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THE NORTHERN STAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER i, 1347
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1J WAT&ON.p, Qwea'a fleri-paasage, Paternoster-row.
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mHE MAN IN THE MOON FOR DECEMBER — X BOARD OF GREEN BAIZE . The following Regulations will be observed at the Pub . heation of the forthcoming , Number of THE MAN IN THE MOON . There will be no thoroughfare through Cheapside Fleet-street , St Paul ' s Churchyard , or Newgate-street ( Exci-rr ¥ o * roKCHAsKBS ) , after Eight o'Clock a . m ., on Monday , the 29 th . Barriers will be erected at intervals , to break the pressure of the crowd ; and the grouni will be kept by the Brigade of Household Cavaly , commanded by F . M . the Duke of Wellington this first appearance on actice ser . vice since 1813 ) . It will not be generally believed-but , nevertheless . it is a great fact—that the price of THE MAN IN THE MOON still continues to be the Hoxeopathu Sixpence . Office , 17 , Warwick-lane , Paternoster-row ' , and sold by all Boaksel'ers .
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Tbriupic Explosion ax a Percussion Cap Manu-TAcioRY- —About noon on Saturday last an explosion Of a most destructive and alarming nature occurred on the extensive premises of Mr Richard Walker , percussion cap manufacturer , Graham * street , in this town . The explosion took place in a building consisting of three stories of workshops , and originated in the middle range , spreading above , below , and on all sides , and igniting the fulminating materials at which the workmen were employed . The ceiling and floors were shattered , and scarcely a single square of glass was left whole throughout the entire
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JUST PUBLISHED . ( Uniform with the " Labowreb" Magasiae , ) Price 6 d . A PRACTICAL TREATISK ON SPADE HUSBANDRY . bsiug tke results of four ye » rs' experience . By J . Siilstt . M'Rowai and Co ., 16 , Great TTindmill-slreet , Lou 4 o « and may be had « f all booksellers .
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JUSTPUBLISHBD . FBICE SIXFEKCB . NO . XII . OF " THE LABOURER , " "With an Engraved Portrait of F . O'Connor , Esq ., M . P , contehts . - : . 1 . The Age of Peace , a Poem , by Ernest Jones . 2 . The Insurrection ot the Working Classes . 3 . The Morality of Commerce . 4 . The Romance of a People . 5 . The Poor Man's Legal Manual . 6 . National Literature—Poland . Lstters ( pre-patd ) to ho addressed to the Editors , 16 Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders reeeivedby all agents for the "Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country .
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jar Now that Parliament has assembled we must , as a general rale , exclude lengthy communications , unless reports ( weK written ) of very important meetings . Reporters , writers of letters , and Chartist and Land Bub-secretaries will , therefore , oblige by making their , communications , as brief aa possible . We shall be glad it some of our co-respon dents will try to improve tbeir writing ; and shall thank others , who might do so , to let us have their reports , &c . before Thursday . The Pobtbait of Brkesx Jones , —Agents and sub . scribers who do not receive their papers direct from this office , will obtain their plates from the party by whom they are supplied with the Stab . To those who inquire the charge , we beg to « ay , that THE PRICE OF THEPLVTE ( INCLUDING THE'STAR ) WILL BE CHARGED SEVENPENCE .
