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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1817.
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      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 27 , 1817 .

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      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 coHducted , that proof was amply afforded on Tuesday evening last , when the house negatived , by 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 influential meeting * 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 hill 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 house could so cripple and

      muti-Ute 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 moneyocracy can , any step that shall infuse democratic blood 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 wheu they 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 , —aud , like the demonstration of a clever general , it ha » forced the enemy to reveal the tactics of his secret combinations . We now know what we have to expect at the hands of others , beside the ministerial Janissarie 3 . Whig place-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 been 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 the votes of the insulted . The division list contains the 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 . R . Fox , Milner Gibson , B . Hawes , and the O'Connor Don . Surely these are not the men who should represent the constituencies on which they are forced by inflsence . These conflicting votes are 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 wai a qualification for the franchise founded on the ancient principles of the British constitution . The Premier forgot that tax-paying formed no portion of

      tucli 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 timei demand NEW MEASURES , and nephews that they demand NEW MEN . After all , the 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 ex travagant and half-beggared landlords . He has not bid for THE PEOPLE , and therefore he must fall . He clings like a withered weed to an old wreck , shivering and straggling to and fro as tlio 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

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      eapable of entertaining a great political conception , might have been the first Minister , of his age , and have transmitted a worthy reputation to future times . As it is , he has clearly lost his opportunity ; but the errors of finality are the strength of progression . We wouldjWish none other than he to head our opponents , for we 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 the great elements of political and social reform embodied in the rising power of the people , we feel confident that the position of open hostility assumed by the former will but strengthen the energies of the latter , since a recognition of their influence has heen 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 iu by silence . We have tongues that speak when

      their pens are inactive , and multitudes that combine while their factions conspire . We have the growing wealth of co-operative industry contrasting with their empty exchequer ; and 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 bid the country remember , that the time for an election is approaching—we exhort them to prepare . The power we are raising against the citadel of corruption must be carried into its heart . A siege is not

      sufficient , 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 > It is only when we have gained admission for men of our own party within the walls of St . Stephen ' s that our power will tell with effect . We shall not l ack 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 ua take Time by the forelock—let us rally our phalanx throughout the country to . the watchword of the land AND THE CHARTER , and we shall be able to strengthen the hands of DUNCOMBE , by the addition of some honest CHARTIST MEMBERS .

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      base and . cowardly flatteries he . heaped upon ^ despot , in a letter published in tL nmt , * tlw By proclaiming democratic princinlfis ' n , national movement at Qtmyr g fined fo *? cause of Poland the unirersal ^ ?? people of Europe . The meeting on TueL , By violating a vital condition of the t * T Vienna , so justly called by Prince MetterS ° . elf the fourth partition of Poland , an t ^!?' only one which Western Europe had , « ne " ione } " despotic courtshave torn to piece , S Z - treaty , liberated Poland fromhsfeC a i £ ' jn . pho . U f authorised the powers who were £ tj the treaty , to claim for Poland the restoraS o ' her ftnC , entimrscriptible right , toindepea £ j The meeting of Tuesday next is , we hare reason apprehend , intended to re-establish the riolat 2 ta jta . and thereby to rivet th . old chah 7 0

      Again we witness arl 8 toeraov and dipl ^ in-hand and an old courtier a ringleader of th 9 inseparable couple . Well , then , so must be united the peopleof England with its ally the people of democratic Poland and if the brotherhood of nations is the foundation " stone of their alliasce , hell may csmbine , its efforts wil not prevail against it .

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      POLAND AND THE PEACEMONGERS . There teas " 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 , Palraerston , and the " Peace " -preacherssupplied ample material

      for such plain speaking as we have not been in the habit of hearing for some time past . The " plaj n E nglish" 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 House" 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 , the working

      men 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 Finsbury 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 speak 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 on Monday , was unanimous . It is well for Nicholas the Charter is not yet law , otherwise his Bearship would be 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 fiud so much common sense left in the country , in spite of all their efforts to the contrary . We have been long disgusted with these cantersi 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 fond of stuffing his dull speeches with scriptural quotations , should remember that , "they that be whole need not a physician , but they who rae 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 aro happy to find in a Polish journal , whose extensive circulation is a proof of the fidelity with which it represents publio opinion among the emigrants , the following observations on a document wo have not hitherto commented on , anticipating as we did some such explanation as the following : — " The Times , of February 1 st , ( says the abovementioned journal , ) contains an ' anonymous protest of the inhabitants of Cracow . ' From the ignorance it shows of local events , from its tone and

      expressions so foreign to the habits of those to whom it is attributed , from the calumnious accusations it lavishes against E . Dembowski , of being a Russian agent , and from the 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 throw upon Dembowski that same calumny of being a spy , which formerly they directed against Konarski and Sciegienny , "

      This opinion is in completo accordance with th » information we have received from the best informed quarters . The generality of the Poles , those fow excepted who have sold themselves to the aristocratieal party , consider the document published by The Times as spurious , and ascribe its origin to the Czartory 3 la faction , of whioh the literary secieties of friends-of Poland in Paris and London have re& dercd themselves the organs .

