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      Ihe Registration Reform Of The Reform Ac...

      no objection to an alteration , it must "be , like himself , " a very little ' on . " The old , absurd system of making the vote depend on the rating , instead of the rent—the old complexity of forms , which make the overseers' lists little else than an ingenious combination of blunders , omissions , and irregularities , will be touched in the gentlest manner possible—i . e . if ihe author of the Reform Bill is left to the devices of his own imagination .

      A very pretty scene in its way , with reference to this matter , was enacted at the close of the revision in the City of _IiOuuOD . last week . "With a knowledge , no doubt , that their statements would be acceptable to those in power , and afford a seeming justification for taking a certain course , the Conservative and Liberal agents both fell foul of the machinery of the Reform and Registration Acts . With great acumen and practical knowled ge , they exposed its defects , and they concluded by expressing a hearty wish that the whole system of Registration Courts might be swept away , and rep laced by "the appointment of permanent , » aid , and careful officers for making out the lists . "

      It is easy to see where this leads to—easy to conceive the object of such , a suggestion . It will give an immense increase of patronage to the Government for the time being , and a capital opportunity of rewarding the services of active political supporters—who can ' t b o put info Tery hi gh offices—and , at the same time , can't exactl y he made either tide-waiters or excisemen . It will afrthe same time open out quite an asylum for all the loose hangers-on of a political party , who possess a fair education with some cleverness and business tact—but

      ¦ who , either from constitutional or accidental causes , are unable to fall into , or settle down at regular emp loyment . Theseareanexceedingly useful class in electioneering times ; they are the true jackals who provide the prey for the lordly lions , who are too lazy , too dignified—and , perhaps , we may-add , too ignorant to find it for themselves . The new scheme would provide for them most admirably ; when a fresh specimen of the class was caug ht , he would _alwaysharetheolium cum dignitafeofaBensing officer s place to look forward to as the termination of his active political drudgery . It would he a new cog fitted on to the old wheel , andadda little additional grcasethat , together , mi ght for the time help to make it work more smoothly .

      "We do not deny that the making ont of the lists would be far better done if placed in the hands of a competent person , permanently appointed , and possessing that experience and _knowled ge which long practice can alone give . But we do contend that that , or any other tinkering of the effete Hcform Act , must he preceded b y a large and liberal admission of the adult males of the community within the pale of the Constitution . Let us have that first , and we shall cheerfully support any proposal that will make tho Constitution a _bonafde one .

      "We tell Lord _Jonx Rcsseix that nothing short of a large extension of the Suffrage will be satisfactory , and that if he tries any small , peddling alterations in tbe machinery of his own Act , with a view to throw the peop le off ihe scen 4 he will he very much disappointed .

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      _OcroBEE ao , 1849 ,. THE NORTHERN S . _TA-R , ,

      Judge's Chambers. Tbhtbee V. O'Cojwor. T...

      JUDGE'S CHAMBERS . _Tbhtbee v . O'Cojwor . This - < ros an action in the County Court of _5 _Iarylebone for the recovery of £ 5 , paid by the plaintiff as a " member , " to the defendant as a " promot er " of tbe _National Land Company . The defendant no w applied for a certiorari on an affidavit , alleging that the matter in dispute was one involving a large number of small sums , simil a r in a mount to t ha t sought t o b e rec e i ve d , and which , in the aggregate , amounted to more than £ 70 , 000 ; and that there were several legal questions _arising out of the action of great importance and difficulty—whether the Scheme was _lesal or illegal , under the Joint

      Stock Companies Act , or under the act for the abolition of lotteries ; whether the plaintiff _having paid voluntarily , and been a party to all the proceedings , could now recover his money ; the defendant ' s affidavit also stated that the Queen ' s Bench had granted a mandamiis , the return to which would raise the present and several other questions . The Ju dge ( Mr . Justice Talfourd ) called upon the solicitor for the plaintiff to say whether these statements were true , and it was admitted that they were so ; but then it was contended that the application was too late , inasmuch as it now wanted but two days to the hearing in the County Court ; the solicitor also complained of the hardship to his client , who was not of ability io bear tbe exnence . of taking the case before one ofthe

      Superior Courts , and must , therefore , forego all hope of obtaining his money . The Judge , however , to the "too late" argument-observed , that he had frequently granted these applications , ev e n when m ad e ex parte , and without any notice whatever to t h e other side , in which case the plaintiff was wholly unaware of the writ until the names were called in Court : and as to the expence of trying the dispute elsewhere , t h at was a c i r c umst a nce which could n ot be remedied . He considered that the questions to be raised in the action were of very great importa n ce , and ought to be tried by a Superior Court , and the more so , as , if thejudgment then given were not satisfactory , it could be reviewed in the Exchequer Chamber , and afterwards in the House of Lords . He granted the certiorari .

      Coexty Court , Westminster. Vita. Richar...

      COEXTY COURT , WESTMINSTER . Vita . Richards , who summoned Mr . O'Connor in the above court on Thursday last , was nonsuited , and had to pay bis own costs .

      Receipts Of The Katjokal Land Company Fo...

      RECEIPTS OF THE _KATJOKAL LAND COMPANY Fob _* hb " Week _Esmxg Thubsdat , _Ociouer 18 , ISiO . SHARES . £ b . _o . £ s _- _- Imrv .. 0 4 0 Cllowl .. < J ? 0 _Sury I : 2 0 0 J . Guilford .. 0 7 6 _TVolrerhamptoa 1 14 2 H . Guilford .. _» ' _Nottingham .. 0 7 G x _* ? « Sheffield .. 10 0 ** __ _T YLVatrisott 0 2 0 m _^ _a

      MONIES RECEIVED FOR THE PUECEASB OF MATHON . n W , StHillicrs 90 0 0 J . W . Newcastle , 135 0 0 J . _S-, Alnwick .. 70 0 0 J . T . Wirfoa .. 2 0 0 £ _*>> 0 "

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      DEBT DUE TO THE . Received hr W . Kideb . — Nottingham , iter J . Sweet , Gd . ; a Ki-d _Uirinihiicaii , 2 s . FOR WIVES AND _FAMJUES Of VICTIMS . Received hv W . _Riheb . — _Nottingham , per J . Sweet , 5 s . 3 d . ; K . llnmer . _Madeline Bridge , Cd . 5 Todmorden . per IL Bnr ]« _-nl : ? i : _lhirtol . prrO . Clark , 2 s . _Sd .- . J . _lirsjs _, _SI : _efiitW , < d . ; J . _Mnjniau , _luiinsgale , i ' s . Od . _jAV . Ovj _^ er , Edinburgh , Is . ( id . FOR THE AGITATION OF THE CHARTER . Received l > y _Tf . Ritoh . — Bradford , Yorkshire , per J .

