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    • MR. O'CONNOR AND HIS FRIENDS.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 184C
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      MY LIFE , OR OUR SOCIAL STATE , Part I . a Poem , by ERNEST JONES , Barrister at Law . We hope the author will be encouraged by the public to continue his memoirs . —Literary Ga : _ctte , Furnished hy Mr . Newby , 7 * 2 , Mo ' , timer-street , _Caveniish-sqnare . Orders received by all booksellers . In the Press and shortly will be published , MY LIFE , Pakt II . By the same Author THE WOOD SPIRIT ; An Historical Romance ' , in Two Tols .

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      PRIESTLY DOMINATION , THE 15 ANE OF NATIONS . This day a New and Improved Edition , price reduced to Five Shilling ? . _ . „ _ THE POPULAR HISTORY of PRIESTCRAFT , iu all Ages and Nations . Bt William Howrrr . _Eighth Edition , with _large Additions . The man who can read this book unmoved , must have a soul of ice . Even the defender of the principles of State Churchism cannot but feel his blood stirred hy its eloquence . Thc rapid history given of Paganism and idolatrv in earlier times , among the _Assvrians , Celts , Goths . Egyptians , Greeks , Ilindoos , and the heiltous priestcraft by which they were victimised , is exceedingly graphic—Leeds Times . London , Effingham Wilson , 11 , Royal Exchange .

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      This Testimony to the Rules was given by T . S . Dcxcombe , Esq ., M P ., who honoured the Society by taking the chair at its first anniversary , on Monday , Julv _6 th , lS 46 : — The Chairman * . —The next sentiment I have to submit to you is the toast of the evening— " The United _Patriots'and Patriarchs' Benefit Societies : and prosperity to the branches . " 1 assure you it is a subject in which I feel a deep interest , having introduced a Bill into the House to remedy certain defects in the existing laws ; and I feel a peculiar interest in your so- iety , for on turning

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . MICHAELMAS SESSIONSNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the MICHAELMAS GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the Pcf . ce for tho West Riding of tho County of York will be opened at KNARESBOROUGH , on TUESDAY the "Oth day of October , instant , at Ten ejf tbe Clock in the Fore _"ocJ , V . , _^ _- *' _^'' ourll " " tfrom tnc"C 0 will beholden at LEEDS on WEDNESDAY , the 21 st day ofthe same month of October , at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon : and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will be holden at DONCASTEU _. on MONDAY , the _aotiidny of tin same month of October , at half . past Ten of tho Clock m the Forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons bound by Recognizance , and others having business at the said several Sessions , are , required to attcnt the Court on the several days , and at the several Hours above mentioned .

      Mr. O'Connor And His Friends.

      MR . O'CONNOR AND HIS FRIENDS .

      Mr. O'Connor Begs To Return His Cheerful...

      Mr . O'Connor begs to return his cheerful thanks to the many individuals and societies who have forwarded various sums * for his acceptance as a testimonial , * whiIe , with the greatest respect , he begs to decline all gratuities of whatever nature , He is as fond of his independence as a beggar is of his idleness , and when he hears of his countrymen being striken with famine , he would blush at being the recipient of a farthing that might be better applied in arresting the monster ' s march .

      Mr . O'Connor also begs to inform those who subscribed to the Anti-Militia Fund , that he has this day paid over the s * m of £ 4 3 s . 3 d ., the amount received by him to the Secretary , Mr . Stallwood , for the purpose of restoring it to the several subscribers . The working classes may rest assured , that whim their confidence is > iade complete in poor as well as rich leaders , the accomplishment of thoir object will be near at hand .

      The Northern Star Saturday, October 3, 184c

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 3 , 184 C

      "The Nation" And "Tiie Charter." " Jfe H...

      " THE NATION" AND "TIIE CHARTER . " " JFe have received a printed address from the Chartists of England lo the Irish people , with a request that we should insert it in the " Nation . " We desire no fraternisation behoeen the Irish people and the Chartists—not on account ofthe bugbear of '' physical force , " but simply because some of their five points are to us an abomination , and the whole spirit and tone of their proceedings , though well enough for England , are so essentially English that their adoption in Ireland would neither be }> robable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; we desire not to bridge it over , but to make it wider and deeper . " From the » Nation" of Aug . 15 , 1846 .

      ABOMINATION No 5 .-NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION . The ohject of the People ' s Charter being to destroy the influence of class legislation , it is manifest that , however the possession of the vote may arm the masses with the power of taking vengeance upon the treacherous who deceive them , that , still , their selection would be , after all , but a choice of evils , so long as they were limited in the choice of _representatives to that very class to whose influence they trace tlieir every grievance and the law ' s every inequality .

