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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1841.
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      FRANCE . —The Paris paper 3 of Sunday havearxived . Gen . Schneider' 8 amendment on the project of alaw for fortifying Paris , and proposing to limit the works to detached forts , placed at 5 , 000 yards distance froai the present wall , was rejected late on Saturday , by 236 -rotes against 175 . This is decisive of the law , which will no doubt pass , aud M . Tniers and the King of the French will both hare carried their point , of encircling Paris within a circle of about twenty fortresses , - connected by an entrenched wall . —Chronicle . Saturday .

      New Yobx . —The favourable winds hare passed and gone without bringing any Colonial papers . It is me first time within our remembrance that a week has elapsed without a single paper being received . At Eecond-hand we have a scrap of intelli-Sn ce from Newfoundland ; and one of thepacket-Lps has brought some news from New York . The latter , though Beauty , is not unimportant . A panic had been caused in the monev-market , by the pnbbeation ef a return which exhibited the affairs of the United States' Bank in a worse light than erer ; but the accounts which have reached this country are from a qnarter hostile to the Bank . —Colonial Gaaettt .

      The Kno York Herald of the 8 ih of January contains an account of the wreck of the fine packet-ship Garrick . She Bailed from Liverpool for New York in December , with a valuable cargo of manufactured roods . On the night of the 6 ; h , or the morning of the 7 th January , she got aground about twenty-five miles south of Sandy Hook , on the New Jersey ahore ; but how she got into that nnfortanate situation had not been ascertained . Wheu first seen , she lay about a quarter of a mile from the shore ; the sea - vris making a breach over her midships ; and the

      crew and passengers were collected on the quarterdeck . The master of the vessel which saw them was of opinion that all might land . That all did land , was deemed extremely probable , from the fact that two or three hours after the first vessel had passed the wreck , a second also passed , when , thocsh near enough to read her name , not a soul was ieen on board . And a pas ^ nger by the Cambridge has stated positively that the greater number of the passengers had been saved . Four steamers left New York on the Bib , to offer assistance in

      recovering the cargo . Release o ? Msu H . Yiscbmt . —On Sunday , at two o ' clock , Mr . "Vincent was discharged from Oakham Gaol , by an order from the Home ? offlce , and was informed at the same time , ihat the indictments by the Wiltshire magistrates were entirely set aside .

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      The Eaul op Cardigan . —The committee appointed to make arrangements for the trial of the Earl ot" Cardigan met again Tuesday , in'the Conference Chamber . The noble Earl has retained Sir William Follett , Mr . Serjeant Wrangham , and Mr . Adolphns to conduct his defence . The Attorney and Solicitor-General will appear as counsel for the Crown . O'Co . n . neij . is Belfast . —A member of the Mechanics' L ' aion in Belfast write 3 us as follows : — " The

      mechanics of Belfast , having seen in the Belfast Ftndicator an account of a deputation of various trades waiting upon Daniel O'Connell , at-the Royal Hotel in Belfast , to tender to him the thanks of their respective trades , beg leave to state , that the individual who performed this ceremony on behalf of the Mechanics' Society , had no authority to do so . The mechanics and engineers of Belfast owe Daniel O'Connell no thanks ; for , if he could . prevent it , there would not now be a trade society in existence /'

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      Ca . vs . da . —The detention of Mr . M'Leod , a Canadian , on the charge of having aided in the de-Btruction of the Caroline , had given rise to- various reports ; it was said that the British Government had demanded his release , and had been "positively " refused by the American Government . No weight , however , can be attached to these reports , until they a e confirmed on more explicit authority . Newkocxdlaitd . —The Governor ' s sp # ech , on opening the Legislature of Newfoundland , represents

      that island as torn by electioneering dissensions . It is to be regretted that accounts from Newfoundland are frequently so imperfect , or so strongly tinged with party feeling , that the real merits of the case are difacilt to be distinguished . The Governor intimates , that if the colonists persist in their violences , they will prove themselves to be still unprepared for the self-government which has been prematurely submitted to them . Bnt we have as yet only the accusation , without the defence which the colonists may have made to the Governor ' s aspersions .

      A Subscription has been commenced for the purpose ol relieving the poor of Stafford , many of whom are in distressed circumstances , owing to a scarcity » f work . The subscription on Friday amounted to about « cl 25 . Richard Godsos , Esq ., M . P ., has remitted the sum of 100 guineas to William Boycott , Esq ., solicitor , of Kidderminster , for the relief of the poor of that borough daring the present inclement season . Tbe Q . CEE 5 Dowager has forwarded ,- through Lord Howe , £ 20 towards the fund for rebuilding the parish church of Boylstoae , Derbyshire .

      Tbe Thibd Assivebsabt of the Stourbridge Xitaary and Scientific Institution , was celebrated on Wednesday se ' nnight , by a public dinner at the Yine Inn ; J . EH . Foley , Esq ., president ofthelnstiiution , in the chair . The report of the progress and state of the Institution , and the whole of the proceedings on the occasion , were most satisfactory . The President has given a donation of £ 20 to the funds , in addition to his usual annual subscription . - Tire South Shb * pshtb . k Yeojuxby Cavalkv ate expected to meet in Shrewsbury on tbe 4 th of May nexv , and will be trained and exercised on the new

      race course . Tim Dttkb of Sitberland and the Hon . "Colonel Anson were , on Tuesday evening , elected Fellows of the Koval Botanical Society of London .

