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    • BRITISH EMPIRE FREEHOLD LAND AND BUILDING SOCIETY. On an Advance your Kent is Sa^ed,—you become your own land ana Householder.
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    • THE NOSTHEIU STAR. MXUK0AV, JTUIiY 21, 18<19t
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      Rrj « -. t « tDrvroMBE , Esa ., 31 P . T . Waslet , EsQ-, M . V . B . B . Cabbeli , Esq ., M . P . L . 3 . Hansabd , Esq ., M . P . Jratniu . —i . ^ jfewi _ i , ec 0 Tnmerc ; ai Basils of London ( Branch ) , 6 , Henrietta Street ^ Cov « nt Gai-dtn . IarJen O 3 ce . So . 13 , Tottenham Court , Sewltoad , St l ' ancras , London—Dasiei . Wouam llvrti , Secretary . Abbasced ix Theee Srcnoss . ——Value of Shares and Fajments for Investors . Fun Share .. .. £ 320—paynieni . of 2 s . 5 d . $ Week , or 10 s . 6 d . per Month . HalfSttare .. .. « 0 - 1 2 i _ 5 3 _ Quarter Share .. .. 30 — 0 71 — 2 8 — Applicants are rwuested to state in their form the Section they desire to he a Member of . V « Subvetobs' Soucrroitf , or Redemption Fees . —The present Entrance Fee , including Certificate , Rules , io ., is 4 s . per Share , and 2 s . 6 d . for any part of a Share . Price of Rules , including Postage , Is . - ¦ ¦ OBJECTS . ' 1 st —To -TinMe members to build Dwelling Houses . 5 th . —To give to Depositing Members a higher rate of Intti- ^ on Property held by ^^ or Uu ^ ds for tJleir Wive , for Marriage jueinljers . 7 th . —To purcliass a piece of Freehold land of sufficient 4 _ To ena | , ie Mortgagors being members to reaeein ralue to give a legal title to a Couuty Vote for Members of ijeirJIcrtgascs . _ Parliament < 5 FrnoN L—Ev joining this section every person in totrn or country can become the proprietor of a House and land in hiown " ndg hbourhood , without being removed from his friends , connexions , or the present means himself and family ""^ sS ^ U ^ To raise a capital by shares to purchase Estates , erect Dwellings thereon , and divide the land into « iinttnpntsVroin half-ao-acre upwards , in or near the toivns of the various branches of the society . The property to be « U hml tide freehold of the member after a terra of years , from the date of location , according * o Ids subscriptions . < Sctio \ - I 1 L—Savins or Deposit section , in which members not wishing to purchase are enabled to invest smaU sums , receiving interest at the rate « rf five per cent par annum , oa every sum of 10 s . and upwards so deposited . \ H _ £ 390 wili l ) e advanced to the members of tliu first Section in July next , when all persons who have and may fconnVTmim-b o"S for Shares , or parts of Shares , on or before the 4 th of July next , aud who pay six months' suhscriptio ^ adv ^^ . or otherwise , will be eligible for an advice . ALSO , THE UNITED PATRIOTS' AND PATRIARCHS' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . FuralW pursuant to Act of Parliament Thus securing to its members the protection of the law for their fi n it gS 11 Applications for Agencicsrequested from all parts of the country ; information for appointment of Acencie 3 can ¦ fce obtained by letter , enclosing a postage stamp . _ Jilank forms and information for the admission of country members can be obtained by letter , prepaid cnclosin " threepostage stamps , to Dism , Wm . ua : Huffs :, General Secretary , 13 , Tottenham Court , Sew Road , St . Pancras . ° GOLDEN HAT MART . ~~ A Good and Fashionable Mat is of the utmost importance as regards Personal Appearance . THE PUBLIC WILL DO WELL TO VISIT ECKERSLEY'S CELEBRATED HAT MART , Where they may he suited in every respect both as to Price and Quality , AT ECKEIISLEI'S , 25 , CItOWN-STREE T , HALIFAX . ^ Observe !—The Large Golden Hat over tho door .

