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    • GLEANINGS IN THE PACIFIC.
    • NOTICE TO PAINTERS.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATtTCDAY, APRIL 3, 1847.
    • NATIONAL CU-UFEttATlVE BfcNEFiT SOCIETY, AND PROVIDENT INSTlfUTlCJ? EXTENDING OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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      Enrolled pursuant to the Friendly Societies Act Patron .-THoiiAg Waklet , M . P Pirrctort . —Messrs . P . M'Grhh , T . e . t . *« . C . Dotib . Sieretaries . —Eoktnd Stailwood , Thomas Wticox . Lond-m Offices-m , Dean . street , Suho , and 2 , Little Valeplace , Hanwnersraith . road . Bank . —The National Land and Labour Bank . Founded by Edmund Stallwood , metropolitan reporter to the Xbrthern Star , and district secretary to theNa tional Co-operative Land Company . London office , 83 . 2 kju street . Soho .

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      A GOOD FIT WARRANTED . » T tha great western emporium , 1 , and , Oxfinrd-BtreDt £ \ . Dbsdell and Co ., practical tailors , are now making a beautiful suit of superfine black for £ 310 s any size ; splendid waterproof over coats made to order for 29 s each ; and youths superfine suits for 24 s . The above house is the Cheapest and best in London , for black cloths of everyde scription , asmayoesepn bj several L ndoa daily papes of last Julj , September , and Novembe 8 d Omnibuses to and from tha City , stop at the establish ment every minute of the daj .

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      IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS . A GRICULTURISTS and others may purchase 150 A ACRES OF RICE TIMBERED LAND IS "WESTERN VIRGINIA , described by General Wash , incton as the Garten of America , for . Zii 8 s . 8 d . Sterling , ABOUT THREE SHILLINGS PER ACRE . £ 2 12 s . only to be paid down , the remainder in FIVE ANNUAL PAYMENTS . For further information apply to CHARLES WILLMER , American Land Office , STANLEY BCIIDIKG 3 , BATH STREET , LIVERPOOL . Of vthom may be had a Pamphlet on Emigration , in -which these Lands are fully described , and the terms of sale explained , by sending three postage stamps to free the same .

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      TO TAILORS . Now ready , fftHE LONDON AND PAHIS AUTUSW AND WINTER JL FASHIONS for 1816 and 47 , by BENJAMIN READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-square , London ; and by G . Berber , Holywell-strett , Strand , London . May be bad at 12 , Hart-street , and of all booksellers wheresoever residing , a Splendid Print , richly coloured , and exquisitely executed Vietv , Hyde-park garden ; , as seen from Hyde-park , London . With this beautifulprint will be sent Dregs , Frock , and Riding Coat Patterns , the Newest Sty . ' e Chesterfield , and the New Fashionable Double Breasted waistcoat , with Skirts , the method of reducing and in . creasing them for all sizes explained in the most simple manner , with four extra plates , and can be easily performed by any person ; manner of making up , and a full description of the Uniforms as now to be worn in the Eoyal Navy , and other information , price 10 s . or post free . lls . ^

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      IMPORTANT TO PHOTOGRAPHISTS . AN application was made on the 22 nd S ( pt .-mber , to the Yu : e-Chancellor of England , bj- At . Beard who , acting under a most extraordiny deluswa , considers lumseifthesalejpfltojtwof ths Photographic p .-ajess !) to restrain MR . ESERTON , of i , Templelstriot , and 148 ° Pleet-street , rom taking Photographic Porti . nis , which be does by a process entirely different froe and very superior to Mr . Beard ' s , and at one-half the cl . ' rge His Honour refased the application in toto . No license required to practice this process , which is taught by Mr . Egerton in a frw lessons at a moderate charge-AUtho Apparatus , Chemicals , &c . to be had as usual « his D ^ not .. ! , Temple-street , tthitefriars .

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      , WEST RIDIKG OF YORKSHIRE . SPRING SESSIONS , 1847 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVES , that the Spring General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the West Riding of the County of York , will be holden at Ponte-Vbact , on Monday , the Fifth day of April next ¦ on which day the Court will be opened at Eleven o'clock of the Forenoon , and on every succeeding day at Nine o'Clock . Prosecutors and Witnesses in Prosecutions must be in attendance , in the following order , viz . : — TU"se in Felony , from the division !) of Strafforth and Tickhill , Lower Agbiigg , Barkstonask . Staincross , and OsgoWcross , at the opening of the Court on Monday Morning . Those from the divisions ot Upper Agbrigg , Morley , and Skyrack , at One o'Clock at Noon on Monday . Those from the divisions of Staineliffe and Ewcross , Ciaro and the Ainsty ( beinp ; the remainder of the West Riding ) , and those in all cases of misdemeanor , on Tuesday morning . The Grand Jury will be required to attend at the open , ing of the Court on Minday , when they will be immediate . ? sworn and charged , and afterwards motions by counsel will be held .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , No . * , ( p rice 6 d . ) of THE LABOURER , Monthly Magazine of Polities , Literature , Poetry , &o Edited ly FeiBoUs O'CeHNOB , Esq ., and Ebmcbt Jones , Esq ., ( Barristert-at-Law . ) The Democratic Movement in this country being wholly deficient in a monthly organ , the above magazine is esta . blished to remedy this deficiency . Placed by lowness of price within the reach of all , 5 * e Ua \ to its more expen . give competitors , it embraces the following features — .-THE LAND AND THE LABOURER , or the progress and position of the National Lund Company , and all interesting facts connected with the culture and produce of the soil . * J .-TnE POOR MAN'S LEGAL MANUAL , ( by an eminent Rarrister , ) giving all necessary legal information for the express use of allottees on the land , and the working classes in general .

