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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1838.
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      & ** # . v& take ! £ »»**» ~* * f& $ U £ 5 fcr tSI * parish . Mr . ffiD . one-of ffil-niembers for £ iuHSM" « iy' ^ aA **^***^ * * " ^ SS ^^ SSSS ? ?^!? ™ 5 Hiay-be'ttcwifedjon tfe ground of his mebgilHlity fer tfeoffiefc * .-- IaBTJT 3 HiST © y iBXUUrp . —The Lord Lieafeaian * of Ireland hw ^ poSited Captain J . Wlngtnn Barron one of his gentlemen it la * ge , vice H . f 5 tzroy , E ^ . ' „ ' ¦' ¦ * Attobkbt-GbKBRAL . —The Attorney-General iriii she a grand dinner to . tbe leading members of ihelar on the 17 th instant , a * the Thatched House , in eelebratkm offer Jfejes ^ -T > irtfadsy «

      BAli-wlt . —The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Bailway is bow attracting ' attention among the iniabitantsofthe Enrrotmding . towns and in Montgomeryshire . » .. SxBWWWO * Ton . —A clergyman is . only ' rjgSSSSS fa ' -- *®**** ***< & *§ to or retormng -rpmxshiftTdarjr ^ rithia hi * pamh . Baii-wat * r . Caxxlb . —The proprietors of 4 fee Grand ; Jooedon Ifcubray have made offers to -fce inaaa&etnrers and others , to carry goods be-• txeen Birmingham and Xiferpool at Is . 6 d- a ewL , J « ng exactly the bmq charged "by the canal , the trade of whiebmust be « iperseded if the tonnage does art not immediately lowered . — Worcester Journal * ¦

      East Ikdia Cohpaht . —The East India Gon > pany havevofd & sword Qf 200 gmnea 8 Tralue , to Captain Chads , for his exertions in suppressmgf&racy in the Indian seas . ilABQ'OJS op Hbbtpobd ' s Yxl > a . The Marqnis of Hertford '«_ Tilla in the Regent ' s . Park , baa "been , it is said , offered for tie use of the illustrious foreigners expected to -rial London at the ensuing Coronation . Birmingham xsv Litkepool . ——A corres pondent has * ent -us the following statement of distanoes ; —By lie canab , "ria Chester , the . distance is 93 miles ; by the turnpike-road , via WalsaH , 95 miles ; by Jite railway , 97 miles .

      Johanna Schopbnhatjbb .- Johanna Scbop-« nhaar » anfljona&Trbp has long « cjpyed . great popalsnfccJp GaxnttJ , fied « t Jeoa , on tire 16 th d ^ intSe " wSthyear of her age . Her complaint appears to haTe been a sadden defection of the longs . _ . - ' ¦ " ' Dock-Yabb , Pembroke . —Three of the principal officers of her Majesty's Dock-yard , Pembroke , were on Friday , the 4 th instant , suspended bv order of the Admiralty , namely , the Master Shipwright , the Clerk of the Cheque ^ and the Store Receiver .

      Glasgow Thbatbe . —Mr . Charles Jvean opened 3 t the Glasgow Theatre on Monday last . This spacious hon-e was crowded to the ceiling . He will perform Hamlet , Hit-hard , Sir Giles , and Othello , prior to his return to Drury Lane ' on Wednesday next . Letteb to Mb . Shabmax Cbawford . —Mr . Huehes of Jfewport Pratt , has published a long letter to Mr . Sbarman Crawford . He makes a beginning by quoting a speech attributed to Mr . O'ConneU , and published in the Freeman s Journal of the 21 st-alt .: — " That there is a determination on the part of the people of England not to do ns justice is perfectly manifest . "

      Gkeat Preparations are making at Coventgaxden for the new play by Knowles . The scene is laid ia England , dated about 16 SS , so memorable for the '' glorious revolution , " of which it was -a witness . The mannseript is in the manager ' s hands . A 3 * o >* ;» THX claimants upon Covent-garden Theatrical Fund , who received their allowances last week , was oxe lady ninety-six years of age ; she ias been upon the fond forty years , and had , until last winter , attended in person for her quarterly stipend . "I hate : e"scottxtebbx > fraudulent debtors , " said the great Lord 3 iansSeld , " but where Ihave encountered one fraudulent debtor , I bare met nine hundred fraudulent creditors . *'

      As emixest French waiter tells us that the History of France \ s to be Tead in its songs ; the reason of which is ( says the Quarterly reviewer ) that u there being no real liberty of the press , train can only be told in a soag . " The Council of Kino ' s College , London , kave made arrangements for establishing a class for tivil engineering and mining . The tax laid on theatrical representations and places of public amusement , &c , for the support of charitable establishments in Paris , amounted in 1837 to 822 , IO 6 L , or £ 32 , 885 . To Remote Pakbs ot Glass . —Put soft soap on the putty for a few hours , the putty becomes as soft as if it had been put on a minute before , though the patty was before as hard as a stone .

      American House of Reprbsentatites . — The American House of Representatives have voted 100 , 000 dollars ( £ 24 , 000 ) to the heirs of Fulton , thf original founder of steam navigation . Ulster Canal . —It is proposed to extend the Ulster Canal to the Shannon , and by such extenrion to Jbrm a continued line of inland navigation from Lough Iseagh to Limerick . ilZASLES . —The measles hare caused frightful mortality at Brussels , having carried off nearly 1 , 600 persons . 1 Spirits or KiTBB . — A few drops of sweet spirite of nitre will effectually banish the Cimex species ( AjigUce , bugs ) from yonr couch- —Roby .

      CoinnTTED to York Castle . —Charles Greenwood , charged with having , on the 28 th of April last , at Batley , stolen a mare , the property of Jame * BoilaneL " Railway . —The Chester and Birkenhead Railway was commenced on Thursday week , and is expec-ted to be completed within two years . Halifax Literary amb Philosophical Society . —At the monthly meeting of the Halifax

      Literary and Philosophical Society , on Monday evening , a paper on the Roman Coin Moulds found is the neighbourhood of Wakefield , and embracing explanatory remarks by the Eer . J . B . Reade , will b « read . Captiox to Publicans . —At the Bolton . sessions , a quantity of i ^ iiritaous liquors , which had been taken from various public houses in Bolton , for being more than 17 per eenU under proof , was condemned by the magistrates .