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      ox ms isr of jgly vas published So . IL of T HE DEMOCRATIC EEVIEW X Of SRmSlI and FOREIGN POLITICS , 11 IST 011 Y , and LITERATURE . Edited liy a . JULIAX HARXEY . contests : 1 . The Editor ' s Letter to the Working Classes . " 2 . Letter to the Trades : The land , a Lcttt-r Horn Paris : Present Political Aspect and Prospects of France . 4 > Our Inheritance : The Land common Property , LctterlL 5 . Political and Historical Review—Domestic and Foreign . C . Manifesto of the German Red Republicans . 7 . Jionarcliv . S . Speech ofArmand Barbes . i > . Literature : MUion ' s- Prose Worts ; HnntbQidVs Cqsmos ; roKticsforthcTeojile ; < tc , &c . Foett Paces fin a coloured wrapper ) , Pmce

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      THE MEMBERS OP THE SAIiEORD BRANCH of the National land Company areearnestly requested to attend a meeting , to beheld next Sunday afternoon , at two o ' clock , at ilr . Lee ' s , Temperance Hotel , IrweH-street , Salford , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propositions In the Star of last Saturday , It ishoped that every one will attend . —Taos . ToaKlSSOS ' , So , 2 . Church-grove , Pendleton .

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      i ^ EWCASTLE-OX-TIuSrE BRANCH of ji \ the National Land Company . A meeting of this branch will beheld on Sunday , the 22 nd mst , at five o ' clock in the evening , when business of great imnortauce will be brought before the meeting , concerning the forthcoming Conference to uelieia August 6 th , 1849 . ' By Older of the Directors , Tiiohas Forrest , Sec .

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      OS SATURDAY , THE 25 TB of AUGUST , "Will appear THE NATION . 3 Teiv Series , So . L Edited by CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY , Assisted by a Corps of Efficient Contributors . Communications and Orders may be addressed to the Office , So . 6 , Lowes Abbet-iSteeet , Ocbux , ( opposite the Royal Hibernian Academy ) . Subscriptions , payable in all cases in advance , Yearly , £ 1 6 s . ; Half . jearlv , 13 s . ; Quarterly , Cs . Cd . ; Single raper , 64

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      A ^ f EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR A YOUXG MAKHIED COUPLE . TO BE DISPOSED OF AT CHAR'«^ m ^ - ?^ LE ' ^ TOtney . Oxfordshire , a wellssssksssssr ^ " * emm * dSaySSfejgaaRSB ^ s s ^^ i& ^^ t-• ni some twohundred p ^ M ^ ngst «» em eleven cows street , GoMen-square , Loncton 7 ' Bndal-laile » Brewer-

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      XHE CHEAPEST EDITION EVER rDBtlSHED . Price Is . ( id ., A new and elegant edition , williS £ eel Plate of the Author , of PAIHE'S POLITICAL WOflKS .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MB . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS .

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      THE LABOURER MAGAZINE . V 0 I 3 . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , may still be had , neatly bound , price 2 s . 6 d . each . No . 4 , the Number containing Mb . O'Cosxoa ' s Treatise ou the JN atioual Land Company ;" No . 10 , the one containing Mb . O'Cossoa ' s Treatise On the National Land and Labour Bank connection ¦ vvitb . the Land Company : " - Have lately been reprinted , and may be had on application , Price lid . eaclL Imperfections of the 'Labourer Magazine' may still be had at the Publishers .

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      In a neat Volume , Price Is . Cd . "The Evidence taken by the Select Comtnittee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the National Land Company . " This Volume ought to be in the hands of every Member of the Company , as it strildnglv illustrates iho cai-e and economy that have been practised in the management o the 1 unds of the Compan >» and proves , beyond contradiction , the jsracticalHlity of the Plan which the Company was established to carry out .

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      Just published , ffos . I ., II ., and HI ., Price Sixpence Each , of THE COMMONWEALTH .

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      Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternosterrotv , London 1 ; A . Jleywood , OWham-street , Manchesterr and Love and Co ., 5 , Kelson-street , Glasgow . And by all Booksellers in Town and Country .

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      ROME AND HUNGARY . To protest against the infamous subversion of the Roman itepublic by the forces of the traitorous Government of France ; to censure the criminal apathy of the British Government in permitting that subversion of the rights of a free people ; to declare sympathy with the brave Hungarians , and to demand of the Crown and Parliament of great Britain active intervention in behalf of that chivalrous nation , at present fighting the battle of European Freedom , A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE Ilolden at the

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      TO BE SOLD . A FOUR-ACRE ALLOTMENT , 77 kn weU i Sitaatedon flieBromsgrove Estate , and on which £ 100 has been paid up . Applications ( post-paid ) , addressed to Edward Corn . Cor-Ste ^^^ ' ^^'"•^ r- Lyne , will meet with iiime-Bjeowner wishes to sell because of his not being ina position to locate hunselfon the allotment ;

