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      How Beady , a New Edition ef MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Te be had at the Ner & em Star Ofi-t , IS , treat Wind Bill Street ; and of Absl Hey wood , Manchester .

      The Northern Star Saturday, August 21,1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , AUGUST 21 , 1847 .

      Health Of T. S. Buncombe, Esq. M.P. The ...

      HEALTH OF T . S . BUNCOMBE , ESQ . M . P . The announcement in our last of the state of Mr Dpncombe ' s health has , as we anticipated , excited general regret and sympathy , and in answer to numerous inquiries we are happy to state , that the hon . gentleman is this day ( Thursday ) so far recovered as to be able to take a carriage airing , though still very mnch debilitated , and suffering severely from his cough . It is believed , however , that as yet no organic disease has shown itself , and that removal to a more genial climate for tbe winter may restore Mr Dukcombb to such a state of

      health as to enable him to take his place at the head of the Movement Party at the commence * meat of the next session . We sincerely hope that this may be the case , and that those who have been speculating on a vacancy in the Representation of Finsbury may long be disappointed . But it is right to add , that nothing but the greatest care and attention , and the entire abitinence from business of every kind , conjoined with the restorative and renovating influences of a mild and genial climate , will

      realise this hope . Those who feel gratitude to Mr Buncombe for his past services , and who desire to have the benefit of them in future , ought , therefore , to abstain from troubling him with business at present ; for such is the unconquerable spirit of the hon . member , that if any business makes its appearance he will attend to it , whatever may be the consequence . A word to tbe wise is enough—and , in conclusion , let us hope that future reports of the state of his health may be more cheering than the present .

      The Irish Elections.-Repeal Of The Union...

      THE IRISH ELECTIONS .-REPEAL OF THE UNIONIn our speculations last week as to the probable character and career of tbe new Parliament , we omitted to notice one important element in its com . position . The Irish elections have proved , in a manner not to be mistaken , tbat all classes in that country are now heartily united in the conviction that the union must be repealed . The perplexing

      nomenclature which has arisen out of the decomposition and recomposition of parties , and tbe desire to give an idea of the nature of the new combinations , was already sufficiently puzzling and curious , but to the list we have now to add that of Tory repealers . Several of the old Tory and large landed proprietors having been returned on the distinct ground of their conversion to the Repeal ranks ; and the returns , as a wbcle , show a decided increase of members pledged to ne support of Repeal .

      This is a fact sugg stive of grave reflection on the part of the English people and English members of the legislature . If British rule is so defective , so injurious to Ireland , as to force the old aristocracy into the conviction that the only chance of their country being saved lies in tbe diiseverment of its legislative union with England , the final issue cannot

      be far distant . Tbat this is tbe creed of the great bulk of the people , nearly as passionately and sincerely held as the creed of the national faith , every one who knows anything of Ireland must be aware . The union of the aristocracy and the masses must give an immediate impetus to a movement , which might , perchance , ere this have been successful , had those who led it been honest and in earnest .

      But O'Connell has passed away , and however hit successors in Conciliation Hall may wish to follow in his footsteps , and copy that temporising policy , which , if not dictated by the basest motives , had at least the effect of benefitting individuals at the cost of arresting a ' great national movement , we believe that they will not be permitted to do so . It required all the magic of O'ConnelTs oratorv , the recollection

      of his long and active public career , and the immense clerical and political machinery by which he swayed tbe masses of his countrymen , to keep them patient under his do-nothing or retrogade policy . The " family" are not likely to succeed in doing that which its founder broke down under . " Young Ireland , " with its measured and cautious defereneei in words at least , to the character and claims of the man who bad been the

      leader of the Irish people for so many years , as to establish a claim on their gratitude sufficiently strong to prevent them from saying anything personally offensive , was yet a sharp thorn in O'Con " nei / s side—and , vre have no doubt , helped to driv him into that exile in which he died . But what ever may have been the causes which induced them to act in that manner towards " The Liberator , ' they are bound by no such ties to " the family Popular leadership is not , like the peerage , hereditary . The man who aspires to that position , muss

      win it by his own powers , and his own exertions ohn O'Connell , however ambitious of the post , has not as yet shown that he possesses the qualification to fill that position . On the other hand , the leaders of the Young Ireland" party , who openly oppose him , and scoff at the-idea of his being allowed to head the struggle for nationality , whatever maybe their own defects , are men of ability , earnestness , and purpose . Tbey tae « iwha . t ttayM */* , tm & wv . of the pr ofs they do so , is to he found in the determination with which they insist that no Repealer , in

      or out of Parliament , shall accept office from an Anti-Repeal Government . The O'Conneilites will not swallow that pledge . They hanker after the "flesh-pots of Egypt , " having already had some tolerable slices shared among them , and probably looking upon a discreetly-managed Repeal agitation as a means of getting more . Though , for the present , their hereditary claims may appear to have given them the predominance in the elections over t ! ie more uncomprising and determined Young

