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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1841.
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      FEOS QTTB . LOS 1 OS COEESSTOXDETT . Wednesday Evening , Aug . ifh . The trades are beginning to moTe in the good cause , the coppersHuths have followed the bright example of the masons , the shoemakers have likewise joined , so that we are like ' y to have the London trades right in the n = ldliie btruggle between the masters and the journeymen coppersmiths , is alone continued with the firm of Poi-Ufex and Co ., the other masters having given in . The straggle has been , snd is , a most severe one ; already hare SDbscripSona to nearly £ 700 been Blade . CrTY OP Loxdox . —Hx . Spun preached at the rooms , Old Bailey , on Sunday evening last , to a numerous congregation . On Monday next , a concert will be given at tie above rooms , on behalf of Bronterre 0 Brien , to commence at eight o ' clock . MJLKTLEBOSE . —A concert and ball was given at the "Working Men ' s Hall , Circus-street , New Road , on Monday last , on behalf cf Bronterre O'Biien ; though the rain poured down in torrents throughout the evening , a ^ numerous company assembled to do honour to the man for his unflinching adTocacy of the people ' s cause . The amusements were continued till an early hour of morn .

      Bosor&H op MiBTLEBOSE . —The supper to TV . Tiliifirs Sinkey , Esq , will come off on Tuesday evening next , at the Feathers , Warren-street , Tottenham Court Road . St . Pascras . —A public meeting was held here on Monday last , for electing delegates to the County ConnevL Messrs . Fuaall , Goodfeilow , and Humphries-were elected . Tower HaMLEIS . —Mr . Wall lectured here on Sunday last , at the Charter Coffee-house , Brici-Une , % rt (\ will lecture in continuation next Sunday . WHITECHJ . PBL . —Mr . Spnrx lectures on Sunday ergmrg next , at the freemason's Arms , North-street , WiiitechapeL

      A Ptblic Meettsg was held en Tuesday evening last , at the Social Institution , Whitechapel , to elect delegates to the County Council , Mr . Spurr , in the chair , Messrs . Drake , M'Garth , and Mills were elected . Angry discussion was indulged in through a charge brought by X Mr . Piekersgill against Messrs- Fox and Brake . Mr . Wilkins was likewise elected a delegate . The Coppersmiths will shortly hold thtir firtt meeting as Chartists . FlJiSBrBY . —At ' . he usual meeting in this district , ? &r . Spurr in the chair . It ira » resolTed , " That a remonstrance be sent to the Executive against the sitting of Mr . Philp . ' when Mr . Spurr had the majority of votes over Mr . PM 2 p . A number of new members were fenrolled . Hoxrox . —Mr . Ba " : ls lectured here on Tcescay evanrng last , at Plu ^ b ^ -street , city .

      TO"W £ E ILiMLETS A public meeting of the inhabitants of the Tower Hamlete , was holden on Tuesday eTening list , at Mr . ShevelTs Anction Room , BethuaJ Green . At sefen o ' clock , the chair was taken by Mr . Frszar ¦ who opened the proceedings by stating that the meeting had been convened by the Radical Election Committee of the Borough , to lay a report of their proceedings before the public , and if the puV-ic was satisfied with their proceedings to ohtain its support For fiveyeara had the Hamleta been without a Radical eandida . ee , although essentially Radical ; he hid yet to learn that they were satisfied with this state of affairs ; if they were not , they would assist the committee in forming Branch Associations , that was the primary object the Committee had in view—the second object

      lras to enlighten the mind of the electors as to the great trust reposed in them , and to cb ' . ain that suffrage Which the Reform Bill gave to the people—a suffrage nearly universal- From a lonf eonise of snbmission to certain parties , from feai of dividing what was eillea the liberal interest , they had been prevented from proceeding in the straight forward course of obtaining that essential reform which was required ; and , instead , of & petty Cora Lsw agitation , a Church-rate agitation and such like agitations had the people been agitated to obtain a farther reform in and of the House of Commons , they would be much nearer of "obtaining those easent al and substantial benefits , which all reformere must wish for . ( Loud cheering . > He was really surprised to hear a man proclaiming

