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      4 The Northern Star. __ ____, July 1 Ljg...

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      OHS o ' c > NKELL ASD IBS IHISH LKA 6 UE—IDE CONJEDEKATES' MEETING—A SiXOK PIELDDAY—THK PJLICE AKD C 0 XJEDERATE 3 . { From our oivn Correspondent . ) Dublin , 28 th Juke . John O'Connell is notjnclined to be teconciled to ths seceders of the "Irish Con federation , nor—no matt » r what he may assert to the contrary—do 1 think ho is disposed to allow the re-union of Irishmen so far as he can go to prevent it . To bo sure , he proxies to offer no obstacle in the way cf reconresihia connexion

      ciliation , and he says he will gn with the Repeal As ? ociation , and retire , nokns volens ' torn political lite ; but promises always' came easy ' to the Clan O'Connell , acd though he pretends to abdicate the rostrum at Burgh Quay , ho still clings to it . Indeed John O'Connell has incurred the obloquy and hatred of almost every man in Ireland who has brains eneugh to form an opinion , or moral cour . iee enoug h to express what he feels . His humbu ; r will po down no more . He must not stand in the way of the people as a mediator between an infuriate nation and iheiroppressora .

      The meeting at the Music-hall on last Wednesday evening was magnificent , b .-yond anything of the sort whfch you over the channel can ima ^ ina . There was no falling tff there , and though the Confederate Club did not go there in their military array , there was scarcely a man of them Irotn their post . The en thusiasm was extreme , but not ths vapid , insipid brava-io of 1 S 13—not the blow-hot-and cald rigmarole of cowards , who * Whilst willing to wound , ire yet afraid to strike , but it was the spirit , the feeling of men , that came forth on that evening—oi men who are trained in political knowledge . Such was the description of men who formed the great meeting at the Music-hall .

      The chief speaker was the Rav . -Mr O'Malley , who delivered one of the most effective ana beautiful addresses I have ever listened to , even in this city of speech-making . Father O'Malley thinks Irish prosperity a , goad thing , and Irish land well worth ' fighting for . ' He loves peace , and he never ceases to preach'Good will amongst men , 'bat he _ feels that manhood and Christianity are not incompatible ; that it is not necessary ra remain a crawling starveling , to eceu : e eternal happiness ; and that a man c » n lie down very rasy in conscience , though he have a sturdy pike at " his bed's sida , or a blunderbuss under his bolster ; at the same time having no objection to put both to their legitimate purposes in the morning , should his country require his aid , or an enemy press too closely on his qnarte rs . ' This is the opinion of the Ecf . Thaddecs O'Malley : this opinion he does not shrink from promulgating , and that , too , in the most chaste , and earnest , and heart stirring language .

      Charles Gavaa Duffy mads a Ioug speech ton , and moved the dissolution , sine die , of the Irish Confederation , in seconding which resolution , the Rev . Mr O'Malley delivered his powerful lecture . Mr Duffy his weak lungs , and a voice somewhat shrill and tremulous , but still he is a delightful speaker . He is calm , deliberate , and cool , and yet on occasions glowing , eloquent , and impassioned . He is always well received by his auditors . Thos . D'Arcy M'Gee is another favourite speaker at the Confederate meetings . He is a very young man , though I believe he kas ' seen the world , ' and had a connexion for a considerable time with the patriotic press of America . He is very slight in figure , not above five feet sis inches in height ; of a pale complexion , and feminine featares . He speaks , hawever , well enough for a giant , and many of the best articles in the Natios nawspaoer are from hi » pen . lie is a great favourite with the Dublin Confederates .

      Richard O'Ghnnan and J . B , Dillon are favourite and prominent members of the Confederation , too . The Confederation was dissolved , or rather adjourned sine die , and that meeting was probably tbe last of that manly body . However , if there be no Usios—if the projected Irish . Leagoe cannot be formed—the Confederation wili be revived , and set on a firmer and better footing than ever . No matter who cornea forward or who holds back , the Confederation will flourish ; Cork-hill acd Burgh Quay will be tenanted by honester men and appropriated to honester purposes . Ireland will be a nation , and her children free and happy and contented .

      The ' Saxons' had their annual bravado on last Monday , the 26 ; h ultimo , in the Pnceaix Park . A more dull or spiritless or prosy affair could not be well imagined . The = e mimic battles seem to have peculiar attractions for ths war-loving citizens of Dublin , and the crowds ] which quittep the dust and bustle of the city for the greenery of ' The Park , ' on iast Monday , were immense . There came the . Earl in glided chariot ; the Lord Slayer in his bit of of ' ginjerbrsad ; ' the shoncai on his ' ta-te' ol' blood ; andfiity thousand of the 'lower orders' of idlers on what we over here call' Shank ' s Mare' ! An endless band , Poured forth tnd left unpeopled half ths laud , A motley m i xture in long wigs and bags , In silks , in crapes , in gaiters , and in rags .

