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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY , JULY 22 , 1848 . •
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i- uoM £3U0 10 £iO-J 10 bJi ADVANULD IX JULY NEXT.
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FOR THE WORKING MILLIONS . A HOMB FOR EVERY INDUSTRIOUS MAN AND HIS FAillLY . UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS ' EQUITABLE LAND AND BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY , Enrolled ana Empower ^** Actof F « li ^ e » tto « te » d over the United Kingdom . Pat ™ _ T . S . Dckcohbe , Esc ., mX Tboh « **«« , B .,., M . P . B . B . Cabbzil , Esq ., M . P . lotdon Oficc .-Ko . , Tottenham Course * Bed , St f ancras , London-DiMiEL WuiUH Errri , Secretary . ir ,. n «^ in Thrsa Sections . Paj wentBin cithw Secdoa , M 8 dt | -l . &c ,, & < ,., per We « b , payable either Arranged iq "re ° , « " ° « t 0 Ss ' . Soucitobs or Redemption Fees , Tbe preBent Entrance Fee is In . 6 d . SuEre ' mi M ( or « Oy P « * ° Sbarc > Ru : eS 8 nd Card > 7 dl Certifioates . - Psr ShaIe » and 6 d - &n ! part of a share . ^ _ ¦ r Bt j 0 j niog this Beeiiun cv « ry pirson in towa or country can become the preprleter of a House section ^ ^ ig hbjorhajJ , without being remou'd from h ;« FriendB , Connexions , or the present means JfJLiTnnl ' f-niUy tB * J hare of gaining a livelihood . m V T 1 O s ii —Torfiisaa capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide r In A into allotments f ivm half an acie upwards . The property V > be tbe tona fidt freehold of the membe if ieHieen or twcBry jears , from the date of location , according t » bia subscriptions . Srcn » s ill—Saving or Deposit lection , in which members not wishing to pnrchaue are enabled to invest ail sums , from 4 d . and upwards , receiving interest at the rate of 5 per cent , per annum , on every sum of 10 s : 2 d npn -irdb EO depOEited , Subscription OffM . — < 92 , New Oxfobd-Stbeet , where Meetings are held , and Members enrolled , every Widnesdat Eveninc , from Eight to Ten o ' clock . Lulun EaU , for explaining the principles ucd oljects of tho Society , The FAa THEKiCH Rooms , St Martin ' slane , Lear tbe corner of Long-acro . L ctures delivered every Sunday evening at beveno clocs . IT B — Fn . B £ 300 to £ 509 will be balloted for by tbe members of the first Section in J = ly next , when all cetioii ' s -who have as * J may become memo , re Jor Starts , or parts of Shares , on or before tho 5 ch of July next , and ifhopsy iU mouths' 6 ub « erip : ioBB in advance , or otherwise , will be tligible for the ballot . ALSO , FOR THE WOBKiXG MILLIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE ABOVE , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES , Enroll' £ purFoaat to Act of Parliamtar , Tnus securing to its members the protection of the law for their funds and property . L : galised to extend ovrr the United Kmpi ? om , with the privilege of appointing Medical AtiendBnts , Apents , &c . An opportunity is now iffcrcd to heslthj persons , up te Forty Years of Age , of joining th ^ sa flouriehins Institutions in town or country , L 0 FP 3 N OrflCE . —13 , Tottenham Canrt , N . vr Road , St Pancras , ( . thirteenth house eastward from Tottenham Court Road ) — Djniel Wiuutf Rcfft , Secretary , Patrons —? 5 DoscoHse , Esq .. U . P . T . Wikle ? , Esft ., M . P . B . B . Cabbell , Esq . M . P . P . O'Cosjsor Esq ., M . P . L . J . Hasbasw , Esq . In the Ehsrt space of fenr years these societies have paid the following beeefits to their members . SUMMARY OF CLAIMS . Sicknesa and Superannuation ... ... ... £ 1905 10 5 ¦ Accouchments ... ... ... ... ... 693 15 0 Ftmerals * M 1 S l Loss by Fire ... «» " ... 29 5 0 £ 3125 8 6 ¦ Present Cap ital fanded in the BaDk of Englatd ... £ 1669 10 0 These Societies ars in rir divisions or stctions , for tbe licmbtrB to receive the following Benefits according to their Subscriptions : — FIBST DIVISION I FOURTH DIVISION nrrgnce according to age , from Ss . to 10 s . Monthly Con- Entrance , according to ape , from 3 s . 6 d . to bs . ba , tribntioa for Sicknes s and Management , 2 s ; Td . Monthly Contribution for Sickness and Management . Is . 4 d . £ b . d . All 6 Vfance , in Sickness , per week .. .. o 18 0 s - Member ' s Funeral .. » « f Allowance : in Sickness , per weeU .. .. 0 3 0 Ditto Wife ' * or Nominee 5 ditto .. 10 0 0 Member's Funeral .. 10 0 0 4 ? . VX . 7 rinrr ; n .. 2 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee's ditto -- 5 00 Wbv ? Sm f 5 OOtoJO 0 0 life ' s Lying-in .. .. .. .. 100 ISSS ^ S ^ eek I ! .. .. 060 Loss by We , from .. £ 5 0 0 to 10 0 9 SECOND DIVISION . Superannuation , per week 6 10 Entrance , according to age , from 4 s . 6 d to 9 s . 6 d . FIFTH DIVISION Monthly Contribution for Sickness and Management , Entrance , according to age , from 3 s to 8 s . Monthly ton . ' 2 s , Id . tribution for Sickness and Management , 18 . la . a [ in SictBeES , perweek .. 0 15 0 Allowance in Sickness , per week .. .. 0 7 0 ember ' t Funeral .. 15 0 0 Member ' s Funeral X Ditto Wif : ' s or nominee ' s ditto •• 18 0 0 Ditto Wife ' s or Nominee ' s ditto .. 