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    • THE NORTHEKN STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 18i8.
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      ALLOTMENTS ON SALE . A FOUR ACRE at Brorasgrove . — A FOUR ACRE drawn in tho November ballot . - A THREE ACRE at Lowbands-A FOUR ACRE at Snig ' s End .-TWO FOUR ACRES at Minster Lovel , both of which are cropped . Applications to be made to the Directus , at tbeir office , 141 , High Holborn , London ,

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      THE DEFENCE FUND . On Wednesday next , Jones , Fussell , and others will be put upon their trial , and if popular feeling is to have any influence upon the enemy , we imagine that the amount subscribed will not evince much enthusiasm , as Mr O'Connor has g iven direction that the best counsel shall be engaged specially , and , as of old , will be obliged to make up the deficiency out of his own resources . Hampered as he is as the servant of all , and surrounded ashe is by vagabonds and tricksters—it is not fair to impose these heavy liabilities upon him . A full report of tho trial will appear in next week ' s Star .

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      ' ¦ nmr ANOTHER MIDDLE CLASS DODGE . Hume has again postponed his Quadruped . ¦ S

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      isy DIVISION ON THE WEST INDIA QUESTION . For the Government . 2 ( 50 Against ... . 245

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      The Editor of the " Northern Star having had his attention directed by Mr O'Connor to a paragraph in the letter inserted in last Saturday ' s " Star , " signed " L'Ami du Peuple , " in which certain allusions are made to one of the witnesses against Mr Fussell , the Editor hereby expresses his belief that the said reflections are unjust to the persons to whom they were intended , to apply , and the Editor expresses his regret that , through oversight , he permitted the publication of the matter complained of . Tuesday evening , June 27 .

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      -4 . < f OHK O ' COSKKLL AND THE IRISH LEiGUK—THE COSFEDES 1 TE 3 ' MEETING—A SJXOX FIELD-DAY—THtr ^ LlCK AKD CONFEDERATES . ( from our own Corre spondent . ) Doblik , 28 th June . ' John O'Connell is not inclined to be reconciled to the seceders of the Irish Confederation , nor—no matter what he may assert to the contrar y-do * think he is disposed to allow the be-union of insnmen eo far as he can ge to prevent it . To be sure , he promises to offer no obstacle in the way of

      reconciliation , and hs&ajs he will resign hw connexion with the Repeal Association . and retire , noUru voient , from political life '; bat promises always camo easy to theI Clan O'Connell , and though he pretends to abdicate the rostrum at Burgh Quay , he aUlclings to it . Indeed John O'Connell has incurred the obloqay and hatred of almost every man m Ireland who has brains enough to form an opmion . or moral courage enough to express what he feels . Hib humbug will go dewn no more . He must not stand in the way of the people as a mediator between an infuriate nation and their oppressors .

      The meeting at the Music-hall on last Wednesday evening was n&gmficent , biyond anything of the sort whfch yon over thechannel can imagine . There was no falling off there , and though the Confederate Club did not go there ie their military array , tkere was scarcely a man of them Irom their post . The enthusiasm was extreme , but not the vapid , insipid bravado of 1843-not the blow-hot-and-ot > ld rigmarole of cowards , who

      ' WMlit willing to wound , Are yet afrkid to strike , ' bat it was the spirit , the feeling of men , that came forth on that evening—of men who are trained in political knowledge . Such v ? £ Bthe description of men who formed the great meeting at the Music-hall . The chief speaker was the Rev . Mr O'Malley , who delivered ens of the most effective and beautiful addresseg I have ever listened to , even in this city of speedrasloDg . Father O'Malley thinks Irish prosperity si good thing , and Irish land well worth * fighting for . ' He loves peace , and he never ceases to preach' Good will amongst men , ' bat he feels that manhood and Christianity are not incompatible ; that it is not necessary to remain a crawling starveling , to

