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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, APKIL 21. 1S49.
    • Mr. THOMAS COOPER AND MYSELF.
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    • TUB CnEATSST HHT1OX ETER TCSLISHE). Price Is. Cd., A v:. " . ;-nd elegant edition, witii Steel Kate of On Author, of P/USE'S POLITICAL W03KS.
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      Kow Ready , a Hew Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARM ! THE LABOURER MAGAZINE . Vols . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , may still be had , neat ! bound , price 2 s . 6 d . each So . 4 , the Xnmber containing Mr . O'CoJJSOB ' * ' Treatise on the National Land Company ; No . 10 ,. the one containing Mb . O'Coskoe ' s Treatise *• Oil the National Land and Labour Ban in connection with the Land Company : " - Hare Istely been reprinted , and may be had on applic tion , Plica 6 < L each . Imperfections of the ' Labourer Magazine' may still 1 had at ite Publishers .

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      In a neat Volume , Price Is . Cd . . ' The Evidence taken by the Select Committf-v . - of the House of Commons appointed toen . jiiireinto the National Laud Company . " This Volume ought to be in the hands of every Member of the Company , as it strikingly illustrates the care and © conoir . y that have beem practised in the management of the Fmii ' . s of the Company , and proves , beyond contradiction , i ! m practicability of the Plan which the Company was «» tabli-aied to carry out .

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      Just published , Ho . III . Price Sdcmnce , of THE COMMONWEALTH . «« TH 3 COMMONWEALTH" will be the Representatire ef thi Chartists , Socialists , and Trades' Unionists , in the Month ' " Press . coN-rxsrre : i . What is to be done with Ireland ? i \ The Weaver ' s Daughter . f . Extinction of Pauperism . :. Popular Cause in Europe . b . Social Effects of Peasant Proprietorship . < :. The Hero . 7 . Brents of the Month .

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      iSIPORTANT PUBLICATIONS . Proceedings of the National Convention , whicii assembled at London in April , 1848 . Thirty ttvo very large and solid pages : price only Threepence . Tise Trials of the Chartist Prisoners , Jones , FusEell , Williams , Vernon , & Looney . Twenty four very large and full pages : price only Threepence . Sold hv J . "Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosterrow , London ; A . Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester ; and Live and Co ., 5 , Xelson-street , Glasgow . > . nd hv all Booksellers in Towa and Countrr .

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      O'COXN'ORVILLE . TEE SECOND ANNIVERSARY will take place on TDB 5 DAT , Mat 1 st , 18 i 9 . The pro--ceedings will consist of a Public Dinner , Meeting and Ball . The Directors will attend . Mr . O'Cwkob and other friends have heen invited . Tickets to be had of Mr . Dixon , at the Office , 144 , High Holborn : also , of Mr . T . M . Wheeler , on the Estate .

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      BERRY , EDGE MEETING . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO the members of the IYISTONE branch of the National Land Company , that a meeting will be held at the house of Mr . James Fixlet ( who is about to emigrate to America ) , on Sunday , April 22 nd , at two o'clock in the afternoon , whon all the members of the branch are requested to attend , as business of great importance will be laid before the meeting .

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      pauy , tras considered by the ancient Greeks one of the bitterest imprecations that could be uttered against an enemy . Poor Kates ix Iuelixd . —A return on "Wednesday printed by order of Parliament ( moved for by Mr . Preneli ) shows that the military force employed in Ireland in the collection of poor rates between October 1 , ISIS , and February 1 , 1849 , consisted of 11 field-officers , 46 captains , 113 subalterns , 216 sergeants , 42 drummers , and 4 , 533 rank and file . The constabulary force employed for the same purpose , the compulsory collection of poor-rates , consisted of 69 ofneers and 2 , 553 men .

      How Dr . hxox became a Successor of the Apostles . —In our last we stated , on the authority of ihe 3 nhlin Press , that the present Protestant Bishop of Limerick lives out of the country to avoid his creditors . In reference to another Irish prelate , the new liishop of Down and Connor , whose emoluments amount to from £ 3 , 500 to £ 4 , 000 per annum , the Daily News says : — " Dr . Knox is notMn" particular , b . D has done nothing particular , and he is not gifted with the faculty of saying anything which the world is particularly curious to liear . "What , then , has made him Bishop of Down ? Our Irish contemporaries " explain the mystery in a Lrief , and , we fear , -undeniable manner . Dr . Knox is the relation by birth of one Tory Earl , and the connexion by marriage of another . Lord Ranfurly

      possesses large estates in Tyrone , and Lord'Clare possesses considerable property in Limerick . It seems to the wiso "Whigs move politic and just to try and propitiate personages of this description than " to earn the confidence of their own party , or the respect of the public at large . " * * A more consistent Tory than the Earl of Clare the Upper Souse < 3 oes not contain . For that reason he was made some months ago Lord-Lieutenant of limerick ; and for the same cause , amongst others , has Dr . Knox been now promoted to the bishopric of Down . The family of Knox has for many generations thriven by Castle favour . They have , it is said , generally contrived to have always one or two mitres in their keeping , with an appropriate complement of subordinate dignities and benefices . 2 Jot one of them was ever heard of as an eminent divine

      eminent scholar , eminent writer , or eminent preacher . The only thing they hare ever been eminent for is the knack of getting preferment of every kind , and of outliving all their aristocratic competitors . —Nonconformist . Bnnean , an « xt « miTefermrr reMdini- » t th « Elms near Boston , had been for year , in a bad ftati of heaUh - the disease assumed a . welling in the feet ^ danttls winch gradually « s « mded until the whole of lusbod ^ was Sed Convinced , from adnce , that he was labouring under a confirmed . cue _ ofdropijhB epniulted manyof&e most Zi . KrfJSf **?!?**??!??* fte 5 r remeai ^ from which he dtnyed no ben . £ t , but became worie . In this state he daten ^ ed to try Hdloway ' s Pills , and to the wonder of ^^^ nw medisme cured him in ttfcteJSKSort