      himself a Universal Suffrage man , as Mr . Sidney Smith did , indulge in such twaddle about Corn Law repeal , and descend to mean abuse of the aristocracy , when the gresi battle was to obtain a reform of that House which allowed such laws as Corn Laws to exist . The Chairman concluded by calling on the Secretary to read the rjport , which , on the motion of Mr . Cleave , was adopted . " Mr . Simmons moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting , aware of the great good likely to arise from this Association , pledges itself to apport the same , by enrolling or becoming members of the Association . ' Though a stranger to thosa present , he was not a stranger to the principles of Radicalism . He had not come alone , but to represent a branch of that Association , the members of which were

      determined to carry out its objects , fct they felt ¦ wit h hiaiielf they had been deceived by the Whigs , who promised largely , and performed nothing . ( Htar , hear . ) Mr . Le Clerc seconded the resolution , which was carried mjinimously . Mr . Shevell , in moving the next resolution , would commence by reading the 30 th section of the Reform Act , un ^ er which they obiainul the power of getting compound householders a vote . After reading thi 3 , those prestnt would not be surprised to find the Yestiy Cleifc determine that the A = sociaiioD was right , but not , perhaps , a little surprised to and that though the Yestry Clerk said so , the Ytrstry ha 4 decided that the names cf the parties claiming , though every legal technicality had been complied vith , shoul . i not be inserted rshame , shame !; bus he tnis clad lo

      find the Reform Bill met the difficulty , and tLat th .-u- ^ b refused , they could go before the R « vising B . uristtr , anJ gain their rotas . Hs knew the reason of tie Yestr ? having irted in the manner it had done , was to prevent persons obtaining a settlement in the parish . ; Hear , hear . ) He believed the people , if they would exercise iheir virtue , would soon be enabled to avail themselva-a cf tie provisions of the Reform Act ; he would do all he could to assist them ; the room should be opened to Jhem free ot charge , and whatever he was able to perform , he would cheerfully undertake . For himself , though the owner of houB « s , he was not afraid of his tenants becoming electors , though afterwards , it might

      keeome their « nhappy lot te be the denizens of that building which w&s now erecting , and which would east £ 24 , 000 building , indeed he thought that after livisgfor many years in a particular neighbourhood , ahould it unfortunately occur they were obliged to have recourse to the workhouse , their neighbours would I » the best persona to give them , that solace and relief &ey might require . ( Cheers . } He would continue by moving " That for tha attainment of the object the association has in view , district committ-. es be immediately formed throughout the Borough of the Tower Hamlets . " Mr . Cleave rose for the purpose of most cordially seconding the retoluiioa . Mr . Shevill had stated that be had resided for twtnjy-four Jiili

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      amongst tte men of the Tower Hamieta , he ( Mr . Cleave ) had but lately become aa Inhabitant , but h « came to that meeting to assist hit friends , ind because he desired to have his name on the register . He owed no apolegy to those who were not Chutists for being present ; he was a resident of the borough , that was his whole explanation to them ; t » those who were Chartists he would state that he came forward to avail himself of a secondary means which he possessed , and which was in the power of those like himself to exercise in behalf of the principles wbieh he advocated . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel had told his followers to register , and he ( Mr . Cleave ) would say register , for by so doing they would show to the middle class who had thtawn them orer-board , that

      when they ( the Chartists ) had a privilege they would exercise it , and that they were not indifferent to their franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) He could trace all their evils from bad laws ; and would a reptal of the Corn Laws repeal all their grievances ? He was convinced not , and therefore he was for going to the bottom of the evil to eradicate all , for he would ask , would the Corn Laws have been passed ? would the Poor Law have become law but for bad legislation ? ( Hear , hear . ) He was glad to find them associated to work oat the principle of registration , -which , though a secondary means , would yet be a powerful auxiliary in their march towards universal liberty , and for tha obtain * ment of those principles which he , in common with his brother Chartists , advocate . ( Some persen here

      exclaimed "Tell us about the Northern Star . " ) He would tell them this , that as agent for the Star , and as the proprietor could cot then speak to those present for himself , that the Star would ever be the advocate of justice , and though the evening was so unpropltlous , yet the reporter of the Star was tbere even at Borne distance from the great centre of the Metropolis j and would coEcludo by stating the resolution had his most cordial support Mi . Boggis moved & Tote of thanks to Mr . shevill for his handsome behaviour towards the association in granting the use of the room , &c" Thi resolution having been seconded , was put and carried unanimously . Mr . Shevill returned thanks . ThankB were then voted to the Chairman , and the meeting separated .