      ensure eternal happiness ; and that s man can he down very easy in conscience , though he have a sturdy pike at his bed's sida , or a blunderbuss under his bolster ; at the same time having no objection to put both to their legitimate purposes in the morning , Bhonld his country require his aid , or an enemy pres 3 too closely on his quarters ! This is the opinion of the Rev . Thaddeai O'Malley : this opinion he doe 3 not shrink from promulgating , and that , too , in the most chaste , and earnest , and heart stirring langaage . Charles Gavan Dnffy made a lone speech too , and moved the dissolution , sine die , of the Irish Confederation , in seconding which resolution , the Rev . Mr O'Malley delivered his powerful lecture . Mr Daffy

      has weak lungs , and a voice somewhat shrill and tremulous , but still he is a delightful speaker . Ha is calm , delib 3 rate , and cool , and yet on occas ons glowing , elcquent , and impassioned . He is always wellreceived by his auditors . Thos . D'Arcy M'Gee is another favourite speaker at the Confederate meetings . He is a very young mani though I believe he has seen the world , and had a connexion for a considerable time with the Batriotic press of America . He is very slight in figure , not above fire feet sis inches in height ; of a pale complexion , and feminine features . He speaks , however , well enough for a giant , and many of the be 3 t articles in the Nation newspaper are from his pen . lie is a great favourite with the Dublin Confederates .

      Richard O'Gonnan and J . B . Dillon are favourite snd prominent members of the Confederation , too . The Confederation wa 3 dissolved , or rather adjourned sine die , and that meeting was probably tbe last of that manly body . However , if there be no TJxioif—if the projected Irish League eannot be formed—the Confederation will bs revived , and set on a firmer and better footing than ever . No matter who come 3 fsrward or who holds back , the Confederation will flourish ; Cork-hill and Burgh Quay will be tenanted by honester meu and appropriated to hone 3 terpurposes . Ireland will be a nation , and her children free and happy and contented .

      The'Saxons' had their annual bravado on last Monday , the 26 th ultimo , in the Pbasaix Park . A more dull or spiritless or prosy affair conld tot be well imagined . These mimic battles seem to have peculiar attractions for ths war-loving eitizsns of Dublin , and the crowds ] which quittep the dust and bustle of the city for the greenery of ' The Park , ' on last Monday , were immense . There came the . Earl in gilded chariot ; the Lord Mavor in his fait of of " gingerbread ; ' the shonecn on his ' taste' of' blood ; andfitty thousand of the ' lower orders' of idlers on what we over here call' Shank's Mare' ! An endless band . Poured forth and left nnpeopled half the land , A motley mixture in long wigs and bags , In silks , in crapes , in gaiters , and in rags .

      Tsers they came ! and what brought them ? Why to swell the Saxon pageant ; to see 5 , 000 redcoats—r 500 ot whom were net born In 1816!— ' figbiing ths battle of Waterloo * . ' to see dashing squadrons oi lancers ' charging' the ihravmeens . ' CloadsofEnniskillen dragoons ' cutting aaashes' at the sultry sun-beams ; and long file 3 and solid squares of infantry driving imaginary fo&z with the bayonet , and firing endless vollies of 'blank cartridge' at nothing ! It wis a great day for the thimble-riggers and pick-pocketa , for they contrived to ' ease ' many a poor fellow of his pence . 'Twas a hated day with

      tie luckless red-coats , for they were made to work hard for the amusement of Lord Clarendon , and the nymphs of the ' diamond' and French-street ! and it was a useful day to the Confederates , for they gofr ( and gratia to ? , mind yon ) some practical instruction in the gasie of war , and learned that a battalion in red jackets are not a whit more terrible than a ' oiub * in grey frieze ; and that however formidable s trained army might ba on the flit green surface of the ' fifteen acres , ' they would not be iavulnerable in the passes of the Tipperary hills or amid the ' morasses of the Connanght bogs .