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      I have received a letter from Mr . Cooper , a resolution from the "Westminster locality , and a letter from James Lord , of Bolton , No . 5 , Back Mawdesley-streetr-all relative to the same subject—and all shall appear in next week ' s Star , as this week I should not have time for a single comment ; and I think I shall be able to show that my WestminstGr friends imagine that I am to be a target to he shot at with impunity without daring to return fire .

      I think it will require no more than the mere publication of Mr . CoorER' S letter as corroboration of what I have stated , while my Bolton friends I must refer to James Lord . But , meantime , I beg to assure all parties that I will neither be a target nor a tool . As to Thomas Cooper , he is still a man for whom I entertain a very strong regard , but he is not a man ( nor is there auy man ) that I will allow in any , the most roundabout , way , to interfere with my character , my consistency , or honour , without being put to the proof . It is very strange that when I am abused most unliraitedly no one ever calls out ; but when I defend myself , then it is , "Oh , don't divide us ! " But as a little " leaven leaveneth

      the whole lump , " and as every "little makes a mickle , " and as my character is very dear to me and to millions , and as I have established public opinion as the only tribunal before which I will consent to be tried , I will bow before no authority , I will submit to no dictation , in matters connected with my character , nor will I—and let this be perfectly understoodsubmit to any , the slightest , dictation or

      interference with the control or management of the Northern Star ; it shall advocate my principles , which are the purest principles of Liberty and Freedon , and I -will submit to no interference , to no dictation , or control , as to who shall he my editors or reporters ; and , as I have often stated , the English Exchequer could not purchase the insertion of one line in the Northern Star which was at variance with my own opinions . Feargus O'Connor .

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      TO CORRESPOIfDEXTS . Being absent from London during last week , I haye been compelled to leave several letters unanswered : this , I trust , will be an apology to my correspondents . Feakoits O'Coxnok .

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      3 . Ccelwg , Isle of Thanet — Watson , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: — Fob . tub Victim Fund . —From Calverton , £ 1 ; from Mr . Smith , 13 ; from Mr . C . Hall , 2 d . Kirk dale Psisosers . —Thomas Ormesher has received the following sums : — Itadclifte Bridge , Richard Hames , Is 6 d ; a Friend at Rodd's , Is ; Middleton , a Few Friends , Is 7 Jd ; Crag Vale , John Smith , 2 s ; Hebden Bridge , John Stott , 12 s 6 d ; Manchester , W . Roach ' s Book , 3 s 8 d ; Swineshead Clough , near Todmorden , per Richard Barker , 8 s . Writ oe Error . —Higher-lane , PiHdugton , J . Eastwood , 7 s ; Leveneholm , a Few Friends , Is Cd . George What , Leicester . — The grievance of which you complain would be best published in the law courts , but we fear you have no remedy . Jons IIexdersox , Alloa . — We cannot answer your question . G . Andbhsox , Holytown . —We have no room for so lengthy a statement . A . B .. Middlesborough . —We do not answer legal questions .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, Apkil 21. 1s49.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , APKIL 21 . 1 S 49 .

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      THE LAim " The folly of to-day is the wisdom of the morrow . " Volumes have heen written , speeches have been made , and experiments have been indulged in in connexion with the Land , hut all—one and all—having for their conclusion and object the achievement of patronage and wealth through political power acquired by lauded possession . Until Charles and James issued their wits to rotten boroughs , conferring upon them a representative

      power , the land alone—and especially in Ireland—was the standard of representation . And although forty Irish boroughs were created , at one and the same time , to neutralise the power of the landed interest , that interest very speedil y not onl y converted those boroughs to their own " sole use , behoof , and benefit , " but made their possession the means , of title , distinction , and wealth conferred upon the owners for prostitution .

      This system not only applied to exclusively agricultural Ireland , but up to the year 1832 —the period whimsically called the Reform— - England was equally subject to exclusive agricultural representation ; and from the period of Eeform down to the present time , the whole question of the Land , as of yore , has heen treated in its mere political phase , until , at length , not only those who are robbed , impoverished , famished , and starved to death ; hut those who heretofore manufactured the soil into political patronage , are now—one and all—beginning to reflect upon the danger of longer withholding the Land from its natural purposes—the employing , the feeding , the clothing , the housing , the warming , the satisfy ing the millions .