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      PART III . APRIL 1 st , 1817 . Price Settn Pent * . HOWITT'S JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND PROGRESS . Edited by William and Mabt HiiWITTj The Monthly part for March contains Four splendid Engravings by W . Measom , and . 1 . W . Linton . Portrait of George Sand ; John Pounds , the Founder of the Ragged Schools , amongst his Schol . rs ; Coming Spring , a Landscape ; Portrait of Jenny Lind . The Literary Articles are by the following writers : — John A . Heraud ; Silverpen : R . H . Home , Author of " Orion ; "ElihuBurritt ; AbelPaynter ; William Hincks , F . L . S . ; Dr Carpenter , F . R . S . ; Hans Christian Andersen ; Edward Youl ; Henry F . Chorley ; Goodwyn Barmby ; Dr Bowring , M . P . ; Richard Howitt j Mary Gillies ; WillUin Bridges ; Francis Bennoch ; Mary Howitt ; William Howitt , etc . London : Published for the Proprietor , at 171 , Strand , and sold by all Booksellers .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition of MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS To be had at the Nirthern Star Office . 16 , Great Wind mill Street ; and of Abel Hey wood , Manchester .

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      NOTICE ! UNITED PATRIOTS ~ AND PATRIARCHS ' BENEFIT SOCIETIES . Patron . —T . S . Duncomde , Esq ., M . P . TN answer to the numerous inquiries of Agents , Mem-X bers , and Correspondents , Notice is hereby Riven that the Prospectus of the LAND and BUILDING BENEFIT SOCIETY requested , by them , to be brought into Co-operation with tne above Institutions , is now ready for circulation . Within a few days the Rules will be submitted to the Certifying Barrister for Enrol , ment Further information , prospectuses , &c ., can be obtained at the office , or by letter prepaid , enclosing two postage stamps , directed to the Office of the Institutions , 13 , Tottenhain-court New-road , St . Pancras , London . Agents required in every part of Great Britain . ( By Order ) Daniel William Roffv , Secretary . N . B .-District Secretaries and Members of the Chartist Land Society , are requesteJ to obtain information , which can be obtained by sending a stamp for th * postage , respecting the National Co-operative Benefit Society , cf which Messrs Stallwood and Wilcox are joint secretaries , before they in any way connect themselvei with it

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      For the following " gleanings " we are indebted to a recent number of the New York Tribnne . We give the following extracts from files of the Sandwich Islands papers : — The report of the Minister of Public Instruction of theUawaiian kingdom represents the cause of edu . cation as in a flourishing condition . There have been 63 , 444 . 000 pases printed in the native language ( exclusive of the Scriptures ) up to 1848 Not Ies 3 than 70 , 000 natives nave learned to read , The number of scholars now in schools is naar 33 . 000 . Number of Churches : Proteatant 270 Catholic 104 : total 374 .

      In the report of thu Minister of the Interior we learn that" the wholesale vending ot ( ardent spirits ) is carried on exclusively by aliens—not one Hawaiian subject is engaged in it . It is thought ( says the report ) that the time is not far distant when all reavertable persons will cease to deal in that article , which is such a curse to the people of Hawaii and to foreigners visiting the islands . " Only seven licenses to sell spirits by the glass were granted in the year . The king is a teetotaler . Liqaors not exceeding 55 per cent , of alcohol pay a duty of 5 dollars per gallon ; over 55 per cent , alcohol , " 10 dollars per gallon . The Minister of Foreign Relations in a report prepared by him says -. —During the past vear , the

      security of life and property has been unsurpassed in any country , even the oldest in civilization ; that fewer crimes have been committed than proportionally in any other nation whatever ; also , that though upward of 19 , 000 American . British , French , German , Italian , Mexican , and Portuguese soldiers have refreshed in Hawaiian' ports , fewer disorders have occurred than in any other ports in the world , where the same numbers of sailors congregate , and that what disorders have occurred , have arisen chiefly from the use of intoxicating liquors by foreign seamen . He says also , that the king , court , and administration , have been carried on very respectably , but very economically , and that the ministers work hard for small salaries .

