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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846.
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RECEU'TS OP THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE. LAND SOCIETY.
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CRIMES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF DANIEL O'CONNELL ESQ ., M . P ., In a series of letters , addressed to the Irish residing iu Great Britain , by Patrick O'Higoiss , Esq . Printed and published by AV . II . Dyott , No . 24 , North King-street , corner of Linen Hall-street , Dublin . Price one penny each . Also the Rev . Joiw Kentos ' s letters : ana Mr . O'Higgins ' s letters to Lord Elliot , Itight Rev . Dr . Blake , Most Rev . Dr . M'Hale , < fcc , &c , &c .
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" THE NATION" AND " THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England to the Irish people , with a request that we should insert it in the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation between the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account of the bugbear of '•* physical force " but simply because some of their five points are to tt « on abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them tJiere is a guf f fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , hut to make it wider and deeper . " From the "Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 . ABOMINATION No . IV . —EQUAL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS . This « point" of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER appears so indisputably just and right , that , but for the necessity of treating of all separately , before vt g make a summary of the whole , common sense would spare us the trouble of comment . However , as this may be the one damning spot , the " Nation ' s" principal Abomination , we shall consider it in its proper
place . Of course our observations are intended for the conversion of the " Nation , " a journal which we believe to be sincere in its advocacy of A REPEAL OF THE UNION , and , consequently , should be directed to the attainment of EQUAL REPRESENTATION , as Mr . O'Connell has pronounced the inadequacy of Ireland ' s representation according to her population , to be one of the main necessities of REPEAL . Indeed , he has declared more than
once , that a Just scale of representation would render the REPEAL unnecessary ; and has , over and over again , quoted the more extensive representation of Wales , in proof of the injustice under which . Ire-1 wd suffers . We should be extremely sorry to use the Liberator as an authority when defending a principle , but , as the " Nation " has also used the argument , and as that journal is our present antagonist , it is quite appropriate to our subject . We shall now , however , argue the question upon the score of justice and right . While the people are contending for apparently new principles , it should be understood that every single point of the Charter , with the single exception of the ballot , has been a part of the constitutional machinery . Of course it
was the departure from those princi ples that gave rise to their several names . We read of no such thing in English history as equal representation , and no property qualification , it is true ; but that arises from the fact of both being practically existing , and the demand for them now cannot he resisted upon the plea that we know of no such names , while their existence is a matter of history . In the outset we stated , that -we should not rest our claim to any one of the points , solely upon the fact that they did previously constitute the basis of the constitution ; no—we took higher grounds we based the claim
upon existing- necessity and ri ght . However , we are fully justified in arguing that rights exercised by our ignorant ancestors may be safely and prudently entrusted to the wisdom of the present more enlightened age Formerly , then , EQUAL REPRESENTATION did exist , and its former existence is yet manifest , in the fact of counties sending Members , to Parliament according to their extent . The first inroad was made in this wholesome system by a profligate Monarch , who required aid in his struggles with the country party . And subsequently , we find the practice frequently resorted to * as a means of
strengthening the hands of the Court in the Commons , precisely as the royal prerogative has been unscrupulously and unconstitutionally used by a new creation of subservient Peers , for the purpose of intimidating and swainpingthe refractory Lords . One of our Monarehs , James , created no fewer than FORTY of those rotten Boroughs , all of which received an equivalent in the shape of some peculiar charter of privilige , and unconstitutional favour in return for their subserviency . Thus , the Monarch became
possessed of unconstitutional support , while the rotten boroughs enfranchised by his order , were repaid with unconstitutional privileges . And the repetition of this practice , more than anv other circumstance , led to the several beastly squabbles between Kings and Parliaments , which ended in Charles the First losing his head ; and , subsequently , to the condescension of William , in accepting these realms as a gift from a handful of the Liverymen of the City of London .