      We have made the question of the Land our life's study—not theoretically , hut practically ; and if we were called upon to explain the vast and appalling increase of pauperism in Ireland , we would date it from that period when the champions of civil and religious liberty consented to the destruction and sweeping from the fa « e of the earth over three hundred thousand Catholic forty-shilling freeholders , as the condition that those champions might have a seat in the Saxon Protestant Parliament . Can we give a stronger illustration of the fact that the land in Ireland has been used for mere

      political purposes , than the knocking of those three hundred thousand freehold tenements into large farms , as soon as the serfs , who had prodigiously increased their value , had ceased to be political engines ? That's for Ireland ; and then , as regards England , even the Reform Bill has failed to wrench this anomalous political power from the hands of the landlords , inasmuch as the rural constituencies number about one hundred and eight thousand £ 50 tenantsat-will , or over one-fourth of the whole rural constituency , and from their required subserviency constituting that "balance of power

      upon which landlordism still holds its obstructive policy . The Catholics of Ireland gained but little by what is called Emancipation , beyond the honour and glory of being sold to the British Minister by the professors of their own faith , and the pride of being most persecuted by judges and legal officials of their own religious persua * sion ; and the working classes of England received no greater boon than that of being transferred from the tender mercies of landlords to the merciful consideration of cotton lords and profitmongers . And it is a fact , which the boldest cannot deny , that these two boasted triumphs have been . replete with the most er . l

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      results . And wh y ? Because each has tended to narrow and circumscribe the field of natural and legitimate Labour , in order that the new recipients of political power may traffic upon its dependents . The reader , however , Avill learn from the following- pithy morsel , extracted from the " Times '' of Thursday last , that "the folly of to-day maybe the wisdom of the morrow , " as from it ho will learn that tho onl y alternative now is CONFISCATION or wise legislation . Here follows this delicate morsel : —

      The utter and disastrous failure of the Irish soil , under its existing ' management , to maintain the Irish people , is a case for interference both with the people AND THE LAND . We will not be saddled with the products of the machinery without claiming a voice in its management . A great nation cannot close Us ears against the appeal to its benevolence . If the cry of Irish destitution be raised , not seven times , but seventy limes seven , it will still be attended to . But THE LAND must go with the people . We demand the whole lot ; not that we may wrest the land from its present owners , or indulge our own cupidity or caprice ; but simply that we may the better meet that responsibility which the Irish landlords themselves impose upon us . None have been so loud in their demands on the Imperial Exchequer , or have so unreservedly upheld the doctrine that it is the duty of the Leeislature . at any cost ,

      and at any lesser mjury to particular interests , to avert a general starvation , For the sake of the poor , and for the relief of their pressing necessities , we insist on a more summary ana vigorous dealing with their only means of support . They who throw on us their poor , do in fact offer us their land ; and they who require us to maintain their poor without compensation do , in fact , surrender their land without price . Thus the LAND solves the question of the poor , and the poor solve the question of the LAND ;—not indeed to such an extent as to justify •/ sweeping CONFISCATION , but at least so far as to compel whatever measures may be necessary to put the land under better management England cannot maintain the Irish , and let Ireland alone . If it have one , it must have both ; and if it is driven to a ruinous expenditure for the maintenance of tho people , it will insist on measures of a proportionate magnitude and efficiency for the better CULTIVATION Of

      THE SOIL . Now , can the reader peruse the above without a smile of satisfaction , and without coming to the conclusion that our folly of a quarter of a century and two years , is the wisdom of the present day ? Here is not only the admission that the application of the . Irish land to its proper purposes , can , alone save England from the penalty of Irish destitution , but in the distant horizon we see the dim shadow of CONFISCATION . We would remind oar pupil of Printing-house-square , however , that Irish destitution , Irish misgovernment and

      misrule , has been the lever by which many thousands of English cap italists have sprung from their clogs into Spanish leather boots , from the dung cart to the carriage , from the cellar to the mansion , and from poverty to unbounded wealth . When the Irish were required here to compete with English industry , then ehe was orer-populated ; and better would it have been for the people of both nations , if the land of both countries had been covered with an incrustation of lava .

      and rendered sterile , and non-productive . But , now , alas 1 when population presses hardly upon tho POLITICAL MEANS OF EXISTENCE for its support , the Ministerial organ — the " Thunderer "—the veritable conqueror of Free Trade , our then shortsighted , but now far-seeing pupil , has put on his goggles , and can only see British salvation in the appropriation of the Irish land to the support of the Irish people . Why , how does this square with the much lauded doctrine of the Honourable and

      Rererend Baptist Noel—the Free Trade pamphleteer—whose wadding was rammed under every peasant ' s door , or crammed through every cellar keyhole ? This pious Divine , whose duty it was to teach his flock to pray that God might preserve the kindly fruits of the earth , so that , in due time , his people may enjoy them—this man , whose duty it was to tell the people that man was composed of the elements , and that his Maker bestowed upon

      him the birds of the air , the beasts of the field , and the fishes in the sea , and commanded him to live by the sweat of his brow—not in a rattlebox ; not as a prostitute upon the labour of his wife and little children , but upon his own industry , applied to the cultivation of the land , the netting of the fish , and tho catching of the birds of the air—yet this pious Divine has told his flock that they were created for an artificial life , while the people of all other countries were destined for agricultural pursuits .

      Howbeit , here wo arc in the nineteenth century , with the leading statesman—not of the day , but of the age—advocating the better application of the land of Ireland , and tho leading journal of the world assuring us that there is now but the choice between the wise

      APPROPRIATION OF THE SOIL TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PEOPLE , OR THE CONFISCATION OF THE SOIL . But , is this dispensation to be achieved through the instrumentality of a reformed Parliament , in which those who depend upon the mal-appropriation of the land for the accumulation of inordinate wealth , hold the balance

      of power ? No ; it is to be accomplished , it can be accomplished , and it SHALL BE ACCOMPLISHED , by the people themselves . And the landlords of England , who are not as deeply sunk in the slough of extravagance as the landlords of Ireland are , will discover , and that ere long , that they have but the alternative of confiscation , or wise , legitimate , and profitable appropriation .

