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It seems that we are not to have an autumnal session of Parliament . By an order in Council there is a prorogation till the 21 st of October , when pheasant shooting will be growing stale . There is , however , no hint in the order that Parliament will then meet for business , and the probability is that there will be a further delay . It is very doubtful , whether or not the newly elected legislative body will meet much
before the usual period for commencing the session . The policy of the Derby cabinet is evidently that of procrastination , and the anti-nmnsterialists are loud in their denunciations of the premier , who certainly promised that there should be an early meeting . They assume that the object is to gain time to tamper with the doubtfuls , an assumption which is no
doubt correct . The Whigs , however , would have us believe that the Derby-Disraelites are alone engaged in that work . The truth being that all parties are spreading their nets and doing their best to catch votes ; but the Tories having the good things of office in their possession have the best chance of success .
The question with America as to the Fisheries question seems to be as good as settled by more gentle means than the guns of the Devastation . The British Government it appears disclaims all intention of excluding the Yankees from the great bays , and confines its protection to in-shore fisheries . As to the exclusive right of the colonists to those there is no dispute . There has been unquestionably some diplomatic
blundering on the part of the Cabinet , in not taking care that its intentions were clearly expressed , and a disposition to misinterpret , talk big , and bully on the part of Mr . Webster , which is unworthy of a great statesman . We may rejoice that the matter is peaceably disposed of , for a war between the two great Anglo-Saxon powers would throw back the progress of the world half-a-century .
France is the land of fetes . There has been another great national demonstration * , Eagles have been distributed to the National Guards . There has been a naval sham fight upon the Seine and an aquatic tournament . Fountains have been erected — illuminations prepared , and fireworks let off , ad libitum with a canvas imitation of an Alpine fort , where the Napoleon exhibited his military genius . After all it seems to have been but a shabby affair . The frigate in the naval fight could not manouvre for want of water ; the smoke of the
artillery prevented the would be spectators from seeing ; the workmen struck work at the last moment and left the fouritains unfinished ; the weather would not allow the illuminations to " flare up ; " and the wind blew away the painted canvas , and knocked down the parapets of the fort . Seriously we may ask if the French can be governed by such means as these , is it worth the while of the Derby Cabinet to try the English with some reviews in the park , a
display of fireworks on the dome of St . Paul ' s , and a few fetes at Cremorne ? An amnesty for a number of political offenders has been issued , but in order to render it as insulting as possible , the document applies also to some hundreds of criminals . A viler attempt to degrade honorable men could not be made than by classing them without distinction with the the tenants of the prisons and gallays . Some people expected ,
that at the recent fetes the Empire would be proclained , but the apple is not ripe yet . Louis Napoleon desires not to proclaim himself , but to be proclaimed as if spontaneously , so that it may appear to be not his will but the will of the French people . Perhaps even that may be managed , and the adventurer become Emperor of France . His marriage with the Princess Caroline of Wasa , is postponed , the father objecting to its completion .
The reports of the Times correspondent , and the extracts copied by that paper from the German press respecting the enthusiastic reception of the Emperor of Austria in Hungary , turn out to be all fudge . The leading journal hates Kossuth , and willingly hides the facts that his countrymen xeverence the name of the patriot , and that the German press is entirely in the power of the Government . A letter in the Daily News from one personally GOgnizant of the facts , put the matter in its true light . The Emperor was received in gloomy silence . The irmabitants of the Hungarian towns Town Edition .
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were ordered to illuminate and hang out flags , and they complied just far enough to escape punishment . The nobles held aloof from the Imperial presence , and the crowd pressed their hats upon their brows , and clenched their teeth , as the murderer of their brethren passed by . The only cheers were from the government flunkies , and they sounded as forced , cold , and unreal as a stage laugh .
In Austrian Italy arrests are going on in consequence of the government suspecting the existence of Mazzinian plots . Throughout all the Italian States the native blood boils at the tyranny of alien rulers , and the insolence and brutality of subordinates . Here as in Hungary , a fearful retribution is preparing for the boy Emperor . At the first opportunity Italy will fly to arms and declare war to the knife . A proof of the
reverence m which Mazzini is held , is to be found in the fact that at the funeral of his mother at Genoa the other day , the National Guard formed part of the procession , which included hundreds of artizans , and was watched by thousands of citizens . It is also a fact significant of the future , that the captains of six American vessels played a prominent part in the ceremony .
The mail from India brings further news of the Burmese war . The forces under General Godwin are holding their ground and making new conquests . The inhabitants of the country are represented as favourable to the expedition , stacking wood . for the steamers , furnishing supplies for the army , and anxious to escape from the government of the Court of Ava . Decisive operations will not be undertaken till after the rainy season , and then events seem to point at
annexation of the whole or part of thf ^ ermese territory . It is difficult to say where our empire | ai India is to stop , for every fresh conquest , seems to furnish the pretext for others . The evidence as to the Six Mile Bridge tragedy in Ireland , is now completed . As we anticipated there has been hard swearing—perjury on the one side and the other . The evidence of priests and peasantry was to the effect that the people were perfect lambs , their pastors meek shepherds , and the
soldiers ravening wolves . That there was no stone throwing , very little shouting , no threats , and -in fact hardly a mob at all ; but that the military , totally unassailed , absolutely without provocation , levelled their pieces and fired . The testimony on the other side is totally contradictory to this . The officers in charge of the escort , swear that the mild priest was
flourishing a horse : whip , and urging the people on to violence . That attempts were made to cut the traces of the cars ; that voters were pulled off ; that stones flew like hail ; that soldiers were knocked down , and that a charge of bayonets was tried ineffectually before a musket was fired . The jury ' s verdict is " Wilful Murder , " against the soldiers and the magistrate .
