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THE NORTHERN STAR, SATEJBDAY, AUGUST 5, 1848.
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium, I aid 2, OiJora.Etreet Ubsdtll and Go
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METROPOLITAN COUSTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE , Annuity , Loan , and Investment SOCIETY . ( Incorporated pursuant to the 7 th and Stn Vic , cap . llO . ) Temporary Offices , 3 J , Regent-Street , Waterioo- ^ ilace , London . TRUSTEES . IU « bard Spooner , Esq ., 1 Spencer Horatio Walpole , H . F . I Eso . m M - - Edward Tausittart KeaW , | Henrj Peter Fuller , Esq . Esd . 1 DIRECTORS . Robert Chalmers , Esq ., Edward Lomax , Esq ., St Thurlow-square , Broaap- John ' s Wood . ton . Samuel Miller , Esq ., Lin . Crrm ^ Driver , Esq ., White- coin's Inn . { l ^ jj ) Sir Thomas Newley Reeve , *« cnrj Fcter Fuller , Esq ., H ? chmoncL Piccadilly Edward Vansittart Neale , Palk Griffith , Esq ., Esq ., South Audlej-street Ironmoager-lane , Cheap- WiUhim A- S Weftoby , cirfp Esq ., Hyde Park place .
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THE CHARTIST . THE APPEARANCE of this Journal is unavoidably Postponed lor another Yreefc . The circumstance wliich have le-s to this £ elay do not admit of publication THE < -HARTIST shall positively appear on Saturday next , and fearlessly assert tbe rights of the people . Cnartist Offices , 39 , Holynell . Btreet , Strand , August 2 nd , 1818 .
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Now re 3 dv , p .-ie . fwcfence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIG MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( before Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE , Br Ebnebt Jones . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest lonea intended ta deliver in the court , but which the judge would not allow to be epoken . Also , price Threepence , A VEEBAT 1 M REPORT OF THE TRIAL * OF ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CUARTIST LEADERS .
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NoixiNSHiM . —At a fall meeting of the Land mcmber ^ i * tw followiag resolutions were unanimousl y ado pted , &i the NOsE's Ark , Coalpit-lane : —Proposed faj Mr Fletcher , and seconded by Mr Walker , That the names of those who are fortunate in the Ballot be not published , but only tka numbers of t eir certifi c * tes , the Directors corresponding with the branch secre tary upon the subject . '— ' That a sooiety for mutual help faj f-nnsd to assist . members who are fortunate in tha Ballot , to defray the expenses ot reraoviog themselves and faisi ! ie 3 to their looat'on . To carry thi 3 oat a committee was appointed , with Charles Perkins , secretary ; Jas Sweet , trea-urer ; which met on the 31 st u ! t .. at the Noih's Ark , to draw np roles to be submitted to a general meeting of the members , to be h&ld at the Seven Stars , Barker-gate , oh Monday evening , August 7 , at eight . Paid up shareholders Brerespeotfully invited to attend . A v : ite of thanks was passed unanimously to the Liverpool branch for the interest they have taken in the go jd
causa . BuaoFaRD . —A public meeting of the members of the Land Company was held ou Sunday last . Mr Peacock in the chair . The le ters of Mr O'Connor is . Stae werejresd , when M e William Connell proposed the following resolution : — « That in the opinion of tfeis meetiag the fund subscribed to defend Mr CCoonor , bel' -ngs solely to him , and that no Defence Committee has any claim whatever to suck fund ; we are , therefore , of opinion that the London Dcfesce Bommjfc ee has offered an insult t ? Mr O'Conn-x , bj inquiring afrer it . ' Mr Clegg seconded £ feeresolution , vbioh vrat carried nnsnimowj .
The Northern Star, Satejbday, August 5, 1848.
THE NORTHERN STAR , SATEJBDAY , AUGUST 5 , 1848 .
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THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . It is this week our pride to call the attention of the working classes to the result of the inquiry into the affairs of the National Land Company . Our readers will understand with us that we embrace the whole question submitted to the Select Committee in this one word—" affairs , " as the most partial witness must admit , from theuncontradicted assertions of Mr O'Connor , and , indeed , from a perusal of the evidence itself , that the committee appointed to repot upon the National Land
Company had assigned to it the simple task of establishing a charge of fraud and peculation against Mr O'Connor . Nor , indeed , was such an anticipation unfounded , if the promoters of the said committee hoped to measure Mr O'Connor's honour by their own bushel . ' Set a thief to catch a thief" is , in most cases , an ap « plicable adage and the thief-catcher failing in the pursuit , or discovering that he is upon the wrong scent , becomes not gratified in discovering his mistake , but goaded te vengeance by his failure .
