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      J ' / , J - j i * iftw . at Ont Bsnny . each , tplendidly nitrated , A HISTORY t ) F THE DIFFERENT BXPE DlM ° NS ENGAGED IN THE SEARCH FOR SIR . MiliKLffi REOEHT VOYAGrrm ^ LAR REG . ONS . *^* ^ sj 3 * r . m **~ OP a * JAMES BOSSJO HAW STBAITS of comman der Moore and Captain KeUott , to 01 w Bearings Straits . with an authentic copy ofthTdispatches receired from SIR KORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S . BAIf COMPANY With other important and highly interesting informa-¦ tionrelatweto tha Expedition under SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Compiled from various Official Documents , and Private Communications , Bt the Late ROBERT HUISH , Esq . How Publishing in Nos . at Ont Penny each . By the Authoress of' The Gipset Gibl . ' Each Pennt Ndhbeb of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print . THE TRIALS " OJ LOVE ; OB WOMAN'S REWARD : . Mas . H . M . LOWNDES , ( Late HANNAH MARIA JONES , ) Authoress of ' Emily Moreland , " llosaline Woodbridge , Gipsey Mother , Scottish Chieftains . 'ForgedNote , ' ' Wedding King , '' Strangers of the Glen ,, ' Victim of Fashion , '' Child of Mystery , ' etc . OFISfloifS OX THIS WORK . ' After a long silence we again welcome—moat heartily welcome—this delightful Authoress , who comes before us with one of those heart-stirring , soul-exciting Tales , that none but herself can produce . When , wo say that the Tuim op Li'Vf equals anything that this fascinating writer has yet produced , we are uttering the highest praise that can be given . ' We rise from the perusal of this delightful narrative with feelings of mingled pleasure and pain . The early part of the volume , which details the sad history of Amy Mortimer excites ihe sympathy of the reader to a painful degree . The hapless girl , friendleES and enthusiastic , forms an imprudent union , from which springs a chain of sorrows which the Authoress works into a narrative of surpassing pathos . Happily as all ultimately ends , we must confess that recret tor the fate of the unhappy Ann Mortimer is the predominant feuling iu our mind at the close of this most interesting tale . ' Welcome as the flowers in spring is a new work by IIasnah IIaeia" Jokes . —There is no living Authoress to whom the public is indebted for so large a share of innocent and moral reading as to U : n . aah Maria Joues , Finely as her plot is woven , esquisitely as her characters are delineated , this Authoress uever loses eight of the moral which it is her object t « inculcate . The steps of Amy Mortimer—surrounded as she is by temptations and diffiuKies and great as are some of the errors into which her youth , autf inexperience lead her—never once depart from the straig ht path of duty , and she makes her election to ' do that which is right , ' although her so doing causes the destruction of her own future comfort . ' ' After the deluge of trash—the out pourings of diseased and prurient imaginations—that has flooded the literature of these latter times , it is truly refreshing to meet with another of those simple , pathetic , and interesting tales , which have given a world-wide reputation to the name of Hannah Maria Jones . After a long silence she comes before us with all her early freshness unimpaired , and m her last work—The Trials of Lote—still manifest all those high qualities of head and heart which have endeared her to her readers , and have elevated her above all other writers , as one whose every production is replete with truth , gentleness , aud 6 cnsibility . ' S ^ COLLTNS , 113 , FLEET STREET , AND Atl' BOOKSDLLEBS .

