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raox oce loxdos couaEsroNDEs-i . Wednesday Evening , Aug . iih . The trades are beginning to more in the good cause , the- coppersmiths have followed the bright example of tfcr masons , the Ehosmakers have likewise juined , so £ h- * we are likely to have the London trades ri ^ ht ia th- field . 1 ' ne struggle between the masters and the journeyma coppeismiths , ia alone continued ¦ with the firm of ¦ Pv atifex and Co ., the other masters having given'in . Tt ? struggle has been , and is , a most severe one ; ilrr ^ dy have subscriptions to nearly £ 700 been aiaue . City of Lo > "DO >\—Mi . Spnrr preached at the rooms , Old Bailey , on Sunday evening last , to a numerous congregation- On Monday next , 3 concert ~ will be given ai ths above rooms , on behalf of Bruaterre O'Brien , to « onunence at eight o'clock .
Mastlebo > " £ . —A concert and ball was giTen at the "Working Men'a Hall , Circus-street , New Road , on Hoaday last , on behalf of Bronterre O'Biien ; though the rain poured down in torrents throughout the evenicg , a ^ numeronjB company ^ assembled to do honour to the man for his unflinching adTocacy of the people ' s eanae . The amusements were continued till an early tour of morn . Bosovgh op MASTLEbone . —The supper to V ? YUliers Smiej , Bsq , will come off on Tuesday evening nest , at the Feathers , Warren-street , Tottenham Court Road . St . Pasckas . —A public meeting was held-here on Monday last , for electing delegates to the County Council . Messrs . Fussill , Goodfellow , and Humphries were elected . TOTV . EB HaMLEis . —Mr . Wall lectured here en Sunday last , at the Charter Coffee-bouse , Brick-lane , and will lecture in continuation next Sunday .
"Whitechapel . —Mr . Spun lectures on Sunday evening next , at the Freemason ' s Anus , ?> orth-street , Whi : echapeL A Pvblic Mketi > g was held on Tuesday evening last , at the Social Institution , Whitechapel , to elect delegates to the County Council , Mr . Spnsr , in the chair ,-Messrs . Drake , H'Garth , and Mills were elected . Angry discussion was indulged in through a charge brought by a Mr . Pickersgill against Messrs . Fox and Drake . Mr . " PTilkins was likewise elected a delegate . The Coppersmiths will shortly hold their first meeting as Chartists . FlXSBrfiT . —At the usual meeting in thi « district , Kt Spun in the chair . It waB resolved , ' That a remonstrance be sent to the ExecutiTe against the sitting of Mr . Philp . i'when Mr . Spurrhad the majority of Totes OTsr Mi . Philp . A number of new members were enrolled .
H 05 T 05 . —Mr . Balls lectured here on Tuesday evening last , at Plumber-street , city . To ^ ss Hamlets . —A pnblic meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets , was holden on Tuesday evening last , at Mr . Shevell ' s Auction Room , Betbcil Green . At seven o ' clock , the chair was taken by Mr . Frazir v b . ~ > opened the proceedings by stating that the meBting had been convened by the Radical Election Comrziittee of the Borough , to lay a report of their proceedings befors the public , and if the public was satisfied with their proceedings to obtain its rapport For five years had the Hamlet * been without a Radical candidate , although essentially Radical ; he had yet to learn that they were satiated with this state of affairs ; if they -were not , they would assist the committee in
forming Branch Associations , that was the primary object the Committee had in view—the second- object was to enlighten the mind of the electors as to the great trust reposed in them , and to obtain that suffrage which the Reform Bill gave to the people—a suffrage nearly universal . From a long course of submission to certain parties , from fear of dividing what was called ths liberal interest , they had been prevented from proceeding in the straight forward courss of obtaining that esential reform which was required ; and , instead , of ft petty Com Law agication , ft Church-rate agitation and such like agitations had the people been agitated to obtain a further reform in and of the House of Commons , they "would be much nearer of obtaining those egsent'al and substantial benefits , -which
all reformers must wish for . ( Loud cheering . ) He was really surprised to hear a nan proclaiming himself a Universal Suffrage man , as Mr . Sidney Smith did , indulge in such twaddle about Corn Law repeal , and descend to mean abuse of the aristocracy , when the great battle was to obtain a reform of that House irMca allowed such laws as Cora Laws to exist The Chairman concluded by calling on the Secretary to read the report , which , on the motion of 3 Ir . Cleave , was adopted . " Mr . Simmons moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting , aware of the great good likely to arise from this Association , pledges itself to mpport the same , by enrolling or becoming members of the Association . ' Though a stranger to those present , hs was not a strangei to the principles of Radicalism . He had not come alone , but to represent a branch of that Association , the members of which were determined to carry ont its objects , for they felt with himself they had been deceived by the Whigs , who
promised largely , and performed nothing . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Le Clerc seconded the resolutisn , which was carried nTffliimonsly . Mr . She-veil , ia moving the next resolution , -would commence by reading the 30 th section of the Reform Act , unier which they obtained "the power o ! getting compound householders a vote . After reading this , those present would not be surprised to find the Yestry Cleri determine that the Association was right , but not , perhaps , a little surprised to find that though the Yestry Cierk said so , the Vestry had decided lhat the names of the parties claiming , though eTery legal technicality had been complied with , should not be inserted i shame , shame ); but he was glad to find the Reform Biil met the difficulty , and that though tef used , they could go before the Revising Barrister , and gain their votes . He knew the reason of the Yestry having acted in the manner it had done , was to prevent parsons obtaining a settlement in the parish . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed the people , if they would exercise their virtne , would soon be enabled to avail themselves
