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      COUNTY SHERIFF'S COURT . A Sheriff ' s C-jurt -was held at Leeds , on Monday Ust , before J . H Hill , Esq ., B 2 xris : eT-at-I ^ w . There were only four cases tried , -with which the court was occupied till neatly midnight- The following are the only cases of publie importance : — PISKSE 7 r . BOOTH . This was an action brought to reeoyer £ 6 3 a ., for work ana . labour done , and 5 s . for travelling

      expenses , Mr . Jf Ewrox , barrister , of Ripon , appeared for the plaintiff , and Mr . Johs Hope Shaw , of Leeds , for the defendant . Mr . Pinkney , the plaintiff , is a . Email farmer and Cattle doctor , it Sharow , near Ripon ; &nd tbe de- feodant , Mr . Richard Booth , is a gentleman , occupying & large sheep farm , &t Waxlaby , ntar Northallertoa . j In June , 1839 , the defendant had & large number of j sheep afflicted with a disease called the scab , which the ; ¦ p laintiff was amployed to cure , by washing them with-j a liquor prepared for the parpose , for -which the plain- j tiff is famous . The evidence showed tli&t the de- j fendant ' s shepherd vent over to Sharow on the 15 th * of June , to see the plaintiff , whom he found at the !

      house of a Mr . Woodhouse , aX Bridge He-wick , on which j occasion a conversation took place , which ended in j the plaintiff agreeing to send his two sons to wash i the defendant ' s sheep . The sons went to Warlaby on I tfee 19 " . h of Jane , and were employed until the' 22 nd , I watering 246 sheep , which it was agreed ibould be paid sixpence each . The defence set up W 3 S , that the , agreement was " no core no pay , " and the sheep , so | fix froEi being cored , had same of them died , and ! consequently the plaintiff ru not entitled to recover , j In answer to this it was shown that strict orders had j been giTen that the sheep should be taken proper caie of , bnt neglecting this , they bad been left in a field all I nigh * , whilst it was raining , by which the preparation , was -wzshed oS . j

      The action has been previously tried in the samej court , when a verdict was given for the plaintiff for j the amount sought ; upon which a new trial was moved j for in the Queen ' s Bench , on the ground that the ver- i diet was nvt in accordance with the evidence . The j mction was granted , and an issue was directed to have . the case rc-sagutd . The evidence was of great length , and in some points contradictory . The court was oc- ; copied from eieven o ' clock in the morning until nearly ! aevtn at night ; and the jary , after a snort deliberation , ; retained & verdict for the plaintiff for £ . 6 ~ s . —damages , ' Is ., the whole amount sought . \

      CEALLASD C . BEAT . This was an action to recover back a stake of £ 15 , j deposited by the plaintiff in the hands of the de- ' fondant , npon ac iilezai race . , ' 2 ix . Bo * d , for the plaintiff , Btated that the facts ¦ ¦ were in anaxro-f compass , and the case would probably ' resolve iU * lf into a question of law for the court above . : The plaintiff was the owner of a black mare , and in ; March last he deputed a person named John Eist- ¦ wood to make a match for her to trot four miles against j another mare , belonging to one Benjamin Eastwood . ' The m > fc » - > i wa » rn-uf - cm the 22 nd March last , for £ So a-Mde , ud was to come off on the 5 th of ll * y . Two j pounds a-side w * re paid down to make the match , into the bands of the defendant aa stakeholder ; on tbe 3 rd ,

      of April . £ 13 a-side more wers deposited , and tbe remaining . £ 10 a-side was to be made good on the day of thence . On that awming , however , the plaintiff ¦ was tnlorcn&i thai the defend ant was laMiei-ln- 'VLw V > ¦ Becrjaajn Eastwood , and be tbeo objected to bis conti- nnjag the office of stakeholder , but offered to go on with the match if any Terpe * tafele indifferent person ' ¦ were Qaaed ia his stead . Tbe parties -altimately could ' aot agree as to another stakeholder , ssd th& plaintiff then declared the Hutch off , aad gave defendant notice to pay bscfc his money , which notice he repeated in writing tbe same evening , Xtw , in poi&t of law , if either party to an illegal -wager gave notice to the

      aiateholder to pay him l-sck hit stake befere he had j handed it over to the other party , be wae bound to ' refund it , whichever won or lost , or forfeited his ! wager . That this was an illegal wager was clear of ) ail doubt By the 16 th CUarlts II . horseraces were all ( declared illegal . The 13 lh Gee . IL 2 egaliaed horse races for Bums of £ 51 or upwards , if ran at certain places named in thai statute , and the ISth Qeo . II . made them legal wherever they might be run . But it bad been decided , in s case kefore Lord Eidon , that the two latter Acts only applied to real L-orse-raeing f npon the turf , and not to a trotting matcb npon tbe j Queen ' s highway , and that case had been confirmed by 1 a later one before the Court of Common Pleas . ! ¦

