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      IfASMXGDEW . —The annual tea party and hall was held on Saturday cyoning , the 7 th hist ., in the large room of tire Association , when about 200 persons sat down to an excellent tea . After the tables were removed , Mr . George Rushton was called to the chair . The folio wing sentiments were proposed and responded to : — " The people ; the ' lcgitimate source of wealth . " "Republicanism abroad and democracy at home . " " All the noble patriots who have fought and bled , and those in exile or in prison for their country ' s freedom . " Dancing and singing concluded the evening ' s entertainments . On Sunday , 31 r . J . Bentley , of Bury , delivered a , very instructive lecture in the same room to a numerous audience on the " livesand "Writings of \ Thonias Paine , "William Cobbett , and Itich ' ard Carlile . " In

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      3 Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums ( SrS ! for the Yi ^ m Fund , Vk . ; -Mv . & » »„ ,, Jl £ - ^ nSS x ^ Jfc Andrew Watte Liverpool iadknmv . ledges the receipt of 10 s . from a few Shartists afGeorgie MUls Scotland , per A . M'DonaW ^ ; . 12 s per James Brotfn , Preston , to be divided between tbemves of the ISrUdale prisons ¦ MAN-cfflESTEB . —We * ave received twelve quavte pages from the Manchester Chartist Council . purporting to bo a reply to the letter of Messrs . White , West ,: Leach , and Donovan , wbech appearal in last Saturday ' s Star . Havimr a-pvoss of ma tter oiuianu , and receiving the said communication on Thursday , under any circumstances we could not find room tor it this week . Had it been a communication of aivorclinarj ¦ character , we would have promised if s insertion in next Saturday ' s Starbut taking

      , into consideration its tone ana extent , we must decline taking » pon ourselves the responsibility of giving it pub ; licit }' . The Manchester CounciTs letter , if published , coulSuot so much "hart Messrs . White , TVest , Leach , and Donovan , as it would injure the Chartist cause . Of the Manchester Council we know nothing ; personally , but we take it for granted that they are Chartists , and have the confidence of their fellow townsmen , as as such we respect them . Messrs . White , West , Leach , and Donovan , are known to us ; they are also well known to , and honoured by , thousands of their countrymen in all parts of the country . We think the Chartist cause cannot afford to lose men . We think that proscription of Chartist leaders upon trivial grouuds has been already carried far enough—perhaps too for . We think that it would conduce to the success of our movement , to win back a few old friends , rather than drive away any of those who are still struggling and sufferine in' oiir cause .

      Messrs . 'White , "West , Leach , and Donovan are true men , and staunch democrats ; their talents rentier them an honour to their class , and their past services and present sufferings should endear them to t / ie noeple , We must say , it would only be fair that those who have , aujhtto allege against them should have the decency to keep back their accusations until the men are at liberty , and in a position to defend themselves . Taking this view of the question , we have resolved to forward the Manchester Council ' s letter to Mi-. O'Connor , that he , as proprietor of this paper , and principal representative of the Chartist party , may determine upon the fitness of its publication . Should the said letter appear in the Star , of course the same channel of communication witU tlie public will be open to Messrs . White , West , Leach , and Donovan . . V The letters of Messrs . Smith and Grocott we have also transmitted to Mr . O'Connor . ¦ . ¦ ' 'i- : Hcddersfield . — The notice is an Advertisement . • • • The Manchester Cobnchi recommend Mr . Poter Henvetta

      as a lit and proper person to deliver lectures on Chartism . Localities desiring his services . must . address , IMIcnretta , 12 , John street , Ancoats-street , Manchester . "W . Gbeenwood . — Respecting the " Illustrated Atlas , " write to the publisher , 100 , St . John's-street , London . C . Hepwohtii . —Thirteen and two tellers make the fifteen who voted for the Charter . J . Lenson . —It is impossible to give youv communication this week : it shall appear in our next . ¦•'¦•' Mr T . Sommersgim ., Woolwich . —Write to Mr . D . W . Ruffy , 13 , Tottenham-court , New-road , St . Pancras . We do not know the price . BoBNiEr . —All correspondence for the Burnley Chartist Association , must be addressed to Mr . J . Suttliffe , grocer , Goodham-hill , Burnley . TnE Victdis . —Mr . Fisher , of Great Yarmouth , is informed that John Arnott has not received the stamps alluded to , and J . A . requests that , for the future , all communications relative to the Victims will be addressed to him at 11 , Middlesex-place , Somers-town .

