Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 27th February 1847, Edition 3 of 3, Page 4, PARLIAMENT AND THE PEOPLE. If any additi...

Page 4
Page 4
4 of 8

On this page

  • Departments (3)
    • MBEUAL BOOKS os POLITICS. THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS,
    • OBSERVE
    • ME NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1847.
  • Adverts (14)
  • Text (7)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      4 4 Then 0 Rthe Rn St Ar, February 27, 1...

      4 4 THEN 0 RTHE RN ST AR _, February 27 , 1347 ,

      Mbeual Books Os Politics. Theology And Social Progress,

      MBEUAL BOOKS os POLITICS . THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS ,

      Ad00406

      ' . Published , and Sold , Wholesale and Retail BY JAMES WATSON , 53 , 3 , Queen ' * _Ilead Fassisge , Paternoster Row , London . D 3 H _1 E _UEASOKER ( Edited by C . J . Holyoake ) . A wccMj Pi _rub-teat _- on , price three-halfpence , devoted to the inv « vestigation of _Rdigloui Dogmas . To be h « d a .. o in M Monthly Parts . _ v .. mw « ll . tl . ttaen . atic . no Mystery . Comp leted in Sine I-umbers , * atTUre .-pei . ee _i-ach . •' ra ' ractica _* . Grammer _. by G . J . Iloly , Is . * "<¦<• _Hadaiulbnok to ditto , _bi ditto , 10 . 1 . Orin Five Numbers at Twep 2 r . cceach . r-ni . ai-trablM . ed . in Tuo Vol nine * _ne-.-U cloth _^ _aud 1 lettered , price Ste Sl . iUiiu . -s and _Spence , the Fourth

      Ad00408

      BOOKS PUBLISHING BY B . D . COUSINS , 18 , _DUKE-STREET , _LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS , LONDON . The Shepherd , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Vol . I . price 5 s . Cd . Vol . II price 3 s . Vol . III . price Cs . ( id ., cloth boards ; or the three volumes in one , half-bound i : i calf and lettered , price 16 s . Refutation of Owcnism , by G . Redford , of Worcester ; with a Reply , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . ls . New CUrUtianit _* . ; or the Religion of St . Simon , with a coloured portrait ofa St . Simoninn Female ; translated by tbe R « v . J . E Smith , M . A . ls . The Little Book , addressed to the Bishop of Exeter aad Robert Owen , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A . Cd . ; by post , 10 " . Legends and Miracles , by the Rev . J . E . Smith , M . A Cloth boards , ls . Sd . The Universal Chart , containing the Elements of Uuiver .

      Ad00407

      MONTHLY PART , FOR _PaicK Set HOWITT'S JOURNAL OF Ll'l Edited by Willuh _CONTEXTS . —This Part contain * Five fine Engravings the late-Joseph John Gurney , of Norwich , from an ail by _Uriteiii . 3 . The Lover , from the- Gwmau , cuaraved by drjriaml , fiaely engraved by W . Me-afom . 5 . A Vignette ol The Literary Contents are : —Visits to Remarkable _i'lai Canker and the Cure- , bv Mlverpen . Indirect Advantage B . A .-4 ' eietry : The Lover , translated _fremi the Genua .., Coopor . As it Should lie , by Eilward _Yoiil . A Grey-Be Howitt . Childhood , bv G . Phillips . There ' s Soinetl Prospect , Februarv , bv W . Howitt . Corcumroo Abbey , Lougingllouse for _' the _' _Poe . r . Two Scenes on theDaiiub lTela . nl . the Imperative Xeccssity of a Universal Agitation Edward Yoiil . Universal Language and Phonography , Carpenter , F . R . S . The _Pliilimthropi-. Assassin , by K . Aconite , bv William lliiicks , F . L . S . Penny _« lsdinii , _Xo . Londoner , ' by John Strides , the Literary Policeman . Au in the Odenwald , concluded . Free Trade Recollection ! Smiles . The Philanthropic Assassin , concluded . Exhilm Literary Xotiees ; Weekly Record of Facts and Opinion Published for the Proprietor , at 171 , Strand , London , am pence , Stumped Copies foi

      Ad00409

      The Christian Mythology Unveiled , in a _Scriea of Lecture , by Logan Mitchell , Esq ., late of 9 , Grove Lane , Lisson Grove , London , in Nineteen Numbers , at 3 d eacb , or , handsomely bound and gilt-lettered , Cs . ; 'THE CHRISTIAN' MYTHOLOGY UNVEILED . ' is admirably written , and iu every respect it is valuable . It evinces learning , _acuteness , strong reasoning powers , with excellent feelings , and , in all its parts , it show * tbe author to haye been a man of taste , with as elegant and highly cultivated mind . We should be vary glad to see it circulated , in cheap numbers , for tbe enlightenment of the middle classes and the much _, abused and despised "totcer orders . "—Wsekiy Dibpatch , December 5 , 1811 .

