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A THE NORTHERN STAR* January so ? 1847
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ME NORTHERN- STAR SATDUDAY, JANUARY 30, 1817.
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A The Northern Star* January So ? 1847
A THE NORTHERN STAR * January _so 1847
^R~^^^*'*^A^~^A*^A M^**A''™Am*^Awmaamkmmmmmmmma^Amm*Wmmma'ammmm*M* Liberal Uooivs Us Politics. Theology,, And Social Progress, ... .1
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NEW ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY 1-ERIODICAL . Price lid . _; StamiKd 2 _\ d . H ( WITT'S , 10 UK . NAL OF LITERATURE AND PR _3-GUESS , Edited bv Wiilum mid Maui Howitt , supported hy tho first talent cf the age-. Early numbers have , and will contain articles by Leigh Hunt , Harry Cornwall , Dr . Soathwood Smith , W . J . Fox , Miss Miti ' ord , Miss Bremer , 11 . II . Home , Dr . Carpenter , Dr . Smiles , Dr . _fiowriiig , Kbencser Elliott , etc . etc . The first Monthly Part is non- published , and Mr . and Mrs . Howitt cannot but express their grateful sense oftlie iii * t . iut . 'iiie » us confidence of tho public in them , this . louriial having rrithin the first month re . iehed a _circulatteiu e > f "J \«\ -. t ¥ _dsuf _Twenty ' _Tlmvijav . d , aud s > UUvapidly * u \ _rn-asiiig . * . ' - William and Mary _novvitt have no further literary i-oniicMon with "The People ' s Journal . " Published ( for thi Proprietor ) at 171 , Strand , corner of _"" urrety _S-reet _. and sold by all booksellers .
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PRICE THREEPENCE . THE DAILY NEWS , _ __ London Mcraing Newspaper , in Time for the Morning Wails . It is _rciiiiu l-able , that _lnorcttlian a century since there i The I ) _ailv News is the same size as all other journals were _filJit _''* '" _P"l ,, ? rs publishee ! in London _, daily t < r three were within seven years ; it ' s linger than many ofthe time * n " weeh—while now there , are onl y fifteen ! lu tlio _liiglurnifeid daily journals are now ; anil , in every par-City t . _f New Yt . rfc , _morif -da- ' _iyipn-icrs an * published than ticular of interest , it contains as much information as the in all _Eiif-lanel , Scotland , : ; uiel Ireland , put together , most successful amongst its _cotntempni-aries . " The What is the cnu _* _-e ?—I'Mot ! Uaily Kews'Ms _cxiicnt-ive ; and double bhcets are given Thatthe public _kuetwtlie * aelvantagc of having al > aily whenever News , important Debates , or Advertisements _Pape-r is manifasf , from the thousands who pay three- require it . pence f < ir a paper the day _irl ' tcr . puWic .-. tioii . _"* Yli ; _it . then , Every News Agent will , wchope , supply the paper , by arc tlie causes wbiih _maintain-tlie high r . ricc ? Fret , the post , at Threepence , " where payment is made in _aelrnpitalrc'ijuimitolie _invcste-il . _Xi-xf . t ! _jc various talent , vaoce _; " when credit is given , it is a matter of private ' . _ititiwlcdse , and exv « irkiM * t * -v . _-1-ieli must _coiubina to pro- nrraiigenientwith which thc proprietors have niitliini * to dure-the result The number or the requirements have ; , do . As , however , in an undertaking so bold it is advisintrutli . _oe-i :. _-isieini * dsometli : _us very like a monopoly—and able to guard against _possible inconvenience , tho pro . u * .-: _riiijioIyjelvv-. i \ _-st-oinni : ii * i ! _hj t _< own price . Thus , whilst _pi-it-tors will undertake to get all persons supplied who _cm-ital anil competition had been doing good service in shall forward a _I'ostoflice order , made payable to Joseph all other things , nothing _liad been attempted forthe po- Smith . "Daily News" Office , " tVhitcfriars _, Loudon , atthe litiral and social wants of three great nation * : ; . ind a rate of 1 !)* . ' . _tid . for every three months _, iaily _Luiidon Newspaper remained , until the establish . An Evening Edition under tho Title of limit of The Daily News , a costly luxury , in whieh only THE EXPRESS . the _wealthy coald indulge . is published every day at Four o ' cloek , containing full _rc-Tlii ! Daily Seevs _lotikei for support , not to a com- ports ofthe Markets ofthe day . _parative-ly few readers at si high price , but to many at u Daily News Office , _Wiin-EFniAns . Fieet Street , price . London .
