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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1840.
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      tu-vh err . lond . ' . x c- "ir i = ? ond > : m . London , Wcditetday Evening , Seven o ' clock . Lo > DO-N JorR . VKYHE > - ' S TiUDVs' HaLL . —La ? t evening , Mr . W . F&rren , Jan ., the honorary secretary of the Trades' Hall Committee , save a" lecture on this subjici ai the Mechanics' Institution Tavern , before t ' ae Marylebone National Charier Association . After apologising to Mr . Savage , the landlord , for tea attack he was about to make on the publicans' profession , Mr . Farren stated that he cams forward on th » present occasion in obedience to the invitation of & meeting of Chartists , and he , as well as the Council to which he was secretary , were always highly delighted to meet any little baud in sky bole or corner of the metropolis

      , who were desirous of being enlightened oa the sabject of the erection of a Trades' Hall for the ¦ working men of London ; but he was unused to » ddres 3 an assembly of men with pipes in their mouths and pewter pots before them , and therefore , if he should be troubled with a cough occasionally , they must attribute it not to hi 3 weakness of body , but to their own weakness of mind . Ln the pro-Biulgauon of tins scheme of the erection of a Journeymen ' s Trades' Hall , the lecturer ssAd he had met with many who , under their fustian jackets , possessed hearts that he would pit against the world . ( Hear . ) Th ^ re are , i : is computed , a million and a half of persons in the metropolis , of which twotbir . ls are engaged in the production of the wants

      comforts , and luxuries of life ; yet they are dispersed wiihoai s . building o ! their own , ia which they may confer together for mutual protection . ( . Hear . ) Oiher classes hare stolon a march upyn us hi this respect , and had erected splendid edifices for their own espc-ciai benefit a . ud eujyjsjent , Tiu-re was thr-TrareLers ' , the Naval and Military , the United Service , ike Reform , and a dozen other " Union " elub-hu-asfcs , all built by the working classes for their so-csll-sd superiors ; jes though thtre were Union club-honses for the rich , snd Union poorhouses for the poor , the working classes have no union for themselves . ( Cheers . ) Tiie productive elass has been calkd , very appropriately , the sinews of the country ; but in the Way physical , the smews

      were allowed freedom in their acioc , or ill health * ud prosiiaiion o ' ' strength ensued : so yi the body poliiical , Kiieis tho working classts , the real sinews of soricty , were aliofrcd freed' . in of ; . cii < ui , a diseased state is the result . ( Hear , hear . ) There are , in London , 114 trades of the working class , exclusive of lause pwuliar to the female sex ; each of theie has its own Trade Society , called into action by a natural feeliDg of selfishness , taking the guise of self-protection : yet no room in the metropolis would corit-iin the whole of the members of scarcely aay one of the Societies , so that they ar « divided iau > lc-d ^ -e = or districts . Thus the Friendly Society of Operative Carpenters is divided into sixteen lodges , thu Bricklayers iino iive , the Manchester

      Unity ot Engineers into four , and so on ; and when any busicess aiLcting tho body at lar ^ e is to be transacted , it ia performed by delegates &i > d deputations from oae lodge to the rest . Now , a Trides' Hall would obviate this inconvenience , no ; to cull it by a stronger term ; for , instead of having to stop at a public-house , sper . diirg money and time , incurring domestic dis-¦ piss ..-ur « , -and anxiety at home , and losing character m the estimation of the employer , by the loss of a quan-jr of & day , with an aching head" , aud ' trejauloua nerves , consequent upon remain : eg till twelve , or perhaps oue o'c ' ock , at these place * , the members of the vari-us trades mi ^ ht mee ^' , in a Trades' Iiail , with cool heads and calm judgments

      when they had business to disruss ; and , when they met for conviviality , bring their wivc 3 and families to participate in their enjoyments . ( Load cheers . ) Societies ua-d felt other inconveniences of meeting in public-houses , than those of their members being in ft s : a : e in which they might be said to be "licensed to be drunk on the premises ; " for so many attended to tne business of driuking and smoking , instead oJ that whicn they had assembled to consider , that it afforded aa opportunity to a few designing men to govern the whoie society , which was the great political error of the day , the allowing the few to rule the many . ( Hear . ) ' No wouder that the moral character of the working classes should thus suffer in tho estimation of the other classes , who

      » re not obliged to transact their business in publichouses ; ii" they would but contribute a vtry small purtioa of whit they formerly lavished on their * strikes , " they might erect their Trades' Hall , in ft central part of the metropolis , as a solid emblem of their union . Before the agitation of this question , taey had heard nothing of " moving' an humble addrets to the Queen to allow the Parliament to grant a sum of money , out of the public purse , for the erection of a Trades' Hall . " No , no ! You must build this Kail yourselves ( said Mr . Farren ) , or you cannot exercise that freedom of opinion within iis walls , mat yoa have a right at all times to express ; aid when you hare buil ; it , tako care that it does not get mortgaged into the hands of some great capitalist ; or , in the language of Poor Richard _ —

