Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 2nd August 1845, Edition 2 of 4, Page 2, THE CONTRAST; IN THE DEEDS OF THE ENGLIS...

Page 2
Page 2
2 of 8

On this page

  • Text (4)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      That War, Of Themf-Elves, Form A .^" ^ ^...

      ( Continue ifio . t o-rjntjx-se-J i ..... 1 ...- tlic organisation of a state * ^^ . ^ U'SSSwS . people were sum-ZSSZi S ^ tion of the central government toSS «» agi tatedvdthpvolouged excitement : the fftfKcndsof freeJoa . throug hout the world looked oawith 7 Aride-d « 1 « i «« hics , j . rayin tliatthe union of the States jwwis litbeV « !«¦ . a 1 * 0 dlat ^ commei ' « of ^ "Wlvo rl . lii'l 5 l > il < clrctf . 1 ' ortuiiaulv for the country , and fortunately for

      manic Kind , Andrew Jacksou was nt thc helm oi state , thc iv j jrestntaiive of the principles that were to allay excitcirocnt , and to restore the hopes of peace aud freedom . — ] By nature , by imp-ilse , by eduoat on , by conviction , a i friend to personal freedom—bv education , x » olitical sym-1 iJttthies , and the fixed habit of his mind , a friend to the 1 rights of ihe States—unwilling that the liberty of the ^ ^ atcs should be trampled under foot—unwilling that the < constitution slwuld lose its vigour or be impaired , he ral-, ' -Bed fur tlie coustitutk-ii : «&•! in its name he j . ublished 4 o ¦ the world "The Usios : it jii ? st be I'Iiesckved . " TEie

      iTords were a . -spell to hush evil tiassion , cad to remove oppression . Under his guiding influence , thc favoured interests ivlach had strusgWd t-s periieteatc unjust legislation Yielded to tlie voice of moderation aud reform . ; Mid fcvery mind that liad for a moment contemplated a rupture of the Suites , discarded it for evec . The whole influence , of the pass was invoked in favour of the constitution , J- ' rom the council chambers of tlie filihers , who moulded our institutions—from the Hall where American independence was declared , the clear , loud cry was uttered— ' The Uiwm : it west be preserved . " * IVuui evcrv 1-atile-iieU of the revolutionfrom icsiajjiun and Dvufci-r Hill—from Saratoga an £ Torktown—from the fields of Eitaw—frwa the cauellrakes that sheltered the men of Marion—the : repeated , long prolonged echoes -came up— - '' fhe . Unio .-i : it must ^ preserve h" From ccery valleyui our laiiti—from every

      cabin on the pleasant mountain sides—froia the ships . at oor wharves—from & e tents of the hunter in our westernmost prairies—froia the liting lmiids of tlie living millions of American freemen—from the Ihickly . coiuiinr Tories of futurity—the shout went up , lite the sound of many waters , " tlie Union : it must be preserved ; " The friends of the protective -syetoi , and they who had -denounced tlie protective system—the Stat smen of the JCortli , that had ir « undcd the constitution in their love of centralism—the statesmen of the South , whose minds had carried toils extreme tlie theory ot State rights—all conspired together ; all breathed pray . -rs for the perpetuity of tiie Union . Under tlie prudci . t lirnmtss of Jachs ; -= — wider the mixture of justice and general regard for all interests , tlie greatest danger to our iustitutiors was turned aside , and mankind was encouraged to believe that our Union , like our freedom , is imperishable .

      Tiie mural of the great emits of those days is tliisthat the people can discern right , and will make their wavy to si knowledge of rig ht ; thai the whole Iranian Daiitl , and therefore with it tlie uiiudjuf the nation , has a coniiuuous , ever improving existence ; tliat . the appeal from the unjust legislation of to-day must he made qui t ' . y , earnestly , persevviiiigly ; to the more enlightened collective reason of to-morrow ; that submission is due to tlie popular w . ll , in the confidence that the people , when in error , trill amend their doings ; that iu a popular go crament , injustice is neither to be established by force , nor to he resisted by force ; in a word , that the Uuiou , which was constituted by consent , must be preserved by love .

      It rjrely falls to the happy lot of a statesman to receive such unanimous applause from the heart of a nation . Duty to the dead de-mauds that on this occasion , the course of measures should not pass uunotie-d , iu the progress of which his vigour of character most clearly appeared , at « l ids conflict with opposing parties was most violent and protracted . From his home in Tennessee , Jackson came to the P r esidency resolved to lift American legislation out of the forms of English legislation , and to place our laws on the currency iu harmony with the principles of our Government . He came to the Presidency of the United States resolved to deliver tlie Government from tlie Bank of the United -States , and to restore the regul . tion of exchanges to tlie rightful depository of that jiower—the comincice of tlie country . He had designed to declare his news on this subject in his iuaugui ~ . il address , but was persuaded

      to relinquish that purpose , on the ground that it belonged rather to a legislative message . When the period lor addressing Congress drew near , it was still urged , that to attack the bank would forfeit his popularity and secure llis fuiaredtfeat . " Itisnot , " lie answered , " it is notfur Myself that I care . " It was uiged that haste was unnecessary , as the bank had still six unexpended years of chartered existence . "I may die , " he replied , "before another Congress comes together , and I could not rest quietly in my grave , if I failed to do what I hold so essential . to the liberty of my country . " And his first annual message announced to the country that the bank was neither-cvasihuiioiial nor expedient . In this l . e was in advance of the friends about him , in advance of Congress , and in . advance of his party . This is no time for the analysis of measures or the discussion of questions of political economy : on the present occasion , we have to contemplate ihe character of the man .

      Xever , from the first moment of his administration to tile last , was there a calm in the strife of parties on the subject of the currency ; and never , during ihe whole per iod , did he recede or falter . Always iu advance of his party—always having near him friends who cowered beibre tlie hardihood of his courage—he himself , throughout all the contest , was unmoved , from the first suggestion of the unconstitutionality of the bunk to the nuiu . ut when lie himself , first ol ' all , reasoningfrom the eerta " . tendency of its policy , with singular sagacity predicted to imbclieriog friends tlie coming insolvency of the institution . The storm throughout the country rose with unexampled vehemence ; his opponents were not satisfied with addressing the public , or Congress , or his cabinet ; they threw , their whole force personally on him . Prom all parts men pressed around him , urging him , entreating lum to bend . Congress was flexible ; mam of his

      personal friends faltered ; tliei-npetuous swelling wave rolled on , without one sufficient obstacle , till it reached his presence ; hut , as it dashed by iu itshighest fury at its feet , it broke before his firmness . The commanding majesty of Ms will appalled his opponents and revived bis friends . He himself had a proud consciousness that his will was indomitable . Standing over the rocks of the Kip Haps , and looking out upon tlie ocean , " Providence , " said he to a I ' rieKd ,. " Providence may change my determination ; hut niau uo more can do it , than he can remove these Slip ltaps , which have resisted the rolling ocerr from thc beginning of time . " And though a panic was . ' -reading through the land , and the whole credit system , as it then existed , was crumbling to pieces , and crushing around Km , he stood erect , like a massive column , which the heaps of falling ruins could not break , nor bend , nor sway from its fixed foundation .

      -. People ol the llistriet of Columbia : I should fail of a dot ? on this occasion , if I did uot give utterance to yoiw sentiment of gratitude which followed General Jackson into retirement . D welling amongst you , he desired your prosp .: ri ! y . This beautiful city , surrounded by heights the most attractiv-, watt red by a river so magnificent , the liouic of the gentle and the cultivated , not less than the seat of political power—this city whose site Washington had selected—was dear to his affections ; and if he won your grateful attachment by adorning it with monuitetrU oi useful architecture , by establishing its credit , aud rcHcvit . g its burdens he regretted only that he had not thc opportunity to have connected himself still more intimately with your prosperity .