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      Mr . Mask Parkinson , Hartiepooi . —Address to Mr . Geo . Greenslade , Secretary to the Central Defence Committee , BeUInn , Old Bailey , ' London , to whom all sums for the Defence must be forwarded . . ¦ , Stockpokt . —Mr . Greenslade , of the Natopal Associationot Trades , has received a money order for £ 2 , from the townofStockport , but the party sending having neglected to furnish his name and addreas , is repeated to forward the same to Mr . Greenslade . Mosicipaij Elections . —Jlr . G . Domain , of Bradford , informs us that on Saturday list the Chartists of this borough , with the assistance of the National Parliamen . ta «> y lUfovmevs , sucecedad in oawjiug six thoroughgoing Chartists i"to the Town Council , which , ho feels confident , eould not have been done but for the support rendered by that body . He expresses his surprise that any of his brother Chartists should disapprove of the policy adopted , at the same time stating that , with , out such assistance , his body could not alone have achieved so signal a triumph . If the Chartists would look back at their policy for the last ten years , and ask

      themselves the result , they would see sufficient reasun <; . for alt ring their course . He sa » s : — ' Bear in mind I do not intend to relinquish Chartist principles , and , therefore , I do not wish others to do that which I would not do myself , but , looking at those who have suffered imprisonment and banishment for the Charter , and tliati after ten years of agitation , we are still without it ( < it would be bad policy on our parts not to co-operate with the Parliamentary Reformers , who in principle are like ourselres , when there is such a prospect held out as Lord John Ruestll ' s promised Reform Bill . We should be worse than mad were we to retae it : letuB , by union , get more than is promised . Hobeet rEHDLiBURT , of Beliuont , Sharpies , near Bolton leiloors , informs us that hia wife , who has borne him nine children , four of whom are living , has eloped withaman named John Taylor , of Blackburn , who is about twentylive or twenty-six years of age—she ( tho wife ) being about forty-ii ' ve . Taylo >* has lodged with him for about three years . Our correspondent , who lias lived twentyfive years with his wife , is overwhelmed with grief at his desertion , and is resolved not to discharge any debts Bhe may contract in his name .

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      KOSSUTH ON ENGLISH FOREIGN POLICY . In gpito of dissuasious from many of bis ' respectable' friends , M . Kossuth adopted the manly , and at the same time politic course of meeting the * inhabitants of the Metropolis , ' in the open air , on Monday last . It was well known that the ' demonstration' had orig inated with , had been organised by , and would bo under the management of , tho working classes , not because those who took an active part in the matter would have refused to co-operate with the admirers of M . Kossuth among other classes , but simply for the reason that no such co-operation was

      pi-offerred . But thoug h the procession to Copenhagen-fields , on Monday last , could boast ol few names of celebrity from theranksof the 'Liberal Party ; ' though oven the Dudley Stuarts , Cobdens , Foxes , Gilpins , and Wires , sent apologies fornon-attendance—which were as true as ^ suchthiDgs usually are—we have no hesitation in say ing that it was a more powerful and genuine manifestation of public sympathy with the Hungarian cause , than any that has yet taken p lace . Tho very absence of the parties we bavo named , the lack of distinguished names , or the presence of political lions , ' only served to divest the demonstration of all extrinsic or meretricious

      attractions , and proved that Kossura and the cause of which he is tho representative and advocate , are sufficiently understood and appreciated in this country to foe able to stand alone , and to need no puffery or makeweights whatever . The inhabitants of the metropolis poured forth in tens of thousands towards the rendezvous , or joiued in the procession , without for a single moment inquiring whether it had been appointed and organised by lords or labourers ; and the enthusiasm displayed along the whole of the route from Eussellsquare , was such as to satisfy the most sanguine friends of Hungary—to fill with fear and rage the enemies of national liberty and

      independence . For that immense assemblage and spontaneous demonstration of public opinion had a meaning and an influence far beyond its immediate object , great and important as that confessedly is . It told of an advance in the political education of the people within the last twenty years , which comparatively few persons could have boon prepared for . Twenty years ago there were numerous processions in every part of the kingdom in support of the Reform Bill , and others of triumph after it was passed . Eighteen years since there was a monster demonstration of

      the Trades' Unions on the very spot where the flags and banners of the Kossuth procession floated on Monday . But , in these cases , the aims , objects , and ideas of those who took part in them were purely national and local . In tho interval , the national mind has expanded . We are now able to sec that nations are connected with , and influenced by , each other , just as individuals areintheprivaterelatione of lite , and thatitisimpossibleforanyone

      nation to enjoy perfectliberty , or secure freedom , while other nations are oppressed , tyrannised o v er , or robbed , by brute force , of their rights . There is a cruel and a bloody necessity on the part of the tyrants , to follow . up one act of tyranny , one sanguinary aggression with another . They cannot stop . To secure thoir ill-gotten dominion they must go on , because , while any liberty of speech or action remains there is no safety for them , no permanent tenure for their usurped and hated rule .