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      Teas-orr . —The colliers of Alkringtonand Tongue have turned out for more wages , their masters having reduced them to the point of starvation . It is said that the collierB of Oidhara , Ashton , Staleybridge , aud Hyde have also left off work , and are for standing true on « to another , until their wages * re raised . The mechanics of Manchester have promised them their assistance , and other trades are expected to come forward and support them . Impabtial Bexevole > ce . —Much distress prevailing among tbe poor in the neighbourhood of

      Burslem , a public subscription was recently set on foot in a village near that town , for the relief of the distressed , and the apportionment entrusted to the priest , a curate , who rejoices in the name of Ellis . A correspondent writes us that , " on the application of one poor man for his due portion of this miserable substitute for more just arr&Bgeinents of society , a book was referred to , in which the word " Wesleyan" was found written opposite to the applicant ^ name ; whereupon the man of God exclaimed , " I cannot do anything for you , 1 must consider my own flock , 1 cannot be a father to two Hocks : open the door , and let him out !"

      EXTE > " 51 VB ROBBE&Y OF BaSK . OP ESGLAKD NOTES . —On Xue-day , information was received-by tee police of the commission of a most dariDg robbery of notes and seenrities , to the value of between jElp ^ 'J and £ 1 , 600 . The robbery , -it appears , oceunvd on the evening of Saturday last , about seven o ' clock , wheD , as a gentlemaD , whose name has not transpired , was proceeding along Gill-street , In the Wffn of Liverpool , he was accosted by two men , of whom he is unable to give a description , who knocked him down , and , while on the ground , robbed him of an old red pocket-book , containing Bank of England notes of the value ' of £ 750 , with aecuriiies to the value of about £ 800 more , with which they got clear off before he could raise an outery or procure assistance . A reward of £ 100 has been offered for the apprehension and conviction oi the ttieves , and recovery of the property .

      Strange Scene . On Sunday fe ' nnight , five women converts to the ridiculous doctrines of the aew sect , called Latter-day Saints , suffered them ' * dves to be baptised , in a pool of water , near Werse-th Hall , Oldham ; their persons were entirely immersed , in the presence of a preacher of the sec : Kid a few individuals . Moshomsm . —We understand the latter-day Saint ¦ peculation is likely to answer well is this town , as far a 3 the making of proselytes goes . A number of weak-minded females were " dipped" in the tide , according to the dictum of the officiating Saint , on Thursday list , near the Poor-house Slip , about the

      time of high-water ; and in the evening of the same day , we believe , some of the rougher sex were soused all over head and ears in the same element . The imposition of hands is to follow ; and each dope , after Eying th « fee , can then lay claim to inspiration , onncn prophets are becoming as numerous is Dougia as the prophets of Baal were in the days of Elijah ; and the former are as great impostures as the latter were—besides , the Mormon seers are greater knaves . We should not be snrprised to hear of some of the fanatics paying the forfeit of their live * , for being guilty of such presumptuous Colly as plunging m to cold water ai the present inclement MtMO .-Z' / x Man * Liberal .

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      Lexiw , Wednesday—qbeat Catholic Meeting , IN favotjb OF Total Abstinence . —On Monday evening , a great meeting was held in the spacious theatre of the Mechanics' Institution . Southamptonbuildings , Chancery-lane , in favour of tbe above principle or pursuit ; at which the various sectional societies attended , and the building was enuomad to overflowing Six or seven priests were present , and a considerable number of the influential members of the Catholic body . The speakers were the Reverends , J . Hearne , Janch , M'Auila , and Telford ; Messieurs John Gilea , M . P . Haynes , W . Waddick , J . Corkna , W . Buckley , J . Callioane , and J . F . O'Leary , ( tha Duke of Norfolk ' s steward . ) Resolutions were passed approbatory of total abstinence , and from the known influence of the parties in attendance , much good may be anticipated to result among the Irish part of the population of the metropolis .

      Fourth Class , National Chaster Association . —At the weekly meeting of this clan , on Sunday last , at Mr . Hill ' s Coffee-rooms , Horner-street , Marylebone , a vote of confidence was passed unanimously , " in that invincible champion of Universal Suffrage , Feargus O'Connor , and the meeting pledged themselves to use their best endeavours to carry on the glorious work of political redemption in his absence . " Co-opebation . —On Monday evening , Mr . Cameron delivered his promised lecture , at the rosms of the Finsbury Working Men ' s Association , No . 9 , Little White Lion-street , Long Acre , Mr . Davis in the chair . The lectnrer showed , that , if labow were properly represented in this country , we should have one of ths best practical houses of legislature in Europe ; and that , whatever evils exst in America , may be all traced to

      the competitive system ; as , notwithstanding the federal constitution , the rights of labour , as compared with those of capital , are not appreciated ; he then showed the benefit to be derived from a system of cooperation . In Clerkenwell they have been trying the plan on a small scale , which has answered beyond expectation ; they have dealt in beef , mutton , pork , bacon , butter , Ac ., &c ; the sjstem is fceiag taken np in the provinces very generally , and it will doubtless have , as it has already had , tbe effect of bringing some of tbe shopocrocy to their senses . At the conclusion of the lecture , a cemmittee was appointed for the purpose of furthering the plan laid down ; a vote of thanks was passed to Mr . Cameron for his address , which being duly acknowledged , the meeting adjourned till Monday next , at the same hour and place .