      ^ Get -what you can , and -what you get hold ; * Tis thestone that will turn all yjur gain into gold . " Mr . Farren then made some judicious observations on the present system of driving the children of working men to seek amusement at places where debauchery and demoralisation are the inevitable consequences ; pointing to a Trades' Hall as the easy , imtuediat-e , and effectual remedy for iaaay of the evils under which the working classes no . v labour , while it would also be the means of enabling them to concentrate their strength for the abolition of all unjust laws and political grievances that they mi ^ ht saSer under . The lecturer vr& 3 loudly applauded ai the conclusion ; and a vote of thanks to himself and the Chairman having been passed , the meeting adjourned for a

      week-Bow-street , this x > AT . —Mrs . Ann Dalton , apd her niece , Cubarme Harrigan , the latter servant in the kov . ie of the Rev . Dr . Baldaconi , priest of the Sardinian chapel , Lincoln's-ian-fields , were thi * afternoon re-examined on a charge of robbing the It-v . Gentleman of a quantity of" plate , linen , jeweller ? , &c , -when they were both fully comaifrtfci to Newga ' . c fcr trial . Their first examination took place on Saturday , wlien the aant was aimiued to bail . The case has excited considerable sensation , on account of the respectable situation of the prisoners , aad the extent of their depredation . Tn-e elder prisoner has had a legacy of £ 500 left her si-ica her apprehension on Saturday ; and when a « ked what they had to say in reply to the charge , the elder prisoner replied that she kad zneans to restore everything , if the prosecution were not pres .-ed ; but the magistrate ( Mr . Hall ) bound over the witnesses to prosecute . The prisoners were most elegantly dressed .

      The Clerkesweli , Isatiokal Chabtek Association have been compelled to close their lecture room on Monday evenings , fvr the present , the expences having laiverly exceeded vhe income . Dist&cctive Fise . —Shortly before one o ' clock this m ' -raicg , the premises of Mr . Struit , haberdasher , at the corner of Portiond-street , Commercial Road East , was discovered to be on fire , and . in a very short time the house was in oae body of fiintes . Two persons were with great diScuhy got oui of the second fl > or window . Several engines were quickly on the spot , and , although every possible exertion was used by the firemen , it was not until four o'clock that tho fire was got under , the house being completely gutted . The cause of the iire is at present nnknovrn . Tne stock of furniture was insured in tie Alliance , and the premises in its Phcenix .

      Frightful Accide . vt . —Yesterday afternoon , a fine little boy , named John Ware , aged six years , the son of a widow residing at Charleston , near Woolwich , Kent , met with tne following frightful * ecide $ n -. —The pyor little fellow was on his road to School , and , being rather late , he got up behind a ran to have a ride , and , in the act of getting down , both his legs got entangled in the spokes of the near hind wheel , and , me ancholy to relate , before the driver could stop the horse , both his thighs were fractured . No time was lost in conveying the sufferer , in a light chaise cart , to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where he is doing as well as can possibly be expected .

      Fatal Acctdekt . —This moraine an request was held before Mr . Biker , at the London Hospital , Miie-ead-road , on view of the body of William Moore , aged iorty-five years . It appeared , from the eridenee that the deceased was a coal dealer , and while riding on his van , on the 18 ih uh ., and when opposite the Flo-rex Pot , in Bishopgate-street , the horse made a stumble , which threw him off , and the wheels passed over bis left leg and ancle . He was immediately conveyed to the above hospital , where he lingered until Monday morning , when he expired . Mr . Seppinga , the surgeon , stated that the life of the unfortunate man might have been saved had he submitted to the leg being Amputated . Ter--dict , " Accidental de » th . "

      Fat ^ x . AcciBora Lojtdoh Bridgr . —This aftersoon as inquest was held before W . Payne , Esq . Coroner for the city , at the Sw » n public-housej Tfeamei-e . ^ reet , on fiew of the body of Km ma Orred , ft fine little * girl , aged thirteen years . It appeared froa tbe eodenee that , on the previous afternoon , i& « deoowed wu playing on the steps on the west side sf LontG ^ i Bridge , when she rolled into the rrrer . Aa alax . 'o w * s instantly given , and in less than tea minutes the body wag got out and conveyed to the above- ixftose , and Dr . Croft , of Fishftreet Hill , render * < i every effort in his power , for ne hour and a hair " , to restore animation without ¦ QGeees . Yerdkt , " A " -eidental death . "

      ExTRAOSDrxABY Dispatch . —The report of the inquest at Harrow , on the bodies of the two unfortunate men who were killed on the London and Birmingham Railway , which a ppeared in our journal of Saturday week , did not le . vre London until eight o'clock on Thursday night , wa ^ set up and the paper in London by ten o'clock on SatuTdiy morning , the distance being / cw hun 4 r ed miieu

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      REP . jSTrD EXPI- ^ SIO . N OF A POWDER MlLL . —An exiraordi' -ary seusafon was created throughout the metropolis this morning , in consequence of its beiug currently reported that a large powder mill , at Dartford , had exploded ; but on making inquiry at the office , in the city , it was found that the report was without found .

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      Signs of the Tihe * . —A correspondent wiifja us thus : — " An advertisement appeared on Saturday , in the Leeds Mercury , from Mr . Shepherd , of Wakefield House of Correction , for an iudiridual to officiate as keeper or turnkey , who 3 e salary was to be a guinea a week , &c . Oa Monday , & person of my acquaintance was taken from Leeds and recommended by an influential friend , when he was told that there had been 600 applications before hiB , and many of these from parties whom few would imagine could condescend to fill Each an office ; but such is the state of trade , scores are ready to give up their loosing concerns for anything certain , however apparently degrading . Alas , poor oountry ! almost ashamed to know itself . "

