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    • T H ED A I LY'N'BW'S;
    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1846.
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      The Northern Star. Saturday, June 27, 1846.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JUNE 27 , 1846 .

      Russell And The Ordinary Law. In Our 3th...

      RUSSELL AND THE ORDINARY LAW . In our 3 th pa ^ e will be f und an article fro m tho 3 fonung Chronicle of Monday last , a kind of justification for Lord Junx Russell ' s timely opposition to the Irish Coercion Bill . It is invariably the practice with journalists to purify their party ofali delinquencies npontheeve of itsaeesssion to power . We find no feult with Russell ' s opposition to Irish Coercion , ¦ while wc mast confess our ditiicultv at finding any substantial reason for Russell ' s opposition to the present measure . In 1833 the Irish people were roused to madness by the extensive promises of good held oat by the Whigs in the evens of their restoration to power . While England was in a state bordering npon revolution , it was not astonishing that Ireland , more susceptible of the flames of agitation , which promiwd so many benefits to an enslaved people , should have participated in the national rejoicing , nor was It wonderful that those slaves whose rivets the Whigs promised to loosen , should have evinced a characteristic enthusiasm amounting to temporary . insanity , but it was wonderful that the first act of the favored government diould have been the most base , bloody , and brutal act , that ever deformed the Statute Book .

      What beyond its unseasonab ' cnrss is there in Peel ' s Coercion Bid to be compared with Russell ' s Coercion Bill ? What so bloody in its en . iciment or so atrocious in its administration ? Besides tho domiciliary visits , now & o fraught with Ihe odium of gpyism , had we not Courts Martial established as a substitute for the ORDINARY LAW ? And yet the Chronicle , in its endeavour to whitewash Russell , endeavours to show us how the Whig party 1 relied upon the ordimry law , and upon

      it alone for the suppression of Chartist viofcriw and outrage . Let us see vhethcr there is truth in this assertion . From the time of Xohmakiiv ' s appointment as Viceroy of Ireland , to Ihe hour that the Chartists hurled the Whigs from office , that faction relied upon O'Coskell , and upon O'Coxkell aluiie , as a means of resisting public opinion , and bidding defiance to the ORDINARY LAW , and therefore the ORDINARY ACTS of the whole Whig section must be reviewed .

      There is this difference between coercion and the ordinary law . Whereas , the horrors of au unconstitutional measure may be mitigated by watchfulness ad circum ? pection , the straining of the ORDI

      Russell And The Ordinary Law. In Our 3th...

      NARY LAW is allowed to pass current , as the usual practice . However , we shall test the two powers . We , amongst others , denounced the Irish Coercion Bill , and denunciation and watchfulness , public jealousy , and the power to appeal , rendered it a dead letter upon the statute book ; while , as we shall show , the Whigs not only strained the ORDINARY LAW , but used threats and intimidation

      unprecedented , and contrary to all law . When the Chartists met , and merely expressed their disapproval of Whig treachery , their prop and mainstay volunteered to send over FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND FIGHTING IRISHMEN , to annihilate Ihe rascally Chartists . Two Chartists went to Dublin to propound the meek , the pure , and holy principles of Chartism , and their lives were assailed by the Janissaries of the liberfcy-loving Liberator .

      Iu 1839 , Mr . Justice Littledale , in charging the Grand Jury of Warwickshire , composed of landlords , designated the Chartists as a body who sought to possess themselves of tfhe land of the country , and gave Lovett and Collins in charge to the petty jury , with the same brand of ORDINARY LAW upon them . Mr . O'Connor was twice tried in 1839 for libel , and in each case was proceeded against by ex o fficio information , and was tried by Special Juries selected by the Crown . In 1839 , -following up the policy of O'Connell , Lord John Russell armed the Volunteer Corps , ihirsting for the blood of the

      Chartists ; and under that odious designation set every man with a particle of property against those who struggled fir the rights of their order . In the same year the Staffordshire magistrates finding it impossible to contend against the growing spirit of Chartism , and having discovered that the OHDINA RY LAW was powerless against the national mind , they consulted the prime minister , ( Lord Melbourne ) and what was the Whig premier ' s advice ? Didhe say «; Rely upon the ORDiNAR YLAW ?* No , his answer , his memorable > Vhig answer was , ' RUIN THEM WITH EXPENCES . Was this in

      conformity with the ORDINARY LAW ? or was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that the Whig government , by their own confession , sent a train of spies to follow Mr . O'Connor through Scotland to watch , to fabricate , and report and to transmit an account of the STATE OF THE HARVEST . Was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that Peddie was offered £ 500 a year and his liberty , to put the rope round FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S NECK ? Was it in eomplianee with the ORDINARY LAW that Harrison , the horse stealer , the coiner , and thief ,

      received £ 70 from Government to swear against Peddie , Holderut , and Clayton ? Was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that Mr . O'Connor , should pay £ 105 traverse fees out of his own poeket before the Chartists of Liverpool would be allowed the poor privilege of trial ? Was it according to the ORDINARY LAW that working men should pine for six months in prison in default of finding bail to the amount of £ 1000 ? Was it in compliance with the ORDINARY LAW that woiking men should be confined with felons , murderers ,

      and robbers , for merely listening to what privilege considers seditious speeches ? Was it according to ORDINARY LAW that their hair should be cropped , that they should bo in solitary confinement , and put to hard labour for two , three , four , or five years ? Was it according to ORDINARY LAW that , in defiance of professional representations , working men should be allowed to die in prison ? Was it according to the ORDINARY LXW that juries , were packed , judges selected , spies hired , and witnesses bribed to persecute and hunt down the English Chartists ?