      The Mason's Charter Association is progressing rapidly . They already number upwards of one hundred . At their weekly meeting , on Saturday night last , three Councilman were elected to sit in the County Council . It is their intention to visit the various trades , and urge upon them the necessity of forming Associations , to procure the Charter to become the la-nr of the land . A deputation waited upon the coppersmiths and braziers . Mr . Watkins and Mr . Spun accompanied them ; when a resolution was passed to form an Association . Deputations from the masons also waited upon seven bodies of shoemakers on Monday last , for the purpose of forming an Association : they were well received , mJ aa excel ! ent cpirit was manifested amongst the various branches of the trade which the deputations visited ; and as soon as arrangements are made amongst the different branches , a numerous Association will , in all probability , be formed . Deputations from the masons will wait upon all other trades at the earliest opportunity .

      Depifokd DrsTRTCT . —On Sunday last , the Sarry County Council met , Mr . Rose in the chair . A good muster of friends attended , and some excellent speeches were made by Messrs . Maynard , Rose , Dodd and Brown , the latter gentleman proposed the following resolution : — "That seeing an article in the Horthem Star of a public meeting held at Birmingham , where Messrs . 0 Xeil and Collins figured so conspicuous ] y , but despicably , we caanot sufficiently show our contempt for such characters , bat by recording our utter detestati&n of such persons , and consider them not worthy the confidence or notice of any reasonable man . " Mr . Wheeler , from Kensington , then delivered a most powerful lecture . He exorted his hearers to stick to or join the Charter as the only means of putting a stop to the tvils under which they laboured . He was much applanded throughout , and after a vote of thanks to the Chairman , the meeting dispersed .

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      " The Chartists hate proved themselves more accurate calculators thas the middle classes . Whether their j > -o-trcm would have mexded mattees is sot - vow the tjufstion ; but thk result HAS SHEWN THAT THEY WERE CORRECT IN THEIR opinion — that in the present state op thk repre se . vtatjon , it vtas vain to thi . tk of a repeal of the corn monopoly . ??? *?*? Political poweb is this covntbt , though it resides in a comparatively small class , can only be exercised by the sufferance of the masses . "Morning Chronicle ( organ of the Whig Ministers ) Friday , July l $ ih , 1841 .

      LORD FRANCIS EGERTON AND THE ROYAL LOYAL AGRICULTURAL VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND . So then , it appears that the bloody Tories are resolved upon following , to the letter , every bad and dangerou 3 precedent established by the bloody Whigs . We me « t this subject hop-st-a-venture , in as mnch a 3 we have no better direct evidence of the Noble Lord ' s intention than the mere assurance of the Leeds Mercury and the Manchester Guardian , but , in truth , even that issefficient , as the character of Toryism ( however the Times may attempt to place the mask of Conservatism over the moaster ) famishes evidence to justify any , the most evil , forebodings .

      Thevalliant " clod-poles" it appears are designed as a Tory reserve upon "which the Right Honourable Baronet may fall back in the event of any Irish dissatisfaction being practically evinced towards that reign of terror which ever hasbeen , and ever mustbe , a consequence of Tory pre-eminence , bo long as the poorest Catholic people oa the face of the earth are compelled to work and slave and 8 tar ? B in rag 3 , while a bloated , insolent , pampered , shooting , Protestant clergy , live upon the fat of the land .

      " It would not be politic to increase the army , " says the Government organ , We must naturally conclude , then , that the new force is intended as a substitute for : he Irish army of occupation , designed for church service in the land of parsons . The Whigs have no right to complain of such a step even if taken ; not the least ; because Lord John Russell set the example in 1839 , when he invited every enemy of the people to enrol in similar corps ; with this trifling difference , however , that in Lord Egerton ' s case he will furnish arms at his own expence , while in Lord John ' s case , the people were to to pay for the instruments of their own destruction .