      Hares In consequence of the great mischief committed by these animals during the winter , in the plantation ? and gardens belonging to Thomas ^ Vntvrorth Beaumont , Esq ., of Bret ton Park , that gentleman has ordered the whole of that race to be destroyed . Hundreds have been sold to tee game dealers at Bamsley , as low as Is . 6 d . per head . A Geologist " Out .- —The inhabitants of Long Melford were a few days since expecting a treat at the Bull Inn—bills haTing been circulated that

      i lectnrer oa geology wonld be given ; but at the same specified the lecturer was non ett invenius Inquiries were made , when it was found that he had decamped from bis lodgings , taking with him two folio works , but not on geology . Immedi ate pursuit « &s made , and he wai captured at Alpheton , and seat to lecture to the prisoners in Bnry gaol . It is ren likely he will stand a fair chance of acquiring further and extensive knowledge in the science of geologT in another latitude . —Esxex Herald .

      Sttjtgard , —The only convent of nans exiytoBg among us -will be shortly broken op . It is the con-Tent of Rothminster , near Rothweil . Qn a journey which the Xing made to that place sone years ago , the nuns obtained his Majesty ' s special favour to lire and enjoy their pensions together in their old habitation , and according to iaeli old rnlfcs , under an abbess , for life . Very few ol them now remain , sod those are so Tery aged , that in a few years the eon rent will be without inmates . The buildings ¦ will then be employed for the sie of the saltworks at Rothminster . -

      Ornithological Society *—At the meeting ra Friday week , it was announced that the Woods and Forests were about to make some new porids in lie i « lpu | in Su James ' s Park , for the use of the a ^ uactw / Biraj there located . It iras stated as a cunwia fceti thauaany of the birds in the Park fly ^^^¦ fiSiSjaasisr iiiHW ^™^ - anposts , ztb replaced by the Wv "„„ * ,-r _ ¦ S ^ ew »*| S . iLfci * rs :-tail of the fecte js giTen * t what U « aifcd « a meet . lag for ErfxeriugV' butao iad 6 miufictSofl - , ^^ to tie sufferers . ¦ - ueu

      Acctdext . —Mr . Taylor , a respectable wtsob ^ jkyriMite Bnneoni ^ ap Rai lway , w JS « e-attte coal--HaggnBS Ms feot Bopped , and ^ k > j * ! **» feBtaJgWsiMstBreen two- « f the waggons ^« gwng across the iaeline , which cawed ^ aDj

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      l $ 8 & ; Ths "Wbathes . — Monday last ihe fell * f snow »» 9 W » heaTyinthe Peak of Derbyshire , especially at Matioek , Barley , Sec * , as to impede the progress of iraTellew for some time . — Doncatter Gazette . The BrTER a * ; Heath . —From a calculation made of the quantity of spiritnoos ftport consumed , in Griat Brits& and Ireland , it-appears it would form a rmr sixty feetbrdaa , three feet deep , and eighty miles long . "Add to this calculation fte number it drires to the mad-honse , the JMJ , the workhouse , Botany Bay , and the gallows ; the nhmbe * of i&admi who go hungry and bare , the nambet of wives who sob away the night , the number -who lose fcoth soul and body in this modern Styx . —Birmingham Journal .

      Tkcenbiarisk . —On Monday evening , part of a hay mow , in the marshes near Merrifield , the property of Mr . Vosper , of Merrifield Farm , was dtsftoYjered to be on &e . A lad Toamed Biehard Unaerhfll , who was seen near the spot , was apprebended , and fully committed for trial . He admitted setting the hay-mow on fire , for " a spree . " He also stated his having set a hay-mow on . fire , belonging to Mr , Yosper , which was destroyed nearly two years since . —Plymouth Journal . Perpetual Motion . — "We are informed that John Richards , a blind man from the neighbourhood of Castlehellingham , b . as invented a machine , which he terms the perpetual metiofu He intends to submit it to the inspection of Government . "We hope that Ms discovery may equal his expectations . —Drogheda Jrgtu .

      A Hoax . —Some one has nearly frightened the City of Dublin " from its propriety , " by circulating that an earthquake was to take place on the 10 th instant . Several persons actually abandoned house and home , in order to avoid this awful calamity . Tte are glad , however , to learn that the worthy citizens * re returning to their homes , having found out that the report was merely the idle , although we must say , mischievous production of a wag—Drogheda Argut .

      Dreadful Coach Accident . —This morning about a quarter after ten o'clock , a very distressing accident occurred to an elderly man , named Charles Barnes , who resided in Russell-street , Bermondsey It appears that the unfortunate man was crossing . the Westminster Bridge-road , when one of 'Wheatley ' s Greenwich coaches , No . 706 , was driven along at a reckless rate , and on the wrong side of the road . Barnes endeavoured to get out of the way , and on being run against by the horses he clung to the

      traces , and the horses having become ungovernable , he was dragged some distance , when his strength failed him and he fell . On picking him up , it was found that he had bis right leg and thigh fractured , and received ather severe injuries . Surgical assistance was instantly procured , but . it was deemed necessary to convey him to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , on reaching which place the surgeons giving but slight hopes of his recovery in consequence of his advanced age ( seventy ) , the coach and coachman were stopped by the police .

      Wexfoed Anti-tithe Meeting . —An immense meeting , conssting of landholders and fanners , of twenty parishes of the county of "Wexford , was held on Tuesday at Boley-hilJ . The Wexford Independent states that 40 , persons were present . The following were amongst the resolutions adopted on the occasion : — " That we will never cease our constitutional agitation until tithes are utterly extinguished in name and in reality ; and that we now proclaim to the nation our fixed determination to refuse our support \ x every future candidate for the representation of this conntv , who shall not freely take the following

      pledges , * namely , the complete abolition of tithes , vote by ballot , an honest revision of the law regarding £ 10 freeholders , the extension of the franchise to all occupiers of houses and lands , including tenants-at-will , whose yearly rents shall amount to £ 10 , and a firm opposition to every administration opposed to these very salutary and very necessary measures . " " That latterly , and more especially at the present moment , our peace of mind is banished and our industry interrupted ; that our goods are under seizure , and , m many instances , our persons incarcerated ; that , in short , we are suffering

      the most terrible persecution that the hatred of bad " men and the ingenuity of scorpion lawyers could devise and carry into effect against ns , under the authority of wicked intolerant statute laws , notoriously at variance with natural , divine , and social law ; and that it is our deliberate opinion , if the country be not speedily relieved from this species of martyrdom , the Irish people will be driven to the extreme alternative of denying themselves the use of all manner of taxed Erticles . " Mr . J . Power , father of the member' foT the county , attended the meeting .