The Northern Stah, Saturday, December I, 1347
THE NORTHERN STAH , SATURDAY , DECEMBER i , 1347
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POLAND . THE FRATERNITY OF NATIONS . Another " 29 th of November " has come and gone . The seventeenth anniversary pf the Insurrection of 1830 sees Poland still groaning beneath the weight of her chains , and bedewing the earth with " tears of blood , " forced from her by the scourge of her oppressors . Twelve months ago we had to lament the failure of the Cracow Insurrection , and mourn over the victims immolated at Siedlic and massacred in Gallicia . The past year has also had its martyrs . The patriots who escaned
the assassin Szela ' s knife have been doomed to the dungeon and the gibbet . Wiescznewski and Kapuscinski have added their names to the list of their country ' s sainted heroes . Condemned to die on the gallows , they bravely encountered their horrible doom , and turned what was intended to be a death of shame to a triumphant departure from a life of slavery and torture . Their last words were , "Lone Live Poland ! " « Poland for Ever ! "—a cry re-echoed by the thousands who , attending at their execution , worshipped at their ieet , and uttering curses both loud and deep upon the murderers of the martyrs , they at the same time swore that Poland should "live" and live "for ever . " So true it is that '
" Body-killing tyrants cannot kill The public soul , the hereditary will Which downward as from sire to son it goes , By shifting ^ bqsoms more intensely glows Its heir-loom is the heart , and slaughtered men Tight fiercer in their orphans o'er agaiu !" The King of Prussia , too cowardl y to play the brigand-part of a Nicholas , or the assassinpart of a Metternich , is , like our coercion-loving Whigs , a " mild-reeasure " man . Accordingly the 260 suspected patriots , captured in Posen , in February , 1846 , have , after eighteen months incarceration , been brought to trial , and some of them condemned to death . We print , in another column , a translation of the
defence of Louis Mieroslawski , who appears to have been the chief appointed b y the Democratic Emigration to conduct the insurrection , but who was , unfortunately , arrested at Posen on the eve of the intended outbreak . Although the speech , which appears in our third page , is but a fragment of Mieroslawski ' s intended defence , he having been interrupted by his judges , and prevented from completing hw discourse , still though a fragment , it' is such a fragment as Plutarch would have treasured for the wonder and admiration of mankind . Asyet the doom
of Mieroslawski is uncertain—he may perish beneath the axe of the executioner , or be reserved for a worse fate—the suffering of years of agony in the dungeons of the merciful Prussian King . In either case he will be another added to tie long list of the " noble army of martyrs , who have suffered and died for the regeneration of Poland . Whether condemned to the painless grave , or the torturing dungeon , his name shall not he forgotten : it shall be a spell to rouse the Polish youth to deeds of vengeance and of glory . Oh ! come , quickly ome , that day ef retribution and victory , when the Polish Eagle shall again wins her
triumphant way over the now desolated plains of hapless Sarmatia . Again the warriors of the Emigration have met , and sworn on their swords , and by the memories of their martyred brethren , to regenerate Poland , or die ! Again the Democrats of France , Belgium , Germany , England , and every land where the banner of progress is unfurled , have assembled , and sworn by their cherished hopes of liberty , to give aid to their Polish brethren , now and for evermore , until Sarmatia ' s stricken , but still determined , warriors -Vai-e triumphant over all their foes . "Each for all , and all for each / 'is the motto of all true democrats , and , acting in accordance therewith , they must , and will , prevail .
The report of the public meeting , holden on Monday last , in this metropolis , to commemorate the Polish Revolution , will be read with satisfaction by all true Democrats . Men of England , IrelancUScotland , France , Germany , Bel gium , and other countries , fraternised on that occasion to swear eternal hatred to Poland ' s oppressors . A most remarkable feature of the evening ' s proceedings , was the' appearance of a delegation from Brussels-lam - bassadurs , charged with the holy mission of organising the alliance of nations . The delegation represented no second-rate men Here are the names of the Council of the Brussels society of Fraternal Democrats :- _