      Upon the other hand , as we feel convinced that so large a draft as fire hundred thousand—the number of Irish volunteers offered by the Liberator for the suppression of Chartism—will not be required for the Irish Bervice , Mr . O'Connell has no right to , complain . Who then has a right to complain ? Why we , and the English , the Irish and the Scotch people have the right , and , with God ' s blessing , we will fearlessly exercise that right : and fortunate is it

      for the cause of liberty that we had the hardihood to stand out , though alone , abused and struggling in that dread hour wheu plausibility gave to tyranny the stamp of patriotism , and when every hand was raised , and erery Sctioa of law was brought into action against a defenceless and unarmed people . Aye , we have through the mighty struggle kept clean hands , and now we can oppose tyranny without the dread of retort .

      What , then , the reader may ask , do you justify , and will you defend the Tories in their project at horfe , and in their projected assault upon the remnant of Irish liberty ? No , indeed , we will not ; bu : on the contrary , strong in our numbers , our union and the justice of our cause , we hurl defiance at Lord Egebtos and his volunteers , and at the Baro-et and bis appropriation of them , and we here tender some advice both to the projectors and the people .

      Lord Francis Egerton is that Lord Leveson Goweb who was a Cabinet Minister , in virtue of his office as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , : q his early days—the school in which Wellington , Peel , Stanley , Castlereagh , and the military chieftain whose conduct i 3 now under consideration , were one and all brought up ; and a most infernal school ii is . True , the noble Lord Egerton , while Secretary for Ireland , devoted the greater portion of ais time to making bad verses—as he is a poet ; but , nevertheless , having a strong pre-disposition towards Orangeism , little time was required , the seeds of tyranny were sown , the love of church was strongly imbibed , and a hatred for e ? ery thing Irish was confirmed in the leisure moments stolen

      from the muses . Under such impressions , then , we may reasonably inr ' er that Ireland is the immediate destination oi that portion of our regular troops whose place i 3 to " be supplied by the Noble Lord ' s volunteers . In such ca = e it is ri ^ hr , presumingupoa Lord Egerton ' s ignorance of military tacticu and evolutions , to give him some necessary hints . " Imprimis . " Then we

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      would strongly recommend him , upon all occasions of field exeroise , review , inspection , or sham-fight where firing is practised , to ba cautious in the selection of ground , because / request instances are upon record of such neglect leading to great misfortunes Of all things he must be careful of bis wadding , as it not unfreqnently holds fire for a considerable time , and may be blown to an immense distance . We also recommend the Noble Lord , in the event of being brought into action against the wearers ( whom

      his order has reduced to rebels ) to furnish his men with all those ready implements of death and torture found so useful in Ireland in the years 1797-98 , and which obviates the bore of making prisonerssuch as travelling gallows , pitch-caps , tar , feathers , the triangle , picket , and , above all , a goodly supply of detonating torches to demolish houses , and also with bridles , and saddles , and spits , all instruments in general n » under his predecessors in Ireland , and , of course , the practice of the countries is to be assimilated .

      Perh&pB our re&Aen , cnlpably ignorant of the Irish Rebellion , brought about by Lord Castlkkeagh , under the immediate superintendence of Mr . Pitt , for the purpose of uniting the oountries , may not be aware of the use of the saddle , bridle , travelling gallows , and roasting Bpit , and therefore we beg leave to inform them . The Black Horse , called the " Ancient Britons , " and by the Irish " Hu 3 sians , " from their " Hessian boots , " and which corps did much cruel destruction , did , in more instances than one , put a saddle

      upon the bafik of an Irish prisoner , and a bit in his mouth , and bo saddled and bridled , to the great delight of the corps , ride him , showing off his paces . Plowden , in his History of Ireland , makes mention of the fact—which he corroborates by the very best testimony—of an English regiment , pn service in the county of Wexford , having roasted an Irishman alive , and the historian ' s words are , that upon one person refusing to taste , a comrade pressed him , and observed , " Paddt eats sweet , AND I KNOW IT . "

      Perhaps the office of travelling gallows may be a valuable addition to the patronage of a Tory Government , when we assure our readers , that a gentleman filled the situation in 1797 and 98 , in Ireland with great skill and humanity by hauling his victim with his hands and feet tied over his shoulder , with his back to the gentleman ' s back , lest be should use his teeth ; any person doubting our assertion , may satisfy himself as to its truth , by reference to any officer who served in Leinster during the above period , and to whom the said gentleman was known by the title of the " waftins gallows . "

