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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST H. 1817.
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T . £ - . DUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M . P . It is with tke deepest regret that we have to announce the continued and increasing indisposition of this noble pairiot and disinterested champion of the people in Parliament . Theattack of broncliites which prevented hia appearing on the hustings to receive from the electors of Finsbury the renewal of their confidence , and the well merited reward of a free and unopposed re-election , has since that time been gradually becoming more severe , and we had the inexpressible pain of learning tins morning , (
Thursday ) , that Mr Buncombe has been unable to leave his bed for the last three days . A distressing cough and pain in the chest prevents him from obtaining sleep at night , and tho honourable gentleman is consequently much weakened . We earnestly express onr hope—a hope which we are certain will be echoed by the millions of affectionate admirers and followers of Mr Duncombe—that he may speedily so far recover strength , as to be able to bear removal to the country , where rest , care and pure air may have a renovating effect . His loss would be a national calamity under any circumstances , but at the present
moment it would be one of the most disastrous and fatal blows the Movement Pabtt in this country could sustain . The manner in which Mr Duncombe has fought his Parliamentary Campaigns , almost single handed against the combined factions , preeminently points him out as the undisputable and natural leader of the members returned by that party to the New Parliament . His indomitable courage and indefatigable perseverance , quick perceptions , and great Parliamentary experience , conjoined with his polished , and truly gentlemanly —because self-pcsseFsed and courteous'bearing , and
his felicitous style of oratory , have given him an immense ascendancy in the house . —If he is spared totako his place in St Stephcn ' a on the re-assembling of Parliament , Ills tact , talent , and temper as a leader would give a direct , practical , and effective direction to the concentrated efforts of the popular members , which , without such leadership will be unattainable-at least for a very long period . For the sake of the country , therefere-not less than on account of the sufferiug of one whom we personally love and honour—we deeply deplore having to make such an announcement of the state of his health .
The Northern Star Saturday, August H. 1817.
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PALMERSTON PULVERISED . One of the most extraordinary features of the recent elections was the curious exhibition of Lord PAUiEBSTOx at Tiverton , when " put through his paces _ as the Times says-by Julian- Harxey , his Lordshi p for the . first time in his life engaged in an attempted vindication of his political career ; with what success the " show of hands" determined .
The Whig press have universall y praised Lord Palmerstox ' s reply to the charges brought against him , as "brilliant , " " crushing , " and " unanswerable ; " aud that too without knowing anything of the speech of the noble Lord ' s accuser , except what might be gathered from the speech of his Lordshi p , who did not forget to avail himself of the usual license to give such a colouring to many parts of Ms opponent ' s address , as enabled him to get up a few ponderous jokes , which , though some of them do not teli amiss in the Times , fell with dismal effect upon the ears of his Loidship ' s unfortunate auditors . Any one reading the report in the Times would suppose that the Forei gn-Secretary had at least delivered a fluent address , not unpleasing to the
ear , however " slipshod " in point of style , uusjund in argument , and false as regards pretended facts ; but the truth is , that the manner of its delivery was most painlul and wearisome , as all Tivertoh can testify . There stood his Lordshi p between two and three mortal hours , pouring out his words , in "One weak , warty , everlasting flood , " making laborious efforts to be sarcastic , and trying his utmost to be griml y facetious ; applauded certainly by a knot more select than numerous , led on by their immortal fugleman , whose unhappy " Yah , Yah !'' muststill ring in the eara of the Tivertonians , but whose disinterested applause was continuall y drowned in the overwhelming jeers and hootings of the crowd . The " sweet voices" of the
people were not , however , to his Lordship ' s taste , and , therefore , were not taken note of by the noble Lord ' s lacquey—the Times reporter . Although Lord Palmerstox ' s speech was like Don Alfonso ' s , " a fins sample , oa the wholo , Of rhetoric , which the learn'd call ' rigmarole , '" the Times could find five columns for its report , whilst Juliax Harxey's speech was altogether omitted ; indeed , the reporters gave their pencils a holiday during the whole time the Chartist candidate was speaking . Again , after Lord Palmerston had spoken , and bis opponent came forward to
make his second speech , the entire hatch of" Suckmugs , " as Cobbstt used to call them , decamped , audio consequence , actually mis-reported the conclusion of the proceedings , representing that immediately after Jumax Harkky had declined going to the poll , the Mayor had declared Mr Heathcote and Lord Palmkrstox "duly elected , " whereas no such declaration was made till the next day This is auother specimen of the injustice and baseness of the " respectable " press . « His Lordshi p " is reported to the extent of five columns , bectuse he is a Lord-Jvu . w Harxey is not reported at all , because he is merely a Mas !
