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_gon tdsee th » t gendeman , ; a _« a use _^ onr influence to « t the case brought under the coniideration ofthe louse . We hive alarmed them already with the meetin-, and if it conldbe noticed in the hon « e , _» would be ftemeans of preventing thelike tyranny again . These _tustcn are al , thehead of the League here , and the four brothers haw subscribed among them six Hundred _pounds , £ 150 tad , tothe quarter mWonfund ; yet th « . _$ i , n . prisoned these poor orphans for _asking as advance of wages , and absenting themselves one afternoon from their work . I wish we had Mr . Roberts here . This is a fine case , and the tyrants are made of gold . I am Miry I cannot give yen any more than a mere outline , yoa will tee tbe whole in the hands of Jlr . Dnceombe . Webavebadmeetinga here for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; also Wm . EUis . last week we had a tremendous meeting against the enrolment of the militia . —Dundee , Ie .. 5 th , 1846 .
C _ i-FF . —Any persons wishing to join the Chartist Cooperative land Society must apply to Mr . John M'Leed , or Mr . David Scringeonr . Vf . Hakes . —No land will be purchase-, except such as the directo rs can have immediate possession of . None will be purchased during the occupation of a tenant . _jlr . JeuAsMAtsxT requests that no letters containing money for the Land Fund may be addressed to him . Only the letters addressed to the "Editor" belong to bis department . j * . Grit will receive a letter from Mr . H . Duos _Fcsd . —Mr . Dixon acknowledges the sum _^ c £ 19-. from Leeds , per Wm . Brook .
£ _ ___ D-o _ u > Shoet-Tike Comk-Tteb . —we had a- _rep _ - » f the meeting in type before tbe __ -t * lt <~ 1 of _ _ _fr < " u _gj , report . W . P ., BatGHTOK . —Kestw . ek . Bex , _Pbes-ojc . —We have no room for f _* K _» ae SHoaT-TniE Coioottbe , P * ESTo _ .- .. 'n , ank- for the newspaper ; but we had already a n _^ of & e meetia _^ in type before the paper came * _tan-d _* _Ga ___ m _ sis » - _ - _ _—A-0-respon _'_ aat _^ Manchester writes to us that the c « rd-s-inder snd stripers have _foraied a union , numbering alrr _ _, _^ y _^ ! Te & thousand strong . Y _ -r _« -S Patkiots' _asd , _£ » _ks > _yfaxiwa ' ahd < _Jmi _ - d _ is * s _Fnsos . —I _b __ e £ te " acknowledge the receipt of 4 s . lid . from Mr . Jy . _-ft-jim _, _, of Katcliffe , and of Hs . _od . from Mr . Shac _. Jet » D , being the remain * of a earn
originally _collected -with the intent of raiting-a _"West London Chart HbU . I beg also to acknowledge the receipt of a moneywfer for 5 s . from T . S . K _^ of Birminghani , bm itw __ be impossible forme to obtain tbe money at tie Borough Post-office until T-. S .-X . tells us iis ac- ) _ L He < cau do so pric-tely , if he chooses . — Thok _., 6 Coo- _ s , Secretary , 13 * . Blackfriaf _' s-road . Tmnua _MitLS , "Sew Inn-street , Shoreditch , -wishes us state that be is rot tiie Hr . Mills , w _ . took part at a copper , bald _^_ t the Kock , _losson-groTe , Km Paint . " * birthday . T . LawicESs . —Before jour _commtmicatiea was received last week , we had been already supplied with a notice Of theme-ting by onr reporter , who assures us that the _Wunon-ofUr . Cooper ' s name was barely accidental .
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_SOC-ETTt-lKES . re * m . o _' coHSoa . £ s . d . _SdlSx , per C . Tv " . Smith 8 16 Lambley , Notts , per W . l'lumb 17 0 _OrieS , per D . Scringeonr .. .. w .. lie _James Powell , New Radnor _« .. .. 112 4 William , Sorthampton .. _ , .. .. 2 12 4 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. _M .. 500 . Jarvis HeadaB , Bradford , Wilts _.. 2 12 0 -Cockermouth , per 6 . Peat .. .. .. 040 Derby , per W . Crabtree 4 0 0 Westminster .. .. — .. 5 _ * Orai-eci , per ft . Ashworth .. -. .. 200 IBndly , per Thos . Davis 2 0 0 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 220 Barnsley , per J . Ward _ . .. .. .. fi 0 0 Nor nieh , per J . 'Hurry 117 6 Keighley . per J . Ticars .. .. .. .. 4 17 8 | Oldham , per W . Hamer „ .. .. .. 200
David Watson , _Effinburgh _ . .. .. 4 0 o Sheffield , per 6 . CaviU 8 5 6 Plymouth , per E . Bobertson .. -. .. 330 Tiverton , per Thos . Wood .. .. _ . 5 0 0 Todmorden . per J . Mitchell .. .. .. 200 Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. .. .. 10 0 0 Nor thampton , per "W . Mundy .. .. .. 4 4 (» Liverpool , per J . Arnold .. _ . .. -320 Robert Kidd , Dundee .. « .. .. « 31- 0 Prestos , per J . Brown .. .. .. .. 4 19 S Greenwich and Dep . fi . nl , per Mr . Floyd .. 8 0 0 Manchester , per J . Murray .. ... .. 33 10 t _ Glasgow , per J . Smith .. .. .. .. 17 10 3 Scarborough , per C . Weadley .. .. .. 2 9 e _Baeup , per J . Mason .. _ _, ., „ 5 0 0 Upton , per W . Brown _ , .. _ . .. 2 14 8 Bolton , per E . Hodgkinson .. .. .. 5 13 4 Pet-shore , per W . Conn - .. .. .. 500 Alva , per J . Robertson .. .. .. .. 224 'Blackburn , per W . Satellite .. .. .. 7 10 2 lo
_HolmfirtbjPer 3 . Cle _^ _g .. .. .. .. - 0