      A * he prepared to take his final leave of the District , the mass of the population of this city , aud the masses that had gathered from around , followed his carriage in crowds . All in silence stood near him , to wish him adieu ; and as the cars started , and he displayed his grey hairs , as he lifted his hat in token of farewell , you stood , around with heads uncovered , too full of emotion to speak , iu solemn silence gazing on him as he departed , never more to be seen in your luidst . Behold the warrior and statesman , his work well done , retire to tlii Hermitage , to hold converse with his forrests : to cultivate his farm , to gather around him

      hospitably his friends 1 Who whs like him ? 1 He was still the loadstar of the American people . His fervid thoughts , frankly uttered , s-till spread the ilaine of patriotism through the American breast ; his counsels were still listened to with reverence ; and , almost alone among statesmen , lie in his retirement was in harmony with fiVfery oft ward movement of his time , llisprevailinginlluence assisted to sway a neighbouring nation to desire to share our institutions ; his ear heard the footsteps of the coming millions that arc to gladden our western shores ; and his eye discerned in the dim distance thc whitening sails that are to enliven the waters of the Pacific with the social sounds of our successful commerce .

      Age had whitened his locks aud dimmed his eye . and spread around him tlic infirmities and venerable emblems of many years of toilsome service ; but Lis heart beat as warmly as in his youth , and his courage was as linn a » it had ever been iu the day of battle . But while his affections were still for his friends aud his country , his thoughts were already in a better world . That exalted mind , which in active life had always had unity of perception , and mil , which ill action had never faltered fn « U doubt , and which in council had always reverted to first principles and general laws , now gave itself up to

      communing with thc Infinite . lie was a believer : from feeling , from experience , from conviction . Xot a shadow of scepticism ever dimmed the lasire of his miud . Proud philosopher : will you smile to know that Andrew Jackson perused reverentl y his l ' salte-r , and Prayer-book , and Uible ? Know that Andrew J . ie-kson liad faith in the eternity of truth , in tlie imperishable power of popular freedom , in tlie destinies of humanity , in the virtues and capacity of tlie people , in his country ' s institutions , in the being and overruling . Providence of a merciful and ever living God .

      : -The last mement of his life on earth is at hand . It is UieSabbath of the Lord : the brightness and beauty of summer clothe the fields around him : nature is inher glory ; but the subiimest spectacle on that day , on earth , was the victory of his uiibk-iiching spirit over death itself . _/ VS ; hcn he first felt the hand of death upon him , "Mav my enemies , " he cried ,: " find peace ; may the liberties ot nyr country endure for ever . " -When his exhausted system , under the excess Of pain , But * , fur a moment , from debiliiy , "Do not weep , " said he to llis adopted daughter , " my sufferings are less than those of C ..-ri 6 t upon the . cross ; " for he , too , as a disciple of the cross , could liave devoted himself , in sorrow , for mankind . Feeling his end near , he would see all his family osce more ; and he spoke to thtin , one bv one , in .

      That War, Of Themf-Elves, Form A .^" ^ ^...

      . words of tenderness and affection . His two little grandchildren wore absent at Sunday School . He asked for them ; and as they came , he prayed for them , and kissed ' them , and blessed them . His servants were then admitted : they srsfiwred , some in his room , and some on the outside of " the house , clinging to the windows , that 5 thev might gaze and hear . And that dying man , thussur-1 rounded , in astreh of fervid eloquence , spoke with inspi-5 ration of God , < if tho Redeemer , of salvation through the 15 ¦ atonement , of immortality , of heaven . For he ever feunda ; ' . > c

      nought that , pure aud undented religion was the - : ion of private happiness , and the bulwark of republican- , nstitutiefirs . Having spoken of immortality in perfect ' , lousciousuess of his own approaching end , he bade tliem . . ill farewca . " Dcac children , " such mere his ffeal words , " elear cKldrcn , servants , and friends , I trust to lueetyou nil in heaven , both white and black—all , both white-and i black . " And haling borne his testimony to immortality , lie bo »; cd his mighty head , and , without * groan , the spirit of the greatest man of his a ;< 2 escapes to thc bssoin of-his God . _•

      Jr . life , his cssscr had been like tlie blwe ofthe-sun m ; the - fierccness * € its noon-day glory ; bis -death was lovely ¦ as the wildest sunset of-a summer ' s evening , "when the : -sua goes doWJtiu tranquil beruty witheut a -dived . To j tiie majesticoaergy of an i » ioiiiital ) la will ,-he joined a j l . & eart capable of the purest and most devoted 1-ove , rich j ! eu thc tendewst affections . On the Koody battfe-field-of , S " ohopeca , fce saved an iiuxnt that clang to the breast of ; jits dying iiHthor . ; in the stormiest aioment of his presi- j \ -dency , at the imminent moment of his - ( fcdsion , he j paused iclii way , to-givc ^ ood counsel to iijiooj sup pliant ; that had come up to him for sucue « r . Of the strifes in ; which he vuts engaged in . his earlier life , not-ene sprung from liiaMiJf , but in every ease he became involved by standing fecth ns tlie ( tampion cf the wealf , tho poor , and the defenceless , to flicker the gentle against oppression , to ; gMtect the emigrant against the avarice of the speculator , llis generous soul revolted at the barbarous practiced duels , and by no man ia . tlie land have so many |

      been prevented . The-cosr-ows of those that were near to him went deeply into his coal ; andatitie anguish of the wife whom he lorcd , the orphans whom he adopted , he would melt into tears , and weep aud sob like a child . No maa hi private life so possessed thc hearts of all around Mm—no public man of this century ever returned to pr ivate life with such an abiding inastery over the allectioiK ; of the people . Xo man with truer instinct received American ideas—no man expressed them so completely , -or so boldly , or so sincerely- lie was as sincere a man as ever lived . lie was wholly , always , and altogether sincere and true .

      Up to tlie last , he dared do anything that it was right to do . lie united personal courage and moral courage beyond any man of whom history keeps thc record . Before the nation , before the world , before coming ages , he stands forth thereprcsentative , for his generation , of thc American mind . And the secret of his greatness is litis : by intuitive conception , he shared and possessed all the creative ideas of his country and his time . He expressed them with dauntless intrepidity ; he enforced them with an immoveble will ; he executed them with an electric power that attrac : ed and swayed the American people . The nation , in his time , had not one great thought of which he was not the boldest and clearest expositor .

      History docs not describe the man that equalled him m firmness of nerve , Xot danger , not an army in battle array , not wounds , not wide-spread clamour , not ago , not the anguish of disease , could impair in the least degree thc vigourof his steadfast mind . The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe- the unmatched hardihood of his character ; aud Napoleon , had he possessed his disinterested will , could never have been vanquished . Jackson never was vanquished . He was always fortunate , lie conquered the wilderness ; he coiniuei-ed the savnire ; lie conquered the bravest veterans trained iu the battlefields of Europe ; he conquered everywhere in statesmanship ; and , when death came to get the mastery over him , he turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of his adversaries , and escaped from earth iu thc triumphant consciousness of immortality .

      His body has its fit resting-place in the great central valley of the Mississippi ; his spirit vests upon our whole territory ; it hovers over the vales of the Oregon , and guards , in advance , thc frontier of the Del Xorte . The fires of party spirit are quenched at his grave . His faults and fiailties have pi-rishcd . Whatever of good he has done , lives , and will live for ever .

      A M Of Tho Contained In The ' Etitfenhe ...

      A M THE NORTHERN STAR » ____ . ^ M . j ^ ^ - ^ - ^————— ' ' —¦ gg === ^ = ^ ===: ! ==:: r - '— " ~ . ~ ¦ ~ jiA I " 5

      The Contrast; In The Deeds Of The Englis...

      THE CONTRAST ; IN THE DEEDS OF THE ENGLISH WHIGS UNDER LORD GllEl ' s A 1 MIXISTRATI 0 X . Xov . 2- ' nd , 1 S 30 . Lord Grey , alluding to the riots amongst the labourers in the South and West of England , said , "It is only within the last three hours that we have been installed in our respective offices as members of his Majesty ' s Government . I here declare for myself , anil also for my colleagues , i 7 « it it is my determined resolution , wherever oulrages arc perpetrated , or excesses committed , lo suppress them with SEVEKITY ASD VIC 017 K . " On thc very same day that Lord Grey lnailethisdcclaration , there was a proclamation issueil , in the name of the King , offering a reward of one honored vousds to any person

      c . iii .-bi !) another to be emcie ' ed of any act ol Violence , mid of PiYE I 1 U . XDHE 1 ) l'OUXDS for Oiiuuif ; aity one to be convicted of setting fire to property . Thc Dorsetshire magistrates had just agreed to the allowance of TWO SHILLINGS AND SEYEX-l'EXCE A WEEK for o mou . to work on and to live on , when Lord Grey made the declaration above-named , and when the King's proclamation above alluded to was issued , containing such an enormous inducement to perjury for any one of the poof labourers , as would give- liim / or the committing One act of false ficcitri » y , so large a sum of money that the interest alone of it would be nearly four times as much as he could get for lahouring tcork , according to the scale of allowance agreed toby the Dorsetshire magistrates .