      Irelanders , it is not , we repeat , likely tbat this feeling will long continue to carry public support with it . The general impulse which , without any efficient central organisation or guidance , has returned so many Repeal members—which has caused the peasant , the shopkeeper , and the landlord , to patronise and unite their effort * , is not likely to ebb and flow at the will or convtnienceofasmall eUque of persons , who presumfiupon the traditionary influence of a great name , Ireland i » dctertniaad

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      to have , Repeal * In the face of the millions spent by this country this year in alleviating its miseries , the months of the Session which were occupied by its affairs , and the really honest and warm-hearted sympathy evinced by all classes in its sufferings , the deep , deliberate , conviction is that , before Ireland can be legislated for properly , it must be by an Irish Parliament . There is little to wonder at in the fact . It would , perhaps , he impossible to point out in history any

      instance in which immense sums were squandered in an deplorably ignorant and useless , if not mischievous , a manner , as were the funds granted by Parliament for the relief of . Ireland . Good Mentions were not wanting ; but the practical knowledge how to carry them into effect evidently did not exist , and ' one of the first consequences of these very measures has been , as we see at this Election , to unite all classes of Irishmen in the conviction that the regeneration of Ireland can only be achieved through the medium of a Native Legislature .

      That such a Parliament might , at its commencement , commit mistakes , and fail in attaining the objects it had in view , may be granted to the opponents of Repeal ; but this would be part of the process of . that political self-education which is the only true source of political improvement—the only safe guarantee for permanent and substantial reforms . Ireland possesses all the requisites for becoming a great , powerful , and prosperous nation . What is it that prevents her from being so ? There may be many other answers to the question , ' and we may

      admit that no one reason will satisfactorily and fully answer it ; but this we say without fear of contradiction , that the want of that culture ot . tbe faculties , that spirit of independence and . self-helpfulness , which are generated by the possession of the power of self-government , lies at the root . The first step , therefore , towards lifting Ireland up from the depths of pauperism into which she has sunk , is to give her that power . If we can help her to exercise it wisely , moderately , beneficially—and at the same time to aid substantially in carrying her over

      tbe transition period which must intervene between the acquisition of power , the knowledge how to use it properly , and the realisation of the plans suggested by that knowledge , let us do so ; Ireland will he a brighter jewel in the British Crown , a better customer to our markets , and a more powerful ally in case of war , when she is the independent , equal , and prosperous portion of a great empire , than she ever can he while permitted to remain in her present state . The Repeal of the Union is a question which the next Parliament will have to take up in earnest .

      Magistrates And The Law. One Of The Foll...

      MAGISTRATES AND THE LAW . One of the follies of our legal administration , is intrusting it to the hands of the incompetent . The result is often tyrannical decisions , and exhibitions of folly ; but never did magistrates pass a self-condemnatory verdict of incompetency on themselves more fully , than the sapient quidnuncs of Sleaford , in Lincolnshire have done , in the case of a commoi assault . We have given this otherwise trivial case a full report in another part of our paper , to show how

      ridiculous it is to intrust the decision of grave matters into the hands of those who profess themselves unable to decide on a case of common assault . A Mr Mills accuses a Mr Owen Cross of assaulting him—they fight . Mr Mills produces two witnesses , who do not depose to anything positive . Mr Cross produces five witnesses , who swear that he ( Mr Cross ) was the first assailed . The evidence appears simple enough , yet the magistrates decline to decide , and send it by indictment before the Sessions . Why do they not give Mr Cross the protection of the law .

      if innocent ? Is itbscauseMr Cross is known to incline to Chartist principles ? Why do they not punish him if culpable ? Because popular feeling had been roused , and the once quiet agricultural slaves of Sleaford have awakened to a consciousness of their dignity as men , Yet these imbecile magistrates feel competent to decide on a case of manslaughter or of murder—at least , & s far as committal or non-committal is concerned . Well might a number of men join the Land Company and the Charter , on the evening of the above-mentioned exhibition .

      The killing of Dodson , the Sleaford secretary to the Land Company , has roused the feelings of every friend of humanity ; and certainly , a more ruffianly display of POLICE LAW never came under our knowledge . Of this circumstance , and the lengthy investigations that have ensued , as also of the extraordinary and conflicting decision of the Bench , we shall next week give a detailed report—suffice it for the present to point tbe attention of our readers to the anomalies of our magisterial law .

      A body of men are elevated to an important legal function , confessedly without any knowledge « f the law . Their only qualification is a round paunch with good fat capon lined , " - —so many acres , go many horses , and so much assurance . They seek the office to enjoy the exercise of a little petty authority ; to make themselves a little more terrible and a little more ridiculous in the eyes of the poor serfs and villagers over vthom they domineer . The conntry attornies , with a few honourable txtepVom , are their ready tools ; they play into their hands , till ,

      perchance , they can get hold of their estates by mortgage and foreclosure , when they play the tyrants in their turn—with not much more knowledge of law than the other , save how to take a more technical advantage of tbe unwary . These sapient authorities " knock off the law " before dinner , in an offhand style , quite surprising ; and if , perchance , such a thing should happen as counsel being employed by the poor man , the magistrates come to their task fidgetty and uncomfortable .

      indignant at being kept a few hours at their duty , crying out that " they want their dinners ! " and " are anxious to get home , " and afraid of exposing their ignorance to the world . Were no one there to look after the poor man ' s interests the case would be soon disposed off—as on Monday last , when they fined a man five pounds for an assault , and tht same day , after an investigation of six hours and a half , referred another assault case , less important , to the sessions , as we hare already stated .