      At lit club meeting at , uoiidj brock on yesterday , there were at least four thousand men assembled in that renowned villa £ e , and the audience wss addressed by Charle 3 G . Duffy , and Thoma 9 F . Meagher . The enthusiasm waa boundless—bat here I must stop . I blask iissj-ihat the sffsir did not terminate as pleasantly or as creditably as it began . Snchof thp City clnbjss were in attendance , formed a procession on their way homewards , and exhibited a tricolour flag , mounted on a pike staff . In Lseson-street , just as they entered the city , they were waylaid by a feanditti of policemen , who broke the : r array , captured their banner , arrested some of the foremost ,-and battered the ] skulls of several othere with their bludgeons .

      Why , in the name ef common sense , should these 8 oene 3 be enacted ? The clubsknow well thatjthe police are spying—watching their movements—and ordered to harass and anEoy them on all possible occasions . And yet they rushed advisedly and open-mouthed into their fsng 3 . Cannot they beadvised , and either iefrain marching in processions , or bs prepared to repel the attacks of their enemy . If this public array , this ' marching' and ' drilling , ' bs contrary to British regulations ( I speak not of law !) they should notpereexere in them : if they be not , they shonld be prepared to break the heid ? , and have an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth' of every ruffian who wonld obstruct tkera in the performance of a lawful and constitutional practice . But to allow a handful of policemen to trample on thousands ! It is really ridiculous .

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      'The Biteb Bit , ' ob the Passw Outwitted — A certain minister of the Gospel , resident not quite twenty miles from Stalybridge , having heard that a shopkeeper waa in the habit of selling ' Chartist pikes , ' called upon the supposed vendor oi forbidden articles , and wished to know if he had any pike 3 for sale . The Chartist said that he had not , at present , but shortly expected a fresh arrival . The parsoa then inquired if he had disposed of maay , and was coolly assured that he had disposed of a large number . This gave the minister a strong de « ire to be possessed of one of the dreadful wea " pons , in order that it might be handed over to 'the powers « hst hi . ' Not being satisfied with the assurance of the Chartist , that he aad cone on hand ,

      his reverence sent other parties to obtain him one , ¦ with a like result . The supposed pike-seller , indignant at such conduct , determined that the desire of the ' minister of peaca' should ba gratified , and , accordingly on Thursday morning last , addressed a note to the gentleman with whom the curate lodged , informing him that the wish of hia reverence mieht now be gratified for the low sum of 2 s . Shortly after the parson was seen wending hisway to the shop of the Chartist , anxiety and delight depicted on his countenance . The minister wished fea know if the note was the Chartist's

      writing , and was informed that it was . « Then ' says bis reverence , 'I will take a pike ; ' and one was immediately handed to him , carefully lapped $ , $ in brown paper , and away went his reverence , pick in hind , as if he was going to take the town ¦ bj 6 tonn . Tbe minister immediately repaired to the police-office , with his treagure , and en opening fold after fold of paper , found that he had a' pike ftn , not the ; freshest , between two Bticks , instead fj SS ? 4 5 ' 9 * Tl- 0 f wea P ° &B . ' The chagrin and mortification of his reverence may ba easier imagined . than described , a few wag * partiest e 0 the plot , immediately repaired to a neighbouring PaOfand ^ V ^ - drlnkiDS ' SuCcls ^^

      , vsF f ? r ? M ™ e ? 0 U £ ? RcIE » Ireland -At r » enagn Petty Sessions , Iwt week , agirl namedBrien was sentenced to a raonth ' g imprisonment for benting her sister because she would cot join her in char ? ing lacendiarijm against her own cousins , that < he tnisht get out to America at government expense . ' ^^^ terassar' . sa ssasssiffi ; m feraala who hsd never spoken before !'