      Was it according to the ordinary law that the DORCHESTER LABOURERS WERE TRANSPORTED ? And was it according to the same ORDINARY ' LAW that the Glasgow Cotton Spinners were sentenced to transportation ? Was it according to the same ORDINARY LAW that Frost , Williams , and Jones were transported without trial , and that Tom Philiipps was knighted for his breeches . In short , was it according to the

      ordinarylaw that " the base , brutal , and blood y Whins" perverted all law , violated all decency and custom , te overthrow a political party whose enthusiasm was raised to madness by Whig perfidy and treacheiy ? There is an apparent mildness , but a positive ferocity in the strainingof the ; ORDINARY LAW , unknown to unconstitutional measures . In the one case , there is sympathy for those who have suffered , in the other , there is no compassion for those who have had a FAIR TRIAL .

      Such is tue black catalogue of Whig ORDINARY LAW , and yet we hail the restoration of the puppets to power . From a statesman like Peel , aud with the representative system like ours , the country has nothing to expect but a fair adjustment and balancing of commercial interests with the ministerial HOPE , that the working classes MAY derive some benefit from the change , while the Whigs can no longer hold power except upon popular sufferance . We now want a ministry so weak , that we can say DO THIS or TAKE TUAT , ( the walking paper ) . We do not desire to see a strong minister ' s hands

      strengthened for seven years longer . We do not want a despotic master , we want a PLAYTHING . Russell knows that his only chance of preserving poiveris through a more liberal" constituency . We know that tiie difference between Whigs and Tories is just this , that , whereas the Whig constituencies are too liberal for their representatives , the Tory representatives arc too liberal for their constituencies . With Peel it is onward for peace , commercial prosperity , and middle class support ; with Russell it is patronage , by any means he can procure it .

      However this struggle may end , which has now fairly commenced , the Chartist party'must so put their house in order as to bid defiance to coercion , and steer clear of the ORDINARY LAW . To struggle for such a representation of labour as can hold the balance of power between contending factions , and snap administration after administration , until tha people shall find themselves fully , freely , ami fairly represented in the House of Commons , and then they may bid defiance to COERCION and WHIG ORDINARY LAW .

      Tub Change. In The Midst Of A Comparativ...

      TUB CHANGE . In the midst of a comparatively settled state of things , warn humbled labour is satisfied with its humble fare , or prefers it to the degrading stigma of pauperism in a workhouse , it was not easy to convince the labouring classes that any event , however unforeseen , unexpected or sudden , could proximately or remotely affect their condition . They were led , if not to expect all tbey desired , at least to anticipate some improvement from the measures of Sir

      Robert Peel , in the discussion of which their several advocates were compelled to baso approval upon the advantages which labour was sure to derive from them . In a country like England , where the bludgeon , the justice ' s Cat , or the terror of the law goes far to arrest the expression of popular feeling , it is no light ' . triumph to enforce even an affected consideration for tiie condition of the working classes from their superiors . We are , however , upon the eve of that time when reality must follow the metaphor

      Tub Change. In The Midst Of A Comparativ...

      of partF ; and when something more than "LIVE HORSE AND YOU'LL GET GRASS" must be labour ' s share of a struggle in which the strongest Ministry that ever held power in the country has been wrecked . There was a time when the mere transfer of power from the hands of the conquered to the conqueror would have been participated in as a national triumph , but that day is past and gone . And sO far from the quiet indifference with which the working classes received the great changes now being made , marking their increased loyalty or confirmed submission to power , it but proves the sevc . ranee of all reliance on , the abandonment of all hope in , the present system of representation .

      After a storm comes a calm , and , as we have before shown , it was not the interest of any party in the state to have broken that long and dreary calm which is about to give way to a dreadful storm . The snapping asunder of governments is the life of democracy —the quick"step of progression . If the movement party accomplishes no single one of its purposes , it nevertheless strengthens itself by the multiplication of its adherents , and increases its strength for the day of general action . Nothing but the bold policy of Sir Robert Peel could have kept the bubbling mind of tkis country so long in abeyance . If the Whigs had been in power , during the last few years , and . as has been their invariable

      practice , had retained power by pandering to the prejudices of the English middle classes , and by bestowing patronage upon the roost sub . servient , the most truculent , and venal faction of Irish place-hunters , the future might have been an easy period for their successors . But the bold and gigantic measures of a great statesman , not less than the bold and startling truths spoken by labour ' s advocates in the House of Commons , has opened a new path , and interposed new obstacles in the way of all future governments . For instance , we much doubt that the old system of keeping the Whigs in with no better object than to "keep the Tories out" would now satisfy what are called the liberal constituencies . '>

      There is something to bo done next which neither Whigs nor Tories have , as yet , dreamt of , but upon which the industrious portion of society has made up its mind ! The questions of representation , of production , and of distribution , however they may have slept under the mantle of the free trade measures , and however the occult science of political economy may have smothered truth and perverted argument for a season—yet will those hobgoblins of Whiggery and monopoly once more awake , and present greater ob

      staclesin the way of Sir Robert Peel ' s successo " than even the Irish Church , with all its cumbrous and growing difficulties . While we write , Sir Robert Peel is still Prime Minister of England , with a party large enough to sustain him in power so long as he undertakes the responsibility of smoothing the way of his opponents to office ; But before the Star shall have reached its destination , and when Sir Robert Peel ' s greatest triumph shall have been achieved , the long calm will have passed away , and the stoini will have commenced .