      Tfeere tbey cams ! and what brought them ? Why to Rwell the Saxon uaseanfc ; to see 5 , 000 redcais—500 ot whom were net born in 1816!— ' fighting the battle of Waterloo' ! to see dashing squadrons ol lancers ' charging' the ihrawneeiis . ' Clouds of Enniskillen dragoons ' cutting gaashes' at the sultry sun-beams ; and long files ana solid squares cf infantry driving imaginary foes wi : h the baronet , aud firia ? indiess volliea ol 'blank cartridge' at ncthing ¦ It w ? s a great day for the thimble-riggers and pick-pockets , for they contrived to ' ease ' many a poor fellow of his pence . ' Twas a hated day with

      the luckless red-coats , for thej were made ti work card for the amusement of Lord Clarendon , and the nymphs of the ' diamond' and French-street ! and it was a useful day to the Confederates , for they got ( and gratis toi , mind you ) some practical instruction in the game of war , and learned that a battalion in red jackets are not a whit more terrible than a ' club' in grey frieze ; and that however formidable a trained army might be on the flat green surface of the ' fifteen acres , ' they would not be invulnerable in the passes of tbe Tipperary hills or amid the morasses of the Connaught hogs .

      At the club meeting at Uonny brook on yesterday , there were at least four thousand men assembled in that renowned village , and tha audience w « s addressed by Charles G . Duff / , and Thomas . F , Meagher . The enthusiasm was boundless—bat here I must stop . I blush ta say that the affair did not terminate as pleasantly or as creditably as it began Such of the City clubs as were in attendance , formed a procession on their vray homewards , and exhibited a tricolour flag , mounted on a pike staff . In Leeson-street , just as they tntered the city , they were waylaid by a banditti of policemen , who broke their array , captured their banner , arrested some of tha foremost , aad battered thej skulls of several Others with their bludgeons .

      Why , in the name ei common sens ? , should these scenes bs enacted ? The clubs know well thatjthe police are spying—watching their raorements—and ordered to harass and ansoy them on all possible occasions . And yet they rushed advisedly and open-mouthed into their fangs . Cannot they be advised , and either refrain marching in processions , orbsurepared to repel the attacks of their enemy . If this public array , this ' marching' and ' drilling , ' b 3 coatrary to British regulations ( I speak not of law !) they should cot persevere in them ; if they be not , they should be prepared to break the heids , and ' have an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth' of every ruffian who would obstruct them in the performance of a lawful and constitutional practice . Bat to allow a handful of policemen to trample on thousands ! It is really ridiculous .

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      Ths ^ Biteb Bit , ' ob ths Pahson Odiwitted . — A certain minister of the Gospel , resident not quite twenty miles from Stalybridge , baring beard tbat a shopkeeper was in the habit of selling * Chartist pikes , ' called upon the supposed vendor oi forbidden articles , and wished to know if he had any pikes for sale . The Chartist said that he had not , at present , but shortly expected a fresh arrival . The parsoa then inquired if he had disposed of many , and was ooolly assured that he had disposed of a large number . This gave the minister a strong desire to be possessed of one of the dreadful weal

      poos ; in order tint it might be handed over to' the powers that be . ' Not being satisfied wi ; h the assurance of the Chartist , tbat he had none on hand , hia reverence sent other parties to obtain him one , with a like result . The supposed pike-seller , indig . nsnt at such conduct , determined that the desire of the ' minister of peace' should be gratified , and , accordingly on Thursday morning last , addressed a note _ to the gentleman with whom tbe curate lodged , informing him that the wish of his reverence mii > ht now be gratified for the low sum of 2 s . Shortly after the parson was seen wending ow way to the shop of the Chartist , anxiety and delight depicted on his countenance . The minister wished to know if the note was the Charti « t '»

      writing , and was informed that it was . ' Then ' says his reverence , « I will take a pike ; ' and one was immediately handed to him , carefully lapped up in brown paper , and away went bis reverence , ' pick' in hand , as if he was going to take the town by storm . The minister immedia'iely repaired to r ij ] * offic 9 ' witn his treasure , and on opening fold after fold of paper , found that he bad a' pike fish , not the freshest , between two sticks , instead of a formidable ' queen of weapons . ' The chagrin and mortification cf his reverence may be easier imagined tnan described . A few wags , p arties to tbe plot , immediately repaired to a nehrhbourine inn , and spent ths 2 t . drinking « Success to the parson and his pike . '

      Epficts cf Excuse Rtjlb ih Ihelakd—At Jfenagh Petty Sessi . ns , last week , a girl named Brien was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment for beating her sister bscauss she would not join her in charging incendiarism against her own cousins , that the might get out to America at government expense W osnEEFcx . —a bellman of ajseaport , not one hun-£ 2 i £ ?„ £ ? M * - Ub in "coancine a teetotal nht ' s & J ? w S , n thG Terrenes Hall at that place , sa ^ d that the meeting 'would be addressed by w females who had never Wen before 1 '