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      Leamington . —The following resolution was adopted : — ' That we highly approve of the suggestions of our friends of Manchester and Banbury , and respectfully call on the directors to carry the same into effect . We also wish to suggest the propriety of sending a list or circular of all members who were in the ballot to every branch , so as to protect the officers from a charge of negligence . And that such town in a district , where there is a majority of members , shall be the district town . ' Longton . — -This branch of the Land Company met at the Working Man ' s Hall , on Friday , June 23 rd , to settle the quarterly business . The accounts were audited and found correct . Stephen Amison was re-elected secretary ; James Hodson , chairman ; James Mayor , scrutineer . The members continue to meet every Sunday afternoon , at the above place , at half-past two o ' clock .

      Manchester . —To the members of the National Land Company , and particularly those who reside in North and South Lancashire , and the surrounding districts . —A meeting of the members of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company , was held on Sunday , the 25 th of June , in the People ' s Institute , when the following resolutions were passed : — ' Tbat a delegate meeting of South and North Lancashire , and the surrounding districts , be held on Sunday , July lGth , in the People's Institute ;

      Heyrod-street , Travis-street , Manchester , to consist exclusively of delegates from branches of the National Land Company , to consider the propriety of charging a per centage upon all sales of allotments ; the propriety of the directors publishing a verbatim report of the next Conference ; the propriety of the directors publishing a monthly report of " the progress of the Company ; and any suggestions that other branches may think worthy of consideration for the next Conference . '—By order of the meeting , Wm . Foster , secretary .

      Charterville . —Or Wednesday last , Mr Smith , of Carlisle , one of the allottees , having purchased the meadow for the season , a number of the allottees , their wives and children , and a number of the villagers , assisted in getting in the hay . In return , Mr Smith spread the cloth in the meadow , and gave tea and a bountiful supply of home-brewed ale . Singing and dancing , with music , echoed through the beautiful valley of Minster , which was kept up till a lale hour . Three cheers were given

      for the philanthropic Mr Russell , who lives in the neighbourhood , and was amongst them ; three cheers for Mitcbel ; three cheers for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and three times three cheers for our noble benefactor , F . O'Connor , Esq . A similar social party wa 3 entertained by the benevolent Mr Hart , of Brizenorton , who has taken the allotment of the deceased Mr Townsend , to bring up the three orphan children ; the greatest harmony prevailed : nearly forty couple danced in the meadow .

      The Northekn Star, Saturday, July 1, 18i8.

      THE NORTHEKN STAR , SATURDAY , JULY 1 , 18 i 8 .

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      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY . ~ When the world resounded with the presumed triumph of Labour in Paris and Berlin , manifested in the establishment of a Republic in the one , and the concession of what is termed a free Constitution in the other , we joined , not in the shout of triumph , but in the language of caution . We said " WAIT ! " Wail until we see the reward of the bloodless revolution and triumph of mind over persecution manifested in Labour ' s share of the victory .

      We told our readers that we had seriously and attentively perused the causes and results of all" previous physical revolutions , and that from none could we discover Labour's triumph in aught but the elevation of Labour ' s professing friends , but most perfidious enemies . "We have told them , over and over again , that , with the last shot perishes Labour ' s share , while thos 8 for whom they have gained the victory have subsequently used them to rob them of their rights .

      We predicted that the interval between ' the proclamation of the Kepublic and the assembling of the representatives of the National Will , would be spent in lavishing sympathy upon the departed heroes , and promises upon the starving survivors ; and that we have not made an erroneous estimate of the objects of those who led the people against a tyrannical King , a perfidious Minister , and pampered aristocracy , is now manifest in the blood of those to | feed whom we were told it was the duty of tbe State , but whom it has beea the pleasure of the State to massacre , butcher , and slaughter .

      Let us not be misunderstood in writing , as calmly as our feelings will allow us , upon this sanguinary conflict , incontrovertibly provoked by the promoters of the Republicand the abettors of the revolution . Every word spoken , and every line written , every proclamation issued , and every resolution passed , since the appointment of the weakest , the most temporising , and imbecile Previsional Government , has gone to inspire even the willing idler with the belief that he was the child of the State , and that it was the duty of the parent to see , not merely to the preservation of his life , but to his comfortable sustenance and FRATERNAL support .