      Are these the authorities the people are to look up to—men who can crack their jokes when the manslaughter of one of their neighbours is being investigated ? Are these the men who are to be the dispensers of justice ? Out upon them 1 or rather out upon the folly of the people who suffer such a system to exist . In the north these men have been read a mighty lesson . The names of

      Lyon and Stubbs will hang in terror before them , as you hang dead rats to scare the living ones—the land rats of Lincolnshire . The fame of the people ' s lav ? , and Roberts , the people ' s lawyer , is extending here , and it is high time , —high time some one should reduce magisterial law in the agricultural counties into something like the bounds of common sense and common justice .

      It will be gratifying when they can join bands with the manufacturing districts on the field of mutual emancipation . But at present the poor agriculturist is bound and and foot in the power ot the Magistrate-Laodlord . He is obliged to take such law as the latter chooses to mete out to him—he cannot afford to pay for counsel-the , ourrounding attornies are on the hostile side-it fc all one way-and all the " freeborn Briton , " tb . e agricultural slave , can hope for U , that his roisters will not be too severe , and he will be a " better boy next time . " That is he will not dare to say his tml ' i faja own ,-.

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      —he will not dare to entertain liberal opmions-he will not dare to worship God according to his own conscience-he will not dare to speak his own mind —he will not dare to suppose the " Squire" or the " Parson " can be wrong ; in short , he will not dare to be a han , but will sink into a passive , slavish ,

      machine . . We say to the men of Lincolnshire , will they submit to this ? . Submit , while they see their brethren through England breaking the rotten fabrics of corruption piecemeal , around them ? No , they will be-they arb—up and stirring ! The light of truth is penetrating into the Fens , and the bloated toads of antiquated misrule that lurk in its wet hollows , are beginning to blink and retreat before the advancingday .

      We have watched the late occurrences in Lincolnshire , since we have seen an omen of a manly spirit in the attitude assumed Jby the people . We will watch them still—mi mm \ l have our eyes upon their Magistrates . Wefeel , however , hound to make mention of two gentlemen who are an honour to their station-the one is Mr Allin , a Magistrate whose manly and impartial conduct deserves the

      highest praise ; the other is Mr Foster , a Solicitor , who has proved himself a true friend to the cause of justice and humanity . We hail such men with delig ht . We war against no class-we honour EftuAL ^ Y the good in all classes—we oppose measures , and not men j and are willing to concede to every one the enjoyment of his own , claiming that he does not infringe on oust ' s and our bights , in return .

      Public Health. On Monday Last An Inquest...

      PUBLIC HEALTH . On Monday last an inquest was held on the body of a man who was suffocated by inhaling foul air in a privy in Langley-court , Long-acre . Other parties who sought to rescue the unfortunate man , nearly perished from the noxious exhalation . The evidence adduced at the inquest , threw some light on the nature of the sewerage of the district , and its usual consequences , to which it is important to point public attention , as affording an illustration of the impera . tive necessity for instant and sweeping sanitary reform . The immediate cause of death in the instance

      which has drawn public notice to Langley-court , and the adjacent district , was not the general impurity of the air arising from deficient sewerage , stagnant cesspools , and open privies , but a particular emanation caused by vitriol thrown down a drain , and coming in contact with lime previously thrown down to disinfect the soil contained in it , and thus render houses habitable which , without such an expedient , would not have been fit to live in . But , if the drains had been properly constructed , there would have been no occasion to use lime for the purpose of

      neutralising the noxious exhalations arising from putrifying matter . When caustic lime is thrown into a cesspool , the sulphuretted hydrogen from the foul matter combines with it , and forms sulphuret of lime . The poison is still there , it only takes a solid , instead of a liquid and gaseous form—the vitriol , being an acid , when it came in contact with this body , immediately disengaged the poison , and gave out a quantity of mephitic gas , which produced almost instantaneous death in one case , threatened to he fatal in others , and must have been more or less prejudicial to tbe whole neighbourhood . But

      what is the ordinary state of the district ? The houses where the accident occurred had drains running down the court , and communicating with a sewer built about 24 years ago . The accumulation of soil in that sewer was three feet deep , and the mouth of the drain nearly choked up . The sewer was intended to empty itself into another in Hartstreet , in which there was an accumulation of filth to the depth of one foot eight inches . This , then , blocked up the Langley-court sewer , which was deeper than the one intended to carry away from it the filth of which it was meant to be the conductor