      Ad00410

      An Eternal Hell * . —Twelve Reasons for sot Believing in the Doctrine . The Almighty God : —Twelve Reasons for Believing in his Existence . The Devil : —Twelve Reasons for hot Believing in his Existence . The Immortality of the Soul : —Twelve Reasons for Believing the Doctrine . Thc Lake of Five , —Hell , not a Place of Punishment , but of Progressive and Endless Felicity ; proved by Scripture . N . B . —Price of each of the above Pamphlets , 2 d . ; if by post , 'i penny stamps .

      Ad00411

      In one thick Octavo Volume , cloth boards , 5 s . Cd . ; in 11 Parts at Cd . each ; or in 55 Penny Numbers , thc MEMOIRS OF SERJEANT PAUL SWANSTON , Written b y himself , and never before published . This is the complete Life of a Soldier in Portugal , Spain , France , America , Irelund , and Great Britain , from 180 G te 182 S . The Camp , the March , the Skirmish , the Battle , the Victory , and the Defeat ; the Siege , the _Fsrlorn Hope , the Plunder , the Riot , the Ravage , the Military Heroism , and the Moral Crime ; tbe fulness of one day and the hunger of another ; Liberty and Hope , Captivity and Despair , were parts of the Author ' s every-day life . Memorials of his most adventurous Comrades are also recorded ; witb many new details of the Dues , his Cam . paigni , Offieers , and Soldiers , which has never _appuared in any other Work of the kind .

      Ad00412

      ALMANACKS FOR THE TEAR 1847 . THB LONDON ORACLE , ( A Book ) . Price . One Penny . THE _METROPOLITAN ALMANACK , ( Sheet the site ofthe London Pioneer ) containing Twenty Three Engravings . Price One Peuxy . THE PROPHETIO ALMANACK ( Sheet . ) Price Ont Penny . _CRUICKSHAMi'S COMIC , ( Sheet ) ooataiuiug numerous Engravings ; price One Peony .

      Ad00413

      JUST PUBLISHED , Xo . 8 , ( price Cd . ) of TIIE LABOURER , Monthly Magazine of Politic * , Literature , Poetry , etc . _Etfifee" by Feaeous O'Conkoe , Esq ., and _Eekest Jones , Esq ., ( _Barristers-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient in 11 monthly organ , the above magazine is esta . blished to remedy this deficiency . Placed hy lovvness of price within ths reach of nil , yet equal to its more expensive _competitors , it embraces the following features : — l .-THE LAND AND THE LABOURER , or the progress

      Ad00414

      CHARTIST POEMS , BY ERNEST JONES . Ptict Three Pence . FIFTH EDITION , BEVISEO AND CORRECTED : Replete with the fire of genius , anil poetic powers ofthe very highest order , for eloquence aud destructive power , they appear , to us * , almost unrivalled . We say "destructive , " for their tendency is " * vors » than Democratic . "A _' ero Quarterly Rcciew . —( Tory . ) Orders received by the author and Mi * . Wheeler , at thc ofiice of the National Charter Association , 83 , Dcun Street , Soho , London , or by M'Gowan « fc Co ., Pi-inters , IG , Great Windmill Street , Haymarket , London , where copies may be procured .

      Ad00415

      NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE BENEFIT SOCIETY , AND PROVIDENT _INSTITUTION EXTENDING OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM . DIRECTORS . Messrs . P . M'Guatii , T . Ci . ark , C . Doyle .

      Ad00416

      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . ADJOURNMENT OF THE CHRISTMAS SESSIONS FOR THE TRIAL OF FELONS . & c . _TVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIYEN _, that the Christmas il ( _Quarter Sessions of the Peace , for the West Riding of the County of York , will beholden by adjournment , ' t Sheffield , on Monday , the lst Day of March next , at Ten 'Clock in the Forenoon , and by further adjournment from thence will be holden at Wakefield , on Wedtiesday , the 3 rd Day of March next , at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon , kor

      Ad00417

      Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had atthe Airttciii Star Office , 1 C , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Heywood , Manchester .