      A PROTTXCIAL actor , performing the part of Augustas in the tragedy of Cinna , during the late serert winter , evinced hit delicate sensibility to cold by the very un-Romaa-like action of rubbing his hands together . A few middle hisses from some classic spectators in 4 he pit , reminded the performer of ioa want of noble bearing . Nothing disconcerted , the actor exclaimed , " Idiots ] a Romin knows jcut as well as a Christian , when the thermometer marL ? Jifteen degrees below zero . "

      7 A Graxd Announcement . —Some time since a person in the neighbourhood of Keswick , having several hives of bees to dispose of , and desirous to attract purchasers , caused a placard to . be printed announcing the sale , with the following extraordinary head lines : — "Extensive sale of live stock comprising not less than one hundred and forty thousand head , with an unlimited right of pasturage !" The trick succeeded to admiration . Board op Woods and Forests . —A county meeting of the landowners of Flintshire was held at Mold on Tuesday week , to take into consideration the best means of resisting the aggressions bow making on the property of the landowners and

      cottagers of tne principality by the agents of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests . Several noblemen and gentlemen addressed the meeting in terms of just condemnation of the vexatious and unjust conduct pursued ] amongst others , Lord Mostyn said that he had paid one thousand pounds to prevent lands that had been held by his uncestora for centuries , from being wrested from him , and to save the expenses be should be put to in recovering them back . A series of resolutions condemnatory of the proceedings of the commissioners , and pledging the meeting to form a committee , and raise subscriptions to oppose the encroaebmentej , were unanimously passed . —Salopian Journal .

      Expeditions Travelling . — A commercial traveller arrived in this city at ten on Thursday evening , who had left Dumfries in Scotland on the previous morning at ten . He arrived at Liverpool by a steamer from Dumfries in time to get a good night ' s rest , and start next morning by half-past six to Birmingham by the Grand Junction Railway , which occupied four hours and a half ; from thence he was in time for a coach to Bristol ; so thathe had a night ' s rest , and performed his journey , upwards of 300 miles , in 36 hours . —Bristol Journal .

      Troops for Canada . —Amongst the arrivals at Cove this morning was the Marquis of Hvntley transport , from Loudou , to take troops to Canada . Her destination is Quebec . The 1 st and 7 th Dragoon Guards proceed in this and other transports . The Barrosa transport was preparing to sail this morning when our accounts left Core . She had on board the last division of the 7 lst Highland Light Infantry , 166 officers and men of the 83 d , and a large draught from the 66 th depot at Ferxnoy . — Cork Reporter of Thursday .

      Short Work at Law . —Oh Friday morning week , at ten o ' clock , Mr . Justice Vaughan attended at the Common Pleas Court , Guildhall , London , where five cases were set down for trial . When the four first causes were called on seriatim , no attorn *^ answered , and a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs . V \ hen the last case was called on , no person answered , and the learned judge remarked upon the singularity of a court being unattended by attornies , told-the jury that the sum of £ 400 was demanded by the plaintiffs , and as no cause was shown , they must return a verdict accordingly . The verdiefc was so recorded , and the court broke up after being occupied about twenty minutes .

      A Duel . —It is related to -us that a duel ' came off' in West Troy , on the twenty-ninth , between two loafers . They firtd muskets at each other at ifce distance of fifty yards , loaded with onions—but what is trnlyto be regretted , both hare " lived to fight again . " —Troy Mail Thb Exterminating Ststm * . —Mr . Cooper has cmnmenced the war of extermination ; one bund ted And fifty souls are to be thrown out upon the wide wrrld , like unfledged birds , helpless and

      powerless . And for what ?—We tnow not , if it is not that the doomed- crearores are guilty of the henions crime of being PapisU . Mr . Cooper would , if he had the ability , which be has not . get up in his place in the Hoose of Commons , ana prate about the intolerance of Roman Cathalies , and prate about the flliberality of not allowing to men the right of private judgment J yet this very Cooper denies to his Catholic tenants that very privileg * which he admires *—Seigo Champion .

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      ; Hull . Election eOMM ^ TTBE . ^ - After beca-i pying thirty-seven days jn anj , expensive enquiry , ' ? his Committee IerminSbelI " 6 n mohday , in a ver \; extraordinary manner ^ T * e > : list- of objections , on both side ** , having been discovered- to be informal , Mr . Wilberforee is tmaeated on the qualification ground , and Messrs James , and Hutt , Tory and WMg , arelobfiU » sitting . raen « b ^ nri : 1 Jockeying . —We behfeve . thereI has not been a Devizes " Green Fair for maSy : years , but that some of bur townsmen and neighbour have been regularly jockie 'd . To offer advice to a person about to buy or to sell a horse , is to offer , personal insult . Some people , indeed , would consider it a serious stain upon

      their characters not to be thonght knowing in i ? uch matters . " "Do you see any thing green here ? " said a young farmer , pointingto his right . eye / and looking very contemptuously at his friend , who had merely requested him to be on his guard ; w"D 6 you « ee anything > greeh here ;? " he repeated , with inicreased contempt ^ and walked off . The young farmer had a horse to sell , worth about £ 23 .. - He took it into thefair , and was not long without a dealer . He very naturally extolled every point ; and the dealer , to lull suspicion , detracted from every-point . After srane " chaffing" with regard to price , the dealer said , " Well , whether I buy or not , afany rate . ' I- 'H try it ; " The youngfarmersuffered a man , whom he never saw before , tomounthishoree : theman rode off , and neither man nor horse have been since heard of .

      The question may then fairly be put—** Do you see anything green here ? " But older and more experienced persons have been equally duped . " Wide awake I" said a worthy and excellent friend of ours , who was about to go into a previous fair , to purchase a carriage horse . " Wide awake ! " that ' s my motto ; whenever I deal with a j > ekey ; and if I am taken id , then it's my own fault . " Well . '—wide awake- — our friend suffered a horse , which he hud only the jockey's word for its having been in -harness , btford , to be put to a new carriage . A particular acquaintance mounted the box ; and within five minutes the carriage was upset , the- shafts shattered , other injuries done , and the driver's neck endangered . The jockey , of course , swore that there was ¦ no fault in the horse , and that the accident wan solely attributable to the unskilfulnesa of the driver . Under

      iinch circumstanced , he laughed at the idea of paying a farthing to repair the damage done to the carriage . Our friend—really wide awake -thought upon the old saying " $ ue a beggar , &c . " and put op with the first loss . —Devizes Gazette .

