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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1841.
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      GREAT MEETING AT EDINBURGH . SIGNAL T 1 CT 0 KT ACHIEVED BT THE CHAUTI 5 TS OTZE THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE CORN LAW SEPEALERS AND FINALITY WHIGS , AND BASE CONDrCT OF THE LATTER . The Edinburgh Clique , as iB well known , is the polar star of the piny throughout Scotland . Nosooner do the gentry in Downing-street hoist & flag of distress , than their faithful , followers in Edinburgh endeavour to beat up the steam ; and , if they succeed , the minor cliques follow the example . Hitherto the party have been in part divided—the great body of the Repealers standing aloaf from the tribe of lawyers and jobbers , whose only end notoriously was—place . But , on this occasion , a bond of union was formed between them , and a project was concocted to get up a meeting which would at once act as a repeal meeting , and a " keep-in- the- Whigs" one . How the worthies sped we shall now narrate .

      The first novice of their more was had on Sunday morning , ( the 9 : h , ) when placards appeared , announcing " a public meeting of the inhabitants , " to pass a rote of confidence in the Government , and approval of measures for u a total abolition of the Corn Laws . ' This meeting was fixed for Monday , the 10 th , ( the next day !) and at one o ' clock in the forenoon ! ! These facts Epeak for themselves . By keeping their bills concealed till the . Sabbath , and calling the meeting for the very next day , they expected to steal a march upon the workies , and the

      ruse of the hour is too Btale to need comment . In addition to this , a meeting of the Guildry wa 3 called at eleven , that the worthies might thence walk to the scene of action . The meeting was called for one , bnt the infamous scamps sent some 400 or 500 circulars , privately , to thsir friends , urging them to come at twelve ! " So much for the Whig tactics . The Chartists , oa the other hand , did their best to bring up their hands , and published a bill on the Monday morning , detailing the nefarious projects of the Whigs , and urging the fustian jackets

      forward . The evemful morning came ; the clique looked unutterable things . They had not the shadow of a doubt but all was to " go off" as they wished it . A posse of ** blue coats" were stationed at the As .-embly Rooms , where the meeting was to be held , to awe the " mob . " It so happens that there is a private entrance to the place of meeting ; the Whigs availed themselves of this to admit the Guildry and the " circular" friends , who came at twelve , while the " workies ' who came at that hour ( for the secret of the circular ocz ? d out ) were kept at bay by the " bluebottles ! " Meanwhile , the Whigs were packing ihe meeting by the private entrance ! At one the doors were opened , the "jackets" rushed in , and now commenced the tug of war .

      Mr . Adam Black ( late aspirant to municipal honours , and a notorious Whig jobber ) took the chair with the greatest complacency , and was proceeding to do the duties thereof amidst the greatest uproar , when Mr . Bojlen rose , and mored ( after detailing the rascally conduct of the callers of the meeting ) that Mr . John Watson , a working man , and Secretary to the Chartist Association , do take the chair . The cheering and waving of hats that followed this absolutely astounded the Whigs , who saw a " , a glance Vhai all their rde tricks had failed . After endeavouriug to get the Chartists to agree to their

      man , ' they became so exceedingly gracious as to throw poor Adam overboard , and to let them pick and choose from a irio of brother Whigs . The Chartists were not t » be done in that waj ; they insisted for Mr . Watson . The show of hands was taken , James Ayton , Esq ., advocate , taking it for the Whigs , and ilr . Bojlen for the Chartists . The latter had so decided a majority that Adam and hi 3 satellites upon the hustings , with & few exceptions , bolted , after a vain attempt to keep Mr . Watson from the chair by physical iorce . A number of the Dustings ' Whigs remained , as did ail those in the body of the HalL There would not be less than two thousand

      persons present . The . confusion that prevailed was great . Upon Mr . Watson taking the chair , amidst cheering from his party , they calmed down , and forsome timenothing was to be heard but the howling , growlings , and execrations of the disappointed Whigs .. At this stage of the proceedings , Mr . Robert Lowery ( who had been seni for by the Chartist Association on purpose ) made his way to the hustings , to propose the fir » t resolution . The Whigs were determined to put him down by clamour of all sorts—from the aristocratic whistle of the buck , to " d—n him , put him down !'' of the less * ' respectable" cliqueur . But Lowery was too old for these raic gentry .- He stood very patiently smiling in their faces for sometime most

      complacently , and theu commenced addressing the reporters . Seeing this , the " respectables" thought it best to hold their peace , and Mr . Lowery proceeded to deliver one of the most eloquent and certainly the most effective addresses we have ever heard at 3 meeting of that sort . He took them up upon two grounds . He shewed the absurdity of believing the Whigs sincere in their professions for arepeal of the Corn Lvsv , a-nd the futility on the other hand of repealing the Cjrn Laws , without oiher concomitant alteration ? , tha . nothing but the Charter would secure . He showed the folly of working men allowing themselves to be made lhe mere tools of the other factions , and the necessity of concentrating their exertions upon the single object of . their own

      emancipation . The writhings of the Whig-, who winced dreadfully under his exposure of their misdeeds , was equalled only by the cheering of the Cnartists , who were delighted to hear their own sentiments done jastice to in such a masterly manner . Mr . Lowery concluded by proposing the following resolution : — " That from tie past conduct of the Whig miuisia —conduct which has been uniformly characterise by nothing but falsehood , imbecility , and tyranny—we are convinced that any professions they may now find it for their interest to make , are simply to raise public sympathy in their behalf , for the purpose of aiding them in a weakness to which their own conduct has reduced them ; and that we hereby declare our utter want of confidence in-them as legislators , "