General Melhnet , a soldier of the French / Republic , now a grey-haired veteran of eiehtv yearsofage GeneralMellinet is adored bV - •? SC £ SS ^^ ^ ^ Jottrand is a Belgian barrister . Chief editor of a Democratic journal published in Brussels before the Revolution of 1830 , he . suffered considerable persecution for his manly deS of his country ' s liberties . He was a member ° ^ t n titn r } ° f « ^ previousTfh SK i T ld tothe throne - Subsequently heedited the Counter fie /^ a RadicalTurnal and is at the present time editor of theSSS S Vr ? evotedto thepeople * lmbert , formerly editor of th £ P « , « 7 o m »^ js 3 Sft in the celebrated 3 rf 1 Si an ^ 'i T
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prcard '; is"a'Belgia ' n barrister , ; and a well known . RadicalReformer .- ¦" - " ¦ ' .... Weerth is a name well known to our readers , who will remember the gallant services of this gentleman at the late Free Trade . Congress at Brussels . He has been nominated by the English ' Chartists as their representative . What more need we say of Weerth ? unless we add that he is a poet of no mean pretensions , whose songs tell of the sufferingsof Labour's sons , and their aspirations for a better future . Lelewell ! Here is a name beside the glory
of which the names of haughtiest monarchs pale their fires . Lelewell is the greatest of Polish historians , and for literary eminence stands second to but few—if any- —on the roll of time . ' Originally a professor at the University of Vilua , he was for his patriotism expelled from his chair by the Russian Despotism . Retiring to Warsaw , he was nominated a member of the Diet . On the breaking out of the Revolution , and the expulsion of Const an tine , Lelewell was appointed a member of the National Government . In that
capacity he advised measures which , had they been adopted , would have secured the triumph of the Revolution . _ He strenuously urged the justice and necessity of emancipating the masses , arming them , and making them possessors of the soil . He urged , that the war should be carried into Podolia , Volhynia , Lithuania , and the other ancient provinces of Poland ; that the Polish nation should everywhere be roused to arms , and the Slavonic race appealed to in the names of fraternity aud equality . Unhappily , the majority ofithe members of the government and diet wfere temporisers and heart-and-soul aristocrats , who
hated the very thought of emancipating the people much more than they hated the Russian domination . Lelewell ' s counsel was rejected , and the revolution succumbed . Since then , this great man has been living in exile . Denied a home in France , by . that hater of all honest men , Louis-Philippe , the Polish historian and patriot has taken up his residence in Brussels . He is the recognised chief of the " United Emigration , " which embodies the majority of the Polish exiles . He is the very model of . an incorruptible Republicanthe Aristides of his country .
, Lastly , the delegate sent by the Brussels society , Dr Mark , is a celebrated writer on nomical economy and social philosophy . . Banished from Germany , his native land , his works , nevertheless , circulate beyond the Rhine , and , in defiance of the censorship , find their way to the hands of . the people—that people whose destiny is to work out a mighty social , as well as political change in the heart of Europe .
Such are the men who tender to us Englishmen the olive-branch of Fraternity . The Democrats of Great Britain will respond with heart and voice to their appeal . All the continental speakers at Monday ' s meeting , French , German , and Belgians , united in declaring that the real Reformers of the continent looked . up to the English Chartists , as the pioneers of-progress , and looked
forward to the carrying of the Charter , as the great means of commencing the emancipation not only of Englishmen , but the entire family of E uropean nations . This " great fact' ' should be a great incentive to the Working Classes of these Islands , to struggle determinedly for the obtainment of their political rights , and winning them , make England " The anchor and hope of the world . "
Monday last , —the anniversary of Poland ' s unsuccessful struggle for freedom , was selected , by Sir George Grey , for bringing forward the Whig Coercion Bill directed against Ireland , —the Poland of the West . But , if Irishmen will only unite with the people of England , the Whigs shall never succeed in their Russianlike designs against the sister country . The people of England and the people of Ireland
have until recently warred against each other , instead of , warring against their common oppressors ; and hence , both have been enslaved . Let fraternity . take the place of hatred ' and union take the place of strife , and both ' nations will speedily gain their liberties . Who ever opposes that union , or holds back from that fraternisation now , is an-enemy to Ireand , and a traitor to the cause of Freedom . United we conquer—divided we fall !"
