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    • THE N0RTHER1S STAR , SATUttDAY,NOYEMBER37 1MT.
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      THE N 0 RTHER 1 S STAR , SATUttDAY , NOYEMBER 37 1 MT .

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      THE IJN . I . ON . Helvetios said truly , that " the . virtues or vices of a State , are the effects of its legislation . " The iron men of Sparta owed their military domination to the . laws of - Lycurgus . The Athenians were not a little indebted to their democratic | institution » foi their intellectual supremacy . The Roman Commonwealth gradually absorbed surrounding States , and , ultimatel y became mistress of the world , because the citizens of that Republic were influenced by its laws and customs to regard the courage and endurance of the soldier as the chief of virtues , and conquest the greatest national good . When Alfred reigned in this country , his laws changed England from a den of anarchists and robbers t » a home .- >;

      free , orderly , and contented men . Under Cromwell the nation wa 3 heroic and invincible , and under the second Charles corrupt and effeminate . In our own day , Russian despotism degrades millions to the levelof the beasts that perish . The Germans , notwithstanding their natural qualifications for intellectual greatness , are reduced , by the withering despotism of their Kings and Princes , to a state of abject slavery ; owning for their masters . the most contemptible set of knaves and fools on the . face ; of the eartfr : / Behold Yra . ce , tod that France so great in ' 89 — ' 93 ij abased , politicall y ' socially , and morall y , '' to . almost the lowest-depths of shame—the ' nataralie 3 uit . of Lotus Philippe ' s rule , and the legislation of the mtineymongers . , .. ;

      To the general rale laid down by Helvetitjs , Ireland is no exception , but on the contrary / is the most striking example of that rule . Seven hundred years of conquest , rapine , reli gious , proscription and the most infernal laws ever devised to break the spirit of a people , naturally produced the like term of rebellion , anarehy , reh ' gious "hatred ^' and hostility to all law and order . What , though , within the last generation or two , concessions have been grudgingly granted , b y the rulers to the ruled ;; what , though

      the odious penal laws have beeirsbme of them re-, pealed , some of them modified , ancl others permitted to fall into disuse ; is it natural to expect "' that the " wounds of deadl y hate" caused by those laws can be at once healed ? What , thoughreh ' gious toleraa tion though not full religionsri ght . hasbeen ' grante ' d , and some disposition . shown to abandon the sword in favour of ? ' soft sawder , "_ is it reasonable to ex . pect that such paltry substitutes for justice will suffice . to render the " Irish , people orderly and am . tented ? ' : . . ¦ ¦' .-.... . ...

      . But the bad legislation - of the past , is * not ,-allthat Irishmen have : to ; complain of . - They remember . that for a brief term in their country ' s history they ' wer e permitted to enjoy something like legislative inuei pendence , and that during that time / notwithstanding the evil of Protestant ascendancy , Ireland greatly progressed in agriculture , manufacture ' s and commerce ., Irish interests were represented , and Irish wants cared for . Improved legislation produced its natural fruits—industry , wealt h and order .

      But Irish liberty was distasteful to the English Aristocracy , and . occasion was soon sought and found to extinguish the new-bora hopes of the Irish people . Force and corruption wereemployed to undo all the good that " independence" had effected . ... Legislation was poisoned at its source , and . the ' n came anarchy and bloodshed . The people were goaded to rebellion , and their revolt made the pretext , for depriving them of-the last vestige of their independence . We pass by the crimes and horrors of that period so fatal , to Ireland-so disgraceful to England . The "Union" has now existed forty-seven years-let it be judged by its fruits .

      Within the past few months tens of thousands ot the Irish people have perished of famine , or of pestilence , the natural consequence of that famine . At this moment tens of thousands have a similar doom before their eyes . A war of classes is raring in several counties ; landlords , land-agents , and money-lenders . are in course of beiug daily despatched to the other world , « with all their imperfections on their heads , " and anarch y and terror stalk throughout the land . To crown all , Parliament is summoned at an unusual season by a speech from the throne , full of " deep concern and lamen . tion" from beginning to end . If the vices of a state proclaim the character of its legislation , then there

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      cannot ne two op inions as to the effect of Imperial State-craft upon unhappy Ireland . . Legislation may be negatively as well as positively evil . If . year after year , the lawmakers of a country witness the most frightful social evils , and neglect even to attempt to provide necessary remedies , they make themselves responsible for those evils . It is notorious that the relation between landlord and tenant is at the bottom of the assassinations now going on . Over and over again this has been proved by the friends of Ireland , and admitted b y successive governments ; but nothing in the way of amendment has been attempted . The murders in Ireland are the natural results of the criminalit y or incapacity of the Imperial Legislature .