      The resolution was seconded by William GloTer , Esq ., M . D . and F . R . C . S , who shewed the present move of the Whigs to be simply a base electioneering trick . The D .-ctor having concluded , James Crtmfuid , E ? q ., Advocate Depute (' % . e ., Barrister-at-Law and Q C . ) rose to move an auu-ndment to the followicg effect : — " That this meetine approve of a repeal of the Corn Laws , and have full confidence in her Majesty ' s Government , " or words to that fcfft ^ ct . In support of this he dwelt at great length upon the usual topics with men of his kidney —namely , the horrors of Toryism , and the beauties of Whiskery j « Keep out the Tories" . and keep ia the Whigs , was the first , last , "and great commandment—the Alpha and Omega of his creed . He wisucceeded by another brother bigwig ,

      James Moncrieff , Esq , Advocate Depute , who vent on in a similar strain , adding some touches a = to the advantage of "' cheap bread . " He was -ati :--fied " cheap bread" was a good thing , and so he might , for the fees are not to be reduced , and there is not to be " cheap" law . He lauded her Muj ^ ty ' s Government in no measured terms ; and conduced by seconding Mr . Craufura ' s amendment .. Thv lore which these two Learned Gemleroen beai to her Majesty ' s Government—a love which led them

      to demean themselves so far as to address a plaiu working man as " Mr . Chairman , " is easily accounted for , vfhen we inform the English reader that the offices they at present hold are the fir ^ -t of a series of regular gradations passed through by favoured individuals , who ultimately laud on the b = nch . They are in the pay of the Government already , and hope , ere long , to be still further therein . No wouder they should see the matter of w Keep id the Whigs" in a more favourable light than did the majority of their hearers .

      Mr . Lowery replied briefly . His reply was truly a clincher . The vote was taken , and a large majority declared for the resolution . The poor big wigs slunk away wonderfully crest-fallen , while the Chartists proceeded to give the usual cheers for the Charter , and peaceab . y dispersed . This victory is the more important than it may » . t first . 'ight seem . Hitherto , as we . have already remarked , there was a misunderstanding among the Whig par . y themselves . We defeated the repealers , and _ we defeated the " finality" ot "keep in the Whigs" men , separately ; but to-day we have beaten them both united . We have crushi-d the "fiiialiryreptal" agitation in the bud ; and that most effectually . Never did we labour under such disadvantages—never were vre taken at so much unawares .

      and so unfairly treated ; and yet we conquered . Not only so , bu : her Majesty ' s paid servants , those who hitherto scorned tc recognise us further than as » o ma-sy wild animals , who uniformly left the room when our chairman took his seat ; these lordly fellows now condescend to acknowledge our chairman , to address him as such , and to abide by his decision ! Let our example be followed by other places , and ere long these Whigs « hall see , in reality , what it n to want the people . Their defeat must be all the more mortifying that they cannot talk of " obstruction , ' &c . They were heard fairly and fully ; they them&elves acknowledged as much ; they had theii ablest speakers too , and yet they lost ! This was their "last kick , " and , in attempting it , they have , to all appearance , broken the limb .

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      TO MR . HETHERINGTOX . Dza £ Sir , —11 y attention has been directed , by an acquaintance of mine , to a letter of yours that appeared in a London newspaper , the Sun , evening edition , linch angry feeling is directed towards the ten seeeders , the BeT . W . Hill , and Feargus O'Connor . With respect to the latter two gentlemen I leave them to ettle their own account ; bat as I am one of the seeeders , I shall taie the liberty of asking yon , presently , for your proof of our imbecility and cowardice . Before I proceed further , allow me to say 1 never attended an out-door Chartist meeting but once , and that was the only time I bad an opportunity of being acquainted with , asd then with but one , popular Chartist agitator —in fact , I knov but Tery few Chartists at all , being

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      a poor , blistered-handed , country bumpkin . All men I view as beings equal in the sight of God ; equal at birth ; and , however vain mortals may claim oistinctions through life , death—ia defiance of hereditary bubbles and funeral pomp—reduces all , rich and poor , to one common level ; therefore , I worship not man , though . I admire some men's principles ; adore not riches , though I admit their utility ; nor do I fear any imputation which may be hurled at me , either through pitiable ignorance or malign « . nt design . Though conscious of my liability to err in judgment , I have this consolation in reflection : my motives are to search after truth , and endeavour to establish universal justice for the benefit of the whole of the human race . You , Sir , I have been led to believe , from a few who were personally acquainted with you , are a good , sound politician .

      When I saw your name attached to the Lovett , Collins , 4 c address , I concluded you , in connection with the rest , desired to effect , through your social kindness and sound reasoning , an amicable adjustment of all differences with all parties who strive to obtain the People ' s Charter , for the general benefit of our countrymen , and to demonstrate the absurdity of indulging in passionate invective , bitter sarcasm , and every angry feeling . You should have had my feeble assistance ia your co-operation if such had been your intentions . Answer me ^ Is it so ? Y « u commit y # urself IE your letter to the Sun in the following extract I think Tery little of the social or charitable feeling you display : —

      " Mr . O'Connor is welcome to the few imbecile creatures who signed the address , and then withdrew their names , —do they not require instruction ? When a ' « ime of persecution arrives , who would trust the ten poltroons who withdrew their names from the admirable address of Lovett , Collins , and othen , at the dictation of Feargus O'Connor ? Who could expect victory in any cause with an army of ten thousand such men ? nay , if Mr . O'Connor ' s association outnumbered the army of Xerxes , four or five hundred firm and honest men would defeat the mighty host , if it were composed of such men as the ten seceders . "

      I ask , where is the imbecility in suspecting any plan having the marked sanction of the apostate O'Connell ? Are all his movements characterised by strict honesty ? Are not enticing baits laid to entrap the unwary ? Is it an act of imbecility to suspect men ' s honesty—men ¦ whom you know not ? Are all men professing honesty sincere ? If your motives were g » od , why not submit yeur plan for public inspection—the merits and demerits of which to stand the test of friend and foe , instead of making it a breach of honour to give it to the public and to return the address by return of post ,

      ltst you drink too deep of its virtues , and become too good and too wise , notwithstanding your consummate wisdom in arranging your plan , and your iufallibilty as a social regenerator in condemning persons , some of whom you know not , as poltroons , imbeciles , &c , for thinking for themselves , not "bowing to a despot , " as you -would have it You , in your letter , let out some honest or true expressions for the public gaze , for what intention I know not Your wild cant , I think , is to secure those who have not seceded , and your passionate invective seemes to breathe revenge .