      The Cheshani House coalition gives painful earnest of Lord John Russell ' s future policy . Having , for a long period , retained office by permitting Mr . O'Cohkell to distribute Irish patronage , he vainly hopes to try his hand once more at the same game . O'Connell is again ready to SINK REPEAL for a real union , the meaning of which is , the restoration of Irish patronage ; but we are glad to find that a new Irish difficulty has . sprung up , and that the " Young Ireland" party FOR THE PRESENT , more wedded to principle than to patronage , have registered a damaging vow in favour

      of a process by which they ultimately hope to have a share of the loaves and fishes . Ireland , it is true , can never expect a redress of grievances except by a thorough union of her sons , but that union must be formed upon the principle of progression ; and out of the sparring of faction we hope to see it accomplished . That O'Connell , at his time of life , will look for ease in patronage , throwing much of the responsibility upon those who bestow it , no one can doubt . And that those who have so long lived in idleness upon his policy , will still rely upon him as a salesman , is equally certain . BUT ,

      NEVERTHELESS , HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED , his power is shaken , his throne is tottering , his influence for mere Whig purposes is gone , and those who have caused the rupture must look to other than mere local appliances to sustain them in so unequal a struggle . A majority of the Roman Catholic priesthood of the higher order of clergy will range themselves upon the side of the Liberator and ease ; but the young priesthood , sprung from Irish farmers , whose families have tasted the bitter gall of oppression and religious inferiority , will flock to the standard of Young Ireland and nationality . As yet THEY have no hope of patronage . No

      expectation of possessing other power than that which is derived from a fiery , enthusiastic , credulous , and confiding people . Many of the Young Ireland orators are related to Roman Catholic clergymen , and to om knowledge many of the young clergy have been with difficulty restrained in subjection to the O'Connell policy , by the austere discipline of their superiors : a discipline , however , which is being daily relaxed , a discipline from which a large majority would be gladly released . This young party , when the struggle commences , will be compelled to look elsewhere for aid to sustain them in the contsist , and if they are sincere of purpose , they will find tbat aid in co-operation with the IMPERIAL CHARTISTS , and from them alone .

      Parliamentary Review. We Are Hurrying To...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . We are hurrying to the close of one of tho most eventful and exciting sessions of modern times . It will be distinguished for having engrafted the axioms of a new system of political ceocomy on tho stock of an old monarchy , and perfected a bloodless revolution in the commercial policy of the greatest trading nation in the world . Since our last " review" the peers have been almost exclusively occupied with the Corn and Customs Bills . A final stand was made on the former ou Monday night , when Lord Ashburton proposed a

      resolution condemnatory of the immense stores of com now in bond being allowed to bs poured into the market under the reduced prices of the new scale , and that too at the time when the English farmer is preparing for his harvest , and will in consequence be compelled to send to market and pay old rents out of new prices . The misgivings of his Lordship as to the effect of this upon the home growers were natural , but , unfortunately , he did not suggest any practical mode of obviating the injury which they might receive , and the government did not feel it to be their province to do so . Lord

      Dalhousie , however , endeavoured to allay his brother peer ' s alarm at the prospect of "letting in an enormous quantity of grain without any precaution at all , " by assuring him " that so far from expecting an increase from foreign countries , the prospects of the forthcoming - harvest indicated a very different result . Nature appeared to be setting her elements in conspiracy against them . If they would refer to the history of Europe for tho past year , they would find that in the north there had been a deficiency on account of wet , while in the south a

      similar calamity had occurred on account oi drought , ' : This assurance naciueu some of tk " non-contents , " and the resolution was negatived by a majority of 23 . That was the last fight and the last division against the Corn Bill . Lord Stanley announced on the part of the Protectionists that they would content themselves on its third reading on Thursday ( this evening ) by simpl y entering their protest against it . Its late therefore is certain . Protests do not arrest the progress ol successful measures .

      The remainder of their Lordships' sittings have been principally occupied by tho Customs' Bill , on the various items of which there have been many discussions and several divisions . Richmond , Stanuope

      Parliamentary Review. We Are Hurrying To...

      and Stanlbi , successively tried to throw the shield of protection over native industry . They fought for the hop grower , the paper stainer , the lace weaver , the shoemaker , and the silk weaver , but in vain . The resistless torrent of Free Trade swept everything before it , and on Tuesday night the Customs' Bill was declared to have passed the ordeal st the Committee unscathed ; was reported , and ' ordered also to be read a third time and passed , on Thursday evening .