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Row ready , Price One Shilling . thk Mccflxr * _Ei'inei . v of MY LIFE , Oil OUR SOCIAL STATE , l rail . a Poem , byER . MBST JONES , Barrister at Law . Published by Mr . _Nciv ' . y , " 2 , M 01 timer-street , Cavcn _dihs-sqtiare . Orders received by all boe > ksellers . By the same Author THE WOOD SPIRIT ; Au Historical Boniaiice , iu Two Vols .
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THEATRE ROYAL MARYLEBONE . _PKorniETon , mr . _loveiiidse . _LKSSEt , Mil . JOI . 'N DODOLASS . PATRONISED P . Y HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY . General Tom Thumb will ¦ . u-. itively make his last appearance iu England , previously to his departure fot-Au . erica , at this theatre . ON MONDAY tocominenec with " The Black Doctor . " after which " Boiubastes Fuiiso , Bomhastcs by _(' _fii-.-ral Tom Thumb . " The little General will ring , in full Highland Costume , " Come , sit thee down , " and danco the Highland fling . To conclude with " Alice Kingsmill . " Ou _Tuesday , Thursday , Friday , and Saturday , to commence with a favourite _di-Jiua . sustained by Messrs . Cow e . J . UayutT , T . Lcc , Gates , Mrs . Campbell , Miss Martin . Tti be followed by the admired performance of the I _Jufodclplr ' aii Sen . _* _iiaeltrr-=, the astonishing feats of Professor Mori and sous , which elicited such rapturous _applauseon the night of Mr . Douglass ' s benefit , a favourite dance by Miss C . _Harcourt , and to conclude with " The B nek Doctor . "
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IU IHE . _liMJUOlltlUUa _AllULlUAS . On Saturday _"Se-xt , January 30 th , will be _Published , So . 1 , Price One Penny , to be continued weekly , of TIIE TRIBUNE ; AND GL'ARDIAK OF ISDCSTHT . The prominent features of this Work will be 1 st . A neckly digest of the proceedings of the sanatory aud health of towns associations . 2 nd . An _abstract of the progress ofthe short time and early closing movements . . _*' rd . Weekly sketches of . joint-stock and benefit asso . ciations , _cstablifhe-d for tlio _advanceiiu'iit aud elevation ofthe indiUitri . ' -. H' ; _classtv . 4 th . A digest of important Parliamentary documents and bills e . f public _iot-.-rest _ai-ei value-, nrrangi _.-el and edited by a biiwter . at-l . _'i" _' . _stti . * 9 ph-itt-d _g-eilery sketches of leading lnembcrs of _ai-liaiiient , with scenes" iu the house , by a coiuiulttee of reporters iu coiiuexioii with thc daily . press . And _Irfw-t , _Vtit not least , Leading articles on allt ' in * gi eat _topi- - _* s t-f tli . * day , especially 011 the l * _e-: t _nioviis of meeting the iiietioiial crisis , and bcneficiilly einpUiying the whole people . y a system of home end _foreign coloni . _Nation . K . Dinide , il , _HolTwell-strt'Ct . and all Booksellers .
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_JSiow Ready , a hew Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK OK SMALL FARMS To b _** had at the _Northern Star Ofiice , 1 C , Great Wind mill Street ; and of _Abil Heywood , Manchester ,
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IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN appl ' _t-ation was maile- on the 22 « d £ _ipt _.-mber , to thc Vice-chancellor of England , by . / Ir . Beard who , acting under a _mr-stcxtr .-iordiuy delusu . i _, considers him .-cif tbe- . * ' . ( _t'peif <' . _ife' . 3 of th ** Photogr _.-iphie _pw _^ _-ess ! i to restrain MR . EOKRTOX , of 1 , Temple-stm . - ., and 148 , " - _'Iccf .-treet _, reini taking Photographic Porti . _uls , which lit : dws by a process entirely _dilferent fron . and very _"iap ' _.-rioi- to Mr . Rest-el ' s , and at one-half thu cl . _'rge , _Jlis Honour refused the application in toto . So license , _reeniired ti practice this process , which is _aught by Mr . _Kgt-rtou iu a f ; tv lessons at a moderate _rhm-o _' e . Ait the A ppcriitus , Chemicals , _tVc , tobu had as usual -. this D - " » t . 1 , Temple-street , _Whiti-friars .
