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    • fflE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY. JULY 31. 1841.
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      RELEASE OP "MR . ED WARD BROWN FROM "WARWICK GAOL . On Wednesday evening , tie 21 st inst , the Chartists of Warwick and Leamington entertained Mr . E . Brown with s sapper , at Mr . FrencHe '* . 3 * ofsrithetsndlBS the Short notice given , there was a gloritms meeting ; the room w ta * tefall 7 decorated , and the utmost harmony prevaile 4 during the evening . After the cloth was removed , ¦ 31 r . Do . naldsox , the chairman , proposed tne nrst toast , — "The people , the legitimate source of all povet" He addressed his brother Chartists with feelings of great pleasure on that occasion , as the numbers " pr « aat , and the enthusiasm exhibited , furnished additional proof of the sterling value of the great and Eloiious principles contained in ths People ' s Charter ,

      and of their increased attachment to those martyrs who hafi suffered , and who — ere enduring so much misery for advocating those principles . Every day ' s experience proved the ioDy of those aristocratic tyrants -who sought by p&ysical force to rivet those chains of slavery which —ere forged by antiquated tyrants , "when they . were in a comparative state of darkness ; but the intelligence and political knowledge of the people were now armting the antiqnated citadel of corruption ; they would no k > Bger suffer themselves to be led by the nose , and deluded fey either Whig or Tory factions . Tie plunder of the people — as the common object of both ? the only difference be could discover between them was , that the Whigs occasionally sacrificed their principles to

      expediency , and cheated the people by delusive promises ; "while the Tories , like bold highwaymen , damped a pistol to their breasts , and plundered them ¦ w ith a daring face of the most consummate iiupudence- iLoud cheers . ) He would propose , as a toast , — - The people , the legitimate sonree of all power , " but assure them that until the People ' s Charter became the la— of the land , they must calculate on being plundered by the aristocracy of both Whig and Tory . The battle was now between the Chartists and Tories , for the Whigs , as a party , were defunct—peace be to their remains . Let but the working classes be uniteu , and they -would soon prove to the world that the people are the legitimate source of all power . The toast -was dnni with great enthusiasm .

      Mr . PRICE responded to the toast , and drew a clear and masterly sketch of the principles of the People ' s Charter , and was loudly cheered . The Chairman proposed a toast , "Civil and religious liberty all over the gl-be . " He deplored that 'while most of the religious world would respond to the ¦ eatunent . they were ignorant of its value , and opposed to the sublime principles it contained- Erery different sect se ; no bounds to their own religions views j and yet , —ith a one-sided consistency , they sneered and hooted every other sect who happened to differ with them , forgetting that true religions liberty consisted in freedom of thiusM , charity to all , envy to none , but love to the whole tnnnan family . Mr . 6 E . EATBS responded to this toast in & delightful

      Xnc Chairman next proposed the health of Mr . Edward Brown . The presence of Mr . Brown prevented him saying many things that would be necessary to do justke to bis character . >* o man in England , except Mr . Feargus O'Connor—( loud cheers here interrupted the Chairman )—had worked with more zsal in the people's cause than Mr . Brown ; no man had been " more TZBjosity persecuted . The Chartist movement had been earned on far enough to answer the purpose of the Whisrs of Birmingham : the Government threw certain hungry dogs of that town a bone to pick , by granting the Quarter of Incorporation ; but certain be was , that LitUe Johnny Finality and his " chums" sent down the Charter of Incorporation to I > ouglas and Co ., with an

      Understanding that they should assist in putting down the Chartist movement . It was at that crisis that Mr . Brown manfully came out , and told the peyple oi Birmingham that they were sold ; snd , by his extraordinary exertions , aided by a few others , he rallied the working men , and tkat successfully ; tmtil , at length , the Whigs set future Tory Governments an example to put down freedom of discussion by physical force , and they sent their ball-do— into tbe Bull Ring to break the beadi of the inofeasive and peaceable working men of the town . The Chairman , at considerable length , dwelt on the perfidious conduct of the Whigs at tbat time : he also added that they were equally indebted to the bloodthirsty Tories for the scenes of bruality which folio wed those events .

      The toast was drunk with three times three hearty cheers . Air . Bsows acknowledged the toast in a splendid speech . The proceeding * were continued for some time ; ¦ everal other toasts and sentiments being proposed , and responded to ; a spirit of union and good fellowshi p preraiiea ; and a < the close a vote of thanks to the j ^ t——> -was earned by acclamation .

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      COUNTY SHERIFF'S COURT . A Sheriff ' s Cjurt was held at Leeds , on Monday last , befow J- H Hiil , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law . There were only four cases tried , with which the court was occupied till ^ ear ' . y midnight- The following are the only cases of pubns importance : — PINKKET f . BOOTHThis w * i an action orw ^ ht to recover £ 6 3 s ., for ¦ work sad labour done , and os , for travelling

      expenses . Mr . Newton , barrister , of Ripon , appeared for the plaintiff , and Mr . John HOPE Shaw , of Leeds , for the defendant . Mr . Pinkoey , the plaintiff , ia a mall farmer and cattle doctor , at Sharow , near Ripon ; and the defendant , Mr . Richard Booth , is a gentleman , occupying a large sheep farm , at Warlaby ,- mar Northallerton . Id June . 1839 , the defendant had a large number of abeep afflicted with a disease called the scab , which the plaintiff was employed to cure , by "washing them with a liquor prepartd for the purpose , for which the plaintiff is famous . The evidence showed that the dsted * ct " 8 shepherd went over to Sharow on tbe 15 th of Jane , to see the plaintiff , whom he found at the

      house cf a Mr . Woodhouse , at Bridge He wick , on which occasion » conversation took place , which ended in tbe plaintiff agreeing to send hia two sons to wash the defendant ' s sheep . The sons went to Warlaby on tfee 19 > h of June , and were employed nntil the 22 ad , watering 246 sheep , which it was agreed should be paid sixpoace each . The defence set up was , that the agreement was " bo cure no pay , " and the sheep , bo far from being eared , had some of them died , and oonseqaeaUy the plaintiff was not entitled to recover la answer to tnis it —as shown teat strict orders bad been given that the sheep should be taken proper care © f , but neglecting this , they bad been left in a field all night , whilst it was raining , by which the preparation — a » wa&bedoff .