      We confess , that we think the case made out in favour of a hi-her protecting duty being retained in the several trades we have mentioned , was veiy strong . Lace , for instance , is a luxury which need only be indulged in b y those who can well afford it . If the present rates on the importation of foreign lace have the effect of giving mo re encouragement to the native manufacture , why should the home market be depreciated simply that fine ladies may have French lace borders to their caps a little cheaper ? The effect on the paper-stainers of a reduction in the existing duties has been already shown in the Star . Before the reduced duties have had ti me to take

      effect , the masters , by anticipation , hr . ve reduced the wages of the journeymen from Is . 4 d . to Is . 3 d . of their present earnings . In the shoe trade , increased competition with the cheap and showy goods of France , must lead to . decreased wages ; and , above all , "the silk trade constitutes , as we said , at the time the question was before the Commons , so clear a case for exemption , that we do not wonder the weavers employed in the trade , proposed to make it a special one for examination at the Bar of their Lordships House , and instructed counsel to appear for them there , if permis 'ion could be obtained .

      The Duke of Richmond , however , to whom their petition was entrusted , failed to secure the boon they sought , though it was only denied by the use of proxies in a most unusual and unjustifiable manner . We have , however , virtually arrived at the end of the session . Its one great task is done , and , strange to say , all the rumours among political circles , tend also to establish the almost certainty , that with the termination of their successful struggle for Commercial Reform , will also terminate the power of the present Ministry . Sir Robert Peel falls at the moment of victory ! It is confidently asserted , that

      triumph in the Lords on Thursday night is to be followed closely up , by defeat in the Commons on Friday night , on the Coercion Bill . The son of the cotton spinner has beaten the old aristocracy , and cotton spinners and merchants , clutching at the benefits of his labours , are ^ content to let the combined Whig and Tory aristocracy oust him from office , and wreak that vengeance personally which they cannot gratify in any other way . This may be political , but it is by no means , to our thinking , moral justice ; nor is it likely to hold out encouragement to

      other Premiers , to outstep , in future , the narrow boundaries of party . If they look to it at all , it will be as a warning , not to leave the safe and beaten track of partizanship , for the broad but more perilious path of national reforms , and national support . Instead of pursuing with free and firm step , the road that leads to general improvement , they will more likely , with this example before them , bend to the miserable necessities of their position , and more crippled by the bandages and swaddling clothes of party policy .

      But though this is the most obvious tendency of the resignation of Sir Robert Peel , at the very moment when months of . anxious labour , of the endurance of fierce invective and unmeasured vituperation from former friends , and of ill-timed taunts from old political rivals , have been crowned with success ; we are not without hope that its deeper moral will prevail . We cannot . believe that the almost unexampled manner in which Peel abandoned old and cherished

      opinions , and Old personal friendships , to obey what he considered the voice of a great majority of the peoplt , and to make concessions to what he believed a great public necessity , will be forgotten by the people , when the passions , excited by the struggle , have passed away . It is the interest of the masses that the Minister of the day should be as little as possible hampered by the trammels of party connection ; and it was precisely because , from the beginning , we saw the strong tendency of the course pursued by Pkel to bre k up the oligarchical system of government which has so long prevailed in this country , that we gave it our hearty support .

      Another reason why the Peel policy of 1 S 16 should be held up for example is , that it laid down , for the first time in official life , the great truth , that adherence "to old opinions is not a virtue , but a nice ; that consistency is a child ' s virtue ; and that manhood's highest- character is jyrogress . Why should the man of forty be bound by the crude and unnatural opinions of fifteen ? Are we never to loavn 1 Are we to shut our eyes and our ears—or .

      seeing , see not—and hearing , understand npt ? Is the " wisdom of our ancestors" to be the " ultima Thule " of human knowledge ? No ! Progress is the hig hest attribute of humanity ; and nowhere is it so desirable to see that attribute actively at work as among those to whom the destiny of nations is entrusted . The world has too iong been governed on old traditional maxims . The time lias come when rulers , as well as people , must use , in the words of the American

      poet—Act , act , in the living present , Heart within , and God o ' erhead . Science and machinery , and the press , are daily multiplying new facilities for attaining a higher scale of political and social existence than has heretofore been achieved by man . It is only by the people and their rulers working together in good faith progressively , that these facilities can be turned to their proper use . To that use they must ba turned , ov , instead of being beneficent genii , working tor all and blessing all , they will realize the fiction of Frankenstein , and become monsters incessantly hunting , and devouring their creators .

      We must not pass over without notice the magnificent defence of Peel , on last Friday week , in reply to tho personal charges alleged against him by Bentinck . and D'Israeli , as to his treatment of Canning with reference to the Catholic Emancipation Bill . Though urged by the one with all the force and bitterness of a relative of Canning , and a deadly poli tical foe . and enforced by the other in a speech evincing at once his well known ability and envenomed hatred of Fuel , the minister succeeded in turning

      what was meant to bo a most crushing attack into an occa > ion for a grand triumph . Those whose accusation it was , that 20 years ago Peel " hunted Canning to death , " were foiled iu their barefaced attempt to do the very thing they charged against him . The stag stood at bay , and nobly tossed his assailants into political obscurity . Lord George must learn discretion in his language , and D ' Israeli candour in his statement of facts , ere they again venture to appear in the arena .