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JUST PUBLISHED . Price One Penny , THE DOMESTIC MONITOR , Or Literary , _gcientifi' _- , Legal , and Medical Adviser , Edited by Hermes . , 1 . _LouisPhillippe's Vagaries , Speech of the King . — 2 Don Rodtigo , or the Forbidden Wedding , Chapter " iT . —3 . The Nosegay : Poetry , Anecdote * , Maxims , and Miscellaneous . —4 . The People ' s Corner : Military Floggiii £ . —5 . _Correspondence : Literary , Scientific , Legal , and Jledical . —c . Medical _Advijer : Consumptions continue- " . —7 . Literary , Scientific , ami Dramatic Reviews . —S . _Dc-aestic Herbal , —9 . The Lawyer : Wills . —10 Ad . _vtrtitenwflts . Fublishfc _* by E , Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet Stree !; , to e had ot a'l _Bajksellers and Newsvenders .
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BEWAUE . That book , in pavt « xplanatory of the promise * of the leader , of what are termed Chartists , is just published , price tkree-haflpsnce . Sold b > Mr . Thomas Wood , Barnsley ; Mr . Joseph Blacker , Borrough , Yorkshire ; Mr . Jenkinson , Birmingham ; Mr , Herrop , Nottingham-. Mr . G . C . Squire , Liverpool j _a-lti Mr , C . Squire , 10 , Church Strict , _% <) _lu > , LoDtloB .
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WILL BE ruiSLISHED ON FEBRUARY 1 , No . 2 , ( price Gd . ) of THE LABOURER , A Monthly Magazine of Politics , Literature , roetry _, ttc
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_O'COaVNORVILLE PLATE . Plain specimen Plates of O'Connorville are now in tlie bands of the Agents ; anil coloured specimens will be forwarded at tlte end of this week . Some alarm having been felt at the probable expense of framing so large a print , it is intended to have a quantity mounted in a superior manner npon rollers , 'l'he print wjjl be stretched upon a stout canvass ; it will be neatly bordered with silk ; it will be varnished in the best manner , and fitted to an ornamented roller j so that , when rolled up , it will occupy but a small space . It will be fouud that this mode will obviate any necessity for framing ; tlie print , heing highly varnished , will be free from damage by dust or exposure , and the varnish will at any time allow of its being cleaned .
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ME NORTHERN- STAR SATDUDAY , JANUARY 30 , 1817 .
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TIIE IRISH BANDITTI . If it required famine to arouse the _Iris > h Landlords evcu to the painful recollection that the pos session of property implies a consequent performance of duty , however trivial , and the non-observance of which weakens the possessor ' s title -, we trust the same dread monitor will remind the sufferers that life impl-es a RIGHT , the non-possessiou of which weakens their title to existence , and the want of which alone presents the frightful disparity between rich and poor , and the astounding anomaly of distress being confined wholly to the
producing class . Surely , if our incessant remonstrances and oft-repeated warnings , as to the inevitable result which sooner or later was certain to follow their unpardonable and degrading indifference , have failed lo convince the unrepresented , and , therefore disregarded , of the value of SELFREPRESENTATION , the awful calamity which has passed by thc door of thc rich man and desolated the hovel of the poor , will lead to reflection and action . Surely , when the affrighted Lord forgets his high-blooded cause of quarrel with his old and
deadly foe ; when merchant and banker , loom-lorn and land-lord , law-lord and -money-lord , by common consent proclaim a truce to ancient feuds , a religious peace and political armistice , for no other earthly purpose than to strengthen their hands for the FAMINE FIGHT ; surely the forewarned sufferers will not fail to be forearmed with similar and necessary weapons - UNION AND FORGIVENESS . Despotism has ever governed thc positively wretched through Hie pliant subserviency of the comparatively satisfied . It is an insult to mind , understanding ,
and strength , to suppose that a majority of the sane and thoughtful arc satisfied with the present system ; while its very existence is , nevertheless , prima facie evidence of their approval . The millions have wasted their energy in the enforcement ef sectional schemes , vainly hoping to fence themselves in from the assaults of faction , while their enemies have taken advantage of their severance from their order , to trample upou the rights of all . How vain for thc _West-end well paid trades , who paint and paper thc rooms where their employers indulge in idle case and luxury , to suppose that in the long run the
Eastend standard , established by their indifference and treachery , will not be applied as their rule of wages . How silly of the well employed carpenter and bricklayer not to remember that every untenanted house is a competitor against him ; and that the huge UNEARTHLY BASTILE is the rcoasJer depredator of his wages . And yet , while tlie mi / lions have seen and arc dissatisfied with the pigmy _measures of the pigmy Minister , the BANDED UNITED WSW hold them at arm ' s length , while they positively mock nature , by experimenting upon man ' s credulity and forbearance . Can the fatal and disgusting union of Daniel .