      Instead of this , by the wretched and ignorant con . struction of these sewers , itisevidentthat they became retorts for the generation of poison , instead of pipes for its removal . To counteract the constant exhalation uf morbific gases arising from this defective construction , lime was constantly used to render the atmosphere endurable to the senses . It did that to the vitiated perceptions of the regular inhabitants

      of the court ; but what the landlord called a " common smell , " and thought nothing of , was aptly brought out by a question from Mr ^ Berry , a surgeon ; he stated that "he went on the day after the accident to the yard , in company with Mr Berry , and that he tben found no perceptible mell there . " Mr Berry said— " He asked the question , because he himself found the stench to he excessive at the time . "

      In this vitiated and pestilential atmosphere , there are sometimes forty individuals residing in one house . The surgeon stated that he had recently been in one bouse in which a man lay dead , there were forty other inmates in the house , and all these had but one cesspool—for it was not a water-closet —among them . " There is always fever in tht neighbourhood , and , not only fever but serious

      depression of spirit was also caused by the constant prevalence of offensive odours . " Here , then , there is no escaping from the direct inference to be drawn from the facts which stand so evidently iu the relation of cause and effect to each other ; and this is the history of nearly all the districts into which the poor are crowded , not only in the metropolis , but in all the ether large towns in this country .

      The general results , as exhibited by tbe Registrar General , are appalling . In the year ending June , 1847 , the excess of mortality over the natural and ordinary deaths , amounted 67 , 712 , and that in only one-fourth of the population—for , of course , in making up such tables , all the upper , middle , and healthily-located classes , ate excluded . Neatly seventy-seven thousand of the working and poorer classes are swept away by these pestilential aud death-dealing exhalations in one year ] When the

      cannon , the musket , and sabre , mowed down their thousands at Waterloo , a wail of sorrow went through the land . But such battles occur only rarely . Upwards of thirty years have elapsed since " the crowninf carnage , Waterloo , " and every year since a more subtle , deadly , and sure destroyer of human life , has been permitted to revel among the dwellings of the poor , and to wage a war with the children of Industry , in which it annually mows down a greater number of victims , than fell oa that bloody field .

      If we could realise to our minds this immense number of persons—annually carried to the grave by preventible causes—if we could adequately conceive of the suffering which precedes death , the destitution and pauperism which follows it—if the loss of health , strength , and skilled industry which it costs us , were summed up—together with the amount levied in rates , to maintain the widows and families of the victims who fall on the fever-fieldthere would , surely , be a more earnest endeavour , on the part of all classes , to put an end to this deplorable state of things ,

      As it is , though there is a general recognition of the evil , and of the necessity of doing something relative to it , no one seems to have a vital perception of its magnitude , or of the imperative necessity for immediate and vigorous exertion put an end to it . In the case which has elicited these remarks , ono of the CommissJonets of Sewers told the Jury

      that everybody was aware of the mischieUevery one anxious to temedy-but unluckily , no one who cared about the matter , bad the power . The Commissibners liad no authority to make a ewer-the Parish was in the earne predicament . The owners of fte property would not move , ani so fever continues to slay its victims in the densely-crowded aud ptegue-atrickeu kj « aity > We name complaint

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      we have heard from , Common-Councilmen tf the City . « We have no power to apply a remedy , say they , " give us the power and you will see what mil do . " But , somehow or , other , whenever the Gowrnment interferes . with the subject , " strike high or strike low , " there is no pleasing these gentry ; Parish Boards , District Commissioners , Select Vestries , and Corporations , all unite in one yell of opposition . Public health , and genuine arrangements for its preservation , based upon enlightened principles , and constructed upon scientific principles , are very good in their way ; but not half so important as the perpetuation of the race of local ' 0 .

      great men , and parish busy-bodies , who , in the exercise of concurrent powers manage to neutralise the little good which each might effect , in consequence of their mutual antagonism , and the absence of a central controlling power to compel them to perform effectively the duties entrusted to them . As this subject is not only of paramount importance in itself , but one which is likely , at an early period of the session , to come before Parliament in a practical shape , we shall return to it , with the view of inquiring , how the requisite central control can he combined with that freedom of local action which is an essential and cherished principle of our old Saxon institutions .

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      Kticiu.Nbopi. Nottingham Btscriok Fokd.—...

      KTICIU . NBOPI . Nottingham BtscrioK Fokd . —J . Sweet acknowledges the receipt of the following suras , with thanks . —From Bromsgrove , 2 s 8 d ; from-Reading , 6 d ; Mr C . Fish , Within , 5 s ; from the Seven Stars , 3 s ; per Mr Clark , Land office , London , jB 8 10 s fld ; Mr Houghton , Is ; from Wolverhampton , £ 16 s ; Mr Hepingstall , Hull , 6 d . The Nottinoham Suction . — Please to acknowledge through tbe medium of tho Star the following circurastance : — Being in company with some * Pot com . panions , ' it was agreed that we should make a subscription towards defraying the expenses of the Not . tiriKham Election ; which was done and two shillings

      and twopence collected , which I herewith forward . J . Tauob . Jdlun IlAKNEThns received the following monies for the General Election Fund : —It * . Eramerson , Man-/> iiofifgr * 2 s » A Boi or Sixtzek . —The lines are too imperfect for pubtteatum . Aniens . —No room . LixfMsxowtf . — Sir . —The money sent for the Election Fund in last week's Star from Littletown , should have been per Thomas Crossley : ~ Hightown , £ 2 3 s 3 d j Ebenezer Clegg , ditto , 7 s 3 d ; James Charlesworth , Littletown , £ l 5 s 4 d ; William Chapman , HsckmondwicVe , 18 s 2 d ; William Lacy , Cleckheaton , la 6 d . Cbabmswobth

