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THE NORTHERN STAR SATUKDAY, DEGEiTBEB 23, 1844.
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TO TEE REGHABITES . GsxTU 53 CE 2 i , - « 33 » eiaefc « E everal-local associations of Rechabites being in existence , and some of them , as I am informed , enrolled by the certifying barrister , placed your case before me in such a complicated form , that ij > referred taking the opinion of counsel toTejyxngonjmy own knowledge of / the lair . There is no question-more compHeatejTthan those connected ¦ with the formation of associations of any Mnd , from ike fact of our rulers -wishing to guard against a jkbability of such a thing as the existence of a ^ thoroughly legal political association . It is not wonderffel , therefore , that great dHBenMes should stand 1 b ie way of the formation of societies of any description or character . These are matters "which I candidly confess that . I nerer have , and perhaps never ihalL measure by legal criticism , and for this special
reason , if a society is eTer so legal , andif anymemlw , or any number of members , of such society shall commit an illegal act * "the legality vt the society Trill not protect the-SETong- ^ oerj nor is it now-a-days , nor will it ever again , be the custom to prosecute members of any society for other acts than those committed bj themselves . However different Aeta of Parliament may prescribe rules Under -which societies may be made legal , yet , except in very very extreme cases , such as are not likely to occur , and especially in so excellent , philanthropic , and praiseworthy a body as the Rechabites , the lair generally deals with indrridoals , and not with the society . Feeling , however , the very great responsibility . that ad-rising on your case "would impose , from the fact of
a great number of statutes bearing upon the question , and not repealed by the Combination Aet , being yet in existence , I felt " thai I best discharged my dnty to the Rechabites by submitting their case to the consideration of counsel , who had time to reflect , and -was surrounded hy the requisite authorities . The following is the' result of ins yery mature deliberation ; a result -Which , -while it takes some legal technical objections to the constitution of the society , neverfheless Tery clearly and forcibly points out those step _ s by -which the body may be made legal , as it is praiseworthy . Trusting then , that you will believe that ! Lave discharged my duty faithfully and efficiently , not allowing my own vanity or reelings to operate against the interests of the" Rechabites , 1 remain ,-your obedient Servant , Fxibgcs 0 Coxxob . OPDfKEJ . The ostensible object x > f the members of-the order of Kechatites seems to be , to constitute themselves into a ftiendlv or benefit society and therefore it but be better for them to conform to the provisions of | he two principal statutes upon the subject , the 10 George IV ., c 56 , and i ana-3 TTIHiam IT ., c- ip . By these Acts societies may be formed for providing relief to members , their wires , children , relations , or nominees , in sickness , or other natural slate or cojmng'ency , the ocenrrenee whereof is susceptible of calculation by "iraj of average , or for «* jr other }> urpote Khieh is not UiL gal ; but for all such other purposes the contributions must
be kept separate-and distinct from the payments required on account of relief in case of sickness , or other natural contingency susceptible of calculation , as aforesaid ,- or be Taised ^ at-the rime by estra subscription of the members . It is not compulsory on die Bechabites to enrol themselves under these statutes : but whether they do so or not they mnst be legal in purpose and in constitution . Therefore , whether they enrol or not , I am of opinion that—- L They mnst disband the ^ ctwoJ iety , and make eich body . a separate society , having eo connection Trh ? ever ¦ with each other , and not being a mere branch u the parent associanon . IL The members must not be required to take anv oath
or engagement , "n&t required or authorised by la * . IH . The names of all officers , committee , and delegates must be entered in a book , -which shall be open to the inspection of all the members { see 39 George III , c . 79 , i . 2 , and 37 George III ., c . 19 , s . 25 ) . IT . 3 think , also , the reference to arbitration { mentioned In the rules 41 , 42 , 43 ) must m > t be made compulsory but be offered as a recommendation and suggestion . Y- All secrecy , whether bj declaration , engagement , or oath , should be availed ; and therefore I think it ttohH "be better to omit rale 50 . Bni the advantage ? tvhlch wot 13 aecme to the soeiety by conforming to the Friendly Societies' Acts , seem to point to that course as the best one'which can be adopted . AinGMir"those adv&ntasts are the fulluwing : —
The rules are then binding , and can be legally enforced proie-: * £ ii , n Is given I « j the members and tb = Jr fiiiiiiEes against tiny firaiidulent dissolution of the socif ty , vr misapiin-priaa-oi of its fun-Is : < iisptnes may be settled ( then -without doubt ) by arbitration ; in case of death of members payicenta under £ 20 may be made without the expense of obtaining letters < jf a'lmirdslrtiUuu , and all dc > - cmncnti .. £ <\ , are exempt from stamp dnty . If the society ai-pt This course , they crust , b } one of their rules , dec-lore the purposes * for whh-h they are established , and direct to Trhat uses the m « : >» iej snbsLTibed , Ac shall be appropriated , and impose-a . penalty on its mis-appropriation flo George IV . c 5 a , 5 , 3 j \ and specifv the plates at which the society is to meet , aini X'Tuvide f-.-r ihepoirers and dudes of the
mm"hers and -ti committee * or ojnesrs { id . s . 10 ) , and state the number cf omcers , thr- purpose and "mode of their election afid period of office fM . s . 11 ) , and so the number ot meirr lers ca committee as ¦ nxtH as their powers ( 2 d . s . 12 ) . The ralas also must direct in what manner the consent of the sonerr is Jo be had to authorize the treasurer to lay out the inmis 124 s , 13 ); and -whether in cases of mspute th « reference sliall be to justices of the peace or to arbitra tors ; asd , if lo arbirrcit-ars . the number-of them and mode of elecdoii ( 2 d . s . 27 . ) 5 oae of the "arbitrators tu bf benendally interested in the funds of the s « _ > ciety ; 23 j . Provision : nust be made that thr treasurer i-r other princhnl rxScer Ehall antuany prepare a statement rf the innds , &c , for the i 2 ~ e of the members ; and the ? nui to be paid for a copv is n « to exceed aipence { id . s . 33 ) .
I would advise , h-jnever , that the societies should apjCy for a i \ ynu t » f rules by letter , addressed-U > " The Barrister appointed to certify the rules of friendly societies , L-udon-s" aud then having decided npon them , they must submit to tie barrfetersappointed n «> transcripts of the rules . Societies in England . Wales , and Berrrick-upon-Tweed , must submit them to Hi . Tidd i * ran ; in Scotland to the Lord Adv-: icate or the deputy appointed by him ; and in Ireland to the barrister iippei ^ ted there by the ArtorEt-y-Oeneral i-jr irJaad . The fee is one guinea f 4 and 5 , ¦ Praiiam 1 T _ c . 40 ^ s . 4 ) . : Bv 10 &eo . IT , ( c . 55 . 5 . -5 ) , the barrister , if he refused to eive a certifiealt ^ wai to point out in wh ^ t respect tbe
mle » Tfcre repngnant < -r unlaTrful ; and , it apjxrars to me . "that this ssction is still in force , notwithstanding ( 4 , and 3 . TFHHam TV ., c . 40 , s . S ) ; or , at all events , the barrister ihonlrt jrlve reasons for disallowing them , as by s . 5 , of 10 Geo . IV ., c 56 ( which section is certainly in force ) ,-in case ice t . nirrister refuse to « erti ^ all ot any . of die niles , the sixdcn Tnsy 5 nhuii the same to the Court of * Quarter Ss ^ di'i !? . toge ^ ier irt *\ ti ? riatom < Lsr \ gr-i 4 hy tht harriiitr in irriri . '»; for any such rejection ot disapproval of any one or more " suci rules , ar d the justices ciay in their discretion confirm and ailoiv the rules . EXSM iLiCSAitAHA . Ttanpie , Dec . 17 , 1 : 44 .