of the provisions of the Reform Act ; he would do all he conld to assist them ; the room should be opened to them free of charge , and whatever he was able to perform , he would cheerfully undertake . For himself , though the owner of houses , he was not afraid of his tenants becoming electors , though afterwards ,. it might become their nnhappy lot t » be the denizens of that building -which -was notr erecting , and which would esst £ 24 , 000 building , indeed he thought that after living for many yoara in a particular neighbourhood , should it unfortunately occur they were obliged to have recourse to the workhouse , their neighbours would be the best persons to give them that solace and relief they might require . ( Cheers . ; He would conclude by ¦ moving" That for the attainment of the object the associstion has ia view , district commitiees be immediately formed throughout the Borough of the Tower Hamlets . " Mr . ^ Cleave rose for the purpose of most eordiaUy seconding the resolution . Mr . Shevill had ftated that he had reaidsd for . twenty-four years
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amongst the men of the Tower Hamlets , he ( Mr . Cleave ) had bat lately become on inhabitant , bat he came to that meeting to assist bis friends , aad because he desired to have his name on the register . Ha owed no apology to those who were not Chartists for being present ; he was a resident of the borough , that was his whole explanation to them ; te those who were Chartists he would state that he came forward to avail himself of a secondary means which he possessed , and which was in the power of those like himself to exercise in behalf of the principles whieh he advocated . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel had told his followers to register , and he ( Mr . Cleave ) would say register , far by so doing they would show to the middle class who had thrawn them over-board , that
when they ( the Chartist *) had a privilege they would exercise it , asd that they were not indifferent to their franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) He could trace all their evils from bad laws ; and would a repeal of the Corn Laws repeal all their grievances ? He was convinced not , and therefore he was for going to the bottom of the evil to eradicate all , for he would ask , would the Com Laws have been passed ? would the Poor Law have become law but for bad legislation ? { Hew , hear . ) He was glad to find them associated to work out the principle of registration , which , though a secondary means , -would yet be a pawerful auxiliary in their march towards universal liberty , and for ths obtainment of those principles which he , in common with his brother Chartists , advocate . ( Some person here
exclaimed " Tell us about the Northern Slar . " ) He would tell them this , that as agent for the Slar , and as the proprietor could not then speak to those present for himself , that the Star -would ever be the advocate of justice , and though the evening was so unpropitions , yet the reporter of the Star was there even at some distance from the great centre of the Metropolis ; and would conclude by stating the resolution had his most cordial support Mr . Boggis moved a vote of thanks to Mr . Sh&vili for his handsome behaviour towards the association in granting the use of the room , &c" Th ± resolution having been seconded , was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Shevill returned thanks . Thanks were then voted to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .
The Mason's Charter Association is progressing rapidly . They already number upwards of one hundred . At their weeily meeting , on Saturday night last , three Councilmen were elected to sit in the County Council . It is their intention to visit the various trades , and urge upon , them the necessity of forming Associations , to procure the Charter to become the law of the land . A deputation waited upon the coppersmiths and braziers . Mr . Watkins and Mr . Spurr accompanied them ; when a resolution -was passed to form an Association-Deputations from the masons also waited upon seven bodies of shoemakers on Monday last , for the purpose of forming an Association : they were well received , and an excellent spirit was manifested amongst the various branches of the trade which the deputations visited ; and as soon as arrangements are made amongst the different branches , a numerous Association will , in all probability , be formed . Deputations from the masons will wait upon all other trades at the earliest opportunity .
Deptford District . —On Sunday last , the Sorry County Council met . Mr . Ross in the chair . A good muster of friends attended , and some excellent speeches were made by Messrs . Maynard , Rose , Dodd and Brown , the latter gentleman proposed the following resolution : —" That seeing an article in the Northern Star of a public meeting held at Birmingham , whereMessrs . O Neil and Collins figured so conspicuously , but despicably , -we cannot sufficiently show our contempt for such characters , but by recording our utter detestation of such persons , and consider them not worthy the confidence or notice of any reasonable man . " Mr . Wheeler , from Kensington , then delivered a most powerful lecture . He exorted his hearers to stick to or join the Charter as the only means of putting a stop to the evils under which they laboured He was much applauded tkroughout , and after a vote of thanks to the Chairman , the meeting dispersed .
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SATURDAY , AUGUST 7 , 1841 . " The Chastists have proved themselves more ; accurate calculators than the middle classes . Whether theib . no-trim would have mended i StATTEBS IS SOT - NOW THE ( JCESTION J BUT THE RESULT HAS SHEWN THaT THEY W £ EE CORRECT IN THEIR opinion—that ix the present state of the repre- se . ntatiox , it was y aix to thixk of a repeal of the corn monopolt . ?»*?*? Political poytlr in this country , though it ' resides in a comparatively small class , can only be exescjsed by the sufferance of tub masses . "— i Morning Chronicle Corgan of the Whig MinistersJ , i Friday , July 1 'J . Vj , 1841 . j
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON AND THE ROYAL LOYAL AGRICULTURAL VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND . So then , it appeara that the bloody Tories are resolved upon following , to the letter , every bad and dangerous precedent established by the bloody Whigs . We meet this subject hop-at-a-venture , in as much as we have no better direct evidence of the Noble Lord's intention than the mere assurance of the Leeds Mercury and the Manchester Guardian , but , ia truth , even that issufficient , as the character of Toryism ( however the Times may attempt to place the mask of Conservatism over the mouster ) furnishes evidence to justify any , the most evil , forebodings .