      The action has been previously tried in the same court , when a verdict was given for the plaintiff , for the amount sought ; upon which a new trial was moved tot in the Queen ' s Bench , on the ground that the verdict was not in accordance with the evidence . Tbe motion —as granted , and an issue was directed to have the case rt-aigutd . The evidence was of great length , and in some points contradictory . The court was occupied from e leven o ' clock in the morning until nearly seven at night ; and the jury , after a short deliberation , returned a verdict for the plaintifffor £ 6 7 s . —damages , Is ., the whole amount sought

      CHA . LLA > D C . BRAT . This was an action to recover back a stake of £ 15 , deposited by the plaintiff in the hands of the defendant , upon an illegal race-Mr . Bond , for the plaintiff , stated that the facts "were in a narrow compass , and the case would probably resolve iUe'f into a question of law for the court above . 3 _ e plaintiff was the owner of » black mare , and in March last he deputed a person named John East-Wood to make a match for her to trot four miles against another mate , belonging to one Benjamin Eastwood . Tbe match was made on the 22 nd March last , for £ 25 * - , and was to come off on the 5 th of May . . Two pounds a-ade Wwre paid d own to make the match , into the hands of the defendant as stakeholder ; on tbe 3 rd of April £ 13 a-s 5 de more were deposited , and tbe remaining £ 10 a-side was to be made good on the day

      of the race . On that morning , however , the plaintiff was informed that the defeni __ t was father-in-law to Benjamin Eastwood , and he then objected to his continuing tbe effice of stakeholder , but offered to go on with the match if any respectable indifferent person ire— ¦ named in his stead . The parties ultimately could not agree as to another stakeholder , « nd the plaintiff then declared the m _ tch off , and gave defendant notice to pay hack" bis money , -welch notice be repeated in wrftang the same evening . Now , in point of law , if other part y to an Illegal wager gave notice to tbe takeholder to pay him Wack his stake before he had banded it over to the other party , he was bound to refund it , whichever won or lost , or forfeited . his ¦ wager . That this was an illegal wager was clear of aH doubt By the 16 th Ckarlrs ! T . horse races were all ded » red iltaraL The 13 th Gee . II . legalized horse

      zacea for sums of £ bty or upwards , if rnn at certain places named in teas statute , and the 13 ; a < xet > . II . made them legal wherever they might be run . But it bad been decided , in a case lefure Lord Eidon , that ibe two latter Acts only applied to rsal horse-racing upon the turf , and not to a trotting match upon the Queen ' s higtnj , and tiat ease had been confirmed by a later one Defo « the Court of Common Pleas . Witnesses -were then called who proved the facts stated , aad upon the agreement being produced , it appeared on tbe face ofit to have been made between John Eastwood and Benjamin Eastwood , and not between the plaintiff and Benjamin Eastwood . Joan Eastwood , how . ev _ ~ swore djrttoetly that he made it asi the agent of the jrtainHff . *» & that all fi » money deposited belonged to jj ^ ¦ n'ltTtif tff

      ¦ HM IMBUUM ** __ _ , ! U < u 3 A _ b + £ V _ f fha ifTsZ * , for the defendant , submitted first that the wager was Jegal . and attempted to distinguish this case torn that decided by Lord Eldon ; and , secondly , tba . the evidence of John Eastwood , that he acted as plaintiff ' s agent , was not admissible to contradict the agreement . Mr . Hill ( the Sheriff ' s Assessor ) , refused to- * top tbe ease ca either point , bnt reserved leave to tbe defendant to move to enter a nonsuit if he . should be so advised . Mr . SHiW then addressed the Jury for the defendant , contending that John Eastwood had made the match on Us own ace jutt ; thai he had not mentioned the plaintiff to Benjuuiu Eastwood ; or that he was at all erenta a partner in she wager with the pl ^ itiff .

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      Taree witnesses were then called , who swore that they h ad not heard Challand mentioned except as the owner of tee mare ; but they admitted , on crossexamination , that they were not present during the whole time . Mr . Bo . vd , in reply , contended that there was no ground for imputing perjury to John Eastwood , who had expressly sworn that he made the match as plaintiff ' s agent , and that he no doubt mentioned the plaintiff to Benjamin Eastwood , before the defendant ' s witnesses came . Besides , hia client had made the deposits , and had been throughout treated as the principal in the matter . The Learned ASSESSOR summed np , telling the Jury that if they thought upon the evidence that John Eastwood made the match on behalf of the present plaintiff , and so declared at the time , and that he was not a parter in the wager , then their verdict must be for tbe plaintiff ; otherwise , for the defendant Verdict for the plaintifffor £ 15 , subject to the points reserved . P 13 JE . E 1 R BOOTH . The plaintiff wa « the same as in tbe former case ; and the defendant , Mr . John Bootb , of Killerby , near Catterlck , brother of tbe former defendant The action was brought to recover £ 3 15 s ., for sheep washing , and 5 s . for travelling expences . hit . Kewios waa for the plaintiff ; and Mr . Davisox , of > OTtnaIIerton , for the defendant The Jury gave a verdict for the defendant The case did not terminate till two o ' clock on Wednesday morning .