It was but the other day that one of the Irish Catholic Bishops asserted that the approval s of the Almighty of the proceedings of the clergy and their- flocks , was shewn by the cessation of the potato rot . Scarcely had the boast escaped the lips of the prelate than the rot made its appearance . There is but little doubt that a large portion of the staple food of the people is doomed , and that the wheat crops are also suffering from blight . This s > will most likely thin the flocks of the priests , by prompting emigration in those who would otherwise stay at home .
Connected with Ireland , as arising out of religious dissentions , is the subject of the Stockport riots . The trials are now over , and both English and Irish have been convicted . So far as can be gathered , it appears that outrage commenced on the part of the Roman Catholic party , but the sentences upon the Eglishmen are the most severe . The reason of the presiding Judge for this is , that the Irish mainly confined themselves to assaults in the street , while the English broke into houses and destroyed property as well as injured
persons . There has been a great stir in the railway world , the prevalent topic being the amalgamation of various companies . Thus the London and North Western proposes to amalgamate with the Midland—the latter company also receiving a similar offer from the Great Northern . The London and North Western is beside negociating with the Great Western . The Times has taken alarm at the monster power of these great trading conrpcanies , and the vast combinations they are tending to . It may be found when too late that capital will have
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gathered a power too great to be resisted , and that the authorities who have permitted , and the individuals who have aided in bringing things to their present pass , will feel the results . We have had another specimen of the class of sinecurists brought into notice . A Rev . Mr . Moore is a pluralist of the Church , and also registrar of the Prerogative Court . This is
a patent office , and the reverend gentleman who fills it , receives , as the reward for doing nothing , £ 9 , 000 a year . The clerks who actually do the work have hitherto been paid by a discount upon stamps , but recent alterations having cut off that source of income , the reverend pluralist and sinecurist was applied to contribute something . He receives the request with virtuous indignation—Why should he give anything ? His office is a sinecure , there is no doubt about it .
He never pretended it was anything else . He never promised to do any work—not he . The only thmghe bargained for was to receive £ 9000 a-year , and he thinks it very hard that he should be held up to odium . Why , he asks , should he be treated worse than other sinecurists ? Why , indeed ? We think a that reasonable query , and should
strenuously urge that Mr . Moore may fare worse than he does now , and that his fellows may be served like him . The worst of it is that the patronage as to this office is managed in such a way that Lord Canterbury is appointed to succeed Mr . Moore , and a relation of Archbishop Summers to succeed Lord Canterbury .
We are bound , in order to make our budget complete , to chronicle fashionable intelligence . The Queen has comeback from Belgium , having been duly saluted at every port she came in sight of—a ceremony fruitful in headaches , waste of gunpowder , and the loss of a seaman ' s handB , blown off by an explosion . We should think the Queen could travel quite
as well without this display of dangerous and useless tomfoolery ; and perhaps we may suggest , that when troops are sent out in ricketty steamers , and others are brought across the Atlantic , at the risk of foundering , Her Majesty might make a short trip with something less than three yachts and six steam frigates as an escort . In the industrial world
two strikes are going on—the one upon the part of the Iron Workers in South Staffordshire , the other among the Block Printers , of Clayford , in Kent . Upon these matters it is difficult , without direct information , to speak with any accuracy , for the daily papers are so notoriously in favour of the capitalist , and against the labourer that they are not to be relied upon . So far , however , as we are enabled to gather , the following are the facts with regard to the dispute at the Iron
Works . The prices in the Iron Trade are mainly ruled by the agreement come to at the quarterly meeting of the Ironmasters , the arrangement remaining in force for three months , as at the last quarterly meeting prices were fixed at a lower rate than they would be now , the tendency of tho market being upwards . The mon , as is the custom , demand higher wages now that trade has improved , and the masters refuse to yield . The Times stated that the employers were likely
to . adopt the same course as was taken in the Engineers' dispute ; but that is now denied . A Birmingham journal laments that there is not a better understanding between masters and men , but before that can happen , the possessors of capital must learn to treat their labourers more like men , and less like machines . With respect to the block-printers' strike , the men at Crayford are an exceedingly well-conducted , skillful body of operatives , who bestow extraordinary care upon their work .
It is but a few years since that ^ Crayford was of the best specimens of a manufacturing village . Periodical slackness , however , and continual reductions have operated very injuriously , and another reduction being attempted , the men resisted . The employers were determined to carry their point , and after a vain endeavour upon the part of the operatives to pursuade them by a temperate , well-written statement of facts , an appeal was made to the trade , which has subscribed largely to support the strike . Some efficient means must be adopted to obtain justice for "workmen .
For the rest of the news , we must refer our readers to the reports , merely observing , that according to the Registar General , there is an improvement- in ' the physical health of the metropolis ; and according to the law tmd police courts , no amendment in the moral condition of the people .
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No . 2 . New JW ] LOTO ^ mUBDAY , AUGUST 21 , 1852 , Ram ^ B . H *™* .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1692/page/1/
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