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      LETTERS TO THE WORKING CLASSES . Lxm . " Words are things , an . l a small drop of ink Falling—hkedew—upon a _thought mud ™*** Tha ,. which makes _mousand _^ _S _^ _u _^ _Bntos . AUSTRIAN ASSASSINS AND THEIR

      ENGLISH ALLIES . Brother Proletabiaxs , _•^ _tH _*** _** last SatMday ' s "'Star" closed _withtheheartrendiugst atementofthe _HuDearian lady who was publicly flogged by the Austrians , and whose husband , in a state of agony and despair , committed suicide . The correspondent ofthe " Times , " while _expressing hisvirtuous indignation at the conduct of the Austrian commander—supposing the alleged atrocity , with its terrible consequences , to ha v e reall y taken place—affected to throw doubt on the sufferer ' s statement . But in his very next communication , the said " correspondent" admitted the truth of the tragic story , adding the following correction : —

      The name ofthe officer was omitted . I now find that it is Captain Graher , a native of Werschitz . The true name ofthe Tillage is not Uuskhy , hut _Ituskherg , and the injured lad y is the Telict of one of the firm of Hofmaun and iladershach , who were proprietors of some extensive iron works . . The august Editor of the " Times" has not deigned any comment on this atrocit y , which probably he considers beneath his notice . The " Chronicle , " on the other hand , has indul ged in an " editorial" breathing fierce invective against the " wretch , ' * Captain Graber , and calling for " the infliction of the most extreme penalty on the criminal . ' ' . What rank

      hypocrisy is this ! The " Chronicle" " wretch " well knows that he and his comrogues of the " Times , '' " Post , " & c ., —both editors and "correspondents "—are a thousand-fold more guilty than the execrable Guaber , seeing that they have encouraged , supported , and applauded such miscreants as Graber and his masters in all their hellish wars against Humanity . It is not the first time that women have been flogged b y the butchering defenders of " Order I" The flogging of women was a matter of almost daily announcement during

      the Hungarian strugg le ; and onl y a few weeks ago the hoary ruffian Radetzki—lauded by our Press-gang scoundrels as "the conqueror of Lombardy" — caused several men and women to be publicly flogged , "for having insulted ( that blood-reeking rag ) the flag of Austria . " But flogg ing has not been the only , nor the w o rst , atrocity committed on women by the Imperial brigands . I leave my readers to imagine crimes and horrors ( with the record of which I will not sull y these columns ) of which Hungarian , German , and Italian females have been the victims—abominations

      committed by the champ ions of the House of _Hapsburg . . How is it that the large-hearted symp a th y of the " Times" correspondent , and " Chronicle" editor , has hot ore this time found vent ? How is it that those " virtuous-indignation " _-mongei-shaveonlynowfoundwordstohurl the thunders of their wrath against—not a Haynau , a Jellachich , or any other wholesale destroyer and torturer , hut against a mere subordinate instrument of those

      archenemies of the Human Race ? After inciting tbe assassins of nations to destroy the liberties of an entire peop le , and encouraging those assassins in dooming that- peop le to the miseries of fire and sword , and all the horrors invariabl y perpetrated by a brutal soldiery , these wretches of tlie Press-gang would now like to win a character for " humanity , " " liberality , " & c . Faugh J Their pretended

      s ympathy is hypocrisy—their assumed indignation a lie . The unhappy Madame De Madeesbach may assure herself that , next to the miscreant Graber and his masters , she may lay the account of her sufferings , the suicide of her husband , and the wreck of her " "happ iness , to those editors and " correspondents " who have prostituted the London Press to the service of the master-fiends who have desolated her

      country , and destroyed her own peace . New horrors , demanding comment , will not allow me to dwell longer on the case of the unhappy Madame De Madersbach . Some time ago I announced , on the authority of the dail y papers , that General Aulich , and . several other Hungarian chiefs , had been butchered in cold blood , by the Austrians . The report was prem a ture , but o nly premature , as it too truly foreshadowed the deed . Since I last addressed you , intelli gence has arrived in this country of the massacre of the following patriots : —

      At Arad , on the 6 th of October , the Hungarian generals and chiefs Aulich , Nagy , _Sajjdor , _ScnwEiDEt , Damasich , Vecsey , Torok _, Poltenber g , _Kjjesich , and _Lenix-GEsrwcre HANGED . Ernest Kiss , Dessof y , Lazar , and Laoer were SHOT . The same day , atPesth , Count Louis Batthyany was put to death , after he had vainly attempted to commit suicide . A guerilla chief , named _Fekete , was also put to death by powder and ball .

      I have taken the list of names g iven in the * Times" of the chiefs shot and hanged at Arad . There is some difference in the names in the accounts g iven in the papers , though all agree that thirteen brave and true men were put to death either by the rope or the bullet . The particulars of this massacre have not yet reached this _couutry . These unfortunate men were induced hy the traitor Gcergey to surrender with him , or to imitate his surrender . Sad—sad have been the consequences of that traitor ' s treason .

