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      SIXTY-FOUR LARGE PAGES , PRICE 4 PENCE . Orders and Advertisements to be sent addressed io the office of the Northern Star , London ; or to A . Hey wood , Manchester ; W . Love , and 6 . Adams Glasgow ; Robinson and Co ., Edinburgh ; J . Sweet , Nottingham ; J . Guest , Birmingham . The "Naiiosal Instructor" will be supplied bj all the London Booksellers and News-agents .

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      JULIAN BARNEY'S NEW PUBLICATION . Now Publishing for Saturday , July Ctb , 1 S 50 , Naffl . of THE RED REPUBLICAN , ^^ Edited by G . JULIAN HABNEY . fT ^ lhfhis number is commenced an account of the Institutions and Laws of Uepublican America . contests : - 1 . LettersofL AmiduPenple . No . 3— 'TheTruculent "Times , " and the Buffianly Eojalists . 2 . Poetry to be lived . 3 . Bakunin , the Russian Patriot i . Tho Red Republican , " and the " Leader . " 5 . 'Republic and Royalty in Italy . By Joseph Maz : rini , Tritmmrof theKomao Reonblic . 6 . Horrible Massacre of the Paris Proletarians . 7 . Institutions and Laws of Republican America . No . 1 . 8 . Poetry : Garibaldi , ic , &c

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      POLITICS , LITERATURE , SCIENCE , ENTERTAINMENT . M'DOUALL'S MANCHESTER JOURNAL , ¦ Wul bs published on Saturday , July 13 fli , Price One Penny . Dedicated to the intelligence of the middle and working classes , vrith the view of securing a common understanding for the public good , and a cooperation of head , heart , and hand for the Commonwealth of England . Beal , 2 , Shoe-lane , London ; Heywood , Oldham-street , Manchester .

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      ^ — — — — ~ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ j TO THE CHARTISTS OF NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD . The committee hereby rave notice , that a members' meeting will . be held in Mi-. Greener ' s Long-room , Cock Inn , Head of Side , on Sunday evening , July 7 th , to take into consideration the propriety of getting up a good district organisation ; and also to elect a delegate to attend a district delegate meeting . Chair to be taken at eight o clock . Jobs Beowx , Secretary , All correspondence for the Chartists of Newcastle-on-Tyne , ta be sent to Jolin Brown , care of Mary Brown , 8 , Harrison-property , Stepney-bank , Newcastle-npon-Tyne . Mr . James Nisbett , late of Newcastle , will much oblige the committee by sending his address to John Brown , Secretary .

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      CHALLENGE FOR £ 500 STERLING . THAT DR . GREER'S SIXPENNY PAMPHLET ON MEDICAL REFORM ( which wui be sentfree for s « Queen-head stamps ) , contaiis the most snecesM medical and surgical practice since 18 M , yet published by any living man . ' 'DeakSi ^—After many eminent deetors gave ' me over ^^ 2 % - ^ ? l ^; l ^ " ff ^ skill ^ medicnTe were used , tfll all declared it was impossible I could surme , as my msgs , they said , were as ulcerated as mv neck , fcreasti and arms , which bear many scrofulous marks ! your pills cured perfectly ; grateful to you and thankful to wkl

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      The readers ef the ' * Northern Star , ' \ and the Democratic party generally , are informed , that there is now a re-issue of the various Steel engravings lately distributed with the " Northern Star . " They consist of Kossuth , Meagheb , loras Blanc , MiiCHBt , , Ekmbst Jones , Smith O'Bbies , RfCHARD OAStLBB . JOHS FROST ,

      These Engravings have excited the admira-, fion of every one who has seen them . Theyi are faithful portraits , and are executed in tlie : most brilliant style . Price F « u ; pence < each . ( : There has also been a reprint of the under- ' mentioned portraits , which have been givenj away at different times -wMi the " Northern Star , " ? and which arestrMng likenesses , anfi ! executed in the most brilliant manner— ; -ASDHKff MABYEIi , TOlELUM'GoBBKTT , ; Abthdb O'Connor , Henry Hust , ' BiEBICK O'fllGGKJS , -1 L O'COKSQB , Bbokiebre O'Brien , W . P . Roberts . i " 3 . R . Stephens , Theie is also a re-issne of the two large prkrfs , ¦ :

      " THE NATIONAL CQ 5 IVENT 1 ON OF 1839 . " "( THE PRESENTATION OF TITE NATIONAL PETITION , by Mb . BUNCOMBE , in 1842 . " Tofcehad of J . Patet , Holywell-street .

