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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1S49.
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      Just published , No . III . Pries Sixpesce , 0 ? THE COMMONWEALTH . " TITE COMMONWEALTH" will be th » Representative f the Chartists , Socialists , and Trades Unlenisls , In tho Monthly Press . CONTEXTS ! 1 . What is to be done with Ireland ? 2 . The Wearer ' s Daughter . 3 . Extinction of Pauperism . 4 . Popular Cause in Europe . 5 . Social Effects of Peasant Proprietorship , 6 . The Hero . 7 . Events of the Month .

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      REGISTER ! REGISTER ! REGISTER ! Sow Published , and readj for circulation , by the Naiioxal Election asd Registration Committek , A COMPLETE HAND BOOK AND GUIDE TO REGISTRATION , compiled from the Reform Act and other Parliamentary Papers , making the subject of Registration so plain and simple , as to bring it within the capacity of all classes . Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Headpassage , Paternoster-row , London , and geld by all booksellers in the United Kingdom . Price , only Thkek Pbncb . May also be had of the Secretary , Jaubs Gkabsby , 8 , Koali ' s Ark-court , Stangate , Lambeth .

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      J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums , sent herewith . — Fos Victim Fdsd . — Mr . Knott , 3 d ; Mr . Smith , 6 d ; From Hyson Green , Is 3 d ; Mr . Burgin , 6 d ; Mr . Jlenson , 2 d ; Mr . Chipindale , fid ; Mr . Kirk , In . The ietteh . forwarded to us l > y our friends from the Vale of Leven , descriptive of the suffering of friend Thomason , while employed in that locality , has been mislaid , otherwise it should , according to their request , have been published . We request them to transmit us another copy of the biography of this much injured individual , and it shall appear in next week ' s Star . ijg * "We hare received a long letter from Mr . Nixon , for which we have no room . Mr . Nixon , who was one of the Kirkdale victims , states that he was discharged from prison on the 9 th ult , having suffered his sentence of four months' imprisonment ; he was detained four months in Kirkdale Gaol previous to his trial , where he endured the treatment of a felon . Mr . N . says ,, that

      l > eing unable to obtain employment , he intends on Saturday ( tills day ) to beat Kirkdale , and to leave Liverpool on Wednesday next , for Scotland . That he will be in Glasgow on Thursday , and Edinburgh on Saturday , the 12 th inst ; after which ho will visit Newcastle , Yorkshire , London , Birmingham , and the Potteries , in search of employment , and that should any locality » &if the places iuentioned vequh'e his sei'viees , lie will lecture , the proceeds to be given for the maintenance ol the KirVdale victims ; their wives and families , or any other object the council may flunk proper . All letters to be directed for him at the Post Office , Glasgow ; the Post Office , Edinburgh ; at Martin Jude's , Xewcastle-on-Tyne ; and to Mr . George White , House of Correction , Kirkdale . Mr . Nixon refers parties desirous of ascertaining his character to the Manchester Council , and the Directors of the National Land Company .

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      IRELAND . TYRANTS , BEAD AND TREMBLE . " What the eye does not see the heart does not fed for , " may be true , when confined ¦ within moderate limits , and when the appalling scenes may have occurred in some distant land , with whose people , whose manners and customs , the reader may have little sympathy , and of " \ vhom they may have as slight a knowledge ; hut when Englishmen , separated from Ireland hut hy the channel—governed by the same laws as their neighbours—for the most part speaking the same language—trading in the same markets—and tributary to the same monarch , peruse the daily sufferings and barbarous treatment to which their Irish brethren are subjected , the recurrence of such scenes

      cannot familiarise them to the same extent of apathy or disregard , as they may rest assured that that life-destroying panic which has struck their sister , will , and that ere long , reach their own shores , and as unsparingly decimate their own population . In the horrifying recitals of only one day , and but from few parts of the country , which we publish at foot , the reader " will discover some slight hope for the future if he is moved to sorrow and repentance for the past He will find that the vultures- of the law , as well as their dupes and their prey , are- now beginning to taste of that calamity of which they and the flock to which they belong have been the chief promoters .