      From the year 1793 to the f atal act of Union , the Irish people possessed a very extensive right of franchise—a franchise whicli , in many instances , placed at the disposal of large landed proprietors the votes of from 3 , 000 to 6 , 000 of their slaves ; and yet , if the majority of those slaves had willed their freedom by a free exercise of the franchise , they would not have accomplished it , inasmuch as the crying injustice of that age was tyranny of the Protestant ascendancy , the power of the State Church , and the limitation of Ministerial patronage to Parliamentary partisans ; while the Catholic voters ,

      though numerous , were confined to the selection of representatives from the tyrant class—none but PROTESTANTS BEING QUALIFIED to sit in Parliament . Here , then , was an extensive franchise wholly neutralised by a limited selection . In tbe same way , if the English working classes were now in possession of the Chartist franchise , with the limitation of choice to the monied classes , it would place them precisely in the same position as a flock of sheep wilh a wolf as their shepherd , or as a flock of hens with a fox as the guardiau of the roost . Some persons may argue—and with a strong colour

      of truth—that , the suffrage once gained , all else would follow j while we contend , that a Parliament of PROPERTY quaMed representatives ,, elected for SEVEN YEARS by Universal Suffrage , would be a den of the most unmitigated thieves that ever met to divide the spoil of conquest ; " no delusion , mockery , or snare" would be left untried at the hustings , while no treachery would be left unpractised in the senate . Popular dissatisfaction would very naturally follow popular disappointment ; while repeated class deception and cheat would constitute the only satisfaction ; and thus the value of the franchise would lose its charm in the facility of

      deception , and the people , from , repeated failure and disgust , would become more than ever apathetic , from the belief that even untrammelled representation must be fraught with unexplained , but yet discoverable , difficulties . During the American war a distemper broke out in the English fleet , for which brimstone was recommended . In one ship the supply ran short , and one cane fell to tbe lot of the first lieutenant and the surgeon , which the lieutenant broke into two very unequal parts , aud , holding both on his hand , he said to the surgeon : " As I divided it , you shall have

      your choice ; bnt I'll take this half , snatching the LION'S SHARE . " Now , such would be precisely the choice of a constituency , however large , so long as the selection of representatives was trammelled by any limitation whatever . Our notion of universal suffrage is not merely confined to the simple possession of the vote , it extends to its free and unshackled exercise as well . The present war , which has been so long raging , is the war of labour against the dominion of capital ; a dominion acquired solely by the possession of privileges from which labour is excluded , and we hold it to be an impossible thing

      for the owners of that capital , although elected by labour , to do justice to lahour ; it implies a voluntary surrender of a portion of that property to another party , whieh system , nse and custom , has marked as its own . "We think we see Cobden , Bright and Mark Phillips standing on the hustings as the champions of enfranchised labour , with the limitation of choice to the monied class , and surrounded by the masters of the district , a portion of whose property , nay all , depended upon the perpetuation of the dominion of capital , and all surrounded bv their enfranchised slaves in cohorts , tinder the

      command of then : respective overseers , and we have not , under such circumstances , sufficient faith in public virtue to leave the selection , even of a choice of evils , to the slave class . The great value of all

      "The Nation" And "Tiie Charter." " Jfe H...

      the points of tbe Charter is , that they constitute one great whole , and we contend for the free exercise of the grand point—UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE , upon the legal maxim that when a lessor confers a right upon a lessee , the law presumes tbat he is endowed with the untrammelled use of ihat right , though unnoticed or unprovided for in the title which creates it . Thus , if A leases to B a portion of land in the middle of liis deer park , without any mention or

      provision for access to the house of B , the law presumes the right of passage , however long or inconvenient , to B , and supports hira in his claim , upon the fair and equitable grounds that right of unimpeded use follows possession , or otherwise possession would be a farce . Now , here is strictly a case in point , and how then can a voter be said to be equitably in possession of his vote , while the passage to its free use is obstructed by the toll bar of