Thevalliant clod-poles it appears are designed as a Tory reserve upon which the Right Honourable Baronet may fall back in the event of any Irish dissatisfaction being practically evinced towards that j reign of terrorwhich everhasbeeB , andevermustbe , a consequence of Tory pre-eminence , so long as the i poorest Catholic people on the face of the eaxth arc , compelled to -work and slave and starve in rags , I while a bloated , insolent , pampered , shooting , i Protestant clergy , live upon the fat of the land , i
" It would not be politic to increase the army , " says the Government organ . We must naturally * conclude , then , that the new force is intended as a ' substitute for the Irish army of occupation , designed for church service in the land of parsonB . The ; Whigs have no right to complain of such a step j even if taken ; not the least ; because Lord John 1 Russzll set the example in 1839 , when he invited ' every enemy of the people to enrol in similar i corps ; with this trifling difference , however , that in Lord Egertos ' s case he will furnish arms at his
own expence , while in Lord John ' s case , the people were to to pay for the instruments of their own destruction . Upon the other hand , as we feel convinced that so large a draft as five hundred thousand—the number of Irish volunteers offered by the Liberator for the suppression of Chartism— -will not be required for ¦ the Irish service , Mr . O'Connell has no right to , complain . Who then has a right to complain Why we , and the English , the Irish and the Scotch
people have the right , and , with God ' s blessing , we will fearlessly exercise that right ; and fortunate is it for the cause of liberty that we had the hardihood to stand out , though alone , abused and struggling in that dread hour when plausibility ^ ave to tyranny the stamp of patriotism , and when every hand was raised , and every fiction of law was brought into action against a defenceless and unarmed people . Ave , we have through the mighty struggle kept clean hands , and now we can oppose tyranny without the dread of retort .
What , then , the reader may ask , do you justify , and will you defend the Tories in their project at home , and in their projected assault upon the remnant of Irish liberty I No , indeed , we will not ; but on the contrary , strong in our numbers , our union and the justice of our cause , we hurl defiance at Lord Egerto > ' and bis volunteers , and at the Baronet and hi 3 appropriation of them , and we here tender some advice both to the projectors and the people .
Lord Francis Egeeton is that Lord Leveson Gowkb who was a Cabinet Minister , in virtue of his ofice as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , in his early days—the school in which Wellington , Peel , Stanlet , Casilkreagh , and the military chieftain whose conduct ia now under consideration , were one and all brought up ; and a moat infernal school it is . True , the noble Lord Egerton , while Secretary for Ireland , devoted the greater portion of Ms time to making bad verses—as he is a poet ; but , nevertheless , having a strong pre-disposition , towards Orangeism little time was required , the seeds of tyranny were sown the love of church was strongly imbibed , and & hatred for every thing Irish was confirmed in the leisure moments stolen from the muse 3 .
Under such impressions , then , we may reasonably infer that Irela » d is the immediate destination of tkat portion of our regular troops whose place is to be supplied by the Noble Lord ' s volunteers . In such case it i 3 right , presuming upon Lord Egerios ' s ignorance of military tactics and evolutions , to give him . gome necessary bints . " Imprimis . " Then we
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would strongly recommend him , upon all occasions of field exercise , review , inspection , or sham fight where firing is practised , to be cautious in the selection of ground , because frequeat instances are upon record of such negleot leading to great misfortunes . Of all things he most be careful of bis wadding , as it not unfrequently holds fire for a considerable time , and may be blown to an immense distance . We also recommend the Noble Lord , in the event of being brought into action against the wearers ( whom
his order has reduced to rebels ) to furnish his men with all those ready implements of death and torture found ao useful in Ireland in the years 1797-98 , and which obviates the bore of making prisonerssuch as travelling gallows , pitch-caps , tar , feathers , the triangle , picket , and , above all , a goodly supply of detonating torches to demolish houses , and also with bridles , and saddles , and spits , all instruments in general use under bis predecessors in Ireland , and , of course , the practice of the countries is to be assimilated .
Perhaps our readers , culpably ignorant of the Irish Rebellion , brought about by Lord Castlereagh , under the immediate superintendence of Mr . Pitt , for the purpose of uniting the countries , may not be aware of the use of the saddle , bridle , travelling gallows , and roasting spit , and therefore we beg leave to inform them . The Black Horse , called the " Ancient Britons , " and by the Irish " Hussians , " from their " Hessian boots , " and which corps did much cruel destruction , did , in more instances than one , put a saddle
upon the back of an Irish prisoner , and a bit in bis mouth , and so saddled and bridled , to the great delight of the corps , ride him , showing off his paces . Plowdkn , in his History of Ireland , makes mention of the fact—which he corroborates by the very best testimony—of an English regiment , on service in the oounty of Wexford , having roasted an Irishman alive , and the historian ' s words are , that upon one person refusing to taste , a comrade pressed him , and observed , " Paddy eats sweet , AND I KNOW IT . "
Perhaps the office of travelling gallows may be a valuable addition to the patronage of a Tory Government , when we assure our readers , that a gentleman filled the situation in 1797 and 98 , in Ireland with great skill and humanity by hauling his victim with his hands and feet tied over his shoulder , with his back to the gentleman ' s back , lest he should use his teeth ; any person doubting our assertion , may satisfy himself as to its truth , by reference to any officer who served in Leinster during the above period , and to whom the Baid gentleman was known by the title of the " walking gallotcs . "
Having offered so much advice to the noble commander of the volunteers , who , it appears , are to answer the people ' s call for bread with bullets , we now turn to those whose interests ever have been and ever shall be our especial consideration . To them we say resist the contemplated inroad upon your liberties by every means , ( constitutional means , ) in your power , and upon the very first authentic announcement of the fact , let all who cannot meet by day , meet by torch-light—it is legal , qiite legalthe proclamation has expired , and no law is in existence to prevent it ; therefore meet , and send a humble petition to the House of Commons , setting forth your determination to resist the unconsitutional step , and also complaining of the necessity imposed
upon you of being compelled to meet in the dead hour of the night , in consequence of no portion of the day being at your disposal . Say that you are slaves , but that you are resolved not to be willing slaves , and not to be slaves longer than you can help it , and , above all , that you will not tamely submit to the manufacture of new military fetters . Say that you will not allow Ireland , or the Irish , to be coerced for the benefit of tyrant landlords and shooting parsons ; and tell the Hoase , aB you have a right to do , that you will meet the very first attempt by pawning your very last stitch of clothes , to place yourselves in a position to defend your lives , your remaining liberties , and your homes , against domestic invasion .