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      S ^ SS ^ gSKMSJ SBssBBSBtrast-BS ahle discovery , has never been disclosed ; consenueX all WMSB » ,, » 3 »* fB ! 5 £ ^ rSfMT 0653 ' ^ he ^ almost give Iway to ftfffijjlfc t 0 Trearthem - Hours-ten till ^ andfr ^ m Bw . a Walcotti Hfcham Ferrers , writes :- " The person for whom you sent your remedy is quite ciireaV and vou will be good enough to send me two more for others ? - ___ "¦ - : ¦ Also , may be had , . ¦ ¦ mE MEDICAL ADVISER . An Essay on the Obligations of Marnage ; the Jreatment and cure of all those Secret Eteprders arising from early excesses and infections , with pnun directions for the removal of every disqualification

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      "MATIONAL FREEHOLD BENEFIT 1 \ BUILDING SOCIETY . Shares £ 15 each , payable by Weekly Instalments of Sixpence per Shave . Directors . Feabocs O'Cossor , Esq ., M . P ., Thomas Clarke , Christopher Dotle , Wiuum Dixon , Philip M'Gratu . Trustees . Jambs Gazeley , Esq ., Tiiomas Tbice , Esq . Solicitor . TViixum Fron ting Roberts , Esq . Bank . The Natio-val Land axd Labour Bank . Treasurer . Pearous O'Conxor , Esq ., M . P . Office .

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      A . Hesdebson . —Received . i . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following ( sent herewith ) sums for Defence Fund , viz ;—Byron Ward locality . 5 s . ; Mr . Lygo , Is . ; Mr . Birjjin , Is , ; Mr . Chipindale , Gd . ; Mr . C . Perkins , 3 d . ; Mr . Liggett , Id . ; Mr . T . Ward , 3 d . ; A Friend , 3 d . ; From the Colonel Ilutchinson , Is . Sd . ; Tea Party Committee , 3 s . lOd . ; Mrs . Perkins , Id . ; Mr . E . Thurman , Id . ; From the Seven Sfars , 5 s . W . Mora . —No room . S . K ., Leek The biography was intended to be published in the Star , but press of other matter prevented its insertion at the time . Our charge is 2 d . each . Agents nave the carriage to pay . If sent from the office by post , tncy cost id . each to subscribers . Mb . A . Bain , Belford . —Your present quarter commenced 0511116 711111151 ,

      W . KiBBEr . —All right . J . C&VU . Z , hopes that the Branch Secretaries , corresponding with the Sheffield Districts , will oblige by sending their addresses correctly written , as much confusion ¦ will be prevented thereby , and likewise that they be prompt in collecting from the members the levy of 3 d ,, which has been agreed to by the Directors , / The Kirkdaie Prisoners . —The following sums have been received for this fund : —Hey wood , per W . Bake , 13 s . ; Bumley , per Wm . Butterworth , 4 s , Br mist ^ ee , Mr , Piclcvance was named in the Star of last week , as district secretary for the Boltou district . The district secretary is Mr . Vose , lottery-row , Bolton . National Co-operative Benefit Society ; — The report of the Directors upon the account of Mr . Stalhvood , tho secretary of the above society , will appear in next week's Star . The letter of George Henry Smith , Manchester , in reply

      to the charpes made against him by the Kirkdale prisoners , is of such a length that we must withhold it till next week , not having space for it in the present number . - " Manchester . —To the Chartists of the Potteries , Bilston , Hindley , Birmingham , and the various localities in those districts—Gentlemen , being still out of employment , aud iiavinff less signs noir of work than I had on the day I left Kirkdale Gaol , through my having again stood upon the platform to advocate the principles of the Charter , I intend to start upon a tour through the places I have mentioned , as I have no wish to be idle . I shall leave Manchester on the 30 th of Jul y , and . ill those places and persons desirous of my services , will please to write to me directl y . 'I hope that no locality will be afraid of writing to ine for fear of expense , as my expenses will be

      nothing to those places who cannot aftord to pay , and to those that can , it will be very little . —Yours , in the cause of democracy , W . Nixos . —P . S . Direct to me as under : St . Paul ' s Sunday ; School , German-street , Oldham-road , Manchester . I shall have with me the poems written by Dr . M'Douall , also all the toots written in Kirkdalo . George Stobart , Berry Edge . —Send it to John ArHott , 11 , Middlesex-place , Soniers Town , London . Mr . W . Davidson , Newtown , Ayr . —The gentleman you refer to is at home , in Dublin . Mb . A . Fhazer , Edinburgh . —All right . Me . B . Robertson , Auei'den . —Yes , at 2 d . each . You to pay carriage . J . Hesdeeson . Alloa . —We cannot answer your question . A . Demockat , Edinburgh . —We have not seen the newspaper alluded to . ' T . Pox , Norwich . —Apply at the Home Office ;

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      THE LAND ! A practical agriculturist , of great experience , has applied to me to know if the allottees upon the several estates would wish to have the benefit of his practical knowledge The several located members may , by such means , at a very trifling individual expense , considerably benefit themselves . A response from any of the estates to this application , may be communicated to tho Directors , addressed to the Land Office . F . O'C .