      Witnesses were then called -who pruved the facts { Jt&ted , and npon the agreement being prodnced , it ap- j peared on the face of it to have been made between John I Eastwood and Benjamin Eastwood , and not between the j plaintiff and Benjamin Eastwood . John Eastwood , how- j tct , swore distinctly that he made it as the agent of the ! plaintiff , and that all the money deposited belonged to ; tbs plaintiff Mr . SHaw , for the defendant , submitted first that the [ wager was legal , and attempted to distinguish this case : from that dtdded by Lord Elden ; and , secondly , that ! the evidence of John Eastwood , that be acted as i plaintiffs agent , was not admissible to contradict the ' fcgrfcesiKrt . 1 Mr . Hill [ the Sheriff ' s Assessor ) , refused to stop f the case on either point , but reserved leave to the ( defendant to move to enter a nonsuit if he should be so j adTiaed

      . OUIUCU . ] Mr . Shaw then addressed the Jury for the dt fvndant , I contending that John Eastwood had made the match on j Ms own aceoBni ; that he had not mentioned the plaintiff to Benjamin Eastwood ; or that he was at all events a ptrtoer ia tbt wafer with the pl ^ itif " .

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      Ttuee witnesses were then called , who a ^ ore that tbsy had not heard Challand mentioned except as the owner of the mare ; but they admitted , on crossexamination , that they were not present during the -whole time . Mi Bond , in reply , contended that there was no ground for imputing perjnry to John Eastwood , who had expressly sworn that be made the match as plaintiff ' s agent , and that he no doubt mentioned the plaintiff to Benjamin Eastwood , before the defendant's witnesses came . Besides , bis client had made the deposits , and had been throughout treated as the principal in the matter . The Learned Assessor summed op , telling the Jury that if they thought upon the evidence that John Eastwood made the natch on behalf of the present plaintiff , and so declared at tbe time , and that he was not a parter in the wager , then their verdict must be for the plaintiff ; otherwise , for the defendant Verdict for the plaintiff for £ J 5 , subject to the points reserved . PINKEV C . BOOTH . The plaintiff wat the same as in the former case ; and tbe defendant , Mr . John Booth , of Killerby , near Catter : ck , brother « f tbe former defendant The action ns brought to recover £ 3 15 s ., for sheep washing , and 5 s . for travelling expences . Mr . Newtojj was for the plaintiff , and Mr- Davisos , of Northallerton , for the defendant . The Jury gave a verdict for the defendant The case did not terminate till two o ' clock on Wednesday morning .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, July 31 " , 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 31 " , 1841 .

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

      " The Whig bndget has been defeated by monopolists and ecclesiastical activity , and Tory taxes must be the substitute . "The army must be increased , because the Tories have no tenure but the bayonet in Ireland . The navy cannot be diminished , because foreign powers , knowing the hatred of the working el&sses and of tne Irtib nation to the Tories , will not fail to look around for opportunities of indemnity from the late triumphs of Lord Palmereton . " France , in 1830 , according to the orasle of Tamworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed tne slumbers of the English oligarchy . Ia cat France rfiwhaNng at this moment , the prospective success of a Tory 3 « 0 «* w ,

      . l + 4 W 8 must have money , ' says M . Humann . — Toulouse answers by a barricade . " ' We must have money , ' says Sir Robert PeeLManchester and Birminghanj may answer xsy budget , but tbe Whig one , with a barricade . "' We must have money through new taxes , ' repeats tbe oracle . —Hose ? you may have , but not new taxes . No new taxes for the people—no new taxes for the middle classes—no new taxes for any or for all .

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

      i , ' j ¦ ' The Budget gave relief . Sir Robert gives new burdens . Tbe Whigs depart with the unpopularity of wisdom- Sir Robert enters office with | the populaiitj of folly . Walk btfore him , O ye t * x-S gatherers -, for verily he will augment your daily . labours . Walk before him , all ye corruptionista , j oligarchs , and others , who End your accounts in \ the augmented burdens , and the increased miseries of ; the people . Welcome to him who grinds the poor for ! the sake of the rich . Welcome to the demure , phari-1 saieal Sir Robert—to the comely and decent Jesuit—to the plausible champion of the Chandos gang . Welcome , i I say , to the hero of the pivot , and to him of tbe : sliding scale .

