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EVERY NUMBER NOW IN PRINT BEAUTIFUL NEW MUSIC.
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THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1841.
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TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRADFORD.
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GENTLEMEN , —A Deputation having waited upon CAPTAIN WOOD , of Satoal , to ascertain whether he would allow himself to be put in Nomination for the Representation of this Borough , in case of ao Election , he has declared his willingness to Btand on the following Principles : — A full and real Representation of every Male Twenty-one Years of Age , of sound Mind and unoonvicted of Crime ; Annual Parliaments ; Vote by Ballot ; No Property Qualification for Members of Parliament ; and equal Electoral Districts ; Repeal of the New Poor Law ; Abolition of all Monopolies ; and a Redress of all practical Grievances . - .
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TO FIASTOFOBTE PLOVERS AND SINGEE . S ! MADAME VESTRIS'S NEW SONG ! JULLIEN'S FAMED NIGHTINGALE WALTZES ! ! A > 1 > TAGLIONFS NEW GALOP !!! AH for Is ., in the " Piaxista" for May , No . i . Published Monthly , Price One Shilling , rpHE PIANISTA gives all the Popular Songs , JL Ballads , &c , with Words , Symphonies , and Accompaniments ; and all the Waltze 3 , Quadrilles , Galop 3 for Piano , &o ^ which obtain , by their excellence , great popularity in Lonaon . These are given every month , at a price scarcely one sixth of the charge made by Music Sellers ; as , for instance : — No . 1 , for January , 1841 , contains the Elizer d'Amore Quadrilles , " The Banks of Allan Water , " popular song , with words , and an Original Ballad ,
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Xd 3 lCEST £ F . —The deepest indignation is felt here at the conduct of the Tile Whigs , as displayed in the murderous casting vote business . The universal feeling is , that if any Chartist should be base and treacherous enough to support a Russellite at the approaching election , hanging and gibbetting will be too good for him . . .
Every Number Now In Print Beautiful New Music.
EVERY NUMBER NOW IN PRINT BEAUTIFUL NEW MUSIC .
To Flute , Flageolet , Yiolin , Clarionet , Kent Bugle , and Cornopean Players . That Celebrated Monthly Periodical , THE FLUTONICON , gives every beautiful Tune that becomes popular . In its pages vriil be found , for the small price of Eightpence Monthly , not only every Tune that is popular , but every Tone that is likely to become so ; ail new copyright melodies of merit being inserted here . Xcs . " to 90 are already published ; any of which may be had at eighipence per Number , or sent , post paid , to any part of the Kingdom , by enclosing Is . As a specimen of the contents of some of the Numbers , the following is submitted , namely : — No .
L Rise , Gentle Moon , Meet me by Moonlight / and seven others . 11 . Farewell to the Mountain , and ten others . 13 . The Sea ! the Sea ! and ten others . 17 . The 3 > eep , Deep Sea , and seven others . 20 . Tlia Brave Old Oak , and eight other tunes . 26 . Pretty Star of the Kight , and ten others . 53 . Happy land , Land of the West , four Quadrilles froa Rory O'More , and two others . 54 . The hour before day , I leave you t » guess , and nine others . 55 . My Beautiful Maid , Cherry Ripe , aad seventeen others .
56 . In the days when -we went Gipsying , Blue Bonnets , Crusader ' s Waltz , aad ten other delightful airs . 60 . Bless'd be the Home , Rory O'More , and nine others . 69 . The celebrated Echo Quadrille * , Philomel Wait * , &c . 74 . Mr . Moore ' s popular song , The Language of Flowers , Linleys Lost Rosabel , and ten others . 75 . Mr . Moore ' s Musical Box , Cracoviak , and ten others . 76 . Where the Bee Sucks , Four Airs by Prince Albert , and twelve others . 77 . Eight Airs , by Prince Albert and Ernest , Tis the Shepherd ' s Evening Bell , and five others . 78 . Oft in the stilly night , Rory Tories ( Jack Sneppard ) , Jack Redbnrn ' a Solos ( from Master Humphrey ' s Clock } , She Wore a Wreath of Roses , Mr . Loder " s new song , Down in the Deep , ana four others .
99 . The Danois Quadrilles , Taglioni ' s new-dance in the Gipsy , three famous Chinese airs , Mr . Balfe ' s new popular melody , TBe dawn is breaking o'er us , two more Solos by Jack Redbun , and five others . SO . Far July , contains Jack Redburn ' s Gallop and Race , in honour of the Derby , the whole fire melodie ' s of the Falstaff Quadrilles , popular airs from Weber ' s Euryanthe , Sphor * sFaust , and Be * thovens Fidelia 81 . For August , contains Oh ! God preserve the Queen ; the celebrated Tarantella ( the whole six movements ) : seven Airs from Crluck ' s Iphi ^ enia ; ' and three others . 82 . For September , contains My Dog and mj Gun , We all love a pretty Girl , He that loves a rosy eheek , the whole set jfivej of the Nightingale W<ae * aad sz Airs from Gluck's Iphigenia . ,
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S 3 . For October , contains—Twas Nature ' s Gay Day , the popular Song ; the whole five of the Tete de Bronze Quadrilles ; the celebrated Doncaster St . Leger Race , described in Music ; and six others . 84 . For November , contains Two Melodies from Auber ' i new Opera , Zanetta , Lanner ' a Six Spring Waltzes , the celebrated Marseilles Hymn , Claude du Val , and Three others . 85 . For December , contains Six Melodies from Zenetta , I kntw a Bank ; and nine others . To purchasers of No . 85 is given gratis The Royal Lullaby , the words and music printed © arose coloured paper .