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      POOR LAW ATROCITIES . The following case , respecting the treatment of a poor girl of unsound intellect , by William Gibbous , master of the Tbimbleby Workhousty was brought before the Horncastle Magistrates , at iheir ofiict > , on Saturday , thtj 31 it of March , by order of the Board of Guardians : — The Clerk to the Board appeared on behalf of the the girl , and Mr . Wulesby , ( a barrister ) for the defendant . The first witness , a man of the name of Johnson , stated , that about a month ago he vrns in hid garden , near au out-building iu the Workhouse yiinU farmerly used as a stable , but at present occupied by

      pigs and straw , from whnnce he heard the cries of a child , who also called one " murder ! " He went to the building , aud looked through ahole in \ hv wall , where he saw some women flogging the girl ivry severely , but could not say with what ; nuU Wrm ; her say , that " that if they wonld forgive lier td . s time , s -e would not do so any more . " He . a ! . < o heard Mra . Gibbons say they had done enough at her now . Mr . Walesby , —How do you know it was this girl that cried out ? Johnson . —I know her voice perfectly well . Magistrates . —Have you heard her cry leiure ?

      Johnson . — l es . Alter this they put her awone .-a the pigs , and kept her there as long as-they thonght good . The ^ then took her out , aud put Ikt into a sack , and tied her up in i and left her in the building all night . Thiw witnesses for the defendant stated that sinwas a very dirty girl , and , from her habits , not tit to sleep in a bed ; they admitted that she was ainunjjst the pigs , but wad not kepT there more ; than five minuter , and deuied that she was iUigged ; they also statei that she was stripped to her slritt , and put iuto a sack , which was tW round her waist , and tier clothns taken avray . Ouh of these witnesses said , that she was allowed a blanket ; it \ va . « as good a one as need-be laid on a bed ; she- ' sawu person carry it , but could not tell the magistrates -when they asked her whom it was carried by , whether a ro : ui or a woman , but she thought a woman . Another

      said that she had-both a rug aud a blanket earrit-U to her in the building , and that she lay on some straw in another part , apart from the pigs , and was locked up and kept there all night . This wituess also staled that her clothes were taken , to . her , in the morning , but she refused to put them on there , nuu acknowledged that the girl went Irom the building to the workhouse in her shift . Mr . Kemp , one ol the visiting committee of that workhouse , was next called , who said thathe and Mr . Hobsou , another ol the committee , were ordered by the Board oi Guard ana to go and inquire into the Tease . They examined the girl , but could not see atiy marks oi violence upon tier . He wasa ^ ked by the . inagistiate >< how it was thac the case had not been brought on sooner , as it had been stated to have occurred vii the 9 th . He said he did not know .

      Mr . Elviu . —1 am a guardian of the Horncastle Union , and beg to state , on behalf of the lioard , that this case was ordered to be iuqjiired into by the committee of the " Tbimbleby Workhouse , ana reporreu to the next Board , which was done , and ttie case ordered to be brought before the inagistrates on the Saturday following . Mr . Smith , one of the medical officers , said lie examined the girl at the workhouse two days-after it was reported that she had been ill-treated , aud ttiere were not any marks of violence on her then . He also gave Mr . Gibbons a very excellent character for his kindness and attention to the poor in that house ; as also did the Rev . Mr . Hotchkins , who also Slid that he knew nothing about this poe "! The magistrates retired for some time into their pr ivate ofhee , and < m their retnrn fined the defendant £ 2 10 s ., and 17 s . 6 d . costs .

      Great credit is due in thw case to the Rev . Mr . Fendall , Guardian of the parish .. of Buckuall , to which parish the poor girl belonged ; who , as soon as he heard of the ill-treatment towards the girl , rode over to Thiinbleby to make inquiries ou tile snbjtJct . Uaung met with the witness Johnson , who made the same statement to him as he did to the magistratex now , therefore ns soon as the committee , who were ordered to examine into the case , had reported to the Board that the girl' had received no injury , but that it had done her good , ' the Rev . Gentleman stood np and stated what he had heard from Johnson ; vehcu Mr . Gulson observed , that the committee had neglected their d-uty in not making a proper inqniry , and hoped tuat the Board would not let the matter drop here , and recommended that the case should be turned over to the magistrates , as had been suggested by the Rev . Mr . Pierce and Mr . Elvin , which was finally agreed to .

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      m . MR . QWJSN . ¦ " Daring a journey in the West Riding of Yorkshire , in the present week * we had the high gratification to meet with onr valued and respected friend , Mr . Owen . We had not seen him since his last tour on the Continent . He is in excellent health and spirits , and has lost none of his faith , a faith , of the highest kind that of the redemption of the-human race from their present state ol poverty , and misery , and crime , and rendering them happy in their present existence ; nor does be , though lar advanced in lift * , lack those twe essentials to carry out any great work —zeal and perseverance . He nas been delivering lectnres in Edinburgh . Glasgow , Sunderland , and

      , Newcastle , and he states that the reception which his doctrines and principles meet with , are highly encouraging , and shew a marked and remarkable change in the public feeliDg . After lecturing , at various places , idx days in the week , in Newcastle he had delivered two lectures on Sunday , in one of the large public buildings of the town , to an assembly of many hundred persons . On Monday he had arisen at three o ' clock in the morning , and after travelling the whole day , and arriving at Leeds in the evening , though nearly seventy years of age , he went through the delivery of a lecture in the Music Saloon , where we bad ths pleasure to meet him and tohe&r him lecture . We spent the greater part of

      Tuesday in his society , and heard his second lecture in the evening of that day . . How strangely does this devotion to the welfare of his fellow creatures contrast with that of the Christian ( : ) Ministers of the present day . Air a specimen of the latter , let our readers reter to the conduct of ten dignitaries of the Church of England , who , appointed by law to the important and responsible office ol Guardians of the Poor ; and , though receiving splendid-incomes from the parishes to which the poor belong , wiDiiot devote a little of their time to confer TeEgious instruction to the poor in the Workhouse , bat require some paltry allowance of £ 30 or £ 50 to stimulate and reward Them for

      the extra work of instructing the poor . v Mr . Owen will not accept a angle shilling for hw time and services . When monigr is charged for admission , if more is received than discharges the rent of the building , he immediately orders tbestirpms to be paid over to some public institution in the town wherelhelecture was delivered . Yet-Ivin Oweuu denounced : as au ** Infidel , " whilst the ^ moat pwos , most exceHeBt Guardians of the Pooiywe Ghttrtwa Ministers ! . ' If the fonnder of Chsaatiamtj , er-BM Apostles , vrere to re- \ iiit the earth * said to find OK . Owen engagedinhis greatwork , traversing . England * Scotland , and Ireland in his labour of love ; now crossing the Atlantic , and prouxulgatiug Ma views to the inhabitants of America ; now crossing the