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      NATIONAL LAND COMPANYDISSOLVING . Notice is hereby given , that application is intended to be made to Parliament forthwith , for an Act to dissolve the National Land Company , and to wind up the undertaking , and to makeKsale of the Lands and property belonging < to "the said Company , and after the payment'Of all debts ,, liabilities , and-expenses ,

      respecting the same ,. to divide the . surplus monies , to be realized by such Bale or sales , between and amongst the shareholders and subscribers entitled thereto , rateably , according to their several interests in the said undertaking . Ana notice is hereby also given , that it is intended to vary or extinguish existing rights or privileges , if any , which may impede or interfere with the purposes of the said Act Dated this 1 st day of July , 1850 . " Wm Peowting Roberts , Solicitor , Robert-street , Adelphi . Walmisley & Son , Parliamentary Agents , 23 , Parliament-street .

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      Db . MTodall ' s address is 292 . Buckley-terrace , Rochdaleroad , Manchester .. Dr . M'Douall requests us to state that the balancepaid to him by the Liverpool Committee amounted t » £ 2 3 s . id . He adds : I am consequently unable to be : > in ray profession unless I can borrow £ 100 ; but where that is to come from I have yet to discover . The Licet Fosd . —The following subscriptions have been received : —Sir J . Walmsley , Esq ., M . P ., £ 1 Is ; Tindal Atkinson , Esq ., Ss jS . Ward , Esq ., 5 s ; Mrs . Cobden . lOs ; C . Lushinston . Esq ., M . P ., £ 1 ; J . Hume , Esq ., M . P ., 5 s ; R . Gardner , Esq .. 10 s ; Sir B . Hal ! . Esq ., M . P ., lps ; C . Pearson . Esq . . M . P ., 10 s J . Hall , Esr .. £ 1 ; W . D . S .. 2 s 6 d ; T . Prout , Esq ., 10 g ; W . James . Is ! Mr . Henderson , 6 d ; Messrs . Lewis , Is ; Frienls , per Argue , 9 d ; Mr . Fleming . 6 d ; A 1 ' anchester Bed , 6 d ; H . Wilks , Secretary .

      Dear Sir . —Will you be so kind as to correct a mistake in last Saturday ' s Star concerning tlie Lacey Fund ; it should read as follows : —John Sewell , Esq ., treasurer , No . 2 , Eockingham-ronr , Kent-road , Surrey : AH monies and Post-office orders to be made payable to him at the branch Post-office . High-street , Borough , and all communications to the secretary , Henry Wilks , No . 24 , Rochester-street , Westminster , London . tours , &c . Heuby Wuks . 24 , Bochester-street , July 3 rd . NornsGHAM . —J . Sjveet acknowledges the receipt of the following sums ( sent herewith ) viz .: —Fob the Honesty Four .-Mr . Dalton , 3 d ; Mrs . Perkins , Id ; Mr . Smith , 3 d . The M'DotfAU Committee desire to express their grateful

      thanks to the members' of the Manchester Chartist Council Victim Committee , arid the democrats generally of Manchester , for the generous and timely support rendered to the interests of Dr . M'Douall . Jouan IlABNEr . has received for , and paid over to John Shaw , 2 s , from Wm . Coltmnn , Leicester . Poiish Bztdoees . —By referring to the address , which appears in another column , Mr . Coltman will see to whom aoney should be sent for the Polish Refugees . Mr . Wd , d , Oldham . —We do mot answer legal questions . Consult Mr . Roberts , 2 , Rohert-street , Adclph i , Strand . Ik answer to numerous correspondents , we cannot answer legal questions . -

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      THE NORTHERN STAB SATI 7 KOAY , 3 UISZ 6 , 1 S 5 O .

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      SIR ROBERT PEEL . The most eminent Statesman of the age has been suddenly snatched away from us in the full maturity of his physical and intellectual powers . A few hours after closing a speech in the midst of loud and long continued cheering , in the House of Commons , he was stretched , bruised , bleeding , and almost unconscious , on the bed of death . On Friday night wsekhe was in his place in the Senate House , where , for forty-one years , he has held a distinguished position ; on Tuesday night he had ceased to exist . During the whole of that long period Sir Robert Peel was , with short intermissions , entrusted in one capacity or another with the Government of the country , and he " died in harness . " Other Statesmen have

      been permitted to retire ; and in the . leisure and calm enjoyment of private life to prepare for the grave , but he was stricken down in the midst of his labours . He may have cherished the hope that time would yet set him right with the great party from whom he was severed a few years ago , and again restore him to the proud position of Premier of England . But his " sun has gone down while it was yet day . " All is over . His name and his deeds now belong to history .

      Never was there a public man whose loss was so sincerely and deeply regretted by men of all classes , and all parties / We believe that the great mas 3 of the people , whoso political predilections are of a moderate description , and who do not take any active part in political struggles , looked upon the deceased Statesman as the right hand of the country . In the case of any emergency , or any great crisis , the eyes of all parties would have instantly turned to Sir Robert Peel as the man to eolve the

      difficulty , and to carry the vessel of the State safely through whatever dangers might threaten it . Hisjkrag experience of official life had given him a thorough knowledge of administration in . all its aspects , while his political career had proved that he was pre-eminently capable of marching with the age , and that he knew how to solve that most difficult problem in Statesmanship—how to reconcile Conserve tism with progress . Sir Robert was not an

      originator , but no . man understood better how to apply new principles to action , how to introduce new elements into the body politic , with the least possible displacement of existing interests , or how , atthe very climax of a crisis , to turn aside the threatened explosion . It was the general conviction of the existence of this ¦ peculiar faculty in his character which caused him to be generally regarded as . the sheet anchor of the State .