      " But , men of England , look to your pockets . If you will not have the Whigs , make Peel give you their Budget If yeu are tired of Melbourne , extract hi * good measures from your enemies . " Of course the above is from " a Correspondent , " that is , from the Editor to the Editor ; as all of our mottled tribe have a vast privilege , not only of nsing both ends of the " stylus , " as Horace says , but there is also vested in U 3 a kind of

      prescriptive right of selecting the exact degree of relationship in which we choose to stand towards our children , whe : her as legitimate parent , putative father , father by adoption , or god-father . The striking likeness , however , of the youngest son of the Chronicle to his eldest brother , Master Massaboni Refosm Easthopk , born in 1831 , leaves no doubt upon the mind of those who have seen both that they are " par nobile frairum . "

      In very truth , we feel unequal to handle the above with any degree of moral courage . We fear touching the pitch lest we may b 3 thereby defiled ! but we must e'en at tbe Barricade , as no doubt some notice will be expected from us . Well , then , it will be in the recollection of onr readers that when " plain Joh . v , " now Lord Job Joh . v , announced the death and burial of Chartism , we shed no tear over ; he empty grave ; we heaved no

      sigh over the corseleES tomb . We watched thegi&ntin his slumber , which the foolish old man mistook for the repose of death ; we examined the limbs and felt the heart , and finding them warm and animated ¦ tre said that when the giant again rose refreshed from his slumbers , that he would start from that yery poin * of his journey at which , before resting , he tad arrived .

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

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

      If any fatality could have occurred more propitioas than another , to aid the class " Reformers" in mouldiyg the Reform Bill to their own party purpose ? , it was that state of things which the sensfcless v ^ -ud then uninstrncted people created &t the bidding ° f &eb t&sk-masterB . " Reform" was literally snai ched out of the fire , and cut into party dresses beforo the smoke had subsided . Those who x applied the details to the principle knew full well -n hat the effect of those details would

      | ba : not perhaps i \ ^"¦ a'i one would have been the mean of transferring pow « to Tory hands ; but ihey knew that the general th ^ ° t would be to create a more slavish and dependi ut constituency , if possible , than that which it desk * ojed . They knew full well that all tha people ' s sha , ~ e was ( notwithstanding the " vigilant " popular coatr * ^ under which our institutions were to be placet' ) r t ' ^ t 0 rest upon the clemency , whim , or caprice & ^ ihe party which might be in the ascendant . In fact , they knew that the change was but a mere change , of masters . The people did not expect so b id a return as they h&Te receired . In eyery speech r \ ' iey recognised the

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      admission of some great principle , one and all tending to the one great professed end of making taxation AND REPRESENTATION C 0-EXXBNS 1 VB J and the great error committed was a blind renunciation Of all further popalar interference with the details , when the principle had been gained by fire and sword , and threats of extermination of royalty itself . Such was the great error in 1832 : such , as we have over and over again stated , has been the great error in all physical revolutions . The people , generally successful in tbe physical struggle , rest satisfied , and suppose that victory follows the last shot , or the last crash of the fired building : when the soldiers repose , leaving to their officers the disposal of the triumph and the possession of the spoil .

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

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

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

      But is it not curious that , in the tenth year of Reform and retrenchment , the Whigs should still claim credit , not—for reducing taxation , but for experimentalising to avoid further dibeci taxation ! They requirr £ 2 . 400 , 000 for the current year ; and as " a penny saved is a penny gained , " we could very easily relieve them from all the trouble , anxiety , risk , and loss of office , by nipping just that amount from the burden of the state , and [ barring the precedent . ' ! the

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

      Let us just suppose that O'Connor had appeared in Court , as proprietor of the Northern Star , to plead to an indictment framed upon the Tery article we have copied from the Chronicle : nor indeed is he eafe from this , as he was actually con victed twice for matter copied from otherJ > apers , and was also extensively denounced and held up tlTpublic reprobation by the said Chronicle and the Whig press generally , upon a third occasion , for the crime of the Ntrthern Slarh&r ' mg copied from the Tyne Mercury a sketch of a " cat " , and which the Tyne Mercury gave a , 3 a description of the sort of bed upon