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE . My Friends , As you will see in my Letter to the "Working Classes , I have been very ill indeed for the last ten days , and I know of no medicine that is likely to relieve me , but the glorious sight of the Lancashire and Yorkshire men , women , and children , that I expect to see on Sunday next . I hope that the platform—or , rather , the speakers , will not be placed with their faces to the sun , and I hope that the meeting-room in Manchester will he well ventilated . Your faithful friend , Feargus O'Connor .

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      North-street , Tredegar Iron "Works , Monmouthshire , July 9 , 1849 . Honourable Sir , If any four acre allottee on the Bromsgrove Estate , is wishful to let his allotment , I shall be glad to take the House , ' Land , and Crop , at a rent of £ 16 a-yeaiyfora term of three or more years , payable half-yearly , and to have possession next mouth . I am , honourable sir , Your humble servant . Samuel Armstrong-. ToF . O'Connor , Esq . :,

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      - TO OUR AGENTS . - . ' - Notice is hereby given , that the Papers of every Agent , who does not forward ihe amount of Ins account in the following week , will be stopped , and no excuse will be taken ; as the Proprietor cannot suppl y those who do not pay their accounts , and for whose paper and stamps he is obliged to pay . This resolution will be criticall y observed .

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      . IRELAND . OH , BiTjOYFUL ! Talk no more of famine , yc base degenerate Irish . Has it not achieved for you the greatest triumph that any nation upon earth can boast of ? Are not four years of famine , destitution , decimation , weeping , wailing , and gnashing of teeth more than compensated for by the promised visit of her most gracious Majesty ? And will not every banner

      belonging to the Loyal Royal Repeal Association be unfurled , and flutter before the breezing cheers of a starving people , whose every recollection of the past must be buried in oblivion ? Is not your ancient castle to be furnished , decorated , and perfumed for the reception of royalty , and . has not the loyal enthusiasm of your Loyal Reform Corporation hushed every murmur and put its veto upon every demand , save and except the conferring of titles upon your Catholic brethren , at length admitted within the corporate pale ?

      You got Emancipation , which gave you patriotic representatives , generous , learned , and ingenuous Queen ' s Counsel , and , though last not least , just and impartial judges . Those great boons were only for the benefit of a heretofore excluded class , while the magic visit ' of Her Most Gracious Majesty will lead to national exultation , from the . conviction of the national benefit it will confer , . v St . Patrick merely drove the toads' down in the bogs and bothered all the vermin ; but Victoria , with her magic wand , ' will banish hunger from the' land and bother all starvation . "What a picture < A merry QuEEN , with a merry court , surrounded by herihorry phalanx , revelling in the midst of famine .

      "What times we live in , and how depraved is the mind of man , when he reflects that the amount expended upon this royal , bobbery would preserve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people ! Will Her Majesty visit the system-made rebels ? No . They are banished the land . Will she condescend to visit the loathsome charnel houses where her loyal subjects are penned up , Ijke sheep ill Smithfield Market ? Will she visit the mud hovels of her loyal subjects and distribute alms amongst the dying ? Is o ; in faith , the'veil will be drawn , o ' er Ireland ' s woes , and the cry of famine will be hushed in the bursting cheer of the loyal well-fed livers upon the people ' s destitution . ,

      But heed it not , ye starving Irishmen , it will furnish the Minister and the royal cortege with the strongest proof of Irish . loyalty , and the strongest refutation of Ivisb . suffering , and the to-necessity for doing anything for Ireland . From the Castle banquets , and the Cheers that follow the loyal toasts , the royal visitors will draw their conclusions of Irish prosperity . Victoriais the first . English Queen . that has condescended to visit her Irish territories . She is a woman , and , as a -woman j should be courteously' and respectfully received , ¦ but : lier ministers use her as a puppet , " upon reverence and devotion to which , they may hereafter be

