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THE JVrORTHEKIV STAR. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1841.
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PUBLIC TEA PARTY, IN THE FORESTERS' REFUGE. STALYBRIDGE,TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE REV. J. R. STEPHENS.
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^~ BETERLEY MINSTRELSY I TO THS KDITOB OF THB SOBTHXB * STAB . T v . Te enclosed yon the following Teaes , not irith ^ riction that they possess either sterling merit ^ jSetSj ? bat fcomtbe peculiarly dMresains *?^^ cUnxmi * w « in -which they irere oom-* lf ^ % may be , by my friends at tea * , considered P ** t Hue u a proof that my spirit is not yet broken rfrbVtfce enormous amount « f Kiypait , present , ^ f ' -Hdpated offerings , nndeserred and rapreee" * £ * Kr sufferings * n reality aw . It atoo ha , ¦ " ^ SJai thsy have do ne , a fewnoun ( about I b L ''; ,, dtoeetber , to their composition ) widen has ^ 5 Lytf" * Sfe * for tbatperiodfrom beinfinore I ^ SV JSptoT I » teDd the Tenas to answer the ^ Jjrr . B . P « fc » - SPIRIT OF FREEDOM . '
, « sit ^ TJn ^^ * ° dW * With tie patriot ffl his cell . EddStSrb- ^ ^ vSK To wothe the *> m > ws of his heart ; iecdert him thy infmenee dime , To comfort , an erhvutlew mind , To efceer the avng&mt dismal gloom , jtOTg fc meant by tyrants for nil tomb . fcSrtt of freedom } when woes © ppress , ^ en f riends desert , and foes distress ; £ Cjj ^ m mi sfortune threafnirg lowers , Ld sofro ** » a * ti » p » s * in $ hoars ; * s ioy to k&o * that in his cell , 2 ^ , the su -ne spirit thatbreata'd in Tell iDipired a Wallace , and did burn So neb ? T bri ^ it at JBannoekbnra .
fcirii of freedom ! be eTer nigh , _ ^ en tie pain'S t *» na heaves the Kgh j tTben tears of woe e * ch other cfi&ae , P ^^ jb the patriot ' s grief-worn face ; Tan of woe for others shed , ?«¦ oiheis griefs his bosom ' s bled ; flat ne ' er for sorrowi all Ms own Hfi gTErfelt , oryethas shown . Spirit of freedom ' . be eTer found , ¦ sfhsa sorrows sad this bosom wound ; with en * far those more dear than life , Eis orpbaa child—his widow'd wife ; And oh ! thy heavenly influence shed , ijt ^ A these helpless sufferer * head , In spire tins breast with joys U come , Kaoald freedom once more bless my home .
For Tsislj , power , thy surplieed band , Xsy spread their errors throogh the land , Jo lad the ductile mind astray , Fsr , far , froni traOrt delightful way . ( hastsapsrstition's blighting gloom , Of ihe mind ' s energies the tomb , Dispels , fair sprite , before thy ray , Jisi opesiag op s glorious day . Ii Tsb these dungeons may enclose fee suffering patriot and his woes ; Hit orphan child to poverty driven , Ei 3 wife deprived of all bnt heaTen ; flat widow ' s wail—tha ; orphan ' s cry , Aseeatog iocense to the sky ; WB 1 on the eppressor bring a rod , Cm wrath of an avenging God .
Ii Tjin , erael power , her bands may stain With blood of freedom ' s martyrs slain ; Or madly dare the deadly strife , Where freedom may be bought with life . Yes , Tain . ' while million souls inherit , Freedom , thy never-dying spirit , Which now lights up my dungeon ' s gloom , jhOTgh meaEt to be the patriot ' s tomb . Tea , Tain all arts will tyrants find Io camp or bind the human mind ; For os-ward , with resistless force , fhs stream of mind shall hold her course-Till they can stop tb » KTing sun , From his appointed race to run ; fill they the ocean ' s w&Tes can stay , Ihar mandate we shall ne ' er obey . K . OBEBT Pi Beieriey Hotse o ? Correction , ISthFeb . 154 L
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A B& 1 GAXD 8 PhIU » OPHT ; OK OXS 1 AW FOB TH « Rich and akothsb fob thk Poor . — " It jb because man ' s law is not God ' a l » w that I stand here upon the raonntain . Were laws equal and just , there would be few fonnd to resist them . While they are unequal and unjust , the poor-hearted may submit and tremble ; the powerless may yield and suffer ; the bold , the tree , the strong , ana the determined , fall back upon the law of God , and wage war against the injustice of man . If you and I , baron , " he continned , growing excited with the heat of his argument f " if you and I were to stand before a court of hnman justice , as it is called , pleading the Bame cause , accused of the same acts , would oar trial be the same , our sentence , oar punishment ? No I all
would be- different ; and why!—Because you are Bernard de Rohan , [ ride Lord Cardigan ' s case , ] a wealthy- baron of the land , and I am none . A name would make the difference . A mere name would bring the sword on my head and leave yours unwounded . If so it be , I say—if guch be the world ' s equity—I set np a retribution for myself ; I raise a kingdom in the passes of these mountains , a kingdom where all the privileges of earth are reversed . Here , under my law , the noble , and the rich , and th « proud , are those that must bow down and suffer ; the poor , and the humble , and the good , those that have protection and immunity . Go , aik in the peasant ' s cottage ; visit the good pastor ' s fireside ; inquire of
the shepherd of the mountain or the farmer on the plains : go , ask them , I e&y , if under the sword of Corse de Leon they lose a sheep from their flock or a sheaf from their field . Go , ask them if , when the tyrant of the castle—the lawless tyrant , or the tyrant of the city—the lawful tyrant , plunders their property , insults their lowliness , grinds the face of the poor , or wrings the heart of the meek—ask them , I say , if there is not retribution to be found in the midnight course of Corse de Leon—if there is not punishment and jnstioe poured forth even upon the privileged he&dfl above . "—Mr . Jemet ' s Carte de Leon *
The Co » obts op Heatbeks : Town Gabdens in Japas . —The front of the better class of houses is occupied by a large portico and entranoe , where the palanquins , umbrellas , and shoes of visitors are left , where servants and persons on business wait , & . c . ; and which is connected with all the domestic offices . The back of the house is the part inhabited by the family ; and it projects into the garden triangularly , for the benefit of more light and cheerfulness . These gardens , however diminutive , are always laid out in ( he landscape-garden style , with rocks , mountains , lakes , waterfalls , and trees ; and uniformly contain a family chapel or oratory . Absurd as Euch would-be pleasure-gronnds may seem , when confined in extent , as must be the garden even of a -wealthy householder in the heart of a city , this intermixture of verdure nevertheless contributes
greatly to the ainne 3 s and gay aspect of the town itself . And we are told that the very mailesi habitations possess similar gardens , yet more in miniature , sometimes consisting of wh&t may be called the mere corners cut off from the triangular back of the house , with the rrees in flower-pots . —Manners andCuslomi of ihe Japanese .