It doe = not appear tLa : the society , if enrolled , will com ? TU < C ? r the Tveenz Aci relating j u Joini-Sj . jck Coa :-panies ( 7 iud s Tic , c . liOj . Ey $ t 2 of that act the term JohiT- ^ tock r . .-: upany i > to comprehend amL . iig ^ t others *• « ri ^ rx initit ^! i '_ > ii c-xrr- ^ Iled under any of the A- ^ ts of Parliament relatinz to frien-IIy sf > cieaes , whit-h instilutioiis ih'V . make a .- > L . ranres un li ^ es or ainiiist ar . vi'ou - iingen ^ T ; svoJvinf the dararion of hnman life , to -an exten : upon vEi . life , vr for anv one persan , t-t-ir , aimjurd cxfdinQ £ 200 . "'
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Rotheshtthe Ward . —A numerous meeting of this franLiraa . \\ v \ A f > n Sunday ^ eTBidng ^ tilie-oRose-ajid Summer , Paradine-street ; I 5 i . J . White , R . "WV , presided . The proeeedinp of the late meeting of ike Association were read by Mr . M , CaaBeriey , R . W ., and sixty persons enrolled themselves as associates . A rofce of thanI- « \ n& passed to the chairman , and the meeting separated . Beightos Cokchjatios Ward . —On Sunday , the loth , a most numerou » meeting of this vard -was held
at the Thistle , Middle-street . Mr . Johnson , a Scotch gentleman , -was in the chair . He opened the business of the meeting by emphatically calling on those present to rally under tne moral banner- of Repeal . Mr . Boirmer , an Englishman , denounced the Catholic Bequests Bill Several extracts were read from the Association reports . And it was announced , amidst loud cheers , that the Repeal Reading Room would be opened on the first Monday of the new - year . Mr . puinness , of Dublin , -will preside at the ' next meeting .
Ox Scxdat , Jas . 5 , a large meeting will be lield at the Prince ' s Head , Prince ' s-street , Westminster , at which Mr . W . O'Connell , Inspector-general , Mr . W . Dunne , R . W ., Mr . O'Malley , R . W ., and others wiD attend .
The Northern Star Satukday, Degeitbeb 23, 1844.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATUKDAY , DEGEiTBEB 23 , 1844 .
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OUR PAST POLICY . T hz closing of the old , and the coming in of the New Year , is a period that invariably gives rise ~ to mnch reflection , whether it runs in the direction of pleasurable re . miniscences of the past , or ^ flattering anticipations of the future . PamilifS , friends , relatives , acquaintances , and customers , are at that period brought into closer contact with each other . " Stock is taken , " as it were , of the past ; and a kind of balancing of accounts takes place . Old friendships are revived ; new associations formed ; and fresh alliances made . The present is not , therefore , an inappropriate time for us to talk over past en-nts Bith our old friends , with whom we have been in weekly communication . TVe have headed this article
OCB PAST POLICY , as the test whereon we wonld ground our prespnt discourse . "Wehave selected the theme because it was one that < ra < e ri = e , not long since , to ansrrv bickering amongst frk-ads , that created sorrow in the minds of our Whig i "> e =. and led the Tory party into the anticipation of reiu' . t ? which have not been realized . At the hut gem-nil election public i . jiiuion was "Havtring between ren-ned hope } in widsnrery and diminished dread of Torvism ;
^ til-= j 4 risyn ? were filled with the lea ders of that cw-rioD of . s . jciety uj > on whose decision the contest between rival factions mainly depended . Little time was alluwed to the furziving multitude for reflection and the . St ar , as tiie acknowledged organ of the people , was appealed to , and fearlessly took upon itself the responsibility of rucomn : « i . din ; the destruction of the old , the active , the cruel , and unbending fye , without inspiring any , the slighest , c'juiiienr- ' in their vu-toriuus enemr .
Our policy , instead of being termed Anti -Whig , was designated PRO-TORT . " The walls of every borough , town , and city , were covered with " Chartist delimquenc-y . " The columns of the Whig press teemed with rabid " denunciation of the Tory Chartists ; " and the niuuth of eTery disappointed demagogue , " political pedlar , " and "Whi ^ lickspittle , foamed again with frothy rage again * : those whom chains had not convinced , whom the dan ^ con had not enlightened , or the tread-wheel made more pliant . In vain was another trial besought f » r those who » e whole career was marked by treacherv , disappointment , and fraud . In vain was the bngabooism of old Toryism presented to the affrighted
imagination-I-n iain was tb = _ - attempt to reconcile us to what the Whigs had done , by assurances of what the Tories , if in poner , r—yuVl 'Jo . We judged positively , and nol compararitel \ . we felt and saw the positive inflictions under which everj clcs-of sr « -iery , from the monarch to the worhhouse j . auper , writhed . We saw in the palace a kind of seraglio , and a very young , and , we believe , a very estimable irtimaa , subjected to the contaminating influencis of hereditary debauchees , reckless speculators in female pliancy , and political traffickers ercn in a youthful woman's fame . We saw class fed upon class—the influential classes i \ d upon the unprotected . We saw the rents made by innovations patched up , or daubed over ,
vnth novelties still more startling , to make the thing last our time . " We saw national bankruptcy staring an impotent Ministry in the face . Wr saw the Prime Miiuster of the greatest nation upon earth lolling in luxurious ease , and relying on the subservient support of a compact and unprincipled section of Irish liberal place-hunters , title-seekers , and hacks , through whose subserviency he vainly hoped to resist the growing genius of the nation . It was at such a time that we were called on to decide between this monster evil and the worst substitute that could be presented in human form . TV ell , the result of our policy has been canvassed from that period to the present : and we now find those who were amongst the bitterest of our revilers adopting it as their rule of action . A ^ id although we have had more than
three years of Tory sway , we cannot find a single tongue of the oldflattterers to wag in favour of pitiful Whiggery ! Nay , more , not a crime charged upon the Tories that is not met by a heavier charge against the Whigs , and in the very same direction too . Ireland was the hot-bed of Whiggery ; deroted exclusively to the recruiting service of the " patronage administration ; " and therefore the acta of Whig and Tory , with reference to that country , may be very fairly relied on as tests of their respective Stness to govern . If , then , we take a review of Pxel ' b Church policy , Education policy , or Catholic policy , we find no difficulty in awarding to them a very great advantage over the Melbourne policy in the same depart " meats . Peel has struck the " heavy blow and deep discouragement " which MlXBorBNE merely aimed at the Protestant Church . He has carried out the national
svstem of education to an eitent frightful to the old Kildare * street grub-worms ; while if we are to believe the Right Kev . Dr . MirEiAT , —and upon matters of fact we have no reason to doubt the veracity of that prelate , —we learn that the Catholic clergy of Ireland petitioned the Whigs in 1 S 40 , for a bill similar to that entitled " The Catholic Bequests Bill , " passed during the last Session of Parliament : and as that measure is one upon which Mr . O'Coxiteli . has endeavoured to establish another " great grievance , '' let us see what the Right Rev . Dr . Mubbat , a man whose zeal in the faith of his church cannot be disputed , says upon the subject : —
"Tour memorialists therefore entreat that the Board of Irish Charities may be rendered more generally useful and popular , by the introduction to it of Roman Catholic commissioners , or by some other measure ¦ which may have a tendency to place their charities upon the same footing as those of their Protestant fellow-countrymen . " Thus spoke the assembled prelates of your church in 1 & 40 . Their prayer could not then be heard ; but the recent Act appears to have been intended to grant all that we then sought . It admits to the Board of Charitable
Donations and Bequests Roman Catholic commissioners in sufficient number to check any adverse influence which might be attempted regarding the application of Catholic charities ; and it takes away the dangerous power enjoyed by the former board , of alienating , under certain circumstances , Catholic bequests from the kno"wn objects contemplated by the testator , and of applying them ! to purposes which , it living , lie -would abhor . So . far . praver has been granted . The state Of insecurity in which out charities were placed has been removed .