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      THE CHARTER , THE WHOLE CHARTER , AND NOTHING BUT THE CHARTER . We are now in the fifth month of the recruiting season , and , as yet , not a single demonstration in honour of the old corps has taken place . Who wonld have thought , after the violent language , the note of preparation , the gauntlet of defiance , the thunder of the cheap food and masquerade press , towards the close of the last Session , that the " Bread Tax" and the * Ballot" would have been allowed to slumber in quiet upon the very back shelf of the Reform archiveB ? > Must not the soberminded politician come to the conclusion that the

      veterans in the Whig army have been dipped in the river Lethe , whereby oblivion has come o'er old opinions and protestations . Indeed , never was there a season so transcendantly auspicious for playing Whig prank 3 as the present ; while the leaders of Chartism , that only restless spirit , have been removed from the scene of action , and all the ready means of oppression and intimidation , by starvation and brute force , have been amply supplied by the aid of the out Tories to the "Destructives , " their friends in office , for the suppression of popular sentiment . Have we not then a right to address

      the factious in the langnage of exultation , and to say " Where ia your victory , or where are even your forces , flushed with conquest , acd where your strength for the next campaign with the defeated foe ! You have had laws of your own making ; men of your own appointment to administer them ; juries of your own selection to decide upon them ; an executive of your own choice to soe their unrelaxed and unprecedented rigour put in full force ; bastiles of your own choosing to bold the mute victims in durance vile ; creatures of your own nomination , to offer the consolation of visiting justice *; prison rnles of your own manufacture to mete out felon ' s

      fare to simple misdemeanants ; bonds in unmeasured and unequalled sums , as fetters for tho enlarged maniacs , to hold them still in trammels , after the full vengeance of the law has been taken upon them . To these you have added insult , ignominy , and reproach , and , behold ! you tremble beneath the spirit which even incarcerated patriotism has assigned to those yet free . Aye , the very spirit of Chartism is an overmatch for the united power of rampant Whig and Tory audacity . You would danle U 3 with promise , feed us with hope , and lull us into security once more with fair profession ; bnt do you not see , or have you yet to learn the fact , that a people BO oft deceived , are resolved to trust no more but in themselves 1 t

      kucuxscjce : Seeing that we are not longer to be led blindfold ; finding that you cannot again play blindman ' s buff with the people—yeu have taxed your ingenuity for some new devise , in order still to hold the reins of public opinion . You have ruined our Constitution ; you have made a Hunchback of the State ; you have deformed every feature ; you have allowed tumours , excrescences , and wens to cover the body , while you have crippled the limbs which should bear it 3 burden ; and now , what would be your remedy for all these chronic disorders brought | on by your own

      dissipations 1 Why , instead of removing the disease , you would allow the Law Church to remain as a hunch upon one Ehoulder ; your war debt upon the other ; and your standing army to support both , as an incubus upon our back , between them ; and then you would strain fancy by puzzling imagination to fiud out the supporter of things as they would then be . You would throw the Billot aa a folding cloak over our deformed shoulders to hide the bumps , and hu ^ e Cossack trousers over our bandy legs , to hide their yielding under their burden ; our only consolation being that we still carried the same load , but

      knew not who was for perpetuating , and who for removing it . You would repeal the Corn Laws , and that alone , of all the promised measures of relief , would you carry ; and you would bo thereby enabled to live in luxury , while the people woald 3 tarve in a cook-shop , in the midst of plentv , with a surplus population , whose grievances , by their iuabilty to live in the ameliorated state of society , wcuid be a hundred fold augmented . You would strap them like Tantalus to the plauk over the refreshing stream , while the flowing waters would be ever out of their reach

      You would play shuttle-cock with the several institutions and blindman ' s buff with the nation . You would , under the rose , so balance your forces by " unavoidable absence'" or sickness , or open villauy , as to heat the iroD , so that all may hold it . The agricultural interest would tickle the manufacturing interest , and the manufacturing interest would tickle the landed interest , and both would tickle the moaied interest , and amongst all you would laugh the nation out of its wits . These things you would do , for in your souls you know that each abuse is a key-stone in corruption's bridge , and that you cannot remove

      one without bringing the whole to ruin , and erecting the Charter upon the site . And are you for such a state of things ! And is the Ballot intended to produce it 1 No , the Ballot is to perpetuate , in disguise , the enormities which the people , in their dayB of ignorance , blindness , and weakness , allowed you to accomplish with open eyes . Let us ask one simple question . For whose benefit are institutions and governments formed , whether for the nation or a faction ' . and if for the nation , who but knaves will seek to legislate with their own eyes open for a blindfold community ? Is the Ballot to

      allow good men an opportunity of doing good , or bad men an opportunity of doing mischief ? and with the Ballot , what becomes of the great W hig principle , so loudly vaunted in 1832 , of placing the institutions of the country under vigilant popular controul . We now find that the wholesome dread of public opinion sometimes imposes the necessity of affected liberality ; while the passion of evil still lurks in the soul , and only requires your disguise to give to it the power of indulgence . Would the Ballot destroy the Law Church , without substituting another in its stead ! Would the Ballot destroy the national burden of eight hundred millions of public plunder ! Would the Ballot disband our enormous aray ! Would the ballot repeal the Poor ~ L » w

      Amendment Act ! Would the Ballot give equal protection to the rich and the poor , to the blind and those with open eyes ! Would the Ballot curtail the enormous aad nseless expenditure of drones in tho several departments ? Would the Ballot impose upon thoie who were elected under its influence , the trouble , annoyance , and " confounded b 0 re , " of settling , yearly , accounts even with their own constituents ! If the Ballot would not do those things , we don't require it ; and , if it would do those things in the dark , we ? ay , as plain , straigh ' . forward Englishmen , if the accomplishment of those things is really your intention , then can we give you the means of performance , and means which are much more easy of attainment—the Charter . Thus you may do in