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      ASSOCIATION . SOCIAL MEETING FOB THE BENEFIT OF MESSRS CARBIEB AJiB PEDDIE . On Mosday evening , a social entertainment took place at the Dispatch Coffee House , Bride Lane , Fleet Street ; the proceeds to be devoted to the benefit of the wives and families of the above-named victims . The room was neatly decorated with evergreens and banners , as also with portraits of Frost , O'Connor , Oastier , Collins , < fce . < tc At eight o ' clock , about fifty persons sat down to a substantial meal ; and on the conclusion of the repast , the following grace was said by Mr . Parker , the Chairman : — ' Grant , O Lord , that the sons and daughters of toil may be speedily put is possession of their rights , in order that they m » y daily partake of

      as goed fare as tbon hast been pleased to bestow on us this evening . " On the removal of the cloth , and prior to the proposal of tbe first toast , Mr . C . Keen sang the Marseillaise Hymn with much taste , and was loudly applauded . The Chairman then rose to propose the first toast — "Tho People—the only source of all legitimate power . " Tkey had met on this occasion as the advocates of universal right—the advocates of tbe fatherless , the poor , and the oppressed—and though giving up an hour or two to harmony , they would keep in view , that there were several hundreds of their brethren now pining

      in dungeons , or eating the bread of bitterness in exile ( Hear . ) Were the people la possession of their political rights—were the Charter carried , there would be found sufficient intelligence among the industrious classes of this country to operate on all the other classes , for the advancement of their social position . and the establishment of the true prosperity of the country . ( Loud cheers . ) He concluded by calling on them to respond to the toast , which was received with all the honours . Song , by Mr . Rainsley , " A man ' s a man for a' that " Citizen George , in an animated address , proposed tha next toast : —

      " Frcst , Williams , and Jones ; and the speedy return of all political exiles and prisoners to the bosoms of their homes and families . " ( Load cheering . ) No cheering , my friends , said Mr . George ; we must bury our feelings in our own breasts for the present This toast mast be drunk in solemn silence , to testify our respect to the objects of it ; and we ' ll have the cheers when they are amongst us . The toast was accordingly received with an audible silence , the company upstanding . Song , by Mr . Tipper , "The Exile of Erin . " ,

      The Chairman called for a bumper to the next toast , which was , " The Northern Star , and the rest of the Chartist press . " ( Long continued cheering . ) The applause showed that the Northern Star was near to their hearts ; and that though its noble originator , was as a caged lion at York , he was here spiritually present among them tonight ( Applause . ) In an apposite and perspicuous address , the Chairman dilated on tbe various topics comprehended in the Bcope of the toast he proposed , and the company simultaneously rose to respond to it , by three times three . The Correspondent of the Northern Star , briefly acknowledged the mark of respect to the proprietor and conductor of that paper , and expressed ranch pleasure in observing the lively and heart-stirring enthusiasm with which the name of Mr . O'Connor was hailed , by those for -whom he had dared and endured the loss of

      liberty , fortune , and caste ; it was the knowledge of thus living in their memories that would cheer him in the dungeons of York Castle , and invigorate him to a fresh deploy of his powers , when the period of nig imprisonment shall have expired . Song by Mr . Hodgins— " With Charter flags in all our hands , to meet him we will go . " ( This song was very much applauded , as being in anticipation of Mr . O'Connor ' s liberation in November next , and taken from Mr . Hick's book . ) Mr . Scott proposed , " The Charter , and may it soon become the Jaw of the land . " Drunk with considerable cheering . A liberal collection was made for tbe victims and

      their families ; the chairman formally resigned the chair , bnt was unanimously re-instated , for the purpose of " harmony only , " and conviviality was maintained with strict good order , till " the iron tongue of midnight had tolled twelve . "

      The Northern Star Saturday, February 6, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 6 , 1841 .

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      THE QUESTION OF DISSENT . As often as we find ourselves called upon to open out a great question to the public view , so often do we feel the inadequacy of our space , and the unfrequency of our visits . If the question of the Suffrage , the Repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland , and the Cora Laws , which are but units of the great whole , have been so complicated a 3 to make us devote much space to their derelopement , how much more at a loss must we be , in thus undertaking , in a weekly paper , a dissection of that question , which may ( under the denomination " Church ") be Baid to oombine the whole material of political warfare !

      We head our article dissent , because that is the name of the new hobby-horse ; but our object is to consider the question of " the Church" at large , not a Protestant Church , but any Church which is the landlord of the State . The Protestant Church is an accidental Church ; for , had the Romish Church allowed Henry the Eighth , King , Defender of the Faith , and bo forth , to commu lewdness , incest , and adultery , without censure , the Reformation might have waited upon a less lucky accident .

      The Protestant Church , as by law established , may be fairly dated from 1688 , when the church became the feudal lord , aud the state the vassal . They had , ef course , their respective rights , but then the exercise of state rights depended much more upon clerical pleasure , than did the exercise of Church rights upon States' will , or any secular rule . The Church was the active , the State the passive , organ of the whole . " The Church , "—that is , let it always be understood , a Church as by law established , and by force maintained—means nothing more nor less than a strong political fetter , by which the party of that Church bind all ; not only of their own creed , but of the nation .

      M The Cnurch is igaorantly supposed to mean the congregation of those professing its tenets j but it is , in fact , no such simple or isolated thing . The Church must have itg army , its navy , its landed influence , its ascendant secular power , is all cases , or it ceases to be " the Church . " It is satisfied to derive its influence from the state , provided that influence extends to a legalised monopoly of all patronage , whether lay or clerical .

