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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2G, 1818.
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labour was sought to he freed , by giving the land o Poland to the Polish peojle . ( Cheers . ) It is because the address from Cracow contains this great feature , that I teke leave to speak of it as an immortal document-Ooud cheers ) -and of its authors as immortal patriots- ( loud cheers ) -and of the strn .-sle in which they were engaged as one which wiiwet in a great measure influence the future destiny of Poland . ( Cheers . ) The resolution invokes the execration of mankind against the trio of roval butchers who authorised the brutal atrocities ^ bicli were perpetrated in Gaiicia . ( Hear , and cheers . ) For mjself , 1 freely execrate , not only those crowned ruffians who were mere immediately
concerned in the Galieian murders ; but I cannot forbear from expressing my indignation at the conduct of those powers who were parties to the treaty of Vienna , by which the independence of Cracow was guaranteed , and who stood quietly by and witnessed the violation of a treaty , to uphold which Great Britain itself was pledged . ( ' Shame' and cheers . ) No ; the principles proclaimed in the Cracow M-r . ¦ : este were abhorred as much by Palmerston 8 S by y ; aternicb .-and hence the unanimity of feeling for the destruction of the Cracovanian Republic ' ! ( Hear , hear . ) How different the conduct of the paltry government of this country in the case of Poriueal , where an abandoned queen and a corrupt
Court had set at open defiance the opinion of the people S ( Hear , hear . ) In this latter case , a fleet was fitted out at the expense of the people of this country , and a blockade of the Tagus was effected by them . What anoble employment for the' wooden walls , ' or rather the ' wooden heads , ' of old England . ( Cheers and laughter . ) But this fleet has been withdrawn from the Tagus , -with a view , no doubt , of protecting us from ' foreigu invasion . Would it not be well if we had some power to protect us from domestic aggression—such , for example , as the 1 Budget . " ( Cheers and laughter . ) I believe that the cry of the ' Foreigner' will no longer meet with attention in this country . ( Hear , and cheers . ) This noble association has substituted the term
' Brother' for that of 'Foreigner ; and as nations learn to struggle for their own ri ghts , to the same extent will they sympathise with those of other lands , who are similarly engaged . ( Cheers . ) Too much praise , then , cannot be awarded to the men who created , arid who bare fostered , this cosmopolitan fraternity . ( Hear , hear . ) I , for one , tender them my most sincere and unqualified thank ? . ( Cheers . ) To this Association of Fraternal Democrats , do we owe that spirit of enlightenment which is now sprii ! gi ! ig op amongst the workiDg classes of this coun try upon questions relating to foreign policy . ( He 2 r . " i Mr Clark went on at some length to argue against what is called ' Nationality , ' and sat down loudly cheered .
— iTAEXDER delivered a speech in the German language which was loudly applauded . After a few remarks from an English working man named Wilson , the resolution was unanimously adopted . Colonel Obqrski , a Polish exile , then briefly addressed the meeting , thanking his brother Democrats for this manifestation of their sympathy for his persecuted country . The Colonel was loudly app lauded . Bj . ^ eb eier Fontaine then spoke in French . He delivered a very eloquent and soul-stirring address , and was greatly applauded . Edwin * Gixl , in a brief but excellent speech , in the course of which he was loudly cheered , moved the adoption of the third resolution : —
' Test wo observe with pleasure the progress of free principles in Italy , and regard with profound inter ?** tho etrosgle for freedom now going on in Fr 2 r . ce , and we hereby call upon our brethren , the Proletarians of France , ta remember the past , and resolve that for the futare , the veritable sovereignty of the people shall easnre the veritable reign of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternity . W . Cuff at , In seconding the resolution delivered . a speech which elicited shouts of applause . The resolution was supported in a lengthy and interesting speech by J . A . Michelot , And on being put to the vote was unanimously adopted .
Three thundering cheers for Colonel Oborski ; three for Julian Harney and Ernest Jones ; three for Feargus O'Connor and the English Chartists ; three terrific groans for Nicholas , Metternlctl , Louis-Philippe , Guizot , and all other tyrants , and a vote of thanks to the cbairmarij closed the proceedings ol this most interesting meeting .
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THE TOCSIN .
" Back to the stragglo , baffled in tho strife , War , war , is still the crj , war oven to the knife ! "
In another page will be found a report of a popular Meeting held in commemoration of the Cracow Insurrection . At that meeting Democrats of nearly all the European nations assisted ; attesting , by their presence , their earnest and undying sympathy for unhappy Poland . The Cracow Insurrection is worthy of being commemorated , not so much because it was a noble , though unfortunate protest against
established tyranny , as because the objects sought to be achieved by the insurgents were such as must command the approbation of all friends of the people . The patriots of Cracow desired " Poland for the Poles ; " they aspired to establish the reign of equal political right , and social justice . Their " Liberty * ' would hare been a reality , for all would Lave enjoyed equal political franchises , and the labourer would have been ensured his social rights , wanting which , " political equality" is an illusion .
