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THE NOETHERIvr STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1841.
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SUN&E&XiAND . Physical Eobcb Respectables . —On Friday eveniag last , a grand row took place in the boxes of the theatre , Sunderkna , amongst the moral force respectables , which cfforded to the unwashed gods in the gallery iine proofs of the respectability , manner ? , and actions of their superiors . We had some difficulty in diseorering the origin of the melee , but we believeir was as follows : —Mr John Bowlbj , son of RnsseH Bowlby , Erq ., a great Whig attorney , had engaged sundry seats in the boxes of the Theatre-for . that evening . On going to the Theatre , he found John Branton , brother of the burly-bnriy Town Clerk qaietly seat-ed in one of them . He requested him to rise : this was declined , whereupon remonstrance
issued from Bowlby , and defiance was shown by Bronton . At last Bowlby uttered the ominous words , " You ' re no gentleman , Sir . " This led to a request that the parties should more to the lobby . Arrived there , Brunton applied hi . ~ finger and thumb to the nasal projection of Bowlby , giTing it an awkward twist , by which it acquired a curvilinear direction . Bronton haying performed this gentlemanly action to his own satisfaction , quietly reiHrned to the boxes , leaving Bowlby to study the nature of the alterations in his phiz . ' It appears thit Bowlby had not seen or felt any improvement , for after nursing his wrath about an j hour , he returned to the boxe 3 , armed with Paddy ' s ; friend , a good shiklah , the knotty end of which he j applied , with all his muscular power , to BrmitonV nose . The conseqnence was that this fine member
of Bmnion ' s frontispiece , lay "weltering in its own blood , the claret , as the professionals call it , squirted in all directions , beautifnUj variegating the splendid dresses of the ladies . These screamed , the gentlemen Btormed , a ^ d the performance was abruptly stopped in fine confusion . Master Bowlby 'was handed off to the station-house by the police , from which , however , ha was immediately afterwards bailed , and saved the disagreeable necessity of lodging there for the night . On Saturday he was brought up , and lie hav . ng been clearly proved the author of the ruiced condition of Brunton ' s face , was adjur ' ged to pay the sum of £ 5 as a fine , or be comnnr . ed for fr ? vo months . The former was immediately done . Wiat admirable examples of refinement our superiors and masters afford !
Ixpobta-vt to Glassmakees . —On Thursday last , James Hartley , Esq ., who is an xtensive glassmanufacturer , was summoned before the magistrates of Sunderland , for unwarrantably stopping the sum of 9 > . -Id . from one of his workmen named Robert Hudson . It appeared that there were seven other BummoEse 3 , for the same offence , against this gentleman , and that the offence wit ' a which he was charged , was one which he had practised with impunity for a lonjj time . The men , however , have recently determined no longer to submit to what they consider unwarrantable filchings of their just earniEgs , and accordingly Mr . Robert Hudson preferred his charge—Hudson proved that his regular wages were 28 s . per week , that on the
Monday previous , Mr . Hartley had only paid him 18 s . 81 , all edging that he ( Hudson ) had not done some work in a workman-like manner . Mr . Hudson stated , that it was impossible for the work to have been done better with the metal , that is the glass in its liquid state , with which they had to work . Although to glassmakers , the technicalities occurring in the evidence , will be well enough understood , yet , for the benefit of general readers , it may perhaps be as well to explain them . Hudson ' s business is that of crown-glass blowing , and Hartley contended that the glass was not well blown , because it was "heavy topped , " or thick at the edge and thinner in the middle of the ** table , " as the sheet of glass is called . Hudson
Etated this was caused by the metal being at the time in a bad working condition , and that the fault w&s with Mr . Hartley , who made his metal a mixture so poor , that it would not stand an extra degree of heat or cold . He had been in the trade twentyseven years , and had never had one farthing stopped out of his wages before he came to Mr . Hartley . He stated that the invariable practice of the trade was , that the men had a fixed sum guaranteed to them weekly , and that only when they had overwork was it customary to stop money for work not properly done , George M'Cully was called on in support of the case . He had worked sixteen years , and had never had money stopped out of his regular
¦ wages . Hudson did hi 3 best , he was a good workman . The manager knew it was not the fault of the men , but of the metaL He was cross-examined by the magistrates and Hartley , but his evidence remained unshaken . Robert Edingtou had worked twenty years at the business , never had been Stopped out of his wages . It was the custom to pay the fall wages , if the men only did a little of th « full quantity of work , so long as it was not their fault , while they were ready to work they were , by the trade customs , entitled- to pay . Hanky cross-examined him without effect , except tthat he proved that Hartley had said he had ths best set of men in the world .
Several other workmea were called and gave similar evidence . Workmen from Newcastle were also called to prove that the wages of the trade there were the same . Henry Grey , from Newcastle , had been twenty-nine years in the trade , and never had any poriion of his regular wages stopped for such a case as Hudson ' s , it wa 3 impossible to avoid the metal giving way sometimes . Robert Thompson , of Sunderland , had been 35 yearsin the trade , and never knew an instance of wages being stopped for sneh a cause . He convulsed the court with laughter by g- ^ vely stating he was the best workman in the world , andyeihe could not have produced better work than Hudson . Mr . Alexander Wilson , late manager of Mr . A . Fenwiek ' s works at
Sunderlandj stated he had been 51 years in the trade , 40 jcarsin the crown glass trade , and 20 years of that time manager , and never had himself when a workman , nor kaewof any instance while manager , of any man having any ponioHof his reguUr wages stopped for bad work . He explained the process of glassmakiug , and proved that the bad glass could not , in this case , have been by bid work . Hartley , finding the case going utterly against him , EOiwithsianding the frequent friendly assistance of some of t .: e magistrate ? , then meanly endeavoured to skulk from his obligation to pay the balance due by stating tsai he had now no agreement with his ' men—no agreement of any description ; that he had warned them some t : me ago all former customs would be done awav ! He also endeavonred to convince the
magistrates : nat no usage of the trade onght to bind ; him ; but , failing this , he agreed to leave the matter ¦ to the decision of the last witness , Alexander Wilson , j He would shew him the glas 3 , and let him decide . To this all parties assented , and the case was dis-: missed from the Bench . The respective parties then went to the works to see the glass , when 3 o i . they were informed that the glass was all cut , packed , gold , and sent off ! It was thus discovered to have " been a move of Hartley's , to avoid a decision of the Bench against him . Wilson decided that he onght to pay the men , which he then agreed to do , together with costs . We hope this will be a lesson to Mr . Hartley .