      The other proceedings in the Commons have been of a common place character , but the safe passage of the twin measures through the Lords to night will change the scene of battle . Whatever interest attaches to the remnant of the session , be it short or long , will after that be principally confined to the " lower house . " Next week , however , we may in all probability , have to announce that a new ministry is formed , That Lord Johu Russell has succeeded Sir Robert Peel . " Oh what a fall will be then , my Countrvmen . ''

      -~—^Ra Mr. Cooper And Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper.

      - ~—^ ra MR . COOPER AND DOUGLAS JERROLD'S NEWSPAPER .

      ¦ Wo Have Received The Following Note :—...

      ¦ Wo have received the following note : — West Lodge , lower Putney Common , June , 23 . Sift , —In your last you have the subjoined paragraph : " A . Weekly Newspaper is to be started undtir the name of Dowlas Jekbold ' s Weekly Newspaper , the political management of which , so says report , is to he in the hands of Mr . CoorER . " This is not correct ; the " political management" of the projected paper will he in no other hands savo Uioso of Your Obedient Servant , Douglas jEBBfL ? ,

      We Give, To The Above Correction The Sam...

      We give , to the above correction the same publicity we gave to / the error , it corrects , If , . under the management of Mr . Jerrolo , and free from the ravings of unscrupulous libellers , the new paper shall be conducted in the spirit of the , Shilling Magazine , we shall hail it as a fellow-labourer in the cause of human progress , and be glad to witness its success .

      Division On The Irish Coercion Bill. Min...

      DIVISION ON THE IRISH COERCION BILL . MINISTERS DEFEATED BY A MAJORITY OF 73 . >¦ - ¦¦ » l « ial At half-past one on Friday morning the house dividen when the numbers were—For the second reading . 219 Against ..... 292 Majority .... 73

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      <&* The following , bearing the Leeds Post-mark , was received at the Star office at four o ' clock on Friday after , noon , June 19 th , some hours after our country edition had been at press . Mr , C ' s account is given in our country editions of this week . Mr . Frost ' s Case . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums : —E . T . C . Hudson , Shrewsbury , 3 s . ; Portsea Island Working Man ' s Association , £ 1 ; Ml ' . T & tlow , London , 10 s . ; Gibson Ash worth , Ovenden , near Halifax , lOd . ; Mr . Thomas Ireland , Leicester , ¦ 2 s . 6 d . ; llr . Wm . Stafford , Leicester , 2 s . Cd . ; Mr . Prosser , Leicester , 2 s . Cd . Collections made at Leicester and Sheffield , I left in the hands of the com . mittees . — Thomas Coo p eb , the Chamist , Leeds , June 18 ; Case of Mr . Frost . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt

      oi 3 s . in postage stamps , from Mr . G . Ashwell , Daveutry . His letter has onlj just been forwarded to me from London . — -Thomas Cooper , the Chartist , Rawdon , near Bradford , June 24 . Mr . Duncan and Mrs . Elms . —To the editor of the Northern Star . —Some months back there was a subscription entered into [ at Oldham , for the widow of the late John Duncan , and the wife of the unfortunate W . S . Ellis . If I could learn their addresses , I would forward the monies collected . Thomas Wild , —Direct forme at Lonord Haslops , Temperance Hotel , Oldham . Subscriptions foe Mb . Frost , from Dewsbury , Yorkshire . —Subscription , per 6 . Coal , 'Watergate , Dewsbury , £ 1 0 s . 8 d . ; per John Ellem , Spinkwell and Doghouse , 14 j . Id . ; John Whitehead , 3 s . ; Dewsbury Association , 19 s . ; Dewsbury Association , subscription

      hooks , 16 s . 9 d . ; Total , £ 3 Gs . 6 d . Payable by postoffice order to George Rogers , at the Bloomsbury branch post-office . James Fox . . Ma . T . M . Wheeler , respectfully informs J , A , Barnstaple , that the price of a four acre share is ( cards and rules included ) £ 5 4 s . Gd . Money by post-office order on the London post-office . F . JE ., Brussels . —Received . —The offer accepted . Address the Pebal Sooial , weekly , to G . H . 's residence at Brompton . A Constant Reaueb , Newport , Monmouthshire , writesto us that Mr . Cooper is not the author of "Itally around liim , " that the real author is a . female of the name of Williams , belonging to Newport . We always understood that Mr . Cooper was the author of the song , be that as it may , he made it popular , he taught it to

      thousands in Leicestershire , and other towns in the Midland and Northern Counties , and his pupils will not be so ready to forget it as Mr . 0 . would now desire . & W On Thursday we received a pile of letters containing " addresses , " " resolutions" & c , respecting Mr . Cooper ' s doings , most of which were adopted at meetings held on Sunday aud Monday last , and ought lo have reached this office by Tuesday , or Wednesday at the latest . Up to Wednesday evening we had some difficulty in finding " copy" to keep the printers moving , and were compelled to give outmatter , some of which might have been withheld had we had the "letters " which came pouring in en Thursday . We beg our correspondents to sec to this ; particularly our London correspondents . Why should they keep back their letters till Thursday , when . we might and ought to have them on Tuesday .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative Land Society.

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY .

      SECTION No . 1 . PER MR . O'CONNOR . BBAKES . £ 3 , d . Ashton-under-Lyne , per E , Hobson .. .. i 18 C Elland , per J . Kinnersley .. .. ,. 5 17 2 Busby , per It . M'Gookin .. .. .. 2 G 3 Torquaj , per 11 . 11 . Putt .. „ „ 4 17 9 Hyde , per T . Hough .. .. .. ., 15 0 Wigun , perT . Pye 5 11 8 Plymouth , perE . Robertson .. .. .. 4 lo < ; Dewsbury , per J . Rous .. .. .. 9 10 0 Norwich , per J . Hurry .. .. .. 2 0 0 Birmingham , per \ V , Thorn .. „ .. 6 5 0 Edinburgh , per J . Cumining .. .. .. 10 7 0

      Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. „ .. 3 11 0 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 2 0 6 Lamhley , per ditto ., ,. „ „ 8 18 Stockport , per T . Woodhouse .. ,. 6 0 0 Ratcliff , per J . Cundall .. „ .. 5 0 0 Leicester , per J . Adams .. ., .. 10 0 Halifax , per C . W . Smith .. .. .. 12 13 o Todniorden , per J . Mitchell .. ., ,. i 10 0 Bradford , per J . Alderson „ „ „ 10 0 0 Huddersfield , per J . Stead .. .. .. 2 18 0 Leicester , per Z . Astill .. .. ,. 4 0 0 Leeds , ' per W . Brook .. .. „ .. TOO Artichoke Inn locality , Brighton , per Wm . Flower 4 19 C Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. ' .. 13 2 9 £ 137 12 3

      SECTION No . 2 . Busby , per R . M'Gookin .. .. .. 0 7 9 Nottingham , per J . Wall .. .. .. 12 0 Wigan , per T . Pyo 0 4 4 John Coom Avonclift .. .. .. 5 4 0 Oldham , per W . Hamer 2 0 0 Dewsbury , per J . Rous .. .. .. 2 2 4 Rochdale , per E . Mitchell .. .. .. 19 0 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. ,. 2 II 6 IV . Cole , Northampton , 2 12 4 Stoeltport , per T . Woodhouse .. .. 10 0 Norwich , per J . Hurry 4 3 2 Halifax , per C . TV . Smith 0 19 0 Shcpstow , per C . Walters ., .. .. 17 6 Clayton West , per E . Evans .. .. .. 2 2 11 [¦ eicester , per Z . Astill .. .. ,. 10 0 tfanchester , per J . Murray .. ., ,. 6 4 11

      £ 31 10 9 PER GENERAL SECRETARY . mmammm SECTION No . 1 . SHAKES . £ s . d . £ s . a . Hull , P . Toy - 2 12 2 Clitheroe - - 4 15 6 3 ity , London ( Jas . Greenwich - - 2 18 0 Horley ) - - 3 14 0 Lambeth ( T . Bald-^ aruoldswiek - 1 0 0 win ) - - - 1 6 2 Westminster - 2 n 0 Joseph Burnett . 0 10 0 Miovley - -16 0 Burnley , per Derby- - - 4 16 11- Thornber- -10 0 0 Lambeth - - 8 10 0 Todmovden- ' - O 5 0 Bilston- - - 5 o 0 Bath , per Frank-JoutlY Shields - 2 0 0 lin - - - 8 0 0 £ 53 18 IU

      SECTION No . 2 . Samuel Howling . 0 D 4 Kensington , per K . Shaw , Stoke Bowlting - - 5 5 0 Roehefoid - - 3 18 0 Clitheroe - - 5 4 0 George Taylor - 1 0 0 Longton- - - 0 9 4 Strood , Rochester , Greenwich - - 2 14 0 per Willis - - 3 8 0 Cirencester - -010 Westminster- - 0 18 8 Hull - - . 2 12 6 John Stanton - 5 4 6 Teignmouth - - 0 11 8 Hammersmith -550 £ 36 18 0

      TOTAl LAND FU . V 0 . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 137 12 3 Mr .: Wheeler „ „ ... 58 18 Hi £ ise _ ll _ 2 £ Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 2 ... "Si'To ' o Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... 3 G 18 0 m s 9 RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER GENERAL SECRETARV . Dewsbury- - 0 3 4 Halifax - - 0 2 n Bradford - - 0 6 1 Whittington and Ditto ( O'Connor * Cat ( cards ) . 2 0 Brigade ) - - 0 5 0 IN UD OF SOUTH LONDON HALT ,. Mr . Barker - 0 2 6 Thomas Martin Wheelteb , Secretary .

      Several errors in regard to the Sections , in which money was acknowledged in the two last lists , have been duly rectified in the books , in future lists the Levies and Receipts for Cards and Rules will onl y be acknowledged unec per Quarter . ° The Directors have to announce that Mr . Haron , of Leeds , one of thewinners of the two acra allotments , havinc eommenced business , has declined his location , and the lot consequentl y falls upon No . 20 , William Greenhow , of Manchester . Any sub-Secretary not having received the last Quarter ' s Balance-sheet will please to apply for the same , any Shareholder can be suppUed with the Balance-sheet upon the receipt , by the General Secretary , of two postage stamps . Tuomas Maetik Wheeleb , Secretary . : :

      Destruction Of A Snip Bt Finn.—Marseille...