It is not our purpose to wade through the drearv five columns of Lord Palmerston ' s harangue , but ( here are a few points we may notice without much wearying our readers , ifo lordship avowed that he approved of the measures introduced in the time of Pebcival and his immediate successors , for the suppression of public ri ghts , on the ground that the "Radicals" were resorting to " Physical force . " Now it is notorious that the " physical force " demonstrations of those days were got up by the government , Castles , Oliver , IUcowrco and
Edwards were but the tools of Siomoutii ' Castlereagh , Cannin , and the other Tory violators of the constitution , of whom Lord Palmerston was then one . " Although , " says his lordship , " I am a decided advocate for Reform , I would have that reform effected by reason and by argument , —« ay , it may be pushed forward , if you will , by agitation ; but it must be by the agitation of mind , and not by the agitation of physical force . "
Of course this tallies well with the Whig persecution of the Chartists ! It will he as well , however , to remember his lordshi p ' s words , and ( as he would say ) , " pin" him to his non-objection to agitation . "Agitate , agitate , agitate , " said O'Connell . "I have no objection , " says Lord Palmersmn , " Reform may be pushed forward , if you will , by agitation ; but it must be by the agitation of mind , and not by the agitation of phydcal force . " Good !
Lord Palmkrstox was dreadfully shocked at Julian Barney ' s strictures upon that " most distinguished statesman j" ( the late ) Mr . Canning , whom his Lordship described as the pink of purity , he never having used the power he enjoyed "for his own aggrandisement , or that of . his family . " Now what are the facts ? For about thirty-five years Causing held a sinecure place , for whicll he received in the course of that time about seventeen thousand pounds of the public money , independent of the salaries he enjoved in thfi various
posts , which , at different times , he filled , of Under Secretary of State , Paymaster of the Forces , Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , President of the Hoard of Controul , Ambassador to Portugal , and lastly , First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer . Canning put his mother and half-sister upon the pension list , instead of keeping them himself , as he ought to have done . He had a son called William Pitt Canning ( named after " the pilot who gathered the storm" ) , who , placed in the navy , was , long before
Canning ' s death , made a Post Captain over the heads of thousands of officers who were at sea ) and had poured out their blood in the service of their country (?) long before Billy Pjtt Cashing was born . We might fill columns with the doings of this flashy jester , Cashing , who LordPalmerston says " did honour to his country ; " but enough that we say for Juliax Harxey , that he is read y and wiling to meet his Lordship any day , to prove Cassis g one of the worst enemies the people of of this country ever had to contend with .
Lord Palmerston said , that his opponent ' s strictures Oil the administrations of Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne would lead him to suppose his opponcut " a Tory in disguise . " Stale fudge that Very like a Tory ! " Very like a whale !"