      Dec . 4 , JS 30 . A special commission was appointed to try the agricultural labourers who had hem taken up for rioting , of whom , iu Hampshire alone , there were : Transported , mostly for life ........................... JS 5 Hanged , one of them for rioting , and the other for striking Bingham Daring , without doing him any harm ! 2 Wives bereft of their husbands 73 Children bereft of their fathers t ! 43 l ' are-nls to bewail the loss of tlioir sons 210

      Total GG 3 Being more than two to each parish in the tchole county : ami these men were thus prosecuted and thus punished , although it was given in evidence on the trials that the labouring men went to work tcilli noOiiiij tut pot "Iocs in their bays , and that the people who were compelled to go to thc parish for relief were set to dratccart * li'A-e cattle , and that OLD MEN and WOMEX were thus compelled to work ; and iu euo case a WOMAX WHO WAS AN IDIOT ! Dec . 6 , 1 SS 0 . The Whigs voted twejiTT-five Titoirsaxd roi'N'DS for the repairs of Windsor Castle . The original estimate was £ 1 SO , 000 , and sums of money had been voted from time to time , to the amount of X ISE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS , to which the Whigs added the above £ 25 , 000 .

      Dec . l ( i , lSuO . Lord Althorp announced to the House of Commons , in answer to a question put to him , that ' SIX THOUSAND men were added to the army ; but bis Lordship said that it was done in thcc / ic « j )« tpos-siWciii « ii- ! ner . ' At this time thora were more than sixteen thou- SAXD MILITARY OFFICEKS IX TAT . j t " eb . -t , 1831 . Luvd Grey said , on taking oniee , " M ' e ' trill uh ! off , with an unsjtariug hand , all that is not demanded \ for tllC 1 XTEBESTS , THE JIOXOUll , . 'llld THE WELF 411 E OF ; the' ce-csTKY . " Dut Lord Althorp said , this day , in the House of Commons , " / doubt if we have any equitable right ' . ¦ to abolish any of the pensions on thc civil list "; although he

      vrcll knew that Mrs . Arbuthnot ' s name was put on that j list by the Duke of Wellington , on ttc day lhat he went Out of cff . ee , to the tune of nearly £ 1 , 000 a year , and asiedatep ten xEAiis ; so that the nioniciit her name ] was written on the list , the nation was her debtor nearly ; ten thousand rouses ; and that for services known to no person hi the kingdom , except perhaps the Duke himself , j who might have been able , himself , to pay for her services \ out of his own purse ' , instead of out of that of the nation , seeing that he is in the enjoyment of more than £ 40 , 000 per annum , granted to him by the Government for aii " « ccuteitai victory , " for which wc arc told that we cannot ho sufficientlygr « tefnV . ' !

      May 23 , 1851 . The Whigs made Wellington Lord ( Lieutenant of Hampshire , and a judge , to sit on the bench , i in ehat "special commission" that was appointed to try i persons charged with rfcting in tho agricultural districts . ( 1831 . They voted an additional £ 12 , 000 a year to the 1 Duchess of Kent ; £ 100 , 000 a year , as a driver for the i Queen ; £ 14 , 000 for the expense of thc British Museum ; i £ 100 , 0 ! iO to half-pay officers at Hanover , and other p ^ rts i abroad ; and £ 50 , 000 for the cxjicnFcs of the coronation of ] William IV . ; amounting in the whole to more than the whole of the poor-rates for the nine counfic ; of Bedford , i

      Berkshire , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Hereford , Monmouth , Northumberland , Rutland , and Westmoreland ! Nov . 21 , 1831 . The Whigs caused to be issued a royal proclamation against political unions , although they had accepted addr - < si-s from such unions , and had written gracious answers to those very political unions ; and had , as was proved by Mr . Maurice O'Coniull , even given " office fi : asks " io Mr . "Pitalter" Parties , by which papers of a pound weight may be sent by the post , in order that he might , by that means , circulate papers to rouse the fiolitical unions in favour of Lord Grev and the Whigs :

      The Whigs caused prosecutions of the press under one of the " Six Acts , " which acts they so furiously railed against when out of oniee . These prosecutions were carried on with such " viooun" that , in seven months , in London alone , there were 33 ( 5 individuals prosecuted and imprisoned for selling cheap publications , whilst the Lord Chancellor Brougham was seiiiliiig the cheap publications of a society to which he belonged , all over the country , by means of " office franks "; and whilst wc were , by this same Government , stunned with the cry of " edut ' . oii" and " cheap knowledge" ! S 1831 . The Whig " lieform" Government allowed a statue of Ci ! H > it \< 7 to be erected on a piece of land belonging to the pablic ; of that Canning who had always been the most strenuous opponent of reform , both when in and when outofplaca : of that dinning who , in the House of Commons , made a cruel jest of tho suffering of thej "REVERED AND RUPTURED OGDE . W" whose

      sufferings were caused by the brutal treatment that he received at the hands of the Government of which Can . ning was a member : of that Canning who , iu May , 1827 ,

      The Contrast; In The Deeds Of The Englis...

      n few days after h e had become 1 ' rimt Jfinisfer and CAoaccHoi- of tlie £ xclt < qtier , on being asked what he , wonld do with the question . of parliamentary reform , said , " 1 mil oppose peniame iitary rcfonn in whatever shape it may irvzuL t totte '/ Ktltwrofmi / lift . " And at that very ' moment he . Jtad Bi jkdett , Buougium (" amat cthommc < lz fcttres" ! , Loud i on \ UUfsell , and other " reformers , " sitting at Oris bac ' K ; all of whom had the incomparable meanness to rein » an on the ministerial benches without saying a word in . favour of reform ; and , indeed , those three abevc-nani'id ( coi- (/""« , called Canning their bight wosevuBjiiiLE PRJEXD , and liad the indescribable

      basej I j ! ness to state brexidlj that "ih public now tiara ! little or nothing < d ) Wt reform : lhat the Government was « oi « enrriaton huuch a satisfactory manner , that the people wore grown quite l « l-ciraiiii in the cause of reform . " Finailv , ot that Canning who had spoken aud voted in . fttv < rji'ofdie"GAGGIXGAXI ) DUXGEOXlXGBII . LS"for aUO'Vina the reformers in 1 S 17 ; who had impudently dccliKrcd that ? te iwu « preserve

      I January 2 G , 18 S 2 . Lord Althorp informed the House I . that it was the intention of the Government to appoint a ' past-daw Into this stupid intention they had been lhadgeral by the incessant and awful denunciations ol two or three furious fanatics , members of that House ; ¦ hut more particularly by one Perceval , a pious pensioner , ! and a most bigoted and crazy disciple of the bigoted and crazy pat-sou Irving . The fast-day was held on the 21 st : of llarch , 18 : 52 , and on that day there was a procession ot ; the different bodies of the productive classes through the ; streets of the metropolis , who went peaceably along ; : but , when almost at the end of their march , the new ! I'olice soldieks fell upon them with their bludgeons , ! and dispersed them , without any attempt at opposition on their parts , they not having even a leulkhig-. stiflfc amongst them , being determined not to give rise to ! any suspicion of their being likely to cause a breach of the ' peace . Throughout the remainder of the day large bodies of these i'olice soldieus were to be seen

      prowling about , as if watching tor their victims , ahmed with broad-swouds bv THE WHIG GOVEUXilEXT ! 1 April 13 , 1 S 32 . The Whig Premier , Lord Grey , who had declared that a less measure of reform than that contained in the bill which was brought forward by him , for parliamentary reform , never should have his support , and that he tc-ouM not svjfe ? the princijiki of the bill to be altered , yet on this day he said , " Although 1 think ati boroughs ' ought to he disfranchised , and although 1 think the ten pound franchise is not too great an extension of the iptalificaiion , still these provisions . mie so paut of the vius-CH'LES of tiie hill , and these PROVISIONS MAY he