      Of the murder of Louis Batthyaky , some , though not the fullest , particulars have been made public . Count Louis _Batthtast was descended from " one of the most ancient Hungarian families . " An aristocrat by birth and fortune , he was no Radical , although , for some time previous to the ascendancy of Kossuth , he led the Reform party in the Hungarian Diet . " When the Revolution broke ont in Vienna , the deceased was one of the deputation that obtained the famous March concessions . " Subse q uentl y Prime Minister of Hungai ' y , he

      strove to preserve a middle and moderate conrso , when the Austrians gave evidence of their determination to strangle the liberties of the Hungarians , or drive them to revolt . " In the last moment of external peace between Austria and Hungary—in the first moment of the conflict for life or death—Louis _Batthyaxy resi gned the Ministerial office , entered as a common soldier in a Hussar regiment , and took no part in the proceedings of the National Committee of Defence . " On the invasion of the country b y " _lYlXDISCHGBATZ , _BATthtajcy presented himself to that brigand , in company with Dear and Archbishop _Loxo

      wics , as a deputation to propose a surrender and pacification , on condition that Austria would guarantee the old constitution of Hun gary , as it existed in 1847 . This step was t aken b y _BATinY . _vxY and his colleagues , in opposition to Kossuth , who , with the veritable reformers , repaired to _Debreczin , to organise the army of liberation , which , within three , months , drove Wjsdischgratz and his cut-throats out of Hungary , and , for a moment , established the independence of that unfortunate land . It was while attempting to negotiate with _Wixdischgkatz th . it ho was trcaekev uuily arrested Mid thrown into prison , ¦ where he remained until murdered by the

      butcher _Bayxiu . # From this ( very imperfect ) notice ot the career of Louis Batthyany it will be seen that he was not one of our friends . He was what the " Daily News" terms a " m o derate constitution alist " - " a man who opposed democracy and soughtto put down rebellion , yet I c a nnot but express my sincere p ity for the victim , and heartfelt hatred of Ins murderers . The Ie « _= s he was allied with Kossuth and the true Keformers , the less excuse had his assassins for destroy ing him ; and the greater Ms " moderation" as a _politician , the greater

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      the infamy of those who are answerable for his blood . According to the terms of his sentence Count Louis Batthyany , " native of _Pressburg , 40 years of age , Catholic , married , " was convicted of having loosened the ties which bound Hungary to Austria by the Pragmatic Sanction ; of having after his resi gnation as Minister entered the ranks of " the insurgent army ; " and of having re-entered the Biet " -which had been dissolved by his Majesty . " "He is therefore , " continues the sentence , "for the crime of hi gh treason , condemned to forfeit his whole property for the indemnification ofthe treasury of the state , and to suffer death by the rope . "

      The Press-gang devils , both Austrian and Eng lish , improving on the sentence of the " Imperial Court-martial" have tried to make out that the Count was condemned to death for what they term "his share in Latour _' s murder . " If such had been the case the murderers who passed sentence would have taken good care not to have thrown away the opportunity of blackening , or attempting to b l acken , the character of their victim . The

      attempt now made b y the Press-gang is another proof of the matchless villany « f that crew . All persons acquainted with the facts , know well that without any connivance or incitement on the part ofBArrnYANr , the natural rage of the "Viennese at the discovery of Latour ' s dup licity and treachery was amply sufficient to account for his destruction . The only matter to be regretted is that those who shared Latour ' s r a scalit y did not also share his welldeserved doom .

      In pursuance of his sentence the unfortunate Count was marched between two lines of Grenadiers to the p lace of execution , but before arriving at the gallows he inflicted a wound in his throat , which , however , was not fatal . -According to some accounts , he employed a dagger ( which had been conveyed to him in his linen ) in tho vain attempt to deprive himself of life ; other reports state that he punctured his throat with a . nail , or large needle . This saved the victim from death by hanging . The wound was bound up , and he was taken back to prison . It might have been supposed that , under these circumstances , the

      heart of even a HAYiYAU would have relented . But not so ;—the soul of that monster never knew the blessed influence of Mercy . At twelve o ' clock on the ni ght of tho * 6 th of October , Lows Batthyany -was again torn from his p rison , and w a lked , notwithstanding his extreme weakness from loss of blood , to the place of execution . "After he had passed a few seconds in prayer , and his eyes had been bound with a handkerchief , a signal was given with the drum , three riflemen advanced close up to him , fired , and the unfortunate man fell dead without either groan or struggle . " The last words he uttered were : — _•• Eijev a

      _haza" ( " My country for ever " ) ! "While this tragedy was proceeding , an indescribable tumult of feeling agitated Pesth . Military patrols traversed the streets dispersing the bewildered gr o ups , whose hearts burned for vengeance , but whose hands were powerless . It is stated that the officer who post poned for a few hours the execution of the sentence , and , finally , gave orders for the shooting ofthe Count—his lacerated neck not admitting of death by the rope—has been arrested and ordered for trial by court-martial , Haynau being furious that his victim was not hanged !

      Since the execution of Batthyany , a priest and a Jew- have been shot at Pesth . It is reported that Ladislaus Cyanyi , ex-Minister of Hungary , and several other Magyar chiefs , have been condemned to death . We may expect to hear in a day or two of their execution . These foul , unnatural murders have forced a renewed exhibition of decent indignation on the p a rt ofth e " Chronicle , " and forced even the Times'' to break silence . The former journal tells its hitherto favourite hero , _Haynau , that he " has much to answer for ;" and the " Times" speaks of the execution of Batthyany , as " an act of horror" onl y equalled in history by "the murder of Count E ' gmont , by the Duke of Alva . "

      A careful perusal of . the articles in the " Times" and " Chronic l e " will satisfy the reader that the precious scribes of those journals , in reality , feel no compassion for Haynau's victims , and are onl y inspired to " protest" by the fear that his butcheries will bring universal odium on the "Holy Alliance " of kings and usurers , priests , aristocrats , aud military murderers . The kindl y " Chronicle " admits that " the late insurrection in Hungary was attended bv circumstances which

      demanded and justified severity , and that some of the ringleaders , by the aggravated character of their treason , deserved death . '' "But , " adds the moderate " Chronicle , " " it does appear to us that the number of executions ordered by Haynau , very far exceed the utmost conceivable demands of the emergency . " It is evident that the organ of the _Peeutes would have been satisfied with the hang ing or shooting of Kossuth , Bem , and _Dembinski , had-they been _Within reach of then * enemies . Perhaps the " Chronicle' ' would not have objected to the addition of Auncn , Nagy _Sandor , and two or three others to the list of victims ; but the execution of so many , and particularly of Count Batthyany , excites that worthy journal ' s " extreme alarm . "