      As long as the poor and unprotected -cottier husbandman and labourer were the only sufferers , and as long as the harpies could prey upon the remnant of the small farmer ' s industry , they were the shield of the Constitutionthe defenders of the throner-the supporters of religion— -and the ready volunteers of the Government when loyalty was considered the-hest title to patronage . Then thevoice of the dying was smothered , and the complaint of the injured was translated into legal justice ; state necessity , or dispensation of Providence . ,

      The cormorants , so long as they co ' uldlfve npon the credulity or the weakness of an outlawed race , were deaf to complaint ; hut , alas those drones that sip the honey of other men's industry will now become Venomous stinging wasps , and their former patrons , the' Saxon Government , will very speedily discover that an "unemp loyed lawyer is a more troublesome and disloyal subject . than . a starving peasant , whom he has ruthlessly robbed and- whose death he looks upon ag ainen ! W \ s ; !

      Whenthereader calmly peruBes and seriously reflects upon the annexed description of Irish suffering and misery , and when he considers that the theatre of such scenes ie the most fer-

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      tile land , peopled with a most industrious population , and hlossod with the most genial climate ; when he hears of the laud lying waste the inhabitants ready to brave all dangers in quest of another home—workhouses crammed , and beds supplied to living paupers by the eviction of their former occupants by deathho must blush , in this state ' of things , to find the time of the British Parliament occupied with Marriage Bills , Highway Bills , Sheep-Stealing Bills , Navigation Bills , Clergy Relief Bills , and Votes of Thanks to Lord Govgii for the murder of men defending their property against usurpers .

      As long as misery , destitution and famine are confined to one class , and that the weakest —because they have no channel through which their complaints can bo heard—their oppressors affect a charitable sympathy for their sufferings ; but when the malad y reaches other classes , and when they become participators in those sufferings and misery created by their ownapathy—nay , by their own iniquity—they will then begin to understand that a working industrious population constitute the basis oi society , while tinselled peers and pampered monarchs are but the useless decorations that could be most profitably dispensed with .

      The blood of every man—that is , of every feeling man—must curdle at the recital of such facts . And when this country and Ireland are gorerned upon the principle of justice , and when such a thing as "Death from Starvation" will be looked upon as a romance , those who live to see such times—and wo are strong in hope that the old , the grey , and the decrepit will see them—will then begin to reflect upon their own apathy , their own indifference , nay , their own criminality , which thus tolerated the murder of thousands , nay of millions , to uphold the prerogative of units . But , holding strong political principles , let us nevertheless not lose sight of the fact— -that-, it 10 not to the present government , nor ' ,-indeed , to any former government , that the miseries of the Irish people are to be attributed . On

      the contrary , they are to be ascribed , and solely , to the mismanagement of laitdlords , the tyranny of middlemen , the plunder of lawsharks , and the disunion of the people . True , we may be told that in all such cases —nay , in all cases where injustice ' or mismanagement is likely to interfere to the extent of national suffering and inquietude—the Government has not only a right to interfere , but it is its duty to do so . This we . admit as a principle , but let it be borne in mind , that England and Ireland , at the present moment , are as much governed according to the feudal system as they were before the passing of the Reform Bill—a fact strongl y corroborated by the fraternisation of English and Irish landlords on the question of the Sixpenny Rate in Aid .

      Every reader -who calmly and dispassionatel y peruses the debates in the House of Commons which have any reference to landlord privilege , must see the difficulty which stands in the way of any diminution of those old feudal ri ghts . A Landlord and Tenant Bill , which proposes to g ive compensation to the industrious fanner who expends his own industry and capital upon the improvement of the landlord ' s property , is met by a general assault , and instantly crushed . And if Irish misery and suffering had been marked by anything short of death , we should have hailed it as the warning voice of a nation . . But we cannot reconc le to ourselves any change , however beneficial , that is produced by millions of deaths .

      The landlords of Ireland must suffer , and the harpies of the law have had their taste of sorrow , because they arc the mortgagees of the landlords—they hold then-title deeds ; they will take every advantage of their poverty , created by mismanagement—and , ere long , we shall have a crop oflegal harpies as a substitute for feudal tyrants . The reader will naturally ask , if the Reform Bill was not mainly projected for the destruction of this feudal power , and how is it that , in the teeth of such a great political change , the abuses can still continue ? The answer ,

      however , is simple—namely , because the Chandos clause emasculated the Reform Bill , and constituted a hundred and eight thousand tenants at will—mere serfs of the landlordsas the balance of the rural constituencies . These one hundred and eight thousand slaves obey the lash or the call of their taskmasters ; they must vote , not according to their opinions or presumed interest , but according to the dictates of their chiefs , and hence it is that we now find that great reaction in favour of Protection , with which the feudal lords threaten their opponents .

