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      —o- » The great event of the week in home politics , is the Manchester ft » Trade banquet . It has been herald by »^\ « SK and was certainly a great exhibition of power . The old Chairman of the League was there , with Mr Bright , Mr . Cobden , M . P . ' s by the score , and a host of minor celebrities . It was a representation of themost powerful political class m the empire , which , if it does not exhas lent

      hibit genius , py of shrewd business-like talent , no small quantity of tact , and plenty of money to back it . The speeches may be divided into two parts ; some very natural glorification over the past , and equaUy glowing anticipations for the . future . Out of the reach of the brilliant sarcasms of Disraeli , the speakers were quite at their ease and settled the future of the Derby administration , the country and themselves quite- to their own satisfaction . If there are any qualities which the Manchester men lack , they certainly are not

      determination and impudence . They generallv form van ? doiW « ««;„;„„ = nation and impudence . They generally form very definite opinions , and are not apt to modify them to please anybody , and the point they have finally settled now , is , that the Derb yites must formally renounce protection . Forewarned they say is forearmed , and Mr . Disraeli has fair notice , that " will he , nill be , " he must , within tiro short months , do homage to the genius of Free Trade—cast off ,

      the last rag . of an old policy , propitiate the shade of the late Sir Robert Peel , aud do penance for his past misdeeds . . It is . runioured , omvhat looks something like authority , that the . cunning Benjamin has determined upon forestalling his antagonists , and leaving them little ground for complaint , by voluntarily reading his recantation , and accepting the situation as it is—but every body suspects that all this will be done with a mental reservation , and a determination to

      make the Cotton Lords smoke for it by and bye . Supposing that Mr . Disraeli does take this course , the question arises as to what will be the policy of her Majesty ' s opposition . To suppose that Cobden and Co . will be content to let the proud aristocracy they have already beaten remain in power , is to imagine that the lion and lamb will lie down together ; and to indulge in the anticipation that the Whig clique will be happy until they regain office , is to dream of the leopard changing his spots or the negro his hue . 29 b ; let Mr . Disraeli do what he will , he is doomed to sustain an

      attack upon his position devised with subtlety and carried out with spiteful determination and perseverance ; and this will be the order of the attack : —If Mr . Disraeli does not renounce his old opinions , of course he is unfit for office , arid a majority can be mustered to turn him out ;—if he does , then it will be argued that lie is inconsistent , and not to be trusted . Either way , the judgment has already been deeided on against him , and choose which horn of the dilemma he will , either of them will be sharp enough to impale him upon . A perfect contrast to the speeches at Manchester , is the oration delivered by Mr . Macaulay to the good folk of Edinburgh . At the -one place it was plain business-like talk , involving change ; at the other

      the ornate sentences , the elegantly turned periods , and the eloquent perorations of the most accomplished writer of his day . Between the two styles there is no more comparison than between chalk and cheese . The advantage there is all on the side of Mr . Macaulay ; but in matter , the business men leave him far behind . The latter do look to the future , —not the ultimate future of the people , but that

      immediate future of the growing omnipotence of money to which their interests point , and in which their hopes centre , while the historian is hopelessly buried in the past , which he has busied himself in recording . The mind of Mr . Macaulay is like an unfinished chronicle , which has been brought down no farther than 1832 . He is a Whig of the Reform Bill school , and his most glowing anticipations are that Lord John Russell will be reinstated . That is only another

      illustration of the fact , that the general mind of the , country oftenperhaps always—advances farther than the great intellects who , drawing their light from the past , stand passively before [ ik \ dark curtain , which hides the future from the present , without attempting to lift one of its folds , or striving to discover the mysteries it conceals . Of more importance in a moral point of view than either of the great displays at Manchester and Edinburgh is a modest little report of a meeting at Manchester—Lord Goderichin the chair ; for the purpose of promoting the re-productive employment of paupers , and giving legal facilities to parishes of renting land for that purpose .

      'Phis idea , if we recollect rightly , was first attempted to he carried out by the guardians of the Stoke union , in Staffordshire , who employed their boys upon a few acres , and found that , independent of the advantage of rearing up industrious men instead of lazy ones , shewed by their published balance-sheet that it was actually commercially profitable . We believe there is a statute unrepealed , authorizing the authorities of each parish to take a certain quantity of land , and perhaps before new laws are asked for , it would be as well to enquire about , and tesVthe capabilities of the old one . ¦ ' ' .

      The quarterly return of the Registrar-GeneFal has authenticated an impression which has been for some time prevalent in wellinformed quarters . It is now certain that for the first time for a long period the population of the country is undergoing a rapid decrease , amounting in the past quarter , to no less than sixty thousand persons . The excess of births over deaths has been more than fifty thousand—rather a less number than at former corresponding periods , but about 120 , 000 1 people have left this . country , principally for Australia . ThisEnglishExodus shews no signs of ceasing . The fepulsiveness of poverty at home , and the attractions of wealth abroad , TOWN EDITION .