      Having offered so much advice to the noble commander of the volunteers , who , it appears , are to answer the people ' s call for bread with bullets , we now turn to those whose interests ever have been and ever shall be our especial consideration . To them we Bay resist the contemplated inroad upon your libertiesby every means , ( constitutionalmeans , ) in your power , and upon the very first authentio announcement of the fact , let all who cannot meet by day , meet by torch-light—it is legal , quite legalthe proclamation has expired , and no law is in existence to prevent it ; therefore meet , and send a humble petition to the House of Commons , setting forth your determination to resist the unconsitutional step , and also complaining of the necessity imposed

      upon you of being compelled to meet in the dead hour of the night , in consequence of no portion of the day being at your disposal . Say that you are slaves , but that you are resolved not to be willing slaves , and not to be slaves loiiger than you can help it , and , above all , that you will not tamely submit to the manufacture of new military fetters . Say that you will not allow Ireland , or the Irish , to be coerced for the benefit of tyrant landlord * and shooting parsons ; and tell the House , as you have a right to do , that you will meet the very first attempt by pawning your very last stitch of clothes , to place yourselves in a position to defend your lives , your remaining liberties , and your homes , against domestic invasion .

      The law does not profess to recognise any difference between the poorest man and Lord Egerton , and whatever preliminary steps the law allows the Noble Lurd to take , before the law legalises the act , the people are justified in imitating to the letter . Let every act be legal and constitutional , and let the petition , if needed , be signed with the name ia full , with the age and residence of the petitioner , and let it be confined to those who are liable to be ballotted for service in the militia ; in short , to fighting men .

      For years we have been pointing out the fact , that the Whigs were filling Ireland with a standingarmy of polioe-men ready made to Tory hands , while they were simultaneously increasing the army from which any number may , upon emergency , be drafted to Ireland . Perhaps Mr . O'Connell has now felt or begun to feel the folly of his policy and the necessity of organising the mighty power of a great , a brave , aggrieved and insulted people , for a better and more noble purpose than that of keeping a Whig Government in office in order that he may be part partaker of the fruits . We fear he will now find that every complaint will be met by reference to

      Whig precedent , of which he has been so shameless a supporter ; and in truth , it is well that drowsy Ireland has at length received a Tory prod which alone could turn her waking energies to consideration of her all but hopeless condition . In the majority of the Tories , in the articles of the Times , in the materials of the new ministry , in the machinery furnished during the last nine years by the Whigs , and in the new levy of clodhoppers , in one and all we recognise an intended further subjugation of Ireland , and we caution the Tories , the ministers , the Times , and Lord Egerton in time , and we tell them that the first blow struck at Irish liberty , will be answered by a mighty and resistless English blow struck at the head of the monster , tyranny .

      We are not going to stand upon etiquette with our Irish brethren , or to visit them with sins in which they had no participation . They were no parties to the threats of the annihilation of Chartism . They did not rejoice that the Monmouth massacre was committed by Irish boys , with an Irish Sergeant O'Daly at their head . No ; and if they had , we should , in the generosity of our nature , but heap coals of fire upon their heads by returning good for evil , and extending to them that assistance which they refused to us .

      It may be that Mr . O'Connell , resolved to uphold abuse , the destruction of which he sees ia the establishment of our principles , may still recommend tie rejection of all fraternity and union ; but we tell kirn that it will not do ; that the suffering people will not longer tamely bear oppression that others may fatten upon abuse ; and , above all , we tell him , that however both he and his blind followers may fondly cling to prejudice , as the means of preserving a profitable popularity , that the English people will not allow their Irish brethren longer to be experimentalised upon b f factioH .