Ihe agitation for the Reform Bill was mainly based upon the inequality of the suffrage , upon the absurdity of old castles and rookeries being enfranchised , while Birmingham , Manchester , and the recently populated towns were deprived of all share in the representation of the country . Did we require proof of the folly of the present unequal system of representation , we need but point to the facility with which the minority of to-day may be turned into the majority of to-morrow , by the addition of a few COW SHEDS or PIGS' STYS to the now incompetent holding , by the timely creation of a few 40 s . freeholds , by a few faggot votes , or by the
erection of a sufficient number of £ 10 houses in a borough , to turn the scale , or even by the judicious co-trustceshi }> , or co-partnershi p , of some natianal building , school-house , warehouse , storehouse , dissenting church , or old barrack . The majorities of ministers now a-days are supposed to denote confidence , while Harwich , with its two hundred electors and scant population neutralises tie county of Cork , or the West Riding of Yorkshire , with a population of nearly two millions . The voice of the universities of Oxford , Cambridge , and Trinity College , with their migratory population of Masters and Bachelors of Arts neutralises the city of London , an *¦ ' Ludlow neutralises the city of West-
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minster . Now , surely , these are crying abominations ; but what is still more unjust and unconstitutional is the fact , that those who least need protection have a plurality of votes . How many of the electors of the several colleges have five , ten , and even more votes ; any of whom may turn the scale in several elections , and a combination of whom is capable at any time of resisting the most reasonable popular demand . We presume that equal electoral districts also means equality of electoral rights , that is , that no man shall have more than one vote , and that , according to the principle laid down in the new ^
constitution for which the people arc now contending . We demand EQUAL REPRESENTATION then , as a legitimate right , we demand it as the means of satisfying electoral requirement , as the means of giving equality to the votes of all representatives , that people may secure the principle of delegation as well as representation ; as the means of destroying the injustice of the startling inequality in the present electoral system , and as a means of making laws and conducting the government by the majority of voices , instead of a majority of close boroughs .
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unopposed possession of the field of agitation . Cobden has prudently run away from h ' s own thunder , while The Times is compelled ; * ° ^ shelter in the dust that it can kick up from its corn and market correspondence . There is no instance upon record of ignorance equal to that displayed by the Times newspaper upon the question of Free Trade , and .. there is no finesse and wriggling more contemptible than its present
attempt at escape . We told the people , and circumstances have not changed our mind , that it was impossible to knock the keystone out of so old an arch , before it was propped by timely and necessary concessions . Even Peel , the tool of the capitalists , was compelled to strike his centre before his work was finished . As we predicted , he carried the profitmongers' principle , but be forgot the INDUSTRIAL PROP by which alone it could be supported .
Notwithstanding the apparent calm now manifest , we hold to our oft-repeated assertion—that the capitalists of England will drive the country to a revolution , to insure the complete success of Free Trade principles . And it rests solely with the people what the result of the struggle shall be—whether bloodshed in honour of capital ' s triumph , or a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work in honour of labour ' s victory !
Notwithstanding the exultation of the Times m the diminished power of " mob orators and demagogues , " we assert , that at no period of our agitation was popular confidence ever so complete in popular leaders . Ireland is not likely to be longer governed by antiquated buffoonery , or baronial sessions , instituted for the protection of the lives and properties o £ the rich , nor is the following conundrum of the blessings of free trade likely to satisfy a starving people . At a recent meeting at Castlebar , Dr . M'Hale . the Archbishop of Tuam , saidand -we find att in the same cotonffi of the Times ;
The young and the old , the rich and the poor , tho landlord and the tenant , should all join in the great objevt which we all hare in view— . tho prevention of tho dreadful calamity which may , and must , occur , in the starvation of the people , unless timely and effectual relief be afforded . In Cltnmel , the sufferings of the people are great ; and , in a letter from there to the Examiner we learn that " an order has been received here this morning for the transfer of the reserved ammunition laid in here in 1813 . " Mayhap , the use of the ammunition , the sight of which kept the unarmed volunteers in subjection in 1843 , may fail in keeping the starving people in
peace . DISTRESS—rUBLIC PIUIEBS . The Evening Post says : — < We * have reason to believe tliat directions are about to tte issued for the preparation of a form of prayer to be read in tho churches of England and Ireland , in courb . quence of the distress existing in this country and in Scotland . MAItCIT OP TBOOP 3 TO TOE PEOVINCES . , The 59 th Regiment , at present forming part of this garrison , haa received ordersto proceed by forced marches to Limerick . - The first dlrisiou leaves this to-morrow morning .