      Endless calumnies are directed against the Irish people . They are denounced as lazy , improvident , and bloodthirsty . But what encouragement have men to be industrious and frugal who have no security for the fruits of their labour ? There are murderous landlords as well as sanguinary peasants . Murder by ejectment is as common in Ireland as is murder by the musket , with this difference , that the executioner of " the wild justice of revenge" is usually satisfied with one victim , whereas the landlord ' s victims number many , sometimes scores . In England , and America , and throughout our vast colonial empire , the natives of Ireland am ne ! . ther idlers nor assassins . On the contrary , they perfera the hardest toil , and are no more given to blood-spilling than are their neighbours . The Irish are proverbially grateful , chivalrous , and kindhearted ; such are not the usual qualities of

      assassins . . Still it cannot bfc denied that revolting acts are committed in the sister country . Parliament having assembled , the Whigs find themselves compelled to legislate for Ireland , and characteristically they commencewith coercion , - < promising : to end with some paltry measures of " reform . " , '• ' "• ; ¦• .- ¦¦ ¦ ¦ Whig reforms" are— . ; ¦ - ,- . - ' ' - "Like . dead-sea ,, fruits that tempt the eye ' ,.- - 'And itura to ashes on the lips : "

      but their coercive measures are usually of a more decided . character . On Tuesday evening , Sir George Grey gave notice that on Monday next he would move for leave to bring in a bill : " for the better prevention of crime and outrage in certain parts of 'Jrejand . ' . ¦ . ; . ,: ' ; .: ' ' . ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' a ' i ¦ ,. >• ' . *¦ ' . " ¦< \ , The way tarprevent crime and outraged to remove the causes of those ; offences ' ' . ' against abciety ; but a ?; Coercion Bill or ' aii Arms ' Bilt ' cajDf . h ' ave no such effect . Ireland needs justice not terrorism .:

      ¦ ' The appeal-for extraordinary powers on' the part of the government is a proof that ministers are unfit for their duties . U is for the English people to say how much longer they will tolerate the rule of the" Incapables . " . "'" " . '" . \ The same night ( Tuesday ) Mr O'Connor gave notice of the following motion : — REPEAL OF THE UNION . Mr P . O'CoNKisB gave notice that on Tuesday , the 7 th December , hi should move for tbo appointment of a tielect committee to inquire into , and report upon , the means by which the di 9 * olutioa of the Parliament in Ireland was obtained , and up » a the effect * of that measure on Ireland , and upon the labours of husbandmen and the property of manufacturers in England , and into the probable consequences of the continuance of the legislative union between the two countries .

      The Timcisneeringlyrecommends Mr 0 Connor to postpone his motion until means had been taken by the Government to put an end to the present disorders in Ireland . A wise physician will first thoroughly understand the disease of the patient before he prescribes for him ; and the speediest way to put an end to Irish disorders is , for the Legislature first to understand the nature of the disease , and then provide an efficient remedy . The great mass of the Irish people lay their present complaints to the account of th 6 Act of Union ; let , then , Mr O'Connor ' s Committee be appointed to investigate the subject , and it may be that that Committee will discover that the means of putting an end to agrarian erime in Ireland , and relieving England from the destructive influence of Irish pauperism , is to repeal the Act of Union , and give to the Irish people their own Parliament , elected by Universal Suffrage .

      Before we conclude , we must direct the attention of our readers to Mr O ' Connor ' s able speech delivered in the House of Commous on Tuesday evening . It will be seen that the honourable member for Nottingham exhibited the true ' eause of Irhh anarchy , and the remedy for that anarchy . Both Englishmen and Irishmen may be proud , of Mr O'Cosnob . Ue has seized the very "first opportunity to proclaim the Land as . ' the source from which social reform and political tranquillity must be obtained ; and , forgivng the past ; he has demanded the union of all Irishmen to effect the regeneration of their country . The following patriotic appeal should bspublished throughout the length and breadth of Ireland : —

      He would now appeal to the different sections of Irish members , whether of the Irish Council , of the Old Ireland , the Young Ireland , or the Confederate ) party , to merge their own little differences , whatever they might be , in one common feeling of patriotism ; arid notwithstanding the taunt of tka hon . member for Harylebpae levelled at the declaration of tlio hon . member for Kilkenny , that ha would become a victim in the cause of Ireland if necessary , he , ( Mr O'Connor . ) al : though an English member , did not forget that , be tvbb an Irishman , and his resolve was now the same as in 1833 , to enlist as an Irish soldier , to ' resist coercion to the death , and if all the Irish members were impressed with his feeling they would jit in that house , stand in that house , sleep in ttat house , and dlo in tbat house , If necessary , rather than allow their country to be coerced . ( Cheers and shouts of J bravo' from the Irish members , which were ..- . followed by a generalcry ot ' Order , order . ' ) . .. ' ' ' .

