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    • NEW EVENING LONDON PAPER
    • THE NORTHEKN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846.
    • RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OFERATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
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      4 The Northern Star. 'Septembeb 26, 1846...

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . ' _Septembeb 26 , 1846 .

      New Evening London Paper

      NEW EVENING LONDON PAPER

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      FROM THE 1 st OF SEPTEMBER , THE EXPRESS . THE TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS o £ the "Dailt News" has led to numerous inquiries , whether it might not he practicable to publish an Evening Edition , containino JReports of Prices and Proceedings in tlte different Markets on the day of ytiWication . The Proprietors of the ' Dailt News" have resolved to comply with the wish of the Publish but , to prevent confusion , the paner will annear under a different name—that of THE EXPRESS . The EXPRESS will contain , in addition to the news in _theMorninsr Paper , a SUMMARY of the HOME and FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE which may arrive on the day of publication . TIIE EXPRESS will hare the adrantage of Foreign Expresses Correspondence , and other eostlv characteristics ofa Morning Journal . But the full and carefully prepared REPORTS of the MONEY , RAILWAY PRODUCE , CORN , CATTLE , and other MARKETS will be the marking eature . ' As , however , the interest in such a paper must necessarily he limited to a Class , or a Locality , the Proprietors cannot hope that either the sale or the advertisements wiU be s _» extensive or remunerative as those ofa _iloruing Paper . They propose , therefore , that THREEPENCE shall be the price to the public of THE EXPRESS . The Proprietors believe that everv respectable news-agent will transmit the new Journal , on receiving a Post-office order , at the Tate of 19 s . 63 . per quarter ; hut should any difficulty arise , all persons desirous of being supp lied with THE EXPRESS are requested to remit a Post-office order for that amount , payable to Mr . Henb * "Wallbridge , 90 , _Fleet-street , London , who will transfer it to a respectable London Agent . thb express- win he published every Afternoon , at Four o ' clock , with the latest details of the Markets of the day .

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      Now ready , Pr ice One Shilling . THE SECOND EDITION OF MY LIFE , OR OUR SOCIAL STATE , Pari I a Poem ,

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      THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THEIR LONDON FRIENDS . I am instructed hy the Executive Committee to announce to their Metropolitan friends and supporters , that they hare opened a large and spacious Room , situate npon the same premises as their Office , S 3 , DEAN-STBEET , SOHO , -which is to he used as an Assembly and Beading Room . It will be opened for that purpose on Monday next , when the _folloiving newspapers and periodicals will bo laid npon the table : —

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      DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS , HALF PRICE , at US , Fleet-street , opposite the late "League " office . —Mr . EGERTON begs to inform the public , that from fhe great improvements he has made in the art , he is now able to furnish exquisitely finished portraits at half the nsual price . Miuature likenesses for broaches , rings , locket ; , _& c-, and the requisite gold mountings , furnished by Mr . E . equally low . —Pictures anydescrintion copied . — % * The improved German and French Lenses , Apparatus , Chemicals , Plates , Cases , and all other requisites for tlie art to he had , as usual , at his depot , 1 . Temple-street , Whitefriars . A complete hook of instruction of this art , 7 s . Cd . —Descriptive price lists sent gratis . —The art completely taught for £ 3 .

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      LITHOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS OF TIIE DUXCOMBE TESTIMONIAL . MAY still he had at Uie Ofiice of Messrs . M'Gowan and Co ., 10 , Great WindiniU Street , Haymarket , London ; through any respectable bookseller in town or country ; or at any of thc agents of theAbrMera Star . The engraving is on a large scale , is executed in the most finished style , is finely printed on tinted paper , and gives a minute ' description of the Testimonial , and has the Inscription , ic , & c , engraved upnn it . PRICE FOURPENCE .

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . UBSDELL AND CO ., Tailors , are now _making up a complete Suit of Superfine Black , any size , for £ 3 ; Superfine West of England Black , £ 3 10 s . ; and the very best Superfine Saxony , £ 5 , warranted not to spot or change eolour . Juvenile Superfine Cloth Suits , 24 s . ; liveries equally cheap—atthe Great Western Emporium , Nos . 1 and 2 , Oxford-street , London ; the noted house for food black cloths , and patent made trousers . Gentlemen ean choose the colour and quality of cloth from the hirgest stock in Loudon . The a . 1 of cutting taught .

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      TO TAILORS . LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN AND WINTER , 1846-47 . By READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury square , London ; And G . Berg _.-r , Holy well-street , Strand ; May he had of all booksellers , wheresoever residing ,

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      THE PRACTICE OF THE COURTS . Under the 9 and 10 Vic . Cap . 95 . FOR THE RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS IN ENGLAND . With Notes , Comments , and Decisions , on Analogous Statutes . By John Jaooe , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , London : V . and R . Steven , and G . S . Norton , Law Book ' tilers and Publishers , Successors to the late J . and W . Clarke , of Portugal Street .