      PROPERTY QUALIFICATION . " INTER PARES NOT EST POTESTAS _, " says the law ; " There is no superiority among equals . " But the Ilouse of Commons cannot say this , inasmuch as the vote of a Scotch member , who may not be worth a baubee , may neutralise the vote of an English member worth £ 200 , 000 per annum , as in Scotland no other qualification is required beyond the mere choice of the electors . Again , when any requisite whicli prudence demands can bedispensed with , or got over by a fiction , the requisite itself becomes a ridiculous

      nonentity . For instance , there are scores of members who bave but a borrowed qualification , conferred by some wealthy patron for the occasion , and no doubt with an understanding that a suitable return of becoming gratitude shall be rendered in the honourable shape of subserviency . The professed reason of the necessity of property qualification is , to enable the member to live independently , and free from the suspicion of being influenced by government patronage ; and , truth to say , the violation of this law , in favour of Scotland , may , in some

      measure , account for the slavish ' pvostitution of needy Scotchmen ; while their subserviency does not at all strengthen the necessity , and for this simple reason , because the Charter provides for the decent and independent support of all members , by making provision for their honourable payment for public services . Here , then , we find , that in one country , where representation constitutes one-twelfth of the whole , the rule does not exist , while in the other two it may be , and is , extensively violated ; thus destroying the orig inal intention of protecting the

      constituency against the effect of ministerial con uption of their representative . Hence we show , that the original , and indeed the only assigned purpose of property qualification , is not in operation in one country , and is violated extensively in the other . But , further , we shall show that this presumed sa f eguard against the temptations to which poverty would subject representatives , is not equal in its application , but , on the contrary , that , under the present system ,

      a majority of the whole House may consist of members , from whom no other qualification than that of birth , or heirship , is required . Firstly , then , the eldest son of a pauper Peer is qualified . Secondly , the eldest son of a qualified Gentleman , not in Parliament , is qualified . And those , respectively , have but to plead as their qualification , the one as eldest son of a Peer , thc other as heir-apparent to a property over head and ears in debt , and from which the father may not allow him sixpence a-year .

      Under this latter head , we may naturally presume that many prodigal sons are qualified , whose only inducement to obtaiu a Seat is , to secure a livelihood by political prostitution . We , therefore , find , tbat the majority of government patronage is conferred upon those who measure the recompense by the necessity of keeping up a luxurious idle life , in which they have been reared , rather than by any rule of honest frugality . This tribe , for the most

      part , constitutes thc LICE UPON THE BEETLE'S BACK ; the leeches of labour , who most hate the thing they live upon , to show tlieir station and their independence , This tribe also constitutes a needy reserve for a profligate minister to fall back upon . To the eldest son of a needy Peer , or of a needy qualified Squire , with some , county influence , - £ 600 , or £ 300 a-year , is but a mere fly-blow . 'And hence the necessity of lucrative government situations , to meet the luxurious habits of a corruptible needy

      aristocracy . Furthermore , the practice o f qualifying members is too notorious to require comment , and , presuming _-G-150 a-year , for life , to be the average qualification of all members , that is , makintr a sum of the £ 600 a year for a county member , and £ 300 a year which is the qualification for a city or borough member , and supposing the classes , for argument sake , to be balanced , and deducting 53 Scotch members who require no qualification , we find that the remaining 605 require , amongst tbem , as a Parliamentary

      qualification , the annual amount of £ 272 , 250 , an amount nearly possessed by several of the most wealthy , and out of which the whole house , sons of peers , poor gentleman and all , might be qualified by ' any one corrupt member . Indeed , if £ 600 a year is the honest amount upon which a country gentleman can live in independence , it is rather derogatory to our ministers , that , heing for the most part borough representatives , they are only obliged to swear to £ 300 per annum : such is the case with Lord John Russell , the Prime Minister and member

      for the city of nations , and such is the case with the late Prime Minister , Sir Robert Peel , member for Tarn worth . We think we bave now fully explained the absolute necessity of the removal of all qualifications , save the choice of the electors to insure the untrammelled exercise of the franchise , as well as the absurdity of a property qualification being a protection against ministerial influence , and we shall proceed to give the sum and substance o f a valid Parliamentary qualification from one who calls himself a hi gh legal authority - —

      " My dear , You need have no conscientious scruple upon the subject . I enclose you an equitable title from my son-in-law ¦ to enter upon his estate , in the -county of , and to distrain for and levy £ 320 a year for your life . " " My son is qualified by a letter of credit to the same purport upon the property of Dr . ; what you will have to swear to is , that you are , in law or equity , in possession of £ 300 a year , mind—IN EQUITY , and the enclosed confers an equitable title of wbich you can compel the legal fulfilment . Believe me , that it is AN UNUSUALLY GOOD QUALIFICATION , and one to which you need have no scruple iu swearing . " " Yours truly , . "

      ;The Church Restoration Fund. When A Cou...