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      THE WHIG BUDGET BARRICADES . Ous " moral force" readers may believe it or not , just as they please , but we beg to assure them that with our own hands , we selected the following precious morsel of " morality" from the Morning Chronicle of Saturday last , the 24 th of July , 1841 , and tenth year of Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform : — " There are many things in the present posture of affairs which are anything but symptomatic of a Tory millenitinL . " The rain falls , and the prioe of com rises : trade does not improve ; and , jshonld the harvest fail , Sir Robert will have a winter to encounter as disagreeable as that of 1830 , from which he fled .

      " The Whig budget has been defeated by monopolists and ecclesiastical activity , and Tory taxes must be the substitute . " The army must be increased , because the Tories have no tenure but the bayonet in Ireland . The navy cannot be diminished , because foreign powers , knowing the hatred of the working classes and of the Irub nation to the Tories , will not fail to look around for opportunities of indemnity from the late triumphs oi Lord P&lmer&ton . " Prance , in 1830 , aoeordiog to the Oracle of Tamwortb , by an example of physical foroe , disturbed toe slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is net France disturbing at this moment , the prospective success of a Tory Bndget ?

      " ' We must have money , ' say * M . Humann . — Toulouse answers by a barricade . " ' We must have money , ' says Sir Robert PeeLManchester and Birmingham map answer any budget , but tbe Whig one , with a barricade . " * We must have money through new taxes , ' Repeals the oracle . —Money you may have , but not new taxes . Xo new taxes for the people—no new taxes for the middle classes—no new taxes for any or for alL

      "Such will be the universal cry of the British empire ; and many an elector whom folly , or spite , or bribery , or intimidation , has led from his duty at the recent contests , will declare against new taxes—many a . merchant , - » ho baa hitherto sacrificed bis trade to party spirit , will repent his grovelling infatuationmany a manufacturer will have tbe film of ignorance taken from his eyes , and will wonder , as he wakes , at his transcendent degradation .

      " The Budget gave relief . Sir Robert gives new burdens . Tbe Whigs depart with the unpopularity of wisdom . Sir Robert enters office with the popularity of folly . Walk before him , O ye tax-5 * therers ; for verily he will augment your daily l&bonxs . Walk be / ore iiim , all ye coiTUptionistS , oligarchs , and others , who find your accounts in the augmented burdens , and the increased miseries of the people . Welcome to him who grinds tbe poor for the sake of the rich . Welcome to th « demure , pharissical Sir Robert—to the comely and decent Jesuit—to the plausible champion of the Chandoa gang . Welcome , I say , to the hero of the pivot , and to him of the sliding scale .

      " But , men of England , look to your pockets . If you will not have the Whigs , make Peel give you their Budget If you are tired of Melbourne , extract his good measures from your enemies . " Of coarse the above is from " a Correspondent , " that is , from the Editor to the Editor ; as all of our mottled tribe have a vast privilege , noi only of using both end 3 of the " stylas , ' as Horace says , but there is also vested in as a kind of

      prescriptive right of selecting the exact degree of relationship in which we choose to stand towards our children , whether as legitimate parent , putative father , father by adoption , or god-father . The striking likeness , however , of the yosngeBt son of the Chronicle to his eldest brother , M&ster Massaronj Refosm Easthope , born in 1831 , leaves no donbt upon the mind of those who have seen both that they are " par nobile fratrvm . "

      In very troth , we feel unequal to handle the above with any degree of moral courage . We fear touching the pitch lest we may be thereby defiled ! but we must e ' en at the Barricade , as no doubt some notice will be expected from us . Well , then , it will be in Jhe recollection of oar readers that when " plain John , " now Lord Job John , announced the death and burial of Chartism , we shed no tear over the empty grave ; we heaved no sigh over the corseless tomb . We watched the giant in his slamber , which the foolish old man mistook for the repose of death ; we examined the Iimb 3 and felt the heart , and finding them warm and animated we said that when the giant again rose refreshed from his slumbers , thai he would start from that very point of his journey at which , before resting , he bad arrivevl .

      Our readers will recollect that we then argued that however persecution , intimidation , and " physical force" might , for » season , arrest tbe progress of Chartism ; yet , upon it 3 resuscitation , would it be Bure to start from that very point where oppression made its last assault . We announced that not a step of the old ground would be gone over again ; but on the contrary , what was gained would be kept , and fresh gronnd would be broke . That we were right in our conjecture is fully proved by

      the extraordinary and rapid strides made sinoe the incarceration of oar best , oar wisest , and ablest leaders ; and that this is a principle in politics , may be inferred from the fact of the Whig organs having finished the campaign of 1831 with fire and sword , and now ( after a sleep not far Bhort of Rip Van Winkle ' s nap ) proposing to open the campaign of 1841 with barricades andcircumvallations of bread , thus starting from the very point where the " Reformers" left off in 1832 .

      If any fatality could have occurred more propitious than another , to aid the class " Reformers" in moulding the Reform Bill to their own party purposes , it was that state of things which the senseless and then nninstrncted people created at the bidding of their task-masters . " Reform" was literally snatched out of the fire , and ent into party dresses before the smoke had subsided . Those "who applied the details to the principle knew full well what the effect of those details would

      be : not perhaps that one would have been the mean of transferring power io Tory bands ; bnt they knew that the general effect would be to create a more slavish and dependent constituency , if possible , than that which it destroyed . They knew foil well that all the people ' s share was ( notwithstanding the " vigil&nt" popular contronl under which our institutions were to be placed ) still to rest upon the clemency , whim , or caprice of the party which might bs in rhe ascendant . In fact , they knew that the change was bui a mere change of masters . The people did not expect so bad a return as they have received . In every speech they recognised the

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      admission of some great principle , one and all tending to the one great professed end of making taxation AND REPRESEWTATIOK CO-BXtENSiVE } and the great error committed was a blind renunciation of all further popular interference with the details , when the principle had been gained by fire and sword , and threats of extermination of royalty itself . Such was the great error in 1832 : such , as we have over and over again stated , has been the great error in ail physical revolution * . The people , generally successful in the physical straggle , rest satisfied , and suppose that victory follows the last shot , or the last crash of the fired building : when the soldiers repose , leaving to their officers the disposal of the triumph and the possession of the spoil .