CA"BiTSIiE . —Public Meeting . —On Monday morning , June 1-Lih , ihe following hand-bill -was circulated through the barongh : — ** Important n&w = circniaiea varvagn ine oorongn : — lmpoTLani n&w =
% s \ o the coming Ejection * . —A puV . ic meeting of the electors and inhabitants of Carlisle will be held a ; the Market Cross , this evening , a : e : £ hr o ' clock , ' < for the pnrpoae of making arrangements as no the anticipated ejection . Letters will be read from Mr . I Peargus O ' Connor , aad Mr . James Bronterre ' O'Brien , recommendatory of the course the people i ought to pursue at this most important crisis . '; Hurrah for the Charter ! God save the People \— i By order of the Council of the Carlisle Radical Association . ' '—At ihe hour of meeting , a verj large e-oncourse of people had assembled in front of the Cross , when Mr . Jehu Armstrong was called to the j chair . He briefly addressed the meeting , and xon- j eluded by readies the bill calling the meeting ; when i
be introduced Mr . Joseph Broome Hanson , who , j after making some excellent and pertinent remarks , ' proceeded to read two letteH from Mr . J . B . O'Brien , \ strongly urging on the people the absolnte necessity i of carrying out bis plan at ihe next coming election , bat which is precisely the same as that so frequently ) recommended by him in the Northern Sicr . After ' ihe letters were read , the following resolutions were ' proposed and carried . Mo ^ ed by WHlnm Blythe , i and seconded by William Johnson , of Dalston near i Carlisle . "This meeting pledges it = elf to carry I out the vi&ws recommended by Mr . Feargus i O'Connor aud Mr . James Bronterre O"Brien ,-m ' forthcoming election ; and that a numerous com- ; mittee be now appointed , with power to add to their '
number , to carry into execution the above recommendation . " Moved by James Arthur , and eeonded by James Ferguson , " That the committee be authorised to draw up an address to . the people ¦ of Newcastle , and to corresoond with other places , on this most important subject . " Moved by Win . Parish , and seconded by James Hurst , •* That we , the people of Carlisle , view with extreme disgust ibe conduct of the dupes , of the anti-Corn Law league , in allowing themselves to be so far led astray , as to have committed bo wanton and despotic -an outrage , upon our brethren of Manchester , as that spoken of in the Star ef Saturday last , and we take thu opportunity of informing them , that though their conduct has been openly tolerated by the
authoritut of the district , it will not nor cannot be forgotten , nor allowed to pass with impunity . We likewise warn them , and their imbecile yet oontuma « kmu masters , to be cautious , for though we will not aggress , we will defend ; and as this is an important crisis , it is dangerous to tread too heavily opc-a the worm that baa already been injured . ~ We therefore denounce the individual conduct of Sir diaries ikaw , and that distinguished personage , Tom Poster , aad beg to assure them that they have merited onr most significant contempt , which they shall ever enjoy . " A vote of thanks was then proposed to the Major , for his kindness in allowing the people to meet in the Market Place . Three cheers were then given for O'Connor and others , and the nesting quietly dispersed *
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HTTDDEHlSFXEXaD . —On Tuesday , the town was in a state of great electioneering excitement , The " Plague" prepared a kind of clap-trap , or , as the people call it , Jack in the Box , which was put into a cart , and exhibited two loaves—the American untaxed , and the English taxed . The large one poiiins one shilling , and the other two shillings They had not proceeded far , before the loaves fell oiF into the trap , and out came the celebrated Mr . Copstock , who had prepared the same . The Chartists having heard what was to be done , got np an opposition show . On one corner of their cart was stuck a large loaf , a piece of beef , and a large piece of chee ? e , with the following inscription in large ieiters : — Chartists' cheer for all working men . " On the other corner was a pole with a wooden dish and ladle , a red herring , four ouaoea of bacon , and a few split peas , with a small cake , and the
inscription— " Whiff fare for able-bodied labourers . " On the other corners of the cart were the American loaf —with the motto , " Republicanism and cheap Government "—and the Engliah loaf , with " Kingcraft and dear Government . " In the front of the cart was a red herring tub , nearly covered with Neddy ' s recipe for making sonp , and a man with a pot measuring it out . In the cart was an ass , docorated with yellow all over , with a Leeds Mercury tied to its tail . Around the cart were placards , *• Behold the Great Liar of the North ! " A ; his head was fixed a beesom shaft , with a small black leaf , labelled " Neddy Baines ' s coarser sort of bread for the poor . " Such was the interest excited after it became known , that it was exhibiting in the town , that all the manufacturers left their shops and the Cloth Hall to get a sight . The cheap loaf cart paraded round the town at intervals , without a soul but the driver and Copstock .
Coach Accident . —On Monday , as the Briton coach was coming from Manchester to Huddersfield , when near Longroyd Bridge , a fore wheel came off , and the coach came down with a crash ; but although it was fully loaded , only two were seriously injured , and others Elightly . This is the only misfortune which has happened this old established coach , these twelve years . The Election . —Huddersfield appears to be quite at a loss for candidates , neither the Whigs nor the Tories making anything to do . Many rumours are afloat , but nothing is yet finally settled . In the course of a few days , the people will be able to judge what course to pursue . The Whigs dread their opposition , and if they pursae their tricks as they have done , they will hare a very warm reception .