      _; THE CHURCH RESTORATION FUND . When a country , pre-eminently distinguished for the fertility of its soil , the salubrity of its climate , and the industry of its people , is stricken with periodical destitution , and not unfrequent visitations of famine , the cause becomes matter of grave and serious consideration . We cannot , without doing violence to our feelings , treat the present state o f Ireland according to the cold and measured language of philosophv , political economy , or strained

      philanthropy . We cannot reconcile the forced marching of troops , the transmission of ammunition , and the activity of otherwise indolent magistrates , with the government ' s affected desire to lessen the calamity , while it is engaged in devising permanent measures of relief . It is true that the Times newspaper , and other equally credible authorities , have endeavoured to impress the English mind with the notion thatthe religion , characteristic idleness , and hatred of English laws of the Irish people , constitute the great barriers to improvement .

      ;The Church Restoration Fund. When A Cou...

      We have frequently shewn , however , that in Belgium , and Other purely Catholic countries , that the Catholic religion so far from operating as a cause of discomfort , is the medium ofthe greatest tenderness , care , and solitude bf the wants of the poor , while the secured possession of the land gives a free current to industry , unequalled in any other country in the world ; while the laws , being enacted for their protection instead of their persecution , are obeyed with reverence and respect . Indeed , in answor to the taunt of relig ious inferiority , we need but point

      to the condition of the English poor , as contrasted with the English aristocracy , in the days of Catholicism and her monasteries , as compared with her palmy days of Protestantism , bone-picking , and Poor Law Bastiles , It is no answer to us , that the working people of the 19 th century are a superior race to those of the 15 tli century ; because , as we justly judge by comparison , we answer , that the line of demarcation by which the higher and lower classes are now divided , is stronger and more strikingly unjust than in the days of Catholicism and monasteries .

      We have too often shown that there is a premium in Ireland for idleness , and a heavy tax upon industry ; amounting , in fact , to ejectment , and all the persecution consequent upon the necessity of justifying tyranny , to require extensive comment at the present moment . We have traced idleness and improvidence to its natural source ; while every day gives proof of characteristic industry in its frightful hordes seeking employment in the world ' s artificial market and England ' s fields ; unscared by the dangers of the sea , or the terrors of the most unhealthy clime . However , as we write to lead to a correct notion of the causes of Irish suffering , we may here draw a plain picture ofthe real cause of Irish idleness , the truth of which will be admitted from a glance .

      Let us presume , then , that a poor tenant takes twenty acres of land , at a rent of £ 1 per acre , or £ 20 a year , upon the usual tenure of ACCEPTED PROPOSAL . In less than three years , that man will have improved the value of his holding to £ 25 a-year ! and thus will have established a legal and equitable title to one fifth of the value of the farm . This title , however , he cannot sustain , except at an expense wliich he cannot meet ; and AS A

      LANDLORD OF STRAW CAN BREAK A TENANT OF STEEL , the luxurious tyrant , whose wants are increased by his tenant ' s industry , lusts after his tenant ' s share of the land ; he ejects him , ousts him , blasts his character to justify his own tyranny , and sends him upon the world as a NATURAL HATER of the laws that have oppressed and robbed him . The tyrant then lets the joint property of himself and his ejected slave to another slave , whose improvements are , in turn , subjected to further competition .

      Is it wonderful , then , that such being the rule of Irish landlords , that the poor should rather gauge industry by the measure of possession than by the scale of interest . As Ireland is purely an agricultural country , the question of her soil , as applicable to the wants of her people , is the one question of pressing and paramount importance . In order , then to prove that the charge of idleness is a libel , we

      vouch for the following fact . Suppose the tenant who has been ousted from his twenty acres of land _, held at a rent of £ 20 a year , was to receive ten acres , or one half the amount , at £ 20 a year , or the full rent of the . whole on lease for ever , we pledge our existence that , thus protected , he would not only pay the double rent to the day , but , if allowed , he would purchase the fee-simple , at any exorbitant rate of purchase , by instalments , in less than ten

      years . What then becomes of the unchristian charge of Catholicism , idleness , and hatred ofthe laws ? Have not Protestantism , dangerous industry , and the Saxon laws , been the greatest enemies and oppressors of the Irish people ? And who loves his enemies , who cheerfully obeys his oppressors ? Take away Protestantism the blight of industry , the unjust laws of the landlords the bane of improvement , and give Ireland to the Irish , and in less than ten

      years , when the Upas tree bas been removed , industry will flourish , improvement will progress , and Ireland , as of yore , will be the fairest spot iu the world ; sending , as she has aforetime , her philosophers , teachers , and scientific men to all quarters of the habitable globe . Ireland can now boast of her butchers , and herflippant-tongued patriots , and a just and prudent system would turn characteristic virtue , talent , and bravery , into their proper and legitimate channels of industry and improvement .