Kow , we never injterfere in mere matters of religion ; bnt when -we find more than one Roman Catholic Prelate , and even Repealers , liaHing at a measurewhich their friends the Whigs refused , surely it is not too much to say that even in Oil direction the Toryism of Piil has gone iarther
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than the liberality of Melboubke : ; while we may further odd , —that Mr . —0 'OomntUj ' s' opposition'iS"iaBogetfiClf" at variance with , bis " instalment principle . " Either that , or the distinguished Roman Catholic Prelates who have nhdertaken the duties of Commissioners ' must stand charged trifh apostacy . Another result which we anticipated from a large Tory majority , was the inevitable contention and strife to which it would lead in the Tory ranks ; whereas , if Sir Robert Peel had so small * a majority that a few sectional Whig triumphs might convert it into a minority , dread of Whig
restoration would make his supporter ! as pliant and subservient as those to whom Melbourne so long owed his situation . Do we not then daily find our predictions fulfilled ? and has not , we ask , the very result which we anticipated been realised in the independence manifested by a section of Tories in the House of Commons on the Ten Hours Bill , the Masters and Servants Bill , the Poor Law Amendment Act , and though last not least , the Sugar Duties , when Cobden and Co . were obliged to do for Peel what in his strength his own supporters refused to do for him !
Add to these incontrovertible proofs , the fact of Russell ' s altered tone ; the damning fact , that while session after session , the little Lord , with national bankruptcy staring l « Lm in the face , denied the existence of poverty , now , enlightened by the loss of office , has discovered that the working classes should have not only a larger amount of the necessaries of life , but also their fair share of the luxuries . If our " pro-Tory" policy had produced no other result than Mot of such a conviction upon suchaMalthusian mind , itwas worth all , and more , of the vituperation , dirt , and slander that has been heaped upon us for recommending it . And although , when such another ocasion presents itself , we shall , in any alliance to be formed , rive the preference to candidates of
the most liberal character , —yet we shall not be intimidated from urging the claim , and pressing the return of a Chartist candidate , even at the expense of being a colleague of a Tory , if that be the only means to secure him . Hence we shew that our policy was pro-Chartist , ^ an < l not pro-Tory : and that , by recommending it , we sought the means of destroying the active enemy in power , and of sowing those seeds of dissension among tlio Tory ranks which are yearly presenting U 8 with such an abundant harvest of strife in the body . And surely , if " divide and conquer , " has been the maxim on which factions have relied for the subjugation of Democratic principles , we are not much to blame for having caused no small share of contention in the ranks of our opponents . So much for our much-reviled " pro-Tory" policy .
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• ause " itatkmal faith'' to be broken too . This was don « -tn-thp lbltowinff-word ! r ? i *~ —— - —»~ - » ..- ~~ « , ——It is currently reported , and generally believed , that the Chancellor of tne 4 Exchequer , having met with no opposition inths reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents ., intends proposing the reduction of the Three per Oenta ., oh the meeting of Parliarhent ; It was matter of indifference to the utterers of thi 9 notice , that the terms of it were untrue . It mattered not that the notiee itself was to raise the " report" of which it spoke as being " current , " and " generally believed" when it was not known of at all : it mattered
not all till * the authors of it had a work to do ; and they adopted the means that seemed likely to accomplish it . Your " statesmen" are never nice . A good " white lie" or two has been of infinite service when the truth would '¦ ' have been destruction , on many occasions : and those who can sit coolly down in the Cabinet , and balance human life in myriads against personal ambition and party ascendancy , giving up sentient beings to sacrifice , to gratify the ambition and maintain the ascendancy , are not the men to boggle at truth when falsehood will serve the purpose better . So far from this same "
report" being " generally believed , " the first announcement of it came like a thunderclap on the monied interests , and caused sundry wry looks and ominous shakes of the head " 'Change : " , however , accompanied by a mannerism that but too plainly indicated the fear that resistance would be useless . The " men on ' Change" knoAv full well that they are doomed . ' that their fate is certain , spite of all the cant about " national faith" that can be raised . They know that it is but a question of time . a few months sooner or a few months later ,. They may , and will struggle to prolong that time :
" But come it will for a' that !" and the sooner the better for the producing millions , whose heart-strings have been torn out to keep the bundle of injustice , called " national faith , " tied together ! But what are the disciples of " Wiil . Cobbett " about , now that all these things , of which he so accurately foretold , are coining to pass ? Are they not anxious to uphold the character of their teacher , and vindicate his memory before his countrymen , whose sufferings he could have averted had his advice been listened to ; and whose dangers and difficulties he would have prevented ? Is Peel to be allowed to embody in practice every one of
Cobbett ' s suggestions and plans , without his eyes meeting the Gbidibon , gilded in token of the triumph of its master ? Is the feast tyf the gridiron never to be had ? Or are the frienda of Cobbett content that , the statute-book should contain the evidence that their teacher was alone the true-man ; and that after Btaving-off as long ns expedients would at all serve , to him were the " statesmen" that had sneered , and scoffed , and taunted , in their day t » f pride and power , obliged to come at last ! Well I perhaps it is as well that
it should be so ! u nsoemly glorification could do little good—and might do much harm : while the "deeds of the day" are the best vindication of the political wisdom and foresight of the author of " Paper against Gold" that could by possibility bu furnished . The condemnation of the ehactors of Peel ' s Bill without equitable adjustment , la written in every statute that is now passed affecting finance : and the most ju 3 t retribution of all in , that Peel , the author of the measure of 1819 , is forced , by circumstances , to be the Registrar ! What more would even Cobbett himself have desired !