, Two troops of the Royal Scots Grays left Portobello barracks this morning , en route to Newbridge , in tile county of KUdare . We now think that we have furnished as complete a glossary of Times ignorance , free trade blessing , and Whig imbecility , as time and circumstances permit , leaving to the Times , the League , and their go . vernment , to deal as best they can with the disappointed feelings created by short time , starvation , plague , pestilence , and famine ; and the prospect of a disastrous winter , with the certainty of short nights and short reckonings .
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banish the whole tribe of murderers and miscreants from their nation ; and without French or English interference—without the protection of tht Debatt or the counsel of the Times , will guard their frontiers against their future conspiracies . One thing is quite certain , that if this marriage does take place the fate of Spain is doomed , unless our proposition be carried into effect . If the Queen of Spain should have an heir it will be the cause of eternal jealousy between France and Spain , and we know tliat royal jealousy always ends in war . On the other hand , if the Queen should not have an
heir , the crown of Spain will devolve upon a French prince , and Spain , as a matter of course , will be to France what Ireland is to England , HER DRAW FARM , her nursery for soldiers and sailors , her battle ground . We have little doubt that the King of the Barricades had an eye to this ripening fruit when he enclosed Paris as a hot-house for its reception , but we have as little doubt that the first shot fired in such a war would be answered by the joy bells announcing the establishment of a republic and the destruction of all those silly , womanly squabbles by which nations are convulsed .
It appears plain that Louis Phillipe will persevere ; it appears probable that the Whigs will be guided by the amount of confusion they can rally in Spain , while , to us , it appears certain that the Spanish people , aided by French republicans , will now take advantage of the intrigues of faction for the establishment of popular rights . If there is a physical struggle , and if blood is shed , we trust that that of the two prims sinners , highest offenders , and greatest criminals , the prostitute Queen-mother and the butcher Narvaez , will be the first victims to their own intrigue and lust . h '
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brication of a rote . The ignorancb of the individual upon whom the benevolent Mr . Smith pahedto confer the privilege , led to the ! ' . exposure or Jhe whole affair , which is , doubtless , a mere index to the fact of the wholesale manufacture of such rotes by these political purists . . , 4 A remarkable document appeared in the leading columns of the Post this week . It will be found in another column .: This is no less than a " declaration of Conservative policy " which , though the Post
declines to guarantee or coincide with , must , from the prominent position it occupied have emanated from some of the leaders of that party . The points in . volved in the " declaration" are too numerous and too important to boincidentally discussed in this cursory " review ; " but its appearance places the Protectionist party in a somewhat better position in tho event of an election . They are no longer liable to the taunt of having no definite policy . Right on wrong , some of them have shown that they have
brains enough to construct a scheme—on paper . 'ihe rumours of a meeting of Parliament in November grow louder , though we retain the opinion expressed last week on this subject , unless the Irish measures should prove to be decidedly inefficient to meet the emergency , the Whigs will manage to rub en till the beginning of the year . The prices of provisions of every kind are rising rapidly . Ere long the cry of distress from the other side of the channel will be echoed on this .
The free trade nostrum will be subjected to an eariy and a severe trial . The Cobden tribute is perhaps as premature , as the peerage and pension to Lord Keane for taking Gliuznee , which was immediately retaken and kept . It would be better to ' wait a little longer . " Let us not halloo till we ' re out of the ¦ wood .
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JUPITER FRIGHTENED AT ITS OWN THUNDER . Whatever be the state of trade in the . approach - ing winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed in [ the integrity and good saise of the labouring classes- Having thrown aside the demagogue leaderships that formerly influenced the masses , and fully instructed now as to the designs and ohjects of moboratoys , they are prepared to meet , in a becoming spirit , any of the reverses and fluctuations to which manufactures and trade are liable . The following is from the Times of Tuesday : — THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF
LANCASHIRE . ( EBOM I COBBEBPONDENT . ) Manchester ; Sept . 21 . The state of this district is anything but satisfactory ; and alt'iough the evils of partial employment and clearness of provisions are at present but slightly felt , yet fears are justly entertained that they will soon be greatly increased with the rigour and privations of the coming winter . Short time , with short wages , has alrendy commenced ; and is is not improbable that if business contintes as at present , a reduction generally in the hoars of labour will be adopted . The extensive firm of Messrs . Lees and Sons , of Ashton-under . Lyne . who possess 2 , 000 power-looms , commenced working short time on Monday
last . Doubtless , the shortening of the hours of labour just n « tv will surprise many peopl , when it was expected that with the partial repeal of the corn laws would come an abundance of labour for ) our operatives ; but , with the exception of the American grain ernp . the scarcity in most of the grain districts of the world will furnish R sufficient reason for the d-pre . «« sion in themanufacturingdistricts which induces a reduction in the hour * of labour . Bad as it is , it is far better to shorten the hours of employment tban to reduce wages and continue full work . That mode , too prevalent in former seasons of depression , would merely damage the operative , and could not benefit trade , as the production would be quite as groat , and the depreciation of prices continue as before . The cotton-speculotor would also have a better chance of furthcrine his views than with short hours .