      Here follows the sad , the miserable , the heart-sickening catalogue of Irish suffering , and we implore the English reader to bear the fact in mind , that injustice , tolerated by , him , will surely and speedily re-act upon himself : — State of the Irish Law and Equiti Courts . —It did not require a legal enactment for superseding certain powers of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer , to paralyse the business of the equity as well as the common law courts . Never was there so dull a term as the present , nor one so unprofitable to hoth branches of the legal profession . Experienced practitioners assure me that £ 3 , 000 will not circulate amongst the bar for the entire term . In fact , the famine has reached the hall of the Four Courts , and the emptv bass of the lawyers exhibit the universal pressure oi

      the destitution . The Court of Exchequer , with its manifold functions of law , equity , and revenue , is kept busy enough ; but the Queen ' s Bench , which used to be borne down by the weight of causes , now rises every day at ! twelve or one o ' clock , from the sheer want of anything to . do ; and the Common Hens , as usual , has little or nothing to afford occupation to the judges . The Court of Chancery isstill kept going with causes in the list . The Rolls Court is full of business , produced , however , by the deplorable condition of the country . On Monday , and again yesterday , the Master of the Rolls was occupied with applications from tenants seeking reductions in their rents , on account of " the badness of the times , " or for liberty to surrender their farms . Thus , upon all sides , and by every section of the communitv , the effects of the protracted famine are most

      severely felt , and in the legal professions there are now pretty manifest indications of a panic . The following horrifying picture of the western districts is given by a correspondent of the Evening Packet : — " Dear Sir , —I have been for the last ten days through the counties of timeriel ? , Givlway , dare , and across thence to the King ' s County . All attempts to depict the existing state of the misery of the masses beyond the Shannon must come utterly short of the truth . All the tract of country from Killaloe to Portumna , on the Galway side of the Shannon , is Iving waste and uncultivated . About three out of four of the miserable huts are unroofed . Some of the former inmates are dead—some in the union ; and some fciv huddled together in one or two of the huts still existing . The men generally have perished . With large tracts of land

      lying unculti vated , a few miserable men are employed on the roads—at what wages , think you 1 One pound of yellow meal—ie . less' than one penny per diem !!! Great God , how is this to cure famine ? If ting process of depopulation goes on a few months more , you may seek an able-bodied man in vain for twenty or thirty miles of country . —Apiil 28 th , 1849 . " Stati of the West . —The Rer . Mr . Anderson ; the Protestant- rector of Balliiirobe , lias , iu a second letter addressed to the Premier , furnished come additional details of the progress of mortality j n the union of which he is the chaplain . . The rev . gentleman , after a few preliminary remarks , observes : — "As matters progress ; we shall be familiarised with returns of mortality like as in railway traffic , except that the passengers in this case are from time to eternity ; and I grieve to tell your lordship that - the

      return tor tue wecK ending April 28 , 1849 , gives the increased amount of 136 regintered deaths on the workhouse books , incluiirt of nineteen who died in our temporary cholera hospital since Wednesday last , but exclusive of the deaths in the extern fever sheds . Thus the mass of poverty and wretchedness is still most frightful . 'Tis ' true we have not this week ten , nor even five , in a bedin the hospital , as before ; but this paradox will find its Solution in the dreadful fact , that the poor wretches who , in their awful destitution , took refuge in the workhouse , are now escaping therefrom as fast as they can , in the hope ( vain hope alas JJthatdeathJnay not all at once overtake them elsewhere . And to what is all this state of things to be attributed * My Lord , causes mustprouuee their own effects , and so it is in this case likewise . The poor are lost by famine ; they have neither food nor raiment in any way commensurate with their wants , or even the necessities of nature , and the painful consequence is , that they are droppmf into their graves in multitudes . What , then , are the

      wrettnes to do , or what , I will say , the still more wretched landlords ? " \ Ve have no manufactures , like' favoured England ; we have but the soil to till , and thathas denied to ! us for three years past its wonted reproductive bounty . ; Hence we are bankrupt in the widest sense ; and all the time , wmie angry , discussions seem as if they would never end , the poor are perishing , and Ueunburied in heaps . " " Bi JEt ? i condition of the county of Mayo is thus Sft" » £ . f ^ JW" <*• Ct outt&km ) ; - "Tlw n . elancuolj condition of every clasi of this county ig daily be-C T ™ S ^^ y r * ?* ptib i ' ' unfortunately , it u not confined to a single clasg , but ranges through every gr « de , from the pauper claimant for eleemosynary relM to the once independent first-class fcrmer-irom the land-Io ** Sl ! Pf - ? -P «* M » m - to the noble : peer of £ 20 , 000 . au are n ™ g . . in * , . the general mass of deep distress , pnvafaon , and ; nun , which ig fast accumulating throughout tluidoomed par £ of Ireland .. Tew TnWd if any , will be able ; . to . struggle ; against the c 6 mbC £ ' of misfortune which summniU us . . The majority of the mu per populatien « . fiutsinkingirom inamCIto plimk ture . grareA The small farmer claei are suffering the