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      R , D . COUSINS , Id , DUKE-STREET , LIHC 0 Ln ' b . INK-FIEI , D 8 , LONDON . T HE SHEPHERD , by the Rev . J . E . Smith M . A Yol . I , price 53 . 6 d .-Vol . il , price 3 j . —Vol . Ill , price Gi . 6 d . rloth boards ; or the three volumes in oee , half-bound in calf and lettered , price 16 s . Re ' . utation ofOwenism , by G . Redford , of Worcester ; ^ with a reply , b y the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Is . Sew Christianity ; or the Religion of St Simon , with a coloured Portrait of a St Simonian Female ; translated b / the Rev . J , E . Smith , M . A . Is . Tho L ule Book , addressed to the Bishop of Ereter aod Robert Owen , by the Rer . J . E . Smith , M . A . 63 . ; by postlOd . Legends and Miracles , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Cloth boards , Is . 8 J . The Universal Chart , containing the Elements of Universal Faith , Universal Analoa-y , and Moral Qortrn . ment . By the Rev J . E , Smilb , M . A . Price la . : by post , is . 2 d . Analytical Chart of Universal Justice , Truth , and I \ 'ace ; avoiding the two extremes of Spiritualism and Materialism—tho first of which speculate on the Organic Principle , without the Organism , and the laUer , on the Organism , without the Organic Priaciple—both are presented in this C jart . By the Rev . J . E . Smi'b , M . A . Price 6 d . ; by post 8 d . ; or , on thick drawing-paper , Is . ; by post , U . 2 d . The World Within ; or a description of the Interior of the Earth : a vision of the Mind ; by the Rev . J . E . Sr . ith , U . A . Price Gd . ; if by post , nine penny stamps

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      F \ MILY ENDOWMENT , LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY . 12 , Chatham Place , lilackfriars , London . CAPITAL £ 500 , 000 . DIItECTOBS . William Butterworth Bayley , Esq ., Chairman . John Fuller , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . Jit . Bruce Chichester , Esq . Elliot Macnagbten , Esq . H . B . Henderson , Esq . Major Turner . C . H . Latouche , Esq . Josliuil VV alker , Esq . Edward Lee , Esq . Maj < jr Willock , K . L . S . BONUS . Thirty percent . Bonus was added to tho Society s Policies on the profit scale in 18-15 . The next valuation will be in January , 1852 . ANNUA ! PREMIUMS WITH PBom 8 - . ~ Agi 20 [ Age 25 Age 3 « I Ago 35 ) Ageio " Age 45 Age £ 6 j AgeJS £ s . d . Es . d . £ B . d . ; fs . d , i £ s . d . £ « - J ^ : L - d - 117 !>] } 3 1 - 9 7 \ i lfi _ 2 J 3 _ S _ 8 _ 3 j 6 jl * ' " Tndia . The Society also grants Policies to parties proceeedinff to or residing in India , at lower rates than any other Office , the Premiums on which may be payable either in London or at the Society ' s Office in Cabutta . Anuuities of all kinds , as well as Endowments for Children , are granted by the Seciety . - The usual commission allowed to Solicitors and others . Joun Cazenove , Sec . ¦ '

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      O'CONNOItVILLE COLLEGE . AGRICULTURAL , HORTICULTURAL AND MODEL FARM SCHOOL , in connexion with general education , Heebingsoate , Rickmanswomii , UKUn-ollDSninE , Conducted by M . D . GhavkS , M . C . I ., upwards of twenty years in the Scholastic Professtop . The schoolhouse is healthful ly situated , commanding a view of many miles round , and is distant from London twenty . one miles , six and a-half miles from Watiw-d , and eight miles from Uxbridge . Mr G . begs to inform those persons who may honoui him with the care of their children , that he will endeavour to instil into their minds a sound and practical course of education , fitting them at once to fill any situation in after life they may be called to To crocers , cheesemonger * , & c , Mr G . will be willing to take their children to board and educate , and to receive goods in lieu of cash Terms , including all expenses , except stationary , sixteen guineas per annum . The school opens on the loth of July . Prospec uses to be obtained at the Land Company ' s Ofhce , 144 , High Holborn , Loudon , and at tbe school .

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      NATIONAL LAND COMPANY . TOE EVIDENCE as taken before the SLLLC 1 COMMITTEE is now printed , by order of tho House ot Commons . It is full of information , important for every member to know . Being a Parliamentary paper it can he sent , by post , anywhere , at four . per . ee per pound , and will be sent to any person , providing that two shillings is returned in Pestage Stamps or money order , upon its receipt , to Tnos . Mitchel , Parliamentary Paper Agent , 14 , Ashford-street , London .

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      TO RE DISPOSED OF , 4 FOUR ACRE SHARE in the National Land Com-A pany . Ail expenses paid , and Free for all Ballots to January , 1819 . Address ( post-paid ) to S . Le Beuu , sub-Treasurer to tbe National Laud Company , Hoppit-road , Braiutree , Esses .

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      STRAYED FROM RO ^ K HILL , near Bromsgrove , Worcestershire . EMMA and WILLIAM WALL , on the 26 th of June , ISIS . The fi . raier is fourteen years of age—dark complexion , and squints a little with both eyes . The latter is twelve years of age—fair complexion . All search after them having proved ineffectual , any information forwarded to the afflicted parents would be most thankfully received .