      We had intended , according to promise , to have said mnch more , and in a very different tone , this week , upon Irish affairs ; but , as Mr . O'Coknkli . is now placed in a siteation in which he must " come o « i "—as the hour has now arrived when his judgment to design , and ability and courage to execute , those great measures , for the conception of which he has long had credit with his countrymen , must be tested—as the day of trial has at length

      overtaken him , when his own followers shall be called upon to pronounee their verdict upon his conductand , a 3 we are resolved justly to judge , and fearlessly to pronounce judgment according to evidence , we abstain from any comment which may lead to the slimiest anticipation of faction from that demon upon which it fattens—Djscobd . Ireland possesses ample materials for her regeneration , and the restoration of her parliament and her liberty , to a valuable extent , beyjnd which she ever

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      — ¦ ¦ ¦ » i 111 - i M i i i i . — enjoyed the blessings of ^ either , if those materials are only fairly , honestly , and energetically applied . If Toryism , ( he hereditary enemy of Iceland and liberty , is to be annihilated , it will require other and stronger measures than the fee-fau-fum-ism and hobgoblinism of " Our religion is in danger , "" Cumberland is coming , " and M Keep the Tories oot . " Upon our part , the Irish patriots shall be disarme d of every pretext . We tell them that the people ot England are with the Irish people to a man , and we

      further tell them that in compliment to them we have abstained from plaoing before them this week the maddening picture of suicide , which their country now presents in the 13 th year of emancipation ,-and the 10 th of Reform . We are , however , from respect to their feelings , and honest prejudices , resolved to leave no peg for discord to hang a cloak upon . United we stand , divided we fall ; and aocursed be the interested knave , or wily trickster , who from personal motives would perpetuate abuse by preserving discord .

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      • TWO FACES UNDER ONE HOOD . " The Times has been buisily engaged for some time past in the Herculean labour of reconciling us to the old foe with anew face , but we assure the great stage manager of St . Stephen ' s , that however he may hope to disguise the stinking carcass of Toryism , under the specious name of Conservatism , or to put the angel face upon the demon form , that like the cat in the fable who personated the fine lady , the old bawd will forget her assumed dignity and station , and display her real nature upon the first fitting occasion .

      There certainly is no better depot than that of Printing House Square for turning out a perfeot Jim Crow made to order ; and nothing can , we presume , be more consolitary to the worthy foreman of the establishment , than the pleasure of palliating in others , upon a large scale , what , in vain , he has tried to justify upon his own account , namely , the abandonment of all principle . Meantime we have too strong a reliance upon the power behind the Premier expectant , even were he prepared for such a leap aa the Times would lead us to anticipate , to imagine for a moment that Toryism , with so large a majority ,

      backed and emboldened by the boasted re-action , would countenance the Right Honourable Baronet in any costume but that in which the part of tyrant in the national tragedy has always been dressed . And if Sir Robert Peel attempted to " rat , " the fine lady of the Strand would very soon resume her cast-off nature , and meroilessly pounce upon the " ysrmtrtf . " No , no . An out and out Tory administration is the thing , the only thing , which Sir Robert would dare to form ; and out and out Tory principles are the only principles upon which the power behind him will allow him to hold office .

      The Times weuld lead us to imagine that the Conservative of to-day is not the Tory of yesterday ; that he is the real March of Intellect Reformer , whose measures should keep pace with the judicious requirements of the age . Upon the other hand , much as the Times has laboured to strip Toryism of its wolfs skin , it has failed to show us any symptoms of its milder nature under its new garb , for while we read of past errors and promises of amendment in one number , in the next we are startled by the assurance , that all abuses are not only to be preserved , but that the greatest of all , the Church abuse , is to be increased ! in fact , that upon the Church and the inviolability of its possessions , endowments , ascendancy , and power , the old foe with the new face will take his stand .

      The Times has laboured hard to prove that the Conservative and the Tory ; are not of the same genus ; and without attempting to combat the many columns bo unsparingly devoted to the subjeot , we presume to offer our definition of a Conservative . Briefly then , the name was assumed as a set-off against that of Reformer , not as the Times would insinuate to contradistinguish the Tory from the

      Whig , as a person who would oonserve and uphold what was sound and valuable of our institutions ; not as a make-believe that he intended to act the passive part of opposionist to innovation , while he was ready for all safe changes , but in his characteristic obstinacy to denote his determination to conserve Tor yism in all its purity , until , by the chapter of accidents , he should be once more called to legislate upon Tory principles .