Great sensitiveness was manifested m the year 1834 , in the House of Commons , that tliu masterly resolution moved by Mr . Cobbett , setting forth the facts countutud with the enactment of Peel ' s Bill ; the gross injustice it had inflicted ; how the course had boon persevered in , in spite of warning ami earncstful rtnionntruiuf ; h > j \ v caution had been sut at nought , and advice insolently rejected great sensitiveness respecting this resolution was manifested and a motion earned that it thouM he erascA from the jotirnals of the House— the voters for < such motion fondly hoping that by such act they could annihilate all record Of the facts ! Ami , since then , Peel himself has come down to the House with a measure to tax the Queen ' s salary / and tax the . salary of every officer of state ! Since
then Peei . has proposed a J > nnk Charter A > 't , which gives warning to the infringers on " the Queen ' s prerogative to coin , " that their days are numbered ; and that they must " set their house in order ! " Since then Peel has proposed the reduction of the Threo-anrl-a-hnlf per Cents , to throe ; or , in other words , proposed the reduction of the interest of the National Debt!—a good step towards equitable adjustment itself ! and now , at this moment , he is contomplating another stop in that same direction , by tackling the greatest suction of " holders" there are , — the Three-pw-Cents , —ru'lucing them , as we suppose , to two , or two-and-a-half ! These tilings cannot be blotted out " of the records of the House" if Cobbett ' s resolution could ! and in them , those who ha \ o Cobh-ett ' s memory in charge , have more than a triumph !
From all this the people have much to learn . Thoy learn , first , the vnlur of . persevern-ice . The very plans now adopted by Pell uiere . perseciitni-down only a few years ago . They learn , second , that TIIE THIMJ is tottering to its fall ! They learn thnt the several orders of the stato who have hitherto battened on the people ' s toil , and devoured up their whole substance , are now at work PEVocniNG each other ! They kuni that the lands arc at the funds ; that tho mills nre at the lands ; and that the Minister is at them .-all ! They le-. irn . therefore , to bo watchful nn > 3 ready ; for "THE E . VD eoincth like a thief in the night . " Well will it bo for those that are prepared !
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To OCR Scotc . u Readers . —This being Christmas week , it was impossible to make the required alteration in the despatch of papers for . Scotland . Next week , however , we hope to be able to comply with the request of our northern friends , so that the Star will arrive in Aberdeen on Saturday ; and in other parts of Scotland at an earlier hour than at present . Ors Aoent 8 and Subscribers will bear in mind that this number completes the quarter ; those agents who do not pay their accounts , and those subscribers who do not renew their subscriptions , will not receive papers . Agents and Booksellers will please to notice , that aJ ] orders for the Star , and advertisements , wus ? 1 be addressed as under : —
i " Fearovs O Connor , Lao .., Northern Star Office , 340 , Strand , London . " Remittances , whether by Bank or Post-office Moneyorders , must also \> c addressed in the same manner ; and the orders made payable to Mr . O'Connor . . Post-office Orders must be made payable at the Post Office , No . 180 , Strand . Attention to these instructions will prevent disappointment and save much trouble . iLettees to Leeds . —Several of the agents continue to
address their orders to Leeds , as though unaware that the paper had been removed to its present place of publication . Their orders have been unattended to in consequence . We have given plain directions for them how to proceed ; where and whom to address to ; and it is tfwir fault if they do not comply with them . Let them remember that all orders for the paper , and all payments of money , should be addressed to Mr . O'Connor himself , at the Publishing Office , 3 + 0 , Strand ; and nil Post-office Orders made payable to that gentlomnn , at the Post-office , 180 , Strand .
The Oldeum Minehs . —Their intelligence , though bearing date Dec . 25 , diet not reach us till Friday morning , the 27 th , which was too late . Manchester Correspondent . —We cannot manage his last communication in this number . FRACD 8 ON THE WORKERS IN THE HOSIERY TRADE . We have often had to complain of , and expose , the downright robberies committed on the workers by the arbitrary system of fines and deductions that has become so general in almost every department of inanufueturing labour . Through its operation a workman nowa-days scarcely ever knows what his income really will be , until he has passed the " ordeal" on Saturday night , and learned the amount set down against him in
the " bating book . " Instances are not uncommon where the whole expenses of superintending and " overlooking" a large manufacturing " concern" are made up out of what is niched from the understood earnings of the parties employed at actual work ; and managers have been known to have been dismissed from their situations , because their consciences would not permit them to rob as much from th 6 poor slaves under them as the employer demanded . In some instances an average amount , made up aa the over-lookers please , — from this or that source , this or that man ,- —is expected . In the factory districts the fraud is perpetrated by actual deductions from the amount understood to be earned :: in the hosiery-and-lace-weaving
districts the system of charging rent for the frames on which the poor toilers work , obtains ; which " rent ? is rigidly exacted whether the frame be occupied by the renter" or not . This plan is quite as efficacious as the other -for getting directly from the woikman the wages of labour , as the following facts , promulgated by the chairman of theNottingham Board of Guardians , but too abundantly prove : — " When acting at the board of guardians in this town I frequently takememoranda of the cases of abuse , so common in the hosiery trade , which come under my notice . I consider that all such memoranda may be useful , if there should ever be an inquiry into these matters . I allude particularly to the practice of letting frames to the poor workmen at
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Is . 3 d . or Is . 6 d . a-Week , then " stinting" their emplojmont , -and still * extrcting r eTery * paymen * j justh « HMf « tiiey « were in full work , j I send you two cases—one by way of illustration , andj the other because it is the climax of this species of petty larceny . A week's work—; 0 ae dozen pair of drawers , 7 s . 6 d . —Deductions—frame rent . Is . 6 d . ; taking-in , 9 d r ; winding , 6 d . ; candles , 3 d . ; needles , 2 d . ; fire , Ld . : —total , 3 s . 3 d .: —net earnings , 4 s . 3 d . In full work ' the same man would make two dozen pairs at 15 s ,, and the deductions would be no more than 3 s . 6 d . ; consequently he would earn Us . 6 d . aweek . Thus the ^ operatives are pauperised for the advantage of a middle-man between the master manufacturer and the workman . The second is what a
poor man stated to be his own case last week—I need not say it is one that can very seldom occur . He was only allowed to make two pair of hose at ls . Cd . ; deductions—frame rent . jls . 3 d . ; flre , 3 d .: —total , Is . 6 d .: —net wages , 0 s . Od . !! I remain , sir , your obedient servant , the Chairman . Nottingham , December 17 th . ^—Truly does the chairman of the Guardians characterise the practice . It U ' Xareeny ' . and if there was not " one law for the rich and another for the poor , " the filchers of the earnings of the workmen in the frames would be . sent where the filchers of pocket-hankerchiefs and snuff-boxes are sent , when caught . It has been
established that all such charges are illegal . The Truck Act requires that the wages of the worker shall be paid in the current coin of the realm ; and not so much for " rent , " and the rest , if any , in mouey . Cannot the chairman induce his brother Guardians and the rest of the kindly ^ disposed of his class , to form themselves into an association to enforce tlte Jaw against the robbers ? Associations for the prosecution of felons are common enough amongst the holders of property ; cannot we have one to visit the " penalties of the Statute " on those who commit " petty larceny " ou the earnings of the labourers ?