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      opeD day tho very things which you claim the darkness of ni&ht to perform . So in no case do we want t ' ne Ballot , as a substantive measure . It mnstbe borne in mind by our friends that our visits are , like those of angels , "few and far between , " and that we shall not have more than about eight opportunities of addressing them before the destructive physical-force party meet again for the next year ' s hauL The most , therefore , should be m&de of the intervening time . The old hacks are dead beat , and any coalition with the Tories must terminate in our triumph , and in the ruin of

      Whiggery . We were never half so strong . Up to the very last charge the people , so often and so faially deceived by their leaders , fought with halters around their necks ; all was distrust , all was doubt , but now these greatest foes to freedom and obtacles to union and combination have been removed , for never in the annals of any country have leaders borne unjust , unmerciful , unparalleled , persecution , as have the Chartist leadess now Buffering under a reforming Government . We defy any man from history to furnish ub with any instance of men bearing torture and hurling defiance at the

      oppressor from the cold dungeon , as we find the men now imprisoned for freedom's sake , bearing and defying . The nation has not even yet , nor will not till after New Year ' s Day , have seen , with open eyes and calm reflection , Us own cowardice in submitting to a violation of all law , all precedent , practice , and rule , for the mere purpose of wounding the whole through the sides of the most daring . In no country but England would such a stain be allowed for a month to exist , aud yet we find a people , who have not the power , or who will not exercise tho power , of redressing their own wrongs ; a people who

      are constrained to support , by their own subscriptions , the families of their martyrs , without any , the slightest , assistance from those who claim their co-operation to serve them , we find those people courted by the very oppressors , and their aid sought for—what 1 Not for popular good ! Can it be for popular good , having done so much popular injustice ? No ; but actually to accomplish the very thing which the martyrs » re incarcerated for opposing , namely , the establishment of some crotchet upon the ruins of Universal Suffrage . Let us never be mistaken in our aim , our end , and our

      object , which is to mature and prepare the public mind for that great change , which invention , improvement , and machinery have brought about , and so to organise the moral functions , as that no opposing force , whether it be moral or physical , shall again turn a supposed triumph into anual defeat . We must have tho change , but we must have the matured understanding , the thorough organization , the accredited substitute , ready to supply the place of the departed body of corruption , eiso will treachery , trick , and fraud supply it for us , while we aro exhausting our strength upon matters which skould have been matured in the outset .

      Let economists , philosophers , philanthropists , and humanity-mongers talk as they please , but we tell our readers , that speculation , gambling , ambition , unbridled lust , and all the evil passions of the rich , are pressing too hardly upon the means intended by nature for the support of the poor , and our surplus papulation is now too large to be provided for from any one of the Whig coverdishes ; and that the numerous family of surplus population paupers require the whole joint to be placed on the national table—the Charter ! Let those who call us destructives

      bebeve in our sincerity , when we affirm that no power under Heaven , and no force upon earth , can otherwise provide for the ravages made in old iastitutieus by new inventions . We have said , and said , aud said , and we again repeat it , that when the querulous , the unemployed , and the " restless , " as they are called , constitute a majority , or a large minority , then must all moral , physical , and stop-gap force yield to the cry of despair , the clamour of the hungry , and the vengeance of the despised . Our efforts are to stop the horrors likely to result from such a state of things , and to obviate

      their occurrence , by yielding , in time , to justice , what must in tho end be surrendered to necessity and force . We tell our readers that at no period of our political career did we bo forcibly feel the responsibility of our and their position . We will not flinch—they mast not budge ; no , rather than compromise a point , or retreat an hair's breadth , we prefer to cut all compromises and retreat from under our feet . Let these two things , then , be borne in mind . Firstly , —That the Whigs , even the timid ones , said they would join the Chartists if they gave up the notion of physical force ; and let it be borne

      in mind , that for now thirteen months , through the most unparalleled distress , the most excited state of public mind occasioned by the illegal expatriation of Frost , Williams , and Jones , and the incarceration of their oldest , dearest , best , and most beloved friends—that during that whole period , and amid such trying circumstances , there has not been a single violation of the law , nor , so far as we have the means of knowing , a single violent article in a Chartist paper , nor a single physical-force speech made at a Chartist meeting ; and yet , where are our timid ,

      or even our boldest Wnig friends ? Let that be answered , if it can be answered . And , again ; surely , what was denied to threat should have been yielded to justice and humanity ; yet do wo find the peaceful Chartists compelled by the moral-force Whigs to support the families of the " misguided , " as they have been called . Well , if miEguided , why allow the innocent wives and families to suffer J Behold the physical force which they drea * more than common musket and Bwords , which they know we hava not ! Make ready ! present ! fie Charter ! charter ! CHARTER ! There ' s the volley of physical force that wounds them . In conclusion , let our frknds be assured that the wolves are abroad , that coercion is being prepared , and that

      it must be met . Let them road the signs of the times , aud in them read their own strength . Let them bear in mind , that royal marriages and royal births were wont to confer liberty upon the imprisoned political offenders ; but now , both having taken place within the year , we find no such royal concesson ;—and why ! because your leaders are too good , too valiant , too honest to be trusted at large by tyrants . If your cause and they were contemptible , all boons would be granted ; for such are in general the objects of royal clemency , while dreaded greatness and unpurchaseable integrity are allowed to pine unheeded by royal grace , and unpitied by royal panderers . But , onward ! and Universal Suffrage will warm when the royal bveath refuses its genial glow .

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      THE LITTLE PIECE OF ROYALTY AND THE TAX-PAYING PEOPLE . The fulsome splash and splutter which has filled the columns of the whole " Establishment" for the last fortnight is enough to turn the stomach of an oyster-gormand , and to offend the nostrils of a night-man . One might really suppose that no woman ever had a child before ; or that the birth of this one had been likely to put money into the pockets of the people !