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      ab \ e to base the loyalty of the Irish people and + heir own popularity . " What ragamuffin , what half-aaked female , will be allowed to pass the barricade of truncheons , by which majesty will ^ surrounded and whatchannel * there through which the real state of the nation can be communicated t 0 S i 8 ll ! X FIRST GENTLEMAN of the age , but the biggest blackguard m the world ( Geokgb the Fourth ) , visited his Irish subjects Daniel O'Connell , the

      ; leader of the Irish people , presented his Majesty with the olive branch upon his knees . His footstep has been carved upon the Irish shore ; he condescended to shake hands with an Irish peasant , who never washed his hand from that hour to the day of his death , least it might lose the royal perfume :. all was hilarity and jsy , sumptuous banquets , though a year of surpassing distress , and the magic wand of loyalty was to banish disloyalty for ever from the land .

      Ireland was then blessed ; Catholic and Protestant were to be for evermore united in the bond of fraternity . Howbeit , in the wiuter of the same year , Captain Rock and the White Boys , having discovered their share of the royal visit , broke out into all but open rebellion , and the promised measure of Emancipation , to expedite which was the main object of the royal visit , was postponed for nearly half a score of years . What measure , let us ask , is to be the

      result of the present royal visit ? ' Is it to be the endowment of the Catholic priesthood ? Is it to be the release of the Catholic people from the gripe of tho Protestant Law Church ? Surely it is not to be the Repeal of theUnion , or the holding alternate parliaments in ' . Dublin , based upon the magic influence that its ' scenery and the loyalty of its people has'had ' upon her Majesty . Ou * rulers are not aware of the anticipated effects from such a charm . They imagine that

      knighthoods , titles , honours , and distinctions , ; bestowed upon those who can raise the breeze of exultation , will be afterwards able to calm the hurricane of disappointment ; but they should draw wisdom from the past . Can they have forgotten the magic results anticipated from Her Majesty ' s visit to the present King of Claremont , then the King of the French , when the old woman ecstatically

      hugged the young lady , and conveyed her with firm step , in locked arms , on board tho royal yacht ? This was to have cemented an indissoluble union between the two nations . The loving cousins were to be for ever allies , and no distant erruption could ever destroy the halcyon calm . Now , how changed the scene . The then monarch is now the subject of the then rebel—a fugitive seeking refuge uiider Her Majesty ' s wing , and tho then rebel her dearlY beloved cousin and ally .

      Will our rulers never gather wisdom from the past ? And will they still hope to govern the growing mind of the age by the fusty records of barbarism ? Will they withhold what is due to justice , and might be prudently conceded , until it is extracted from fear , and surrender to "force , when an evil use may , perhaps , be made of it ? Do they imagine that the statistical folly of a Chancellor of the Exchequer , and the crafty defence of an Ex-Prime Minister , will stand for a moment before the evidence of increasing Poor Rates to support increasing pauperism ? Do they

      imagine that the mind of England is now so Stolid and obtuse as to admit of the measurement of prosperity by the increasing wealth and consequent satisfaction of a single class ? When they boast of the cheapness of tho people ' s food , and the comparative increase in the mouied wages of the workman , based upon the comparative cheapness of . provisions , are they foolish enough to imagine that the enlightened people of this country will take such a squinting , one-sided view of the question , as

      to base national prosperity upon class satisfaction ? Upon the contrary , will not the people , and naturally , say , in reply , "If your $ 100 will now do as much as , £ 150 formerl y didj ^ are : not £ 8 , 000 , 000 of Poor Rates , now measured by the same scale , equivalent to twelve . millions in former times ? " And is there any one who doubts that the greatest economy will be practised in the expenditure of the money of the rich upon the preservation of the lives of the poor ?

      The Session of 1849 is now drawing to a close—it will have cost the people nearly half a million of money in blue books and other rubbish . It has been one weak , washy , everlasting flood of incoherent rubbish , which in less than three years from this day the enlightened people will look upon as the stereotyped ignorance of their predecessors . . Six mortal months have been spent in jaw and clatter , and will any , the greatest statician , the most

      powerful analyser , or gifted prophet , point out one single benefit that has been conferred upon tho people . A heap of bills have been introduced , some mutilated , some passed , some withdrawn , and the most useful rejected . The interests of class have been advocated , while a measure for ihe better preservation of the lives of those who supply us with one of the greatest elements —fire—has been contumaciously cast in oblivion . But no matter , tho Queen is going to Ireland . We trust that she will be received

      with that courtesy and gallantry for which the Irish people arc distinguished , while we warn both English and Irish not to expect £ Hiy , the sli ghtest , benefit from the event , beyond the anticipated popularity expected to be redeemed by the English minister , and the hope that her magic breath will dispel the anticipated potato blight .

