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TE EKORTHEEN STAR SATURDAY, FJEBKUARY 10,1849.
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Just iiublislicd, Xo. 1, Trice Skpesce, THE COIIOHWEALTH:
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ZCTS vvfl r ^^^ EICHABD C 0 BDES ' /^ PUBLIC * MEETING wffl be held in A rte LITERARY INSTITUTION , John-street , FitzroyiuareTon the Ewndjq of Tuesday , the 13 th inst ., to con . rfder the above subject Messrs . Julian IIabnev , P . M ' Gbath , W . Ddcon , T . Clakk , E , Siailwood , and S . Ktdd , will take part in the discussion . Chair to be taken at half-past Seven o ' clock . Admission to the Body of the Hall , Id . ; Gallery , 2 d . K . B . —Free Discussion , All parties invited to attend .
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OTANDARD THEATRE . —All persona •^ holding Tickets or Cash on account of the late Benefit held at the above house , on the 7 th inst ., are requested to settle the same on or before Thursday evening , the 15 th inst The Secretary , pro tern ., will be in attendance at the Committee-room , 144 , High Holborn , to wind up the affair , ou the evening of the 15 th inst , from eight till ten . E . Siailwood , Secretary pro Um .
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SOUTH LOIfDON CHARTIST HALL , Corner of Webber-street , Blackfriars-road . t ^ OUR ORATIONS w ill be delivered at - »• the abore-named HaH hi aid of the Fund lor the support of TnE WIVES AND FAMHJES OP THE CHARTIST VICTIMS . wAi ^ &xvjkujj . ¦ * v **< imi
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S . Satoders has received 2 s . 64 , for the Victim Fund , from "William Swalley and others , and requests the Chardsta in his neighbourhood to come forward to support the victims of oppression . John Vincent . —We have no room for reports of Emigration Societies . Femace CftiKTBis , Manchester . —We have no room for your address . SoMEBSETsniBE . —We repeat , we cannot answer questions respecting Emigration Societies . People must inquire and judge for themselves . Anthony . Haigh , Havrick . —No room . To Corbespondents . —We hare received several communications from the sub-secretaries of the Land Company , calling up » n the members to pay their local and general levies ; the addresses of Land and Chartist sub-secretaries to whom communications are to be addressed—and announcements of meetings : Tve cannot insert such notices unless they are paid for as advertisements . J . IL Ckook—Received . Mr . F . Cacis , Charterrille . —The charge is 4 s . Gd .
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IRELAND AND THE ENGLISH . During the long and complicated struggles which have taken place hetween the English and the Irish people , from the time that Daniel O'Connell measured his value to a Whig Government , by the standard of that ungenerous dissension created between the English and the Irish democracy , and upon which Whig strength depended , we have throughout discriminated between the English people and the English oligarchy . We have shown—and not without effect—that the labouring classes of England are as much oppressed by that oligarchy , as the labouring classes of Ireland
are . However , the question of national dissatisfaction , arising out of class-legislation and unequal representation , is one which requires deep thought before the needed correction can be applied ; and being a subject novel to the people of both countries , it required long and continuous training to bring the mind steadily to bear upon the monster evil . We were always prepared to go with any party whose mere professions -were calculated to confer the slightest benefit upon the labouring classes ; determined , nevertheless , to use any slight advantage for the furtherance of the cause of Democracy .
We opposed the Free Traders in their agitation , so long as it was confined to a mere reduction in the price of bread ; while the fact remains upon record , that at every Free Trade meeting attended by Chartists , at which an amendment was proposed , that amendment in no case repudiated the principle of Free Trade , but merely , proclaimed the necessity of extending it beyond the mere question of bread ; and , as soon as the Free Trade party directed their attention to the further question of the extension of the Suffrage , though not reaching the popular standard , we gave them our support , still adhering firmly and consistently to the WHOLE ANIMAL .