      Unlike many of our public men , who begin their career as Reformers ,- and end by being Tories , Sir Robert ' s public life was one of progress in education , in liberal ideas , and of corresponding liberality in his measures . He was brought up amidst the most rampant high Church and Tory influences , and for many years faithfully and zealously maintained the blind , bigotted , exclusive , and intolerant doctrines and policy of a party , which looked down on the masses as born to be their slaves

      and thralls . - In that capacity , and , no doubt , most conscientiously , he resisted every proposal of a liberal character or tendency , whether it affected our criminal jurisprudence , oar civil and religious , or our commercial system ; and yet strangely enough in the issue , he has inseparably linked his name . with . all the greatest reforms in these matters that have distinguished the present century . . . m Peee we are indebted for the amelic ration and humanizing of our criminal code . He introduced and carried through the measure which placed Roman Catholics on a social

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      of iwhiohi in early life , sndetai name famous . Heiifli ' a bundle ' pf crotchetsi < snd contradictions , in which it is in vain to look for any bonnecting link or consistent idea ; and it will puzzle many , to reconcile the former part of his speech ' , in which he advocated a united franchise for the Itffiiv with ' the closing portion of it , in which , with his usual copious command of forcible words , he advocated the extension of . the franchise to the hard working , hard faring , hard headed artizans . of this couutry . Most trul y ; did Lord Brougham ... declare that they were by far the more honest ?

      and independent than the ¦ capitalocracy , " the shopkeepers , and ten pound voters , who monopolize political privileges under the present system ; and most cordially do wo echo his wish , that he may live to see that . valuable , honest , and independent section of his fellow countrymen now enfranchised . By the way , as he must always be doing something or other—mischief when he can find nothing else —why does his Lordship not introduce a bill for the political emancipation . of the class he lauds so highly ? We should like very much for him to test the real value of the cheers which

      greeted his glowing eulogy of the artizans of this country ... > . Meantime , the . Lords have only to pursue the same course with respect to ono or two ether of the measures which have been , or may be sent up to them , and the present Session will be , to all intents and purposes , effectually nullified . AH the wearisome work which has been gone through from tho 1 st of February till the 1 st of July , will have been thrown away , leaving a net . product of nothing . The two houses are in collision , which of the two will yield ?

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      MADMAN OR' RUFFIAN , —WHICH ? In our fifth page will be found an account of an examination at Guildhall , of " a young man , very respectably dressed , who refused to give his nanie , " , who has been masquerading in , and . libelling the character of " a determined . Chartist . " It will be . seen ' that the said " youngman" has been giving publicity to certain revolting schemes directed against the aristocracy . Small love as we have for that class , we cannot too Btrongly repudiate the devilish devices set forth by this fool

      or knave . Until the re-qxamination has taken place , it would be premature to comment on this , subject , other than to demand that , if the " respectably-dressed young gentleman" is proved to be insane , he shall be handed over to : the proper authorities ; or otherwise , if proved to be a villain—a second Powell—he shall be adjudged to suffer the punishment of the cat-o ' -nine-tail ; the fitting reward of any one who , being in possession of his senses , could even imagine atrocities worthy of Austria's assassin-tools , but utterly opposed to the sentiments of Englishmen of all classes , and every variety of political opinion .

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      . On the port of the Queen , the Government , and the- Legislature ,, Lord John Russell ottered . the friends of Sir Robert Peel—if they were agreeable—the 'honours of a public tuneral , and in doing so passed a warm eulogy on his great predecessor in office , and- for mauy years his political rival , a eulogy which - war ' warmly responded tp by the House . In the' Houses of Lords a similar demonstration of respect was made by the Marquis of LansdoWxNE , on the part of the Government , and responded to bv Lord Stanley for the . Protectionists , and S Duke of Wellington , for the . Moderate Party , in the Peers . Mr . .. Goulbourn dSS

      uenpnoorof a pubic funeral in consent of Sir Robert Peel having , like thX Queen DowAaEn , distinctly directed fu S will that his funeral was Vie without ™ ostentatton ^ hatever , ; and that ; hisTem £ » to ^ pt ^ - ^ . the . Ohiiidi , » t . iDS Bassett in the same vault wlW hh ft& 5 and moherwere-buried ; The honour , of fe Legislature having suspended its sitting for aday was nevex . before paid to a sfif ^

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      w testify to posterity the estimation in which he was held by his contemporaries .

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      MONIES RECEIVED . For th « Week Ending Thursday , . JvlxItb , 1850 .