RICHMOND .-Short Horns . —Last week , a fine three-year old steer , a beautiful yearling heifer and a bull calf , six months old , all of the pure shorthorn breed , belonging to the Earl of Zetland , and bred by that nobleman , were brought to the weighing machine at Richmond : the steer weighed 175 stones , the heifer sixty-nine stones , and the bull calf fifty-four stones . Felony . —Deborah Harker , late servant to Mr . Thomas , of Cote House , near Hunton , was brought before George Gilpin , Esq ., of Sedbury , on the 9 ih instant , in custody of Whiting , the police-officer of Richmond , charged with stealing , from Ann Farey , her fellow-servant , a quantity of wearing apparel . She was committed for trial at the next sessions for the North Riding . Earlt Fecit . —Mr . Ward , of Richmond , has at present , in his garden , a tree of fine oherrieB quite ripe ; and the same gentleman gathered ripe strawberries a week ago , from the Bame garden .
BIB . DHNGHAM . —Mu . vrz and Scholefield . A meeting of the committee for the return of the above-named gentlemen , took place at the Committee Room of the Town Hall , on Monday evening last , Mr . Thomas Attwood in the chair ; we know not what transpired , as the Reporter for the Star was engaged at the open air meeting .
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IRELAND . THE BUBBLE BURST . —o ' CONNELL POUND OUT AND DENOUNCED . —MaSTEE JOHN COMPELLED TO FLT FEOM KILKENNY . —REPEAL OP THE UNION A CB . IXB FOR THE PRESENT . —NEWRT TURNED SULKY , AND BECOME CHARTIST . —MORE Stars FOR THE
BJTS WANTED J—SO FOB THE CHARTER HURRAH It is said that the gay of heart in the " green isle , " who have not time to fret for themselves , hire some practised old dame , or " oollaugh , " to discharge all the functions of grief , either by the job or for a yearly salary . This is an admirable practice , and one which , in a branch of our department , we would gladly imitate . 0 , for some luckless slave to wade through the grievous twaddle of the press , from the Tory Times to the Halifax Guardian , ; the Whig Chronicle , London , to the Chronicle , Kelso ; the Dispatch to the Leeds Times ( pro tempore , anything ) ; and : ben for the Irish press , from none of which can we relieve ourselves . O , we say , for some such slave !
Well , there is a pleasure , a silent pleasure , even in the midst of grief , and we have our share . In our trouble , we console ourselves with the assurance that the World , which we retain for a relish , will banish grief , and banish sorrow , by smiling a ray of hope through the dark gloom in which poor Ireland has been so long enveloped . Ireland has long been the battle-ground of faction . CaLning snpported the Union , in order that the grievances of Catholic Ireland may be patiently heard , and impartially legislated upon , by an unprejudiced jury , in a free country . BHt , alas ! "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick f and Ireland ' s hope was deferred , because Ireland withheld her energies from the advocacy of her own righteous cause . She is now about to use her insulted might , and throw the monster tyrannv from her back .
It will be seen by the subjoined copious extracts , all from the World , that Repeal and crime are now nearly synonymoosterms in the " sea-bound dungsou " which lately rung with devotion to " the only thing " that can save Ireland . When will Ireland ' s " only thing" be matured forpractice , or readyfor introduction to the House , where its time-serving , placehnDtrog advocates hold the balance of power When the monster has strangled the present keeper , and when a more daring one shall awe . it into affection by a willing obedience to its righteous commands , and a cheerful acquiescence in its will ! Let the taunts against Sir John M . Doyle , for bis repeal principles , which now in the eyes of
Repealers constitute hi ^ h offence , if not cr ime , be read . Let the excellent article from the New Ross Correspondent of the World be read . Let the whole article from the World be read . Let the abandonment of Kilkenny by " my son John , " be read , and when all are put together , coming from the only Radical paper in Ireland , who catn longer despair for Ireland ' s regeneration ! Add to this , the plain and unsophisticated , honest and straight forward letter of Bernard M'Donnell , the person for whom Mr . O'Connfll caused such tender enquiries to be made , but withont avail . We give the letter at fall length , and subjoin the answer of the " tjby . " M'Donnell says : —
" Sib , —I received your letter dated the fir * t June , ¦ wherein you specified to me that you could not continue sending me the Star , whereas , that you consider tnat I may be out of Lougare » , and thereby , be tUe means of not hiving the paper circulated amongst the different persons -who may be friendly to the cause of Chartism ia this part of the country ; but I beg leave to assure you , that it is my continual study , at all times , to forward and promote , as far as it lies in my power , so gjod a cause ; and fu . ther , at regards the distributing of the Star , I do assure you . that it is not
confined by me solely to the town of Loughrea , but that I have the newspapers that are directed to me , circulated through various p- ^ rU , lying ¦ vrithin four or fi ? e miles of this town ; and now when the day is known , th » t 1 receive the Star , my house ii crowded with persons of all ranks , from various parts of this town and the ad joining neighbourhood bordering on the town , as I nave remarked , soliciting me for so honest a paper as they call it . Such i * the rapid progress of Chartism in this toirn and its vicinity , caused by the rvrcnl&tion of the Star .
" I hare written three letters foe the last week , to rations parts of England , and received no answer to either I now call on you , if you desire that Chartism , should blaze in this part of the country to remit me , quarterly , a turn of money which yon may deem competent to enable me to bir « at rent a fitting room for persons desiring to join the cause , to meet , and read the Star—and by you so d » ing , I will be enabled to form an Association in this town ; and , if » nee formed , it will at obm spread through the county at large , and thereby txtend through the kingdom . I hope you will Dot delay answering this letter , and stating to me your approval or disapproval of its contents .