      Foreigners have built a very large number of new houses and stores , and have been much more eager to become naturalized ; the increase of vessels under the Bational flag has also been great . The condition of the natives has improved , and they have been rather more industrious . A Board of Land Commissioners has been appointed to settle disputes as to titles , and progress has been made in a system which will enable industrious natives to acquire land of their own with the consent of the lords of the soil . The number of marriages for the year was reported to be 1 , 83 b There are three papers printed at Honolulu"The Polynesian , " ( government organ , ) "The Elele , " and "The Friend . " " The Elele" is printed in the native language . and " is read by 3 , 000 Hawaiians . " There is a desire to have " The Polynesian " published in the . Hawaiian language . There is a hydropathic institution in Nuanu Valley , which is well patronized .

      Of Ilotiolulu "The Polynesian" says : — Most of the buildings now in the course of erection are built of coral , which has much the appearance , at a distance , « f granite . The ilawaiians are rich in holidays . March 17 is King Eameharaeha ' s birthday , and is a time of universal suspension of business . The birthday of the Kingot France , ( May 1 . ) of the Queen of England , ( May 18 , ) otthe American Republic , ( July 4 ) and Restoration Day , ( July 31 , ) are all impartially celebrated . The Coffee plantations in the islands promise to be very successful . The coffee raised is a- very superior article . Mr Peacock , compositor in "The Polynesian " office , set " on rash " 11 , 000 ems in seven hours ,

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      Balloon * Ascent . —On Moaday afternoon Mr Gypson , the mronaut , ascended at Haggerttone with his new balloon , to which he has appended some machinery of novel construction , for the purpose of essaying ^ the practicability of raising or depressing the balloon at pleasure , without a dischargeof gas or ballast , whilst sailing in the air . lie was accompanied by Mr Crowell , editor of the " iEroatatic Magazine ; " and the experimental trip was regarded with anxious interest by the respectable company admitted to " view it , for on that day se ' nnight similar

      preparations had been made , but just as the two gentlemen were ready to start , the weather became exceedingly boisterous , and a pipe giving way , the balloon , after heaving and plunging at a fearful rate , broke entirely away , leaving the car and the whole of the nettirg behind , and fell in a field at some distance . The magnitiicent machine , however , now stood nobly erect , and when liberated , ascended steadily into the air , and crossed the Thames towards Kent , the intrepid seronauts being seen waving their flags , until they passed through a cloud and became invisible .

      Extensive Robbert of Railway Scrip . —A day or two since a gentleman , named Jones , residing at 88 , Oxford-street , had ablack leathern pocket-book takeu from his person in the Strand , containing nearly 3 , 000 railway scrip shares and receipts . Thb Absent Oke . —If it is true that absence makes you all the fonder of a person . how desperately in lovethe electors of Westminster must be with Mr Leader . —Punch

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      OBSERVE . All correspondence , reports of public meeting * , Char , tist and Trades' Intelligence , and general questions , must be addressed to Mr . O . J- Habnejt , " Northern Star Office , " 16 , Great Windmill Street , London . All legal questions , add matters of local news , not noticed in provincial papers , and requiring comme ti to be addressed to Mr . Ernest Jones as above . All questions respecting Bills introduced into the Loginlattire , Acts of Parliament , their meaning and intent , &c , and questions respecting the Ministry , and the members of the two Houses of Parliament , to be addressed to Mr George Fleming , " Northern Star" Office All questions , connected with the management of lnnd , and touching the operations of building , cultivation , &c , to be addressed to Mr . O'CdHNOR . Lowbands , Red Marie , Ledbury , Worcestershire . All communications of Agents , and all matters of account , to be addressed t « Mr . W . Eider , "Northern Star Office" 16 Great Windmill Street , London .

      , , . „ All Applications for magazines to be mado through Mr . M'Gowan , Printer , as above . 2 S ~ All reports of meetings hplden in any part of England on the Sunday , must be at thin office by Tuesday ; reports of meetings held on the Monday must beat the office by Wednesday . This rule is for " Tradrs , " as wellas " Chartist" and " Land Company " meetings . Notices of " Forthcoming Meetings , " and correspondence requiring answers , must be at the office by Wednesday , at the latest . " Letters" commenting on public questions , intended for insertion in full , must be at the office by Tuesday . The communications of correspondents' not attending to the above regulations will stand over .

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      Mr . Robert King , Bailiff , will receive propoials and agree for completing painting at Herringsgate . Address . Mr Robert King , Bailiff , Hcrringsgate , Rickmansworth , Herts .