86 . Happy New Tear ; the whole set of L'ElizIr D'Amore Quadrilles , by Musard ; Lovely night ; The Days that hare Faded ; Fairy , lead them up and down , and others . 87 . The Ice Song ; Love in Idleness ; The Sleeper ; We are Spirits ; the two papular songs of Miss Hawes , I'll Speak of Thee , aad Thou art Lovelier , and four others . 88 . Ten » f the Witches' Bongs in Macbeth ; Orer HOI over Dale , in Midsummer Night ' s Dream ; Russian Air by Thalberg ; Laiye mine , Ladye mine ; Merrily goes the Mill ; and others , 89 . Three Airs from Mr . Balfel new Open of " Keolanthe ; " the whole of Jullien " s Five Quail Waltzes ; and Six more beautiful Airs from
Macbeth . 90 . For May , contains one of the greatest attractions ever offered in music , viz .: —A description of the Easter Hunt , in a set of Quadrilles ! No . 1 , Meeting ; 3 , Start , yelping of dogs , and gallop of horses ; 3 , The River , the Check ; 4 , Stag at bay ; 5 , Death of Stag . To this extraordinary novelty ( which is copyright ) there will be added ten other beautiful melodies , amongst which will be the aew comic song called "Jim along Jos « y , " with the music , and whole eight verses of werds ; and this number will contain a catalogue of contents of the whole ninety numbers of " Flatonieon . " Orders
should be given early for this number ( No . 90 ) . No . 9 * is for May , 1841 , and is the last Number published . Every wimd instrument , as well as the Violin , can play tkese tunes . Any number can be sent , pest free , by enclosing Is . to the Editor , pre-paid , 23 , Paternoster-row . ( S * The Examiner Bays , ' No musician , whatever instrument he may profess , ought to be without this tasteful , correct , admirable , and cheap work . Snch another collection of beautiful melodies doeB not exist in Europe . ' And the Herald , in a long article upon it , says , ' The FJulonicon is as much a standard work amongst musicians as the Pennv Magazine ' , or Chamber ? Journal , amongst readers ?
Published in London by Sherwoods , 23 , Paternoster-row ; in Liverpool , by Stewart ; in Birmingham , b y Guest ; in York , by Shillito ; in Manchester , by Heywood ; and may be had of all the Agents of this Paper ; in short , by order , of every Book and Musicseller in the kingdom .
The Northern Star. Saturday, May 29, 1841.
THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , MAY 29 , 1841 .
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" IRELAND AND " " GREAT COBXMXm , CLaXi REFORMS . " As the co-operation of Ireland is most emphatically required and flatteringly courted by the "Liberator" on behalf of her Majesty ' s advisers , in what is called their attack upon " monopoly , " we are bound to consider what the result of Ministerial success must inevitably produce , not for the majority of the nine millions , but for the very class who are , unfortunately , armed with the "life preserver , " and which they are now requested to use for self-destruction—we mean the electors .
Ireland returns sixty-four County Members , two University Members , and thirty-nine City and Borough Members ; and , without the shadow of a shade of difference , the interest of the whole of the constituencies , be they county , university , city , or borongh , is identical , as one great whole , in the approaching contest . Nay , more , to such an extent would the proposed alteration in the Corn Laws alone affect the whole agricultural , commercial , trading , and labouring interests of Ireland , that the greatest good anticipated by English speculators , even if realised , would be more than over-balanced by the blighting effects which the victory must inevitably produce in that country , and which must extend to this side the Channel .
With Ireland , the Ministerial question is one of life and death . It is not br . sed on mere theoretic or speculative dogmas of political economists . It is not to be followed by any adjustment which may be rendered requisite and necessary , according to the subsequent working of the expebimbkt . It is not to be accompanied by any protective power , or retributive accompaniments , to be placed in the hands of those who are asked to embark their all in the Government hulk , without masts , pilot , or even rudder , for the poor satisfaction of giving faction a triumph over party .
Perseverance in the path of error has reduced the old and respectable party of English Whiga to a mere faction , whilst their awkward management of their own measure , " Reform , " has actnally revived the embers of their factious rivals , and blown them into a powerful party . The same breath which was to have extinguished Toryism , has but resuscitated the monster . ^ Is the part , then , which the Irish are now invited to take in the war of self-destruction , for the mere purpose of party extermination , worthy of a great nation !