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , was the motto of this blooming representation of the middle classes , who had used the workers to dethrone their king , destroy their constitution , and proclaim their own ascendancy . As long as the enthusiastic mind of Paris was dangerous to those who used it for the accomplishment of their own triumph , they pandered to the worst passions of man , and when the realisation of the promised gratuity was looked for they drove tbe famishing and disappointed to revolution and resistance : and while

      defending , or rather looking for , the accomplishment of those rights , which the middle class traitors promised , I ut withheld , the blood that was to be enriched with food and raiment is made to flow in the streets , as a warning to the impoverished class that by them revolutions are made and victory achieved , but for them tfiere is to remain no portion of the benefit . We are ready to admit the impossibility of a Government performing their necessary duties with barricades upon one ' side , and an open and threatening force upon the other ; but we are also ready to contend that those barricades would never have been raised , that threatening force would

      never have been presented , had the promises—or one-half of them—held out to the conquerors been realised . Nay , we go further , and assert , that if the middle class Assembly had justified the postponement of those anticipated rights upon the grounds of insufficient means consequent upon the expense of the revolution and the unsettled state of trade—that , in such case , the heroes of February , who gained the Republic , and the greater heroes of June , who sought to defend the Republic to the end that its promised objects might be realised , would havegwaited patiently , and would have borne their sufferings as the reward of ( Lm triumph .

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      But how different is the picture ? In February they f ° S ht anfl conquered ; from February till May ^ traitors prepared their machinery for the Jeetruction ^ of the Republic while they buoyed th , ? poor with the hope of their share of the rewaru . Jn May , the machinery is complete , and fmnfM » y to the Massacre , ever act of those hypocrites , ^

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , upon their tongues , establishes the fact that the Republic was gained by the valour , the courage , and the resolution of LABOUR , but is to be applied to the benefit of CAPITAL . Could not the French worker take a lesson from our parliamentary precedents ? Were they not aware that our revolution of 1832 . whimsically called the Reform Bill , was carried

      by precisely the same means , while the results were of a completely similar character . TIi p King ' s Head turned upside down , was carried In triump h , by the would-be executioner carrying his axe , while the motto of the officers , " Taxation without representation is tyranny , and should be resisted . " The aristocracy were destructives , and their usurped rights and privileges should be destroyed , in order to afford these demagogues an opportunity of doing

      justice to the labourer . Well , the King surrendered , the aristocracy was shaken , and the middle classes proclaimed their triumph in the return of a Whig Parliament—but where was Labour ' s share ? In the suppression of Political Unions , in the enactment of the Poor Law Bill , in Coercion , Persecution , and Gagging Bills ; in the reduction of wages ; in the desolation of the cottage ; the moan of the hungry ; the wail of the indigent ; the death of the pauper , and the elevation of the middle class ; and to which may be added , the total suppression of that voice relied upon in 1832 as the main engine of the Reformers .

      We havemore than once pointed out the worse than folly of allowing any interval to take place between the destruction of one system , and the substitution of another . We have shown that that interval has been invariably devoted to the arrangement of those means by which the officers , not the men—the leaders , not the people—shall be recipients of all the promised benefits . And although our own savage Press calls the disappointed , who contended for their share of the triumph of February , barbarians , savages , murderers , and brutes , yet if their own soldiers , specials , and bludgeon-men , in an onslaught against their own people had behaved with one-tenth part of the noble courage evinced by the operatives of Paris , they would be designated as valiant heroes , and brave

      conquerors . What is courage ? Is it not that valour , resolution , and action , manifested in the support of a cause in which men have associated , upon the presumption that wrong and injustice has been done to ^ them ? or is it that conventional bravery which impels the mercenary to fire upon his fellow-man , in the hope of promotion , or from the dread of punishment ? Then we would ask , who were in reality the promoters of this brutal , and sanguinary conflict ? Those in power , who held out false hopes , which were never realised—or those from whom