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      THE POOR LAW AND THE LAND . We point the attention of our readers to a clause proposed by Mr Gregory in the Poor Relief ( Ireland ) Bill , and carried by a majority of 110 . The clause is to the effect that no person who should be in possession , whether under lease or agreement , or as tenant at will , or from year to year , of any land of greater extent than the quarter of a statute acre , should be deemed and taken to be a destitute poor person , under the provisions of that act , or of any former Act of Parliament , unless the person so possessing more than a quarter of an acre of land should have first , bona fide and without collusion , absolutely parted with and surrendered any right or title which he might have had to the occupation of any such land over and above the extent above named .

      We have often said that truth will force its way from even the lips of class legislators ; even these will at times stumble accidentally and unconsciously on a great principle , which they are incapable of carrying into effect , and would never have the courage freely to propound . Such was the testimony Lord John Russell gave in favour of the Small Proprietor } ' System—such is that now rendered by Mr Gregory in behalf of the same cause .

      It is encouraging to see how a great principle will work its way , despite of all opposition . It has to contend with popular prejudice—popular prejudice is overcome . It has to combat class hostility—class hostility is baffled . Voices , once opposed , still reluctant , are compelled to yield their unwilling support ; the truth . is established at last , and then men begin to wonder how they could ever have opposed , how they could once have doubted . Thus it is with the small proprietory system , as developed by the National Land Company . One b y one confessions in its favour are wrung from its

      opponents—and hostility , in every instance , but advances its progress . It is then that enmity becomes more active than ever , like the dying flare of the lamp in its socket , and men belie their own previously - expressed convictions , to oppose the new principle that frightens their old mouldering monopolies from "their propriety . " Thus we have a Chambers , a Pioneer , a Whistler , either eating their own words , or uttering a vast amount of turgid nonsense ; but , like the lamp of our metaphor , they die in their own stench , and , forgetful of their opposition and

      existence , the power they assailed goes prospering on its career . These assertions are being daily exemplified in our National Land Movement , and the clause which we have extracted above is another evidence in its favour . How can those who estimate the productiveness of the Land so highly , as to decide that a man holding more than one quarter of an acre of land needs no parochial relief—that he is able from that very fact to support himself—how can they , we say , talk , after that , of the non-productiveness of the soil , or of its being incapable of supporting the population ? How can they , for a moment ,

      have the audacity to oppose the National Land Company—when we contrast the position of a man holding a quarter of an acre to that of one holding FOUR ACRES ? As a logical conclusion , if Government considers one quarter of an acre capable of supporting one man , four acres , according to their shewing , would be capable of supporting sixteen ; and , again , the Irish holder of a quarter of an acre , is labouring under every possible disadvantage : — insecurity of tenure — heavy rent — grinding landlords — want of draiuage — an isolated position , and lack of capital for improvement;—whereas the Land Company ' s allottee receives

      his land m a high state of cultivation , on perpetual tenure , — with no hampering and vexa tious restrictions , under no despotic control , and with all the benefits derivable from capital directed by co-operation , for the advantage of industry . What may be achieved by industry , \ va 3 happily exemplified by Mr P . Scrope on occasion of the debate alluded to , in referring to that portion of Chat Moss which the Manchester board of guardians " had purchased and reclaimed by the labour of their paupers , and where land which was formerly worth nothing was now worth 50 s . an acre . What had been done on the bogs in England might be done on the bogs in Ireland . "

      Ay ! and it is not necessary to confine " paupers ' to " bogs , " while rich lands are lying waste , whereon the industrious can realise the noblest wealth of man THEIR LABOUR . We have always held that there were greater treasures contained in the surface of the soil , than in its mineral depths ; but , while Mines have been explored , the Land , the source of all real wealth , has been comparativel y neglected . The cause is obvious , Monopoly has ever endeavoured to obtain riches , at the sacrifice of Labour . It has neglected to supply food for the million , but taken good care to obtain that gold , which should corrupt and control the ill-directed labour of the many , and secure to itself the enjoyment of that plenty , which the scarcity of agricultural production placed beyond

      the reach of any but the monied class ; while Com- ' petition , the constant curse of an artificial market for man ' s industry , kept wages at the pinching point , and threw a whole population at the mercy of a faction . The People are daily becoming more aware of the machinery by which they have been reduced to their present lamentable position ; and as the cause of the evil becomes apparent to their eyes , in the same degree does happily the remedy appear within their grasp . Confessions such as those made in the House must tend much to do away with that prejudice and i gnorance on the subject , under which the privileged classes labour , —though , we believe , in but too many instances , selfishness and dishonesty would be more appropriate terms ; while it is scarcel y possible to