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      CRIMES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF DANIEL O'CONNELL ESQ ., M . P ., In a series of letters , addressed to the Irish residing in Great Britain , by Patbick O'Higgins , Esq . Printed and published by W . H . Dyo tt , So . 24 , Worth King-street , corner of Linen _flalbstrset , Dublin . Price one penny each . Also the Rev . John Kestos's letters : and Mr . _O'Higgins ' s letters to Lord Elliot , Might Rev . Dr . Blake , Most Kev . Dr . M'Hale , & c , < fcc , & c .

      The Northekn Star Saturday, September 26, 1846.

      THE NORTHEKN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 , 1846 .

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...

      " THE NATION" AND " THE CHARTER . " " We have received a printed address from the Chartists of England to the Irish people , _tvith a request that we should insert it in the " Nation . " JFe desire no fraternisation between 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 ihat their adoption in Ireland would neither be probable nor at all desirable . Between us and them there is a gulf fixed ; toe desire not lo bridge it over , but to make it wider and deeper . " From the " Nation" of Aug . 15 , 18-16 .

      ABOMINATION No . IV . —EQUAL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS . This " point" of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER appears so indisputably just and right , that , but for the necessity of treating of all separately , before we make a summary of the whole , common sense would spare us the trouble of comment . However , as this mav be the one damning spot , the " Nation ' s" principal Abomination , we shall consider it in its proper place . Of course our observations are intended for the conversion of the " Nation , " a journal which we believe to be sincere in its advocacy of A REPEAL OF THE UNION , and , consequently , should be

      directed to the attainment of EQUAL REPRESENTATION , as Mr . O'Connell has pronounced the inadequacy of Ireland ' s representation according to her population , to be one of the main necessities of REPEAL . Indeed , he has declared more than once , that a Just scale of representation would render the REPEAL unnecessary ; and has , over and over again , quoted the more extensive representation of "Wales , in proof of the injustice under wliich Ireland suffers . We should be extremely sorry to use

      the Liberator as an authority when defending a prin ciple , but , as the " Nation " has also used the argument , and as that journal is our present antagonist , it is quite appropriate to our subject . We shall now , however , argue the question upon tbe score of justice and right . While the people are contending for apparently new principles , it should be understood that every single point of the Charter , with the single exception of the ballot , has been a part of the constitutional machinery . Of course it

      was the departure from those principles that gave rise to their several names . We read of no such thing in English history as equal representation , and no property qualification , it is true ; hut that arises from the fact of both being practically existing , and the demand for them now cannot be resisted upon the plea that _wejknow of no such names , while their existeo . ee ia a matter of history . In the outset we stated , that we should not rest our claim to any one of the points , solely upon the fact that they did previously constitute the basis of the constitution ' no—we took higher grounds we based the claim

      upon existing necessity and right . However , we are fully justified in arguing that rights exercised by our ignorant ancestors may be safely and prudently entrusted to the _^ isdom ofthe present more enlightened age . Formerly , then , EQUAL REPRESENTATION did exist , and its former existence is yet manifest , in the fact of counties sending Members to Parliament according to their extent . The first inroad was made in this wholesome system by a profligate Monarch , who required aid in his struggles with the country party . And subsequently , we find the practice frequently resorted to * as a means of

      strengthening the hands of the Court in the Commons , precisely as the royal prerogative has been unscrupulously and unconstitutionally used by a new creation of _slibservientPeers , for the purpose of intimidating and swamping _^ he refractory Lords . One of our Monarchs , James , created ho fewer than FORTY of tbose rotten Boroughs , all of which received an equivalent in the shape of some peculiar charter of privilige , and unconstitutional favour in return for their subserviency . Thus , the Monarch became

      possessed of unconstitutional support , while the rotten boroughs enfranchised by his order , were repaid with unconstitutional privileges . And the repetition of this practice , more than any other circumstance , led to tbe several beastly squabbles between Kings and Parliaments , which ended in Charles the First losing his head ; and , subsequently , to the condescension of William , in accepting these realms as a gift from a handful of the Liverymen of tbe City of London .

      The agitation for the Reform Bill was mainly based upon the inequality of the suffrage , upon the absurdity of old castles and rookeries being enfranchised , while Birmingham , Manchester , and the recently populated towns were deprived of all share in the representation of the country . Did we require proof of the folly of the prcseut unequal system of representation , we need but point to the facility with which the minority of to-day may be turned into the majority of to-morrow , by the addition of

      a few COW SHEDS or PIGS' STYS to the now incompetent holding , by the timely creation of a few 40 s . freeholds , by a few faggot votes , or by the erection of a sufficient number of £ 10 houses in a borough , to turn the scale , or even by the judicious co-trusteeship , or co-partnership , of some national building , school-house , warehouse , storehouse , dissenting church , or old barrack . The major ities of ministers now a-days are supposed to denote confidence , while Harwich , with its two

      hundred electors and scant population neutralises the county of Cork , or the West Riding of Yorkshire , with a population of nearly two millions . The voice of the universities of Oxford , Cambridge , and rinity College , with their migratory population of Masters and Bachelors of Arts neutralises the city of London , and Ludlow neutralises the city of West-