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

      But to the Barricade . Whatisitfor , and what is to be the amount of the promised victory ? A republio \ No . The establishment of the universal rights of the whole people , under a limited and responsible monarchy 1 No . The annihilation of the Tory party I No . The means of affording to the Whigs a power of completing " Reform , " in which they have been hitherto bsffied by Tory opposition ! No . The remission of some heavy burdens , and reduction of taxation \ No . Some temporary means of helpiug the system-made paupers through their present distress , until permanent steps shall be taken to

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

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

      Mr . Easthops s life and property will be just as secure under a Tory , as under a Whig Government ; and he has not the same justification for hit violence , as an unrepresented , neglected , despised , persecuted , and starving out-lawed people have . Surely , then , if the Whigs cannot wait for a month for a trial without talking about Barricades , the sentences of poor " ignorant" working men , for no other crime than merely meeting , as in the case o £ Hoey , Ashton , and Chabtree and hundreds of others , were most egregiously severe , and their crime was very venial C 9 m pared to that of the Chronicle , who cannot state any better oause of complaint than the mere change from one side to the other of the Hoase of Commons .

      We have some recollection of a denunciation of O'Cox-iOB and 0 'Brie . n by the Chronicle , by George Henry Ward , by Macadlat at Edinburgh , and more recently by that respectable pauper , Mr . Oswald , at Glasgow , for having recommended the people to resort to " physical force , " and then deserting them . This we never thought it worth while to contradict as the whole people were aware of its falseness , and indeed a 3 the bankrupt M . P . for Glasgow was very significantly and flitly told upon the hustings by a large portion of the said people . However , had O'Connor aud O'BRIEN , even by insinuation , ( which they never did , ) told the people to make a physical resistance to , or physical aggression npon , tyranny , the people would have

      been justified in insisting upon those two gentlemen taking the command of the troops : and in tbe same way , should the Whig Barricades be erected in Manchester and Birmingham , and should it not be convenient to send a deputation from either of these towns to London , for Mr . Easthopb , Lord Paljlbbskh * , and the Proprietor of the Globe , to take the command ; and should the rage extend to the metropolis , which ia Tery probable , we heroby insist upon tho Chronicle and Globe offices being rcspectfnlly searched for the Editors—no , for the Proprietors ; [ this is another privilege of ours , bo long as our writings are not objected ia by our employers !] and upon Mr . Easthopb being compiled to take the chief command of the " Budget Bar-

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      rijaue" which may happaa to be nearest to his office . We think this a good moral doctrine for our peace-loving Chartitt friends ; and we beg to assure them , that the very same result as was produced in Nottingham , Newcastle , Bristol , and Dorchester , by ** firing" the Whigs into office in 1831 , would be produced after they were Barricaded into office ia 1841 ; that is , the foremost men would be some hung and some more transported , which are the usual rewards of Whig soldiers , after the battle .

      But can anything more fully prove the injustice of class legislation than the impunity with which a set of trafficking politicians , destructives , and hired and common disturbers of ( be peace , are allowed thus to excite the quiet people to treason and rebellion ? Why is not Easthope prosecuted ? Why will he not be prosecuted f Because , as we Btated the week before last , a Jury that would hang a Chartist for half the crime , would acquit EaSTUOPE and honour him as a champion and a martyr .

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

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

      and if all the best and ablest of the judges are in favour of that point , and if Mr . Easthope ' s crime appears to consist in resisting tyranny aud advocating justice for all ; in such case we will take care , as far as we have the power , that he shall suffer no greater punishment than transportation for life to a penal colony . If any Whig is discovered walking with a rusty old sword , or other warlike instrument , such a 3 a pike handle without the pike , or having combustibles under his bed furnished by ahired Tory spy ; and if the said Whig is convicted upon the false evidence of a self-acknowledged perjurer , who

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

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

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

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

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      that ' danger ! The English people will heap coals of fire upon the heads of the Irish , by carrying a Repeal of the Union in spite even of the Liberator himself ; and when we have , by our moral Btrength , and without a blow being Btruck , or an " aristocrat assassinated , " or the Queen ' s dignity even impaired , procured , as with God ' s blessing and the aid of onr blistered hands we shall do , FOUR MILLION SIGNATURES for a Repeal of tho

      Union , ( valueless , perhaps , from a want of the accompaniment of 2 * - to each name , making the small totaloffour hundred thousand pounds ;) wesay , when we have done this , the odds are Lombardstreet to a China orange , that the answer from Dan ' s " tame associates" will be : " No ; we won't have it now ; it must be bad , poison , rank poison , when offered by our deadly enemies , THE PEOPLE of England . "

      Just think of the folly of this man telling his gaping audience that the people of England must be hostile to Ireland , because the county constituencies had returned a large majority of Ireland ' s enemies to the present Parliament S Is this not a melancholy perversion 1 Why not honestly tell the Irish people that , of the batch , the English people would not have returned a single one of those enemies of Ireland if they had a voice in the selection .