5 H _ B-S . PEK GEKXaAI _. _SECaSTAXT . £ s . d . £ s . d . Lower Waxlev .. .. 4 10 10 Lambeth .. .. 14 9 7 ' KacheHtorrail ~ 0 0 6 W . B . B 2 12 i M . N . 0 10 Armlev _ , .. 2 0 V 3-r . Walker .. .. 052 CHtheroe .. .. 20 »' "W . R . M . _Waugh .. 0 12 _Hindley .. .. 014 Selbv . 5 0 0 Monmouth .. . 110 0 Calais , J . "Wilson-. 0 4 fi _Oxf-. rd - - 8 6 . Do ., Mr . _Godward 212 4 Sudbury .. .. 1 19 S Do ., _Jlr . _Branin-ell 0 4 6 Leicertw .. .. 4 0 0 Do ., Mr . Bradbmy 0 4 6 Mr . Kendall .. 004 Bsth .. ~ .. 500 Stratford , Essex .. 1 2 !• Mr . T . Wilsty .. 014 null .. - .. 200 Mr . Pearce .. .. 0 12 0 BCLES . Korwich .- ... 0 10
ttVT IO * THE _ -KD COSFEBESCE . PER MR . O ' COXSOB . From Westminster .. .. .. .. 0 0 S David Watson , Edinburgh 0 1 0 3 >< _ rfha _ apt « n , per W . Mundy .. „ .. 0 0 < i Searborongh . per C- Weadley „ .. .. 0 1 0 Bolton , per E . _Hodgkinson _ , .. _M 0 4 ( I Alva , per J . Robertson .. .. ., .. 0 0 £ Ho __ i _ r th , perJ . _Clere 0 0 S
PES G _ 5 ____ X _EECEETAEV . Calais .. .. 010 _Lfdcester .. .. 01 % Oxford .. .. 010 Stratford , Essex .. 0 0 _ Sudbury .. - 0 0 3
_LEVf FOE D 1 BECTOES . F £ _B HE . _( , ' COSSOS .. From Westminster , per Mr . Doyle _M .. 005 Norwich , per 3 . Hurry _« . _* . .. ., 0 2 C . _Keighlej-, per J . Ticars .. „ „ .. 0 2 3 David Watson , Edinburgh .. .. .. 010 Greenwich and Deptford , p _* r Mr . Flojd .. 021 Scarborough , perC . Weadley 0 1 2 Bacup _, _jier 3 . Mason .. _„ .. .. 0 CH Bolton , per E . _Hodgkinson - .. .. 0 2 le Holm ____ b , per J . Clegg 0 0 9
_ E & _GESEB-L SECBETiBT . Mr- Griffith , New Barnsley .. _ , 0 8 4 Town .. .. 010 Sudbury .. .. II 5 C Oxford .. .. 020 Tiverton .. .. 018 Linlithgow .. .. 009 Carrington .. .. 051 Prescot .. .. 007 Cohte 03 10 Burr .. .. .. 0 0 6 Farrington .. .. 013 West Linton .. 0 0 C Arbroath .. .. 012 Dudley .. .. 0 1 _O Newark _M .. 012 Boi _ lo __ r __ e .. .. 046 Roehdxle .. .. 01 * George Mills .. 012 M-mchester .. .. 080 Wheatley Lune .. 0 0 U Stoke sub-llaind-n 0 18
Westminster _ . 0 2 __ Todmorden- _ . 0 1 10 Hebden Bridge .. 018 Holbeck .. .. 0 2 « Cheltenham .. 035 Butterley .. .. 0 0 5 Hauler .. .. OS 10 Stnieybridge .. « 0 S Leicester .. .. 025 Stratford , Essex .. 0 0 « Sowerby Helm .. 023 Oveiiden .. .. 011 Whittington & Cat 0 2 3 William Tell ' s Bri-Lambley .. .. 0 . . 010 gade .. .. 0 0 S < 3 ockennouth .. 0 1 10 Caiais „ .. 0 4 ( J Mer thyr Tydvil .. 007 Chorley .. .. 0 0 lo "Worsbro'Common 0 15 Anntc-v .. „ ll olil Heywood .. .. 0 1 2 Clithtroe .. .. 010 Ashton .. .. 013 7 Secretary ' s list .. 0 7-
NATIONAL CHARTER _ASSOCIATION . I EXECUTIVE . PEE MX , 0 * _C- _)_ _« NOE . David Wa _ mn , Edi __ urg ' u .. .. .. 010 Hohnfirth , iter J . _Cleyg .. .. .. .. 0 a _C Newcastle-upon-Tyne , per M . Jude .. .. 040 PEK GESEKAL SECEETaHT . Halifax .. .. 0 2 6 \ _CiielU-uliam .. .. 0 3-Bradford .. .. Oltl O W . Bush , Chelsea .. 0 1 b l ) o , _acesuntboots 0 4 0 Leicester . _yrolitson Do ., G . Batesou -. 010 Xorthern Star -. 038 Dewsbnry .. .. 034 Stourbridge , Messrs . _littletuwn .. .. 020 _BedweU .. .. 0 2 G Lower Warley .. 010 _VE-EEAX _PATBIOTS . C ___ - __ f--- —a _ _. _ . -. •« .. 036
WIDOWS OF EXII _ E 5 . Cheltenham — — — — .. 0 3 C 2 ____ x __ . —The £ 1 announced in last week ' s Star for Victim Fund from Mr . B ob _ rt __ should _should been ls . ; also tb- _ 6 - _ a o _ t __* l for Dixon Fund should have been ls . S ___ _TIOK ____ . _ANTl-KILITIA TCXD . PER _» . O ' COKSOB . W . B . S ., _Daod-e ... - - ... 0 1 0 Thomas _ T _ abtk _Wheeiee , Secretary .
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TUS ALLEGED MUlii > Eft AT GREEWICIL On Thursday ilr . C . J . _warttar , coronw for West Hfiut , resumed and eonclud _?& the inquiry touchinj the death of a male infant , folia *! buried in-He garden , lately in tlie occupation of William itieaaidsoa , assisantto the Astronomer It ojral at tbe ob __ ervatory , Greenwich-park . Several witnesses were exaiu " inc _5 , but their _evidence added _itDt-ing to . wliat is abrcidy known . The coroner _suniin _*^ UP & _G _evideacc , and afteraddrcs-ing thejury . _* Voiii four o ' clock until a _qusi-ter-past nine , expressed _hiS _^ P J 2 _* ' 011 that tlte case was complete as to the guilt of _f _^ _pwssn or _per-Ofls . letviut the jury to consider t 6 wiiom iii ? observations pointed , and to their own _eoHVictioi ; under all the c _ _r--U ! _-t-taiiC-s . The jury thc "tt r _. tired , and at _half-jssst ni __ e o ' clock rctuineJ a V _( . _* f-ict ol "Wilful-Murder" against William IlicIiar __ -oa .-
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_The I-osnos Moksiso Jocnx __ s . —Tlio _Jhriu'V Chronicle is the oldest of the morning papers , _liaviu-. existed for -cvciity- -c . cn rears ; the Morning Pvst , seventy-five ; Herald , yisty-tbrce ; Times , sixij-one ; and -lie ' _Advtrlver , iifty-one years . Lorb Asulev . —Thc rumour to which we refem . il yesWrday , to the _effeet that Lord Ashley was about to l _> e called up to the House of Lords and made Chief _C-jinraissioner of tiie Woods and Forests , is without foundation . _—Ilor . tinit Chronicle o f I'huKday .