Perhaps there is not upon record a parallel for the abuse that has been heaped upon Mr O'Connor , from ^ his entrance into public life down to the recent investigation—which we must designate as his trial for ] the worst description of crime—a breach of confidence in the robbery of the poor . The people will understand that , however Mr O'Connor may stand honourably acquitted of the charge preferred against him . that , nevertheless , the result will but increase the hatred and
embitter the animosity of those who dread his popularity , and who would have much preferred the verdict of his guilt to proof of the honourable expenditure of the people's money ; as the defeated enemy must now feel conscious that Mr Feargus O'Connor now occupies a position as a public man which no individual , undertaking to advocate the people ' s cause , has ever achieved . g 5 ^ We abstained—and we think with good taste —from commenting on the proceedings until the committee had closed its labours and made
ks report ; and having perused those proceedings with a scrutinising eye , it affords us no small pleasure to be able to bear testimony to the high and unequivocal honour manifested throughout the proceedings by thirteen out of fifteen of that tribunal ; and if we required any further evidence to strengthen our conviction of Whig depravity and baseness , we find it in the fact , that the ' two whom we cannot include are Whigs to the back bone-The letter of Mr O'Connor , which will be found in our present number , is of itself a complete refutation of the strong presumptions based upon the evidence of Messrs Grey and
Finlayson , and relied upon b y the Hayter and Sir Benjamin , as to the prospect of reproduction . But the question which most puzzles us , and which no doubt will most puzzle our readers , is this—a committee is appointed to inquire into the practicability of carrying out a certain scheme , the success or failure of which must mainly depend upon the description of evidence submitted to it , and that evidence , every reasonable man must admit , could only have been acquired from practical agriculturists , for . as to the legality or illegality of the Company , as it now stands , the very entertainment of that question was mere moonshine , inasmuch as the
very fact of Mr O Connor applying for leave to bring in a bill to legalise the Land Company , was of itself an unequivocal admission of its illegality in its present form . This being an undeniable fact . , we now turn to the consideration of the evidence of Mr Revans , ex-Poor Commissioner , and now secretary to the Board of Commissioners ; a government functionary , and the only individual called by the Chairman to be examined , not upon the most important , but upon the OEly important branch of the subject , which in essence was , and is , the probability or improbability of labour applied to land diminishing or increasing the value of that land .
Now , we contend that that is the whole question at issue ; and £ this being an admitted fact , a collateral question would arise as to the prospect ot reproduction . If the evidence of this official had been reconcilable with common sense , his situation as a domestic removable at pleasure , would have cast suspicion upon it ; while the production of such a witness not only casts suspicion , hut stamps guilt , upon the higher official who produced him . This official was what thelegal profession term / ' Too good a witness , '' and we imagine , the only effect that
the perusal of his evidence can have , will be to excite contempt , ridicule , and laughter against a witness who could talk such rubbish , and the official who could present him for examination . However , as the practical knowledge of this gentleman was the only evidence relied upon as the solution of the problem of man's capability to live and pay rent out of three acres of land , we give the best evidence of his capacity , as a practical agriculturist , in the following document , to which the writer ingenuously attaches his name : —
Jekb * t , Wednesday Mornine , July 26 th
TO THE ED 1 T 0 B OF THE NOHTHEKN STAB . Sib , —I wrote to you last week , in which I told jou a little of Mr Revans ' s agriculture . But that I may make no mistake , last Wednesday morning , I started about four o ' clocfc , to pay avititto Sorel , late the residence oi that gentleman , to ascertain if h ? were the man , and I am led to believe he is . I will give ^ you the result of my inquiry , and aslhope tomeetHr Kevans , either privately or publicly , I will not state otherwise thin the truth of him . As he has come forward publicly to be a witness , to blast , if possble , what I consider will be a blessing to thousands , publicly I ftake him up as a farmer , by stating what I understand he did with his Iani , and how much be had of it . First , he had about 100 vergus , fort ; of which
were under cultivation , the rest was on the cliff as a ruu for sheep ; then he bought 100 more , which was on a common , twenty of which he broke up ; and as there are two and-a-quarter versus to an English acre , he had about eighty acn s , twenty-seven of which were under cultivation . Two years ago when I was there , they were breaking up the commen , out of which ho had as fine turnips as ever I saw ; then he broke up more , but never cropped it ; then he had as fine peas as were to be seen , since which he has never cropped an inch of his land , which is two years ago ; that which he broke up is as bad
as ever it was , the rest is growing nothing but couch grass and wetds , which is higher than my knees , or was when I came across it last week , so you tuny judge of the nature rf the Eoil . When there , I mentioned the circumstance of the corn to the hind ; he replied , " Well . its there now , I suppose for the rats , th < it thpy might not be 6 tarvei also . " Now , for his stock ! : He had glx cows , one bull , 150 sbaep , twenty-eight pigs , two horses aad a ram . The men used to say the horses could not do half a day's work for w « nt of food ; three of his cows died , 103 ef the sheep , and all t&e pigs . Bedding he never gave Sfeem
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any , as that was a wast , liu said . The stock he has now i 6 , tfcree cows , one bull , two yearlings , and one hog bull , one heifer cilf , and ono bull calf , ilo never sold but ono bull c : ilf , and that went to France . He said , " Ho could not let out his bull , as he had to go to court , and bo under a heavy fine before they were landed , because tbey would net mix the island breed ; " so he has kept them all , considering thein too valuable to kill . As to the quantity of mi k thej give , I saw them milked , and they are now in very good coadit ' on , although , as the hind said the otherdaj , ^ e ^ ou'dalmostseethroughthcmjthclargesthaa lost her milk these eight months , the other two arc much improved of late , and as there was a gauge in the can , I saw what they gave , and it was barely five quarts , this too justagreeing with what he stated . To manage that land , he kept four English labourer * .