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      greatest hardships , denied out-door relief because they ftujgwith tenacity to their littte hoMmg * . X ****™ sun k into death , the tielintt of UUngeV . flUi lllUlCltO CXc ^ ivc farmer and pmier class , once the mo t important grj . de in the cou . try are swept away ^ Uveen ^ Pooi Law faction and destructive Free Trade , riio merchant and tradesmanare one by one passing a" » n ntou" < - ' ' ° ° " and lastly the landocracv are spoiled , overcome , and B = ^ SM 3 !^« S ? S 52 st sffittysftBRaJMWsss-Sawsafe'i'Sta S' ^ s of 400 have absconded , pretoriMr . to die bjthe wajside ritherthau become victims of disease in that charne - Cuse Thecholera issaidto be on the increase m Bal-Unrobe and the surrounding villages . ; .. . . .

      Who , in tlie teeth of the CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL , would renture further to comment upon the Insli LIFE INSECURITY QUESTION ?

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . After a long and tedious gestation , the House of Commons has at length been safoly delivered of the two great (!) measures—the Rate in Aid Bill , and the Navigation Laws Bill . It remains to he seen how the Upper House will deal with hoth . In the meantime , having "turned out" these two specimens of legislative workmanship , the Commons have set to work upon another measure intended to improve the condition of Ireland , and which was very clearly introduced hy Sir John

      Romilly on behalf of the Government . ' The object of the new Bill is one which all parties unite in declaring to he absolutel y necessary , and , in fact , an indispensable preliminary and foundation for any future permanently remedial plans . All admit that facilities for transferring encumbered estates , together with undoubted titles , from the bankrupt . or deeply mortgaged nominal owners to new proprietors possessing capital and enterprise , must constitute the initiative of a loner series of other

      measures . As long as the soil remains in the possession of these beggared landlords , it is useless to them , and to everybody else—its liberation is the very first step of the curative process . This " great fact" was , however , quite tis apparent , and quite as commonly admitted last year , and the year before thatj' as it is this . So tommon , so apparent , that those dullest of all dullard Whig Ministers

      perceived that the time had come for the thing to be done . They accordingly essayed the task , and , after much delay and many dumpings and changings , at last , succeeded in passing a measure so emasculated , mutilated and puny —by reason of their deference to landlord aud lawyer influence—that every one who knew anything of the subject confidently predicted , it would prove an abortion . It has done so . Is was ' one of their boasted remedial measures '

      of last year ; and it . has utterly failed ; because it was like all the other plans proceeding front Whigs—altogether incommensurate with the evil it professed to remedy . : Sir . R . p £ Bt , howevei' , in his outline of a schemefor replanting Ireland , proposed a Commissionfordoingtheworkapurtfromtheclumsy , cumbrous , and most expensive machinery of the Court of Chancery , The mischief is pressing , and demands immediate and practical abatement ; whereas , everybody knows that however numerous the roads into Chancery may be ~

      few indeed are they who ever find their way out again . , The present Lord Chancellor himseTf has liadthe ; candour to confess , that after . iiis long experience of theCourt over which lie " , presides , he would certainly advise any friend of his to submit to almost any conceivable loss or injury , rather than go into the Court of Chancery . The feeling of all classes when they hear of a Chancery suit ,. is , that the case is hopeless ; and we have often , thought that the celebrated line from Dante ' s ¦ " Inferno" -. : - ;

      "AU . hope abandon , ye who enter here , " might be , with great propriety , inscribed as a motto over the entrance which leads to the dark and mysterious regioiM iu shkh M # fr

