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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, 8ATCTBDAY. JULY 9, 18*8.
    • A LIST OF BOOKS K0TT PCBUSH1SG BT R. D. COUSINS, 18 . DUKE-STREET, UKCOSS *«-IIfS.FIELDS , LOKEOK.
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      TRIAL OF MR ERNEST JONES . We bad announced that ( his number of the'N obthbkn Star would contain a full report of tlie trial of Mr Ernest Jones ; we had been given to understand that the trial would take p lace on Wednesday , but up to Friday morning Mr Jones lias not been called on . Should the trial take place in sufficient time , a full report will appear in our Third Edition , which report will be g iven in our country Edition next week .

      The Northern Star, 8atctbday. July 9, 18*8.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , 8 ATCTBDAY . JULY 9 , 18 * 8 .

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      THE TRIALS . Whilst we write the trials of the accused Chartists are going on . Fussell has been con . victed , on the charges of " sedition , " and " attending an unlawful assembly . " His sentence , in all probability , will not be pronounced until the close of the trials . An unfair advantage has been taken of the accused , in placing Fussell first at the bar . The charges against the other defendants are merely the ordinary ones of " sedition , " " riot , '' &c . ; but in Fussell ' s case , a charge

      was laid to his account of having recommended private assassination . With an amount of craft which does the prosecutor no honour , Fussell Was first put upon his trial , clearly for the purpose of prejudicing the case of each of the succeeding defendants . Fussell found guilty , the other defendants are regarded as the friends aad fellow-labourers of a man who has been " convicted" of having recommended , or , at least , spoken favourably of " private assassination . " Of course , under such circumstances , the " conviction'' of the other defendants is almost certain .

      The force of prejudice has been strikingly illustrated in the case of Fussell . It was morally impossible for him to have a fair trial . There is scarcely a journal published in the metropolis from thefimes to the Dispatch , that has not rung the changes upon the " assassination'' story . Even caricatures and pointless attempts at burlesque have occupied the pages of that superannuated thing , " Punch , '' and its miserable imitator , the Puppet Show , got up for the purpose of exciting odium against Futsell . It is no question that whatever may have been Fussell ' s real offence , he is a man " more sinned against than sinning . " His character and liberty have been assassiiiated by the Press-gang .

      But for the prejudice excited by the Press there cannot be any doubt that he would have been acquitted . We must conclude , from the statements of the witnesses for the defence , that something was said about assassination ; but a perusal of the evidence on both sides will , we think , convince every ' reasonable man that Fussell did not speak of assassination in the sense imputed to him by the witnesses for the ' prosecution .

      'J he Attorney-General passed a sufficiently sev . re condemnation upon his own witnesses , win nH J said the Crown lawyers "hadobtained the bes - evidence they could , " implying that the bes " . was no great things . The real value of tl e evidence will be seen at a g lance by all whd tak ; the trouble t © read it , We repeat that upon such evidence Fussell must have been acquitted , had not his conviction been ensured previous to his trial by the vile calumnies heaped upon him by the Press-gang . We must call attention to Lord Chief Jus .

      tice Wilde s new doctrine , ' or rather old doctrine revived , of the " right divine" of kings tind queens . Serjeant Allen had very properly insisted that " the people had a ri g ht to expel the sovereign , if the sovereign did wrong , and that the liberties at present enjoyed by the people of this country had been won by the exercise of that right on the occasion of the " glorious revolution" of 1088 ; and , further , that the reigning sovereign possessed the throne only in acknowledgment of that right . This "

      constitutional principle" quite shocked the Chief Justice , who declared Serjeant Allen had been guilty of broaching " a new doctrine , " and went on to assert that "the great lawyers and great statesmen of 1688 , denied the doctrine of the existence of any power to remove the sovereign . " We must say this is shameless doctrine for a Whig , a worshipper of "the principles of the glorious revolution , &o . " It has been laid down by Locke , Coke , and Blackstone , that the duties of allegiance and protection are reciprocal and co-ordinate ; and long prior to the revolution of 1 C 88 , in

      the reign , for instance , of Richard II ., the Parliament declared the original contract broken and throne vacant : and this has happened not once only but several times in the history of this country ; and no judge-made doctrine will blot out of history the fact , that Queen Victoria owes her throne to the principle maintained by Sergeant Allen : —the right of the people to expel the sovereign from power , if he or she is nnfaithful to the nation . The Chief Justice asks , who is to decide if the Crown has done wrong ? We answer those who have decided before—the

      People-Since the above was put into type we have received the report of the trial of Vernon a ad Williams . It will be seen , that in the course of the trial Williams , by advise of his Counsel , withdrew his plea of "Not Guilty , " and pleaded " Guilty " to the charge of attending an illegal meeting ; the defendant's Counsel at the same time expressing a hope that the charge of riot would be withdrawn . The Jury , after a consultation of three quarters of an hour , returned a verdict of "Guilty" ' against Mr Vernon , on the first count—that for attending an unlawful meeting . Mr Vernon has yet to encounter a second indictment .