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IW i MON _* _OAY . _^~ _nosi important feature now l » fore u-, or n ? i _*_* _present itself as a matter for commen _t ? _J week s Summary , stands the report off 3 * the ofFactonestothe _Searetary of State _r lM P ectors Department , for the half year end" _i _ % 'M Home 1845 ; an _ from that report the _** , ? fc Au S _*» _* . will be enabled to make ' * . ' _*« lu _* - _ . people what tbey would bavetoexpc * . _/? cakul _*** _* Q of asoendancy of a knot of _caph £ "l the - ditical command of Uie money h ? . ** ? > _^ _» froni thew standard of wage *; from ' _, \ _\ tae . Pow « _t-jfix the votes , the power to mak . ; * - * * Jlllit - ' to fabricate possession of the bench * lc _ lsI **» r e * . - «« 1 fron _. their evade their own law * + ?* _magwtrates , the power to selves . It will be * * _Wuen _^ _W make against themsobcr _, honest , a _(*? that Alexander Thomson is a and two _childe . _" dustliwus person , with a wife a compound " * *> that he test his right arm , and liad machinery _^^ cture of his left leg , occasioned by
_DUtECT * « ** fenced 3 kS TUE MASTERS' LAW quence _/* _**^ _REQUIRES ; that , in consefor fif * ae _^^ confined in the infirmary at Glasgow l 0 •? en weeks , and is still , from weakness , unable _,, / _" ' ake any _exertro i towards gaining a livelihood ; - * . tbat Mr . James Stewart , who deserves all praise , [ - •' . obliged to . _petition the Home Secretary to be allowed to bring « . n action _against James Clark , a fiery free tade , _infcuman lair breaking philanthropist , in order to get compensation for his victim . Does this _d-SBstiug brutality of thefactory lord , and _thisraon--treus illegality of bis brother _defils upon the _-cwsb , require further comment than the mere remark , that their money and justice power is bad enough , but good hard deliver us from their " political ascendancy Ofa , how we long to see a hundred mothers , a hundred fathers , and their hundred infant families with their heads out of their own windows , exclaiming with bitter vengeance— "" D-N THE FACTORY BELLI "
The Retort Coon « ots . —One story is good till another is heard . While we never bave palliated the system of increasing the rent of land in proportion to the expenditure of the tenant ' s industry-, skill , and capital ; bat , on tho contrary , we have ever contended for perpetuity of tenure , as the best means of developing those several resources ; nevertheless , we cannot allow ihe Leaguers to establish their temple of f ame upon the ruins of tlieir opponents . Else where we give an extract from the League , under tho head , " Look on this picture and on that ; " not giving much preference to either , while , if wo were inclined to argue sordidly upon tbe principle of buying in the
cheapest and selling in the dearest market , we should be justified in giving the preference to Sir George Chetwynii ; and it will be seen that while his _tenant , Thomas Henney , was a purchaser with notice , and a contractor ofa bargain which he need not have made , poor James Mills was not only a purchaser without notice , but without power to resist the contract and conditions imposed upon him . We beg the attention of our readers to Mills ' s " Roland" for the League ' s " Oliver . " Indeed the ease is so important th-it we shall frame both pictures in our Summary gallery , s < i that they may be seen at a glance . Look on this picture—it is from the League gallery : —
Doubtless our readers are aware that there is a gentleman of the name of _Chetwjnd , member for Newcasfieunder-Iiyne , who has figured at protection meetings in Staffordshire as a Protectionist of the first water , and a flaming "farmer- ' friend . " That gentleman is , we believe , the son of Sir George Chetwynd , On the estatt of Sir George Chetwynd , there was , in the year 1 S 05 , a tenant farmer named Thomas Henney , balding a farm upon lease , at the yearly rent of £ 130 . The following is a verbatim copy ef the receipt for his half-year ' s rent in that year : — " _Received the 13 th of _January , 1 S 05 , of Mr . Thomas Henney , the sum of £ 65 for half a year ' s reut due to Sir George _Chetn-ynd , Bart ., at Old Ifichaelmas last . Rent . ££ 5 0 0 Deduct a year ' s property tax 6 10 0
£ 59 10 "JOH . 1 _OofjgM . _** In 1 S 12 , Thomas Hennej " _s lease expired . l * ro- __ ljhe had made eome _money , for prices had been high , fai _higher than either Undlord or tenant anticipated at the commencement of the lease . Then came the competition screw , and Hennej ' s rent was _advanced from £ 130 to £ -10 per annum . And lest the landlord should not clutch all the advantage of rising prices , there was no renewal of tho lease ; but Henney went on asa yearly tenant . This is his receipt for rent in the following year : — " Received the 3 rd of July , 181-3 , of Mr . Thomas Henney , the sum of £ 105 , for half a year ' s rent due to Sir George Chetwynd , Bart , at Lady-day last . £ 105 0 13 10 0 Property tax .
£ 34 W 0 Cash received . "John Cotuss . " As the landlord expected , prices did rise in 1813 , _ane Thomas Honney experienced the advantage—to the land _, lord—of a yearly or " mutual coufidence"lioIdi _ _7 ; for by Michaelmas , IS 13 , we find him standing at the enhanced rateof £ 3 _ -ay . __ r . Here is the evidence under the hand of the landlord '; own agent : — "Received the 15 th day of January , 1 SH , of Thomas Henney , the sum of £ 156 for half a year ' s rent , due to Sir Geoige Chetwynd , Bart ., at Michaelmas last . £ I 5 C 0 0 10 10 0 One-half Property tax . £ 145 10 0 "Jons _Cot-iss . "
Shortly after this time tbe tenant died , and his son succeeded to his __ rm atthe still further " enhanced " rent of £ 345 . This is one of his receipts : — "Received this 7 th day of December , 1825 , from Mr . Thomas Henney , tlie sura of £ 17 * 210 s ., _being half a year ' s rent , due at Michaelmas last , to Sir George Chetwynd , Bart . £ 17- ' 10 s . Robert Hoabe , Jun . Xow look on this : — Honoured Sir , —I have just read in the Times of Monday an extract from tlie League about a Mr . George Chetwynd , aud one of his tenauts , Mr . Henney , showing how his rent was iucreased from £ 1-0 iu 1 S 05 , to £ 345 in 1825 . I wish , sir , the writer had stated the present amount , as I
might then make my calculation more complete ; but , ho never , I ' ll give it to you . I am a _hand-luom weaver , -eventy-three years of age . In 1805 I could earn from __ 2 s . to -5 s . a week ' ; in 1 S 121 could earn from 85 s . to 37 s . a week ; in 1825 I could earn from lGs . to 22 s . a _wesk ; and uo « , sir , iu lSia , I am right glad to bo allowed to work sixteen hours a day , and earn 9 s . ( id . a week . So that you will see , sir , that in proportion as the rent was raised on Henney , in consequence of the increased value of laud , and , of course , the increased price'uf its produce , my wages were reduced to nearly one-fourth of its former amount , i ' . r . Henney needn't have taken the land if he did uot thiuk he could make profit of it , but , poor as my job is , many a poor distressed creature would be still glad to underbid mc
Breakers _a-h __ d !—Loon Oct !!—A meeting of those _ciilins themselves Liberals , amounting , we are told , to 10 . 1 , was held ou Samrilay last , at the family residence of Lord John Russell . Tiie " carrion crows ' ' did not remain in deliberation more than a few minutes , from an apprehension , no donbt , that a long " caw _* ug" _« f the scarecrows would alarm the prey , and apprise Sir Robert of the [ jure Whig intentions . The cbl stock , with thc addition ofthe O'Connell tribe , Were present ; and wc beg the reader to nark the only resolution that tbe Liberals came to . The most perfect unanimity prevailed as to the necessity of the Liberal party doing cvey thing in their _piwcr to pass that part of Sir Robert Peel ' s
_racattre WUfCU CONCERNS CORN , AS QUICKLY \ S l'OSSlULE . We _polished tbe fact in our town _edition of last week , and we now make it more _conspicuous , that our readers may see the dod _^ e . The very moment tbat I ' eel has carried the tariff and « _Visaur ted tbe laudlords , iliac moment the Whigs , the League , and tiie Irish Liberals will join in a howl for iho mess-trough ; and woe betide the nation if wo are not _prcptred to resist tlicm . Wc should , not he astonished if , when the earn portions of the measure are carried , the Whigs should take advantage of the disorganisation in the ranks of the Protectionists to march into < -Hee .
_ruu _PuoTEcnoxisTs asd Fbke TaADEns . —The Duke of _Buckingham is going it , and so is his revere . i __! coadjutor , the Rev . Air . Litchfield , who concluded a speech with the _following quotation , and in the following terms : — The present state of public affairs also reminded him ofthe l ' _tnci in " _Uudibras , " whtre it was said , that—With some the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; Aud tiie less tliey understand , The mure they admire the sleight of baud .