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      ters " and " Vice- Chancellors" hold the souls of suitors in torture , and their property in Pd BuUhe Whigs had not the courage to dream of superseding this clumsy and useless , if no obstructive , piece of m achinery . In their bill of last year they referred its working entirely to tho Court of Chancery , because that Court hap hitherto been entrusted with the settlement of all conveyances of property , involving equitable considerations , and the balancing of opposing claims . Its utter unfitness to discharge the particular duty they thrust upon it , in any' . TT i ,,-ir-.. ni . n « i /> nii / ii > d >> . lin ] f 1 t . hfi Kfinls

      thing like time to produce the effect intended , was , we daresay , as plain to them as to any one else . B . ut Chancery was far too powerful a giant for them to grapple with . No sooner , however , did Sir Robert Peel propose to set it aside , and create a tribunal expressly for the purpose of attending to this business , aud that with powers aud under arrangement that would make it efficient , than tho Whigs caught up the idea , and with a complacency aud a smirking smiling air of superior wisdom , —which is quite diverting when quo thinks of

      its origin—have embodied it in a new Bill for Facilitating tho Saleof Encumbered Estates in Ireland . Sir John Romilly judiciously said very little about his still-born progeny of last year , under a very eimiW title , and while -we give him credit for the unusually lucid explananation of theleadingprovisions and general scope of the Bill just introduced , we think he showed bad taste in not frankly acknowledging the obligation the Government-were under to its real author . Sir Robert , ou Hie other hand , deserves all the credit due to him for a frank and

      cordial approbation of the measure , without in the slightest or most remote way reminding them of that obligation , or taking credit to himself for having suggested it . We shall in future stages have ample opportunities of discussing the measure in detail , and therefore , will merely gay at present , that while , generally speaking ; the machinery seems well

      calculated to effect the specific object aimed at , —namely , the transference of estates from beggared and nominal , to wealth y and real proprietors , —the concoctors of the measnre must not forget that that is only one of the series of large and important measures which are required for the complete and satisfactory settlement of the Irish « ' difficulty . '' These measures should be framed with a view to

      their connexion with , and bearing upon , each other , ' so as to form a consistent whole . So far as we have yet seen , we very much doubt the possession of the power to devise such a policy on the part of the present possessors of power . As , however , they have commenced by stealing one important partof Sir R . Peel ' s scheme , we do * not / see any reason why they should refrain from appropriating the remainder wholesale , with such other " waifs and strays '' as they can most conveniently pick up in other quarters .

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      iilJBi RECEIPTS OF THE NATIONAL LAND GQMPANY Fok ma week Esdiso TjaunBDAT , Mat 3 , 1849 . SHARES . psvvieh .. 8 j 9 0 Covem «* J 1 J ? w ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ° 13 4 H-Gnu&tis . oil 0 $ 25 ? t-mV 5 S C R -l ' a « ison .. 0 t ( i Aflw ! " ^ 2 ° ° W . M'Donnell .. 0 IS 0 Market Laving- G . H . Chatwin .. 0 2 0 nw i ¦ ' ° 5 ° C . Mowl .. o J G Birmingham , B . Moss ' .. 0 0 0 Slup .. 3 e 0 j , vigors " .. o 2 fi Nottingham .. 0 7 4 Preston , Brown 2 12 8 « ± Slcaford .. 0 3 0 ' EXPENSE FUND . Ipswich .. 0 2 0 Birmingham , ..... Kotherliam .. 0 2 0 Goodwin , <" . 0 10 GIossop .. 110 0 Nottinghan / ., 0 2 6 Birmingham , . / ' Ship .. 020 / £ 228 Preston , Brown 0 . 0 2 / ^^^^ . ' ¦ . * totals ' . Land Fund . „ " / ot io z Expense ditto . ' / " . "' 2 1 l f Bonus ditto ¦ .. ;/ " ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . £ 1 jo fc ^ r ¦ H / ¦ -= ¦•• Returned Aid Money , Ac . ¦ ! " .. ' . ;;; 15 0 0 ' ¦ -, ¦ . ¦ - ' ¦ ¦ ' . ; ¦ . - . . ; . ' j £ 172 13 2 T . Ci-iRK , Cor ; See . . -- ¦; ; .. ., P . M'GiuiH , Pin . Sec .