Yon may judge by this letter thit I have lost a great deal of my time , if lost I may call it , in striving to forward the cause and rights of the Charter . My friends were against me in conseqceDce for a length ut time , but now all persons in the town totally and entirely approve of it . So I expect , as I am a poor man , striving tg live by industry , to nuint&ia * large family ,
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that you will get me some remuneration for the time past . " With the greatest respect , I beg leave to remain , " Your obedient Servant , Sco . Sec " Bernard M'Donnbll . " Loughrea , June 8 tb , 1841 . " To which Mr . O'Connor gives the ( following answer : — Mr Dear Ardill , —You will remit , in future , six papers weekly , withont charge , to Bernard M'Donnell , LoDghrea , and also a poet-office order for £ 1 , to enable him to commence his noble undertaking for regenerating onr common country . Yours , very faithfully , Fsargus O'Connor . Now proceed we with our extracts fron the World . No . 1 , is a leading article , and runs thus : —
"We hare attentively perused the letter of Mr . O'Connell to the Irish people , and from it we can gather that the approaching election will be nothing more than a faction fight , where a struggle will be made not for principle but a party . It will not be a Repeal of the Union , or even a Household Suffrage contest , but one to sustain the Whigs in power and keep out the Tories . The humble elector is adjured to disregard all the temptations of power and terrors of persecution , and battle against the Tories with might and main . He la not told that the Whigs do much good where they long have been , but is informed that their rivals , if Buffered to occupy their places , will perpetrate every description of cruelty and injustice . We much fear that the people are beginning to think
that the one faction , when opposed , has displayed as much virulence as the other , and that both can contrive to be tolerably well behaved when they find it is not their interest te resist the popular will . We are somewhat surprised that Mr . O'Connell appears to forget that the Tories were unable to carry their " gagging acts " until a section of the Whigs had joined them , and that the worst policy of Sidmouth and Castlereagh met a powerful champion and defender in Lord Plunket , the present Irish Chancellor . It would be all very well for the leaden of the popular party to recommend that the aristocratic faction which made the nearest approach to liberalism should meet with the largest share of support , but to invoke as to hate the Tories for only committing the same faults
which can with equal justice be laid at the door of the Whigs , is , in our opinion , neither just nor reasonable The Tories , it is said , would compel the majority to support the church of the minority . ThiB is true enough ; but when have the Whigs , when they could distribute the patronage among their own relations and dependents , manifested any displeasure at this state of things ? The Tories are averse to extending the suffrage , but we would like it to be shown to us that their political opponente—not excepting Lord Fitzwilliaro , the great Corn Law Repealer , himself—are more desirous for its enlargement Lord Haddington if he came over might give us indifferent assistant-barristers , and Sir Edward Sugden might be favourably disposed towards Conservative magistrates ; but we question
whether either tbe barrister or magistrates would be worse than those appointed by Lord Ebrlngton and Chancellor Plnnket . Thtn as regards Repeal , both Whig and Tory are equally opposed to it T » arouse the people , therefore , it will never do merely to threaten them with a Tory restoration . This may be an awful enough calamity in tbe eyes of placemen , but the mattitnde view It with perfect indifference . When you tell them that the Queen bates the Tories , they wonder why she is so fond of feasting them at balls and dinners in Buckingham Palace , where Lord Jocelyn , tbe son of Lord Roden , courted the Lady Fanny Cowper , the charming neice of Lord Melbourne . When you endeavour to persuade the humble elector that he is a base and unprincipled wretch if he vote for a Tory , he shrewdly inquires who keeps Lord Hill at the Horse
Guards , and placed a mitre on the head of tbe Conservative Sbuttleworth ? And when you attempt to explain away these inconsistent partizin friendships , by stating that tbe exalted caunot be living in discord , he Bhrugs his shoulders and begins to consider why he should not live in amity with his Tory landlord or customer . It is all nonsense , therefore , to require the people to contend for a man or party instead of measures . L « t the Whigs emblazon on their banner , ' No Clap-traps , but real Radical Measures , ' and they will force us all to support them . Then , instead of apathy and scorn , there will be such excitement and devotion as carried Lord Grey triumphant through all bis difficulties in 1830 , despite Court intrigue and the influence of a powerful oligarchy , and gave him a working majority of one hundred and fifty . "
No . 2 , is from the New Ross correspondent of the World , who communicates as follows : —
" NEW ROSS . —( From our own Correspondent . ) ' The dissolution is coming—the Whigs are bate black , And a general election will be here in a crack . It is then we'll have eating and drinking galore , And all for tbe honour of brave Captain Gore . ' Thus far tbe ballad singer . Now turn we our attention to a more respectable personage . ' Vote for Captain Gore , ' eays tbe best abused man in the world , in a letter to the inhabitants which is now going the rounds , 1 for Gore and liberty—for Gore and Reform—for Gore and Old Ireland—burraii ! ' This must , of course , have an electric effect , and the gallant Captain Gore -will in all probability get , if not a walk over , at least an easy victory . Now , Mr . O'Connell , allow me to a * k you one or two questions , if you please .