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The large Hall was tastefully decorated . The applications for tickets had exceeded the expectations of the managers bo far that they were obliged to set the tables a third time , before all visitors had been supplied . Mr . Stephens entered the room , and was loudly cheered , and took tea with the last party . The arrangements reflected great credit upon the managers ; and the females especially were very industrious , in trying to make every one aa comfortable as circumstances would permit . After the joyou 3 assemblage had regaled themselves , the tables wer « removed . Mr . Hasulm , having been called to the chair , introduced Mr . . Stephens to the meeting ia a short eulogistic speech .
Mr . Stephexs , on presenting himself , was saluted with hurrahs , clapping of hands , and other marks of esteem ; after the applause had rabsided , he commented his address by thanking his friends around him for their hearty expressions of welcome . Being once more at home amongst his own , he was bold in speaking of himself . ( Hear . ) Their chairman , when he called him their tried friend , their undaunted friend , and their suffering friend , was wrong in one little word , namely , their suffering friend . He considered he had suffered nothing , when he thongb : of the cause in which be had been embarked , and which led him to prison , where he had spent eighteen of the happiest months of hiB life . And those who had sent him there had don «
him the best and kindest turn . He said that when Captain William ? asked how he was , he told him to give his respects to Lord John RuBsell , and tell him that he thanked him for sending him there ; and tell him also that he made a very great mistake in sending him there ; that , had he let him alone a little longer , he should have given very little trouble . He ( ilr . S . ) said he was nearly worn out , but now be had made him a man again . He did not think it any tes ; of public sympathy and respect to see thousands parading the streets to welcome their friends home . He , for his part , thought little of flags , banners , and bands of mosic on such occasions . He had previously made np his mind to come alone into Ashum . He would walk , and have an opportunity
of seeing with his own eyes , and he would willingly have suffered eighteen months imprisonment rather than mi- * wbst he had seen in walking from Ash ton to the Forestersf Hall , at Sialybridge , from men , women , and children , when returning from their work , and appearing so anxious m offering their dirty hands to shake with his clean ones , for , said he , his were likely to be so , because he had d # ne no work for eighteen months . He had put into his hands a Manchester paper , in which it was stated that he was coming to Stalybridge to join a tea party , and in the same paragraph it was asked whether the prison bad damped his enthusiasm , and whether the police would be needed . But he ( Mr . Stephens ) would tell his friend of the . \ fanchester
Times that had his council been followed there never would have been any necessity for the policemen , for either Ashton or Manchester to bludgeon the people into submission . He had told the people , and the Manchester Times , and the Manc / tester Guardian , and the Morning Chronicle , that if they ware determined to pass the New Poor Law Bill , that they woald need an army to enforce it , and the fruits were now just what he said they would be , ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) The speaker then at great length defended himself against the attacks which had been made in the press , which called him a madman , fire brand , and revolutionist , &c . &c , and said that those who called him such certainly did not know him ; he believed there never was a man more
calm , more cool , , nor kinder than himself , ( hear , bear , ) and likewise stated that his work of agitation began in the closet . The first shake of the hand he had in Manchester was from a policeman who knew kirn , ( although he , Mr . S ., did not know the policeman , ) atd welcomed him back again . He then advisad the people not to be deceived by the advice which was sometimes given them relative to going to America ; they must not imagine that when they were going there that they were going to a free country , and argued that we should endeavour to bettei -our country rather than leave it . He glanced at many points which more concerned himself and his own congregation , than the public at large , and at times broke out in tremendous declamation against
the New Poor Law Bill , the Factory Question , and the Rural Police , until he came to the remarks upon the Chartists and the Charter . He said that he might correct an idea that had gone abroad . He asked whoever heard him 3 ay that he was a Chartist ! He defied any man to point to a single line where they might conclude that he was a a Chartist . He never was a Chartist . He was not a Chartist then , nor ever would be . But though he was not a Chartist himself , he took that opportunity of stating that be would always snpport their right to be Chartists . They ought to have the Charter : he himself could live happy under the Charter , Things could not be worse than they were if it was obtained . ( Hear , hear . ) On his way thither he saw
a child who saw him , and who said , Hey ! there is Stephens , God bless him ; but we mus ; have the Charter . " ( Laughter and cheers . ) Whatever might ba thought of his politics , he always held that the entire people should be fully and fairly represented in the House of Commons' Congress , or where they wished . They might call that good Chartism , but they might take it for what they liked . Since he had been in prison , he had lost a brother , child , and father by death ; the latter occurrence , that of | hiB father , had been signalited by a display of unlookedfor sympathy on the part of Lord Normanby , who kindly , and without solicitation from himself , granted him permission , from the dungeon , to follow the remains of his father to the grave . He , therefore , took that public opportunity of publicly , through the press , expressing his gratitude to Lord NormanDT . though he was his political opponent to the