      Ad00418

      TO TAILORS , LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS FOR THE WINTER , 184 C-47 , y READ and Co ., 12 , _Hart-ntrect , Bloomsbury square , London ; And G . Berger , _Holywcll-strcet , Strand ; May be had of all booksellers , wheresoever residing . now _eeadv , By approbation of her Majesty Queen Victoria , and his Royal Highness Prince Albert , a _spluiidid print

      Ad00419

      IMPORTANT 'TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN application was made on the 22 nd ftipt'mber , to the _Vicc-Chanccllor of _Eugland , by sir . Beard who , acting under a mostextraordiny delusun , considers himself the joJc patentee of the Photographic _process 1 ) to restrain MR . ECERTON , of 1 , _Templo-striuc , and US , Floct-strcct , rom taking Photographic Porlt . uls , which ho does by a process entirely ditl ' ereHt fron and very superior to Mr . Beard ' s , and at one-half tho cl _,- rgc . His Honour YeiuseiA the application in _toto . No license re _.-iured to _practlco this process , which is aught by Mr . Egerton in a ftw lessons at a moderate charge-All th _Apparatus , Chemicals , & c „ to bo had as usual -t his Denot . l , Tcmple-strcct , Whitofriars .

      Ad00420

      JUST PUBLISHED . Price One Penny , THE DOMESTIC MONITOR , Or Literary , Scientific , Legal , and Medical Adviser , Edited by Hermes , 1 . LouisFhillippc ' s Vagaries ; Speech of the King . — 2 . Don Rodrigo , or the Forbidden Wedding , Chapter VI . —3 . The Nosegay : Poetry , Anecdotes , Maxims , and Miscellaneous . —4 . Tho People ' s Corner : Military Flogging 5 . Correspondence : Literary , Scientific , Legal , anil Medical . —6 . Medical Adviser : Consumptions continued . —7 . Literary , Scientific , and Dramatic Reviews . —8 . Domestic Herbal , —9 . The Lawyer : Wills . —10 Advertisements . Published by E . Mackenzie , 111 , FleetStreet _, and to be had of all Booksellers and Ncwsvenders .

      Observe

      OBSERVE

      Ad00422

      AH correspondence , reports ; of public meetings , Chartist and Trades' Intelligence , and general _qiii-stions , must be addressed to Mr . G . J . Habney , "Northern Star Office , " 16 , Great Windmill Street , London . All legal questions , and matters of local news , not noticed in provincial papers , and requiring comment , to be addressed to Mr . Ernest Jones as above . All questions respecting Hills introduced into the Legislature , Acts of Parliament , their meaning and intent , etc ., anel questions respecting the Ministry , and the members of the two Nouses of l _' . irlimnuiit . to be addressed to Mr . Gcorgo Fleming , " Nortliern Star '' Office . All questions , connected with the management of laud , and touching the operations of building , cultivation , etc ., to be addressed to Mr . O'Connor . Lowbands , Red Marie-, Ledbury , Worcestershire . All communications of Agents , and all matters of account , to be addressed t » Mr . W . Rider , " Northern Star Office , " 10 , Great Windmill Street , London Al Applications for magazines to be made through Mr . M ' u ' owan , Printer , as abovo .

      Me Northern Stak Saturday, February 27, 1847.

      ME NORTHERN STAK SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 27 , 1847 .

      Parliament And The People. If Any Additi...

      PARLIAMENT AND THE PEOPLE . If any additional proof were wanting of the spirit , hostile to the public interests , in which the Parliamentary business of this country is conducted , that proof was amply afforded on Tuesday evening last , when the house negatived , hy a majority of 58 to 38 , Mr . Duncombe ' s motion for leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of the Ratepaying Clauses of the Reform Act .