      Oar readers will farther bear in mind that we were alone in noticing the new Whig tactics so loosely cast before us in tbe war print , the Globe , under the significant heading "Bread or Blood '' We stated that the country would be roused upon that cry , and farther insisted that the hungry Whigs oouid not pass through the dog-days , without becoming rabid , if once whipt from the mess . Does not the following sentence from the Chronicle fully prove the truth of our assertion ?— We must have mouey , says Sir Robert Peel , Manchester and Birmingham may answer any Budget but the Whig one with a Barricade .

      Now , that is from the Chronicle , and we have emphasised the may just as we find it in that journal ; and will any man of plain common sense read it thus emphasised , otherwise than—Manchester and Birmingham ought to erect the Barricade ; Manchester and Birmingham we trust will erect the Barricade , in resistance to any Budget , other than a Whig Budget : that is to say , the people of Manchester and Birmingham should risk their lives

      the peace of the country , and the very existence of society , for no other earthly purpose than that of whipping the Whigs back again to the mess ! for that is the plain meaning of the thing : because the Whigs know full well that they would have to toss up some other hasty pudding of a Budget for next year , and so on : annually looking out for windfalls and God-sends for the " surplus population" of idle paupers , which " presses too hardly upon the means " of the industrious man ' s existence .

      But is it not curious that , in the tenth year of Reform and retrenchment , the Whigs should still claim credit , not—for reducing taxation , but for experimentalising to avoid further DIBECI taxation ! They require . £ 2 , 41 ) 0 , 000 for the current year ; and as " a penny saved is a penny gained , " we could very easily relieve them from all the trouble , anxiety , risk , and loss of office , by nipping just that amount from tbe burden of the state , and [ barring the precedent !] the

      morsel would not be felt ! We could do it for them , and more , without even one act of aristocratic injustice ; but upon their preservation of the mess full , entire , and intact , ( which are the terms of their trust ) , depends their support ; and therefore they prefer walking out for a bit , to living upon short commons even for a season , io the hope of returning to the undiminished mees at some future day . About the Barricades .

      Let us just suppose that O'Connor had appeared in Court , as proprietor « f the Northern Star , to plead to an indictment framed npon tbe very article we have copied from the Chronicle : nor indeed is he Eafe from this , as he was actually con victed twice for matter copied from other papers , and was also extensively denounced and held up to public reprobation by the said Chronicle and the Whig press generally , upon a third occasion , for the crime of the Northern Star having copied from the Tyne Mercury a sketch of a " cat " , and which the Tyne Mercury gave as a description of the sort of bed upon

      which it desired to see tbe said O'Cosnoa reposing . Wegavethearticle from the Mercury , " cat' * and all ; and at no distant period we found the whole of the Whig and Tory Press teeming with abuse of O'Con-Noa for having given a sketch of » cat for injuring the horses of dragoons , with a recommendation for its adoption . Nay the infamous and lying slander was actually repeated to the cheering representatives of the people , by that greatest and meanest of all tools , Plain John , and urged as a reason among others for his persecution of O'Connok and the Chartists .

      But to the Barricade . What is it for , and what is to be the amount of the promised viotory I A republic ? No . The establishment of the universal rights of the whole people , under a limited and responsible monarchy ! No , The annihilation of the Tory party ? No . The means of affording to the Whigs a power of completing " Reform , " in which they have been hitherto baffled by Tory opposition ! No . The remission of some heavy hardens , and reduction of taxation \ No . Some temporary means of helping the system-made paupers through their present distress , nsiil permanent steps shall be taken to

      prevent a recurrence of the evil ? No . The Repeal of the new Poor Law Act ? No . The repeal of some bad law ! No , no , no ; no such thing ! The Whig Budget is the acknowledged " castis belli . " In decency , the Chronicle should have spared us the disagreeable and thankless office of taking it to task before the battle commences ; for although we and the unrepresented people cannot be expected to give to Toryism another "fair trial , " yet we do think that , inasmuch as the mere difference of locality ,

      whether right or left of the Speakers chair , constitutes the sole aDd only difference between Whigs and Tories , the Chronicle should , in common decency , have waited for some better pretext , and more practical reason , for erecting the Barricades in Manchester and Birmingham , and thus have spared us the trouble of cautioning the people against the "revolutionary and treasonable" recommendation : aye , " revolutionary and treasonable "; there is no use blinking it—it amounts to that .

      Mr . Easthopb ' s life and property will be juBt as secure under a Tory , as under a Whig Government ; and he has not ( he same justification for his violence , as an unrepresented , neglected , despised , persecuted , and starving out-lawed people have . Surely , then , if the Whigs cannot wait for a month for a trial without talking about Barricades , the sentences of poor " ignorant" working men , for no other crime than merely meeting , as in the case of Host , Ashton , and Ciubtree and hundreds of others , were most egregiously severe , and their crime was very venial compared to that of the dhronicle , who cannot state any better cause of complaint than the mere change from ona side to the other of the Honse of Commons .