Lord Palmkrstox was very witty (!) in his advice to the people of Tiverton to " send Mr Hauuey back to school to learn political economy . " We quote from his Lordship ' s speech : — " Why , Mr Harney says the Government ought to have turned shopkeeper—that they should have made magazines , and bought corn and sold it out to the people , and that then everything would have been well . ' This his Lordshi p characterised as " dreadful error , " 11 economy , " &c , &c . j but we again quote from his Lordship : — " The Government bought
corn from the storekeepers and merchants in Ireland at the market price , sent it by Government vessels to be deposited at certain stations in these remote regions , and so endeavoured to alleviate those calamities , which would otherwise have pressed much more heavily upon the people . " Here we have Lord Pai . merston contradicting himself , actually demanding popular admiration for the Whig Government , on the ground that himself and colleagues had done partiall y what Julian Barney would have had done nationally ! -His Lordshi p had been
sneering at Ins opponent wanting the Government " to turn shopkeeper , " yet immediately afterwards the noble Lord avows that the Government did turn shopkeeper , only after a petty , huckstering fashion . Juliax Harxey would have had the Government buy corn in the wholesale market , but no , that would have been « bad economy , " says the noble Lord ; what sort of economy , then , was it for the Government to buy corn in the retail market , " from the storekeepers and merchants in Ireland ?" We always understood that one of the principles of political economy was to " buy in the cheapest
market ; but here we have Lord Palmerston avowing that the Whig Government deliberately went to work to buy in the dearest market ! After this exhibition , Juliax Harxey would have been ully justified—could he have been so uncourteonsto have flung hack his Lordshi p ' s insolence in his own teeth , and said to him :- " I think that on this subject my opponent displays such a degree of ignorance , as should lead you to send him back to the school of the Political Economy Club , for at least six months , before you allow him to represent your interests in the House of Commons . "
After lecturing on the impropriety of gentlemen indulging in declamation on the subject of the New Poor Law—a sore subject for his Lordship—he proceeded to enlighten his hearers with some startling definitions as to the objects of Government . "The object of all science is truth , and fie science of go . vernment is an investigation of the truth . * * *
It is only by applying truth to the interests of the different classes of society , that you call do justice . and , therefore , truth and justice are indissolubly united . " We should be glad to know what is Lord Palmerstox ' s " truth ? " We perfectl y understand his "justice , " viz ., the exclusion of six-sevenths of his countrymen from the exercise of the rights he claims for himself .
In entering upon a defence of his foreign policy , Lord Palmerston . exhibited the good taste of telling his opponent that "he knew nothing of the matter he had been talking of , " but we tell his Lordship , in his own words , that" it is not a mere question of assertion one way , and denial the other , because events are matters of history , " and Julian Harnet may safely appeal to history to decide
between himself and his noble opponent , who is too much interested in " making the worse appear the better reason . " It must have been mortifying to his Lordship to have witnessed , in spite of his sneers at his opponent , that the people declared by their voices and their upraised hands , that the Chartist candidate ' s statements were history , and that his Lordshi p ' s replies were merely history falsified .
Making a feint of replying to Julian Harney ' s trictures on his Lordshi p ' s Spanish policy , he said not a word concerning the increase of taxation to the extent of some minions , imposed upon the people by « Liberalism , " nor of the sanguiuary honois COm _ mitted by Christina and her cut-throat tools . These matters his Lordshi p conveniently forgot to say anything about , but instead , he vaunted with an air of great self-satisfaction , that " he had , for the first time , established Parliaments in Spain . " Why , it is a matter of history , that Spain had her Parliaments at a time when this country , under the
Plantage-NEis . was yet struggling for similar privilege . It is true that the despotism of Church and King subsequently subverted Parliamentary reform in Spain but municipal litany suraveu , and up to the time of the imposition of Lord Palmers tox ' s " Liberalism " on Spain , the Basque proviuues were the freest of European states , and the people of those provinces were less taxed , and enjoyed more real liberty , than anyotherpeople in Europe . Lord Palmerston is Uher ¦ gnorant of these facts , or wilfully supposed them ; m other case , it ill becomes him to charge his opponent with i gnorance of historv
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of jocularity , ; to turf the laugh against his auver-8 ary , but Facts are chields that winna ding , And canna bo refuted ;" and , as his lordship said events are matter of his tory !• ' of course Mehbmet Am will be highly gratified at his lordship ' s familiarity In speaking of him as" that old gentleman , " who was " kicked out o
Syria neck and crop . " This way of talking <>' oreign potentates , we suppose his lordship learned from his " g ifted" master , that mischievous buffoon , -Cannin g , who was in the habit of indulging in sinister display not greatly to the advantage of this nation . Whether English or French interests will be best , served by the perusal of Lord Palmeuston ' b speech at Grand Cairo , time will tell !
