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THE NORTHERN STAR SATUUJDAY , JIT5E 5, 1847.
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW. TEN HOURS' BILL. —...
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On the same evening Mie Chancellor of th...
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Poverty No Ckime.
POVERTY NO CKIME .
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* METROPOHTAK DEMONSTRATION against the ACCURSED NEW POOR LAW , and in favour of ANEW _O . ONE mow in * ecor < 3 a « ce with th " . want * , feeling- ? , _habits , and customs of the British Nation , will be held j Mtbe _WMVW * AND ANCHOR TAVERN , STRAND , on _Toesdat Evesiso , _Jpisb 8 , 1847 . THOMAS WAKLEY , M . P ., will be _proposed to the chair at 8 o ' _clt-tk precisely . T . S . Duneombe , M . P ; Lord John Manners , MP . ; Sir B . Hall , M . P . ; D . W . _Hawy , E » q . ; _SirDataesEvansJ 1 LP . ; B . _DUr-itli , M . P ; W . B . Ferrand . ii P- ; R . OastUr , Esq . ; B . B . Cabbell , M . P . ; Charlts Cochrane , Esq . ; Cliarle * Lnshington , Erg ,. ; and tbe Members of the Executive Committee , will be present and address thetneeting . Men of Lon _d on attend and show jour hatred of Inhumanity , Tyranny , and Oppression .
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ON THE FIRST OF J 0 _LT , 18 * 7 , Will be FvWUhed . 80 . I . ( PRICE SIXPENCE , ) OF TOE _PEOPLE'S LEGAL ADVISER . The object of this _monthly p ublication , is perhaps suffie ; en « v indicated by its _tit'e ; it uwj be will , lnmever , to add afew words in exp lanation . That there arc many subjects of nn exclus-yely Ic _,-al character , and _bear-ng p _.-culiarly on tlie interests of the _-wnrkrog classes—on th « n uturetliau on the oilier classes ofs _** ie tv—is a truth that hardiy requires its assertion ; and it would , of coune , he desirable that all these should ka brought together in a form , _t-lu-ap , compendious , and intellisiWe , for the benefit uf those to whom they chiefly relate .
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TO TAILORS . B . Read ' s New Patent Indicator for finding proportion and _disproportion iu all systems of catting . Caveats granted . April 2 i _' nd , 1817 , signed by _Messrs Pool and CapmeaL Patent Office , 4 , Old _rfuu . _o-e , Lincoln ' s Iuu . Declaration of same , signed by Sir G . Carroll , KnU , Lord MayorofLondon . THE LONDON AND PARIS _SPRIXG AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1817 , are now re-. dv , by _liEJf-JAM 1 N BEAD and Co ., 12 , llHrt-street , _I'loomslmry ; _square , London ; and by G . Berger , HoHwell-strett , Strand . May be had of all booksellers wheresoever residing . By approbation of her Majesty Queen Victoria
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GRATIS . ' GRATIS . ' GRATIS . ' I ? VERY PERSON who shall subscribe for THE DIS-! i PATCH during the mouth uf June next , will be pre scnted with a Finely Engraved PORTRAIT OF ELIZA COOK . " The p ' oenis of Miss Coos are national properly . There is hardly a homestead in the land where her name and _hercoiitributio-js to the' Dispatch' are not familiar as household words . Apart from the powerful and brilliant talent uith which the " Dispatch" is conducted , this _h-indsorae and acceptable present to its fifty crsixt . v thousand readers , cannot fail to be appreciated . _"—LiveryjKl Chronicle , _May 8 , 1 S 47 . The li' » eues 5 of this Poetic Genius , by Trantscboid , is most striking , aud the Engraving is by _Adlakd , in the first stvie of the art .
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WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . WAKEFIELD ADJOURNED SESSIONS _AJ OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that A SPECIAL GBIX NERAL SESSIONS of the " eace , for the West Riding of the County of York , will be lioiile : by adjournment ia the Committee Ror > m _, at -lie House of Correction , at WakefieM , on TJiursday , _thelJtb dan of June iast ., at twelve _oV-loek at noon , to receive the report of the 00 mmittee appu . nted to consider the application of the subordinate officers of the House of Correction for an increase of their _salaries ; and also to receive the report of Mr _H-ideu , . Mr Hartley , and Mr Shepherd , on the best method oi enclosing and securing the airing court : of altering the old prison to render it available for females ; ad of erecting nash-uouses aud other ConVenidlCCS I and on other j- peeial _busmess . C . H . _Elsixt , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk ofthe Peace ' s : Office , Wakefield , June ? rd , 1 SU .
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Kow Ready , a New Edition of ML O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Ts > bo had at the _Airttern Star Office . 16 , Great Wind m :: l Street : and of Abel _Hevwood , Manchester .
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_KALDXESS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED . A SURGEON residing in Cork having , in the course of his Practice , had his attention particularly directed to , and acqaired _grrtti experience in the _TKEAfMEJi'T OF _I'APILLARY DISEASES , begs to inform those pcrsom afilicted with BALDNESS ( whether in youth or adranted in life ) mar , by a most simple process , REPKOJ > l CE that neceisary . oraame . it . Parties applying will _requhcto enclose a small quantity of hair , and _» fee of five shillings , by post-oflice order , in favour of Surgeon Edward Williams . 13 , Henry-street , Cork ; _wiieii tlie _uctas * ary _ictiruetwas will be fv warded hy return of post .