      Destruction of a Snip bt Finn . —Marseilles , June 20 m—fheship Nouveau Tambour , of upwards of 300 tons , was totally destroyed by fire on the night oi the 18 th mat . She bad discharged her cargo and was anchored near the Palisade Sainto Anne , fronting the Canebiere , The son of the captain f ™ t » ff » . The young man was aged 26 years , and leaves a widow and child to deplere his

      ' ¦ -—— " ^Fc /:_Y: ; ¦ ¦ " The Martyr F...

      ' ¦ - —— " ^ fc / : _ y : ; ¦ ¦ " THE MARTYR FRO ST ^ ~^ Sums received in Cash , Post-office Orders ; or Postaga stamps , by By Mr . O'Connor . Mr . R . Collings , Newark „; 0 5 0 Three Friends at Ledbury ... 0 1 0 T . C . Ingram , Abergavenny ... 0 2 6 H . Conway , ditto ... 0 2 6 Totness , per W . M . Tanner ... 1 S 8 Todmorden , per J . Stansfield ... 17 0 Hollinwood , per 3 . Rayner ... 0 10 0 Greenock , per R . Burrell ... 4 11 0 Cheltenham , per W . Wilson ... 0 15 0 J . Cloom , Avonclift ... 0 5 0 W . Cordon , Bradford ... 0 10 Mrs . Housman , Bath , per T . Bolwell 2 0 0 The Servants of the above benevolent

      Lady , „ 0 10 0 A few Chartist Friends at Bath 0 17 0 Jarrow , ner J . Mitchell ... 0 4 8 H . Fink , Gloucester „ . 0 12 Leeds , per W . Brook ... 14 4 Scarborough , per Charles Weadley 1 3 11 Dudley , per W . Rankin ... 0 10 0 Abergavenny , per T . C . Ingram 0 3 0 ValeofLeven ... 1 10 0 Barnsley , per Frank Mirfield ... 6 0 0 Liverpool , per H . Smith ... 2 0 0 £ 25 8 3

      By Mr. T. M. Wheeler. Preston, Per Ltddf...

      By Mr . T . M . Wheeler . Preston , per Ltddffll ... 0 6 0 Bamber Bridge , per ditto ... 0 5 8 Ashton-under-Lyne , per Taylor 4 . 0 0 Tavistock ... 0 10 0 Halifax , collected by Mr . Crowthcr at a Camp Meeting at Medgley 0 5 8 Halifax , by Mr . Smith ... 0 5 6 Ditto , by Mr . Crossland ... 0 9 8 Ditto , by Mr . Duckworth ... 0 2 1 Chartists of Strood , Rochester 6 8 0 Rochester , two Friends who disapprove of physical force ... 0 2 0 Newark , Mr . C . Robert ... 0 2 6 Oxford , a few Friends ... 0 4 0 Ditto , J . B . ... 0 7 6 Oldham , Rhodes-bank weekly news

      room , per Hamer ... 0 8 6 Westminster , H . Sherlicker ' s Book 0 13 9 Ditto , Mr . Wheeler's Book ... 0 4 6 Kensington , Messrs . Hath , Newman , and Williams , per Wheeler 0 8 0 * Total £ 8 17 If

      G. Joman Habnet. Burnley, Per John Gray ...

      G . JOMAN HABNET . Burnley , per John Gray ... £ 4 10 0 Dorking- , per Wm . Russell ... 0 4 3 Selby , per John Bryan ... 0 7 8 Failsworth and Newton-Heath , per P . Brown ... ... 0 4 0 Hehden Bridge , per John Smith 0 10 0 Brighton , per Wm . Flowers ... 4 0 6 Worsborough Common , per R . Ellison 0 6 0 Turnstall , per John Steele ,, ... 0 6 3 Sheffield , per George Cavill ... 2 0 0 A Friend ... ... ... 0 10 Little Horton , near Bradford , per J . Brook ... ... 0 15 0 Shiney How , County of Durham , per

      T . Blakey ... ... 0 5 9 . Heywood , Two Friends , per W . Bell 0 15 0 " Leamington , per J . White ... 0 3 6 '" , Thornton , near Bradford , per T . Drake 0 6 0 Stafford , per S . Ward .,. 14 0 Manchester , ( second sum ) per R . Radford ... 9 5 0 Total £ 25 3 5 5 " The following-is » copy of Mr . Rogers' recei pt for the sums acknowledged by me in last Sasurday ' s Star : — •'«« June 19 th , 1816 . "Sir . Harney paid me twenty-nine pounds , nineteen shillings aud three pence , being the sum total of the following items—Nottingham , per H . Dorman , 7 s ; New Zealand , 4 s ; P . Elliott , 3 s ; Birmingham , per W . Thome , 6 s 8 d ; Swindon , per D . Morrison , £ 1 ; Blackburn , per R , Troudlove , £ 2 3 s 5 ( 1 ; P . J . O'Brien , Plymouth , 2 s 6 d ; J . P . Hunter , Warkworth , 2 s ; Lille ( France ) , per W . Auchterlonie , 9 s ; Radford , per J . Saunders , 14 s 6 d ; Wigan , per J . Stockley , 5 s ; Preston , per R . Marsden , £ 2 ; Rochdale , per E . Mitchell . £ 3 7 s lOd ; Loughborough , per J . Skevington , 4 s 9 d ; W . Ceoper and J . Edwards , Derby , Is ) Gr . Didsbwy , Skegs \> y , and C . Meakin , Suttonin-Ash-ficld , 5 s ; Brass Founders Arms Locality , per J , II . Knowles , 4 s ; Newcastle-on-Tyne , J per M . Jude , 16 s ; Gateshead , per R . Palmer , 6 s 6 d ; Manchester , per R . Radford , £ 13 4 s 7 d ; Heywood , per J . Scott , £ 2 7 s ; Ciren . cester , per T . [ Smith , 13 s ; J . Pare and P . Bishop , 2 s ; Lancaster , per J . Harrison , 5 s Gd ; a few German friends , 5 s ; total , £ 29 10 s 3 d , " Geoboe Rooebs . "