      THE HONESTY FUND . Received by W . Rider . —W . RW , Bridgeford-gate , Is 3 d —Preston , per J . Brown , 2 s—II . H ., New Swihdon , per W Bennett , 2 s Cd-W . Simpson , Now Swindon , 6 d-D . Jforison , New Swindon , 6 d-A Friend , Now Swindon , U-Not . tingham , per J . Sweet 7 d . £ 8 . d . Received by ¥ . Rider .. .. 0 8 4 .. AGITATION FOR THE CHARTER . Received by John Arnott . —Sutton-in-Ashfield , per T 7 Felkin , 15 s—Exeter , per R . 'Snow , 10 s—Washington lol cality , per Mr . . Marsden , 4 s 4 d-Collectcd at John-street U 8 sOJd—Cards at John-street , 4 s 8 d—Marjlebone , porj ' Goodwin .. Ss-Keighley , per Benjamin Morrel ! , U _ Bermontlsey locality , per John Pearcy , 10 s—Mr . Antill . for cards , Cs—Leicester , per E . Thompson , 10 s—Huddersfield per James Ewsall , lOs-Mr . Rider , as per Star , June -23 th , " uS . —lotal , Cf 6 s OJd .

      TRACT FUND . Received by Jons Abnoit . —A few Friends , Poplar , per Mr . llatth ; ae , 3 s 6 d-Mr . Simmoni , Poplar , per Mr . Matthias , ls-Mr . Stariing , Marjlebone , 6 dl-C 0 Uectea at the Marylebone locait y , 7 d-Charles Jones , - Islington , ls-A fred Jones , Islington , ls-Yarraouth , per John . Rojall , os . . FOR DR . M'DOUALL . Received by W . Rideb . —Mr . WhifF , Uxbridge , ls-T Redrupp , Uxbridge , 6 d—W . Barber , Uxbridge , Gd-J , Rogers , Uxbridge , ( id-W . Rigg , Bridgeford-gate , Is 3 d-Preston , w . Parkinson , perJ . Brown , Is—Abergavenny , per D . Ilarris , 4 s—P . Cameron , Paisley , 33 2 d—J . Redrupp , ( id . " FOR MR . E . JONES . ; Received by John Abnott . —A Paisley Friend , per Mr . Reynolds , 5 s . FOR MRS . JONES . Received by W . Rider . —P . Cameron , Paisley , 3 s 2 d .

      FOR MRS . FUSSELL . Received by W . Ridek . —C . Cam 3 ron , Paisley , 3 s 2 d Received by John Abnott . —Mr . Jordan , per Mr . Turner ,. Cd-a Pianoforte Maker , per Mr . Turner , 6 'd . FOR WIDOWS OF THE LATE MESSRS . WILLIAMS AND SHARP . Received by W . Rider . —Preston , W . Parkinson , per J . Broun , ls-J . Waddell , Paisley , 5 s . DEBT DUE TO MR . NIXON . Received by Jons Abnott . —A Friend , John-street , per Mr . Shute . Gd . *

      WIVES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS . Received by W . Rideb Preston , per J . Brown , 2 s—J ^ Ronald , Paisley , Is—R . Irvine , Paisley , 6 d—A , Davie ? . Paisley , Is .

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      TO THE PUBLIC . An appeal is respectfully but earnestly made to the British public on behalf of a large number of Polish refugees who are at present in London in a state of extreme suffering and distress . ¦ Most of those brave men . have been engaged in the Hungarian struggle for national independence , and having escaped the vigilance and'tyranny of the Northern despots , and suffered fearful privations , have succeeded in reaching the hospitable shores of England , expecting to find that sympathy and support which their patriotic and gallant conduct so preeminently entitle them to .

      A Committee has been formed for the purpose of receiving contributions ; and , in appealing to their fellow-countrymen for thi& truly , benevolent purpose , they anticipate such a noble response that will at once prove to these gallant men , that although driven from their native land by the miscreants of the north ( and they deserve no milder term ) the British people appreciate their noble conduct , and honour them for the principles of liberty which- they have so firmly and gallantly defended .

      Subscriptions will be received by Mr . Harncy , 4 , Brunswick-row , Queen-square , Bloomsbury ; John Arnott , 14 , Southamptonstreet , Strand ; Mr . Davis , 1 , Buttress-street , Waterloo-town . Contributions from the country may b& forwarded , by post-office order , or made payable . to the Treasurer , at the post-office , 180 ,. Strand , in postage-stamps . G-. W . M . Reynolds Treasurer , William Davis , Secretary .