      The English people have at length learned that fact . They know that they cannot any longer stand isolated , or hold aloof from the struggles which are going on around them for free institutions . They must either take part in them , oi bo pvepaved to be embed with others , when Despotism may think the time has come to adventure upon their conquest . The principle of non-intervention , and isolation from European politics , as preached by tho Cobden School , however applicable it might have been during thelast great European

      contest , when England was really insular , has Io 6 t all relevance iu our present position . Railroads , steamships , and electric telegraphs have made us part and parcel of the Coutineut ; and if the unholy alliauce of Absolutist Monarchs are permitted to carry out their designs unopposed , the time must necessaril y arrive when wo shall find ourselves hemmed round on all sides by the forces of the allied despots ; and called upon to stand up singly in defence of our liberties against overwhelming odds .

      We arc no fanciful dreamers about what is called the Balance of Tower , but very little consideration is necessary , to show that the aggregation and concentration of power in the hands of a single despotic and military Govemmeut must be dangerous to tho liberties of mankind . We need not say to what an alarming extent thi s has taken place withiu the last year or two . -Russia is , in fact , master of both the other two Great Northern

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      minister to the momentary wanf ^ poor and the unprincipled portion Ofti ? ^ tors . By these means , he eeta tv , h 8 el ec . debt and in his power , and when TV" S arrives is enabled to command i £ * % In many boroughs a very few voters f T ° « . cient to cast the scale on either sid Su ^ - man who can dispose of them is ^ l ^ f % < master of the situation . ' He can \ l \ - ^ to whoever makes it ' worth his vffi * ^ bye and b y , he , in fact , becomes the i-ii / H Parliamentary fate within its limit , » of the voters themselves , they have i . As fo do with the selection of the meni h to have with the appointment of th ^ S Lama . -Once tho bargain is struck jJ " " the jobber and the candidate andI « eeQ site funds are supplied , there ' is an Zl ^ f matter . eaQ ° ' the S _ a . i . . 1 . . . " —^ 7 *^ k »

      It is , however , truly saddeuinjy and « , . Hating , to read of the manner in S- i UIni * infamous traffic is carried on . Itjs tbig debasing to the poor miserable wretcW ! y accept these filthy and paltry briW , ? who all those who are iu an / lS " ' J" ? * bribing them , from the US o l , supplies the money down to thP ,,, agent who distributes it . The » , MM " like a curse upon them all . All ..-fl ? ¦ ! \ ] with the same spirit of falsehoodI trU equivocation , aud rascality . ' cm )' > The way into the House of Coaim ™ shockingly filthy and we don ^ X ¦ 2 hon members' becoming despicable tools , those above them m the same manner us tli have made others . The whole of the practi ( 2 connected with the system of whoksalp bribery are calculated to demov&liiie the m ' m < i g and to destroy the self-respect of every onl engaged in them .

      Mr . Edwards , the real holder of the votes-. we won ' t say consciences—of the majority of the St . Alban's constituency , coolly pointed out on the register , tho names of two or tines hundred to whom he had paid bribes , rarviuo from five to fifteen pounds . Every niai / imS his price , and every one was determined ta have it . * BespectoW shopkeepers md tradesmen were aa regularl y bought as ' tun poorest workmen . St Alban's is merely tlle sample of the sack . Mv . Cor rocK th ? 'Liberal agent ' -theri ght . haudmau of tho Re form Clubto

      (!) - whom every aspirant for Parliamentary honours is referred , M t | 10 onl y man who can put him iu the way b a seat , openly told the Commission that to his own knowledge , the same system prevailed throughout the whole of the borou « hs in tlm Kingdom ! We presume , of course , " that he meant to exclude the larger constituencies such as the Tower Hamlets , Fi nsburv Marylebone , Lambeth , Manchester , &e ., mid to speak of the generality of boroughs which have comparatively small constituencies aud are thus accessible to monoy-bribery .