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A COLOL'KED DaGPERREOTYrE _FOKTItAIT ia hat morocco _caseforlOi .. which is 15 s . ltss titan any other London establishment , and warranted to he equally good , by MR EGERTON . 148 , _Flcct-sti-eet , opposite _Epuverie-street , and 1 , Temple-street , _Whitefriirs . _Optn daily from nine till four . Foreign Apparatus Ajj _^ nt to Voigtlauder and Liribours , a complete _JBoekuf Instruction , price 7 s . frl _, by post les Pri e Mats sent post free .
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t NO . VI . OF " THE LABOURER , " Now Ready , enriched with an c ' rgant Fortra : engraved on Steel , of T . S . 0 U 3 C 0 KBE _, ESQ ., MP . co . NTEirrs . 1 . T . S . TJunionibp , Esq . M . P . 2 . War , Love nnd Liberty , by Ernest Jones . 3 . The Insurrections ofthe Working Classes . 4 . The _Confessions of 9 King . 5 . Letter to Sir R . Peel . C . The Romance of a People . 7 . The Phase of Political Parties . 8 . The Jolly Young Poacher . 9 . The Latul . 10 . The Monthly Review . 11 . Literary Review . ' , 12 . Correspondence , etc . 13 . Preface , & e . toYol . I .
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Number VI . will complete the first Volume of the " Labourer " copies of which , neatly bound iu embossed cloth , ( Price 3 s . 6 d . each ) will be ready early in the month of June .
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NO . HI . 0 * "THE _LABOURE-i , " Containing , amongst other matters , a Reprint of Mr F . O'Connor ' s Letter , in the "Northern Star" of Januarj 30 th . demonstrating the certainty with which an allottee may support himself and family , and accumulate money , oua "Two Acre " _allotuwnt . The very general demand that was made for the _papct containing the above letter induced the Editors tc reprint it after Careful revision , in the March Number 0 ! the "Labourer . " NO . IV . of "THE LABOURER , " Containing an elaborate Treatise on the NATIONAL LAND AND LABOUR BANK , IN ITS RELATION WITH THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . Are now reprinted , and may be had on applications .
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_.... _.. . vv _.-ww . v . _^ u me a , x _Sreat Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by nil _agents for the "Northern Star , md all booksellers in town and country .
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Just published , price £ d . f printed from tbe Short-hand Writer's Notes , ) TIIE TRIAL OF THE MECHANICS AT LIVERPOOL on the 2 nd and 3 rd of April , 1817 . Edited by W . P . Roberts , _E-q . London : Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill Stre .-t , Haymarket : and at the offices of Mr Roberts , 2 . Robert-street , Adelphi . London : and 3 , Esses Chambers , Manchester : and Abel Hevwood , Oldham-strcet , Manchester : and all Booksellers ..
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A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . STJrERFTXE BLACK CLOTHES made to order nt the Grkat _Westkhk Empoeicm , 1 and 2 , Oxfobd Street , _Lundow , which neither spot nor change colour . Only £ 3 His the complete suit of any size . These clothes _, cannot be equalled at any other Tailoring Establishmevnt UBSDELLand Co . ' s , Fine Llama Cloth , for light over , coats , made to order at £ l l 2 s . The verj finest only £ 2 . which for durability' and elegance cannot be surpassed With silk linings , 3 s exlra . Omnibuses to and front the City , stop at the establish _, ment every minute ofthe day .
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COCK INN . HEAD OF THE SIDE , _NEvTCASTLE-ON-TYNE . lyrARTIN JUDE begs most respectfull y to intimate to _tTX his fri-nds and the public thut he has removed tothe-above Inn , and that he has on hand a prime stock of Ale . Stout , Spirits , A'c . In the News Room may be seen the following London and _Provinci-il papers : _—Xondosi—Tbe Daily News , by express every evening at seven o ' clock , Bell ' s Life , Mining Journal . _Northern Star , nnd Punch . £ o « _tl—Tho Newcastle Guardian , Newc slle Courant , aud the Newcastle Advertiser . There are excellent Rooms for Clubs and Trade Societies' Meetings . A branch ofthe National Land Company is established at the house , and meet every week to enrol members . Excellent accommodation for Travellers , Good Bids and refreshments at moderate charges . Good Stabling , & c .
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YIEST-RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MID 8 _PMHER SESSIONS . NOTICE 15 HEREBY GIVEN , That the MIDSUMMER GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS ofthe Peace for tlie West Riding of the County of York will be opened at SKIPTON , on TUESDAY , the 29 th day of June instant , at Ten ofthe Clock in the Forenoon * . and by Adjournmpnt from _tlicure will be holden at BRADFORD , on WEDNESDAY , the _SC'th day of the same month of June , at Ten of tiie Clock in the Forenoon' ? and also , hy further Adjournment from thence , will be holden at ROTHERIKM _. on MONDAY , the 5 th day of July , at Ten ofthe Clock in the Forenoon , when all Jurors . Suitors , Persons bound by Recognizance , and othershaving business at the saidsevral Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several days , and at the several hours above mentioned . Solicitors arc required to take notice , that all appeals must be entered before tlie sitting ofthe Court , on the first day of tlie Sessions at each of the above-mentioned places ; and that the List of such Appeals will be called by tbe Cierk ofthe Pence at the expiration of half an hour from the _openmg ofthe Court ; and that all appeals iu which Counsel are not then instructed , so as to be * ready to j roceed immediatel y { if called upon so to do ) , will bo struck out .