Are you really sincere in your agitation for the R-. peal of the Union ? If yon are , why not endeavour to return as many persons pledged to tbe measure as you possibly can ? Here we could just as readily put in a Repealer as a Whig or Radical If you are not , ' why , in the name of all tbe gods at once , ' will you keep pestering us with such a gross political humbug . ' There are reasons , however , for tne Repeal question being placed in abeyance , other than that of the leader of out patty being careless and irresolute . I was listening the other day to a conversa tion between a couple of voters . ' Is ' nt it a wonder , ' said one , ' that a Repealer does ' nt start for Ross ?' ' No , " replied the other , ' not nore surprising than that Messrs . So and So i meaning a small tribe of
wouldbe aristocrats ) are against the movement' ' Do you think , ' he continued , ' that matters will be ever otherwise ¦ whilst such fellows are permitted to arrogate to themselves the representation of the borough ? ' I don't think so . Nay , more , there is not a man with a i-paik of enthusiasm in his besom but will give tbe same indignant reply to the query . Captain Gore , however , may make an excellent Member ; he is , 1 verily believe a brave , opet-hiaited sailor , nnd if not altogether independent in his politics , if not thoroughly at his ease under the eje of the minister , he will at aU events act as decently as any gentleman posBibly could under tbe like circumstances . Thursday next will , in
p pnlar parlance , bea great day for Ireland . ' Then will the country people push in in thousands , and commingling with their brethren in town , march along in procession headed by their intended representative who will address his devoted followers in the choicest of harangues . Martin Doyle risin ? in the majesty of his eloquence will hurl the thunderbolts of his wrath upen the unfortunate Tories , and with a voice hoarse from incessant screaming will proclaim the triumph of liberal principles over the demon of ascendancy . Canvassing will be carried on on a scale hitherto unattemp ted : each elector vrttl be waited on in turn , and woe to the Wight who **« 3 fit to repudiate tbe opinions Of tQuse ¦ with whom he will have to deal . "
No . 3 , is a short comment from the World upon the griefs and lamentations of the Newry Examiner , who , Hko tbe young rake , rt quires ^ bme one to fret for him ; and let those be read and pitied a 3 they deserve : — " BLOW UP IN NEWRY . "Oar excellent and patriotic contemporary , the Newry Examiner , is , we are sorry to say , placed in a very emharassing and unpleasant position—and all owing to twe or three individuals who wish to breed strife between the Newry Repealers and anti-Repealers : —
• ' One or two individuals ( sa ) s the Examiner ) whose talents for doing mischief are celebrated , have industriously circulated tUe falsehood that Sir Juhn Milley Doyle is a Repealer , with a view to create a split between the Repealers and the anti-Kepeaiers . And a knot of half-a-dozen say they will not vote for Sir John should he declare himself an advocate of R ^ peaL How preposterous ! Suppose the Repealers , acting on the same principle , bliuuld say , if Sit John be a non-R « pe » ler we wul not vote for him Thus nine-tenths of the electors of tUo torough would sink their votes and give toe Tory candidate a walkover . And are not the one party as much bound not to put forward an anti-Repeal test as the thbt not to insist on a Repeal test ? Indeed iu this particular
locality , a Repeal candidate has a juster and fairer claim to the Suffrages of the constituency than a non-Repealer . But Repealers having the general interest of the country mure at heart than auu-Repealws , aud entertaining a more inveterate hostility to thu Tories , have ever 8 hown tneinselvea ready to put their , peculiar principles in abeyance when such a sacrifice was required for the good of Ireland , They will not , therefere , insist on pledging Sir John to Repeal . For it is manifest he is no Bepealer at present , though it is hard to say what he may hereafter b « . In the opinion of Mr . Dixon ( we have it from his own lips ) , the greatest Tory in the land is as much a Repealer at present as is Sir Juhn . Then what becomes of the hollow prettnee on which Sir John ' s claims are questioned ? '
" We applaud the anti-Repealers who maintain their principles , and thinking a domestic legislature would not be advantageous , but positively dangerous , will not vote for a Repeal candidate—but what can be said of the Newry Repealers , who , belibving' the measure to be the salvation of the country , put thuir peculiar principles in abeyaiiue" out of uefwrciicj tj a JJinisterialist ? Let us not be lniuiiiterprelsd—We blame the Repealers , but wish Sir John suceesa over a Tory , although Ellis voted and spoke against Bank Monopoly . " Now what think you of that , Chartists and Repealers ; and what say you to tho one short and
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O ! Newry Examiner , examine thyself , and blush . 0 ! shades of departed Repeal ! and has it come to this , that a charge of being a Repealer disqualifies a candidate in the Repeal town which returned the Republican Brady ? Ah ! we thought , and we said , that "Tib ' s Ere , " which is neither before nor afier Christinas , would be the Liberator ' s time for pushing Repeal beyond the " rint " point !
Just behold the reckless conduct of the -wholesale trafficker in Irish patriotism . Does any man suppose that Captain Gore has got a free admission ticket to New Robs ! that the drivelling creature , Asutos Yates , goes soot-free to Carlow ? or that Hutton runs equal in harness with the beggarman in the Dublin " dilly ? " Bah 1 its sickening , and we leave it with the foUovriag announcement about " my son John , " who can no longer dupe the honest and upright Repealers of Kilkenny : —
" Kilkenny . —A Mr . Loughlan has determined on going to the poll , and , from peculiar circumstances , will at least be enabled to make some show of opposition . Mr . Loughlan professes Radicalism , and avows his readiness to vote for Repeal ; and Mr . John O'Connell has betrayed signs of abandoning the contest " Let all these be read , and then let the reader Bay whether or not the days of humbug are numbered in Ireland .
Here we part , for the present , asking our Dublin friends , our Loughrea friends , our Irish friends generally , and our English friends as well , why they do not form themselves into exolusive dealing associations , for the purpose of supporting their own World , the only honest paper that has appeared in Ireland for forty three years ! Why do not the English Chartists kick some milk-and-water drab out of their rooms and take the World instead The Star t the Dundee CAroaicfe , and the Perth Chronicle , are the corner-stones of the Uuirereal Temple of Liberty . The World is the foundation-stoae of Ireland ' s future glory . One and all must be supported , and above all , and before all , the World .
Support the World and the World will support you . We utterly repudiate the idea that we desire to make a monopoly of any portion of the press . We can live and let live . The more the better for the cause . Hurrah for Repeal and the Charter , For the Charter and Repeal hurrah !!!
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THE CHAETER PEBCUBSOR PARLIAMENT . " When the Devil got in , the Devil a Whig would be ; When the Devil got out , the devil a Whig was he . " " Coming events oast their shadow before . " Will those who have watched events from the year 1832 , when the people first began to feel their full power , to the preaent time , say that some great and mighty change is not now at hand !