But , after all , upon what will depend the success of the working of the measures in Ireland , should the Whigs succeed 1 Why , upon the law of wills , — not of testaments , —but of landlord ' s wills ; upon , the will of the broken and driving landlords of Ireland . Upon the law of "sicvolo" " sic jubeo . " " Thus I will , thus I order . " Upon the will of men in whom h now incorporated by the lauded Tithe
Bill , all the power of landlord and parson , for the purpose of rent-screwing . Upon the will of magistrates , who can select whether they will distrain as landlords , or as parsons , for the pound of rent , or the five shilling of tithe , and for whose purpose the Whi £ 3 have supplied a large distraining staff of " * civil power" with muskets , bayonets , and cutlasses , and commanded , in most instances , by half-pay officers .
Thi 3 , then , in to be the adjusting machinery placed in the hands of the " measuring cast" majority of Irish landlords . But , being a great , a very great question—in fact , an entirely national question , a wholesale and real " Irish manufacture" question , we are bound to enter fully into a consideration of what its effects must produce in Ireland . In order , therefore , to relieve the subject of all those technicalities , mysteries , and absurdities , with which political economists free traders and trafficking poliiitians would enshroud it , we start upon a simple basis—upon their own
foundation stone . Upon one point only do the several sections of" anti-monopoli 3 ts , " as the " monopolists " whimsically call themselves , agree . They all agree that the alteration in the Corn Laws tciil make bread cheap ; that the alteration in the sugar duties will make sugar cheap ; and that the altering of the timber dutieB will make timber cheap . We here , then , admit the fact , as to corn ; and join issue as to the result . We ask , then , does not the whole project fail of its anticipated benefit , if bread is not reduced in price * and , we ask , if bread is reduced in price , must not wheat , of which
bread is made , be also reduced in price ? and if wheat is reduced in price , must not land which produces wheat , a 3 its most valuable crop , be reduced in value 1 and if land be reduced in value , must not rents be correspondingly reduced , as a fair accompaniment to the scheme I " 0 , yes ; yes , of course , and so they would ; everything finds its proper level , " answer the monopolists . True ; we admit it ; but why not look for your level first—why select the most uneven and hilly line , when you can pass over
a plain without injustice to any , or damage to the State ! And what , we would ask , is to happen while the Government engineers are levelling ! We will tell our friend , Gkokgk Henry Wabd , who is so fond of precedent , just what happened in 1821 , when every house was fortified , when the working classes of Ireland were Whiteboys toaman ; when the whole strength of England ' s army , and Ireland ' s Orange yeomanry , could not resist the determination of a people roused to inadness , by the very same causes which the success of the > ew Government
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plan would once more create iu Ireland , and for the adjustment of which , 1321 famishes a precedent And , let it be borne in . mind , that bad as it . was , yet did Whiteboy Union and perseverance , compel the Tory Goplburn ( being the Chancellor of the Exchequer ) to surrender to popular will , and oblige him to pass his Tithe Commutation Bill in two years after , by which all the Protestant graes-land of Ireland , theretofore exempt from
tithe , was brought to beat its share of the Protestant Church impost . Let us now seeNirhat led to the White Boy revolution in 1821 . la 1815 we had peace proclaimed , and a partial return from high war prices for agricultural produce ; speculation npon capital made in war time , and anticipation of more blood-letting , still kept the farmer afloat , and he paid the same rent without any abatement .
The harvest of 1816 , however , gave high rents a " heavy blow , " and two other bad harvests , between 1816 and 1821 , caused a demand upon the Landlords for a reduction of rent , and npon the parsons for a reduction of tithe , commensurate with the fall consequent upon agricultural produce and a return to " cheap bread . " How was this demand answered By calling out the yeomanry ; by proclaiming martial law ; by appointing special commissions ; by
shooting without colour of crime , and hanging without colour of law 1 " O ! true , trne , " Bay the politicians ; u but it was the Tories 111 " No , no ; it was not ; it was the landlords , the parsons , and the magistrates , Whigs as well as Tories . It was that force which in every country , when its interests are attacked , either compels the existing Government to assume the lead in despotism to preserve its order , or deposes the Government upon refusal , and establishes one of its own in its stead .
How did the landlords and parsons meet the emergency ! There were two classes of landlords , without distinction of creed or politics : one class was very , very scanty indeed ; the class who made tardy reductions ; but even in the mode of making those reductions they completely paralyzed all industry among their tenantry . It was this . They held them to the old condition in their leases , and gave them receipts for the full amount , upon receiving the reduced rent , and held the old arrears over them as & drawn sword , ready upon a war or any other
godsend , to have the " full pound of flesh . " Thus were the farmers out of all heart , while the Irish labourers were compelled to have recourse to opera benefits patronised by the Royal Family , needlework performed by Maids of Honour , proceeds of fancy balls , and subscriptions from the English humane and charitable , for support ; and the plague partially terminated , by an influx of Irish agricultural labourers into the English manufacturing market ; an influx greater in four years than the whole swarm of poor creatures who had been banished for the previous century .
The other class of landlords were those who held on by the terms of the lease as long as the last goose had a feather in her tail ; middle men , in most instances , but well backed by fee-simple proprietors . This system , coupled with Mr . Goulbubn ' s Tithe Bill , of 1824 , gave rise to the plan of knocking small heart-broken farms into pasture ground , which led to another irruption of displaced labourers .