Again , when Mr . Cobdeit proposed his Financial Budget , in it we saw the gleam of Chartism , through diminished patronage occasioning Whig destruction . And now , in the first "week of this important session , when nothing is proposed for the improvement of the condition of the English , and the Irish are once more compelled to bear their sufferings without a murmur , and to die without complaint ; we now—havingfrequently forewarned the oligarchy and great gentlemen of England—tell that party that their support of the poHcy of a Ministry to whose principles they
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— . ' ¦' are repugnant , but of whom , nevertheless ; they are the most active coadjutors when the rights of the people ' are to be invaded—we tell that party , that our battle now shall be BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE ARISTOCRACY . We have stood up for the rights of that aristocracy , so far as the just exercise of those rights might confer a benefit upon the people . Wedidhopethat they would bid , underchanged circumstances , for popular favour and support , while we find them , at the commencement of the Session , not only the subservient tools , buttheinciters of the Whig Government to acts of tyranny and oppression . They do not require to hear any argument , for or
against the most tyrannical propositions of Government : their mind , trained from infancy in the school of old Tory principles , cannot be warped from the support of those principles , except by the pressure from without ; and the very fact of Mr . Disraeli , and others of that school , repudiating the right of the people to influence the decisions of that House , of itself proves that they are incompetent to legislate in accordance with the requirements of this age of progress ; while then * adherence to the old system of corruption , constitutes the chief power of the Whig Ministry . So that the necessity of placing all parties in the House of Commons in their own distinctive positions , must at once strike the mind of every thinking
man . _ The Whigs in office repudiate Whig principles , and merely hold power by the connivance of the Protectionist party , who , conscious of their own inability to regain their former position , are urged on to acts , which must ultimately produce a most calamitous conflict , by mere hatred of Sir Robert Peel and his party . Since the return of the Whigs to office , we have called the attention of our readers to the fact , that the country , until awakened from its lethargy , would be governed upon the maxim of hatred to Peel . We have shown that the
character of Whig . and Tory has now merged into "IN" and "OUT . " Tories in , and Tories out trying to got in . And not only does this anomalous coalition apply to those parties in . . Parliament , but it equally applies to those out of Parliament , as is most characteristically illustrated by the fact of Mr . Bainesthe New Poor Law official—at his recent election for Hull , being proposed by a
Conservative , and seconded hy a Liberal . Perhaps , our readers ask , how this anomalous coalition of parties in the House can be successfully destroyed ; and with the fear of the Gagging Bill before our eyes , it may be difficult to answer this proposition , were it not for that divine veneration entertained for precedent , and that constitutional maxim recommended by a Whig representative of monarchy in Ireland . That Viceroy said , —
"AGITATE ! AGITATE ! AGITATE !" and now that the law , the Constitution , and all authority , has merged in viceregal perception and omnipotence ; in the loyal words of the loyal representative of the constitutional monarch of England , who repudiated the title of divine right , and preferred to base his title upon the blood of Englishmen , we say , in conformity with the recommendation of the representive of that monarch— " Agitate ! agitate !! agitate ! !!"
England—notwithstanding the Whig snares set in every political path and track—has still preserved her right to free discussion ; and as Mr . Canning proposed the English stage as the fit arena for the adjustment of Irish disputes , we call upon the Irish members and the Irish people resident in England , to transfer Irish agitation from the Viceroy ' s sea-bound dungeon to the open field of English discussion , and we pledge ourselves that the much-reviled English Chartists Anil throw no impediment in the way of such a movement .
The Chartists , though schooled m adversity , still adhere sternly and steadfastly to their principles ; their folly of to-day will be the accepted policy of all upon the morrow ; and the Irish agitators , pursuing such a course , will not hear so much of physical force as they did when the advocacy of tho principle was necessary to secure patronage for the propounder ; while , upon the other hand , they will find it . difficult to play fast and loose with English opinion and English resolution . We have ever contended that the Repeal of the Union , unaccompanied by the principles of tho
Charter , would be a curse rather than a blessing to Ireland ; while the present state of Irish representation in the House of Commons , convinces us that there is no hope for that country , except in the pressure from , without . Can any Irishman reflect without horror upon the fresh onslaught made upon the liberties of Ireland ? and can any fact be more conclusive of the weakness , the tyranny , and incompetency of the present Ministers to govern that country , than the proclaimed necessity of damming up the only source through which the required information to correct national grievances could be communicated ?
And can any man doubt , after the weak and impotent speech of Sir GrEORGE CrBET , so graphically described and pungently satirised by Mr . O'Connor , that , as regards Ireland , the policy of the English Minister is to tickle the tyrannical feeh ' ngs of his Tory supporters ? If it is not legitimate or natural , it is politic , for those out of office to acquiesce in measures which one day , in office , they themselves may be compelled to apply for , and how cheering to their feelings that , when that day arrives , they can flash the measures and the speeches of Lord John Russell and his colleagues in the face of opposing Whigs—but how ready the answer .