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED at the Great Western Emporium , 1 and 2 , Oxford-street . Ubfdell and-Co . are now making to order a Suit of beautiful Superfine Black , any size , for £ j 1 ; s . Patent made Summer Trowsers , Ks ; Registered Summer Over Coats , 20 s . Tho Art of Cutting taught . Patterns of Garments Cut to Measure for the Trade , and sent ( post free ) for Is . Cd . each , or eighteen postage stamps . Address , Charles Ubsdell , 1 and 2 , Oxford street London .

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      TO TAILORS By approbation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria , and U . R . II . Prince Albert . NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PARIS SPRING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1848 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Eart-street , Bloomsbury-square , near Oxfordstreet , London ; and by G . Bebqeb , Holywell-stpeet , Strand ; and all Booksellers , an exquisitely execated and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance « f this Print excels any before published , accompanied with the Newest Style , and extra-fitting Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the most fashionable dressWaistcoat Pattern , and an extra . fitting Habit Pattern of" he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part explained ; method of increasing and diminishing the whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price lOs . postfree lis . HEAD and Co . ' s new scientific system of Cutting for 1848 is ready , and will supersede everything of the kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numbered and lettered , and on the scale of Eighteen Invites ; Whole size , never before attempted , containing twenty-three square feet : particulars , post free . Patent Measures , with full explanation , 8 s . the set . New Patent Indicator , for ascer . taining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , price 1 & . Patterns to Measure ( all registered according to Act of Parliament ) , post free , Is . each . The whole sold by Read and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and all Booksellers . Post-office orders , and Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Busts for fitting Coats on ; Boys ' figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions in cutting complete , for all kinds of Style an < 5 Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly short time .

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      NO MORE PILLS FOR INDIGESTION . Constipation , Torpidity of the Liver , and the Abdominal Viscera , persisting Headaches , Nervousness , Bilious . ness , Despondency , Spleen , etc . Published by Du Barry aud Co ., 8 , Bury-court , St Maryase ; and Hedges , and Butler , 155 , Regent-street , London . Price 6 d , or 8 d ( in letter stamps ) , post-free ; A POPULAR TREATISE on INDIGESTION and CONSTIPATION ; the main causes of Nervousness , Biliousness , Scrofula , Liver Complaint , Spleen , etc ., and their Radical Removal , entitled the 'Natdbal Rkoenebatob of the DIGESTIVE Obgans ( tlio Stomach and Intestines ) , without pills , purgatires , or artificial meansof any kind , and without expense . '

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      ALLOTMENTS OK SALE . A FOUR ACRE at Bromsgrove . - A FOUR ACRE drawn in tho November ballot . — A THREE ACRE at Lowbands—A FOUR ACRE at Snig ' fl End . — TWO FOUR ACRES at Minster Lovel , both of which are cropped . ABplioatiom to bo made to the Direci ' ^ at their office , 144 , High Holborn , London ,

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      ¦ i THE LAND . TWO FOUR ACRE SHARES in the Land Company , eligible for the Ballot . Price £ . i . lflfl . each . Apply , if by letter ( pre-paid , ) to Mr Wilsbiro , news agent , No . 15 , Lower George-street , Cholsort .

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      Leamington.—The Following Resolution Was...

      Leamington . —The following resolution was adopted : — ' That we highly approve of the suggestions of our friends of Manchester and Banbury , and respectfully call on the directors to carry the same into effect . We also wish to suggest the propriety of sending a list or circular of all members who were in the ballot to every branch , so as te protect the officers from a charge of negligence . And that such town in a district , where there is a majority of members , shall be the district town . ' Longton . —This branch of the Land Company met at the Working Man ' s Hall , on Friday , June 23 rd , to settle the quarterly business . The accounts were audited and found correct . Stephen Amison was re-elected secretary ; James Hodson , chairman ; James Mayor , scrutineer . The members continue to meet every Sunday afternoon , at the above place , at half-past two o ' clock .

      Manchester . —To the members ol the National Land Company , and particularly those who reside in North and South Lancashire , and the surrounding districts . —A meeting of the members of the Manchester branch of the National Land Company , was held on Sunday , the 25 th of June , in the People ' s Institute , when the following resolutions were passed ;— ' That a delegate meeting of South and North Lancashire , and the surrounding districts , be held on Sunday , July 16 ih , in the People ' s Institute ,

      Heyrod-street , Travis-street , Manchester , to consist exclusively of delegates from branches of the National Land Company , to consider the propriety of charging a per centage upon all sales of allotments ; the propriety of the directors publishing a verbatim report of the next Conference ; the propriety of the directors publishing a monthly report of the progress of the Company ; and any suggestions that other branches may think worthy of consideration for the next Conference . '—By order of the meeting , Wm . Foster , secretary .