      Amongst the filthy tribe of snivelling slobberers we are glad to find one , the Satirist , who takes a common-sense view of the question . And we are the more pleased at this , because the Satirist , being writttn exclusively for " the middle and higher classes , " contains many things , continually , of which we cannot seriously approve , and which furnish evidence , the best and strongest possible , of the depraved taste and low state of moral feeling which pervades "respectable" society . The Satirist says : —

      " Since the bells have done ringing , and the guns have done firing , we may perhaps stand a cL \ ance of being heard when , in our quiet way , -we make our bo-w and say , among the rest , that ' the infant Prinsess is well . " '" The infant Princes 3 ! ' The humbug , then , is begun—the courtly nonsense is commenced—and ,

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      almost before the ligament is cut , the little squalling embryo bit of humanity is saluted as her Royal Highness 1 - " It is quite a different thing to feel glad at the safety . of a mother and her child , and to join in . all the tomfooleries that are enacted upon this occasion is is rather a different thing to be glad to bear that the little , senseless , squalling thing is alive and kicking , and to fuel a sadden idolatrous reverence for the little bundle of lively vivified jelly , and to address its unconscious littleness by the name of her Royal Highness .

      " The infant Princess is well ! Her Royal Highness ' a exploits , hitherto , have hardly been commensurate in dignity with the length of her title . Her Royal Highness first made herself known to the grave and noble individuals who , as members of her Majesty ' s Privy Council , were waiting in an ante-chamber with uppricked earn , and with jorums of caudle cooling before them—she first made herself known , we say , to these persons by a Bhort and Bharp cry , caused , it is said , by the coldness of the new world into which Bhe had just arrived , and by the impertinent attentions of the nurse , who Insisted upon wrapping her Royal Highnesa up in her swaddling clothes , whether she would or no .

      "After this , it is said that her Royal Highness was brought into the Privy Council chamber and placed upon the table , where she conducted herself in a manner especially incongruous , kicking with very great pertinacity , and squalling very loudly , not to say anything of other instances of undignified conduct , which "eta more than suspected by some of the Lords of the Privy Council present , although one of them , more a courtier than the rest , said that this was a singular instance of Royal precocity , and intended as & hint to the Privy Council , that although She COUld not speak to them , she knew very well in what assembly she was .

      " The course of humbug is now begun , and it will rather increase than diminish . As so « n as tho month is past , we shall have churchings and christenings , and illuminations and long gazettes , and special ambassadors with messages of congratulation , and half the ahceseruongers in the country coming up to Buckingham Palace to kiss away at the Queen ' s hand , and take their chance of getting knighted . Rare doings no doubt there will be , and John Bull will be tickled and made to staro and shout suid get drunk , and the farce will eni ! a . H usual , by his having his pocket picked .

      " We would just remind Johnny , however , that there are finer nan in the sea than have yet come out of itthua we believe the old proverb runs—and that the present little girl is , alter all , nearly aa unlikely ever to come to the throne as Ernest of Hanover himself is . The little Queen has begun exceedingly early , and she is likely to go on as she has began : bo that in another ten mouths this little Yic the Second will be likely to have her nose put out of joint by a thumping boy , and then there must be new Privy Councils , and new

      illuminations , and new drawings of the purse-strings . Leigh Hunt , \» ho Beems to have taken upon himself the place vacated by Southey , and to have become amateur poet-laureate , prognosticates that there will be twenty of them . What sources of information he may have , we cannot tell ; but we hope he may be mistaken . For our own parts , we shall bo quite content with another , jttst to make assurance doubly sure with respoct to the demon of Hanover ; after that , we should be glad to square accouuts , and to cry , O / iejam satis esl .

      " This prospect of a large family is rather awkward news for John Bull ; for if ttio Queen should happen to have twenty children , there is no good reason why they should not have twenty a-piece , so that in ha a century Johnny ' s Princes and Princess Royal might be a large part of his population , and at £ 2 u , o « O a-year a-piece would eat him fairly out of house and home . " This bold and manly style of writing does great credit to the Satirist , and would accord well with a

      vehicle of general information of a much higher character than the coarse jokes , double entendres , and close approximations to obscenity which constantly pollute its columns , but which , though we feel quite certain that they are anything but palatable to its Editor , are absolutely necessary , as the only kind of gilding , by which the " respectable , educated , and pious" parties , who support it , " the middlo and higher classes , " can be induced to swallow bo disagreeable a pill as tho atom , manly truth which forms the staple of suck leading articles aa that wo have quoted .

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      MR . ROBERT LuWERY , THE FRENCH PEOPLE , AND THE " NORTHERN LIBERATOR , " ON THE WAR QUESTION . Mr . Robert Lowert , who is on a Paluerstoji mission at Paris , has written a letter to Mr . John Binns , of Suuderland , which was published in the Northern Liberator of last week , and in which he describes tho views and feelings of the French people , so far as he has been able to discover them , to be of a decidedly pacific character in regard to tho people of England , but full of resentment against tlie Government of England . Ho says : —

      " Every one whom I havo spoken to has expressed great pleasure at the sentiments nnd feelings 1 was deputed to express to the people of Franco . Their ardent desire t-euns to be , to continue in peace with England as a friend , being conscious that the destinies of both countries are one and the same . ? * Messieurs Beaumont , Tucqueville , and others , assured me they saw these things , but what could they do ? The acts of our Government still go on , and they must either oppose U 3 or suffer injury , insult , and humiliation . " Ho represents the French , or such portion of them as he lias come in contact with , as beiug perfectly satisfied , as well as himself and his friends , of the treachery of Lord Palmerston , and he says : —