      ALTERED IN rEIiFECT CONSISTENCY WITH ITS 1 'UIN CIPLES" l ! August 1 , 1 S 32 . The Whigs proposed to the Parliament to give a retiring pension to the Speaker of the House of Commons , Vie Tory Sir C . Maimers Sutton , ot JE 4000 a year for his life ; to which proposition the Parliament agreed ; and also togiec his son a reversion o / iSOUO a-yiar for his life , although that son has a guu'care place already , as JitgUlrarof ( lie I'mvgatiee Court of Canterbury , for which he has £ lSOOO a-year , which he is to hold in addition to the reversion of his father ' s pension . Mr . Hunt , the representative , par excellence , of the people of Preston , and of " all the tim-cprcscnii ' ii people of England , " sup . ported this measure by saying that "// Ihe vole had been for £ 0000 a-yctr he icould ha ce agreed to it . "

      March ' J ' . ) , 1 S 38 . The Whigs carried the " Irish Coercion Dill , " a bill which was known by the title of "ihe brutal mid bloody bill , " which subjected thc people of Ireland to BE TRIED BY COl'HTS MAHT 1 AL . In opposition to this bill Mr . Cobbett moved the following resolution : — "llcjolvt-d . That this House , seeing in this bill thc substitution of military courts for conns consisting of judges and jurors ; seeing in it the abrogation of all the most precious institutions of the country ; seeing clearly that its main purpose is to beep in the hands of the present aristocracy the plunder of the ancient church and the poor , which the ancestors of that aristocracy obtained by apostasy , and which has been retained by the cruel penal laws and by the shedding of innocent blood ; and suspecting , moreover , that this bill is intended as a prelude to tlie adoption of similar measures iu Great ISritaiu , this House will read this bill this day six mouths . " This resolution was negatived , and the bill was passed ; Mr . Stanley , the then Secretary for Ireland , declaring that * ' THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE FEARED 1 UF 0 RE IT CAN BE LOVED !!! "

      April ' > ti , 1 S 33 . Tlie House of Commons agreed to a resolution for taking off half the malt-duty , and on the following Tuesday , April oO , they , on thc motion of Lord Althorp , the Whig C' / ianceliO ) ' of the Exchequer , rescinded that vote by a large majority !!! April , 1 S 33 . The Whig Ministry opposed Mr . Crete ' s motion for voting by ballot at elections . Lord Althorp , who had spoken in favour of the UiUot , at Northampton , when before his constituents , opposed it in thc Jfousc of Cvmuwns , as b . camc a genuine Whig Minister . As did also the llight Honourable Edward Elliot-, Secretary at War , although he had solemnly pledged himself to lis constituents at Coventry , that he would cole for that motion . ' . '

      May 2 , 1 S 83 . Lord Althorp , on the subject of the renewal of the Hank Charter , proposed to the House of Commons to make Jiank-of-EngUmd notes « legal tender , ciikj that , in PEiir-ETcm- ; although he hail , only one short month before , objected to Mr Matthias A' . twood ' s motion for inquiring into the state of the nation ( and proof was offered his lordship that thc distress amongst tradesmen was so great , that within five tears the proportion 0 bankruptcies , ; '}! - J ' egcnl-sticct alone , tecs more than one in three ; and that , mind , independent of compositions , ol which time , atlca . it , take place for each bankruptcy ) , principally , & cfti « fC oiwpitrt of W «{/ ioiioiiriiWeJfcialwi ''« plan was , an issue of pancr-woney and the jiaki . vc st'Cii jurat MONEY A LEGAL- 'lENDER' !

      May 3 , 1833 . Mr . Cobbett brought forward his motion in the House of Commons , for the equalization of the stamp-duties , and complained that under the law as it n « w stands "the various duties on legacies , and on property coming by tnfcstafc succession , ai'C imposed applicable to different degrees of rclaUonship betiveeu the legatees and the successors and the deceased , beginning at one per cent ,, and going on to fcnjxw cciit . ; but that freehold property is wholly exempt from this tax , and that , of course , the large estates of the nobility < md landed gentry ( including ndvowsons andkiy-tithcf ) arc exempted ; while if a deceased leave a thousand pounds to a ilistant relation , that relation will have to pay one hl-. vdri . 'd pound * . " The honourable Member said that "If a man leave property above the value of twenty pounds , his successors have' tn pay a stamp-drty of two per cent .: but if a person leave from thirty thousand to half a million pounds the duty is hut onc- < iiuI-a-7 i < il . f per cent . "

      He complained that " Iu conveyances the duty on any ifcbi . 7 of five pounds value is ten shillings ( or ten per cent . ) , whilst if the property conveyed be of / oe Titindrcu' thousand pounds value , the duty will be only one l / ions «) n ( poi ( iids ( only three-sixteenths per cent . ) , and in such a case the poor man would have to pay more than forty times as much as Tin : rich man on the same sort of property . " After showing that the poor man is made , under the present stamp-duties , to pay , in some cases , seven times more than thc rich man , aud in some cases a THOUSAND TIMES MOKE , the honourable gentleman concluded hy inoving the following resolution : — " That this House will , with as little delay as possible , make such an alteration in the several acts , imposing duties on

      stamps , and on sales nt auctions , as shall cause tho Peers , Xohtes , Jlaronclt , and other great landowners to pay , in proportion to the amount of their property , as great an amount in those duties as is paid by thc fundholdtrs , annuitant * , tradesmm , manufacturers , farmers , mechanics , and the rest of the industrious classes of the kingdom : and shall cause , in all cases , the rich to pay the said duties in the same proportion as the poor . " The Whig Ministry , true to the breed of the lirst Whig that the devil spawned , opposed this resolution , and it was , consequently , losl . Hut Mr . Spr ing ltice , a member of the administration , declared that hsltad aldll re-idy to lay before the House to remedy these evil 5 ; which bill , although he was repeatedly called upon to lay it before the House , never was produced , and the evils have not been remedied .

      May 13 , 183 : 1 . Xear Calthorpe-street a meeting was held , for the purpose of discussing the question of the " propriety of forming a iiafioii'tl convention in thc present crisis of thc affairs of the nation . " A few days prior to the meeting bills were posted about the metropolis , cautioning tho public not to go to the meeting ; but these bills were not signed by anybody , nor bad they a ) ny appearance of being issued by any of thcpa ?/ h ' c «!((/ ioW (( e's . The meeting therefore took p ' ace ; and scarcely had the business for which they met commenced , when about thirteen hundred of thc tolice soldiers , armed with bludgeons , who had been secreted in some extensive livery-stables in the neighbourhood , and who , it tcasproced , had been supplied largely with beer and spirits , wercltt loose upen the asscinbled multitude , when a dreadful scene took place , the policemen knocking down men women , and children

      hidtscnmwatel y , and , in their fury , absolutely knocking down casual passers by . The whole of tho particulars were deposed to before a coroner ' s jury , which was called together to ascertain the cause of the death of one of the Policemen , who was killed in tho fight , which jury returned the following verdict : " H ' e find a verdict of justifiable homicide , on tliesegrounds : that no riot act has read , nor any proclamatian adciting the people to disperse ; that the Government did not take thc proper urecautions to prevent the meeting from assembling : and that the conduct of the police was ferocious , brutal , and unprovoked by the people ; ( Did kc moreover express our anxious hope that thc Government Kill , in future , lake better precautions to .

      prevent Ihe recurrence of such disckacl-jui tiiansactio . vs in this metropolis" Notwithstanding this verdict , which was published in all the papers on a Tuesday morning , the Government had the decency to offer , in the Gazette ot the Tuesday evening , a reward of one hundred pounds to "any person giving information , so that the perpetrator of the MUUDEll may be apprehended and convicted thereof , " which was signed "Melbourne , " who was then Home Secretary . And , in addition to this , tlie Whig Government caused the Attorney-general to move , in the Court of King ' s Hench , for thc quashing of tho above verdict , which the independent judges of that court actually did . on the 30 th of that same month !!!