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O'Connell and the Saxon Irish Landlords be productive of other tban beneficial results to HIM , and injury to Ireland . Surely , the _oft-deceived , but still confiding , cannot for a moment suppose tbat the serpent is won to civility and the temporary cessation of vulgar hostilities , by other than interested motives . The landlords cannot be fools enough to suppose bim mindful of their interests , further than in as far as his pretended advocacy may subserve his own purposes , while even the Irish people are not so doltish as to imagine that the same hired advocate can plead theirs and their oppressor ' s cause .
Has the reader seen the PENNY clap-trap by which the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer hopes to feed a famishing nation , and has he seen the sympathy expressed for the brewers and distillers by Mr . Callaghan , M . P . for the city of Cork , and from which he may glean the fact , that the amiable unanimity of the Irish landlords will just be carried to the extent of SELF PRESERVATION , and that will be its limit . Unless , therefore , the people can bring themselves to the fascinating conclusion , that the horrors of famine can be mitigated by magic , they have nothing to hope for from the
BANDITTI . As we before stated , the Irish landlords expect , and hope , and intend , to turn the DISPENSATION to a GODSEND , and instead of the minister using the GREAT DIFFICULTY as the great opportunity for whipping them to the performance of their duty , they will use it as a scourge to warn hir a of their political power . Already Stanley has baited the trap for the vermin ; he has raised the standard of Irish landlordism , and sung his dirge over their wounded feelings and insulted pride . He has plainly said— "If Russell dares to infringe your rights , but by tbe loss of a particle of patronage
even to tho appointment of a single policeman or hangman ; if he dares to hold your estates responsible for what the English Exchequer should supply , and what he might have averted , come ye to our side of the house ; we are your natural friends and allies ; behold , we are in the same boat , you arc our starboard oar , if we lose you we must sink ; we are the old Protectionists , the State ' s hinge upon wliich our titles , lands , and patronage all hang - snap it , unscrew it , or even loosen it , and thc door is open to that torrent of prowling democracy , which but waits its opportunity to overwhelm our order and trample upon our privileges . "
Such , the reader may rest assured , is fhe plain English of Stanley ' s overture to thc Irish landlords . Here , then , we find famine the question , and Ireland the difficulty , while Whigs and Tories are making the DISPENSATION the medium of canvass for the support of its very creators . Were we wrong , then , when we proclaimed the fact that Irish abuses
and not the famine , would constitute the minister ' s greatest difficulty , and did we miscalculate when we proclaimed Russell ' s incapacity to arbitrate between the calamity and its creators . Were we wrong when we stated that a nation's sufferings wonld be the rallying cry of faction , and that all thought ofthe suffering , starving , dying poor would be lost in the struggle for political ascendancy .
We are sick of the subject , our only wonder is , that tho very stones do not rise to avenge the insult offered to an offended God . But hold—the Queen has written a letter to her well-beloved Right Rev . Father in God , but she has not told his Grace of Canterbury to tell his preachers to live sparingly and slint themselves , that they may be the betler able lo lessen the sufferings of the poor , and render themselves more acceptable to their Maker . Next week , we shall write a sermon , to he preached on the mountain top , uuder the canopy of the broad blue sky , which God will not be offended in hearing .