[ " Yes , sir , " sayg the noble lord , " I admit all that the right lion , gentleman says , but then I contend for it , that circumstances were different in the two cases . As regards our policy , we urged—and , I must say , with a full concurrence of the House—those exciting circumstances passing around us in Europe , as a justification for a resort to a temporary Suspension of the Constitution , as the means of preserving domestic tranquillity , and , thereby , proving to turbulent nations aud disaffected agitators the power , tho strength , and efficacy of English law , as a substitute for brute force . " ] Such , no doubt , would be the response of the noble lord , but yet the answer would bo ready : —
" These convulsions and this turbulence only existed in the mind of the Queen ' s Vicekoy , and the electric spark from his haunted imagination communicated portentous forebodings and revelations to the susceptible mind of the English Minister . " Why , Lord Bukxeigh ' s nod was insignificant and equivocal , compared to this optical illusion , operating upon the mental facult y of Lord Clarendon . Butenough , Englishmen , in Ireland , you who have been hanishedfromtheland of your birthby English oligarchical oppression and misrule , and not by popular tyranny and indifference ; rouse yourselves—throw off your apathy in the words of Mr . CAMiNG—mako England , the free stage of England , contracted by
THE SIDE WINGS of Whiggery—makethi * England—the reviled of your great leaderthe stage of Irish agitation ; the reviled English people will not be an unwilling or a cheerless audience ; keep within the narrowed limits of Whig law , or rather caprice , until the confluence of Engluh and Irish minds shall create that flood of knowledge which will break down all the dams and barriers of bigotry , intolerance , and ignorance ; and establish for that seabound dungeon—where nought is now heard but weeping , and wailing , and gnashing of teeth—a Constitution whose principles no tyrant will dare to invade ; a , Constitution , in defence of which all Irishmen would cheerfull y offer their lives * s a sacrifice .
Irishmen ! your rights are not destroyed , but invaded . Englishmen ! the blow at Ireland is aimed at you . Irishmen and Englishmen ! you have one common interest— " United , you stand ; divided , you fall . " Cast aside every national prejudice , no matter whether you he
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Catholic or Protestant ; enter tho list in Freedom's cause , and bear in mind , that " Freedom ' s battle once begun , Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled oft is ever won . " Up , then ! English and Irish , and let your battle-cry be— "The erection of Freedom ' s monument upon Tyranny ' s ruin !"
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Ministers had a narrow escape in the House of Lords , in the debate on the Address . Their whole policy—foreign , domestic , and colonial , —was assailed by Lord Stanley ; and his amendment was only lost by two votes . This is a significant intimation of the estimation in which they are held by one branch of the Legislature . In the Commons , Mr . Disraeli proposed a similar amendment , but after two adjournments withdrew it , without going to a division , Attacking , as he did , the Free Traders and Financial Reformers , as well as the mere Whigs , he would have had Peelites ,
Cobdenites , and Treasury hacks , all against him ; and , therefore , exorcised a wise discretion in not pressing his amendment to a vote . With few exceptions , however , the speeches in both Houses were neither worth hearing , nor reading . Not that there were no able ones among them , but because the subjects debated were altogether irrelevant to those questions in which the people feel . the deepest interest , and by which they are most nearly affected . For instance ; in the Lords , a very great portion of the debate turned upon Lord Minio ' s intervention between the Iung of Naples and
the people of Sicily ; and the same subject constituted a very large portion of the discussion in the Commons . Now , no doubt , it is quite right that the foreign policy pursued by a Government should bo duly criticised , but we submit , that its home policy should occupy the primary position , and challenge the closest scrutiny . Not so , thought our legislators , in both Houses . Great Britain sunk into insignificance beside Naples , Sicily , Brazil , &c , &c . ; and our own vast and wide-extended Colonies were not deemed worthy even of an allusion in the Royal Speeoh .
Of course this omission was intentional . The Whigs had the selection of their own topics , and they were scarcely likely to choose one in which their administrative incapacity has been more injuriously , and more flagrantly exhibited than in almost any other department of the Government . EarlGREY , as head of the Colonial-office , has , like a true Whig , acted in the teeth of every principle he laid down on Colonial policy when he was Lord
Ho wick , and bidding for office . He has crammed tho Colonies with his relations and dependents , whoso incapacity and ignorance the colonists have to pay dearly for , not only in positive salaries , but the mischief inflicted thereby , and , as far as any chance of the establishment of constitutional and representa « tivc government in the Colonies is concerned , they have much less now than when the management of affairs was in the hands of the Tories .