      The utter and complete corruption of our present electoral system having been thus authoritatively blazoned to the world , the question is , what is to be done 1 It w \\\ do simply to disfranchise St . Alban ' s , as bai alread y been done in the case of Sudlmtv * Neither will it promote tho object in view to shovel into the new schedule A . a . few of the small rotten boroughs , created by Whig tendencies for its own interests , by the Refoira

      Act of 1831 . The time lias come vlien tiiis depraved and demoralising system must be cut up root and branch , and the elective franchise be fairly and equitably apportioiiel among the whole population , by dividing them into such sections as shall not interfere with the efficient exercise of the ri g ht , while large enough to prevent auy candidate tampering with them by money-bribes . Iu reply to any specious excuses for not adopting this radical and rational

      re-distribution of the franchise , there is one short em . phatic and unanswerable reply : It cannot possibl y produce so many evils as the existing system , which you , the factions in power , have I supported for the last twenty years . Your pretences that you desire to maintain ilie order well ; being and morality of society , and , therefore , to maintain the preseut

      representative system as a means of doing bo , are now known to bo us uufounded as they sro impudent . The moralit y aud the good ' faith of society are sapped at the very foundation I by the system you have created . Its destruc . tiou is absolutely necessary to the production of a healthy moral tone among all classes of the community .

      If the British Parliament be really in earnest iu its professions to put a stop to ibo shameful aud disgraceful practices , vov openly confessed at St . Alban ' s , and pen etrated among the borough constituencies generally , they will not hesitate to give , in conjunction with a large extension of ilio Suffrage , Equal Electoral Districts , and the Ballot . That will lay the axe to the mi of corruption , and we shall neither haw Bribe nor Bribor ,

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      WHOLESALE BOROUGH BRIBERY . Uponno single subject has the Legislature exhibited greater apparent industry than Bribery at Elections A succession of Acts of Parliament have been levelled at the practice , and . no small amount of the time of members 5 s , every session , taken up by Committees upon petitions comphiiniug of returns procured by bribery and corruption . Some simple people

      were deceived by all this fuss and bustle and surface activity , into the belief that Ministers and Members of Parliament really meant to discourage and put down bribery ; and they cried ' Shame , ' when others , more clearsighted than themselves , denounced the whole machinery as a sham , and as being in fact a mere contrivance to gull those outside by the appearance of respect for purity of election , while in fact it gavo the most perfect immunity to corrupt practices .

      The proceedings before the St . Alban ' a Commission has set the question . at rest for ever . The moBt obstinate sceptic must now be convinced . Election Committees will henceforth be synonymous with humbug , and 1 hon . members' will deserve great credit for command of their risible muscles , if they refrain from shouts of laughter when such committees ai'e ever again proposed , £ \ obodY can be deceived by them . They are meant to conceal not elicit the truth . Most of our readers will recollect the frequent and stirring debates which took place in the House of Commons last session on the

      presentation of several reports from the St . Alban ' a Election Committee ; great was the lore of ' standing orders' and ' parliamentary practice' expended thereon by those who affect to be 'Sir Oracles , ' on those topics ; and time after time important debates and still more important business were thrown aside for the discussion of the nice hairsplitting definitions propounded by the purliamentiirian martinets , who took part in their debates . The . result was that the Committee was set at defiance , aud ultimately , for want of evidence to formally establish facts as plain as daylight , the sitting member was declared duly elected .