      I feel sorry you and I cannot harmonise in our views You are in prison ; I trust your mind has not been poisoned by false statements , and that ere long all honest men -will find ont one common road to obtain their rights . If you suffer bodily for the purpose of raising the sympathies of the people for personal gain , I hate the principle , and pity the man ; but if you suffer for principle , or good intentions , and are in any movement actuated from right or mis-directed zeal , I admire your good intentions , and should feel much more acutely for yeur sufferings . In the same light I view all other men—even O'Connor himself ; therefore , I hope you will see yoar error in suspecting thit I , as one of the ten , bow to a despot , or act upon the dictation of any man , ¦ without judging for myself . Your well-wisher , A well- 'nishier to all mankind , And a primitive Chartist in the cause of human redemption , W . J . OSBOIi . N'K . Abbey-street , Nuneaton .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, May 15, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 15 , 1841 .

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      MR . JUSTICE PATTESON AND THE PUBLIC . " XuIH vendemus , nulli negalimus , aut differemus , usiiiiam vcl rectum . We have headed this article " Mr . Justice Patteso . \ and the public , " because now , that sentence has been passed upon the offenders , we consider the case as regards them ended , the legal maxim being " execution is the end of the law : '' but not so with the judge . He is a public servant , paid by the public , and for the purpose of doing public justice .

      We use the motto of the Constitution as though we had one : or although every fragment of our Constitution may have been tattered , and though judges , for the present , may commit high offences with impunity , yet it is right [ and proper that Englishmen should understand what the Constitution professes to guarantee , and in how far the udges are bound to obey it , and how far they do obey it . Leaving the noble offender and his distinguished associate then wholly out of the question , we speak of Mr . Justice PATrESO >' , a man paraded as a second Justinian , and TeveTed as a saintly judge .

      We commence by asserting that if we had a constitution , and if judge 3 were amenable to it , or even to the maxims of law , or rules of common decency , Mr . Justice Patteson should be impeached for the highest offence that mau can commit . Let us , in addition to the able article in the Weekly Dispatch , upon the subject , begin where our contemporary left off . The Earl and the Captain , mark , the Captain—the commissioned ofiicer whom we pay to Sght for U 3 , but not against us , commit a most violent , wanton , and outrageous assault upon a policeman in the execution of his duty . The policeman's life was loug in danger , and his health , it is said , he will never regain . The culprits plead guilty . Lord Desman coquets . The pre 33 and the

      public take him to task . The Examiner leaves him not a foot of ground to stand upon , and literally proves him guilty of gross prevarication before his brother Peers . Public opinion 60 far triumphs , that law is not to be sold for money , but Lord Desman is not to be sold by his Peers . The parties are called up for judgment . Lord Denman , who kuew most about the case is absent , or is silent . Mr . Justice Patteson thinks that too severe a sentence would be a reflection upon the Chief Justice , who , no doubt , sanctioned a compromise , and therefore Mr . Justice Pattescw is satisfied to allow the matter to remain in as much obscurity as possible , in order to screen Lord Denhan , and throw dust in the eyes of the public .

      Now , what does he do ? The prisoners ( we beg their pardon , the Noble Earl and his friend , ) put in affidavits in extenuation , and in which they state that they were drunk . Noble defence ! Mr . Justice Patteson says this i 3 an aggravation of the offence in a poor man . and of course must be looked upon as such in a rich mau . Will the learned Judge , then , say what the sentence would have been , if not aggravated by this additional offence against law and morality 1 But he makes a sad blunder . He says one of your companions , who wa 3 sober , ( a remarkable fact ) and who could hare corroborated your testimony , has not made an affidavit .

      2 \ ow , we ask Mr . Justice Patteson , if the maxim is not that the best evidence capable of being adduced should be brought forward , and wo ask if such evidence as that of a sober accomplice would not h-ve been the best which the nature of the case would , admit of , and we ask if the suppression or non-production , of such evidence was not a further aggravation of the offence , and an implied acquiescence of the sober man in the truth of the several allegations with which his drunken friends Etood charged !

      In addition te the cases cited by the Weekly Dispatch of heavy sentences passed upon poor men , for very mitigated offences of the Bame class , ( assault upon the police , ) let us add one from our own locality . At the last assize ? , at York , three men , Nicholpon , Addiman , anS Handley , were indicted for an assault upon Child , a Leeds policeman , a mau that takes more oaths at each assize and session than all

      the rest of the fraternity put together , a man universally despised and hated , but , however , perhaps , undeservedly so ; we but state facts . Now , what was the case \ Child entered a public-house where Nicholson , ADDiMAsaudHiSDLEY were drinking ; hecollared Nicholson , without saying a word , and a scuffle ensued . Child being a very powerful man , and too many for his antagonist , Nicholson cried out to his companio — " Will you stand by and see me

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      murdered , " whereupon a general scuffle took place , and Child got a blow on the arm , which he Bajd was broke ; but from which he has suffered no bad effect whatever . The three were tried for the assault , ( which is literallystated above , ) were found sruilty , and sentenced to fifteen teabs transportation . Now , does this require comment , and is there , or is there not , the mild spirit of the law for the rich , and the black vengeance for the poor t Bat , suppose those prisoners bad pleaded guilty , would Mr . Baron Rolfk have allowed himself to be blinded by a faulty or defective indictment , provided it was in every way legal , and sufficiently comprehensive to justify the prisoners being put upon trial ! or would the law officers , in the case of the poor men , have left the Judge in doubt by a defective indiotment ! No . Bat if the

      indictment had been meagre and Bcanty , and if the poor men pleaded guilty , what would have been his Lordship's coarse f " Let mb see the imformatioh , and I wish to examine the policeman as to the amount of injury he received , and the circumstances under which it was inflicted , as nothing is more necessary than that Uhe police shall be protected in the execution of their duly ;'" then his Lordship would have thought it his duty to make an example of the poor men , to deter others from doing likewise .