Speaking summarily of the actual state of our staple trade atthis period , comprising all its branches , I should say that it is one of depression ; there is a paucity of demand , and profits are greatly reduced . In consequence stocks have considerably accumulated . Perhaps the chief , if not only , exception to this is the best class of printers , which havo been in good demand and at profitable rates . In the yarn market there is a fair demand for most descriptions at low prices . If the present price of the raw material be continued , without a corresponding advance in yarn 3 , spinners in many cases will produce to a loss .
I may add that our home trade generally is good , and the excellence of the English wheat harvest will give an impulse to this branch of our mercantile transactions . The fine weather has done raueh for the grain crops in the hilly districts in Lancashire , Yorkshire , and . Derbythire ; still some of the inferior crop * have partially failed . The badness ofthepotatoe crop may also prove a drawback on the goods for the home market . Whatever he the state of trade in the appronchin ? ¦ winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed in the inteerity and gooO » en » e of the labouring classes . Having thrown aiide the demagogue 1 adershipx tbat formerly influenced the masses , and fully instructed n < w as to the designs and objects of mob-orators , thoy are prepared to meet , in a becoming spirit , J aTiy of the reverses ami fluctuations to which manufactures and trade are liable .
Who is there that has not witnessed the ecstatic , frantic countenance of the wild harem-scarem schoolboy , transformed by the sudden appearance 0 / the master ? into the sheepish and down-cast look of the detected offender . Here then is the language , here is the subdued tone , here is ihe prophetic future frpm the Free Trade prophet , short time is preferable to reduced wages . Better for the operative to pay seven days rent , upon three days' labour , and to fatten for seven days upon the
produce of his scanty employment ! This lias been the former practice under restriction , full work and reduced wages , with the enemy surplus daily increasing } but the magic wand , the inspiring spirit , the increased competition , and active speculation caused by the annihilation of restriction , lias led to the more wholesome maxim of working short time . What a pity that journalists , who ' undertake to instruct the world , and controul its energies , should send such ridiculous contradictions to the world .
Free Trade was the one thing required to extend our commerce with all the nations of the habitable globe , and food was the commodity , the necessary , that we were to have in return . Well then , surely common sense tells us that tlie greater the demand for food . the greater incentive to activity and industry ; but i » Ia $ we want the food , and the Thunderer tells us , that , in the midst of circumstances which were to test the value of Free Trade , that the mfflowners of the north are only saved from the horrors of the experiraent by the prospect of a remunerating home trade , consequent upon an abundant harvest ; while they are obliged to protect themselves ' against the reality of the promised blessing by working short time .