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      believe , that those men out of the working classes , whose labour gives them daily experience as to the capabilities of the Land , should for so long a time have been blind as to its value . What , we ask , have the agricultural population been about ? They have seen farmers making or squandering fortunes-Whence did they suppose these fortunes were obtained ? From whence , but from the soil which they enriehed with their labour , yet on which they themselves are starving ? Did it never strike them , that that very Land could be made as productive for the benefit of the labourer , as for that of the

      master ? That their labour might be directed for their own advantage , instead of their own injury , since it but strengthened the hands of the enemy ? Yet thus it has been . The working man has seen just what the parson showed him ; heard , just what the landlord told him ; and thought , Just what the lawyer said was right . That these should have perverted the glorious language of God and Nature , and turned our earthly paradise into a purgatory , is a lamentable experience ; that there should have been

      difficulty in making the slave unlearn the long schooling of ages , is a natural result ; that the curse of Faction should have tried to yelp down the voice of Truth , is a necessary concomitant ; that , in spite of all , Humanity should be casting down the shackles of oppression , and asserting its great CHARTER of Equality and Liberty , is a glorious vietory , that Faction cannot impair , as long as its fruits are secured by the union and perseverance of the awakening millions .

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      only twenty shillings and costs , saying— " the assault was of a trifling character ? Had there been NO PROVOCATION , a fine of forty shillings would have been sufficient for a GENTLEMAN IN HIS STATION ! " That is , doubtlessly , the justice , ^ the magisterial intelligence , The Timet admires . The case of Captain Symonds will be found in our Police Report of this week , and we refer our readers to it , as evidencing how " extremel y well the law is administered "—and as showing how the noble-minded conduct of the groom transcended that of his ignoble

      master . No doubt the magistrate avoids " the dangerous responsibility of supplying defects , " since those " defects" shield him in the immunity of his monopolies . We can smile at the assumed naivete of The Times , in stating that the country-squire or the factory-lord will not remedy defects ; or that , although "his experience and his knowledge will often evince the necessity of reform" —yet , " if he he prudent , " " the magistrate will not openly condemn " —and "if wise , will not attempt a remedy with his own hand . " Oh no ! He will be wise and prudent enough for that—no fear even of his" representing

      the evil in the proper quarter ; " though , were he to do so , The Times admits " his representations mi ght not be attended to . " Now , much as we are accustomed to meet with incongruities and fallacies in The Timet , one more glaring or more insolent than the above , it has seldom been our lot to read . But it is worthy of the spirit which prompted an attack on the Chief Baron , for an act of just ice and humanity , so different from that evinced by the Marlboroughstreet mag istrate , who thought a fine of 40 s . enough under any circumstances for a " gentleman ; " did he fine Captain Symonds only 20 s . because he considered him only a HALF GENTLEMAN ? We can tell him , the precedent established by Sir Frederick

      Pollock is not to be a precedent for hoary old sinners , or half-gentlemen like Captain Symonds . And we can assure The Times , that its efforts to maintain a vile Criminal Law , to shield its administrators , and to assail its emendators , will prove unavailing . He has admitted the " necessity of amending the Criminal Law with respect to juvenile offenders "—we cry with respect to hoary sinners too ! with respect to that difference which it draws between the RICH and the POOR ; and which renders JUSTICE and LAW two widely-differing terms ; and the way to amend those laws is not to assail those who are the Pioneers of Progression and the Heralds of Reform .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . After nearly three months of pretty constant work our legislators have separated for the Easter holidays , the veriest glutton for parli amentary business among them being no doubt glad to escape for a time from the one subject , which , under varied names , has in reality occupied the great bulk of their time and attention from the middle of January to the last day of March . The quantity of work they have really despatched in that time , and the quality of the workmanship , are two matters that may properly he glanced at in a separate article next week , before they resume their labours . In the meantime , w e must confine ourselves to the

      proceedings of the week . The Irish Poor Law Bill has , after hard fighting , got through committee in the Commons , is to be reported immediately after Easter , and forthwith introduced into the House of Peers . That it will also pass that house is certain , from the fate of Lord Monteagle ' s motion for the appointment of a Select Committee upon the . subject . That motion , prefaced as it was by an enormously long speech , full of quotations and predictions of the most terrible cousequences—if the destitute and perishing inhabitants

      of Ireland were allowed to have a claim , on Us property for subsistence—was defeated by a large majority . Many of the speakers in opposition distinctly avowed ver might have been the opinions of former committees , however highly estimated the authorities cited might have been in former times—a new era had come upon the nation , to whjch old theories , dogmas , and prejudices must succumb . The hereditary house of legis .