He has forty seven sheep , and seventeen lambs ; the cows are kept in stall by night , ani feed on hay , which is all bought for them , as there is nothing growing ou the place . I inquired of the people living near him , all of whom told me that his stock died last winter by wholesale , as he had nothing to give them , and it was well , known in the neighbourhood it was for want ; when the Islanders see people foo ing away their money they have no objection to it ; but it must ue on the nail , as they will not chance credit . I asked the milkman about the sawdust for his pigs ; he said , that he had heard so , but thought it incredible , but that both had heard that his stock was all starved ; and if he asserts that a family cannot live off three acres of good land , he knows it is an untruth : for if any of his neighbours had it freehold , they
would be independent , which many of them are with much less . That is what inakeu these Islands so fruitful ; it is their small farms , and nothing else but the value they set on their land , by keeping it in continual eu . tiration . If Mr O'Connor would but pay ks a visit , I think he would have a rich treat ( and a delightful treat to us ) I think he would have a vthip-hand of Mr Revans , should thej meet again , if not , lie could show him up in his right colours us an agriculturist . As the landlord s ; iid at St John ' s , it is his starvation system which constitutes bis qualification for a Poor Law Cominissiuner , while thanks bo , here we need them not , as nearly nil Jerseyratn linve a little land . I remain , fraternally yours , Daniel Long .
Now , what does the reader think of the sentimentality and morality of a Poor-law commissioner , who could not let his bull out to improve the breed of cattle , because he had to go to court ? We presume he meant the court of St James ' s , and that , from the importance of his situation , he might perchance be introduced by the Lord in- Waiting as the gentleman that let his bull out . However , our correspondent has let the cat out of the bug . Here we have the character of a ^ practical agriculturist , —one who feeds his pigs upon saw-dust , no doubt , as an experiment hereafter to be practised upon paupers in the bastile ; here we find upon this gentleman ' s
pleasure spot , " which he took such delight in cultivating , " couch grass up to-the knee . untouched for two years , and upon which fact he based that portion of his evidence , which went to show how land , badly cultivated , would run to couch grass ; here is a practical agriculturist allowing three-fourths of his stock to starve , buying hay to keep the remainder alive , which , he stated in his evidence , must end in the destruction of the purchaser ; not bedding his cattle , starving his horses , experimentalising upon animal frugality , in the hope of obtaining a reward by applying the experiment upon paupers committed to his tender mercies . * Jow , here is an exhibition of the skill of the
only practical man examined ; and if he ul not evince much practical skill in agriculture , the perusal of his evidence leads us to believe that he is pre-eminently qualified to fill any situation upon which the existence of a Whig Government may depend . However , we may soberly and seriously ask the members of the National Land Company whether they are prepared to submit to such tyranny , depravity , and meanness j the more especially when they bear in mind that the chief object of that committee should have been to have arrived at a solution of the main
question submitted to it , by the" examination of skilled and practical agriculturists ? And what will the working classes say , when they have reflected upon the fact that Mr O'Connor produced four allottees , who had travelled at his expense , and that the chairman refused to examine any of them ? Must not this fact of itself irresistibly lead every impartial man to the conclusion that , as far as the Chairman was concerned , his object was not to elicit the truth , but to damn the plan by falsehood ?