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On Tuesday night , Sir C . Wood made his promised financial explanation . The Whigs are peculiarly infelicitous in their Chancellors of the Exchequer . It almost appears , as if in all cases , they selected the greatest noodle of the party to fill that important office , * and hence , their , invariable financial failure . One can only account for Sir C . Wood being pitchforked into the situation , by supposing that that powerful member of the party , Earl Grey , made his brother-in-law ' s appointment as Chancellor , the condition of his own influence being added to the Cabinet . However , be the secret of his occupying that position what it may , there he is , and certainly , it is almost impossible to conceive of any iman more unfitted for it . In the oration of two hours and a half
which he inflicted upCft . the House on Tuesday , it was difficult to catch 3 glimpse of a single first principle relative to monetary science , — and .. composed as the speech tos on the " everything and ^ something else" model , it was impossible to comprehend the unfinished and contradictory topics and views , of which it was made up . A more unsatisfactory display was , perhaps , never made in thatiouse , and . he evidentl y did not carry it with him . Ihe deaa silence , with which he was listened to almost without exception , t hroughout the whole of his laboured anS lumbering harangue reminded one of the words of Byron , * and in ' duced an uivolutary travesty of them .
nH ^ f * ^™ waB neMertfch norrare , But wondered how the devil it got there . " His speech may be briefl y dismissed " , as being a of the articles of the Times , with which he had crammed himself—an attack upon n w wh Oppoaed the Tbm and its echo Sir U Wood—an attempt to justify the course pursued by the Government on the extraordinary ground that they did not interfere until the mischief had reached its height , before they meddled in the matter . The Exchange had , by first ruining hundreds of houses and paraly
sing trade , been turned in our favour - then interference was no of use , and consequentl y , that the Act of 1844 having been by these singular means prevented from being broken , no indemnity could be asked for , and if the Whigs could help it , no change made . But as a son to the exasperated mercantile world , and an ingenious mode of stopping the mouths of inconvenient currency orators , he proposed a Ummitteee of Enquiry , which may report perhaps at the end of next vear , like the last
Currency Committee , that they have taken a great deal of evidence , which is so contradictory that the Committee neither understood it , or each other , or anybody else , and another Blue Book be added to the ponderous tomes wherewith the Whigs have enriched our Far * liamentary literature . Mr James Wilson , of the Economist newspaper , a new member , followed the , Chancellor of the Exchequer , in a speech . ' which showed great reading and close study of the subject , and which evidently made
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One of the Slandebebs . —A respectable working man , at Sutton-ln-Asbfield , whom we know personally , and knowing can confide in , writes to usjas follows : — ' Mr Fitketbley , from Huddersfield , was here for a few days the other week , when he was abusing Mr O'Connor and the Land Pian . He said Mr O'Connor was a tyrant , aid ever ; man associated with him was his ¦ tool , ' and that the land Flau would be a failure . But I can assure you that Pltkethley Vabuse cannot injure Mr O'Connor ; on the contrary , Pitkcthley will find that he will not meet with that support in Sutton be has hitherto met with in his business transactions . That is the way to teach such men to keep their evil tongues quiet' ' We have heard of some more of Mr Fitketblej ' a private vituperation of the land Plan , excited , no doubt , by the people prefering that plan to his moonshine Emigration scheme , t , - A TpoNft Chartist , Brighton , —No room . ?