"When via ] praised the commercial policy of Sir Hubert Peel , we toot it , firstly , with the industrial clauses to which he was pledged as a portion of the whole , while we hailed it , as we then stateM , as the precursor of popular union , caused by the failure of a measure , anticipation from which had caused such disunion in our ranks . We repeat that the benefits of this measure were principally intended as a safeguard against famine , and as a protection to enable tlie labourer , by remunerating wages , to secure after living a larger amount of his own profits than he
could possibly do under the laws of restriction . We were not led to anticipate any of those casualities calamities , uncertainties , or . jumping changes , for which The Times and the unmitigated free traders had not prepared us during the discussion of the question . What , . 'then , we would ask , has transpired from the first working of the ex periment , so to rivet the affection and confidence of the disappointed slaves in their disappointing masters , to secure the peaceful rule of suffering all upon the one side , from the intervention of " MOB ORATORS
AND DEMAGOGUES . " Will the mob orator , who foretold the evils of the measure , and who prophecied that the weakest would be the first sufferers from it , be now less acceptable With proof of their wisdom than the interested speculators who trafficked in their credulity , used them for faction ' s purpose , and then threw the weight of disappointment upon those for whom the war of bread was waged ? We see not only in the above , announcement of terror , but in the recent
effusions of The Times , a warning , a strong and 1111-mistakeable warning , that the free traders must now wage war , so to strengthen their weak position as to secure peace in the midst of famine , profit in the midst of poverty , and class luxury and aggrandizement in the midst of national degradation . The "demagogues" and " mob orators , " who welcomed the measure as a means of popular union , and as the destruction of the cherished and dangerous privileges of a careless and ignorant aristocracy . - , but who foretold its failure , are now in
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THE WAR OF THE BABIES . Who is there that has not witnessed the sudden irruption of tlie whole household , the frautic screams of the mother , the terrified countenance of the fafher , the scampering of the servants , the tumbling of furniture , the smashing of the crockery , the ringing of the bells , and the midnight alarm of the affrighted neighbours , and all occasioned by the sudden start or squall of a sickly infant . There is really something so natural , nay , so charming , in the
hubbub created by such an exciting cause , something so reasonable in the enlistment of the excited feelings of the household and the neighbours , that we can pardon the commotion ; but when we think of two little girls , quite old enough to sleep without rocking , setting nations b y the ears , who have no interest in their feelings of passion or excitement , the case assumes a more important character . Column after column has been filled with the speculations of all nations upon the subject of the marriage of the Infanta of Spain , the sister of the Queen , with the son of the King of the French .
The poor little Queen herself , about sixteen years of age , is decrepit in frame , weak in constitution , and an abortion in intellect : infirmities no doubt inherited from a dissipated mother . This young woman , this pitiable girl , felt no inclination for the marriage state , but intrigue marked her as a fitting instrument to fight the battle of French diplomacy . Being weak of constitution she lacked the natural feelings of woman at her age , and ttie surrender of her will being necessary for the gratification of her mother ' s lust , that old bawd hired a procuress , a kind of " teazer , " to fill her youthful innocent mind
with the delights and joys of matrimony , surrounded her with all the appliances of delusion and excitement , and thus wrung from her a reluctant obedience , which was to be made subservient to her larger stroke of policy—the prostitution of her younger daughter to the embraces of a French prince . Woman ever has been * , and ever will be , romantic , and such a union being forbidden by an international treaty , the descendant of Eve having the same longing as her parent for the forbidden fruit , has been , provoked into a romantic desire to taste it .
The marriage of the Queen ' s sister—a very comely and amiable little girl of fourteen years and a half old —to the son of Louis Philippe , is considered sufficient provocation . ' to set all Europe by the ears . French gold and female cunning have been enlisted to carry out the plot . A French fleet , under the command of the Prince < ie Joinville , brother to the bridegroom , is to guard the coast of Spain , while a more numerous English squadron occupies a position sufficiently near to inspire the rebels against the union with
confidence pud ultimate hope of success . While the intentions of the English Cabinet are cautiously withheld , the newspaper scribes are waging terrific war . Our Thunderer put forth its feelers for a share of the French marriage portion in a series of fishing articles ; but the King of the Barricades having refused the bait , our moral force cotemporary , throws off all further disguise , and has raised the bloody Narvaez as the standard around winch Spanish patriotism is to rally for the defence of Spanish liberty .
The article of the Times of Wednesday , in days of yore would have furnished more than grounds for a European war ; but , thanks to the peaceful progress of the democratic principle , war is nowa game at which monarchs hesitate to play . However , as the Tune * has ventured to suggest its modus operandi for chastising a monarch with whom OUR QUEEN is at perfect peace , we are surely justified in recommending a course more suiting to the taste of the age . Espartero is in constant communication with Lord
I ' almcrstou , to ba \ iseil for Whig purposes , if Narvaez should prove intractable ; and what we recommend , as there is no foul hunting a fox , is , that Espartero should take advantage of the present godsend , land in Spain , under a salute from our squadron , pronounce for or against one or both the marriages , and as a means of securing the Spanish people against the disasters of either , to raise the standard of the Charter ; and our life upon it that the Spaniards , once in possession of liberty , wilj .
