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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1847.
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THE RICH AND THE POOR.
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H(WITT'S JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AJJD PROGRESS. Edited by William and Mary Howitt. Partly. May 1st, 1847, price Sevenpcnce, contains Four splendid BngravinKS by Iinton, W. Meason, »nd W. H. nauiDacn
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BALDNESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SURGEON residing in Cork having , iirthe course of his Practice , had Ifis attention particularly directed 5 & 2 . 4 KS aired 6 «« t experience in the TREATMENT ™ J m- kRY DISEASES , begs to inform those per-^ rJ'S'f r ** ^ tt BALDNESS ( whether in youth or ad-: DUCA ^ may ' ^ S ^ taost ample process , HEPROiraire J ? nX ?**** 3 ornan » ent PartieTapplying will re-SSuSS ^^ Ste
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_ . _ - . NOTICE . arlSjinKd ^^^^ A GRAND DEMONSTRATION Will take place at O'CONN ORVILLE , IIERTS , On Whit Monday , May 24 th , 1847 , To commemorate the Anniversary of theCompany . ihe Directors not having succeeded in staining a special tram from London for the occasion , She Metropoman members are recommended to proceed to the estate by van or railway . Day ticket * to and from Watford can pen adat Euston-square station for 2 s . Gd . each . The brandies wiUnuke their own arrangements immediately . The tune and place of starting for vans and other vehi cles will be announced in a future notice . Br Oader of the Direciobs .
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Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Airttern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Hevwood , Manchester
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O'CONXORVILLE . THE VISITORS TO O'COXNORVILLE ON WHIT . MONDAY are respectfully informed that Mr SOUTH has a Meadow , opposite the Estate , in which all Horses and Vehicles attending the Demonstration can be attended to . The charge for each Horse , with Hay , "Water , and attendance , willbe 3 d .
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On the 10 th of May , will be published , price € d . ( printed from the Short-hand Writer ' s Notes , ) mHE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT LIVERPOOL A on the 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1847 . Edited by W . P . Roberts , Esq . London : yortftern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket . Manchester : Abel Hey wood , Oldham-street ; and all Booksellers .
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LOOK ON THIS PICTURE > AHD OK IBIS ! Her Majesty and Prince Death fsoh Staita-Albert , accompanied by the xiox . —Ou Ssturdaj an in-Prince of Leioingen , ho- quest was held before P . F . ouured the Rojal Iralian Curry / Esq ., Borough co-Opera-liou « e with their pre- roner , on the bod ; of Lake seaca on Wednesday evea- Brothen , a child of eight ing . Her Majesty appeared yeart , who lired in a court to b « enjoying excellent iu Banuter-itreet , and who lo iltb . and spirits . died from want of sufficient Her Majesty the Queen food . The coroner and Dowager , her Royal High- jury , who had been viewing ness the Duchess of Kent , the body , returned heartand her Royal Highnets the sick at the scene of diiease .
Duchess of Cambridge bon . destitution . and filth , which ouredherMajesty ' s Theatre they witnessed in the with their presence oa Wed- court and its neighbournecday evening , hood . The population , is Colonel and lady Alice dense , and huddled to-Peel entertained a dietin- gethtr in miserable dirty guitned party to dinner on holes , called bouses bj tbe Wednesday at their resi- owners , but in reality ' per . dence in Park'place , St feet sties — appropriate James ' s . ¦ - nests of disease and death . Mrs Wyndham ' * ball , in Dr Walton , the medical GroBvenor-place , was th « officer of the district , said great point of atttacUoftfot be found that , beyond the leading members of the doubt , death was caused fashioaable world on Wed . from want of necessary nesdav evening . food . There was not the