Let us now submit a list of witnesses , called by the Chairman of the Land committee for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability or impracticability of the Land Plan—No . 1 Mr Whitmarsh , Registrar ; No . 2 . Mr Chinnery , Solicitor ; No . 3 . Mr Lawes , Barrister ; who had drawn up the Health of Towns Bill for the Government ; No . 4 . Mr Tidd Pratt , Certifying Barrister to the Government ; No . 5 . Mr Revans , ex-Poor Law Commissioner , and now Secretary to the Commission' No . 6 . Mr GrevAccountant and Government
Offi-, cial ; and to whose inspection was submitted the account of the Drainage and Sewerage Commission ; and , No . 7 , Mr Finlayson , Government Actuary . Now , such were the callings of tlie seven wise men who were selected by the Whig Chairman ef the Land Committee , to establish the practicability of the scheme ; while we learn that it was with difficulty that Mr O'Connor succeeded in having Mr John Sillett—an occupier of two acres of his ownexamined ; the Chairman doggedly refusing until the determination of the committee
overpowered his objection . The people , however , may rest assured that , as far as we are concerned , that fraudulent , barefaced , and dastardly attempt to destroy their project , shall not be allowed to stop where the Chairman and his worthy coadjutor —Sir Benjamin—had hoped . Mr O'Connor ' s trial is now over , and we have formed an erroneous estimate-of that gentleman ' s resolution , if he does not now carry the war into the enemy ' s camp . Already we have received
numerous resolutions , indicating the will of the electors and non-electors of the borough of Marylebone , and other parts of London , expressing a determination to call upo ' n their mis-representative to attend at a public meeting , and give an account of his conduct , and at which , we are informed , a select committee of Welch missionaries will attend , for the purpose of putting a few questions to the honourable baronet . And we are further informed that a" committee , calling itself the " NO
BENJAMIN COMMITTEE , " has been formed in Marylebone , for the purpose of securing a substitute for Sir Benjamin , at the next general election . One of our correspondents inquires , whether it is likely that Mr O'Connor would attend the proposed meeting , and , in reply , we have to state , that his answer was , " He would lay all other business aside to stand by the PUMP . " Indeed , it would be impossible to read the evi dence as printed , and the rubbish as spoken by the member for Marylebone , upon the report
being brought up , without coming to the conclusion that he had failed in his mission , and had lost a portion of that confidence which insured for him his present title , through sycophancy , obsequiousness , and treachery . However , if we understand our Marylebone friends , we feel assured that in their opinion the partial committee man cannot be an impartial parliament man ; and that , therefore , upon the next struggle , the question with them will not be Whig or Tory , but" Down with the l'ump . ' There is no man more apparently fastidious of other men's honour than the man who is not
scrupulous about his own ; and , as a great moralist has said , " The depraved invariably select the vices of others for comment and reprobation , as a cloak to cover their own iniquities . " We c ' ose our observation for the present with the following lament from the poor Chronicle of this ( Thursday ) morning , thus proving to demonstration that we consider the vituperation of the Press as one of the most powerful auxiliaries of the Land Plan ;—
The Committee on the Land Company Scheme has made its report , and ampl y confirms all that we have stated regarding it . The mere illegality of the scheme was a question to which we neyer devoted any but the most cursory notice . Its deceptive character as a scheme for the good of the " toiling millions , " when , in fact , only a very small fraction of those toiling millions could gain even the chance of a benefit from it , was the subject of our complaint . That character is now , though in tho geatlest periphrasis , fixed upon it by thecommitteCi The Ilepert declares it not merely to be an illegal scheme , but likewise one " that will not fulfil the expectations held out by the directors to the shareholders . " It is needless to quarrel about tarmg . We are told in " Kenllworth" that Elizabeth conveyed her commands to Sussex in the form of au entreaty , and her entreaty to Leicester under tho gui 6 e of a command . The softened phrase of tha committee announces to all men of business , as plainly as one
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less measui-uA might have done , that the scheme is a total failure Any "nercantila company would unhesitatingly sn acknowledge It . Whether Mr O'Connor iB a debtor or a . creditor to tho Company on the money aecounts ( the committee declares that the irrregularity in them has hB . n aeainst his interest , instead of in his favour ) , in a matter of small importance , though upon that point Sir BeniaminHalluoeBnotBoemin exact accordance with the rest of the committee . The fact stands ndmitted that the Company is a failure , and all that the committee can sav in its favour is , that considering the bona fides with which it has been carried on , nud the groat nutnbo . r or oersons interested In it , power might be granted them to wind up the undertaking , and to relieve the parties conppmnd frem penalties . If any doubtcould by possibility . _! ,. \ , n ,. n Annn f h < i t " . t \\ i \ cp . hp . mfi W ! l totM
be entertninod on tho ( ubject of the utter failure of this undertaking , this recommendation must satisfy the most sceptical . But it still remains to be asked , why the com . mitteehas left the unsecured allottees wholly unnoticed t They have stood the chance of the gambling—they have won tli ey are In posmuiob , but their possession is at this ' moment - nly that of tenants-at-will , if not of actual trespassers . Mr Chinnery asserts , and Mr O'Connor admits , that he has never given them u conveyance , while he docs not affect to deny that he could do so ; and the legal evidence fihowft that , without such conveyance , th » y could be ejected at onco by the heirs or personal re . preBeritatlves of the person in whoBe name the whole land has been purchased . As the mutter stands at present , all the propositions we originally started with are made out . The scheme is not a scheme for the benefit of the of the mil
all the subscribers-for advantage toiling - lions-but is a gigantic lottery , with a scale most unfavourableto the gambler . In this lottery , the holders of the prizes are wholly unsecured , and the scheme will not fulfil the expectations hold out by the directors to the shareholders . What is such a scheme but a bubble ? Assuraitig every thing which the committee has assumed in favour of Mr O'Connor , the fact that ho has been the author of a monster bluuder still remains . The mis chievousness of that blunder , the blind faith so readily yielded to tho assortions of its author , as to the good he can effect for the labouring claaees , the evils likely to follow therefrom , and the necessity of protecting the poor and icaorant man against a ruinous credulity , justify all that we have said on this suhject , and may compel us to resume the consideration of those parts of it on which the Report is lamentably defective .