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Caotiok to Dast . —Wa give t ! ie following just as we recived it : — "Gosport , —I have enclosed ten postage stamp ; for two Stars . Tlie Irishmen are beginning to see through : Dan . A ,-ergeant of the 3 rd Buffs has got a Star sent * him , which has been read and heard read by many of them . They vow vengeance against the traitors . " W . Rowbottom . —\' es ; to be had at the Printing Office , Harding-street , Fetter-lane , London , at l $ d . per sheet . Apply to any bookseller in Ilebden Bridge , or Halifax , to procure it . NiMao » . —Mr . William Bennett , ktft of the Exeter Hotel , has taken the Dulce of Clarence , Uudon-road , long , celebrated for the Derby and St . Leger Sweeps . Mb . Hough , Htde . —The addresB of Mr . ilavray is , Ko . lOD , Travis-Blreet , Manchester . Mr . Ricuxrds , the vote * an Chartist , is requests ! to send his address to Jokn Gray , Darnton . si \ uare , Burnley , North Lancashire . A Shipwright . —What National Union ? If you mean tbe National Association of United Trades , send tv »\» post-stamps to tho Secretary , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , London . Mr , Jshs Kirk , Oadley . —The clergymen of the parish can charge the amount he claims . Mb , John Abnott , Pockliagton . — You are right , all orders for the Northern Star out to be made payable at the Post Office , Charing Cross . Notice . — All oommunieations for M * . John Murray , secretary to the Manchester branch of tbe Chartist Co-operative Land Society , mutt be addressed—No . 21 , Turner-street , near Shude-hill , Manchester . We have received the following correction of a paragraph sent us for insertion in our last : — " , —A . paragraph appearing in last week ' s Siai 1 , stating that a deputation of tbe silk glove makers of Duftield ,, Helper , and Holbrook , waited upon Mr . Gimblet , and stated that Messrs . Ward bad reduced wagi-s , by imposing extra work on the gloves , thus occupying more time without giving a corresponding remuneration , so far tbo paragraph » 9 Corset , now with regaad to Messrs . Brittle ' * firm , the paragraph is not cowectthe fact is it wai currently reported , providing tha men on strike submitted to this extra wo » k , for Messrs . Ward ' s , which Messrs . Brittle did net require , that firm would reduce their hands sispencspor dozen . By inserting the above we conceive it will comet U >» mistake of last week , and you will nvach obhge the men on strike . ^ . ^^^ Sec > ^ ^ Committeo room HtHford . Sept . 82 rd , 1 S 1 C . Jons Henbt , Dundee -No room tins week . Mb Wm . Joiinstone , Liverpool . —A » we ao not supply tbe agent you allude to direct from the office , we cannot interfere . Our charge is two-pence each , . which , with postage , would cost joufour-pence ,
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PER MB . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . BQAEES . £ I . i . Halifax , per C . W . Smith .. .. 0 1 Georgie Mills , per W , Mechan .. .. .. 209 Bury , per M . Ireland .. .. •¦ .. 420 Norwich , per J . Hurry .. .. ,. 200 Birmingham , per W . Thorn .. .. 1 13 7 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. 8 13 6 Leeds , per W . Brook 5 8 0 \ shton-under-L \ nc , per E . Hobson .. .. 3 2 6 Kidderminster , per 6 Holloway .. .. 10 17 2 Wukeficld , per W . Farrand 2 0 0 Manchester , per 3 . Murray .. .. .. * 3 0 £ 35 J 8 __ 3 SECTION No . 2 . BBABE * . Robert Blackie , Edinburgh I An Teignmoutb , per . J . Edwards „ -- 2 2 n Halifax , per C . V , Smith ,. .. » » * » Clackmannan , per G . Patterson .. J « » Bury , per Mr . Ireland .. x * •» *• Norwich , per A . Bagshanr , » « Birmingham , * per W . Thorn .. « J , " > Nettinghanj , per J , Sweet « « " Swindon , per D . Morrison <> » « Aberdeen , per J . Eraser r „ « Bradford , per J . Alderson .. .. » J J » Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. » « « Oldham , per W . Hamer * * ICidderminster . per 6 . Holloway .. » " J « « Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. - £ 85 18 6