      From the " Reformation" to the glorious revolution" of 1688 , the Church was straggling for an entirety of dominion , as well secnlar as ecclesiastical ; and from 1688 till 1831 she held a complete master-

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      dom over the destinies of Europe . ' The Dissenters , as they were called—that is , those who found it impossible to hold political power without a splice of religious fanaticism , —the dissentients—made many onslaughts upon the monopolising Church ; bat never did any party venture upon a purely political contest . Thus matters went on ; the soenea now and then varied by the shedding of much human blood , and by cruelties and barbarisms the most revolting ; until at length , the enormities of the Church , and especially of tbe Irish Church , so shook tho whole framework of society , as to call for the reform of 1832 .

      Rtjsskll , it appears , had enough of thgChurchman about him to strengthen different portions of , ithej outworks , yet he convinced the people that the abuses of the Church would be corrected along with all other abuses , but not those Churoh abuses which appertain to lay , or secular sections , and hence the trap into which the Noble Lord has fallen . He falsely imagined that he could let the Dissent Church loose , and Bet its forces in full cry upon State Churoh abuses , while he acted the part of whipper-in , and drove the hounds from the scent of his own family possessions , as whippefV drive them from othar game than that in chase . He thought

      that " ware Woburn , " and " go hark to Church rates , " would intimidate the pack . But he began to learn , as early as the first session of the Reformed Parliament , that there was no means of considering the pence without lugging in some thought of tha pounds ; and then Russell turns his baok upon the Dissenters and says , the Reform Bill was intended as a Landlord ' s Bill ; and every one knowing that the Landlord ' s Church is the Protestant Church , the new-light expectants took fire , and , for several years , dissenters' wrath has been bottled , till now it is up , and must get vent , or burat . '

      Religionists never yet were satisfied , nor ever will be with equality . The most oppressed commence with begging for toleration , go on struggling for equality , and , at length , when they get strong enough , are ready to fight for ascendancy . From the declaration of Russkxl , we may date the decline and fall of Whig power . The large newly-enfranchised towns , presented yearly , aye , daily , the increasing signs of dissent , by the stupendous places of worship built for the accommodation of increasing proselytes ; while stoves , to supply the places of the absent , were in demand , to keep old Mother Church warm ,

      in the latter end of her days . The old sentinels slept on their posts , and were seldom visited by the officer of the guard , while the new army of martyrs were ever on the alert , among their flocks , always at hand , and ever ready for attack or defence , and withal well sustained by that all-powerful auxiliary called novelty . They opened new roads to spiritual comfort , and said to the travellers , " Behold what we have done ! is it not sinful thai JOU . ah ^ lild be journeying on this new , luxuriant , cheap afad pleasant thoroughfare , and yet compelled . to p » j toll upon , and keep in repair , those old , desolate , and unhealthy byeways , which you use not ?"

      But when the new Reform , which was to represent . these large towns in Parliament , bad sufficiently taken political root , then would the dissent tree throw its fruits and foliage over all that great and mighty space which has been rendered sterile by the blighting influence of Mother Church . Then would she look for her army , her navy , her land , her patronage , and , in fact , for the fruits of her political ascendancy . Having blocked up the old road , and driven the opposition coach off , she would then eay , " O , but we can't keep this road in repair " without tolls , " and tolls as heavy as the old company ever charged would be put on .

      Does any working man in England suppose that those who now so valiantly fight for the religious freedom of dissenters , would as valiantly ( had they once the power ) confer that freedom ! No ; the facility with which men reconcile these things is wonderful . Those who have been longest slaves are ever the greatest tyrants , when they achieye their freedom ; and abuses , which they kicked against when subject to them , are easily reconciled when they come to administer them to others .

      Let ua first test the value of the present feint made by the old praise-God-bare-bones faction in favour of dissenters . Does any man suppose , for a moment , that Messrs . Hume , O'Coa . nell , Easthopk , W . Ellis , and others , care two-pence if Baines and Thobogood were made into a Christmas pie , if such cooking of them would serve the political purposes of Whiggery better than dressing in a newer and more approved style for th palate of faction 1 Is theirs a love of justice ! If bo , why not devote their overboiling patriotism to a redress of the more extensive abuses complained of by the Chartists , who are in truth suffering for conscience sake } Is there not a more noble spirit manifested by the

      poor working man , who , in defiance of all opposition to tyranny , refuses , without a struggle , to pay unjust taxes upon every mouthful he eats , and who even after all , cannot get justice , than can be discovered in the refusal of a person to pay 5 a . 6 J . church-rates , well knowing that he will be well backed in his obstinacy , and that his martyrdom will be converted into subsequent ease and affluence 1 In the war of the Chartisls there is a ! l ' hono « r and consistency , while in the case of John Thobogood we discover this striking inconsistency : he denied the authority and jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court , while he appealed to the jurisdiction of that very Court .

      Again , if the object just now was not to give a freshness to fading Whig power , why were so many poor Irish Catholics allowed to pine in gaol for sums varying from 4 d . to two or three shillings , and increased to scores of pounds by coBts ! These poor fellows were , in truth , martyrs to the political and religious aggrandisement of others , and yet we heard but little about their sufferings , iest overheated agitation , upon so tender a point , should not be as easily checked as roused , without producing some fruits , ( which is not the intention of tbe jugglers . ) for the use of the Dissenters .

      We must never lose sight of the startling fact , that , at the period of the Reformation , out of nearly ten thousand ecclesiastics , not more than fourteen bishops , twelve archdeacons , fifty oanons , and about eighty of the inferior clergy , held to the faith , and refused to barter the spirit for the flesh . And , in those days , the consciences of the churchmen were neither so fashionable nor so politicallypliant as they are now . There is a great difference between men struggling for power , and men using that power . When the Whigs were in the former situation they were looked upon as guardian angels , while in the latter , they have been tbe blackest devils .