      With these views of the capability of the Irish soil and characteristic industry of the people , we highly approve of Mr . O'Connor ' s proposition for the application of a portion of the Church property to national purposes * , and , in truth , we know of no service which should be more cheerfully undertaken by the overfed shepherds than that of feeding and protecting their flocks in the hour o f famine , and the surrender of a portion of their unnecessary wealth to secure their flocks from a recurrence of those evils which threaten danger to the whole

      establishment . Let us then see whether tlie amount of restitution to its original purpose , proposed in Mr . O'Connor ' s admirable resolution , exceeds the necessity for the call , or whether the relinquishment of so small a portion of trust _property would tend to weaken religion , to reduce clergymen below their present sphere , or to endanger the remnant of their then better secured property . We will estimate the whole property of the Church of the three kingdoms at eight millions sterling per annum , which , at forty years' purchase , or two and a half per cent ., would realise the enormous amount of £ 320 , 000 , 000 , or nearly half the amount of our national debt , The interest of ten millions sterling , at two and a half

      per cent , an amount at which jobbers would gladly lend , amounts to £ 250 , 000 a year , or one thirtysecond part of the present Church property—that is , the bishop who now receives £ 3200 per annum , would then receive £ 3100 per annum , or £ 100 a year less , and the parson who now receives £ 320 per annum would receive £ 310 per annum , or the trifling sum of £ 10 a year less than his present income , and thus from this mere paring from an overgrown accumulation of usurped property , much odium would be taken off the possessors of the remaining bulk , while the application of the extracted pittance would make a garden of a country now threatened with famine .

      Where is the pious pastor who would refuse this trifling aid to his perishing flock , or do we live in such an age of darkness that the terror of our State Church rulers willattemptto stop a universal necessity by temporary expedients , and reje ct the simple remedy for its correction . Such a fund as this , and applied to the purposes defined in the resolution would recall Irish emigrants from their strange

      homes and would relieve the English labour market of a disastrous competition which depresses wages to the amount of one hundred millions annually . However , we but talk to the winds , * we are throwing pearls before swine , for the obstinacy of the gorged leech will still induce it to cling to the sore that it has created until the restless patient with one provoked and dashing bound will rid himself , and for ever , of the monster .

      "Weekly Review. The Ibod Riots Which Hav...

      "WEEKLY REVIEW . The ibod riots which have occurred in several ; districts of Ireland , are a melancholy indication of the extent and severity of thc calamity which afflicts tliat unhappy country . It is creditable to the Government , tbat , according to the means placed > t tbeir disposal by Parliament , tliey are exerting themselves vigorously for its alleviation . The landlords , too , appear to be roused into activity , An < -

      "Weekly Review. The Ibod Riots Which Hav...

      however unwilling or unable , are forced into co-operation with the superior powers . A large number of presentment meetings have been held , and considerable sums voted for works of various kinds . The majority of these will , we fear , be found of little , or _qaestionable utility ; but when a nation is starving , there is no time for that deliberation which is requisite for the planning of comprehensive , useful , and permanent enterprizes . It is somewhat curious to mark the littleness of thc men at the head of the Repeal agitation , in this trying season . The meetings at Conciliation Hall have dwindled into a mere farce , of which _thejdullest portion is the long epistles from Mr . O'Connell , senior , which are dutifully

      brought forward by his son and successor . Long as O'Connell lm lived upon the Irish people , and traded upon their miseries , he has never . conferred upon them one practical benefit ; and at the present moment his ingenuity can devise nothing better than a sort of left-hand , informal , and powerless meeting inDublin _. of delegates from the landlords . Cui bono ? What good would Ireland reap from such a meeting ? It is not from such crude assemblies that its salvation can be looked for . Perhaps , the real reason which induces him to make the suggestion is , that it might tend to revive his waning influence . The Times , in one of its leaders , and speaking on this subject , says , with grea force and justice :