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      haws , and ike coughs , the dresses , the petticoats , the bustles , the bosoms , the necklaces , the bracelets , the lockets , and the rings , the shoes , fee stockings , and the ancles , the carriages , the horses , the liveries , tho perfumes , the pocket handkerchiefs , and the reticules or the nobility , are faithfully described ; and m Avhich this blaring , wide-mouthed , waddling frog caters for a little bit of aristocratic sentimentality , to relieve him from the Chartist stink , and the still more execrable effluvia from which even the Court of Bankruptcy cannot cleanse him .

      However , as this Mow caters for tho aristocracy upon the one hand , and for the frequenters of stews , brothels , and gin palaces upon the other ; and as now but few read his rubbish , we consign him to that oblivion for which nature designed him : we leave him to the cheering reflections of his gayer days , and trust he will find consolation in the reminiscence ; and if he does not , we commend to him the perusal of the following article , taken from tho " Dispatch" of last week , and which , ere now , has been read by hundreds for every one who peruses his trash ; and which , instead of perverting their minds , will enlighten their genius . It is an admirable article , and we commend it to the perusal of all parties , and all classes ;

      THE CHARTER . ( From the Dispatch , of July 8 th . ) Mr . feargus O'Connor has this Aveek brought the " Charter " before the House of Commons , in the shape of-a resolution approving of-its principles . Formerly such a motion , treading on tho heels of Mr . Hume's , and of the various attempts to secure Triennial Parliaments , thoIBallot , and such reforms as unite the goodwill of all the friends of progrosss , and sure to be supported by a very small minority , would have been inopportune , as showing a division in the camp . That danger is past . Our legion is a serried phalanx . Mr . Hume and his more immediate followers admit the whole Charter in principle , and only defer parts of it , on account of expediency and the chances of present success . The

      Chartists , on their part—no longer obstinate to claim all or none , no longer bent upon enforcing extreme rights by the physical force which puts all ri » ht oat of the question , and leaves might as the sole arbiter of justice—are disposed to help all who will frankly help them , though it be but a part of their claim . They not only agree in action with such men as Mr . Hume , who , allowing their natural right , think it unwise at present to prosecute it to the utmost , but even with those who . act upon tho minor principle , that , for the people to be well governed , they must be represented , though not in full proportion to their numbers . The experience of defeat when the entire party is such a national majority as , united , must insure victory , has taught

      the wisdom of union . Therefore it is that , at the great Marylcbonc meeting , in the Princess ' s Theatre , we find Mr . O'Connor , and evcn Hethcrington , side by side with Lord Dudley Stuart ; and that on the same night , in another crowded assemblage , ai Hackney , Sir W . Clay stands on the Same platform , for the same general purpose , as is much more liberal colleague , George Thompson . Even the Premier himself disclaims thetitle of " Finality John , " because he declares he never used the word " finality , " or intended the idea , and indignantly says "No ! no ! " to the assertion that he means the representation to remain as it is ; and distinctly states , in the discussion on the Charter , "I believe that it would be advantageous to the country , if a

      greater number of the working-classes were m possession of the Suffrage , and able to take part in the choice of roprosGntiitivos ; but I maintain that that ' object can be attained without sacrificing all the main principles'of our constitution . " The necessity , or , at least , tho " advantage" of change is therefore admitted liy all , from the most lukewarm to tile most ardent among ' Liberals ; the only questions arc those of time and degree . Therefore , though the Charter had but fifteen supporters against 224 , the cause -was advanced , rather than deteriorated by its discussion . Lord John , indeotl , in combating its princi ples , was obliged to resort to very stale tricks . The old folly , that if all men arc entitled to vote , ¦ wom en must be also , was raked up by the Premier , with the instance of Miss Harriet Martincuu as a