      We see that a publio meeting is advertised to take place in the Freemasons' Hall , on Tuesday next . At last , then * the " influentials" are moving ; better late than never-that is , provided their sympathy does not do moro harm than good . At this meeting tho Marquis of Northampton is to tako the chair—a nobleman who during a period of general excitement against the ( then presont amongst us ) tyrant Nicholas , distinguished himself byth

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Budgets" of the late Ministry were a scries of masterly developments of certain great princi ples of monetary and social economics . They showed an intimate acquaintance with the intricate and vast machinery of English society , and steadily worked out a great problem , namely , how to unite a flourish , ing revenue with the roost ample supply of all articles of consumption to the community , at t he lowest amount of taxation . The tariffs of 1842 and 1845 were , each of them , most effective application ! of this principle to our financial system , and their

      success would , it might have been imagined , have 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 thrown away upon them . They drag down everything to their own level , and ere long will again bring the nation to the verge of bankruptcy . The " Budget " of Sir Charles Wood , on Monday night , it one of

      the simplest , and at the same time of the most free-« nd-easy character , which was perhaps ever propounded . He finds that the good management of his predecessors has put him in possession of an income sufficient to meet all current demands in the way of interest , including an increased outlay in various departments of the public service , and therefore he resolves right royally to go on spending whilst " thtre ' s a shot in the locker . "

      Ireland , which was Sir Robert Peel ' s " difficulty , " is a positive godsend to Russell . On the ground ot 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 the 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 once

      proposes to borrow EIGHT MILLIONS for Ireland , and to pay the interest out of this half million ; Having plenty of money at present , he can reckon on procuring the loan on easy terms , say 3 { per cent . That swallows up £ 284 , 000 . The rate of interest must be raised on Exchequer Bills j that absorbs some £ 150 , 000 more , and thus 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 alrea ty given out of the English Exchequer to the Irish landlords . That is , in plain words , vrc are this year to give the Irish landlords TEN MILLlOxXS sterling , which ten millions are in » time of peace to be added to the permanent

      National Debt of this country . Taking the popula . tion of England , Scotland and Wale 3 , at twenty millions in round numbers , this will saddle every man , woman and child , in Great Britain with a permanent debt of ten shillings a head , the interest of which must be paid to the lenders by the 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 office They came into power with a surplus in the Trea mry ; they left , having added millious to the na tional burdens .

      But , it may be 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 terms of justice to Ireland as well ai to this country . We do not see any guarantee after this ten millions is spent , and the month of August has passed , that the people of Ireland will be permanently improved by it . If the harvest

      fails again , there will be a repetition of the same evils , and of course a claim for similar assistance . Not one step that a wise or prudent government would have taken to secure the application of this enormous sum of money , either to the 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 ! " We think we see them with their dexter thumbs at th : ir

      noses , exclaiming— " Don t you wish you may get it !" And be it remembered that this course has been adopted with the certainty staring us in the face , that next year cannot be so prosperous , financially , as the present . On all hands it is admitted that a commercial and manufacturing crisis is impending . But 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 and a new Parliament they leave all vexed questions , of additional taxation , or other modes of meeting increased demands in the diminished means . Sufficient for them that , in the mean "time , they sit on the Treasury benches and draw their quarterly salaries . 1 For what peculiar sin is it that Providence hat doomed this great nation to be governed by such a set of incapable , miserable , mountebanks as these ?

      Mr . Duncombe tested the " finality" Premier on Tuesday , by his bill for the repeal of the Raiepaying Clauses of the Reform BUI , and found him true to his ancient creed . It was in vain that evidence was laid before him to shew that the virtual effect of these clauses , and the cumbrous machinery of the Registration Courts , is to deprive hundreds of thousands of the franchise , who arc otherwise clearly en °

      titled to vote under the Reform Act . Anything which limits the political power" of the masses seems to be therefore dear to Lord John Russell . He met the specific allegations of Mr . Duncorabe and other members with some fine pompous constitute ™ generalities , and the consolation of being patted on the back by Lord George Bentinck , and heat the bill by a majority of 20 I tw

      This will , no doubt , tend to open the eyes of country as to the real character of this small political pedlar and pretender to liberality . Wo see tha even the Chronicle , that staunch organ of Whiggery , is sick of this last escapade , and thiuks that for si flagrant and practical an evil , even Whiggery niigh have promised consideration and redress . The oil

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  • 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/vm2-ncseproduct1407/page/4/