      CHARTEB . viLLE . ~ On Wednesday last , Mr Smith , of Carlisle , one of the allottees , having purchased the meadow for the season , a number of the allottees , their wives and children , and a number of the villagers , assisted in getting in the hay . In return , Mr Smith spread the cloth in the meadow , and gave tea and a bountiful supply of home-brewed ale . Singing and dancing , with music , echoed through the beautiful valley of Minster , which was kept up till a late hour . Three cheers were given

      for the philanthropic Mr Russell , who lives in the neighbourhood , and was amongst them ; three cheers for Mitchel ; three cheers for Frost , Williams , and Jones ; and three times three cheers for our noble benefactor , F . O'Connor , Esq . A similar social party was entertained by the benevolent Mr Hart , of Brizenorton , who has taken the allotment of the deceased Mr Townsend , to bring up the three orphan children ; the greatest harmony prevailed -. nearly forty couple danced in the meadow .

      Ma Sqkre Akty Has Been Presented By His ...

      Ma Sqkre Akty has been presented by his friends with & ailver anuii ' -box , as a mark of respect to the & utkor , oi the ! Blub Boos . '

      A Four Acre Cottage J&M T0 Be S0ld For

      A FOUR ACRE COTTAGE J & M T 0 BE S 0 LD FOR

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      AND ONE TO LET , BY THF ^ AK vQR A TERM . AT RED HALL , one mile from the City of Lincoln . Application to be made to Mr Atisor , Red flail , Lincoln .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MU . O'CONNOR ' S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Northern Star Office , 16 , Great Wind mill Street : nnd of Abo ! Heywood- Manchester .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , PUICE SIXPENCE . NO . KVIM . OF " THE LABOURER , ' CONTAINING $ if vtatiH on ttje' HaDour tyxMtion , * Br Fhargus O'Connor , Esq .. M . P . Letters ( pre-paid ) to be addressed to the Editors , 16 , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the " Northern Star " and all booksellers in town and country . The Evidence taken before the committee ou the National Land Company ( so far as is yet printed , ) will appear in the ensuing number of the' LABOURER ; and the whole of the evidence will be given in subsequent numbers .

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      THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVER PUBLISHED . Now ready , price is . Gd ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Piute of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS .

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      THE DEFENCE FUND . On Wednesday next , Jones , Fussell , and others will be put upon their trial , and if popular feeling is to have any influence upon the enemy , we imagine that the amount subscribed will not evince much enthusiasm , as Mr O'Connor has given direction that the best counsel shall be engaged specially , and . as of old , will be obliged to make up the deficiency out of his own resources . Hampered as he is as the servant of all . aud surrounded as he is b y vagabonds and tricksters—it is not fair to impose these heavy liabilities upon him . A full report of the trial will appear in next week ' s Star .

      Another Middle Class Dodge. Hume Has Aga...

      ANOTHER MIDDLE CLASS DODGE . Hume has again postponed his Quadruped

      Division On The West India Question. For...

      DIVISION ON THE WEST INDIA QUESTION . For the Government . 260 Against ... . 245

      The Editor Of The " Northern Star" Havin...

      The Editor of the " Northern Star" having had his attention directed by Mr O'Connor to a paragraph in the letter inserted in last Saturday ' s " Star , " signed " L'Ami du Peuple , " in which certain allusions are made to one of the witnesses against Mr Fussell , the Editor hereby expresses his belief that the said reflections are unjust to the person to whom they were intended to apply , and the Editor expresses his regret that , through oversight , he permitted the publication of the matter complained of . Tuesday evening , June 27

      Ihe Northern Star, Saturday, July 1, 1818,

      IHE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JULY 1 , 1818 ,

      Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. When The ...

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY . When the world resounded with the presumed triumph of Labour in Parig and Berlin , manifested in the establishment of a Republic in the one , and the concession of what is termed a free Constitution in the other , we joined , not in the shout of triumph , but in the language of caution . We said " WAIT ! " Wait until we see the reward of the bloodless revolution and triumph of mind over persecution manifested in Labour ' s share of the victory .

      We told our readers that we had seriously and attentively perused tbe causes and results of all * previous physical revolutions , and that from none could we discover Labour ' s triumph in aught but the elevation of Labour ' s professing friends , but most perfidious enemies . We have told them , over and over again , that , with the last shot perishes Labour ' s sharej while those for whom they have gained the victory have subsequently used them to roll them of their rights .

      We predicted that the interval between the proclamation of the Republic and the assembling of the representatives oF the National Will , would be spent in lavishing sympathy upon the departed heroes , and promises upon the starving : survivors ; and that we have net made an erroneous estimate of the objects of those who led the people against a tyrannical King- , a perfidious Minister , and pampered aristocracy , is now manifest in the blood of those to jifeed whom we were told it was the duty of the State , but whom it has been the pleasure of the State to massacre , butcher , and slaughter .

      Let us not be misunderstood in writing , as calmly as our feelings will allow us , upon this sanguinary conflict , incontrovertibl y provoked by the promoters of the Republicand the abettors of the revolution . Every word spoken , and every line written , every proclamation issued , and every resolution passed , since the appointment of the weakest , the most temporising , and imbecile Provisional Government , has gone to inspire even the willing idler with the belief that he was the child of the State , and that it was the duty of the parent to see , not merely to the preservation of his life , but to his comfortable sustenance and FRATERNAL support .