3 O O Wife's LjiHg . in l 15 ° * ife ' s Lying-in I a n lEn bv Fire , from .. .. » 0 0 to is o o Lobs by Fire .. 5 9 0 Superannuation , per week 0 5 0 Superannuation , per week 0 4 0 THIRD DIVISION . SIXTH DIVISION . Entrance , according to age , from * s . to 9 s . Monthly Cob- Entrance Money .. .. .. .. « » 0 tribution for Sickness and Management , is . 7 d . Monthly Contribution .. .. .. U 1 0 Allowance in SickneEs , per week .. Oil 0 Allowance in Sickness 0 7 0 Members Funeral .. .. .. ,. 12 0 0 Member ' Funeral 2 10 0 Bitte "Wife ' s or Sominee's ditto .. .. 680 _ "Wife ' s Lving-ra .. .. •• 1 19 0 No Lenes"in this Dmsion . Lobs by Eire , from .. .. £ 5 0 0 to \ Q 0 0 Superannuation , per week .. .. 0 4 0 Levies according to the demands on eacb division per quarter . jfg The only difference in the t ^ oSocittieB ib , the Patriots have an Aecou ' cbment benefit , tbe Patriarchs have notthai benefit , therefore do not pay levits fur it . gg- Applications for Agencies requtsttd from all parts of t £ e country ; iiiformBtien for appointment of Agencies can be obtained by letter , prepaid , esclosinga postage 6 tamp . Black forms and information for the edmif sicn of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaH , enclosing tbres postage Etamps , to Dahiel Williak Rufft , GeBeral Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , Now Ro £ < 3 . St Pancrss .
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METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSr / RAXOE , Annuity , loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the " th and fth Vic , cap . 110 . ) Temporary Offices , 3 J , Regent-street , Waterleo-place , London . TRUSTEES . Richard Spooner , Esq ., I Spencer Horatio Walpole , H . P . I Esq .. M-PEdward Vansittart Neale , I Henry Peter Fuller , Esq . Esa . 1
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FAMILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 . Chatham Place , BlaekMars , London . CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . DIBECTOES . William Bntterworth Bayley , Esq ., Chairmaa . John Fuller , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . RtBnice CUchester , Esq . Elliot MacnagbUn , Esq . H . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . C . H . Latouche , Esq . Joshua Walker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . Majsr Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Thirty percent . Bonus was added to the Society ' s Folities on the profit scale in 1845 . The next valuation will be in January , 1852 . _ AHKUAI FKESIDHS TfIT £ FSOFITS ^ Age 20 Age 2 | fAge 3 !>! AgeJSJAgetu ARe ^ AgeSO Age £ 5 £ g . d . Es . d . £ s . d . U s . d . ' £ s . d . £ s . d . Us . d . £ s . d . 1 17 9 ! 31 J 9 7 12 1 « 2 i 3 5 9 3 16 2 |* 10 6 5 7 6
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1 SD 1 A . The Society also grants Policies to parties proceeeding to , or residing in India , at lower rates than any other Ofice , the Premiums on which may be payable either in London or at the Society ' s Office in Calcutta . Annuities of all kinds , as well as Endowments for Children , are granted by the Secietj . The usual commission allowed to Solicitors and others . Johk Cazisoye , Sec .
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TO BE SOLD . A FOUR ACRE allotment at Great Dodiord Estate . Tne surrounding country is most delightful , and only two miles from _ the Railway Statioa , and a few diles from Kidderminster , Dudley , Birmingham , and "Worcester , being first-rate market towns . The land is Of the very best quiliry , and well suppliod with water ; the gwner having laud at LowbandB , does not wiBh to Jeave it . Applisstionjto be made to G . V ., Post-ofEce , Redmarley , near Ledbury , Herefordshire .
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COLLIVER ' S COUMERCrAL COFFEE AND CHOP H 0 U 3 E AND READING ROOMS , 2 B £ i . STRAND , L 0 FD 0 F . J GOLLIVER . retains bis sincere thanks to hie Friend * and the Public at large , for the support fee has-received at their hasids during the last ten years , Md hopes , by strict attention and civility , to merit a continuance of their patronage . J . C . sho bsgg to state , fe * t having lately made extensive alterations and im jrorements in his premises , he is now enabled to afford additional convenience without extra charge . A Commercial Cope-room upstairs , with ererr facility £ ( X TrsreHers and Visitors from tfee country . Th « Hoase is situated in the very heart of the Metro-» olis , in the centre of the Theatres , near the National fcand Ofice . » nd Public BaildiHgs . Omnibtueg pass to ad from eJi the Railway Stations , to me § t the Xrains nfyfiv « s * ai > aiie * - Beds , it . to J * --Ji P * r aight . " All other charge * igBBl ' f&udcntt ; SO FEES TO SB&YASTS : . "" ...-. ¦» . _ -r . - ¦
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ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN . ONE COTTAGE FARM of FOUR ACRES , and ONE WITH FIVE ACRES ( both in excellent condition ) , TO BE SOLD , with Immediate I \ , 85 e : 8 iOD . Apply to Mr Aixsop , Red Hall , Lincoln .