      "The Nation" And "The Charter." " We Hav...

      minster * Now , surely , _theae are crying _abomlnctions ; but what is still more unjust and unconstitutional is the fact , that those who least need protection have a plurality of votes . How many of the electors ofthe several colleges have five , ten , and even more votes ; any of whom may turn the scale in several elections , and a combination of whom is capable at any time of resisting the most reasonable popular demand . We presume that equal electoral districts also means equality of electoral rights , that is , that no man shall have more than one vote , and that , according to the principle laid down in the new

      constitution for which thc people arc now contending . We demand EQUAL REPRESENTATION then , as a legitimate right , we demand it as the means of satisfying electoral requirement , as the means of giving equality to thc votes of all representatives , that people may secure the principle of delegation as well as representation ; as the means of destroying the injustice of the startling inequality in the present electoral system , and as a means of making laws and conducting the government by the majority of voices , instead of a majority of close boroughs .

      Jupiter Frightened At Its Own Thunder. W...

      JUPITER FRIGHTENED AT ITS OWN THUNDER . Whatever be the state of trade in the approaching winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed in [ the integrity and good sense ofthe labouring classes . Having throivn aside the demagogue leaderships that formerly influenced the masses , and fully instructed now as to the designs and objects of moborators , they are prepared to meet , in a becoming spirit , any of the reverses and fluctuations to -which manufactures and trade are liable . The following is from the Times of Tuesday : — THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF LANCASHIRE .

      (From A Correspondent,) Manchester, Sept...

      ( FROM A CORRESPONDENT , ) MANCHESTER , Sept . 21 . The state of this district is anything hut satisfactory ; and although the evils of partial employment and dearnei i of provisions are at present but slightly felt , yet fears are justly entertained that they will soon be greatly increased with the rigour and privations of the coming winter . Short time , with short wages , has alrendy commenced ; and it is not improbable that if business continaes as at present , a reduction generally in the hours of labour will be adopted , The extensive firm of Messrs . Lees and Sons , of _Ashton-under-Lyne , who possess 2 , 000 power-looms , commenced working short time on Monday last . Doubtless , tbe shortening of the hours of labour just now will surprise many people , when it was expected that with the partial repeal of the corn laws would come sn abundance of labour forxmr operatives ; but , witb the exception of the American grain crop , the scarcity in most of the grain districts of the world willfnrnish a sufficient reason for the _drpresssion in the manufacturing districts which induces a reduction in the hours of labour . Bad as it is , it is far better to shorten the hours of employ _, merit than to reduce wages and continue full work . That mode , too prevalent in former seasons of depression , would merely damage the operative and could not benefit trade , as the production would he quite as great , and the depreciation of prices continue aa befote . The cotton-speculotor would also have a better chance of furthering his views than with short hours . Speaking summarily ofthe actual state of our staple trade at this period , comprising all its branches , I should say that it is one of depression ; there is a paucity . of demand , and profits are greatly reduced . In consequence stocks have considerably accumulated . Perhaps the chief , if not only , exception to this is the best class of printers , which have been in good demand and at profit _, able rates . In tHe yarn market there is a fair demand for most descriptions at low prices . If the present price ofthe raw material be continued , without a corresponding advance in yarns , spinners in many cases will produce to a loss . I may add that our home trade generally is _fJOOtl _, and the excellence of the English wheat harvest will give an impulse to this branch of our mercantile transactions . The fine weather has done much for the grain crops in the hilly districts in Lancashire , Yorkshire , and Derbyihire ; still some of the inferior crops have partially failed . The badness of the potatoe crop may also prove a _drawback on the goods for the home market . Whatever be the state of trade in the approaching winter months , the fullest reliance may be placed in the integrity and good senBe of the labouring classes . Having thrown aside the demagogue leaderships that formerly influenced the _masaes , and fully instructed now as to the designs and objects of moborators , they are prepared to meet , in a becoming spirit , | any of the reverses and fluctuations to which manufactures and trade are liable . Who is there that has not witnessed the ecstatic , frantic countenance of tlie wild harem-scarem schoolboy , transformed by the sudden appearance of the master ] into the sheepish and down-cast look of the detected offender . Here then is the language , here is the subdued tone , here is he prophetic future from the Free Trade prophet . Short time is preferable to reduced wages . Better for the operative to pay seven days rent , upon tbree days' labour , and to fatten for seven days upon the produce of his scanty employment ! Tbis has been the former practice under restriction , full work and reduced wages , with the enemy surplus daily increasing ; but the magic wand , the inspiring spirit , the increased competition , and active speculation caused by the annihilation of restriction , has led to the more wholesome maxim of working short time . What a pity that journalists , who undertake to instruct the world , and controul its energies , should send such ridiculous contradictions to the world . Free Trade was the one thing required to extend our commerce with all the nations ofthe habitable globe , and food was the commodity , the necessary , that we were to have in return . Well then , surely common sense tells us that the greater the demand for food _. the greater incentive to activity and industry ; hut alas we want the food , and the Thunderer tells us , that , in the midst of circumstances which were to test the value of Free Trade , that the millowners ofthe north are only saved from the horrors of the experiment by the prospect of a remunerating home trade , consequent upon an abundant harvest ; while they are obliged to protect themselves against the reality of the promised blessing by working short time . When we ] praised the commercial policy of Sir Robert Peel , we took it , firstly , with the industrial clauses to which he was pledged as a portion of the whole , while we hailed it , as we then stated , as the precursor of popular union , caused by the failure of a measuref anticipation from which had caused such disunion in our ranks . We repeat that the benefits of this measure were principally intended as a safeguard against famine , and as a protection to enable the labourer , by remunerating wages , to secure after ttNUKr _, a larger amount of Uis wj _WiOnte than "he could possibly do under the laws of restriction . We were not led to anticipate any of those casualities , calamities , uncertainties , or jumping changes , for which The Times and tbe unmitigated free traders had not prepared us during the discussion of the question . What , then , we would ask , has transpired from the first working of the experiment , so to rivet tbe affection and confidence of the disappointed slaves in their disappointing masters , to secure the peaceful rule of suffering all upon the one side , from the intervention of " MOB ORATORS AND DEMAGOGUES . " Will the mob orator , who foretold the evils of the measure , and who prophecied that the weakest I would be the first sufferers from it , be now less acceptable with proof of their wisdom than the interested speculators who trafficked in their credulity , used them for faction ' s purpose , and then threw the | weight of disappointment upon those for whom the war of bread was waged ? We see not only in the above announcement of terror , but In the recent effusions of The Times , a warning , a strong and immistakeable warning , that the free traders must now wage war , so to strengthen their weak position as to secure peace in the midst of famine , profit in the midst of poverty , and class luxury and aggrandizement in the midst of national degradation . The " demagogues" and " mob orators , " who welcomed the measure as a means of popular union , and as the destruction of the cherished and dangerous privileges of a careless and ignorant aristocracy , mt who fo _^ _told its failure , ave now in