      It is , then , because we are not for another transfer from the gorged leech ( who should get his sop of compensation to quit his grasp more gently ) to the hungry slugs , who , though angels to follow , would be devils to meet—that we eay to the Chartists—to those who look for the universality of civil liberty , in order to enBnrethe universality of religious freedom , stir not in the new crusade . It is humbug . The eighth humbug within a very short period . Better keep the ills we have , Than fly to those we know not of .

      We have met and conquered the H-o-u ^ -hold Suffrage mongers , the legality-moiyjers , HMiPedHcation-mongera , the emigration-mongers , tha Corn Law-mongers , the white slave-mongera , and all the mongers ; and now we meet the monster nnder his new and more Beductive mask of a church-abusemonger , come to try the last prank upon the political stage . If the old hacks of Whiggery could have succeeded with any of their former professions , this new effort would have been wanting : and , if they could have sufficiently relied upon passive obedience and non-resistance , none of these shows of liberality would have been made . Let the Chartists , then , bear in mind that the Government , and the

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      Government hacks , are not agreed upon any one question , but that the one party is base enough to hold office upon the support of those who absolutely denounoe them upon the public stage , as the best , and indeed the only way to court popular favour and preserve patronage for themselves . There never was sueh a union of LAMBS and tigers as that which oar rulers and their bottle-holdera present . If they professed agreement upon any one question , it would Inevitably prove their ruin ; they could not stand a moment ! Our Ministers are a set of jaded old beasts , whom the hustings' old hacks , as drivers , promise ( to the passengers ) that they will make step out , if we only help them to find out the raw .

      Let us instance the terms , and show the features of this unnatural union . The Ministers refuse even to repeal the rate-paying clauses in the Reform Bill ; while the backs deolare for H-o-u-s-e-hold Suffrage , the Universality of the Suffrage , or any Suffrage . The Ministers consider a seven years' tenure of a fertile and productive Parliament too short ; while the backs are for triennial , biennial , or any other duration that will do to fhh with . The Ministers won't hear of even doubtful qualification for members ; the hacks are for abolish * ing of qualifications . The Ministers won't hear of the Ballot ; the hacks are , above all , for'" ( he honest Ballot . "

      Ths Ministers won't disfranchise three corrupt and rotten colleges , and give their representation to large districts ; while the backs are for equalising electoral districts . So much for coincidence of opinion upon the five points , and now for minor differences . ' Tbe Ministers wont hear of even a fixed duty upon corn , while the backs are for a total repeal of the corn duty . 5 fbe Ministers wont relieve the Dissenters from payment of Church rates , while the hacks are for a total abolition of Tithes , separation of Church and State , and God only knows what else .

      The Ministers are determined to oppose a Repeal of the Union , to the death ; while the great rough-rider of the hacks makes it a hustings sine qua non . The Ministers deolare war , while the hacks bellow " peace . " Tbe Ministers cry , " give , ob , give ; " while the hacks bawl out for retrenchment . The ministers augment the army , while the hacks oomplain of a standing army .

      The Ministers imprison Chartists for conscience sake ; while the hacks cry " shame ! give to all liberty of speech . " In fact , upon no other question except " scratch me and I'll scratch you , " are , the hacks and their Ministry agreed ; and yet these libertyselling , juggling , humbugging rascals go about , denouncing the Ministers in the morning , and drinking their health and lauding them to the skies in tbe evening , as the only administration ever inclined to do justice .

      We sincerely believe that some of the Ministers had an inclination to do justice , but that their good intentions have been frustrated by the vampires who live upon abuse and fatten on the State ' s misfortunes . Don't our Ministers and their hacks , then , agree like Darby and Joan 1 like fire and water 1 like cat and dog ] Perfect civil equality alone can insure perfect religious freedom . Let the Chartists , then , stick to tbe means , while the backs and their Ministers ride on to the end .

      It is because we are for the abolition of Churchabuses , and all other abuses , that we look for tbe Charter as the only means of their correction . No more humbug .

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      WHO CAN TOUCH PITCH WITHOUT BEING DEFILED ? Wb find that Collins complains of being misreported in Mother Goose , and writes the following letter in explanation of what be did say : — To the Editor of the " Leeds Times . Sir , —I have observed with some regret that an error has been made by your reporter , or some other person connected with your paper , and inserted in your supplement of Saturday lost , in which I am reported to have said , " Let the middle classes propose anv measure of popular benefit , and it should receive the support of the Chartists . "

      I entertain no such idea , nor did I utter such a sentence . Had I done bo , the Chartists would have immediately disclaimed such a sentiment You will recollect that I concluded my remarks by observing , that " no union would be effected without such a deflninltion of the term Household Suffrage , as should include every man of mature age , and sound mind , etc ., who had a residence in a house , or any part of a house ;" and further , that unless upon such terms , a union ought not , and if 1 could prevent it , should not take place . By correcting this error , as soon as possible , you would oblige , Sir , yours , &c ., John Collins . Birmingham , January 25 , 1841 .

      As to this letter , we can only assure Our good friend Counts that uo definition which he or the most ingenious architect in Europe can give of the term H-o-u-s-e-hold Suffrage , will ever take ten supporters from the ranks of the " mental qualification " Chartists . We havo as great an objection to hut , shed , or tent qualification , as wo have to castle qualification ; and , upon the whole , as regards the social comfort and very shelter of the poor , apart from its political signification , a greater objection .