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

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

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      THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OP LORD JOHN RUSSELL . Impressed with the same jealous feeling as the Noble Lord whose name adorns our frontispiece , of the equal importance of " watching details as of maintaining great principles , " we have perused his " Will "more than once , in the hope of discovering in its details some substitute for" great principles , " the disposal of which , in the excitement of so awful an undertaking , tha noble testator has wholly omitted .

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

      The press has given to the Noble Lord ' s production a multiplicity of fine names , some calling it" a grca , t state paper ; " others" an important document ; ' others " the plain , straightforward , and manly address , bearing the signature of the Noble Lord . - " others a " luminous Manifesto . " All these high-flown terms raised our hopes to a great pitch , for a week , as state documents and all state affairs generally do ; but at the end of that time , wo find that the greatest importance now attached to the great document , is " the lime at whveKit made its appearance . "

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

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

      Now , lot us just take the most important portion of this document , and see wherein its statesman-like character is to be found . The testator , in the three first paragraphs , according to the arrangement of the Examiner , from which we take it , for ic has been variously subdivided , B&yB as follows : — " LORI ) JOHN RUSSELL'S ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY OF LONDON .

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

      " In the early part of last year , when a resolution , declaring a want of confidence in the Government , was brought forward , I distinctly announced the intention of proposing additional taxes to meet the increased expenditure of the country . In the present year , so soon as the estimates had been completed , and the probable amount of the revenue ceuld be calculated , her Majesty ' s Ministers took into their serious consideration tbe disparity which still existed between the income of the country and the cost of its establishments . We found that the n ^ w t sjes were ^ ot sufficient to supply the deficiency . We were of opinioh that we could not , w ith due regard to the honour and safety of tbe nation , reduce its naval and military forces .

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

      Now this is unfair as well aa untrue ; the sentence should have run thus ;—" We were aware that we bad produced a state of things whioh could only be upheld by brute force , and therefore we were compelled to overtax those whom we had starved , for the pay of more soldiers and sailors , and officers , and policemen . " But in the third paragraph we find , that after all the expence , the anxiety , the risk , and the inconvenience to Vfhjch the country has been put , his Lordship only calculates npon the mere POSSIBILITY of replenishing the Whig Exchequer by means of the " Great Commercial Reforms . "

      Well , the Noble Lord labours through the remainder of a very dull and heavy paragraph of thia M important and luminous State document , " and thua i jfpens the fourth paragraph . Heeays :- ^ - " As booh as the new Parliaments ifteete , we shall take the first opportunity of asking for a clear and decided judgment npon the policy we have pursued . " What , more last worda ! another last judgment , and a farther dig into another quartern loaf ! Man alive ! has not judgment been passed three several times ? First , out of the House , by a clear vardict of guilty ; second , in the House , by a clear verdict of insanity and imbecility ; . and lastly , upon appeal to the REFORM MADE PEOPLE , a clear verdict of guilty ; and now , not satisfied , the Noble Loud is xesohwi upob pushing the people , his too

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      lenient judges ^ to pronounce judgment . No , ao * we nave given bis Lordship and his Lordship'j party a very long , and a very fair trial ; and hj the discreet and excellent language of th » Morn ing Advertiser , which , throughout , has kept the lead of the Whig press , we entirely concur . Our able contemporary , thus weeps a tear of joj over the improved but melancholy fate of the Whi g * , " The atmosphere of the opposition benches is , after all , the atmosphere in which Whiga can breathe

      freely . The opposition ia their native element . As an opposition , they have from the time of Fox and Sheridan downwards achieved their greatest victories and gained their brightest laurels ; and there can be no question that new triumphs and fresh trophies await them in the new sphere on which they are about to enter . In the ranks of the opposition , they will , no doubt , redeem the character they hare lost , and restore the confidence which the people of England have for some time ceased to repose in them . "