The Cracow Manifesto proclaims the sterling patriotism and sound intelligence of the Patriots who engaged in the struggle of 1846 . But they failed—they perished in the unequal strife to which they had committed themselves . Still their noble efforts were not altogether in vain , — " The patriot's bloed ' s the Beed of freedom's tree . " - From the ashes of Poland ' s martyrs has arisen a spirit which , arousing to energetic action the oppressed millions of other lands , assures the triumph , sooner or later , throughout Europe , of the principles of the Cracow Manifesto .
Retribution has followed hard upon the heels of crime . The criminals who destroyed , and the criminals who betrayed , the independence of the last vestige of ancient Poland , have now their hands full of trouble . At this moment Austria is arming in hot haste to meet the threatened rising of all Italy against her usurpation ; and Louis Philippe sits on a tottering throne—a throne so shaken , that even the shouts of the uprisen people ' of Paris may not unlikely bring it to the dust .
The news from Italy is of vast importance . It tells of the Neapolitan King ratifying his promise of a constitution by ! the promulgation of that constitution . It tells of the determination of the Sicilians to secure to themselves those veritable liberties which their heroism justly entitles them to . It tells of other Italian princes conceding the just demands of the people over whom they rule . It tells of the vain attempts of the assassins of the Galieian patriots to strike terror into the hearts of the men of Lombardy . The blood of Poland cries against Austria for vengeance , and Italy seems destined to le the avenger of her suffering sister .
The concessions granted by the Pope are still more striking . The substitution of laical for ecclesiastical ministers in the departments of Justice , Commerce , and Police , mark an epoch in the history of the Roman States , from which may be dated the beginning of their regeneration . Popular power has triumphed over priestly privilege . The clerical nightmare is now taken off the breast of Young Italy . The Roman heart will now beat without restraint , and , free in its pulsations , may and will defy the deadliest ragrbf Metternich and his barbarous Austrians .
But the grand event of the week is the triumphant insurrection of the Parisians . Glory to the men of Paris ! who have once more read a lesson to tyrants , and set an example before the oppressed of every land . The ample details we have given of the origin , rise , and progress of this insurrection , will full y inform our readers of the particulars of this most important event . The intelligence received up to the moment we pen these remarks , assures us that the victery is with the people . Victory has declared for the people , because , 1 st . —the masses displayed a spirit of unexampled heroism ; 2 nd . —because the National Guards fraternised
with the people ; 3 rd . —because the soldiers of the line exhibited unmistakable proofs of their disinclination to fight for a damnable despotism . Tbe Keroism of the people Vias been beyond all precedent , When , in the first revolution , the Parisians captured the Bastile , and stormed the Tuilieries , they were for the most part well-armed and assisted by cannons , and hadbut comparatively speaking—a handful of troops to encounter . In 1830 , some four thousand soldiers constituted the principal defence of the throne of Charles X . against a wellarmed people . But in the "beginning of the
end , " we have just witnessed , the people found themselves opposed to a hundred thousand troops , provided with innumerable pieces of cannon and all the horrible materiel of war ; backed too , by those wonderful forts , which built ostensibly to keep out the foreigner , were really intended to muzzle the Parisians . The people , too , were almost totally unarmed . The very few who had arms , appear to have been wretchedly provided with ammunition ; nevertheless , in the might of their moral and physical courage and the majesty of their numbers , they bore down all opposition , and inspired the National Guards to fraternise with them , and the soldiurs of the line to ground their arms .
This , we repeat , is an example to the oppressed of alienations . "For a nation to be free , it is sufficient that she wills it I " Up to the time wej are writing , the fonly result of this combat is the hurling from power of Guizot and his fellow-conspirators . The struggle came unexpectedly , and , consequently , the people found themselves without an aim , or leaders to direct them ; but , we repeat , we believe this combat to be onl y " the beginning- of the end . "
If ministerial responsibility is not the veriest farce , Guizot , Duchatel , Hebert , and the rest of the gang , will be made to answer with their
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heads for shedding the blood of the people ; and if the people are not absolutely insensible to their own interests , they will , in this hour of their triumph , insist upon such a " Reform" as will place the-Sovereignty of the state in their own hands . Whatever may be the results of this conflict —forthwith or remote—for France , the immediate effect upon Europe generally will be immense . Germany will be roused to aGtion , and Italy will at once burst her Austrian fetters . ' Pot us , too . the tocsin Bounds ! ' '
If Englishmen are not the most despicable of slaves they will at once set about the work —peacefully and legally—of struggling for their Charter . Furthermore , the English people are bound , by all their hopes of liberty , to sympathise with those who are struggling to achieve freedom . We have much pleasure in announcing—first , that on Monday evening next , the Fraternal Democrats will assemble at their usual place of meeting , to declare their sentiments on this most important subject ; second ,
that for the same purpose a public meeting will be held on an early day next week ( time and place to be hereafter announced ) , convened by the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association . Let every true Democrat and Chartist attend both meetings , and testify adhesion to the / principle that : — " Whenever a Government violates the rights of the People , insurrection is for the People , and for every portion of tke People , the most sacred of rights , and tke most indispensable of duties . ' " ^
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . All other questions are , for the time beina :, thrown into the shade by Lord John Russell ' s monstrous Budget . If n bombshell had suddenly exploded in the House of Commons , it could scarcely have created greater sensation , not to say consternation , than the war speech—war estimates—enormous amount of the expenditure for next year , and the mode by which it was proposed to raise the income to an equality with that expenditure . Lord John ' s boldness has been frequently commented upon—the witty Sydney Smith
remarked , that he would take the command of the Channel fleet at an hour ' s notice , if called upon to do so ; but great as that temerity might be , it would be nothing compared to the boldness of making such a financial statement as that of Friday , the 18 th instant . The curious part of the matter is , that his lordship actually spoke , and seemed to feel , as though he was making proposals which would be quite pleasant to everybody , and , with the most engaging ingenuousness , took credit to himself for being so exceedingly moderate jn his demands . He has since found out hii' mistake .