Tzbolo . '—No room . * Thomas Jonks . —Noroom fortheparagrapb , &c . respecting the horses , Kehdal . —We do not know if the ' Tracts , ' published by the Rev . B . Parsons , of Stroul can be had in London . The Sight of the AAitocraey to the Soil , ' by 'John Noakes , 'is published by Effingham Wilson , Royal Ex . change , London . Nbw York . —A correspondent wishes to know tin amount of the fore-cabin pasage money in a New York packet , for a man and his wife . Mr Canmbmt's Tbact . —A correspondent at Merthyr Tydvil wishes to know if this tract can be procured from any agent in London . ChabtistM . P ' s . —A correspondent at Leith wishes to know the names of the seventeen Chartist members ; he can only find seven such . We fear the ' aeveateen ' areUks
"WilliamRider's ' eighthonest men' in the first Con-I ! vention , difficult to find . But we shall see what we ¦¦ shall see . To ? m Membbbb oj the Mechanics' Society . —In the Stab of November 20 th there is a letter from H . Selsby , denying that he ever advised the Warrington branch to withdraw their money from the Savings Bank and place itin the Reyal Bank of Liverpool , and blam . ing a Manchester mechanic for not publishing his name totheIett 6 rhewroteinthepreriousweek ' s Star . Now , sir , I am not in a position to publish my name any more than 'the Manehester Mechanic' was , but will give you a few fac's that will place Henry Selsby in no very enviable position . A Manchester mechanic got Ms information from the noble defence of the fourth b : » nch against the appeal of the Executive Council , which said appeal was burked by many of the secretaries that it
was sent to . Mr H . Selsby did send a letter to the War . rington branch advising them to withdraw their money from the Savings Bank and place it in a Bank in Liver , pool . One of the Manchester fourth Branch officers was in the Club . room , at Warrington , and heard the letter real . No matter how n . Selsby may wish to evade the above , it is a fact . Now , mark H . Selsbj's denial . — ' That he never authorised them to withdraw their money from the Savings Bank and place itin the Royal Bank of Liverpool . ' I know he did not , but he ad . vised them to place it in a Liverpool Bank . Let him try bis hand again at evasion and I will disperse a little of the mist that surrounds him and show him up in his true colours' . —Another Manchester Mechanic . W . G ., Spilsby . —The shares will , when drawn , have to he made over to the husband .
Win Mr John Moss , late of the Staffordshire Potteries , boot and shoe maker , please favour me with his address in the next week ' s Stab , viz ., the Uth ? It will be esteemed a favour . Yours , Mrs E . Ellis , Srange-lane , Corbridge . Staffordshire Potteries . Henbt Greenwood , overlooker , late of Lodenden Foot , is requested to send the number of his certificate , and his address , to the secretary of the Hebden Bridge branch of the National Land Company . —James Marsland , bub-sec . J . Sweetlove begs to inform the members ef th « National Land Company , and the readers and subscribers to the Nobthern Stui , residing in Greenwich , Deptford , Woolwich , and Lewisham , he has removed to Providence-row , near the Union , Woolwich-road , that they will still be supplied with the above paper , and the ' Labobreb . ' Orders will be received by Mr Paris
Distnct Land office , Coldbath , Greenwich ! Mr G . Floyd baker , Church-street , Deptford ; and Mr J . Morgan , groeer , 89 , Butcher-row , Deptford . TflE LAND AND LABOUR Bank . —Sir , —In the Star o Nov . 20 , a four-acre shareholder suggests the idea of one million of individuals' depositing one pound each , in the Bank . Now , I think that 'that idea is very UmlCed , and jet extravagant , inasmuch as there are many thousand zealous supporters of Chartist prin . ciples and the Land Plan who have not a shilling to pare . Now . IwouW say , let every shareholder who ¦ has u spare pound deposit it in the Land Bank- also , those who have their £ 5 ., jtflO ., or £ 10 . and upwards , do likewise , and by that means the parties directly in . terested in the Laud and Bank would lay a foundation for the Trades and other ^ BeHefit Societies to build an
edifice ( with their funds ) , which will not only benefit themselves , but cause the capitalists to respect the producers of wealth . I , as one , will do all that lies in my power to cause our trade more generall y to patronise the Bank . Ah ! but the Manchester Examimr says , 'that those branches of our society that have deposited their funds in the Land Bank must withdraw them before the end of this month ; but I think the mem bers » f the Nos . 4 and 5 branches will prove him ta be a false ; prophet . The Examiner also states that the deppsus in the Savings' Banks throughout th . united kingdom in 18 * 5 amounted to £ 30 , 748 , 868 Now if one fourth of the ab » ve sum were in the Land Bank I would ask , howloig would it take Mr O'Connor to locate the shareholders on the land ? Yours , &cV , Tii t i A Mechanic
• no — . B ... . P . S . Perhaps H . Selsby would like to know " i am ; the answer is-one that will not let him and his aristocratic friends have it all their own way quietlv ONE OF THE « WHI 8 TlER ' fl ' yiCriUS .-SlB , _ SeeL inth 8 Star of the . 6 th i « stant , in the extracts relatinl to th * Whistler 'mention of a m « named Scott 0 f 4 ° hSl ! street , Belfast , as one of the « Whistler ' s' victims ; and s I was this day accidentally passing by Mitchell street ' I thought I would test the truth o ? tnV rtataSST to seeagtU « mm . I wcordingly inquired , anThad HO trouble in finding him . Ho was sitting at dinner when JvhnlTnff " . ' °° > a ? , ? m hit ° ™ V * heard the whole affair , repeated alnwst word for word us it stands in the Star , with this addlti . n , that SomerJu ' e besides being a great sc . undrel . was & ereat °£ K !