The Lord Mayor gave a least particle of food in tbe grand entertainment to her stomach or intestines , and Majesty ' s Ministers on Wed . both were in a perfectly nesday evening at the Jlaa- healthy state . In the same sion-house . * Major-General room where the deceased Sir Harry Smith , G . C . B ., lrty there were five other and Lady Smith pariici- persons laid on the floor in p&ted in the curie banquet , fever . Thefloorwasamud Lady Lynduum ' s second one , and not fit for any soiree dansantt took piece human being to live in . on Thar ; day evening . The jury , without hesita-Lord Foley entertained * tion , returned a verdict of distinguished circla at _ " Died from starvation . " dinner . on ¦ Wednesday even- Horrible Destitotion . ing at his Lsrdibip ' s man- —Doheeuue . —• A man sion in € ro » venor-square . named Gal way was arrested His Lordship had subie- by the police , within two quentlyaa evening party , miles of this town , for L-ird Hotiuun hid a stealing a horse and killing
dinner party oa Wednesday hies ; and "ht and his evening , at hi « Lordship ' s wretched family were actamansion in HiH-strett . ally partaking of soup made The Earl and Counters on the carrion" when he Cowperentertused * select was taken . He says he party at dinner on Tuesday was without food for three evening . The Seble Earl days , aad that he was on and Countess had also a the look-out for a iheep , a dinner party on Wednesday pig , or a cow ; but was dis . evening in Great Stanhope- appointed , as those animals Street . are . all secured by night , Sir Robert and Lady Peel and watched bj day—so he entertained a distinguished had ho resource but" horse circle to dinner on Wednes . flesh" to satisfy the Cray , day evening , at the family iiigs oi his appetite and the residence in Whitehall- hunger of his starving chiL garden * . dren . Galway ks » been The Earl and Countess of seat to gaol . Powis entertained a select party at dinner on Wednesdayeveniflg . iii Berkeley , i qaare . Z
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Mori Aheeican Bkhevokkce . —Oa . Saturday , the Expreu , a small barque , armed in this port fron New York , with a cargo of 2 , 675 sacks and barrels of Indian corn meal , 119 barrels and two sacks of Indian corn , 10 boxes of clothing , a half barrel « f fish , one barrel of bnck wheat , one bag of peas , and 23 bags of bread , consigned to the Central Association Society of Friends , for gratuitous distribution among the most destitute of the poor of „ 2 ? 4 ' . k connection with these importations , a „ E ° use , London , have Issued orders to tne collectors of tbe variaua ontports to suspend the demand for duea claimed by that corporation on all nKb oomia q ;; te this country freighted with the contributions of the diuitabfe in America—DuiZin
paper , .-. — l ' ELEaRAPH Cbsthu . Station .-On Monday , the whole of the extensive buildings , including Foundera Hall and Chapel in F ounders-c ^ urt , Lothbury , SS ^ fi . * ?! ?* "f . Bogland , were being demo ! lutoed , the Electric Telegraph Company having purchased theproperty for the formation oi " their Centrai Metropolitan Statiou ,
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¦¦¦ — - ¦ ¦ OBSERVE ^ «*• -. ¦<¦< ; , - vv ; ¦• ¦ - ¦ * ' s r-. -- ; .. .. ? . ,. \ i \ - All co * respondencerHports-of public meetings ; Char ^ twtand Trade * ' InteUigance , and general questions , must be addressed to Mr 6 , ' J . Habnet , "Northern Star Office , " 16 , Great Windmill Street , London . All legal questions , and matters of local news , not noticed in provincial papers , and requiring comme t , to be addressed to Mr Besest Jones as above . All questions respecting Bills introduced into the Legislature , Acts of Parliament , their meaning and intent , &c , and questions respecting the Ministry , and the members of the two Houses of Parliament , to be addressed to Mr George Fleming , (< Northern Star" Office . All questions , connected with the management of land , and touching the operations of building , cultivation , & ( :. ' , to be addressed to . Mr O'Connob , Lowbands , Red Marle v . Ledbury , Worcestershire .
All communications of Agents , and all matters of account , to be addressed te Mr . W . Rider , "Northern Star Office , " lfi , Great Windmill Street , London . AH Applications for magazines to be made through Mr . M'Gowan , Printer , as above . J 3 T All reports of meetings holden in any part of England on the Sunday , musk be at tins office by Tuesday ; reports of meetings held on the Monday must be at tbe office by Wednesday . This rule is for Tradte , " as well as " Chartist" and " Land Company " meetings . Notices of " Forthcoming Meetings , " and correspondence requiring answers , must be at the office by Wednesday , at the latest . "Letters" commenting on public questions , intended for insertion in full , must be at the office by Tuesday . The communications of corre 3 pondenls not attending to the above regulations will stand orer .