      The Free Traders are not prepared to make a greater experiment in this direction than will merely secure for them the balance of political power in 8 ome Protectionist counties ; while the landlords are under the influence of tenants , who fear that a more extensive distribution of the soil would increase the rate of wages in the agricultural market . But mark the result ; cheap and dear , as we have often told our readers , are relative terms , and presently we shall see a country glorified for the cheapness of its food—which of course must be consequent upon the cheapness of its labourburthened with an amount of taxation , which , relative to the remuneration for industry , will be doubled in pressure , although not a figure may be altered .

      In the very last number of the "Labourer , " we predicted that the Prime Minister would meet his Irish difficulty in the present Session of Parliament by consenting to the appointment of a Committee upon Irish Poor Laws . We now speak of what is printed , and we told our readers that during the deliberations of that committee , the Irish members would be the moat servile hacks of the Minister ; as proof , witness their all but unanimous howl for the renewal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act : hat we predicted the impossibility of satisfying the demands of Irish members , and that the Minister would again find the question of Irish Poor Laws to be his great difficulty .

      The truth of this prediction has been fully verified , and now we will venture upon another . It is : " That before twelvemonths from this date , the Government of England —no matter whether Whig or Tory—will have but the alternative of national bankruptcy , confiscation of the land , oi its legitimate and profitable application to the wants and necessities of the people . " And let it be always borne in mind , that we live in the age of progross ; that sentiments , feelings , and opinions ,

      are now communicated with the rapidity of electricity ; that the feeding of the idle few upon the capriciously employed many , can no longer be allowed to exist ; and that six months—yea , half the time—in this age of rail-Ways , steam navigation , electric communication , the printing press and penny postage , is equivalent to half a century of the old jogtrot age , when tradition was all hut oral , and when the incidents of to-day were new to the few who heard them this day week .

      The legitimate demands of the working classes , boldly , manfully , and continuously advocated and forced upon the consideration of Parliament , must henceforth be the dial by which legislation must be regulated , as with our consent the industrious classes shall no longer be . made simple instruments in the hands of either or any faction for the achievment of political power . The people—if wise , united , consistent , and indefatigable—can

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      achieve the emancipation of their order , . and if they do not adopt these legitimate means for their salvation , our fervent hope is , that they may be goaded , tortured , and persecuted by their oppressors .

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      Jurors , who were to judge of the evidence , and the Judge , who was to lay down the law to them , would have found him guilty , and the verdict would have been followed by such an unreasonable and severe sentence as that passed upon poor Cuffey and his associates . Those things sow tho seeds of dissension and mutual dislike between the different classes of society . They tend to the subversion of its very foundations , and eliminate the materials out of which revolutions arc formed . Evenhanded justice is the best safeguard of nations .

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      THE KIRKDALE CHARTIST PRISONERS . We beg to remind our readers and the Chartists generally , of the Address which appeared in last Saturday ' s " Star , " appealing for funds for the support of the Chartist prigoners at present suffering in Kirkdale House of Correction . It appears , that whilst the Manchester Chartists have contributed thirty-eig ht pounds to the support of the Kirkdale prisoners , only

      ten pounds have heen contributed by the Chartists generally , independent of Manchester . It is true that the latter have had to bear the burden of the General Defence and Victim Funds ; but , on the other hand , the Manchester men have also contributed to those funds , in addition to subscribing so generousl y for the support of the Kirkdale Chartist prisoners .

      We observe that there has been a partial response to tho appeal of the Committee , but we trust that a general and generous response will be forthwith made by the Democratic party throughout the country . A correspondent , upon whom we can rely , informs us that our friends at Kirkdale are subjected to a system of vexatious tyranny by , the governor and officers of that prison . Their visitors both male and female , are searched as if they were thieves . On Monday last a female messenger had her breastfelt by the fellow who keeps the outer-gate , On our friends remonstrating they were informed that a female turnkey would be appointed to overhaul female visitors for the future . Other insults and

      annoyances have been reported to us which we refrain from noticing this week . Three months ago our incarcerated brethren memorialised Sir George Grey for an inquiry into , and redress of grievances ; but up to this time no answer has been received by the memorialists . We are sorry that the Home Secretary . should exhibit such a disgraceful indifference to his dnties as a public servant and adviser of Her Majesty . At this moment it is more than ever necessary that the Kirkdale Chartist prisoners should have the support they merit . We entreat our readers to set about the good work without delay .

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      SOVIBUGHB 1 BK Pboplk ' s SrawARDs . -But if COyernments arise from tho consent of men / and Ire } innfthPv J n ? r ^ COrdin& t 0 thelr ° ™ SdiS tions , they do therein seek their own good ; for the will IS ever drawn by some real good , or the appear ance of it . This s that which La ' seeks by IK , regular or irregular motions of his mind . Reason fu P u l > Vlrtuo and vice , do herein concur , t ^ gh they differ vastly in the objects in which eacti ol them thinks his good to consist . A people therefore that sets up kings , dictators , consuls , praetors , or emperors , does it not that these may be great , glorious , rich , or happy , but that it may be well with , themselves and tfieir posterity . —4 Jgernon Sydney a JHsewrm toncoming Government

      Mr. Thomas Cooper And Myself.

      Mr . THOMAS COOPER AND MYSELF .