      How the Whig epicures may relish the free and pure air upon the Opposition side of the H « use , as a substitute for the " fat dabs" of office , we are not prepaid to say ; but in every word of the above , which we have one hundred timeB impressed upon our readers , we fully concur ; and of the Whig Opposition , after so high an eulo . gium , we would say , " Eslo perpelua . " We mast now come back to the noble testator . After the above passage , from the fourth paragraph , he goes on to complain , in bitter terms , against all those details which in the " great principle" of Reform have acted injuriously to Whig interest . Here we shall only ask , who supplied those "im «

      portant details" to the " great principle" \ There does not appear to have been attached by his Lordship , IN TIME , that great importance « f " watching details , " which it now appears his party ' s interest required . Well , is not this just what we have been hammering at for years ? Have we not said , a thousand times , that the measure was lost from a neglect of its proper detail moulding to its proper uses , and according to the spirit of the " great principle" ? In fact , we and the people were , and have long been , before the Noble Lord ; and now the stupid press begins to praise matter and -assertion which merely proves the ignorance , incapacity , and backwardness of his Lordship ' s ignorant associates .

      The Noble Lord then proceeds to tell us all about the elections , and all about what every hand-loom weaver was perfeotly cognizant of . He complains of Lord Chandos ' s £ 50 tenant-at-will clause ; of the . dependency of county voters apon their landlords , and so forth ; and then the Noble Lord says a something about the " certainty of the cause of civil and religious liberty triumphing at last . " Yes , in faith I bnt it would have been at long , long last , had it not been for the spiteful prod which tUe Noble Lord promises ia the sixth paragraphic give , in opposition , to the poking hack which he ' rode while in office with so '' loose a rein" and " careless seat" that he was thrown . In the Bixth paragraph he says : —

      " Out of power we obliged our opponents to abolish those tests by whioh political office was made exclusive , and a religious sacrament profaned . Out of power we forced our adversaries themselves to free the Roman Catholics fiom those disabilities which they bad declared indispensable for the maintenance of the Constitution , and the safety of the Church . " Bravo , Lord John ! Then in opposition , in God's name , remain ! as in truth you appear to us to plead eloquently for the privilege and place , and as eloquently to show cause / why you should never again bold office , without a committee of sane Chartists to "watch all the important details" of your " GREAT PRINCIPLES . "

      ^ We now assure our readers that we have gone through this " great state paper ; " this"important oa ^ on al document ;' this "luminous manifesto ;" tnis " statesman-like production ; " and we ask our readers to contrast it with the luminous manifesto of the late Convention , which we published in May last ; or with the Address of the Exeontive , which appeared in our last number ; or with any one of the numerous and spirited addresses which , have come from female Chartists' Associations , and say which is most m accordance with the great principles required by the present generation ; and which , if moulded by proper ""details , " would be most calculated to arrive at that result which the Noble Lord vainly hopes to persuade the people he aims , namely , " civil and religious liberty . "

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

      " J . R . has been received , but we decline publishing it in pity to the unfortunate contributor , who must be sadly afilicted with delirium tremens . We would ,, of all things , recommend him to try change op air , where he may restore that tone and confidence , and- self-possession , of which he appears to stand so much in need . " The Noble Lord has not yet hit upon the propel bait to catch the mess . Black wings , blue bottom , and steel body is not the fly for the dog-days . A

      fly found in abundance , in fact swarming about factories and bastiles , called the "Chartist stinger , " is the ' proper fly for the mesa fish . The angler knows where to look for them , and will hear th « m buzzing like a swarm of bees , at an immense distance upon a summer ' s evening . They are a thin ,, lank-looking fly , like a " daddy long-legs ; '' all limbs and no body ; and the golden fish are very greedy after them and will take them freely , when they won't rise at a " horse-fly" or " blue-bottle . "

      The Captain and first Lieutenant of a line-ofbattle ship once got into a very warm argument as to the proper fly for the season ; the Captaia insisting that the " horse-fly" waa then the best bait for mackerel—the Lieutenant denying that there was any such fly : whereupon an Irish sailor , who happened to be at hand , and who was an acknowledged angler , was appealed to as umpire . The Lieutenant asked him " Pat , did you ever see a " horse flv" t " No , d n my eyes ; " replied Pat— " but I tell your honour what I see , just as quair a thing—I see a cow jump down a precipice . "