« on one occasion , while in Spain , ho shamm d " the beUy-ach e / . and ran away to the back of aditch anl lay there until the danger was passed ? I have als * conTemdwUh a gentleman in fielfast who knew So . memllewellinG lasgow and helped to kick ? , m out SJh £ ^ Js ^ 8 despicable tool ompfoyed to d ritt £ T «^ Pobuo Mor . ii 8 .-I must again entreat my friends not to trouble ma with monies for the 'Registration and Election Committee , 'the 'National Y 1 Ctim Fund ' th . ' Sleaford Ca-e , '' TradeB on Strike ' & •„ £ „ r h » ve qulU enough to attend to wltheut tsking ' tho iwrk out of meu ' s hands who are in office for tha spe . clal purpois of receiving monies for the above funds — G . Joiun Harnet .
Ths 0 'Cossos Tartan . —To several correspondents . Wb understand that the Director * of the land Com . pa jy , in connexion with some friends , hare ordered ft 5 W » ntlty of the O'Connor Tartan , which will bo on sale' at the Land Office , Hi , High Holborn . P « oskcoi ? ok cf the Pbess . oA «« , —A Mrrtl . iondent at S ' tockport : * U 2 ge » t 8 that for the better " collection of subscriptions , 'every branch ba divided into a certain number of eeotioiT * ) suitable to the local situation of the various branch ' . *^ and that oolleotora be ap « pointed at that meeting ! the collectors to go round weekly , and the money to ta 'eat through the secre . tar ; of the branch to the office ?* of the Land Company . The collectors to be parties well luowa to membirsof tho Company for their activity and s . 'al in the cause . I would bav » the contributions Of the cambers of the CompaHy inserted separately from those oi toe ChartUt body , in order that the Exammtr may see thtf amount
of sympathy that the members » f the Company h *» P for the charaoter of the founder of the noblest undertaking that has ever been set on foot . Pmhouth .-WM John Rogers of Plymouth forward hli full addresi to Charlei Rogew , No . 4 , IUy . itreet , StalybrldRe , Cheshire . R Moss , —No room . Turns . —No room . B , Wilkinson . —Thanks . No room . Thos . Jones hai been appointed agent in Llverposl for tho sale of the O'Connor Tartan , Tie Chartists of Liverpool can be ( applied with the No&tbi&h Siab , the Labourer , and other Democratic publications , all the profits being devoted to Chartist purposes . Mr Jonei attends at Mr FarreH ' s , Temperance Hotel , 1 , Cazneau-street , every Monday , Wednesday , and Friday evening * , to dispose of the above attioles and receive orders .
WisBBAcn . —Mr J . Darnrood hai been duly appointed secretary » f the Wtibeach branch of the National Land Company . Mr Dakwood , WUbeaoh-mn . it » pply t » his London agent for the speclmun . We can only suppl y those , direalfrom the effice , wbeae papers ar « forwarded by UB , This notice mast answer *> hoit of couatry agents . wh » Ute that they procure the Star through London Hihtrs .