The law does not profess to recognise any difference between the poorest man and Lord Egerton , and whatever preliminary steps the law allows the Noble Lord to take , before the law legalises the act , the people are justified in imitating to the letter . Let every act be legal and constitutional , and let the petition , if needed , be signed with the name in full , with the age and residence of the petitioner , and let it be coifiued to those who are liable to be ballotted for service in the militia ; in short , to fighting men .
For years we have been pointing out the fact , that the Whigs were filling Ireland with a standingarmy of poiice-men ready made to Tory hands , while they were simultaneously increasing the army from which any number may , upon emergency , be drafted to Ireland . Perhaps Air . O'Connell has now felt or begun to feel the folly of his policy and the necessity of organising the mighty power of a great , a brave , aggrieved and insulted people , for a better and more noble purpose than that of keeping a Whig Government in office in order that ho may be part partaker of the fruits . We fear he will now find that every complaint will be met by reference to
Whig precedent , of which he has been so shameless a supporter ; and in truth , it is well that drowsy Ireland has at length received a Tory prod which alone could turn her waking energies to consideration of her all but hopeless condition . In the majority of the Tories , in the articles of the Times , in the materials of the new ministry , in the machinery furnished during the last nine years by the Whigs , and in the new levy of clodhoppers , in one and all we recogni . e an intended further subjugation of Ireland , and \ re caution the Tories , the ministers , the Times , and Lord Egerton in time , and we tell them that the first blow struck at Irish liberty , will be answered by a mighty and resistless English blow struck at the head of the monster , tyranny .
We are not going to stand upon etiquette with our Irish brethren , or to visit them with sins in which they had no participation . They were no parties to the threats of the annihilation of Chartism . They did not rejoice that the Monmouth massacre was committed by Irish boys , with an Irish Sergeant O'Daly at their head . No ; and if they had , we should , in the generosity of our nature , but heap coals of fire upon their heads by returning good for evil , and extending to them that assistance which they refused to us .
It may be that Mr . O'Connell , resolved to uphold abuse , the destruction of which he Eees in the establishmf nt of our principles , may still recommend the rejection of all fraternity and union ; but we tell him that it will not dv >; that the suffering people will not longer tamely bear oppression that others may fatten upon abuse ; and , above all , we tell him , that however both he and his blind followers may fondly cling to prejudice , as the means of preserving a profitable popularity , that the English people will not allow their Irish brethren longer to be experimentalised upon br faction .
We had intended , according to promise , to have said much more , and in a very differeni tone , this week , upon Irish affairs ; but , as Mr . O'Connell is now placed in a situation in which he must " come out "—as the hour has now arrived when his judgment to design , and ability and courage to execute , those great measures , for the conception of which he has long had credit with bis countrymen , must be tested—as the day of trial has at length overtaken him , when his own followers shall be called upon to pronounee their verdict upon his conductand , as we are resolved justly to judge , and fearlessly to pronounce judgment according to evidence , we abst-in from any comment which may lead to tho slightest anticipation of faction from that demon upon which it fattens—Discobd .
Ireland possesses ample material for her regeneration , and the restoration of her parliament and her liberty , to a valuable extent , beyond which she ever
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enjoyed the blessings [ of either , if those materials are only fairly , honestly , and energetically applied . If Toryism , the hereditary enemy of Ireland and liberty , is to be annihilated , it will require other and stronger measures than the fee-fau-fum-iam and hobgoblinism of " Our religion is in danger , "" Cumberland is coming , " and " Keep the Tories out . " Upon our part , the Irish patriots shall be disarme d of every pretext . We tell them that the people of England are with the Irish people to a man , and we
farther tell them that in compliment to them we have abstained from placing before them this week the maddening picture of suicide , which their country now presents in the 13 th year of emancipation , and the 10 th of Reform . We are , however , from respect to their feelings , and honest prejudices , resolved to leave no peg for discord to hang a cloak upon . United we stand , divided we fall ; and accursed be the interested knave , or wily trickster , who from personal motives would perpetuate abuse by preserving discord .
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• TWO FACES UNDER ONE HOOD . " Tub Times has been buisily engaged for some time past in the Herculean labour of reconciling us to the old foe with a new face , but we assure the great stage manager of St . Stephen ' s , that however he may hope to disguise the stinking carcass of Toryism , under the specious name of Conservatism , or to put the angel face upon the demon form , that like the cat in the fable who personated the fine lady , the old bawd will forget her assumed dignity and station , and display her real nature upon the first fitting occasion .