In reply to Julian Harney , who had spoken of the mockery of calling Hindostan " our Indian Emr are" in relation to the working classes of this country , who had not one foot of soil they could call their own in their own native land , Lord Palmers ton said .- " I should like him to show m the countrv in which there are not some men who
do not possess any land . " The greater shame to his lordship ' s class all over the world ; though , according to his lordship , if the wrong is next thing to universal it is therefore rig ht ! In allusion to the Afghanistan catastrophe , Lord Palmerston said : — " Those who sent that array into Afghanistan were as much the cause of the calamity I have alluded to as a man who builds a house is the cause of its
being burnt down ; or a man who builds a ship is the cause of its being wrecked in a storm . " But suppose , most noble reasoner , a man builds his house on the edge of a volcano , or wilfully sails his ship into the midst of the breakers , if the bursting lava and the raging waters prove too destructive for house or ship to withstand , who is then responsible for the fatal event ? This was precisely the course pursued by Lord Palmeshtos in Afghanistan ; he invaded an independent country , forced an odious monarch on the people , held the country for that monarch by a foreign force , aud in a variety of ways
goaded and galled the Affghans , a people , as he well knew , too brave to patiently endure insult . Auy man with the least foresight might have predicted , hat the Affghans would at some time or other attempt to shake oft' the yoke of the British ; they did attempt and succeeded , for the British found themselves quite incapable of resisting the attempt when made . The burning lava overflowed , the hurricane came and the waves rose , and Lord Palmerston's " house" was consumed , and his ' ' ship" sunk and went down into " the blackness of darkness for ever . " Lord Palmerston savs that the
measures of vengeance against theAffghans were taken b y Sir Robert Pkbi / s government , but ho adds , " 1 applaud them . I think they were right and proper . ' ' That is , Lord Palmerston approves of and unarmed Affghans being put to the sword , women and children ruthlessly murdered , cities given to the flames , property plundered , or wantonly destroyed ; corn fields and fruit trees trampled down , cut down , aud destroyed by fire , to cause the inhabitants who had escaped the sword to perish of hunger 1 These
hellish doings his Lordship " applauds , " and thinks . ' right and proper . " Be it remembered , these atrocities were performed solely for the pitiful purpose of " avenging ourselves" for " our" previous defeat . His Lordshi p professes to be a Christian and a supporter of the Chuich , " as by law established . " Can he reconcile his creed , which teaches him to forgive injuries with these abominable doings which he " applauds ? " perhaps , like Wordswort h , he thinks that
" Carnage is God ' s daughter , " and so would persuade the Affghan to adopt the principle of good faith , and all the other virtues and attributes of Christianity and civilisation , by tickling him with the sabre ' s point . Julian Harnky ' s charge , that his Lordship had practically opened the gates of Afghanistan to the Russians , his Lordshi p / wv / o * to reply to . It was not convenient to admit that his Loidshi p ' s policy had produced results directl y opposed to those intended .
The results of the war in China had been , according to his Lordship , the teaching of the Chinese " good manners , " and the making of them " free traders . " Whether battering down cities . and destroying thousands of lives , are the most fitting means to teach nations " good manners" and the blessings of " free trade , " we leave to the public to decide .