      We have some recollection of a ¦ denunciation of O'Connor and 0 'BaiE . t by the Chronicle , by Geobge Henkt Ward , by Macaulay at ' Edinburgh , and more recently by that respectable pauper , Mr . Oswald , at Glasgow , for having recommended the people to resort to " physical force , " and then deserting them . This we never thought it worth while to contradict as tbe whole people were aware of its falseness , and indeed as the bankrupt M . P . for Glasgow was very significantly ana flatly told upon the hustings by a large portion of the Baid people . However , had O'Connor and O'Brien , even by insinuation , ( which they never did , ) told the people to make a physical resistance to , or physical aggression npon , tyranny , the people would have

      been justified in insisting upon those two gentlemen taking tho command of the troops : and in the same way , should the Whig Barricades be erected in Manchester and Birmingham , and Should it not be convenient to send a deputation from either of these towns to London , for Mr . Easthopb , Lord Pa . lmkb . stow , aud the Proprietor of the Globe , to take the command ; and should the ra ^ e extend to the metropolis , which is very probable , wo hereby insist upon the Chronicle and Globe offices being respectfully searched for the Editors—no , for the Proprietors ; [ this isanot&erprmlegeofours . so long as our writings are not objected to by our employers !] and upon Mr . Easthope being compelled to take the chief command of the " Budget Bar-

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      ricade" which may happen to be nearest to bis office . We think this a good moral doctrine for our , peace-loving ^ Chartist-. 'friends ; and we beg to assure themj that the Very ; same result as was pr ^ uccd in Nottingham , Newcastle , Bristol , and Dorchester , by " firing" the Whigs into office in 1831 , would be produced after they were Barricaded into office ia 1841 ; that is , the foremost men would be some hung and some more transported , which are the ^ usaal rewards of Whig soldiers after the battle . ' ¦ ¦ ¦¦' : ' i ' . } f ' - ' ' : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . - ' ;';'

      Bui can anything more fully prove the injustice of class legislation than ihe impunity with which a set of trafficking poHtiGfanB , destructives , and hired and common disturbers of tie peace , are allowed thuB to © xeite the -quiet people to treason and rebellion t : ¦ Why is hot Easthopb prosecuted 1 Why will he not be proseouted ! Because , as we stated the week before last , a Jury that would hang a Chartist for half the orime , would acquit Easthope and honour him as a champion and a martyr . f

      We are fona of giving sums to our pupils ; and now suppose the second , Whjg campaign to have commenced with Barricades , how is it likely to end ! Answer—in the establishment of the Charter , a Republic , or anything else which is found indispenaible for Whig restoration to the mess it the Chartiet garrison only holds out . However , they will try to accomplish it constitutionally if they can ; in short , " morally if they may , physically if they must . " For ourselves wo ever have been , and ever shall be enemies to excessive punishment , and more especially for political offences ; and the most

      that Mr . Easthope and his violent friends can now expect at our hands , if worsted in the campaign of the M Budget Barricades , " wjll be to . insist ' that the critical standard for the punishment of poor political offenders , established by the Whigs , shall not be violated . If there appears a strong point of law in Mr . Eastbope ' s favour to save him from being half hanged firstly , and then to have his bowels torn out and thrown in his face , and then to be the other half hanged , and then to have his head out off , and then to be quartered and disposed of according to her Majesty ' s pleasure ;

      and if all the beat and ablest of the judges are in favour of that point , and if Mr . Easthope ' s crime appears to consist in resisting tyranny and advocating justice for all ; in such case we will take care , as far as we have the power , that he shall suffer no greater punishment than transportation for life to a penal colony . If any ' Whig is discovered walking with a rusty old sword , or other warlike instrument , such as a pike handle without the pike , or having combustibles under his bed furnished by ahired Tory spy ; and if the said Whig is convicted upon the false evidence of a self-acknowledged perjurer , who

      admits that ho was hired by the police and government authorities , we will , in such case , take care as far as we can , that such Whig suffers no greater punishment . than four years upon , the ttaad-mill under the silent system : and if any Whig shall attend a meeting for the purpose of declaring his grievances , WHILE OUT OF EMPLOYMENT , or being badly paid , and if no disturbance of the peace shall take place at such meeting , and if the said Whig or Whigs can get any respectable person , or persons , to give him , or them , a good character for honesty , industry , and obedience to law , we will , as far as we can , take

      care that such Whig , or Whigs , suffers no more than two year ' s imprisonment at hard labour under the silent system : and if any Whig journal shall publish illegal speeches or proceedings , wo will , in such case , take oare that no heavier punishment shall be inflicted than eighteen months solitary confinement , with heavy recognizances to keep the peace for three years ; and a complete and entire violation ef all prison rules , for such others as the then Secretary of State for the Home Department shall , in his wisdom , be graciously pleased to substitute . Such is the very best that we can promise to do for the "Whig Budget Barricaders . "

      We feel some astonishment that the torch , found to be so pre-eminently successful a Reform weapon at Bristol in 1831 , should now be abandoned for the heavy , the cumberous , and more expensive Barricade . Will the Chronicle have the kindness to transmit to our office a wood-out , wheels and all , of a movoable Barricade , and also of a Reform "torch , " so that we may lay the same before our readers , with a hope of inducing them to remain at home , while the Whigs are all abroad . "

      Perhaps Mr . Steel ^ , the pacificator General of Ireland , would at the same time have the kindness to farnish us with a cast of one of those " one million Irish pikes , " which he assures us can be manufactured in less than a week 1 Ah , we said that it would oome to this .