      " In one respect the great liberator is facile princeps of his species . In the power , and it may be added in the readiness , to improve on all occasions to his purpose , he never had , he never will have , his match . Yet he has great and many competitors in that line . Let an earthquake , or a conflagration , devastate a city , and immediately , as from the bowels ofthe earth , rushes forth a band of plunderers ready to reap a bloody harvest from the field of destruction , A noble Indiaman drives to the shore , and human vultures from afar scent the fair spoil ,

      and fight with the elements for their prey . Not a calamity comes but the afflicted sufferers , or the terrified expectants , are appealed to by ingenious men , dexterous to profit by their misery or their fears . But we should think there never was a man who could turn everything to his purpose with such relentless steadiness , such admirable tact , and calm _ingwiuityasMr . O ' _Cosnbll . He can turn everything to his account . The great chijfonnier of Irish miseries as he ranges from heap to heap , can discern a profit in the most out-of-the-way and refuse commodity . Nothing come 3 amiss to his sack . "

      In a subsequent part of the same article we find the following passage , " which might stand mutatis mutandis for Mr . O'Connor and the star : — " As for our treatment at the hands of this impartial and generous Moderator , that is a very minor affair . We must fairly own to have deserved Mr . O'Connell ' s invectives . We have surpassed all other writerg and speakers in the industry and fidelity with which we have { published to all Europe the

      miseries of Ireland ; we bave described in the most moving , and , to us , the most painful terms , the features of a deteriorated race ; we bave _lnhvd on tho landowners to their duty ; we have weakened the bonds of Irish coercion ; we have demanded from the sail the regular employment and relie f ofthe poor ;—what more could we have done to secure the hatred of one whose ascendancy is bound up in the continuance of every Irish misery and wrong ?"

      It is to be hoped that the termination of the too long protracted reign of imposture and humbug is approaching . Public attention is , however , not entirely concentrated on Irish distress . The condition of the Highlands and islands of Scotland has attracted the attention of the press . The Chronicle was the first to send a correspondent specially to examine and report as to the state of the people in the north , The celebrated Tines' commissioner speedily followed , and the result is the publication in both journals of a mass of interesting and at the same time painful information . Landlordism

      produces in the Highlands of Scotland the same evil fruit as it does in the wilds of Kerry . The Times ' " commissioner" when speaking of the proprietors of , 'the soil , says : — " Instead of opening up the resources of the country , they have shut them np by reverting to the barbarism of the primeval ages and to the style of agriculture followed by Lot and Abraham . Instead of fostering a spirit of independence they have broken their spirits , and 'cleared them out , ' and driven them hopeless to the coast to earn their livelihoods by an unknown and dreaded occupation . " The result is , that similar misery is found in the districts thus treated to those which exists in

      Ireland , and no doubt ere Jong the cry for assistance from England will be heard from them . . Is it not time to compel the landlords to do their duty or give place to those who will ? The treatment of the poor in St . Pancras continues to form tbe { subject of discussion in the columns of the daily press / and in the parish were the malpractices complained of have taken place . Various meetings have been held , at which the opinion was expressed tbat , notwithstanding the Directors have white-washed themselves , by their report of last week , and the vestry have aided this

      self-exculpatory process , the matter is not ended , nor can it be until it is more fully investigated , snd a complete stop put to the abuses which have been brought to light . Mr . Wakley , whose inelefatigabje zeal in such cases of oppression deserves tho highest commendation , has been the medium of two commircationsto The Times , setting forth the facts connected with the case of the two inmates of _fcisis workhouse , both of which very forcibly illustrate the animus of the authorities and the nature of tho system carried on by them . The first of these statements is from a pauper named Buckenham : lie states

      that—He saved some money by a course of industry , and had then been persuaded to go to an uncle , whose severity proved unbearable . In a moment of excitement the youth attempted suicide , and thus furnished an excuse for an order being got ,, against his will , for his admission into the _Whitechapel Wovkhouse . Hence he was removed by a ' friendly pas' to St . Pancras , and his money was paid over to that parish , fie made several attempts to release himself from a life of indigence by obtaining _emnloyment , but he was never able to get more than a few shillings of his money at a time from the parochial authorities . Those sums being insufficient

      to sustain him till he could nnd occupation , he was compelled to return to the house to prevent absolute starvation , and then it was that he was made to submit to the most abominable tyranny . The money belonging to hira in the hands of the parish was _re- - ftised _. and , finding it impossible to obtain a restitution of his own savings , he applied to the Clerkenwell magistrates , f or which on the f ollowing day he was * thrust into the oakum-room . ' Had his claim been a mistaken one , the authorities had no right to punish him for attempting to enforce it ; but it was subsequently found to be so unanswerable that a balance of' £ l lis . 6 d . was restored to him on his