      Again , we ask those who have been all their lives struggling for mere toleration , if they imagine that the old enemy , —the long-possessed faction , who so well know the value of the Suffrage , —will put a Parliamentary hut upon an equality with a lordly mansion ? No , no . Again , we say , eo long as one man ' s property constitutes another man ' s title to vote , so long will the owner of that property have rent and vote , or it will remain untenanted ; being , even in that condition , more profitable than if occupied by a man who used it to protect the one thing of which the capitalist makes his all—labour .

      Does the disfranchisement of the forty shilling freeholders not furnish precedent sufficiently strong ! or must we turn to the present debate , now pending upon Stanley ' s Bill , which has for its object a further disfranchisement of even those who hold a " beneficial interest V And yet , a few hacks would persuade tjhe people that a House of Commo ns which can carry such a sweeping measure of disfranchisement , can , with their assistance , be forced to put a hut upon a political equality with the most splendid mansion !

      We beg leave to assure all our mason and carpenter friends , that if such a measure were to pass , leaving the landlords the " right to do what they please with their own , " there would be an end to their trades for many years to come ; as the poor would be all huddled into stables , in which , like travellers' horses , they could only claim a baiting residence . Collins , we are sure , will , upon consideration , retract his hasty concurrence in a definition of Household . Suffrage , which is precisely , totidem verbis , the very definition of Mr . Stansfeld , with this single exception , that Mr . Sxansfeld requires no prooi of residence ; and this is the very principle which Mr . Collins was deputed , by the Chartists of Birmingham , to resist .

      Birmingham is not going to relapse . Birmingham has already struck tbe chimney-pot , and substituted the untainted adult . ' Again , then , we say , that , henceforth , man ' s person must be man ' s title-deed to the representation ( by himself , or with his consent by his representative ) of his life , his liberty and his property . To go back , for a moment , " to the working men who generally concur in Huue's definition , " we have this one powerful guarantee , that not one ofthose who were instrumental in drawing up the Charter can be meant , as such a backward move would inevitably consign them to their political tomb ; and , we are not a little struck with tbe fact , that O'Connbll , Hums , and Williams , with Cbawfokd , Roebuck , and others supporting , are appended to the original

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      document , entitled "The People's Charter . " Is it not passing stran ge" that the very march-of-intellect-progression gentlemen Should be the very staff selected to strangle their own bantling , when it began to develope a mind of its own ! Is it not marvellous that these very heroes , who complain of the stand-still policy of the head of their party , should attempt suoh a retrogade movement themselves in the age of quick-step policy ! v

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      COLONEL THOMPSON AND OURSELVES . We give the following extract from a . letter of Colonel Thompson ' s , purporting to be a comment upon a portion of one of our leaders , in which we questioned the prudence of some of bis observations in a former epistle . The Colon *! says : — " There is no doubt of there being everywhere the danger of being cheated . But everybody is not always cheated ; careful and intelligent men sometimes avoid it And even if cheated , the Chartists would be no worse than before . What they are determined to'do

      without the middle classes now , and in some sort in defiance of them , they would only have to do without them afterwards , and with all the gain which would arise from the compunction of the honcster portions of them . Supposing the cheat to be ever so boldly attempted , there can be no doubt that a portion of some kind or other would be inclined to stick to the compact ; and by all these the Chartists would be the better . It seems impossible to defend the policy of refusing to try , when all that can be said is , if the worst comes to the worst , we shall only be where , we are at present "

      In this paragraph tho Gallant Colonel , bo fond of old Bayings , apothegms , and maxims , sets all , even " Poor Richard , " to one side . He appears to forget , when he speaks of only the M danger of being cheated , " that past experience leads to a fair presumption of the certainty ; and " a burnt child dreads the fire . " But this is not the portion of the paragraph with which we quarrel . What we object to is the provision against the "Worst coming to the worst . " Now , as the Colonel is a military man , and fond of military phrase , let us suppose the position of two armies , and the Colonel to be the historian . We give the following extract from his account of tbe middle class and Chartist campaign : —

      "Although the force of the middle class was far inferior to that of the Chartists in point of humbug , this disadvantage was more than counterbalanced by recent success ; while the Chartists , broken down by defeat , and weakened by dissension , become panic stricken and fell an easy prey to their less numerous , but better disciplined and more united assailants . Tbe effect of the victory is prodigious , and has so scattered and distributed the chartist army as to render it next to impossible to inspire them with any confidence in their own officers , to whose want of prudence they ascribe their defeat" '

      Now , we shall say not another word upon the subject , further than to observe , that if the most wily politician was paid for recommending the most effectual means of completely annihilating Chartism and disbanding the Chartist army , be could not , have bit upon any means more certain that that of recommending a union , the fruits of which were to be the " worst coming to the worst , '' by the Chartists being again—as they have always been before— cheated . " Let us ask the Colonel who , after that , would again undertake to restore them to the confident and commanding position they now occupy ?

      Wo are happy to perceive that we speak not our own sentiments alone on this matter . The letter of the people ' s friend , O'Connor , given elsewhere , and numerous resolutions of the people , recorded amongst our Chartist Intelligence of the week , cheer and invigorate us with the knowledge that the people are awake , and that their eyes need no rubbing .

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      THE TRIUMPH . The enemy is vastly mistaken if he maginea that we intended such a dish— "a dish fit for the Gods " —to serve bnt for one repast . No , no ; it was too sweet : and , as "the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat , " we mean to pick it to the very bone . Last week , in a summary of facts , till then unknown to the . public , we exposed the trick and chicane practised by Fox Stansfeld and his party ; but since then we have arrived at the knowledge of more facts , which we now proceed to lay before our readers , from the columns of Mother Goose herself .