Tms was the reason why so many were going over to the enemy ' s c .- . m ;< . Some years ago the Conservative party brought Sir li . iVel from _lt-. we . He wish . d they had allowed bun to stay there , ami if he had done so there were tliree characters in llomuu history which hii might nave _stiiiicd witb great advantage to himself and profit -j his country . These tliree were _Catiliuc , Cicero , and Brutus . Sir _Robert iaj « i , t have learned tliat Catiline , when ne proposed to betray bi 5 country , might easily have done so , if he lia < l only kept his oWa Secret . He it have
. _ L ;_ _i-airjied further , that if Catiline Had betrayed nis conutr ,- _, he would oul y Iiave _j , „ j la „ _deJ down to j . osierity as a sue .- _ . iful kn 3 rSi ln tiie case 0 f Cicero , ¦ Sir Robert would have _leaned , that while he was hosoured lor his cioquenco he died despised as a toward : and fr . mi the history 0 r L ' rutus he might have been taught that if _tiesar did monopolise the Crown , his sworn *_ ieud _* . ut _ . was not the man who should have slain hiini . ( _Lanunse applause . ) The rev . _getitk'imin _conftudedthy proposals "the health of the Duke of Itich-• no-il , miub was drunk with _gtvat applause .
, xo i , jour _raTCrenM-3 » it . mr heart ?; hit ' an _gai . \» s 8 Sat no friend . l _« . when " vou quote nlKl uaas quote Him correctl y . The words of the oei are " Doubtless the pleasure is a 5 great . " row , jraar _wcmssc , _J'ou have onlv said in ver _; e _ree-sctf waas" » vo have repeated over aad over again in
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proM ,- We said that . Sir Robert Peel would always so nmtify the muddled brains of the agriculturists , that tliey would not understand what his measure meant ; but we tell your reverence that if the bible and thc sword had not been quartered as the arms of your church , and if you hadn't robbed the poor of their poor pittance , there would have been no necessity for vour att endance on the stage of ag itation ; and if the " Duke _« f Buckingham and his order had not licked the poor man's platter clean he mi ght have remained quietly at Stowe , while the people were fighting his _battleB . Let ns remind your reverence of some other lines of Hudibras—When civil dudgeon first grew high , And meii fell out they knew xot why , And pulpit , drum _eccloii-astic Was heat with fist-instead of _AS-TICK
Now , your reverence , every man to his calling . Your duty was U preach Christ ' s gospel , every word of which breathes kindness towards the poor , but you have preached the Buckingham gospel , which will eventually end in thc restoration of that property to those from whom conjointly with his Grace vou stole it . ' The Sn- _ - _ or nut U _ s _> . —Last week we ven < tured to hint at the probable consequence of the shake of the hand between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Ashfey , while we also commented upon the _resignatioa of the representation of Dorsetshire bv his lordship
we have now to note the sequel . Sir Thomas 'Fremantle vacates his scat for the representation nf the Duke of Buckingham , and his office aa secretary for Ireland as well . Lord Lincoln succeeds him in Ireland , and Lord A _. hhy succeeds the Eacl « f ( Lincoln as Commissioner of Woods and Forests , or goes into some other sung ttrth , as Viscount Canning will be a _competitor for _tita Woods and Forests , flow are the mighty Men J When the emoluments of office can -educe such a man from such a cause , what protection have the poor in the leadership of the great ?
Thb M-rdehkr Johnstone . —Tlic flagrant violations of all Jaw in favour of broad cloth have become so glaring and conspicuous ef late , that wc would recommend something like thc following graduated scale of punishment for murder : —For a duke , sympathy forbcingput to the trouble ; for a noblclord _, censure trom the opposing portion ofthe press , according to the value of his political party , or Not Guilty , 'PON MY HONOR ! for a squire , a hearing before his pot-companion justices , with a strong censure upon the accuser , tor having put the gentleman to so much pain and trouble ; for a Leaguer ,
a vote of thanksfor getting rid ofa portion of the surplus population ; for a shopkeeper , fourteen days imprisonment fer manslaughter ; for a gamekeeper , _compensation for his time and trouble , to be paid by the family oi deceased , and a strong expression of magisterial approval of his conduct , with remonstrance to the friends of the deceased ; and for thc working-man , to be hung by thc neck— -like Cook , of Mitchell-dever , for striking AT Bingham Baringuntil he is dead , and the Lord have mercy on his soul . We have often said , that there is more danger to the peasant who shoots the squire's haro , than to the squire who shoots the peasant ' s head .
Ruie __ n TiK . —The government and chancery brokers have set oif upon a long journey , which they mean to perform by the old metliod of riding and tying . We will explain this mode of travelling to < mr readers . A aud B have between them but one horse te perform a j-urney of fifty miles . A starta first , and rides the horse , say two miles , and ties him to a hedge , bush , or gate , and then walks on . B comes up and mounts the horse , rides on , . and passes A , and when he has gone his two miles he dismounts and ties ; . A again mounts , and so the process goes on . So with the government practitioner and chancery operator . The government man had a long pull
at it and tied , and now the chancery broker is taking his spell at the deposits , to purchase government stock to keep the 'Change pulse up while Peel is riding roughshod over THE PLOUGHED FIELD . The funds have rushed up to 97 £ , while thc good lines have also taken a pop ; but when these securities are brought to the hammer again , to be placed to the proper account , there will bs Old Harry to pay on 'Change . Thb Corn _TniDK . —AU is hurry skurry , and living from hand to mouth , until Peel shall have fixed the price of bread ; thc farmer , are not so anxious to sell as they wero , while thc foreigii exporters of all articles of food are waiting for a lurch , and are lying by for the result of the measure .
_Tride . —We learn that the state of suspense created by the commercial policy of the Prime Minister has the general effect of arresting speculation , while fn > m the manufacturing districts we learn that the orders are not so large at this period as they were at the same period of last year . Like all who live upon hope , the Manchester men live upon thc prevalent convi _.-tion that the existing difficulties wi ! gradually pass away .
IRELAND . The Irish papers , after-the usual amoust of conspiracies to murder , one ef which will be found at loot , announce the tardy rescusitation of the Irish protectionists , and , consequently , requisitions are being signed to the High Sheriffs to convene meetiugs to oppose tho Prime Minister .
CoX-PIB-ClES TO _HUnOEB . The leinster Express say 3 : — " Five men have been arrested and coinmittvd to the county gaol at Maryborough , for conspiracy to murder Mr . White , of Charleville , near this town ( Ilorris-in-Osi-ory ) . Their names are Dennis Kennedy , Darius Carroll , Michael Treehy , Timothy Lalor , and James Scully . It seems that on the eveniug previous to the attempt to shoot Mr . Vf bite ' s man , Dennis Conuor , these fire men partook of some refreshment at a sort of half-shebeen and balf-housc of entertainment , kept by a Mrs . Mary italone _, _atias _Q-igly , at _Bovris-in-Ossorr . At tlu > place they are represented as having drank two pints of whiskey . Lalor was armed with a pistol , Soully with a _blunderbuss , and Carroll with a fowling-piece . Lalor said he hud every hope he would
be able to take down Mr . White or his steward—that nothing could _give liim greater happiness . Carroll then added that , as for his own part , he would never rest eusy until he dropped either of them ; tbat he would take earc tliat it would not be botched liko Mr . Koe ' s affairs . On the night ofthe 18 th of January the same party arc represented as holding reude _ v _ v _ s for three hours at , thv same * hou « e of entertainment , ' all armed like men prepared for deeds of bloodshed and desperation ; Carrol ! said that he could not be losing time in this manner , that he should shoot either Mr . White or his steward . IIh added that it was d——n well for Mr . White that there were coal carriers on the road a few evenings previously , when he met him , or he would not miss such an opportunity of _dashing his _braiiis out . These five men are to be tried at thu ensuing assizes . "
And again , " James Condron has been arrested at hi < own house at _Clonnvd _, ntar _Uountrath , for being one of a party that conspired to murder Mr . John Carr , the Messrs . Jeffs head ganger , at Kilbricken . Condron ' s associates have absconded , but hopes are entertained that tliey will be apprehended before the assises . "
FOREIGN . Wail—We have it from a source upon which we place the most implicit reliance , tliat Lord Aberdeen lias directed Mr . Pakenham , the British Minister at Washington , to propose arbitration to tha American President , aud , in the event of refusal , to declare war .