death . He also thanked them ( his congregation ) for their kindness towards hita while in prison , in pecuniary and in other matten . They had ministered to his waats , * ud he hoped the large number of sofferers then in prison wonld not be forgotten , or left unsupported by their friends . ( Hear , * hear . ) He intended to work in the great vineyard of the Lord , as he had done before . On Sunday next , he wonld preach at Hyde ; the Sunday following , at Charlestown , Ashton . He wonld work harder , if possible , than he had done . He wonld ever repose upon their prayers , their faith , and the heaven to which he and they aspired . WhiU in prison he had not been quite idle : he had often asked himself what he could do tor the general good ! And he thought that if he could place permanently oa record bis views , it would be Jbetter calculated t » ensure hu object than the delivery of local sermeas or lecture *
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With this Tie * he hid eUrted & - maguiiie , wiicb he called the People ' s , " because it was for the people , with the people , whether rich or poor , high or low , and he wished to make the whole people one people . He had learnt , sinoe his release , and on credible authority , that all the imprisonment , all the Government prosecutions , and cruel treatment , and exorbitant Bail , was the result of a bargain entered inte between his old friends , the Corn Law repealing millowners and the Government , that they would put down the Anti-Poor Law agitation and the Chartist agitation , if the Government would assist them in repealing the Corn Laws . But had they put down the agitation or the agitators ! ( No , no . ) Had they put Oastler down I No ; there was
he in the Fleet , inditing his Papers , happier than ever . Had they put Stephens down ? No ; there ha was that night , again before his friends , his church , and his congregation . Had they put down O'Connor ! No ; though in prison , he was as mighty as ever . Had they pat d /> wn Oastler , O'Connor , and StephenB ! ( No . ) They had put them up better than they eould have done themselves . ( Vociferous cheers . ) He saw nothing good as the result of all their imprisonment ; they had still bad times , the ; were likely to have worse ; and , before heaven , he believed God had given them up to a reprobate mind , to work all manner of unrighteousness , that they might believe a lie , a special affliction from God , who had and would visft them with vengeance . He had teen Oastler in London , and spent many happy hours with him . Mr . Stephens then recommended his hearers to read the " Fleet Papers ;" and if they could afford to purchase the " People ' s
Magazine , " to read that also . It was extensively read in London , and he hoped was doing good ; bnt above all they must read the " Fleet Papers . " People would say he was advertising his own book . ( Laughter . ) In conclusion , be hoped that they would not mistake him ; he knew it would be a work of prayer and a work of blood ; they mast take the sword and not let it rust in tbu Scabbard- — " the aword of Gideon—they must keep it bright before the Lord" —for God had said that he would cleanse the land . He then exhorted his hearers to be up and doing , to pray more , to live to God more , to believe more , to give themselves up completely to God , to live for God and one another . He had given them his best advice , let them take it , pray over it , and he would with God ' s assistance and theirs , work for and with them , he would finally and affectionately bid them good night . ( Loud cheering . ) The Chairman then introduced
Mr . Bradley , of Hyde , who was received with much applause . He observed that he had come with great pleasure , though very unwell , in answer to the kind invitation that had been sent him . Mr . Stephens had called him a consistent Chartist ; be was proud to assert that he was a Chartist , and agreeing with him that men ' s hearts must be changed before they would practice justice to one another , be could not help thinking he might be blotted , that Mr . Stephens was wrong and he himself was right , when he demanded for iii 3 countrymen their political rights , as contained in the Charter . He would himself feel ashamed , and ho thought he would not deserve the name of a man if he was not a Chartist : and though he had Buffered eight
months' imprisonment , he would never cease to work until it became the law of the land—he wonld assist Mr . S . in repealing the New Poor Law , the Rural Police Bill , and in shortening the hours of factory labour , though he thought , for his part , they never couW succeed till they got the Suffrage , by which to protect and legislate for themselves as working men . ( Cheers . ) now were they situated at this moment 1 Were they not worse than they had been ! He told them that unless they could obtain the Charter , they would become worse than they were then , though , God knew , they were low enough . It was his opinion that they , like the aristocracy and cotton lords , must have their interests represented in the House of Commons , or they sink
immeasurably lower in the scale of social misery , and moral degradation . He wished them , one and all , to cultivate a knowledge of one another , to sympathise with one another , and to struggle in the great cause , until their efforts were crowned with success . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) He would conclude , as he was in very bad health , and give way to another gentleman who would address them . ( Load applause . ) The Chairman then called upon Mr . Bairstow , who , in coming forward was received with deafening and protracted cheering , aad on reaching the tribune from which he spoke , was shaken by the hand in the most cordial manner , by Mr . Stephens , upon which the cheering again commenced . Cheers were then given in rapid succession .