Mi . Grattan moved an amendment with reference to that part of the Address which threatened a continuance of the deprivation of Constitutional Rights in Ireland ; but of course that was speedily disposed of . About a dozen members only could be found to sympathise with the political rights of Irishmen , and tho question was settled the first night . The present Parliament has quite acquired the knack of dealing arbitrarily with Ireland , and seem to like it . There was au evident gusto in the manner in which they proceeded , on Tuesday evening ,
formally to re-enact the tyrannical Bill of last session , for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act . One would have thought that prostrated as Ireland now is—with its lands lying waste—its landlords impoverished—its tenant farmers cither fled to America , or in the workhouse—and its peasantry stricken by disease aud famine—there could have been small need for coercive and repressive measures . But the Whigs know that we hold Ireland by force alone . Our occupation of that country
is a military one , and the slightest withdrawal of that power by which the natural feeling of the people is suppressed—and all but stifled , would be immediately followed by an insurrectionary explosion . Such are the melancholy results of centuries of English rule in Ireland . The Lord-Lieutenant himself , in that letter which forms the basis of this renewed Suspension of the Constitution , gives what we have no doubt is a faithful description of the popular feeling in that country : —
On the part of those engaged in the late treasonable movement no indication whatever of sorrow or repentance for their misdeeds lias been observed . Their regret is confined to their failure , and their hopes iire directed to a more favourable issue on the first opportunity ; nor does the orderly conduct of the people proceed from any improved feeling as regards the law or the executive government . A pleasant prospect , truly , to look forward to , is the future government of Ireland ! But repressive and arbitrary measures cannot last always . They are , to say the least of them , extremely expensive , as well as unsatisfactory in their operation . It is no slight
matter to think of a large army , and an expensive staff" of civil officers and constabulary , being maintained for the purpose of making a whole islaud into a desolate waste—of driving its landlords to beggary—its farmers to emigrate to other lands with their capital— -and its peasants to death in workhouses or fever-hospitals . Yet , that is practically the result of our policy . The paltry loan of fifty thousand pounds , proposed on Wednesday for the socalled relief of Irish distress , ia simply
ridiculous in such circumstances . Lord John refused to promise that more would not be asked for , and so we may make up our minds that more will ho asked for ; but is it not time that a stop should be put to this horrible system of plunder and injustice by which the Whigs first create wide-spread destitution and discontent , and then call at ^ once for money to maintain a large organised force for repressive purposes , and to feed in hopeless pauperism the people , who are compelled to become idle burdens upon this country ?
The real truth is , that Ireland is completely under the government of oue of the most pestiferous and mischievous sects that ever cursed any country or age by their doctrines and their practices . The Political Economists destroy whatever they touch . -They are unchecked and uncontrolled in Ireland , and wo see the consequences . In England , as far as they have succeeded in getting the working classes , or any portion of our industrial system under their power , they have produced similar results . Destitution , pauperism , discontent and crime follow surely on their track . They
inflict misery and wretchedness more widely , and quite as deep as the conqueror , who marks his way by flame and devastation—though by different means ; and unless the wise and good of all parties unite in resisting them , they will , in a few years , reduce this country to the same condition as they have unfortunate Ireland . It is owing to the influence of the doctrines of this sect , that such self-evident and practical propositions as Mr . Scrope ' s , for the employment of the people in reproductive labour , are rejected , almost contemptuously , by the Legislature . What can be more demonstrable than
that the labour of the able-bodied Irish , applied to the now uncultivated lands by means of a loan upon the securit y of tho produce of their toil , would supply the means of at once sustaining the people in honest industry in future , and repay the capital originally advanced ? But because this would violate some of the absurd and false canons of the so-called "Science" of Political Economy , we are doomed to see millions wasted annuall y in producing povert y , desolation , and despair , in a country whose natural resources are admitted to be Jhe most abundant of any country in Europe , of equal surface extent ,
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rniinco ted with tho subject of Ireland , which if is Dlain inll occupy a large portion of the . IJZ niftir n otice the appointment of a ss ^ ^ a « cannot tell what there is to inquire ^ J ™ evils and the abuses of the la * ti ? ™ f [ f ^ all who have paid the slig htest attenti on to tlio subject . In the reports of their own flttcerj and in the communications from other parties , Ministers have all the materials for an immediate and definite measure . All that will be done by the appointment of a Committee , will be to cause the examination , at a great expense , of a number of persons , whose evidence
will be printed about the end of the session , in a Blue book , accompanied by a vague Report , neither of which will be read by anybody ; and there the matter is likely to rest , until the depopulating and desolating process has been carried so far , as to render any further legislation unnecessary . But this mode of dealing with important matters is , as our readers are aware , an old trick with the Whigs . It is a convenient " Dodge , " and while it has a wonderful air of liberality—as if it gave those interested a voice in the settlement of difficult questions it saves them the trouble of attemptingthat settlement themselves .