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      that ' s in danger t The English people will heap coals of fire upon the heads of the Irish , by carrying a Repeal of the Union in spite even of tbe Liberator himself ; and when we have , by our moral strength , and without a blow being struck , or an " aristocrat assassinated , " or the Queen ' s dignity even impaired , procured , as with God's blessing and the aid of our blistered hands we shall do , FOUR MILLION SIGNATURES for a Repeal of the

      Union , ( valueless , perhaps , from a want of the accompaniment of 2 s to each name , making the small totaloffourhundredthousatidpouhds ;) we say , when we have done this , the odds are Lombardstreet to a China orange , that the answer from Da m n ' s tame associates" will be • "N / ai we , won ' t have it now ; it must be bad , poison , rank poison , When offered by our deadly enemies , THE PEOPLE of England . "

      Just think of the folly of this man telling his gaping audience that the people of England must be hostile to Ireland , because the county constituencies had returned a large majority of Ireland ' s enemies to the present Parliament ! Is this not a melancholy perversion i Why not honestly tell the Irish people that , of the batch , the English people would not have returned a single one of those enemies of Ireland if they had a voice in the selection ,

      This attempt to divert public attention from the fallen Btate of Ireland , produced by the " Liberator ' s" truckling expediency policy , shall not do . In self-defence , and in defence of the English and the Irish people , we shall next week perform the unpleasant duty of enquiring how far the Irish people have oven endeavoured , in the late struggle , to rescue their own country from the bloody grasp of the " prond invader" and the ruffian faotions ;

      and how far the question of questions has been advanced by the blood , the sacrifices , and the glorious , hut misapplied , exertion of the brave IrUh people . They are a brave and a noble people , and the greater our sorrow that iheir Milesian blood should fertil ' ze the land of their forefathers now held by the right of conquest , which was only achieved by the very disunion so sedulously attempted to be kept alive by Mr . O'Connell .

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      THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL . Impressed with the same jealous feeling as tbe Noble Lord whose name adorns our frontispiece , of the ^ equal importance of ., " watching details as of maintaining great principles , " we have perused his " WiM " more than once , in the hope of discovering in its details some substitute for ' * great principles , " the disposal of which , in the excitement of so awful an

      undertaking , the noble testator has wholly omitted . Whether the omiasion proceeded from a want of suoh a description of property , or whether it was already disposed of by previous settlement , or mortgaged , or otherwise pawned , or encumbered beyond redemption , we cannot undertake to say ; but certain are we , that we felt strong disappointment as expectant participators ia what we had a right to consider as national trust property , to Sad that there were no assets .

      The press has given to the Noble Lord ' s production a multiplicity of fine names , some calling it" fireat state paper ; " others" an important document ; ' ' others" the plain , straightforward , and manly address , bearing the signature of the Noblo Lord {" others a " luminous Manifesto . " All these high-flown terms raised our hopes to a great pitch , for a week , as state documents and all state affairs generally do ; but . at the end of that time , wo find that the greatest importance note attached to the great document , is " the lime at which it made its appearance . " .

      We regret exceedingly that the Noble Lord did not , as is the usual custom with testators , commence by assuring us that he was of " sound and disposing mind , " and then return "thanks to Almighty God for the same . " We really regret the absence of this usual form ; because if we were to decide upon the state of the testator ' s mind , by comparing his document with those documents which have recently appeared from the pen of working men , as members of a representative body

      not recognized by law , or as individuals struggling for their just rights , we should undoubtedly declare that either Lord John , or the authors of those national documents , were " non compos mentis .- " and inasmuch as the latter State Papers not only express and define great principles , " but likewise propose the most simple details for their arrangement for use , while his Lordship ' s will makes no bequest of the one without which the other is inoperative ; we therefore pronounce hia Lordship " non compos . "

      Now , let us just take the most important portion of this document , and see whereia its statesman-like character is to be found . The testator , in the three first paragraphs , according to the arrangement of the Examiner , from which we take it , for it has been variously subdivided , says as follows : — " LORD JOHN RCSSELI / S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITV OF LONDON .

      "Gentlemen , —I request you to accept mj sincere and hearty thanks for the honour you have conferred upon me . by ' electing me one of your Representativea in the Commons * House of Parliament . I should have made this acknowledgment at an earlier period , had I not been desirous of explaining to you the eonrte which the general state of the returns will make it my duty te pursue . In order to do this the more clearly I must refer to some past events .

      " In the early part of last year , when a resolution , declaring a want of confidence in the Government , was brought forward , I distinctly announced the intention of'proposing additional taxes to meet the increased expenditure of the country . In the present year ^ so soon ae the estimates had been completed , and the probable amount of tbe revenue could be calculated , her Majesty ' s Ministers took into their serious consideration the dis 7 parity whicti still existed between the income of the country and the cost of its establishments . We found that the new taxes were not sufficient to supply thed « aciencv . We were of opinion that we could not , with due regard to the honour and rafety of the natieh , reduce its naval and military forces .

      " But , upon a careful-view of our commercial imposts , we came to the conclusion that , by removing probibitiem and lessening restrictions , it was possible to replenish the Treasury . Now , what is there valaable in all that beyond the strong analogy , between , the procrastinated compliment to his Lordship ' s constituents and the procrastfnated announcement of his Lordship ' s ' great commercial reforms , " so frankly , but so foolishly avowed ? s His Lordship concludes the second paragraph thus : — " We were of opinion that we could not , with due regard to tb © honour and safety of the nation , reduce its naval and military forces . "

      Now this is unfair as weUas . untrue ; , the sentence should have run thus : — '" "We were aware that we had produced a state of things which could only be upheld by . ' brute force , and therefore we were compelled to overtax those whom we had starved , for the pay of more soldiers and sailors , and officers , and policemen . " ; But ia tho third paragraph we find , that after all the expense , the anxiety , the risk , and the inconvenience to which the country has been put , his Lordship only calculates upon the mere POSSIBILITY df replenishing the Whig Exchequer b y means of the " Great Commercial Re&nna '' '