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      MENTAL AND MANUAL LABOUR . THE OPERATIVE AND SHOPKEEPER . . The fact that " the folly of to-day" may be " the wisdom of the morrow , " ia being proved every hour by the light which is now beaming upon thosewho were mostignorantof the Labour Question , and most iudifferent to their own interests . While other journalists ave dail y catering rubbish to amuse the fancy of their varied readers , we have been weekly endeavouring to fix the mind of this country to the Labour Question : while those who are most interested

      in its proper solution—the shopkeepers—have been our bitterest enemies , When they were enlisted in the Free Trade ranks , to fight the battle of "HIGH WAGES , CHEAP BREAD , AND PLENTY TO DO , " we explained that such a coalition between traffickers in the raw material—WHEAT , and tho manufactured article—BREAD , was wholly based upon the pride of the shopkecping class , who imagined that their opposition would exclude them from the social ranks of

      their order . The same cry was in every man ' s mouth . " Brisk trade" was the watchword—none reflecting upon the fact , that there existed at the time as much machinery , which did not consume , and could not be customers , as would supply three worlds with the required produce . The shopkeepers never bestowed a thought upon the fact , that all other countrieain the world were preparing to compete with the English manufacturers ; they assembled at their tea parties aud their public meetings , lending a willing ear and placing implicit credence in the Utopias of those visionary theorists , the capitalists , whose interests were

      diametrically opposed to those of the shopkeepers . Such was the social bearing of the shopkeepers during the Free Trade agitationwhile , as jurors , they were politicall y arrayed against the working classes , upon the success of whose political principles solely depended the interest of the shopkeepers . The Chartist principles were not then understood , because none but Chartists would venture to attend a Chartist meeting ; while Free Trade meetings were filled with ticketed members , lest the free admission of enlightened Chartists , and their permission to speak , would have dispelled the delusion to which the shopkeeping mind , was then attached .

      In the year 1838 , Mr . O'Connor addressed several letters to the shopkeepers of Yorkshire pointing out the identity of interest which existed between those who supply food and other goods in a manufactured state to those who consume them ; and in those letters he clearly showed that , of all classes , the sho pkeepers were most interested in the welfare and just payment of the working classes , . The mind of both classes , however , was then in its infancy . The power of the weakest was not sufficiently organised to bear upon the action of the strongest , and it has cost us no few years of toil to create , to organise and direct the labour mind , until at length we are more than repaid by tho result which its proper developement now promises . '

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      It has been the continuous and systematic obiect ofthe ruling power to create and per-Satefeudsbetweenthosetwo classes to whose 5 ed energy any Go vernment must yield . K have now both discovered their respective positions : the shop keepers have learned Hfe ^ W-rjf S ^ r ^ Sss tahZ tho EusscLL Government » n < l fc — . —^^ —— - **~ z =. ^ ^

      ftELStaff a « Sf « nof Whigand Tory m iSis&srfsyrs L feudal lords for support , and for the enactment of any measures which may be necessaiy tosuppresspublicop inion ; while , upon the other handVthe eig hty-five men of progress , backed bv that public opinion out of doors , and vigorously backed , will be too p owerful for this trinity of corruption , while the sound opinion of the Chartist body having gamed experience and wisdom from the past , will take care , in the words of Mr . Hall , to press them

      forward in the onward course . Who can deny the assertion made by Mr . O'Connor at the Tower Hamlets meeting on Wednesday night , when he thus analysed the identity of interest that existed between the shopkeeping and the labouring classes . He said " Let us take a population of one hundred thousand working men , aud two thousand shopkeepers . If those one hundred thousand 8 week

      men received £ 20 a year ; or s . a , more than they do now for the profitable application of tbieir labour to the developement of the resources of the country , that would amount to two millions a year , and irom that sum each of the two thousand shopkeepers would receive a thousand a year more than they do now . " He also pointed out most distinctly , the irrefutable fact , that no beneficial alliance could be formed between the labourer and the

      capitalist , whose profits were realised by a reduction of wages , while the closest interest existed between the labourer and those with whom he expended his money . It is very refreshing to read the speeches of all who now profess to agitate for their own principles of reform , inasmuch as every one , without an exception , is compelled to admit the superiority of every point of the