      " The people here say that the men of England should speak out and dissever themselves from the acts of the Government , and save their country from this war , by their firm resistance to the Treaty of July . " Mr . Lowert agrees perfectly with his Franch friends in this opinion , and calls loudly upon the working men of England and Scotland to speak out with a voice of thunder against the determined efforts of the Government to involve them in a war with France . Our Northern friend inserts Mr . Lowerv ' s letter , but with a note of protest against its pacific character . He

      asks" Why will not Mr . Lowery , and those with whom he Is acting , distinguish between a war by France against the infamous English Government , and a war against the right-hearted English people ? A declaration of war against England by France , would not be regarded by the people of England as a declaration of hostilities against them , but as a declaration of war against their hated and hateful Government , and its villanous system . They would regard it as a war against the Jews , jobbers , fundhalders , pensioners , sinecurists , and police spies ; and in such a declaration they would , aa men of sense , rejoice to tho very bottom of their souls . "

      Now , this would be all very fine , and the people of England would have great reason to rejoice "from the very bottom of their souls'" at the fact of a declaration of war by France against England , if the said war of England against France were to be carried on by tho members of the " hated and hateful Government , the Jews , jobbers , fuudholders , pensioners , sinccu rists , and police spies" in their own persons , and if they were to abide all the mischief , as well as to reap all the honour and renown that might appertain to it ; but all history testifies that

      the experience of mankind has always been of the reverse of this position ; that in all wars the credit , the pay , aud tho prize-money have been monopolised ; the credit aud the profit having been claimed entirely by these parties , while the brunt of actual fighting , and all the disagreeables connected with it , has been borne by tho working people . The Liberator has shown no reason why we should expect a war with France , just now , to be conducted differently from what all other wars have been ; and we must , therefore , still believe , and we beg tho people never to forget , that in case of such a war , whatever might become of the Jews , jobbers , and placemen , the

      bullets and the shells , the " long billets in cold quarters , " the mangled limbs , the broken hearts , the widowed wives , and wailing children , would be most plentifully shared , as usual , among the working people , from whose r&nka are furnished the animate machines who do the devilry cat out for them by the slinking rascals upon whom the Liberator affirms all the misfortunes of the war would fall . Let the people make themselves quite sure that there can be no fighting without their getting all the blows , and that all the frightful catalogue of sufferings , physical , mental , moral , and social , which are inseparable from the horrid trade would constitute solely and entirely their share thereof . Upon this part of the subject we have a valuable illustration in the following extract from a letter , written by an officer belonging to the Thunderer , now engaged in the Asiatic war , to his brother in London , describing he recent taking of Sidon : —

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      «• I went through the town on tho following morning , and witnessed a most deplorable spectacle : dead bodies lying in the streets covered with blood , and flies in myriads around them ; wounded men groaning in agony , houses and shopa deserted , r . oors and windows battered in , immense holes in the walls from the shot and shells of the ships , rabbiBh and stones lying in the streets , articles of mercbanchise ( chiefly tobacco ) strewed about , and swordB and muskets in every quarter . The smell was sickening . Now , however , everything is quiet ; the inhabitants have returned to their shattered abodes , shops are open , the dead bodies have been removed to the grave , and the wounded to the hospital . I visited the hospital , and the scene presented there was of the most dreadful description . "

      Now this is a case decidedly in point . The war in this case ib not against the people of Syria , but against their Government—as indeed all wars are . But who are the sufferers by it ! the Government or the people ! So again in the taking of Acre , of which we have the following account from a

      witness : — " We commenced the action about two o ' clock , and about four the most terrific explosion that could be imagined took place on shore . One of their magazines , containing 600 barrels of powder , blew up , over which were stationed 2 , 000 soldiers , the whole of whom were buried in the ruins , which covered a space of one acre , Many women and children were also killed by the explosion . By six o ' clock we drove them from all their guns except two or three . At sunset we ceasod firing , and the batteries also stopped their fire . We then hauled off into deep water for the night . At twelve o ' clock a boat came off from the shore to say that the troops were evacuating the town , and a force was immediately sent ashore and possession taken , scarcely a shot having been fired on landing .

      " November 6 . —I went on shore yesterday to see the effects of our shot , and I could hardly believe that such destruction could have been made in so short a period . I walked along the ramparts , and observed the dead bodies lying by the guns , some with their heads off , and others with part of their bodies shot away . Some of the guns were dismounted , and others were rendered useless by the breastwork falling upon them . I saw one S 4-pounder burst , and lying in two halves . Every place seems to have experienced the effects of onr shot

      but the ruins of the magazine were the most dreadful sight that the mind could imagine . The Turks , and Egyptians in the Turkish service , were busy pulling the dead bodies from the rubbish , and possessing themselves of every article of clothing which better salted their taste than their own . One cannot walk here without treading upon the dead bodies ; and everywhere amongst the rubbish you observe bands and feet exposed , the rest of the body being hid by the ruins . The cattle had shared the same fate as their owners , and are to be seen lying dead in every street "