      August 17 th , 1847 . J . . To tub Editor or the Nobthebn Stab . —Sir , ~ I hav *> written to Mr O'Connor , though I think you could havo spared me the trouble , by giving Mr O'Connor intimation of the nature of my . question in your brief notice . The question emanates from more than 200 shareholders . I am requested to ask ( if the information can be given ) what expense has been incurred for the election of Mr O'Connor , as well as M'Grath and Clark . However insignificant my letters may appear , ( and worthy of careful suppression ) it would be well for you to understand that I am now endeavouring to collect money for the liquidation of the late election contests . The political Chartists here beyond their own pale are destitute of social influence . Since I have been in the ranks , lhave collected more money as an individual for ^ meetings , than anyjof tho others could , through my acquaintance with the middle classes , and I never found them ( i . e . the political Chartists ) thankful for

      what I have done ; but , per contra , meanly envious that they could not do the same . I have received at their hands nothing but gross intratitude , and if I were not indebted to the sound education I received in early life , I might , like others , mistake the man for the principle . But , however , Feargus O'Connor , and not theso men , taught me the moral value of Chartism , so that I shall keep my mind steadily bent upon supporting Chartism whenever " opportunity will permit , and am , sir , Yourobedient servant , E . ROBERT-Oy , Plymouth , August 17 th , 18 ( 7 . I request publicity for the following notice : — 'The land members of Newton Abbott district . J . B . Crews , district secretary , having appealed to the members for a farthing each to liquidate his expenses , this is to inform them , that the directors are responsible for his expenses and not the members , which must be paid out of the Expense Eund , see rule 29 . ' E , Robertson , Plymouth .

      ( Our friend Robertson's egotism misleads him . We assure him that we have no desire to' suppress' his letters . If occasional communications of his are withheld itis no detriment to his credit . As , however , Mr B . has an itching for publicity , we have given the above , we question , notwithstanding , vihetotv sucVi publicity is even for himself desirable . ] Nottingham Election . —J . Skerrit begs to acknowledge the receipts of the following suras on behalf of tha NottinghamElectton Committee jfromNationnl Land , Office , per Mr T . Clarke , £ S 10 s 5 d ; from the Central Registration and Election Committee , per Mr Grasby , £ 30 . Jams M'Ainsh , CriefF . —No room . Joseph Wood , 'Seeretnrytotne four o ' clock committee , ' sends us a long letter , claiming most of the honour of the recent victory gained in the building trade , for the

      masons ; setting forth that they have superior claims to that distinction , as compared with the claims of the carpenters and joiners . This is a matter for the lengthy discussion of which we cannot afford space . Samoet Hudson , Nottingham .... We cannot insert everything , and we had no room for your communica tion . T . Bell , Wigton . —We cannot answer your question . We have sent your letter to Mr O'Connor . To the Chartists and Landshbn . —I spent the whole of last Sunday at the O'Conuorrillc Estate , and during my intercourse with the allottees , I was introduced to Mr Lamboume , a tailor , who had received an order from a person named Putman , to make him a suit of clothes . To do this , Mr Lambourne spent the little money he had , but when the clothes were finished he found that this man l ' utman did not intend to pay for the things ,

      and thus the money he had expended had been a total loss . Our friend would wish to dispose of the clothe * by public ballot , if the members of the Laud and Chartist Associations will do him the favour to start tho affair . By so doing they would certainly aid a worthy man . Yours , faithfully , \ V . Barnes , Lambeth . Hard to Tkach . —To tho Editor , Ac—Dear Sir , —I can't tell what you mean by your saying that I mistake my vocation , in the Star of the 14 th inst ., with regards to my play , which you should have published . I shall be glad if you will send mo a letter solving the riddle , for which I have enclosed you a postage stamp . Hoping that you will write as quick as possible : I remain , Yours , very truly , JtSiES BUTXESWOITTH , t ¥ * We simply meant that Mr Butterworth could no more

      write a play than he could move the Peak of Teneriffo with his little finger . It is astonishing the pains some people will take to make themselves look ridiculous Ed . N . S . To t Pjibss Gang . —To the Editor of tha Northern Star . — Sir , —A writer in the 'Sunday Times' in his commentary on the elections , says :... < There have been some , but I need not mention their names elected , who have been great bawlers out of doors , and who maybe obstructors in the Commons' House of Parliament , but the way to silence them , is for the press to take no notice of their proceedings , except by a contemptuous paragraph . ' Sow , Mr Editor , cad vsvKitf Engltmo , Scotland , Ireland , and Wales , what say you to the above villainous writer ? A few liberal and patriotic constituencies having elected gentlemen , who will fearlessly do their

      duty to tho people , this is to be termed obstruction , and their acts and speeches are to be burked ! Shall we not take immediate steps to secure the benefit tho liberal electors have conferred upon thenation atlnrge , and devise some means by which their representatives may be faithfully reported , whether in or eut of tho House of Commons ! Let some liberal friends in tha metropolis immediately form themselves into { a com . ruittee , and confer with tho members of Parliament , Whose speeches are likely to be burked by the press , aud consult with them as to v , ha . t steps should be taken to strengthen their hands in the coming session Hoping you will consider these remarks worthy a place in your widely circulated journal , 1 remain , your obedient servant ,