      discharge , a fter various deductions had been made for board and other items . During a part ef the long period that his money was detained by the parish , he was ' closely confined under lock and key , though continually seeking his discharge , which he could uot even get an opportunity of applying for , until one day , observing tho door open , he forced his way before the committee . Hia discharge was then given him , but his money was still refused ; , vhen , having made another vain attempt to gain a living , and after removal to the Fever Hospital in a dangerous

      state from typhus , he became ouee more an inmate of the workhouse . Threatened with the oakum-room . if he left the house again , and afterwards should be compelled to return , he was for some time ' deterred by the master ' s threat from seeking better fortune . ' A natural and laudable inclination to try to earn an independent living once more prevailed , and he discharged himself , in the hope of finding work ; but in lour days necessity compelled him to return , and he was consigned to the oakum-room , where he has continued for nearly two years a prisoner .

      This _^ infamous and illegal treatment ha s ruined his health , 'broken his spirits , and enfeebled his mind , and he now fears that he is doomed to be a burden to others for the remainder _efnii _' _. Yi'ic . "She second case is that of tho witness , John Witt , whose manly and straightforward exposure ofthe trick that was attempted to bo played off with respect to the rations allowed to tho paupers , wo gave in-the _Sfaroflast week ; for the evidence he _gaye- ' on that occasion , The master and the agent of stores took hold of some frivolous pretext to deprive the poor old man

      of the privilege of naming 4 d _, a-day , wliich he had been previously doing by his trade as a carpenter . There has been no disguise ol" the feeling excited in their minds towards him , since he proved that the provisions laid lefovc- tho board " were wntloubtedly made up to deceive the board , both as to quantity and quality . " lie , however , f elt , as he says , that - if the paupers did not tell the truth for themselves , no one else would , " and for this he has been since subjected to all kinds of petty annoyances by the workhouse tyrants . When paid the shilling for hi- *) earning- } or tho last too days he _toawwlwd

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      previous to his occupation being taken fro _» him the waster pushed the money to him , saying •• You are _Z martyr to tha cause "—namely , the cause f truth and justice . Had the pauper told a falsehood respecting the provisions submitted to the board , he would no doubt have baen allowed to earn his 4 d . . day as usual . " " His statement is not confined to his own _griey . ancee , but points out many gross abuses that have lone existed in the management of St , Pancra »

      Workhouse . He speaks of 80 men being employed to pick feathers in two small rooms , —low , damp , ill-ventilated , and productive of cramp and rheum * _, tism , as well as other diseases engendered byanuti . wholesome atmosphere . He states that he never _diij anything for which he had to be fined , imprisoned or otherwise punished , in the workhouse ; but those who are have to aleep in a room to which they ws , \\ np a ladder , _through a trapdoor , secured by a pad . lock underneath , so that in case of fire or any other calamity there would be no means of escape or of procuring assistance .

      All these abominable facts have , occurred in a parish which ia not subject to the control of the Poor Law Commissioners , and the authorities of which cannot therefore shelter themselves under the excuse that they were compelled to carry out the orders of Somerset Ilouse . St . Pancras is ah , famous for being a Radical or Liberal parish , and in the vestry room the copy of an address presented to the Queen on her accession to the throno , taste _, fully written and framed , hangs on the walls ia which the poor law is strongly condemned , and the right ef the poor to humane and kindly treatment is strongly enforced . Yet , in spite ofall this

      theoretical liberality and humanity , such is the actual treatment ot the poor under their care ! How is this ? Does it not appeav as if there was a natural antagonism between the rate-payer and the pauper ? Does it not indicate that "the love of money" is so strong that it overmasters in the minds ofthe trading classes ail other considerations ? Private Mathewson , whose evidence in the case of the late military murder at Hounslow gave so much offence to his superiors , has been ' speedily made to feel their Vengeance , and affords another illustration of the manner in which power is prostituted to serve the

      I purposes of private revenge . He has been tried for insolence to a sergeant ; the same offence for which , it will be remembered , he formerly received 100 lashes , * on that occassiou , he answered " Halloa " to a sergeant , on the present he was a little mora offensive . But the court-martial who tried him , wa * not composed of the same officers . This regiment has been moved to Ireland , and perhaps thc temper of his new judges is not of that Draconian severity which seems to characterise the tribunals over which the colonel of the 7 th Hussars presides The sentence is not yet known .