The Northern Star Saturday, May 15, 1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , MAY 15 , 1847 .
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THE CHARTER , AND NO SURRENDER ! those who dreamed that a principle based on truth could ever be destroyed b y violence , or withered by neglect , must he undeceived by the fresli vigour with which the Charter has sprung upward from its long repose . It lias risen like a giaut refreshed with rest , and the sordid capitalist who speculated on its death , and the eager votary who condemned its quietude ; are alike . disappointed , though with far different feelings . There is a period in every prolonged public movement when a pause
for thought is requiite ; there is one time for preparation—and another for action . Those leaders make a fatal error who mistake the relative moment for each . Those soldiers fight the battle of the enemy , who are too eager in the camp , or too apathetic in the field . But it is the glorious privilege of the Charter , that it has never been wholly dormant ; -jn the period of its political quiescence , it Iwb been sowing the seeds of thought , and maturing the fruit of experience . ' The public mind is far more prepared than it was some years ago to grapple with the chimeras of Monopoly ; it is purged
of the rashness that led it into the snares of the wily ; it is armed with | the fortitude that can baffle the strength of the unscrupulous . Out of the alembic of violence and persecution it drew the treasure of a peaceful movement , and the Land Plan stands there as the t ype of the pure principle and true spirit of the Charter . It is the image of that happiness which the country would enjoy under a democratic government . It is a lesson , teaching through the prosperity of the few , what mi ght be the lot if all—either as the landed freeholder or the independent mechanic , since the Land Plan must
benefit equally the new rcreated freeman , and the operative released from the crushing burden of competitive labour . Yet it is merel y a microcosm of the great world of Chartism ; and this is the answer for those who thought , or think , the latter can be damaged by the Land Plan . It is but the great incentive held up to the eyes of the people ; however successful , it can but free a tithe of the enslaved , who must still win the Charter , before they can emulate their brethren on the Land . Neither will it draw those away from the ranks of Chartism who once become its lucky allottees—since these , too ,
must recollect that a government is over them , empowered to enforce , and experienced to enact , those unequal laws which crush all independent industry , and nip the flower of enterprise in the bud . ' The Land Plan , we say , is an answer to those who call the Charter but an abstract theory , and ask "it it will give us bread ? " It is a lesson which it rests with the country to use . It is true , unpractical theorists have promised the big loaf : the propounders of the Land Plan have given it to some—have shown that it is attainable for all , when once the political monopolies that lock up the land and crush labour shall be swept away . Will the Charter give us bread ? We say to the people—what is it gave the deer-park to the landlord , and the market to the speculator ?
Political power ! What is it gave the tithe and glebe land to the Charch , —the heart ' s blood of yourchildren to the manufacturer , —and the produce of all nature to a few ? Political power ! What is it makes religion a mockery , honest toil a badge of inferiority , and titled lust , a passport to honour ? Political power ! And what is it but political power that cm raise the people again from the degradation of slavery to the manhood of freedom ? That political power is embodied in the Charter , —and we challenge the world to produce a plan so sound'for its Obtamment . Not give the people bread ? Would they , we ask , make enactments that would starve themselves ; or would they not frame laws . that would develope the undeniable resources of the
country ? r Not give us bread ? Would they take the crust out of their children ' s mouths in the shape of taxes , to pension the kept mistresses of royal dukes ; or support , a vile class of monied monopolists , who draw their funded revenues out of the misery they have legislated into existence ? Let those who have profited by misrule feat the people ' s possessing power . Tell them " by your fruits ye shall be known , " and ask them , could a system of government be worse , more unchristian , more ^ mmoral , more tyrannical than ourpresent system ? It has murdered one million of ^ Irishmen ;—it is murdering the English mechanic ; it has demo :, ralised the spirit of the people ; it has taken Woman from her children and her fireside—chained her like a beast of the field to the truck—locked her in the
mill , or laid her prostrate beneath the feet of monied lust ; it has driven Man to the gin-shop , ; by making his home a hell ; it has taught him 1 o steal , by denying him food ; it has crippled his offspring by premature labour , and schooled them in sin by inuring them to misery . Could the people do' worse ? Which is the party that appears most trustworthy of power—those who , amid unparalleled suffering , and possessed of * , terrible mi ght that , if organised , were sufficient to trample every monopoly under foor , have still the Christian forbearance to tame down the angry feelings in their breast , and , though
goaded by hunger , demean themselves thus , that even their tyrants are surprised at their " exemplary patience ? " or those who , in the midst of such scenes , carry splendour to Us utmost limit , till the papers teem with accounts of banquets , balls , and dinners—while , like the skeleton at the Eastern feasts , "DEATH FROM STARVATION" meets the eye at every page , amid the very records of magnificence ! History will reverse the sentenceand write "MURDER BY MONOPOLY" in its
place . We regret to see that Her Majesty is so illadrised by her councillors as to frequent the theatres and concert-rooms , instead of visiting the factory town and the dying pauper , which would be a far more " gracious " occupation for a Christian Sovereign . We even learn that the Queen has been so happy of late , that , the papers have remarked on hsr " high spirits . " Of course she can know nothing of the sufferings of the People , or she would have wept bitter tears of grief .