We shall make a very short comment upon the foregoing rubbish , and we shall begin backwards . The monstrous juggle that WAS , IS now but a monstrous blunder ; but , no doubt , the hero of the quill would rather be convicted of a jugg le than of a blunder , as , with him , prostitution is a virtue and a qualification , honour is a disparagement and a disqualification . The commentator either forgets or ia ignorant of the fact , that Mr O'Connor ' s title would rather be strengthened than weakened by making conveyances to the present oce « - panta ; and the philosopher does not appear to understand , that if those conveyances were executed the rents would be payable to Mr
O'Connor , and that the rents , in case of his death , might be recovered by his heir-at lawthat is , if Mr O'Connor had not made his will , as stated by that gentleman , and Jeft the whole of the property to trustees , for the benefit of the members . But , why throw pearls before swine ? Wh y stoop to reason with a senseless blockhead , or , rather , with the worn-out machinery of a worn-out engine , that could not even go the slow , jog-trot Whigpace , and was obliged to limp on Tory crutches in the hope of keeping the engineer ' s staff above water ? No wonder this cameleon should approve and praise the conduct of the PUMP , as the weak wash that comes from both is of
equal strength and has e < ju ? l influence . However , when Gruntiele is ready for the fray we promise to meet him , and beat him , too , upon his own ground ; but what we have to request is , that he will not take his style , his language , or his facts , from the Marylebone baronet . Perhaps there is no paper in the universe that has evinced so much profligacy , so little talent , or more disregard for truth , than the poor old " Chronicle . "
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O'Higgins has no doubt had a pretty extensive correspondence with English friends and acquaintances holding Chartist principles ; but anything like treasonable correspondence we believe to be a bag of moonshine . Our sentiments respecting the destruction of the Nation and Irish Felon may be better conceived than we can describe them . The unnecessary and canton waste of property , and the arrest of the pressmen and composi-A' Ufifi-iiMn .-. U . m % i /\ r !* ilinfM ! m ! 1 l » PMffru avt 0 ! l _
tors , are such Algenne acts as no circumstances can justify . The pitiful persecution waged against the poor newsvendors arrested for selling the Nation and Felon , is equally disreputable to the Irish Government . The poor news-hawkers are to be made defendants in a great state trial for selling newspapers which the Stamp-office authorities had previously legalised by impressing the sheets with their stump . - ' !
The tyrannical invasion of the office of the North British Express was one of the grossest acts of oppression ever perpetrated in this country . Not contented with arresting persons employed on that paper , the authorities of Edinburgh broke into the Express office , and took away books , correspondence , &c , together with a considerable portion of copy prepared for the next number of that paper ; subsequently the property was restored , but the Express had to appear with several columns ill blank . It appears that the principal articled in that journal were subjected to the revision of the Procurator Fiscal , before publication . What next ? Here is the censorship established without law , and in defiance of constitutional rights .
The arrests continue . Besides the Chartists arrested last week in Edinburgh , Glasgow , and Greenock , Mr Grant , of Edinburgh , was arrested on Monday last ; and we see it stated in a Scotch paper , that a Mr Hamilton , another Scotch Chartist , was arrested on Monday evening . These arrests , and the practical establishment of the Censorship , have excited a great ferment in the Scottish capital , and on Manday evening last an immense meeting was holden on the Calton Hill , to protpst against these wanton fresks of irresponsible power .