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      KILLING NO MURDER . English law is like a spider ' s cobweb . It catches the small flies , but the big ones break through it . In proportion to the magnitude of the offence , and the wealth of the offender , the chances of escape from the punishment due to the crime are multiplied . If some poor ignorant and neglected wretch—depraved in consequence of that neglect , and left a prey to his own unregulated passions—kills a fellow creature in a moment of excitement , or under the stimulus of want , the law is powerful enough to bring him to condign punishment , But , as the case of the keeper of the Tooting Pest-house clearly bIiows , it cannot touch the

      man whose conduct has been demonstrated to have caused 150 deaths . The circumstances connected with the so-called outbreak of cholera in the Do-the-boys Hdl , under the management of this second Sqtjeers , need not be recapitulated . Our readers are familiar with them , and we believe that the public opinion of the whole country heartily responded to the just verdict of the manly Jury who first branded Drouet . as guilty of " Manslaughter . " His acquittal at the bar of the Old Bailey does not , in the slightest degree , alter his position in the eyes of the world . The same facts were proved , and their conclusive bearing upon each other , the direct and inevitable inference to which they pointed , were as plain and as strong in the one p lace as the other .

      But Drouet was fortunatein having a partisan Judge , whose whole conduct indicated a foregone conclusion . It is , we kno \ y , a maxim , that the Judge ought to presume every man innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; but there is no good reason why he should convert himself into counsel for the prisoner . While he is bound to see that the innocent do not suffer , he is , at the same time , equally bound to protect the public against the consequences of leaving guilt unpunished .

      Mr . Baron Platt has gained an unenviable notoriety as a partial and prejudiced Judge . His mind seems to be deficient in the most essential element of the judicial character . He cannot impartially and dispassionately hold the scales of justice in an even balance , but must run into one extreme or other . Either violently and unreasonably against the persons tried before him , or as violently and unreasonably in their favour . His conduct towards

      the Chartists who were tried before him was of the most discreditable , prejudiced , and bullying description . In their ease he assumed the character of counsel against the prisoners , and although Sir John Jervis needed no assistance whatever , being possessed of venom enough to serve for a whole bar , Baron Platt exceeded that worthy functionary in the offensiveness of his manner , and the recklessness of his partisanship .

      The grounds on which he directed the acquittal o £ Drouet to be pronounced last Saturday , were certainly—to our thinkingthe strangest that ever were laid down by an English judge . The leading facts , as established b y medical and other unimpeachable testimony , were these : — Drouet had crammed into his pest-house nearly twice the number of boys and girls that it was capable of accommodating ? . He did this for tho solo

      and mercenary reason that he made money by them . '" The more the merrier" for him , at all events . These overcrowded little wretches , in addition to suffering the evil arising from being herded together in close , unwholesome , unventilated sleeping rooms , were badl y fed and badly clothed . This was shown in a way that could not be gainsaid . The evidences of starvation and scanty clothing were stamped upon the persons ef these poor unfortunate victims of cupidity and avarice . It did not require the reports of visitors to prove that they were ill-treated . Then skins wore

      covered with loathsome diseases—the consequence of uncleaiiliness and crowding . They were what is called " pot-bellied ; " an invariable accompaniment of innutritious and insufficient diet . They Were thus all in an abominable state—^ predisposed to be attacked b y any epidemic that might prevail for the time being . All at once what was called the cholera makes a swoop at this den of infautile wretchedness . The poor victims are stricken down by hundreds , and . in the course of a very few days , 150 are carried to the grave . At the same time not a single person—man ,

      woman , or child—in the village of Tooting , suffers from this so-called cholera . Its ravages are entirely and exclusively confined within tho limits of Drouet ' s " child farm ; " and the medical evidence is decided and conclusive , that the treatment we have summaril y described was the sure precursor of such a result . But Mr . Baron Platt—notwithstanding those facts and this evidence—declined to give any opinion as to whother or not Drouet was chargeable with manslaughter " by reason of his having reduced the constitutional energy of the child so as to render him unable to resist

      any disease by which he might be attacked . " Why , it appears to us that this was tho very point at issue . It was that upon which the Coroner ' s jury mainly founded their verdict , and to prevent that point from going before the jury at the Central Criminal Court amounts , we think , to sueh a misdirection on the part of the Judge as invalidates the trial altogether . Not content , however , with this suppressio veri , the learned Judge proceeds to the suggestio f / dsi , and directed an acquittal , on the ground "that there had been no evidence adduced to show that the deceased was ever in sueh

      a state of health as to render it probable that he would have recovered from the malady but for the treatment of the defendant . " If it had been shown that the treatment of the defendant was what it should have been , there would have been some show of reason in this decision ; but when the testimony of all the witnesses—professional and non-professionalso unanimousl y and conclusivel y showed that trecitment to have been of the very worst character , and its injurious consequences were so palpable and so general , we must say we are astonished at the perversity of the intellect by which , it is put forward . Such , however , is z-eally the ground upon which the principal actor in this disgraceful tragedy has been allowed to escape justice .