severally for Feargus O'Connor , &q ., RichaTd Oastler , and the Rev . J . R . Stephens ; after the subsidence of which Mr . Bairatow spoke as follows : He did not think , when he entered that building at a very late stage of the proceedings , that he should have been called upon to address them , but the argus eye of their Chairman had discovered him , and he must speak . He appeared there as an uncompromising Chartist , to blink nothing , or bate one of its immortal principles . ( Loud and long-continued cheering . ) A democrat , aye , one by birth , he would ever stand by and defend the democracy of man as embodied in the People ' s Charter , as the only lever for raising him from his present position ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) He maintained
that itB righteous claims were neither humbug nor moonshine ; and that the Chartists , instead of hunting a wild goose , in pursuing its acquisition , were solemnly and nobly working out their country ' s emancipation . ( Cheera . ) The Chartist 8 , on the contrary , had broken the march of every fox , and wrung the seeks of the cackling geese , and rendered it for ever impossible that any agitation shall humbug the people under the pretence of repealing isolated bad laws , without giving them the franchise by which to cut down every obstruction to their unlimited freedom . ( Renewed che # w . ) The people hated the N « w Poor Law , the Rural Police Bill , and the accursed factory system . But they were fully conscious that it would be folly to attempt to repeal
the one or correct the other without Universal Suffrage . ( Cheers . ) While the factory lord , the capitalist , and the landowner were omnipotent in Parliament , and the people were powerless , they might as well seek to stop the diurnal motion of the globe . They felt they were excluded oat of the sphere of being and doing good—that the law never knew them till it branded them with criminality , and condemned them to imprisonment , banishment , exile , or death . The people had become too wise to be pulled like puppets by the wires of leadership , and , guided by a resolute and indomitable adherence to principle , they would steer clear of the shoals and quicksands of expediency , till , lashed by the waves of progress , they reached the haven of repose and
success . " Universal Suffrage and no surrender " was the inscription on their banners ; the winds of every breezs unfurled ic ; they had nailed their colours to the mast , and they had sworn death to tbo man who struck them . ( Loud and hearty cheering . ) At this moment the chairman begged leave of Mr . Bairstow to desist for a short time , stating that Mr . Stephens had been eent for by one of his members who was on the eve of death , and proposed that , before Mr . Stephens left , the audience should , by way of bidding him good night , give him twenty rounds of the Kentish fire , which was responded to by the whole meeting in the moat
enthusiastic manner . Mr . B . resumed , and , in a strain of thrilling eloquence , which carried all hearts with him , concluded amidst the loud and long continued plaudits of the assembly . The Chai&han then briefly addressed the meeting ; after which , three times three were given for Mr . Oastler , O'Connor , J . R . Stephens , the Northern Star ( to which Mr . Griffin replied ) , and Mr . Bairsfcow . A vote of thanks was tendered , by acclamation , to the chairman , who acknowledged the compliment in a short speech , and the meeting broke up just before Sunday , highly pleased with the evening ' s proceedings .
The Jvrorthekiv Star. Saturday, March 6, 1841.
THE JVrORTHEKIV STAR . SATURDAY , MARCH 6 , 1841 .
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OPEN CONFESSION OF THE MOST FLAGRANT GUILT AND LONG CONTINUED PERSECUTION OF IRISH LANDLORDS .
In our Ia 3 t number we laid before our readers a report of a meeting of Irish landlords , recently held in Dublin , and presided over by Ireland ' s only Duke , his Grace the Duke of Leinster . We have this week to draw more particular attention to the objects proposed , and motives for holding the meeting . Many of the early speakers would have given the complexion of patriotism to their-intentions , while they would gladly throw a veil over the disasters and wretchedness which they admit to exist , and of which they have bten compelled to confess them-Belves the perpetrators . A Mr . Kafeb is the first speaker , and we again insert hio speech ;—
" Towards the conclusion of thii gentleman ' s remark * , in alluding to tha state of the oountry , be observed that the cease * of the poor people throughout the country , were liters U'j worth nothing—they were net fit for habitation , in traversing the bogs as a sportsman , many a tiir . e he had seen the game fall at the door of the poor man , — those wretched hovels were not fit for tha dogs over which he had shot " Now this Mt . NAPEB is , we understand , a Tory landlord , enjoying the small fortune of about thirty thou '« and per annum , while he confesses that , upon his own estate , he has to witaeu the destitution which he describes to
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be endured by those who make the ov . ^ erwiBe barren surface of his land valuable by th . «* labour . Can reproof be stronger than that which JtWs gentleman thus administers to self and order , . amidst the oheers of the delinquents . Good God ! haman beings living in hovel * in which a sportsman mould notpui his dog . The bit of » speech which ia most important for its folly is that of a Captain Duww , and which we reprint also : —
"He resided In a district where t&ew was , unfortunately , a large quantity of waste land , which could , with Uttle difficulty , be reclaimed and madepriniuctive if the people only knew how to go abont It ( Hear , hear . ) Teat they would at once set about it bb had no doubt , if the means were given them ; for certainly the charge of a want of industry could not with truth be imputed to them . " Here we have a most extraordinary jargon j the Gallant Captain says , that the land would be reclaimed if the people knew how to go about it , and , in the Tery next breath , he Bays they would soon go about it , if the means were given them , and he admits that want of industry cannot be imputed to the Irish peasantry .
The next speaker is Sharmaw Cbawford , arid while we acquit him of all participation in past acts of oppression , we regret that he did not , when such an opportunity presented itself , affirm a-more extensive prinoiple than the mere collection of subscriptions to be divided among a little Squirearchy as agricultural premiums . The resolutions went no farther than this , whila Mr . Crawford very pro ^ - perly observed upom the prudence and justice of making a landed provision for every labourer . But white Mr . Ciuwpobo merely suggested the propriety of adopting the principle , he went into the most outrageous and ^ impracticable details for carrying it out , that could have been suggested to the mind of man .
Mr . Crawford recommends the allotment of an acre of ground to every labourer , and in his appropriation of that quantity -he assigns three distinct duties or performances , each and all of which are founded upon the most fallacious data . He assigns a task for the man , for the land , and Tor the two little pigs , which none of the parties could possibly perform . In the first place he proposes that the man , after ten or eleven hours labour .- for hia master should
amtue kitnse' fia planting a half aore of potatoes ; in cultivating and digging them , and in digging and cultivating a half acre of wheat . True , he assumes that the family will assist , but he well knows that the children of Irish labourers begin to work for their masters at the age of twelve or thirteen , till about twenty or twenty-one , when they marry and become housekeepers themselves . Therefore the performance of the required duty from the man is out of the question .