      Charter , as compared with any other principle . Mr . Offor , a magistrate of the Tower Hamlets , aud a most powerful speaker ; George Thompson , the member for the borough ; and Mr . Williams , the late memberfor Coventry ; the three principal speakers at the meeting to which we refer , all—one and all—expressed their preference for Universal Suffrage , and in fact for every other point of the Charter , except Annual Parliaments .

      Now the value of those meetings is , that they will afford the middlG-elassos—that is the shopkeeping class—an opportunity of judging of the real motives and objects of the working classes . And that this feeling is not confined to the metropolis , is proved by the fact that the large petition for the Charter from Manchester , and presented by Mr . Bright , was signed by a large majority of shopkeepers . As we have frequently shown , wo would not , with the present system of representation , give three straws for the Abolition of the National Debt , the Reduction of the Army , the Navy , or any other expenditure , so long as representation is confined to the

      wealthy , for the people may rest assured that the represented classes would take care to divide amongst their own order , any savingsno matter from what source they might arise . Is it not an irrefutable fact , that while the landlords refuse to make any—the slightestreduction in their rents , consequent upon Free Trade , they not only justify , but recommend the reduction of the wages of the agricultural labourer ?—thus irrefutably proving our oftrepeated p rediction that " The weakest would be the first to go to the wall , " while the strongest and most powerful would be the last to suffer , but would be tho greatest sufferer in the end from his own obstinacy .

      We trust that the working classes will draw the proper distinction between a coalition with capitalists who traffic in Labour , and shopkeepers who make profit by fair competition , and who thrive best when the labourer is best requited . A private gentleman—if he is wise , and has courage—can suit his living to his means , but not so with the Government ; whose strength depends , not upon the intellect of its , members , but upon the amount of patronage that it can bestow upon its servile supporters . Such

      a Government expresses its fears of the impracticability of committing such loose and dependent characters , accustomed to indulge in luxury and profligacy , at the expense of the toiling millions , to their own resources . It would be like disbanding a rebellious army in a hostile fortress . But the people of this age have become too wise to live in bastiles , while those who luxuriate upon their sweat are domiciled in palaces . If , then , this movement is faithfully and fearlessly carried on , it can produce but one result , and that result will be the just requital of Labour by its

      properapplication to the cultivation of our national resources ; while we would caution those who are now catering for popular support , and openly declare they are powerless without it—we would caution them against the attempt to use that force for any purpose merely to subserve their own purposes , for , if they do , and if the Chartists are again deceived , so sure as a Goi > rules over us , so sure will popular vengeance burst upon their heads , and then the day of reckoning will come .

      The people will offer no opposition to the means to secure the end , but they will give no assistance in the accomplishment of any measure which is not to give them a fair participation iu the just means , which is the franchise , to secure the just end , which is social happiness —a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work , — that the labourer should be the first partaker of the fruits of his own industry , and from which alone can result happiness , contentment , and peace . The watchmaker who

      makes the watch , the tailor who makes the clothes , the shoemaker who makes the shoes , the hatter who makes tho hats , ' the "butcher who provides the meat , the baker who makes the bread , the grocer who supplies the groceries , the hosier who supplies the stockings , the haberdasher , the milliner , the dressmaker , the bookseller , the wine merchant , the banker , the " merchant , the landlord , the parson—nay , the manufacturer himself , all , one and all—have an interest in the fair and just requital of the labourer .

      Upon his labour all depend , by his dia . content all are periled . The Labour Question , then , is the question to the proper sol ution of which every caterer for popular support must direct his mind ; with us it haa been our day thought and pur night dream , it has been our wish to leave the world better than we found it , and it is our pride , and our only consolation , to know that , in spite of persecution and prosecution , we have created and organised a public opinion , which may be successfully directed against injustice , but which none can divert from its legitimate purpose—the realisation of Labour ' s rights , and the destruction of the labourer ' s enemy ,

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      RAILWAYS AND THE LAND PLAN . As is our custom , we hav , e abstained from any the sli ghtest comment upon Mr . George Huvsqk and others , { who . had been concerned in the iuanageiuefit of railways , until their

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      conduct was submitted to an to » P ^! 2 * Ti Accused ourselves to be condemned &at a ^^ d afewards ^ like ^^^ S ' 98 , we were averse to subjecting any ^ a condemnation , however clear the « W ^ dence may appear , until the accused bad tUe power of making his defence . ^' * JS and others have now enjoyed that W P" £ lege , and we may place him and ius associates in comparison with the propounder of the Land Planand the treasurer of its funds --i . ... ,. . ¦ ^^ Urihinml .