      The occurrence of such cases is , in the highest degree , injurious to public morality and well-being . When the poor see a Judge of the land acting the part of * apolitical partisan , and next apparently screening a man from punishment because he is " respectable , " and lias amassed money , they will lose all respect both for the law and its administrators . They will come to the conclusion that justice is not administered upon fixed and definite principles with rigid impartiality , but is dealt out in accordance with the whims and prejudices of the moment . Nothing can be more injurious to a country than for such a conviction to gain a footing , and the men whose conduct tends to

      produce it are the most dangerous enemies of society . In this case , we find that the 150 children of the poor have fallen victims to a systematic course of had treatment , the sole object of which was to make money ; and yet the law- is powerless to punish . Whereas , in the case of the Chartist prisoners , convictions were speedy and sentences severe—not because these people had committed any actual offence against society or individuals , but because they held political opinions obnoxious to Jurors and Judges , and because these latter feared the men they oppressed . We verily believe , that if a man had been called a Chartist , and placed at the bar accused of intending to set fire to the Thames , that the " intelligent middle-otess "

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      RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND COM PAH ? Fob thb Week Ending Thubs » ay , April 19 , 1 S 19 . SHARES . £ a . d . £ 5 l J . Vigors .. 0 2 C Banbury .. I {' : Glasgow .. 0 6 0 Trowbridgc .. 1 u ' Whittington and Norwich , Spr ingall U ; Cat .. 2 5 11 W . M . M'Lean .. 0 : Hyde .. 2 0 0 T . Hodges .. 0 4 Lambeth .. 0 3 10 C . iloni .. VI . Wigton , per Bell 0 9 G J . Gullcford .. 0 7 Bilston .. 5 0 0 II . Gulleford .. Or Cirencester .. 0 19 7 J . Thompson .. 1 it ' Nottingham .. 114 Malmsbury 2 13 6 £ 19 l \ EXPENSE FUND . Whittington and Malinsbury .. 0 : Cat .. 020 ¦ Lambeth .. 020 £ 0 li Nottingham .. 0 8 0 Miiii ^ TOTALS . Land Fund 19 !) . Expense ditto ... ... 0 U \ Bonus ditto ... — 120 5 , Loan ditto ... ••• 0 2 Transfers ... ... . « 0 5 ' £ W , 13 " IV . DlXOJT , 0 . DOTLK , ~ T . Clabk , Cor . See . P . M'Gkath , Fin . Sec .

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      FOR WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by Wm . Rider . —Philanthropic Soviet } Ladies' Boot and Shoe Makers and others , per Air . v dington , Us . Oid . ; Rettbrd , collected bj T . Uwiiie and Clayton , 10 s . ; New Radford , per James Snunders , cullti by II . : Unve and W . Smalley , 7 s . 5 d . ; llartlepool , ; i Chartists , per SI . Parkinson , 3 s . Cd . ; Todmorden , pui Barker , 5 s . ; Nottingham , per J . Sweet , ill Js . id . ; <; tenhain , per J . lleminin , 9 s . Od . ; Itotherliam , colleeti J . Turner , 4 s . 9 d . ; Edinburgh Democratic Club , per J . O as . ; Bristol , per W . Hyatt , 10 s . ; Hunslct , near Leeds J . Smith , os . Received by Joun Arnott . —Toni

      per Mr . Titts , 3 s . ; Mr . Moore , Is . ; Mr . Kydd , as per . > as . Gd . ; Mr . Wider as per Star , £ 4 7 s . 4 Ad . ; Ii'iusbutfew friends met to celebrate the , 10 th of April , per Mr . ' nutt , 'is . Gd . ; Mr . Kendrick , Tower llumluts , per E . S wood , 5 s . ; St . Pancras Charter Association , per J . Bui ; , ' 5 s . ; Lecture Hall , l'hilpot-street , per Ed . Warren , 3 s . ' Globe and Friends , per Ed . Warren , 4 s . 2 d . ; Proceti 1 ' . Silk Handkerchiefs , at ditto by ditto , £ 1 Is . ; 2 rf , (; , /" lane , per T . Brown , 4 s . "d . ; Crown and Anchor , my , Newby , 5 ? . ; Crown and Anchor Hall Locality , per j ^ 12 s . ; Ernest Jones Locality , per Mr . M'Veiijli , Us : y . l , w . per Lund Office , Is . " M'DOUALL ' S CASE—FOR WRIT OF ERROR

      ( OB OTHE 11 WISE ) . Keeeived by Wm . Rider . —J . Taylor , Stour Provost ; f Hartlepool Chartists , per M . Parkinson , 3 s . Us . ; Uic , ' : ham , per J . lleminin , 7 s . lid . ; Wolvcrhampton , vol ]^ by W . Ilohnan and M . Whittinjjham , Ss . ; ltuthcrham luctedbyJ . Turner , 4 s . ; Malton , Old Guards , per J . win , 4 s . ; St . Pancras Charter Association , per J . Bouiu 0 s . Sd .

      EXECUTIVE FUND . Received by S . Kydd . —Manchester , £ 2 ; Sutton . Birmingham , per J . Newhouse , 10 s . ; Todmorden , 1 * Stott , 8 s . lid . ; Rochdale , 10 s . ; Halifax 10 s . ; Mr . iia Is rReceived by Wm . Rider . —Cheltenham , iK Heminiu , 4 s . Cd . DEFENCE FUND . Received by Wm . Rider . —J ; Mayman , Ramsgatf , Cheltenham , per J . Hemmin , 'is . ; Cheltenham Mutual provement Society , per J . Hemmin . 5 s . ; Mr . Gilts Limd Office , Gd ; a Friend , Rouhestev , Is . VERNON'S DEFENCE , FOR MR . NIXON . Received by Wm . Rider . —Cheltenham , per J . ][( . » 2 s 3 d . VICTIM FUND . Received by S . Ktbd . — Sutton , 5 s .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The House of Commons resumed its sittings on Monday , and the Lords rc-assembled on Thursday evening . As far as work was concerned , the Commons might as well have postponed meeting till the same night . In fact , Ministers were not prepared to go on , and the consequence was , that Monday night was occupied by a debate on Colonial affairs , which ended in nothing . On Tuesday night the House" counted out , " at an early hour . And oii Wednesday , one of the very few