In 1826 , the Irish currency was assimilated ; that is , land held by small farmers was again raised by 8-i per cent . ; the old Irish pound was compounded , being demanded in the new coin , £ 1 Is . 8 d . This the small cottier tenants , bore , as they would bear anything for a hiding hole and a " spot to work on . " But it also dislodged many . Then came the Catholio Relief Bill in 1829 , and this measure relieved the political traffickers of 380 , 000 of their live stock , whose little holdings of an acre or two were knocked into largo farms of fifty or a hundred acres ; and then had we an immense exportation of the life ' s blood of the country—of the real wealth of the nation .
These 380 , 000 heads of families constitute the whole mass of Irish pauperism , at present so humiliating to those who witness it without a struggle for its removal ; and also have greatly augmented the reserve in the English market . During these trying periods for the farmers , the parsons , as a body , tried shooting upon a large scale , rather than reduce one farthing of their accumulated demand , or abate it in future to peace
prices ; and although they justified their refusal by " the trust imposed upon them for their successors " —the never failing plea of Churchmen , as expediency is of tyrants , —yet did they , in many , very many instances , refuse to take fifteen shillings in the pound of the arrears from the Catholic occupiers , while they leased them out to Protestant proctors for ten shillings in the pound , upon a strict promise not to abate one farthing of the legal demand .
Now such are the parties to whom the Irish farmers and the Irish labourers are to look with confidence , for the adjustment of any inequality which the " GREAT COMMERCIAL MEASURES " may create—to a party who have systematically plundered , in violation of all laws human and divine , and who , in compliance with a Government measure , will not , we imagine , surrender in proper season , the right of " doing what they please with their own . " To such a tribunal are the plundered to appeal as a last resource .
If this calamity does not come , then does the project fail ; for bread will not be cheaper ; and if this calamity does come , then will it be met according to precedent , by shooting , hanging , and transporting , in the first instance , and then by the exportation of another million of Irish agriculturists as a further reserve for the masters ; and then another million of a loan from England for Irish parsons .
And then , perhaps , may be applied the lever which if used in time , would have spared the weeping the wailing and the gnashing of teeth . That lever is the Charter ! which by depriving the landlords of the power of annexing destructive conditions , would oblige them to give leases for ever at a corn rent , and to briDg their land into a valuable retail market to meet the wants of God ' s own flock .
This , and this only , can make a people independent of all foreign growers . This , and this only , can insure peace , plenty , and " cheap bread : " but this they will not do till forced to it , because upon the monopoly of the land depends the existence of a lucrative church establishment , a lucrative army and navy establishment , a lucrative place and pension establishment ; one and all of which are so many hot beds—nurseries and provisions forthe scions of the landed aristocracy .
" Well but , " says an " anti-monopolist , " " would you not crush that faction . " We answer , No ; not if by crushing that we crush those who would be innocent sufferers , and create in its stead a more heartless set of " quasi" landlords , what the Irish call" Sky farmers "—domestic jobbers—who would purchase the produce of the land from Germans Russians , Turks , Prussians or Americans , as cheap as they could , and sell it as dear as they could to those whose own land they had rendered sterile in order to hold complete dominion over their working slaves .
We would crush them by making them rich , whether they would or no ; by taking from them the power of making themselves paupers , by impoverishing their country and their fellow-men . That we call Christian justice , and we much prefer it to the justice of political economists . The great anomaly of the corn branch of the new " commercial exotic" is this , that the Irish people are asked to join ia reducing the price of the only thing they produce-for the purpose of cheapening the thing of which they never consume a particle ! " O but that is a part of our complaint , " say the humanity mongers ; " we mean to make them consume more bread . " ' To this general fallacy we shall reply under the head " Timber Duties . " Cheap bread , then , must make cheap
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land ; but cheap land will not follow cheap bread , bo long as one of the old tenants upon any estate has one fraction left , whereby he can be " kept to bis bargain ; " while the desolation , expectation , and misery caused while the thing" was finding its level , would be indescribable . So much for the u fixed duty on corn" and now ; for I " SUGAit DUTIES /' Upon this subject , as regards Ireland , we require but a word . We would feel obliged by the " cool Mr . Baring" furnishing us with a sliding scale , "
by which a lot of jolly Irish boys in a frolic may estimate the reduction to be made upon each tumbler of punch , according to the " GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . " We want that ; because it is the only manner in which Irish labourers or Irish farmers use sugar , from the 1 st of January to the 31 st of December . " O , but they must have sugar , " say the monopolists . "They shall have the Whig ' Balm of Gilead , ' the great sweetener of life ! the joy of the poor man ' s heart ! and the refiner of his morals 1 "
Fudge , blarney , bother , humbug 1 Give them enough of " praties" first , and they'll find the sugar and timber afterwards . *
"TIMBER DUTIES . " An Irish farmer , holding fifty acres of land , and even more , does not nse twenty pounds' worth of imported timber in the whole of his life and what he does use is Canadian , npon which the additional duly is to be laid on for his relief . Aa Irish labourer dees not use . one plank ot foreign timber in the whole of his life . He is rocked in the arms of some native oak ; he trips through manhood with a native shillelagh , leans in bis old age upon a native staff , and is borne to the grave upon a native " bier . " Every stick in his "mudhovel" comesfrom"his honoar ' s wood ;" and thus begins and ends his use of timber !