Amidst the general ignorance of sound principles , and the absence of everything like practical views of the real position and wants of the country , in the present crisis , it is quite a relief to fall in with a true idea , or one that goes to the root of the evil . In referring to the last sheet anchor of the middle classesreduction of taxation—the Marquis of Granby hit the right nail on the head in one short sentence— " What the people wanted was more profitable employment . " True , my Lord ; and until the means of providing that are devised and set in motion , all the other
talk in Parliament is but " leather and prunella . " If the Protectionist party—of which Lord Granby is not an undistinguished member—Would devote their attention and energies to this question , instead of fighting about the abstract merits of the defunct system of Protection , they would take a practical , and , we believe , a speedy path to the restoration of their party to power . There is a proverb in Lancashire , very applicable to their caae"Its o' no use crying o ' er shed milk . " Let them accept tho doom of Protection as definite
in the meantime , and betake themselves earnestly , as beseems the owners of tho soil , to the working out of measures by which the people may be fed and employed at home , and we predict that the mere hypocritical pretensions of the Whigs , and the vulgar fallacies of the " cheap and nasty" pedlars , whose whole wisdom is comprised in pounds , shillings , and pencej would speedily be at a discount . If tho Protectionists do not take this course , somebody else will ; for nothing but that can save Great Britain from sure decline and
destruction . Aniong the business talked of , have been some alterations in the Sessional orders , with the view of economising time . It will be remembered that at the close of last session , Mr . O'Connor gave notice of a motion to restrict speakers , with certain exceptions , to a limited time . A strong leaning in favour of that course was also shown , in Mr . Evelyn Denison ' s Committee , which sat and reported on the subject last year . But Lord John and his colleagues , in their usual timid style , were afraid of adopting any plan really calculated to effect the object aimed at ; and therefore
proposed a few unimportant alterations , the principal one being a partial waving of privilege in regard to the House of Lords , who at present are precluded from originating any Bill of which money clauses form a part . In future they are to have that power under certain restrictions . The great and crying evil , that most urgently required reforming , was , however , left untouched . Long and useless speeches — in which dull common-place speakers repeat for the fiftieth time ,, arguments that have been worn to rags by previous orators , as common-place aB themselves — are to have no limit
assigned them . The House may cough , talk , and in other noisy and contemptible ways show its desire to get rid of a bore ; but , if the bore have only a tolerable share of vanity , and pertinacity sufficient to withstand coughing , shuffling of feet , and '' cries of * divide , ' and ' question , '" he may , as far as the rules of the House are concerned , go on spouting until his lungs or his legs fail him . There was , to be sure , a general understanding that short speeches
would be best , and most advisable for all parties ; but the habit of spinning out the most meagre and attenuated materials into diffuse and wordy harangues , has taken too deep a root in the Legislature to be easily eradicated . We heard a German recently say , that in the new Legislatures in that country—say the Diet at Frankfort—half-hour speeches are considered long ones , an hour would be a wonder and a monster , and as for three hours , or three hours and a half—which is not unusual in our
House of Commons—the mention of such a thing is set down unhesitatingl y as a fable—a tr ial upon the credulity of the party to whom so monstrous a fabrication is told . - Happy Germans , who have not yet acquired the art of word-spinning . A second evU of considerable magnitude , was tho number of times the question has to be put upon every measure before the House . It is , no doubt , most desirable that every precaution should be taken to prevent Government from hurrying measures through Parliament before public opinion can be ascertained upon them , when such is necessary . But many of these forms seemed expressly constituted to waste time , and , however it might have suited our
ancestors to proceed at a dignified , slow , and stately pace , the business , both public and private , now brought before Parliament is so vast , that acceleration has become a paramount necessity . Above all , the practice of " counting out" a House upon an " inconvenient" motion , and thereby losing a whole evening , ought to have been put an end to . Frequently , does this take place just at the very time when public business most requires attending to . Upon the whole , we see nothing in the alterations yet made to induce us to hope for any material improvement as regards the debates , and the business generally , and we shall , probably , have the Session protracted till the end of August with the same beggarly results as last year .