      Ministerial measures which proposed to deal with real business , was withdrawn . The cause of this apparent dead-lock is to be found in the fact that Ministers are nonplussed , and do not know what to do . They have neither the comprehension nor the courage required by the crisis , and their hesitating , temporising , and faint-hearted conduct has produced uni . versal contempt aud disgust . Lord John Russell speaks and acts with the air of a man -who has no faith in himself , or in anybody else . Responsibility , such as that belonging to his position , he religiously eschews . It

      is some time since he broadly propounded the theory of Ministerial non-responsibility , and laissez faire ; and he has at least the merit of having consistently carried it into practice . His last exploit in this way deserves commemoration , as an innovation upon constitutional usages , of rather an unusual character . He sent an invitation to the Irish Members to meet him at Downing-street , and when there he put the two alternatives to them—whether they would have tho Rate in Aid , or an Income Tax , with some others—not specified—tacked to its t ; iil ! To li-ish Members this must have been

      about as pleasant as the poisoned bowl , or the dagger of the jealous Queen , to poor Rosamond . Taxation is an unpleasant thing to every human being , but especially is it dreaded by Irish Landlords ; Lord John , howver , after propounding this remarkably-interesting question to them , bolted from the room , telling them he would feel obliged by their answer next day . At the g iven hour the Irish Members re-assembled , and told his Lordship they had no answer to give him . They would meet him in the House , aud act upon their convictions there . Perhaps , the meaning of this "dodge , " upon the part of Lord John , was a desire to place the Irish Members in a false position , and to shift the responsibility of failure from his shoulders to theirs . If he could

      have averred , with auy degree of truth , that Irish distress was unrelieved because of the disagreement between Irish representatives as to what should he done , it would have been , in his estimation , a capital plea fordoingnothing . But the Irish Members have foiled him , and the consequence was , that the exploded and miserable make-shift of the Rate in Aid was again reproduced on Thursday , as the Irish measure of the Session . Lord John , in explaining tho grounds on which he proposed an advance of £ 100 , 000 on the security of the Rate in Aid , stated that if the Bill was not

      passed , he should ask the House to make a positive grant of the few thousand pounds that may happen to be required in the meantime , and that being done , he will propose no further grant or assistance , but leave the Irish landlord to light their own battles . Everybody is heartil y sick of the mennow in office , and the conviction gains ground in all directions , that " they must go out . " Out they would have been long ago , if

      anybody had been ready to " , go in / ' But as yet we do not see where their successors are to come from , and until they can be found , the present occupants of office , ' will stop where they are , a memorable instance of greatness thrust upon a body of men , who , individually and collectively ., exhibit an utter want of tho intellect , political honesty , and constructive skill , -which should characterise men entrusted with the management of national affairs .

      We commented last week upon the meagre performance of the ante-Paschal Session . It appears certain , now , that unless some unexpected incident occurs , that future , which is to come , will be equally barren . We can now tell with tolerable accuracy what the conclusion will be ; the third session of the Whi g Parliament will separate , "barring accidents , " having done nothing in tlio midst of circumstances demanding prompt and vigorous action . 6

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      DR . M'DOUALL'S WRIT OF ERROR CA ' Dkau Rideh , —I am sure there is 110 one » : feel greater satisfaction than myself at tlit- sn . ; . : > ful issue of the "Writ of Error 011 belmlf of I M'Douall , but thinking that tho £ 20 must bo this subscribed , for which Mr . Cobbett stij , u ! ; I write to ask whether it is so or not , as tho . ) mittee with which I am connected regret th i merous cippeals that are made , tending as tfiey . ; distract the public mind , and leave tlio wivo- \ families of the victims to starve ; and I also : ¦ that should the amount have been forwardd , I the friends of Dr . M'Douall will lend their si :: to the general fund , as Mrs . M'Douall is a rt ' recipient therefrom . I am , yonvs truly , Johjj Arxott , Sec . to Victim Coniin . . ; 11 , Middlesex-place , Somcrs Town , April 17 th , 1 S 49 .

      April l !> tli , 1 i ; Dear Arxott , —In reply to yours of the f allow me to lay before you a statement 0 : f monies I have received on account of the £ : •• quired by Mr . Cobbett , in the Writ of JErrwc : I received , as you will find 0 / 1 reference 1 Northern Star , during the week ending : — mo . i Feb . 3 rd I „ 10 th 1 , 1 nth ' „ 24 th " March 3 rd .. .. .. „ 1 'th i .. 24 th : | 3 tst .. .. .. ..: ' £

      April 7 th ! | 14 th I I This week , to present time .. .. if ¦ ' 4- If arch 23 rd—Remitted to Dr . I . M'Douall 0 10 10 I Mai'eli 21 th—Ditto Mr . Cobbott 10 U 0 Balance in hand .. . *¦" You will , from this , perceive that I have 1 * ; the whole amount requested to be advainvi-. £ 1 8 s . 4 d . I am not aware of the sums sent direct I' ! scribers to Mr . Cobbett , neither do I kiw amount held by local committees , or bv tlw I tors of the National Land Company . An a ( : of such sums will , no doubt , be published . .