In our humble opinion , a better way to have effected the latter object wonld have been for the British government to have totally repealed the teaduty . We strongly doubt that a nation was ever yet taught " good manners" by having cannon balls knocked about its ears and certainly , notwithstanding Lord Palmerston ' s swaggering assertion , the Chinese are in no good humour with " us , " and have
ixhibited no very " good manners , " as the recent expedition from Hong Kong to Canton abundantl y proves . In discussing the Portuguese question , Lord Palmerston made some remarkable admissions . " The Portuguese , " says ship , " did what any people would do under such circumstances ; and what I stated in the House of Commons , 1 thought they were right in doing . * * * * / think the people of Portugal were justified in that conduct . " His Lordship makes these admissions ,
and then adds a string of puerilities to excuse his intervention against a cause which he admits to have had justice on its side . Thus far events have proved the stupidity as well as injustice , of his Lordship ' s policy , the conditions to which Donna Maria agreed , have been but partially carried out , and only under British coercion ; but the moment that coercion is withdrawn , there will he a repetition of the scenes recently exhibited in that country , and then , we suppose must follow more " interventions . " - where to end
?"Thusbad begins und worse remains behind . " As regards Cracow , Lord Palmerstosj talked of the millions that must have been spent , and the blood that must have flowed , to have restored th at republic . To hear his Lordship descant upon this topic , you would imagine that he had a mo 3 t holy honor of war . Like Shakespeare ' s fop ,
" He looked to neat , and smolt to gweot , And t » lk » d so like a waiting gentlewoman , " of guns and drums , and so forth , that had you then heard his Lordship for the first time , you could not have doubted that he was president of the Peace Society . « It would not , " says his Lordship , " have beeu dignified , wise , or becoming the honour of this country to threaten what it was not prepared to execute ,. " Very pacific , not to say cowardl y and contemptible , this ; but this " bully ^ Bottom " can roar in a verv different strain when not the liber .
ties of a nation , but the monies of a few ( deservedly ) jilted bondholders are at stake . He repeated liis war-threat to the Spaniards , but let the Spaniards not fear , the English people will never sanction a war for the purpose of reducing them to the condition of slaves to foreign money-traffickers . Lord Palmerstoh twitted his opponent that whereas be professed to be a great advocate for « 'justice , " he was against justice to the Spanish bondholders ' . His Lordship is mistaken , Julian Hambit wishes them fcfljwltae-. th . it they may never see their money again-the only kind of justice they deserve
The Ttmes professes to bt halted , half , shocked , aHhe Foreign Secretary of tins powerful GoYeramen being « fo [ more communicative , and
even confidential to a lot m ' beery' electors tUa » he has ever been to the Leg islate or . any foreign ambassador . " "Beery electors j ' ' complimentary , very ! Several of the weekly Libert papers are equally polite , praising Lord Pa lmeusto » fe r havin g provided the Tiverton electors with information on the " politics-made-easy" princip le . The electors may hence see how much they are really despised by their aristocratic " representative , " and his toad ? admirers . The Time * rejoices that " the Chartist was beaten on his own ground . " Now . it happened
to be exactly the icveise , it was Lord Palmerston who was beaten on his own ground , as was sufficiently proved , not only by the superiority of the Chartist ' s arguments , but also from the fact , which the Times could not conceal , though some of the weekly rags did so , that the Chartist was triumphantly elected by show of hands , and the Viscount had to demand a poll to get himself " returned "elected he was not . According to the Times , it is
Lord Palmerston s habit to " finish off his opponents very clean , and leave them no opportunity whatever for coming again . "' There is no rule without an exception , and we beg to tell the Times that Lord Palmerston ' s opponent is sure to " come again , " the only question is , will his Lordship come again ? If the noble Lord has any stomach for the fight , his opponent will be found ready and willing at any time .