Next cornea the land ; and surely Mr . Crawford must know that there is not an acre of land in the universe , with any quantity of manure , much less with that produced by two little pigs , would 6 tand an alternation of a green and white crop ; it is rank nonsense . But now we come to a consideration of the most important of all the dutiea , that assigned to the unhappy two little pigs , upon whom devolves the enriching process . Does Mr . Crawfor * know what he said , or do those who cheered understand it ! Ia
Mr . Crawford aware that there are eighty perches of land in a half acre , each perch containing over thirty square yards , and that he assigned the poor little grunters the PHYSICAL impossibility of manuring no less than scveu square yards per day throughout the year , and for potatoes , too , which require more manure than any other crop . We beg to assure Mr . Crawford that forty big pigs , much less two little pigs , would not , if they had nothing else to do , and had a dispensary at their command , perform the duty which he has assigned to the poor animals .
He talks of straw , . while he must know that pigs alone , of all other animals , never convert straw into manure , being , as regards their bed , the most cleanly of all animals . Iudeed , in justification of the character of IriBh pigs , we beg to relate a story which we heard from an Irish farmer . He had a sow with a litter of young ones j the bow fell sick , and the farmer littered yard and all with straw for warmth ; after three days' attempt at doctoring , he at last sent for the parish pig doctor , who , having taken off his hat and coat , and having
deposited them in a corner of the yard , over the straw , proceeded to tho siok bed from whence he expelled the young brood , aud when the visit was over and the patient was prescribed for , the Doctor proceeded to " don" his coat and hat , but lo , and behold , the well-trained brood had taken advantage of the doctor's coat and hat , which presented the only spot that for three days appeared legitimate gr&und for their purpose ? , and there they deposited a large luck-penny for the learned gentleman , as their share of the fee .
We , therefore , protest at once , upon the part of the two little pigs , against tho performance of tho duty assigned to them . In fact , they must be the dirtiest little beasts of pigs on earth , real Irish pigs , and worth their weight in gold ; as a half aore of potato ground manured by pigs would be well worth five pounds . Will Mr . Cbawfokd send us a bow and boar of this manuring breed , and we premise any price for them t No ; but we tell Mr . Crawford how to get over the difficulty , and how to increase the comfort , while he diminishes the burden upon the man , the land , and the pigs .
Let each labourer have an acre and a half of ground , and apply it thus : —a quarter of an acre of potatoes , a quarter of an acre of wheat , a quarter of an acre of vetches and kitchen garden , a quarter of an acre of meadow , and a half acre of grass , and then let us see what his produce would be— 300 stones of potatoes , thirty-five stones of wheat , milk , and butter , of a cow , and kitchen garden for bush fruit and vegetables ; then Mr . Crawforb may say that a cow , one pig , and the weeds of a kitchen garden , together with some little collected by the
man himself , would manure a quarter of an acr « well , while the ashes and other manure furnished by slops , et cetera , would afford ample quantity for a kitchen garden . Thus a quarter of an acre of fresh land might be broken up every year , and have a good skin upon it , instead of a continuous succession of potatoes and wheat , while the man ' s labour would be reduced to nearly one half , and to assist him in that , the cow would enable him to keep some of the children at home for help , while the poor pigs would be altogether released from their copious evacuations .
The cow is the grand thing for a poor family ; and let us now see what our disposition of the land would afford . Three hundred stones of potatoes , thirty-five ditto of wheat , four quarts of new milk per day for seven months of the year , and eighty pounds of butter , or better than half a pound per day for the remaining five months , together with a little milk for seven months , eight quarts of sout milk per day for the pigs ; to this add garden
vegetables , and thus , without any straining at artificial agriculture , but by the yerj commonest process , we provide for the poor man three times as much aa he can earn by a whole year ' s toil ; he may eat his pig , which would , moderately speaking , give him two hundred pounds of bacon , or more tb&B half a pound per day . That man would never let % froggy Frenchman enter upon his little paradise ; he would fight like an Irishman , and die like * game cock first .
We must ba understood as agreeing altogether with Mr . Crawford in principle , and therefore do we feel the greater jealousy and alarm , lest ridicule may be cast upon it , from the absurdity of the details . A Seotch farmer once assured a neighbour that he had disoovered an essence of manure , and that he could oarry a sufficiency for five acres in his waistcoat pocket ; upon which the neighbour replied , " Aye , mon : and nae . doubt you may oarry the crope
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in the other . " Now , we say nothing abont the crops ; bat we do think that , after the two little pigs had performed their part of the covenant , they would be ? ery fine drawn , and would make but sorry bacon . The next speaker ia Mr . George Macartney ; and as this gentleman has let the cat out of the bag , we here reprint his confession . He said : — ¦ " Improve the africultaral resources of tha country ,
and y'AU increase employment among the labouring classes , a . nd decrease the poor rates , jHear , hear > It is the interest of tha proprietors , therefore , to forward these objects * for there is no use blinking the question -any person that looks at the operation of the poor laws must s « e that eventually the proprietor must pay the rate . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Therefore , let the proprietors employ the people , and they will not nave poor rates to pay . "
Now , can anything be more beastly , disgusting , and flagitious , than thus seeing landlords obliged to be dragged like badgers from a hole before any . notions of justice , humanity , or right , possess them . K ' ere we are distinctly told , that the dread of a poor rate has forced these gentlemen to consider grie vances , with which they admit that they have been / amiliar for years , without making the slightest approa "h towards their redress , until alarmed by sftlnshntssAnd fear . Thus it ever has been , and thus it ejet will be , with the rich—they mast be kicked ink' action .