      Momes Received . —Stirling , per Mills , 2 s . 6 d . ; Member of National Reform League , Gd . ; Thomas Welsh , 4 d . ; Wm . Morsing , Is . ; Mr . Beer , 4 s . old . ; Crown ¦ and ienber , 3 s . lid . ; Hall of Science , City Dad , os . ; Two Red Republicans , Whittington and Cat , 2 s . ; Mr . Maskell , Is . ; Mr . Morrison . Gd . ; Mr . Denny , Gd . ; Mr . Masters , Gd . —Total , £ 1 la . 5 d . — "Wj lham Davis , Secretary . ¦

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      LATEST FOREIGN NEWS . Paris , Wednesday . —The quarrels between the different sections of the reactionary party , are every day increasing in intensity , and Orleanists , Legitimatist , and Buonapartists , attack each other in the moat unmeasured terms . The Legitimatists . have discovered that they have been completely bamboosled in the matter of tho Electoral Law , and the Opinion Publique publishes a letter from a leading Legitimatist in ono of

      the departments , stating that thg effect of the new law will he to prevent the return * of a single Legitimatist for that department , either to the Assembly or to any of the municipal council . On Sunday , 180 persons met to dine in tha rooms of tho restaurateur Deffioux , Boulevard du Temple , at a banquet given in honour of the election of M . Giradin . All the hands

      engaged on every department of tho Press newspaper , editors , compositors , printers , clerks , employes , porters , and female folders of the journal were present . M . Victor Hu <* o , who undertook so nobly , the defence of the Presse in the Assembly on its arbitrary suspension in July 1848 , occupied among the guests the distinguished rank merited by this service One of tho workmen proposed , in energetio language , the health of Girardin , the bold publicist , and Victor Hugo , the poet of the Tnbune M Girardin said , in returning thanks , that the Presse had been founded thai day fourteen years , and unfolded the first copy printed on June 30 th , 1836 . He proceeded to read long quotations from Victor Hujjo and Lamarhne , which had appeared in that ongmal sheet . After a speech by Victor Hugo , anc a son g called "The Hymu of the Workmen" . by one of the printers , the banquet broke up . .

      The proposed Press Law will extinguish the greater number of the Legitimatist fourKalstherefore they have now jdned the ReS cans m their opposition to it , and the Bill will probably be thrown out . ' The Emperor of RuSSia has signified to the President of the Republic that the pr seL of M . do Persigny at St . Petersburgh will U anvhmg but agreeable ; the mission of m t on leman to the Russian Court falls thieC to the ground This is £ ? l .. v iuuu mis is

      . a sovrv «*„ - . ^ , U , . a sorry return for thn eagerness . vifih which General de LamtteJed the intngues of the Princess Lieven in the Greek aftair . Let us hope it will operate as a yarning to thoso . members of the EngS aris ^ W *? - Cently manifested £ re markable alacrity in doing the dirty work of

      GERMANY . A letter from Vienna of the 1 st savs « jo 3 F £ ft-&ris 3 Eked lw S a V ° PerSOns wh 0 ™ ^ toutJ ^ o-f f ° immediately . In the of lLI ^ als 0 ) aswellas in 4 « e suburbs ot Laungrabe , several cases have occurred . _ SPAIN . that tb ? ^ MadrM of the 28 th * i s ^ te con in lVh 0 le of the officera of ' ** dn-mn 3 T + ° Pass tho nighfc in tho b ™* a ) Vith . tlie troops , and will do so until Her Majesty s accouchment . The troops are ready to act at a moment ' s notice .

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      MoN'iiT-ORDKRs . -GBNEnAL Po st-Officr , Jdne -Newton Butler , county Fermanagh , hiviw been wnBUtuted a poat town , the oifice there will V , e SgSSS « s money orders . e and P ayment o £ —a « J | -

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      PARLIAMENTAltY BE 7 IEW . The great debate on Foreign Policy appears to have unfitted members for the despatch of the ordinary business , of the Legislature . The elevation has been too great to enable them to readily descend into the common and prosaic atmosphere of routine , in which they are accustomed to move . ' The sudden and lamentable death of the most eminent and distinguished ornament of the House of Commons , still farther indisposed its members for doing business , On Wednesday—by way of testifying the profound grief felt for the bereavement

      they had sustained , aiid . , to mark the high estimation in which his public character was held-4 hey separated , immediately after assembling , having just giyen utterance to the emotions excited by the painful event , which was uppermost in the minds of all . On Monday night the debates were of that miscellaneous and scattered description which characterises a Supply night . It is only needful to chronicle the result . ; The money was voted . On Tuesday the business in the Commons was of a purely routine kind , and the Hous e broke up early .

      Iu the House of Lords , Earl Harkowby , on the part of the Church , made an attack on the disposal of the Government grants in aid of Education . The clerical cormorants are not satisfied with the immense revenues they already enjoy , they ; hunger and thirst after thefewthousandsspcritin educating the people , and they want to have the disposal of those thousands , without being accountable to , or interfered with by the Government . We are happy to say this barefaced- attempt at plunder was defeated . On Thursday both Houses were occupied with a fruitless attempt to prevent the Monster Exhibition of 1851 from spoiling Hyde-Park .. Tho longer this scheme is before the public the less attractive does it

      become . Wo were among the first to expose its true character , and to denounce it as a piece of Charlatanism and mock liberality unworthy of this country . At that time we stood alone , but wo have now plenty of co-labourers ; and the money comes so slowly in ; that we suspect the " show will ultimatel y neither be of the vast dimensions , or the satisfactory character which its originators intended it should . We must say , however , that tho opposition to locating the Exhibition in Hyde-Park is too barefaced a developemont of class-selfishues , and exclusiveness , for us to sympathise very heartily with . If London really is to have this gigantic Bartholomew Fair , let the rich experience its inconveniences as well as the poor .