Such being the real character of the 'People and their Rulers , none but knaves can fear the former being possessed of political power—none but traitors ought to shrink from the g re t duty of struggling
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for the ^ Charter ^ " exemplary patience whlchVmohopoiy praises .. so . , much , jte call . a . sw . Self-preservation is a . dtttfc to :: God ; patience can degenerate into slavishness , which . not only suffers itself , but is guilty towards others in con . demning them to a continuance of slavery . The People must rouse themselves from their lethargythey must come together— tell their grievances aloud to the world , and to each other , aud then there need be . no fear of masters or the loss of employment , for were every factory-slave to pronounce
himself a CHARTIST , where is the master who could dismiss his hands ? But above all , there must he no violence—whoever commits an outrage , plays the enemy ' s game ! Let the energies of all lie directed to re-organise the Chartist body—re-establish local councils to agitate their several districts , and , above all , prepare for the coming Election ; and such a power may soon be raised , as by calm , peaceful , and constitutional progression , shall laugh FINALITY to scorn . In our last number we showed how the present time was peculiarly fitted for the
development of our principles ;—not alone is Faction distracted by conflicting interests , but the people have learned that seltreliance , which places then * alike above the arts of enemies and the treachery of leaders . It cau never again be an excuse for apathy that a " leader would not act , " the people are capab ' e of acting for themselves , such has been the growth of the public mind ; and when they show the symptoms of renewed progress , we doubt not but every leader will be found faithful at his post . Onward , then—be the motto of every one deserving the name of MAN : ' ONWARD AND WE CONQUER , , BACKWARD AND WE FALL . THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER !
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PRIESTCRAFT versus RELIGION . The LordPrimate . has beenoutdpne . Heasserted the famine was a visitation from God for the sins of " the People "—by which , we suppose , he com . prehended all classes , though ' . unable to reconcile with God ' s justice why : the innocent should suffer instead of the guilty , ' seeing that the working classes alone are the sufferers , and that the ricli and great feel no famine . The astounding assertion o f the Prelate has been surpassed by , that of the "Rev . " J . Ilocken . suneriutendant of the Cleck .
heaton Circuit , in Yorkshire , who on the late Fastday stated from the pulpit that " CHARTIS ^ is the absorbing cause of all God ' s judgments being poured upon our highly-favoured country . " In the face of this blasphemous dictum , the Chartists of the locality and neighbourhood convened a public meeting , anddeeided uponchallcngingthe " rev . gentletleman" to a public discussion at Heckmondwicke—a challenge which , we need not say , he lias not dared to accept . The man who could hazard such an
opinion must be either a fool or a knave . We are bound by Christian charity to believe . the former , since it is impossible for any true disciple of Christ , who came to break the bonds of - ' the poor , to see anything ; calculated to excite theWralh oi God in the principiesoiitljo ; . Charter . ' It is a struggle of Man against Mauiraori-kt . is an attempt to rescue the living soul from the snares of the flesh . Before he preached that in his Fast-day sermon , he should ha . ve read his Bible , where it is said to the great and rich : — ' . ''' .