      The " Times" too adm i ts t h at _Batthvanythoug h "hisfaults were not those of a low demagogue or a popular revolutionist _^ inay have deserved to suffer , " but objects that instead of being tried by a court-martial , lie ought to have been proceeded against "with all the formalities of the law , " and all the guarantees of a public trial . " The '" Times" will not condemn death punishments for political offences ; and intimates in no very roundabout terms , that " if the fate of Fnosrand his associates bad not been arrested by judicial doubts , " they might have been banged " with the assent of public opinion /'—meaning the " opinion " of the " Times ' s " patrons , tbemoney-mons » cring " puhlic . " The Puddle-dock Thunderer has no ohjection to the hanging or shooting of " rebels " providing it be done according to law . " There ' s nothing like A fair , free , open trial , where tlie king

      Can choose his jury and appoint his judges . " For one sentence I thank the "Times , " "This Hood , " says that journ al , " will be a curse on those tvho shed it , and men ivho sully their victory by such crimes have conquered in vain . " True ! But ther e are others than those w h om the " Times" denounces to whom the " curse o f the blood ofthe true and the innocent clings , and will continue to cling , until Justice shall have exacted her penalties .

      Certainly the most powerful pen would be maadeguate to write in terms sufficiently severe the condemnation to mankind ' s hatred , and ( I trust ) vengeance upon , Hyena Hay . vau , for his murder ol _Batiutast , and b utchery o f t b e b rave comman ers at Arad . But he is not the only criminal . The blood ofthe Hungarians is also ' on the bead of that tiger ' s cub , Francis Joskpii , and , above all , on the head of that _Jtidas—that betrayer of his country and bis comrades , _Gomezr .

      Cowardly criminals nearer homo must not be forgotten . The blood of the Hungarians is on the heads of the ruffianly journalists , who like those of the "Times" ami " Chronicle" have laboured and lied , conspired _' and calun-uiatcd , to promote the triumph of tbe Imperial butchers . The prostituted scribes affect now to be horror struck at the deeds of blood and vengeance which they t h emse l ves h are incited . The hypocrites ! "Were Kossuth and Bkm ,

      and _Mazzisi _, ami _Oakmiiau _;! , _smd lxuu . v _Hoj-ms , and the other chiefs of Democracy guilty of even a tithe ofthe offences fabricated by the " Times and " Chronicle" they would well deserve death ; and tbe tribe of _IIatxaijs or Htoas might well plead as their justification the ( lying ) evidence of those journals ! The blood of the murdered Hungarians must , in part , belaid to the account of the * _Tomipt journals of this metropolis , the " Times " r _. nd " Chronicle " especially .

      There are others too who share tbe guilt : tbe rulers of this country who connived at the destruction of tbe Hungarian nation ; and , lastly , those " moderate" twaddlers and miserable peace-mongers who , on the platform and through tbe press , stultified the sympathies ofthe British people , and lured the Hungarian patriots to their doom by sending them _xvordt which meant nothing , instead of giving

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      them tho aid of deeds worth y of this nation ' s power and which were ¦ imperatively demanded by the perilous position 0 f the people , with whom the mumblers affected to " sympathise . " P a tienc e , Brother Proletarians , ' " patience and shuffle the cards- ; " th e g a m e m a y b o our next time , les , t h e blood of t he iust is " acurse on those who have shed it ; " and the tyrants " have conquered in vain . " Fearnot but _ttutt tho dav of reckoning will come . Tho " Chronicle" and the " Times " are quite correct in feeling " alarm" for the future ; and the " _Vaiiy aw equally well anticipates that tno vindictive , treacherous , and sanguinary conduct ol all the governments , will insp ire future " insurrectionists with tho conviction that those " who preceded them , f aile d throu gh their modcra" tion and their humanity . "

      _, fhf people , " says the same paper , " whoall " had their day of triumph , s howe d in t heir mode " of using it how much they had ad v a nce d b evond "the barbarous atrocities of past centuries . " Whilst , on the contrary , kings and generals , in _"rtcM-tnumph , have shown li cold-blooded atrocitv , " acontempt for either oaths or honourable nr ' o" mises , an aversion to the most moderate principles "ofconstitutional . government , and a total disre" gavd for the commonest feelings of humanity . We " are sorry to say . that as lnn _« - no _mnn _» nU i _*

      ' supported in this way , it is impossible to hope "that it should survive . " It ; will not survive . The handwriting is on the wall , and monarch y , with institutions still more infernal , will perish . The hour op Retribution" Witt , come , awl the great ones of earth shall turn pale ; The yoke of the bondsman , enfeebled , sliall shake : ah tyrants shall join i , i one desolate wail , Awd cmivves Wndations win tremble and oiiake ; Thrones shall crash , and tiie 6 Ceptre _bu-elotted with hloofl .

      Will shiver to shreds in the hands of its lord , And the voice of the people will echo aloud , That 'iBEEDOM , THE BuiTIIwr _. _nx OF Ma . V , IS RESTORED . ' "

      L'AMI DU PEUPLE . October 18 th , 1849 . P . S . —I beg to call the attention of my Metropolitan readers to the fact that on Wednesday evening next the performances at the Standard T he a tre , Shoreditch , will be for the benefit of tbe wives and children of our unfortunate brothersthe imprisoned ; Chartists . Whilst mourning the sufferings and immolation of our continental brethren , we must not be unmindful of the wrongs and wants of our comrades and their families in tins country . I trust that all who can attend the Theatre on that evening will do so , and that " a

      house full to the ceiling" will materially add to the funds of that most deserving body , the "National Victim Committee . " _V 3 _~ I have just learned through a letter from Mr . Farrell , of Liverpool , of the liberation of our brave and persecuted brothers , John West , George White , and Daniel Donovan . I have no information beyond tho fact of the liberation of our three friends ; but as the term of their sentence would n o t h a ve exp i r ed until som e time in Decem b er next , I venture to hope that Dr . M'Douall , Ernest Jones , and the rest of our incarcerated brethren will also be speedily , restored to their families .