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

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      THE PEOPLE'S TACTICS . The eleetions are now settled ; the New House is returned ; the Whigg have been taught their proper lesson . They have been , in fact , made powerles * for evil , and the next best thing for the people ' * attention is , the use to be made of their victory ; for * popular victory over the base Whiga , their ungrateful oppressors , we hold the result of the general election to be & steady unshaken adherence to their own policy ; an absolute refusal to be drawn , cajoled , cr

      bullied into apy agitation for any thing short of the entire Charter , must be joined to a careful improvement of every means by which our offensive operations aga inst the citadel of corruption caa be carried on . Wo have always told our readers that there are only two media throagh which they can look for the restoration and establishment of popular rightphysical revolution , or » n Aoiqf Parliament . The former it has been the studied carefulness of ourlivei to avert by all means ; we have been oontiatially

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      " The Chibtists have proved themselves mo&e acctrrvte calculators than the middle classes . Wheihes THEIR IfO'TRrM W 01 T . D HATE JIE . VDED matters is sot sow the question ' , but the besclt has suewn that they weiie correci in their opinion — that ix the present state of the sepresextation , it was vain to thixk of a repeal of the corn monopoly . ??*??* * Political power in this cofxtbt , though it resides in a comparatively small class , can only be exebcjsed by the eotferancb of the masses . "Morning Chronicle ( organ of the Whig Ministers ) , Friday , July I 6 lh , 1841 .

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      K ^ LEASE MR . EDWARD BROWN FROM WARWICK &AOL . On Wednesday ereaing , tke 21 st inst , the Char tists of Warwick and Lsamington entertained Mr . E- Brown -wita a sapper , at Mr . Frenctie ' a . Notirithstanding the abort notice given , there was a glorious m eeting ; the room trai tastefully decorated , and the utmost harmony prevailed daring the evening- After the doth was XBHioved , Mr . DokaLdson , the chairman , proposed the first toast , — "The people , the legitimate « oorce of all power . " He addressed hia brother Chartists with feelings of great pleasure on tkat occasion , as the numbers j * eaent , and tbe enthusiasm exhibited , fnrnianed additional proof of the sterling value of the gre * t and glorious principles contained in tha People's Charter , aud of their increased attachment to those martyrs -who had sufftaed . and who were enduring so much misery

      fe advoeatteg those principles . Efery day ' s experience provmdtto . -toBy ot those aristocratic tyrants -who songht toy pfeysfaai forft to rivet those chains of slavery which were teged toy antiquited tyrants , when they were in comparative state of darkaess ; but the intelligence and political knowledge of the people were now shaking tbe antiquated citadel of corruption ; they would bo longer suffer tbemselres to be led by the nose , and deluded fey « itber Whig or Tory factions . Toe plunder at the people was the common object of both ? the only fllTt rmn e * be -conld diecoTer between them mas , that tbe Whiga . ooasionally racriuoed their principles to expediency , and cheated the people by delusive promises ; while the Tories , like bold highwaymen , dapp « d a pistol to their breasts , and plundered them ¦ with » d * ri » g face of the most consummate imputiesce . ( Load cheers . ) He would propose , as a toast ,

      —" Thepeople , the legitimate source of all power , " but assure them that until the People ' s Charter became the law of the land , they must calculate on being plundered by the aristocracy of b oth Whig and Tory . The battle waa now between the Chartists and Tories , for the Whigs , as a party , were defunct—peace be to their remain * . Let but the working classes bo united , and they would soon prove to the world that the people are the legitimate source of all power . The toast was drank with great enthusiasm . Mr . PaicE responded to the toast , and drew a dear and masterly sketch of the principles of the People ' s Charter , and was loudly cheered .

      Tae CttAiBJti . 5 proposed a toast , " Civil and rehgloas liberty ail over tbe gUbe . " He deplored that while most of the religious world would respond to the aeatiment , they were ignorant of its value , and opposed to the sublime principles it contained . Every different eet set no bounds to tbeir own religious views ; and jet , ViUi % oos-siiiBd consistency , they sneered and booted ¦ every other sect who happened to differ with them , forgetting that true religions liberty consisted in freedom of tfaunfht , charity to all , envy to none , bnt lore to the vhole human family . Mr . Gb . ea . tes responded to this toast in a delightful * peeeh .