      Now , did Mr . Justice Patteson call for the information ? Did he ask for one word of information , or did counsel for the Crown , as in ordinary cases , assure the court that he thought it his duty , under all the circumstances of the case , and after reading the information , topressfor the very heaviest sentence that the law warranted , as examples must be made , if the people are expected to obey the laws 1 No , not a bit of it . Pooh , pooh , pooh ; its all a thimble-rig from beginning to end . It is not a mere local affection , but a tainted vein running through the wiiole system . The people have found it out and will soon put an end to it .

      That we are not begging the question , let us just show , by contrasting the conduct of Mr . Justice Patteson upon the noble ca 3 e , with that of Mr . Baron Rolfe upon the poor man ' s case . Upon the same day that the Leeds men were sentenced , Foden , the Chartist , was also sentenced . He pleaded guilty , in the hope of a mitigation of punishment . What did Mr . Baron Rolfe feel himself " compelled ^ by duty to do V Why , to call for the informations and to give him twenty-one months at hard labour .

      Let the Chartists take the case of Hoet , Crabtree and Ashton , two years at Wakefield House of Correction , without the slightest riot , outrage , or injury done , and having received the very bast of characters , and contrast it with the sentence upon the noble physical force gentlemen , ( no , Nobleman and Captain , we beg pardon , ) six months retirement from the bustle of town . Let our readers understand that the Queen ' s Bench Prison is a miniature town , where there are shops , hotels , public-houses and all sorts of amusement . No restraint whatever . A prisoner can get splendid apartments for one shilling , per week ; he may have his family and friends to live with him ; he may livo as he pleases , according to his means ; he has a post-office in the town , and the only

      restriction is , that visitors are ordered out , or obliged to remain in if they do not go out , at nine out of term time and ten in term . Prisoners may remain out in town , or in a tavern , all sight and every night—may do just as they please inerery respect . Now , compare six months in such a place for a Peer , with fifteen years' transportation for a poor man , who is obliged to leave his family and his home , and , surely , if there is any justification , it is in such cases as we have cited , of resistance to a wellknown ruffian seizing one of three companions , while all must have been excited and ignorant of the provocation ; and , even if death had ensued , provided the valuable life of a bludgeon-man had not been the sacrifice , a verdict of manslaughter and six months' imprisonment would have been the most severe sentence .

      Let us just look to the affidavits put in by the much-injured nobleman and his Gallant Friend , in mitigation of punishmeut . The Noble Lord says ( swears ) as follows : — " That he is informed , and verily believes , that said defendant , William Duff , about this time , and be / ore any violence was done to said Charles John Wheatley , went away with one other person of said party , and left the place , and proceeded back to Strawberry Hill j and deponent positively saith , that he did not see him , said William Duff , again , until he overtook him afterwards on the road ketween Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill . " Captain Duff swears as follows : —

      " That thereupon he heard the said police Serjeant Churchill call out to the said Charles John Wheatley , 1 Take them into custody , ' or words to that effect , and thereupon the said Charles John Wheatley seized the said defendant , Earl Waldegrave , by the collar , and , after a short scuffle , threw him , the said Earl Waldegrave , down upon the ground . Saith that immediately thereupon , he , deponent , assisted in getting the said defendant , Earl Waldegrave , out of the hands of the said Charles John Whealley , and then immediately went away towards Strawberry Hill , on foot , together with another person of the party , and left the place entirely ; and that he , deponent , saw no more of the said Earl Waldegrave , or of the said other persons who were with him , until they overtook him , deponent , on the road soou afterwards , about » mile on the read between Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill . " ,

      Now , we ask if yes and no , ( not a lady ' s ye 3 and no , ) can differ more widely than the oaths of the Noble Peer and his gallant friend ! But where was the sober man ? Ah ! " there ' s the rub . " Well , but lei us just ask a question . Did Mr . Justice Patteson ask for the informations of the policeman and did he read them ? If he did , ho should be sent for two years to the treadmill , and if he did not , he should be sent off the Bench . However , as he has failed in the performance of his duty , let us supply the deficiency . Here then , we give the depositions of the policeman : —

      " Sergeant Churchill ordered this deponent to look at the fly and see if there waa any name or number on it . And tbis deponent went towards the fly with his light for that purpose , when the four persons who had been standing by Sergeant Churchill left him and came towards this deponent , and one of them gave this deppnent a violent shove which almost pushed him to the ground ; that the sergeant then directed this deponent to take that person into custody , and fhe deponent did so , and laid hold cf him by the collar of the coat , whereupon the other three tried to rescue the prisoner from thi * deponent ; and this deponent saith that , in

      the scuffle , he , ( this deponent , ) and the prisoner fell to the ground ; and this deponent called ou ^ to the serceant for help , but he was not there . Upon this one of the pirty commenced beating this deponent with a stick over the back part of the head ; that the stirk was a sort of walking-stick—a thickish stick ; that when they so beset him this deponent was lying on the ground , still holding the prisoner ; aud this deponent , whilst in that condition , was kicked on the head , and struck repeatedly on the head and at last the prisoner got away from this deponent , leaving one of his boots in this deponent ' s hands . "

      Now , we ask but one more question . How would a Chartist have got over such a deposition ? Answer—By going over seas for his natural life , if he had interest to escape the gallows . This is a shocking affair , and must not be allowed to drop here . No , no , we have suffered already too much from the flagrant partisanship of the Bench , to lose an opportunity of exposing their impartiality and equal administration of the laws .