      (From A Correspondent,) Manchester, Sept...

      unopposed possession of the ¦ field o { agllat , ou _* Cobden has prudently run awa / _# om his own thunder , while The Times is compelltXd to take shelter in the dust that it can kick up from fo corn and market correspondence . There is no instance upon record of ignorance equal to that displayed by the Times newspaper upon the question of Free Trade , and there is no finesse andwriggling more contemptible Ihanitspresent

      attempt at escape . We told the people , and circumstances have not changed our mind , that it was impossible to knock tbe keystone out of so old an arch , before it was propped by timely and necessary concessions . Even Peel , the tool of the capitalists , was compelled to strike his centre before his work was finished . As we predicted , he carried the profitmongers' principle , but he forgot the INDUSTRIAL PROP by which alone it could be supported .

      Notwithstanding the apparent calm now manifest , we hold to our oft-repeated assertion—that the capitalists of England will drive the country to a revolution , to insure the complete success of Free Trade principles . And it rests solely with the people what the result of the struggle shall be—whether bloodshed in honour of capital ' s triumph , or a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work in honour of labour ' s victory !

      Notwithstanding the exultation of the Times in the diminished power of " mob orators and demagogues , " we assert , that at no period of our agitation wa * popular confidence ever so complete in popular leaders . Ireland is not likely to be longer governed by antiquated buffoonery , or baronial sessions , instituted for the protection of the lives and properties of the rich , nor is the following conundrum of the blessings of free trade likely to satisfy

      a starving people . At a recent meeting at Castlebar , Dr . M'Hale , the Archbishop of Tuam , saidand we find all in the same column of the Times ; The young and the old , the rich and the poor , the landlord and the tenant , should all join in the great object which we all have in view—the prevention of the dreadful calamity which may , and must , occur , in tinstarvation of the people , unless timely and effectual relief be afforded .

      In Clanmel , the sufferings ofthe people are great ; and , in a letter from there to the Examiner we learn that " an order has been received here this morning for the transfer of the reserved ammunition laid in hero in 1813 . '' Mayhap , the use of the ammunition , the sight of which kept the unarmed volunteers in subjection in 1843 , may fail in keeping the starving people in peace . _PiSTUEsa—ruBriio praims . The Evening Post says : — -, We hare reason to believe that directions are ahout to be issued for the _preparation of a form of prayer to be read in thechurches of England and Ireland , in consequence of the distress existing in this country and in Scotland . -

      MARCH OF TROOPS TO THE _PROVINCES . The 59 tb Regiment , at present forming part of this garrison , has received orders to proceed by forced marches to Limerick . The first division leaves this to-morrow morning-. Two troops of the Royal Scots Grays left _Portobello barracks this morning , en route to _Nowbridge , inthe county of KUdare .