      WelL , the Nobl « Lord labours through the remainder of a very dull and heavy paragraph of this " importantand luminous State document , " and thus opens the fourth paragraph . . He says : — * Z A » 802 n ^ the new Parliaments meets , we shall take the first opportunity of asking f 9 r a clear and decided judgment upon the policy we have pursued . " What , more last words 1 another last judgment , and a further dig iuto another quartern loaf ! Man alive ! has not judgment beep passed three several times First , out of tho House , by a clear vte-ditst of guilty jsecoud , in the House , by a clear verdict of insanity and imbecility ; and lastly , ' upou appeal to the REFORM MADE PEOPLE , a clear verdict of guilty ; and now , not satisfied , the Noble Lord is ; resolved , upoa pushing the people , his too

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      lenient jndges , to pronounce judgment . No , no . Tve h » TO " given Tiis-Lprddap and his Lordsnirt party » very loFfftiWidf * very fair trial ; and i » the discreet and excellent ^ Jangua / je of . - the Moni ing Adpertisp ' tyrk \ 9 ht r throughput , has kept ft , lead of the Whig press , we entirely concur . Our able contemporary , thus , weeps a tear of jo , over the improved but melancholy fate of t he WW , ° The atmosphere of the pppoajition benches is , j f ^ all , the atmo 8 pher ^ ln , wj ^^^ biga can breat ^

      freely . The opposition is their native element . ^ an opposition , they have . from the time of Fox m Sheridan downwards achieved their greatest viotories and gained tbeir brigjitesV laurels ; anj there can be no question that new triumphs ^ fresh trophies await ^ them in iHo new sphere < n which they are . about to enter . In the ranka «{ the : opposition ,. they , wil ^ , ; no doubt , redeem thj character they have lost , and restore the con fident which the people of ; England have for Borne tin * ceased to repose in them / ' -.,. ' .

      How the Whig epicures may relish l ^ free and pure . air . npon the Opposition siijj of the H » use , as a substitute for the "fat dabs" of office , we ate not prepared to say . j but in eveij word of the above , which we have one hundred times impressed upon our readers , we fully conon and of the Whig Oppositien , after so high an euij ! gium , we would say , " Esto perpetna . " We must now come back to the noble testator , After the above passage , from the fourth paragraph , he goes on to complain , in bitter terms , against » n those details which in the " great principle ' of Reform have acted injuriously to Whig interest , Here we shall only ask , who supplied those " in .

      portant details" to the " great principle" ! Th « n does not appear to have been attached by hisLoii ship , IN TIME , that great importance of " watch . ing details , " which it now appears his partr ' j interest required . - ¦ Well , ia not this juBt what n have been hammering at for years 1 Have we not said ,, a thousand times , that the measure was lost from a neglect of its proper detail moulding to its proper uses ,: and according to the spirit of % " great principle" ? In fact , we and the peopb were , and have long been , before the . Noble Lord ; and now the stupid press begins to praise matter and assertion which merely proves the ignorance , incapacity , and backwardness » f bis Lordship '} ignorant associates . ,

      The * Noble Lord then proceeds to tell us all about the elections , and all about what every hand-loom weaver was perfectly cognizant of . He complains of Lerd Chandos ' s £ 50 tenant-at-will clause ; of tie dependency of county voters upon their landlords , and so forth ; and then the Noble Lord says a some thing about the " certainty of the cause of civil ui religious liberty triumphing at last . " Yes , in faith . ' but it would have been at long , long last , had it not been for the spiteful prod which the Noble Lord promises in the sixth paragraph to give , in opposition , to the pokinghack which he rode while inoSct wkh so "loose ireia" and " careless seat" tbi he was thrown . In the sixth paragraph he says : —

      " Out of power we obliged our . opponents to obolidi those tests by which political office was made ex . elusive , and a religion * sacrament profaned . Oat of power we forced our adversaries themselves to free the Roman Catholics from those disabilities which they bad declared indispensable for the maintenance of the Constitution , and toe safety of the Church . '' Bravo , Lord John I Then in opposition , in God's name , remain ! as in troth you appear tons to plead eloquently for the privilege and place , and as eloquently to show cause why you should neve : again hold office , without a committee of cans ChartiBts to " watch all the important details" of jonr

      " GREAT PRINCIPLES . " We now assure our readers that we have gon « through this ** great state paper ; " this " important national document ; " this " luminous manifesto , - " this " statesman-like production ; " and we ask our readers to contrast it with the luminous manifesto of the late Convention , which we published in Maj last ; or with the Address of the Executive , which

      appeared in our last number ; or with any one of the numerous and spirited addresses which h » e come from female Chartists ' . Associations , ands » j which is most in accordance with the great principles required by : the present generation ; and which , if moulded by proper " details , " would be most calculated to arrive , at that ' result Which the Noble Lord vainly hopes to persuade the people he aims , namely , " civil and religious liberty . "

      The press , as is its custom , has treated this " important and luminous document , " each according to their several interests ; while the only importance which we attach to the piece of incomparable folly * falsehood , blarney , sycophancy , aid sophistry is the opportunity it affords us of exposing to our virtuom and intelligent readers . the sort of bait with which golden fish are caught . Positively , if such a communication was sent to us for insertion , bearing the initials of J . R , we should thus dispose of it in our notice to correspondents : —