Subscriptions fob the Hasw-ell Sufhsbers . —We received the following list of subscriptions from Mr . Roberts previously toj removing from Leeds , but too late to be acknowledged in that week ' s Star . It was put away among other papers for transmission to London , and has but just now turned up again . We therefore-now give it : —W . P . Roberts , Esq ., begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums , which he has received by Post-office orders . fand paid to Mr . Martin Jude , Treasurer : From Mr . lH . Lafarque ' s pupils ( teacher of languages ) , West-street , Wakefield , in addition to £ 3 previously remitted , per Mr . Sutherland , 13 s . Gd . ; from the miners of Darjeston , per Joseph Cope , 7 s . 9 d . ; from Cleater Moor colliery , near Whitehavun , per John Harrison , secretary , £ 1 16 s . 6 d . ; Chartists of Bath , 6 s . . 5 d .
Case of Mb . Thomas Pbeston . —A Correspondent , signing himself J . Earl , writes us to say , that " Calling at No . 12 , Shire Lane , Temple Bar , the residence of the long tried patriotJMr . Thomas Preston , I was surprised as well as hurt toj find the good old man lying ou the Ho or without bed or bedstead , with only a rug to cover him . " He desire ' s us to recommend this case of extreme destitution ; to the attention of the London Chartists , who he is { sure will extend the hand of aid to sootli the sorrows and distress of a brother fast travelling to the graye . The fact as to his pre « ant actual condition is now ] before them : let them acquit themselves as duty prompts . ' R . P ., Soutuwark . ^ —If he have a bargain with his laudlord that the landlord is to pay the rates , whatever the amount of them are he must pay . Xf he has been assessed too lotvjftitfierto , he has been favoured at the
expense of the rest of the parish . Let not R . P . hesitate about enftfc-cing his claim for the vote . By law he ought to have it ; let him seek for what the law gives him that he niayVuse the power he thus acquires to the obtaining of a like right and power for every man . Nevor mind the { landlord and the rates . Ifthe ' seare higher in consequence , through the splenetic feeling of the parish-officers , the fact will only show him the necessity of supporting Mr . Duncombe in his endeavour to obtain ajrupeal of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act , audthusput it out of the power ofpartizan overseers , or other parish officers , to restrict the franchise by threats bf increased rates to those who seek to exercise a right the law confers on them . Will R . P . favour Mr . Duircombo with the facts of the case he mentions to us , giving the name of the official q'ho so far forgot his duty as to try to intimidate him from getting on the register by a threat of increasing his rate ?
W . Faibbaihn , \\ bdn £ 8 bury . —The election of churchwardens on any ( lay in Easter week is legal , if due and suliieieiit l . oticeihus been giveu of the meeting . Such notice however ought to be aflixtd on , or near to , the door of every church and parochial chapel in tiie parish . Inattention to this particular , renders not only such a meeting , but every vestry meeting , illegal ; and all the business done thereat may be set aside on an appeal against the rate ;—When the churchwardens asked for a new rate they vught to have produced their accounts to shew how the old rate had been expended , and to convince the parishioners that a new one was necessary . They should have shewn why they deemed it advisable to lay a rate at so much in the pound . A neglect to
do tlu ? de things ; would justify the parishioners in refusi . ig to grant a rate . —If the meeting was an illegal one , all the motions , amendments , or resolutious in the world would not make it legal . —A poll can be" demanded by any parishioner , after a shew of haudLs on anv proposition has been taken . Indeed , such is the only proper time . It does not rest with the churchwardens to either consent or refuse . The chairman of the meeting is j the party to take the poll , giving due notice , and making due arrangements , that every parishioner may , if he likes , register his vote . A refusal to grant a poll when duly demanded , invalidates a rate ; and our correspondent would do well to refuse to pay , and appeal . j
Alex . Chkighton , Abbroatu . —A Jew , if he be naturalized , can h ^ ld property , and will or devise it , the same as anv other Englishman : if he be an alien , he can do neither pno nor the other . But a Jew , so long as he retains the faith of his forefathers , cannot be'a privy councillor , nor fill any of the offices of state . He cannot even become , as we have recently seen , a member of the gortnandizing club , the London Court of Aldermen . Holders of these offices have to take oaths that thev will faithfully perform their duties : and this
they do " on the good faith of a Christian . " As , the Jew necessarily a&jures Christianity ai an imposture , faithfulness to I his creed will not permit him to swear by " oui-s : " arol for his faithfulness he pays the penalty of exclusion , i Maugre all this , the Jew has the high and inestimabl y privilege of fleeeing a Christian unbeliever h . u can catch him . As the latter is au infidel to the faith of Abraham , and a dog for being taken in by the rank imposture of the pretended Messiah , it is only fair to ease hiin of this world ' s goods , which . should alone hi- conferred on tiie " fho > o-ii race . " Ever sim-i ;
Moses and his followers set the example of getting the gold and silver vessels of the Egyptians , by what the Americans would call " shaiy practice , " the Jews 111 all ages have tried closely to imitate it . They have set their hearts on obtaining a good share of the precious metals either by hook or by crook ; and pretty successful they have been . J . G . writes as follows : —For a considerable time I have felt the want of a political library , or books treating on the various branches and machinery of government . To supply this waut I would suggest that our execu . tive issue recommendations to the ingenious advocates of our cause , . requesting them to write a short article on a given tdpie ; such articles to be subjected to a committee for ! selection and preparation for the press .
Simple and concise articles on logic , grammar , composition , and perhnj > 8 elocution , would be found very useful ; aud from numerous enquiries that I have made , I think would ensure a large sale , especially if the proceeds were tojbe devoted to our cause . Information on the above topics is fur out of the reach of working-men . It is generally ; found in expensive treatises ; and only to be arrived at . by a course oi' reading of oJd works , not directly applicable to the present position of soeiety in relation to government or political economy . Had a just eonceptiojn of logic been abroad , a better judgment would have been formed of the villanous Whig press , and also of Chambers ' s beautiful specimen of unsound deductions derived from false premises .
6 . Wilson , Ccpab . —It is the established rule in all wellordered debates , from the House of Commons downward , that the mover of 11 motion , or lutvuduetv of 11 question , has the right of reply . It is reasonable that it should be so . It is fair ( 0 presume that when an individual mak **? a question his cum , which he does when he takes charge of it in the manner stated , he makes himself ncqtjiuintcd with its nature , its scope , its relationship ; and is able to give good rcasous , why other people should arrive at the same conclusion respecting it that he hajs . All this he details , or should do , vihen introducing jliis question for deliberation : and in the debate that ensues , those opposed endeavour by all the power that in them lies to show that his reasoning is unsound , and his conclusions untenable . If the weight
of reasoning / be against him ; if the premises he has laid down are demonstrated to be false ; if the deductions he has drawn arc one and all upset , all the " reply" in the world w ? H not establish his case , unless we suppose that the human mind is unable to judge of reason : and in that case all debate is a farce . But if the opponents , instead of meeting the case , have fought beside it ; if they have used clap-trap , and not reason ; if they have attempted to bury the question beneath a mass of sophisms and cajolery , it is right that the champiou of the question should have an opportunity of demonstrating thi 3 . It is right that he should be at liberty to examine the reasons adduced against him ; show how irrelevant and inconclusive they are ; how his points are unassailed ; how his reasoning remains unanswered : and them the question goes to the vote . If it went before this process was complete , it is possible ,
and , indeed ^ probable , that injustice would be done to it . From this process no harm eau arise , unless it be that of having the question too-weE-debated . We are glad to hear that the society , on whose behidf our correspondent puts his question and seeks for information is doing well . It is only another instance , as he says , to thousands , proving that the sons of labour , if properly united , could work out their own salvation , independent of all " aid" whatever . Our correspondent , in conclusion / Imentiohs a fact , which we shall let him tell in his ownj language . He says :- ~ " The Trades have advanced of late to an extent one would not have expected some years ago , —thanks to the admirable trinity—Duncombe , Roberts , and O'Connor—and to the organ of Labour ' s Rights , the Northern Star . That is the book from which the working classes have received their instruction . The truly amiable defender of truth aud hater of superstition , Miss Frances Wright ,
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when in ^ Dundee last fiummer ,- -ioiiMf . ' JtyiJ ^ tliat the *^ 'G % Hrms' thr'xjnl ^ tralyjilwral- 'and indepenttent : Journal in Europe , This is a high character ,-aud comes . from a high quarter : buf-thf piper deserves **• " Th « compliment is indeed afti ^ ftone : one that raises just feelings of pride , when passed by one whose tribute to worth is so valuable , because ' not given as a matter c 4 course , but ia accordance with judgment formed , after due examination and reflection . One encomium fepra such a quarter is worth a sackfull of empty cempjiment and common-place praise . We trust to show . thai we do deserve the high character so unreservedly given us by the gifted lady , by making the Star a better organ for the " men of the Progress" than it hju hitiierto been .