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THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY . A benighted traveller , awakened one moniine in a strange Inn hy a noise from without , rose with t he intention of opening a window to sec whether it was daylight . It so happenued , the window being closely boarded , he opened the glass door of a cabinet instead , where , nil being dark , he comfortably retired to hed . Roused ouce more by an external clamour , he repeated the experiment with the same result , and never discovered his error
until too late in the day to set about his business . Lord John Russell is like tbat benighted traveller . Roused by the voice of the people from his political lethargy , he rises to note , tlie progress of the times , and looks but into his own dark cabinet . There he will not find the daylight of the awakened nations , — and , when he discovers his error , the hours of his political reign will be too far advanced to retrace his steps , Passing * , for the present , over thc _meriis of his different propositions , guarded as they are by reservations of ulterior measures , we will advert to tlie goal which he sets to his policy .
He has , indeed , drawn a lamentable picture of the miseries of Ireland , but the great consolation that he offers his starving people , is the delightful prospect of becoming , at some indtn ' nife period , as prosperous and as comfortable as the English and Scotch are now ! Think of this , Irishmen ! and be grateful . Think of this , factory slaves . Think of this , starving labourers of Great Britain , your Minister _^ has pronounced you patterns of prosperity , —and , to support his assertion , he has gone back to the seventeenth century . Forcibly , does the
quotation from Sir . Jhomas More exemplify how the great landlords obtained their lands : in his own words , " by covin or fraud , or violent oppression , _wvongs and injuries" inflicted on their poorer neighbours , the result being starvation , and its further consequence , theft . Thus we have a Minister of the crown admitting that the order to which he belongs have no better title to their lands than
" violence or fraud . He then , totally overlooking the numbers who are now murdered in the Bastile and the Factory , names an amount of many thousands who , at thc period alluded to , were hunpr for theft in one year . Is this an instance of improvement in thc social condition of the present day ? Surely not . Then it was the thieves who were hung for this theft ; the case is reversed now , for it is thc thieves who murder the men they have robbed .
If these are the conclusions at which the Premier arrives , if these are the prospects he holds before Ireland , and if he thus returns to his old finalty for England , we ask him to look at tlie advancing inarch of democracy , ami judge whether it will take his standard of progression . lie will find the people are beginning to look for aid less to Cabinets , and more to themselves . In his own words , there is much in self-reliance aud co-operation ; that selfreliance thc people are beginning to feel , —that cooperation is already rearing its mighty head beside the hydra of monopoly . Through means , the reverse of those bv which the aristocracy obtained the
lands of the people , the people are obtaining the lands held by the aristocracy , and erecting a ciass of small proprietors , wliich Lord John pronounces so beneficial , when he says : — " I do s : ot think that the small divisions of tlie country will be injurious , and I come to this conclusion , from finding that one of the counties in which the greatest subdivision has taken p lace , the county of Armagh , is the most flourishing and best cultivated in Irelaud . " Greater changes will , however , result out of this movement of modern democracy than Lord John Kus 6 ell ¦ ' _drcaai- * _tf --: V . is philosophy . " A gradual ,
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but entire alteration in our social system must ue the necessary consequence ; for , in the first place , the influence of the great landed proprietors must decrease in thc same proportion , in which a selfrelying , and co-operative agricultural population becomes independent of the aristocrat , by having a resource in the ownership of the soil , —while the small tradesmen will be less subservient to the borough-kings , in having a surer market in tlie labouring community than in thc capricious moneypatronage of the great . Thus constituencies will be purified , and the way paved for democracy to enter the legislature of the day ,
The educational reform that Lord John Russell will doubtlessly propound , according to his political creed , will be more advanced by a Ten Hours ' Bill than by the mere establishment of schoo ls , which , under the present system , the working man ' s child has not much leisure to attend—even though an educational grant should equal that for Her Majesty ' s stables . Again , modern democracy is doing
more for sanatory improvement , in endeavouring to secure better food and shelter for the woiking classe s than can be done by mere drainage and sewerage , or hy pulling down the poor man ' s hovel to build a house for the rich speculator in its stead . Purifying the streets of alleys and towns , though good in itself , is beginning at the wrong end ; it is as though a physician should give a starving man a purgative , when he wants a pound of beef .