      Let it be remembered also , that Mr . Justice Patteson is perhaps the most upright Judge upon the Bench ; what , then , muBt the rest be 1 Ye gods ! how is there a poor man alive , beyond the asses , whom the masters require to work their " mules" '

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      THE "MORNING CHRONICLE" AND THE " STAR /' Fob the last week , the face of our old friend has been covered , nay , nearly obscured , by beauty spots from the country , and even from Ireland . Every silly word written by " beardless boys" ignorant brats , has been paraded as a sort of threat to the Tories and a balm to the Whigs . ;

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      Now , we would recommend our friend to assemble the Cabinet and read the Northern Star , the Scottish Patriot , the Dundee Chronicle , and the Bath Chronicle to their high mightinesses ; for , in those journals they will see the popular will fairly and truly reflected ; and if they are in doubt about their position in Ireland , we beg their very best attention to the subjoined article from the Dublin World ; and if we are asked why we keep eterually quoting the World upon Irish affairs , our answer is , Because the language of the World soon ¦ will be the language of Ireland—of all Ireland , in a very short time ; while we merely value the juggling of the Pilot , the Evening Post , the Freeman , and the provincial scribes as the rattles in the dying man ' s throat .

      Corruption in Ireland is in a consumption , and the World speaks the language which , ere long , will be considered as far too mild , while the resuscitated old quacks will try to "kick the World before them . " But we trust , as our friend has got the lead , he will keep it , for assuredly his day will soon come , when the apostates will hiuVtheir heads for very shame , and when poor Barratt will add another inoh to his shirt collar ( at the expence of his back ) to hide his blushes . The World says : —

      " With anxious solicitude d » we wateh the growing ¦ unpopularity of the Downing-street tricksters ; and much does it comfort us to perceive that here , where thttir fraud has been too long practised with success , their deception is now beginning to be detected , and greeted with well-merited disgust It was necessary that this opinion should become general before any change for the better could be hoped for , aud we spared no pains to bring home conviction . For many a day were we viewed with an eye of suspicion , as not

      being the sort of hack journal required , which would play fast and loose—be boisterous or dumb just as it suited the convenience of a few individuals—so we were accordingly set down in private as dangerous and impracticable . This never had any effect upon us , and wo proceeded to expose error and chronicle truth , until day by day disciples were flocking to us acknowledging with penitent tears , their blindness and obstinacy . Rejoiced , are we to-day to permit a stray sheep , the Tipperary Free Press , thus to renounce its allegiance to Whiggery .

      The Free Press says : — " But we must not forget that the avowal , and the principles so loosely thrown aside , had reference only to Ireland . That makes a serious difference ; aud hence , we believe the calculation on impunity . The Government must have felt that having betrayed the Irish , and having commanded , notwithstanding , tbeir support , the rest of the world would be indifferent about a matter which simply concerned a race so insensible to their own honour or shame . They

      were right—at least our more recent history but too slavishly justifies their dating hope . The feeling is by no means new . It is not a misshapen abortion—the offspring of the defeat , and disgrace of those latei times . It was avowed and acted upon in the palmiest days of Whiggism . Who does not remember Mr . Macaulay ' s famous apology for the Coercion Bill ? And who dots not shudder to remember also that it is to him , and such as he , the Irish people have been unreservedly trusting since ?

      " What think you of that , MasterPigot—and coming from my backer , too ? But ' worse remains behind , ' and we must let you have another taste : — " At present there is among us a nondescript , ' neither fish , nor flesh , nor red herrug , ' whose love of place , or vain glory , has absorbed the national character . Ask them what is to be done now—they still answer , keep in the Ministers . To be sure keep iu the Ministers , and keep out principle . . Betray yourself lest a Tory judge would pocket £ 5 , 000 a-year , and now and

      again bewray his own nest These people have innumerable ' wise eawa' and very apposite apothegms . Take care , they say , lest you pluck a rod to scourge yourselves . Excellent philosophy . ' and we must endure a self-ibflicted fhgellation every day in the year , for fear of some imaginary scourging from our enemies Thus it is , like cowards who die daily to avoid what Hiunt come at last , and -what the brave but once feel , wo suffer the torture which we Bhrink from ; pooh ! the sceurge they dread is the pang of baffled ambition .

      What trouble had it not cost us to inculcate such sound political doctrines * Have we not b « en employed lashing these " nondescripts , " and exposing the folly of the selfish advice which recommended the keeping out the Torus , that place-hunting barristers might be converted into judges . We will now step from the south to the west , and hear what the Castlebar Telegraph has to say . Bitterly anti-Ministerial is our Liberal Connaught contemporary , as this sample will prove : — From the Casllebar Telegraph— " The ministers are

      highly culpable for the inconsistent , timid , and shuffling part which they played throughout this farce , and deserve no longer to receive at the hands of the Irish people that cordial support which has been ever rendered them . It has been urged that their apparent truckling conduct is solely attributable to their over anxiety to effect a settlement of the franchise question . This is the sheerest nonsense , aud we promise the ministerial prints that it will prove rather nauseous for the people of the western province to swallow . We now use in vivid colours what chance we have of equal justice and equal rights . "

      We leave Conway , of the Evening Post , to try conclusions with the Casllebar Telegraph , and penetrate into Ulster . From the Newry Examiner . — " Hitherto we derived the 'weight of our arguments for Repeal of the Union from the strength of Tory hostility to Irish rights in the Imperial Parliament . But we regrot to say , we are now furnished with an additional argument in the bungling imbecility of a Whig Ministry , to ichich Ireland has hitherto looked for friendship and assistance . " Do we need any additional evidence of Ministerial unpopularity ?— World .