      The manner in which the Press treats the Protectienist and Chartist Demonstrations , deserves a passing notice . If two or three hundred farmers meet together in any part of the kingdom , to listen to stupid speeches , until even their patience can no longer bear the infliction , forthwith " our own special reporters" are dispatched by express trains ; and the columns are filled the following morning with an awful lot of dreary , frowzy , unmeaning trash , heavier than the lead in which it is set . This same verbiageisthenduly commented upon in the ' . 'Teader " columns , until the public are heartily sick , nauseaed , and bored with the whale affair .

      A Chartist meeting is held in the Strand , in the heart of London , in one of its best halls for public assemblies . Thousands attend , and their enthusiasm is kindled by eloquent and glowing addresses , in which the great principles of civil and religious liberty are boldly and powerfully expounded and defended . Next morning the press says not a syllable on the subject ! or , in the small exceptions , notices it in so fearful and gingerly a style , that the terror and shaking o f the editors shine through it , in the most unmistakeable manner . Well ; " Wait a little longer . "

      The "Monster Statue" of "the Duke" has at length been elevated to its experimental position on the top of the triumphal arch , and the " competent persons " who are to decide its fitness , will now have an opportunity of exhibiting their critical powers . Its removal from the studio of the artist was made a sort of Cockney holiday , in which Royalty itself took part . So long as such things occur among m , the prospect of any real elevation or improvement is a distant one . The era of true "Hero Worship , " has not yet arrived . The Benefactors , not the Butchers of mankind , will then _receiva statues .

      The registrations proceed quietly _. oftering no noticeable point for comment , and the multiplication of electioneering rumours begin to foreshow we are near a General Election . It is , however , we believe , now settled that there will be no meeting of Parliament in November .

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      Accounts To July 21st Have Eome To Hand ...

      Accounts to July 21 st have eome to hand from the _CapejjfGood Hope , which represent the Kaffirs aa still plundering and harrassing the colonists , but at tbe same time gradually retreating before the European and Colonial force directed against them . This force , though far inferior in numbers to the invaders , has , of course , the advantage of superior discipline , and " material , " and under the command of Sir Peregrine Maitland , will no _UoubO speedily TO " _lieve the colonists from the further inroads of their barbar & us assailants . The " London Gazette , " of Tuesday , contained a series of very lengthy

      despatches from Sir Thomas Cochrane , _corsmanding the British naval forces oa the coast of Borneo . These dispatches contain an account ofan _espedition directed against the Sultan- of Borneo , Omar Alt Saffudek . The expedition see * Bs to have beenbarren of any effective results ; true , the English took and demolished some forts , burned several houses _bslong ing to the Sultan , or his adherents , in the interior , and carried away a number of brass cannon and other spoil ; hnt the grand object of the _expediSioHp the catching of the Sultan , was not accomplished . That worthy gentleman , believing that

      " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day , " managed to beat a retreat , and to fceep out of the * way of the English _during their unwelcome visit , Why the expedition was undertaken is not ab aM clear . The Sultan is charged by his English _, assailants with a number oi crimes , principally of a throat-cutting character ; it does not appear , however , that any of the jvictima were- English . It strikes us that the real object of thia expedition is not avowed ; we caanot but regard it as the precursor to designs upon Borneo similar to those so successfully carried out against India . How far such acts are in accordance with the plain principles of honour and _iuslice may be

      easily determined . We often hear in these times of tho peaeeful and humanising influences of commerce , indeed this has been a favourite clap-trap with the Free Trade gentry , but there is no- fact in history more incontrovertible thaw this , that priestcraft , national vanity , and commercial rapacity have been the principal causes- of human slaughter . The bloody conquest of India was effected step- by step nnder the pretext of protecting our merchants , and now the same game- is commenced in Borneo . Of course , Sir _Thomas _Coghrwib _boasta of the humanity and _disinterestedness of his motives , but these are the usual mask * worn at the outset of such undertakings . Again , he wishes to ' promote " . civilization * , " so say tbeTtencc , in Algeria and the Americans in Mexico . — " tanta-ra-rara

      rogues all !" We stated in last Saturday's Northern Star , that the French Democrats _designed to dine together on thc 20 th of September , in celebration of the g lorious event celebrated by the Fraternal Democrats in London , but that they hail beea prevented carrying their design into exe » ciltiOn by the arbitrary conduct of the police and government agents . We have since received the following communication from a correspondent , by wa \ ch . it will be seen that a number of banquets id t * ' i- , v ; p lace iu Paris , in spite of the brutal

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 3, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03101846/page/4/