      Those shouts of '' bravp'Vaugur well for the future . Let the slaves of faction , the sycophants of power , and the gorged recipients of the loaves and fi < hes shout" Order , " - it . they like , till they , are blackin the face ; no matter , the order of the day must be the union of all true Irishmen , and tho union of Irishmen with Englishmen ,, for the common salvation of both countries . Now is the time for Union , not an Act ot Parliapent Union , but a Union of hearts . By the perishing millions in Ireland , by the starving millions in

      England ; by the rights robbed from the people of both countries , by our common hopes of Freedom , let us unite . Be the bitterness of the past between the \ m nation * furgma and forgotten . Let , the hostility of both be directed against the enemies , the oppressors of b » th . Englishmen , you will hot allow your brethren to be scourged by military law . Irishmen , you will no longer refuse to unite with your brethren to obtain the blessings of self government .: ' Now is the time for united action ; Englishmentand Irishmen , —Forward ¦!¦•; ¦•• ¦¦ - . • ¦¦ Oh V ^ rhm ' s the slave so lowly , ¦

      Cjiidemn'd to chalas unhol y , Who could h 9 burst His bon 4 s at first , Would pine beneath them sl « wly !'

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      * HURRAH FOR THE CHARTER . ' 'The appeal of the Chartist Executive , published in our last , has , already met with a hearty response , as the resolutions and movements , of meetings in different parts of , the country abundantly show . The best response , however , is that given by a member of the People ' s "Leaders . " in the shape of pecuniary contributions . The list will be found elsewhere , arid will , we hope , stimulate all good Democrats to do likewise . When the leaders talk

      , andwork ahdjwy—surely . the people will do their part . " We perceive with pleasure that the Metropoliian ; Delegafe Council has taken up our suggestion respecting a grand central place of meeting for the , Chartists of the Metropolis . We trust that the efforts , of : theCouncil will be zealousl y supported . Now ,, men , of the Provinces , men of Wales and Scotland , now is your time to move likewise . Now for a long pull , a strong pull , and a pull altogether ! " Hurrah for the Charter , and No Surrender' "

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      j ... i ^ PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . , After disposing ef . the usual preliminary formalities consequent | up 6 n the assembling of a new Parliament and electing for the third time , Mr Shaw Lifrvrk to the hi gh position of Speaker to the House of Commons , the Senate of the nation actually com . menced business on Tuesday ; when , what is called by courtesy , « the Queen ' s Speech , " was read by a Commission of members of the Upper House Making allowance for the tendency in human nature to look at the disagreeable and painful incidents of the past , through a softened medium aridupou the difficulty , immediate or prospectivewith

      some-, what exaggerated feelings and apprehension , we think there is sufficient in the tone of that document , in the melanchol y nature of the topics to which it refers , and the language it employs , to justify the statement , that never did a British Parliament meet under more threatening or gloomy auspices . As Lord Stanley truly says ;—« In everv sentence there was deep concern and lamentation . " Whether Jthe subject was the breaking out of civil war abroad , and our general relations with foreina powers , the state of trade , commerce ,, and finance at home ; or the condition of Ireland-al l was lamentation , anxiety , and deep apprehension . Nor are these expressions merel y the rhetorical

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      exaggerations of party speechmakers . They are amply justified by the magnitude and variety of the difficulties by which the country is surrounded . After ipwards of thirty years of peace , and while the country has during the whole of the intervening period been growing rich in all the essential elements of wealth , prosperity , and happiness , such has been the ignorant and erroneous policy pursued by our statesmen and legislators , in applying these resources , that an almost universal paralysis has smitten every department of national industry and enterprise ; and the state of one portion of the empire , "unhappy Ireland , " is so wretched , so miserable , so disorganised , that it has become a standing disgrace to this country , and a blot upon the boasted civilisation of the nineteenth century .

      But the programme of the policy of the Government-for such in fact the document to which we refer must be taken to ! be—while copious in its lamentations over the evils ( which' it is hopeless to attempt concealing or denying , ) is singularly barren with reference to the causes of these evils , or the means by which they are to be remedied . We are disposed to make every allowance for the habitual and traditional inanity and unmeaningness of ' Queen ' s Speeches , " which are avowedly framed on the principle of Talleyrand , "that speech was given to man for the concealment of his thoughts . " But after making all due deductions on jjthat account , we must sav that the utter absence of any

      glimpse of measures of a practical and remedial character in that document , is a strong proof that its concoctora have no conception in their own minds of the possibility of such measures . If a man or a body of men in a collective capacity , have really a positive idea in their heads , it will slip out or betray its presence , in spite of any attempts to hide it ; but as the trite Latin proverb has UJ : — " E nihil , nihilfit , ' ' out of nothing , nothing comes . Our present rulers have not thepractioal knowledge , and , if they had it , they have not the moral courage to apply to the diseased . and rotten state of society , those remedies which can alone restore it to a state of health . ^'