In 1735 , the Irish House of Commons , being Protestants , passed a resolution exonerating all grass land from * the payment of tithe , and tbu 8 threw . the whole burden of the Protestant ohuToh upon a pauper Catholic agricultural people . Ia 1824 , Mr . Goclbukx , finding the security of the pst ^ sons becoming weak , in consequence of this imtnu nity , and the reduced price of grain holding oat *> premium for leaving land in grass , passed bis titl e composition bill , by which tithe was to be convei'ted into an aoreable assessment upon all land , aa well grass as agricultural . From 1735 till 1825 , ever . Y war was a tithe war ; and the grass Protestant and . grass Catholic proprietors ,
shot , bung , transported , murdered , and destroyed every man who took part in opposition to tithes . The poor paid as high a ? 25 a . an acre tithe for potatoes ; 20 a . for wheat ; 16 " s . for barley ; 12 a . for oats ; and 83 . for Sax ; and serving the parson or proctor with more than three' notices to draw hia tithe upon the same day was conspiracy by Act of Parliament . So , when a poor & » & , or a combination of poor men , preferred allowing the parson to draw those tithes to paying the valuation three friendly Protestants were employed to serve aotioe to draw , and the parish was then declared in a conspiracy against the pur son , and tb » military were poured in from all quarters to aid thecburch .
This went on for nearly a century ; the Catholic landlord and lay impropriatora aud magistrates being the greatest tyrants . But , when all was brought into hodge podge , and when the rich had to pay a little for their religion , then did lords , highsheriffs , M . P . 8 , aad squires , rise in open rebellion against the parsons , and cry " down with the church , and no tithes , " until at length they have for another bit transferred them , in the shape of rent charge , to the shoulders of the Catholic tenants ; and now the patriots being sopped like a furious watch dog , are mute once more . Is not this a case exactly in point with the present agricultural move , and has not Mr . M'Caeiwev put the saddle upon the right horse ?
A Mr . Berhingham follows , and announces the appalling fact that sixpence a day is above the average price for mn able-bodied man in the West of Ireland ; and then comes a Mr . Watt , who , in detailing some facts connected with the district of Thurles , in the county of Tipperary , which has always been the most disturbed part ot Ireland , says , that within five years , encouragement has been
giren to agricultural improvement , and for that period there has not been a dingle criminal , whereas previously there was not a single year but there was a public execution . O ! Bhamcful ! horrid ! beastly ! and who were the murderers ! Why , the rascally landlords , of course , who should one and and all be hung up as aoare crows , as a warning to those who may follow . The Irish deserve it for bearing it .
We are sick of the beastly concern ! we never read a more disgusting reoital than the whole affair ; and our readers will now do us the justice to say , that however our former paintings of Irish Buffering and lordly tyranny may have appeared high coloured , they become but a mere daub , when contrasted with the picture drawn by the gentlemen themselves . 0 what a row there is , when a land shark , who has sent thousands to a premature grave , is finally sent after them .
Landlords of th « Green Isle ! you have written your own history , with your own pen , and in the blood of your own countrymen , and we believe it true to the letter .
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DISHONOUR , DISGRACE , AND DISSOLUTION OF THE HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE PARTY ; THEIR PRINCIPLES AND THEIR ORGAN . Mystery and latitude to an almost unlimited extent we , by a kind of prescriptive * right , conceded to the press ; but , inasmuch as there must be always some implied , if not defined , understanding between those who write and those who read , it has therefore been the immemorial custom , that the latter
should only impugn tho former when trick , disgrace , dishonour , or falsehood , shall be so clumsily veiled by Mr . Editor , as to make silence , or affected blindness , a charge of participation against the latter . In plain terms , the disciples of a newspaper , written for the higher or middle classes , value it exactly in proportion to its powers of aiding tyranny by falsehood ; but inasmuch as the least moral must be the most scrupulous , the moment the cheat becomes palpable and is detected , then is the cry of shame reechoed through the surprised ranks .
If a party cannot rely upon its organ ' s veracity , what influence can that party hold in a state ; and if an organ descends to the disgraceful and dishonourable subterfuge of pandering to advertisers , and recruiting for quacks , at the expence of truth , and bj wilful falsohood , what will It not sacrifico to preserve the support of the political portion of its readers f We may answer principle , polities * party , and all at the shrine of Mammon .
It is bad enough to manufacture "editorial political quacks , and atiach the signature " Chartist , " as if coming from other parties ; thnt is a part of the mysterious license ; but to issu e a wilful and palpable falsehood , as the Leeds Times has done , admits of no possible excuse . Ne ver , then , has a more disgraceful occurrence coma under our knowl « dge than that to which we are now about to refer .
If honour is to be observed towards out political subscribers , surely hoseety er ould be observed towards our advertisers . W e expound our principles as an inducement a nd invitation to the former , and exhibit our eirv jlation as an iavitation t » the latter . In the one v ie may be over zealous and unmeasured , but w '^ th the other , seal has nothing to do . The stan dard of truth ia tha only measure which advertis' ^ rs require , and to which they are justly entitled .
The Leeds Tim ** b *? , then , in the most unblushing and dishonest muui er , added no lees than nine thousand flr » hund red to the amount of stamps which the returns give to that paper , and , with the Tory return fror a which he professes to quote before hiB eyes , and ttt m which he quotet in these woida : — The last STA ? IP RETURNS SHOW the weekly circulation of the Times to be 3 , 673 ; and then the Leeds Times gives the gross amount as 95 , 000 , while the Stamp ' Returns before his eyes give the return thus : —
Leeds Timea-3 \ x \ j , 12 , 500 ; August , 12 , 000 ; September , 12 , 500 ; October , 13 , 00 i ; November , 30 , 500 ; December , 16 , 000 ; making in all 85 , 510 , and then the Times , having assumed this false and dis-Uvuest position , proeeed * to take its stand u
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second-rate paper , as the Northern Star , not being # looal paper , the Times says , cannot be taken Into the Yorkshire local list for advertising purposes . For this we thank the Briggate National ; tha Star i » not a Yorkshire paper , nor yet an English paper , nor yet a National paper ; it is an Imperial paper , and while the Times thus caters for quacks , by narrowing its circulation to a limited circle , what will the originators and supporters of the late '' national" more say to their " toad in a hole !"