      Lord John Russell , on Thursday , made the usual . announcement , which heralds the approach of the ; close . of tho Session . " The slaughter of the innocents " as it is called , has this year been a merciless one . Having lost ten days by the debate on Foreign Policy , and other matters not immediately connected with Bills in progress , the Premier has availed himself of the circumstance for throwing overboard nearl y every Government , measure' of in > portanco on the paper . Among those so treated , wo find the Bill for the Abolition of

      tho Lord Lieutenancy , . the Securities Advances ( Ireland ) Bill , which was intended to facilitate . the working of the Encumbered Estates Commission ; the Merchant Soamens ' Bill , for the better regulation of our mercantile marine , and the protection of seamen ; the Bill for tho much needed reform of the Woods and Forests has also been cast into that limbo which is the usual receptaclo of Whig " good intentions . " With all theso , and other deductions , we shall certainl y , at the close of the Session , have a beggarly account ot deeds to reckon up , as the result of so much talk and work .

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      MINISTERIAL FOREIGN POLICY . Lord Palmerston ' s splendid defence of his Foreign Policy saved himself and the Ministry from defeat ; . Notwithstanding the desertion of Messrs . Htjme , Cobden , Bright , Villiers , Sir W . MoLESwoRTn , and other Liberal Members , aud the union of the Peelite party with the Opposition , Ministers succeeded in getting a majority of . forty-six , at four o ' clock on Saturday morning , in a house of , 574 members . . Such a majority is .. scarcely' equivalent to that by which the Government was > beaten

      in the House ot Lords ; but something must be allowed for the larger question at issue in the Commons , and upon which greater 1 difference of opinion might have been fairly expected . The motion of Lord Stanley narrowed the subject to the affairs of Greece , while that of Mr : Roebuck opened up the whole of Lord Palmerston ' s Foreign Policy since ho held office . ; . We do notsee why so . wide a question should have : been selected , ' when the immediate object was to test the sense of the ! Commons ' on the particular point respecting which the o ' ther House of Parliament had come to an

      adverse decision . : Many Members might have approved of Lord ' Palmerston ' s conduct towards Greece , who might conscientiously object to other portions of his policy ; and to such an extent was this feeling prevalent a short time previous to the division , that it was not expected the majority would be niore than fifteen or twenty at the utmost . Such . 'i sniall number would have . been equivalent to a deleat and a resignation of the Ministry . We believe / however , that tho larger number ' was gained entire ' y by the speech of the Foreign Minister . It produced an immense effect upon the public

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      —¦——————i—wttm—»¦" . — » ——and political equality witjh ^ keir Protestant fellow citizens , and by . ' him , the principle ' of freedonfof commerce wa s'rmvle the governing principle of the policy o' / 'thfe country . It was impossible that . any m \ an >< 5 ould thus act in opposition to his early y ieyfssBind opinions without incurring odium ? indi . repr ° fr ° ™ tbiosb with wliom he had fibnaafly acted . Incapable , of reasoning themsc jlyesj < er of appreciating tbe kSuenoe of expanding , knowledge upon such a mind , they tifctributed his conduct to tfee lowest motive u , and stigmatised him as a traitor-and a reuegade . But the whole of this pubHc caretr proses , undoubtedly , that ¦ he must have been -animated by the highest

      = and ! hofiest convicfcoiwof duty , and that the goodoFthe country ( was at all times his paramount « consideration . He had everything to Iloseandnothing to ' gain by change , in the ordinary calculation of the politician . In brderio carry two © f his great reforms , he had : to separate himself from those . witK whom helhad lived a lifetime of intimate friendship ; he had to sever his « onuexion with two great and . powerful parties of whom he was the acr knov&edged leader and head , and the last of which he may be said io have created and organised , himself . - , From -the time -the Reform Bill became law , Sir Robert . set himself to form what was called- the

      Conservative Party .: His celebrated . advice" Eegister , Register , Register , '' laid the foundation of , and ultimately gave the supremacy to that party . By separating . himself from it he- knew that ho gave ; up the high position ¦¦ of Prime Minister and virtual Ruler of this mighty empire . ; They must have been strong convictions indeed " of public duty which induced him to make such sacrifices as these .- We have plenty of instances of public men sacrificing , their principles -to obtain power , place , and dignity ; few , indeed , of their sacrificing all these when gained , in order to act upon an honest conviction of what was best for the public good . . . . r ,