"O , but , " . say the " anti-monopolists , " wemean ia put an end to this . The farmers surely would use foreign timber if it was piaced within their reach . " Yes , they do use foreign timber , but not much , and as before stated , it is Canadian . The shafts of their carts are made of ** treble deals /' the bodies of their carts are made of " treble deals , " and that is all they use , and that the great reform is
to make dearer for them ! " O but Memel or Norway red deal is much better , and our ' GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM' will briog the latter article within their reach . The Baltic trade , you know , the Baltic 1 " No ; it will not . As well may the economists tell us that a tax upon frieze would force the peasant to wear broad doth , or that a tax upon "jaunting cars" would oblige the Irish tradesman to drive in his carriage .
The smallest tax , injudiciously laid on , may amount to a total prohibition of the use of the taxed article . The new school of calculators would impose upon upon us the belief that the true way to make Irish farmers purchase a better article is by raising its price , while at the same time they reduce their means , by diminishing the value of their exchange . For what , then , are the Irish people to join in the " new move . " Hear it , ye good men , struggling for freedom , and sorrow ! Hear it , ye bad men , contending against justice , and blush ! " O ! OUR
RELIGION WILL BE ATTACKED BY THE TORIES ! " Sacred liberty ! what an insult ! O , Mighty knowledge , what a folly ! Merciful Crea ~ tor ! what a sin I This , then , is the real casus belli ; this is the mountain ; this is the crutch of limping , truckling , blighting , blasting , hypocrisy I But , O knowledge 1 thou idol of the good man ' s worship ! thanks be to God . ' thou art fast unbinding the tight bandage which has so long obscured man ' s vision ! Thy magic influence comes like a mighty torrent in the midst of the calm , and will sweep away all the ignorance , superstition , and bigotry of darker ages . Yes , knowledge will expand the mind , mature the judgment , and unite the mighty masses in one overwhelming band of freemen .
1 Under such a combination of right and might , with the knowledge which the English and Scotch now possess to direct us , we will gain liberty without a blow . But should tyranny , strong in long possession , made courageous by unopposed sway , and confident by passive obedience and non-resistance , still resist ; we will then , with one mighty blow , strike the Hydra-headed monster to the earth to rise no more !
The tactics of Ireland as recommended by the " Liberator , " are , the most dishonest , base , and flagrantly mercantile and treacherous , of his many political speculations . Must not every man with half an eye at once see that the return of Whigs by the Irish people , is the cutting of so many sticks to beat themselves soundly , when they shall first have gently whipped the Tories from the Treasury benches for six or seven years longer ! Then will Mr . O'Co . nnell have entirely succeeded ; his object being to throw another stumbling block in his own way , the removal of which will be a fair excuse for raising the supplies for years from a poor deluded starving people . Never was there so rascally a juggle , and well may the Irish patriots
exclaim—Alas ! poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . " We beg , in conclusion , to give the following heartrending scrap , exultingly paraded in Monday ' s Chronicle , as the first Irish instalment of the very anticipation of the " Great commercial Reforms \ " —
" EXTENSIVE EMIGRATION . Up to the 15 th of the present month , thirty vessels have sailed from the port of Cork alone , with 4 , 662 emigrants , for Canada , the United States , and New South Wales . " There "anti-monopolists , " won't that rate of transportation satisfy your hellish lust for removing the pressure upon subsistence ! or what more do you require , you infernal fiends !
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DANIEL O'CONNELL AND "THE MISCREANT CHARTISTS . " By our report of the Crown and Anchor Meeting , reported in our last , and convened by Mr . O'CoNNELL and his friends under a sixpenny protection , and ostensibly for the purpose of blarneying about Repeal but really with a view of feeling his way once more
into popular society for the purpose of foisting the " bloodies" for another term upon us , it will be seen that the " miscreants" can find their way even to a ticket show in sufficient numbers to upset humbug . Never were insolence and folly more conspicuous than in the combination of both , which the learned gentleman exhibited upon the occasion . The blind followers hoped to give tone to the country by the trick ; but Martin and others opened his
eyes . It appears , however , that a Mr . Dugqan , rent collector in Manchest er , has insured Dan a favourable reception
IN MANCHESTER ; and we learn that the walls of the town have been covered with bills , announcing Dan ' s intention to meet the factory operatives of Manchester in the Carpenter ' s Hall , on Tuesday next . The indignant excitement which this threat has created in Manchester , Oldham , Ashton , Stockport , and the surrounding districts , is intense ; and the Chartists are resolved to give Dan a benefit I
Now , be it remembered that the Leeds working people are the most Maeter-ridderi in the North of England ; and yet did they , in the depth of winter , with snow upon tho ground , turn out well to meet the reviler of the " miscreant Chartists . " Manchester , therefore , owes Leeds a return of the compliment ; and Manchester , we have no doubt , will do its duty . The Pilot , Dan ' s tool , and the other tools of the Irish liberal press , have paraded Dan ' s thrashing at the Crown and Anchor as a complete triumph over Chartism . Now , we ask if this is fair to our Irish
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brethren , who are just now struggling to throw the monster from their back ! Is it justice to them , we ask , while they nobly struggle against corruption , and corruption in the very oitadel , that we should allow them to suppose , for one moment , that we are about to . receive the traitor whom they have expelled from their ranks ! We rejoice to find that our London friends and others have so warmly taken up the cause of the aged Mra . Mellon , and hate recommended a relief
fond for all persecuted Irish Chartists . This is as it ought to be ; and Mr . O'Connob , notwithstanding his many annoyances , has commissioned as to publish his willingness to act as Treasurer for his oppressed countrymen . He says that he will look upon every farthing given as a gift bestowed npon . himself . We ask , then , is this the time to admit the arch traitor amongst as , just as he is imposing npon the people theadditionaltaskofBupportinghisvictimB in his native land !