      On this trial a new witness was suddenly produced for the prosecution , the defendant having had no notice previously that any such wit ness would be brought forward . This most unust course was pursued b y theAttorney-General 3 ecause that functionary was well aware that the original evidence against Vernon was utterly worthless for the purposes of the prosecution . This gross violation of everything in the shape of fair play fc characteristic of Whig liberalit y .

      Ihe Attorney-General winced under the lashing exposure made b y MrParry of the Whig incitements to popular violence in the time of

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      the Reform Bill , and appealed to the court for protection . A Whig Judge graciously accorded that protection , by pronouncing Mr Parry " irregular . " There is , however , another tribunal before which the Whig s will have to appear , and it is very likely before long , too , when the accusers of Whig traitors and Whig persecutors , will not be silenced as " irregular , for the tribunal of public opinion will pronounce the truth of the accusers'charges , and the guilt of the Whigs . When once again the Whigs are compelled to appear on the hustings , they will find themselves placed upon their trial , with not the shadow of chance of acquittal .

      We expect that our town edition will contain a report of the trials of Sharp and Ernest Jones . We pray for their happy deliverance , but have not sanguine hopes of such an issue . With some of the accused Chartists already convicted , and the prospect of further convictions , we must entreat the Chartist body generally to continue their unrelaxed efforts to obtain ample funds , not only to meet all expenses attendant upon the trials , but also to provide

      the necessary means to ensure the honourable protection of the families of the " convicted " patriots . The wives and children of the persecuted advocates of the Charter have a natural right to the guardianship of the Chartist Commonwealth . The enemies of Democracy acquire what they call "glory" by inflicting suffering—war and law—upon their fellowcreatures . It is for Democrats to acquire true glory , by mitigating the wrongs under which their friends suffer . " The drying up one ten has more Of honest fomo , than shedding seas of gore . "

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      Cavai ^ nac has almost entirely filled his ministry with African butchers—the pitiless desolators of Algeria . The Assembly , in its latest elec « tion of officers , has added to the list of military rulers another general . The Army of the Alps" is marching upon Paris which is hence « forth to be surrounded by an immense military camp ; in short , the reign of Mars has succeeded that of Plutus , and the sabre has taken the place of the sceptre . The National Workshops are abolished , and the Government is about to rescind the decree which fixed the hours of labour at ten per day . The Clubs are suppressed , and some of the most democratic of the journals are annihilated .

      The arrests continue , and the position 06 many of the persons arrested within the last few days , proves that the late revolt was no mere rabble rising . Men of eminence in literature and politics , and officers of the Army and National Guard , are amongst the com promised . The sufferings of the thousands of prisoners confined in the most horrrible of dungeons , are terrible ; hundreds have been shot since the arrival of the news which appeared in last week ' s Star . In the midst of this ruin , it is some consolation to witness the downfall of the traitors and

      imbeciles , who have caused the fall of the Republic . The moderate democrats—Ledru « Rollin and his party—are proscribed , arid Lamartine , ostracised , is said to be already on his way to Palestine , where he will have time and opportunity to reflect upon the misery his sew timental philanthropy has brought upon his native land . Marrast and the National gang of scoundrels , having done the work of the bourgeoisie , are also destined to perish .

      The existing state of things more than justifies the late revolt . There is no longer ground for compromise ; the future of France must be the vilest and most cruel despotism , or the-w Red Republic .

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      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Ministers barely saved their measure on th © Sugar Question . Fifteen of a majority was virtually a defeat . In two years they have managed to get nearly into the same position as it took them ten years to attain previously . But , as in 1840-41 , they found it possible to hobble on , after a fashion of their own , with a majority of eight , ire presume they consider themselves quite strong enough to govern the country and administer its affairs , with nearlv double that nnmlipr .

      The divisions on this measure afford unequi . vocal proof , that with reference to our Coin , nial interests , at least , that re-action lias taken place which Mr Disraeli predicted aw certain to occur , in the very height of the Free Trade mania . The proposition of the Ministry , to extend the limited period of protection granted by their own bill of 184 Gfor three years longer , and to increase at the same time the amount of protection , is itself a virtual abandonment of the boasted principles of Free Trade . But , as if to leave us in no doubt as to the decadence

      of the influence of that party , Mr Bright put Parliament to the test b y moving , as an amendment on the Government plan , that no alteration whatever should be made in the Act of 1 H 46 * , and after a protracted debate , got just thirty * six members to support him ; while , on Tuesday night , Sir J . Packington ' s motion , for a differential duty of 10 s . in favour of the Sugar of our colonies , was lost by a majority oif only sixty-two .