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      German . Ocean ,, and visiting France , Anstria , payana ., and Prussia , to preach I * peace on , eart& and ^ d frill W ' l ^ - ^ bpim ^^ ffi d ^ -ii&i Eracticesi hy : which } wars might ; opase?—povef ^ r be * anished from the world , and crime nnHUQWn . JE 4 they were to Tind him sJtr ' engaged , and to MX these ten nseroenarr priests retnsaHg ttf ! insfrriet dbe inj mafesof ; the Wiorkhouse , ^ thout art augmentation of their incotaev can any . tinprejudiced -person dpnbi whTCh-ttronid be recbgniseid'as the trutj ^ hinstfans ? '' . In the first of Mr . Owen ' s two lectures , which we had rhe pleasure to hear him deliver in Leeds , he depicted tlie evils of the exiaimg state of sdcietyi that which he calls the old world ; and in his second lectnre presented a new classification of society ti form what he terms the New World . The new state

      of things he depicts as a state pf ^ existence ns fay superior in civilization ^ refinement , aud enjoyment to ^ at whioh fUjrjfseTiteximte , even in those / parts o |^^ Bi > rM . thiPw ^» t advance ^ as dees the mdqe * 4 lifrwj the parts' of fl ^" wj ^| d nids tadvahced : ex ceed feat' » f 4 teim ^ t : ; barb ^ w ^' ; ?' ¦ ¦ : "> ¦ : * .: ; - ¦ -, ¦ •>; .-: " . / -. ¦ ; : '\\ J ^ otu it vc&y be all ^ ery well tor those who themselves B ^ ve ddn ^ . notuiriiv Iiave pfacfised nothing or vrhosepracfict ; has been in a Innitetl spiere ' nfoccu * pataonfVor whb . se mind ^ Rrd Himd and pblifgniatic in a bjgh degree ^ tp say all tiua ja visionary , th ^ reticaV nnd impfacticabTe . Doeif not thefuture always partake tndre or less t $ the sisioiiiMry ? When ^ ouf ancesfors lived hottseles * in the fiirtsts with iheir £ oitlaubed with paintinstead of clothingif a

      »* , ; Mr . Owen had arisen up attfongst thein ; and pointed ont the disadv . ntages « jf that * tate *> f Mticm * . and had sheyn them how far superior it wonld & that they shaiild be protected fromithe heat of summer and the cold of wihterj by clMhiaf and by habita * tioiw , otconrse it wopld have been a theory vbut not the less true becauseit was a theory . If , in urging thera to abandon their present habits and enter on the new world , hft had proceeded to aticvr some of tlie more , distant effects ; suppose , for Jnatiiace * he had eanl tTiatniany of ibe women shall be clothed iii textures mnde from the rnrit of n tree growing many thousand miles off beyond the seas ( the cotton tree ) , and converter ]; into a soft , pliable , warm texture S that others shall be ftrrayed in a textnre still more

      beautiful , made from ii w ^ b fine as thatof the spi * Her's , and produced by a tiny insect ( the silkworm ) in another pn ' tt of the world that these suUstanwa shall be made of every hue which the rainbow pro ^ duces ^ and ^ all the combinationa of th « se colours 5 that both then and women shall dive ]] fa [ habitations boflt of materinls extracted , from thebovyels of the earth , —part of the sides of tii ^ se ^^ habitations shall be coi ^ trootftd of raatmals so | transparerit that an object may be seen from the outside as distinctly as though no substance intervened , and yet so firm as to bis impenions to both wind and rain ; Had the iMr . Owen of that day proceeded tostate these , and i small

      ; very pmportion of the infinite number of dis coveries which have siuce been made for the daily nsehfmen and \ roinen , of course hew . nld have been set down as < a visionary , if not a madman . And yet , with all our advances in the arts and sciences , with the thousand and one inventions for abridging hnnnn labour we now possess , is it so very chimei > cul to nnticipnte a time , when wealth of every kind mjivbt'pro -need in abundance for all , —when poverty shnl ! , tht'refore , cease , < Uvd con ^ qnently crime be atiiiiliiluteit , —when the liest education , moral , phvsic . 'ii , ftfiJ intelJ-ctcial shall he given to every human 1 > ein < r , and a . state ot existence of high enj eymenfc , be thftldt of all .

      ¦ whilst-we are firm believers that all which W really desirable find valuable in Mr . Owen ' s new views may ultimately or- realised , ani though we think ( lit ; time is rapidl y hastening for the necessary ch . •»» £ e . « , n « are n « t so impracticable , or so nsioflary as io . suppose , that men and women , witV their present tru-ininjr , nrfc lit snlyects to be suddenly taken frore tliL habits , modes , and practices ( if the old world into that of the new ; vre wotiW , therefore , caution the-more , zealous and enthusiastic of Mr . p ' . ven ' sMtipporten ! not to he carried av ? ay by tbeir imajrinntioh' too far , in preinntnrrfy arriving at resnlts . A dne mixture of cautiou , prudence , and fi iresglu . are neoensnry to be blended with decision mid boldness . ' Whilst we . ' would sayto : -th ' e " . direet >

      iug . ' nuiuj . < i da not hesitate , or be indecisive , pr stai . ionnry , w-e likewise say , do not attempt to hurry forward prinripl-s faster than circumstances seem to justify . Progress , siej > by stew - } and , though it may Mppnrently reijuire a longer time . to arrive at the r . q'iired requite in proceeding by measured paces f the objects will probably , by this mode , be accomplished enrlier than by hnsty prpceedingg . The Rev . Mr . « ik > s , a Baptist minister , attendsd Mr . Owen ' s itTtnres . It appears that he had in a sermon mave some auiinadversions upon Mr . Owen's views , and thnt some tuysoiia who thought his aniinadwrsions unjust ; . had invited him to attend and di . scn-s the « nl » ject . He enme torward nt the ehs * of i } if second lectnro , and in a verv