      We now think that we have furnished as complete a glossary of Times ignorance , free trade blessing , and Whig imbecility , as time and circumstances permit , leaving to the Times , the League , and their government , to deal as best they cau with the disappointed feelings created by short time , starvation , plague , pestilence , and famine ; and the prospect of a disastrous winter , with the certainty of short nights and sbort reckonings .

      The War Of The Babies. Who Is There That...

      THE WAR OF THE BABIES . Who is there that has not witnessed the sudden irruption of the whole household , the frantic screams of the mother , the terrified countenance of the father , the scampering of the servants , the tumbling of furniture , the smashing of the crockery , the ringing of the bells , and the midnight alarm of the affrighted neighbours , and all occasioned by the sudden start or squall of a sickly infant . There is really something so natural , nay , so charming , in the hubbub created by such an exciting cause , something so

      reasonable in the enlistment of the excited feelings of the household and the neighbours , that we can pardon the commotion ; but when we think of two little girls , quite old enough to sleep without rocking , setting nations by the ears , who have no interest in their feelings of passion or excitement , the case assumes a more important character . Column after column has been filled with the speculations of all nations upon the subject of the marriage of the Infanta of Spain , the sister of the Queen , with the son of the King of the French .

      The poor little Queen herself , about sixteen years of age , is decrepit in frame , weak in constitution , and an abortion in intellect : infirmities no doubt inherited from a dissipated mother . This young woman , tbis pitiable girl , felt no inclination for the marriage state , but intrigue marked her as a fitting instrument to fight the battle of French diplomacv . Being weak of constitution she lacked the natural feelings of woman at her age , and the surrender of

      her will being necessary for the gratification of her mother ' s lust , that old bawd hired a procuress , a kind of " teazer , " to fill Uec youthful innocent Tninu with the delights and joys of matrimony , surrounded her with all the appliances of delusion and excitement , and thus wrung from her a reluctant obedience , which was to be made subservient to her larger stroke of policy—the prostitution of her younger daughter to the embraces of a French

      prince . Woman ever has been , and ever will be , romantic , and such a union being forbidden by an international treaty , the descendant of Eve having the same longing as her parent for the forbidden fruit , has been provoked into a romantic desire to

      taste it . The marriage of the Queen ' s sister—a yery comely and amiable little girl of fourteen years and a half old —to the son of Louis Phili ppe , is considered sufficient provocation to set all Europe by the ears . French gold and female cunning have been enlisted to carry out the plot . A French fleet , under the command of the Prince de Joinville , brother to the bridegroom , is to guard the coast of Spain , while a more numerous English squadron occupies a position sufficiently near to inspire the rebels against the union with

      confidence and ultimate hope of success . While the intentions of the English Cabinet are cautiously withheld , the newspaper scribes are waging terrific war . Our Thunderer put forth its feelers for a share ofthe French marriage portion in a series of fishing articles ; but the King of the Barricades having refused tlie bait , our moral force . cotemporary , throws off all further disguise , and bas raised the bloody Narvaez as the standard arouiul which Spanish patriotism is to rally for tbe defence of Spanish liberty _.

      The article oi the Times of Wednesday , in days of yore would have furnished more than grounds for a European war ; but , thanks to the peaceful progress of the democratic principle , war is now a game at which monarchs hesitate to play . However , as the Times has ventured to suggest its modus operandi for chastising a monarch with whom OUR QUEEN is at perfect peace , we are surel y justified in recommending a course more suiting to the taste of the age . Espartero is in constant communication with Lord

      Palmerston , to be used for Whig purposes , if NaJ vaez should prove intractable _-, and what we recommend , as there is no foul _huuting a fox , is , that Espartero should take advantage of the present godsend , land in Spam , uuder a salute from our squadron , pronounce for or against one or both the _^ marriages , and as a means of securing the Spaaish people against the disasters of either , to raise the standard of the Charter ; and our life upon it thai the Spaniards , once iu possession liberty , will

      The War Of The Babies. Who Is There That...

      banish the whole tribe of murderers and _miscreS _^ . " from their nation ; and without French or English interference— -without the protection ot tha Debats or the counsel of the Times , will guard their frontiers against their future conspiracies . One thing is quite certain , that if this marriage doc 3 take place the fate of Spain is doomed , unless our proposition be carried into effect . If the Queen of Spain should have an heir it will he the cause of eternal jealousy between France and Spain , and we know that royal jealousy always ends in war . On the other hand , if the Queen should not have an

      heir , the crown of Spain will devolve upon a French prince , and Spain , as a matter of course , will be to France what Ireland is to England , HER DRAW FARM , her nursery for soldiers and sailors , her battle ground . We have little doubt that the King of the Barricades had an eye to this ripening fruit when he enclosed Paris as a hot-house for its reception , but we have as little doubt that the first shot fired in snch a war would be answered by the joy bells announcing the establishment of a republic and the destruction of all those silly , womanly squabbles by which nations are convulsed .