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THE IRISH LEAGUE . 4 N AGGREGATE MEETING of the Repeilers of A London will be held in the Theatre , Milton Street , Chiswiil Street , on Tuesday Evening next , July 25 th , to express their approval of the formation of the above feodv . The Chair to be taken at E ' gkt o'clock by Edwaed Ke . vealet , Esq ., Barrister-at-law . Tbe members of the respective Club 8 are requested to be in attendance early . The Boxes reserved for the Ladies . Admission Free .
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ON SATURDAY , August 5 th , 16 ( 8 , will be publishod tbe First Number of a . Weekly Periodical , to be entitled—II r \\ UE LABOUR LEA' -UE , " or JOURNAL ofthe 1 . NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNITED TEADES , devoted to the interests of the above Associa tion and the working classes gem-rally . PRICE ONE PENNY ( postFree ) . . To be had of all Booksellers in Town aad Country . N . B . —Secretaries of Trade Societies are requested to give their orders forthwith to their respective Booksellers ; the Offiee , 11 , Tottenbam-conrt-road , London ; or to the Publisher , 2 , Lord-street , Douglas , Is ! e-of Man .
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TO TAILORS , By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and H . R . H . Prince Albert ., NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , KarUtreet , Bloomsbury-square , nearOxfordstreet , London ; and by S . Bebger , Hoiywell-stFeet , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely execated and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance tf this Print excels any before published , accompanied with the Newest Style , and ertra-fitfing Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dress Waistcoat Pattern , and an extra-itting Habit Pattern of •» he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the whole for any sire fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price tOs . post free 11 s .
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NO MORE PILLS FOR INDIGESTION , Constipation , Torpidity of the Liver , and the Abdominal Viscera , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Biliousness , Despondency , Spleen , etc . Published by Du Barry and Co ., " 5 , New Bond-street , London ; and to be obtained through all Booksellers ' Price Gd , or 8 d ( in letter st imps ) , post-free ; A POPULAR TREATISE on INDIGE 3 TION arid CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousnesa , Biliousness , Si .-rofula , Liver Complaint , Spleen , etc ., and their Radical Removal , entitled the 'Natural Regenkeatoe of tbe DiGEsTivt Oegans ( the Stomach and Intestines ) , without pills , purgatires , or artificial means qf any kind , '
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FARMS O . V SALE . A FOUR ACRE farm at ttrorosgrove . — THREE il r'OUK ACHE farms at Minster Lovell , all of which are cropped . — A POCU ACRE farm at Snig's End . Cropped . —A TWO ACRE farm at Minster Lovel . All applications to be made to the Directors , at their office , 14 » , High Holborn , London .
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FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT FOR SALE . T O BE SOLD , a FOtTR-ACKE SHARE in the National Land Company , nearly readj for occupation , The Share was drawn in the January ballot , but the adver * tiser having engagements that prevent his taking posse 3-sion , he will acc ept the highest offer . Apply to Mr John SymoRS , Teignmuutb ., BeTOn , If by letter , a postage stamp must be enclosed . -
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THE LAND . FOR SALE AT O'CONNORVILLE , a Four-Acre Allotment situate in tho Centre ( the bevt portion ) of the estate . The Land is iu excellent eosdition , and is well-cropped the Proprietor being an experieneid agriculturist The groiving crops consist of an acre of wheat , one acre and a quarter of potatoes , one acre of turnips , half an acre of barley , and an' excellent assortment of carrots , onions , parsnips ,
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THE LAND . TWO FOUR ACRE shares in the Land Comply eligible for the ballot , price £ 4 liis saeh ; the parties are about to emigrate . Apply , if by letter ( prepaid ) to Mr Anthony Bsower , &esdg « se , nearShotley . bridse . Darhara . ¦
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O-CON . NO'iVIL E ( O-. i-EGE . A GK 1 CULTCRAL . HOUT lOULi'URAL AND MODEL J \ FARM SCHtOL , in connexion with general uduciition , ' ' - ' ' ¦ . ' . ' ¦ -: ' ' ¦*¦ " ¦• « ii ' > i IlE £ BINGS < -, AT 5 | BlCKMiirJStvoKIHj JUfiTfdPljBDlBlI , ^ 1 : Conitucted by M . D . Uhavkb , M . C . P ., ,, _„ upwards of twenty years in the Scholastic Profaasion . The scljroihoust ! is healthfully situated , commanding a viow of many miles round , and is distant frum London twenty-one iniicB , six iind a-balf miba from Watford , and eight miles from Uxbridge . Mr < 5 . begs to inform tuose persons who may honour him with the eare of their children , that he will endeavour to instil into their minds a sound and practical course of education , fitting them at once to fill any situation in after life they may be called to .