The tempest of objurgation , remonstrance ,, and opposition , which has since burst . upon his financial scheme from all parts of the House and of the country , must have convinced him of that fact . ¦ When Sir R . Peel , in 1842 , imposed the Income Tax—the necessity for it was undeniable . A long course of Whig financial mismanagement , that inseparable adjunct ta their being in office—had reduced the Exchequer almost
to a state of insolvency . The exigency demandedla prompt and stringent measure , and Peel was just the man for the crisis . The country at large entertains almost unbounded faith in him as a practical financier , and will , at any time , listen to propositions from him , which would be scouted if emanating from any other quarter . But besides this confidence in his financial abilities , and the exi
gencies of the time , Peel really did gild the bitter pill , which he asked the nation to swallow , in a Tery adroit manner . He said— " It is only for three years that I ask this sevenpence in the pound fromall who have ' an incomeofiSloO a year , and as a compensation for the imposition ofjthis temporary burden , I will remove a host of fiscal exactions which fetter trade , impede commerce , and paralyse industry . " The fascinations of the persuasive baronet prevailed , and the country almost exultingly submitted to the new tax . But Russell does nothing of the sort , nor has he anything like the same excuse . When he came into power , but
comparatively speaking a few months ? go , he found in the Exchequer a clear surplus of hard money of three millions eight hundred thousand pounds sterling . In less than two years , he and his miserable apology for a Chancellor of the Exchequer , have contrived to convert that surplus into a deficiency of two millions nine hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds sterling , making together a balance against the country of not less than six millions seven hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds sterling , for less than two years of Whig Government ! Certainly , this is paying too dear for our whistle , with a vengeance !
Instead of proposing to revise the whole system of our taxation , with a view to making such reductions as may be practical and just , the Prime Minister coolly proposes the permanent continuance of the Income Tax , with the addition that for the next two years it shall be one shilling in the pound , instead of sevenpence in the pound , notwithstanding the fact that when the lowest amount was first proposed , he was its strenuous opponent , and after delivering a long speech against it , submitted formally a resolution to the House of Commons , in which he stated strongly all the arguments that could be brought to bear upon the imposition of what lie justly termed a war tax in the time of peace .
Nor has the Whig minister copied Peel by proposing any co-ordinate reductions in indirect taxation—the onlj reduction he proposes is one upon copper ore , and we have a fair right to suppose that even that would not have been proposed , had not a near connexion of one of the great Whig houses been a smelter . The proposition , in fact , resolves itself into the naked and undisguised robbery of the class specially marked out to be victimised . It is stated upon authority , that the amount raised by the present tax , is produced by 500 , 000 persons only . Upon this small proportion of the tax paying population , who already , besides all
indirect and local taxation which they bear in common with the rest of the commnnity , pay upwards of five millions annually , Lord John proposes to saddle an additional burdea of nearly as much more . Now justice demands that in taxation two essential principles should be strictly adhered to . Firstly-not a farthing beyond what is absolutely required for the proper wants of the State . " should be raised ; and secondly—that tin ' s amount should be fairly and impartially apportioned among all classes of the community . We should like to ask , if there be an absolute necessity for the increased
expenditure proposed by Lord John Russell , wh y it sheuld fall upon those only who have incomes of 150 Z . a year and upwards ? Why should the man with 100 Z ., 120 / ., 130 / ., HO / ., or 149 / . 19 s ., be altogether exempted from bearing his share of jthese alleged necessary burdens ? Why should John Smith , living at No . 19 , be called upon to pay £ 7 16 * . to the Government out of £ 3 a-week , while Thomas Jones , who lives atlso . 20 , and receives £ 2 17 s . 6 ( 1 . a-week , is net called upon to pay one faTthing ? Besides , the class upon whom this impost really falls—for whom there is no possible escape—are a hard-worked , struggling
meritorious class—mercantile and banking clerks , warehousemen , literary men—the fags , in fact , of the middle classes , who have a hard struggle to make boch ends meet , and to keep up a decent appearance . The merchant and tradesman can manage to evade the literal operation of the tax . It is impossible to guage their fluctuating incomes with accuracy , and it may be presumed that it is seldom they err against themselves . But , in the case of the clerk , whose salary is fixed , there can be no evasion . His employers areboundto return ^ true 1 statement of his income , and so the * John Smith aforesaid , has to let his children go with a smaller allowance of shoes , stockings , jackets ,
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and frocks , than they would otherwise have had , because Ministers are too lazy to construct n move equitable and discriminating system of
taxation . > ot only , however , does Thomas Jones altogether escape the burdens which his less fortunate neighbour has to bear , but the lucky possessors of income and property in Ireland also go scot free . A brain-racked poor devil of a sub-editor must pay £ 7 10 s . to the Exchequer , while the owner of estates worth , £ 10 , 000 or £ 20 , 000 a-year in Ireland pays nothing ! In every point of view , the tax is a monstrous and unjust one . There ought to be a broad distinction between incomes derived from professional and personal exertions , precarious in amount and duration , because they depend
upon the personal health and ability of the owner , and that derived from realised property , whether in lands , houses , banking or railway shares , or money invested in the Funds . The value of the two kinds of income , bear no relation to each other whatever , and it is simply the grossest extortion and robbery to subjsct both to the same amount of taxation . To ' the principle of direct taxation , we are decidedly friendly , but it should be applied justly and with due discrimination , and surely the syste m of the sliding scale , which is applied in so many other instances , could be easily app lied in the case of a Property Tax .