      The Chairmas next proposed the health of Mr . Edward Brown . The presence of Mr . Brown prevented him saying many things that would be necessary to do justice to his character . >* o man in England , except Mr . Feargus O'Connor—iload cheers here interrupted tbe Chairman)—had worked with more zeal in the people ' s cause thin Mr . Brown ; no man had been more unjustly persecuted . The Chartist movement had been tarried on 1 st tno-ogli to answer the purpose cf tbe Whip of Birmingham : the Government threw certain hnngry dog » of that town a bone to pick , by granting tiie Charter of Incorporation ; but certain he was , that Little Johnny Finality and Mb " chums * ' sent down the Cfcarter of Incorporation to Douglas and Co ., with an understanding thai they should asset in putting down

      the Chutist movement , li was at that crisis tbai Mr . 1 Brown manfully came out , and told the people of i Birmingham that they were Bold ; » n 1 , by Ms extraor- j diniry exertions , aided by a few others , he rallied the ; working men , and tkat successfully ; until , at length , the j Whigs set future Tory Governments an example to j put down freedom of discussion by physical force , and ' they sent their bnll-dajs into the Bull Ring to break j the heads of the LnofFessiva and peaceable working men ! of the town . The Chairman , at considerable length , J dwelt on the perfidious conduct of the Whigs at that < time : he also adOed that they were equally indebted to \ the bloodthirsty Tories for the scenes of brutality which followed those cvtnts .

      The toa « t ma drank witli three times three hearty ; y . hp « u- « . - Mr . Brown acknowledged the toast in a splendid j tpeeeh . j The proceedings were continued for some time ;; several other toasts and sentiments being proposed and , responded to ; a spirit of union and good fellowship j prevailed ; and at the close a rote of thanks to the i j »» cj > TTi « Ti - « -as carried by acclamation . 1 -. i

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      DANIEL AND THE MISCREANT CHARTISTS AGAIN . The nasty , fellow has been spitting his venom upon Chartism ia his tour of reimbursement . We just give the following specimen of this gentleman ' s love of truth . When addressing the people of Kilkenny , the other day , he said : — " England never was in a greater state of jeopardy

      than she is at present : her artisaas starving—her manufacturers complaining—her commerce declining—her revenues exhausted—and Chartism bursting over the land . And if Irishmen joined the physical-force Chartists , and assisted them in their maddened career , why , before this time , the aristocracy of England would have been reduced to howling beggars , If not assasinated by the Chartists , and the throne of our young and lovely Queen would have been overturned . "

      Was there ever Buch unparuonaolo folly as this ?! But is therenot something to deplore even in tho folly 1 Do not the wise discover in it the foregone conclusion , that in Chartism alone the " Liberator" recognises perfect freedom , and consequent free trade and total destruction of all monopoly in humbug \ Do they not also see in it full proof that , bo long as he can help it , no union ehall take place between the people of the fctvo countries } But we defy him I Knowledge is more powerful than sophistry , bombast , or blarney , or than all three put together ; and wo have now before us not a few cheering commuuication 8 from different parts of Ireland , assuring us of the rapid progress of the good cause made through our humble instrumentality .

      "The aristocracy of England would have been reduced to prowling beggars , IF NOT ASSASINA . TED BY THE CHARTISTS ; and the throne of our young aud lovely Queen would have been overturned . " Good God ! is the man " clean daft" ? Has he gone quite out of his wits in anticipation of Ireland's howl when she comes to ask for her 42 Repealers ( hat voted for her resurrection in 183 i ! Or does he hope to turn the curious from an investigation into their own affairs , by creating a greater curiosity about ours . This is a counter irritam . "The Chartists assassinate" ! Was

      ever a more base and malicious slander ? I But this is not all . The disinterested Liberator , in one of bis recent phillipics , at Cork , stated the terms of his future support to a Whig Government ; and what do our readers suppose those terms are \ " Repeal , of course . " No : guess again . Justice to Ireland ? No : Total Abolition of Tithes ! No . Exteniion of the Suffrage ? No : guess again . Do you give it up ? Yes Well hear , Daniel O'Connell will not again

      support a Whig Administration which " befuses to give Places to Rkpealebs . " You don ' t believe it ! don't you \ Well then , have his own words from the correspondent of the World newspaper , corroborated by the press generally . " Mr . O'Connell said , that , should the Whigs resume power , he would not support them if they refused place to any man because he is a Repealer . " Now , do you believe it I M Aye , I do now ; and it band's Bannaghcr , and Bann&gher bangs cook fighting . "

      Thus has Chartism been merged into " assassination " , and Repeal into " situation" ! Ah ! Dan , sold the people , body and sleeves , to Lord Ddkcannon and the Whigs in 1835 , and now he offers them a cheap bargain of Repeal : bat we i * vfi bettor topes for Ireland , All is mi lost

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      A THE NORTHERN STIR . " - ¦ ^ X

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct861/page/4/