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Now ready , price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( h > fWe Sentenoe . ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE , B y EaNEBT Joneb . Also , price Threepente , A VERBATIM REPOUT OP THE TRIAL ? OP ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHARTIST LEADERS . This letter contains the Rubatance nf the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken .
The Northern Star, Saturday , July 22 , 1848 . •
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ARREST OF DR . M'DOUALL . THE MARTYRS . THE TRESS , THE LAW , AND THE EEOPLE . In England as well as Ireland , terror is the order of the day . At Bradford and other places , public meetings have been again forbidden and suppressed by the despotic orders cf magistrates , backed up by brute force . Again the people and the minions of the law have come into collision at Bradford . The man who has been christened by his friends or his foes "Wat Tyler , " having been arrested , was rescued by the people , and of course for this " violation of the law" more victims have been hunted out and committed for trial .
We have to announce the arrest of another leading Chartist . Dr M'Douall has . been seized and held to bail for trial upon the charges of " sedition , illegal assembly , and riot . " Of course when brought to trial he will be convicted . If Dr M'Douall ' s advocacy of the Charter was charged [ against him as heresy or blasphemy , he would be convicted . If it was known by the jury that conviction would lead to the hanging , beheading , or burning of their victim , they would nevertheless convict . Stick up a man in the dock and call him " Chartist /' that is enough ; the brutal bourgeoisie will howl unanimously " Away with him , away with him ! Crucify him ! Crucify him I "
We base our assertion upon accurate information , that there are hundreds—we have recison to believe thousands—of the shopocracy of this metropolis , who desired before all things that the blood of the working classes might be shed on the 10 th of April , and again on the l 2 thof June . "We know that these ruffians are impatient for the Government to let loose the dogs of war upon the Irish people . The daily and weekly journals testify to the sanguinary longings of these profit-mongering miscreants .
We showed in last Saturday 8 Star that the Times considered the sentences passed upon the Chartists tried at the Old Bailey , exceedingly lenient ; and that , according to the Chronicle , it was generally regretted by its patronsthataseverer sentencehad ' notbeen passed upon Mr Ernest Jones . The weekly journals have exhibited equal ferocity . That bully of Fleet-street , the Weekly Dispatch , declares its " honest conviction (!) " that Ernest Jones and his fellow sufferers " hum got very cheaply off , "
The Britannia , after urging . the Government to " crush every club in Ireland ; " and , in the event of rebellion , to use " the halter ' unsparingly , complains that the sentences inflicted on the Chartists are far too merciful ! It denounces the victims as " idlers , " " ruffians , " rebels , " and " felons , ''for whom gaols are far too good . From this it may be inferred that nothing short of hanging all offenders accused of Chartism is likely to satisfy the pious editor of the Britannia 1
The Britannia is aTory journal , and proves itself well worthy of the ancient reputation of its party . But the Britannia ' s bloocty-mindedness is , after all , less revolting than the coldblooded sneering of that organ of the enlightened counter-revolutionists , Douglas Jerrold ' s Weekly Newspaper . In speaking of the article to which we allude , we need entertain no doubt as to its author . All who have once read Douglas Jerrold's writings can be at no loss to distinguish the anonymous productions of his pen . Mr Punch ' s only objection to the sentence is , that it " gives the brawlers a certain fame of martyrdom'' This abortion of a would-be Diogenes exhibits his snarling propensities as follows : —
" Fur the men themselves we aave but little respect . Such zealots do mjichief to truth . It is euoh men whose rashness helps the oppressor in bis tyranny . Nor has the bearing of Mr Jones—gentleman Jones— at the bar at all Hitofi him , the sufferer , In our respect . Whenetn . tencsd , he heroically wished that his judge might ' sleep with the Charter round his neck . " A poor and pitiful copy this of the bravado of gome ignorant wretch who , reared amidst the mad of L > ndon , picks a pocket as . soon aa he can reach it , wishes , upon receiving tho sentence of transportation , that-the judge " may ait there till he comes back ! " Sometimes , too , Jhe forlorn creature , in his brutal recklessness , to' show bia courage , h&B burled his ehqe ftttfeebencbi Mr Joaee , howover , either forgot—or magnanimously eichewed—the cm . ' phasig of sach supplementary daring . After history may possibly explain tbls : perhaps ha wore boots . "
"Without waiting for " after history , " we may state , that , unlike the editor of the defunct Shilling Magazine—lately extinguished because the public voted it not worth a . shilling —Mr Jones is not intimately acquainted with the practises of St Giles ' s heroes . "Gentleman Jones / ' and , " perhaps he wore boots , " are specimens of Jerroldonian wit I This miserable cynic is one of tho humanity , mongers who abhor capital punishments , and all that sort of thing ; yet he sneers at men whom tyrants have sacrificed b y the hangman ' s hands . Thus he discourses of the past ; — " It must be owned that Radicalism—like
the present bugbear , Chartism — suffered grievously at the hands of the knaves and fools who professed it . For Radicalism rode upon a hurdle with Brandreth , at Derby Radicalism suffered with Thistlewood and company at the Old Bailey . Radicalismlike murder and burglary—was associated in the minds of tens of thousands with the gallows . Observe , not a word of sympathy for Castlereagh ' s victims ; not a word of execra turn against the employers of Castles , Oliver "">' ' < «« Putney Diogenes , We « i || ° ay
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nothing about " knave * - " The phrasemongers of the Punch school are , of course , all " lionourablemeni" - ' 6 f all humbugs in this humbugged worklj the " tfood-time-coming" and " wait-a-littlelonger" prog ressionists are the worst . Political pedlars , their wares are words , which they ex , change for the solid realities of the good time present . Any one who attempts to bring their artful dodging , to a close by working , as Ernest Jones worked , to effect the immediate salvation of the people , is denounced by these shams as fool or knave , and , consequently ,
worthy of persecution on the part of the Government , and unworthy of sympathy on the part of the people . Wo have said that the convictiou of any man accused of "Chartism" is certain . This result the Government may always calculateupon—thanks to the brutal prejudices of the jury-class , without being at the trouble of performing the infamous part of selecting the jury , as was done in the case of the patriot Mitchel . Still we have reason to believe , that in the recent
trials the agents of the Government were not absolutely indifferent to the composition of the juries . The foreman of the' jury who convicted Fussell—and , we believe , all the other defendants except Ernest Jones—was a person who is , as we are given to understand on excellent authority , master baker in the Government Victualling Yard at Deptford . He has a son master baker to the Greenwich Hospital , and a son-in-law enjoying a good birth also in the Victualling Yard .