The Northern Star Satuujday , Jit5e 5, 1847.
THE NORTHERN STAR _SATUUJDAY , JIT 5 E 5 , 1847 .
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NON-iXTEKVENTibN ! ENGLAND AT WAR WITH THE PEOPLE OF PORTUGAL !
Bitter experience has taught the people of this country the hollowness , falsehood , and hypocrisy , of that pitiful faction—the Whigs . Neveryet did they make a promise that tliey dill not break ; never a pledge that they did not falsify ; never was a principle professed by them _l hat they did not violate , and do their best to bring into contempt . Their clamour for " Reform" was followed by deed of damnable delusion and dark depravity , as ' _* Coerci n " and " New Poor Law " Bills testify . Their ranting for " itelgious Liberty " has been e ver followed bv
schemes tending to strengthen Church-craft , and to insult proscribed sects . More recently , " Educatien " and " Sanatory Reform " have fallen under the withering curse of Whig patronage . " Justice for Ireland " was long the factious watchword , by the ttse of which they trafficked in Irish credulity , until surprised by the famine , theyprovedtheir utter incompetence as nil ? rs by their impotent measures of" Relief . " In the present , as in the past , the Whigs have shown themselves imbecile meddlers with every work they have undertaken , and hypocritical traitors to every principle tbiy have enunciated .
But if there is one fraud blacker than the rest in the list of their irredeemable offences against truth , honour , and honesty , that one pre-eminent plaguespot is , their hypocritical use and blood-stained violation of the policy entitled by themselves , " Non-Interveulion . " In 1830 they proclaimed that Non-intervention was , and would he , tbe basis of their forei gn policy , yet they were scarcely well seated in power when they engaged this country in a " little war" with Holland , not for the purpose of
seeming the liberties of tbe Belgian people , hut to place a Coburg on the newly-erected throne of that country . They engaged in left-handed wars for the purpose of putting down the « legitimate" claimant ot ihe Spanish Throne , and ousting the actual possessor ofthe Throne Of Portugal . Nevertheless , tiiey- pretended to act upon the principle ot _»« _Non-Inkrventio-i , " and , in proof thereof , pointed to Poland ana Italy , where they had allowed Russia and Austria to drown ib blood , and crush b y force , the patriots who had attempted the redemption of
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those countries . Their next exploit was the driving of Ibrahim Pacha out of Syria , compelling the Syrians to accept the anarchial rule of the Turks , instead of the organised despotism of Mehcmct AHa change for the worse . The slaughter and destruction at Beyrout and Acre strangely illustrated the vaunted policy of Non-intervention ! But the conduct of the Whig Government towards Affghanistan capped the climax of their duplicity and criminality . Affghanistan was a perfectly independent country , yet the Whig Government presumed lo interfere in its * affairs , deposing the people ' s chosen Prince , and impbs ' ing upon them
a detested creature whose power was only maintained by British bayonets . But that . came to an end—a frightful end—as every one knows . Goaded to desperation , the Affghans rose against the British ar . iy and their princely tool , and annihilated both . A large army was totally destroyed . But one man and afeiv worn lived to tell the tale of England ' s disgrace , and the wretched end of England ' s son _andsoldiers . The bleaching hones of the hapless victims of a righteous retribution , whitening in their thousands the gloomy passes of Affghanistan , proclaimed the true interpretation of Whig Nonintervention . "
Again in power , the Whigs have already within a few months exhibited two characteristic illustrations of their precious principle of " Non-intervention . " They have again betrayed Poland , and are now coercing Portugal ; crouching to the Tsar , they bully the _Vortuitese , and in both instances disgrace their country . If there is any common sense in the phrase «• Nonintervention , " it must mean that each nation jhould bs left to the management and settlement of its own affairs , without being interfered with by any other nation . Well , Cracow was an independent state , its independence guaranteed " forever' * by the parties who contracted the treaty of Vienna , England
being a principal party thereto . The Republic of Cracow has not merely been interfered with , its independence has been annihilated by an act of intervention and brutal tyranny on the part of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . Did the Whig Government forbid that intervention ? No ! But Lord Palmerston protested . He sent paper pellets to Vienna , which were received with all imaginable politeness . Mctternich knew that the Whigs were not in earnest—that they were too much in love with despotism to heartily sympathise with the Cracovians . The " protest'' was intended merely to humbug the English people ; and the " three Powers , " very well understanding that , very consistently treated it as a sham .
Any interference in behalf of Poland would have heen necessarily an interference in favour of the people and liberty , and , therefore , not at all in accordance with the sympathies of the aristocratic Whig 3 . Accordingly , the principle of ¦ ' Non-Intervention" was appealed to as sufficient reason for declining any interference beyond that of the paper protest .