      the hope was withheld , and who were thereb y driven to madness , desperation , and vengeance ? While their toleration was required to strengthen the hands of their false friends , they were employed on sill y work , making pantaloons , and shirts , and fringe , and decorations , and baubles , and toys ; but when the enemy found themselves strong enough , and poor enough , no longer to require or bear this toleration , and when their machinery was

      completed , they said to their tickled and fasci nated slaves , " Go from am » ng us , you are none of our children ; from your workshops no longer comes the sustaining breath of faction ; go to the country , leave the scene of your greatness , rescued from despotism by your valour , '; here ia your walking ticket , this is your passport , go and find a location where you can ; the'harvest is blooming , and there will be work for you in other fields ; you have completed that of revolution in the capital . '

      The heroes of February answer , " What ! Have you used us thus to abuse us ? Have we rid you of your expensive Court , of your perfidious Government , and proclaimed your ascendancy with our blood , and is our share but a change of masters ? From one tyrant to many oppressors ? No !" "They who die by the sword are better than they who perish from hunger , for their bodies pine away , stricken through for want of the fruits of the field !" " No we will , not go from amongst you , we will not leave the scene of . our glory . We gained the battle and we will reap its fruits , or we will perish in defending them . "

      f he ) heroes have perished , and , in order to || add a stigma upon the legion , all are designated as Communists and So . cialists , whereas , when it was necessary to establish confidence in the country , we were told that the Communists and Socialists constituted but an insignificant frac tion of society , whereas , ' now that discredit is to be thrown upon their cause , their name is Legion , and all are of that persuasion . Thus it has ever been with those that mark the mind ' s progress . First they are designated as an insignificant fraction , until driven to desperation ; they are proclaimed as the whole people when it is necessary to repudiate their combined exertion . The moral that we draw

      from this bloody onslaught of the middle classes upon the choused , the juggled , the deluded , and .. betrayed labourers of Paris is , that governments are ever compelled t& surrender to fear what they refuse to justice . When ' a people achieve a change by revolution , they become enthusiastic , elevated , and commanding , and refuse to accept treble what they would have gladly received at the hands of justice , and which would not amount to one-tenth of w hat the revolution miyht have

      cost . Men , if fostered by the state and encouraged by the state , will cheerfully go to work at remunerating wages , and be thankful for permission ; while if the same men are driven to revolution , and should they triumph , they will not go to work at the same wages until they have exhausted all the resources of the National Exchequer , and then they would have a sanguinary conflict for the property of others , looking upon idleness as the reward of their triumph .

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      For these reasons , and borne out by all past history , we have more than once declared it as our opinion , that a sound political system can only be based upon a sound social systemand we warn our rulers , from past events , how they declare to the people of England that there is no law , and can be no law , for the protection of the poor man ' s property or industry while the same laws are jealous and protective of the property the ri ghts , and the privileges of the rich . We warn them how they enforce the doctrine that their own country , in a state of sterility is too narrow a field for the expen . diture of their labour , while tbe state is

      burthened with unwilling idlers pent up in the prison and the Poor-law bastile ; we warn them by the conflict which the obstinacy of the middle-class of France has provoked , no longer to inculcate the doctrine that man cannot live in the sweat of his brow ; no longer to e moJ ' iT that there is no market open tor LliMR industry , except that in which their masters may traffic ; and , let them not lay the flattering unction to their souls , that the cause of Capital has triumphed over Labour in France , for they may rest assured , that " Labour ' s battle once brgun , Bequeathed b y bleediog stre to 8 on TLo' baffled oft is over won . "

      While the murderers of the poor are rejoicing in their triumph , let them rest assured that Labour ' s battle is not yet lost , and we would aptly remind them of the words of " Pyrrhus , "" But onsaaoh victory more , and they ' re undone , " Every act of sruelty threatened to be done bygiia infuriafcedipeojjk , drivea by their tyrants