      June 10 , 1833 . Mr . Cobbett presented a petition to tho House of Commons , from the freemen and electors of Sandwich , complaining that Sir E . T . Troubridgo , M . P . for that borough , ht \<\ fraudulently obtained Ids commission as lieutenant in the navy ; and that there were more than tiro hundred other officers in that s .-i-viec , who had also fraudulently obtained their rank , by pi-odiieinj iwi . se certificates of their aOes . Sir James Graham , the first Lord of the Admiralty , - did not attempt to deny the

      The Contrast; In The Deeds Of The Englis...

      tiuth of tho allegations contained in the p ' etitfen . He himself produced a list of thirty-nine officers , "rfio had obtained their commissions in a similar way , at the head of whom was Lord Kelson ( the hero of the bay of Naples ) . Elliott , thc Secretary of the Admiralty , declared that he himself totdoWaiiicil / it ' s promotion ih like manner , and said that he was " proud to belong to a list « f persons WiioMTHESE UNMANNEULY PETITIONERS kid thought proper to accuse ! " Sir Edward Codrington stated as the apology " the great DEARTH of lieutenants a . t tlie time the practices complained of u-ei-o carried on ; " although there were , according to returns then on thc table of the house , at that very time , uo less than eluv en hundred lieutenant * who were not afloat ; yet this gallant admiral had the confidence to say that there was a " dearth of lieutenants , " and seconded the motion for the rejection of thc petition , which rejection had been moved by Sir J . Graham , a Whig Minister ; aud the petition was rejected accordingly ! , , _ ,. ,. ...... .:..-

      July 1 , 1 S 33 . A select committee was appointed , on the motion of Mr . Cobbett , to inquire into the allegations of a petition presented by him to the House of Commons , from Frederick Young , James Price , and others , inhabitants of Camberwell and Walworth ; which committee ascertained the following facts : namely , that the Whig Government used the new police ns spies at pu ' olic meetings , whither they were sent , dressed in plain clothes , and distributed amongst the crowd ; they were oven senttopaiw / n ' ci mct'liiij / s as spies , and one of them , whose name was Popay , used to be sent to the meetings of the " i ' olitieal L ' oii oj thc Working Classes , " ichose society he joir . ed under a feigned name , it not having been dreamed of that he belonged to the " police force , " and he having represented himself to them as being a person in great distress , and who picked

      up his living by miniature and landscape painting . This fellow , during nearly a whole year , belonged to the " 1 'olilieal Union of the lrorfciiiff Chum , " but was never seen in the uniform of the police during the whole of that time . He was , of course , a constant attendantat their meetings , and constantly urged the members of the Union to use stronger language than they did in their resolutions and papers ; he someliwcs altered them with his own hand , in order to introduce- jli-oiiycr language . He suggested to one of the petitioners the establishing a shootinggallery , and for ( iein to ham the iise of the broad-sword . He railed against the Ministers and Government , damned them for villains , and said that he would expel them from the earth . He said to some of the members of the Union that "it would re a damned good thing if some one

      WOULD TAKE AND ASSASSINATE THAT BLOODY VILLAIN Stanley" ( one of the Ministers ) , lie attended the Calthorpe-street meeting in plain clothes . Jte urged the Union to putchase fire-arms , and did every thing he possibly could to incite the members to some violent and unlawful act ; and used , after every meeting of the Union , to forward an account of every thing that took place tit siieli meeting , to the Coiumfesionei-s of Police , and these accounts were regularly forwarded to the SECRETARY OP STATE FOR TIIE HOME DEPARTMENT , from whose department money teas paid to Popay for thc si » j-scrvices performed by him ; rnd as soon as the Unions discovered that they laid a spy amongst them , aud had exposed him , the I ' olice Commissioners raised him in ?•««< -, ntid augmented his pay ! On the select committee making their report to the House of Commons , confirming the statements in the petition , Popay was removed from the situation that he held in the "force , " but went unpunished , and his employers unreproved .

      July 23 , 1 S 33 . The Whig Government successfully opposed Mr . Tennyson ' s molion for shortening the duration of Parliaments . In thc course of the debate , Lord Althorp stated that he " had formerly supported a proposition for shortening the duration of Parliaments , and should now do so were Parliament in the same state in which it was when he had . so supported the proposition , " Lord John Russell [ a Whig of the first water ) objected to the motion , because it "SEEMED TO INTIMATE A DISTRUST OF l'UULIC MEN . " Mr . Stanley said that it was an " impracticable question , " and said that he had

      ' cm the hustings , at Lancaster , made a statement from which he was not disposed to depart . " The statement , to which this right honourable ) l' % alluded , was the following : — " If , therefore , it should be attempted iu another Parliiu meat , to bring forward any of those sweeping motions for shortening the duration ofl ' drliaments , and extending yet further thc elective franchise ; or of introducing that which 1 believe is falsely styled the protection of the ballot ; to those measures we , as individuals aud as members of the Government , are hound ( and I announce it at once and openly ) to give our determined and decided opposition . "

      _ Jul y 31 , 1833 . Tho Whigs passed a vote for twenty millions of pounds sterling to be given to indemnify the owners of slaves for any loss that they may sustain in consequence ot ' apartiultiboUlionof slavery ; in consequence of a partial abolition of that sort of trallie which , they said , was " a viokdion of thc laws of God and man . " The Minister , at first , proposed lending the proprietors of slaves ten millions of pounds - . after a while he said that he should propose the lending of fifteen millions ( and , mind , this was a proposition to lend money to tho slave-owners to ' compensatc them for thc loss of « lai ) C-hi 6 o « i' , whilst tho Government had endeavoured to prove , to the owners of slaves , ' that free-labour was more productive than riiite . labour ); but , after thc presentation of a petition signed by 378 , 000 females , he boldly proposed the GIY 1 XG OP TWENTY MILLIONS ; and that proposition was carried by a great majority , and must be paid , in part , by poor labourers of Dorsetshire out of their TWO SHILLINGS AND SEVKSl'J-l . XCE a week !

      July , 1 S 33 . The Whigs proposed and carried a vote for £ 1 , 000 , 000 out of the taxes to be paid to the Protestant clergy in Ireland , in lieu of arrears of tithes which they were unable to collect , although they had the assistance of a large army and courts martial for the trial of criminals , both of which were provided for their aid by the Whigs . August , 1833 . They passed the " Anatomy Bill , " giving to overseers and parochial officers tho power , in some cases , of selling to thc surgeons , for the purpose of direction , ( lie bodies of persons tthodieiii pcordmises ! but were cunning enough not to insert iu that bill any clause consigning the carcases of stale-paupers to the dissectingknifc .

      1 . S 53 . The Whigs refused to abo ' tsh flogging in the army ; and Sir J . C . Hobhousc , who had ahynys professed the imneiples of radical reform , and had most loudly declaimed against flogging , but who had become a member of the Whig Ministry as Secretary at War , hoiostrongly opposed thc abolishing of that disgusting and horrible practice , and supported , in their opposition to the putting an ami to it , that very Whig party whom he had formerly described , both in speaking and in writing , as a party always " pernicious to . England , " and always " actuated by selfish motives ; " as alwayshaving haa" arrogant , " " overbearing , " " selfish , " "false , " "boasting , " "interested , " "tricky , " "iiiemi , " " shallow , " "deceitful , " "jealous , " and " impofeat . " How true is all this ! Yet he joined this party , became renegade to his principles , and voted against thc molion for abolishing fogging in thc army !