      political rcasoncv far superior to many men . Nature is very bountiful ; the offices of the two sexes are often interchangeable . A poor widower often makes an affectionate and successful nuvso ; a widow or a wife , whoso husband is incapacitated , takes the office of a man , thinks for the family , works for it and maintains it . Miss Biffin , having uo arms , cut out and painted watch-papors . with hoi toos . much better than many artists could with their fingers . But the two sexes are mainly divided in their functions , mental as well as bodily . The observer , physiological and phrenological , sees that this is intended . Women have no such stupid advocates as those who wish to ' make men of them . If they be equiil , they are not identical with men . As we do

      not wish them to be electors , neither do we wish them to dig , ov to go to sea , or to go to battle . Even in our monarchy , the English prefer a Queen to a King , because the regal office should bo rather female than male , rather a benevolent influence , rather an elegance and a . grace , than a stern power . Lord John ' s argument is nonsense , and he knows it ; but then he also knows that he speaks to those with whom nonsense will do better thiin sense . Just so with the plea against Universal Suffrage , by the example of Franco . True , tho minority most unadvisedly rebelled against a criminal maiority ; but

      had they had any less authority than the representatives of Universal Si \ ftVa « e to oppose , they would have triumphed . Iu one breath , ho calls this suffrage " dangerous ; in another he calls it ineffectual , because it will return Conservative representatives , and not such as arc expected from it ! "Which does he mean ? JS o one can have the benefit of two opposite arguments . It is Democratic or Conservative , dangerous or safe , and not both and jill . But the time is at hand when better answers must be given . Let all do their work to hasten it ; it cannot come too soon for those who think soundly and mean uprightly . . ¦ .. -

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . " It is a long lane , " says the old saw , " which has no turning . " Even Mr . Joseph Hume , who some years since estimated the political Ycllue of the Whigs so high , tliat ho frankly declared , lie would vote white was black in order to keep them in office , has become disgusted with their reactionary policy . Few of tho readers of the " Northern Star" can have forgotten the columns of abuse whieh wore showered upon " the Tory Chartists" by the Free Trade Press , when the Anti-Corn " Law League was in the ascendant , on the ground that , by opposing the so-called " Liberal

      party , " they were playing into the hands of the Tories . That policy was , it may herecollected , deliberately adopted and in several instances carried out , even to tho length of giving a nominal Tory tlio victory over a nominal " . Liberal" at the hustings . At that time the middle-class reform . party did not understand the tacticg pursued by the Chartists . It appears , however , from Mr . Hume ' s speech on the second reading of the bill for shortening the disration of Parliaments , that the adoption of that identical policy is not at all uiilikely by the party of -whom the venerable Reformer is the acknowledged leader .

      In spite of . the opposition of the P . rime Minister , . Mi « . D'Eyxcourt carried his motion for the introduction » nd first reading of Ills bill . On the next stage being moved on Wednesday , Sir GrEORGE ' GiiEY repeated Lord Jon . Vs arguments iu a worse spirit and manner , with greater flippancy aud greater disregard to the actual facts of the case . It certainly- does require considerable hardihood to assert " that there does not exist in the country any practical discontent or dissatisfaction with regard to the duration of Parliaments . " -Nothing but the aptitude of not " . blushing acquired bv " offi " 1

      cmls' in the course of practice , could have sustained the Home Secretary when venturing upon an assertion so wide of the truth . But Sir George ,, of all the party , exhibits the greatest predisposition or capacity for reaction . Most of his colleagues may be said to bo " negatives , " but lie has a positive affinity towards Toryism—or absolutism , rather , which ' colours the whole of his public conduct , and has been so frequently and prominentl y displayed in Parliament , as to leave no do \ ibt in the mind of any close observer as to the party with whom he really sympathises .

      Tne true meaning of the fondness of certain Members for Septennial scats , was explained by a late colleague of the Home Sechetary whom the people of Manchester—hot improperly—wished to be an independent member , intead of a mere echo of ministerial deci' sions : But Mr . M . Gibson , in " resigning his seat at the Board of Trade , did not at the amo time part " with the experience necessar il y

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      acquired by the performance of official duties and the peep behind the curtain -which they gave him . When , therefore , an authority thus qualified , openly and gravely declares that the inducement now for members to represent a borough , after previously narsing it , and spending largo sums ' of money , in it , is to be found in the fact , that they knew there was a copious fountain of good things supplied _

      from the Treasury , to make tho money they had spent a good investment—we may fairly take it for granted that such is the fact . It so , it forms the strongest of all arguments against the longer continuance ol that corrupt , demoralising , and most mischievous system , which Ministers and Members thus agree to perpetuate , at tho cost of the money , and the material , and moral well-being of the wholecommunitv .