The Irish Chartist Association is likely to become the most powerful body ever organised in that country ; and we expect ere long to have the inexpressible pleasure of announcing their first { grand procession , and open air meeting . Can we allow such indomitable perseverance to be checked by courtships here , of the common enemy ! No , we cannot . The country , and our Irish brethren would very properly hold the Exeoutive responsible for any damage done to their cause by tolerating the enemy of the " miscreant Chartists" even to attend one of their meetings .
Have we not had enough of his oppression , and his support of the "Bloodies , " or are we , like fools , now to pardon the greatest of all our enemies!—the man whose sole aim is to fill his pockets at the expenoe of a starving people , and whose only object is to purchase a renewal of confidence for renewed traffic . Men of Manchester ! you were among the first and the boldest to demand a proper reception for the " miscreant" in Yorkshire ; and now , upon behalf of
Yorkshire , we have a right to demand from you a return of the service which was so nobly performed , and so cheerfully undertaken , in defiance of all opposing obstacles . Up , then ! and meet the enemy . Let him see that you are what you profess to be ; and if a slate class , not willingly so . Ireland expects every man to do his duty 1 We expect , in our next , to be abla to publish a list of subscriptions for the relief of the persecuted Irish Chartists , and the proper reception of their persecutor .
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THE ELECTION CRISIS . At this most important and momentous period , we feel that the following nervous and well-timed address , is worthy of attention from all parties of the producing people ; and we therefore call to it their especial notice . * "TO THE OPPRESSED MILLIONS THROUGHOUT THE LAND . '¦•* Huddersfield , 26 th May , 1841 . M Mt Friends , —Monopoly or no monopoly has takeu the place of tho old Whig cry of 'The Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , ' and with the same Whig intention , namely , to dupe , to delude , and to cheat the unsuspecting and unwary .
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"A bill , dated the 25 th inst ., and W * * Huddersfield , headed- ' - * Monopoly or no ? T utea « i that is the questiotf-in favour of WbJ « £ l UopolT > very truly * That the inhabitants shoaK ? * V be any longer befooled by party cr £ , ST * ° party V Hadthey notbeen befooled ovthi * *?* faction , we should hare had no mock &w £# J we should naTO had no aati-Pw La > aS ? ?* i paid or unpaid ; because we should hav « « ?> none ; that crew would never have had the w ^ * inflict a law so bloody , ao cruel , and bo w « That hypocritical banditti could not h ^ flicted upon us so many Commissions «« m * Rural Police ; they could not have creatL ^ 7 immense burdens for the indnsbrious comiXtt * * bear ; they could not have added so heaw an , « ( o oi ? vtueen
* iw , uw w ww , nor would they hi * . had tho baseness and impudence to recom ™ S recipes , and publish them , as BaineV S meB i has done , to the free anrindependent £ " gI 11 . this enlightened country , by wkVh . from acoW of garbage , eight rfifW snoSd beSaS for 4 id . ; or that from rubbish , not Et for ^ ** mess should be made , which should make & a- 3 ' * for five able-bodied labourers , for the cW fe Those ingenious starvation mongers-tho ^ rffl inventors of s / nllygolee , and advocates of freeW -rthose Judases , who , for the last nine year ! hf ? been engaged in contriving the best mWof matfJ thn Twtani&Iahanr hM- < iAr- * . nrl mwuln / i ..-.. . V K
onlesS j Wdcoarserfaro-whohaTebronghtthemtoth starvation point , and from thence to the basin . and through these to their graves , bv ft £ Sp -those TUe monsters who havb been Jo 23 ft and so successful , in the work of lowering wa « r ' enslaving , starving , and extirpating the radustS community ; may , with their common . audaS and barefaced effrontery , nowthat the trade smen aft over the country , are becoming bankrupts by whni sale , and the trade is at a stand still , wnileKSi starvation is all but universal-when theirown r ^ v less cruelty and extravagance have cast themnam their beam ends—when they cannot prowess s their work of hatoo oneBtep further , thevLS 2 EL !*!?^ ff J ^^ l . !? c ? W 2
. , effrontery , when they come to us and « . "That a bold attempt has at length been m& by her Majesty ' s Ministers to revise our partial « rS oppressive , &c . Laws . " . Why , I ask , didThey " begin there ; and keep improving , instead of retro . grading during the whole nine years of their mil government ! Why at the last moment do they com * forth with the olive branch . I tell you plainly it i « to allure you—to bring yon again intotheirmeshes-f to induce you to seat them again in poWe . And if yon do ; if you permit yourselves to be deluded ! you must bid farewell to liberty ; you must exDeetil continuance of their heartless inhuman system - von must look for a renewal of their systematic arrofanci you must look for starvation , rags , shvew
ana premature death—yon must expect i well clad and high fed army of bins bludgeoners , backed oat by a red army with bullets and bayonets , and a land covered with bastiles com . missionera , and Government spies , with theforeim system of passports and centralisation , by which every germ of mercy , justice , ( to the poor ) and benevolence will be annihilated , and we are slaves for ever I Then up , Britons , up , * Now is the day and now is the hour , ' and if it is the last day and the last honr ILa l . Hl A « - » -i «_! i _ _ 1 _* I . 'If T __ L _ _ m . . . ****** the last which will be afforded