      The case was however felt to be really ' too bad , ' or , perhaps the offender not belongiag to either of the two great factions , had no influential friends to prevent its going further . At any rate , Parliament waxed virtuously indignant at tho spiriting away of witnesses , and departed from its usual routine . It gave up its tenderly cherished ' prerogative of inquiring into and deciding upon these matters itself , and invested a Special Commission of lawyers with power to proceed to the guilty Bor 6 tigb ., to investigate the wliolo matter thoroughly , and if need be , punish any one who refused to give evidence with imprisonment , until his obstinacy was subduod , aud he told all he knew .

      This common sense mode of getting at facts has been eminently successful . More so , we suspect , than will suit those who set the machinery in motion . It has established before a judicial tribunal , aud iu an authoritative form , what was formerly generally asserted , but never proved . Under the Ee ' form Act , the borough constituencies of this country are , with few exceptions , rotten to the core , and 1 7 vwvwiM uw u ** w uuiUi UilJVA b

      ought aud sold like oxen , or horses , and pigs at a meat market . The purse is the omni-) otent influence by which access is gained to Parliament . Principles , ability , character , are secondary and subordinate considerations with the immaculate ten pound voters . The first , almost tho last , question is : Has tho candidate plenty of money , and is he prepared to spend it freely ?

      In St . Albau ' s we have the wliolo machinery of these small borough elections now laid bare . The process is an exceedingly simple one . A man , possessed of considerable tact and determination , places himself in such a position as to be able , between elections , to

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      Powers . The Emperor of Austria is his serf—the vacillating and weak-headed King of Prussia is his subservient tool . In the Schleswig Hohtein question , Russian diplomacy has triumphed , and its influence is predominant in almost every one of the petty courtB of Germany . With the exception of Piedmont , Switzerland , and France , the Czar is lord paramount on the Continent . How long the latter will remain untrammelled is a question that presents room for serious consideration . The state of affairs in that country T » _— mi tiTir ***«« . l * A a—•_ •_ !__

      avowedly excites great uneasiness and apprehension in the Absolutist conclave , who have planted their iron heel upon the neck of Europe . Already vast armies are moving towards the French frontier , with the avowed object of interfering by force of arms , should the despots think their interests demand it . Louis Napoleon is the favoured candidate of Schwartzenberg . We need not say for what reason ; and should he be rejected and a real Republican President elected instead , the allied despots would soon show that non-intervention is not their policy .

      Had the people of England been as much alive to these considerations when the Aus trian Government called in the assistance of Russian armies to suppress Hungarian freedom , we could have interfered with more effect than we shall probably be able to do in future . By succouring Kossuth and his compatriots iu their noble warfare , we should have retained a powerful barrier against the encroachments of both Russian and Austrian autocracy . Each of the despots would have had enough to do at home , and tfee people of Prussia would have then been powerful enough to compel their faithless monarch to keep his solemn oaths , and respect the constitutional rights he had sworn to maintain .

      The battle , however , though lost for the time being , is" certain to bo renewed . The mission of KoasurH at the present moment to this , and to other free countries , is to teach in what way we and they are immediately and directly interested in tho struggle . This he is doing nobly . The masterly and comprehensive grasp of his policy is not less admirable than the simple , yet forcible and

      straightforward style in which he expounds it . Taking his various addresses as a whole , since his arrival in England , we have no hesitation in saying , that they present a consecutive series of state papers , containing a progressive development of views , which stamp him as one of the most profound , aud , at the . same time , practical of modern statesmen . M . ' Kossuth combines all the

      elements of a ruler . He unites the highest attributes of the man of thought with those of the man of action . He has a definite object before him , and he aims to attain it by manl y and direct means . Happy is the country , which , in the time of difficulty and danger has such a man to rely upon . To the hereditary claims of some ' tenth transmitter of a foolish face , ' lie can oppose the patent of nobility given by the Deity , the right to lead men by the possession of the faculties necessar y for the occupancy of that proud but awfully responsible position .