Thus , in every branch of political economy , we find democracy marching in advance . It cries shame to the statesmen of the nineteenth century , who have confessedly left an Ireland of the seventeenth , and who very wisely caution the people not to expect too much at their hands ! We never did expect much ; we are now still less inclined to do so tban before . Aristocracy must cease to he aristocracy , before it can honestly join in the cause of popular progress . It must cease to drive its pampered horses through crowds of starving men ; it
must cease to entrench itself behind the prerogatives of power , and hold a haughty parley with thc people across lines of bayonets anil piles of parchment ; it must cease to encase itself with diamond breast-plates and head-gear , before it can live in harmony with the great truths of tbe present day ; in fine , it must divest it 6 elf of its own nature , turn _citiictY of the world , and lise in tbe social scale
from nobility into humanity . If the people arc to wait until this change , they may wait long . It is a difficult thing for the pampered child of luxury to divest itself of its privilege—to cast away its golden toy . We say to the people , in the words of Lord John Russell , when telling them how little government can ( will ?) do for them , we say to the people , not of Ireland only , but of all countries : "Help yourselves , then heaven will help you . "
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The gestation of the recess- being completed , the birth of the Whig bantling took place on Monday night . Expectation was wound up to a high pitch , and the crowded and attentive audiences by whom Lord John Russell was listened to inthe one liouse , and the Marquis of Lansdowne in thc other , attested the interest with which their revelations were
looked for . The applause and satisfaction with which they were received in either House , and from all parties in both , will not , we are certain , he echoed by , nor responded to outside , by the people . Our anticipations as to the incapacity of the Whigs , either to devise or to carry into operation a policy equal to the emergencies of the crisis in Ireland , arc completely fulfilled . The Whigs are , at a moment demanding the highest abstract and administrative qualities , true to tbe essential pettiness of intellect , judgment , and moral feeling , which has always
characterised them as a party . Charlatanism , partizanship , and cowardice , are their chief features ; and each are strongly stamped on the last production of their combined wisdom . What was needed , what the country expected and had a right to demand , were measures calculated to give immediate _tcYirJ to tiie starving peasantry , to arrest the pestilence which is now decimating their families , and causing them " to die off like rotten sheep , " followed np by plans which would have laid a sound foundation for a
permanent , effectual , and progressive improvement in the condition of tke people of Ireland , through and by their _otcii efforts , for their own benefit .. That is the only policy that can benefit Ireland . Instead of this , the Whig Premier has given us a scheme for improving the condition of the landlords ; they are to be the medium through which relief is to be adinini * tercd . They arc to be the parties immediately and remotely benefitted . They arc to have remitted , forthwith , one-half of thc sum they owe the _Kovenuuent , for works under the Labour Rate
Act , amounting , we conjecture , to not less than a MILLION STERLING ! Pleasant news , no doubt , to thc Irish landlords , but sad enough to the working classes of this country , who are told , that , in consequence of this liberality , their soup , their tea , their sugar , their beer—their daylight , are to continue subject to the pre-cnt vate of taxation . The Irish landlord is the spoiled and petted child of English legislation . His very errors are windfalls . The neglect of his duties is visited , not by punishment , but rewards . The _whippings for neglecting his lessons are all reserved for tbe poor " fags" of the state schools .
A brief enumeration of the nature of the Whig measures will suffice to show their monstrously unjust character . At the present moment there are _fiOO _. OOO destitute persons , representing , a ' least , a population of 2 , 000 , 000 , employed on the public works , i . e . according to Lord Stanley , " in levelling imaginary hills , filling up visionary vallies _, and cutting up the face of the island in such a way , as to render it almost impassable . '' This exceedingly wise and economical mode of applying the labour and capital of the country , having been , be it
remembered , devised ami set in motion by the Irish landlords , in baronial sessions assembled . This sage system is , however , to be as speedily , but as cautiously as possible , _replaced by a plan for giving relief in food through thc medium of local committees , without exacting work in return . The object being to allow the peasantry now attracted to the public works , by the payment of money wages , the option of woiking for the farmers or ou their own holdings , and thus during the spring mouths to get the seed into the ground , aud to prevent a famine as far as possible next vear _.