      Such a man cannot pass away from the arena in which he filled so largo a place without causing a marked and important change in the position of parties , and in the course of public events . , Ever since the passing of the last measure of the Peel Cabinet , and its consequeut resignation , parties in this country have been , as it were , checkmated ., Sir Robert , and those who adhered ' to him , ' held the balance of power in their ; hands , / and they used it to maintain the status quo . They were

      not prepared to let their ancient allies into power to interfere with the commercial policy they had inaugurated ; nor were they prepared to support tho Whigs , even , if the latter had been disposed to propose any very liberal measures . That this , unsatisfactory state of things must , in some way or other , have been altered , there can be no doubt . The nation would not much longer have tolerated the policy of stahd-stillism and do-nothingism , which has characterised the Administration of

      the Whigs for the last four years . Sir Robert Peel's death has precipitated a change . Those of his party who were prevented by personal attachment to him from joining the party with whom they , are really in affinity , will now go over to the Conservative camp . Those ' of them who . have decided tendencies to such very- moderate Liberalism in politics as' is embodied in Whiggism , may be ' expected to make- common cause with the Ministerial

      party , and take their share of the loaves and fishes , as the price of their adhesion . . The Pe ' elito party died with its head . ; We are , therefore , getting back to a more natural state of things . Parties , will be . fairly ., pitted against each other . The unhealthy stagnation which has marked English politics for several years back , will now give way to vigorous action . In the struggle which may ensue , it is possible that reaction of a decided character may take place . The Tory ; party are powerful , and may secure a majority . sufficient to carry them into office . But that would in the

      end , we believe , ultimately advance the cause of popular liberty . The nation would be roused to active and earnest agitation , and would find earnest and active men to give utterance to its convictions—to demand the reforms which are felt to be necessary , and which cannot be much longer withheld . Lukewarm friends , and sham Reformers , will be driven aside to make way for honest and sincere men . The reign of humbugs cannot be very long protracted . The Whigs ,, now that they can no longer depend on the aid of their best and most powerful supporters , will be compelled to move in one direction or another . They have , opposite to them , a party which out-numbers their own . They

      have , on their own side of the House , eighty members , who , though giving them a general support , aro yet pledged to a much more liberal policy . If that party now does its duty to the country it will compel Lord John to repay its past support , by conceding at least the moderate amount of representative reform , advocated by Sir Joshua . Walmsley and his friends . Parliamentary Reform is the first great question that demands settlement .: The masses , who are now deprived of all share in the government of the couutry , must have that fair and legitimate participation in legislative influence to which their numbers , their intelligence , and 'their value to the country , so justly entitles them .

      While , therefore , we share iri the profound and universal'sorrow which is felt throughout the country at the sad event which has so suddenly deprived us of a great man—while we are anxious to dp all honour to his memory ^ and to pass over without comment the shortcomings of his long and eventful career—while we are fully sensible of the great , gap which for the . time is caused by his withdrawal from public life , and the loss of his matured and comprehensive judgment at moments of difficulty and doubt—we see reason to believe that his death will eventuate in benefit to the

      country , by restoring a more healthy tone to English politics , by " putting an end ' tortlie transition period through which ; we have beep passing , and by placing' pai tie ' s in their tmo relative position . Stagnation miist give way to Progress . ; '

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      RAMPANT TORYISM . The Lords have revenged themselves on the Commons for their adverse vote of Saturday last by virtually . throwing out the Irish , Franchise Bill on Monday night ; By that measure the County and Borough Franchiso rs placed . upon an £ 8 rating , and it was calculated that it would give to a nation , possessing a population between seven and eight millions in number , a constituency of about one third of a million ; such a homoapathic dose of

      Parliamentary Reform did not seem to call for any profound gratitude or extreme thankfulness on the part of the people , and it might have been fairly expected that the Press would let it pass , especially as ; tho total constituency of Ireland has now dwindled down , 'into ... some six-aud-thirty thousand voters !—less by twenty thousand than ; the number on the register for the West Riding of Yorkshire ! A more flagrant mockery of an electoral body never was heard of ; but , true to their instinctive impulse to check every , movement of a popular nature , the House of

      Obstructives decided , in a very lordly way , that the Irish people—whom Lord Stanley calls " rubbish "—shall not be entrusted , even to a limited extent of the Whig Bill , with the power of self-government . The Earl of Desart—a very solemn young man , with a very considerable opinion of his own abilities , and a corresponding contempt for tlie rights or interests of other people—proposed that the franchise should be , raised to £ lb , or nearly double that agreed to by the Commons , and condescendingly informed the Irish people that / je . had considerable doubts whether ' that

      would not give them too many votes . It cut down at once the three , hundred and eighty thousand who were estimated , under the £ 8 franchise , to one hundred and ' eighty thousand ; and thus sweeping away the chance of the enfranchisement of two hundred thousand Irishmen . But that was hardly enough for this amiable lordling . It was with reluctance he persuaded himself to give votes to so many of tho " rubbish . " He was strongly backed by his brother Obstructives ; and Lord Lansdowne , seeing a defeat before him , offered to give up the £ 8 franchise , if the Opposition