      Instead of proposing anything in the shape of a remedial policy , they are retrograding in the cure of Ireland , to a policy which after their defeat of Sir R . Peel last year , on the Irish Arms Bill , we imagined even the Whigs had . abandoned for ever . They are unable to breakthrough the vicious circle of Irish policy , which beginning in injustice , breeds retaliation and disorder , and prevents timid and ignorant politicians from attempting measures which would really regenerate the country , by doing justiee tb . the whole people . The brutal , foolish , and nugatory Coercion Policy of by-gone times , tried so long and so . often , 'without effect , i » again to be had

      recourse . to ! " . There are some people on whom the teaching of-time , and . the' lessons of experience , seem to'be utterly , ; thrown away ; and Lord John andi the present Cabinet , seem to belong to that clM 8 , ' -. ¦ - *•> ¦¦ " ¦ ¦ •/ : .. ' . «¦ . ' ¦ •¦ ¦ . » ' •¦ ' In the article two weeks ago , on " the November Session , " we put the Irish question ,, before even that of the currency , pressing and important for this country as recent events' have ' shown a proper settlement of that to be . The House of Commons agreed with us in our estimate of the relative urgency and . importance of the two subjects ' . The

      first ni g ht ' s debate on the address was exclusively an Irish debate . The great fact was pressed upon the most obtuse English intellect , that until the Legislature really grapples with , and settles in some way or otb * r the Irish difficulty , it will remain , aa it has been , the " chief difficulty" of all British statesmen . Mere abuse of the Irish landlords will not avail to meet the question , or avoid the necessity for comprehensive , radical , and practical measures . It may suit surface reasoners and popularity hunters , like Sir Benjamin Hall , to earn a cheap notoriety , by pandering to the vulgar prejudices , and appealing to the breeches pockets of the

      English middle-classes on this subject , hut the question is too grave to be dealt with in that fashion . Calling names or setting classes against classes , can in this case be of not the slightest service to anybody . What is required , what must be had , is that all parties shall suffer " bygones to be bygones , " and set themselves seriously and in all earnestness to devise and apply plans which shall give " Ireland to the Irish ; ' marry to the unfilled , but fertile soil , the involuntarily idle labourer—open ont the sources of wealth which lie latent in the mines and fisheries of

      Erin ; and put down outrage , murder and violence , not b y -vainly attempting iheir forcible repression , but by striking the evil at its root , and with drawing that idleness , poverty , and destitution ,-. \ vhick are . the proximate causes of these , lamentable occurrences . iThat is not only the cheapest , but the only effectual policy . The mere application of force , on however costly a scale , can only beeffective to a very limited ., degree , and ; during the timelt .. is applied . The moment it is withdrawn , the . old evils will reappear , : because nothing has been done to stop up the fountain from whence they flow . / . .

      The Time * takes Mr O'Connor to task for intend-. ng to fritter away the public time in the House of Commons , by an untimely or useless ' motion . It thinks that his motion on the Irish Union , might be postponed until after Christmas , without any ' dettieraent to the public service , and , in short , all but the most necessary business should be so postponed . Well , Mr O'Connor thinks , and we think with him , that an inquiry into the state of Ireland , past and present ; how far the Legislative Union- between

      the . countries : has icontributed to produce it ; and in What extent ; and in what way its repeal or continue ance wilir affect that country in future—is the most necessary business that can be transacted . Grant the motion with a Jona ^ cfeintention that the inquiry shall be thorough-searching and sincere , and then go on to the next question of importance , whatever that may be . If this , be done in a straightforward manner , the month that has to elapse before Christmas , will be quite enough to do all the needful business of the extra session ; .. . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . .. ' ., . ..-.

      The next important topicr-the Currency Question , — Y ? bM vraa passed by with afevftneident&l allusions , in the Commons on Tuesday night , formed the subject of a supplementary debate on the bringing up of the report on Wednesday . It is evident that the Peel and Wood school'are not to haveit all their own : way . There 8 renumerbus ' rand determined exponents in the House of the monetary policy , which rests upon the principle that money is only the symbol of wealth , and medium of exchange , and that a country increasing in real wealth ! increasing in population , and wiih daily and yearly multiplying

      transactions , in consequence of the combined operation of these two causes , ought to possess a current : j capable of expanding with' the requirements of the country . The Procrustean led of the buUionliits ha » inflicted too much torture _ and loss upon the nation , for it longer to submit in silence to having , its capacities of producing , exchanging , and consuming wealth , fettered by the quantity of a foreign and scarce metal , which may happen at a particular day to be in the coffers of the Bank of England ; arid available under the act of 1844 , for commercial purposes . ' ' :