TUESDAY . Fuee TnAnE . —The all-absorbing debate upon the great measure swallows up all thought of minor intelligence , and although we propose giving an extensive summary of Parliamentary proceedings , we shall pick the plums out of the mouths of the several speakers . Mr . P . Miles , the lather of the Masters and Servants' Bill , very much resembling the Fat Boy in Pickwick , and _presenting but little appearance of poverty , led on thc _I'rotectionists at a very slack
Cre . Ue said that he considered " the change in the Com Laws now proposed , pregnant with greater danger to the country even than the _' proposition for the Reform Bill . " Miles , we told you so , many months a <_; o , and if you had read thc _Nortliern Star , you would have made a better speech . Wc told you that the landlords looked to the 107 , 00- tenants at will as a protective force against Reform , but that they would see aosuch power in a law which enables the foreign untaxed grower to coiup _. te with the domestic taxed grower .
Sir W . Heatheote said he objected to it , because it did not take equally from all classes the protective duties which they enjoyed , but left agriculture , which required pro : ection more than any other interest , entirely without it . No , Sir William , it docs not take equally from all classes , it takes 5-6 _tlis from the paper-stainer ** , merely to accommodate those of your order , who use the finest description , while it docs not make any reduction in thc article used by the humbler classes , and it leaves to yon just as much as you can produce from your estate , and gives you the power as a legislator to reduce the tux _ _. and burdens of the conntry to your own ability to bear tlicm .
Lord Norreys suid , if the measure were carried , it would be carried not from any conviction of its _wisdom or its necessity , but from a wish of many Conservative members , who considered it inevitable to have it settled by Sir ltobert Peel rather than lord John Russell , lie , therefore , warned Sir ltobert Peel , that if any confusion _-lio-ld arise from the attempts to settle it , Ue must be responsible for that confusion . Sow , Norreys , you are a better boy than " Miles ' s Uoy ''—you have been reading the Star ; we told you precisely the same , that we would rather see tlic measure carried by I ' eel than by a coalition of Russ-11 , the League , and thc Irish Liberal-. * u « t , as for the confusion , when that comes , it will not bc to protect your iuterest , but to see how we can i urn the new measure to the advancement of democratic * l _* _"" - ciplos .
Sir John Walsh s _;« H , he had read and thought m _ ' _«* h upon ths subject , im < l he could not hut come to the cot . ' - elusion that , in _agiviing to this change , the _Iious 3 would be taking a leap in Ik * dark , of which the result must be perilous and unknown . We rather think that you have been ' reading in the dark " , Sir John , aud wc don ' t think you have cither read or _thought m uch upon the subject , and the
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more yon have read an 4 thought the more culpable y ° _" _J- _. and the more you deserve punishment for _> j l , P P sed some timely measure which _woullhave obviated the necessity oTthe Prime Ministers home-thrust at your monopoli _ i _ g order . You robbedthe Irish Church forthe Irish landlords , without giving aparticleof the benefit to the farmers ; you robbed the English poor for your own benefit , ami now , the d—1 mend yoa , when you get a wmeezo in your own vice . _..- ¦ Lord John Russell literally said no mow than to give his consent to Sir Robert Peel wearing the faded laurels of Whiggery . " While , ' said . _his little _totdship , " with tho Whigs would _reiiUhe solid satisfaction , that , out of office , they had jo _' . _nol together to consolidate the triumph of the _Minister'if-Aie day . "
Ah ! Johnny , _here ' s no _satisfaction in being out of office , aitd . _yttt know it ; but you never shall get in agai n * We have three snug _ifttle berths at Yorfc Castle tvifh the names scratched over them , for you , Normanby _, and Fox Maule—where you must go and do penance one day or other for the ten years '* t . ins you committed _s-ga ' mst the poor while in office . Next came the holy Saint Harry , who led the popgun rear of tho Protectionists * squad . He said : — He should like Sir Robert ' s pl * n better , if he had transferred that part of the poor rate which now fell on the land exclusivel y to the Consolidated Fund . He then complained that government had not taken into consideration the effect of this change inthe Coax Law on the bent chaboes recently created in lieu _^ f tithes .
What , Samt Harry : are you too turning your back against the Church ! "Here the . envious Harry ' s re **—this was the _unkindest cut ofall , " and well may the Church exclaim , " Et tu , Brute !" But depend upon it , Hawy , that the men who will be called upon to pay the old rate of rent-charge in lieu of tithes out of the new rate of rent , established by Peel , will groan more over their own sorrows than they have ever wept over the sufferings of the poor ; and they'll give mother Church such a kick as no undutiful child ever administered to a parent ; and we'll help them , Harry , and they'll get more kicks than halfpence , Harry ; but then you would transfer the poor to the consolidated fund . Now , a . this is likely to become a part of the philanthropic policy of the tender-hearted Protectionists , it is indispensable thatthe poor should understand what thc inevitable result must be ; and if Peel's measure should not be stripped of the one jewel upon which the whole machinery turns , the FIVE YEARS '
ltETROSPECTIVE-mind , RETROSPECTIVE , INDUSTRIAL RESIDENCE , we should not be at all astonished to find the League and the Protectionists joining in the cry of " NONE OF MY CHILD !" and _tratisfering tho poor to the Consolidated Fund . The inevitable result ot ' _sHcha measure must be as follows : —While even the present bone-crushing system compels the landlords and farmers to preserve some rate of wages and some scale of employment , as well to keep down rates as to save stacks from the torch , if the poor were once transferred to the Consolidated Fund , landlords and farmers , relieved from all anxiety about taxes , would have recourse to the practice of horse labour , machinery , and every other mode of diminishing manual labour , and would bc regardless ofthe number of paupers thrown upon the
Consolidated Fund . Upon thc other hand , if the monies for the support of the poor were to be voted out ofthe Consolidated Fund , and if the demand for that purpose increased , as it then assuredly would , to twelve , thirteen , or fifteen millions annually , the government would have an interest in passing stringent and coercive laws to compel labourers to work for any wages that capitalists chose to offer them ; and we should have proof of refusal established upon easy principles , and the refractory consigned , it ' possible , to greater degradation than that of bonecrushing and human flesh-eating , or perhaps transported as constructive traitors . If such a proposition is even mooted , all labour must cease , and we must bo prepared to fill the dungeons again , FOR WE MUST AND WILL RESIST IT .
Captain Fitzmauricc presented his piece , but missed fire . Mr . Sidney Herbert frankly avowed that the tariff of 1843 had failed * , that all his knowledge of the subject was gleaned from the result of Peel ' s measure of that year ; but he forgot to tell us of the collateral influence that theappointmentofSecretary . it War had upon his reflective powers and idiort memory . As the same reason has been assigned by many converts for their change of opinion , we will take the liberty of submitting an easy question for their solution . " If Peel ' s measure of 1842 has been so unequivocally successful , wherefore the prudence for extending it in 18 . 0 , as it is but a chip of tho old block .
Mr . Stratford O'Brien moved the aj £ jqurnment of thc debate , and consequently opens the ball to-night ; and thus ended the first night's force . Monet _Mahket . —The money question is so minutely wound up with the Prime Minister's commercial policy , tnat we must follow its progress . Mr . Mortimer , the chancery broker , operated to the extentof _JM-, 000 , which had a favourable effect upon the money market , and g » ve consols another start . Sn * RE _Mauket . —Still the good lines are going up . London and Birmingham have touched 230 , showing an increase of about £ 15 since thc bubble burst .