For nine long years the Tories have been mustering their strength behind the ramparts of Whiggery . For nine long years have the Whigs stood in the way of Tory annihilation , for the mere purpose of frustrating the promised results from their own boasted measures , and now they once more appear as suitors for publio confidence . The question is , do they deserve it 1 We at once answer , decidedly not . They are now in our
hands ! and by a proper use of them , we can make them fit publio opinion like a glove ; but we mast first stretch them to the size and shape of the blistered hand . That they will be in a minority , even they th emselves do not for a moment doubt ; and if their minority is , as before observed , too small for a party , and too large for a faction , then will the people have returned the Charter Pbecubsor PARMAMENT !
Oat of this election , now coming , the Charter or " something more" must follow . We are informed by the palace fencibles and the Whigs that the Q ueen is about to appeal to her people . The times for such an appeal are peculiarly out of joint just now , inasmuch as heb people are beginning to doubt the reality of her existence . Many who were formerly rather enamoured of Royalty , begin to believe that tho Queen is some ethereal spirit—the ghost of some departed constitution—the ruling power of a living oligarchy , or the alternating puppet of the uppermost faction . They say , " For five months from January to May , we got up respectful addresses to her as the party or person , individual
or corporation , from whom alone justice is never asked in vain . " They say , " Tho 3 e addresses cost us much money , and were written in the humble and humiliating language of the present fashion of begging mercy where justice is tho thing required . ' They say , " We sent those respectful addresses by ambassadors of our own , in order to heighten th « compliment ; and yet were her people ' s ambassadors disdainfully forbid her presence , while the heralds of war , and tools of foreign potentates , could command it as a matter of right . " For a whole month was attempt after attempt made , but in vain , to drink at the fountain of ' mercy , ' if we must use the humiliating word ; and the result is , that the people begin to doubt the reality of suoh a thing as a Queen .
When the oligarchy require the strength of the Royal spirit , her name becomes a common password , and she is made too cheap ; but when the people require even an interview , the spirit is not to be found . The Whig 3 have , firstly , estranged the people from their natural protectcrs , as guardians of their rights and trustees of their property . They have , secondly , destroyed all respect for the llouso of Commons , by their insolent , outrageous , and audacious treatment of the people's respectful petitions . And , lastly , they have made the very
name of Monarch stink in the nostrils of every working man of common sense throughout the land . These things have they done in nine short years of a Reformed era . But do they indeed hope to succeed in their mad career ! Thoy cannot . The tyrant's title to power , ignorance , has fled the land . Behold the difference between the present times and the day when " the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill" was hailed as a great national legacy . Then the rich man spoke , and the poor cried , hurrah ! Not a single poor man could wag a jaw . Reform was his idol , and for it he would hold up his blistered hand . But now , al % s I how changed the times . One party
complains that the Chartist leaders , poor ignorant working men , receive immense prices for a single lecture ; while they ( urthercoBjpIain , atthe 9 arae time , that they cannot hire them ! This is . a change . At publio meetings now , the people speak and the masters shout . Does tho sceptic require further proof of our oft repeated assertion— " Give the people an interest in being educated , and they will very speedily outshine all other classes iu knowledge 1 " Have we not here a proof of it , we ask I Do we not find disappointment in others propelling the people on to self-action , and obliging them to do their own work ! and have they cot , in the training , far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of their warmest friends t
Will what is passing teach the sticklers for old abuse that olden statutes cannot govern new opinions—that the edicts of tyrants cannot hold freemen in subjection—thftt legitimacy means what a living majority deems tight , and juBt , and ptwdent ; while loyalty is goue somewhat out of fashion , since law , to whioh alone it is due , has gone out of use . How now will a committee of St . Stephen's merchants and a standing army meet such an array of moral power as our ranks present , ami which is the drill sergeantof physical strength I Can they shoot a principle , fence with opinion , or Btab a sentiment ? Ko . Their ConHtttatton ia a tattered garment , in
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which old opinion was fantastically dressed for the masquerade in bye-gone times . Let them take it now in one hand and the royal sceptre in the other , and sitting before the rushing streams of knowledge , say to the flood-tide of public opinion , "Thusfar shalt thou go and no further . " Let them try this , and they will then , in the unstayed , unsubdued , and unawed element , behold the shadow whioh is knowledge ; which is indicative of a - great coming event ; which is a Charter Parliament , and of which the next assemblage will be the PRECURSOR .
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THE "MANCHESTER TIMES ' AND THE SLAUGHTER I The plotters and concocters of tbe Manchester slaughter were miserably disappointed , that the prudence and good sense of the Chartists foiled their contemplated slip of the " dogs of war" upon a peaceful and unarmed multitude . The Whig organs Were sadly puzzled what to make of the affair ; for the prudence and good sense of the people at the "demonstration meeting , " left them just in this predicament : that the Anti-Corn Law League had invited the attendance of the people , ia order , as they said , " to discuss the question ;" that they had then hired a band of bloodthirsty ruffians , armed them with bludgeons and pokers , and instructed them to " crack the
skull' of every one who should presume to offer himself " to discuss" with them ; tbat these ruffians had done their bidding ; that skulls had been cracked ; that blood had flowed ; that the Magistrates and Police had looked on with perfect indifference , evidently waiting for the retaliatory attacks of the people upon their assailants ; that the people saw through the move , and disappointed the further bloody designs of the ruffian crew ; that all the attacks , and nearly all the fighting , had been from and on their own side !! and that every man of respectability and character , who saw their proceedings , was thoroughly disgusted and cried open shame upon them . Under these circumstances the Whig Journals sung very small indeed .