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , was the motto of this blooming representation of the middle classes , who had used the workers to dethrone their king , destroy their constitution , and proclaim their own ascendancy . As long as the enthusiastic mind of Paris was dangerous to those _ who used it for the accomplishment of their own triumph , they pandered to the worst passions of man , and when the realisation of the promised gratuity was looked for they drove the famishing and disappointed to revolution and resistance : and while

      defending , or rather looking for , the accomplishment of those rights , which the middle class traitors promised , tut withheld , the bloo d that was to be enriched with food and raiment is made to flow in the streets , as a warning to the impoverished class that b y them revolutions are made and victory achieved , but for them there is to remain no portion of the benefit . We are ready to admit the impossihility of a Government performing their necessary duties with barricades upon one vside , and an open and threatening force upon the other ; but we are also ready to contend that those barricades would never have been raised , that threatening force would never have been presentedhad

      , the promises—or one-half of them—held out to the conquerors been realised . Nav , we go further , and assert , that if the middle class Assembly had justified the postponement of those anticipated ri ghts upon the grounds of insufficient means consequent upon the expense of the revolution , and the unsettled state of trade—that , in such case , the heroes of l-ebruary , who gained the Republic , and the greater heroes of June , who sought to defend the Republic to the end that its promised objects mi ght be realised , would have waited patiently , and would have borne then ! sufferings as the reward of their triumph . ;

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      But how different is the p icture ? In February they foug ht and conquered ; from , February till May the traitors prepared their machinery for the destruction , of the Republic i while they buoyed the poor with the hope of 'their share of the reward . In May , the mac hinery is complete , and from May to the Mas-S ' lci'e , ever act of those hypocrites , with

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , upon their . tongues , establishes the fact that the Republic ww gained by the valour , the courage , and the resolution of LABOUR , but is to be applied to tne benefit of CAPITAL . Could not the Frenc h worker take a lesson from our p arliamentary precedents ? Were they not aware that our revolution of 1832 whimsically called the Reform Bill , was earned

      by precisely the same means , while the results were of a completely similar character . The King's Head turned upside down , was carried in triumph by the would-be executioner carrying his axe , while the motto of the officers was , " Taxation without representation is tyranny , and should be resisted . " The aristocracy were destructives , and their usurped ri g hts and p rivileges should be destroyed , in order to afford these demagogues an opportunity of doing justice to the labourer .

      Well , the King surrendered , the aristocracy was shaken , and the middle classes proclaimed their triumph in the return of a Whig Parliament—but where was Labour ' s share ? In the suppression of Political Unions , in the enactment of the Poor Law Bill , in Coercion , Persecution , and Gagging Rills ; in the reduction of wages ; in the desolation of the cottage ; the moan of the hungry ; the wail of the indigent ; the death of the pauper , and the elevation of the middle class ; and to which may he added , the total suppression of that voice relied upon in 1832 as the main engine of the Reformers .

      We have more than once pointed out the worse than folly of allowing any interval to take place between the destruction of one system , and the substitution of another . We have shown that that interval has been invariably devoted to the arrangement of those means by which the officers , not the men—the leaders , not tbe peop le—shall be recipients of all the promised benefits . And although our own savage Press calls the disappointed , who contended for their share of the triumph of February , barbarians , savages , murderers , and brutes , yet if their own soldiers , specials , and bludgeon-men , in an onslaught against their own people had behaved with one-tenth part of the noble courage evinced by the operatives of Paris , they would be designated as valiant heroes , and brave

      conquerors . What is courage ? Is it not that valour , resolution , and action , manifested in the support of a cause in which men have associated , upon the presumption that wrong and injustice has been done to ; them ? or is it that conventional bravery which impels the mercenary to fire upon his fellow-man , in the hope of promotion or from the dread of punishment ? Then we would ask , who were in reality the promoters of this brutal and sanguinary conflict ? Those in power , who held out false hopes , which were never realised—or those from whom

      the hope was withheld , and who were thereby driven to madness , desperation , and vengeance ? While their toleration was required to strengthen the hands of their false friends , they were employed on silly work , making pantaloons , and shirts , and fringe , and decorations , and baubles , and toys ; but when the enemy found themselves strong enough , and poor enough , no longer to require or bear this toleration , and when their machinery was

      completed , they said to their tickled and fasci nated slaves , Go from among us , you are none of our children ; from your workshops no longer comes the sustaining breath of faction ; go to the country , leave the scene of your greatness , rescued from despotism by your valour ; here is your walking ticket , this is your passport , go and find a location where you can ; the . harvest is blooming , and there will be work for you in other fields j you have completed that of revolution in the capital . ' '