Count CincuuR . —Wc really have to apologise to her Majesty and the royal family for having allowed all thought of them to be absorbed in the important doings of THEIR PARLIAMENT ; we may no * - note , however , that since our last , her Majesty and the DEAR BABES have ate and drank , ami walked and talked and slept , and ate and drunk , nnd walked and talked and slept again . There have been no rotteu potatoes cooked in the p * lace , and her Majesty has expressed a strong hone that whatever alteration take 3 place iu the price of broad , there will be no scarcity in the palace . One of the royal carriages was despatched from Buckingham paiace this morniiif' for Dr . Locock , to inspectja chilblain upon the great toe of the Duke of York , consequent , wc are confidently _intbi-mcil , upon the sudden frost . Dr . Locock , Sir Benjamin Brodie , and Liaton , immediately repaired to Buckingham house , and after a brief consultation Listen operated upon thegreat toe of his Royal _Ilitihncss without the slightest injury even to his 110 Y AL N AIL . Mr . Liston is
indeed" Homo factus ad unguem , " A gentleman to the very nail !
IRELAND . Potatoes . —Again we have sad accounts of the distress consequent upon the failure of the potatoe crop ; but never mind , the Fort and Harbour money will soon be voted , and the poor Irish will have plenty of employment in enclosing the sea-bound dungeon with Saxon batteries , and then—Rbpkal 1 . Repeal . _—Hokraii for Repeal .
WEDNESDAY . TnE Debate . —In truth , the press appears to havo entered into a compact to withhold all lighter news until the heavy debate lias waddled to its close . We are seriously ashamed of being compelled to publish even an _abridged report of the ignorant speeches made by our representatives in Parliament . Every working man who reads tho twaddling rubbish , will at once understand the _reasou of the agitati m for thc People's Charter . The whole affair is a mere growl , an angry snarl , between two packs of hounds , the Protectionists yelping the loudest , because tliey are about to be driven from tbe mess-trough , while the _cxpeciant Leaguers assume the modest gravity of triumph , very unbecoming to their order . Throughout the debate , as far as it has gone , not a single word has escaped the lips of a single speaker
calculated to inspire any tlie slightest hope or confidence in the working man , while our assertion , that the whole measure was after all but a means to nu end , is being strengthened by each speaker as far as fools can give strength to wisdom . All the youngsters threaten Peel with certain confusion , while it will bc our duty to confine that confusion to tho ranks of those who of old were in the habit of remaining quiet , tranquil , and secure , while the poor , _icnornnt . foolish , _confidir . g people fought their battles , and bn _* e their blows . We noiv resume our plum-picking , which , in truth , from the opening of Miles , the lather of the Masters and Servants Bill , down to the adjournment of the debate by Mr . Colquhoun , was as dull , monotonous , and unprofitable a eonccm as eould be well imagined . Mr . Stafford O'Brien , a Protectionist , opened the debate on Tuesday night , and here are his plums : —
He regretted that the agricultural interest had not an opportunity of publicly and constitutionally declaring tlieir opinion . * * * After the late declarations , he wanted to know upon what principles parties in this country werc , in future , to be kept together J Not only hud the present government changed its principles since it came into office , but it had also taught us this valuable truth , that piwties in tbis country were no longer to bc kept together by distinctive principles . * * * Hc could not agree with the proposition of Lord J . Russell—that protection to agriculture was no longer defensible ; and in reference to his assertion , that labour .. as the property of the poor man , observed , that it wns well for those who had used up that property most cruelly in thc manufacturing districts , to come forward , and say now that wc oug ht to let it alone .
From the lirst sentence , it would appear that Mr . O'Brien does not took upon ParUamont as a public or CONSTITUTIONAL CHANNEL for tbe expression of agricultural opinion . Wc believe , as at present constituted , that it is not constitutional , but it is public enough ; and it * the landlords have not had their full swing of publicity and representation , we don't know who has—in fact , tliey have actually destroyed themselves by an evil exercise of tlie monstrous powers they had . The very result that wc anticipated when fools reviled what they called our " pro-Tory policy , " has occurred ; we said , that the larger the Tory majority the greater Iho chance ol bringing public opinion to bear against their monstrosities . In fact , every prediction we made in _KS'JK ., as to Peel sending Stanley to the House of _Lol-iis ; his attack noon the fumh ; his centraJisatioii of _.
raveriin "Hit ; and om * predictions of 1843 nml the present ! _i _* is . _** j . m our letters to tlio _ rkjh hmillovdj ; our » i _* cdi . *! tion in the work on " _S _' . ' . iaU Farms ; " urn * _pvoikecy . _VBiost fulfil _]^ _upoTi _Peel ' s tariff of 1 S 12 , fully
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establish , the foot that we were , aware of that confusion which was sure to emanate from the unconstitutionality of the House of Commons . _^ - O'Brien wants to know upon what principles parties in thiB country are to be kept together . Why , what a schoolboy question ! Hav e the people not been endeavouring , ever since the passing of the Reform Bill , to break down those very principles upon which parties have been kept together ; and did we not , in our commentary upon the
_ALL-MIGHTY MEASURE , Bhow that its greatest value did consist in what Mr . O'Brien most dreads—the utter routing and break * ing up of old party interests . The speaker goes on to say , " that parties in this country were no longer to be kept together by distinctive interests . " Why , to be sure , with what blushing effrontery theso babblers do admit the sins of the past , by lamentations for the threatening future ' . The very speeches of tbose boys would even , if not answered of themselves , induce the working-classes to fight , tooth and nail , for any measure that will scatter the " DISTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES" of the
unconstitutional representatives . Mr . O'Brien is not now for letting the labour of the poor man alone . Why was he not _struek with this new light in time ? as St . Ashley generally says , in the addresses of . the working-classes , while lie is about to betray them , " With God ' s blessing , " we will make the O ' Briens , the _Milcs ' s _, the Cobdens , the Brights , thc llumef _., the Roebucks , the _O'Connells , and the Barrens , all distinct classes with distinct and separate principles , take thoir knuckles , ono and all , out of labour ' s collar , when we get our Peel stick , with a free trade handle , and industrial residence ferrule , and the Short Time tassel to it .
Mr . Baillie said , this question , however , could not be _decHod upon its own merits ; for , before we come tea conclusion upon it , we must take into our consideration all the circumstances of the country , and , above all , the mischief of the continu-nce of tbat struggle in which the interests of the great masses of the people were arrayed against the interests of a few . Yes , Mr . Baillie , we agree with youfully , that the interests of the great mass of tho people were arrayed against the interests of a few , and will be arrayed until the many have regained their rights from the few . The Marquis of _Sranby said it was not a fair way of putting the question to _sny that the labourer , if the Corn Laws were repealed , would bu enabled to buy cheap bread ; THE QUESTION WAS , WOULD HE BE ABLE TO BUY AND EAT MORE BREAD ?