PER GENERAL SECRETARY . SECTION No . 1 . 8 HABE 9 . £ i . d . £ b . d . Totnesg- - . 611 6 Elderslie - - 2 9 0 New Radford . 0 18 3 Lambeth , omitted- 29 0 0 Westminster- . 070 Do . - - - 1 6 0 WorsboroughCom- Glasgow- - . 7 It f mon - - - 3 17 7 £ 53 6 4 SECTION No . 2 . T . Copern - - 0 2 0 II . Chancellor , ' F . York- - - 0 0 6 Yarmouth - - 2 0 0 G . J . Harney- - 0 2 0 Somers Town . W . James Hall - - 1 0 0 Howard - - 0 1 6 William Fletcher . 0 2 6 John Knight- - 3 18 6 Daniel Hopkins - 1 V > 4 J . Hughes - - « 9 J Thomas Powell - 0 3 0 Clitheroe - -WOO Jfells . M \ II . - - 1 5 0 Elderlie- - - •• ¦ 114 8 Westminster- - 0 10 1 « Henry Hoave- - 0 2 6 James-Morris - 0 1 0 Horsley , per Chap-J . Stevenson - . 020 man - - 5 0 0 Arthur Mcnson - 2 12 i Hull - - - 1 J ' 2 George Marsh - 1 0 2 Glasgow - - 8 6 S Helper - - - 2 1 C 5 Silsden - - - 0 3 0 WorsboroughCom- Bath - - . 200 jnon - - - 0 9 4 Hammersmith , per J . Miller , Grant- Stallwood - - 1 1 4 ham - - - 5 0 0 £ 58 ~ 3 5 TOTAl LAKB FUND . Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 35 13 3 Mr . Wheeler „ „ ... 52 6 4 = £ 87 19 1 Mr . O'Conner , Section No . 2 ... 85 18 6 Mr . Wheeler , 5 s 3 -5 £ IU _ JJ } fob Ma . most . PEB MB . O ' CONMOB . Geo . Allen , Dunrobin .. .. •• 0 1 ¦; Boory's Foundry , per W . Pleths .. .. 0 It U W . T . Smith , Liverpool >• ? , , The Chartists of Liverpool , per J . FarreU .. 0 11 l RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER GEKEBAL SECBETAXI . Edinburgh , per ?• ^ ' ' * 0 ° - ° o Grant- - - 1 5 O "Lambeth - - 0 o O William Fletcher . 0 0 6 Leicester , Shaks . George March - 0 0 10 perian- - - 0 19 0 Sheffield- - - 0 3 7 Liverpool - - O 9 » VETERAN , ORPHAX , AND VICTIM FUND . Sheffield , a friend- 0 0 3 E . Wells - - 0 0 S FOR KB , FBCST , Bury - - 0 11 3 FOB WIIttAMS AND JONES . S . C . - - - 0 1 0 An O'Connorito , RotherliitUe - 0 1 0 BlOISTBATIOtf FPWD . E . Wells - -bib CROWS AND ANCHOB MEETING . It . Wells - - 0 , 0 6 Thomas MartinWbeeleb , Secretary . Erratum . The sums announced from Bushey last week should have been from Busby , per M'GodkiR . T . M . WiiEEjUEB . Sec .
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^ . WEEKLY REVIEW . The state of affairs in Ireland becomes daily more ominous and alarming . All classes of its population are awakened to the necessity for instant action in order to avert in some degree the consequences of a calamity so severe and so extensive as to be wholly without a parallel even in tbe annals of that ill-fated country . It does not always happen , however , that " there ig safety in a multitude of counsellors , " the proverb of the " wisest man" to the contrary notwithstanding ; especially is the requisite safety unlikely to be obtained when , the great mass of the " counsellors " have been unaccustomed to the practical consideration of the subject , and moreover come with a decided personal and class bias to its discussion .
That tuis bias has more or less influenced the conduct of all parties in Ireland , must be evident to impartial observers . By the Labour Rate Act passed immediately before the ' close of the session , Parliament threw upon the .. landlords of Ireland the duty which in equity has always pertained to their class , namely , so to use the land as that it should supply the means of employing and supporting the population . In virtually asserting- this important principle , and recalling to the recollection of the owners of the soil a primary duty , which we fear too many of them have utterly forgotten , or never
learned ,-Uie British Legislature at the same time proffered its help to enable them to practically act upon it . It offered loans of money , which might otherwise not have been procurable , on the simple condition that the properties improved in value by the expenditure of this money should be rated for its repayment . Farther , in poor districts , where the preponderance of hill and bo ^ land , and the absence of wealth and cultivation , prevented the application of this principle , it provides that free grants should be given to employ the people on works of public utility .