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      to desperation , but not executed notwithstand . ing their frenzy , is designated by the En glish Press as the barbarism of the ruffians . Prj , soner after prisoner is in the heat of blood threatened with assassination , but is spared by the intercession of the brave ; and they are murderers , because they did not destroy , wh ilu the Garde Mobile destroy one hundred prisoners in their savage fury , and are st yled heroes . An Archbishop is shot in the back while FACING the insurgents , and it is an act ot barbarism , though it appears he was shot by his owh FOLLOWERS by mistake . It furth er appears that the whole people along the whole line of barricades , and throughout Jthe capita ] , fraternised with the Army of the Republic , who were engaged in maintaining the inviolability

      of the Republic , for which they fought and conquered , and yet the . affair is designated as the entente of the Communists . At what other conclusion , then , can we arrive , but that Paris is a den of Communists , and that the nation , exhausted in her exchequer , must be henceforth paralysed by the distraction of parties , of armed traitors , and starving heroes , who established a constitution which promised them support in idleness , but now writes their pro-, scription in blood ? It is a painful thing to some prophets to find their predictions realised , when the result is saddening and revolting , and yet wejeannot conclude without laying the following lines , extracted from the "Star" of the 17 th of June , before our readers : —

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , are a " mockery , " " a delusion , " jand a " snare . " Emancipation was a by word ; agitation w »* tbe means of its accomplishment recommended by the Marquis of Angleeea .

      "PEACE , RETRENCHMENT , AND REFORM , " was the next bubble ; then HIGH TTACfES , CHEAP BREAD , PLENTY TO 1 ) 0 , and now comes LIBERTY EQUALITY , FRATERNITY ; while those , whose courage forced the adoption of the unmeaning motto upon the aristocracy and shopkeepers of Paris , are now partaking of the literal meaning of these inspiring words in

      THE SWORD , THE MUSKET , AND THE BAYONET . Thus we show that all those rallying cries have / ailed to produce enough of potatoes for the starving Irishenough of bread for the starring English—or enough of work for tke starving French . And with these damning facts before us , whereby we tecontestibly prove that fools and dupes have been gulled by some ' will-o ' -the-wisp , got up bj designing frictions , are no now to adopt another Trinity of delusion 1 These words were printed in the " Star ' ' of the 17 th of June , and on the 23 rd the prediction was fulfilled . From the 23 rd of February , when Labour established the Republic , to the day of its destruction on the 23 rd of June , we have during the whole period , both in the " Star" and the " Labourer , " repeated tha fact , that ignorance of

      THE LABOUR QUESTION would lead to those ^ disasters upon which it has now become our melanchol y duty to comment j and our hope now is , that the thing misnamed a Republic , may perish , if it is to be but a scabbard for the vices of the speculator , and a drawn sword for the labourer . Since writing the above , we can state , upon the testimony of an eye-witness ( a Member of Parliament j , that the atrocities committed by the National Guard and the troops are

      revoltiag to human nature . Those barbarous ruffians , those middle class heroes , led their prisoners into the Garden of the Tuileries , in fifties and hundreds , and there butchered them in cold blood in front of that Jf alace > from which the brave sufferers had ejected the despot in February last ; and the result of their heroism , upon that occasion , is the establishment of a military despotism , in which the following perpetrators of the " Massacre of June , " are to be the new actors .

      NOMINATION OF THB NKW FRENCH MINISTRY . The National Assembly confides the Executive power to General Cavaiosac . General Cayaignac - —President ef the Counoil . Bkthmokt . —Justice , Senard , —Interior . General Lamoricierk—War . Rear Admiral Lb Blanc-Marine . Goubchaux—Finance . Rbcdbt—Public Works . Tourbbt—• Commerce . Bastide—Foreign Affair ? .