      eentlemnnly , propt-r , rwpectful manner , declitied to discuss them before that assembly . He said there was . much which ho had heard in which he-felt highly inttTVsteil . nnd fully concurred ; there was much in vvliich . lie ( fid not concur ,- 'bat' which ' . .-he . " -was not competent to c 3 iscn . s . «—he was no political economist , he wits iip-. Ktate . sH . tan , lie was no man of businesstherefore he- should not enter into those questionshe was a Cliristiau mini ^ twr , nud it was only with those partic ' njars , if such there were , where Mr . Owen ' s views opp . vsi ^ -l Clinsrianity that he had any thjug-to < io , "He then tnade the most nmole

      concessions as to the rigbt of o \ -flrjr person , Christian or Anti-Christian , to havo the full and unmolested r ijrlit not- only to tViiniv , Imt to express his opinions without persecution of any kind . He stated , moreover , tluit he tlwnght a public assembly , where the passions WduH . fc liable . to be excited by the partisans on wifli sHp , wonld not bn a proper place to discuss questions requiring calmness and deliberation , but that if Mr . Owen would state in writing what his views w ^ ro , ho would discuss the objectionable parts in the rolnmns of a newspaper , provided the Editor Would hold the scales even for both parties .

      Mr . Ovrrn refrrred him to his writings before the public for a fnrtber explanation of his views : if Mr . Gilts chooses .- ' to take up the controversy , the way is open . —Star ik the East . fin thfi article from which the above is extracted , some very severe remarks are made by our contemporary on ' ¦ '« . yonng iunn vvho . se name he could not learn ^ " Trho pnt soiivo quGstimis to Mr . Owen . This " young maul" was Mr . ( Jrei ? , and vre are confident , from what wo ' ktiow , of that gentleman , thattheharsh censures of the -Star in the East must have originated in misconception . We were not present at the time , but have spoken with Mr . O . ' s principal Iricnds , who fully concur with us , that the Editor of the Star has dealt more severely-with Mr . G . thah tbccircumstancos of the case warranted . —Ed . N . S . ]

      The Northern Star Saturday, May 12, 1838.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , MAY 12 , 1838 .

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      MACHINERY . CAPTTAL AND ITS ACCUMULATION ; THEIR EFFECTS UPON LABOUR * . ELECTIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE POWER ; THEIR DrRECT INFLUENCE OVER OUR INSTITUTIONS , BOTH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL . To Machinery , and its judicious application to man ' s relief , we are most friendly . It should havebeen man ' s holiday , but it has been made man ' s curee . We shall first show its unjust influence upon individual labour , and its tendency to prevent the

      application of moderate capital to manufactures . Under the old system of human power , a single man ' s labour in the market , formed a component part of the entire producing power of the community . If he hnd capital , he could work upon his own Account ; if he had not capital , he could sell his labour according to an exact marketable scale , established upon and regulated by the ascertained demand , and the united producing power of the community . In those days , ( when the labour market was kept steady by a . sumbcr of small capitalists , satisfied with afair share of

      profits , ) a money inducement was used by the roasters , instead of the knout bf the evergeers , to eke the work out of apprenticee . But as machinery has increased , not only has individual labour ceased to hold its value in the market , but speculation upon 6 mall capital has been destroyed . The natural effect of thus destroying the standard -of individual labour and small capital , has . been to subject the one to the mercy of the large capitalist , while the other has been thrown wholly but of the market The great field which the system opened for 8 peculation , induced the application of fictitidqs joint stock papery to the employment of cheap . lah « Br ,

      made cheap by too much' 'tad ino ^ ilcy , ' . which la « caused mov ^ -pr ^ ction . ^ ought to . fee the regulator t of c « niherce has Veeri subjected ^ fbr " want * f < l * Ws ^ to rtga ! ato : th e p : i ^ lis on machiaeryj ; to ; a paYScl of' gainLljng ^ speeulidors ; ¦ who have , g lutted tha foyci ^ Ui ^ - jitt . wiih . \ tlae piocceds of cheap labour j till mi length -we have lived to set Ae ¦ EngH 6 ii IibWifeiJ ' B ^ odyc » ,- st ^ ed : in foreign ; coanfaies ^ and , offered 1 > T : ihe gaiafcter it a less Eri ^ , than & saipje j ^ cjie ;; e ^ ifie : ' ; jiw i ft » r .- ' a ^ home j and all this takes place whUetjhe unemployed aie'Cialed ^ idle ^ '& «^ - / & ^ tlW ; j ^ irV i : exiBtence scarcely prewir ^/ tne ttnn ^ l ^ ra ^ o ^^

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      them ; over to the irttffian governor as a part of thtj uve ^ popia ^ on ^^ comirry . The : efifect )< k' thii ^ tem in ^; be ' gjr ^ alIn ^ shock is eoming , ' and ' no human power can now avert it . Credit ^ ust be ^^ upheld * , ba ^ e « and « pecui lators in labour are mutually dependent upon each other , and will therefore work together in support pf ; the systeni , unitJI theprofit of the iatter ^ s < v jdiminh iahes as to destroy > he security of the former | and then what becroies of the community dependent P | Km the ruined ^ regret if his' avarice merely ; entailed niisery upon himself ; but the misfortune is , that he is sure to

      have more than enough out of the seramble , While t ^ p 4 or laoouTer becomea the defenceless victim qf hi ? callous recklessness . Yet these creatures speak of , Radicals a » , niiptincipled scramibiBrs , ^ , wKVp they are thus preparing to leave ^^ them . nothm ^ to scramble for ; At this moment the masters aris labouring to keep their heads above water , working their mills just so long , at reduced wages * as will save appearances with the creditor , and be less expensive than , keeping the idle machinery in order . But can they goon manufacturing without money , and can they have such a return from overstocked markets as will enable them to meet

      their engagements ? Certainly not , and what then becomes of the unemployed hands ? Can they starve ? Ought they to starve ? Or will they starve ? Or will the landlord (" now in lore with the Poor Law Amendment Act , ) be satisfied to feed the whole unemployed community ? Will the Shopkeeper be able to pay taxes out of an empty till . Will the Squire be able to live out of the refuse of his estate ? For let him be assured that ( however the law may now constitute him legal proprietor and give him unrijatrained

      power , ) a starving community will teach him that the labourer must be first fed before the idle owner partakes of the prodnce . ¦ Will the Exchequer exhibit the usual proceeds from dissipation upon which our educational Government exists ? No , for most probably while we write the Shop-keeper-general , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , is learning , from the financial returns , that a coercive abstinence and forced morality is the ruin of hia system . On Friday night , he will be upon his trial ; and however the expenee attendant qpon a