      , Mr . O'CoNNOit was condemned without a hearing . It was asserted that he might emigrate to America or any other foreign country , with houses , land , dunghills , carts , waggons , ploughs , and harrows ' . upon his back ; ana so punctilious were the Ministers , and so jealous were they as to the faithful application oi the poor man ' s funds to the purposes for wmcli they were subscribed , that a Committee was t rt th

      appointed to investig ae and repoupon e practicability of the Land Scheme , while the fJh-iiiman of that Committee , a Government official , G 00 DENOUGHHA ^ TE ^ --amost appropriate name-with a salary of 2 , 000 / . ayear , for seeing to the proper lashmg of l * wL- « > hacks and whose salary has since SSSJdte ^ wo / - ' a yeal « H * l a 11 eSic " l u 4 d to prove the ' practicability nf fhP Plan and directed the attention and alozShe whole time of the Committee in ^ voiLtion of Mr . O'Connor a accounts .

      And after a long and tedious J ™«*™ ^ J Government accountant , and a Gojei ^ inent actuary , after a long ^ nfp ^ J ^^ the Judge Advocate ^ Joshua Hobson and having spent six mortal days n ^ vmg up his report to be presented to ^ House of Commons ^ he Committeeunainmously rejected his report declared that the affairs of the Company had been : conducted with the most iwfi / ood faith , that 3 , 400 f . was due to Mr .

      O'Connor , not including a farthing tor ms expenses out of pocket , and no such comprehensive item as < ' Sundries " in the Company ' s accounts , atd recommended ^ the House of Commons , either to legalise the Company , or to allow ]\ Ii-. O'Connor to wind up its attains . Let the reader contrast his position with that of the "Railway King , " and his associates . During the present session of Parliament Mr . O'Connor gave notice of a motion for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the management of the several Railways m the Kingdom ; but so repugnant was the feeling of the House to such a proposition , that he was compelled to withdraw it . And from whence arose the distaste ? Why simply from the fact that it would be impossible to name a committee of HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN , some of whom—nay , many of whom —would not have been judges in their own

      case . There was no controlling power , save honour , to guide Mr . O'Connor in his management of the Land Company ' s affairs ; while in tho case of Hudson and his associates , those whose duty it was to see to tho faithful expenditure of the funds , were particeps criminis , and thus the case of the greatest criminal was submitted to those who were participators in his crime , and not very impartial jurors . Now , lot us suppose for a moment that Mr . O ' Connor had been guilty of any the slightest dishonesty—nay inaccuracy—with respect to the affairs of the Land Company , Avould so many trials have been permitted ? and would

      he have been allowed like , opportunities to establish his innocence ? Nay , in faith , he would have been treated by the old rule" While one man may steal a horse , another dare notlook over the wall . " But , notwithstanding the minute investigation , and the establishment , not only of Mr . O'Connor ' s integr ity , but of his sincerity and devotion to the cause of the poor man , and his faithful application of his funds , we find that those who have paid tho least , —and who if they had contributed all to the relief of their order in the developement of such a plan , would not have been great sufferers—are now the loudest clamourers for the restoration of funds that have

      been vested in Houses aud Land . There is but one way of meeting those grumblers , and by those means the confiding and more prosperous may silence the growlers and . make themselves rich . Let those who still retain their confidence , and who have the means , buy up the shares of the grumblers , and should the Company be wound up , they will receive more than 20 s . for every pound they have expended ; and should it be continued , they will ultimately bo large gainers by the speculation . Meanwhile , no man can feel astonishment at Mr . O'Connor ' s disgust at the treatment he has received from ihose to whose services he has devoted his time

      and his money ; nor can any man feel surprise at his resolution to retire from a scene which has been one continued series of vituperation , ingratitude , loss and discontent . We congratulate our readers , however , upon the fact that he does not take with him the same stain that is attached to Mr . Hudson and others , while the working classes may derive some consolation from the fact—that

      though ill-treated by a minority of their order , it is not his intention , to abandon the principles of the majority . Most men , if not converted to adverse principles by ingratitude , are driven to accept them from disgust ; but inasmuch as the cause of Justice is the cause of G o » , it is Mr . O'Connor ' s intention—no matter what amount of ingratitude he may be subjected to , —still to devote his life to the cause of Justice .