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DEA ' ti .. i ^ n e nlteraoon of Thursday , the 18 th ult , at his house in Falkirk , Mr James Robertson , taiier . He waa a " ex . cellent democrat ; a most shrewd and and intdlteflnt man , agedfort y-twoyenu . Ho was conreyed to fail lut rtft ng . place , by a nuinwous bodj ¦ <>/ friradi , Mdiat « re 3 fia
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Coercion for Ireland , Currency for England , constitute the two great topics of the week . The first had the precedence given to'it by the Government . On Monday , Sir G . Grey , following in the wake of English Home-Secretaries ever since the Union , ' brought forward the long catalogue of crimes and outrages which , in all cases herald in the proposal to suspend the Constitution in Ireland , and then , having discharged this routine piece of duty , proceeded with the other equally-established
part of his task— -namely , the description of the kind of coercion which the "Whi gs are willing to be content with at the present time . A brief summary of its provisions will show the spirit in which it is framed . The Lord-Lieutenant is to be empowered , at his discretion , to proclaim disturbed districts . He is , without limit as to number , except in so far as the reserve force at his disposal restricts him , empowered to increase the constabulary force in any proclaimed district , the whole expense of this extraordinary force to be borne
by the district on which it is quartered . All persons , except those specially licensed , are to be disarmed , and prohibited from carrying or having fire-arms in their houses . The consta . bulary are empowered to apprehend every one carrying arms contrary to its provisions , and such arms will be forfeited to the Crowo . On the proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant all the inhabitants of the proclaimed district , not within the enumerated exceptions , when called upon to deliver up their arms at the nearest police-office , must do so on pain of being ad . judged guilty of misdemeanour , and punished by imprisonment . We do not find in the Bill any provision for compensation to the Darties
thus deprived of their arms . Powers to search for arms in the day-time are also taken , and the authorities are to be empowered to call upon all persons between the ages of sixteen and sixty , to assist in securing persons suspected of crime j and every persomrefusing to join in pursuit of such * suspected persons is to be deemed guilty of misdemeanour , and to be liable to imprisonment , with or without hard labour , for any time not exceeding two years . Such are the leading provisions of a Bill-which , in principle , if not in detail , is as much entitled to the apellation of an " Algerine Act , ' as any previous infringement o f the Constitution in Ireland , Of course Sir G Grey in proposing it , repeated what had W «
said by all his predecessors in moving similar bills , that he did not expect it would ' touch the causes of crime and outrage in Ire ' land ; but then came also the hacknied , foolish , and false corollary-it was necessary before and above allthings to give secunty for life and property before anything like a remedial policyjcould be effectual . Why , m June , 1846 , this very did . low and totally unfounded Wtio / wa 8 ESS& ^ TS tf °
w . £ a- 3 . simuar measure . Thev had then discovered that mere topical apnW pff .- aaW . sfaiS become convinced » f tlle 4 , ite , T all S Stest ^ rkr ? MSLSttsrSS » mi 8 h Parliament . On these « n « X 1 . gmWfttt ** , the present Ministry succeed tn obtaining
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possession of power , and lo 1 their very first measure theyear after , at the commencement of a new session is , to repeat the policy they had so emphatically condemned in another ! We say that such an exhibition is one of the most disgraceful tothe Whig party , that even they have ever before presented to the public , and of itself , should stamp them for ever as a selfish , insincere , intriguing knot of placeseekers , who are totally unworthy of the sympathy or support of a single honest politician of any party . If there was a single principle or pledge of any description given by Lord J .