Behold ! ye fast for strife and debute , and to smite with tbe fist of wickedness . Wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord ? ' IsnoUAwthfi fast that I . have chosen : to loose the bands of Wickedness , to usno the heavy burdens AND TO ; LEI TUB OPPRESSED GO FKEK , ASD THAT TK BUKAK EVERY VOKE *
And this it is that the Charter inculcates . Black must be the heart , or dark must be the "brain , of him who sees irreligion in its principle or practice . What is'it tliat the " rev . " calumniator wants ? Does he wish the peopleto remain factory-slaves or agricultural serfs , at six or seven shillings per week ? His Bible tells hiny to "break every yoke . " Does he see Religion in the splendours of a Court , the riof of an aristocracy , and the truculence of the usurer ? Are the cries of young children in the factories music to his ear ? Are these modern blood-offerings to Moloch the acceptable homage to his God ?
Does he say that the avenging angel swept over Ireland , as of old over the Assyrian camp , smiting the guilty , and sending one million souls to their last account ? No ! for he struck not the post of the spoiler 5 the Gentile was spared , vihilst Istae was destroyed . Does he see a crime in the bright cottages of ' O'Conriorville ? More true reli gion is preached on those hol y thresholds than from the tainted lips of fanatical hypocrisy . Man was born to live by the sweat of his browi Dare he say that God intended him to STARVE on it ? that God gave abundance , to encourage waste ; and made the larger portion of mankind a hungry Tantalus , mocking him with the sight of plenty , that he does not share ? If God intended man to live by the sweat
of his brow , why do not the lazy drones of his class obey His mandate ? But no ! It suits ' them not—they wish to live upon the toil of others , and therefore still they preach their accursed doctrine"God made you to starve and suffer , and us to enjoy the fruits of your toil . " Let him behold the fruits of . Ms religion in Manchester and the manufacturing North . Let him stand in the streets among the perishing thousands , and , pointing to the palaces around him , tell them if he dare— " God meant it thus ! " We know he cannot ; but then , how dare he , safe in his pulpit , cloak himself under the shadow of God , and abuse the holy name of his Creator , to screen iniquity from the hands of justice ?
Let him look at the prison and the Bastile—see men , whom hunger taught to steal , punished for having learned a lesson from their tyrants , and say -. God meant it thus ! Let him go from the table of the usurer , taste the Poor-Law soup , and say , —God meant it thus ! Let him see the bin tears on the hollow ; chzekof the worn-out pauper , while his poor wife is torn away from him at the gate of the Union , and though he preaches " accursed be those who part man and wife , " let him then say , God meant it thus ! . This hypocritical preacher is the true priest of Mammon : it is such as he who bring the name of Religion into discredit , and by THEIR culpable infidelity , estrange the soul of manirom his Creator . Then they dare go forth to the world and say , "Chartism is infidelity ! " Because it wishes to rescue Religion from Priestcraft , to free the name of God from the 6 lander of the bigot , and think creation wae intended as a BLESSING and not as a CURSE unto mankind . We believe the Chartists to be a truly religious body of men and we also believe thattiie Rev . MrHockenisanunfair > peci . men of the great body of Dissenters in this country . We think far better of them than he would make us believe ; he is evidently one of the black sheep of the flock , and we trust , for their own sakes , they will not follow his guidance . Indeed , their interest
plainly leads them towards us , since we are the only party in the country , besides tiHemselves , who advocate an entire separation of Church and State . This , Mr Hocken , no doubt , does ;—he , , no doubt , wishes to curtail the splendour of the Sta'te Church . No doubt he disapproves of its monopolizing ten millions per annum . But why does he en 'leavour to uphold all other monopolies ? Would it t > e unchristian to suppose that Mr Hocken only hates the State Church monopoly because he has no share in these ten millions ? We may suppose this of the man who has spoken thus ; and we caution those of his own religious persuasion against him , since he can be no honest advocate of RELIGIOUS LIBERTY who is an upholder of POU J 1 ^ CAL VASSALAGe '
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW .
RUMOURS OF T COALITION " MINISTRY — THE MONETARY PANIC—DEFICIENCY OF FOOD IN * THE ' COUNTRY-rlRISH POOR-LAW—HEALTH OF ; T 0 WNS-M 0 RTMAIN . It « evident that the session is drawing to an end . ' The usual preliminary " slaughter of the innocents" has commenced already . Notices of motion , and bills that have encumbered the business
paper for nearly the whole of the session , are either formally withdrawn , or got rid of by a side wind , such as " a count out , " and similar parliamentary expedients for escaping disagreeable or inconvenient jobs . These same " counts out" liave'occurred rather too frequently of late , if the business before the Legislature , and the perilous position ofthe country , be taken into consideration . Last week there were two ; and this week , on Taesdiiy , the sudden termination ofthe sitting at the very moment when ajnost important and universally interesting debate was to
have been commenced , was equivalent to a " count cut . " This laxity in the manner of conduct ing public business at so critical a period is most reprehensible in itself , but is , we suspect , unavoidable with our present Ministry . It is by no means an old one so far as time is concerned , yet , in fact , it is "oniout , infirm , and decrepid : its measure * are thoroughly understood , and their worthless , hollow , and insufficient character perfectly appreciated . Nobody , in fact , takes the sli ghtest interest in them , because they are felt to be the productions of a
Ministry which is itself a negation—a mere temporary occupant . of power , which must be kicked out the morcent that events ripen for real action . Even the leading members ofthe Cabinet , as well as their under strappers , seem to have lost what little heart and earnestness in their work they ever possessed . They feel and act as though they were already a doomed party , at least in the present Parliament , and whatever of hope they may possess centres entirely on the chances of the coming general election . As a specimen of this official devil-may-care sort of
feeling , we may mention one fact . On Thursday week , whilst on our way to the House of Commons , about jseven o ' clock in the evening , we met returning from a ride in the Parks Sir G . Grey and a lady , andbehind them Lord John Russell and Lord Sandon , apparently taking it very coolly and comfortablyi' The comparison involuntaril y suggested itself between the present and the late Premier and Home-Secretary . Peel and Graham were never seen gallivanting in tliat fashion , when business was to be done .: A motion of a most
important character was under discussion when we entered the House . There were but two members of the Ministry on the Treasury Bench , and altogether a House of some , thirty Members . The question was one which it might have been expected would , in this pre-eminently commercial and manufacturing country , have excited , deep interestnamely , the means by which the cultivation of cotton in India mig ht be extended ' and improved . Mr Bright , in a speech less vulgar in manner and arrogant in tone than is usual with that delectable specimen of the ., Mill-lords , moved for a select comniittee of inquiry into the snbject , which Sir C . Hob .
house said the Government werewilling to grant ; but before the motion was put from the chair the House was counted out , on the motion of Dillon Browne , a gentleman who has lately somewhat distinguished himself in this particular Hue , and who , ; n our opinion , if he has neither inclination nor - " biiity to attend : to public business , ought not to prevent others trom doing so , in so wanton and causeless a manner . But the real error rested with our dilletanti Ministers . They ought to have seen that a sufficient number of Members were present to make a House , and to have provided for the due transaction of business .
One effect of this obvious decay and premature old age of the present Cabinet has been , to give currency to rumours of a coalition between Peel and Ruscell ; or , at all events , some of the lieutenants of the former statesman . We do not give the slightest credence to them . SirR . Peel will not return to office unless upon something , like a very urgent demand from the whole country , and if he takes place uuder such circumstances , he is not the man to be hampered with an incongruous " open-question " Cabinet . One mind and principle will pervade
every department of his Administration , and his associates will , as in the case of his last Cabinet , be selected on account of their general agreement with him , and their administrative abilities for carrying out his general ideas in their respective departments . In such a Cabiuet Russell could find no place , and we do not see many of his ; subordinate colleagues who would beat all up to Peel ' s standard of a man of business . On the other hand , it is scarcely likely that VOUng and promising men like Lords Dalhousie
or Liucoln , Mr Sidney Herbert , Mr Cardwell , and others of the late Ministry , will consent to risk their fate with what is evidently a doomed and incapable party , aud with an inefficient leadf r . The Election , aud the course of events , must determine who are to be our future rulers . The pear is not yet ripe for Peel ' s plucking just yet ; but , if we mistake not , the period is not far distant when natural calamities , conjoined with financial and administrative blundering , will pronounce a unanimous demand for his resumption of the reins of power .