There certainly is no better depot than that of Printing House Square for turning out a perfect Jim Crow made to order ; and nothing can , we presume , be more consolitary to the worthy foreman of the establishment , than the pleasure of palliating in others , upon a large scale , what , in vain , he has tried to justify upon his own account , namely , the abandonment of all principle . Meantime we have too strong a reliance upon the power behind the Premier expectant , even were he prepared for euch a leap as the Times would lead us to anticipate , to imagine for a moment that Toryism , with so large a majority ,
backed and emboldened by the boasted re-action , would countenance the Right Honourable Baronet in any costume but that in which the part of tyrant in the national tragedy has always been dressed . And if Sir Robert Peel attempted to " rat , " the fine lady of the Strand would very soon resume her cast-off nature , and mercilessly pounce upon the " varmint . " No , no . An out and out Tory administration is the thing , the only thing , which Sir Roiebt would dare' to form ; and out and out Tory principles are the only principles upon which the power behind him will allow him to hold office .
The Times weuld lead us to imagine that the Conservative of to-day is not the Tory of yesterday ; that he is the real March of Intellect Reformer , whose measures should keep pace with the judicious requirements of the age . Upon the other hand , much as the Times has laboured to strip Toryism of its wolf ' s skin , it has failed to show us any symptoms of its milder nature under its new garb , for while we read of past errors and promises of amendment in one number , in the next we are startled by the assurance , that all abuses are not only to be preserved , but that the greatest of all , the Church abuse , is to be increased ! in fact , that upon the Church and the inviolability of its possessions , endowments , ascendancy , and power , the old foe with the new face will take his stand .
The Times has laboured hard to prove that the Conservative and the Tory ; are not of the same genus ; and without attempting to combat the many columns so unsparingly devoted to the subject , we presume to offer our definition of a Conservative . Briefly then , the name was assumed as a set-off against that of Reformer , not as the Times would insinuate to contradistinguish tho Tory from the
Whig , as a person who would conserve and uphold what was sound and valuable of our institutions ; not as a make-believe that he intended to act the passive part of opposionist to innoration , while ho was ready for all safe changes , but in his characteristic obstinacy to denote his determination to conserve Toryism in all its purity , until , by tho chapter of acoidents , he should be once more called to legislate upon Tory principles .
Independent of the sponsorship of the Editor of the Times , we find him also vouching for the general satisfaction which shall . follow the embryo concoction about to be produced by the Ri ^ ht Honourable Premier expectant , for all our grie vances , as well social as politipal . In fact , never did spoiled child , in his most whimsical moments , build a more fanciful card-house , than the great architect who has been lately engaged in erecting a " papier machie" conservatory or " cob by-house , " for his own and his silly readers' amusement . The- Times assures us that Sir Robert is much too
good a tactician to cook his hare while puss is at squat ; and yet the bottle-holder of the Tamworth champion has the impolicy to count his chickens before they are hatched . Sir Robert is not vet Prime Minister of England . Sir Robert will nct be Prime Minister so soen as his friends imagine . It was one thing to force a Minister into offlco ia lii . 'U against the will of the Monarch , a
majority of the Lords and a majority of the Commons , and another thing to force a Minister into office in 1841 , though backed by a majority of tho Lords and a majority of the Commons . Ah ! here ' s the rub . The Times has onoe again fallen into the error of considering a majority of the slavish , swinish , purchased clod-pole electors , or rather " pollevil" race of serfs , as a majority of those people who did the trick in 1831 .
Now if the people were able to beat Kiug , Lords , aud Commons , in 1831 , is it not very likely that the people , much improved in a knowledge of their rights would be able to beat the Lords and Commons , deprived of Royal assistance , in 1841 . Aye , says tho Times , but the Star assured us that the people will take no part in the contest . No , it did not . It never did any such thing . The Star does not thus commit itself and its party , as the Times does . The Star said the people would take no part in the mere struggles of faction . But suppose a case , and not au unlikely one . Suppose that
the Q / ieen should open her new Parliament , and we make her a gentle present of it , for its " none of our child . " But suppose that she had learned wisdom and gathered knowledge from the recent elections , and suppose that her ' ¦ ' consulting physicians , " ( for be it observed , the " quacks" are not yet dismissed aDd Dr . Slop has not as yet been called in , ) had discovered a new feature in their patient ' s disorder , and upon consultation they had agreed that a crisis must be hastened on in order to ensure recovery ; and suppose the Queen was , in her speech , to propose such remedies as patient and physician approved . What then ? Suppose our virtuous > young Queen was to express her indignation , at the manner in which her appeal on behalf of the
starving portion of iieb family had been met by the well-fed portion ; and suppose she should hare discovered that the present system of representation was no more than a bargain and sale of human stock ; and suppose that the only way of preventing such a barbarism in future was by making the stock too extensive for purchase ; and suppose "the friends of her youth , " rather than abandon her ( for office is no object ; its all for love ) , could bving her pliant mind to believe those things ; and suppose that she , good soul , rather than be abandoned by them , and surrounded by tho new wolves in " LAMB Bkins , " could agree in the suggestion , why then , the Lords and Commons would weigh but as a single feather in the scale .
Now , is noS the Times well assured that the Whigs will have another round for it before they givo in , or allow themselves to be counted cut ; and is he not convince 1 that the next Royal speech will be the
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GREATEST ROYAL SPEECH that ever was delivered ? As a matter of course , Royalty and prerogative will be well fenced and nicely guarded , for although the Whigs have given the thing a wide range and long tether , yet are they vastly tenacious of its " hocus pocus" influence ; and , upon that account , ' although Her Majesty mat not say a word about barricades at Manchester or Birmingham , yet there may be a something in the speech , a single
plum in the pudding , at which the "IGNORANT PEOPLE" MAY CATCH , and consider it worth their while to think about . Suppose eves another dissolution , without any organic change . Why in that we would join , and for this reason . If our terms were not accepted we would be sure to say Ditto , or perhaps something worse , to our last answer to the Royal Appeal ; and then away go " the friends of myyouth , " Ladies and Gentlemen , all to pot .