      The following confab took place upon the Saturday after the battle , as it appears , at a " senatus consultum" of such fragments of the routed forces as could be got together . We give the thing as we find it . It is headed , "The Rotunda Meeting-, " and runs on thus : — " A meeting of leading reformers , friends , and members of the Leeds Reform Association , took place yesterday week , at two o ' clock , in the Rotunda of the Cloth Hall , for the purpose of devising the best means of carrying on the movement for farther reform .

      " Mr . Hume was called upon by the Chairman to state his opinions on what he considered to be the best means of producing a union of the middle and working classes , and carrying on the mtvement' Mr . Hume remarked that one of the first things the Association ought to do , was , to put out their definition of Household Suffrage , as few were at present agreed upon what that ought to be . Mr . Hume submitted a definition of what he considered Household Suffrage ought to be , which was to be taken into consideration by the Association . He stated that the leading men of tbe working classes generally concurred in the definition , and had promised to give their assistance , were an agitation for such a Household Suffrage to be set on foot

      " Mr . O'Connell cordially concurred in the suggestions of Mr . Hume . He considered it as of the first importance , that the reasonable portion of the Chartists should be got over to the aid of the rational reformers . He urged the necessity of some central body being established in London , for the diffusion of knowledge upon political subjects . The public mind should be saturated with facts bearing on the present gross defects in the representation of the people . Mr . Roebuck said that Buch a body was at present in contemplation in London , and he trusted that it would very speedily be set in operation , so as to act in concert with the Leeds Association . "

      From this bit we learn much . We learn the disgrace , the weakness , the duplicity and knavery of the Fox and Goose Club , who , it now appears , were ready to abandon " the fixed , the immutable" principles upon which they were associated , for any claptrap which Mr . Hume or any other person might recommend " to carry on the movement" and '' effect a union of the middle and working classes ;" and Mr . Hume tells them that the first and most necessary thing , was to agree among themselves as

      to the meaning and definition of Household Suffrage ; as , at present , few were agreed upon the question , and he submitted a plan of his Parliamentary H-o-u-s-e . ( Jok had a plan of Parliamentary bread for the Spitalfield weavers—it was brown bread . We hope his electoral qualification is of as low a standard . ) Tbe Association promised to take Joe ' s plan into consideration . What an escape we had from these blind leaders ! They would have upset us in the very first ditch , and a wet one too we fear !

      But let us have the marrow of Joe ' s bone ; he said , " that the leading men of the working classes generally concurred in the definition , and had promised to give their assistance , were an agitation for such a H-o-u-s-e-hold Suffrage to be set on foot . " Here Joe uses a sweeping term , " generally concurred . " What , then , have the river pirates and tbe " cocktailed gingers " of tbe old rump been at work ! Have there been hole and corner meetings upon this subject 1 and who are tbe " working classes generally" ! Aye , aye ; we were aware that the scouts

      were on the look-out for fragments from the wreck of the good ship , Charter , out of which they had in their fanciful imaginations built a tight little bark for Whiggery to float a little longer on the stream ; but they have been mistaken . We were not asleep ; we knew what was to have been the sequal of a Whig triumph at Leeds . We told the people that it was to have been followed by a similar side blow at Chartism , at Leicester , Manchester , and Birmingham ; and by a whip in London . Hence , we saw the full value of our triumph at Leeds .

      The Beggarman follows ; and be who has made so much of Irish ignorance , recommends , of all tLiugs , a knowledge "depot" in London ; as * no

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      doubt , some stray pence would be flying . Anoft * " dear Ray , " might be slipped in as secretary , jv national bank , or Dan , " pro " tbe national , mitfe be treasurer , and a few of th& cocktailed gingers might be thus knowingly provided for , by ^ Humane Humbug Tract Society for the diffuaioa 4 blarney and Whig clap-trap . Well , "loetle" Roebuck cornea next , and u ft speech , is very " leetle" we give it twice over , g , says , in speaking of an association in London u co-operate with the ghost of tbe defunct Fox uu Goose Club ,

      " That such a body was at present in contempUtu In London , and he trusted it would very speedtiTi , set in operation , so as to act in concert with the Lm | Association . " ? -. ¦ ^^^ We will trust Roebuck , and give him long $ a for the fulfilment of his promise , provided he tru us , that the very moment such an auxiliary br *^ menagerie shows its nose into London our Metros , litan Chartist Brigade will serve it just as we ^ served the parent stock at Leeds ; and upon a seeoy attempt perhaps not altogether so unceremonious We threw down the gauntlet at Leeds , and ^ we throw it down for London . We dare any pM . to for tbe

      get up a single meeting adoption of v » definition of H-o-a-s-e-hold Suffrage—hay , we gj M them every Leader , and Lord Brougham , CHC 05 hell , Hums , Waklet , Leader , Warburtoh , ^ the rest to select a chairman from , and w « will our 4 th-of-January carpenter , who took the ch ^ jjj White Conduit House , or Neesom , Spurb , Or so&t other working man , in the chair , in spite of tW and carry every one of our resolutions in spite of tW teeth ; and , upon tbe following week , we wiJi ^ to those who are sceptical about tbe existence « f , "fly horse , " a correct representation of aIjfj , H-o-u-s-e , as we faithfully represented the m y

      menagerie . Now , this is bold . We challenge them—wa ^ them—we defy them , and we give them everyaj , they can orimp—every bit of" ginger" they can pm , chase , and our provincial delegates shall outum ^ the H-o-u-s-ehold ambassadors . No , no ; we were not caught napping ; nor will we be so now ! London is garrisoned ; and nop « j service , even though it were half banging , cm reconcile the troops to one single move of a pia ' i point from the thine—the " Charter . "

      We have long since said that agitation is now too cheap and unfashionable , in its new form , to arrest the attention and command the services of gentlean too idle to work and too poor to do without ft , So much for the Rotunda meeting , projected aUiues , and new definition of H-o-u-s-ehold Suffrage .