      It would be well if our own public men could deduce the proper moral from the reception which haB been accorded to Kossuth by the people of this country . No more practical lesson ' as to the nature of the real qualities which give a man real power over his fellow men , was ever given to those who aspire to occupy an elevated position . Lofty and disinterestedness , profound ) and unshakeable attachment to principle , devotion to the public good , and the will to use great mental powers most worthily by devoting them to the promotion of Freedom , Intelligence , Industrial and moral Progress—theBe are the qualifications which raise men above either Kings or Kaizers !

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      THE LAST TEICK OF AI . I BONAPARTE . The messago of tho President to tks I French Assembl y , as u matter of course con- 1 tains nothing in tho way of novelty as to iirc j ; policy he had to propose . Tim curiosity of i those who listened to it , aud of those who read ; it , was directed to the terms in which ho would

      couch his proposal to repeal the law of w 31 st of May . His language is conciliatory to . ; the reactionary and despotic majority , but fiim ; as to iho necessity of the measure ; while the j arguments by which he supports the wp : are precisely those urged by the moderate aim ; rational opponents to the passing of tliclavvaf ; all . i

      It is important to keep in view tlio leading ; facts connected with that great inroad on » i (! ,: fundamental principle of tho fiopnbiicau 0 * ' stitutiou of France . By the Involution id February , 1843 , the whole of the French p * pie were invested with the franchise , s \ ni w ) powered not onl y to select reprueeutatiM ^ the Assembly , but also to elect the Exec" ^ Head of the State . There can be no co " - that in a constituency thus composed , ttc J dustrial classes were the vast maj ority . ^ AiA 4-l > AiT « r . « 4-Unnn _^ -.,- / M . e 7 TIM frliPV CX ?*^' . did they these ? Did they

      cmuse powers the public men who had served the monaw ^ Did they select men of extreme views , uo ^ aud inexperienced in public life £ or ? licence aud charter to mere political a » . ^ turers and agitators ? Nothiug of the j ^ At the electoral urn , as in the licat f' ' revolutionary contest , the peop le oi W provqd . themselves eminently consP JJ ' -t I constructive , and practical . Tlicy «* ^ i seek to destroy , but to build up . The }¦ , | content to avail themselves of the prac ^ | abilities ami flm Rnni » rior intelligence , »['• |

      mau who was prepared to serve the M' . ^ s aud , as it subsequently app eared , they' - fl I many whose professions were but "P ^ j k ju I who sought for power under the hep «» | order that it might be used to overthrow ' | The result , however , was , that by L " ^ j SuflVage a decidedly Conserv ative ^ . j a ^ was returned to represent the natioii . ' jj , ^ Prince , the nephew and representative ] # g Great Empekob , was placed in j . ie t dent ' s chair . These facts should W ^ v a guarantee to the exclusive aud the ^' ^ I classes of French society , as well a s » lU , t afc large , that the French peop le ^ y . - I destructive anarchists , wild vevom ^ whose onl y notions of liberty were W- ,, .,. ness of property—universal robbery , a " ' ., tcti tiou . It was clear , that had the uoff 0 " j it j administration and legislative bodies ;< ( tl s good faith to those who p laced * them u j ^ « that social and industrial reforms ffou ^ ir . j been developed gradually , peaceauO ' , , e jii harmony with the general permanent . ^ $ of society . But this did not sqnart ; ^ j ideas aud the interests of the nwjoW

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      THE NORTHERN STAR ] . . November 8 , lasi ^ t - _ -- " ¦ _ ^^^ 1 ^^^^^ * * ^ ^^^ ^ ^ - ^ - — - — " « T / -nfnT /^ ri - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ^ - —p ^^^ gl ^ giBBi ^ H ^ IHHHIM ^ HI ^ I ^ HSH ^^ i ^ P ^ M ^^ ' " ! ~~ ~

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 8, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1651/page/4/