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      PARLIAMEN T ARY AND F IN _AN CIAL REFORM . ABERDEEN . ( Concluded from the 1 st page . ) . Jlr . O . _Thompson , M _. T ., expressed his happiness to meet with so large an assemblage of the iuhabi . tants of Aberdeen , in Union Hall—no name could be more appropriate . ( Applause . ) He hoped that a union would be consummated that night which would be lasting and efficient , so far as it depended upon themselves , to cement , mai u t u in , and _perpetu ate it ; that they would every one endeavour , by bearing and forbearing , by forgetting and forgiving , by mutually burying the hatchet of discord , and

      cultiv a ting a cqua i nt a ncesh ip with their fellow men , like the man who scaled tbe hill in the mist to his brother , they would then learn to recognise every man in society—whatever the grade or distinction which conventionally might separate him in the various walks of life frbm " his lellow—as a brother , accessible to reason , susceptible above all things of kindness , to be coutvuercd by love though be could not be successfully assailed by violence , thus achieving a victory over the understanding , and d isarming their opponents by the conciliation and kindness of their conduct . I f m e n would on ly approach each other , they would , i n most ca se s , like the' man who scaled the mountain top , find that the object which had terrified them , while enveloped in

      t h e m i sts o f prejudice and ignorance , was a " friend and a brother . As far as I am personally concerned , said Mr . Thompson , 1 can present myself "before you without tho fear of being suspected of any wish to keep the franchise from any portion of the adult male population of tho country ; for it is more than seven yeavs , since I avowed , before a constitu enc y in Eng lau d , that 1 could conscientiously subscribe to the six points of the People ' s Charter . ( Loud cheers . ) I have never qualified the confession I then made . I . am as much as ever disposed to give to all my fellow subjects perfect civil , relig iou s , and political equality . I have the honour to represent the largest borough constituency in the kingdom , by which I have been returned to parliament by the

      largest majority on record ; but " I canvassed that constituency on tbe princi p le of "Universal Suffrage ; and can , therefore , consistently vote , as I shall always do when I have the opportunity , for tne widest extension of political rights . But > while I make this frank avowal of my views and predilections , I concur in the wisdom and p ropriet y of th e present movement , which is designed to unite the more moderate with the more extreme , and to lay the basis of that union and co-operation , without which it is found to be impractible and hopeless to contend a gainst the oppone n ts of progre s s a n d reform . ( Applause . ) The hon . member for Nottingham has spoken of the enmity of the middle to the working classes of the people . 1 would fain

      hope he has employed too strong an expression , but whatever the feeling may have been that has hitherto separated the one class from the other , let me hope that here , and every _ivhere else , it will be our aim to extinguish every unkind and hostile emotion , that we may present a consolidated front to the common adversary . Depend upon it , when the union wc seek to bring about shall be effected , we shall witness a very different line of conduct on the part of men offering themselves as candidates for election to parliament . At present men depend on the favour and patronage of some peer or wealthy commounor , having influence in a borough , or on th e influenc e of a clique a t t h e R e form , or some

      other political club m the metropolis , or on s om e scheming lawyers and mercenary agents in a particular place , or on th e k no w n c o r rupt i b i lity of a needy greedy few , who aro willing to take bribes , and are only less famous than those who buy th e ir base votes ; ' but l e t this union be eff e ct e d , and a feeling will be created which , even before the great reform we seek is carried , will , partially at feast , purify the political atmosphere , and make our elections much less a farce and a mockery than they have hitherto been .- I wish you distinctly to understand the nature of this movement . ' There are some se v e nty or eig hty men in the House of Commons who are in favour of a measure of

      reformfinancial , ecclesiastical , colonial , and fiscal . For two years they have been testing the temper and disposition of that house by a variety of motions , and have found themselves , in all , left in an insignificant and miserable minority—the objects of derision and laughter in the eyes of the taxeating and place-hunting majority . Those men , one and all , see the hopelessness of their e ff orts , without a sweepinjr change in the representative system . ; audafewofthem , in _conduction with a growing party out of doors , h a ve d et e rmine d to d evote thems e lves to the work of eff e cti n g that change , a n d th e reby securing for the great measures de man d e d by the c o n d ition of the empire , the consideration they will never otherwise obtain . The change contemplated as the means to the

      achievement ofthe ends I have specified , can only be effected through the immediate instrumentality of the middle classes , who are the electors , with the sanction and earnest support of the _Jlon-elcCtOl'S ; and bonce our appeal to the mixed multitude before me to-night . Continue disunited , a n d the reforms de sired can onl y be obtained b y such protracte d ag itations as we have seen carried on duriEg the last forty years ; whereas a reunited , vi gorous , and triump h a nt struggl e for a g e nuine parli a ment ar y reform , would lead to a very speedy correction of all those great abuses which arc now upheld by the confederacy that subsists by the plunder of the people . ( Cheers . ) If the people , oig ht y years ago , h a d b een prop e rl y represented in the House of

      Commons , we should have had no American war ; if sixty years ago , we should have had no continental war . I ' the people had had their own representatives in the House of Commons , the repeal of tl « s Test and Corporation Acts would soon have been carried , so would Catholic Emancipation , so would the abolition of Slavery , so would the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and wc should have saved the } . ' : uim . al Deht , and a load of taxation unequalled in the history of tho nations of , the earth . Were the pe o p le at this moment properl y represente d , you would not now be listening to the sound of the hammer

      employed to erect a scaffold in your city , on which a human being is to be strangled to-morrow . ( Loud cheers . ) This organic change I repeat , . must be effected through the immediate instrumentalit y of the present electoral body , and the members of that bodv must be assisted by the cordial and earnest support of their non-voting fellow subjects . Tlie change proposed does not s ; o the length of universal suffrage , but it goes tar enough to put political p ower ma i nl y into tbe bands of the producing and tax-paying peop le o f th e country , and far enough to achieve all the practical purposes we have in view . It is clearly , then , the interest of the working classes to join us , and this I