      would give him £ 12 as a compromise . The overture was -refused , and a majority of twenty-two against the Government conclusively put an end to the Irish Franchise Bill for . this Session , at least , because m * c can scarcely suppose that the Government will be craven enough to agree to a qualification which is nearly double that they fixed upon , and which reduces the constituency they proposed to enfranchise , more than one-half . . We prestme that the Lords were stimulated to take , the course they . have done , not onl the desire to

      y by retaliate on the Commons for their vote on Foreign Affairs , but also by the prospect of a general election at no distant date , and the certainty under the present constituency , of getting a majority of Irish Mombers to support , a Protectionist policy and Cabinet . Their lordships , however , have but deterred the political enfranchisement of tho Irish people ; they cannot prevent it , even with the aid of that most inconsistent and uncomprehensibteold turn coat , Lord Brougham who , at the close of his life , seems to take a pride in opposing every princi ple , the advooacy

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      iriindj and deputations were sent froih aerer-al constituencies , to remonstrate with Members who' were understood to contemplate ¦ yoking against him ; , ^ Among those who had the acrew put upon them - ^ as Mr . ; Bbight , ssmd , ; -we believ ' e , fMr ; Cobden had : als 6 to witfetand solicitations from his ' constituents ,. 'Atjail events ,, in his speech he several times ' complained , with considerable bitterness , Vof the cabals that were got up out of doors , to prevent Members from giving . their votes acceding :.. to thedictates of their own ; consciences , ;•' , ; ¦¦¦

      . In treating ' this subject last weelc , we com- , plained of Lord Palmerston ' s policyv because it didnot go far enough ; his speech , however , leads to the inference that the blame' of tgs defect does not rest upon'his shoulders . .. He has to struggle against a despotic and reactionary party within the Cabinet itself yind hence his hands have beentied , and his efforts paralyzedj at the moment , when vigour and determination were most urgently needed . If

      weiwaht England t o be efficiently represented in . internatiorial atfairs , this clique > f sympathisers with Russia , Austria , and Naples , must be ousted , from power . ¦ In future , those who struggle for constitutional governments throughout the world , should know not only that the sympathies of . England are with themj but that if need be , her power and her influence are at'their disposal , and will be exerted in their behalf . '• ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '

      The debate was calculated to raise the intellectual character of the House of Commons in the estimation of the world . With fe > v exceptions , the . speeches on both sides were masterly displays of Parliamentary eloquence . The theme was a great one , andthe speakers rose to its level ., Mr . Cockburn v the member for Southampton ,- produced , an impression almost unparalleled in the House of Commons , by the brilliant , fervent , and impassioned cha- ; racter of his ' speech . We never heard such hearty and ringing cheers in that house before as-those which for some minutes followed his

      powerful peroration , and the rush from all quarters of the house to ' shake hands with him was quite marvellous . The occupants of the * Treasury bench were amongst the foremost to present their congratulations , and of course learned gentleman will not be forgotten when Solicitor-Generalships , or other good things are next to be disposed of . . ' . ' . ; ; One good effect of the debate has been to draw public attention more , to foreign policy

      than has been the case heretofore in this country . - ! Our insular position tends , to 6 ome extent , to isolate us from other nations , and to render us indifferent to what is passing among them . In tho midst of this apathy and want of information , it has been easy for the Foreign- Minister of this country to play into the hands of foreign despots , and to prostitute the great power arid influenco of Great Britain to subserve the most infamous

      policy aud designs . It . has also tended to our being frequently hurried into wars with other nations for objects totally alien to the public feeling , but the cost of which wo have had to pay . If the attack upon the policy of Lord Palmerston , ' by the Tories , has helped to dispel this indifference , and to arouse the people to a sense of the vast importance of keeping that department of the Government under efficient and vigilant control in future , it will have produced a national

      benefit . One thing is quite certain , that tho speeches delivered on the question proved that our present Legislators are better , acquainted with foreign affairs than their , predecessors : that they pay attention to them , and by so doing qualify themselves for pronouncing an opinion upon . subjects which , were formerl y left to the ; exclusive cqntroul of the Foreign Secretary and a smali and exceedingly select coterie , who . wore supposed to monopolise all the information and all the ' wisdom extant upon these matters . . ¦ ...

      We Hope that Lord Palmerston , encouraged by the response he has received from the country , will in future be more bold , decided , and when necessary , practical in his assistance tothose who may require his aid to maintain free institutions on the Continent . He will have the people with him in any measures he may adopt , to prove that England is not the tool of despots , but the friend and natural ally of all free peoples . Had this been done two years ago , we should not have witnessed the present prostrate and manacled state of Europe , and the glorious Kossuth , and his copatriots , would not now be wasting , life in the gloomy solitude of a remote Turkish fortress .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 6, 1850, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1581/page/4/