Equally small are the chances of justice or mercy at the hands of those who sit on the judgment-seat . The Charter is avowedly sought for as a means to certain ends—one of those enda being the reduction of enormous public sala . ries , " and the sweeping away of unmerited pensions . Our judges are notoriously allied to the aristocracy ; it is as notorious that they are overpaid ; and it is also well known that many of them , directly or indirectly , participate in the abuses of the existing system , by which thousands of pounds of the public money are squandered without any pretence to justice or decencyt
Chief Justice Sir Thomas Wilde is the husband of Augusta Emma D'Este , the—according to law- bastard daughter of the late Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray . There was granted to " Mademoiselle D'Este , " on the 5 th of March , 1845 , a pension of £ 500 yearly ; and , on the ' succeeding 28 th of July , another like sum of £ 500 yearly . We learn from a little book * of which we 9 hall speak at greater length on a future occasion , that the said Mademoiselle Augusta Emma D'Este was married to Sir Thomas Wilde , now Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , on the 13 th of August , 18451 Very shortly
after their union , Sir Thomas Wilde was raised to the Bench , at a salary of £ 8 , 000 per annum . In addition to this enormous salary , the Lord Chief Justice is reported to possess great wealth , arising from a lengthened course of professional prosperity , notwithstanding which Lady Wilde accepted her second pension , within a fortnight of her marriage . " It was supposed , " says the book from whi <; h we quote , "by many , that , upon her marriage , her ladyship would have resigned the two pensions , The pensions , however , are still retained by her ladyship , and received regularly every quarter . '
It may be imagined with what feelings Chief Justice Wilde would regard Ernest Jones ; , when placed before him ! No wonder that " a warning to others required him to pass a severe sentence . " Men who want a Charter that they may , amongst ' other things , inquire into the grounds of Lady Wilde ' s pensions , and whether eight thousand pounds yearly is not too much to give to a Judge , whilst thousands of those , from whose pockets public salaries are paid , have to vegetate on less than eight thousand pence yearly—such men are , of course , " leniently" dealt with when sentenced to two years' solitary confinement , or the worse horrors of the hellish " silent system . "
Of our incarcerated brethren we have no very reliable information , beyond the * facts that they are clad in felon costume , and subjected to many other indignities , including oakum-picking . They-are not allowed to correspond with their friends , and , in reply to applications made by their wives , it has been intimated that no one will be > allowed to see them until they have been three months incarcerated . Mr Ernest Jones , and Messrs Fussell , Sharp , Vernon , and Williams , are confined in the Bridewell , Tothill Fields ,
Westminster . Mr Looney is confined in the prison at Brixton , Surrey . The Governor of Westminster Bridewell—Lieutenant Tracey—¦ has the reputation of being a just and kindhearted man , but , of course , his place is to enforce the ' regulations , " which are now , in almost every prison , the most atrocious ever devised to wear out the lives and crush the souls of the victims of " Law . ' In our first page will be found some further particulars respecting the victims and their families .
The thousands and tens of thousands of Chartists throughout the country cannot mistake their duty . On them has devolved the sacred task of succouring the robbed and wronged victims deprived of their natural protectors . It would gladden the enemies of Chartism to know that the families of the martyrs wanted bread ; and were exposed to the cruelties and insults which the heartless administrators of the accursed Poor Law know
too well how to inflict upon those who are at their mercy . The ingratitude of the people , and the consequent misery of the martyrs ' families would be a double source of delight to the relentless enemies of Labour . For God ' 9 sake ! working men of England and Scotland —for the sake of those whom you cheered on to the dungeon—for the sake . of your own interests and your own honour—do your duty , and save your friends from additional suffering , and deprive your enemies of the enjoyment they covet .