      The object of Mr . Duncombe s motion has been supported by petitions adopted at large and _intluential meetings in the metropolis and various parts of the country ; the public mind was plainly manifested on the occasion , and we did at least expect sufficient courtesy towards its expressed opinion , to allow the bill to be introduced , and to proceed to a first and second reading ; the more so , since the power of ultimately throwing it out remained unimpaired , and as , under any circumstance , experience has taught us , that the liouse could so cripple and mutilate its provisions in committee , that no vestige of

      its original form would have appeared . But , disdaining these advantages , the imperious and ill-advised Whig Premier at once rose , and put the damper of a ministerial negative upon it , dreading , no doubt , the very thought of an extension of the franchise , since its every extension must prove a contraction of his power . The Protectionist leader , Lord George Bentinck , too , rose to oppose the introduction of the bill—nor are we surprised at this , for the Landocracy , although it may strive for popularity by voting for a

      Ten Hours' Bill , which will apparently only interfere with its enemies , dreads _. as much as the m-meyocracy can , any step that shall infuse democratic Wood into the constituencies of England . Thus are our predictions verified , that both Protectionist and Freetrader would coalesce when it came to a struggle between capital and labour ; thus have our exhortations proved well-grounded , when we advised the people not to look to any parties for support , but to help themselves when thev were in want of aid .

      But one grand object has been gained by this measure . Baffled as it is at the outset , it has taught us to know some of our friends from our foes , —and , like the demonstration of a clever general , it has forced the enemy to reveal the tactics of his secret combinations . We now know what wc have to expect at the hands of others , beside the ministerial Janissaries . Whigplace-holders , Irish banditti , and Young England feudalists , will form the " holy alliance " of privilege against justice , and they are the more to be at once dreaded and despised , since they are men deaf to argument , alive only to

      selfinterest , or fearful of committing themselves in the face of conflicting principles . The conduct of the house on Tuesday evening last sufficiently indicated this . Few opponents stopped to hear the arguments advanced for or against Mr . Duncombe ' s motion ; but on the call-bell ringing for a division , they came thronging back to render their votes against a Bill , whose merits they had long prejudged under the tutelage of political subserviency . Surely their time could not have been so precious , nor its economy so imperative , if we are to judge by the hours that have heen wasted in discussing the marriage of an

      Infanta , or the removal of a brazen Wellington . We trust the constituencies will refer to and remember the division-list on this occasion , and that it will be made to tell at the next election , should those men , who have met the wishes of so large a portion of the community with the contemptuous insolence of not allowing this Bill to be introduced , present themselves again for i \\ e votes of the in suited . Thc division list contains thc names of fifty-eight opponents to Mr . Duncombe ' s motion , of whom twenty-eight are Whigs ( including twentytwo Whig officials ) , and thirty Tories . It further

      presents the now , unhappily , usual feature of men voting AGAINST , who previously voted FOR the measure , as in the instances of Admiral Dundas , C . It . Fox , Milner Gibson , B . Hawes , and the O'Connor Don . Surely these are not the men who should represent the constituencies on which they arc forced byinllMence . These conflicting votes arc an additional argument in favour of an extended suffrage , since neither political weathercocks can represent the steady progress of public opinion , nor subservient placemen the honest independence of that ideal being— " a free

      Briton . " To dream of honest conversion would indeed be absurd , since scarely any arguments were urged against the motion , except by Lord John Russell , who declared , that the paying of rates was a qualification for the franchise founded on the ancient principles of the British constitution . The Premier forgot that tax-payiug formed no portion of such old qualification , and he has yet to learn , it appears , that the English people do not consider old constitutions the polar star of their political horizon . They believe , on the contrary , that new times demand NBW MEASURES , and lm _' shcws that they demand NEW MEN . After all , thc cloven foot of

      finality is again revealing itself through the recently assumed drapery of " liberality , " which induced Lord John to bid for the Free Traders in the coin of competition , and for the Protectionists in grants to extravagant and half-hcggarcd landlords . He has not bid for TIIE PEOPLE , and therefore he must fall . He clings like a withered weed to an old wreck , shivering and straggling to aud fro as the waves of popular opinion come dashing over him , and with the rotten planks he must sink ; neither a Bentinck nor a Peel will lend a hand to their drowning comrade ; and that man will vanish as a blank from society , who . had his narrow mind been

      Parliament And The People. If Any Additi...