A Poor Chabtist of Staindrop , county of Durham , had better urge his neighbours to engage with himself in hastening the time when the remuneration , or return , for labour , shall be sufficient to procure for the labourer all that he desires , in moderation . Then neither he nor they will have to depend on the Church Charity Clothing Club , with its 3 d . a week contributions , and its tickets to the Quaker draper for pasted calicoes and devil ' s dust woollens , some twenty per cent , dearer than at other shops in the regular course of trade . Your " charity" clubs are shocking dear
ones . A Pim . fob . the League The following morcedu is from the Dublin Weekly Register of Dec . Uth : — " The change in the tactics of this Association has proved the truth of what we always asserted , that there is bu * little hope for amelioration in British Institutions till the guides of the popular feeling in Englaud turn a more zealous and honest regard to the necessities of the franchise . "We perceive that the League has at length taken'the bull by the horns ; and , like the athlete of old , enters the list to " conquer , or to die . " Inany case preferring the former alternatire for our friends the League—notwithstanding their
unaccountable conduct on the West India Sugar Bill—we fear as greatly the later result will be their portion . There is only one way indeed ; but we don't think the League leaders are the men to purBUe it with the perseverance requisite to success . Some very honest men there are amongst them , we believe ; but we have a strong opinion that the momentum of the movement tends more to the interest of the manufacturers than to the extension of the people ' s rights and comforts . But time will tell . " Bravo Register ! —It was to benefit the manufacturers and millowners of England that the Union was called for , to rain the rising trade of Ireland —and for the same reason are the people Of England brought to the verir * of starvation .
New Pooe Law at Leeds . —The election for Guardians in the township of Leeds has just concluded : and right glad are we to announce that not one Whig has there been returned in the whole hatch . ' The conduct of that base and perfidious faction , while paramount in th « Council Chamber of the Corporation , has been so thoroughly partizan ; so exclusive , so overbearing , and so inimical to public weal , that universal disgust has been engendered against Whigs and Whiggery in every shape : and the detestable faction has received its deserved reward at the hands of the rate-payers of all , and several , the wards of the township ! For along time there has existed a strong desire to introduce the New Poor Law into Leeds ; but the Commissioners dare not venture , because of the altered state of public feeling
respecting the Whigs . Seven years ago they issued aa order , forming Leeds and some other places into " Union ; " and directing that an election of guardians should take place . The election was had ; and the resuit was , that erery man returned was a Tory : not one single Whig could get the suffrages of the ratepayers . When tliis was known to bo the case , the Commissioners withdrew the ordtr , assigning no reason ; and Leeds from that time to the present has been uuder the old law , with a Board of Whig overseers , chosen by a Whig Bench of Magistrates . When the nor batch of Tory Magistrates , created by Sir James Graham , ascended the Leeds Bench , they demanded that a portion of the overseers should be Tory too ; and to save appearances , as the
appointing body , the Bench , was not exclusively Whig—( thanks to Jemmy Grahuin for that ' . )— the Whigs consented ; aud a number of Tories , for the last year or two , has been sent in to snarl and fight with the Whig Rump . The last Amendriient of the Poor Law Amendment Act having given uew and vastly increased powers to the Commissioners to deal with such places as Leeds , and an effort having been made by the Cha . rtists of Leeds to get into the Board of Overseers at tho Workhouse , through the Select Vestries Act , it was deemed expedient to form the Township into " a Union , " and take it into the charge of the Somerset-Bouse despots . But how to ui > this with safety was the question . Of late years the Chartists in Leeds bad carried all before them . They had the whole Churchwardensbip to themselves ;
they had the Board of Highway Surveyors in their hands ; they had more than broken-way into the Council Chamber , and were indeed rapidly gaining strength there . The body of electors for GMOtrdians were the rate-payers at large . True , there were ^ the plurality of votes : but the main of these were not in the hands of the Whigs . There was great danger then to be apprehended , that if an election was resorted to , a Board of independent men , and not tools of the { Commissioners , would be returned . Many and serious were the confabs that Sub-Comniissioner Clements had with the magistrate ^ : and we enow that at those meetings fear of the Chartist strength was xippermost , and all sorts of schemes devised to render it inoperative . Amongst other things it was determined that the qualification for
guardian should be a £ 40 rating , although , in almost every other " Union " in the kingdom a rating of one penny is as good a qualification as a rating of £ 100 . It was judged by the far-seeing Clements , that the Chartists would be able to find few men rated at the amount , £ 40 ; while , if the qualification was a mere rating at all , the Board of Guardians would be , like the Board 0 ! Highway Surveyors , all Chartists ; men not disposed to let him play pranks with them or for them . Accordingly , at £ iO the qualification was fixed , though a rating of jE-30 is sufficient to qualify for the office of councillor under theX'orporations Act . Another " move" was , to vote in wards . Betbretime tho voting was throughout the whole township . There were so many guardians wanted , and every rate-payer in the township voted for
the whole lot if he liked . This was by far the most popular mode . But in it the Commissioners saw great danger of defeat . The " aggregate vote" they knew would be against them ; but there was a chance that if they split up the election piece-meal , and let the wards choose so many , and so many , they could manage in some of them . In one ward the Chartists might be strong ; but if they were , all they could do was to carry their men . Their votes could not go in aid of their friends in another ward , as would hare been the case in an aggregate vote ; so to elect by wards Was determined on . To fix the qualification at the high amount of £ 40 rating , and to direct the election by wards , the Commissioners availed themselves of powers recently conferred on them . Well , W work the rate-payers went ; and out of the eighteen elected ,
not one is a Whig ! but on the board appears two of the most notorious and leading Chartists of the town !! Councillors Jackson and Brook . Aye , Master Clements , your fears were not groundless , though your precautions have failed you . The entire of the Board are opposed to the harsh and unfeeling conduct of the Poor Law Commissioners . They have been chosen for that very reason . They have been sent to the Board to stand between the poor and the Poor Law Commissioners . There is every reason to believe that they will answer the expectations formed of them . To do this effectually , however , it will be necessary that they make a- 'clean sweep of the workhouse officials . Out with every' man of them ! They have been there so long—have been so used to do the bidding of their Whig masters , that they cannot be expected to go easy in gear under their new drivers . Have , a new set
altogether . This point is of the utmost consequence . The election of officers by the Board of Guardians' is the most important work they have to do . Get men that will serve the Poor Law Commissioners duly installed , and the Board are powerless . The Guardians must remember that though they elect , they cannot displace . Let them therefore look well to it , who they invest with power . Above all , and before all , let them be cautibus who they put in as clerk . He is eitheivtheir servant , or their master , as they choose . With a kindly-disposed staff of officers , they may protect the poor of Leeds , aud see that every due relief and accommodation is afforded them . But to do this , they must sweep the p lace clean of the present batch . Sond every mother ' s son to the light about . " Begin at the beginning , " as tht > clerk at Beeston said . Teach the Whigs that if they will have all the Aldermanships , they are not to have all the offices and " pickings . " "Tit for tat . " Clear the p lace . Bundle every Whig out :