      Parliamen T Ary And F In An Cial Reform....

      believe they will do , after the failure of the efforts they have made in their own behalf . Unassisted by the middle classes , thov have been told again and again , « ifs n 0 Use knocking at the door any mov e , It s no use knocking at the door . " ( Laughter and cheers . ) But let tho middle and working classes come in a united body , with such a just and reasonable measure as is now proposed , and depend upou it they must and will be admitted , and in their turn will be able to say to tho idle aud tlie hungrv , who want to feed upon the vitals of the industrious , " Gentlemen , It ' s no use knocking at tho door anv more , Its no nso knocking at the door . " ( Cheers ' ) I most fully appreciate the importance of the observations made by Mr . Wilson in _reference to the rate-pay ing qu a li f ication in connex i on wit h th o laws

      and usages of Scotland , and doubt not that the subject will be most carefully considered , and such a princi p l e laid dow n a s will g i v e to t he peop le of Scotland the most perfect equality with the people of England , in regard to their eligibility and facilities for r e gi s tr a tio n a s voters . The topic is one , however , which , however important at an after stage , need not prevent our cordial union to-night in the assertion of tbe necessity of an extension of the _suffrage to all occupiers of houses , whether in whole or in part . ( Cheers . ) One good effect which would immediately follow from the reform proposed , would bo the making of Ministers of State and their subordinates responsible to the people . As it is , the y are virtu a ll y irres p on s ibl e , and can set them

      at . defiance . Returned in tho first instance for a popular constituency , they often apostatise , and arc turned out ; but under the present system they creep into the House again for such sweet places as Il _. inviclf , and ffinsalo , and Tavistock , and Ripon , and arc able to do all tho mischief they desire . This must bo corrected , a nd mini s ter s , l i ke oth e r members , must bo made amenable to popular opinion for their conduct . After some additional observations , Mr . Thompson declared his determination to continue the advocacy of tho rights of I the people , until all who wore constitutionally entitled to the franchise enjoyed their full share in

      electing to the House of Commons the men entrusted with the power of levying taxes and making laws for the community . [ The honourable gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheers . ] Mr , _Gohbon moved the appointment of a committee , composed of equal members of tho middle and working classes , which was seconded by Mr . Lindsay , and passed unanimously . Mr . Macallan said—After the eloquent and telling addresses they bad heard , h e ha d only to announce the motion , which he had been requested to propose , in order to its being carried by acclamation . It was that the best thanks of the meeting bo given to the deputation for their visit on that

      occasion , J . II . Murchison , Esq ,, from London , in a short and eloquent address , seconded the motion . The motion was carried by three hearty rounds of applause . Sir Joshua Walmsley appropriately returned thanks , and proposed a vote of thanks to the

      chairman . Mr . O'Connor , in rising to second the vote of thanks to the Chairman said , that be must again dissent from Sir Joshua Walmsley , he denied that the Whigs were mongrels ; tko best dog be had ever had was a mongrel , between a greyhound and a bull bitch —( roars of laughter)—and he had never known a good Whig in his lifo ; they were spaniels , not mongrels . ( Renewed laughter . ) The vote was passed by acclamation , and Mr . M'Phebsok heartily returned thanks , announcing that a soiree in honour ofthe deputation would take place the following evening at six o ' clock , when actual business arrangements in connexion with the formation of a local branch sssociation will be moro fully entered upon . The meeting which was most attentive and or d erl y throughout , then separated _.

      Stratford. A Public Meeting Of The Assoc...

      STRATFORD . A public meeting of the association at Stratford was held on Tuesday evening at tho Yorkshire G r ey I nn , Mr , E . Clark in the chair . The chairman having briefly exp laine d t he o b j e ct s of the Association , Mr . T . _Ciaiik addressed the _meeting . To pnrliamentary Reform he looked as the great moans of accomplishing all other reforms . Without that it would be useless to look for Financial Reform . According to the theory ofthe English constitution e v e ry m a n had a ri ght to exercise a control over those who made the laws which he was called upon to obey . The unenfranchised classes bad a great interest in the industrial property of tbe country , and while they sought not what was called

      protection for their industry , they vsked for the protection afforded by representation . ( Cheers . ) In order to effect any extensive parliamentary reform it was necessary for wealth to combine with comparative poverty , ami hence he rejoiced to find that the ' association sought to embrace all classes , A qualification for voting more contemptible than the £ 10 franchise , standing alone , could not bo conceived . Under that'franchise many who possessed considerable property were , in fact , unrepresented ; while numbers who actually voted were far less qualified than others to exercise a voice-in the regulation ofthe affairs ofthe nation . Even morally lie denied the right of the 658 members who composed the House of Commons to make laws to

      govern the unrepresented . In a moral _poifit of view , the right was no better supported than that of the highwayman . Each of the voters was supposed to have six times as much intelligence as all other adults . Was that really the case ? Take the farmers as a body . Who would say that they possessed six times as much intelligence as their unrepresented fellow-countrymen ? ( Laughter . ) What the Association complained of was class legislation . The House of Commons contained admirals , generals , lawyers , and merchants ; while the working classes had no voice in the representation . The way to preserve peace permanently in this country was to admit within the pale of the constitution all who had a clear moral right to be represented .