      Mr . Hume has had pretty considerable experience of the stand-still and re-actionavy qualities of his quondam friends this session , and , as we have already said , begins to get tired of supporting a nominal . " Reform Government , ' but really an obstructive one ; therefore , he emphatically declared , that unless they were prepared to accede to measures of reform , he could no longer give them his support ;

      considering that any Administration would be preferable to the present—however ultra-Tory it might prove — because , in . that case , there might possibly bo a chance of a large and united Opposition , determined to carry out the reform which the country required . At present , cut up as the House now is , into sections , the friends of reform are , in fact aiding , abetting , and supporting a ' Non-Reform . Government . We know not whether Mr . Hume in these

      sentiments gave utterance to his individual convictions , or to those of the powerful party with which he is connected ; but , in either case , wo have no hesitation in saying , that however much the purely "Whig journals and Ministerial hacks may abuse it , as a Tory policy , it is the only one that promises to bring the great questions between the people and the oligarchy to a real and bona-fide issue . At present the industrious and unenfranchised masses are

      plundered arid' oppressed by the privileged classes with impunity , in consequence of the manner in which the ball of power is tossed from one faction of the oligarchy to another , whenever ¦ circumstances appear to threaten that their longer , retention of office would damage the permanency of aristocratic domination . If the policy so often explained and recommended by Mr . O'Connor , in former .

      years , and so forcibly enunciated by Mr Hume on Wednesday , be vigorously carried out , there will speedily be an end of all shams , and the people knowing the nature and extent of the resistance they really have to encounter , will be enabled to bring a proportionate attacking power to bear upon it . In the meantime—thanks to the Whigs—Parliaments are ,. at present , not to be less in legal duration thaa

      seven years . The resistance of the Ministry to the repcal-eftho Septennial Act , however opposed to the early practice of Parliament , and the proper carrying out of the representative system , may , in some . degree , be comprehended , when wo remember that the Whigs , as a party , are the parents of that Act . But no such palliation , oi expkuuitiou , eitliev hereditary or imaginary , can bo suggested for the wholesale and unblushing apostacy which characterised their conduct in the matter of

      the Irish Church on Tuesday night . If there was' any one political principle or question to which the Whigs were pledged , as a party , it was this Irish Church Temporalities question . Ever since 1823 , when Lord J . liussELL supported Mr . Hume ' s motion , they have in office and out of office nuido this their cheual do bataille . In 1083 , Lord Gkey ' s Cabinet brought in a measure which distinctly embodied the principleof secularising the sur plus revenues ' of the Irish church ,-in other words , of taking public property from useless and bloated bishops , deans , rectors , vicars , &c , and making it available for the

      education and social improvement of the people . ' 'Two years afterwards the Melbourne Opposition proposed their famous '' Appropriation Clausc / 'whiehiovoko up SirB . Peel's Government of that day , and seated them in power on the foundation of that very clause , i ' or some years they played the game , so common to them , of appearing to keep their promises , while , in reality , they were determined to break them . They sent up . " Appropriation Bills" to the Lords , which were as regularly rejected , and , at last , public opinion having been directed to other subjects by other-parties , they letttvo matter quietly drop as a'Government . ' But even then it was not

      given up as a party question . Mr .--SMITH O'BlllEX mooted it in 11 ) 43 , when ho was supported by seven members of tho present Cabinet . The year after Lord J . Husselx . himself renewed tho attack , and was backed by all the members of the present Government then having seats in the House ; and in 184 " 5 , ' thc question was opened once more , by Mr . WjIHd , late Secretary to the Admiralty , and now "Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Isles : " on that occasion Mr . Macaulay —breaking . through the measured phraseology of Whigs —distinctly denounced the Irish Church itself as " a bad institution . "