      March , 183 t . The Whig Government prosecuted six agrkallural labourers at Dorchester , for having aduiiiiif . tcre . l oaths of secrecy to persons on becoming members of a soriety called the " ^ Wea' Union ; " which society was formed for the protection of the class to which they belonged , against the arbitrary reduction of the price of their labour by their employers . These poor fellows were found guilty of the charge alleged against them , and , ( o thc astonishment of the whole kingdom , were sentenced by Williams ( a new made judge ) to SEVEN YEARS' TRASSl'OHTATlO . V . ' . 'l The nation wondered where the judge found law for his purpose ; but faith . lie did find it , and that too in an act passed in the 37 th year of George the Third , being chapter 123 of the year 17 U 7 , the whole of which act relates tj oaths administered , or taken , for t ? ie purpose of seducing persons serving his Majesty l > y sea or by land ; and which was passed' iu consi-ipience of the mutiny in the fleet . And yet under

      ibis Act it was that this judge sentenced these men , whose only crime was combining lo ruiss their ivages ; and it was proved on their trial that one of them had but / ice , shillings a week to live vpon ; and that another of them had but ween shillings a week tolive upon and lo support a WIFE ASD SIX OHILDHEX ; neither of whom had the smallest notion of doing anything illegal , nor of having ajiyihjujj to do with politics . Petitions for the pardon of these poor men were signed by upwards of five hundred thousand of their fellow countrymen ; the Whigs would not listen to thc prayers of these just and humane petitions , but immediately ordered these six hapless victims to be transported beyond the seas . Mr . Hutt , M . P ., on presenting a petition for the pardon of these men , from Kiiigston-upon-Hllll , deplored the conduct of Government towards thein , and said that it was clear that they were not punished for taking or administering a secret oath , hut for having been members of the " Trades' Union .

      May 5 , 18 W . Mr . D . AY , Harvey made a motion in the House of Commons with a view to the abolition of all unmerited pensions , many of which are , of course , given to females , and , in some cases , for quite unknown services rendered by them . Lor Althorp , the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer , opposed the motion , as being one " calling for that to he done which no man of abntlemanly feeling would consent to do . He said that persons on the pension list had a right , established by custom , to be continued on it ; and the present Government had , when they came into office , recommended that they should bo . " He said that he " did not intend to defend each individual grant ; " that an inquiry into it "could not fail to be a disgusting inquiry to any gentleman who took a part in it ; " " that it was calculated to wound the feclines , as well of those who conducted it , as of those who were ' the

      objects of the inmiiry , and that ho felt himself bound to vote against the motion . " That was the sort of opposition given by a Whig Minister ; by a man who , and whose party , came into power on the breaking up of the Tory Ministry ; which breaking up was occasioned by tho Whi- / having moved , by thc mouth of Sir II . Parnell , " That ° a select committee be appointed to inquire into thc various items connected with the civil list , and to report thereon . " We must also bear in mind that Lord Grey , who became Premier of the Whi g Ministry , declared on takiii " office , that " a reduction of all unnecessary expense is the firm resolution of myself and my colleague ? , and that we will cut oft ; with an unsparing hand , all that is not demanded for the interests , the honour , and the welfare of the country . " It is scarcel y necessary to add that the Whigs voted against the motion , and that it was lost .

      July , 1831 . The Whi g Government carried the " Poor Law Amendment Bill . " They had had a band of commbturners - prowling about the country for the pretended purpose : of inquiring into the state of parochial affairs ; but all the inquiries were made horn parish officers , demLn , andgentkmen , andmtin any case of the poor themsdees . 0 , no ! that was not to be though t of for a moment . ! The ^^ . ^ thtUtcaiapar lofthe inttmAioiuiltMtotkt ¦ omr , nismers , ; orthimrpeopleofE ,, gl < iKdtob 6 '' li \ i ) E

      The Contrast; In The Deeds Of The Englis...

      TO LIVE OX COAltSER FOOD ! " " Coarser food than the poor Dorsetshire labourers could procure for themselves , a wife , andslvMpless children , out of seoensMUiivjs attack : " Coarser feei" than thc magistrates of Wiltshire ordered as parish allowance for an able-bodied labourer to live on and to work on—namely , < t gallon loaf and threepencehalfpenny a week ! The Whig Chancellor ( "Brougham , homines do Icltres et avocaf ) , who is reputed to be the real author of thc measure , declared , from the woolsack , that " no relief ought to be afforded , even to the aged and infirm poor ; that they ought , during their In-alth and strength , to save enough out of their earnings to keep tuemsclvis during sickness and old age ; " although that same Lord Chancellor , so far from setting an example ol such a mode of guarding against want during sickness aud old age . as soon as he got himself seated on the woolvn uve OX COAltSER FOOD ! " " Coarser food than

      sack , brought forward , and caused to be passed , a bill , raising the retiring allowance for himself , from four thousand pounds to five thousand pounds a year . And this is the great supporter of a bill , which is , according to the report of the Poor Law Commissioners , to pave the way for completely and entirely abrogating all rig ht to relief for the poor and necessitous . Thc operation of this measure is dreadfully felt , even by uamarried men , in thc agricultural districts ; where ( owing to Ihe horrible amount of fiscal exactions preventing the farmer from employing a sufficient number of labourers to cultivate the land ) the want of employment is so great ( and the farmers and parish oiheers naturally provide work for those who have families ) , that uimwivieii men cannot find employment , nor will parish oliicers either provide it for them , or give them any relief : they tell them that vow

      they have no more clum vpon the parish than any common uegcars . If these unfortunate men apply to the magistrates , they arc told , that they have no power now to order awj relief for them . If they wander about in a body , and , being in want of food , demand aid of those who are able ( o give it , they are sure of transportation , or perhaps of death . If they take wild animals for their support , they are Habit to be transported ; and if , whilst pursuing these wild animals , they be caught by the gamekeeper , and resist his taking Ihem into custody , they AltE LIAULE TO HE HANGED !!! What have these persons done ! What monstrous crimes have they committed that they should he placed in such a horrible dilemma 1 No crimes at all , only , that they , whilst the law remained unaltered , wire entitled to relief from the land , if they were in want ; and the Whig . Ministers declared , that "the poor-rates would

      swallow up the land , " although one of those very Ministers , Sir James Graham , proved when he was out of office , that a hundred and thirteen privy councillors swallowed up annually sis hundred and fifty thousand pounds , being more by eighty thousand pounds a year ( and that , mind , for only one hundred and thirteen persons ) than the whole amount of the poor-rales for the twelve counties of Wales , and the six counties of Ikdford , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Monmouth , Rutland , and Westmoreland ! It ought never to he forgotten that Lord Jlrougham , thti author of this bill , carried his hostility to tlic poor and unfortunate so far , as even to say , in the House of Lords , that " except for broken limbs , " hospitals , dispensaries , AND ALMS-HOUSES , ARE LITTLE ilET'HSIt THAN NUISANCES , and ought to re A 11 . 1 TFD ! " The Whigs performed various other such like acts , as if desirous to retain the epithets which have for so many years been prefixed to their name by Mr . Cobbett ; and amongst other acts of theirs we ought not to omit to mention their

      malicious though unsuccessful prosecution of him . He was indicted for publishing in the Weekly Political ¦/«'<> - gislcr of the 11 th December , IS 30 , a libel , with intent to raise discontent iu the minds of labourers in husbandry , and to incite them to acts of violence , aud to destroy corn stacks , machinery , and other property , " etc . Mr . Cobbett defended himself in person , and the lashing that he took thc opportunity of inflicting on the "Greys , the lSi-ougliiiins , the Lambs , and the Kusse-llF , " whom , with the rest of thc Whig Ministry , he hail suhpa'iiai'd , and had before him in court ; his bantering allusion to the " < tirrecabk twaddle" of Mr . Guniey , and compar ing him to a " truffle hunter "; the defiance aud scorn with which he loaded the Whig Attorney-General ljcumnn , and his "dirty hill of indictment , " indeed , the whole of his defence was so manly and so powerful ; his sarcasms so withering to his prosecutors ; his invective so overwhelming , so terrible , and so blasting to f Jail degraded / action , that it will never be cither forgiven or forgotten by them .

      The concluding sentence of his noble defence must conclude this very brief notice of this remarkable trial ; and it-would be criminal to ow . ilit ; it is this— "If your verdict should be one that will consign me to death , by sending me to a loathsome dungeon , I will , with my last breath , pray to God to bless my country , and curse the Whigs , and 1 bequeath my revenge to my cuilduen asi > the Lahourers or England !" Then there is to be remembered , against the Whigs , their object i ng to take off the newspaper duty . Their objecting to the motion by which no Minister of State was to be allowed a retiring pension until ho had served five years . Their tricks with regard to Savings Uanlts , in order to make it as difficult as possible for the deposits to be withdrawn .