      There was much less to b e dreaded from the enfranchisement of the masses than from their continu e d exclus i on ; for , if occasionally excited , their conduct in the main was right and just . It was said that if the working classes were represented in p a rl ia ment , property would bo in danger . He denied the justice of that imputation . It was not the soldiery of this country which protected its property ; i ts be st , its real protection , was to bo found in the good sense and moderation of thegroat body of the community . ( Cheers . ) The people of oth e r _nationn h a d struggle d a g a inst de spot i sms , and had destroyed thorn ; b ut oth e r d e sp oti s m s h ad in many cases been established . Nothing of the same kind was lately to be witnessed here . The

      Association desired only to seo a proper medium for the effective expression of public opinion . When the Prime Minister saw tho working people generally subscribing towards ihe objects of the Association , he would bo ready to accede to their wishes ; and when a subscription of one shilling a yeav was sufficient to constitute membership , who would hesitate to subscribe that amount ? With resp e ct to th e q u a lification f or bel o nging to the council , he conceived that no reasonable objection could be urged against the course which had been pursued . It was necessary to secure the services of men whose moral character formed a security for the rectitude of their acts , and who gave a practical proof of their interest in the cause . Experience

      proved that no man could be _snore dangerous at a council board that one who obtained his seat solely by persuading the masses that lie was a patriot . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Hows next addressed the meeting . Mr . Clark was , he believed , a working man ; and lie ( Mr . Hows ) had tho greater pleasure in following him , inasmuch as he was a tradesman . ( Hear , hear . ) T h e real str e ngth of tho people l a y in the union of different classes ofthe community . ( Hear , hear . ) A c onstitution a l object w as in the case sou ght _unconstitutional and peaceable means . He rejoiced that an association had been formed in Stratford , and he trusted that the smallness of the required subscription would ensure a large addition to its numbers . The representative body needed

      enlargement . In a work written hy Lord Brougham on British constitution , his lord ship said : - " if we endeavour to prevent bribery altogether , we may fail . But wc can much lessen the amount . What can be more obvious than the remedy of dividing tho country i nto electora l d istri c ts ? " No w , on that point his lordship and the association agreed . Again , speaking in relation to the' Reform Bill , his lordship said — "It is much to be lamented that the working classes have not , generally speaking , their share in the administration of affairs , a nd this might most safely , and indeed beneficially be entrusted to them . " * He ( Mr . Hows ) thought so too , and ho was pleased to find Lord Brougham again agreeing with the Association . ( Hear , " bcar . ) " Supineucss was one of tlie besotting sins of flu ' s country . The Association sought to obtain for Hie working classes , not an _useless favour , but a just aud valuable light . He then referred to Mr . Hume ' s sneech at Xorwieh , as _exhibitm" the

      practical result of class legislation . Mr . Hume , who , as a practical reformer , was above alt praise—( hear , lu ;! r ) _-iti ! _k' _< l _t'sRt our expenditure h ; i

      Denbig H. On Wednesday Evonirgan Exceedi...

      DENBIG H . On Wednesday evonirgan exceedingly numerous meeting was heldin the Assembly Room , Denbigh , f or the [ iurpose of receiving a deputation from " the National Financial and " Pailiamentary Reform Association . Mr . Shepherd , the senior churchwarden , presided . Mr . Atkinson , in a lengthy and able speech , stated the objects of the Association , after which a discussion took place between Mr . G . Griffith , an extensive land-owner , and Mr . Atkinson ; the former contending-, that if the Association carried into effect the objects which it aimed at , it

      would bo tho manufacturing and the trading interests only which would bo benefited , to the disparagement of the rural and agricultural districts . The discussion lasted a full hour , during which Mr . Atkinson refuted all the arguments of his opponent , and Mr . Griffiths , notwithstanding the high local respect in which he is held , was completely hooted down . A resolution approving ot the objects of the Association was carried by deafening acclamations , and the meeting , after hearty cheers for tho cause , separated at a very late hour .

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      0'Connohviij.E. — Harvest Home ! — A Din...

      0 'Connohviij . e . — Harvest Home ! — A dinner , tea party , ball and concert , was held at O'Connorville , Herts , on Monday , October Joth . Amongst the invited guests wc observed Messrs . P . _M'Grath and T . Clark , ( two ofthe Directors of the National Land Company ); and Messrs . E . _Stallwood aud John Arnott , ( of the Rational Victim Committee , ) Thodinnor was served up in the School-room , and consisted of good old English fare . The tea was also served up in tho same edifice . The tea tables having been cleared , Mr . T . M . Wheeler was unanimously called on to preside , and stated that Mr . Tindal Atkinson had been invited , and would doubtless have been present had not his services been previously engaged in a distant region , and tho same must be said for Mr . O'Connor . —The Chairman having read a letter of apology from G . Julian

      Harney , called upon Mr . Clark to respond to tho first sentiment— " Tho People . " Mr . Clark having spoken , the next sentiment was : " Mr . Feargus O'Connor , his brother Directors , and our Land Plan . " Mr . M'Grath replied . " The Victims and their Families" was responded to by Mr . Joha Arnott . Mr . Newson responded to tbe next sentiment ; " Oar brother allottees of _Charterville , Lowbands , Snig ' s End , and Great Dodford . " Tho next sentiment was : " G . Julian Harney , E . Stallwood , and the Democratic Press . " Mr . Stalhrood replied . " Miss Vaughan , our only female allottee , and the Ladies , " was given and responded to by Mr . Hornby . The room was then cleared for tho ball and concert , which was kept up with great spirit until past " the witching hour of night , " wh en the c om pa ny separ a ted , hi ghl y delighted with the rational pleasure they h ad so abundantl y enioyed .

      Sheffield . —At the usual weekly meeting on Monday evening , of this branch , hold at the Democratic Temperance Hotel , 33 , Queen-street , a discussion arose on the inattention of a number of members to the requests of tho committee in desiring such members to re-commence their subscriptions , or in default it would be worse for them ; tho discussion ended in the following resolution being unanimously agreed to . Moved by Mr . Bagshaw , and _seaonded by Mr . Heaton : —• " That tho secretary be forthwith instructed to make _outii list © f all members , both with regard to general and local levies , and also those who are paid up , but have not attended to the resolution as determined upon at the Conference . That all such defaulters

      wil l h ave to b e d e a lt with in the m a nner a n d sp irit of tho resolutions as agreed by the late Conference ; and those members who have allowed their arrears of levies to run out , th e ir p a yment s shoul d be struck off the books ; and further , that in the course of a fortnight from this date , if all local members be not cleared off the books , the same will be deducted from the ori g inal shaves of such defaulting members without distinction . In the meantime , the committee will visit such members as it is possible , to explain to them the nature ofthe above resolution . Circumstances are compelling the Committee to act in a determined manner . Wo entreat for the last time t h ose who a re in a rre a r s to imm ed i a te ly pay the same .