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      . PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Lords steadily pursue their policy of damaging or rejecting every important measure sent up to them by the Commons . So that at the end of the session there Avill bo even a more beggarly account of actual performance than there otherwise would have been but for this lordly obstructiveness . A week or two since we gave a list of bills that had been

      thrown out by them , each of which had occupied much time in the lower House . This week one of the " crack ' . ' measures of the Government has been so seriously damaged and mutilated j that it is impossible either they or the House of Commons can agree to it ¦ when sent back , and we presume it will , therefore , be thrown out altogether . Every one will recollect that at the commencement of the

      Session there was a general outcry against the operation of the Irish Poor Law , and innumerable suggestions for its amendment were made by parties who described themselves as suffering under the grievances it inflicted . Committees were appointed , by both Houses of Parliament , and witnesses in abundance were examined on the subject ; the Report of whose evidence has cost the country a pretty penny in the shape of numerous bulk y blue books , which not one person in 50 , 000 will ever look into . While these investigations were going on however , Lord J . Russell , urged b y the exigency of the case , and catching at an idea casually dropped , by Lord Stanley , proposed what was called a Rate in . Aid ; and , in order . to remove the dread of indefinite

      taxation , proposed a maximum rate of seven shillings in the pound , as the extent to which the property of Ireland could be called upon to support the poor . This measure met with determined opposition at every stage from the Irish landlords in the Commons , and gave rise to numerous protracted debates . Having passed through the first and second reading , nearly a fortnight of mornings

      sittings was consumed in considering it in Committee ; and at length , having occupied more of the time of the House than almost any other single measure during , the whole session it was sent up to the : Peers , who , in one night so ^ mutUated it , that its authors will not be able , on its emerging from their hands , to recognise it ag ^ v The clause containing the principle oi th $ bM , wd . easting a maximum

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      rate , was thrown out by a majority of eight and the clauses which ierij fised on th landlords the payment of rates , by pr oven that the-land might be sold to pay the ratea with which it was chargeable , were ated thrown out , The House of Peers is professedly a house of landlords . What more natural , therefore , than for them to look after the interests of their " order . " For our own part , wo by no means regret the virtual rejection of the Bill . It was part of that system of peddling and pettifogging legislation by which the Whigs attempted to deceive the country into the belief that they p ™ ° j ™* y »« W rfttrfv was tnrottn ouyty «» j j , & „ .

      meant fo improve the condition of Ireland , while , in reality , they are either unable to devise practical , efficient , and commensurate remedies for the evils which affect it , or if they possess the capacity to do so , are deficient in the moral courage requisite to propose and to carry such remedies . The maximum rate would have been a merO skin plaister . As an inducement to capitalists to invest money in the purchase of Irish estates , and to employ Labour on a large scale , it is not probable that it would have succeeded to any perceptible extent ; while the ultimate result must have been , to throw on the

      Consolidated Fund the charge of supporting all the Irish poor for whom the limited rate failed to provide relief . The value or efficiency of the measure , however , is not the point immediately at issue , br to which we desire to direct attention . It is the curious position in which public business is placed , by the doing of tho . one Chamber and the undoing of the other . Whatever may become of rates , we shall certainly , hj this method , secure the minimum of legislation . The time has been when we had statesmen

      who had too much- self-respect to submit to suoh contemptuous-treatment , and who would have thrown upon the . obstructives of their policy the responsibility of their actions . But the petty men of the present day are satisfied so long as they can retain office and duly draw their salaries .

      " Meekest , mildest of mankind , " they will take any amount of kicks , so that they are assured of the halfpence in return . To every species of lordly ill-usage they reply , in the language of Mr . Toots , "It is not of the slightest consGquQnce—thank you . " We wonder that the Peers are so gentle and forbearing with them . Such pusillanimity almost invites a more frequent administering of kicks and cuffs .