Condition of the wob £ P £ opi , £ or Bbadfosd . —We b * S to direct attention to a most remarkable letter from * working man , " taking stock" of the " creature comforts" that have resulted to the operatives in that quarter from the last two years of " roaring trails The picture is a painful one , —but alas , ' ower true . We know the man who penned the production in 1 U < - ' ' tion , wliich we most glad . ' y print . We have known him for years ; and always known him , as he ii > * straightforward , plain-spokeii advocate for the rigbe of bis class . We know that he works amid the scenes he paints that he isbv the cureed system wlu ' cliteef * ¦ fcVJ U ( Ub Ad | t \ rt % Vfc 9 —~~
; , ** * - J ** . * - *^* - »* V * - * J T *» V * ** WV »* VJ ** ^ - « - » - - such men of energy and native talent "down , " fore * to feel and endure the wrongs aud miseries he Jeta * . ' we know that what he speaks of is not fiction , butte"" " , stern , nnyielding reality : and : we ask if it can be « ° ' dered at , that men with an atom of spirit , situated as the mass of workmen in this best-paid , beswegnla ^ district are , shou . d be " disloyal , " " disaffected , " dissatisfied ? " They would deserve all they S u they were otherwise ? We trust to hear from our Correspondent again and again . " Nabob" though we » we shall always be glad to hear from , and see , one «' whom we have toiled in days " lang syne , " for tfl
cause of the labourer . . ' T . R ., Abebdien . — We do not know that the inTestiga n 0 ° into the charges of Dr . M'Douall against Mr . ^ Leach , of appropriating public subscriptions tobis 0 use , has been made by the Manchester Commiftee Council , to whom the . Dr . proposed to r e efer the . matte ^ At the time named for the investigatipn to be b ?<•» Dr . was , most unfortunately , taken ill , and laid » £ . *" scarlet fever ; and we have , not heard that since » covery he has been in Manchester for the purpo 8 * ' quired after by our correspondent . j
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ANOTHER X 1 BBLE AT " NATIONAL FAITH . " THB FCMDHOLDIB AGAIN 8 GBJECTED TO THE MINISTEKIAL " SQITEErzE !" Tub " screw" is to bo put on again . " National faith " is to be kept with the Fundholder , by breaking faith with him , and reducing his rate of interest . The Three-and-a half per Cents , have been reduced to three . A " saving " out of ' national faith , " of some two-and-a-balf or three millions , has been effected on one class of the Fundholders : and now another class is to take its turn , and experience the benefits of this " cheapening" age in a " cheaper" rate of payment , even though the " lives and fortunes" of the property holders were pledged and signed , that the lenders of the moans to put down " JacoUn prh \ r ' \ pUs" should be paid to the uttermost farthing '
The warning-noto has been sounded . Intimation ol tin- approaching " squeeze" has been jjiven . The Minister has sent forth the : innounceinent o / his intention , that ho may see the etfeel produced ou the " holders" { under " national faith : "} before the time for sacrifice arrives . Peel is a CACTiors man . lie generally feels his ground before he ventures to tread . lie tries the temper of the public mind before he dares to strike : and the force of his blow is generallv just that which the ill-conditioned recipient can bear , aud no more . Peel adroitly manages to make " events" first knock the " powerful interests" he has to deal with , down : and then he- hits as hard and aa
foully as he can wliile they are under . He has thus dealt with the Orangemen of Ireland , and the rampant adherents of " Protestant ascendancy . " It is thus ho dealt with tne " Kildare-street " proseletising crow , by setting aside their exclusive pretensions , and hoisting over their head the really useful and liberal system of Irish national education . It is thus he has dt / alt with poor Mother Church in the cast- of tho Catholic Bequest Act , recogirising , by statute , the existence of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland , and coufening on the Homish Church in tliat country advantages in connection With the bequeatnment of land for the use of
the Church not enjoyed by the " Holy Mother" " of ours" herself ! It was thus he acted towards the "landed interest" in the matter of the Tariff , making them , themselves , the unwilling instruments of their own destruction . It was thus he dealt with the Country-Bankers in 1819 ; and again with them and the Joint-stock Banks , in his Bank Charter Act of last Session , in which he laid down principles which will close every one of them as Banks of issue ; aye , und even the " old Lady of Threadneedle-street" herself , and ultimately establish one only " National Bank" for promissory notes , if any at all . It was thus he acted towards the railway companies just before the last break ? - ing up of Parliament , when he hurried on the " Railway
Regulation Bill , " embodying principles which , when " worked out , "' will destroy the huge separate monopolies that now exist , with their arbitrary , unsound , ill-advised , illiberal , selfish and grasping systems of management , and take the whole direction of internal communication , whether by rail , turnpike-road , or canal , into the hands of the General Executive , to be managed for general and public benefit . It is this course of conduct he has invariably pursued towards All that he has had to deal with , " friends" or foes : and his " friends'' have generally had to fare tho worst : and this course of conduct he seems disposed to continue to the end of his tether . . IIis " friends , " the •' holders" of the Three-per-Cents ., cannot therefore wonder that their turn has at length come I
That turn has come ! They may writhe , and wriggle , and fume , and sweat , and whine , and complain : but all to no use ! They may prate of " national faith " being pledged to than ; of the solemn engagements made with them , that , come weal come woe ; come fire , come water ; come plenty , come famine ; come national existence or national destruction , they should be borne harmless ; they should be scathless : they may remind Peel of the signing away to item of the " lives and fortunes" of the nation ; putting
the properties of all in pledge : they may do all this , but all in vain ! Their hour has come ! They quietly and laughingly suffered and aided the passing of the Small-? fote Suppression and the Bank-Restrictibh-Abolishing Bill of 1 S 19 , by which tueik " holdings" have ever since been douUed in nal value ; and which bill has , in its operation , reduced hundreds of thousands to beggary , sent hundreds out of existence by their own hand , and caused universal confusion and dismay throughont thft land . Thev " aided and abetted " in the
enactment of that measui-e which has made it necessary to resort to an Income-tax' in time of peace , causing the O . ueen on the throne to pay sevenpence out of every pound the nation " affords" her , even when her own private " calls" demand the money elsewhere ! They administered the poisoned cup to others : the cliaUcc is now returning to their own lips ! They have robbed , and robbed , and robbed , and helped to rob , others , without mercy or cessation : and now it is THEMSELVES that have to submit to " roWwrv , " however hardly they may take it . '
The announcement of the Minister ' s intention to filch came before the public in rather a queerish fashion . Peel did not employ his own " organs" to promulgate the face . He did not whisper it in Granny ' s ear , nor tell it to the official Standard . He went a more " cautious" way to work . He got the " ball of horse-dung" to do his bidding the dirt } , stinking Globe . This was discreet . If the threatened onslaught on " national faith" should raise " a pother" before which it might be desirable to retreat , the back-door was open . A hint given , and Grandmother , with spectacles high on nose , would have shaken her " mob-cap" at the " unscrupulous Ministerial opponent ' who could seek to do damage to the " strong" and "honest" Government at the expense of the most sacred
interests , even that one involving the "faith' of the nation itself ' . while the less sedate but more vindictive Standard wouldhavecudgelled away in right good earnest , Irish fashion , giving its own side two blows for the one made to reach its opponent : and the enduring Globe would have borne this lecturing and this trouncing with most wonderful magnanimity , never retorting nor even repining , but contenting itself with faintly hinting that " its source bf information was first-rate , " and " that the Minister had seen good reason to abandon , for the present , the intention he had entertained . " Peel , who is well known -as one of the artful sort , knows this game well enough : and so accordingly he went to his opponent , the Globe , to get the " ice broken ' as to his intention to
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR . j December 28 , 1844 .