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      . " EXECUTIVE FUND . 1 fteceived by S . KYDD . -Stockport . Ss . ; Manchester / lOs , V ICTIM FUND . m ! i& n P O ^ ce .-roftsmouth , per I . J . Merrj-W « 1 U T" ^ Olvcdb J -: KTTO ; -Crown r td Anchor Hall Locality , 5 s . Wd . ; Norfolk Arms ; 1 b . ; Four Brothers . * . , FOR WIVES AND FAWltlES OF VICTIMS . ¦ Heceirea by Wit-RnnKCX ' few Friends , " Stoke- upon-Trent , p « r Bob Charter , ' 5 s . Carlisli Charabcre' M"T « f ' 10 s . Swansea , per" J ., ' Phillips , lgg . : Nottingham , f . - ty «« t , 3 s . 3 d . ; Freston . ^ 0 ^ of Lcctur . V » r per J . Brown , I 2 g . ; Dunoon , Fifesliire per G . Br ° > fiSl , NATI ONAL , VICTIM : AND DEFENCE FUND . KeceiTOd . byJoHH ABNorf ^ -Mr . Kider ; as per Star , ^ |! v | i ; C'owaanaAnchovnaU ^ r ^ pcr B , S ^ l ^ I - ™ -1 Mn Newbv , Tower-Hamlets fid . ; Ernest i > ° ^ cali ty , Pgr Mr , . Sf-Vtfgh ; Ss " ; -Mr . R , 'k ; 28 , Goldenbmv per T . Brown ,. 4 LlJd . ; HeVniit / Bedford > f 9 > 8 * E .. Warren , : 5 s . ; SGlobfc and Friend ^ per Ditto , 4 s . 44 , if . *? " Hall , per Ditto , 3 d . 6 d . ; Total ; £ i Ob . lljtf . ** tl » 8 » S to . be divided . between thirty-two widows and u £ wards of seventy : arphans the Committee feel compelled to ^ ^ " ^ uleesfluSte flre ftr « arde « l forthwith they mu £ t resign . - ¦ f , Astim , oit '

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      COMICAL HARRY AND THE LABOUR QUESTION . On Thursday ( this night ) " Comical Harry , " alias ' " Lord Brougham , " alias " Punch ' s Stock-in-Trade , " presented a petition to the " old ladies" sittiug in the Lords , from the * ades of Londonderry , praying for an adjustment of the Labour Question ; and let the reader peruse the Ex-CiiANCELLOlt ' s commentary upon the labourers' case . Hove it is : — ¦ .

      ORGANISATION OF LABOUR . Lord Broughasi presented a petition from the trades of Londonderry , praying the House to adopt measures to prevent the downward tendencj- ' of wages in consequence of the competition of labour and for the appointment of a Minister of Labour . Now this was just tho absurd theory of Louis Blanc , and the persons who would suffer the most for the adoption of such a plan would be the petitioners themselves . If there were no competition of labour , there would bu no competition of capital , aud if there were no competition of capital thews would be no wages fop labour , lie had the greatest respect for these petitioners , but the greatest contempt . for , and indignation against , those who , knowing better , had misled them .

      Now , what would become of the Ex-Chan-CELLOll ' s salary of £ 5 , 000 a year for doing nothing , if the Labour Question was so far settled that a contented and happypeoplewould not require the construction of law quibblers to establish their rights . . Has not this Labour Question—no matter whether as described by Adam Smith , Proudiion , Louis Blanc , by Protectionists , Free Traders , shopkeepers , and employers of every description—led to more wars , revolutions , bloodshed , litigation , murder , and plunder , than all other questions put together ? And yet , in this age of reason , when all countries are engaged in the proper adjustment of this

      complicated question , it is reserved for an Ex-Lord Chancellor of England—the keeper of a dead King ' s conscience—to proclaim the impossibility of interfering with the question . It may be that the trades and working people of England have been urged on , and properly so—to the advocacy of the rights of labour ; bat if there is any country in the world in which interested demagogues and agitators have studiously avoided all discussion of the Labour Question—that country is Ireland ; and of all parts of Ireland which would be least likely to propound any Communist or revolutionary doctrine , that town is the royal-loyal Orange town of Londonderry .

      Now , in the petition , ' or rather in the naked cemment upon it by "Comical Harry "—what identity , of the most distant nature , does it bear to the principles of Louis Blanc ? and by what rule of reason are the people to understand that the competition of capitalists for labour in anoverstockedmarket , is the greatest benefit to those who have / their labour to sell ? We trust that the day is not far distant , when the £ 5 , 000 a year paid to a willing idler , will be applied to the employment of reproductive labour ; and then , perhaps , when our comical friend is again compelled to livq upon his wits , he will understand that'the . labourer is worthy

      of his hire , and that hire is not to be based upon the caprice of anidloprofittnonger—measured by , the necessities of an unwilling idle competitive ftasorvo . Howbeit , Ave rejoice to find that theroyal- loyal Protestant Orangemen of Ulster , have at length discovered that to them , as well as to the English people , and their Irish Catholic countrymen , the Labour Question is now THE QUESTION—the knife-and-fork question — tho life-and-dcath question—and , as with love so with loyalty ,

      " when poverty comes in at the door , even the Londonderry loyalty flies out at tho window . " We rejoice to find , that as " a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind , " our Irish friends have at length embarked in the life-boat with their English brethren . We regret extremely Avehave not been able to procure a copy of the petition , as from it we would most possibl y discover that the English and Irish Labour-mind , are now set by the same dial , and , for the first time , embarked in the same cause .