Yes , Lord Granby , that is the whole question ; and you have shown move sense in that snort question than in all the rest of tlie speakers put together . Sir James Graham ' s unpardonable speech we shall _, reserve for more ample commentary . On the motion of Mr . Colquhoun , an agricultural saint , the debate was adjourned to Thursday next , and we aro fortunately spared the infliction of wading through another night ' s Parliamentary rubbish to-morrow morning . The Ten Hours' Bill —At several periods during our hottest agitation for the People ' s Charter , different wily factions proposed Household Suffrage as a substitute for Universal Suffrage ; and it took us much labour to convince the friends of the real principle that the proposition was but a device of the enemy . We said then that there was no sueh thing as a Household Suffnge party in existence ; and
that if wc abandoned Universal Suffrage one day , they would bury it and Household Suffrage upon tha following . Now , those apparently liberal propositions arc but extinguishers to quench the greater and more dangerous light ; we have stuck to this question of the Suffrage with a pertinacity not only unrivalled , but never equalled in this world . We have rescued it from tho shot of the opon foe and the dagger of thc pretended friend , and now the same reasoning holds good with respect to the adoption of an Eleven Hours' Bill by a portion of the League . We tell the advocates of a Ten Hours' Bill , that there is no such party in the country as an Eleven Hour party ; we tell them that the very fellows who profess approval of such a measure , would , if possible , grind the boues of their slaves into gold-dust . We tell them that the proposition is intended as an extinguisher for the Ten Hours' Bill : we tell them that we sometimes work sixteen hours
a-day , and , though very strong , we find it loo much with three days' rest—that is , therest of attending public meetings , nnd answering letters . Now , beware !—Graham has left no hope of government aid in his struggle between right and might ; but , on the contrary , has eulogised Lord Morpeth for his announcement at Wakefield of leaving the adjustment of the que-tkm to the rich oppressors and the poor oppressed ;—well knowing in whose favour the balance would be . Ot late , we and the Executive have forced the consideration of this measure upon the people of London with great effect . Last night , at a most crowded and brilliant meeting—a most cheering meeting at Westminister , on behalf of Frost , Williams , and Jones—no portion of the speaking was more rapturously applauded than our demand for a Ten Hours' Bill . Men who want to have wives instead of slaves ; men who want to havo straight and _hca'tliy children , instead of crooked and sickly
abortions ; men who will no longer be slaves , veneet . You tried to do without us . You scoffed at us ; you would have spat upon us if we would have allowed you ; you have discovered that you cannot do without us . Let us go to work , then , with the same unanimity to carry the measure , that tho government and the Leaguers will oppose to it , and we must be victorious . It is a Chartist question—a purely Chartist question ; and we promise you our assistance for one whole month , with the entire aid of the Chartist staff to agitate the manufacturing districts upon the subject , if you are only in earnest . _^ We are ready to proceed to the manufacturing districts at twenty-four hours' notice , to bear all the hardships , when " we find that tho friends of the Ten Hours ' Bill shall have discovered that it requires more than their present force to rt . ist the slave trade , and we will make government interfere—it is their duty , for the _mastsrs will never otherwise consent .
Westminster Election . —Captain Rous , a Teryand not tho worst of the Tories either!—has resigned his seat for Westminster , and , of eourse , will try his luck once mote . General Evans , as a matter of course , will oppose hira ; and these are the questions which the Chartists siust put to the respective candidates : — " Will you vote for the principles contained in the People ' s Charter when submitted to the Ilouse of Commons ? Will you vote for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and otherwise assist us in trying to achieve their liberation 1
Will you vote for a Ten Hours' Bill ? Will you vote against the embodiment of a militia force ? " and whichever comes nearest those tests the people should support . But upon every occasion where a meeting is held the Chartists have the best right to be present ; the shopkeepers and voters have no right to intorfere _, they will have an opportunity of displaying tlieir strength in the polling-booth , while the field ot agitation sliould be exclusively left to the Chartists , and , indeed , the electors should be bound by their decision .
Jon . i BniGUT . —This flaming free trader , who lias never dared to meet us in his own town among his own slaves , of whose comfort he so impudently boasts , had the matchless effrontery to contradict the assertion that Mr . Gardiner , of Preston , worked his men only eleven hours a day , including an hour for dinner , while thc men , with a zeal and promptitude that docs tlicm honour , at once in a body contradicted the Quaker "fib . " Now , the fact is , that when we wore last at Preston , the hands themselves announced
the fact , and were loud in praise of their master , and we didn't interfere to cause _dissension between that good master and his good men , made good by the kindly treatment of their employer . Money M _aukf . t . —Somethiiigniusthavehappened . to the Rosinantc of thegovernmentand chancery broker . Mayhap , each in his turn to ride , pushed him too hard ; us it appears tho beast on 'Change has had a stumble , and the funds have gone down—but they'll go lower yet ; the good shares are still making good their ground , jnd breaking fresh .
IRELAND . Famine . —The potatoes aro getting worse and worse , and more and more scarce . Four millions of people are likely to be reduced to beggary and starvation , and government is about to Yotc £ 50 , 000 , or four shillings a head , for their rclirjf . Now , when the Irish parsons were obliged to put down one of tliree carriages , and to give up one of three courses , the government lent them a million . Here , then , is a million for one in each parish , und £ 50 , 000 for the remainder of each parish . Who wouln't be a shepherd ? The Irish will require more than five millions compensation for the loss of their only trade , for Sir
R . Peel may rest assured that £ 50 , 000 will go but a short way in arresting the starvation that his measure , if not prudently backed , will create . Conciliation IIall . —There was very little done in the Irish parliament on Monday , and the week ' s revenue was stated to be £ 216 . Report says , that the government practitioner is now operatiug upon the Liberator , and is actually engaged iu compounding an Irish mixture , consisting of a Landlord and Tenant Bill for the farmers , and a Coercion Bill for the labourers , to bc administered at the discretion of the Irish Executive—to bc taken whenever required , in a small bolus of lead or tho point of a bayonet .
TEUaSBA-r . Important to County _Coxstitokscies . —There being now an opening in the Chartist ranks for a few hoy lecturer- ' , and seeing the disgraceful deficiency exhibited by county men-bars in the recent debate upon Peel ' s new policy , and anxious to encourage native industry , the Executive have determined to receive sealed tenders of terms from young noblemen and countrv gentlemen anxious to be vj stvuckd in elocution . * They will commence by moving and seconding Chartist resolutions at public meetings ; and in the oourse of two years will bc fully prepared to represent the most fastidious and critical
constituency . Terms : three-pence entrance , upon receipt of a card , and a penny per week contribution to tho general fund , Mew members must attend the juvenile ( Minting society for six months , before they can be permitted to appear upon the public stage .
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- - Mr . _, _Cobosn . —We regret extremely to state _^ that Mr . Cobden is conined to his li . ueo by severe bat not dangerous illness . ' : _, . _Genekal Evans and thb Electors or West _MtssTER _, ~ -There was a meeting last night of _mea calling themselves the Liberal electors of Westminster , and constituting the committee nf General Evans . Now , we entertain a decided preference fear the _Ueneral _, as compared with the Captain , but we must not , and will not allow personal feeling to operate to the injury 0 f our party and our principles . We solemnly declare , that if we had the casting vote between the _dearost brother and a Chartist * to whom we were personally hostile , we would give that vote in favour of the latter ; aad therefore _Geeeral EvanB cannot expeet the saerifice of any political principle to personal friendship . Perhaps we may be told , that all that was required of him was to give answers to tiie questions put to him . and
that he answered those to the satisfaction of his committee . Tliat may be all very true , but a candidate , like a witness in the box , is bound , not only to _hyow a portion of his principles , but to make a full confession of his whole principles . If General Evans means us to infer that tiie simple declaration that lie will go by all moans with tho League , is the extent of his political creed , we tell him candidly , and we tell him in time , that , however that standard may suit the polling booths of Westminster , it will not square with the advanced opinions expected in Covcnt Garden Market . We tell General Evans that the time is come , when public men must speak out , without prevarication or mental reservation _, and we tell him , that if he rests hia hope upon _volunteer principles in favour of free trade , that lie ' s not the man for Westminster in the year 1846 . "VYe simply give so much of the proceedings as relates to the schoolboy examination of the gallant General : —?