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ii . e powers and the wants of society . The problem weadmit , has beenfound difficult of solution b y out ' legislators heretofore , and , looking at the debate of Monday night , it does not seem much advanced to . wards a satisfactory answer ; but we can scarcel y imagine that ignorance , prejudice , or interest , wilt be long suffered to prevent the settlement of this
most vital and Radical question . In fact it , more than any other , lies at the very foundation ofthe existing social structure . It is clear that the present monetary system does not adequately perform the duties it ought to do ; t is equally clear that it throws undue and enormous power and riches into the bands of the money-dealers , and , by a thousand secret and unsuspected channels , drains the wealth
of tbft country from Labour , into the coffers of the capitalist . Until this monster evil be put an end to , it will be utterly impossible for an equitable and beneficial distribution of wealth to take place , or to put trade upon a sound and satisfactory foundation-The talk upon the subject was to have been resumed on Monday , but the Marquis of Granby , who should have opened it , was not present when the order was . called , and , much to the amazement of the House , and to those members who ' had postponed their
motions in order that this question might be brought on , the Speaker adjourned the House at six o ' clock . It was , we dare say , looked upon as a sort of Godsend by the Treasury Beneh ,-anything is welcome which staves off work' and a day of reckoning . Meonwhile , matters in the City continue as gloomy as ever . The manufacturing districts are rapidly approaching the same state of things ivhich , in 1842 , produced a wide-spread insurrection ; and , altogether , our future prospects are of the most gloomy descripiwn .
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M 16 CKLUHK 0 CB , Tokotat . —Julian Hatnty acknowledges twelre shillings for the Registra tion and Election Committee , which will be handed to that bodj . A . Biatouwt , Applefotd —The correspondence in our next . « gr Pre »» of matter compels the poitpauemeut of a number of amwere to legal quertioni . Duncan Robeewok , and J . Uakbeb Received , and * hall be attended to . Iiuh Peogi tends as some . poetiy , which , we fear , would have but poor chance of finding a place in Irelaud ' i " Melodic * . " The purport of Pcggy ' 8 rbjinee ranjr , however , be briefly told . Seeing an
advertisement in tho M&ncTiattr Guardian letting forth that a servant-maid was wunted at ( he Queen ' s Hotel , Peggy made upplicotion , but was told " So Irish need apply . " On ( his our postest moralises , reminding the gent of the Queen ' s Hotel that lie is Hot so nice in refus ' ine Irish met , eggs , butter , oheeBe . and other articles oi food , which are brou ght to this country and which the Irish naturally follow . It is hard to say whether and the English people , or the btutw on this side , whose doctrine is "No W . h need a PP ,, » are he
^ 5 ^^ s ^ t £ « « rly attention of the Poli . U Committee , Imrla r " - "~ Y
TiU NspomTioM . —A correspondent wishes to be in . formed of a work on " Transportation . " He wishei to know if a convict is , at the expiration of his sen . tence , brought to England again at the country ' s « . pense ; or if , supposiug he desires to return , he ii compelled to bear the exptnie himself ! T . AiMoND . —It is folly to thronr pearls before swine , aud not always necessary to aniwor a fool accordinj to his folly . The thing is too obscure for notice Johm Williams . —Agreeing with you in the main w < still cannot insert yonr letter in its present shape ' Ai a general rule we cannot find room for lengthy letten durjnf the sitting of Parliament , and your letter con . tains of " words" a considerable mperfluity David Wiwos .-Though ire wish to oblige " our poeti calcontrlbutors asfar as possible , we are cooiptlle . to exclude innumerable favours ; your " sonnet" in eluded . ¦ PoUKD ' a R « QBHEBAlWi , , _ G , j ^ HMney hM T
The Rich And The Poor.