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      The Northern Star, Saturday, May 5, 1s49.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , MAY 5 , 1 S 49 .

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      The long-delayed Bill , by which it is proposed to enable Baron Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament , stood for another reading on Monday night . The " Times ' of that day , however , contained an announcement , that in consequence of the State Ball at Buckingham Palace , which was to come off iu the evening , the Bill would be further postponed till next Monday , when , if the fates are propitious , it is , after tho interval of many weeks , again to make its appearance on the Parliamentary stage . We are almost inclined to say

      that the citizens of London and their Jewish representative deserve to be treated in this cavalier way , for the supiueness and indifference they have shown in the matter . Lord John knows he can calculate upon their asinine qualities , and , therefore , "takes it coolly . " It is . curious to look at the position in which the City has been placed ever siuce thelastGeneralElection . Lord John , ofcourse , is too much occupied with the duties of his position , as First Lokd of the Treasury , to have much time to spare for his constituents .

      If he had more , it is questionable how far the duties of a representative of a particular constituency are compatible with the discharge of Ministerial and Imperial functions . Having thus practically lost one Member , one would have thought that the citizens would have been peculiarly careful in their selection of . the three other Members , in order that tho interests of the largest , most populous and most wealthy commercial city in the . world might be properly attended , and the deduction of one Member be compensated by

      extra energy and ability on the part of those who reall y could attend to their business . So far from that , one of their Members has never yet taken his seat ; one of them is in very infirm health , and can but seldom attend * personally to Parliamentary business . The other is also an aged and failing , though highly respected gentleman ; and the conscquenco is , that the city may be said to be practically unrepresented , as iaras . its . own choice of Members is concerned .. . We should imagine that the Jews , at the next general election , will remember the tenderness which Lord John has

      shown in carrying out those engagements , on the faith ol which they gave him their votes . Futile and unsatisfactory as were the excuses for previous shortcomings and delays , the last must have " capped the climax" —think of an important act of national justice being delayed because there was a dance at the Palace ! Ah ' . Lord John , what between the falling away of the Dissenters and the Jews , we suspect that you will not long have to boast , as you did at the Lord Mayor ' s " spread " the other day , that you united the dignities of First Minister of the Crown and Representative of the first City iu the Empire !

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      Sir J . P . akijcgton ' s renewed attempt to prevent Bribery and Corruption at Elections , does not promise to be a very successful one . Members of all parties are exceedingly virtuous in the abstract , but -when they come to matters of . business and detail they exhibit a sensitive nervousness which is very diverting , Good , : innocent souls ; they are all very anxious and most sincerely desirous to put a

      stop to bribery , but they do not know how to do it , and in every plan submitted to them for the purpose , they find so many flaws that the evil remains UKtouched . Mr . Hume made an open confession on the subject , accompanied by a suggestion , which we hope will not be lost sight of in future discussions on this subject . The Member for Montrose thought , twenty-two years since , that bribery could be repressed by legislative enactments . Ho is now convinced of his error . Ee sees that it is utterly hopeless to try it in that way . But ho has disco * Tercel an effectual remedy—Extension of tha Suffrage and the Ballot . * Give us that , and bribery and corruption will be effectually and permanently extinguished . But honourable ,

      ingenious , and pure-minded Members laugh and shake their heads at that suggestion . It is by far too sweeping and radical a remedy for their tastes . They have no objection to dabble a little in " smallgoes" and talk purity iust for the sake of keeping up appearances , but to make such changes as would deprive them and their class of the monopol y of political power and influence which they now enjoy—no ! "that is rather too much of a good thing . " Thus the purity and political virtue of the House of Commons expends itself in words—political Pharisees , they are capital hands at making professions of faith , but their practice by no means squares with their professions . Humbug ibr ever . '

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      Offend phi - t , - Akron ' s famous wenees Bill , wfooh , . Mr . , Drummond