If you turn a deaf ear to this appeal , who , hereafter , will jeopardise his liberty in your service ? Many a brave man would not hesitate to brave any amount of suffering whieh should leave his wife and children comparatively scatheless ; but few are those who would possess courage to engage in a death-struggle with despotism , if heart-crushed by the foreknowledge that in falling themselves they would doom their families to all the horrors
of want , unpitied and uncared for by the very people for whom they offered themselves a sacrifice . ^ Excepting those totally unemployed , none can be excused from the patriotic and fraternal duty of contributing to the support of the bereaved families , and adding thereto the means of alleviating the sufferings of the incarcerated patriots , should the opportunity for such alleviation arise . This is not all . There will be more victims : and to meet the
necessary consequences provision should be made beforehand . To tho work , then , every local leader and active partisan of the Charter . An insignificant trifle from each Chartist , weekly , will ensure the proper protection of the martyrs' families , provide means for the help of future victims , and enable the Executive to " nail to the mast" Democracy ' s flag , and keep it flying throughout , and in spite of , the now raging hurricane of persecution .
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* Sketches of Her Moj iBtj '« Housshold . ' Strange Puternoator-roiv . ^^ f-r-r- "" --- - - i ^ Tffill - ' ^ IRELAND'S AGONY . "Tho holiest cause , tbnt tonguo or sword Ut mortal over lost or galn ' d . " Men of England , listen to us ! Seven centuries of crime—conquest , blood rapine , legal and illegal torture—are chargeable to your account as a nation . Your victim has been Ireland .
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In your name the people of Ireland have been outraged , plundered , murdtred , flung 1 into misery ' s vilest depths , or goaded to fi'roe and frightful deeds of desperation , Tie « e crimes have been committed in your nam , but not for your profit- - From Ireland ' s subjujfa-• tion , you have derived nothing but the curse 'fend shame that ever fi / llows the commission of jcrime . , a ' When Strongbow and his fellow brigands first invaded Ireland , what interest had your Saxon fathers in the success of those
marauders ? None . Your fathers were slaves , without rights or property in their own land . The ravagers of Ireland were of the stock of banditti who , a century previous , had ^ robhed the English people of their country , and , by massacre and terror , reduced them to shivery . In the wars , confiscations and desolating atrocities , under which Ireland suffered in the reigns of the Henries and Edwards , the aristocratical oppressors of your fathers alone benefited by the sufferings of your neighhours .
When , under the pretence of religion , the gorgers of the plundered property of the English Church subjected the people of Ireland to new confiscations and tortures , the English people acquired no broad lands in the sister country . Elizabeth ' s treacherou 3 murders , and Cromwell ' s pitiless massacres , brought to your fathers only the infamy of national falsehood and cruelty . Boyne ' s stream ran red with gore ; Limerick ' s pacred treaty was shamelessly violated ; and the accursed penal laws imposed upon Ireland , not fur the benefit of your fathers , but to exalt the power and glut the rapacity of the English faction in Ireland , " and the noble plunderers whose thievery and tyranny afflicted both countries .
What interest had the people of England in the assassination of Fitzgerald , the destruction of Wolfe Tone , and the butchery of Emmett ? None . What did your fathers earn by the floggings , bayonetings , shootings , hangings , and pitch-cap torturings of which the unhappy people of Ireland were the victims at the close of the last century ? What did they earn . ' The undying hatred of Ireland's children , and the curses loud and deep of every other people nn the face of the earth .
Instead of reaping benefit in any sense or shape from the oppression of Ireland , the English people have immensely suffered from that oppression . Well would it have been for the English working classes , if Ireland had never known the curse of English rule . The conquest of England by a foreign foe would have been a blessingjCompared with the consequences which have flowed from the immigration of Irish misery , and the competition of Irish poverty . That baneful competition is the natural result of England's misgovernment of Ireland .
We can imagine ft 6 tate of things in which it would be beneficial to the people of both countries that England and Ireland should be united ! each possessing its own government for its own affairs , but federally connected for mutual support and progress ! But if such a connexion is impossible—and it can only be rendered impossible by the crimes of our rulers —then , rather than the present system should continue , better far that the union of the
countries should be entirely dissolved . Let there be a fraternal alliance ofthe peoples , if possible , but no nnion of tyrant and slave , oppressor and oppressed . The sons and daughters of Ireland constitute a people , and if they mill their entire independence of this country , it is their right to be independent , and no Jving law , no force , nor terror , can set aside that i igh t . The crimes , the cruelties , the horrors of the impending struggle , must be laid to the account of the English Government . It is useless to refer us to the speeches of Doheny or Meagher , or the writings of Duffy , or Mitchel . Granted that these men have
laboured to create insurrection , with the avowed purpose of rending Ireland from England , they are justified by the atrocities of English rule . No length of time can sanctify a wrong . After two thousand years of submission to foreign conquerors , we have seen Greece assert her nationality once more . After ages of submission the Slavonic races are again
struggling for tlfe life of independent liberty . Poland has not yet known a hundred years of the conqueror ' s sway , but should it be written in the decrees of fate that her seventy years ' servitude 9 hall extend to seven hundred , at the expiration of that time her right to freedom will be as sacred as it is at this moment . The 9 ame rule holds good for the Poland of the West .