      It appears plain that Louis Phillipe will persevere ; it appears probable that the Whigs will be guided by the amount of confusion they can rally in Spain , while , to us , it appears certain that the Spanish people , aided by French republicans , will now take advantage of the intrigues of faction for the establishment of popular rights . If there is a physical struggle , and if blood is shed , we trust that that of the two prime sinners , highest offenders , and greatest criminals , the prostitute Queen-mother and the butcher Narvaez , will be the first victims to their owri intrigue and lust .

      WEEKLY REVIEW . Tub state of affairs in Ireland becomes daily more ominous and alarming . All classes of its population are awakened to the necessity for instant action in order to avert in some degree the consequences of a calamity so severe and so extensive as to be wholly without a parallel even in the annals of that ill-fated country .

      It does not always happen , however , that " there is safety in a multitude of counsellors , " the proverb of the " wisest man" to the " contrary notwithstanding ; especially is the requisite safety unlikely to be obtained when the great mass of the " counsellors " have been unaccustomed to the practical consideration of the subject , and moreover come with a decided personal and class bias to its discussion . That this bias has more or less influenced tbe conduct of all parties in Ireland , must be evident to impartial observers . By the Labour Rate Act passed immediately before the _Jclose of the session ,

      Parliament threw upon the landlords of Ireland the duty which in equity has always pertained to their class , namely , so to use the land as that it should supply the means of employing and supporting the population . In virtually asserting this important principle , and recalling to the recollection of the owners of the soil a primary duty , which we fear too many of them 'have utterly forgotten , or never learned , the British Legislature at the same time proffered its help to enable them to practically act

      upon it . It offered loans of money , which might otherwise not have been procurable , on the simple condition that the properties improved in value by the expenditure of this money should be rated for its repayment . Farther , in poor districts , where the preponderance of hill and bog land , and the absence of wealth and cultivation , prevented the application of tbis principle , it provides tbat free grants should be given to employ the people on works of public utility .

      For immediate and temporary purposes this was , perhaps , all that could be looked for , though far below what we think requisite , and Jwbat we know to be imperative before the sister country can be placed in a condition approaching to healthy . But the immediate question is , whether the owners of property in Ireland have generally responded to the appeal of the Legislature in the same spirit in which it was made ? The answer must be in the negative . They pleaded _poveriy . Mortgages , settlements and annuities , they say , reduced many an apparently large income to an exceedingly slender amount , upon which the ' nominal possessor of thousands finds it very difficult to make both ends meet : and , in short .

      they have no money to spare . They are , in fact , the owners ofthe soil only in appearance , they maintain their position only by the sufferance of others . Their parchments are always in the hands of the money dealers ; and , with an eye to self-interest , which would be amusing were the circumstances less serious , they gravely propose to tho Government plans by which public calamity will be converted into private advantage . In brief , most of the proposals we have seen , divested of the deceptive phraseology in which they are presented , amount to simply this : that the people of the United Empire shall improve their estates for them , and make them a present ef tbe money expended in the improvement .

      O'Connell talks of £ 10 , 000 , 000 bein _£ required to meet the present awful visitation . We have , individually , no objection to twice the sum being so applied . We paid that much for West-Indian Negro Emancipation , and Irish Emancipation from perrennial destitution is , surely , worth that , or double the amount , if necessary . But , whether it be ten , twenty , or thirty millions that is required , we do demand , that as the nation is called upon to find the moans , the nation shall be benefitted , If the lands

      of Ireland are to be converted from barrenness to fertility by the application of national capital and Irish labour , let the nation and the labourer be the parties benefitted . It will not do to allow a third party , who have contributed nothing to the result , to step in and snatch away the advantages from both . If the landlords of Ireland cannot perform the duties of their situation , the Legislature should enable thein to quit it , and put the land in the possession of those who have the means ; and the will to use it

      rightly . It is a monstrous anomaly , that so many millions of people should be living in a state of almost unexampled destitution and misery , in an island capable of giving employment and subsistence to three or four times its present population . It the anomaly be prohed to the bottom , we believe its origin will be found in the manner in which the land is appropriated , and the relative position of the landed and labour classes .

      Meanwhile the danger thickens apace . Desperation follows fast on the heels of hunger—gatherings of excited , suffering , and reckless people multiply . Deeds of violence increase . Deputation after deputation cross the channel , to confer with the Government ; and , on the other side , the ofScials of tke Castle are almost smothered in the _correspondeace which pours in upon them . Some Minister or other wifl ' sureiy be _fsund some day vise enough to take a plain , simple , and _manly view of this question , and save : himself and everybody else a great deal of trouble by settling it in a straightforward way , despite of the outcries of those classes , whether piriest 3 , _landlsitds , or trading agitators , who think they benefit by the present system ...