The Times , commenting on Julias IIarsey's speechi which it did not publish , says : — We will just nslc the vnlue of a principle which proves a public man , a long-tried servant of the State , and the friend of many great men , utterly and totally bad ; und not only this public man , but in fact , all the public men we have had for half a century . Wkat is this Chartism ? Is it a principle ? Is it a real and practical system ? Is it anything which can be earned out , and which can guide a man straight through any moral or political embarrassments ?
Good Times , you are a pretty " public instructor " if you cannot answer these queries for yourself . Chartism is a principle , the principle of ETERNAL JUSTICE , as defined in the great moral law— " Do unto thy fellow-man as thou wouldesi he should do to thee . " It is because Lord Palmerston , and the rest of the " public men of half a century , have acted in violation of this principle , and have bolstered up a system opposed to this principle , that he and they have gone wrong and always been wrong . It is our purpose to set
them right , and ensure right-doing on the part of statesmen henceforth , by making them the representatives of a system totally opposed to the present , and perfectly in accordance with the principle above enunciated . Confident in the strength of our cause , and encouraged by the glorious triumph recently gained at Nottingham , and the partial victories ( hereafter to be completed ) elsewhere , we shall push on , turning neither to the right hand nor to the left , determined to hasten that better day , when " Right—not might—shall be the lord In the good time coming . "
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THE NEW PARLIAMENT . Whether it is owing to a fortuitous combination of lucky accidents , or to the vesuUs'of a superior intellect and practical forseeing sagacity ap | iliPi ( j to political affairs , it seems that Sir 11 . Peel , j or out of office , is the virtual mainspri ng of the state machine . The great revolution , of which he was the author in 1840 , and upon achie ving tha successful consummation of which he retired into private life , has not stopped with merely aUerin *
the law ? affecting the imports of bread stud ' s , and the numerous articles catalogued in the Custom House Tariff . It has extended Us I nfluence throughout the whole of our political system , ami entirely changed the position and relationshi p of political parlies to each other . Perhaps the more correct statement would be , that his policy on that occasion has decomposed all parties , awl that under its powerful solvent "all old things have nearly passed away , and all things are rapidl y becoming new . "
We have a vivid recollection of the brilliant scene presented by the House of Commons on the memoiable night , at the commencement of the session , 184 G , when that policy was expounded b y Sir Robert . The Queen ' s husband and uncle , a large number of members of the House of Peers a crowded assemblage of excited and anxious members of the ' ¦ Lower House , " and t he " Gallery " crammed with Strangers" consti . tuted Sir Robert ' s auditory . It was , in fact , an
assembly of the Three Estates of the realm . As we listened to the orator , we felt a profound conviction that we were present at and assisting in the inauguration of a great political , social , and moi&i revolution , the ramifications of which extended far beyond the microscopical range of mere " party ' men . That , in fact , that speech nrng the knell oi ' party , " and substituted The People for Faction ; aud Ministers , instead of being the nominees and bondslaves of the ruling faction of the day , would , iu future , become the ministers of the Nation .