      And are these the blessings to which the Liberator would introduce the people of England , by way of punishing the Jews , jobbers , and placemen ! I We grieve to see the Liberator , whom we believe to be sincerely honest in the advocacy of democratic principles , thus cling tenaciously to the destructive notion , that the progress and establishment of those principles would not be seriously retarded by that greatest of all national

      calamitiesa war . With singular modesty our friend continues , alluding to the parties who are said to act with Mr . Lowery : — " They know , and Mr . Lowery ought to know , for he has read the Liberator , that such a war as this would , in a few months , blow the whole system , funds , paper money , Jews , fundholders , pensioners , and all together into the air ; and the end would be the liberation of the English people from the chains that now bind them , and a speedy alliance with France in defence of their newly acquired liberties . "

      Now , it ia precisely beoause we have read the Liberator , that we feel well assured that Mr . LowEBY , and its other readers , may have all learned from it , that , enjoying the monopoly of law-making , the Jews , jobbers , and placemen would be able , by resorting to a fictitious and depreciated currency , or by other resources equally dishonest and accordant with their nature , to keep up an unnatural state of things for some time ; so as , by hook or by crook , to pull us through the war ; of which they would be making , through the medium of commissions and a thousand other channels , a continual advantage while it lasted , and at the close thereof to leave all the terrible weight of the re-action to be borne upon the shoulders of the people .

      We are glad , however , to perceive proof in this , note of oar friend , tho Liberator ' s , upon Lowery ' s letter , that our conviction of his honesty was rightly founded . He proceeds , in reference to his own previous assertions , to say : — " This ia the true view of this question , and wo shall next week address a letter to Mr Lowery , in which we shall give the most irrefragable proof of this , and put it into Mr . Lowery ' s power , if he will , to show the French people the real position in which we ate , and What THKY MAY DO , if THEY Will it "

      We are glad of this , for we were most anxious to see our friend ' s reasons for his singular opinion . Ever wishful to correct our own imperfect judgment by more grave Authority , and most anxious as we are to be quite right upon a point of such momentous import , we shall await the promised enlightenment of our Northern friend with some impatience .

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      THE PEOPLE AND THE FACTION MEETINGS . In our last we laid down a plan of operations whereby the people might , in all casea , successfully fight and beat the enemy with their own weapons . Our present paper contains demonstrations of the necessity for this mode of developing the people ' s energies , in the accounts of the respective Queen ' s babby meetings at Brighton and Bristol . On both these ocoasionB the people attamp ' . ed to upset the humbugs , aud succeeded but partially in doing bo ; and simply for want of that previous arrangement and

      organisation which we recommended to them in that article . It seems , howover , that the faction-masters , deeply imbued with the cunuing of their arch progenitor , hit on the expedient of eviting a total rout , by false pretences ; calling their meetings " public " , but taking care to hold them at such hours as they knew would render the attendance of the public all but impossible . This , too , like every other scoundrel scheme , may bedefeated by the people , by the exhibition of temper and timely organisation . In

      all such cases hereafter , no matter what the time of day , let the working bees swarm , and if they have but brains and honesty enough to stand one by another they may prevent even pecuniary loss from being inflicted upon them as the result of their patriotism . This course of action , if well carried out , will strike more terror into the ranks of the factions than any other . Pleasing evidence of this is already afforded by the Establishment" in reference to these meetings . A Whig paper says , speaking of the Brighton meeting : — " There is much in this meeting to excite attention . It is becoming manifest that no publit meeting can be held but that the Chartists will be there . "

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      MR . SHARMAN CRAWFORD , " THE MORNING CHRONICLE , " AND THE " NORTHERN STAR . " From our second edition of last week , our friendB will have learned the result of Mr . Sharman Ckawfoed ' s visit to Rochdale , the borough which has distinguished itself by his adoption . It will be in the recollection of our readers that in commenting upon a Reform Association lately established at

      Belfast , and in the establishment of which Mr . Crawford took a conspicuous part , we dealt , as we thought , fairly and justly with the sentiments attributed to him by the Mtrnxng Chronicle , aa expressed at the meeting , not supposing that even a Whig journal would dare so completely to misrepresent » speaker most easily followed and reported . We were mistaken , however , as it appears from Mr Crawfohd ' s word , which we believe in preference to the Chronicle .

      In onr comment we gave the speech as we stated , at full length . Taking the speech , as reported in the Chronicle , as a whole , we denounced it in no very measured terms , and we are free to confess that our denunciation was the stronger in consequence , not of our dislike of , but in consequence of our regard for , and consequent disappointment in , Mr . Crawford . Mr . Crawford has , however , selected for observation and contradiction , the very passages in his speeoh , as reported in the

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      Chronicle , to which we took exception , thereby fuj ] T establishing the justice of our reproach . But what can be , what ought to be , a more pleasing and gratifying duty than that of one honourable man making the amende to another honourable man . when made conscious of his mistake ! This is our case , and we experience a double joy first , in having been the medium of Mr . Crawford ' s explanation , and , secondly , in having been ourselvea undeceived . We pin our faith to no man ' s sleeve ; bat we take away no man ' s character without trial , Had we allowed the objectionable passages in Mr

      Crawford ' s speech to pass unnoticed , and stiH continued to recommend him to the good people of Rochdale , we might have been charged , and justly , if they were disappointed in Mr . Crawfohd , with having withheld from them his real sentiments elsewhere expressed I Had Mr . Craw ¥ obi > wearied criticism , and become an outlaw in the court of rebuke , we should have passed him by with that silent contempt with which we treat the fiend who has made Ireland no harbour for honesty like Mr . Crawford ' s ; but it vras because we felfc sorely , that we wrote strongly , and Mr Sharman Crawford does us no more than justice when he says that we would not intentionally misrepresent him . We would not ; we did not ; we

      would scorn it ; and he will take our assurance that we have much more pleasure ia setting ourselves and him right with the public , than we had ia unintentionally damaging him , from perhaps a foolish reliance upon the accuracy of a paper devoted to the interests of a lyiag faction . Our apology should be to our readers for having accused any man of good character upon such evidence . Our readers will further bear in mind that we gave it as our opinion , that Mr . C&awford was the only safe standard for honest opinions to tally round ; and , believing so , what must havebeeu our chagrin at seeing such sentiments attributed to him , differing , as they did , Mo ccelo , from those which , with our own ears , we had heard from hia lips !