      The Proteotionist party , in general , seem disposed to take this view of the question . In the House of Peers , Lord Ashburton , who is a great authority on this subject , strongly condemned the act of 1844 ; and ascribed * to its operation the ruin of dozens of our large commeicial houses . Lord STANi , EYi in what was in others respects an . extremely clever speech , also attacked the . act ; and both he and Lord G . Bbntinck , who spoke in the , Commons , on Tuesday , concurred in attributing all the disasters

      we have ; passed through and are still suffering from , to the combined operation of a defective currency , and the Free Trade policy of late yeaw . As , however , the whole question is tobebroughtbefore Parliament next week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , we shall have more , ample material for comparison and comment , as to . the views of the differing parties than at present , and merely refer to it now , as an important question with which Parliament must fairly grapple . '

      Atneng the class of minor questions which will he mooted , will be that of the admission of the Jews to sit itt Parliament , and the abolition of the Navigation Laws . But it is probable that the latter , at any rate , will not make its appearance on the boards until after Christmas ; and the Jew question is one of those that we think even the Times will concede , shouldbe postponed as not falling under the category of " the most necessary busiuess . " We are noiinsensible to the importance of the question in itself , but there is a "time for everything under the sun , " and when we have loosened the strangling band of famine from our throats , it will be time enough to take ud the question of religious citizenshi p , involved in the right of Baron Rothschilb . to » itin the House of Commons . w

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      A ILAIN TALE IS BEST BEING PLAINLY TOLD .

      TO THE WORKING CLASSES . Mt Friends , As this is the last letter that I mean to devote to the condemnation of the wretched creatures who have hoped to build a little bit of fame upon falsehood , I shall preface the conclusion of Mr Hobson ' s conviction with a few brief observations , before I proceed to the demolition of his last whimsical facts . This fellow , relying upon a peculiar knack of mystification , undertook to unravel entanglement , and has ended by making confusion worse confounded . I suppose it has

      never fallen to the lot of the reader of conundrums , to have submitted to his puzzled pate a more complete and entire web of puzzle , than this plain writer of plain facts has jumbled together . But the facts which will strike you as the most extraordinary , are that this fellow abandons the defence of his own character , stamped by Mr Ardill in his two letters of December , 1842 , and betakes himself , almost exclusively , to the defence of the character ol his accuser , as in those letters Mr : Ardill , has accused Mr Hobson of direct and palpable

      fraud . As to his reply—his * weakand lame reply—to Mr Rider ' s charges ; I can only say that Rider is a working man ; that my belief in his integrity is tested by en trusting him with the receipts of all my monies j but if general report is preferable to individual predilection , I believe that Mr Rider will have no objection to place 'his character in comparison with the characters of Messrs Ardill and Hobson ; the judges to be . the townsmen of the three individuals .

      The time has now come when I cannot devote even my Sunday , as lam this day doing , to exposing the fabrications and falsehoods arising out of the angry feelings of , these vipers , and therefore , I . shall , make this—my \ lastrnotice , a finisher . . -, ' : ¦ ... > , ¦ . ;¦ ^ ... j , , <• „ :. You recollect how the dismissal of every servant from my office has been met' b y the publication of the same description of falsehoods .

      and . a ri ppipg-up of alllmy ; private ' affairs ; while not a single one of those persons , so long in my employment ) and- professing-such an intimate knowledge of ' my every transaction , has dared to charge me with one sih gle ' act of political meanness , or ' one , ' , single j . equ iyocal public act . . ( , ' ¦• ' , . " ;• . Now , all who know , anything of the intimacy which must subsist between the

      proprietor and editor of a hewsDaner . will be pnetor and editor of a newspaper , will be forced U theadmissibn , and to the conclusion , that the Northern Star newspaper has Seen conducted upon principles of honour . and integrity which are unknown and not recognised by the newspaper press generall y ; as all will admit freely that the sli ghtest act of political doubtfulness—not to say meannessrwould have been a Crod-send to my disbanded staff . ¦ ¦¦ -i . ¦

      The Rev . Mr HiU tried his hand at exposure , which was so crushingly met by . Joshua Hobson and John Arrlill ,, in their , reply to his pamphlet of 1844 , that he has not since returned to the charge , ; i while Mr Joshua Hobson , who was dismissed from my service , after being eight . years employed , has not been able , and . is not able , to establish a single fact injurious to my character !; aV a .. gentleman , and a public man . ' ., / ' ' ' ,,,.,, , ' ,. ' ; ' , But now ,, my friends , I come to this question , in its entirety and real bearing upon society . The solicitor . who divul ges the case of hia client is not admitted as evidence

      against him ; while , the communication of one particle of evidence , entrusted to , him , would forever , professionally destroy him . Well , the confidence between . the proprietor and editor of a newspaper , should , if possible , be more sacred ; but what do you learn from thia base man ' s conduct ? You learn , from his apparent knowledge of my debts , that he opened all my private letters ; while you learn , from his own admission , that he has made the Manchester Examiner office , the depositary of . all my correspondence , and the honourable proprietors of that paper the exhibitors of that correspondence to the curious I ; \