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      ,. T 1 ie division upbnMr . Ewart ' S annual motion tor the Abolition of Capital Punishments , proves that the question is ' ripeiiing for a settlement . . At first the House was almost invariabl y " counted out , " when the motion stood for . digeuggion ; next it was somewhat ummarily and ' contemptuously negatived by large . ' majorities ' ...: Perseverance and

      determination , united to industry and care in the collection and selection offsets and arguments on the pavt of it » advocates , hare at length placed the question in such a position within Parliament , that it ' s final settlement is now merel y a question of time . Sir George Grey ' s official speech in opposition , was but the ghost of his former vigorous defences of the gallows and thV hangman , ; The ^ ucces * and approaching ; . triuniph ; 6 f jiho ; an ti-haneinff party should be a stimulus and au ' example to the friends of a Manhood SufiraW &K country everything ^ can . be achievitrS

      acmeved , and the people whn wjfi „ r : i " m ^^ m ^

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      The question of the Slarc Trade , and , indirectly , the propriety of maintaining the African Squadron , for the professed purpose of putting it down , has been brought under the notice of the Commons by Mr . M , Gibson . The case altogether presents a curious illustration of the contradictions ¦ which exist in the national character . At the instigation of the Anti-Slavery Society , wo , some years ago . abolished slavery in our own Colonies , forced our co-Jo ' nists to sell their slaves to us at a price we named ourselves , aud commenced , in conjunction with other maritime nations , a . crusade

      against the . Slave Trade , which was declared to bo piracy and ordered to be treated assueh . For years this went on , and everybody held his head up with pride , on account of the philanthropy , purity , and disinterested benevolence exhibited b y the nation in this matter . By and by another society , by means of a vigorous agitation , inoculated the public with the opinion that to "buy cheap and sell dear " was the alpha and omega of political , commercial , and social knowledge . The restrictions which prevented or neutralised the importation of slave-grown sugars were thrown

      down , or so much modified , that in fact they ceased any longer to act as a barrier to their importation . Our Colonists , who were prevented . from availing themselves of the labour of the slave , were forced to compete with the planters of Brazil , Cuba , and Porto Rico , who , in spite of our pretended Aflican blockade , get as many slaves as they want . The consequence is , that our Colonies are ruined , and in such a state of disaffection , that they are not unlikely to cast off allegiance to this conntry ; while , at the same time , after the expenditure of millions sterling , and the loss of thousands of lives upon a pestilential coast , tho Slave Trade is universally admitted to be

      larger than it was in 100 ? ; and the horrors of the middle passage have augmented in like proportion . Our policy has neither been based upon one principle nor the other . We . have neither been consistent Free Traders , nor consistent Philanthropists ; and , the consequence is , it has resulted in mischief to everybody . Above all , it has failed to put down the Slave Trade . But , despite this failure— 'despite the fact , apparent to every man of common discernment , that from the inherent nature of the case , our continued interference must be as mischievous as it has been hitherto , Lord Palmeuston clings to the antiquated squadron which constitutes such a drain on tho

      treasure and the lives of Englishmen . The House of Commons agrees with him , and so to that sore place no plaster is to be annlind

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      humorously described to be a Bill for enabling everybody in Ireland to arrest everybod y else—was discussed on Wednesday , aud , like its predecessor , thrown out . It appears that the poor famishing wretches in that country cast an unholy and covetous glance at the flocks of the landlord s aud fanners , aud the conversion of sheep \ Q { 0 mutton , without the usual preliminary process of paying for them , is growing alarmingl y common . In order to stay the progress of this war upon the sheep , Mr . Boujike proposes" that every man in whose house mutton is discovered shall be dragged before a humomuslv described to be a Bill fn ~

      magistrate , to give an account of the manner in which he came by it ; and if his explana . tion was not satisfactory , that he mi ght be treated as though he were a criminal ! These are singular illustrations of the force of habit and . education on the landlord-intellect of Ireland , and they throw a sad li ght upon the nature of the relations which must have subsisted between them and the people , when landlordism was rampant . Thank heaven ! the potato rot has overthrown that tyranny , and we trust that no means will be left untried by the friends of humanit y to prevent its restoration .

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      Instead of the Jew Bill , the working Members of the House were treated to the Navy Estimates , in Committee of Supply , after hav . ing had a few last words on the final stage of the Rate in Aid Bill . After the dancers had departed to don , their new clothes and " bravery , " a small knot of Officials , condemned to do " fatigue duty "—of Economists , who have no brains in their : heels and

      of unfortunates , who had not got an invitation to the dance—set to work in a very humdrnm sort of way , to talk about small savings , and old topics connected with the abuses and mismanagement of the Navy ; and upon these they continued to make a very late " sederunf —as tho Scotch say—reaching even into "the wee short hour ayont the twal , " How much benefit the nation received from their patriotic and self-sacrificing devotion , deponent aithnot . . ¦¦ - ¦ . .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 5, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1521/page/4/