      The World , in concluaion , asks : — "Do we need any additional evidence of Ministerial unpopularity ? " We answer , " No . " We do hot , neither does the World ; but yet , must not the World , though self-satisfied , relax in its efforts to inculcate the wholesome truth . Let any person now take our paper of last week , and read from it our opinion as to the effect likely to be produced in Ireland by the " New Move , " and

      compare it with the sentiments expressed in the most liberal Dublin pape r , aud the three provincial j ournals , heretofore most blind in Whig worship . The Free Press , Castlebar Telegraph , and Newry Examiner , are the most out and out thorough-going Catholic papers ia Ireland . Pigot is Member for Clonmel in the county of Tipperary , a Catholic , aud Attorney General to the Whigs , and was the pet of the Free Press . Is this not conversion then with a vengeance I

      As Ireland must be our battle ground , should the Tories come in and dare to oppress the Irish , it is indispensible that a good understanding should exist between the two countries ; and , in order to effect so desirable an object , it is all-important that the English people should court a close alliance with their Irish brethren . This can only be effected by the press . Let every association , then , at once make arrangements for pushing the World . It has the most extensive provincial news of any Irish paper—it is the only one upon which the English and the Irish in England can depend . Let it be made the medium of communication between us . We must have Ireland . We will have Ireland ! We half have Ireland already , and , when our Union is complete , theu hurrah for the Charter , and no mistake !

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      " THE DEVIL TO PAY . " Since our last the game has been kept up in the national hell with great spirit ; since Little John set his heavy stakes on Friday down to the fatal declaration— " the caster is out . " The Chronicle calls Lord John ' s speech a most " statesman like speech . " If so , what do we deserve , who predicted every topic in the said statesmanlike speech ? In our last , we explained to our John Bull readers the whys and the wherefores of the new Ministerial move . In doing 60 , we charged them especially , with sudden conversion , forced by self interest , and not by conviction . Let us see how the apologists of the Noble Premier upon his part , and Lord John upon his own part , meet and combat this grave charge .

      The Examiner , and others of Lord Melbourne ' s apologists , thinking but little of the business habits , attention to circumstances ox knowledge of facts , would defend the Premier ' s right to be inconsistent at the expence of the Premier's judgment . In fact , the Examiner is $ uite content to write his Noble Client down fora fool , in order to justify his ri ^ ht to change according to emergency . The Examiner says that Lord Melbourne knew absolutely nothing of what was passing ; was wholly ignorant of the effect of his policy upon the general interest of the nation , until a sudden flash dissolved his ignorance , and , at once , and as if by magic , opened his eyes ,

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      not only to the only resource , but even to the only one which he had denounced . Thus has the client been sacrificed to the malicious ingenuity of his counsel ; his folly made palpable in order to place his inconsistency id relief . Bat what says Simon Pure ( Basing ) upon the subject , which , as it formed the basis of his new commercial edifice , and which , as it was to be , not a mere sporting lodge , but a permanent residence

      should have occupied bis every moment of tune ? What says he about the maturity of the plan ! Mum —nothing ; only that it was problematical , and he takes £ 900 , 000 for £ 700 , 000 , and £ 750 , 000 for £ 600 , 000 ; and the Corn Law , at a venture , he estimates at £ 400 , 000 . But all is problematical , and Exchequer Bills are to be the last resource—the Whig reserve . Basing doesn't eay a word about his progressive conversion to this his own plan ; not a word .

      But what says the real Simon Pure ! ( Lord John . ) Why , he says , " I deny that we have brought our measure forward either hastily or from sudden conversion . No , we informed the country of it as early as March last , and if you don ' t believe me , you may write to his Excellency , the Governor General of Canada ; but , indeed , I have all his answers to my announcements , and highly approving of our projeet ; call you that secrecy ? Call you that withholding thefactB from the public 1 " ( Loud cheers . ) Now , let us see if there is one word of certainty in the letter referred to by the Noble Lord , and which he considers as ample notice to the English public , a copy of which Lord Sidenham , the Governor General , has kindly transmitted to our office , and which runs thus : —

      " Dear Siddt , —I merely add a word personal to the long public communication herewith sent We are in a pretty considerable tarnation kind of a pucker on this side of the water . How goes on the honey money' between your two new wed provinces ? Do they begin to scratch yet ? " We have tried everything this Session , and will , I fear , ultimately be driven to the necessity ot adopting a bit of commercial liberality . Dan ' s tail is worn to the " We got up a very good round between Peel aud Stanley , but the precarious state of Lord Derby ' s health deprived the plan of its chief merit—it caused no split

      " We are very short ef cash , and should we appear to sacrifice your subjects in our new project , not yet matured , you must convince them of its beneficial effects , and that it is merely preparatory to a grand commercial stroke , consequent upon your recommendation , and to terminate in their complete freedom . " Pal has come off with flying colours , but the shot has to be paid , and Baring knows not where to get the needful . ' " Morpeth has baited the trap for Ireland , and we mean to bait it for England , so don't be astonished if the very air should resound with our liberality .

      " We shall not propose anything sudden , startling , or outrageous , if we can do without it ; but every effort , you may rely upen it , shall be resorted te before we commit the best interests of the country to Tory hands —be ready , therefore . Our plan is to place thorns in their road at home ; and as you observe the clouds to thicken , prepare all your combustible elements for a ' flare up' the moment we are out and you are gone . " I still sit between Sir John and Little Dick , who sometimes speak across me , aud who smell , as usual , strong of the crater .