* * * An extraordinary press of matter , occasioned principally by the important events in France , compels the curtailment of our comments . We will resume in our next , when other topics shall also have our attention .
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W . H . Mott begs to acknowledge tho . sum of 12 a . 5 d , for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat , from Mr Foster ' s , Drury-hill , Nottingham . Notice . —I should feel under great obligation to any reader of the Northebw StAk who will furnish me with the full and correct address of the viifo of a poor man , named Michael Driscoll , supposed to reside on er near West Calf Island , when the unfortunate ship Stephen Whitney was wrecked . This poor woman gave her only sheet to wrap the body of a lady who perished at the time . My object in desiring this information is , that 1 may be enabled to communicate with this kindhearted woman , andto remit her a substantial evidence ( received from a distant part of the world ) that such a manifestation of Christian feeling has not been unnoticed in a foreign land . —WiIiMak Biped , NobtKkbn Stab office . rticnAED Mabsdek , Blackburn . —Should send Mr O'Con . nor a petition upon the case referred to in the placard ,
which he will present to the House ot Commons . Blaobdubn , John Newbef inning . —Mr O'Connor hopes to communicate with Mr Newbeginning before the 19 th of March , relative to his visit to Blackburn . Malcolm CiraisTiE . —Mr O'Connor is excessively obliged for his remittance towards the defence of his Beat , but begs to decline it , as he considers it too large a tar to impose upon the good nature of any one znsn . He has handed hit cheque for £ 40 to the Manager , who will return it sccording to Mr O'C . ' s diroction . OtDHAM . —Mr O'Connor b « ga to acknowledge the letter of Mr Hamer , and will comply with his request when at Manchester , on tha 17 th and 18 th , if possible . $ ^ - The Insurrection in Paris , Mr O'Connor ' s Letters , afid lengthy reports of important meetings knre com-. bined ts render tbe postponement of numerous articles ' and communications unavoidable . Julian Harnky has received through Mr M'Crae , Dundee , Is from Robert Kydd , and Is from J . Hossnek , for the Fraternal Democrats .
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES . THE ACCUSED HIS OWN JUDGE . It is a farce with which the people should be acquainted that Feargus O'Connor is the accuser of Whig delinquents , while Fox Maule , the Whig Secretary at War , is the person who has the nomination of the Election Committee which is to decide upon Mr O'Connor ' s right to sit in Parliament ; while Mr Morgan John O ' Connell , 4 he deadly enemy of Mr O'Connor , may he , and probably will be , selected as chairman or judge upon the Committee . Formerly the practice was , that thirty-three members were balloted from amongst those present ; the " petitioners , as in thecase . of a special jury , struck out 11 names ; the member petitioned against also struck out eleven , and the remaining eleven constituted the Committee . Now , however , the case is altered ; the house is divided into panels ; Mr Fox Maule , as Chairman of the Committee of selection , refers the petition to what panel he pleases , and selects his Chairman , of the Committee . Now this is the tribunal to which Mr O'Connor ' s right to sit in Parliament is to he submitted ; while , as far as the subscriptions have gone , it would appear , as if thos 8 for whom he had struggled were determined to allow him to struggle for himself in this instance . We believe that the amount collected in one night for the defence of the seat of Mr Reynolds the member for Dublin , was over £ 2 , 000 , while the amount subscribed for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat scarcely amounts to £ 400 . This forms a strong contrast between English and Irish patriotism . The amount altogether subscribed does not exceed five farthings a man of the Members of the Land Company . The Directors consider this but a poor inducement for any gentleman to struggle for the rights of the poor . # ^^—>* y ^^^^^ m ^^ ^ k ^^^ d ^^^ M ^ HHfktf ^^~ A ^ a _ a — — ———— —
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niinarmrff * iMrpTBiBffT ' » MHi'ura » ^ ¦ ' >¦'» « < . - ( tt- *' FRANCE . INSURRECTION IN PARIS . TRIUMPH OF THE PEOPLE ! We resume ( from our last number ) the history of the all-absorbing struggle of which France is at tnis moment the theatre , - It had been decided that the banquet should take place , notat Mont-Parnasse , as originally intended , but in Paris , in a private property , eensisting of a latge piece of enclo 9 ed land , mthe Ch&mps * ElyBees , belonging to General Thiars , doputy . ¦¦¦¦ __ | ^ »¦ —i n i -n .. i
SANGUINARY PREPARATIONS BT THE GOVERNMENT . The Union Monarchiqub of Thursday , atated that a collective representation bad been made by the Municipal Counoil of PftTia to the Prefect of Police , in order to warn him ol the peril of a crisis provoked by the employment of brutal force . The Union adds'The Ministry are also adopting their precautions . The regiraenta , provided with ammunition of all descriptions , as for a siege , are kept in their barracks ; all the posts are doubled ; the ilat-major of Paris , and that ef the first military division , are -en permanence ; and tho police cemmissioner ^ of the twelve arrondinementt have been assembled , in order to receive precise instructions as to the conduct they are to hold in the crisis which is preparing . The Rbformb of the . same day , had the following : —