      It is scarcely possible to imagine any policy more signally condemned , or more emphatically pronounced a failure , within so short a period of its adoption , than this . If the reaction pro * ceeds at the same pace , long before 1854 , the time now fixed for the cessation of all differential duties on sujrar , we shall have a ministry avowedly Protectionist . In fact , already the corn growers are whispering about an extension of time in their case , as well as the sugar

      growers . All this is the result of the Free Traders having put the cart before the horse . Instead of first endeavouring , as far as possible , to assimilate the burdens of this country to those o £ others with whom we mi ght have to trade and compete , they plunged us at once into an un « equalcontest , and , like all theorists , now , when the results have falsified their predictions , they blame everything but their own theory . Free Trade , as far as it has gone , having proved totally inefficacious as a remedy for any great national evil—having , in its own wav , agara- »

      vated many of those which formerly existed , the party represented by the Parliamentary thirty-six , wish to give us more of it . They are disci ples of the Sangrado school of practi » tioners . His remedy was copious blond letting and plentiful doses of hot water . When his patients—as they usually did—sank undenthis process of depletion , the worthy doctor always contended that they had not lost enough blood nor swallowed sufficient hot water , and of course prescribed more of both . Messrs bri ght , Cobden , ami others of that ilk , are worthy descendants of the famous Spanish quack .

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      REVOLT OF THE SHOPOCRACY . ( l Lay on , Maoduff , And damned be he that first crlea hold , enough !" At this moment when the full tide of counter revolution has set in upon our French neighbours , it is quite refreshing to have to announce a revolt of the men of the counter . All the world is aware of the loving fraternity of the shopocratic " specials / and the blue bludgeon men , on the ever memorable 10 th of April and the 12 th of June . It is true that on the latter occasion the worthyprofitmon gers did not exhibit quite so much ardour as

      when they " came , salami did not conquer " at Kenning ton Common . One day's campaign was quite sufficiGnt to sicken a very large number of the " guardians of order ; " and hence , on the I 2 thof June , not a few refused to listen to the voice of the Home Office charmer . ' Still the volunteers and pressed men were sufficiently numerous , when the locality known as Bonner ' s Fields , was to be stormed , to enable the veracious Press-gang to exult once more at " the public spirit" displayed by " England ' s National Guard , " the heroic " specials . " But

      " Tbe course of true love never did run smooth . ' And with pain and sorrow we have now to announce , that the bonds of affection , which united the " specials" and police , have been rudely snapped asunder . Marylebone is in full rebellion against Scotland-yard , and the shopkeepers of the great Metropol'S have withdrawn their allegiance from Sir George Grey , who has been compelled to beat a retreat to the tune of the"Rogue's march , " varied by that other popular air , " Go to the devil and shake yourself . "

      It appears that the Government contemplate a serious augmentation in the number of the police force , and a very serious increased demand upon the pockets of the " friends of order , ' to meet the expense of the addition to the spy and bludgeon bands : full particulars will be found in another column . This has occasioned an explosion in the Metropolis , the Marylebone middle men taking the lead . Meetings have been holden , at which the Government , the police , and , in fact , nearly the whole of our " glorious institutions / 'have been denounced in terms that would have done credit to the most out-and-out Chartist meeting ever assembled .

      On Wednesday , a " numerous deputation , consisting of Churchwardens , Vestry Clerks , and " principal inhabitants , " headed by Mr Bernal Osborne , M . P ., Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P ., Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P ., &c ., &c , waited on Sir George Grey , and clamorously stated their grievances . Sir George was very polite , but told the revolted ' sections" he must have the money , as he considered the proposed increase of the force "a boon to the public / ' which the possessors of property

      should only be too happy to pay for . The revolutionists had no objection to the increase of the Police , their only objection was the pay all would be well if the Government would agree to throw the expense upon the Consolidated Fund . Sir George Grey , however , seemed to think that that fund had already more demands upon it than it was well fitted to meet . The Whig functionary proved inexorable , whereupon Mr Osborne announced , " that io case of another outbreak Government would get NO

      SPECIAL CONSTABLES . " Several members of the deputation declared that their parishes would refuse to make any additional rate . Great applause echoed this declaration of war , in the midst of which Sir George Grey took up his hat and bolted . Mr Commissioner Mayne , who had attended seemingly to watch this " disorderly assembly , " followed his leader .