- But , behold , how different is the conduct of the Whigs when despotism is in danger ! The people of Portugal , weary of tbe'falsehood , treason , and cruelty of Donna Maria , rise in arms to compel her to a due fulfilment of her engagements , they are on the point of complete success , when the British Government engages in a CONSPIRACY with the French and Spanish Governments for the purpose of crushing the popular " movement by FOREIGN FORCE , and restoring the Queen to the full exercise of her destructive authority .
The Portuguese Queen has passed through nearly every possible stage of tyranny and treason to her people . She was hardly seated on her throne—a throne won for her by enormous sacrifices—when she commenced frittering away all that was of valne in _| the " Charter '' she had sworn to uphold . At length , when liberty was almost entirely lost , the Septemhrist movement compelled Donna Maria to accept a modified version of the Constitution of 1820 , instead of the mangled " Charter . " The Queen now swore to uphold the " Constitution . " and
fulfilled her oath by conniving at a revolt got up by the tax-eaters for resuscitating the defunct " Charter . " The notorious Cabrals triumphed , the " Constitution" was strangled , and the " Charter "changed greatly for the worse—substituted . The Cabrals established a grinding . tyranny , under which every law for the protection of . public liberty and personal freedom was violated , and the people given over to the plundering exactions of tax-caters . Excessive taxation at length produced revolt , the peasantry rose in arms throughout Portugal , and , with the certainty of a popular . rising in the capital ,
the Queen gave way , dismissed the Cabrals , anil appointed the Palmella Ministry . Tlie overthrow of that ministry was accomplished by the vilest mean ? , no less than a midnight plot . The chiefs of the Ministry summoned to the palace on pretence of business , were there informed that their services were no longer needed—that their successors had been appointed , and themselves were prisoners until such '« time as the army had secured the triumph of the counter-revolution . This was accompanied by the suppression of the public press , the " suspension of the guarantees" of personal security , and the establishment of martial law . What had been left of
the restored " Charter" was again utterly violated , and a despotism established more perfect than that of the Russian Autocrat . A popular outburst immediately ensued . The Duke of Terceira , who had been sent to Oporto armed with full powers to repress any manifestations of popular discontent by military violence , was himself arrested by the people , and has since been kept in durance vile . For the last eight months civil war has raged in Portugal , Many hundreds have perished in battle , the dungeons have been crowded with viutims , decrees have been
fulminated threatening death to all who Should he found opposing the Royal despotism , and in many instances the most brutal murders have been perpetrated , sanctioned hy these decrees . Anarchy and despotism conjoined have desolated the laud from end to end . At length the Queen , deserted by half the army , with the entire steam navy captured by tbe forces of the insurgent Junta , her own troops paralysed in sight of Oporto , a body of . the
insurgents menacing Lisbon itself , that capital secured from a popular explosion only by the cannon of the English fleet , pointed against the people;—in this humiliating position the Queen and her _villanous confederates must have speedily succumbed , or fled the country ; the people must have triumphed and achieved their deliverance—when , lo ! foreign force intervenes , condemning the Portuguese nation to slavery , and restoring to the _slie-tyrailt her justlyforfeited power .
In our foreign intelligence the reader _wilfjfind a copy of the protocol agreed upon between 1 _almerston and the Plenipotentiaries of France , Spain , nnd Portugal , by which it will be seen that an Bu tilth and French fleet , together with a Spanish army , a _>« to be employed in subduing tlie Portuguese patriots and restoring the supremacy of Donna Maria . This protocol is based upon the foulest falsehoods . It is thereiu set forth that ' the Junta had refused to put an end to the civil war . " The Junta showed the utmost readiness to accept the mediation
offered by the British and Spanish governments ; the Junta , however , very properly required that the terms of settlement should be couched in plain and explicit terms , and that certain guarantees should be given , such as the _ackowledgement of all contracts entered into by the Junta ; the dismissal of the Palace-intriguers ; the garrisoning of Lisbon and Oporto by the troops of the Junta , Sec , & c . The Junta felt satisfied from past experience , that unless these guarantees were obtained , it would be impussible to bind the Queen to any settlement . The moment she was freed from the . terrors of organised
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insurrection , that moment would she , as she has always hitherto done , break _throug h every engagement , oath , aud treaty , to glut ber lust for vengeance and re-establish her darling despotism . These guarantees the Representatives of the British and Spanish Governments refused to accede to ; they , therefore , and not the Junta , are respvnsiole for the continuance of the civil war . Everybody knows that diplomacy is the art of political lying , and Palmerston ' s protocol is a precious specimen of his proficiency in that disreputable attainment .