They would gladly have refrained from reporting the proceedings altogether , could they have done bo : but this being out of the question , they gave a slight notice of the affair , representing the slaughter as a " slight disturbance ; " and lyingly charged the commencement of it upon the Chartists . This lying charge would have been palmed upon tho publio had we not given in the Star a true and faithful Report of that day ' s proceedings ; and the Whigs , as far as the country generally was concerned , would have been washed of the odium which now will cling for ever to their very
name . Our Report has , however , forced the rascals to notice the eutchery . whieh but for our exposure , they would have gladly smothered . The " Bloody" young ' Times , " of Manchester , has the following morsel upon our Report : — " [ We have carefully read over the Northern Star's report of the proceedings of the Demonstration meeting , ami assure our distant readers that there is scarcely a line of truth in it . Our town readers know that the report 1 b a clumsy and malignant tissue of falsehoods .
The physical-force Chartists impudently obtruded on the meeting , for the purpose of creating disorder , and their bombastic and ignorant leaders were evidently prepared to play their accustomed game . But they were foiled , as they henceforward will be iu Manchester whenever they attempt to break the peace in a quiet and orderly assembly . The reporter of the Star , if such any man can be called who manufactures falsehoods to obtain a paltry existence , has no doubt performed his work most satisfactorily to his employers , who seem to gloat over gross misrepresentation and filthy mendacity . ]"
The Thumping Liar unblushingly asserts that " there is scarcely a line of truth" in our report ; and fancies that his bare assertion of tbe "thumper " will be sufficient to make it pass for truth ! This is modest ! Very ! Will the Thumping Liar point out one single " line" in our Report that is not true t We defy him to do so . " Our town readers ; " says the Thumping Liar ,
" know that the report is a clumsy and malignant tissue of falsehoods . " Faith , Mr . Thumper , they know no such thing ! and they know , too , that your reckless assertion , unaccompanied by proof , or any attempt at proof , will not make that pass for " falsehood" which is undeniably true ! No , no , Mr . Liar , you must condescend to prove your assertions , before your " town-readers" will believe you !
Pray , Mr . Liar , ia it " false" that the Mayor refused to call the meeting ? for that fact occupies more than " a line" in our Report . Ib it " false" that the meeting was called by ten of the anti-Corn Law clique ; and tbat the hired tool , Finntgan , was one of them ! Is it " false" that the promoters of that meeting , Finnigan among the rest , invited the people to their meeting , under pretence of " discussing the question V
Is it" false" that this same Finnigan , in the anti-Corn Law Association Rooms , in tho very head quarters of the bloody Row , where the blood-money is paid over to him and his hired brother comrogues ; —is it " false" that this receiver of the factory tyrants' gold , told honest Wheeler , that if the Chartists presumed to accept the invitation given to them to attend the meeting , " they must come prepared tO UEET THEIR God" ? ! S Ia it " false" that this tact was communicated by Wheeler to Sir Charles Shaw , your Chief Commissioner of Police , the day before your meeting was held !
Is it " false" that the promoters of the meeting hired a gang of bouIIcss ruffians , armed them with bludgeons , and directed them to crack the skull of every Chartist they could meet with ? Is it " false" that when a procession of Chartists were coming upon the ground , headed by a Chartist flag , that , upon a signal being given from the platform , they were set upon by the armed ruffians , aud their " skulls cracked "—five of them having to be taken off the ground iu an insensible state—having been left for dead "i Is it " false" that while these things were going on the Police a ' ad Magistrates looked on with perfect indifference , and took not any , the slightest , means to put a stop to the bloody proceedings 1
. 1 * it " false" that Sir T . Potter was appealed to , over and over again , to interfere to preserve the peace , broken ( as was told him ) by his own frienda ; and that he declined , sayiug it waa only " a bit of an Irish row ; and that they liked such things !" Ia it" false" that the military were under arms ; that the police were on the ground and ia the neighbourhood , each aimed with a heavy truncheon 1 ¦ * la it " false" to assert that all these preparations were made by the promoters of yo » r meeting , iu the hope that the people would retaliate on the spot the attack made by your hired ruffiuis ; and thus afford an opportunity of bringing in tho soldiers , yeomanry , and polioe , to send some 6 cores of them to " Meet their God ' ?
Yta , Thumping Liar ! please to say whether these things be " false" or not ! and then let as hear what you have to say to the statements made in our last by parties who give their names , and who suffered from the bludgeons paid for out of the anti-Corn Law League's money t While you have the subject in hand , you may as well , too , answer the following query or two . This will save your further recurrence to it , for no doubt it is a sore spot , and you will wish to keep it covered .
Just tell us , Liar , what the "Demonstration Meeting" cost the anti-Corn Law League , independently of THE PAY given to the hired tools , Fimnigan and Warren ! Was it as much , or more , than the sum tl » e members of the " Plague" whispered among themselves on the hustings , as the cost , - £ 500 1 How much was paid out of that sum to a certain joiner for bludgeons ! and how long was he en <> gaged in making the " lot" for you !
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Answer these two queries , Mr . Thumper ; ^ then we have another or two to put which will puzzle you not a little ! Yes , Thumper ! let us have an answer to thees queries ; and let them be answered . Don't th ink to " come it" with— "Our town readers knoir the report is a clumsy and malignant tissue of falsehoods . " This won't do I It may be « Thumping way of " settling the hash" of an uglj Report ; but it won't do I Yon must condescend , Mr . Liar , to point out the " falsehoods "— -and totr must also PROVE them to-be such , or the coun . try will not believe you !
Ahlbut"it was the Physical Force Chartistg that impudently obtruded on the meeting" that kioked up the row ! So ! so f Then you admit the butchery , do you ! But "it was the Cbartiafa" ; What a fool it is !!! Let every man of common sense ask himself whether or hot , if such had been the case , it would not have afforded many weeks food for the enemies of Chartism . Smarting under the lash of our exposure , they would now vainly throw the odium upon the Chartists !
It may do for such prints as the Thumping Liar to dispose of the affair between brackets , thus f ] but for us , who court and demand inquiry , it does not do ! And now let us ask one plain and simple question . If the Chartists were openly and flagrantly the offenders , why did not the " Bloodies" interpose and put them down If the Chartists were the real offenders , why did they call a free discussion meeting for the fol . low ' ng Saturday , to inquire fully into the case !