      Iheir paying the Jtnsso-Dulch loan of six millions : Their Olho loan of-rwo millions : In short , their extreme mildness , integrity , aud patriotism , have been such , during the four years of their i > cstilc ) it sway , that more of the blood of his Majesty's subjects has been shed , more victims to the odious laws affecting thc press have been punished with fine and imprisonment , than have taken place in England within the-same period since 178 ( 1 . Nor must we forget their having added about forty . millions to the national debt , in the four years of their baneful domination , being one-eighteenth part of the whole debt , which lias taken more than a hundred and fifty years to accumulate . The reader will have been disgusted if he have waded through this catalogue of crimes , therefore this offensive but necessary task shall be concluded by placing a few of the acts of the Tories in juxta-positwu with some of thc Whigs : —

      77 k ! 7 ' oi-i ' es The Whigs Opposed the lteform Bill . Put in the tnx . paying clauses , and stultified " the effect of the hill . Supported long Parii .-i- lie-fused to repoal thc Sep . ments . teimial Act . Had their Sidmouths , and Had their Melboumcs and their Castles , and their their Popays , and defended Olivers . the use of Spies . Had their Manchester Had their fast-day affair , affair . and their Calthorpe-street affair . Had their standing army Augmented the standing in time of peace . army that the Tories had left them . Declared against cheap Prosecuted and punished political publications . those who sold them . Suspended the JY « bc « s Passed the Irish Coercion Corpus Act . Bill , and trials by courts martial .

      Supported thc Pension llefused to revise it . List . Had their Swan Kiver Had their Australian cmietiiigt'aliou job . gmtion job , by Wilmut llorton . Passed Sturges Bourne ' s Passed the Poor Law-Bills , giving a plurality of Amendment Bill , giving the votes in vestries to the rich , rich the ri ght to vote by proxy ; and refused to re-. , ,. , , „ , peal Sturges Bourne ' s Hills . Abolished the income-tax , llefused to repeal the malt and kept on the assessed tax , aud the assessed taxes

      , tiixes aud the malt-tax . fur fear that they should he obliged to lay on a propertv tax . In and out of place object- In favour of vote by ballot ed to the vote by ballot . when out of place , but „ , against it when in place . Put about one-half of thc Put the other half of the names on the Pension List , names on that list . andwould allow of no inquiry into it , saying , that it would be "disgusting and ungentlemanly" to do so 1

      The Second Anniversary Of The United Pat...

      The Second Anniversary of the United Patriots ' Benefit and Provident Society was held at Chalk Farm Tavern , on Monday last , thc chair being occupied by Fcargus O'Connor , Esq ., and the vice-chair by Mr . J . G . Dion . Thc assembly was numerous including Roger O'Connor , Esq ., and other private fvi nils ot tlic chairman , ami was alsu enlivened bv the presence of a large party of ladies . At tw ' o o ' clock the company sat down to a lir .- > t-nitc dinner , including every delicacy of the season , which was served up in excellent style . The cloth having been removed , \ Mt . O'Connor rose to propose tlie lirst toast , " The People , the only source of legitimate power . " It gave him great pleasure to sec so many happy smiling faces around him , met for such a

      worthy social purpose ; and lie felt grateful for the honour they had conferred by calling on him to preside over them . Thc toast of tlic " People" was one given by most political parties , and handled by each according to their particular interests . The Whigs considered themselves and their middle class supporters to be thc people ; the Tories considered the parsons and the high-churchmen to be the ncople ; but he , Mr . O'C , considered those to be the people who earned their bread by the sweat of their brow : those who were unwilling to labour were tlie Drones of tlic community , livim ; upon the energies of others . He regretted that festivals like the present were not the rule instead of the exception . The present company liad earned the excellent dinner

      they had been enjoying—they eat their onm dinner , whilst the other class of society eat that which they were obliged to furnish them with . It would be bad taste in him to occupy much time in opening thc proceedings , he should follow the example of the Spader in tlie House of Commons , who was the man who had the leusl to say of any in the house . The present was not the period for talking politics , the time was now arrived when they saw the necessity of makiii " exertions to give themselves social power in order to enable them to wring political power from the "rasp ot their oppressors ; he trusted that thc next llefonn would solve the riddle as to who were the true friends

      ot tlie people , and in his opinion thc people would be happier and more prosperous if kinscralt and priestcraft were no more ; he saw in their society one of the rungs of the ladder by which thev must pull down aristocratic power , and assist each other in a political as well as a social sense . Entertaining those views he should alwavs be happv to fill the situation lie then held , or any other which they might appoint him to , or to attend as a private -uext at any of their future meetings , and » ive them his aid towards rendering the society universally prosperous . Mr . O'Connor , ,-iin . kl great applause then proposed the toast , with three times three , which as well as the succacding toasts ,- was drank with

      The Second Anniversary Of The United Pat...

      enthusiasm , and followed by an - - ^ ^ band , and vocal music approm-i-, t 0 a l fl ' ° m t ) , Mr . Wheeler responded to ^ t e t ° ti l e W " People" in an able manner , « Vu of t the United Patriots' Society , bv tlicbvo " ^ fi by the truly Democratic constitutio n 1 , f . ? a ue «« was bringing the principle of sclf ., "' " « r tti ! , the every-day affairs of society , and if l \ m inio lowed would elevate men in their own u ¦ j- " ' ' ' !" ) ' 1 'A in that of their fellow citizens . Mr iv !" l ! ltiul | aM gave the toast of " Prosperity totlw u , 1 i , 17 | f < llonclifc Society , " aud iu so doin » J , lltf i ' -u pleasure that he was not the Founder of , ! '' - - ' '' ' « or it would certainly have been ass'iih . 1 ' ^ t ' ' 'K quarters , but being started by workin " .- ' ,,, ' 01 u $ perhaps escape the virulence of tli ,. ; ,. "''?! it enthusiasm , and followed bv in , ! ^ ^

      When he again met them , instead ol ' huvi ,,,, ;• nn' - \ I to 1200 members as at present , lie u " Z ] ' * $ name would bo legion . Mr . Workman iu ri , 'Nt fe to the toast said , if there was one action n , ? ''» $ than another it was that of assisting their iclh ¦'''''' ' ^ who from sickness or otherwise were dem-jy ,. 'f ' . '' ; , ^ means of existence . Of what avail to ^ ,. "* : ? the warrior , the aristocrat , or the miser ? -jv ! : ^ nothing to btneliUhc condition of working m ,., ^ '' ' ' relieve them when in sickness or distress , % it ' ' ^ i' ' contrary , after accumulating wealth b ' v ii , / . ;? " - ' ? they left them no prospect in atter-liie u a A horrid den the Poor Law Bastilc . Mr . \ yjj . l then entered into details , showing the p n , S | u . - } \ the society and its great accession of numbe ' s a ! ' thc past quarter . The next toast was " The r « r " ' ¦ $ committees in town and country , mid ihe f'i f ¦

      members of the past committees . " Mr ii , * , ?*''' ' * members ol the past committees . " Mr . Ii m | , '•'¦*• speuded to this in ancxcollentspeech . The ' \\ Ju ' % of the General Secretary of the Societ y" , rils jj ! | -ji proposed by thc chairman , who paid ' sonic */ % merited compliments to the secretary , whom he \ r M worked with lor several years in the Dcniuti ^ p struggle , and thought him far more worth y of ,- | ' ,, !' ' if sion and a monument for his past servic es thin , j " * §§ of the titled aristocratic maiislaycrs upon wln > ui 45 m rewards were lavished . Mr . Unify , in ri'SpmulinV h f | this toast , expressed his gratitude to the iiiemU m generally , and to Mr . O'Connor iu parti cular , . > i ; itin „ | | that had it not been for the assistance reiiikteii fill that gentleman in giving the gratuitous use \ , i tSft Norl / tcm Star for the advertisements of the S !> i-k " -i %