Does the magician of Printing-house Square suppose that there was nothing in the Royal visit to Woburn ; in the absence of Little John , or the presence of Little Arthur and the Lamb 3 Does he imagine that the Belgian pauper king , who is sure to be here just in time to have his finger in every Whig pie , left before he had carried his point , and extracted some assurance from his royal niece , and a promise of frequent curtain lectures from his pauper relative ? Does the magician not know , and
know well , that Dan , in the event of a Tory Government too strong to be resisted by the constitutional appliances of the Corn Exchange , would very soon be the means of kicking up a shindy or an emeute in France , in which M . Hukann ' s fiscal arrangements would be a powerful auxiliary just now ? And does not the magician also know that the Belgian King is as great a jobber in railroads , and all other species of traffic , as ever his predecessor the old flat bottomed Dutchman was I and does he Hot know that a barricade in Brussels would
be a sure " sequitur to a barricade in Paris , Dublin , Manchester , or Birmingham 1 And does he not know that the said barricade would be a very significant notice to King Leo that his provision from the British " idle paupers' fund" would be in a very precarious situation 1 Added to these , has he forgotten M'Leod and the Yankee Doodles 1 Now , this is a long chain , from America all the way to the Corn Exchange ; but yet every link of it is sure to be forged and united , in the event of a Tory Government daring to rule ths nation upon the principles laid down in the Times , and through all time supported by that faction .
Th ese are very bad times for trade . Thousands upon thousands of good , honest , virtuousmen , withfamilies , much dearer to them than the law of primogeniture families are to their unnatural parents , are out of employment ; and the great stage manager of St . Stephens may re 3 t assured that her Majesty ' s servants will not swell the list , so long as they can avoid it . There is no more wretched creature than the haughty fool who is too proud to work , and too poor to live in idleness .
Ministers are like the old Scotch servant , of whose attachment to place Sir Walter Scott gives us so striking an instance in one of his inimitable novels : " Willie , " said the Laird , * ' you and I don't sleep under the same roof th' nicht . " " And where the de'il would your honour be ganging to at this time o ' nicht I had not you better stop till morning ? " was the pithy response of the old retainer , who imagined , and justly , that past services had entitled him to a settlement .
Ministers seldom leave office with a good grace , except when they see a very good prospect of getting back again constitutionally and SPEEDILY ; then they walk out like a well-bred dog . But now , good lack ! to walk out and to have eighty or ninety Tory nails driven into the door the moment their backs were turned I—pooh I pooh ! they would be " quacks" indeed : as well
coffin them up at once . Ah ! no , the whole thing has gone far beyond the rule of legitimacy , and that was the very thing at which we aimed . We have raised the leaping-bar some eighty or ninety notches above legitimacy height ; and the salient Whigs must either take it in sporting style , without balk or touch , or stay at the wrong side , for they may be assured tfcat they shall never again gammon us w ith the fool ' s leap "—a run under .
If the Whigs were in a minority of some twenty or thirty , we should be worse off than ever ; we should have a bit of constitutional device—a scene of heroics in the bedchamber—a tight laoe to be cut to let out royal spleen—a fit of royal hysterics , or , perhaps , an awkward prognostic or two repeated by the royal parrot , in the hearing of Sir Robert . But , alas ! all the " quacks" must now be dismissed , and Dr . People , the State Physician , must be called in to watch the crisis . The march of intellect has taken the question out of the narrow limits of expediency , prerogative , and legitimacy , and has placed it within the rational boundaries of common sense .
The Times may hope to dupe subscribers and advertisers by abusing Whig tactics , and practice the very errors for which , " mutatis mutandis , " he contends , as a necessary prop for the re-decoration of Conservatism . The Editor does not see that , while he challenges the Reformers with an attempt to regulate the franchise according to Whig interest , that he has forestalled the new physician himself , and in his overture to the coming
campaign , nay , in his long symphony , he endeavours to tune the Irish franchise according to the Tory " gamut . " In fact , whatever slender reliance the credulous might have felt disposed to place upon the new version given of Conservatism by the Times , the awkward and premature vanity of its Edi tor has led him into the egregious blunder of blowing down his own house 3 , by furnishing us with a too early programme of the performances and actors .