      Now , this is the li ght in which every rightminded man must view this question , ; while I beg to assure all , right-minded !' . arid ' wrongminded , that neither Ardill , Hobson , nor any man living , has a . scrap from . under my hand that I would care to see printed In large type and posted at every market cross in Europe . Not a scrap ; but yet dl whoundei'stan ^ the trickery of the press , the mystery of the press , and the vindictiyeness of a dismissed , official , will be able to attach the proper importance to the horrifying announcement- —the hobgoblin threat—that all these documents are placed IN TH 1 HANDS OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE . "MA 1 S CHE ^ TER ' ,

      EXAMINER" FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION . And now , to carry out the intention of Mr Hobson , and the GENTLEMEN of the Examiner , it is theduty of . every working , man within ten miles of Manchester , to-gp . to that ' registry office for private ] correspondence / and to demand an inspection of those papers ; always taking care to be accompanied b y Mr Edward Birley , or some person who is acquainted with my hand writing , to be able to test the authenticity of those documents and if the working classes will accept the invita . tion held out by the Manchester Examiner they will be highly edified . '

      Another thing which will strike the reader as curious is , that Josh , and John profess to have kept copies of every line they wrote to me for eight years . Now , this looks suspicious ; because , from the specimen of one published in one of Hobson ' s « long yarns ' — the only one-I declare to you , that 1 never received such a letter ; he never wrote such a letter j and if he had , there , was nothing , in it but the mere communication ' of the ooinions of a Mr Stead , of HuddersfieW' \ Kve £ " smells queer that those men , who . vrere so overworked , should have , kept . copies of an eight years , correspondence . Now , I only publish extracts from letters , the authenticity of which , can be vouched for •'

      Having now , stripped t his hobgoblin of its horrors , I beg to submit to you the descrip SS-i , o a ^ - tl 0 n ^ in < * uirers re ( * ive with reference to this curious correspondence Hew is a , specimen ;— v ere . . . , ' , Openshaw , nsar Manoheiter , BUI

      One of them then . flald to the other is Mr Hoh , nn S ^ MSKfenSS ad ten minutes . Another per 8 onBa . ln the XI I ss ^ tjanrris- ;^ ^ a ^ -Wissis a S ^^ SSH ! .. _ . u-, . . . " ° . h 6 Ve come fonr mliP » an ^

      ¦""" 8 " "wit w nig bt He RnM it » sirr £ ^^ : » . r xa SSS SfpHSSFl ! i minut « Wh W ^* T Bd in the offloe » bont *<» £ kS = |~ HSH fri , nd » in ft " the eaitOriS nOt 00 mo ' " « y 0 U D . So I LvV t 0 Wn i * toan «« Winto ^ oirowr I « M No , I have come four milea u > 8 ee them , and nbal

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      muitl say to those who h » ve sent me ! Iha » 7 k here thre » timei and heard three different . n about it- He . aid 'Well , I ^^ £% * h » got the key and he went awa , at a qUJfto Je ° ' I laid I nat hero at a quarter past four and th men told me that he was not here , u I awaV » w way you may expect to hear of it ; by what appeared »„ the Examiner we : expected we could see the docnm « 7 any time . ' He then sent out for a man to come . a pick the lock , which was done , and the documente d duoed , and when I had seen thsm , I laid ' Do van i tend to tell me that Mr O'Connor hag wronwd ehh !" Mr Ardill or Mr Hobion , or any ene ehe !• h 9 um No , I don't know anything about that . What w »« f to show is . thnt parties are puttinjr theirmoni in unaaf bands , as the society is not enrolled . ' I tsAi ' Well t hare known and watched that gentleman ever since h cune to this country , and I have never seen him goiu ' of a dishonourable or dishonest act , not even one the ' fore I shall still continue to pay what little I cii BB »™ to the Land Company . '

      Toum truly , SAUCE ! , TilLOE ( Mr O'Connor . ) A four-aore shareholder Now , from the above letter you will learn ' that all this correspondence consists of a farrago of Joshua Hobson as to the stability of the National Land and Labour Bank Hobson ' s friend , Ardill , is lying by in a wag ' gon , biding his time ; but if he will give me an undertaking to bring an action against me for libel , I will bring the question of accounts to an issue in next week ' s Star—if his solicitor will give an undertaking to bring an actionand thus the question of accounts will be submitted to a court of justice , and Mr ArdiU will be entitled to his damages if I have falsi . hed those books to the amount of one single fifflirfi . Now . thard /» nnnnf nn « ft ! M .. L- * »?~ : ° 1