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¦¦ UP " ROBBERIBS OH THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . —On Wednesday , at tho police-office , Marylebone , R . Frost , a guard on the Great Western Railway , was finally charged with having stolon a quantity of haberdashery , Ac ., from a package which was left at the Reading station , also property belonging to the Earl of Craven . The etidence given upon the former occasion has already appeared in this journal . Tho prisoner , when his guut was mado known to him by March , the chief guard , who discovered tho stolen things in the prisoner ' s basket , threw himgolf from the train while it was going at tho rate of twenty miles an hour , and received severe injuries . A gold musical seal , forming a portion of the property belonging to Lord Craven , was found to have been in tho prisoner ' s possession , and it was produced by Mr Collard , and identified by tho Earl of Craven ' s steward ; it had been pawned at a Mr
Crawley s . —Mr . Juitins called additional witnesses in support of the charge , and no doubt whatever could exist with rogard to tho prisoner being tho guilty party in both of the robberies alluded to — Mr . Collard . superintendent of the company ' s police , remarked that four other trains , of which prisoner was guard , had lately been robbed of property —The prisoner was asked if he had anything to " say , when a solicitor , by whom ho waa defended , said , ' « He has nothing to say , in exculpation of himself , as to what he is charged with now , but I am instructed ^ him to state that he means to criminate anotherof the company ' s officora who is now present . -Mr . Bvoughton observed , that he would have an opportunity of doing so at the Old Bailey , and committed h \ m for trial . —We have been requested to state that tho prisoner is not Robert Miles rroat , in the . servico of tho Great Western Railway ,
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It is especiall y requested that in the trm mission of monies to the above fluids th strict attention be paid to the following structions : — ° " All monies for the Defence Fund must k forwarded to William Rider , 5 , Macclesfi Gij street , Sohojby Post-office order ONLY mart payable to Feargus O'Connor , « t « Charing Cross Post Office . tlle All monies for the Victim Fund to be senf to JOHN Arnott , 11 , Middlesex-place , Somew Town , London by Post Office order , ( s tan , p not being available ) , and made payable to him at the Battle Bridge Post Office . w William Rider . John Abbott .
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i » RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL UNO COMPANY . For the Week JSsDttra Thursday , . February 8 , 1849 . SHARES . £ s . d . £ s . d Mountain .. 0 5 0 Leicester , Aatill 1 5 « Plymouth .. 0 10 2 Preston , Brown 335 Horninghold .. 0 11 6 Newton Heath .. 3 8 0 Uxbridge .. 0 18 0 Newbury .. 8 3 0 Winchcomb .. 0 5 0 York .. 0 15 n Winlaton .. 15 0 Bridport .. 0 18 g Birmingham , Tunbridge Wells 0 lu 0 Ship .. 050 Knaresborough . 0 15 q
Bury .. 7 0 0 Havrick .. 2 0 0 South Shields .. 4 15 0 'Warwick .. 0 8 0 Stalybridge .. 2 10 0 W . Baillie .. 0 1 e Rotherham .. 118 0 S . Pattison .. 0 1 0 Coventry .. 0 12 0 P . Trumble .. Ola Boston ' .. 0 4 0 W . M'Lean .. 0 3 0 Stroudwater .. 1 0 0 3 . Vigurs .. 0 I r , Belper , Gregory 0 10 0 £ Mowl .. 0 1 0 Nottingham , J . Tarpenter .. 0 1 0 Sweet .. 0 17 6 J . Arthur .. 0 2 0 HuU .. 2 0 0 J . Heffeman .. 0 10 Manchester .. 117 6 Welch Rover .. 0 10 U Northampton , . Harrison 0 14 4 £ 50 7 1
EXPENSE FUND ~ Birmingham , York .. 0 1 5 Ship .. 0 2 0 J . Gilder .. 0 2 0 South Shields .. 0 5 0 S . Francis .. 0 2 ti Coventry .. 0 4 0 P . Jackson .. 0 18 Stroudwater .. 0 2 0 — ' Nottingham .. 043 £ 170 Preston , Brown 0 2 3 ' * TOTALS . Land Fund ... ... 50 7 1 Expense ditto ... ... 17 0 Bonus ditto 311 6 2 Loan ditto ... ... 1 14 4 Transfers 0 13 0 £ 365 7 7
Ebbatom . —In last week ' s Star Edinburgh should have boon £ 3 , not 3 s . The 3 s . count for £ 3 in the sum total . "W . Dixon , O . Dottle , T . Clark , Cor . Soc . P . M'Grath , Fin . Sec .