Tlte cost of this wholesale relief is to be defrayed by local rates , subscriptions , and Government donation ? . Need wc say , looking at the manner in which Irish wealth treats Irish poverty , that thc Government will have to bear the heavy end of the burden . Or that , considering the appalling amount of destitution that has to be relieved , that its cost will be enormous ? Lord John does not even venture to estimate its amount . That is gift number one to the landlords . Why should the people of
England and Scotland be saddled with a tax for the support of the poor belonging lo the Irish _lan-. Il-jril : If temporary assistance was needed , by dl mtv . i : let them bave it , but to free litem thus at once from the responsibility belonging to the possession of property , and the consequences of their previous misapplication of it , is the most gross and _iuitjuitous job that has been attempted for a long time past . The next temporary measure is a loan of . 00 , 000 to the landlords , to enable them to buy _stetfs for
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their tenants . Enviable landlords ! h " _JT _* _*^ fully and tenderly does Lord John _autici _^ ai your wishes , provide for your smallest wards !!*!!*' " small proprietors" are not to partici pate ' ¦ ' £ 50 , 000 loan . That we presume would m _*** accordance with " the doctrines of po | jtj c i 5 "" nomy . " They may perish , if they can do no | , J ° " the prizes are reserved for the large nron " _* ' only . Lucky large proprietors ! we say again . " !? worst of it is that there appears to be no eh a satisfying them . With none of the r eason * t _"' have all the boldness and urgency of « L- Twist ; " they are not satisfied with onl y , £ * ' but , through Lord G . Bentinck , absolutely _** J ) . ' more _!* ' " Pooh" savs that celebrated f ° _¦«¦¦¦ ¦
; n »™„ *•* "" " » -v » " » ' - - < _personam with a wondrous kind feeling towards his fell ' landlords , " What ' s fifty thousand ? It WtJD ,. _° " five baronies ; give ns more , more ; give t -. * Truly , the " horse-leech" mentioned in Scr ' t _' was a fool fo the landlord leeches that suck i * blood of the people of Great Britain and _Ircla-, 1 * The third on the list of boons to the landlord ' ¦ the remission of one-half of their debts « - _>¦* , acc ' of foolish , wasteful , and mischievous _pttljijg w or rather jobs , on which they have employed th ' ' retainers , dependents , and lacquies , to the exeW of the very destitute people who were meant to I relieved by public works or public money . Tha _> -
we have said , will be at least a million sterlin » " presented AS A GIFT to the landlords . " Perhaps ' before the session is closed , we shall have a proDo ' sition for remitting the other half . The _Alcherai-. _* were for centuries engaged in looking after _ir _* " philosopher ' s stone , " by which they could extra- ' gold from baser substances , or transmute inferior metals into the richer ore . We fear modern A ' chemy will he equally unsuccessful in its attempt ig extract gold iu repayment from that fathomless pro found , that bottomless abyss—an Irish landlord ' s pocket . There is not a bog in the country they own that has half so capacious a power of _»\
sorption . Number four of these boons commences _whata--called the measures for permanent iioproverneGf _, These ' ¦ permanent measures" are based on the _satj ; principle as the temporary oues . They comment * with anew series of loans to the Irish landlords , _/^ the improvement of ( heir own estates . They are ' , * have , so far as we can see , an unlimited amount of public money on loan at three-and-a-half per _« jt
and are to repay it by easy instalments in twenty t _« - years ; or , if they don ' t like that , they may have itai six per cent ., without any stipulation as to time . In return for this munificent and _literal treatment , a ] that Lord John stipulates is that they shall real's spend the money on their estates , not at races , not gaming tables , at Naples , at Rome , or Paris ! Bat what guarantees are proposed by wbich they are (* be tied up to tbe _obs-irvance of that condition _vj arc not told .