We take Conservatism upon the Times own showing , and we unhesitatingly declare it to be anew " coat of mail" for Toryism ; yet are we nothing daunted . We anticipated the appearance of the monster in shape and form according to its presumed strength , and that strength will prove the ruin of Toryism . The ignorance of a people is the tyrant ' s best title to power , and the ignorauce of rulers is the people ' s best title to rule themselves . The ignorance of popular feeling , of national require nients , of national
will , is made manifest in the columns of the leading organ of new-fledged Toryism ; audiour duty , therefore , is to meet it , beat it , and having plucked it of every feather , consign its rotten carcase , and for ever , " to that bourne from which no traveller returns ; " and , ah ! had the Whigs but rendered us a timely and honourable aid , we should long since have been relieved of the pestilence of Toryism in all its multifarious shapes and forms ; but , alas ! while they were sowing the seeds of popular discontent , the old foe was reaping a rich harvest from
dis-. Again , we say dissolve , and bait your hook with the Chartist fly to catch some thirty Chartist fishor " pull baker , pull devil , and the devil part the couple ! " for never again , will the people be caught by the expediency fly ! You may fish , and fish , and fish away , till you are black in the face , without one " nibble , " or even a single " rise . " The people now feel their importance . They have willed their freedom , and freedom they must have , even in spite of double-edged Toryism , mild Conservatism , expediency Whiggism , or " xwo faces UNDER A HOOD . "
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r ~ ^ ~~ . ~ w THE CONTESTED SEATS . Elsewhere , in our number of to-day , will be found the opinions of counsel upon the question of our title to the contested seats , as well as upon our chances of success . By reference to those opinions it will be seen that both agree in the view taken by Mr . O'Connor , aud although he had not the necessary authorities for reference , yet was his reasoning in strict accordance with those authorities cited by counsel . Mr , O'Connor agreed with
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Mr . Acsxinlthat the question would be one of l » w , and for the committee to decide ; and further added as to Newcastle we have nothing to expect from a party committee , as each faction has a seat to defend . Having very minutely and attentively perused th « opinions of counsel , and having also called our own poor illegal ( or rather non-legal ) judgment to assist in a conclusion , we have no hesitation in giving it as our opinion , that the Chartists must succeed , ot some dreadful consequence must follow the forcible ouster . of their constitutionally elected representstives . ¦
Every man of common sense must now be aware that J . B . O'Brien , Esq ., is the legitimate member for Newcastle ; and we use the word legitimate in ita only legitimate sense . That George Bi . nns , Esq . j a the legitimate member for Sunderland . That Col . Thompson and Robert LowEar , Esq . are the legitimate members for Edinburgh ; that— Eagle , Esq . ia the legitimate member for Norwich , in spite of tha Hell-born Dover ; and that in all cases whew like ilk .
galities have been committed by returning officer ? , those Chartists who had a majority of hands in their , favour , and who were , in consequence , declared duly elected , and where no poll was taken , mind taken , not only demanded , but taken , that in all such cases the said Chartists are the legitimate Members ; and we have to beg that a list of all such cases . may be forthwith transmitted to us for consideration , with a plain and simple statement of factSa
We have been now near four years editing the people ' s paper , and . many more have we been devoted to the advocacy of their cause , and we unhesitatingly declare , that never , within our memory , had the people ' s cause such high ground to stand upon in a legitimate struggle with faction . Let us just reflect for a moment upon the result which would be produced all over the empire by the unjust or capricious decision of a Committee upon a matter ao vitally important to the people . Tho people say , " We are ready to rely upon our moral means for the advancement of our cause ; and in
the prosecution of those means you close all the doori even of legitimacy against us ; and thus hurling defiance at our legitimate resources , you invite us to the only alternative with which nature has armed the brave oppressed , who recognise more torture and shame in the slave's existence than in the freeman ' s grave . " Let it once be understood , in addition to all other causes of irritation , that while whim closes the front-door of representation against the poor oppressed , whim also holds the master-key by which the rich oppressor is admitted by the
backdoor . Let it be but fairly understood that while Macaulat , Gibson , Craig , Hinde , Ohr , the Marquis of-DouRO , B . Smith , Alderman Thompson , an < D . Barclay , who never polled a vote and who were rejected by electors and non-electors , constitute a portion of the House of Commons , O'Brien , Binns , Thompson , Lowest ., and Eagle , who were legitimately returned by the only poll which was takes of both electors and non-eleotors , are not only excluded , but are excluded becausa they are the friends of the " poor oppressed . "
We ask if a more powerful reason could be urged in favour of a great organic change ! We ask if argument more convincing could be adduced on behalf of Chartism \ We ask if any one circumstance could more tend to rivet the attention of all to tha . means resorted to for tha suppressio n of tha moral advocacy of the cause of the poor in the House , which should be their own I We think not { and although corruption has thrown many impediments in our way , even to a hearing , and has
clogged the simple principle with complicated and expensive forms , ye ' , have we sufficient reliance upon popular honour and national love of justice , to feel assured that nothing that energy can do , will baleft undone to secura for our leaders that position to which their blistered hands ( bless them ) have proudlj entitled them . Oh , it would be a noble sight and a dignified answer to tyranny , to see O'Brien going hot from the Whig dungeon into the House of Commons , accompanied by all London !
We need say no more . If these things are worth contending for , the means must be supplied . Tha Repeal Rent for last week , announced at the Corn Exchange , - was between < £ G 0 O and £ 7 t 0 ; while thl " . Chartist Seat Fund , " at the end of a month , stands thus : — , " Feargus O'Connor , £ 5 . " This is really too ridiculous ; let every shoulder be at once put to the wheel , and let the means be forthwith forwarded to the Treasurer ; as Mr . O ' Connor cannot be expected to go further ppo *
HIS OWN ACCOUNT . If the seats are lost , the people will have lost them if the means for their recovery is withheld .