... .... ' Cartridges for fifty days have just been distributed in the barracks to every man of the Municipal Guard and regiments of the line quartered at Paria . The cannon of VincenneH are aimed on the bastions and courtinesef tbe old fort . All thePari * gunsmiths' shops have been inspected , and all the meuririim of the guard-houses and barracks put in order . ' . The National reported similar preparations on the part of the government : — ' We have already stated that the Minister of War bad placed the whole garrison of Paris on a war footingand ordered axespick-axes , shovels , and
provi-, , sions for four days , to be delivered to them , as if on the eve of taking the field . We learn to-day that directions have been given at- Vincennes to manufacture ball cartridges day and night , and ! to send artillery , caissonB , and waggons laden with ammunition to tho military school , in the Champ de Mars . All thoae orders ought in reality to have naturally emanated from the Minister of War ; but matters have been simplified , and at a critical moment like that in which wo live , it is the future Grand Master of the Artillery , the Duke de Montpender , who gives and signa the orders . The following is one of those orderB , of which we have obtained a
0 : > ny ; Deliver immediately , from tho artillery Btoresof Vincennes , to be forwarded , without delay , to the military Rchool in Paris , the following articles and ammunition : —two batteries of field pieoes with their caissons laden , twenty infantry caissons also laden , 300 grapc'shpt canisters , 400 rockets and torches for night service . , * A . d'Orlbans . Moreover , ' adds the National , ' preparations are making at Vincennes to place the chateau in a state of defence . ' THE BANQUET POSTPONED—OH 1 JAT EXCITEMENT IN THB
DEPARTMENTS . The postponement of the banquet to Tuesday was announced on Friday by the committee , the preparations ter it not being sufficiently advanced . The agitation had spread rapidly through the provinces , and addresses had arrived from Chartres and Amiens to their deputies , exhortinc them to resistance . These addresses wtre sUned by bankers , lawyers , municipal councillors , officers of tbe National Guard , and elector ? . Similar addresses were on their way from Bleis , Tours , Rouen , Havre , Arras , and Lille . Deputations were coming from the provinces to attend the Referra Banquet . At the meeting of the opposition on Saturday , Ihe following manifesto was agreed to , and published in the journals oi Sunday : — Manifesto bt thb Banquet Committee .
The general committee on trusted with theorganlaatlon of tbe 12 th arroji < Jf « ie » nent *» banquet deem it their duty to remind tbe public that the object of tbe manifestation fixed foe Tuesday nest Is the legal and pacific exercise of a constitutional right—the right of publicly meeting without which representatiro government would bo but a derision . The ministry haviBg declared and maintained at the tribune that the practlca of that tight was lubjeoted to the police ' s pleasure , the Deputies of the Opposition , Peers of France , former Deputies , members of the Council-General , aub . officers and Boidlers of tbe National Guard , merabsrs of tbe central committoo of tbe Opposition , electors , and editors of the Paris journals , have accepted tbe invitation made to them to take part in tbe manlfettation . in order to protest , in virtue of the law , aiainst an illeral and arbitrary pretensions . _
As it is naturally to be foreseen that tbis public protest may attract a large eoacourao of citizens ; as it is Ilkewiso to be presumed that the National Guards of Paris , faithful to their motto—liberty , public orderwill , on the occasion , wish to accomplish that twofold duty ; that they will wish to defend liberty by joining in the manifestation , protect order , and prevent all collision by their presence ; that , in the expectation of a numerous meating ef Nationel Guards and cU ! senB , it seems proper to adept tbe arrangements that shall remove all canse ef disturbance and tumult—The committee have thought that the manifestation ouqht to take place In tie qcarter of the capital where the widenegs of tbe streets and jfa «* permit tbe population to assemble in large numbers , without incumbrance resulting . With each view the Deputies , Peers of Franco , and other persona invited to the banqaet , trill assemble on Tuesisy next , at eleren o ' clock , at No . 2 . Placo do In Madeloine , where the parliamentary Opposition usually
. Tbe esbseribera to tho banquet forming part of the National Guard are requeatad to assemble in tbe front of the Madeleine churoh , and to form ten parallel lines , between which tbe fuvited will place themselves . The cortege will have at its head superior officers of the National Guard , who will present thonwelveB to join in the manifestation . Immediately after the invited and guagts , a rank of officers of tbe Natisnal Guard will be placed . Behind these will come the Kational Guards , formed into columns , according to the number of tbe legions . Between the third and fourth columns will ir . sirch the young man of tbe schools , under tho direction of the comini * sionera aeleoted by them . Then will follow the other National Guard * of Paris , and the ianlieue , in the above-mentioned order .