Peop le of Great Britain and Ireland , we appeal to you against tins atrocious conduct on the part of your (?) Government . i * ou are reproached by the nations ofthe continent with being selfishly indifferent to all that concerns the welfare of other nations , and that reproach will he justified if you tamely allow the present Ministry to plunge this country into a war with the people of Portugal , for the benefit of the tyrants of Portugal . That war , though it may not affect your persons , will affect your pockets 5 every shilling of the cost of this foul attack upon the Portuguese will have to be paidhy you . If you will have nothing to do with foreign politics , foreign politics will have to do with you , as the present
ENORMOUS TAXATION and GIGANTIC DEBT sufficiently testify . That DEBT was contracted , and those TAXES first imposed upon you , because you stupidly allowed your class-rulers to make wars in your name , for the purpose of keeping the nations in slavery . Will you allow your aristocratic rulers to play the same game again ? Can it be possible that Victoria , while profess _, ing deep sympathy with the starving people , *—* *? , * shown by limiting the palace flunkies to a pound vf " seconds" bread daily ( as though courtly flunkies "lived by bread alone" !)—can it be possible after this evidence of Her Majesty ' s humanity and philanthropy , that she has sanctioned this war upon the
people of Portugal because the Portuguese Queen ' s husband is a Coburg , a relative of Prince Albert ' s ? Can it be possible that the * Queen of Great Britain and freland , knowing that thousands have died of famine , and that at this moment thousands are languishing in misery , can it be possible that she would approve of the waste of the nation ' s resources , at the cost of the starving people , for the purpose of maintaining a worthless Queen , and a crew of needy German cormorants in their oppression and plunder of the Portuguese nation ? We will not believe it ; we must impute this wicked aggression wholly to tbe despotic instincts of the mock liberal , but basely hypocritical Whigs .
A word to the electors and non-electors of Marylehone . Your fighting Commodore has run from his seat in Parliament to take command of the fleet sent against against the Portuguese people . Only a few months ago Sir Chari . es Napier delivered a thundering oration against the confiscators of Cracow , yet he now takes command of the naval force in . tended to act in support of the confiscators of the liberties of the Portuguese ! He is now out of Parliament , keep Mm out , and so punish him for his shameless inconsistency . What are the Democrat ? of Marylebone about ? As yet there is not a candidate in the field worth a bunch of dog ' s meat . Let a people ' s candidate be found forthwith who will pledge himself to stand by England ' s " PEOPLE'S
CHARTER , " AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN ALL OVER THE WORLD ! Again , and yet again we appeal to the People against the British Government ' s War against the People of Portugal . If the House of Commons really represented the commons of this country , Palmerston would be IMPEACHED . As it is , the people may do their duty . The Irish Confederates in London have been the first to set a noble example in protesting against this War . The Chartists everywhere should " pronounce" likewise ; and the People generally should wash their hands of this disgraceful and wicked aggression .
Between the " Holy Alliance" of the North-East , and the " Quadruple Alliance" of the . South-West , the nations are crucified . 0 ! for the hour when they too shall unite , and the tocsin sound for thei deliverance !
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THE NEXT HARVEST . Every promise is given of a plentiful and abundant harvest , and this promise is the head-pacificator of England . Men hear their present famine and privations with greater patience , in the belief that a few months will set all , ' right , and that those who survive till the " grass has grown" will be able to fling care to the winds , and live on the fat ol the land . We see in the redundancy of vegetation that which we beheld last year , arid for many vears , the
fertility of nature , the beneficence of Providence , and the industry of man j hut , alas ! we see no guarantee of plenty for the poor , or bread for the hungry . Instead of lulling the people into a state of listless apathy , the signs of a good harvest ought to rouse thera into energetic measures for preventing _forestalled and monopolists from again robbing them of that which God is willing to bestow . Already the forestallers are in the field , as witness the following , from the Western Luminary : —
Speculation is Corn . —A farmer in this neighbourhood , who is a large grower , has sold nil his wheat in the ground at _lGs . per bushel , to bo delivered between harvest and Christmas . Already the evil effects of pernicious laws are extending their blighting influence over the coming year , as witness the following : — Cost of _rns Gams Laws . —From , the very large quantity of game preserved on the Duke of Marlborough ' s estate at Blenheim , some ofthe corn-growing land in the locality will not produce a bushel of corn to the acre . Ilia grace bas some hundreds of acres of arable land in his occupation now unproductive , and which has not this season been cultivated .
Already the anticipated supplies from abroad are being forestalled in the same way , as witness the following : — Corn speculators are rapidly buying up the standing crops in France , in order to have a command of the future markets , although this is expressly forbidden by the French laws . Already , then , the harpies are in the field to take the bread from the mouths of starving children i and tlie working man lulls himself in the fond security that , because he sees plenty around him some of it will , fall lo his share ? It may be very near him . A
pane of glass in a shop-window may divide him from the loaf ; it may be the thin brittle partition between life and death—but it is there , and—he dies ! Vf hen will he awake to a sense of his power —his moral power—Ins legal power—his irresistible power ? Brittle as that pane of glass are the monoplies that incase him—yet he moves not a fibre ! —he lifts not a voice in the rescue ! Yet he can see the change ; the riddle of hypocrisy is read ; a little time ago the famine was a" dispensation of God 5 " a little time ago there was" no food in the land , _*"
a little time ago it was" nature ' s fault . " Now the beneficence of God and a nre arc too palpable ; ev 3 n unblushing effrontery can 10 longer say there is " no food in the land ; " perhaps the Archbishop will proclaim it has come in consequence of his prayers I Now the Deity can no longer be made the scapegoat of Monopoly . Well , then , we ask , has Monopoly . ' given up the argument ? Does it admit there is enough for all ? Does it say all shall have a fair share ? No 1 It has recourse to another argument , the worst and last ! That argu . ment is physical force !