      Subscriptions Received By Mr. Geokge Roo...

      Subscriptions received by Mr . Geokge Rooms , acting Treasurer to the Fund , up to Thursday , June 25 th . Acknowledged in last week ' s Star 50 5 3 Two . Communists , Berwick-on-Tweed ... 0 2 0

      J . R . ... 0 1 0 Subscriptions , per F . O'Connor , Esq . ( second sum ) ... 39 3 7 Subscriptions , per Mr . G . J . Harney ( second sum ) ,,, 29 19 3 Subscriptions , per Mr . J . Leech 2 IT 6 . Mr . Stewart ... 0 3 0 Collected by Mr . Low , per Mr . Cooper , „ 0 12 3 Do . by Mr . Fox , Dewsbury ... 3 6 6 Mr . W . Thorn , per Mr . Moore ... 0 10 0 Total ... 127 0 4 Manchester , ( Second ) SimsfeRircioK fob Mr . Frost . Richard Radford ' s book ... 0 7 7 Edward Longslow ' s book .. 0 5 6 John Benson ' s book ... 0 4 6 Sharp ' s Machine Roller .

      Beam Room , & o . ... 0 5 9 John Hargreave ' s book ... 0 2 6 Mr . John Lowcoek ... 0 2 6 James Harvey ' s book ... 0 14 G William Nixon ' s book , „ 0 12 6 George Johnson ' sbook .... 0 2 9 From Mr . Guest ' s mill ... 0 2 1 Peter Lloyd ' s book ... 0 5 6 William Roach's book ... 0 6 5 John Keighley ' s book , „ 0 5 6 William Dixon ' s book ... 1 6 10 j Isaac Morris ' s book ,,, 0 5 9 Thomas Railton ' s book ... 0 U 9 John Nuttall ' s book ... 0 4 1 "W . B ' sbook ... 0 3 3 Travise ' s Smallware Weavers ... 0 2 6 Edmund Swire ' s book ... 0 6 10 Edward Burley ' s book ... 6 12 2 John Jacob ' s book ... 0 3 5 John Parker's took ... O 7 ( 1 John Parker's book 0 7 0

      ,,, Geo . H . Smith ' s book ... 0 9 6 Mr . Geo . Heatson , sign of the Feathers ... 0 10 0 Geo , Marsden's book ... 0 5 6 Income ... ... 9 q gj Expenditure ... ... 0 1 2 ' ' . ¦ £ 9 5 0 J I send a post order for £ 9 5 0 ; it should have been £ 9 5 0 i , but they don't take halfpence at the Postoffice . E . RAMOItD . To Mr . J . G . Harney . * The above items , with the money acknowledged in the Stab of the 13 th and 20 th , make a total of 36 U 8 s . 3 d ., for which I hold Mr . Rogers ' s receipt . T . M . Wheeler .

      Craves' Jhofcementsl

      Craves' JHofcementsL

      Termination Of The Masons'strikethe Oper...

      TERMINATION OF THE MASONS'STRIKETHE OPERATIVES VICTORIOUS . This protracted struggle lias at length ceased , both in Liverpool and Birkenhead . Mr . Tomkinson , the master mason , and well-known contractor for tha Assize Courts and St . Gcorge's-hall , has consented to meet the terms of the workmen , by yielding tha 27 s . per week and half an hour refreshment tima each afternoon . In Birkenhead the masters have agreed to concede the advance of 2 g . per week oven the previous wages , but distributing tha Monday morning hour over the entire week , by increasing the breakfast time to forty minutes . The resumption o £ employment having now been determined upon , and past differences adjusted , the erection of public edi . tices will at once proceed with its former briskness . —¦ Liverpool Albion , of Monday .

      Female Association. At A Time Like The P...

      FEMALE ASSOCIATION . At a time like the present , when ministers of state announce as a great principle of legislation , " the necessity of promoting the well-being of those who labour , - it seems to be peculiarly appropriate t » adopt measures to secure to producers a fair share o £ the prohts of their industry . For this purpise , a few - persons who teel a lively interest in the welfare of the down-trodden and oppressed masses , have united to form an association for the employment of Needlewomen m tho manufacture of Shirts and under-clothmg—these persons being among the most forlorn of our fellow-creatures . In pursuance of this object , rooms have recently been taken in the neighbourlioodot Bloomsbury ; and from the experience already gained , it is certain that extensive benefit would result if it were carried out on ft large scale . I With this impression , the orignators have been in , '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 27, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27061846/page/4/