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EXECUTIVE FUND . Per S . Ktdd . — Preston , J . Brown , 6 s . ; Preston , for Cards , 4 s . ; Wallingford , C . Phillips , 5 « . ; Per S . Kiid 10 s , 6 d . Per Land Office . — Marylebone , 2 s . Id . ; Mr Merry , Gd . VICTIM FUND . Per S . Ktdd . —Lynn , J . iVaites , 5 s . ; TTallingford , C Phillipa , 8 s . Per Land Office . —B . G . Bland , Is . ; Mr . Knovrles , per Mr . Giles , 2 s . ; Two Friends , ditto , Is , ; Lime , house , 10 s . DEFENCE FUND . Per Land Office . —R . G . Bland , Is . Per Wm . Rideb . —VT . Land , Newport Pagnell , Is . ; Holmfirth , proceeds of Soiree , per H . Marsden , 8 s . ; Derby , per W . Short . 10 i Sheffield , J . Ward , per G . Cavill , Is . ; Sheffield , H . Pushier ' per G . Cavill , 6 d . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , tid . ; Uochl dale Chartists ( to pay M . Nixon ) , per A . Crabtree , 3 s . ; J . Fauldcra ; Dunfennline 0 d , ; Cigar Makers , 15 a . The sum received from Belford , per J . Kobson , for Defence Fund , was announced in our last as being- 3 s . 5 ti , It should have been 9 s . 3 d .
M ' DOUALL'S CASE-FOR WRIT OF ERROR . Per Wm . Rideb . —EUand , per T . Broadbent , 3 s . ; Holm , firth , proceeds of Soiree , per II . Marsilen , 9 s . ; IV . Z . Bow . ley , Malmesbury , Is . Gd . ; Jb \ L ., Sheffield , perG . Cavill , fid . Nottingham , per J . Sweet , 18 s . lid . ; J . Ball , Mansfield , Is . Mr . Ford , baker , Berwick-street , 2 s . 6 d . ; Collected by Mrs . Trickey , at Leicester , 3 s . 4 d . FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Per Wm . Kidek . —Holmfirth , proceeds of Soiree , per IF . Marsden , 8 s . ; VT . Z . Bowley , Malmesbury , 4 s . ; Mrs . Marshall , Sheffield , per G . Cavill , Is . 6 d . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , 6 s . 3 d . ; Kentish Town , per Osmondie Alartiens , 4 s . 10 d . ; Oldham , proceeds of Lecture by the Rev . J . Barker , per T . Tristram , £ 5 .
NATIONAL VICTIM AND DEFENCE FUND . Per John Abnott . —The Female Democratic Silk Society of Keighley , £ i ; William Lane , Newport Pagnell , Is . ; Kentish Town , per Mr . Lunn , 5 s . ; Coventry , per George Freeman , 7 s . 6 d . ; Finsfoury , per Mr . Salmon , 4 s . Gd . ; Westminster , per James Graasby , 43 . 2 d . ; Mr . Rider , as per Star , £ 6 4 s 7 d . ; Cigar Makers , per Mr . Finch , 5 s . ; Mv . Harrison , per Mr . M'Grath , Is . ; Whittington and Cat , per Mr . M'Grath , la . Id . ; Cartwright's , per Mr . East , ft . ; Cartwright's , per Mr . Brown , la . ; Crown and Anchor , per Mr . Pelteret , £ 1 ; Mr . Kydd , as per Star , 13 s . ; Ernest Jones Locality , per Air . Harrap , 3 s . 3 d . ; Land Office , as per Star , 93 . Cd . The committee present their thanks to th * men of Oldham and the Female Democrats of Keighley for their kind and Yaluable support .