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      TOO FAR NORTH . Diplomatists say that Napoleon ' s greatest Mm . der was in going over far north . His faithful minister Caejjot , endeavoured to dissuade him ftOIB Ml Russian trip , but he was positive . We , also , ud Dan ' s friends in Ireland , endeavoured to dissuade him from his Belfast and Leeds trip , as being orer far north : but , like Napoleon , be permitted unity to triumph over prudence , and he has fallen a rictus to his folly . The prostitute press of Ireland would I endeavour to hold his bead above water in the tops f

      of bringing him safe to shore ; and would tooliM j persuade their dopes that he was well receired ii Leeds : while bis friends here swear that he tried bis best to be in time . Let us just contest this litter point . He had finished , and been finished , at Mist , on Tuesday night ; and as we have a map Won u let us see tbe insurmountable obstacles which presented themselves to prevent his punotual * rrinl in Leeds . We shall chalk out bis journey , ud shew that be might , without losing an hour ! j rest , have performed it in a much shorter tint than was at his disposal . 1

      Suppose he started from Belfast at six o ' clock on Wednesday morning to Dublin , eighty miles ; he ; Would , without killing a poor horse , arrive there it two—that is , in eight hours . Three hours would then be allowed for rest and refreshment . He could step on board tbe Liverpool packet at &ve , tnin in the usual course at Liverpool at seven on Thus * day morning ; one hour to Manchester , and four thence to Leeds , would have brought him to the ) scratch at twelve o ' clock on Thursday , without thi \ slightest fatigue ; allowing him seven hours' sleep on Tuesday night , and twelve hours on Wednesdt ] night .

      But Dan would not have shewn his face in Leedi on Thursday for a year ' s rint ; " and the Irish prea know it . They'll hug him to death at last , pool wretch

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      MOTHER GOOSE'S LAST ADDLED EGG

      In her endeavour to account for the phenomenon of Chartist triumph , in their first single-huded struggle , Mother Goose discovered a mare ' s nesi , ifl the fact that O'Connor had done all . That failing she , last week , made the notable discovery that tha Tories supplied the sinews of war . This assertion we regret being compelled to contradict . The pool Chartists never have tbe good luck to be able to draw from any secret-service fund . We should have much more pleasure in avowing the fact tha in being constrained to make an appeal to the country for supplies to meet the expences of the toa

      war . We should have felt no delicacy whatew ia being able to meet every twenty shillings of Fox Marshall ' s money by a Tory pound . Mavhap . lia addle-headed ladyship would have ns receive oar contributions by the smell I Well ; even in that case we should have no fear of our olfactory ner res Buffering any inconvenience from Whig munifieenM for any but Whig purposes . The question with us 18 , not whence tbe funds come , but how th ey are applied ; and if £ 5 , 000 had been contributed by Tories , and applied in furthering tbe projects of th » Fox and Goose Club , would the worshipful

      Secretary have cried " Shame ! shame !<"; "Bravo ! bravo ! " We shall feel much obliged , and so will the Committee , if Whig , Tory , or " Radical" (!) will send anything towv is the expences of the battle of brains aga" ^ bricks . However , it is only fair . A beaten f oe , and especially a " captured garrison , " may be excasei for trying every expedient , whereby to diminish the ignominy of diminishing defeat , disaster , and dugrace , by magnifying the power of tbe enemy . Thus does each new fact intended for detraction ^ , but add to the importance of our triumph , of ^^ t iWb / Aer ^ eo ^ . inaluoidinterval . is compelled to Bpeakr ' thus , and with which we close our observations . Si * {' , says , in talking of the mill fight : —

      " Tho believers in Household Suffrage were tongM ' tied ; they lacked utterance ; and even those who " j they put forth to advocate their principles , con - ? ceded the main point contended for by their opP * " : nents . " Now , can language furnish stronger terms u proof of the inefficiency of a body who were to ha « _ . kicked the world before them , and who neverthf . - less , and upon the very first struggle , remain m ^ , >« xh ) w « w uifvu VkKU loljr UiOlf OferUj ££ iC f AC * " *** " — t

      passive and humiliating position of seeing then ? selves sold to the parties whom tkey had ass ^ mbl * " to buy , and by the very brokers who came to wto «| the goods and strike the bargain ; and above WE while their party consisted of the whole populat ""! save and except " fix omnibusses full . " M _ Apropo , talking of omnibusses , how manj """" I now " comprehensibly" contain the sc attered & *?| ments of the defunct geese , and what sized piew' ^ f the giblets make ? I

      tSf Since the above was in type we learn from * •* Cbartiat Committee of Management , " that iW j funds fall much short of the expence they ** obliged to inenr . Their balance-sheet will sho ™! be published--with an appeal to those of * ^ brethren who have not yet sent their mite & ^ l "Dan ' s Chartist Welcome , '' to do so forthwith- "> will anticipate them a week or so . We make * i appeal for them now and we call upon the Ch * ^ to respond . The Committee also purpose , ( after collection * muoh from their own friends as they can , and &P 4 tbere still be a deficit , ) to wait upon •* the Do «*> with their bills , and request him to put them i » ««*

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      A "' T-H ff . N (? BTgERN STAR . ¦ ¦ „___ _

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct693/page/4/