      royal funeral , a coronation , a necessary provision for a Queen Dowager , and the subjugation of Canada may come to his aid , yet he , like the minor shop-keepers of the nation , will find that an unemployed community will leave a scanty Exchequer , while the means of suppressing general and organized discontent must need to be augmented . He will learn that the political support of the moneymohger , in return for the Poor Law Amendment Act , was " purchasing hw whistle" at too dear a rate , and that however the saving bank scheme

      may for a season divide the injured ' , party , the grievance has yet become too general to make the hungry many subservient to the monied few : , who are joined to corruption by the golden link of despondency . He will also find that an insulted and misgoverned people will not tamely allow the pampered and fatted dragoon horse to strengthen upon their produce and their food , to make havock in their lank and ragged ranks . A community fighting for the means of existence , cannot be successfully resisted by the hireling fighting for the preservation

      of tyrannical power We return to the question of small capital and labojur * - The man with a small capital , and not possessing the confidence of a bank , is now thrown wholly out of the market , while his unavailable oanh is lodged in the savings ' bank , —the people paying the interest , and the Grovernment paying the Ministers of tyranny out of the speculation . Thus does the people's money go to increase the debt upon the one band , and stake worth preservinf on the other , while the labourer , who works at a rate of wages regulated by the whim of the gambler , has no guarantee from hour

      to hoar for license to work , and when he does work , he lacks legai protection for an equitable distribution * of the pronu > . Tfeua « tUe gamesiei , wno sitdown at ^ jthe gambling table with a bank of a million , is sure to gather unto himself at the long run all the small banks at the table , so is the present system sqre to sacrifice . both labourer , small capitalist , and shop-keeper to those who can command most money and the largest credit , until at length the whole commercial speculations of the country trill be ve 9 ted in the hands' of the most successful gambler . These things are too plain aud clear to admit of doubt . And now we come to show

      the pernicious effect of the system upon what is called the Elective Franchise and Representation , and likewiseupon our Political and Social Institutions . To those whohave witnessed contested elections in manufacturing towns ho comment is necessary ; they are aware of the machinatjons ^ jised by the masters in support of that man whfPhas the astendancy of capital ; they are acquainted with the power of the overseer , and the dependency of ^ he labourer ; they know what is meant by loosing the men , or keeping them locked up dur ing the poll , and the penalty

      upon the virtuous refractory ; and yet we hear of the unbiassed votes of the independent electors . The effect upon representation must consequently be the enactment of laws suiting the supposed opinions of the people through the constituent body , and the constituent body being thus filtered through the masters filtering machine ; the pure remain unrepresented , while the representation of the dregs make laws for ali , —that is , for all who select the amount of the elective body that they caa bribe or intimidate ; and this is " Peace ,

      Retrenchment , and Rbform . " The effect of such a system upon our Social Institutions is to drive every man from society who will not prostitute himself to the ruling passion of the gamblingfaction . The great tyrant is Autocrat in that locality which has been handed over as the price of his political support . He is the framer of Municipal laws , and where they operate against his interest , he has the power of correction , by a threat of withholding his political support , till the power of bis Municipal party is complete . In society he is a

      drunken gormandizer ; at Council meetings he is the bully of his party ; in the : House he is the slave of his passions , and th * tool-of his rnasters ; and in society he is the rule * ' of thofle upon whom his very existence depends . ; Without education , hel << full of prejudipes ; and without ideas , he blindly follows in the path of those upon whose position he depends for station and respectahilityi Away , then , with the whole system at once jitbe wound is too-deep to be healed ^ by partial remedies ; theijiation ' s heart ' s blood 13 flowing too ' rapidly- to be stopped by ordinary

      stypticks . Talk nor to n « of your Eleven Hours' Bill * or yoW Eight-Hours' Bill } the demand will regulate the supply ^ and if we have now two hundred fold the proancing power Which we recentlyhad , either the prodiKSera-niost work ia proportion pr . eAse thoset who falkirf over population must create a sufficient populatioti .: tot reo > ire-. the - increased produce . Qive i ub ^ theay ^ he only remecryibr all our social and political maladiei ? i riiaicw-everY niun :. in .. tiis ;» rtiiiual state as lie might be in his nataral Btateyhisown doctor ^ by vincKis the restorative ; in' hb hand ,. which in IT ^ flVEESAL SUFFRAGE 111

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      TO TM ? I 5 WT 0 R ? OF THE ^ ORyHBRN STAB . ' ; , . . •' , , . , vV - - \ ';¦ ^ ; -:-:,- '; rLb naQn ^ J ^ : 2 lid , ; j 838 ., ' .. My mtii SiitS )—You ^ wiili « ee , Jbyvthe ; Morning Papers of'yeaterday / that file : Whig p anacea ; for Ireland ' s w 6 ee . alias the " Pbbr BeUef ( Ireland )

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      Bill , ? iwas ^ qn Ttfonday night , a ^ fe radeliic ^ T ^ T ^ ie length on the fliifdireading , ' carried oi ^ ti ^ BvS&on , Y ^ zmqo ^ tyot &i tn ^ ¦ tea been greatly altered in ^^ C ( 6 mihittee ; \ & WtBllL ^ tfmt though '' '" wei may ' irtUI jrecog ^ e sdirie - ' of < B » harsher features of the original , it is substantiallj * a new Bill , embodjihg new defbfmJtia pecnBiir % » iteeif ; Md ^ ^ to after a Albion ( atotgptber ' : different '' ¦ from W ^* The Bill , a « it pnginiUf sibodj providedforonly ^ ie erection of lpfr work ^ ouaes / c ^ aW modating i ^ pw *^ eacli ^ or 80 jQON » pereoni altogether . TheAtTnionil were ? ^ to Ife each ^ QO ^ 'inHei

      square , or to ccm ^^ tiq ^^^ y ^^^ andiii ^ ran c ^^^^^^ as crime * ^ fiBaihMci ^ j ^ d whne tfee workiotJse $ * $ 0 ut ^ f& \>^ aiyjno « T ^« fidtt ^ M ^^ iff ^ ra ^ Gfaisfo . : W p ^^ 000 ^ e ^^^ a ^ aboVe the prescribed number , 8 & , ^ 6 | foutod ; ffie&-selves in this condititm , ( amonnting at parficnW seasons to a million and a half , ) were to ejdst ' after some unheard of fashion , which the Bai / dldiiot ^