Z But without going back to the times of the conquest , confiscations ,, or penal laws , abundant reasons exist at this moment to justify the teachings of Mitchel and Duffy . Ireland ' s representation in the Legislature is a mockery . No measure to protect the liberties , or save the lives of the Irish people can be obtained , except by the goodwill of the English members ; even the minority , who , by courtesy are denominated Irish membersare elected only by a fraction of the Irish people . The soil of Ireland is monopolised by foreign landlords , or the creatures and adherents of foreign rule . The most damnable system of land tenure that ever ^ afflicted a nation , exists in Ireland . The pampered Church
or a small minority insults the religious conviction , * and plunders the pockets , of the majority . The miserable cultivation of the soil , destruction of trade and commerce , and the thousands upon thousands of wretched beings who crowd the cities , and languish in the country cabins , proclaim the results of English rule . Scarcely a week passes that human beings—sometimes numbering scores , or even hundreds—are not driven from their homes to perish like famished dogs by the way-side , for no other reason than that some rapacious landlord chooses to doom the unhappy creatures to destruction . Within the last two years , a million and a half of people have died of famine , and thousands have been driven from their native land , doomed to lay their bones in the
savage wilds of Canada , or beneath the waves of the Atlantic—the victims of famine and fever , created b y the villanous landlords of Ireland , and their patrons , the English Government . It was to put down the hideous tyranny , which had produced such bitter fruits , that the patriot Mitchel summoned his countrymen to action , A special law was passed to crush h « m he was tried and convicted—by what means all men know-and trial by Jury in Ireland \ vas shown to be "a mockery , a d ' elu-8 ionand
, a snare . " A few weeks hBve passed and others of Ireland ' s patriots are marked out for a similar doom , and are at th « moment , in the clutches of their jailors iothe prosecution ofthe proprietors of the Felon , Nation , and Tribune , the agents of English rule have added housebreaking and burfilary ; they have had the pitiful meanness to take money for the stamps , issued for the above papers , and the moment of their p ublication they have plundered the same pane 8 from the publishers , aad even from the poor newsvenders in the streets . H
Police ruffian , ™ reigns in Dublin , and all Ireland is subjected to military law . Lord Clarendon has proclaimed" large portions of the count escf Dublin , Cork , BIfi YV ^ Sd A he Cit l , ° e heda ' for « ie P" Pose of f warming the disaffected . Lastly , w ? PSvl her Majesty ' s Ministers are about to demand '' . additional powers , " for the purpose ofZnt Mating the clubs , and ruling " the country by the terror of the sword . * *
Nations have , before now , revolted against the imposition of Ship money , or a Teji-tax and it would hardly excite wonder if , with such examples , and suffering under the grievances we have enumerated , and hopeless « f obtaining justice by praying and petitioning , tne . Iribh people should he driven to try" Tho pathos of a p ! te . heed , r And tho logic of a blow , " But it is no the Irish who are the rebels theresj rebde are the TVliigs . The pledges
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they gave on entering office have been altogather unredeemed , and , from the admissions Of their own journalists , " there can be no ^ doubt that , they are instigating revolt for the purpose of suffocating Irish discontent in blood . The Wh i jf journalists boast that the Government are fully informed ofthe plans and most secret in « tentions of the clubs , and the said journalists add that they could name the men who . will betray . the people in the moment of danger . Thia is sufficient proof that the agents ofthe Government are inciting insurrection . The journalists , too , exult at the prospect of witnessing * . the extermination f the patriots . The Press-Gang , from the Times to
the Tap-Tub , from the brutal Mail to the pros . titute Evening Posture hounding on the Go . vernment to the commission of the mont in . femal atrocities . They recommend that the arrested " rebels" should be brought to London for trial , as were the followers of Charles Edward in 1743-46 . It is calculated that the London shopocracy will convict and hang Re _ pealers and Chartists to any extent the Go * vernment may desire . The Government are also urged to arm and let loose the two hundred thousand Orangemen of the North to massacre the Repealers . As a specimen of the sanpinary promptings of these ruffianly scribes we quote the following from the liberal Morning Chronicle : —
" WE IMPLORE THE G 0 TEENMBNT TO BE FIRM AMD SPEEDY . LET NO VAIK FOltWALItIES , OR CONSTITUTIONAL SCRUPLES PREVENT Ti . EVI FROM CONSULTING THE SAFETY OF THE STATE IN THE SHOBVE 3 T AND MOST BFFEC . TUAL WAY . IF THE REBELS GO TO WAR WITH US . IN TI 1 E NAME OF OUTRAGED HUMASITY , LET US NOT BE SO MAD A 3 TO GO TO LAW WITH THEM " Working men of Great Britain , if the blood of your Irish brethren is to be shed , we implore you to wash your hands of the damning crime . Testify to Ireland , andproclaim to all nations , that you have no share in the wickedness of your rulers ; the oppressors of Ireland are your oppressors—the rubbers ' of the soil of
Ireland belong to the class who have robbed you of the soil of England—th e heartless tyrants who in Ireland stifle the wail of misery by the policeman ' s truncheons and the soldier ' s bayonet , have only the same remedy for the sums ilk in tliV country : they give bullets when they should provide ' bread , and the popular'hatred to their rule is the same on both sides of St George ' s Channel . Manifest , then , yotir sympathies for the Irish , people t > y employing every constitutional means at your command to hurl the Whigs from office ; and strive by the same means to put an end to Irish disaffection oy repealing- the mischievous and mis-called Act of Union , and securing to Ire « land the Wesbin ^ s of seJf-tfovernment .