      The Reg istrations , are now occupying ia » attention of the factions pretty genersily throughout the country . So far as we have seen , the Chartists have not bestirred themselves with that _activity which an approaching general election , should have inspired Duncombe , wo repeat , wants mora supporters within the walls of St . _STErnEn _' a , and the Chartist body should be ready to give Vim them . The Anti-Corn Caw League seems to have so thoroughly innoculated its agents with the mania for manufacturing votes , that even when its object has been fulfilled , and the League itself is dissolved , they go on in the old track , -seemingly for the pure love of tbe thing . Sv & NEV Smith , an old Leaguer , was this week _de'ecM at the City Registration , in a flagrant fa-

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      brication ofa rote . The ignorance of the individual upon whom the benevolent Mr . Smith wished to confer the privilege , Jed to the exposure of the whole affair , which is , doubtless , a mere index to the fact of the wholesale manufacture of such votes by these po litical purists . A remarkable document appeared in the leading columns of the Post this week . It will be found in another column . This is no less than a " declaration of Conservative policy , " which , though the Post

      declines to guarantee or coincide with , must , from the prominent position it occupied have emanated from some ofthe leaders of that party . The points Involved in the " declaration" are too numerous and too important to be incidentally diwussed in thia cursory " review * f but its appsarance places the Protectionist party in a somewhat better _pouitioa in the event of an election . They are ne longer liable to the taunt of having no definite polic y * Right or wrong , some of them have shown that they have brains enough to construct a scheme—on paper .

      Ihe rumours of a meeting of Parliameat ia November grow louder , though we retain the opinion expressed last week on this subject , unless the Irish measures should prove to be decidedly inefficient to meet the emergency , the Whigs will manage to rub en till the beginning of the year . The prices of provisions of every kind are rising rapidly . Ere long the cry of distress frem the other side of the channel will be echoed on this .

      The free trade nostrum will be subjected to an early and a severe trial . The Cobden tribute ia perhaps as premature as tbe peerage and pension to Lord Keane for taking Ghuznee , which was immediately retaken and kept . It would be better to ' wait a little longer . " Let us not halloo till we ' re out of the wood .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Oferative Land Society.

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST _CO-OFERATIVE LAND SOCIETY .

      . Per Mr. O'Connor. Section No. 1. Shake...

      . PER MR . O'CONNOR . SECTION No . 1 . SHAKES . £ S . d . Halifax , per C . TV . Smith 0 16 Georgie Mills , per W , Meehan .. .. ,. 200 Bury , per Jf . Ireland 4 2 0 Norwich , per J . nurry „ ., ,, 200 Birmingham , per W . Thorn " .. .. 1 13 7 Nottingham , per J . Sweet .. .. .. 013 6 Leeds , per W . Brook SO Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. 3 2 Kidderminster , per G Holloway .. .. 10 17 2 Wakefield , per W . Farrand 2 0 0 Manchester , per J . Murray ,. .. ,. 430 £ 35 13 3 SECTION No . 2 . —* * SB ABES . Robert Blackie , Edinburgh ,. .. .. 5 4 0 Teignmouth , per . J . Edwards ., .. 8 10 0 Halifax , per C . W . Smith 3 2 0 Clackmannan , per ft . Patterson .. 1 18 3 Bury , per Mr . Ireland 14 3 l Norwich , per A . _Bagshatr .. .. 3 10 1 Birmingham , per IV . Thom .. .. .. 18 5 Nottingham , per J , Sweet .. .. •• 15 16 0 Swindon , per D , Morrison ., .. .. 5 0 0 Aberdeen , per J . Fraser .. .. 2 19 0 Bradford , per J , Alderson .. .. » 5 o 0 Ashton-under-Lyne , per E . Hobson .. .. 016 9 Oldham , per W . Hamer .. .. .. 4 4 2 Kidderminster , per 6 . Holloway .. .. H 10 ° Manchester , per J . Murray .. .. .. 2 17 6 £ 85 18 6 PEB GENERAL SECRETARY , SECTION No . 1 . siunES . £ a . d . £ 8 . d . Totness . . . 6 11 6 Elderslie - - 2 9 0 New Radford . 0 18 3 Lambeth , omitted- 29 0 0 Westminster- - 0 7 0 Do . - - - 1 6 O WorshoroughCom- Glasgow- - . 7 14 9 mon - - - 3 17 7 £ 52 6 4 SECTION No . 2 . T . Copern - - 0 2 0 U . Chancellor , F . York- - - 0 0 6 Yarmouth - - 2 0 0 G . J . Harney- . 020 Somers Town . W . James Hall - . 10 0 Howard - - 0 1 6 William Fletcher . 0 2 6 John Knight- - 3 18 S Daniel Hopkins - 2 12 4 3 . Hughes - - 0 9 0 Thomas Powell - 0 3 0 Clitheroe - -14 0 0 Mells , W . H .- - 1 5 0 Elderlie- - - 1 14 6 Westminster . . 0 lo lt Henry Hoare- - 0 2 G JamesVtforris . 010 Horsley , per Chap-J . Stevenson - . 020 man - - - 5 0 0 Arthur Menson - 2 12 4 Hull - - . 17 2 _George Marsh . 10 2 Glasgow - - 8 6 6 Belper - - - 2 1 G 5 Silsden . . -030 WorsboroughCom- Bath - - . 200 mon - - . 094 Hammersmith , per J . Miller , Grant . Stallwood - -114 ham . . 500 £ 58 3 5 ' TOTAL LAND FC . VD . Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 1 ... 35 13 3 Mr . "Wheeler „ „ ... 52 6 I £ 87 19 1 Mr . O'Connor , Section No . 2 ... So 18 6 Mr . Wheeler , „ „ ... 53 3 5 _£ _uTTn FOB MB . FBOST . PEB MB . O ' _CONWOB . Geo . Allen , Dunrobin .. ., <¦ ,. 0 1 2 Boory _' s Foundry , per W , Pleths .. .. 0 14 11 W . T . Smith , Liverpool 0 10 0 The Chartists of Liverpool , per J , Farrell .. * ll 1 RECEIPTS OF NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . PER GEHEBAli SECRET AST , Edinburgh , per E . Wells - - 0 0 G Grant- - . 15 0 Lambeth - - 0 5 0 William Fletcher . 006 Leicester , Shaks-George March - 0 0 10 pcrian- - - 0 10 0 Sheffield . - . 037 Liverpool - - 0 9 0 VETERAN , ORPHAN , AND VICTIM FC . VD . Sheffield , a friend- 0 0 3 E . Wells - - 0 0 6 FOK MB . FBOST . Bury - - - 0 11 3 FOB _WHLLAMS AND JONES . S . C . - - . 010 An O'Connorite , Rotherhitlie - 0 1 Q _Rl-OISTBATION FUND . E , Wells - . 810 CROWN AND ANCHOB MEETING . R . Wells - - 0 0 6 Thomas _MabtinWheeler , Secretary . Erratum . The sums announced from Bushey last week should have heen from Busby , per _M'Godkin . T . M . Wheeler . Sec .