And if the other parties were innocent , why did they , with arms in their hands , meet in large nnmbers to obstruct the Saturday meeting , and thsreb ; smother inquiry ! and why did they repeat the offence . by wounding , cutting , and maiming poo Wheeler and several others , without the slightest offence being offered ? Were they conscious that Wheeler was able to depose to the fact , that Finnigan had warned him and his friends to come to the " free discussion "
meeting of the " Plague" " prepared to meet their God" ! Had they a presentiment that a judicial enquiry must take place touching the whole proceed ings , and that the fact which Wheeler was able to swear to was a very ugly one for them to wriggle out of ; and that it was necessary to get him oat of the way—so agreed to send him " to meet his God" 1 Why was Mr . Bradley knocked down and maimed , in open day , for no other offense than tint of being a Protestant ?
. These questions must and shall be answered ; and the / oily and lying of the Thumper shall not prevent it , nor screen the real offenders
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" . DO BE DECENT ! " " BE DECENT , DO 1 " " Dacency ! Katty , honey !" . << O dear ! what will become of us ? Dear ! dear ! what shall we do ?" Publicola , in his last letter to the Dispatch , hv condescended as a lesson upon the necessity of using polite language , and urging the prudence of calling high offences by soft names . But that ' s nothing compared to the lesson on Decency which wv find in the last week ' s number of that model of urbanity , the Queen Groaner ! " Ladies and Gentlemen , " pray read the following sentence' from the pen of the scrupulous and modest Mr . Baines . Speaking » f one of the Tory candidates for Knaresborouch , he
says"About Mr . BnsSeld Ferrand there Is certainly no mystery ., A red hot ultra Tory , who in all his public displays has shewn himself arrogant , blustering , and quarrelsome ; who had the INDECENCY to offe * HlUSEIiF AS A CANDIDATE FOR BRADFORD IN EXpress opposition TO HIS OWN UNCLE" ! I ! Really this is too fanny to laugh at J Pray , Mr Modesty , did Mr . Aldam , senior , countersign the Aldam nonsense published in your last Mercury , as the address of the young gentleman now aspiring to the indecent honour of being defeated ! or does his mother know he ' s going out \
" Dear ! dear ! what will become of us" ! The world , must be coming to an end , when Publicou reviles hard words , and Neddy Baines speaks of decency ! . The naughty boy , Busfield , did not ask " his own uncle" ' . " For shame , Sir ; who would vot « for such an indecent nephew" 1
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THE CHARTISTS OF NOTTINGHAM AND THE WHIGS . Mr . O'Connor has received the following letter from one whom he supposes to be an . accr « dited agent of the Whigs , and which he submits to the Nottingham Chartists for a reply—he has given
none : — " Camelon , near Falkirk , " June 8 th , 1841 . " Sir , —I take the liberty of addressing you for tf » Brat time , hoping , at the same time , you will excuse me for so doing . I should feel greatly obliged by your sending me a line in answer to the following , viz : — " Could a Chartist he put in for Nottingham instead of Walter , provided the Wh igs would support the Cbartjsts , which I can assure you they will if the Cnaitista will support them to get in one Whig 1 Your immediate answer will greatly eblige , " Sir , yours truly , ' W . B . BRAT . "
" Direct to be left at Camelon Distillery . " What , we wonder , will now be said to the " unnatural alliance" sought by the Whigs with i ' na Destructives , whose undisguised support of Toryism was to brand the Government of Sir Robert PeM . ns " bloodthirsty" ! Well , but let us have a word . What , in the event of a junction with the Whigs , would be the Rama proposed by the gamblers ? Why . just this- Uwls , we win-Harps yon lose , " and then they would name a Whig , and not being able to agree about a fit and proper Chartist to insure Whig unanimity , they , the Whigs , would then name three Chartuti , that is , three more Whigs , and from which number the Chartists would be allowed to select one of tne rotten trio . .
. ..... Now let us just lay down a rule for the gaidMca of our friends in all such cases . They must not deal with the electors ; because , the Chartists , true to their word , would vote , to a man , aoeortnw to compact , and then the Whigs would vote w , * Whig , and for the devil , rather than for » CnarHsj . The understanding then should be with the prm < "P * . and should run thus , in writing , duly **! * ! VJ twelve witnesses , being Chartists , and ^^ r ^ J WhiR 3 .- "I , John C . Hobhouse , do hereby pje « myself to Vacate my seat by accepting thei uu _ Hundreds , in one week after parliament shall ^ i in the event of any twenty voters who shall v me at the ensuing election not giving tneff ^ vote to A . B . the Chartist candidate . " That ' s the ticket for voting ! 1
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ELECTION MOVEMENTS . " Now , by St Paul , the work goes bra « on ! Under this head we have given a bird ' s eye " « of the trhole coantry , as to its moYeTa 6 nt 8 \^ v > oi not merely from communications f ° ™? luliwirl .
by our own regular and acknowledged cor ^^ dents , but from many occasional ones , who spr »« ^ with the excitement o the time , and also i » ""the papers , both Whig and Tory , of toe ^ blishment . " Our readers will not , rj" ^ surprised to find some of the two and ww paragraphs under this head smelling 8 * WD ' : ' , corruption ' s foetid breath . " We hare & ^ 1 ^ hash of all sorts ; in full confidence that the t seasoning will be found amply sufficient to w 8 " 1
tbe flavour . . rtter » l " Let them refer to the addresses of *» ^ candidates for the borough of Lead * , » ^ passionately ask themselves who , accordiDg . ^ I » are the most fit and proper to represent » \ j , would be anpeinuous to comment upon *¦** , ! , of Messrs . Williams and Leech ; let "JV - ^ and then let the others be spelt ; w \ jr ffi minds of working men decide upon tw
The Noetherivr Star. Saturday, June 19, 1841.
THE NOETHERIvr STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 19 , 1841 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct554/page/4/
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