      Newcastle-upon-Tyne . A Subscribes . August 18 th , 1817 . ^ - To those Auk bud "WiiWHo io Assist Wojk . ino Mek in the Pdbsdit of Knowledge . — Mr Julian Harney's triumphant nomination at the recent election at Tiverton has alread y produced important results . The shareholders of the Land Company have been considerably increased , a Strong Char tist Society has been formed , tht Northern Star has ob . tained a eoircideraW . accession of readers , and altogether , the democratic cause has , within the past few weeks taken a gigantic stride . Impressed with the conviction that' Knowledge is Power , ' Mr Mian Harney when at Tiverton , strongly urged the leading spirits to establish a Working Man ' s Library , which advice he followed up by contributing several books from his own collection . The Library , therefore , has been

      commenced and a little assistance will make the project successful , Any persons disposed to contribute books , or money to purchase books , for the above Library , ate requested to forward the same t « G . Julian Harney , 16 , Great WindmUl-street , Raymarket , London . Mr Joshua Hobbon writes as follows — ' In the « Star * of this day I perceive that Mr O'Connor and his peculiar correspondent , ' James Graham , attributed to me the authorship , or connection with , a certain article or articles that has or have appeared in a publication is . sued by Mr B . Lloyd , entitled the 'Gardener and the Florist . ' I write merel y to disclaim ths attributed fact With no one connected with Mr Lloyd ' s establishment have I had communication , director inditect ; with no , paper of any sort , size , or price have I had cones , pondance on the snbject named ; and of the article or articles iu question I am entirely ignorant , haviar never even seen them . bUU 1 B '" «»*« V ,

      « Huddersfiold , Aug . W ' J ° ' UqKVK ( ' AB << 1 , > . c , ! E * ? TIOK , ~ To tne EQ fo > r 0 * the * Novtt » rr SUr . ' -Sir .-In your last week ' s 'Star - you statS fflfS voter , named Cop-land , who had beenTgent K " Paris purposely to vote for General CanllfcM ba £ over . excitcd anho tune of giving his vote , „ Corft in mistake for Sir P . Theslger . Mr Co ^ and residi ( and came to tho Election from Ms reslience ) at sir Swindon , Wilts , which is about twenty Srom hr » The Mayor did not decide to take tho vote , h ™ ' ™ present until after the vote was recordedJifiSinto ( Uuue into the booth ha remarked « Th « » nt » „ , jL cH ?'

      erased . ' I hope you will excuse the liberty 1 b ' d » e ake in noticing this mistake . ^ aTe taKe Urn , Sir , your obedient Servant , ( The statement was cojled by us fom > a * iUy journal ] Julias Hum has received » ba ^ olio * l » g sums fa theCreuBralllection Fund , not' previously acknowledged : —John Dorksr , Kuar-. sborougb , 8 «; J . B . & Son , Chester , 10 »; and Jojfcn Prttchard , ditto , 10 * ; George Hoiloway , KtddsKiinsUr , Is ; W . Emmerson , Manchester , 3 s ; J . Taylor , ftoieodalt , 2 * 2 d . flJTA * tt U potslbto UtftltDonietamy have been sent te

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      . ¦• ' . » i *» « . IV ....... . , <^» :-. > r ^^^ **^ fc ^» - Mr Harney during WtsU ab »« n * Vf r 0 ltt r *** 3 may not have been acknowled ged , H » n » V quests that any person hiring cam- of- " " enquiry , will immediately addre-- a { J ^ kt the northern Star office . ^ ¦>«& Polish CoMMittM- —Mr Harney has recti ™ . j , Bartiett , J an ., Littleton P » Dneii , * Jj » « . k rrdttee . _ r "H ¦ - ¦ - - ^ - - - . ' > i . y »** . f >¦¦»¦¦ .-v ¦ , ^ . w . . „ , 7 ^^^ - *—^ fc ^^< ^ »/ - ' tf *» t *) tia «"» tfn » Ifio- It la »/» tft hmmIi ^ j ^^^ i ^ l

      Receipts Of The Nation Operative Land Co...