Number five appears at first sight a little in favejt of the people . It is intended to facilitate the redmation of waste lands , and gives powers to the Con . missioners of Woods and Forests , to compel proprietors to sell all wastes after a certain period , under the annual value of 2 s . Cd . an acre . Lord John ei * pafiated very sensibly on the advantages of a sua , ' ] proprietary , adopting the views of the Northern Stw on that subject , and entirely dissenting from ti ; economists , who assert that poverty , misery , ad crime , are the invariable concomitants ofa minute
sub-division of the soil . Upon the lands thus _takes possession of by the _Governmentaftormakingdueoon ; - pensation to tlie proprietors , it is meant to establish a class ot small fanners , say from 20 to 50 acres , _fc mers holding either in fee simple or by lease in perpetuity , with power to fine down the rent , and ultimate ;*' make the farm freehold , according to the terms agreed upon by the contracting parties . This rnea'ure is excellent in principle , and its being adopted so fa , together with the importance aud stress laid upon il by the Premier , only serves to exhibit in _elearei
colour- * -, tlte almost inconceivable cowardice and _nV jugation of the Whig clique to the " Irish Banditti , ' which distinguishes other parts of the proposition . Had Lord John spoken depreciatingly of the plan as Lord Lansdowiie did in the Lords ; had he pre * fessed his inability to see where these _re-claiinat !! wastes were to be found , or _v-nat benefits cov . _M *' derived from their cultivation , and avowed thai :. ' ? were merely adopted as a quietus to troublesriue persons , who had got a crotchet _int-i theiv \\ ui , 'ta the others parts of this particular plan might h ** _"
been , if not justifiable , excusable , on the ground &¦ ignorance ; but no such plea can be urged for ii Premier . He sins with his eyes open , and while p . " '' fessing to give the wastelands of Ireland , after _bei " _, » drained and made habitable by preliminary operations under Government superintendence , by ( lover . " .-ment machinery , and with public money , to : ts people , he stultifies himself , and nullifies tlte v ia ::, ' . ' confining the sphere within which such rc' _-lan-aw is to take place . He deliberately _a-iaigns to the ' . a ''* *" lords all the best waste lauds ; anil , as another I *' * ' ! , offers them the temptation of another loan from the
state , to reclaim and make rent paying the _«* a * . * s they have so long neglected . Talk of Jove _dc-scc _***** ing upon Daiiae in a shower of gold ! Or Hie _F- ' sonage in the fairy tale , who never opened her mouih without drop-dug pearls and precious stones ! _Lw John in his extraordinary fit of liberality , heats a '' the mythological and fairy talcs we ever _heatd of . Thc only other measure left fer notice , is the proposed alteration in the Poor Law . Iu future , g _* * _" ' dians may give relief in food to the _able-l' _*' * destitute . Upon tbis point , however , wc have _i- _" - ronra left for comment tbis week .
The summary of the Whig panacea for I _* ' < _- ' _- , 1 ! that that country , after having been p lunder ed _M centuries by one of the most rapacious , heartl" _* _- ignorant , and selfish oligarchies of which wc l _*" ' - any record of history ; after tlie land , the rcvent » the destiny of that people bave been for that l' _*' " ' swayed by that oligarchy without check or ! i ; S " drancc , ( because they have been , _juul now ate _&' nipoteut in tbe Imperial Parliament , as well _f- ' _'* the other side of the channel ) , after having , ' ' _--thc possession of all these powers , reduced the lripeople to a condition so low , so wretched , " ¦¦• - *
disgraceful , that the whole civilized worM * _-- ' _- shame upon it ; after all this experience of !"•¦•}• } neglect or incapacity , or monstrous selfishness , now coolly proposed iu the midst of the social '•• _- '•" organization , famine and pestilence , resulting _h ° &) l their misconduct , not to rescue the people ant ' soil from their baleful dominion , but absolutely hand over both still more completely to t he . ' ' I * at the same time to drench them with _British J' _^"'
The mortgages , bonds , and debts , with which _«•••••* estates are now encumbered in consequence otw mer extravagance , arc to be wiped off for thc : «» " _* they and their descendants set free to pursue th * - sa _^ wasteful , imprudent , unjust , and cruel career , »! " _- _-J marks every step of the landed oligarchy of lrc _* aI 1 ) " Surely _** ejme oue will lie _fouud iu I _' ariiawaa' ww enough io protest against this monster nlM ' _[ _'' ' favour of ihe _IcntEords _, and against the l' _-- _*''^ , ihat _cw' _-itry as well as ihis , They are not bousu . _r . _i'o ; l Poor Law _;* a return .
—¦ 1 . ; ,. 1 haw _A'co-ig other _aattevs of importance which > _^ _ojcu . _eii since our lest , are the short discussions J the _re-cocstitution ofthe Poor Law Coinm _' _- _* _- " ' _aii J -to firel reading of the Ten Hours' B »» l ,- " - D xtniV . ' _- ' . _io- _'iH Mi * . . Widen .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30011847/page/4/
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