      lators bow to the innovating and advancing spirit of the age . The necessity of suiting legislation to the circumstances of society as they arise is admitted by them , and the " wisdom of our ancestors" is raised no longer as a shield and buckler in defence of venerable abuses or exploded errors ; whether these errors are antique or belong to the more modern times of Parliamentary Commissions , and the recondite researches of such

      luminaries as Messrs Lewis Twisleton , Senior Gulson , et hoc genus omne . On these and similar eminent authorities Lord Monteagle demanded that the progress of legislation should be stopped—at least until these opinions had been carefull y collated , condensed and put into a kind of " reading-made-easy " form , in order that the Peers might with the least possible trouble see what an enormous amount of evil they were going to commit by making the landlords of Ireland contribute however triflingly for the support of the poor . Nothing short of a social

      revolution was predicted as the result—a revolution in which all the ties which bind society were to be snapped asunder , agrarian division of property to take place , society to become completely disorganised and one universal waste of desolation and destitu ' tion to enwrap at once Cork and Bristol , Dublin and Liverpool . This piece of landlord rhodomontade , thoughbacked-up by the politico-ecouomical Whig Archbishop ot Dublin , did not meet with the ready response which it would have done a year or two ago , Somehow or other these fine spun

      theories have not hitherto stood wear and tear when put into operation . Like some of the showy printed calicoes of Manchester , they won't stand the ordeal of the wash-tub , and people begin to think that " there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the philosophy " of Adam Smith or M'Culloch . So this late-made "lord" took nothing by his motion for preventing the legitimate relief of his countrymen but a defeat , and the cer tainty of another should he venture on the same ground again . But after all , looking to the measure which provoked his voluminous if not lurainon

      oratory , we are at a loss to perceive any cause for it . His excitement can only be compared to that of a bull on seeing a piece of harmless red cloth . The Whi g measure is called a Poor Law for Ireland , but as it has emerged from the committee it has scarcely a shadow of pretension to the title The Government agreed to a proposition of the landlords , by which no person is entitled to relief so long as he shall hold above a quarter of an acre of land ! This to any one in the sli ghtest degree acquainted with Ireland , and the dependence of the great mass of its population upon small holdings , is sufficient to show that the measure is an insulting

      mockery to the poor of Ireland—another added to the already too numerous instances of Whi g treachery , hypocrisy , and bad faith . There have been ministers in the country who could occasionally be forced into conceding liberal and really good measures , but the Whigs are bard as adamant in such case , and only squeezable by the opponents of progress—the upholders of abuses and political injustice . From the first we condemned this measure as being ( ar below the requirements of the case , and a very inadequate application of the principles avowed by Us authors , and . only approved of ita being a legislative recognition of a fundamental principle of social equity . Now , however , that

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      ^"""" vbvhhbnhi whbmibmwh h ^ x nothing buf the barren recognition remains , 8 tl ( t the right to relief is practically denied by » uch % clause as that agreed to by the Government , w are inclined to think the Bill not worth the expense of printing it . The Whi gs have in this matt « verified our suspicions from the commencement , and the fate of the Waste Lands Bill , the only other people ' s measure out of the whole bundle of nos . trums , seems equally ominous . On one pretence or

      other , it has been delayed from time to time if last , it was put on the business paper of Tuesday to be introduced by Mr Labouchere—Tuesday ni ght came , but not a single word was said upon the matter ; and , if rumours are to be believed , it will be found , in future , to be among the « dropped orderi of the Session . There will surel y be found some member honest enough to expose this disgraceful trickery .

      Gleanings In The Pacific.

      GLEANINGS IN THE PACIFIC .

      Notice To Painters.

      NOTICE TO PAINTERS .

      The Northern Star Satttcday, April 3, 1847.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATtTCDAY , APRIL 3 , 1847 .

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      r ++ * S ++ S C /^ V /^/ a ^^ HVAr ^/ Z /^ WVAV LAW versus JUSTICE . It is not often that we are called upon to commend the legal executive of this country , in the exercise of tbeir functions ; and , indeed , it conveys a bitter satire on our Criminal Law , when one of those rare instances that command our commendation , should be one of which the sapient Thunderer of Printing-house , square says , that it is a manifest " transgression of the law . " The case we more especially allude to is one , in which Sir Frederick Pollock discharged a boy of ten years of age , against whom an indictment for a felony had been preferred . The ground on which the Chief Baron discharged the offender was ,

      that—Ho was unable to comprehend what benefit tl « public could possibly derive from the prosecution of the child . His parents were able and willing to take care of him ; they were jespectable persons , to whom the task of reclaiming him might palely be confided ; and without determining the age at which responsibility might safely be enforced , or disregarding the possibility of precocious maturity , he thought that , as the depositions did not snow the boy to have been the tool of others , the interests of society did not require that this child should bo branded as a felon for life , and be exposed to the contamination of a gaol .