      11 --W--W V ... UVH j / uoaisjiy uc a lalTCr challenge than this—if Mr Ardill ' s solicitor will undertake to bring an action for libel against me , I will put the question of character to an issue in a court of justice in next week ' s Star . I now proceed to the refutation of every one of Mr Joshua Hobson ' s conundrums ; and , as a plain tale is best being plainly told , I shall pursue the same course as I adopted in last weeks&nr , giving the reader every one of his ; charges as they appear in the Manchester i ! ixammer :-rr . ; ; :- ¦ : <¦¦ . . ' . A-Erom a letter of MrO'Conno t ' s t-vMr Ardill bearinz ftMS ^ lV - * ? , " * W * before me , I find that ihe 1339 "balance" was taken on the 8 th of Auaust in that year . There then wanted Mr Ard , l ? B"SS ulanr . entningtofliebook , before an accurate Sra could bfc Struck-that salary only ueine chnZd in ?^ f

      Mepnnvyen yv = ¦ mece also wanted the weekly wages of he establishment entering up from the wage-book which was only done , as a rule , quarterly . If theseitems ? u adb e , A ? 0 perly V \ T t 0 « 'e credit of John Ardill . the 1839 balance would not have been against him , but in his favour . It , * very easy to make a balance out agains ? any cashier , if you keep out oftheaccoimt several of hi $ looks and paiwnts ; bu ( an honest man would scori to seek suoli " evidence" for a purely concocted libel . ¦ Answer—He has no such letter stating any such fact from me , The whole of the weekly

      charges , postage , and petty cash account , are entered into the books up to the date , and Mr Ardill ' s nine months' salary would have made buf 7 ol . but it is straining- at a gnat and swallowing a camel ; the gnat is the 120 ? ., and the camel is the 2 , 300 / . and odd . Perhaps , under this head , I may as well refer to the assertion of Mr Hobson ,, "that from the establishmentdftheAS ' far—yea , from thefirst week to the last , he and Ardill were crippled in their own resources , to assist me from their exche-7

      quers . Now for a ' more curious fact than Hobson ' s repudiation of ; his . ' reply to Hilts 'Scabbard ? of 1844 . JThe reader will remember how Ardill and Hobson ivere always borrowing to support the S / ar , and howl was always taking away'the money , as they presumed , to pay my old debts and electioneering expenses . Now , I told those men that the more they stirred the more it would stink ; because their assertions would'induce me to look for proof to the only record in existence—my account books . Arid now , reader , read the following , attested by accountants , who have gone over every page of those books with me , from the commencement of the Star , to Jul y , 1839 ;—•

      We certify , nfter inspecting every page of the cash book m which the accounts of the Norllitrn Star are entered , from the 18 th of November , 183 ; , to the 12 ta June , 1839 , that within that period Mr O'Connor mada payments of monies to the clerk to the amount of £ 1 , 988 . 6 » . « d . ; and that so minutely wers t ? iose accounts kept that , in several instances , Mr O'Connor lias been , charged 4 $ d . forjportraits that hejgave away . : And we also find , that within that period Mr Ardill only advanced £ \ S ., the balance in his hands as treasurer of the Leeds shares ; and that beyond that amount of £ 18 ., neither Mr ArdiU nor Mr Hob < on advanced one farthing to the Star

      . We alse find , that up to page 83 of thecash book , the accounts were kept by Mr Williams , and that in page 86 , in an entry made by Mr Ardill , who succeeded him , th » re is an error of £ 20 . in carrying over Mr Ardill ' s credit from the bottom of one column to the top of the other : the amount at foot of page 85 being # 1 , 351 18 s . 5 d ., nnd the amount carried forward being £ 1 , 371 . iSs . Sd . ; ( of course this is an error that a practised accountant might commit . ) We further find that at the commenceraent of the Northern Star the exact amount payable to the printers , weekly , is acknowledged as received from Mr O'Connor . ¦

      O . A . Fkjiino . : G . J . Harnev . , ^ . D . M'Gowan . Now , my friends , what do you think of the "Lucky Boy and his host ' s" hardship in scouring the country for loans to keep up the Northern Start but I havn ' tdone yet . We had an immense office sale in Leeds , arid very lalrge weekl y payments made . by large agents , and all that was banked by the clerk as soon

      as I opened a banking account ; and before I have done I will frame these accounts , and make ; them as plain as panels in a door , from period to period , until . I bring the charge of falsificationinto so narrow a compass that he who runs may read . Cunningly enough , thia cunning | advpcate of ; the " Lucky Boy" has triedto-jumble them by spreading ^ them over a ' perwd of iight yeats ; . li \\ t I will trace them , step by step , from the commencement to the close : — . .. ) '