Two more London Chartists have been , -irrested . Messrs Bryson and Shell , working men , were arrested on Wednesday evening by a body of police armed with cutlasses , and on Thursday were committed for trial on the usual charge of sedition , preferred against them by Bond Hughes , the Government reporter . Privilege is rampant , Labour is prostrated in the dust , " Right" and " Justice" have become mockeries—mere words . " bane grind tbe poor , and rion men rule the laws , "
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NOTICE . —All moniai for the defence of ]> r M'Dcraal . ' , must be sent to Mr Aitken , schoolmaster , Ashtonunder Lyne ; and no money for other purpose ? , except tho Defence Fund , must be tent to the Star . ^ - W . Rider . Am h . vctisnM » N calls attention to the Times of tbe 26 tfc ult ., in which he says it is stated , 'that every Englishman has an Irish family upon his back : ' and the Tihks wr . ter ' hopes that the Irish will be slain if they make any attempt to rise in England . ' Our correspondent Bhrewdly asks , ' Who put the Irish families upon the backs of Englishmen ?' A Coli . iek suggORts to tho Executive tho advantages to be derived by liiving lectures given at the collieries ct
Lrghill , Cramlinijton , Seatou Delavel , and placus adjucenf , and thinks that open-air meetings on Sundavs would be the most preferable . IVM . GllllUllI ) . IpBWfch . —The attent ' on of our readers hus frequently been directed to Air Silktt ' sfarm , and in the presont exciting' time 6 we aro sorry we h ^ e no room for our correspondent ' s letter . John Poarey , A Member of the Orange Society Johr Briglmm ( Hull ) , H . P . Edwards ( Cornwall Id Fre " derlek Ball -Mud , obliged but we have no room J . MiUKR .-ln the present exciting times we have not room for half our correspondence ; we can only self rt tVe best for publication . J A - » the fi « t q «« Hon-Yes . To the secc «
Jamk 6 Wilton . —Declined . George TB » oTsoN . -we hare do room for law cases at > actui 5 individuals , T . It .. Ardwick , must pay for his co-nmunication as ai : advertisement . J . W S .-2 « 8 < landr 8 6 u . We cannot state tins price ot books reviewed , as it would subject : La reviews tu a charge tor advertisements . Mr 1 ' aul , Uusby . —The letter and its cnclo .-ure has no : ranched this office . If you gave the address you mention , ' Hi , High Uolborn Street , it would bo almost impossible to net into our hands . M . Seosavk . —Declined . W . A . —No room . The Vicruis . —To tho Editor of the Nobtheb . v Stab .-Sir , — A statement is insertud in your paper i- ' lust wp ek , respecting tl ; o public meeting in Miltonstreet , on July the 2 « th . for the beuctit of the wives i i
the victims , that the sum cleared whs six pounds I beg to say that the money taken was , £ 6 On 1 ( jd ; theeipensei attending the meeting lowered that sum to £ i 13 s 4 Ji 1 , which now remains for tho families . I remain , Sir , with respect , T . Bsovvn , secretary , 61 , John-atrest , Smlthfield . J . H . R ., suggests to the Executive the propriety of aj > - pointingcollec'orsin each district , tir the purposed rcceiviHg weekly contributions to any fund that circumstances may require ; and as a stimulant , he proposes that each colloctor shall receive one quarki 1 i > ti' euit ot the money collected—tho books to bj . ir the signature of F . O'Connor , Esq ., or some official person . ' He alsc agrees with the Liverpool Land members , and would be glud to pay up another share on his thro ; shurcs already paid . Tat ADDBKS 3 of the Central Defc . ice Committee Windsor Castle , Holborn , will be inserted next week . M . J . A . Hooo , Hawlek . —The letter of Mr Jones may t > e obtained at this office , if any London publidhernpf'li ' lor it . Mr Bray ' s Book vn ¦ Laboar ' e Wronirs anil la-
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REBELLION AND PERSECUTION . We congratulate our readers—the British empire is safe ! List ! oh , list ! to the Liverpool Times : — 11 The British empire has now passed through the double ordeal of Chartist and Irish , discontent , and has come out of both even more triumphantly than its warmest admirers could have expected . " There was great reason to fear that ; he instigations of the O'Connors and Hajrneys , on this side of the Channel , and those of the O'Briens and Aleaghers on the other , would have led to serious disturbances . Happily that has not been tho cage in either country . "
It seems that the warmest admirers of our glorious institutions have been in a bit of a pucker , from which they are now happily relieved . The designs of the gentlemen abovenamed on this side of the water against the British empire are the pure inventions of the Liverpool editor ' s fertile imagination . Their one aim has been to strengthen and glorify the British empire , by rendering- its institutions the safeguard of all classes . If Messrs O'Brien and Meagher have menaced the British empire they have been enabled to do so , because there was " something rotten in the state of Denmark . "
A large portion of this day s paper is oecu . pied with accounts of the unhappy state of things in Ireland . It will be seen that one collision has taken p lace—there are rumours of more than one—in which blood has flowed . The accounts of the destruction of human life have greatly varied ; some stating that seven were killed ; others ten , eighteen , and twenty ; and the latest accounts we have seen fixes the number at three . Again , the insurgents have been variously estimated at from two , three , or four thousand , down to one or two hundreds . It has been stated that Mr Dillon was wounded —some said killed . It hts also been asserted
that Mr O'Brien was wounded , and that in some skirmish at some other place Mr O'Gorman was shot . We have good reason for believing there is no truth in these statements . The stories told of the disguises , flights , and concealments of the several leaders , are , no doubt , equally unfounded . The reporters and correspondents seem to have more than ordinarily taxed their powers of mendacity in describing the movements of Mr Smith O'Brien . Sometimes they represent him with only fifty followers—anon he appears at the head of five
hundred—again , utterly discomfited , his adherents are reduced to two-presently he appears at the head of two thousand pikemen . He is represented to be riding North , South , East , and West—concealed in a priest ' s househiding in a coal-pit—sleeping in a field—and on board ship on his way to America—all at fhe same time . From this our readers may infer that , at present , so far at least as Irish affairs are concerned , lying is the order of the day , and that the reports of the daily journals are not to be depended on .