      coadescend to explain , and which nothing Short , of Ifrvine interposition could realize . There-war to'te no room for them in the workhouses , 6 t rather no workhouses for them ; the Bill had no provision for fiinploying or feeding them oat of theVbAhou . se % j they were not to be it liberty to 'help themselYeS ' at their rieighbours' expense ( a privilege allowed onljti > the « higher orders ; "J and lastly ^ if found begging or roaming in quest of charity , ( their present tnAy means of living , ) they were to be committed W rogues and ; vagabonds , and disposed of the "Lord knows how ; for ie would be just aa hard to flnd gaols enough to coi ^ tain ^ ihem , as fofihd workhouse *

      will theiw nkinst ^^ Bill ; but ^ alas ! they are ^ mi ( tedo ^ y / to ; pVe ] aliic « to fresh ones ^ which are jusi as extrayagarit ^ Just' 1 a ^ atfirijlfffiofis ^^ in smoke and disappointment . Instead of the tyrak r meal , but ^ fa ; erf legislation of the original Bill , Ireland receives from the amended one no legislation at all , other than what an ambulating triumvirate may hereafter choose to give them ; in other words , tie amended Bill determines nothing ; for the Irish poor , except that they are to have no out-door relief , leaving them in every other essential respect , to the absolute will of the Poor Law Commissioners . Thft

      latter will , therefore , be at liberty to eTect as many or as few workhouses as they like ; to expend one million or ten millions for that purpose , or only the half of a quarter of a million , if they think proper j to make Unions of any form or extent they please , from ; 1 O square miles to 400 ; to levy whatever monies they please upon the rate-payers , for the annual expenses of the poor ; to say to one por&m of the destitute , " Come hither , ye who hunger and are naked , that we may feed , clothe , and comfort ye "— to say to another portion , " Get ye away t *

      Nova Scotia , or the kingdom come , for at Nature ^ banquet there is no vacant cover for yoia . " In short the amended Bill is , in all its essential parts , a Bill of blanks , which the Commissioners are empowered to fill up , and which they will not fail ( as they value their salaries ) to fill up in the same fashion and spirit in which they have filled the bellies of the poor of Bridgewater and Cirencester ; they will fill them with bastilization and belly-ache—with short-commons and water-gruel . The . only essential improvement in the original Bill is the omission of the

      vagrancy and other clajses to prevent mendicancy * This , is a downright salutary improvement . Any attempt to enforce those clauses in the present state of Ireland , would be an attempt to exterminate two millions of the people ; for two millions , at least , preserve existence by mendicancy alone . With all the " omnipotence of Parliament , " ( as Blackstonb terms it , ) it cannot make human beings resign life without-a struggle , —it cannot debar two millions , of them from a privilege which is allowed to the bird * of the air and the beasts of the fieldgr-the privilege of roaming in quest of food .. . . . lad ' eedy seeing that the country has neither gaols to contain them nor fund *

      Cu ILccp ttieui in gaol , 5 i wonM Tip . phyaically impossible to stop their vagrancy and mendicancy , unles * by shooting them , as sportsmen shoot wild animals j but that pastime once commenced , away would go the estates , and down would come the Aristocracy and Squirearchy to the level of their merits . Oh no I there can be no law tp suppress Irish mendicky until there shall first be a law to prevent Irish destitution ; and laws to prevent destitution in Ireland or anywhere else there never will be , until the destitute masses shall begin to legislate for themselves Nothing short of Universal Suffrage will give Ireland the legislation she requires . Nothing short of suck legislation will rescue her poor from destitution

      As long as the destitution continues , no despotism on earth can prevent them from begging and roving ia quest of food . The Parliament haa , therefore , most wisely abandoned the vagrancy and other clause * against mendicancy , as " utterlyimpracticable for the present . " , The Bill , as it stands now , is not legislation , but a cpnfe « sion by the Legislature of ita own incapacity to legislate . It does not simply , like the original Bill , confer on a Board of Commifisioners certaiii executive powers to carry into effect the provisions of an Act , but it actually delegate * to those Commisjsioners its own delegated powers ! It invests them

      with authority to enact the provisions , m the first instance , and then to execute afterwards ; thus constituting the said Commissioners both Legislativ * and Executive , and arming them with a power over the public purse , and with powers of life and death over the Irish poor , which surpass in despotism any powers ever known to exist in the feudal ages , or under the most absolute monarchy of the present dayj

      Should this Bill pass the Lords , and receive thej Royal Assent , it will not be an Act of Parliament , ( in the ordinary sense at least , ) but a declaration by Parliament that , finding itself incapable of legislating for the poor of Ireland , it has therefore abandoned all legislation on that subject to airiumvirat « called a Board of ComimVonet-s , whom the natiomj disavows and repudiates as Leg islators—whom th » electors of the couatry know nothing ofy and who ? i the non-electors aBhor as the Devil is said in Rom « to abhor holy water . Such , men of England , ; is the boon vouchsafed to your fam ' shiDg brettiren in Ireland . ' Such is the last scene of the last act of the

      trag ico-farcical-melodrame ^ rhicfa your " Reformed " Parliament his been playing for the last seven year * at your expense . The most harrowing scenes , -yo « perceive , are got up in Ireland , because there the soul is , as it were , attuned to tragedy by long familiarity with the horrible . As the first act opened witk Coercion , the scene was appropriatety laid in Ireland . Not le ? s appropriately does the last act closje in the same country withthe terrific scene of the ^ Pktil-King' ^ turning the pockets of the people inside ouk ^ covering fte land with huge unsightly prisons , water-gruelKng Mb incarcerated victims , and dealing diarthffiaanddeath " aft around ^ him . A . capital acen *

      for Ireland t . The deWte oa this occasion was in every respect worthy of the finale . Anything toi e < jualrthe ignorance , biundering ? , and contempt of public opinion , manifested by the debaters , " it would bedifficolk to matchrout of the "Housei of Commonsf itself . But as it * ronld occupy too much of your space to analysa tbq ^ debate here , X-willj , fitik jrqur permi * jio % reaerye thw part of the suj ^^^ iily next . " ? _ ¦¦ ¦ ' - : ' ¦ . '' . '¦ ' ' ' ' - ¦¦ ¦" ' . '' / ¦ ¥ && ft' 9 & ? . ¦ i- ' / ' '"¦¦ .. - '¦ . ' ¦ ¦ : '" : . ' ' ' ' ¦ - ¦" , : ¦ •¦ :. ¦ ....- ¦ ¦ ¦ ..:- : ¦; ¦ . .- > ¦¦ .: : :,: ^^ r :: ? jiftONXHEtBRV-

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 12, 1838, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct348/page/3/