      We cordially concur in the sentiments expressed by the Chief Baron , who has proved himself a humane and enlightened administrator of a vicious and defective law . The wisdom of his decision is corroborated by the testimony of Mr Sergeant Adams at the Middlesex Sessions , when a girl , under thirteen , was brought up to receive sentence , after a conviction for theft . The learned Judge , in this case , ordered the father to enter into recognizances to produce her at any . future occasion , when the prosecutor might resolve upon pressing for judgment . The learned Judge did not wholly imitate the noble and generous conduct of the Chief Baron , but he made the following important statement : —

      Experience had taught the court how often it happened that parents endeavoured , by inducing their children to commit crime , to throw them upon the State for support , and thus relieve themselves altogether from the cost of their maintenance , and from the care of their rearing up and eventual introduction to well-doing in life . In fact , those duties which as parents they ought themselves to discharge they endeavoured to cast upon the State . It was only a few days since that he had four cases where the

      parents had endeavoured to rid themselves of tne natural burden of their children by pioBecuting them ; whilst at the last session there had been a clear ground for suspicion that the money had been intentionally placed in the way of the lad by his p irents . Thus the children committed an act of felony for which they were convicted , and being thereupon sentenced tu imprisonment , the parents were at once relieved from the performance of one of their first duties—namely , the maintenance and care of their offspring .

      It is indeed horrible to contemplate such conduct on the part of any one ; but still more horrible is it to reflect upon the state of destitution to which the parents must have been driven , thus to sacrifice the common instinctive love of even the brute creation for their offspring . amid the social and legislative perversions which have reduced a portion of mankind to such extremities . We feel convinced , after this statement , that our readers must concur in the views expressed by the Chief Baron , and see not

      only the justice , but also the expediency of the course he adopted ; yet this very course has called down the thunders of The Times upon his head . And why , forsooth ? Because it will encourage crime I The very reverse must be its tendency . Mr Sergeant Adams has proved , that one source o crime will be removed , namely , that ot parents speculating on the infamy of their children to be relieved from supporting them . But , says The imes , it will be an incentive to juvenile offenders by holding forth the prospect of impunity .

      We deny this . It will reclaim the offender , instead of plunging him irrevocably in the gulf of sinand a repetition of the offence would not be treated with the like leniency ; whereas an incentive to crime would not be afforded , by the fact of that discretionary power which the judges exercised in these instances , and without which ( within due limits , and under the control of the PUBLIC EYE , ) the Uead letter of the law becomes a blank

      despotism , pressing alike heavily on every several gradation of guilt in the perpetration of exactly similar offences . For , be it remembered , out of every two instances , the act may be the same , but the motive , and consequent degree of guilt , may be widely different . Now , instead of " punishment thus losing all its power , " as The Times says , its full terror cannot possibly he impaired , while the advantage is gained of being able to prevent law from degenerating into cruelty . This is a point of view which has entirel y escaped our cotemporary of Printing House-square , yet with strange

      inconsistency u says : — "It is a very sound remark , that the letter of the law is not half-so important as ihe manner of its execution . " Why , in the very same paragraph , The Times is standing up for « the letter of the Law ! " " The reason why , " our cotemporary continues—The reason why the law is so much respected in the country is , because it is on the whole extremely welladministered . The magistrate keeps to his office , and does net assume to be anything more than the intelligent minister of j ustice . He avoids in general

      the dangerous responsibility of supplying defects . He abstains from all interference with the legislative function . His experience and his knowledge will often evinco the necessity of reform , and suggest the course of amendment . But where he disapproves , if he be prudent , he will not openly condemn , and if he be wise , he will not attempt a remedy with his own hand . A constitutional course is always open . He can represent the evil in the proper quarter . Ilis representations may not be attended to , but that is nut his fault .

      Now , we have yet to learn that the law is " so m respected in this country . " We believe , on the contrary , that not mueh respect is felt for bad laws badly administered , although The Times considers their administration to be so good , as to be " extreme . " The magistrate ' s assumption of being nothing " more than the intelligent minister of justice "—is but a matter of assumption indeed . Where is the justice of the Warringtor , magistrates ? Where is the intelligence of Mr Bin ^ ham , of Marlborough-street , when , in the \> ase of Captain Symonds , who shamefully abused and maltreated hit groom , he . fined that gent ) eman ( gentleman ?)

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      The Army Enlistment Bill has constituted a topic for talk in both homes . Much light was incidentally thrown upon the manner in which the privileged look upon the unprivileged classes in the array , and upon the notions of ' general officers , colonels , &c , as to what constitutes a " good soldier . " According to Sir H . Douglas , ignorance and stupid subservience are cardinal virtues in a soldier . The agricultural classes are his deau-ideal . Artizans , mechanics , and manufacturing operatives are apt to grow saucy . They have not been previously drilled b y landlord , farmer , and parson , into total forgetfulness that they are men as well as their officers . They have read a

      little , thought more , and talked about their readin and their thoughts , and the result is , that " they do not make near so good soldiers . " Sir H . Douglas has absolutely , been horrified by seeing , with his own blessed eyes , a fellow walk about a barrack yard without saluting his officer ! Such slight revelations as these , unconscious as they are , give a better insight into the morale of the Army , and the kind of mind and character a man must either take ' nto it , or acquire there , than volumes of formal exposition . Another noticeable point was , an objection to limited enlistment . first urged by the well-known Ear of Cardigan , and repeated in the Commons by Sir H Douglas .