It is aware of the consequences to be entailed by its own sinister intentions — and , therefore , it ' prepares its powers to crush protesting humanity , therefore the old Chelsea Pensioners are taken from their long repose , to cam "laurels" that should never grace their brows . " Therefore the Hampshire Telegraph informs US : — ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ The Admiralty have _wdwedjue raeu « f the Dock-
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yard battalion to be drilled 3 _vyeninga a week , thai i _m possible thev may be rendered fmnt durwgtbu summer ; I . oOO stand of arms , and 800 _atium , » m other requisites , have been sent truto t ho lower . The officers and men at the _Clareato Victualling Yard have formed into a brigade of artillery , and will be instructed in the use of great guns in battery , and in boats . It is settled that the first master attendant and the master shipwright are to be lieutenantcolonels ; the second master _attendant and _thestorekeeper and store receiver to be _majors ; the other officers ofthe yard , the clerks , & c „ to be captains and subalterns . Therefore the United Service Gazette acquaints us with the following : - •—
_RiMOVAt . ov Troops . —Tbe cavalry corps—the head-quarters of whieh is now stationed at PeirehiJI Barracks , Edinburgh—is to march south in the middle of June , and will be stationed at Newcastleupon-Tyne , Durham , and Leeds . This is _caid to be caused by an apprehension of some disturbances in tho West of England . The 6 th Dragoon Guard * who have until now filled these _out-statious ; will throw out detachments to Presten , Bradford , and the west of Yorkshire . Manchester has now become the depot of a squadron ( the 11 th Hussars )/
Scotland has so long been noted for Us tranquillity that itis thought useless to keep cavalry in that country when it is required in England . It has been discovered that cavalry is not adapted for North Britain , and a troop of the 3 rd Dragoon Guards , which was stationed at Aberdeen , was lately recalled , and infantry sect in their place . In the north and west of England tbey are the only branch of our service that can act efficiently against a mob . The 5 th Dragoon Guards will throw out a detachment to the new barracks at Preston .
Delightful preparations these for securing comfort and plenty to the famishing people ! No doubt all these strong men are being concentiated to assist in reaping the harvest ! No doubt they will secure a fair and equable distribution of its produce ! ' No doubt , backed by these , Monopoly feels self-secure , and with a light heart indulges in those vile excesses which our readers see chronicled in another part of this paper . Bnt they are leaning on a broken reed . How can falsehood resist truth ? How
can armed power strike when Us opponents are peaceable ? How can Law punish when nothing illegal is doue ? There lies our strength l Thence comes our victory ! Nor can the instruments ot Monopoly be much in love with her position ! Witness the case of a man recorded in this number of ourpaper , who , though so employed , was forced to steal to save his family from starvation ! Ay the elements of all power are in the hands of the people!—they need but to he used . Surely working men can no longer be blind to their future prospects . The famine was a godsend to
Government , since tbey fathered their faults on it . The promise of a good harvest seems another godsend to the Government , since they interpose it as a shield between themselves and popular indignation . It gives them time to surround the people with a mesh of steel . It gives them time to organize their power thus that the remotest links of the vast machinery are connected by the fineness of the mechanism ! But how disappointed they will be when they find it cannot be used ! When peace defies violence ; when prudence resists excitement , and wisdom baffles fraud . Let the people proceed as they are proceeding . These preparations of Monopoly shows its fear
and weakness * , — reveal our determination and power . Let us go on strengthening our elective influence , and seat a CHARTIST OPPOSITION in the HOUSE . Let us go on strengthening our organization , and thus take from Monopoly its power of intimidating individuals . Let us go on holding great meetings through the country , to rally those who are yet undecided—and who but wait for a display of onr power to join us heart in hand . Let us cultivate UNION AMONG OURSELVES nnd we shall triumph over the " DIVISIONS" of the enemy !
Parliamentary Review. Ten Hours' Bill. —...