      The heroes of February answer , " What ! Have you used us thus to abuse us ? Have we rid you of your expensive Court , of your perfidious Government , and proclaimed your ascendancy with our blood , and is our share but a change of masters ? From one tyrant to many oppressors ? No !'' "They who die by the sword are better than they who perish from hunger , for their bodies pine away , stricken through for want of the fruits of the field 1 " " No we will not go from amongst you , we will not leave the scene of our glory . We gained the battle and we will reap its fruits , or we will perish in defending them . ' '

      Thej heroes have perished , and , in order to ; add a stigma upon the legion , all are designated as Communists and Socialists , whereas , when it was necessary to establish confidence in the country , we were told that the Communists and Socialists constituted but an insignificant frac tion of society , whereas , ! now that discredit is to be thrown upon their cause , their name is L ^ ion , and all are of that persuasion . Thus it has ever been with those that mark the

      mind s progress . First they are designated as an insignificant fraction , until driven to desperation ; they are proclaimed as the whole people when it b necessary to repudiate their combined exertion . The moral that we draw from this bloody onslaught of the middle classes upon the choused , the juggled , the deluded , and betrayed labourers of Paris is , that governments are ever compelled te surrender to fear what they refuse to justice .

      When . a people achieve a change by revolution , they become enthusiastic , elevated , and commanding , and refuse to accept treble what they would have gladly received at the hands of justice , and which would not amount to one-tenth of what the revolution might have cost . Men , if fostered b y the state and encouraged by the state , will cheerfully go to work at remunerating wages , and he thankrul lor permission ; while if the same men are driven to revolution , and should they triumph , they will not go to work at the same wages until they have exhausted all the resources of the National Exchequer , and then they would nave a sanguinary conflict for the property of others , looking upon idleness as the reward of their triumph .

      For these reasons , and borne " out by all past history , we have more than once declared it as our opinion , that a sound political system can only be based upon a sound social system ; and we warn our rulers , from past events , how they declare to the people of England that there is no law , and can be no law , for the protection of the poor man ' s property or industry while the same laws are jealous and protective of the property the rights , and the privileges of the rich . We warn them how they enforce the doctrine that their own country , in a state of sterility is too narrow a field for the expen . diture ot their labour , while tbe state is burthened with unwilling idlers pent up in the

      prison and the Poor-law bastil » «•„ » . „ , „ prison and the Poor-law bastile ; we warn them by the conflict which the obstinacy of the middle-class of Franco has provoked , no longer to inculcate the doctrine that man cannot live in the sweat of his brow ; no longer to ! ell mnJm . thiltther , ! is »» market oiwn tor THEIR industry , except that in which their masters may traffic ; and , let them not lay the flattering unction to their souls , that the cause of Capital has triumphed over Labour in I-rance , for they may rest assured , that " Labour ' s battle one ? bi gun Bequeathed by bleediug Biro to Bon Tho' baffled oft is over won "

      While the murderers of the poor are rejoicing in their triumph , let them rest assured that Labours battle is not yet lost , and we would aptly remind , them of the words of P y rrhus , ' — " But onasach victory more , and they ' re undone . " Every act of cruelty threatened to be done by au infunated peoule , driven b y thej f tyrants

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      to desperation , but not executed notwithstanding their frenzy , is designated hy the English Press as the barbarism of the ruffians . Prj . soner after prisoner is in the heat of blood threatened with assassination , but is spared hy the intercession of the brave ; and they are murderers , because they did not destroy , while the Garde Mobile destroy one hundred prisoners in their savage fury , and are styled heroes . An Archbishop is shot in the back while FACING the insurgents , and it is an act of barbarism , though it appears he was shot bv his own FOLLOWERS b y mistake- It further appears that the whole people along the whole

      line of barricades , and throughout ithe capital , fraternised with the Army of the Republic , who were engaged in maintaining the inviolability of the Republic , for which they fought and c onquered , and yet the affair is designated as the emeute o the Communists , At what other conclusion , then , can we arrive , but that Paris is a den of Communists , and that the nation , exhausted in her exchequer , must be henceforth paralysed by the distraction of parties , of armed traitors , and starving heroes , who established a constitution which promised them support in idleness , but now writes their proscription in blood ?

      It is a painful thing to some prophets t « jr find their predictions realised , when the results ig saddening and revolting , and yet we ' eannot conclude without laying the following lines , extracted from the " Star" of the 17 th of June , before our readers : —

      LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY , are a " mocksry , " " a delusion , " and a " snare . " Email . cipntion was a by word ; agitation was tbe means of its accomplishment recommended by the Marquis of Angleseu . "PEACE , RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM , " was the next bubble ; then

      HIGH VTAGES , CHEAP BREAD , AND PLENTY TO DO , and now comes LIBERTY , EQUALITY , FRATERNITY ; while those , whose courage forced the adoption oi the unmeaning motto upon the aristocracy and shopkeepers of Paris , are now partaking of the literal meaning off these inspiring words in THE SWORD , THE MUSKET , AND THE BAYONET . Thus we show that all those rallying cries have failed to produce enough of potatoes for the starving Irishenough of bread fur the starving £ nglisIi-or enough of work for the starving French . And with these damning facts before us , whereby we iscontestibly prove that fuols and dupes have been gulled by some ' will-o ' -the-wisp , ' got u ;» by designing factions , are we now to adopt another Trinity of delusion !