      RECEIPTS OF THE NATION OPERATIVE LAND CO ^& V / OB THE WBEK ENDING AtoKS * . PER MR O'CONKOB . SECTION No . I , ISABEL Crieff .. « e * 8 *•**<»•« - *¦ . * H "jn * .. SECTION K .. i , *>^ i Geo . Bishop « 0 \ ° ifiS *? " u Aberdeen « * * » fp ^& han , *» Edinburgh .. OH 2 ( Pare ) „ Oldham » \ I I Crieff „ u , Arbroath » l 0 ° Bata .. *

      i ^ SECTION No . 5 . ** S Long Buekby .. 0 17 0 Edinburgh „ William Parkin . ?! w ,, - U son .. .. 0 I 0 Arbroath .. i Thos . Homes .. 0 5 0 J . W . „ , Chas . Sciven .. 0 15 0 James Lowe „ « « John White .. 0 2 6 Stockport „ | j i Monmouth M 2 15 0 Ashton . under . '« Thomley .. 1 3 0 kyna .. ~ i „ Wm . Searie .. 1 0 o Birmingham " ' Alexandria .. 0 3 10 jPare ) ,. , Aberdeen .. 1 -J 0 Wra . Hoykj „ 0 Windy Nook .. 0 6 0 Chas . H » wland .. , ! Middlesbro' .. 0 6 0 Henry Parker „ „ *

      « 2 nJ SECTION No . 4 . ==== 5 , ; ! Wm . Williams ,. 0 I « Wilbamsoa M 0 , Long Buekby .. 1 0 0 A . Henderson „ , j , Hennor .. .. 0 2 6 Thos . French .. , „ » Edwd . Collins ,. 0 5 6 E . A . Lane „ „ j Aberdeen - 0 5 8 Windy Nook .. t „ John Lowe .. 0 5 0 Edinburgh .. 5 j Alexander Fil- H . D . Griffiths .. 0 < j leroy .. .. HO E . Griffiths .. o } Michael Shaw , H : D . Griffiths , ' senr ... « 0 2 0 A . E . s . .. * ,. Michael Shaw , n Chas . Mowl .. 0 i ) junr ... .. 0 2 0 Henry White .. , , Wm . Wooton .. 0 2 6 C . O . Bateman .. 0 t ! Monmouth .. 2 2 0 William Arm . ' Lynn .. ° * 2 ^ '' T * ., 0 31 Coxhoe .. « 17 8 Geo . Kionard .. 0 u H . Despicht .. 0 2 0 Geo . Simmondj ,, « , Stalvbridire .. 10 0 Oldham ,. ,,.

      R . W . Miller .. 0 10 Mlddlesborough . \ , George Patter- £ rbr < £ V " *» . son . » 0 5 9 Geo . Darling „ 0 l John Harrison .. 0 16 Wm . Palmer „ 0 1 Coulson Collin- W . T . PotUr „ j „ wood .. » 0 2 6 Wm . Broad ,. 0 « Edwd . Beake .. 0 4 0 Ann Broad „ 1 , ' Geo . Nicholl .. 6 2 0 Isaac Barker .. 0 1 J . Davey .. 0 3 0 Stockport „ ^ „ » Sundridge .. I 10 4 Ashton - undsr . Alexandria .. 11 7 2 Lync . H to p , John Reed « 0 3 6 Crieff ,. .. 8 {{ Aberdeen .. 3 1 4 Bath ., .. 2 « Francis Long .. 0 5 0 Barhead .. 110 John Eaton .. 0 2 6 Thomas Mens . Emma Price .. 0 5 0 feld .. .. 01 ,, m j * SECTION No . 5 . " *— - "'

      Wm . Parker .. 0 14 Alex . Shaw ., 0 5 1 Henkinch » 0 12 0 Ann Tucker „ 0 51 J . Bennett .. 5 4 4 Hy . Hargarett ., e u i Mary Ann Crabb 0 1 6 Hy . CoUett .. « i { Wm . Callan ,. 0 $ 0 John Sturgeon ,, 0 ( ( James Green- James Lee » 0 I ( wood .. .. 4 10 0 Roht . Fletcher .. 0 lo j Sarah Shaw ., 0 5 0 Wm . Clarridge .. 0 i , Isaac Tucker .. 0 5 0 John Mansell .. 5 t ( Jas . Ashton M 0 16 John Fryer .. t u ( £ 16 IS j )

      EXPENSE FUND . Long Buekby « 0 10 Sundridge „ 0 ( 1 Darvell ., .. Oil Alexandria ., « : I James Bennett .. 0 2 . 0 Edinburgh „ • 1 Monmouth .. 0 10 Oldham „ a 51 Do . m 0 10 Middlesborough 0 i j Coxhoe .. .. 0 S 6 CrieS .. „ j 3 { Stalybridge .. 0 2 6 John Mansell ,. on John Frjac « 0 l t £ 3 U TOTAL LAND FOND . Mr O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 0 i 1 Mr O ' Connor , Section No . 2 ... 7 $ Mr O'Connor , Section No . 3 ... 2213 $ Mr O ' Connor , Section No . 4 ... 94 S J Mr O'Connor , Section No . 5 ... 16 13 W Expense Fund ... ... 3 2 i Rules ... ... 0 111 Bank ... ... 11 0 0 & 55 J 6 J Cbbistmib * . Dozle , Taos . Clau , Pnurr H'Gbazh , Secr-tarj , Tbe above are the whole of the monies received st &> . Office during the present week , and as no list bai bre forwarded by th » director * from Lowbands ; the Hot ; . tances to that place cannot be acknowledged ia tbif day ' s Stab . On behalf of ths Directers , SAHr / u Boaxm .