But while we never hare catered for advertisements , but , on the contrary , have refuged many , and would much rather insert a good letter from a * CHARTIST" hand-loom weaver , an account of a Whig Corn Law drubbing , or a good missionary ^ lecture , yet we beg to tell the Times that we circulate more within thirty miles of him than he circulates all over the world , and we send more nngle papers to aristocrats and M . P . ' s , who are obliged to take ua as poison , than one half of the Times' circal&tion .
We did not leave it for the Timet to find out that we we * e not a mere "Toad in a hole ; " we have always taken pride and pleasure in declaring it ourselves ; our readers will do us the justice to say that we are never very noisy about " advertisers would do well to look hate , " or in parading the stamp returns ; but , inasmuch as some consideration has been forced upon m , and as we may be safely said to bold the balance even between the advertising portion of the community , not being ail advertising paper , let us , while our band is in , giro a fair specimen of the real state of the case to thai portion of the community who have no other protection , or guarantee , than the Words of the Editor for the expenditure of their money .
The Times then calls itself the second paper in Yorkshire , by the returns . Now let us
see-No I . Northern Star , Half a Kjyuion and Twenty-one ThoosanA No . II . Leeds Mercury , tyro hundred and forty-two thousand , by its own account . No . III . Leeds Intelligencer , one hundred and twenty-BlX thousand . .
No . IV . Bull Advertiser , onehuadred and eleven thousand five hundred . . No . V . Leeds Times , eighty-fire thousand , Bre hundred . So much for the other point of veraehj ; and now , as nicety is the order of the day , let as jast ran the Times nicely through the twenty-six week guantlet , taking the fire * nineteen weeks , and the )* st seven . For the first aineteen weelu , then , that is , for tha garter ending he September , to the first week of Ifovember , inclusive , October being a five weeks menth , and the firat week ' s supply for November , consequently had in October , and let us see bow the matter stands .
For those nineteen w « eks , the Times had , by tha return , just 4 ^ 00 ©; or 2 , 570 , instead of 3 , 673 , per week , while for seven weeks of November and December , the Time * had no fewer than 38 , 500 , or nearly one half of the whole amount ,, supplied for the whole term , or in weekJy circulation 5 ) 21 . 4- ; and thea the cur echoes the yelp ot the bull-dog , and says , we make no average of the Jmteili gencerf because he ha 3 not mada-proper arrangements about bilking , ad perusers .
Now can figures make" facts clearer as regards th » dishonesty and falsehood of the Times- towards advertisers-,. who are , in our opinion , in all cases- were they can swear that they were governed bya- 001 mfide circulation ^ aa stated in the paper which deceives them , absolved from the payment of advertisements . Now one word for the veracious- Mevcttry * , and here we are merely dealing between the advertising claimants as arbitrators .
The Merewry says : — "We make no weeWy average of the Intelligencer ' s- circulation , because a large proportion waa supplied to that paper vn tha month of September . " Well , now , let us have lik » case like rule . In January , 1 S 40 j the Merooryhwi lfl eOO , and in December , 1840 , 45 , 000 . In January , 1640 , the Intelligencer had 20 , 000 , and in December , 1840 , 45 , 0 fO . Now , eurely if 45 , 000 ia December is more disproportionate to the circulation of tho Intelligence * than the same amount is to the circulation of the Mereury , so ifl , upon the other hand , 19 . M 0 in January to the Mercury , than 29 , 800 in the same month to the Intelligencer , and may wo not , therefore , have another January tale to . tell upon the next returns t .
What , then , as far as the justice of the oaae is concerned , is the fairest rule f Why , doubtless ^ to-tako each year within itself , and what is gained in one will be lost in the other . ' Now , upon & comparison , of the two half yeacs , how do matters stand between the rivals for-the second place \ It appears that' the increase ofc the Timt * for the laet six months over iha previous six months , throwing in the 36 . 500 for seven * weeks , is
just , —what does the reader think , —after all tha splutter about the spread of the all-devouring principle , and the assurance in January , when both half years were expired , that the frequent changes of principle had produced an increase of 1 , 090 weekly ? ' Why ,, just fifty-six weekly , and no more ; ory in other- words , fairly disposing of the 35 , 0 U , according to the previous nineteen weeks , a falling off of about 19 , 500 upon the half year . So much for the truth , nicety ,. and justice .
We make no comparison of our oirculation with the Briggate National and European Advertiser . The whole circulation of Mother Goose , we shwild look upon as » mere casual increase in our weekly order . We make no awmtion of the Monarch , not of the daily , not of ilia Provincial , not of the English , nor yet of tha Imperial ,,, bat- of the universal pitess , the gwa * Weekly Dispatah ; thousands are as
spoiled sh » ei 3 , and the whole oirculation of Mother Goose , woaWi bo to the Dispeteh as mere waste ; but we select the Whig metropolitan papers , nearest our match , as the school boys , say , the Sunday Times and tho Weekly Chronicle- * , and what do we find there ! Why just this , that m the last six months of the year , as compared- with the previous six months , the Sunday Jiwe&ias fallen off 10 , 000 . ¦ The Greeaaore Chronicle has . fallen off 44 JB 0 O , and the Star has increased in tha same period SIXTY-SIX
THOUSAND . If this very great aieety is to beebaerred in the eritioal laying in of stamps , —mind , we are only speaking of the rule applied toward others , —fortunately our independence of ragamuffin advertisers relieves us of that portion of the jealousy;—but if such nicety is to be observed , let us just treat th « Mercury and Times to anolher test of a whole half years ' average . In the first quarter of the last year , then , aa compared with the last quarter of the previous half-year , the advertising belligerents stood thus : — Mercury—Last quarter of last half year , 132 , 000 first quarter of present half year , 126 , 000 ; decline , j 6 , 100 upon thirteen weeks .