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      THE PROSTITUTE . When applied to a female who has surrendered her virtue , her character , her peace , and her very existence , to some hartless seducer , the term PROSTITUTE is the most degrading epithet thatcan beappliedtoher ; but when man , not under thesameinfluences , notsub . ject to the same natural passions and irresisti&le impulses , surrenders his mind , his thought , jhis senses ^ and independence , for base lucre—wftat term is there in the English language suffi * ciently expressive to characterise this monstef ? and yet we find the country ruled by a graduated scale of such monstrosity and profligacy The Prime Minister assumes officeand rallies

      , around him a secret conclave called a Cabinet , with an Exchequer called a Secret Service Fund j and in order that He and his confederates may plead ignorance of all the abominations which are necessary for sustaining tha system of which they are the representatives , the machinery for supporting this system is divided into sections , and each confederate hss theappointment of the officials who shall work this varied machinery ; and this patronage is again sub-divided , until it results not o nly ia spyism , but in the promotion of insubordination , to make the office of spy necessary ; and we can . ' further trace to it the establishment of a detective force , whose duty it is to promote crime , and then to report its detection

      . We cannot , however , attach the same amount of infamy to hired subordinates that is stamped upon the higher officials . The honour of an English Government , though a bubble and an empty title , is said to be the tenure upon which we hold our Consti tution . Butifwecast a glance at the recent disclosures ^ with regard to our Foreign , Colonial , and Domestic affairs , wo find that even in head quarters—yea , in the Cabinet itself , the coterie of Majesty—there has been treachery , deception , and fraud ; while from the poor—from the starving poor—this profligate Government would enforce prudence , forbearance , morality , and virtue . From the date of the Spanish Marriaa-es . to

      the present moment , our Forei gn Minister has embroiled us in a war with France , which led to the destruction of monarch y in that country while m Spain , he has " sown the wind" aad tngland will presently have to " reap the whirlwind . ' Upon the other hand , our Colo = nwl Secretary . while Parliament was called upon to leeislate upon a great question , in which the interests of our most important colony and the nation were involved , has been clearly convicted ot the suppression of a portion of the evidence--nay , of the material evidence—upon which alone , digested through a Committtee , parliament could justly legislate .

      Then , our Home Secretary , the Chief of Police , has issued his instruction to violate the Constitution , by the suppression of the Public Will , enforced by broken heads , no doubt with a view to prevent discussion upon the conduct of Ministers . Such has been the conduct of the three Secretaries of State , for Foreign Affairs , for the Colonies , and the Home Departments , while the Chancellor of the Exchequer is so utterly incompetent to manage tbe financial affairs of the country , that upon bis next exposition , we may fairly calculate upon a more calamitous revolution than would be produced by the erection of barrkadies , and resort to physical force .

      Fortunately for Lord Morpeth , he has taksm retuge in ! the Woods and . Fwrests ; while , the duties of Mr Labouchete- do not hamper him with the necessity of committing those venial and trifling inaccuracies—his is a work of hgures . Sir J « hn Cam Hobhouse is th » President of the I ^ , rd © £ Controul , and has little to do beyond sneering at the advocates of his formerly avowed principles—and there is the Cabinet , u ^ th the noble Chartist , Lord John RusseU , at its head . But , then , we must look to \ ix % - ramifications of tbia nuisance , and wh ?«

      Nat Ional Eanfc Gfomuamn

      Nat ional Eanfc gfomuamn

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      i THE NORTHERN STAR . - JuLY l ' 18 iL j

      A List Of Books

      A LIST OF BOOKS

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      Mn Mandkr May . —Yfe understand that Mr M . May , one of the Chartist leaders , presented himself this day at Bow-street , in order to surrender himself for ths purpose of taking his trial at the Central Criminal Court , in the ensuing sessions , upon any charge the government may have against him , in compliance with a warraKt issued by Mr Jardino from this office , —Globe , Tliuraday , June 20 th .

      A Four Acre Cottage Farm To Be Sold Andone To Let , By The Year Or For A Term.

      A FOUR ACRE COTTAGE FARM TO BE SOLD ANDONE TO LET , BY THE YEAR OR FOR A TERM .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 1, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1477/page/4/