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Disastrous Flood . —We reported , in our last number , the destruction of the bridge at Inverness . The Inverness Courier says : — " We nave this week to record a series of floods unexampled , according to oral and written testimony , in the north and west Highlands . Long-continued and heavy rains , accompanied by a remarkable prevalence of lightning , had fallen over the various districts in which our principal rivers have their sources , and from which they derive their ordinary supplies . The floods extended as far west as Lochourn-head , and included the districts watered by the Quoich , the Garry , the Arhaig , the Oich , and lesser streams , whence they were precipitated into Loch-Oicb , Loch-Lochy , and Loch-Ness . The river running from tho first of these lakes has carried off the
bridges of Aberchalder and Fort-Augustus , besides occasioning several breaches in the banks of tho Caledonian Canal . The streams entering the Lochy have broken up the roads and devastated fields and . plantations , including the picturesque grounds of Achnacarry , the seat of Lochiel . Loch-Ness , over its wide expanso of twenty-four miles , rose about fourteen feet—a height unprecedented in the district . On its banks various land-slips took place , and much damage was inflicted ; but these have heen trivial compared with the effects of it 3 waters on the river and towns of Inver * ness . Nerer was the Ness seen in such fearful Yolume and flood . It attained its full height ' moro rapidly in consequence of meeting with tlie
waters ot the Canal . All were placed on one level , and a breach was made in the canal banks , above the lock at Doceh garroch . By unremitted and strenuous exertions this broach was prevented from widening ; but the accumulated waters rushed down their course of five miles , overflowing the adjoining grounds , and finally destroying the important stonu bridge at Inverness , and submerging nearly onethird of the town . Tho alarm of the inhabitants was indescribable , tho losses and privations have been great , but in the whole circuit and course of these floods we have heard of no loss of life Turning from our own severe calamity , we find that , further north in this country , the district of Strathglass also suffered . Glen-Affrick , Glen-Cannicli .
and the course of the river Beauly , were inundated , On tho estate of Lord Lovat farms have been dc > stroyed , embankments carried off , mills and stead ings ruined . In Ross-shire , the sources of the Orrin , the Garve , and the Conan rose to an unprecedented height . Several houses wer « thrown down in _ the village of Conan , and roads and fields much injured . Tho high grounds of Badenoch , in which the Spey takes its rise , have also been flooded , and much damage done to embankments and farms . In » U parts of the north , indeed , floods have been rife , but it is in tho course of the principal mountain river * that the results have been so remarkable . The loss in many instances will be irreparable—in »" severo ; and years must elapse before they can bo obliterated . Private charity and benevolence must bo frooly exerted , but mueh will still remain undone . A correspondent at Law . ™ aavs _<« Tho rain fell
in torrents in this quarter from the 20 th to the 2 otn ult ; , without any intermission . The Spey rose to an unprecedented height—covering the whole g len to tho depth of several feet . To a stranger tlia whole district would have appeared—the ffattc towed into foam by the fearful winds—to bo a g « 9 * arm of the sea , or outlet from it . At ArdTcriKWJ great damage has been done . The Marquis of Aw ** eorn ' s lodge was surrounded with water , and iDinry to the amount of about £ 500 inflicted . The boas was shattered , and the chain-bridgo broko to P ^' The property of Cluny has escaped ; no part of W embankment is injured . On tho estate of Oftruim . tho embankment has given way in vanow places , and tho meadow is wholly covered *»" Tfater . The Spey is half way up theBad don , »*» higher than ever it was known before . Two » rl . V = i —one on tho burn of Broachy , and tho other » » to tho east—arc destroyed"
. , W VW wl « UU U 1 V UvOVl VJ v \ 4 i 1 Gkrmas Brothbrhood . —A society is being forn ^ in Berlin for uniting in one commercial , union ^ tho natives of Germany , scattered as ouugi ' an ^ America , Australia , and all other countries 0 ' ' world . It i 3 called the " Cosmopolitan Gernw Brotherhood , " and haa already from 500 to ^ members in Berlin . A systematic emigraten colonisation is to bo attempted ; treaty <» " merce is to bind all Germans , wherever they iw he , to oonsumo , aa far as possible , German mfactures ; tho profits of a barter trade with the w man colonists 13 to bo divided am&ng tto F Hvembora of . tho sooioty .
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. .. - ., THE NORTHERN STAR February iq , 1840 .
Just Iiublislicd, Xo. 1, Trice Skpesce, The Coiiohwealth:
Just iiublislicd , Xo . 1 , Trice Skpesce , THE COIIOHWEALTH :
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1509/page/4/
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