Leeds Trow-Last quarter oflast half yeas , 48 , 0 W ; first quarter of present half year , 37 , 000 ; decline , 11 , 0 « 0 , or neariy , ] , 00 & a week . Intelligencer—Last quarter of first half yeaa , 26 , 000 ; first quarter of last half year , 44 , 000 ; increase , 18 , 000 upon the thirteen weeks . Wo , here take leave of the Briggate " National " and European Advertiser . We may hare a word to » say at io the
difference between consumption and returns ; a different * to which friend Mercury attaches much importance , and afterwards take a review of the whole year ' s stock , stating the amount of stamps received , and the amount on hand at the end of each quartet . In future , we shall take but a yearly review of the thing : it is well enough for advertisers to bestow their time and space on catch-penny ; but it is rather hard that their falsehoods should force « 3 to do likewise .
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Public Tea Party, In The Foresters' Refuge. Stalybridge,To Celebrate The Release Of The Rev. J. R. Stephens.
PUBLIC TEA PARTY , IN THE FORESTERS ' REFUGE . STALYBRIDGE , TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE REV . J . R . STEPHENS .
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. «> IHE BRIGHTON CHA 11 T 1 S 1 MBETIXCr-Dsar Sir , —Tis ndt ia vain , I trait , To ask youi aid in cause most jast ; Yon asi of what we do complain , What aid ire-want ? and J'l ! explain . Of coarse yonr readers know not yet , That -we ' ve in Brighton a Gazeils , A slaTish , paltry , Tory thing , Which ever strives to have a fling
At those who oft require a friend , Their noblest actions to defend . Toa'il let them know , I speak the truth , Aad that some upstart diny yoath , Did , in its latest pablieition , Profess to give some information Of the great meeting lately held lilts Town Hill , to baTe expeil'd Jam xhe projsxned " Poor Ii 3 w BUI , " Each par ; which would condnce to ill ; The rich , the poor , did all agree , They'd fain from every clause be free ; Thu Brighton did regoire it not .
3 eofl * e the poor were ne ' er forgot ; Xha ihe raU-payer * and th « poor "Were happy , nar did change implore . & far , bo good , thus all agreed , litpiw of party , class , or aged ; Bnt Borne there were , who saw most elear , Thai ciestitatiQn every jesr , Vf wold more and more o ' er England spread , rntilthe syKein ' s inock'd at heal , BjThidi tae few the millions rule Aad coerce those they can't befboi 1 certainly do not intend , Tbtsxerrs action to
defend-Tas - Bill" to sccut , the " Charter" prake Faa good—bnt not the "Marseliaise ;" ?* pn&ic objects , when men meet , They caaaot well be too discreet ; Ttt woe they plac'd ia corions plight To nurre amendments , they'd a right ; Bet th « j-d a chairman testy—partial , « sl fit , & gang of slaves to marshal , Ozs who'd fain by each passer-by , A * eoasSaWe , be ternrd Most High ;" " * Tho d on a Secretary of State , Moch ather than the people -wait ; And tir » agh ^ hose aid , no public meeting , S » tfc hitherto from kence sent greeting , To those wbo - re call'd sedition-monger * . At Than the Whigs nave hnrVd their tkinders . ¦
; £ aeadmenta fce sronld not rece 5 Te > "cpa'd by AJien , Woodward , Reeve ; A » a a the same had been withheld , n * CbartistB knew theyd be repeU'd , fwjd tksy again ask him to call , ApoJbfissifcfetiiig si the " Hall , " y *« e the j might shew tfceir -news were wand , ^ ti ken np on public ground ; fa » aach is true ; bat ' twonld you tire . Totea -which I the most admire ™» I » ef « tath , or taste , or feeling , ^ eh personalities revealing . ^ ^» he o-. lan ^ aagE doth divide t £ m , 1 ^ " "<™** r » ide by side ; \^ V ^ *¦ si shv-then aa a friend , As extract IT ] unto you
send—Cp jumped Mr . Allen " Quite oat of his calling «^ - ' v Umth of the " ^ -caa a vendor of beer * ah * month very frothy , and phiz very ^ ueer . fl &abHes » hath both sense aad wit , - * a » wi * h on neither I can hit , ** P ° < kj it taseOj qaeer , *»« nblem it of Allen ' * beer . » Ha I an opponent attack , < y **'** conduct , not hia lack ^ J ^ 'frhich nature doth withhold , ^«« nne caaae , or age unfold ; £ ^ 4 1 eould say aa much for those rpv —~*» 00 / as uiucu ior muse
"j » good example shonld disclose . *«* n » 2 e to hear how for a sop ?*> loiyum here can spout , S ^ 2 ^ when ; thefre out ; All flTSf * S " reUl ajld Jnfe * - t ^ d « « kt « n , Thti lifj ? d Ch * rtirt * <»* ot Brighton ; SifJr T- ' that ** ^ P ""** - ^ J jeianch lncreas'd the Chartiat rankj . gw « yoB'fl ask , » why roam so f « jf ^ f nghton to the Northern Star f ^?* dll *»« J » hyreTeal & * r ?*» ^ fcch yon so » rely fee ] " S « teeanse from localprea , Wftf * * ' ^ « dre « ? 1 %
ibtZC ^ t m 0 T « » n Mnow ephere , -SSS . *™*"*^ bemear , ^ jj ^ u Use aliioe aad filth it ean bZ ^ , tO 0 » * hi 6 h I Will « r , % *** aelia-a to ihew fair play . WeVKftv * ^ "wwaJord , lT ^ f ^ « who take , no pains , ^ i ^^ r ^ ^ y the dirt , AfcXSL ^? vhea **« y ° " « a , J * f « M 0 tS EKGLISHKxi & 1 * . fet . 24 th , isa .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct539/page/3/
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