      " Mac has become heavy ; Pal too conceited to work ; Baring is going to be married ; and only thinks how he cau make both ends meet . So that I stand the whole brunt of battle . " Ever , Dear Siddy , " Yours , "J . Russell . " Now , is there one word of information even in the foregoing letter to Dear Siddy ! Well , since the new project has been propounded , we have heard of nothing but the liberality of the Ministers , who have incurred a debt which the nation is not able to pay . The " liberal press '' has put forth its full energy—the Chronicle in town , and our neighbour , the Mercury , in the country ; and let us see what it all comes to .

      The Chronicle mouths and mouths away all about nothing ; while the Mercury has actually a rhapsody on sugar—a song to the tune of" O , tis time , 'tis time , 'tis time . " The Mercury enumerates scores of grievances , one and all of which were to have been removed by the Reform Bill , but each of which has been considerably increased since its enactment , and then the Mereury asks , " Is it not time to do this , and that , and the other thing 1 " Yea , verily , in faith it is ! and Mr . Baines and his associates having failed to do those things which they so lustily promised , it is now high time that they cut their stick , and allow others to perform the work .

      But the Mercury , not satisfied with the dull colouring which his best prose could give to the picture , flies into poetic raptures upon the loveliness of sugar . " Tired nature ' s sweet restorer , balmy sweet . " " O sugar . ' thou solace of the toil-worn slave . O sugar ! thou refiner of morals , sweetner of tea , and substitute for fermented liquor . O sugar ! . thou moral instructor—thou sober man ' s charm—thou drunkard's reclaimer . O sugar . ' what is life without thee ! What is life but sugar , and what is sugar but the fullest enjoyment of life V ^ Such are a few of our friends' encomiums upon the sweets of life ; while the blundering , prosy , old Grunticle tells us Hat , at once , that " sugar is the sweetner of life . "

      Well , but are not these suddou discoveries so many grave charges against ; the men who allowed our lives to be so long soured and our morals destroyed for want of this " nature's sweet restorer V But let us see how the matter stands . ¦ , Our government , our " retrenching , " " reforming" government , did , in the Erst place , create so many placemen , commissioners , and other idlers as to put us in debt . The salaries of almost the entire of the governing staff , legislative ,, judidicial , and administrative , have either been raised , or stand at war price ; while the said staff can purchase , for their fixed salaries , just

      five times as much of the poor man ' labour as they could formerly ; and what is the new scheme , if successful , to do for them in addition ? Why , to reduce the price of their necessaries 6 f life , thereby increasing their incomes still further , While , to pay them , labour must be correspondingly depressed . Yes , timber and sugar are necessaries to the rich , but mere luxuries to the poor . Nay , timber is a thing not at all in use with them , and if the whole duty was taken of tomorrow , not an operative in Manchester , ox Leeds , or in any other town in the kingdom , not even in Bolton , upon whose sufferings the Noble Lord is so pathetic , not one , we say , would pay the fraction of a fraction per year , or per week less for his room , his hovel , or his sty ; while , if the experiment caused a defalcation in the

      revenue , which is more than probable , the wealthy would have all the benefit of cheap houses , while the poor would be called upon to supply the deficiency . The upper and middle classes would save millions annually by a reduction upon sugar , while the poor would not drink a cup of tea cheaps , and if a defalcation took place , the poor must make good that , as well as all other deficiencies . The poor , says a master , how f The poor pay no taxes . Yea , but they do , all and every tax ; and , as we have before proved , 400 per cent , for your direct liability Every master whose taxes are increased £ 200 annually , reduces his labourers by £ 1 , 000 annually . To the timber scheme , therefore , we say "fudge , " to the sugar plum , " bother , " and to the corn scheme , " flummery . "

      Now , did the old dabs of 1832 imagine that Britons , deceived upon the question of the Suffrage , could be enlisted with a BUgar-plum , and by the old faction , too ! Well , but it would appear , from certain hints , that there was another last resource in the bed chamber , and that Sir Robert had got a very significant note , headed" Indeed then you shan't come under my dimity , Indeed then you shan't , nor into my room . ' Now , just one word as regards this refuge for the destitute Minister . We would implore him not to embark the Queen in his forlorn project . We would pray of him to spare her who has , hitherto , been

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      a victim to his art , and , in time , admoni » av to attempt to sacrifice her to his lust f " * love of ease , and vanity . Let her , at least * *!*** for although we believe our Premier tobe ' th ** ' reverse of the character given to Murat by V * 1 leon , looking upon him as a lion in the CaV * but a woman in the field , we do yet trust that iT * have nothing to expect from his honour yn ? rely upon his want of courage . We tell him thatl people will not stand a second itd- chamber p We tell him that while all allowance woSft , made for youth , inexperience , and sex , that u mercy will be shewn to hoary vice and system * delusion . ^

      If the Queen require a jester , let her have one b » all-means ; but not in the person of her confident adviser and the nation's servant . The Queerr young . So was Mary . The Queen it a woman 1 was Mary . The Queen is young . So teas Lady jl Grey . The Queen is a woman . So was Lady J Grey . The Queen is a trife . So wat HaJ * Queen Anne . The nation has stood much , but will not etud much more , therefore we say , beware , my l 0 J how you tempt the enraged people ia so delicau , point as an endeavour to allay national impulse h artful simulation . It did succeed once , aud j » triumphed . "But , one such victory more andL are undone . " Remember Stbafford and Bucku ham , and many others .