For immediate and temporary purposes this was , perhaps , all that could be looked for , though far below what we think requisite , and jwhat we know to be imperative before the sister country can be placed in a condition approaching to healthy . But the immediate question is , whether the owners of property in Ireland have generally responded to the appeal of the Legislature in the same spirit in which it was made ? The answer must be in the negative . They pleaded poverty . Mortgages , settlements and annuities , they say , reduced many an apparently large income to an exceedingly slender amount , upon which the [ nominal possessor of thousands finds it very difficult to make both ends meet ; and , in short ,
they have no money to spare . They are , in fact , the owners of the soil only in appearance , they maintain their position only by tho sufferance of others . Their parchments are always in the hands of the money dealers ; and , with an eye to aelt ' -interest , which would be amusing were the circumstances less serious , they gravely propose to the Government plans by which public calamity will be converted into private advantage . In brief , most of the proposals we have seen , divested of the deceptive phraseology in which they are presented , amount to simply this that the people of the United Empire shall improve their estates for them , and make them a present of the money expended in the improvement .
O'Connell talks ot £ 10 , 000 , 000 being required to meet tbe present awful visitation , We have , individually , no objection to twice the sum being so applied . We paid that much for V 7 e 3 t-Indian Negro Emancipation , and Irish Emancipation from perrennial destitution is , surely , worth that , or double the amount , if necessary . But , whether it ; be ten , twenty , or thirty millions that is required , we do demand , that as the nation is called upon to find the m «* ans . the nation shall be benefitted . If the lands
of Ireland are to be converted from barrenness to fertility by the application of national capital and Irish labour , let tbe nation and the labourer be the parties benefitted . It will not do to allo > v a third party , who have contributed nothing to the result , to step in and snatch away the advantages from both . If the landlords of Ireland cannot perform the duties of their situation , the Legislature should enable them to quit it , and put the land hi the possession ot those who have the means and the "VfiJl to use it
rightly . I t , is a monstrous anomaly , that so many millions of people should be living in a state of almost unexampled destitution and misery , in an island capable of giving employment and subsistence to three or four tiroes its present population . Il the anomaly be probed to the bottom , we believe its origin will be found in the manner in which the land is appropriated , and tho relativo position of tbe landed and labour classes .
Meanwhile the danger thickens apace . Desperation follows fast on the heels of hunger—gatherings of excited , suffering , and reckless people multiply . Daeds of violence increase . Deputation after deputation cross the channel , to confer with the Government ; and , on the other side , the officials of the Castlo are almost smothered in the correspondence which pours in upon them . Some Minister or other will'suvely bs found som&day wise enough to take a plain , simple , and manly view of this question , and save himself and everybody else a great deal of trouble by settling it in a straightforward way , despite of the outcries of those classes , whether priests , landlords , or trading agitators , who think they bcucfit by the present system .
The Registrations are now occupying tss attention of tho fakions pvoity generally throughout tlie countrv . So far as - « e have seen , the Chartists have not bestirred themsehres with that activity which an approaching general election should have inspired Duscombb » we repeat , wanta more supporters within the walH of St . Stephen ' s , and the Gkartist body should hd ready , to give nim them . Tho Anti-Corn Law L . eaguo seems to have so thoroughly innoculated its agents with the mania for manufacturing
vote ? , that even when its object has been fulfilled , and tho League itself is dissolved , they go on in tho ' > Vi track , seemingly for tho pure love of the thing , FjvDSB * Smith , an old Leaguer , was this week dei tectcd at the City Registration , in a flagrant f&
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_ 4- — - • ¦ ¦ .- - ¦ - - ¦ - ; - THE N 0 WBDi ?] v STAR , : / , ^ EPTtafgER -26 . 1846 .
Receu'ts Op The Chartist Co-Operative. Land Society.
RECEU'TS OP THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE . LAND SOCIETY .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1385/page/4/
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