The correspondents and editors of the London Papers are indulging in songs of triumph over the suppression of the rebellion , and language almost fails them in their efforts to pour contempt and scorn upon Smith O'Brien . If , indeed , he is the coward or the madman , or the fallen leader abandoned by the whole of his followers , " they represent , how is it he has not yet been arrested ? Without forces or friends , how is it that 45 , 000 troops and police , stimulated too by the promised reward of 500 Lhave not yet captured their prize . '
We warn our best possible instructors not to halloo before they are out of the wood : we should be most happy to hear of the establishment of peace in Ireland , but we strongly doubt that tranquillity is so near being restored as the Times and other papers would fain make the English public believe . Some of the papers already speak of the rising inTipperary as the " late rebellion ; '' and a flippant writer in one of the morning papers , tries his hand at a history of the insurrection , affecting to regard it as being already a thing of the past ; but we agree with the Morning Chronicle , that the present state of Ireland ¦ ' can be regarded with no other feelings than those of the deepest anxiety and alarm . ' '
The arrest of Mr O ' Higgins , reported in our third edition of last week , appears to us to be a most unwarrantable stretch of power . We say this , because we are persuaded that the charge of treason or felony brought against Mr O'Higgins is a fabrication , manufactured for the purpose of putting him out of the way . v \ e are informed that the gun stocks found on Mr O ' Higgins ' s premises were purchased by him as a mercantile speculation , a year or two ago . As to the treasonable correspondence with the English Chartists , that is all bosh . In the course of the laet ten years Mr
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Report of the Select Committee on the National Land Company was presented this week , and gave rise to an interesting conversation in the House , which we have given in full . This is not the place in which to indulge in any commentary on that Report , or to discuss the various questions connected with the past proceedings , or the future course which should be adopted by the promoters of the Company . One fact only , in connexion withthe presentation of the Report , we notice . It silences , once and for everj all the
calumniators who have attacked the honesty and the motives of Mr O'Connor , in a series of slanderous and virulent attacks , unparalleled in this country , either for the length of time over which they have extended , or the audacity and violence of the assailants . Of course these veracious scribes will , with their usual ingenuity and disregard of truth , invent excuses , and concoct articles in plenty , to cover their ignominious defeat , and continue to bespatter the honourable member for Nottingham with abuse , all the more bitterl y because he has so signally defeated their attempts to assassinate
his character . But rave and calumniate as they may , they cannot overturn the fact , that after a careful , minute , and protracted inquiry into the whole proceedings and accounts of the Company—an investigation conducted with an offensive and indecent hostile feeling on the part of the Chairman , and at least one member of the committee , the honesty and the motives of Mr O ' Connor have passed through the ordeal not only unscathed , but in a manner which reflects the highest honour upon his disinterested sacrifices for the benefit of others , in time , energy , and money . So far from having in any degree benefited by his connexion with the Land Company , it is now on
record , solemnly published to the world , on the honour of a committee of an Assembly which has been proclaimed to consist of the "first gentlemen in the world , " that his private interests have suffered from that connexion ; and that , independent of the devotion of his time and his monev , to a large extent , in travelling to inspect and purchase Estates , and in su perintending the practical operations on these Estates , the Company owes him a sum , calculated by one eminent accountant , at nearly 3 , 300 / ., and b y another , who is still more eminent—the celebrated Mr Finlayson—at 3 , 400 ? . Mr O'Connor may justly be proud of the jury by which he has been tried and the position in which he is placed by the verdict . '
But , besides this triumphant result , as regards the personal character of Mr O'Connor , the Company itself has also reason to rejoice that the inquiry has taken place . It lias placed the good faith of all the parties concerned in it beyond doubt . Although there may have been unavoidable irregularities in the keeping of the books , and in other small details—although the Plan neither falls within the strict scope , ' of the existing law , nor , perhaps , is , in all its facts , the best that could be devised for carrying out the objects of its projectors , yet there is not the slightest imputation on the motives or conduct of
any one connected with these proceedings ; and Parliament is not only recommend ed to grant powers to wind up the undertaking , if they shall be asked for , and to relieve the Company from the penalties which they may have ' * incautiously" incurred , but also that the parties should be left entirel y open to come before the legislature with any new plan which they may consider better adapted to secure the object in view .
This is the result of the investigation which , it was hoped , would irretrievably destroy the character , reputation , and influence of Mr O'Connor . We wish his opponents joy of it , and leave them to their own reflections . Their own disappointed rancour , and the " still small voice" of any conscience they may happen to have left , are quite as severe punishments as we could wish them to suffer .
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Among the measures proposed , and withdrawn on account of the opposition offered * and the hopelessness of their passing in con . se . quence , have been Mr Bailer ' s batch of POO r Law Bills . He contents himself with merel v re-enacting the provisions of Mr Bodki v Act , respecting the removal of the poor which expires in October , and a change in the management of vagrants . Broader and more comprehensive legislation is reserved for " next Session *'—that legislative " to-morrow" which so seldom makes its appearance .