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      y to a still greater height ; and very likeW two years more will leave us nearly two millions minus . The Times tells us that the effect will be . to assimilate the condition of .. England to that of a new country . It is astonishing how men who produce such fine sentences as The Times writers , can bungle thoughts and lacts as they do . Our circumstances are , and must be , essentially different from those which exist in ; a young land . ¦ The distinction is as great as . between ' , the old man and the the young child . We have , traditions to which conservative minds cling with tenacity , old institutions which the statesmen in a position to bid for power , are indisposed to do more than modify , and classes of society widely separated . But just as the difference is between the old and the young , so there is an analogy , which obtains m the case of those who are entering , and those who are passing out of life . It may be , that the decreased population will change the nature of the relations between capital and labourdeducting

      -, something of the overgrown strength of < the former , and diminishing the pitiful weakness of the latter ; but even that advantage is threatened . The Times , a few weeks back , told us that we should never want people in . the old world . That if Englishmen : emigrate . from their own shores , Germans , Frenchmen , Dutchmen , and Belgians , will be only too glad to come to supply their places . That would alter the relations between capital and * labour with a vengeance , by introducing labourers used to a lower standard of livingto pull

      , down wages yet further , and render still more hopeless' the case of those who are not so fortunate as to maj ^ their escape to thei akipodes . The Thies , however , has perhaps reconsidered its -former proposition . The emigration inwards might include a large j ^ oportion of red republicans— " demoralized socialists , " and the d&oncontented spirits of Europe , who might make it difficult to preserve " peace and order , " without the employment of more efficient weapons than the constable ' s staff . ¦• : ¦ ¦

      In 1854 , the Indian Charter will come under the consideration of the legislature , and parliamemVwill < be free to deprive the East * India' Directors of the government of the East ; or to modify their power , A committee was appointed to examine into | he subject and ' has published its report , in one of thosg , enormous blue books ^ hich nobody reads : out of the mass of 1500 pages , however , the evidence of Lord EllenboROTJGH has been picked out . ' That iwble lord , who was ennobled by the Court of Directors ,-is for diminishing their power ; but the most remarkable opinion he ventures upon is against the reduction of the Salaries . He says , broadly , that if the Hindoos were a cultivated people , they , would drive us out of their

      country . Conceal the truth as we may , there is little doubt that his ordship spoke the truth , andif so , tha |; is the best of all commentaries upon the beneficence and popularit y of our sway , and the wisdom with which the Directors have exercised their power . Judged by that , test , the legislature ought . to put an end to the sway of Leadenhall-streety but interest pervades a House of Commons , representing abuses instead ' of the whole people , and is rampant , in the . House of Lords , and we opine $ hat , the monopoly of the Corporation of Merchants is safe tor the present .

      The Crystal Palace is ^ making . a stfr among the Mawworms of the Church . Some , of the bigofs ih ' avslheen preaching and speaking against the Temple of th 3 . people . | Thej view it , not only for itself , but for the effect it may have ? iifton the public mind generally . It is argued that if one Company' inay get up a great Sunday Carnival , other Companies ' finding ; i ^ p % may ' arise to do the same ; and then the people will be ' seduced frdm ; the ^ Church altogether , or go there in the morning , to for ^ t : t | ie ^ brds they hear , among statues , fountains , and gardens in the afternoon . ' Well , we suppose that is

      nearly the fact , but cannot these , gentlemen ( reverend by courtesy ) , see what a censure . the"truth theyjadmitip&sses upon their own conduct and capability ^ They have the ( highest , and widest of , themes , the noblest and loftiest of motives inl their , hands , so : they themselves say , and yet they cannot use them with , sufficient' effect to compete with a fountain , or to prevent a marble-nymph from effacing them . It is strange , too , that they labour under a'delusion that the people are not yet estranged from their ' ministry . / ' Really , -it would be worth their while some fine Sunday , to Mve their pulpits and take a peep at the thronged steam-boat wharfs , ' the thronged railway

      termini , and the beset omnibus stand . If their sanctity did not hold them back , they might extend their yisitsj-say to Cremorne , Battersea , Blackheath , and the suburban . tea gardens , and then they might be less fearful of . the Cyrstal Palace-wresting from them the dominion they have already lost , ; and either make some worthy effort to regain it , or find cause for rejoicing with us , that' if the people will , escaping from their dullness , seek for amusement , they will find it among scenes , and surrounded by accessories J and associations , divested of impurity , and fertile in suggestions of ^ beauty and grace . If the priests can attain to that point , there is some hope that they may yet exercise an influence founded on usefulness .