      capable of entertaining a great political con . ception _, might have been the _firut Minister , of his age , and have transmitted a worthy reputation to future times . As il is . he has clearly lost his opportunity ; but the errors of finality arc the strength of progression . We would wish none other than he to head our opponents , for wc now have learned that no man is less capable of making head against us . To turn from an expiring Parliament and a perplexed Cabinet to thc great elements of political and

      social reform embodied in tlie rising power of the people , we feel confident that the _portion of open hostility assumed by the former will but strengthen the energies of the latter , since a recognition of tlieir influence has been given in the altered tone of government towards them . Active enmity is , indeed , a recognition of the strength of the opponent to whom that enmity is evinced . Yes ! they can no longer afford to treat us with contempt , and they are unable to crush us by silence . We have tongues that speak vjIicii

      their pens arc inactive , and multitudes that , combine while their factions conspire . We have tlie growing wealth of co-operative industry contrasting with their empty exchequer ; aud while the Minister ' s foot slips on a rotten potato , we are planting our stand firmly on that soil which the hand of God gave to all men in the title-deed of Creation . We hid the country remember , that the time for an election is approaching—we exhort them to prepare . The power wc are raising against the citadel of corruption must be carried into its heart . A siege is not

      8 iifficient , an assault must be given . It is too well-provisioned with the plunder of centuries and the spoil of millions to yield to the first summons i it is only when we have gained admission for men of our own party within thc walls of St . Stephen ' s that our power will tell with elfect . We shall not lack supporters there—the recent debate on the ratepaying clauses proves this . Parliament waits but to see an evidence of our strength in

      the fact of a few Chartist Members being returned to the house , and our friends will avow themselves , the inactive will become partisans , and the waverers will be fixed on our side . Everything favours us ; the fallacies of the political economists have exploded one after another , their followers are disheartened , and we are full of hope . Then , let us take Time by the forelock—let us rally our phalanx throughout the country to the watchword of the LAND AND TIIE CHARTER , and weshall be able

      to strengthen the hands of DUNCOMBE , by the ad dition of some honest CHARTIST MEMBERS .

      Poland And Tiie Peacemongers. There Was ...

      POLAND AND TIIE PEACEMONGERS . There was " speaking out , " and no mistake , at the meeting on Monday evening last , in celebration of the anniversary of the Cracow Insurrection . Nicholas , Metternich , Dr . Bowring , Palmerston , and the " Peace " -preachers supplied ample material for such plain speaking as we have nbt been in the habit of hearing for some time past . The " plaj English " of Monday evening ' s meeting was really refreshing after the weak , washy flood of " moral " twaddle with which the land has been deluged by " learned blacksmiths , " crazy writers , " political pedlars" and Brummagem dodgers calling themselves "Christian !"

      We need not now say one word about Nicholas and Metternich . Dr . Bowring has been for some months past threatening to make a motion in " the Ilouse" in behalf of Poland ; as yet , we have not heard of the motion , but the Democratic Committee willing to believe the Doctor in earnest , desired , for the sake of Poland , to obtain for his " motion " the support of the public ; but , behold ! the

      learned and patriotic gentleman was afraid to admit the Democratic Committee " between the wind and his nobility . " No matter , thc working urn got on very well without him . Re-echoing the wish of one of the speakers at the meeting , we trust that Mr . Duncombe will take up the Polish question . We know that the claims of the poor and the oppressed classes of his own countrymen keep the honourable member for Finsburv constantly

      employed ; still , as has been happily said , " although charity begins at home , it should not stay there-, " and we hope Mr . Duncombe will find time to sp . 'ak the honest sentiments of the English people , regarding the unparalleled wrongs of the people of Poland . The protest against Palmerston's mock-protest , at the meeting ou Monday , was unanimous . It is well for Nicholas the Charter is not yet law , otherwise his Bcarship would bo treated to a ' protest ' ' widely different to the recent missive from Downing .

      street . Of course the professors of " permanent and universal peace" will be terribly shocked to find so much common sense left iu the country , in spite of all their efforts to the contrary . We have been long disgusted with these canters who have the ignorant impudence to make no distinction between the tyrant who , in brutal wantonness , desolates nations , and commits wholesale murder , and the men who , in self-defence in defence of life and freedom—wield the sword against earth ' s destroyers . What think our readers of a man who can rank Washington with Napoleon and

      Wellington ? Yet this is done by Elihu Burritt , himself an American . _By-the-bye , why is the " Learned Blacksmith" here at this time ? The English people are not engaged in any war of aggression and robbery , as our American friends unhappily are in Mexico . Mr . Burritt , who is fund of stuffing his dull speeches with scriptural quotations , should remember that , "they that be whole need not a physician , but they that are sick . " But enough for the present ; when the peace-fanatics have answered the arguments of the speakers at the meeting for Poland , it will be time enough for us to take them in hand .