The eartegt will set out at half-past eleven , and move by the Place de la Concorde and the Champa . Elyseos toivfirdJ the banquet pines . The committee , convinced that this manifestation will be the more efficient as it will be calmer , and the more Imposing as it will avoid even all pretext for a confliot , invite the citizens to utter no cry , ta carry no flag * or external signs ; the ; invite the National Guards who may take part in the manifestation to come with , out nrms ; the object feeve Is a legal and paolflo protest , whioh must be above all powerful by the [ numbers and firm and quiet attitude of the citizens .
Tho committee hope that on this eceaaton ever ; man present will consider himself entrusted with the maintenance ot order , the ; oonfido In the sentiments of the Parisian population who wish for public peace with liberty , and who know that to secure tha malnteeanc * of their rights , they need bat a peaoeful demonstration , as behoves an intelligent and enlightened nation , conscious of the Irresistible authority of Us moral farce , and euro of making its lawful wishes prevail , by the legal and calm expression of its opinion . This cemmunication from the 'Banquet Committee ' was meat conspicuously published by the
Sieclb and National , whioh latter republican print as conspicuously published tbe letter whereby ninety * three opposition Deputies , including , of aouree , M . Odiljon Barrot , and MM . de Lamartine , Araeo , Gremieux , Durvergier de Hauranno , Garnier Pages , George and Oscar de Lafayette , Mauguin , cordially promise to attend the dinner . Several other members and three or four peers had also promised to be Present from beginning to end . The students of the Paria aolioola of Jaw and medicine were to muster at their usual rendesvous , the Plr . ce du Panthgon , and take up the station alloted to them in the
pro-COSSIOB , The trades of Paris offered to present themselves with banners and emblems , but the committee for managing the affair dissuaded them from any manifestation . The Rbfohub of Monday , whose friends , the ultra-Radicals had been excluded from the committee charged with the organisation of tho Reform ban . quet , announces that M . Ledru Rollin would be present . 'The revolution and the counter . revolu . turn , ' it says' are in presence . On one side is right ; on the other arbitrary power . Our choice cannot be doubtful—we will join in the manifestation , and incite all our friends to do the same . '
AGITATION IN THE I 1 OI 8 LAT 0 BK . The members of the committee of the Banquet , met at eleven o ' clook , a . m ., on Monday , at the house of M . Barrot . About twenty-five deputies were present , with the editors of the independent journals . They adjourned from there te the Hall of Conference of the Chamber of Deputies , where a great agitation prevailed . Report stated that the government had resolved to prevent the banquet that a proclamation of the Pret ' eot of Police would be published at six o ' clock in the morning , to prohibit all assemblage of people ; that the ground where the banquet was to be given would be ocoapied by troops ; ind that the superior commander of the National Guard would issue an order of the day forbidding them to meet on tho Place de la Madeleine . The Deputies of the Left assembled > n one of their standing committees , and agreed that M . de i ' ocqueville should qaestion Ministers relativo to their intention , and that M . Odillon Barrot should reply to tho minister . The funds fell on Monday . Much alarm has been manifested by the foreigners
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resident in Paris , ten thousand of whom have it i said , taken their departure rather hastily . ' E Another and a very serious cause of alarm ia »;« , respect to the working compositors and pTe sBmen nf Paris . They are a very formidable and a very tur bulent body , amounting to upwards of sixteen thon Band men . Hitherto they have taken little or nn ' part in the affair of the Reform banquet , but to-day they have given notice in almost all the printing ea tabliahmenta , that they will not be at their work to ~ morrow , as they have to atteBd the procession tothn Champs Elysees . They are almost all Democrats and Communists , and were the firat movers and the principal contvibuto « sto the re-volutisn of July _ , , . ' ^ i ^^^^^^ —_
SUPPRESSION OF THE BANQUET . On Monday evening the debate with which tha Chamber of Deputies was occupied was adjourned and M Odillon Barrot rose , and having adverted to tho violent measures of repression which it was re ported that government were about to exercise M Duchatel , Minister of the Interior , replied by ' dg daring , in tho moat explicit aad unequivocal terms " that after the formal declaration and programme which had been published in the morning in the op . position journals , the government had decided to resort to measures of force to prevent the proceedings as announced from taking place . The chamber then adjourned to one o ' clock on Tuesday . Immediately after the Chamber adjourned , a meet , ing . of the opposition deputies took place at thehouao of M Odillon Barrot , and the following paragraph appeared in the Patbik at a late hour on Mondav night :- '
We stop the press to announce that the opposition , not wishing to take , direotly or indirectl y , the response blUty for the consequences which may result from tha new measures adopted to-day by the government , has resolved net to attend the proposed banquet to-morrow . The opposition deputies entreat tbe good citUens to abstain from all public assemblies , and from every pro * ceo'iing which may afford a pretext for acts of violence . At tbe Bamo time the opposition is sensible tbat the new measures taken by the ministry impose on it new and grave duties , which it will not fail to fulfil . The following proclamation was posted on tke walls and public places of PariB at & late hour on Monday night : —