      A Mr Geeson , anxious to complete the revolution , proposed to transform Lord Dudley Stuart into an English Dupont de l'Eure , and proclaim , through the mouth of the " provisional' * president , a resolution to refuse any additional police rate ; but the counsels of the moderates prevailed , and it was finally resolved , that public meetings should be called in all the metropolitan localities to take measures " to resist the . demand . '

      " This 19 a very pretty quarrel as it stands /' and we wish both parties stout hearts to fight it out like men . 11 is hard to tell which of the parties is the worst . The Whig Government desire to add to the standing army of police , for the purpose of coercing the people—the shopocracy hating the Chartists as they hate the tax-gatherer , would be very glad to * have the additional bludgeon men to protect their insolent usurpation , but they desire to throw the cost upon the country at large . We earnestly hope they will be foiled . If there are to be more police , we trust that the middle classes will be compelled to bear the burden .

      The London bourgeoisie came eagerly forth on the 10 th of April , to give their support to a corrupt , extravagant , and people-plundering Government ; their vile newspapers have lent the aid of fraud to force , to keep the people in bondage ; and at this very time , the men of the shop , in the character of jurors , are visiting with the vengeance of the law men whose only offence has been that of attempting to establish astate of things which would render police and police rates almost entirely unnecessary . The shopocracy will support " the system /' and our earnest prayer is , that the system may grind them to the dust . '

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      THE COUNTER REVOLUTION . Some of the Sunda y papers headed their account of the late struggle in the French capital with the words , " Counter Revolution m 1 . iris . Without intending it , the knaves of the lress-gang proclaimed the truth- they meant their readers to infer that the " in . surgents" were the counter revolutionists , but a glance at this week ' s news from France will

      satisf y any one , that while there is a counter revolution the traitors to the Republic are those who recently conquered the workingmen or Pans . I he ' Republic" is a mere nameasbam-a mockery-a delusion-and a snare — despotism — the despotism of force as avowedly reigns in Paris as in St Petersburg ihe Assembly is guarded by Infantry , Uvalrv , and Artillery , and , throughout Pans , the military make the law for the population .

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      The debates on the Sugar Question , besides their intrinsic interest , have been apropos to a tfreat many other topics . We noticed one o £ them at some length last week . Since we wrote , another question of some interest was introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer . One of the great objections to the proposed scheme of the Government is , that it involves a considerable loss to the revenue ; and it was argued that , in the face of a deficient revenue , it was most unwise to incur still further loss by passing a measure which was confessedly useless , as a means of improving the condition of the planter .

      Sir L . V ood felt this was a strong point , and he therefore parentheticall y extemporised another budget , in which he eat nearly all his former words on that subject . No Indian juggler was ever more dexterous in playing with cups and balls , than the " hon . Member for Halifax " is with figures . The ease with which tbey fall into any arrangement , in order to suit the " pur poses ot the moment , is perfectly marvellous , livery one will remember the lugubrious and gloomy speech in which , shortly after th& opening of the Session , he brought furward his Budget , and startled the island from its propriety by the exhibition of an

      alarming deficit , which could onl y be met by rais « ing the Income Tax from three to five per cent . Every one will remember , also , ho ^ he protested that it was impossible to cut down the annual expenditure in any perceptible degree without interfering with the efficiency OB our national establishments . In spite of these protestations , however , the nation compelled him to give up his projected increase of taxation , which he did in a speech showing that ie would , in reality , have more money than he thought he should , and therefore " would not , alter all , need the increase . Then he

      was forced to send the Estimates before two Committees of the House for revision , from whence they have not yet returned . But , coming events cast their shadows before . ' bir Charles is wise in his generation . Doubtless , the Committees have determined on some reductions , and , therefore , assuming a virtue which he has not , the Chancellor hastens to anticipate , as far as he can , the recommends , turns of the Committees , and to explain that lus last versions of the Budget were as incorrect as the first , both as regards income and expenditure , lie has even discovered that the excess of expenditure over income in the

      present year , will probably be less 1 , 535 000 i « than he formerl y estimated . In other tv ' ord f , that , instead of being upwards of two millions , it will be less than half a million . He also stated , that he has " gone through the Navy and Ordnance Estimates" with the First Lord of the Admiralty , and they have " satisfied themselves that without , in any degree impairing the efficiency of these services , a reduction on the year of 300 , 000 / . might easily be effected . " The I 50 , 000 f . voted for the Militia he has abandoned , and he concluded by

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      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . July 8 > Jg ^^

      A List Of Books K0tt Pcbush1sg Bt R. D. Cousins, 18 . Duke-Street, Ukcoss *«-Iifs.Fields , Lokeok.

      A LIST OF BOOKS K 0 TT PCBUSH 1 SG BT R . D . COUSINS , 18 . DUKE-STREET , UKCOSS *« -IIfS . FIELDS , LOKEOK .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 8, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1478/page/4/