      We are happy to find in a Polish journal , whose extensive circulation is a proof of the fidelity with wliich it represents public opinion among the emigrants , the following observations on a document we havo not hitherto commented on , anticipating as wo did sonic such explanation as the following : — " The Times , of February lst , ( says the abovementioned journal , ) contains an ' anonymous protest of the inhabitants of Cracow . ' From the ignoranco it shows of local events , from its tone nnd

      expressions so foreign to tho habits of those to whom it is attributed , from the calumnious accusations it lavishes against E . _Dembowski , of being a Russian agent , and from thc eagerness with which our aristocratical journal , The Third of May , has inserted this pretended protest in its columns , it is evident that this document has been forged among the emigrants and by the very party who now thro w upon Dembowski that same calumny of being a spy , which formerly they directed against _Konarskt and Sciegieimy . "

      This opinion is in complete accordance with the information we have received from the best informed quarters . Tho generality of the Poles , those few excepted who have sold themselves to the aristocratical party , consider the document published by The Times as spurious , and ascribe its origin to the Czartoryski faction , of which tho literary _societies of friends of Poland in Paris and Loudon have rendered themselves the organs .

      We see that a public meeting is advertised to take place in the Freemasons' Hall , on Tuesday next . At last , then , the " influcntials" arc moving ; better late ' . than never—that is , provided their sympathy does not do more harm than good . At that meeting the Marquis of ; Northampton is to take the chair—a nobleman who during a _perlolof general excitement against the ( then present nniongtt us ) tyrant Nicholas , distinguished himself by the

      Poland And Tiie Peacemongers. There Was ...

      base and cowardl y flattcrieB h _^ _cT _pTZT _^ ¦ _te pot , ma letter p ublished in The TiWs _^ By _proclaimins democratic principle ., * , tho _,,, national movement at Cracow hag _g _^ d Z _» cause of' Poland the universal Sympathy ° / e people of Europe _Tlio meeting on Tuesday n _^ fc is wefear , intended to extinguish that _sympatl ! By violating a vital condition of the UnLe Vienna , so justly called by Prince Metternich ' self thc fourth partition of Poland , and , _* „ f ( tct "J " only ono which Western Europe had sanctioned ' . despotic courts have torn to picces thi , i : k 1 r , treaty , liberated Poland _fromitsfetten , an , ! „ _° implicitly authorised tho powers who _**•* .. of her anoicnt imprescri ptible riehti _toiniU . 1 _Thomectin _, of Tuesday ncxt _iT _^ __^ apprehend , intended to re- establish Z . 7 ° treaties , and thereby to rivet t „ , ' _^ Poland . 0 t the » W chaitwof

      Affun we witness _aristoeracy and diplomacy hand _in-liand _, and an old courtier a ringleaderYfT inseparable couple . "• " _S-eaucr of fho Well , then _sormist be united the _ncopleof Em-land with , Bally he peoplc of . _lemoeratie Poland J . ft" brotherhood of nations is t | 16 found < a . j _^ ' _^ of her a hanne , hell mav c _, _, _^ sto not prevail _apainst it . '

      P Arliamentary Review. The " Budgets" Of...

      P ARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The " Budgets" of _thelTte Ministrv were a _Sor _* of masterly developments of certain great principle , of monetary and social economics . Thoy showed an intimate acquaintance with the intricate and vast machinery of English society , and steadily worked

      out a great proolem , namely , how to unite a flourish _, ing revenue with the most ample supply 0 f _., ¦• articles of consumption to the community , at the lowest amount of taxation . The tariffs of 1812 a , _„* 1815 were , each of them , most effective applications of this principle to our financial system , and tlicic success would , it mis-lit have been imagined , hav e been sufficient to have induced the Whigs to follow

      the same track . But these wretched tricksters are alike past redemption , and past teaching . Experience is throw n away upon them . They drag down everything to tlieir own level , and ere long will again liriiic the nation to the verge of bankmptcy . The " _Budtfct " of Sir Charles Wood , on Monday night , is ono of the simplest , and at the same time oftlie most freeand-easy character , which was perhaps ever pro . pounded . He finds that the good management of his predecessors has put him in possession of aa income sufficient fo meet all current demands in the