      during its infancy , it never could have attaiuolS its present prosperous condition ; lie also ' swifi his thanks to Mr . Harvey for similar favour " . in printing furthc society—they , »; d not hiinsi'lf were in reality the founders of tlie society ; so tb ' Mr . O'Connor had more to do with the ori < rinatit » of the society than he appeared to be aware of . TiX speaker then gave an interesting account of tlie i * j ! gross and condition of the society in town ; n ; , j . fountry ; shewing the number of b ' raiic / ies it 1 % sessed in England , it had also a folding iu Walei and expectetl to form branches in both Ireland a ; ,-Scotland . He thou painted , in glowing colours , ill good ell ' ected by tlic society , and the advantages v

      union amongst men in elevating their social as } political condition . He thanked them for their t , % hdencc , aud trusted he should never do auythiuj mean or base to deprive him of it . —Tlie lblimvinj toasts were than drank and responded to— " Heakj of the sub-secretaries , country members , . Mr , Mark , tho father of the society , the ladies , visitor ? , and friends , and chairman and vice-chairman . ' Messrs O'Connor and Dron responded to the latter toasts in excellent speeches , which space will no

      permit us to give . Dancing , interspersed with sop . ; and recitations , then commenced , and was kept i » until an early hour , the greatest harmony and go ' .-feeling prevailing . An excellent baud was eugiwi , and in addition to this the members from Wimbli'iii . also were ' accompancd with a band , and a ik ; painted expre-sly for the occasion . Several s & secretaries , including Mr . G . Wheeler , of llcadiit ' , were present , and took part in the proceedings of tiie day .

      Lxitf . o Patriots' Bkxefit Sociktv . —The lii >| anniversary of thc Shcllicld branch of this young an . nourishing institution , was commemorated ' by a din nor at Mrs . Pranks ' , Three Cranes , Q . ueeii-stmt , J uly 23 th . On the cloth being removed tlie Ibilowirij ; toasts were given from the chair , " Prosperity to tin United Patriots' Benefit Society , " " The I'Vumlcrc * the Society , D . F . Huffy , may he always merit tin esteem of thc members , " "T . S . JDuncoinlic , Esq ., M . P ., and tho Patrons of thc Society , " " The IV > pie , the source of all wealth , " "The sub-.-mutiiif and members that established thc Shcllicld branch . " " The Queen , her rights and no more ; the People , their jrights and no less . " These toasts were alilj responded to by Messrs Hall , Goddard , Clayton , Galliniore , and Jones . There were sonic excellent songs sung , and . tho company separated highly delighted with the evening ' s eiuortainmeut .

      Northampton. Punuc Meetixo.—On Monday Ev...

      NORTHAMPTON . Punuc Meetixo . —On Monday evening a mceiln ; , convened by placard , was held mi the Market-lull , M hear a lecture from Mr . M'Grath , on the " Laud aij its Capabilities . " Mr . Mmiilay w , -, 'S appointed i-li » ir . man . The lecturer , in the course of a long ; n ! i ! re-. « , clearly demonstrated , by arithmetical calculation aij from the admissions of the ablest political econoniisH , that thc cultivable land of Great liritain and hclai : ! is capable of yielding sustenance to support four times thc present population . He concluded I f showing that the land was the only asylum npes which the people could find protection from tiis ravages which the capitalist , aided by machiner ., wis making on their industry ; and invited all i ! t sirous of location upon tlie laud to investigate tin rules of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society .

      A Puiimc Meeting was held on thc same place or . Tuesday evening , for thc purpose of forming a bram-t of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society . A i chjli ! o ' clock Mr . Cairns was voted to the chair , ft meeting was an excellent one . The chairman haviiE lucidly s * i . tcd t ' . ie object of the meeting , and promisa a fair luaring to all desirous of expressing tlici opinions , called upon Mr . Holly well to move tl ' icfe resolution , the purport of which was that it was tit people ' s duty to exert every energy to elevate ihemselves to that position in socicfy which timl ar . i nature intended them to occupy . It was seci'iii !* -: by Mr . Stammers , and unanimously adopted . Tit

      next resolution was proposed by Mr . Mumtuy , to lb eli ' cet that' the Chartist Land plan was sound impracticable , and fully entitled to thc confidence . * support of the working classes . Seconded by Mr Williams . Thc chairman then called upon Mr . M ' Grath . who spoke for nearly two hours in stippi * of the resolution , expounding the Land plan , ami ; !*; fining the benefits that would accrue to Traife Unions from its adoption , The iiicctiii ; ' iW ' - every sentence with approbation . Many wpU'St rules were disposed of , and several shares ' lakcii «' - > f These meetings have done much good . Wc &~ soon have a strong branch of the society in X «' :-ampton .

      WELLINGBOROUGH . Lecture . —On Wednesday evening Mr . M'tii * delivered a public lecture on the Land iu the Ma * * place . Mr . Parish was in the chair . Several todred persons were present , who paid the nu > M ma" ^ attention to the speaker . The thanks of I ' m-lining having been voted to the chairman and lee -: ur « tlie meeting separated . PETERBOROUGH . Mr . M'Grath delivered two lectures on " I ni" ! sal Suffrage" on thc evenings of Thursday ami 1 fday , in thc Assembly Room . They were loit-rak well attended , and a favourable impression setinc ";' be made as to the justice of the Charter awl '•' ¦ necessity for its ciiaet-iueiit . Several cards of nv-i borship were disposed

      of-SALFOUD . The Lixn Society . —At a mooting of the slis holders of the Chartist Co-operative Laud Swit f hold on Tuesday last , the following resolution passed : — " That , a meeting of the members * friends take place on the last Sunday in each iia « i for thc purpose of auditing the accounts ; a \ r ® the committee meet every Sunday eve-uiiii' - . half-past six o ' clock , for thc purpose ofinvi " subscriptions . "

      OLDHAM . LrcTCRE . —On Sunday last Mr . C . Dovlc ilcii «' iv very energetic address ' in the Working ' . Man ' * " * in which he gave a brief account of the liiwa'J ' ponded by thc Missionary Societies , and tin- »«* - ' deposited in savings banks , Arc . The lee fi "' ' ' ;' ' !" i in the most argumentative manner thc i ; ivat ; i' ! tares that mi ght be derived from th « app l ' iK" ! " such an amount of money in the purchase « i , s ' aud thc allocation of the surplus population tin' ' > '

      Leeds Cloth Markets . —During the pn > l w , ; there has been a slight tendency to impm *' ? ' , ' and , in some descriptions of goods ' , prices to '" ' ' v an upward tendency . In the halls , business Iw ''" rather dull . ^ Leeds Coax Market , Tuesday , July ' 20 .-- ; a good arrival , and the weather more setta'S millers buy cautiously , the finest whea ts at } £ over the rates of hist week ; secondary sorts an '; ^ in chamber are slow sale at former prices . ' ' , ' . . nominal . Oats are scarce , and held at nioro ' ' ^ but the trade slow . Beans arc not so m ' " , ; . ^' quest , but we make no alteration in their vS '"'

      in that ot other grain . ir $ . fA Yowi Conx M . UIKBT , Jct . t 26\— I" co » : ^ v . thc weather this day being remarkably fua' \ ,, }|§ opeiations in the hay harvest , we have ba t- ' ^ -p attendance of farmers at market , eonsrir * •; - ; gs small supply of grain . On account of the *« ' '; . (; : | j ply , wc have a steady sale for Wheat , at " tf >§ week ' s rates . Other ' articles without »») '"' > alteration . . M ! Maltox Conx Market , July 29 .-Wc lia' ^ J V I supnly of wheat offering at this day ' s » rf ' i ! moderate of other articles . Wheat Is-1 "' ' < p ? M barley nominal ; oats same as last weclc . r , ! | red , 50 s . to 58 s . ; white ditfo , oTs . to 0 % r g -10 stones ; oats , 1 Id . to 12 d . per stone . li ; ,--Richmond Coix Market , July 2 'i-- ] ^ i fair supply of grain in our market to-tfc l . > , v { prices were a little higher . Wheat sold ls ,. " % to . ° s . ; oats , 2 s . W , to 3 s . Oil . ; barley , •¦»» g Leans , 4 s , i , d , \ o or , [«• bushel , §

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 2, 1845, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02081845/page/2/