The General Election , now nearly closed , has fully realised these anticipations . We are , it ii true , still in the transition period , but sufficient has transpired to show clearly whither we are tending , what the goal at which we are to arrive , The mere routine drudges of the hack press , unobservant or ignorant of the Radical change which has taken place , have we see betaken themselves to Chronicling the members of the new House after the old fashion , and classify them under the three heads of "Liberals , Peelites , and Protectionists , "
with wonderful self complacency , but very trifling accuracy . These general terms tell nothing ; if they do anything at all , they deceive . Lord J . Russell and Mr F . O'Connor are classed under the same category , " Liberal . " The " liberality "' of the one is the antipodes of the other . The motto of the one is" Finality ; " of the other , " Progress . " The same error pervades the calculations as to Peelites and Protectionists upon many questions . The so-called Peelites are more liberal , that is , more progressive , than the self-dubbed Liberals ; ami as to the Protectionist party , its members have so candidly and moderately , with few exceptions , proclaimed
their readiness to give Free Trade a " fair trial , " and so discreetly declined to pledge themselves to anything in future , that we can scarcely recognise ia them our old friends , who used to foam at the mouth like mad bulls about the " perfidy terg iversation , and treachery of the modern Judas Iscariot , " who betrayed the confiding agricultural party into the hands of the cotton lords of the League . Their wrath has evidently cooled down . The old parties have been dissolved , and the change which has come over the individual members of which they were composed , will soon leave scarcely a trace of their existence , except that which is to be found in Hansard and history . ' - '
But out of the debris , new combinations ar * arising . Each occupies an advanced position , as compared with the past ; and , in front of all these , has been sent into the house a little band of pioneers , representing the views of all the extreme sections of Reformers , whether these Reformers be of a political , a religious , a social , or economical description . Who can accurately foresee or calculate the full effect which this party of pioneers -will have on the deliberations of Parliament , and the future destinies of the conntry ^
Henceforth , the battle of principle vrHl he tra ^ ferred from the lectrae room ot the hustings , to . the arena of the Legislative Hall . The tame conwioii place , ttie trite and haeknied questions , the formal conventionalisms , and the hollow artificialities of the old system , will be hrought face to face with the vital earn estness , the ardent zeal , and the uuco > qusaablfj determination of men who have a solemn sensfc . -of the importance of the principles they maintaa -and who are not to be daunted or turned aside from ) , the path of dnty , either by the blandishments
» £ 'power , or any compunctious visitings for disturbing & . e convenience of the parties who have been accustomed to play at shuttlecock with ^ the people , and to change p laces , " out" Ot " in , " as suited themselves . The result of w this is not doubtful . The ag itation of w League furnishes an analogy of a hopeful kim , From the moment that the out-door ag itation
developed its strength , by sending members from »> own ranks to advocate its princip les—from the ffiO ' ment that it secured the suffrages and sympathy o the electoral classes its triumph was certain- "o must it be with the " People ' s Charter , " and with those great practical measures which are reqw to give every man a Home in the land of his biro ' in which , by honest industry , he may live a cod 1 " fortabie , independent , aBtUannyifc , / yfcwW
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THE PRESS AND THE TIVERTON ELECTION . ( Translated from the ' Gazette de Gutmesey , ' ) ' The bitter chagrin that the defeat of all these leagued politicians has caused to all the London journals , appears to have been for a moment mitigated by the events which marked the election at the town of'Tiverton , where Lord Palmerston has rendered a singular account ot In 3 diplomacy in all parts of the world , to ene Mr Harney , his fellowcandidate for the honour of the representation of Tiverton .
The account rendered by the Minister of his Home administration contains nothing very remarkable , but that of his Foreign policy is at once curious , and very interesting . It cost the Minister a space of above three hours , and upwards of five columns of the Morning Chronicle , to develope his principles and conduct to Mr Harney . We can form some idea of the extent of territory over which he travelled , and the
importance of the events of which he treated , when we hear that Mr Harney ' s interrogations comprised the whole space of Lord Palraerston ' s ministry , from the time of his Lordship ' s entrance into office , ( a period almost beyond the recollection of the oldest inhabitant , ) up to the moment when the Usher of the Black Rod called the Members of the Lower House into the presence of their Sovereign , to hear the announcement of the dissolution of Parliament , onlv a few dav previous .
A voyage from Paris to Peru , aud from Peru to Rome , is trifling co with that which Mr Harney caused Lord Palraerston to take . The policy of England towards Belgium , Holland , Fiance , Austria , Spain , Portugal , Italy , Poland , Russia , Turkey , Egypt , India , China , Canada , all was explained at length , by the Minister of Foreign Affairs . The character of the monarchs of these different countries—that of their governments alsohas been as fully and as regularly presented to Mr
Harney , as if he had been an ambassador from France or Russia , after a long war , and a sudden and sincere renewal of friendl y relations . It would be impossible for the Minister to act with more guarded care , or to enter more explicitly into detail before his Sovereign , than he did before Mr Harney . The spectacle was a remarkable one , and to have been perfect , the metropolitan press ought , in justice to Mr Harney , to have given , at least , a brief sketch of that remarkble production of his , which caused so remarkable a one from the English Minister .