      It was that the large number of discharged soldier s who had been trained to the use of fire-arms , and disciplined in military tactics , might in future times be found rather dangerous to Gevernraent . If , for instance , another such gathering was to take place as that which marched through London in 1834 , to petition for the restoration of the Dorchester Unionists , and which Lord Cardigan said was composed of 30 , 000 men in military order , the consequences might be very different , if a large portion of such a body were composed of men accustomed to a

      military life , and understanding how to act in concert quite as well as the regular soldiers . To the peculiar constitution of France in that respect , Lord Cardigan attributed the loss of the throne of France by Charles the Tenth in 1830 ; and looking at the large number of soldiers we have to send abroad on Colonial service , he feared that the remnant m ! ght » in case of discontent and another . " procession , " come off with the w 6 rst . There is food for thought in these disclosures of military and aristocratic apprehensions . The Times endeavours to quiet them h y pooh-poohing them down , as simply ridiculous ; and

      in any case has a panacea , " make all your discharged soldiers policemen , and then you ' re safe " Very good , hut if the soldier , after receiving his discharge , does not choose to be a policeman , and takes a notion of earning his living in his own way , not after th e notion of The Times , what then ? The bill , however , whether for good or evil , is certain to pass j—the opposition it has received only illustrating the trite maxim , that no reform or alteration whatever is to be expected from official men in their own particular departments . " Pressure from without" is the true primum mobile of the political world . ' ^ 3

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      The Government have redeemed one promise made on accession to office , by bringing forward a measure for promoting the Health of Towns . Lord Morpeth , who introduced the bill , gave a very powerful expositions of the evils generated by the utter neglect of all sanatory conditions in the towns and cities of this country , and the consequent destruction of life . The plan of the Government is too large and sweeping to be dismissed summaril y , or , to justify a decided opinion , before more careful

      examination of its various enactments . We shall have opportunities of criticising it more fully in its future stages . An outline of its leading provisions will suffice in the meantime , premising that it is based on the bill prepared by the Peel administration , from which it differs in some essential points , especially in constituting a new Government department to attend to public health , and including the

      City of London among the corporations which are to he controlled by the general law . The new Board is to be designated the Board of Health and Public Works , composed of five members , three of them being paid . with the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests for the time being as cx-offido chairman . The Board will have power to direct inquiry to be made into the sanatory ceMtion of any town or district

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      THB NORTHERN STAR , April 3 , 1847 .

      National Cu-Ufettatlve Bfcnefit Society, And Provident Instlfutlcj? Extending Over The United Kingdom.

      NATIONAL CU-UFEttATlVE BfcNEFiT SOCIETY , AND PROVIDENT INSTlfUTlCJ ? EXTENDING OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM .

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      The discussion on the Poor Law gave occasion to an outbreak on the part of Lord G . Bentinck , which astonished , if ir did not please his friends , and hai not a little delighted his opponents , as being likely to damage him permanently as a leader . In no assembly in the world are the courtesies and etiquettes imposed by courtly breeding and a highly artificial state of society , more imperatively exacted than in the House of Commons , from those who aspire to the highest posts of Government . Nature

      is banished , as being , however healthy , boisterous , rude , and shocking to ears polite ; and in its place , a smooth routine of conventionalisms is substituted , very agreeable to the weak nervous system of the valetudinarian political old women , of which it is mainly composed , but highly unfavourable to any expression of real , natural , honest feeling . It may be imagined , therefore , thai" hon . members" could not have been more astounded if a comet had fallta in the midst of them , than by Lord Q . Bentiuck getting up and with great excitement of manner

      commencing one of the most bitter and plain-spoken attacks on the whole of the Whi g government of Ireland , during the present crisis , which has ever beea made , either in or oat of the House . It was not merely that the charges were serious ones , involving wilful deception and deliberate murder of the people by thousands , in order to carry out a favourite theory , but the language in which these charges were stated , that made this attack a memorable one , We have given his Lordshi p ' s onslaught , and Air Labouchere ' s defence , in full , so that the reader may

      judge for himself of the affair . Political quidnuncs say , that it has for fiver ruined Lord George ' s chance of being Prime Minister of this country , and that his party are ashamed of bis want of tact and temper . We believe nothing of the kind . The Protectionists chose him because he was a plain-spoken man ; and , therefore , the greatest antithesis to the plausible and dexterous orator and tactician , by whom they believed they had been betrayed , bound

      into the hands of their enemies . As to the future Premiership , thank Heaven 1 that is a matter which time and circumstances evidently concur to show will not much longer be left to the option of any clique or faction whatever . The people are rapidly learning their real strength , and the way to exercise it . When they know the two sufficiently , no power on earth will be able to prevent the practical use of the knowledge .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 3, 1847, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1412/page/4/