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FKIGHTFUL I GNORANCE . Are there no philanthropists who will start a society for the better instruction of the rich . ' * Such an association is surely wanted , The ignoraice of the College-taug ht classes is perfectly frightful . The Hon . and Rev . Baptist Noel has declared , thfit in this Metropolis there are thousands of unfortunate , uneducated beings , " living without God , and without hope ; ' ' and no end of " reports , " books , pamphlets , " leading articles , " and speeches , have been published and spoken , to exhibit the ignorance of the poor ; but nothing has bedn done to exhibit the still more deplorable—because more mischievous—ignorance ofthe rich .
Ignorance surrounds the Throne , otherwise the Queen Would not permit the existence of discontent . She would insist upon her Ministers preparing measures for the putting an end to popular misery , the 'fertile cause of discontent . Ignorance is characteristic of the bench of Bishops . Were that not the case , they would not themselves " undermine the Church , by their plunder of the community , and their criminal apathy respecting the temporal comforts ofthe People . The Church is perishing , because the People regard it as the partner of Aristocracy , 'in the plunder of the fruits of their labour .
Ignorance prevails in the Cabinet and Parliament , The Whigs must be grossly ignorant , to suppose they can retain power on the strength of broken pledges , and the proscription of principles they formerl y advocated . Lord John Russell must be frightfully i » norant to imagine the People have no desire " Reform . The House of Commons must be deplorably ignorant to tolerate the speeches of a Drummond , and a Talfourd . But the most striking proof of Legislatorial ignorance is shown in the fact , that of 658 Members only 84 could" be found to support even a modified scheme of Reform !
Ignorance on the Bench is . a sadder sight than ignorance in the dock . _ In the latter case , the miserable mortal is principally his own enemy , and the mischief he does is usually felt but by one , or a very few , individuals ; in the former case , the possessor of " a little brief authority , " has it in hiy power to inflict misery upon hundreds . Ignorance in the duck is punished by the law ,-but ignorance on the Bench plays its ' fantastic tricks in tin : name ot the law , and aided by the terrors of the law .
How thick must be the mental darkness of a Judge who , with unblushing front , maintains that the laws are equal for rich and poor ; that it is beneficial to the working bees that the idle drones should monopolise the wealth produced by the toilers ; that the people were made for monarches , and notmonarchs for the people ; and who imagines , that b y imprisoning and torturing the people ' s ad vocates , tlie people themselves will be brought to venerate and support the existing system !
Ignorance in Hanover-Square matches rie ignorance top evident in Seven Dials . The ignorance of the poor is out-Heroded bv the ignorance of " philanthropists . ' The Karl of Harrowb y and Lord Ashley must bo Wind indeed , to imagine that their scheme of Kmigration ( propounded at Hanover-square Rooms a few days ago ) will either satisfy or ameliorate the condition of the people . The lv < rl of Harrowb y complains of the rapidly increinin ? population . A great evil ; and if the * uV |» W aristocrats would be good enough to tnm port S ^ . ?? . « couW "PPWc iate and nn ,, laud their
" philanthropy . " A Mr Arthur Mills said that Landlords and Farmers could not employ their capital in improving- the iv--uiirces of the soil , so long as the wurkhou ^ and gaols were over / lowing" How frjoiitiully Jgnorant must the said Farmers and Ljmul .-rifs be , not to know that the poor's rates . ' ""* county rates-judiciously emuloyed-would put an end to pauperism , andgo a ffreat way towards extinguishing crime ; Gaols and workhouses might be " te let , " if LimJJonls and farmers possessed common sense , in .-tead ot low craft ; and honestv , instead of rapacity .
I gnorance , where knowledge should abound , w a sorry sight . Seme wag has . said , that Oxford is called " the seat of learning , ' because every one who goes there is supposed to take with him some amount of knowledge , little or much , but it rarely h « pperi 8 that any one takes anything but an empty head away from that classic city . That ignorant Oxford meu abandantly abound everybod y knows ; but we go further , and assert that Oxford is
the seat of ignorance . A farce—performed , we believe , every third year—entitled , "The Commemoration , " came oft at Oxford a few days ago , when religious ceremonies were beautifully mingled with balls , balloons , and boat races , concerts and fireworks . The no * torious Guizot and his family attended the festival , " and received a most enthusiastic reception , "— . " his name was received with deafenin n' cheers . " Guizot has devoted his life to the service of Despotism , and has unscrupulously employed fund and force to perpetuate the ascenJjuicy- of Privilege and the prostration of Lahour ; concluding his official career by commit-
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" THE NORTHERN STAR , July 22 , 181 . ' ^ . "" r y V - | l | , . M . r . ,, ^ iMMii ^ -Y ~ iW »« nTii > i « Mi ¦ . ii ii ^ , i . g
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 22, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1480/page/4/
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