opportunity ever you let it not pass—let it not slip . f or the sake of mercjfor your own , and for the Bake of your famih es-for the sake of posterity , be up , be at your post and let Wbiggery be utterly destroyed—yea extirpated—at al risks , and at all hazards , from this land , and from the face of the earth . Fear nothing but the restoration of the baneful influence of Whig faction ; drive that pestilence from the land . " I am most truly M And most faithfully yours . "L . PITKKTHLV ?'
-The tone of this appeal breathes mojre of honesty than of refinement ; but we are persuaded with . Mr . Pitkethly , that the most effective step to beniv taken for liberty , iB the crippling of the Whigsno matter how . The people ' s prospects look well , so far as the election is concerned . Several Chartist Candidates are already in the field . Election Committtees are formed and forming everywhere , to watch the movements of the time—to bring out and support Chartist Candidates wherever it is practicable—and Tories wherever it is not . Any thing to beat down the " bloodies 1 "
Colonel Thompson at Hull , Sbarvan Crawfordat Rochdale , aud Captain Wood at Bradford , are all in a fair way for invigorating the rotten carcase of St . Stephens with some really patriotic life . Let bat the peoplft bestir them , and the votes of the Chartist electors , and the power ( rightly directed ) of the Chartist non-electors , shall now prove itself to be all sufficient for the utter annihilation of one of the two great factions by making the other worry itand then hurrah ! for the simple tag of right against might ; of a united people against the single foe I !
. We informed our readers some time ago , that Air . Baines did not intend to bid again for Leeite . We think the following extract from the Convention report will shew them that Sir William Moiesworth need not : — - "Mr . Culleh called upon Mr . Leader , but didnot see him . He then waited upon Sir Wm . Molesworft , and requested his support of the petition in favonr of the imprisoned Chartists , and to present memorials for the restoration of Frost , Williams , and Jones . He first said that he would deliberate whether he would present the Leeds petition or not . He then said that he could not support the petition , or present the memorials . "
- Will that satisfy the Chartists ! Will they permit the M Goose Club" to return Moleswokth again ; even if they should dare attempt it ? We calculate not . Two Tories will go in for Leeds , to a dead certainty , if the people do their duty . Tho " bloodies" talk something , as we hear , about Joet Hume ! We just think we see Brown Bread Joseph , walking arm in arm with HbrriwSobp Neddy , and escorted by a procession of Hand-loom weavers carrying a small brown loaf and a r otten red herring , on a pole , and playing "the Rogues March" upon " Rough Musio ! " How very funny !
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THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL
' PETITION AND THE MOTION OF MR . DUNCOMBE . The National Petition was presented on Tuesday , to the " House . " The number of signatures was announced by Mr . Duncombs to be more than one million three husdred thousand ! At an early hour in the morning , the Convention Hall had been crowded with persons anxious to feast their eyes with a last view of the stupendous evidence of devotion to the cause of liberty afforded by tne people in this petition , which measured upwards of ¦ 1 , 460 yards in length , and which , though got up m a very short period , and with little or no expense or excitement , had in reality been signed by MOR b
THAN TWO MILLIONS OF PERSONS ! J By one o ' clock . the front of the Old Bailey was blocked up with human beings , breathing deep and anxious prayers for its success . At a quarter pas three , the petition being placed upon a handsome frame , covered with green baize , and having » splendid flag waving over it , was mounted upon toe
shoulders of the bearers . . It was borne to the " House" on the shoulders ot eighteen "Fustian Jackets , " who performed twir duty well-preceded by a procession of the memoer * of the Convention , and other leading " fT * amidst the deafening shouts of congregated t&o sands , which , by the time it reached Charing Cross had , rendered the streets unpassable . u
The procession passed the Horse Guards , ano p Parliament-street to the entrance of " the House , where the interference of the police , who seen * anxious to quarrel with the people , would in w probability have caused a row , but for the promp and decisive interference of Dr . M'Douaix , » £ some other of the leading Chartists ., . w Police were of the A ^^ division , of " mingham Bull Ring notoriety ; and the deeas former days seemad to cling round their spirits , ^ grve them strong desires for a little more Wud ^ n exercise . However , the knaves were ^ fXJ The good temper of the peop le prevented lt ^ having any pretext on which to u ? e tne o * which they insultingly disp layed to the number
300 or more . . antere j the After a short delay the procession ^™ . lobby of the House at four , amidst heart * an cheers . A rash was made by the Membe ^ ^ House to see "the Prodigy . " Mr . l >™** £ sent for . He obeyed the summons ^ . ^ T ^ charge of the Petition , directed it to betor ^
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To The Electors And Non-Electors Of The Borough Of Bradford.
TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRADFORD .
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS . It is really amusing to see the lucubrations of the " Artful Dodger" and the Tap-tub , served up by the immortal Sun , for our evening repast , in one hash , under the title "Spirit of the Press , " and seasoned with the Palmeeston piquant sauce , extracted from the columns of the little " Globe . " A bit of French and a bit of Latin , and a bit of a
joke , to constitute the balance of power of a great nation , and to guide our destinies , is quite characteristic of the " Old Beau . " It does to serve his purpose , and , in truth , as we were some time ago favoured with specimens of the poetic productions of members of the Cabinet , we see no reason why every Right Honourable Gentleman should not have his own particular paper for chronicling his own peculiar views .
In fact , it would be but justice to others , inasmuch as the Noble Lord , whose trade is diplomacy , has certainly out-jockeyed his colleagues in his press-gang manoeuvres . By his fascinations he has won the columns of all , while he is most heartily ridiculed by each . Yet we must bear in mind that Editors are but men , and that they may be flattered like other men ; hence we find , that since poor Easthope stretched his legs under the Premier ' s mahogany ,
he has lost all decency as a journalist in his duty towards his host . From that fatal day to the present , if Melbourne committed murder , rape , or arson , Easthorpe would justify the act by the necessity , and would not even ( asFoucHB had the honesty to do ) call his master ' s greatest butchery by the gentle title of " a political blunder . " No , Easthokpe would not allow crime in such ease to be even a blunder . Well may the conquering journalist exclaim , " but one such dinner more , and I am undone !"
In the meantime , the Great Geographer continues to dot his surface with the names of newly discovered depots of popular strength heretofore unknown beyond the parish boundary , save to the literati , but now swelled into frog-like importonce , and paraded under the head
" ¦ GREAT DEMONSTRATION ON BEHALF OF THE GREAT COMMERCIAL REFORM . " Alsn ! the attempt creates no more excitement than the mere curiosity produced by a first glance at a new u alia ? . " The people are not there ! The people will not be there ; because the people don't want a HOUSE OF MASTERS to complete their ruin . So the poor Chron . may dot , and dot , and dot away ; but the close of the poll will dot him out of Leicester , and his masters out of the Treasury .
O , what a god-send the Whitsuntide holidays would have been in 1832 ! and how dry the old timbers of Bristol and Nottingham would have been for a Whig cracks ; but now , alas ! the tears of the hungry have moistened them , and even ia the dogdays they would not ignite , though struck by a sudden flash of Whiggery ! The devil himself , be he black or be he whit © ,
could ' nt save the poor " bloodies ; " and as a last hope they are calling spirits from the " vasty deep ; " but alas ! the spirits are too deeply sunk in Whig poverty , Whig bastiles , and Whig dungeons , to hear the summons . " When poverty comes in at the door , love flie 3 out at the window "—when Whigs came in at the window , principle went out at the door .
O , the poor , poor bloodies !! " what will become of the "bloodies ? " What shall we do with the " bloodies ? " How will it be with the « bloodies ?" * ' Noboby coming to help " the bloodies . "Nobody coming to woo" "the bloodies . " So down ! down ! down ! with the "bloodies 2 " We are irresistibly compelled to append hereunto the most recent discoveries of depots of popular feeling by the "Artful Dodger . " Hear , ye uninstructed in English localities , the places relied upon to carry Reform in 1841 ; and ask yourselves if the Reformers ef 1832 knew of the existence of one half of them .
" GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS at Carnarvon , Corsham , Chippenham , Peterborough , Brampton Moor , Brampton , Tvnemouth , Southampton [ again !] , Gosport , Rigg of Gretna [ who the devil is the Rigg ?] , Honiton , Chatham , Canterbury , Epping , Dartford [ great open-aib meeting , thirtynine present !] , Anna , " and so on ; but they were licked wherever they dared to meet the sinews : Stroudand Birmingham , to wit .
Ita all up , Chron . so you may map away , old boy , till you are black in the face ! You may just as well whistle jigs to a mile-stone , as offer your " commercial Reforms" to the people of England now .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 29, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct551/page/4/
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