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The business transacted this week has been multifarious , and generally of a discursive character 5 its termination reminding one more of the passages in old houses which lead to " nowhere , " than anything else . On Monday , a monetary debate took place on the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s state . ment , as to the intentions of the Government with reference to the present pressure . These were briefly to raise the rate of interest upon Exchequer Bills , and to allow a discount of five per cent , upon instalments ofthe £ 8 , 000 , 000 Irish Loan ; paid in
advance . By these means Sir C . Wood expects to raise the value of Exchequer Bills , which have been selling at a discount ; and to preclude the necessity of going to the Bank of England for gold which it cannot spare , by inducing the capitalists to come forward with advances , for the sake of the extra" 5 per cent . This is merely another of those desperate stop-gap expedients , in which Wh i g financiers 8 « so fertile , but it leaves the great question exactly where it was . The problem to be solved is this : Great Britain possesses labour and machinery
sufficient to create constantly an enormous amount of wealth , by which we mean all those articles of consumption necessary for the physical and mental wellbeing of the whole community , and generally ineluded under the category of food , clothing , shelter , and education . . But with this superabundance of means for producing the real wealth , it finds itself suddenly arrested in its operations by the want of the representative of that reality . Men
andniachines , who should be employed in executing orders for home and forei gn markets , are thrown idletrade is at a standstill ; confidence is destroyedcredit is suspended . The wheels of society almost cease to revolve , solely because , though we have , with the exception of food , which is scarce this vear , an abundance ofthe raw material , and of indiMry to work it up into articles of consumption , we 1 / ave not yet found out a representative medium of exc »> Pge which cap , keep fac e with ourproduc-
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The Peers grow frightened at last in their task of mutilating the Irish Poor Law ; and though . Stanley , with that recklessness and keen appetite for mischief which characterises him , was as ready to have carried the Bentinck clause as the other amendments (!) which their lordshi ps have agreed to , some of them , more discreet , did not like carry .
ing the game so far as to make the Whi gs give up , and be themselves saddled with the responsibilities of office in these ticklish times , and under such circumstances . But they have done enough . As Merculio says— " The wound is not so deep as a well , nor so wide as a church door 5 but it will do . " The Irish Poor Law is effectually rendered nugatory . It is not worth the paper on which it is printed , and with it has vanished the last shadow 0 efficiency in the Whi g nostrum for Ireland .
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Another measure which was urgently needed—the Health of Towns' Bill—has been dealt with after the approved recipe of this most precious Cabinet for getting out of hard work and inconvenient opposition . It is to be cut into two or three parts and materially altered in its machinery . The coun . try corporate towns are to be first meddled with
London is to be separately assaulted by the sanitary Reformer . The citadels of filth are too securel y entrenched , the upholders of nuisances too powerful , it appears , for the weak prowess of Whi g statesmen to encounter collectively . We confess to a suspicion that the whole matter will ultimatel y be found among the " good intentions" with which a certain place , not to be named to ears polite , is proverbially said to be paved ; and to which said pavement Lord J . Russell and his colleagues must have made considerable additions .
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Lord J . Manners called attention on "Wednesday , to a practical grievance of considerable extent . The Iawjof Mortmain was , no doubt , in its ori gin , a most useful and necessary measure . But it seems equally indisputable that , in the lapse of time , and with the changed circumstances of society , it is now in many cases the cause of much loss , inconvenience , and injustice . It confounds the innocent with the guilty ; and in the attempt to prevent abuses , prevents really good objects from being carried out . It is hi gh time that
the obstructions which the law now places in the way of publicly-beneficial bequests should bs removed , and the law itself adapted to the existing condition and requirements of the community . Since the matter was first brought forward by his Lordship it has evidently made an advance in public favour , and time is all that is necessary to produce such a strange conviction that the mere vis inertia of those whose nature it is to " stand in the old ways , " will be overcome ; while , at the same time , all probable abuses of such an alteration of the law will be as far as possible guarded against .
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Closely akin to the preceding subject was that of the quantity of food real ' . y in the country , which was mooted in the House of Lords by Earl Hardwicke on Tuesday night . If his statements approach correctness , it is evident that we are as yet only at the beginning of our troubles . From all that can be gleaned in the present imperfect state of agricultural statistics , it is to be feared that there is not enough wheat in the country to maintain us until the next harvest comes in ; while , at the same
time , such is the scarcity abroad that continental buyers are in our markets purchasing-and sending off the very food , of which we have an insufficient suppl y . Unless this can be replaced b y fresh importations , we are in a lair way of knowing practically what the meaning of the word Fammeis : ia . England . Already , as a premonitory symptom of its approach , we have wheat higher than it has been for the last thirty years , aud bread at one shilling the quartern loaf !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1418/page/4/
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