But this is the age of ingratitude—the most renowned orators and statesmen are rejected by constituencies , who , without their brilliant efforts , never would have had an existence . The Press takes upon itself to blame this ingratitude , but in its turn treats the remarkable speech of Mr Harney in the same manner , by refusing to give that speech
a place in its columus . The excuse with which it seeks to cover the omission—that Mr Harney ' s Bill of Impeachmeu f is gone over in the course of the Minister ' s reply—is quite as bad as that which the electors , whom it blames , put forward for rejecting those members of the House of Commons , whose talents and stauding made them most worthy of a place there .
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THE CRIMINAL LAW . In another part of the paper , our readers will find recorded the death of a very worthy member of the National Land Company , Mr Dobson , the secretary of the Sleaford branch , Lincolnshire . The circumstances under which he met his death afford a glaring instance of au undue use of violence , on the part of the so-called guardians of the peace . Mr Dobson was merely passing quietly throug h the crowd , on his way to the Post-office With a letter
when he was struck on the head by a policeman with his truncheon , and died within five hours of the wound . There appears to have been no necessity for having recourse to such violence-towards anyone . It was election time-there was a quarrel between the blues and the m \ wbut neittwv property nOr V , fe appears to have been endangered , and even if any interference on the partof the police were necemc , , brutality like the above couM onl y he excused in . the last extremity of self-defence . Yet , though it i , clearly proved that poor Dolison had nothing 0 « earth to do with the quarrel that his whole * — .... ull 1 IIO uuit
, . „ ,-, «;«„ , _„ ,, n . previous life had been exemplary ~ and that he . wsevea ignorant of any disturbance taking place ^ hen lie left his home-tho Coroner ' s Jury bring h a verdict of " Excusable llominide . " Vfe are fat from harbouring vindictive feelings gainst the author / q £ tUe uDlsppy < Kcujrceue& but
we do say , if men are to be killed in the ^ t ^ S in pursuit of their peaceful avocations- ^^ whose supposed office it is to guard the "" ^ against the turbulent , strike the former in % {^^ latter ; if a policeman is to use his tru uc | , ^ strike at random among a . crowd Wheneve r 1 ° " ' ' ** ""seizes him , cutting off the father of a famii . *^ prime of his life , and thus casting a disco 1 15 widow and four helpless orphans on tl " ^ k ^ mercies of the world ; and if an act like this - ^ stamped as excusable homicide ; then , in (] | ° ' criminal law is even worse than we believed it ' ^ in our previous estimation . ° It is no excuse if the policeman supposed u * —i-i- 'wu t 0 V
. . I the wrong man . Life is no such trifle as t I lightly taken ; the mistake is in itself a crime I before striking the blow it was his duty to seewi " * he struck . It is no excuse to say he did not ini killing the man . He struck a blow of $ ft « ¦ ' force to kill , and it must have been a Iuckv il that had prevented death . It is no excuse { or . » policeman to say his life was iu danger it ai ) n that nobody's life was endangered—and then ? the plea of self-preservation cannot be urged in i fence of the accused . We are not going to prejudge this case ; and *;» say no more at present , as the men of Sleaford ] a obtained a warrant against the policeman , and V case comes on this day . We arc but reasonin g 0 the verdict already recorded ; but this we ih SlT should justice not be done—should reparation not be made to the surviving sufierers—then it behovethe me hers of the Land Company to take fte question up , and fight the battle of their depary comrade .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR ^ AuGUST l ± }* 'l 1
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 14, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1431/page/4/
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