      Co States St Corrrs(Nonlkiit*S

      Co _States St _Corrrs ( nonlKiit * s

      Caption To Dan.—"We Give Tbe Following J...

      Caption to Dan . — "We give tbe following just as we recived it * . — "Gosport , —I have enclosed ten postage stamps for two Stars . The Irishmen are beginning to see through Dan , A sergeant of the 3 rd Buffs has got a _Starsowt him , which has been read and heard read by manyof them . Tbey vow vengeance against the traitors . " \ V . _RovteoI ' tom . —Yes ; to be bad at the Printing Office , Harding-street , Fetter-laue , London , at lid . per sheet . Apply to any bookseller in Hebden Bridge , or Halifax , to procure it . _KittuoD . —Mr . William Bennett , late of the Exeter Hotel , has taken the Duke of Clarence , "London-road , long celebrated for the Derby and St . Leger Sweeps . Mr . Richards , the veteran Chartist , is requested to send

      his address to John Gray , _Darntou-square , Burnley , North Lancashire . A S hie WRIGHT , —What National Union ? If you mean the National Association of United Trades , send two post-stamps to the Secretary , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury , London . Mb . John Abbott , _Pocklington . — You are right ,, all orders for the _A-brf * er » Star ought to he _madc-payabla at the Post Office , Charing Gross . Notice . —All communications for Mr . John . Murray , secretary to the Manchester branch of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , must be addressed—No . 21 , Turn « r-str » et , near Shuile-hill , Manchester .. We have reeeived the following correction of a paragraph sent us for insertion in our last a— " Sir , —A paragraph appearing in last week ' s Star , stating that a deputation of the silk glove makes * of Duffield ,

      Belper , and Holbrook , waited upon Mr .. Gimblot , aad stated that Messrs . Ward had reduced wages , by imposing extra work on the gloves , thus _sccupying more time without giving a corresponding remuneration , so far the paragraph is correct , now with regard to Messrs . Brittle ' * firm , the paragraph is not _cosrectthe fact is it was currently reported , providing the men ou strike _submitted to this eitra work , for Messrs , Ward ' s , which Messrs . _Brittle did not require , that firm would reduce tlieir hands six pence per dozen . By inserting the above we conceive it will correct tho mistake of last week , and yoa . will much oblige tho men ou strike , Mn . " 17 m . Johnstone , Liverpool . —As we do not supply the agent ycu allude to direct from the office , we cannot interfere . Our charge is two-pence , each , whieh , with postage , would cost you four-pence . Several Communications received on Friday , came too

      late for msertton . P , Brampton . — "We havo no room . S . W . C . Melbourne . — We believe the price of Cf _jb bett ' s "Cottage Economy" is 2 s . 6 d „ pikhJishe j Mrs . Cobbett , Strand , opposite St . _Cathwine _-street , Mr , J . Davies , City Road , —Through _Bayswat ' er Bu ( * TJs bridge , then _enquire for Maple Cross ,. ' '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26091846/page/4/