      way of interest , including an increased outlay ia various departments of the public service , and therefore he resolves right royally to go on spending whilst " there ' s a shot in thc locker . " Ireland , which was Sir Robert Peel ' s " difficulty , is a positive godsend to Russell . On the ground oi its distress any measure whatever may be proposed ; no matter how monstrous , it is sure to be swallowed ; by the eager listeners on both sides of ( he House . Hence Sir Charles finding that , after providing for

      all the ordinary and extraordinary demands of the year , he has still about half a million left , at ones proposes to borrow EIGHT MILLIONS for Ireland , and to pay thc interest out of this half million . * Having plenty of money at present , he can rcekoa on procuring thc loan on easy _tr-rms , say 3 * per cent . That swallows up £ 281 , 000 . The rate of interest must he raised on Exchequer Bills ; that absorbs some .- € 150 , 000 more , and tints the surplus is disposed of , leaving a few tens of thousands for contingencies .

      This eight millions is to be expended in Ireland by next August , in addition to upwards of . - £ 2 , 000 , 000 _alrealy given out of the English Exchequer to the Irish landlords . That is , in plain words , we are this year to give the Irish landlords TEN MILLIONS _sterlins ; , which ten millions are ii a time of peace to be added to the permanent

      National Debt of this country . Taking the population of England , Scotland and Wales , at twenty millions in round numbers , this will saddle every man , woman and child , in Great Britain with a permanent debt of tk . y shillings a bead , the interest of which must be paid to the lenders hy thc sweat and toil of the labouring masses , before they can eat , drink , or call their houses their own !

      It was thus the Whigs acted when last in miice . They came into power with a surplus in the Treasury ; they left , having added millions to thc national burdens . But , it may lie said , look to the extraordinary demands upon them ! Would you have them let Ireland perish unassisted in its terrible calamity ? No ! we would assist Ireland to the utmost , but it should be on tennis of justice to Ireland as well as to this country . We do not see any guarantee after this ten millions is spent , and the month o £ August has passed , that the peovle of Ireland will

      be permanently improved by it . If thc harvest fails again , there will be a repetition of thc same evils , and of course a claim for similar assistance . Not one step tha * . a wise or prudent government would have taken to secure t'ie application of this enormous sum of money , cither to thc real alleviation of misery , or its reproductive return at some future period , has been taken . We are told , to "be sure , that the landlords will at some future time pay back one-half of it . ' "Very like a whale ! " _VT think we see them with their dexter thumbs at il'c ' i noses , exclaiming— " Don ' t you wish you may _:-. t it !"

      And he it remembered that this course has beea adopted with the certainty staring us in thc face , that next year cannot lie so prosperous , financially , as the present . On all hands it is admitted flt . it a commercial and manufacturing crisis is _impenilinj . Rut the Whigs coolly leave consequences for tomorrow . So that they get over the difficulty of the hour , it is enough for them . To next session ami a new Parliament they leave all vexed question *" _, of additional taxation , or other modes of meeting

      increased demands in the diminished means . Sufficient fur them that , iu the meantime , they sit on the Treasury benches and draw tlieir quarterly salaries- ! For what peculiar sin is it that Providence has doomed this great nation to be governed by such a set of incapable , miserable , mountebanks as these ? j Mr . Duncomb e tested the " finality" Premier on Tuesday , by his bill for the repeal of the Ka te-unrig ' Clauses of the Reform Bill , and found him true to his ancient creed . It was in vain that evidence was laid before Wm to shew that the virtual effect o £

      these clauses , and the cumbrous machinery of _••¦*¦ * Registration Courts , is to deprive hundreds of thou- sands of the franchise , who arc otherwise clearly en- i * titled to vote under the Reform Act . Aiiy _** " » 5 5 which limits the political power ] of the masses seen *** is to be therefore dear to Lord John Russell . Il * - " ** - _* the specific allegations of Mr . Duncombe ami other "f

      members with some fine pompous _coiist ' it" _** " gencrali and the consolation of being I > attetl oil _jil the back by LordGccrgc Bentinck , and heat the 1 > llJ - 11 by a majority of 20 ! This will , no doubt , tend to open the eyes of _M llC _^ country as to the real character of this small l' * _' _' _- ' ¦ - " cal pedlar and pretender to liberality . Wc see that tat even the Chronicle , that staunch organ of _Wli-gS-- _- ' * ' ' _' is sick of this last escapade , and thinks that for s _° _j-j flagrant aud practical an evil , even Whiggc } ' ¦¦ _'••' have promised consideration and redress . ' * _"lC ° "' "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27021847/page/4/