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A debate on the State of Ireland , on a motion of Mr Sharman Crawford , pledging the House to remedial measures , elicited from the Premier a long exposition of his Iy ^ policy—a smart , effective , and dumavinospeech to ] the Ministry from Mr B . Osborne- ^ . and caused a day ' s sitting on Saturday to dispose of the adjourned debate . The House sat from twelve to seven o ' clock on that day . The usual topics were served up . Sip ( j ) Grey and Sir W . Somerville—as usual with Whig officials—eat their own words , and turned their backs upon themselves , and , ultimately , a division took place , in which Ireland , of course , was left in a woful minority .
The everlasting Sugar Duties formed the staple of the business on Monday night when the Chancellor vf the Exchequer in order to get rid of the difficulty in which he was placed by the " twenty-three errors' " pointed out by Lord G . Bentinck , proposed a new scale altogether , the result of which , it was stated by the advocates of the West Indian interest , will be to violate all the promises of relief held out by the Government to that interest . Lord George ironically congratulated the Minister of Finance on " tt \ 9 debonnaire air with which he came down to
that House and announced that he was about to disappoint the expectations of the "Wes t Indies , the Mauritius , and the East India interest , which he promised them no longer ago than Monday last" —and , above all , " it was edifying to observe the light and trivial way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer , whilst affecting to speak of what he called an inaccuracy , had . in fact , made an admission of guilty ' to all the twenty-threecounts of the indictment of error , preferred b y Lord George . We do not wonder at the quasi leader of the Protectionists expressing his wonder at the nonchalance of Sir C . Wood
on these matters . Experienced as he is in Ci the ways of the world , " it must even , in his eyes , " beat Bannagher . " Sir Charles is not only unabashed by these damaging exposures , but seems to think the whole thing—if not an excellent joke—at least as most creditable to his financial genius ! What a blessed thing it is to be brother-in-law to a powerful Whig Earl ! As to those who suffer from his incapacity , his ignorance , and his temeritywhy their ruin , or the paralysation of a large and important commercial market , is a mere bagatelle compared with the national felicity of possessing such an incomparable financial chief .
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An attempt was made by Lord Stanley , Lord Ellenborough , Lord GlengalL and a few sympathising peers , to delay the passing of the emasculated Irish Encumbered Estates Bill , on the ground that they had not time enough to consider theamendments made bytheCommons . Delay was , in fact , defe ; it , and " for once Lord Lansdowne plucked up spirit enough to resist
a landlord opposition , and refused to give way ,. notwithstanding Lord Glengallthreatened hi ' tn that if the Bill passed , the landlords would all become Repalers . The loyalty of the landed " interest is certainly of a very selfish and calculating character . We fear that if they were subject to one . hundredth part of the pr-Gs . -mt-ft which other men endure patiently , ' ' rebelliousrouts and riots" would be much more plentiful than they are now .
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A Bill with a useful object in view is passingthrough the House , called the « Farmers Estates Bill . " In its main object it somewhat resembles the National Land Company , with this difference , that it does not aim at embracing so large a class of persons , and that the Company whose operations it will legalise , have a prudent eye to profit in their proposals to benefit their fellow men . Perhaps this latter part of the scheme may be one main reason why its other objects may be tolerated The object of the promoters k to enable ihem , as a Land Company , to purchase freehold
properties in Ireland , in order to sell them again in fee-farms of not l ess than thirty acres each , to small agricultural capitalists . " It is calculated that the difference in price by buj ing Estates in the wholesale market , and selling them in the retail market , will yield sufficient profit on the capital embarked iii the undertaking ; thus substantially taking up the position so frequently maintained by Mr O'Connor on that point . The measure wili , undoubtedly , offer considerable facilities for the creation of a small v ^ oman class ; but we
see no reason whatever for the Legislature to fix the minimum size of the farms at thirty acres . It is tying up posterity to our comparatively crude notions on agriculture , and , unless carefullyjguarded against , may lead to wholesale evictions of the present occupants of the Estates purchased by the Company . If this be not prevented , the Bill , so far from improving the condition may seriously aggravate the evils of Ireland , and deprive thousands of tenants of homes , for the gain of a spe dilative company of profit-mongers .
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The other business of Parliament has been of an exceedingly varied and miscellaneous character , as usuall y happens at this period ot the Session , when bills pass through stages in shoals of which
, every one would , at an earlier period , give rise to hours of discussion . But the material for comment is not greatly augmented by this increase in the quantity of legislative workmanshi p . In fact , there is little novelty in anything now done . The principle and bearings « f each question of importance have been debated in Parliament , and criticised by the publicist , at earlier stages ef the bession . They are thoroughly understoodmany of them worn utterly threadbare : and the onl is how
y question to dispose of them for the nonce . Shall they be pitched into that limbo from whence they may or may not be picked up— " next Session ? " or shall they be pushed through with a crowd of other " mea . sures , with all " their imperfections on their head , " to constitute the seed for another plentiful harvest of " Acts to amend and explain acts passed in last Session ? " We imagine that the determination of the Ministry on these matters , is mainly guided by the degree of probability there ( . is of getting them quietly
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1482/page/4/
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