      Talking of the clergy , there is a report that the Dean and Chapter of St . Paul's are exhibiting a more than clerical greediness . One might have thought that the funeral of the Duke might have excited feelings sufficiently strong to overlay ; the greediness of their order ; yet it is said that the magnificence of the ceremony will be materially diminished by their claiming , as their own , the fittings , galleries , &c . Once on consecrated ground they become the property of the church , j ust as the remains of ; the olden sacrifices used to become the perquisites of the priests , It is alliii keeping with their other doings ,

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      araggragtramsa fte wte of seventy miles an hour . wXwell ZStf' f "I * , «™ ce ; tat „ the I " e legulated now , the greater ehance there will be of collisions endangering the lives andlirobs of the passers Chartists

      • The -used , according to The times , to be famous for SS * , menCTe i tlieir r cessions « S ; was said to be m danger ; and upon the strength of tlieir reputation wertSowS v r ! r « " ^™ E - StLTi $ Wkmgbe a qualification fo . r that title , it is applicable to others , ; rf we may eredit tl , e police rep () rts . It ' seems , h fab T - ° - ' ° " * ° ° the ** « f «™ ibuTaW in the habit of carrying air guns , probabl y to qualify themselves bv wiSwt ^ Th ^? ClUbS ' T ^ ™ "» P ° " " ' sment S * : ., ^ * F «»«> dangerous and dreaded than tho CWaWdeeSff Y ? ° TiT be 6 addled "P « «**! H » l P T « ¦ * Wek 1 S Mr : Pe ™ n ' s" for a railway terminus n the heart of the ct ^ y on the side of the old Fleet prison / The va 1 v h tween the Ms of Ho born and Snow is to be . id upon . viadul WUi winch the h » e s to run . Sir James Duke has allied hin 3 LtSr ¦ E 0 ' - f WM and 0 " ea PMsb « - "toood " nave promised their assistance . iSUnd

      ^^ Sa ^ - " ^ * " * frS alS f ' \ ° l thi ? ? Sh 0 W a distorbanoe hi the printing JW wr 1 P laui 1 factsaret ^ - Some time ago , the Morning ^ i tt fTv ^ . P ^^ tion to British industry , showed how it would protect it by discharging all itf , compositors to make roomfor cheaper hands . The example thus set by the Tory organ was not long-toremain without an-imitator in the ranks of the " liberal "

      presS . The advocate of Louis Napoleon .-the Evening Sun- « xve notice . to the 32 men and the overseer employed upon it , for the purpose of doing as the Post had done . There was no complaint aist i men r " ° chai'ge of insubordination or inefficiency ; they did not ask for better wages . The whole-and sole object of those who pretend tobe the friends of the working man , was to cheapen labour . It cannot even be presumed that the earnings of the men were excessive , they not averaging more than 36 s . per week .. Even if that could be assert ^ , -no offer of accommodation , no opportunit y for negociation was attorded the workmen ; they were discharged—that was all . The

      compositors have published a temperate address , which we give in another column , and in which their grievances are clearly stated . The equal right of the proprietors of the Post and Sun to perpetrate injustice and t yranny of . this nature is clear . The -lav recognises the ' aVas you like with your own" doctrine of the political economists ; but thereare moral crimes committed by the strong against the comparatively weak , and , as betweenthe compositors and their employers

      , the wrong is the more flagrant as the trade has long been reflated by a scale of prices recognized by both master and men . We cannot think that the compositors will allow their fellow-men to beoppressed without help , and such instances as these only enforce the erowhi * conviction , that , the time is coming when all those who live by labou ? must either sink to the condition nf aorfc w f ™ . m ™ + „„ :. „ must either sink to the condition of serfsor form great union

      , one which would render an attack too dangerous to be attempted , " ^ in Ireland , the Six-mile-brid ge tragedy is being m « de prominent m the law courts . Proceedings for libel are pending" against Mr . Wallace , the proprietor of the Anglo Celt , who charged the men of the 31 st regiment with wantonly butchering the people , and asserted . that the regiment had formerly been deprived of its facings for cowardice . The Attorney-General has moved before Judge Crompton , to quash the Coroner ' s Inquisitions , upon the ground that there was not any evidence to support them . The Court directed notice to be

      given to the next of kin , after which the matter will be argued , and most probably the verdicts will be set aside . We have little to record of the Sister Isle , except that the- religious equality people are stirring themselves . The Exodus still keeps up its stream , and Kind ' s County has furnished another example of agrarian outrage , in which eig hty ten , ruffians broke into the cottage of a bailiff , ° maltreating Ins wife ; and family , and nearly , beat him to death . The American mail tells us that General Scott was making

      desperate efforts to win the favour of the eWnrs . A ™ « , » ^ i , ™ ™ JL « rateettorts to win theiavour ot the electors . Among other means to which he resorted , he recently told a tale which has called forth some notice . He says that when he was in Mexico , the people of influence there offered to put him at the head of affairs—to place all the power in his hands , , and to guarantee him a million of dollars . The General adds , that his love for his native country and her free institutions prevented him from accepting the offer .

      While the preparations for the Empire are proceeding , signs of an ominous nature for the future of Louis Napoleon are making tlieir appearance . From time to time there have been misty rumours of Military , conspiracies , but whatever of truth there was in them , was smothered and concealed—obnoxious regiments were removed to the departments , or to Africa , and the faithful who remained , rewarded . Now it is said that an extensive military plot has been discovereddn Paris , and that more than three hundred soldiersjnd sub-officers 'have been put into prison . The affair has been kept as ^ private as ; possible , and the details are involved in consiifer ^^^ steryr ^ f * '

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1703/page/1/