      Mr . B . Osboene , who re-introduced the question on Tuesday night , gave this history ( which we have condensed ) , and illustrated it by copious extracts froni the speeches of all th e leading Whig Ministers and orators , before proceeding to explain the grouuds on which he made his motion . It -was in one aspect a humiliating exposure ; in another , a severe , but most just , castigation of the faithless and unprincipled party whoso careei ? he followed step by step . From -whatever eaugo it happened we are unable to say , but Lord J . Russell absented himself . ' la

      it stretching the imagination top far to suppose that some lingering remains of honourable consistency and of conscientious feeling forbado him to make an ostentatious proclamation of his recreancy ? -The CllANCELLOK of the ExQUEquEK , too , loft his seat vacant . On the Home . Secretar y , once the most spirited and vigorous assailant of the Irish Church , .. devolved the ¦ duty of opposing a motion he' had so often ' supported , and ° hc did it iii a way which we imagine will , on cool reflection by the Cabinet itself , be seen to bo the

      worst he could have tried . Defence he made none—his whole speech being eonfmod' to a most disingenuous , we might almost . say , " . Old Bailey trick , " of lugging in the Roman Catholic Endowment Question , which had nothing to do with the motion , and then arguing that appropriation must , from the nature of the case , be postponed until the Roman Catholic Clergy aud Laity can ba persuaded to accept of the surplus revenues of Hie Established Church . ¦ This , wo repeat , was one of tho lamest and most transparent subterfuges ever had recourse to by a Minister of state

      , ana bir tf . G rey knew that well enough himself . He knew that ' the Whig party had always treated the Church Temporalities Question as a totall y independent one , and argued that the surplus revenues of that Church should bo appropriated as Mr OssoKra again . proposed they should—namely , tor purposes ot general and unsectarian education . At the conclusion of the debate , niany member s iting on the Ministerial side ot the . House hastily rushed out of the 2 S ? " 5 T n ° ^ ' amidst the "ironical cheers , of the Opposition , benches ; hut the mercenaries and the Tories mustered strong enough . to defeat the motion , arid to stamp upon the present Government an ineffaceable uisgrace .

      The Lob'theki Star Satufisjoay, Juiiy 14, 1849.

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      THE BANKR U PT BROTHEL KEEPER . It is a very remarkable fact , tliat those who nave led the most depraved and dissolute life , are in the habit of most rigidly scanning the acts of others . In u Lloyd ' s Newspaper" ( the "Threepenny Trash , " asthepeople now call it ) , of last week , there is , what we cannot call an article , - but an emission of bile against Mr . O'Connor , for daring to advocate the People's Charter in the House of Commons , and in which-. Mr . O'Connor is charged with once

      having advocated physical force , audhaving thus estranged the affections and support of the middle classes . Lot us , however , see whether we can measure the integrity and consistency of the writer by an undeniable standard . He makes reference to the Conference of 1839 , and speaks of the transactions of that body in the most reprobatory terms , while he forgets that ho was one of that body , receiving six guineas a week—that he was the most violent until the exchequer was emptythat , as a member of the Lumber Troop , in whose , guardroom the Conference sat , ho ' as

      Chairman , pointed to the sword , the musket , and the blunderbuss , represented behind him as the arms of the troop , and told the Delegates and the audience that those were the weapons by which alone they could obtain the Charter . He forgets that when the petition was presented , lie took the chair at . the White Conduit House , at a public dinner , and got so beastly drunk that the well-conducted men left the meeting in . disgust — - that he then hugged Mr . O'Connoe , who sat next to him , and vomiting over the table ,. distinguished him

      as the Man of the People . And this is the beast who would now base his opposition , or rather his wrath , for opposition , he is not capa « ble of presenting , upon the pretext that some other man should have taken charge of the question of the Charter . This spotted zebra , this political renegade , this moral monitor , who is such an enthusiastic admirer of popular rights , is not only theEditor of poor "L % dV LAST WORDS , b ut ¦ "lie is _ also the perfumed editor of the '' Court Journal , '' in which " the looks ; the winks , the squints , th e sneeze s ^ the hems , the

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      . Mr . Disraeli ' s motioii , on the State of tU Nation , ended ' in smoke , and now ^ needs no comment from us . It was a" sham fight Neither of the contending parties cared fi

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 14, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1530/page/4/