      These words were printed m the "Star' of the 17 t . li of June , and on the 23 rd the prediction vvas fulfilled . From the 23 rd of February , when Labour established the Republic , to the day of its destruction on the 23 rd of June , we have during the whole period , both in the "Star" and the "Labourer , " repeated the fact , that ignorance of

      THE LAJ 30 UH QUESTION would lead to those ; disasters upon which it has now become our melancholy duty to comment ; and our hope now is , that the thing misnamed a Republic , may perish , if it is to be but a scabbard for the vices of the speculator , and a drawn sword for the labourer . Since writing the above , we can state , upon the testimony of an eye-witness ( a Member of Parliament ) , that the atrocities committed by the National Guard and the troops are

      revolting to human nature . Those barbarous ruffians , those middle class heroes , led their prisoners into the Garden of ihe Tuileries , in fifties and hundreds , and there butchered them in cold blood in front of that Palace , from which the brave sufferers had ejected the despot in February last ; and the result of their heroism , upon that occasion , is the establishment of a military despotism , in which the following perpetrators of the " Massacre of June , " are to be the new actors .

      NOMINATION OP THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY . Tha National Assembly confides the Executive power to General Cavaionac . General Cavaionac —President ef the Council . Bktumont . —Justice . Sehard , —Interior . General Lamoiuciere—War . Rear Admiral Le Blamj- Marine . Govdcuavx—Finance . Recurt—Public Works . Tourbbt—Commerce . Basiidk—Foreign Affair ? .

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      THE PROSTITUTE . When applied to a female who has surrendered her virtue , her character , her peace , and her very existence , to some heartless seducer , the term PROSTITUTE is the most degradingepithet thatcan beappliedtoher ; but whenman , notunderthesameinfluences , notHubt ject to the same natural passions and irresistible impulses , surrenders his mind , his thought , / his senses , and independence , for base lucre—tthat term is there in the English language stiffi . ciently expressive to characterise this monstlr ? and yet we find the country ruled by a graduated scale of such monstrosity and profligacy . The Prime Minister assumes office , and rallies around him a secret conclave called a Cabinet , with an Exchequer called a Secret Service Fund ; and In order that he and his

      confederates may plead ignorance of all the abominations which are necessary for sustaining the system of which they art' the representatives , the machinery for supporting this system is divided into sections , and each confederate has the ' appointment of the officials who shall work this varied machinery ; and this patronage is again sub-divided , until it results not only in spyism , but in the promotion of insubordination , to make the office of spy necessary ; and we canTurther trace to it the establishment of a detective force , whose duty it is to promote crime , and then to report its detection .

      We cannot , however , attach the same amoHnt of infamy to hired subordinates that is stamped upon the higher officials . The honour of an English Government , though ; i bubble and an empty title , is said to be the tenure upon which we hold our Constitution . Butifwecast a glance at the recent disclosures with regard to our Foreign , Colonial , and Domestic affairs , we hnd that even in head quarters—yea , in the Cabinet itself , the coterie of Majesty—there has been treachery , deception , and fraud ; while from the poor—from the starving poor—this profligate Government would enforce prudence , forbearance , morality , and virtue . From the date of the Spanish Marriages , to

      the present moment , our Foreign Minister has embroiled us in a war with France , which led to the destruction of monarch y in that country while in Spain , he has " sown the wind , " ami England mil presentl y have to " reap the whirlwind . ' Upon the other hand , our Col * nial Secretary . while Parliament was called upon to legislate upon a great question , in which the interests of our most important colony and the nation were involved , has been clearly convicted of the suppression of a portion of the evidence—nay , of the material evidence— udoh which alone , digested through a Committtee , parliament could justl y legislate .

      I hen , our Home Secretary , the Chief of Police , has issued his instruction to violate the { institution , by the suppression of the Public Will , enforced by broken heads , no cfoubt with a view to prevent discussion upon the conduct ol Ministers . Such has been the conduct of the three Secretaries of State , fi > r Foreign Affairs , for the Colonies , and the Home Departments , while the Chancellor of the Exchequer is so utterl y incompetent to manage the rinancial affairs of the country , that upon his next exposition , we may fairly calculate upon a more culumitous revolution than would bo produced by the erection of barricades , and resort to physical force .

      Fortunatel y for Lord Morpeth , he lias taken refute in Ithe Woods aud Forests ; while tllfl duties of Mr Labouchere do not hamper him with the necessity of committing those venial and trifling inaccuracies—his is a work of figures . Sir John Cam Hobhnuse is the President of the Board of Controul , and has little to do beyond sneering at tiie advocates of his formerl y avowed principles—and there is the Cabinet , with the noble Chartist , Lord Joba Russell , at its head . But , then , we must look to $ h < j jramifivatiofts of ihli . umsmQ & aad ffhat

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 1, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_01071848/page/4/