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Repeal rs Loxww—Tiiubsdat Etesisg , I ) zc . 26 . — The meetings of this week Lave not been many , on account of the festivities of Christmas , but at the same time the Hepeal Wardens iaTe not been less active ; they iave held their local committees , and preparations Bave been made to carry oat the agitation t > f the new vear with renewed vigour .
Geat ' s Ixs Waed , Albert , Gray ' s Iim Lane . — The Repealers of this ward held their weekly meeting on Sunday e . Yenm | last , and but one sentiment animated them , which was , that the most -Tigorona ¦ exertions should be uised for a thorough organisation of the ward in refereaee to tie toDection of the sinews of tot for the approaching year . Mr . J . Collins , R . W . and Y ., "was called to the chair , -who addressed the meeting , and vas followed by 5 lr . T . R . Reading K . 1 Y . J who , in a speech of great length , referred to the good that arose from ajritatioc . He showed that Repeal-ffouLd benefit the working classes of England as "vrell as those of Ireland . He referred to the conduct of ih& Marquis of Londonderry in threatening the English , colliers ¦ with inundating tW-m with Irishnien-He said that he wonld not use that threat to the honest artlzans of England if Ireland had a Parliament . He said it -was folly to talk of putting Ireland upon the same footing as England , when England was erring
out for justice from her imperious rulers . The time was fastapproacMng when tne millions of England and Ireland would demand their rights in a ttocc that "sronldnotberefused . Mr . Reading was loudly cheered . Mr . Calanan , R . "W ., next addressed the meeting ; in ihecoursecf a lengthened speech he said that the Irish people acted upon the defensive morally , but that it ¦ was constitutional to resist aggression , " -come from Tvhereit may . Mr . T . O'CaUaghan , R . W . ( Cork ) , then followed , and addressed the meeting in his usual eloquent style . In the course of his speech he stated that the principles he had just adduced might be called Chartistprinciples-, if so . alihehadtosay was , they were good . He was perfectly right in adopting the prurtiplesorany party to carry out his own . He had been adVocating the cause for the last " eighteen years . He then condemned the C&tholic ^ Bequests Act as a measure fraught -with injustice towards the Catholics of Ireland . SeTeral were enrolled . -
Moobtields " VTakd , Brown Bear , Eldon-street , Moorfields . —On Sunday evening last Mr . J . O'Brien , R , "V 7 . and Y ., presided . The whole of the evening "was occupifid in denouncing the evil tendency of the Catholic I $ e < jue 5 ts- 3 $ il £ * xrpon which the chairman dwelt at considerable length with his usual eloquence . Mr . Minton Trill preside on Sunday evening next . ¦ - ¦ -- ' GBATTA 5 "WiBD , TVhite Lion , Drary Lane . —On Sun--dav evenij ^ Tast Mr . Horgan , R . W ., -was in'the chair . After reading the late proceedings of the Association , the " chairman dwelt at great length on'the benefit that Ireland -would receive bv the Repeal . Several "were enrolled ; ^ fter -which the meeting adjourned .
0 OH 5 j >; Coxxexl "W-abd , Temperance Hall , Seymour-street , Somfersr-town . —On Monday evening last ameeian ^ M-ashelajbutTyaanotso Dumerouslyattended , on account of its near approximation to Christmas Mr . W . J . O'ConneH ( Inspector-general ) and Mr . "W . Ihmne . iR . 'W ' -, attendedin the early part of the eveningjvb ^ jBaiiot Biay ^ c ^ ectiBg . ihfire-woifld not be a meeting . After a : short ( 'iime Mr . HijgiTia , ' ~ RSW , was called to tferjcbair ^ -aivd Mi . Rooney , H . Ty \ , read the lat ^ roeeedings . at ' . ^ e Conciliation HalL Dublin , ¦ and . called -the , afcteniicw of- the meeting particularly to lie speech ofthe Liberator on the disturbed state of the , counties of LesirLm and Cavan , and Mr . S . 0 Briea f 8 letter « n the same -subject . The meeting jhffl Tvffionrnggv ¦
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More Mubdebs is IszLAxn . —Dublix , Dec . 13 . — Private letters have been received in town this afternoon , stating that Mr . John Carden , of Barnane , near Templemore , in the county of Tipperary , was yesterday shot dead near his residence . A letter from Athboy states that an attempt at assassination was made in that neighbourhood . An extensive grazier , whose name I have not learned , went out yesterday evening , accompanied by his brother , to look at some cattle , when they were fired upon . The brother , it is stated , tras wounded .
Case of Ckm Cox . —Mullet , v . Lloyd . —Court of Exchsjceb , Satcedat . —TMs was an action brought to recover damages for criminal intercourse with the plaintiff ' s wife . The defendant pleaded not guilty . The damages-were paid at £ 2 , 000 . The defendant is the well known proprietor and publisher of Lloyd ' s Weekly London Newspaper , the Penny Sunday Times , and several similar publications of the Greenacre school The defendant , who is some years older than the plaintiff , and has a wife and two children , was on terms of intimacy with the latter , who is a papermaker , and supplied Llovd with paper for his
publications . The wife of the plantitf is the mother of four children . Mr . Serjeant Talfourd stated the case to the jury , and called witnesses , whose evidence left no doubt of the defendant ' s guilt . Mr . Cockbum , counsel for the defendant , admitted the foct that his < dient and the plantiff's wife were at the present time living in adultery . His address to the jury seemed to be wholly " directed to the reducing tho damages which the jury might grant the plaintiff to as small an amount as possible . The Lord Chief Baron summed up , and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £ 750 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 28, 1844, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct519/page/4/
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