The Jsoilthern Star
THE JSOILTHERN STAR
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10 THB CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN . * " 3 R 0 THEB CHABTISTS OP G ^ EAT BRITAIN !—I h » Te had the pleasure to meet the Committee formed here for the purpose of forwarding and circulating the Kcrinsm S / ar in Ireland , and have been much gratified to 5 r . d them inspired with the noblest spirit and resolve to carry ont the very important object for "arhieh they biT- » been formed . I have found them most intelligent , ( lisisterested , energetic , and in every way worthy of the fullest confidence , and I assure you that they have not oil 7 forwarded' those Stars whieh have been transmitted to "hem , in the most prompt and judicious manner , but have , at their own expense , sent a large proportion ot the ¦ whole . I have . seen many letters from various parts of the country , breathing the boldest spirit of liberty and
aiu . > st imploring your aid through the committee . They lur . rat most bitterly their inability to purchase the Sic - ; they describe how they have been gelnded and deceived by their press and their demagogues ; they express their conviction tn&t immense good has resulted from the limited circulation of the paper , and explain ¦ wi ; i clearness that a proportionate amount will be the effect of an additional number being sent . They have be ^ 2 made to believe that you are not only the deadliest foes , but that yon thirsted for their blood ; but that tbs " p- ^ ep o'day , " the light of truth , has shone upon a port ion of those unfortunate and deluded brethren of the Eir . tjisle . It is vitilly important that the utmost exertions should be exercised in order to enlighten their da' ^ eued understandings , and prove to them that -ere
arc tieir best friends ; that our struggles are for their err . . acipation , net Ies 3 than that of our own ; that -we ha ..- long deplored the daikness in which they have b&r - kept ; that -we are delighted to have an opportsi : rj to stretch forth to them the right hand of fe 2-lavr . hipj that we are most anxious to abolish all distirc : ions of nationality , to merge every difference -of religion or politics , to establish the right of all to worth . p , unrestrained or untrammelled , in that -way in lrllchhis conscience dictates as the right , 21 sJ that "Wt -hould become as one family ; that we should aid ar- 'l is 8 iet one another , never ceasing our mutual and be-: effort to that end until the Charter is the law of the laci—until every man in the United Kingdom has a
voice in Tn « . Vmg tne laws he is bound to obey and in im ^ -sing the taxes be has to pay . And nothing is so well calculated to effect this object as the diffusion of our org ^ n amoBg oui Hibernian friends . And when 1 as .- ire you there is a very great falling off in the numbers r& : -ived by the committee , I feel that any appeal to you w old be superfluous . On the contrary , I have the Iul . est confidence that every Chartist in England , Scotlard , and Wales will vie with each other in carrying om ^ his object , and you may all rest assured , that « ven a il : nited atttntion to this , after a speedy perusal of jcz- own Stars , will soon annihilate the entire inf isnee of iha mercenary demogoguea throughout Irc ! iad .
1 hsrefore I implore you to forward the Star ; or ajjy otL ^ r democratic paper 1 to Mr . B . Macartney , 13 , Crossbal ' .-strett , Liverpool , within four , if possible , but positively within seven days of the dale thereof . I am , My kind Friends and Brother Chartists , Your devoted Friend , L . PlTKETHLT . Liverpool , 3 d August , IS 41 . ^ j-j- ^ - - _ _ l ^^^ fc » U -I IJ -II .
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4 THE NORTHERN STAR .
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PROGRESS OF "SEDITION !" Br the powers but we do get on ! The papers in the * ' "Whig interest" seem to vie with each other , as to which of them shall force the Solicitor General—( Attorney General we have none—he is " annihilated ! " )—to prosecute them for " seditous libel . " There actually seems to be a race , as to which of the conductors of the Globe , the Chronicle , the Sun , and the Examiner shall first reach tha " condemned cell" in York Castle there to enjoj eighteen months of solitary confinement I
The Whigs are beaten—therefore incitements to Riot!—to Revolution J—to Swing !—to assassinate ! . —to carry ladies' heads on poles t—to " trail" their lifeless bodies in the streets J are now the order of the day !! What is to be the end of all this ! If such incitements , and such ail-but recommendations are given even now , before the Whigs are out , wbat may we not expect when they are shown down
stairs ] We know what was done before , when they were threatened with dismissal . We ha Te not forgotten the " We will pay no more taxes f the "bloody axe ; " the " craped executioner ; " ^ " crown upside down ; " and the " three groans for the Queen ! " We have not forgotten the things then done ; and are prepared to expw * that any thing and every thing , will be done by the cowardly and treacherous faction to regain
possession again of place and pay . We have , on former occasions , noticed the" seditious and treasonable" recommendatious put forw by some of the papers we have above enumerated . We purpose here to present our readers with a collection of several , that they may see how far Whig writers are allowed to go with impunity , when the object to which their recommendations tend , is to briD # back the Whigs to power , or to sustain them in it . We have before noticed the fact that the Globe some time ago announced that the battle-cry was to be "Bread or Blood'' ! The Sun , when speaking to Tory parsons and Tory ladies ,
said"It has happened that ladies' heads have been carried about the streets on poles , or trailed in the dirt ; and it has happened , sufficiently within recollection » SERVE both FOR a warning and AN EXAMPI ^ j that a priesthood has been csmpelled to find safety "" flight , and those who braved the popular indignation forfeited their lives to their temerity . " The Chronicle , as we shewed last week , talks 01 "Barricades" being raised , if the Whig Bu dget is not adopted . Hear him : — " France , in 1830 , according to the oracle » ' ^ worth , by an example of physical force , disturbed u » slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is not tranw disturbing at thia moment , the prospective success 01 Tory Budget ?
_ „ . " ' We must have money . says M . Hamann . Toulouse answers by a barricade . . _ " We must have money , ' says Sir Robert reei . Manchester and Birmingham may a- ; '" . any budget but the Whig one , with a iuu ^
CAD £ j The " evening organ of the Whig Ministry" also thus disconrseth : — j ' Whoever , else may have forgotten , the DnB \ 0 Wellington has not ceased to remember tne * r revolution of 1830 , nor the effect which tne «» daps' events in Paris had upon the public mina in ^ country . The tame causes which accompusw downfall of the e ' . der branch of the Bourbon wwv
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct391/page/4/
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