      .:..-1 a ™ £ 6 mannw » the ' great balance of lMUs incor'f . ' - ,- O'Cwmor knows , no man better , that Ardill never claimed to have owing to him the sum of £ 2 , 353 ; that ho never eveiv dreamed of _ such a thing . O'Connir knows that when he and Ardill sat down to ascertain what the realbalance due to the latter was , they took alltheele . mentamto th « lr calculation ; they tat together aw / thb boom ; hey ascertained the expenditure ana the tacomS on the several funds which had been kept separate fron ! the Star , general cash book ; and the , enS in thS proper place the balance of those separate funds an ! This was , indeed , the only course by which the actual balance could be ascertained ; and nothing could be more / ° l 2 r . ? . » Iie 8 t - t ¥ n , 1 u 1 Onnor ' 3 takl » 5 th « cwhbooS alQne&ttaat period fw Wa Btatements , lefore the other Manceswrepostedup ! vyvrviaevwer

      mJ . 'WaT of £ I ' was made up thus ; - During 1840 . 1 there were several public funds which L M ; ffi & V aB 16 r ° ' Connor ' "ttheoffi ' ce ! % wnolly independent of the Star , account books . But the Shd . TTwf ' w * PaV * int 0 toe bank to O'Ctnnor - s ? J ^ a ^^ * - ° ' wlth heavy Jet « to cod . lh « ^ 1 ^ . ^^ "lrrentpayments to meet , nithout mee thPm ° aAlT ! ri 8 bed l «»»« " >«¦» income t » . meetthemj audlteld yottthat even 'with the money from a certain source , ' we were dreadfully short . Thit SS *^ These public funds were used in O'Connor ' s private business . Hadthev n . t been so .

      U'uonnorwould not have had o « o atom of proper ^ when l' 2 S « M leMea ; f ^> tben < h 0 " » 3 apparent 'balance * Of ^ a , 3 B 3 wasmada up :-Tkere was receWad dutiim 184 W , on the Frost ' s Defence Fund " unS fotS on the Stephens' Defence Fundi £ 2 M ? on theNaSi SSStaLW *!? beSid , ^« "e" « ms on &ev « al booftreach ^ rt S % ' >* , in «« Pa ? ate andd spinet w , 1 6 ach fontMtoa nooks are still in existence ] :-but the payments on the Star account did . aDnear in the caBhhook ; and thus there would necessarilj appear to SnMr ^ 110111110 ^^ ^ "c eivefi 7 uEe ! y ° and . Rn , & 3 ° r a d examined those several accounts SSJWff ^ 4 ' h ? correctnes 8 , the amounts mre r ™' * * general cash booh , and the actual balance ?« , i W rA ^» l ascertained and acknowledged . How truly {»/ amow , that , witha knowledge of tlfese facts , 0 « onaor should have dated to Blander away anrther man s oharactor . to divert attention from his own curious position in relation to a public fund .

      Now , then , Jhath not trie Lord delivered this incomprehensible fool into my hands ? 1 will go on seriatim , to unravel this " long yarn . " I never had all the account books before me in my life , and the one thing which I wish you to keep clearly in view , and never to lose sight of is , that if I had all the books before me , and if Cocker had them all before him , he couldn't make anything of them , and for this plain and simple reason—that , from page 86 , when Mr Williams handed over the books to Mr ArdiU , not a single columnjwas totted up—not one , for five years after . Now , then , what does the reader say to that ? But mark the sequel , I do not ask you to take one word " upon my authority , but read the following ~ We certify that when the balance due to Hr Ardill ap . pear to be jtf 3 , 3 l 3 . 6 » . 6 d ., it is a net balaneein money claimed by him , and that there is no explanation , in cod . nection with that entry , attached to show that tt was de « rived from any public funds whatever , but the balance appears MduB to Mr Ardill , . 6 . A . FlshiXO . 6 . J . Hmnet . P . U'QOVAK ^ ,

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      Mn > DLBioa . Mr James Leach , of Manchester ffiiftiW **< ss » Si S&aay - ' fcr& « £ as

      Portrait Of E. Jones, Esq., Barristerat-Law.

      PORTRAIT OF E . JONES , ESQ ., BARRISTERAT-LAW .

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      4 THE : NyRTtififiJS STAR ^ ; _„_ November 27 , 18 j 7 . *

      Sew London Daily Papeb-Pricb Three. T Pekce. He London Telegraph, Price Tv Jjlttbepekce ' Will Be Poblished Early " The New Year, 1818

      SEW LONDON DAILY PAPEB-PRICB THREE . T PEKCE . HE LONDON TELEGRAPH , PRICE TV JJlttBEPEKCE WILL BE POBLISHED EARLY " THE NEW YEAR , 1818

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 27, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1446/page/4/