raocLAiuTioN of the fbefect or police . Inhabitants or Pabib!— A disquietude injurious t » labour and business has reigned fur some time in the public mind . This arises from manifestations in preparation , Tbe government , fretn motives of public order but too well justified , and exercising tbe right invested in it by the laws , and which bas constantly been brought into use without dispute , has interdicted the banquet of tbe 12 th arrondiatement . Nevertheless , aa it has declared in tbe Chamber of Deputies , as this question was of a nature to admit of a judicial solution , instead of opposing , by force , the projected meeting , it came to a resolution to suffer the contravention to be established by permitting the guests to enter the ban . quet-room , hoping that they will have the prudence to
retire at the first summons , in order not te convert a simple contravention into an act of open rebellion . This was the only means of bringing the question before tho Supreme Court of Cassation . The government persists in this determination , bat the manifesto published this morning by the journals of the opposition announces another object and other intentions ; it sets up ft government against the true government of the country , that which is instituted by the charter , and which rests upon the majority of the chambers ; it ealli for a public manifestation which is dangeroas to tbe peace of the city ; it convokes , in violation of tha
law of 1831 . the National ( Guards , whom it arranges baforehand ic regular number of legion , with the officers at their head . Here no doubt is longer possible . Tbe clears ! t » ai best established laws are violated . The government will cause them to be respected ; tbe ; are tbe foundation and tho guarantee of public order . I invite all good citiions to conform to these laws , and not join in au assemblage , for fesr it might give rise to disturbance * that may be regretted . I make this appeal to their patriotism and their right reason , in the name of our institutions , of publio peace , and the dearest interests of ihe city . —Paris , this 21 st Febrnary . —S , Selissept , Peer of France , Prefect of Police ,
Several ordonnances of the police were annexed to this proclamation , ia which the various articles of the law against assemblies dangerous to public order and tranquillity are recited , and the penalties incurred by persons refusing to disperse when summoned to do so by the authorities are enumerated . Orders were issued on Monday night by the chiefs of tho legions of the National Guard , to their respective captains to have the rappel beaten in the morning . The journals of the opposition , which are under * stood to be the organs of the Reform Banquet party , publish a paragraph exhorting all JMational Guards to give prompt obedience to this order , tbat there may be no pretest for charging that body with inaubordU nation .
MANIFESTO . OF THB BANQUET COMMITTSH . The following manifesto of the committee of thfl projected banquet of the 12 th arrondisaement appeared in the opposition journals on Tuesday morning : — ' TO ALL CIirZBNS . ' A great and solemn manifestation was to have taken place to-day , in favour of the right of publio meeting , contested by the government . AU measures had been taken to secure order and prevent every kind of disorder . The government was aware for some days of these measures , and knew what would be the form of the protestation . It was aware that tbo deputies would go in a body to the place of the banquet , accompanied by a large number of citiaena and of National Guards , without arms . It had been
announced the intention to oppose no obstacle to thia demonstration , so long is the public order should cot be disturbed ! and to confine itselt to drawing up a 1 proces verbal . ' stating that it regarded it asa breach of the law , and that the opposition considered it an exercise « f aright . All at once , and taking as the pretext a predication , the aele end of which was to prevent the disorders which might have arisen from a numerous assemblage , the goverument has proclaimed Up resolution to prevent by force all collections ol the peaple in the publio atreets . and to prevent the people and the National Guards from all participation in the projected manifestation . This dilatory resolution of the government does not allow time for the opposition to change the character of tho demonstration . It finds itself , therefore , in the alternative , either . of provoking a collision between the people and the publio force , or of
renouncing the legal and peaceable protestations ifc had resolved on . In this situation the members of the opposition , protected in their character of deputy , would not expose the people to the consequences of a struggle aa dangerous to order as to liberty . The opposition has , therefore , considered that it is its duty to withdraw and leave to the government all the reaporisibility of its measures . It entreats all good citizens to follow its example . In postponing thus the exercise of a right the opposition pledges itself to the country to obtain this right by all constitutional means . It will not fail in this duty ; it will continue with perseverance and redoubled energy tha conflict i * has undertaken against a corrupt , arbitrary , and anti-national policy . In not attending the banquet the opposition accomplished a great act of moderation and humanity . It knows that there remains ' or ill to accomplish a great act of firmness and ustice . '
The electoral committee of the 2 nd arrondisament published a manifesto , in which it expressed its astonishment and regret that the deputies of tho opposition should have given up the banquet without at the same time laying down their commission as depuwea , and entreat them to do so without delay . »» AXt ? . » S leetiD e of the Deputies at the house of M . Odillon Barrot , at which it was resolved that the banquet should not place , Count d'Alton Shee , m . !? Slf and several Deputies , went to the office of the Rbformb newspaper , deolaring that they were determined , at all risks , to attend the banquet , and advising the persona assembled in tha office to follow their example , Seme of the Deputies went with the game intention to the office of tha National . After a long d eliberation , and sevaral communications between the two meetings , it was resolved that , for the sake ef the publio peaoe , any manifestation of any kind would be dangerous and that tho afiaip ought , therefor © , to he postponed .