      Thb Loiinoi* Boiler Makers.—The Celebrat...

      Thb Loiinoi * Boiler Makers . —The celebratk of tbe seventh anniversary of the Rose and Albioi lodge of the Friendly United Boiler Makers Society , held at the Star and Garter , Arbour-square , toot SJace atthe New Globe Tavern , Mile End Road , on londay evening last . An excellent dinner va served in first-rate style by tbe worthy host , Mt Gardner , te about 130 hearty appetities wiodidit ample justice . A numerous and efficient band , under the direction of Mr GaheU , discoursed sweet bhbvJ to knife and fork accompaniment . Mr Julian Harney presided ; after the cloth ' s removal , the toastmaster gave . ' The health of the employers , and ma ) a good understanding always exist between tbe em <

      ployer and the employed , to the end , that a fair days wage may bathe reward for a fair uay ' u work . ' 1 h « band played 'The Good Old English ; Gentleman , ' The next toast was , 'Health and prosperity to tl * Foremen , aud may they decide justly between nwtn and men . ' Responded to by a foreman , ( ffhotf name we did not catch . ) The band played , ' lie ' s a jolly good fellow ; ' with a hearty chorus of the assembled friends . 'Prosperity to the United Order ot Friendly Boiler Makers ef Great Britain and Ir «* land , * was next given . The baud played , * The Brave Old Oak . * Mr M'Namara , the . branch secretary , ia responding , said , the toast needed not any voice to call forth a response from the assemolw

      shopmates , for each pulsation re-echoed that sentiment ; neither did they lack acts to testify it , for during the last winter , they all knew the dreadful state trade was in at that period ; no workhouw mastiff growled at a boiler makers petition for reliefs no , their lodge alone , had expended £ 500 during tfl « winter ; Some of the foremen had attempted to fores upon them as legal men , mere lads , this had been nobly withstood and defeated . ( Cheers . ) Yet for all this , their exchequer wag not empty ; nor they b ^ a strong fund , which was increasing daiy . ( Cbeera . l Besides attending to eur own wants , our hands and hearts , too , had been open to their brethren of other trades . The Warringten lads had received £ 130 to

      oppose the masters' tyrannical ' conspiracy- ' Man trades ' unions were on the debtor side of their ledger , but none on the creditor ' s . ( ' True . ' andeheera . ) Aftet some other observations , the speaker concluded 0 / proposing—' Health and prosperity to Mr Jota Roberts , the worthy corresponding secretary , sndtw executive council of tho Manchester unity . ' Threa cheers and one cheer more , accompanied the drink " ! of the toast ; the hand playrng « A man ' s a man ftf a' that . ' The Chairman t . ' nen gave the next sentiment—* T . S . Duncomb / j , M . P . ; and may ty speedily recover . ' Responded to in a highly eulogist speech , relating bis triumphant history , by Mr A < Fletcher , tbe lodge president . The Chairman also

      spojee at length on t ' ue political life and actions el Mr Buncombe . His remarks were warmly applaud- * ; An Address to ' Mr Buncombe was then read and adopted . The > Mn & playing , See the Conquering H" <> Comes . ' . 'The Liberty of the Press' was responded to by Mr Gathard , highly praising the -SWj andrecapjtv iatingthe dseda that Vv « - u » dd red Bh 1 f K < " aeM 8 - Th « Chairman next ga « - nK ^'" ' ' Placing the toast with some 1 eoa-P "Sf ° ^ y temarkuontho fair sex , which wratowV aWto . ded . The last toast was- 'The Health of W ^ 5 « -V . inan . ' Mr Julian Harney respon ded m »« - * L **» . t lengthy and telling address , showing tw *» stages of union . He was loudly cheered . - » , ' spacious ha llwas then cleared for dancing , whicn

      kept up with great spi iifcmany hours . - ADDRESS TO T . S . BUNCOMBE , ESQ ., M-J " BRespeo ted SiR , —We , the members of tw *» . oi Albion Lodge , of the United Order of ft ** " } Beiler Makers' Society , much regret the cause w 1 has . Nrithheld from us the honour of your presw . at our festive board this evening . We earnesw . ? iiope tbaOour present serious afflictioa may , short duration , so that you may again if- ** n > , active meritorious and triumphant exertions w « half of tbe working classes of this county- abu ! hereby tender you our unfeigned thanks tor ) j ! upright conduct in the House of Commonswj » the interests of our order bavft been jwP «*» ^ J / the enemies of humanity . We have not forgo » o how you so boldly stood in our defence and crus 1 the iniquitous Master and Servants' Bui . this , and the very many favours and ^ mb" j P have conferred upon us , our gratitude , atd ** ' our poitwrity , will be as hating as tbe ^ P % Ji guage . The name and acts of Duncombe w » ct « cfettacteri 8 ed , J » theptwuTwr oC Ubftrt ?*

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21081847/page/4/