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      The Ordnance Estimates hare given occasion for an exhibition peculiarly characteristic of Whiggery . They were fixed for Thursday se ' nuight , when Mr . Hume requested that they might be postponed till Monday , as by that time members would have in their hands the Report of the Select Committee appointed on the motion of the Government itself , to inquire into this department . The Estimates having been postponed till this late period , avowedly because it was considered desirable that the

      Report should hare been previously presented , one would have thought that such a reasonable request as a delay for two nights longer would hare been readily granted . Not so . Lord John urged on the discussion of the Estimates that night , apparently determined that for this year , at least , the members should vote them en masse , and utterly in the dark as to their reasonableness and justice . We have too often feitthatthedebateson these Money Questions were solemn mockeries ; and that , in tho words of Mr . Cobden , the House of Commons , so far from being the guardian of the public purse , was merely the screen for

      Ministerial extravagance ; but on this occasion Mr . Hume and his friends showed fight in genuine style . Finding that the Ministry were determined to hurry these Estimates through , ia the absence of all information , Mr . Hume moved their postponement till Mondiiy , and though defeated , the minority , iu one shape or . another , persisted in making this motion , and in dividing the House upon it , until at last , at twelve o ' clock , Lord Joint gave up the contest , and the minority were victorious . The Premier has his own obstinacy to blame for the loss of an entire night , which might otherwise have been devoted to clearing off a score of other orders , which were on the business

      paper for the night ; while at the same time he must be content to bear the suspicion of being desirous to force the House into the voting oi several millions of money , before having the opportunity , of seeing the Report of the Select Committee . That Report has now been published , and though the immediate results may be but trifling , it has elicited both from Lord Join * , and Colonel Anson , on his behalf , repeated and pointed pledges that its recommendations will be carefull y attended to during the recess , and that

      Estimates , framed in accordance with them as far as possible , will be prepared for next year . There does not appear to be any public department in whichabuses are move abradant , or of greater-magnitude , than the Ordnance . Money is wasted wholesale . Extravagance , however , jg the great characteristic of t > w Government . The witty ¦ : Sydney Smith truly described our financial system , in a passage which Mr . Cobdejy read to the House on Wednesday , amidst "loud laughter and cheers" —proof , we suppose , ' of the correctness of the description : —

      _ The world never saw so extravagant a Government as the Government of England Not only is economy not practised , bnt it is despised , ana the idea of it is connected with Oisaftection , Jacobinism , and Joseph Hume Everv rock m the ocean where a cormorant can porch is occupied by her troops , and has a governor , a deputv-governor a storekeeper , and a deputy-stovekeepev , and wifl soon havo an archdeacon , and a bishop . Military colleges , ivitli thirty-tour professors , educating seventeen ensigns per annum . tang half an ensign for each profesBw , « ltll every specacs of nonsense , athletic , sartorial , and plumigerous . A just and necessary war costs this country abonti' 100 a minute ; whipcord , £ 130 , 000 ; red tape , £ 7 . ; lace for drummers awlfifers , £ 19 , 000 ; a pension to one man who has broken Ins head at the pole ; to another who has sbattered his leg at the Equator ; subsidies to Persia . ««>* service

      „ money to Thibet ; an annuity to Lady Ilenvy Somebody and her seven daughters , the husband behm- shot at some place where we never ought to have had anv soldiers at all , and the elder brother returning four members to lariiament ; such a . scene ¦ of extravagance , corruption and expense as must paralyse the spirit and mar the for Sd ?» m ° iliaustrious s P irited People that ever The Government will continue to be carried on in this spirit as long as it is exclusivel y in the hands of tho aristocracy ; and b y means of a limited con stituency , the privileged classes are virtually as much masters of the House of Commons as they are of the House of Lords

      The Protectionists are becoming Financial Reformers , after a fashion . Mr . Henley proposed a reduction of ten per cent , on all salaries paid to persons holding Government situations . The ostensible ground for this motion was , the reduction in the prices of all commodities which has taken place within the last few years . In reality we take it the object was to punish the Government , which , has been instrumental in pulling down the prices of agricultural produce . Mr . Henley is , individually , a very worthy , shrewd , and well-meaning gentleman ; but , while sympathising with his general object , we can by no means agree in the plan he proposed to the xi

      ouse . i ' o take fifteen-pence from the twelve sjullmgs paid ¦ weekly to a poor hard-worked rostman , and leave the enormous incomes of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges untouched , seems to us rather queer economy . It is well known that all the real work in the Government offices , of every description , is ion ? ? S ° ^ salavies ™ nge from thing from the fags whom

      -among few indeS of the aristocracy are to he found-instead of S ^^ Awance to -TidSSta ? m 3 w ' P ^ ea , we suggest ta Mr Sto t « IkV v friend 8 ' that ifc ^ ould Do ZS a af ° ] lsh numerous offices held by scented , curled , and moustachoed youno- gentlemen , whose principal occupation is to read tUe newspaper , and sign their names to t h ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 21, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1531/page/4/