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . TEN HOURS' BILL . — IRISH POOR LAW . —IRISH LANDED ESTATES BILG . — DESTITUTE RELIEP BILL . _—COLONIZATION . The two remaining stages of the Ten Hours' Bill in its passage through the House of Lords have been got over , and the Bill only now awaits the Royal sanction to become the law of the land . The opponents seem to have been thoroughly satisfied hy the decisive majority against them on its ' second reading , as neither in committee nor at the third reading was there a word of opposition or the slightest
discussion . This great and important measure received the final sanction ofthe Upper House as easily as a parish highway bill . It is true that the noble head of the house of Baring complained that its third reading had been hurried , and thus deprived him of an opportunity of saying a few " last words" of opposition , but we imagine Lord Ashburton did not in reality , feel any serious annoyance at having missed the chance of doing so . As his object was merely to keep up appearances , what he did say will answer his purpose quite as well as if he had made a speech , which would probably have been ]
like all his other speeches—six and one-tenth on one side , and five and nine-tenths on the other—even if the preponderating fraction al reasoning , or bias , had not been more minute than that we have supposed . As it is , the great struggle of one-third of a century has achieved its legislative consummation The Ten Hours , Bill is henceforth taken out of the list of those vexata questite , which agitate society and furnish topics for the hustings and the public press . It is now part and parcel of that mysterious thing " the British Constitution , " and is fenced round by legislative sanctions , as awful and as power ,
ful as those which consecrate Magna Charta or the Bill of Rights , For the sake of the oppressed and over worked millions , to whom theis law will secure ? due rest from toil ; for the sake of that equalisation and better distribution of labour , which is one of the great requirements of modern times ; for the sake of the probable comparativel y unfrequent recurrence of those periodical panics which resulted from the old system of unregulated labour , and for the sake of the health , the intellectual progress and the moral improvement which may he fairly anticipated among the factory workers , ns one of
the inevitable consequences of greater leisure , we heartily congratulate all who have aided in earrying this most important , and , as we believe , most beneficial measure . But its influence will not stop with the direct advantages it will confer . It gives to the reformer , who is labouring to achieve other necessary changes , another of those encouragements to perseverance of which history is already full , but which , whenever they occur , are always welcome and heartinspiring . In the success which has finally crowned this long-protracted agitaiou is contained a guarantee that no cause which has a sound principle
for its foundation , and the benefit of the community for its object , will fail , if its advocates be true to themselves , and persevering enough in their exertions . The Utopia ' s of to day become the commonplaces of to-morrow ; and , among other changes , tha * - extension of political privileges , conjoined with a commensurately extensive aud nnsectarian system of national instruction , which now seem to the " wise men" of this generation an impracticable dream , will hy-and-hy take their place among the recognised institutions of the country , as quietly as the Ten Hours' Bill has done .
The Amendments Made By The Lords On Two ...
The amendments made by the Lords on two of the Ministerial Irish measures occupied the Commons during the greater part of Monday night . The fate of these amendments , and the conduct of the Ministry with reference to them , afforded auother in . stmctive commentary on the nature of Whig statep ,. men and of Whig policy . As the _Ivish Poor Law went up to the Lords , it provided for _levying rates ou the Union at largo , when ever they -exceeded 2 s . Cd . in the rental of any particular district . This would have to a considerable extent put an end to the clearance system , wr to the driving of the destitute into town districts , because the landlords , by
The Amendments Made By The Lords On Two ...
| being called upon to contribute to the rat _* _" _« 5 . 1 2 * . fid , could not have escaped the comequ , L Vt these ejectments , and would still have been rV _* to the support of the poor . This , however A- \ suit the " Irish Par . _v" in the House of Lor ds " they , therefore , passed an amendment by whi \ _^ rates will , in fact , fall , _on the electoral div ; , j The amendment is very ingeniousl y co | trW eri r "' the landlord ' s object . It provides that no ne ° shall be considered resident in mi elector al _diyi _" _* unless he has occupied a tenement in it , 0 r usu .. slept in it for 30 months during the three ve J _previous to his application for relief . Jt creates t kinds of settlement—one on the Union , and anotij
in the electoral division ; and once atn _* K \ i Smor than six months away from the place _wherfi _hehj , lived all his days , he ceases to belong to _thut divi - sion , and must Jive at least 30 months in aonj * other place before he acquires any ri ght to 3 _^ tlement again . According to Sir J . Graham , man of the speakers in iheHotise of Commons , and eve * the confessions of Ministers themselves , the _rerf effect of this clause will be to encourage the land _, lords to turn the pauperism on their estates adrift , It will , most probably , flow to some open township or town district , which will become a mere sink of destitution ; it will be impossible to raise rates to support them in that division , and one of two things will happen , either tbe poor victims of landlord
rapacity will be sent over here in shoals , in tlie way they have already been sent this year to Liverpool , or the means of supporting them in Ireland will have to be taken from the Consolidated Fund , tothe ; tune of £ 2 , 000 , 000 annually ; the landlords mean - while will escape scot-free . It will be seen at once bow effectually this neutralizes one of the grand professed objects of the bill , namely , that the poverty of Ireland shall be supported by the property of Ireland * , and , also , that it virtually infringes upon the privileges of the House of Commons , by which that House alone is empowered to pass money bills and tax the people . But , though all this was freely admitted , tie Whigs , could not screw their _courage up to the sticking-place , end say so to their Lord
ships . They were certain the law would not work well with this plaguy hitch , and fully expected that they would have to mend its rickety framework next session , but for tbe sake of peace , ( query place . _*) and of getting any Poor Law at all , tbey were content to " eat humble pie , " bow down in submission to tbe Lords , and -surrender up the privileges of the Representative House as another sacrifice at the sacred shrine of Irish landlordism . This is the mode in which they legislate where the poor are concerned .
By Way Of Counterpoise, However, To This...