      The nation is out at the elbows , and the peoju are out of sorts . The Ministers risked a lL stake and have " thrown out . " They will , of conn ? appeal to the country , rather than quit office to appeal has been treated , as coming from gneh , quarter it richly merited , with scorn and contempt , their mercy is looked upon as cowardice—tig , justice as caprice . No reply to the Noble Lotf

      invitation to meet and back us . Every meetiu , since held , has been defeated by the Chart ists-4 only powerful party in the State . With them ft , question now is , not who shall rule us , but whiA of the factions shall we use to destroy its riTall and echo has every where answered , " Down , dowi down with the base , brutal and bloodiest first , asj see what effect the example will have upon thos who come after . "

      As we predicted , the Whigs glory in their villanj and in the people ' s ruin . They say , " We have mai a job fox whoever comes after us . " They have h truth ; but they have prepared the country , at th ( same time , for the worst . Thus matters stand , while the debate dragsiii slow length dowly on , thanks to Daddy Beothej ton , to whom the Whigs now feel grateful . Yei verily , they remind us of the infidel , who , upa going to be hung , when asked by the chaplij how long he would wish him to pray , an swer ^ u for ever , your Reverence ! " Now , we belie *

      little John and his backers would talk from quart ? day to quarter day , if they could only insure " tk thing , you know , " at the end . Well , poor Chroma is making the most of the short time allotted \ him on this side the Treasury . Liverpool is tk world , and the good folk of thai town m < a week since , and appear to have continued the deliberation for seven long days , without even ai adjournment . But , alas , a sea port is no place ti muster effective " out pressure , " and Liverpool i

      not England . Now if they could hare ga Manchester , then indeed ! But Kendal ! The ; have got Kendal . In the outset , the Gruntici showed us the c at ' s paw , and in his veij last number he has let the whole cat out i the bag . In fact , his columns have of late becom anything but prison bars , and all the secrets of Ot prison hout . e have escaped through the open spatt Now , wo pray the attention of our readers to tha following facts : —

      In our last , we gave four bars from the Chrmiclh first tuue , and now we give the following from iui last stanza : — He says , " Once more we say let the natioul creditor watch the conduct of the Tories at the present crisis as he values his property . " Now , what say our readers ? aud let it be bone in mind , that we are now engaged in a mere comparison of evils . The Chronicle commences his ariici « Aj reminding us that they ( the people ) owe £ 2 , 400 , 000 for thepresent year , and thenasks , callyoutliatnothingt is that a bagatelle \ says Old Grunticle . Why , ihe apish old ass , it is everything ; aud who but the WMgs thought it a bagatelle 2 but who made us owe it and how is it proposed to be paid 1

      Now , observe , wo long since said that the consi * deration of Peel ' s Bill , the adjustment of the funded debt , should have been the preliminary question with the " Plague , " had they been sincere in their professions . Now , what says the Chrsnklet Why , in language as plain as the poor thing is master of ; just this :-FUND LORDS BEWARE IF PEEL COMES IN , HE WILL PAY THE £ 2 400 , 000 BY A TAX ON YOUR PROPERTY

      Now , if the £ 2400 , 000 must be paid , by no possi bility can it be paid by any of the Whig schema otherwise than by a tax upon labour ; and , inaa much as funded property has been increased almos beyond calculation , at the expenco of labour , an inasmuch as it is the only property which can b taxed directly , without the . proprietors makin labour indirectly answerable , aa fundlord employ no operatives , we say for th ^ _ AnnA « n !«* . 4-1 , a MTtm . nnrrroA tWaVftTPR I Of " "V let the d disgorge tor ww

      reasons over-gorge STATE necesssity , £ 2 , 400 , 000 for the present . 11 foolish Chronicle , supposing that the white slai owners were sure upon an emergency , has thi thrown out a feeler for another class of Whig su ] porters , but the . feelar will so tickle poorJohun as to make him burst his sides with laugh " at the Grunticle ' s folly . Will no one fly to th rescue , and save these poor Whigs , froi leading journals and Scotch a dvocates !

      We hope to announce that the " Caster has throwt out"in our next . Downwith the"dW « Vs , " andhurral for tho NoitiDgham Chartists ? In all schemes fo : making hasty plugs to stop awkward holes ; be "« mind that the penny postage saved a million anmiiU , to the merchants , traders . and bankers , and tnat yo are called upon to pay two millions annually in ne » there Df . We say two millions , because Whigs alwaji measure the people ' s debts by 40 a . in the po" ^ Hurrah for Nottingham , and down wiih t " Bloodies !"

      Hurrah for Nottingham ! is now our watchw oi and down with the BLOODIES ! "is our warcrj Campbbll walks out of Edinburgh * ° " ™ and we have received many , very manv , intim « of resolution to pay the Whigs in kind up <» ™ first opportunity . We understand Mr . BiIIC ^ not again offer himself for Leeds , and we w _ him he will not be again offebed fob by w-Off he goes , and no mistake .

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      " NEW MOVE . " We give , incur present number , several l «>* tl aud elaboiately-wrkteu letters by differeut Pj ^ in justification of their signing the ¦»» document . The country will tfw to the * ^ weight of consideration as B * r * -. r ddreM have received numerous other letters a 00 , *^ , to Feargus O'Connor and ourselves , <» na " ""^ of the « New Move » and of all who couub " of tne " new move , auu «« «» ¦¦ -- _ ,

      ^ ^ oonnexion with it-some of them eJPr e ^ e , i guage of a warmer charaster than "I- * - , ^ , ^ inserted . We think the question has now ^ fieiently argued . The opinion-of *[^ J { mt i to be mistaken , and the weU-tioeo . ^ Mr . O'Connor , which , in our P 1686 ^^ LbabiJ forth the olive branch , will be conadereaj ^ ^ sufficient to justify our non-insertion 9 ^ ^^ vidual communications on the subject . ^ ^ . ^ tions of the people expressed at pu ^ will , or course , always command our a * respect .

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . ' j

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct706/page/4/