PAWS ON UONDAT SIGHT , ine proclamations and ordonnances of police were not placarded until a iate h , o on Monday nigat . In less than an hour they had all disappeared from the w&Us . Nothing could esoeed the excitement on the appearance of the evening journals . Crowds were colleoted along the Boulevards , where the vendors of these papers usually stand , and torches were procured by which they were read , ona person reading aloud for the information of each group . Of course many strong expressions were heard to proceed from these auditories . During the night between Monday and Tuesday , military waggons and artillery caissons , escorted by rT / I 7 ra P ° , e 89 antly Posing along the line of Boulevards which connect Vincennes with the quarter of the Tuileries and Palais Bourbon .
STATE OJF PARIB TDESPAT MOBNIWJ . me correspondent of the Mohhing Chrohicus says , — « r' / i ! " \ fT , . £ ina t 0 collect iQ the neighbourhood of the Mixtolpine and the Champs Elyaeea , in great numbers . Great numbera of workmen , and men in blouses , are to be seen both there and in the Place tarousel , on the Quays , Place Madeleine . and on the E »» -T *« a ; tU f *?" seem t 0 be directing theiratepa towards the spot where the procession was to start trom-and lmaysaythatthe scarcity of any respectable people m the streets is equally to ba noticed .
«»»?! £ * £° ( ° , ffing froraGALwswnftMKMMf-??• : ~ ° " * he Boulevards , opposite tho hotel of the Ministerpf Foreign Affairs , a dense mass of people assembled , and it was necessary to call for the aaaistance of the municipal guards and troops of the line to keep the mob in movement . Thia was , however , effected without any violence , by small patrola boiug kept in motion on the footway . The troops of the line seemed to have been prepared tor active srsstf ' Sfe " * i ***•
The Northern Star , Saturday, February 2g, 1818.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 2 G , 1818 .
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" MtiaUnl' ¦ ' iiiwww ii ' " MARitKBONK . —This branch will meet on Sunday evening next , Feb . 27 th , at six o ' clock precisely , at the Coach Painters' Arms , Circus-street . Covbniry . —A tea and dancing party will be held at St Mary ' B Hall on Shrove-Tueaday , March ? th , to congratulate one of the members of the Coventry baanchof the Land Company on taking possession of hit allotment at Minater Lovel , on whioh occasion Mr Thomas Clark , of London , one of the directors , will attend . Tickets may be had of Mr Hosier , Much Park-street ; Wr J . Pollard , confectioner , Market-place ; Mr Pritchard , Temperance Coffeehouse , Goatbrd-street ; Mr Marrs , bookseller , Little Park-street ; Mr Burton , grocer , Uill-field ; Mr Bray , hair dresser , Earl-street ; Mr Haineis , Sherbourne-atreet ; and of any of the committee . Bradford . —A publio meeting of the members of tho Land Company will be held in the largo room Butterworth-build / ngs , on Sunday , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . The secretary will attend to receive subscriptions and enrol members in the New Land Company , on Sundays , at two o ' clock in the afternoon ; and on Mondays , at eight o ' cloclun the evening . A lecture will bo delivered on Sunday next , ( to-morrow , ) at six o ' clock in the evening . Halifax . —AU the branches of the National Land Company in the parish of Halilax , are requested to send a delegate to tho large room , Bullclo 3 e . lane , on Sunday , March 5 tb , at two o ' clock in the afternoon , oh business ot importance . Chkwe — Tho shareholders hold their meetings every Monday evening . Nottikoiiam . —The next meeting of the land members will be held at Mr J . Clay's , the Huntsman , St Ann ' s-street , on Sunday evening , at seven o ' clock .
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^ ii 1 , Morphet-slreet , Green-street , Bethna ) . green . London , Feb . 25 th . Sir , —I am anxious to obtain a Government situation . If you will interest yourself in my behalf , I should be happy to place in your hands the sura of three hundred pounds , to be disposed of as you might think proper . I can give respectable referencea and security ; tbe most inviolable secrecy may be relied on . Should yeu please to entertain ike subject , and will enclose your Town address , I shall be glad to wait upon you . I remain , Sir , Your humble servant , Jambs W . Elobb . Fenrgua O'Connor , Esq ., M . P ., Nottingham . Sir , —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter , and the only chastisement to which I shall subject you for your insolence in writing it is , its publication and your exposure . Feargus O'Connor . " A working woman" of Redmarley ( who , / or certain reasons , must use no other signature ) , encloses sixty postage stamps as her mite cowards the defence fund of that nolle man who , if seats were allotted according to desert , would now be a member of the Upper House , instead of the Commonsand yet they seek to deprive him of that ! but he is no common »» a»—God grant they may not be able to unseat him- ! But , if they do , he has not done with them 1 There is one aeat in which he is so much more firmly fixed than his opponents—in the hearts of the people of England O'Connor will be enshrined , while truth and honour , generosity and benevolence , and , above all , self-sacrificing patriotism has a piece on earth ! In an accompanying envelope will * be sent sixty other stamps , with simply J . W . R .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 26, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1459/page/4/
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