By way of counterpoise , however , to this pusillanimity , and as if for the purpose of _showing ; that they are not utter cravens , they refused to assent to two amendments on the Landed Estates Bill , which votes £ 2 , 000 , 000 to the Irish landlords , upon loan , for the improvement of their own Estates . The original objects to be effected by this bill were the drainage and reclamation of land , to which the Lords added a proviso that the money might also be employed for the erection of grist mills , and other useful agricultural buildings . Not an unreasonable addition in itself , one would say , aud one whieh could , at all events , have led to little harm , if SirC . _^ Wood ' s statement be true , that a million and half of the money has heen already applied for , for the original objects . But on this point the Ministry took their stand , and
with a great show of valour and patriotism in the defence of the very privileges they had shortly before surrendered , they negatived the Lords' amendments ; upon which a Conference was appointed between tlie 'wo Houses , to talk over the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee . In a matter where Ihe lardloTds , by indirect and circuitous methods , are likely to plunder the country of two millions annually , for the support of that poverty which they have mainly caused , our excellent Ministry gave way ; but in another , where it is possible that ten , twenty , or thirty thousand pounds might have been used f . _ir the erection of useful buildings , not contemplated in the original plan , they would not budge an inch ! This is swallowing a camel and strainining at a gnat with a vengeance !
On The Same Evening Mie Chancellor Of Th...
On the same evening Mie Chancellor of the Ex . chequer gave an account ofthe condition of Ireh >» _- under the Destitute Relief or Soup Kitch Act , which Sir James Graham truly described as by no means a cheering one . While they fail to bring forward a single enlarged and practical measure for the permanent improvement oj the condition of the Irish people , tbey are profusely lavish in the expenditure of money on scheme ? that are neither efficient temporary measures , nor ut the slightest imaginable future utility . It is clear , that under the recklesslv extravagant and
improvident policy hitherto pursued by the government , tbe sum already advanced ; for mere temporary relief will not sustain the people until next harvest and when that harvest comes we see nothing in any ofthe measuie- they have proposed which is at all calculated to afford the destitute and impoverished peasantry either adequate employment or adequate wages . In short , as we have before had occasion to remark on this particular topic , the whole ministerial policy with reference to Ireland is a huge fallacy , and must result , as it has already resulted so far as it has gone , in downright and complete failure .
The Petty And Inefficient Character Of T...
The petty and inefficient character of the Whig nostrums for Ireland found an able critic in Lord Lincoln , on Tuesday evening , in submitting to the House his motion for an extended and improved system of colonization . His Lordship very concur sively proved that the real grievances of Ireland have not yet heen grappled with , and that all that has beeen done is mere humbug . So far we perfectly agree with Lord Lincoln , and also that some means must be taken to provide work and food for the more than two millions of persons who will be left totally destitute and idle tor at least 30 weeks in the
year . His Lordship proposes to do this by means of foreign colonization , on a superior plan to the mere exportation of human beings which has heretofore been carried on . . We are not prepared to deny that colonization may become in the history of nations a social necessity . We see . in the economy of the beehive , that when its busy inmates become too numerous , a swarm is thrown off , to find in some other quarter a home and the means of self-support . But , in the bee-hive two things are always observable ' before " swarminR , " first that there is a real " surplus population ; " and second that all work , and all are entitled to receive a fair share
of the products of their toil . Is Ireland in this condition ? Has she really a superabundant population ? Can there be no work , no increased supplies of food found for the Irish people in their own land ? These are the questions one would like to ask before entering into any long discussion about the propriety of sending away to foreign lands a whole people . Rightly looked at , the real strength of any and of every country consists in the number of its labourers . It _^ islabour which isthe original creator of all wealth , andeveryunnecessarysubtractionfrom this invaluable reproductive source of wealth is , prima facie , a positive loss to the Commonwealth . We are , certainly ,
advocates of colonization as a means—aa Me means of introducing plenty , prosperity , and , contentment ino Ireland , instead ofthe famine ,, pestilence , and * _, despair , whieh has for months ravaged that unhappycountry . _jTJttt our _cofoiMzatjbn uK >»» i _8 commence I _« IRELAND no / rn Ccmada or . Australia . Whenwa had fully set the Irish people to work in thedrainins of its bogs , the rcclaswiion of its cultivable wastes , and the better cultivation of the land no _» under _tillaae ; it would then be time enough _to-send any •* surplus population" abroad , but , unt ' _iithew , _diseniac it as they may ,, any _sehome for that purpose is merely aiwtWYnwa of that inveterate _selSslmej * _wuuld
and rapacity , inherent in aristocrac y , which , rather , as it has done , decimate a nation by Famine , or expatriate it en masse from its native shores , th _»« permit the least infringement of its privileges ana _enjoymnits . " Ireland for tho Irish" say we in tbo _bestso-nse of thsso words ! Let us sec its soilpoP u * latvd by free and independent labourers , at _oaw bea ' itifving its surface and aihline to the wealth _« tb _^ country by their industry . When this isu _*»& T shall advocate foreign colonization , but not tt ' then . Every ship load that is now transported- ?' I that would bounder an improved system , can . "' fact , only be _cofisidered a bonus tor the countenance _^ fmisgovernmentand oppression in the island now 1 whence tho exiles arc draited .
The Other Business Of The Week Manifests...
The other business of the week manifests an " »• creased auxiety to get through a Session , whiGb , h ' the Whig party , bas heen full of professions , and bar * ren in performances . Come when its closo may , the curtain will fall before a _lUUejs _, if not _dissatiaflWt audience ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05061847/page/4/
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