      'i J . R . has been received , but we decline publishing it in pity to the unfortunate contributor , who roust be sadly afflicted with delirium tremens . We would , of all things , recommend him to try chixgk of aib , where he may restore that tone and confidence , and self-possession , of which he appears to stand so much in need . " The Noble Lord has not yet hit upon the proper bait to ca ' tch the mess . Black wings ' , " blue bottom , and steel-bod ? is not the fly for the dog-days . A fly found in abundance , in fact -swarmiog about factories and bastiles , called the " Chartist stinger , "

      is the ,, proper fly for the mess fish . The angler knows where to look- for them , and will hear them buzzing like ' a swarm of bee ? , at an immense distance ^ upoh a summer ' s evening . They are a thin , lank-looking fty , like a " daddy * long-legs ; " » U limbs and- no body ; and the golden fish are very greedy after them and will take them freely , when they wonft rise at a " horse-fly" or ** blue-bottle . " The Captain and first Lieutenant of a line-ofbattle . ship once got into a very warm argument

      as to the proper ily for the season ; the Csptun insisting that the "horse-fly" was then the best bait for macKerel—the Lieutenant denying that there was any such fly : whereupon an Irish sailor , who happened to be at hand , and who was an acknowledged angler , was appealed to as ump ire-The Lieutenant ' asked him " Pat , did you ever See a " horse fly" t ' No , d—nmy eyes ; " replied Pat—" but I tell your honour what I see , jnsi * & quair a thing—1 see a " cpw jump down a precipice . " ,

      We have just told the anecdote to relieve the tedium of the consideration of the " mighty , great , and importantly luminous and statesmanlike" new moonshine ; while we live in hope that a codicil will be added in the noble patient ' s next attack of spleen , to cure all defects , arid making suitable disposal of all the great , principles held in trust by the nobb testator .

      Ffle Northern Star. Saturday. July 31. 1841.

      fflE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY . JULY 31 . 1841 .

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      DANIEL AND THE MISCREANT CHARTISTS AGAIN . The nasty fellow has been spitting his venom upon Chartism in his tour of reimbursement . We just give the following specimen of . this gentleman ' s love of truth . When addressing the people of Kilkenny , ! the other day , he said : —

      " England never was in a greater state of jeopardy than she is at present : her artisans starving—her manufacturers complaining—her commerce declining—her revenues exhausted—and Chartism bursting over the land . And if Irishmen joined' the physical-force Chartists , and assisted them in their maddened career , why , before this time , the aristocracy ef England Would have been reduced to howling boggart , if not assasinated by tbe Chartists , and the throne of our young and lovely Queen would have been overturned . "

      Was there ever such unpardonable ¦ folly as this ?! Bat is there not somethingto deplore even in the folly I Do not the wise discover in it the foregone conclusion , that in Chartism alone the " Liberator" recognises perfeot freedom , and consequent free trade and total destruction of all monopoly in humbug ? Do they not also see ia it fall proof that , so long as he can help it , no union shajl take place between the people of the ' two cou » triea 1 I But we defy him ! . Knowledge is more powerful than sophistry , bombast , or blarney , or than all three put together ; and we have , now before us not a few cheering oommuuications from different parts of Ireland , assuring us of the rapid progress of the good cause made through our hnmble instrumentality .

      " The aristocracy of England would have been reduced to prowling beggars , IP NOT A . SSAS 1 NATED BY THE CHARTISTS ; and the throne of our young and lovely Queen would have been overturned . " Good God I is the man " clean daft" ? Has he gOne quite out of his wits in anticipation of Ireland ' s howl when she comes to ask for her 42 Repealers that voted for her resurrection in 1834 f Or does he hope to turn the curious from an investigation into their own . affairs , by creating a greater curiosity about ours . This is a counter irritan-,. "The Chartists assassinate" ! Was

      ever a more base and malicious slander 1 j But this is not ail . The disinterested Liberator , in one of his recent philiipics , at Cork , stated the terms of his future support to a Whig Government ; and what do - our readers suppose those terms are f " Repeal , of course . " No : guess again . Justice to Ireland ? No : Total Abolition of Tithest No . Extentxon . of tbe Suffrage | No : guess again . Do you give it up ] Yea . Well hear , Daniel O'Connell ¦ ¦ wiU not again support a Whig Administration whichi " REFtrSES to give Places to Repeaxebs / ' You don't believe it \ don't you ? Well then , hare his own

      | words front the correspondent of the World newspaper , corroborated by the press generally , "Mr . O'Connell said , that , should the Whigs resume power , he would not support them if they refused place to any man because he is ' a Repealer ?\ Now , do you believe it ? "Aye , I do now ; and it bangs Bannagher , - and Bannagher bangs cock fighting . " Thus has , Chartism been merged into . " assassination " , and Repeal into " situation" ! Ah ! Dan , soWthe people , body and sleeves , to Lord Duncankon and the Whigs in 1835 , and now he offers them a cheap bargain of Repeal : but we have better hopes for Ireland . All is not lost

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      THE PEOPLE'S TACTICS . Thje elections are now settled ; the New House is returned } the Whigs have been , taught their proper lesson . They have been , in fact , made powerless for eviL , and the next best thing for the people ' * attention is , the use to be made of their victory ; f <* a popular victory over the base Whigs , their nn « grateful oppressors , we hold the result of the general election to be a steady unshaken adherence to iheir own policy , an absolute refusal to be drawn , cajoled , it

      Diillied 1 into aay . agitation for any thing short of the entire Charter , must be joined to a careful improvement of every means by which our offensive operations against the oitadel of corruption can be carried on . W ^ have always ( old our readers that thew are only two media through which they can look for the restoration and establishment of popular rightphysical revolution , or an Act of Parliament . The former it has been the studied carefulness of our lives to avert by all means } we have been continually

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      " The Chabtists have proved themseltes work acccratb calculators than the middle classes . Whether their nostrum wotld have mended matters is not xotv the question ; but the result h . \ s shewji that thet 'were cokbect 1 m the 1 e opinion—that ix the pkesext state of the repre"EXTATIOS , IT WaS YAW TO TH 1 XK OF A REPEAL OF THE c 0 rs monopoly . ?*•»??** Political power in this cosktbt , though jt resides in a comparatively small class , can only be exercised by the fctferance of the masses . "Morning Chronicle ( organ of the Whig MinistersJ , Friday , July I'Sth , 1841 .

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      A THE NORTHERN STAR . ____ . .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct560/page/4/