      Peaegus O'Connor And 31r. John Connell. ...

      PEAEGUS O'CONNOR AND 31 R . JOHN CONNELL . ( In the absence of Mr . O'Connor , wehavo extracted tho following comment upon John _Connei-l ' s pedigree of Feakgus O'Connor , from the " Iie lfast Vindicator" of Saturday last . Had it not been that Mr . _O'Connor has been busily engaged of late , it was his intention to have written a Scries of Letters upou his electioneering exploits in Ireland _^ aud also to have given tho veritable pedi gree of tho descendant of " Hunting Cap , " and all about " Grey Robin , " the MovingLamp-pos _^

      with a lanthorii tied to his tail , as a sham li ght to mariners , to cause shipwrecks up o a the coast of Derrynane , and al l ab o ut "Moil Lynch Mull me an egg ! " a series of articles from which the reader will derive not a little instruction , and no small amusement —the most prominent feature being the return of John Conneh . for Youghal , throug h the unpaid exertion , energy , and zeal of Feakgus O'Connor , and , as his father stated , contrary to his most sanguine expectations . ) jib . i . o ' cokkell ' s parliamentary

      _experiencesi'EARGUS o ' cOiVKOB ' S _PBniCKEE . We must , however , find exception to one or two assertions lie has put forth without , i n o ur hum b le opinion , due consideration . He tells us that Feargus O'Connor , the well known leader cf tho English Chartists , and M . P . for _Notting ham , " descen ds from an En glish adventurer named Cenycrs , who emigrated from Essex to Ireland . " Now , we have beard the history of Arthur O'Connor , the patriotic relative of the redoubtable Feargus , long _sinco ; wo have a respect for the name , and consider that Ireland , too , should look upon it with favour , and even fond regard . Under these circumstances we cannot permit Mr . J . O'ConnolPs history of that family to pass without giving our reasons for

      doubting its authenticity . If our view of the case be correct ( and we are ready to prove it is ) , O'Connor / instead of descending f rom a n E s sex m a n , de sc e nds in th e s i xth generation from a county Cork gentleman named Cornel iu s Connor , Conner , or O Connor , who is stated by tradi ti on to h a ve b een carrie d by his mother , when a child , into Protestant Bandon , an d there brought up a Protestant , in order to escape from the persecution with which his family was visited hy Cromwell ' s troops , and to which his father had fallen a victim . His mother dropped the obnoxious Po pish " O" from his name . Cornelius was the father of Daniel Connor , who lived in Bandon , and who , in 1 G _9 S and 1703 , added to the remnant of his paternal estate by large purchases of the then

      recently forfeited " lands of Justin _M'Carth y , and Donough , Earl of Clancarthy . This Daniel ' s posterity aro so numerous and so notable , that it is rather strange how he could have been confounded with " an Essex man named Com _ters . " He was the ancestor of tho present Lord Lisle ; bis son George ( of Ballybrickcn ) being father of Mary Anne Connor , who , iu 1778 , married the Bight Hon . John Lysaght , second Lord Lisle , of Mount _Korth , county Cork . He was also the ancestor of O'Neill Daunt , his daughter , Mrs . Elizabeth Gumbleton , of Ballygarron Castle , county Waterford , be i ng mot h er of Jane , who , in 1775 , married William Daunt , Esq ., of Kilcasc a n county Cork . He was also the ancestor of Daniel Conner , Esq ., now of

      M a nche Douse , county Cork , who inherits his extensive estates . His son , William Conner ( somet i me il . P ., for Bandon ) , built tho family mansion of Conner v ill c i n 1 7 2 7 , and married , in 1721 , the beautiful Anne Bernard , of Palace Anne , county Cork ( of tho family Of the Earl of Bandon whose portrait is at Kilcascan . ) William Conner ' s sob , Itogor , inherited Connorville , and married Anna Long field , sister of the ltight Hon . Lord Longueville , by whom he had issue . —1 . Daniel ( born 1754 , father of the present Mr . Connor , of Manche ); 2 . Robert , of Port-Robert ; 3 . William ; i . Roger O'Connor ( thefather of Feargus ); and , 5 . Arthur O'Counor , M . P . for Philipstown , in the

      Irish Parliament , whose ultra-patriotic politics actually forfeited for him the splendid inheritance of his uncle , Lord Longueville ( £ 10 , 060 per annum ) , and probably , too , tho succession to his peerage , which that nobleman's influence could have readily procured for his favourite nephew , he himself being childless . We do not think Feargus would feel much complimented by having the honours of a really respectable Irish lineage superseded by an account which is , to say the least of it , _exceedingly far fetched . . Wo should slate that tlie Celtic " o" was resumed by Roger and Arthur O'Connor , on bearing from _tluir lather the history of its abandonment , from fear , by ihe mother of their ancestor _Cwielius .

      Swixhukc— A Number Of Pawnbrokers In Nor...

      SwixhuKC— A number of pawnbrokers in Norwich have been the victims of a party of swindlers from London . Two men , named J . Walker and IT . Jame s , have been apprehended on a charge of hay . ing conspircfl > to defraud Mr . Shalders , Mr . Lavine , and Mr . Samuel , b y pled g ing rings , chains , and w a tches , pretending that they were gold , whereas they were made of base metal , electro-platod . On Saturday the prisoners were brought before tha mayor , and remanded . Fanny Kemble . —It is rumoured that Mrs . Butler i s a b out t o m a rry Theodore Sedgwick , Esq ., of Stockbridge .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 20, 1849, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_20101849/page/5/