      I fully agree with you that those nmltiuv' . appeals * are calculated to distract the public - . but " the base , bloody , and brutal" tyrants , who . tho vitals of the people , have made these . 11 necessary . It is right you should inquire in ' - quirement of Mr . Cobbett has been mot . ' ' '" : monsters have done their utmost to crush **'• our best men , but I hope Englishmen "illIlW den the eyes of our common enemy wich . 1 " - the wives and families of those men fallen a !' ¦ ' grief , noglcct , hunger and death . Yours truly , Wm . I ^ I

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      A Ghost in Love . — The Abeille Caw ^) l ! i . the following story : — " A few nights ago air : % ; farmer , living near Yvetot , who has lately boo j ; . widower , was nrouscil : it midni g ht b . v th-: ' -, barking of his dog . On going to it theanin : ' , played extreme terror , whereupon the fanner ! lis gun and proceeded to an inspection . All 1 ] lie saw a horrid phantom , clothed in a vliiu - ; ; rise behind the hedge . The farmer tuvnwi . pale , and his limbs shook with dismay . 1 ' ; over , contrived to ejaculate , 'If you cow : '; . God , speak ; if from the devil , vanish ! ' ' ; exclaimed the phantom , ' I am your tleeciw ; :-come from the grave to warn you not t" ' ¦ , ; Marie A , to whom you are making '

      is unworthy to share lay bed . The only H ' ° :: succeed me is Henriette B . Marry heiv secution and eternal torment shall be your « . .. This strange address from the goblin , insta " maying the farmer , restored his co « n > sc > , ' ; cordingly rushed on the ghostly visitor , a" * j- .. ping otfits sheet , discovered the fair lIc » i ' Ktil : j ; - icrself , looking excessively foolish . It ' fit ¦ - . the farmer , admiring the eirl's trick , 1 >* | j •; bans published for his marriage with her- I .- ' £ . A Medical Witxess . —The assizes for i « J ^ of Cornwall , which were brought to . 1 ^ A &g turday fortnight , produced few cases ofii' ^ I ^ a will cause , a very curious incident o « cl" 1 ^ . 1 ^ force of habit . A sur-reon . named Wm «> £ I ? S

      following understandable evidence for ' » ^ t fe twelve Cornish jurymen , in relationtot ' , i Ife capability of making a will :- " I found W . I-fe sipelatous inflammation , face and s ^ u , fe" 5 By town , covered wich furfuraccous w \< - jiff of thO'peelingof tho cuticle ; tongue f . ^ j K and dry ; pulse 120 , and thready ; 3 lig " yJBm jactitation ; low muttering delirium '¦^§ 11 when roused sometimes coherently , sonw- _ ... B | g horently : he was in a sleepy ewnato * mm clearly moribund . " . ,, ¦ -Mm Old Saws and Proverbs . — A handsaw ^ , ;?« thing , but not to shave with ; a good ^ - 'M easily said as a bad one ; an inch is " ^ j- ; . JB in a man ' s nose it ' s the deal ; a W f , 0 ^ 11 amends for a broken head ; a little p « - . ,, ? . fwm rnninvnv Ifiiior novni- nr . 'iisflS hlS SUU . l v '" ' .. ill '' \« hH !

      ing brain was never lat ; an old xa « e ^ ^ m bo aught ; a wild goose neverJnia ,, ^ ffl word before is worth two behind ; 1 £% V . | I § the end of a feast than at the be S " ? 5 tlCr ; , M be not a baker if your head be ° f W ' : ^ keep the devil out than turn lum out .. * fo . ^ mak-e the most noise ; feather by fed * \^ Jm is plucked ; an old knave is no l * ^ * j thrive than never do well ; **** * * & *? , « than a bad tenant ; a fool ki ° « » ° » ** M house than a wise man of another s - . , and a short tongue . in Hcinf .: & § Liverpool .- ! cotton ™* J 5 on * ' Liverpool , was burnt to the « " > " »« ^ V « last . The damages . are estimated * .- # which is covered by insurance . A P ^ in an opposite ^ Yarehouse , s ^' / £ tbejigf Wm catching , endeavoured to •«[ §| r but fell t 9 the ground , and waa KUieu , ^

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      J THE NORTHERN STAR ^ AimiL 21 , 18 . 49 . ' 7 . , _ _ -- ¦ - ni l iii - jmom ^ ' ' - » J ^

      Tub Cneatsst Hht1ox Eter Tcslishe). Price Is. Cd., A V:. " . ;-Nd Elegant Edition, Witii Steel Kate Of On Author, Of P/Use's Political W03ks.

      TUB CnEATSST HHT 1 OX ETER TCSLISHE ) . Price Is . Cd ., A v :. " . ; -nd elegant edition , witii Steel Kate of On Author , of P / USE'S POLITICAL W 03 KS .

      A Bm-Eii Wish.—"May You Lire In Bad Com-

      A Bm-Eii Wish . —" May you lire in bad com-

      Pnce Sixpence, William The Norman, Or The Tyitaot Displayed, A Tragedy, By H, Otlei". •

      Pnce Sixpence , WILLIAM THE NORMAN , or the TYItAOT DISPLAYED , a Tragedy , by H , Otlei " .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 21, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1519/page/4/