Mr . Lewis asked General Evans whether , in the event of his becoming a representative of Westminster , he _woulet vote for the total and itnmtdiate repeal of the Corn-Laws in opposition to the delayed measure of her Majesty ' s government ! Gen . Evans said that his opinions were well known always to have been in favour of the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-Laws . He , however , begged to observe , tlmt in the event of the great body of the Whig party _nnS the League deciding that it would he more expedient not to oppose the proposition of Sir R . Peel , he hoped that tlicy would forgive him if he supported that object . A Member . —Suppose the League oppose the measure , would you support total aud immediate repeal t _« en . Evans . —GO WITH THE LEAGUE , BY ALL MEANS . The gallant general concluded by remarking , that he would give his vote , a . he alwaj shad done , 5 a favour of Liberal measures ,
Now , we tell the examiners and the examined , that he must Jearn his lesson upon the Charter ; the restoration of Frost , William ' s , and Jones ; tke Ten Hours ? Bill ; and the Militia , before he enters the Covent Garden College , for he may rest assured that those questions will be put to him ; and if Evans savs that he will go for immediate free trade , but not ibr the Ten Hours' Bill , and the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and if Captain Rous says that he will go for the Ten Hours' Bill , and the _reatoratioa of Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and ii thev ave divided upon the question of the Charter , or opposed to it , we shall give our weight and influence in favour of Frost , Williams , and Jones , andthe Ten Hours' Bill . It is not right to take men by surprise ; and we assure
General Evans that extension of the sutfrage , and the ballot , and his most ANXIOUS _CONSIDERATION of the other questions , and sympathy and deference to the wish of his constituents , and all the rest of the hustings rubbish , won ' t do for tho blistered hands of Covent Garden , however i * . may suit the silver tongues ef his booth supporters . We cannot allow any election to pass without promulgating those principles which the press ivould feign damn by its silence , but which we are determined to keep alive and vigorous before the public . Mox-Y Markbt . —The government hack is lame , and the chancery and fund broker are not able to continue their journey on foot . Consols arc going down nearly as rapidly as they got up , and they'll go down lower still .
Iradb—The accounts from the Manufacturing districts are even more gloomy than we noted in onr last . Manufacturers are beginning to imagine that the delay of the India Mail is merely a dodge to withhold bad tidings until Peel ' s measure shall have passed ; in short , _everything , save the tongues of onr representatives and Chartism , appears to be at a stand still .
IRELAND . Famine . _—Pestilance , that is ever the attendant of famine , is making its appearance in many districts of Ireland , while the government and chancery brokers are quietly _copending the national resources in ministerial speculation . If it is the duty of govern--ment to legislate for the welfare of a people , and if they will not do it , the social contract is dissolved , and the harriers by which private property is protected must naturally and inevitably fall before the assaults of the hungry . Sir James Graham , in his reply to Mr . S . O'Brien , said that political economy meant not the ac « umulation , but the DISTRIBUTION of property , and he boasted of being a " political economist ; " we ask , then , in how far he has earned out the science , while we have the
simultaneous wail of national starvation and pestilence upon the one hand , and are disgusted with the luxurious parade of wealth upon the other ? How is it that we see magnificent equipages , sleek and fat horses , pampered idle menials , a bloated police force , a gorged soldiery , bursting war horses , bishops , parsons , and dignitaries , faring sumptuously , clothed in purple and fine linen , thriving lawyers , leviathan manufacturers , money-mongers with wealth not capable of being estimated , and idlers spending their time listlessly , but still not wanting a meal , while those who aro ready to toil are _consigned to beggary , starvation , anil pestilence ? We ask how our beloved Queen dared to present such a catalogue of ostentation , wealth , and revelry , as attended her levee yesterday , pending the debate of her Parliament ? As to the best mode of arresting famine , "
If ignorance is bliss , 'tis felly to be wise ; and let the gorged wealthy rejoice tbat their plunder has deprived the poor Irish of that education which _, would enable them to read the doings of the idlewealthy , and contrast them with the sufferings and the sorrow ofthe industrious poor . The ignorance of the people is the tyrant's best title to power ; while we sliould not wonder were the very stones to mutiny against the heartless contrasts that are daily presented botween the idle wealthy and the industrious poor . But Ireland is beginning to see ; Ireland is beginning to learn ; Ireland is beginning to think , with a sober and not with a drunken mind , thanks to the great apostle of sober , calm reflection ; and , with God's blessing , Ireland will soon begin to act . We give tlie following scrap , announcing the insulting spectaclo : —
The Queen and Prince Albert , attended by the Royal suite , _iiri-irod at St . James ' s Palace shortly before two o ' clock yesterday afternoon , escorted by a party of Lite Guards from Buckingham Palace . The Koyal suite consisted of the Duchess of J-uac ' euch _, Mistress ofthe Robes ; the Viscountess Canning , Lady in Waiting ; the Earl of ¦ Warwick , Lord in Waiting ; Sir Frederick Stovin , Groom _, in Waiting ; Colonel Arbuttinot , Equerry in 'Waiting ; the Pages of Honour in Waitinj ;; the Marquis of Abercorn , Groom of the Stole to Prince _Alburt ; Lord G . Lennox , Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; aud Colonel Wylde , Equorry iu Waiting to his Royal Highness . The Queen and Prince Albert , attended by the Royal suite , returned to Buckingham Palace , escorted _Vy a party of Life ftnards . _Quers : Why _liaven't the people got some Life Guards ?
Allegeo Sale Of A Cuild.—The Neighbourho...
Allegeo Sale of a Cuild . —The neighbourhood : of Farringdon-street has heen for the last low days surprised by a rumour which gained credence in every quarter , that a young woman of the name of Taylor had sold her illegitimate child , a little boy of tho tender age of three years , under circumstances as singular and romantic as they evince a total want of . that feeling of human nature which in general distinguishes a mother's love and attachment to her own offspring . It appears that , iu the course of Thursday last , a well-dressed woman , bearing all the outward indications of the highest respectability , drove into Farringdon-street in her carriage , which was pulled up at the end of Harp-alley . There she made seme inquiries with respect to a child , of which she
expressed a desire to become possessed . The lady introduced herself ton female relative ofthe young woman Taylor ; and , en finding that Taylor had a male child of the age , stated she desired to see it , and for that purpose returned to and waited in her _carriage while the woman lirst addressed proceeded to the mother of Taylor , who , with her husband , is in charge of an unoccupied liouse , No . 90 , Farringdon-street . The mother instantly set out to fetch her daughter and thc child from their doniocile in _Chandos-strcet , at the West-end , and on their return together , the child who has been described as a smart , intelligent , and prepossessing little fellow , was exhibited to the lady , who at once made overtures for his purchase ,
Tho unnatural u othor of the child , and her equally unnatural parent , consented to the sale , and received the earnest of half a sovereign . The carriage drove off with the lady and her newly acquires , purchase * but returned again in a brief space of time , and showed the unconscious boy denuded of the dirty rags with which his limbs had been encased , but now superbly clad in now clothes , and hat and feathers of the most tasteful and expensive kind . Thoy again drove off , the lady promising to renew her visit o Monday next , and then to pay any sum from £ 2 to £ _ they might require . At present tlio name of the lady or her abode is a matter of the most perfect tHj ' _-ieri * .
Struct _CnMSTEXlN'c—Wc learn from the French papers that a new street has been built in Paris called tlie Rue D'hlv . We advise our lively neighbours to christen their next street the Rue d' Abd-el-Kader , for that is tlieir only chance , wo think , of ever seeing him in the street ' s of Paris . — Punch . _OmcHKswii Eiac . ios .-LM * - Ilcury I _^ _" « _™ elected , ou Tuesday last , member lor _Winchester ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 14, 1846, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14021846/page/5/
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