Russell on his last accession to office , it was that the old , exploded , cruel ; find futile policy of force , was for ever to be abandoned in Ireland , andthatthe evils of that unhappy country were to be attacked at the root , by withdrawing thecausesofthat embittered feeling between the different classes of society , and removing , by reproductive meaaure 8 , that destitution , which form together the perennial fountain of Irish crime ; and we say-that , in failing to do this , his lordship and his Cabinet have broken faith with the people of this country , and ought immediately to be driven from the places they have obtained upon false
pretences . The reception of this monstrous repetition of a frequently inflicted injustice , was characteristic of the different parties in the House . The trimming leader of temporising Repealers , ( videlicet place-hunters , ) Mr John O'Connell , could scarcely find words to express his thankfulness to the Whigs for their kindness , their magnanimity , in not proposing a more stringent measure : His feelings of pleasurable disappointment almost took away his breath ! Faught such lick-spittle spaniels are only fit to be kicked , and no doubt the Whigs estimate him and his rump—for we can scarcely think he has " a tail" —at their real value . ¦ The man who came over to die on the
floor of tUe House , rather than permit coercion again to insult and wrong his country , " with "bated breath and whispering humblene ss ' asked the Ministry to give time to send to Ireland to learn how it would be received there , and begged for an assurance that , if the Irish members did not oppose this measure , the Government would favour them with some remedial measures . They were deaf to his adjurations , and made no sign . But though
they might have hugged themselves in the belief that they could play the old game with impunity towards Ireland , they : were speedily undeceived . Mr O'Connor taught them at once the lesson that , however a temporising policy may suit other parties , he will none of it . That he , at least , will redeem his promises , and act upon principle . He had declared that he would give any such measure his most determined opposition , and he would do so if . he stood alone . He did divide the
House on the very first atage ; and nineteen members , only , followed him into the lobby . Not an O'Connell is to be found in the list of that nineteen ! Ireland has a chance a last offered it of discovering who are shams and who are honest in her defence . Oue of the ablest and most satisfactory expositions of the grounds of the opposition to this measure , was that of Mr Horsman , who , with great force , clearness , and eloquence , demonstrated the gross inconsistency of the Government in proposing it , the position of the House with reference to it , and the utter failure of all
such attempts previously . Our readers will be amply repaid for the time required to peruse his short but conclusive speech . While , however , the O'Connellites were in raptures with this mild dose of brimstone and gunpowder , the Irish landlord party , represented by Viscount Jocelyn and Lord Bernard , in the extremity of their fears , loudly condemned it as being altogether unequal to the exigencies of the crisis , and demanded more stringent , { qy . bloody , ) provisions . Even Sir Robert Peel , whom we would have thought , from his speech on leaving office , had at length
perceived the radical error of such measures , spoke as if he considered the bill a very milk and * water one . He magnanimously refrained from twitting the Whigs with their conduct towards himself , and threw his powerful aid into the scale in their . favour . So deeply have the original errors of his education as an Irish statesman embued his mind , that it is evident he is yet disposed to cling far . more to a detective police—in the other . words , to a system of spies , and espionage , and the armed terrors of such bills—than upon the simple
straightforward and radical method of doing justice , and trusting to that for the healing of the diseases of the body politic . Mr Disraeli , on behalf of the Protectionists , gave a somewhat Jesuitical explanation of the reasons why , though his party voted against an Arms ' Bill in 1846 , they were going to vote for one in 1847 , which might be very satisfactory and conclusive to his own mind , but we suspect it will by no means prove so to any impartal observer of the game of politics . In fact , Mr Disraeli , with all his great talents , is a mere partisan , and considers that " everything is fair in war . ' His standard is not—What is
just ? but— 'What will suit my party ? The sooner our legislature is purged from such impure tendency the better .
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a yeryiaypurable , impression on > the house , far as ability was concerned . It was , however in p rinciple , most unsatisfactory to us . ' It id evident that Mr Wilson is hopelessly and incurabl y affected by that most preposterous of all notions , that the Government and Parliament can ; and ought , to do nothing in the war of regulating the great affairs of society . That its functions are only those of a tax-gatherer and policeman—hangman when neede d—that everybody 9 hOHld be left to take care of thorn
selves , and "devil take the hindmost . " We by no means agree in the principle of this theory of Government . It is the shabbiest , most beggarly , and most beggar creating syS tem . ever adopted for the government of men , and as long as it rules uncommercial , monetary , and manufacturing affairs , we need not expect any material alteration for the better in the condition of the great masses of society . After a Bmart and spirited condemnation of the policy of the Government from Mr'f . Baring and Mr Cayley , and a carefully nrenared es 3 av in
its favour by Sir W . Moles worth , the debate and the House adjourned till Thursday , when the subject was resumed . On the general ques . tion , we shall endeavour to speak more fully in our next .
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_ JL _ , THE NORTHERN STAR , December 4 , 1847
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 4, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1447/page/4/
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