufficient authority and authenticily about the few statements that have been made in certain journals . They wear more of the appearance of guesses at the probable course of the Cabinet , than statements of plans already decided upon . Before we again meet our readers , this uncertainty will have , we should imagine , been put an end to . Looking to the alarming nature of the crisis , and the pressing , urgency for im > mediate measures , Lord John will surely imitate his

      predecessors , and , on the very first night of the session , " make a clean breast , " as to the principles and policy by which he means to govern Ireland , and other leading questions . If he falters , equivocates , or falls Uneath the exigencies of the time , he will full from power never to rise again . To no minister was there ever given so fair an opportunity of making a stand as a great statesman . The very magnitude of the evil . by removing from his path those party , sectarian and selfish obstructions , which in ordinary seasons impede the progress of reform—has half paved the way for a sweeping and masterly scheme of policy , which by grappling effectually with , and extinguishing the causes of Irish misery and wretchedness , and

      substituting , instead , institutions | foundedupon sound and progressive principles , would not only secure a nation ' s happiness , but universal gratitude and admiration . Dare Lord John take this leap ? Even if he failed , the attempt would be hailed with acclamation , aud beheld with pleasure . We fearthe doom of the Whigs is upon him—that tke opportunity will pass away unimproved , a nd Irel a nd ' s deliverance have to be effected by other agencies than a Whig Government . Water can rise no higher than its own level—Whigs cannot soar above their own ancient principles—prejudices rather . A glance at their past history as a party is no very good recipe for producing sanguine expectations as to anything they may do or purpose .

      The lull to which we alluded last week , preparatory to the active commencement of Parliamentary proceedings , has scarcely been interrupted by the slight electioneering movements that have taken place during the week . In East Worcestershire , a Protectionist was returned without opposition . In North Lincolnshire , a Whig walked over the course on the same hereditary grounds . Mr . Charles Cochrane appears to b » making some way iu

      Westminster , if we may judge by a waspish and would be witty attack upon him in the Chronicle . The Whiglings can ' t afford to be silent any longer , and , true to their nature , they commence their attack upon the now candidate ' for Westminster , by sneering at extension of the Suffrage . " Wait a little longer . " That is one of the question * upon which both Conservatives and Whigs , and so-called Liberals will have to change their opinions .

      Lord Lincoln made his first appeaance before the electors of Manchester on Tuesday night , and addressed a crowded and influential meeting in a cunning , plausible , clever , and withal able speech , in which he shewed that he had not sat at the feet of Peel , his politioalg Gamaliel as a pupil for nothing . The report occupies more than a page of tho morning journals , so that wo cannot pretend , to glance in these cursery observations on the various topics Id . troduced . It is sufficient to say that , at tbe close of his address , his Lonfohip , in reply to questions .

      avowed himself to be opposed to Universal Suffrage ^ the Ten Hours' Bill , - tbe immediate ropea ! of tha . Corn Laws , interference with the Anglo Irish Church , the removal of the Rate-paying clauses in the reform act , the Ballot , and Elector al Districti . On the question of national education " he was elabo- ' rately guarded , and to the query wfcrlher persons or property should be represented ia Parliament , he thought it very desirable both shau ' id be represented but did not not think there was at present an undue j preponderance of property .

      I This will be quite sufficient to enable our readers to judge of the qualifications and claims of the op . ponent of John Bright ; we don ' t see a pin to choose betwixt them so far as . the questions affecting tha labourers are conceited . Each of them live by th 8 system which crushes industry to the bottom of the scale , and exalts upon it the idler or the usurer . To the thousands of unenfranchised and toiling labourers , operatives and artiiaas in Manchester , it mat * 1 ters a very littlo whether o conservative aristocrat or a liberal MUlocrat shall have the power of mis-I representing and plundering them through the me * I diumof unjust and oppressive institutions .

      We have unhappily still to record an upward tendeacy in prices . Bread , vegetables , butchers' meat , malt , beer , spirit , everything is on tho rise , but one , and that is the price of labour . With augmented demands the power of meeting them either remains stationary or diminishes . Trade languishes , tho prospects , for the future book gloomy . The session , for 1837 will find work enough cut out for it ,

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      i i THE NORTHERN STAR . Takttauv ia \ &a *

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1401/page/4/