      Aa to Mr . O'Connor ' s disinclination to injure Mr . Crawford , we can assure Mr . C . fhat we hava many times heard Mr . O'Connor declare that to Mr . Crawford he looked for the restoration of the public mind in Ireland , from that abyss of misconception and ignorance into which O'Connell has oast it ; and we think we may say for him further , that no one circumstance could possibly afford him greater pleasure than to be able to retain that high opinion which we believe he entertains of Mr . Crawford .

      If Mr . Crawford had not disavowed the sentU ments attributed to him in tho Chronicle , we-should have felt it a paramount duty to oppose him to the utmost at Rochdale ; and we now believe that the Chronicle ' s report was fabricated with the intention of producing that effect . Mr . Crawford will hav « learned , however , that there is no danger in our enmity , if not based upon true conceptions . Our greatest pleasure is in portraying the virtues of honest men—that of the Chronicle ever has consisted in giving to useful vice the ascendancy over useless virtue .

      What a triumph will now be that of the electors of Rochdale , when they shall have returned a man too honest to be a slave , and not too proud to defend himself before the people ! Let Ireland blush , and let the revilers of England , and the assertorsof "English prejudice , " ttake their answer from this one fact ; and learn , that the only man who ha 3 dared to baard the beast in his own den , and in a white waistcoat too , and who

      was above Association purchase , has been adopted by the prejudiced English Protestants , so to blend their opinions and represent their feelings as to make them brothers instead of bitter enemies . Yes ! we shall now hear the real state of Ireland in the House of Commons ; and be it remembered that Mr . Crawford has long since declared himself an advocate for , and supporter of , O'Connor's five-acre plan . Here , then , will be a

      new question , and the only possible refuge for the destitute , opened and supported by one of the largest landed proprietors in the kingdom . If Mr Crawford pushes this principle into ultimate establishment , he will have done more good thau all the heroes , patriots , and ministers of by-gone ages * for he will have transformed hi 3 country from a hell into a paradise . We have only to express a hope that all hands will now be put to the work , and with a long pull a strong pull , and a pull altogether , the geod men

      of Rochdale will pull down that odious and infernal barrier which has been so long erected between the English and the Irish working classes ; and , we b ; g to express a hope that in future Mr . Crawford will direct Irish attention to the fact that the schism has been kept up for profit . Mr . Crawford shall find our columns devoted to his service ; and , unlike others who make merchandise of candidates' appeals to their constituents , he shall have no bill for our advertising services . Our columns , as our principles , are unpurchaseable .

      Hurrah ! then , for Crawford and Rochdale ; while the twice-Jewed , and moat liberal county of Carlow is about to pass into the hands of a PoNSorfBT , the oldest family of hacks in Ireland ; not one of whom would dare show his nose if all were not for sale in the land of slaves . 0 , what a picture ! to see the rejected of England going for shelter to poor Ireland , when even England has got too liberal for them ; and the rejected of Ireland coming to England , when Ireland has got too corrupt to hear the tongueof a honest man . We shall hail the refurnof Air . Crawford for Rochdale as the omen of *

      properunderstanding between the long-deceived working classes of the two countries ; and , in justice to the men of England , we must say that all the national prejudice is upon the part of the Irish , as never was there a more cordial , sincere , or friendly feeling than that entertained by the English working classes towards their oppressed Irish brethren . But they will not , and they shall not , if we can help it , stretch a hand with alms to the bogging-box , neither shall they be made tools to fight the battles of the brawling sycophants who , having sold their own people , would now sell ours .

      The Manchester Times , another chip of the Whig block , in attempting to give a report of the proceedings at Rochdale , would , most Whig-like , screen hb brother Chronicle from the charge of mis-statement , and leave it to be inferred that the misreport complained of by Mr . Crawford was an original report of ours , never once mentioning the fact of the Chronicle's treachery and Mr . Crawford ' s complaint ! Poor creatures ! they are bard run , and we don't blame them for snapping at anything and everything that comes within their grasp .

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      DEFEAT OF OUR "FAVOURITE" BY THE POOR SAVAGES OF TONGA . Im the name of justice , of honour , and humanity , when will the whole strength and dignity of man rise in religious rebellion against infidelity and fanaticism ! and when will the supporters of a State Church see that they must not only provide fur » domestic war establishment of Infidels , but must , ifter the manner of forcing other British manufactures , also convoy the colonial cruBaders , not only to disturb our own peaceful subjects , but to force their blasphemy , at the point of the bayonet , down the throats of innocent and simple people , called savages for lack of a merchandize faith ! When will ' our wooden walls be devoted to other

      and more honourable purposes than acting as convoys to poison and " contraband" faith . Behold our triumph , that is to he , over the Chinese in this our poisoning crusade ! and behold the war s » rashly commenoed , but we fear not yet terminated , of d » e commercial Bible Society , against the natives of Tonga , in the South Seas ! Never was there a more bloody undertaking ; or more inglorious defeat . If diplomatists , and state jugglers , and cabinets of

      The Northern Star. Saturday, December 5. 1840.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , DECEMBER 5 . 1840 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 5, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2713/page/4/