      Independent of the sponsorship of the Editor of the Times , we find him also vouching for the general satisfaction which shall . follow the embryo concoction about to be produced by the Right Honourable Premier expectant , for all our grievance ? , as well social as political . In fact , never did spoiled child in his most whimsical moments , build a more fanciful card-house , than the great architect who has been lately engaged in erecting a " papier machie" conservatory or ' -cobby-house , " for his own and his silly readers' amusement .

      The Times assures us that Sir Robert is much too good a tactician to cook bis hare while puss is at squat ; and yet the bottle-holder of the Tamworth champion has the impolicy to count his chickens before they are hatched . Sir Robert is not tet Prime Minister of England . Sir Robert will mot be Prime Minister so sosn as his friends imagine . It was one thing to force a Minister into office iu 1831 against the will of th « Monarch , a

      majority of the Lords and a majority of the Commons , and another thing to force a Minister into office in 1841 , though backed by a majority of the Lords and a majority of the Commons . Ah ! here ' s the rub . The Times has once again fallen into the error of considering a majority of the slavish , swinish , purchased clod-pole electors , or rather " pollevil" race of serfs , as a majority of those people who did the trick in 1831 .

      Now if the people were able to beat King , Lords , and Commons , iu 1831 , is it not very likely that the peeple , much improved ia a knowledge of their righta would be able to boat the Lords and Commons , deprived of Royal assistance , in 1841 . Aye , says th <} Times , but the Star assured us that the people will take no part in the contest . No , it did not . It never did any such thing . The Star does not thu 3 commit itself and its party , as tho Times does . The Star said the peoplo would take no part in the mere struggles of faction . But

      suppose a case , and not an unlikely one . Suppose that the 0 , 'ieen should open her new Parliament , and we make her a gentle present of it , for its " none of our child . " But suppose that she had learned wisdom and gathered knowledge from the recent elections , and suppose that her " comulting physicians , " ( for be it observed , the " quacks" are not yet dismissed j aDd Dr . Slop has not as yet been called in , ) had discovered a new feature in their patient ' s disorder , and upon consultation they had agreed that a crisis must bo hastened on in order to ensure

      recovery ; and suppose the Qieen was , in her speech , to propose such remedies as patient and physician approved . What then ? Suppose our virtuous ' young Queen was to express her indignation , at the manner in which her appeal on behalf of tho starving portion of her family had been met by the well-fed portion ; and suppose she should have discovered that the present system of representation was no more than a bargain and sale of human stock ; and suppose that the only way of

      preventing such a barbarism in future was by making the stock too extensive for purchase ; and suppose " the friends of her youth , " rather than abandon her ( for office is no object ; its all for love ) , could bring her pliant mind to believe those things ; and suppose that she , good soul , rather than be abandoned by them , and surrounded by the new wolves in "LAMB skins , " could agree in tha suggestion , why then , the Lords and Commons would weigh but as a single feather in the scale .

      Now , 13 not the Times well assured that the Whigs will have another round for it before they give in , or allow themselves to be counted out ; and is he not convinced that the next Royal speech vriU be the

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      GREATEST ROYAL SPEECH that ever was delivered ? As a matter of course , Royalty and prerogative will be well fenced and nicely guarded , for although the Whigs have given the thing a wide range and long tether , yet are they vastly tenacious of its hocus poens" influence ; and , upon that account , although Her Majesty may not say a word about barricades at Manchester or Birmingham , yet there hay be a something in the speech , a single

      plum in the pudding , at which the " IGNORANT PEOPLE" MAY CATCH , and consider it worth their while to think about . Suppose even another dissolution , without any organic change . Why in that we would join , and for this reason . If our terms were not accepted we would be sure to Bay Ditto , or perhaps something worse , to our last answer to the Royal Appeal ; and then away go " the friends of my youth" Ladies and Gentlemen , all to pot .

      Does the magician of Printing-house Square suppose that there was nothing in the Royal visit to Woburn ; in the absence of Little John , or the presence of Little Arthur and the Lamb t Does he imagine that the Belgian pauper king , who is sure to be here just in time to have his finger in every Whig pie , left , before he had carried his point , and extracted some assurance from his royal niece , and a promise of frequent curtain lectures from his pauper relative ? Does the magician not know , and know well , that Dan , in the event of a Tory Government too strong to be resisted by the constitutional appliances of the Corn Exchange , would very soon be the means of kicking up a shindy

      or an emeute in France , in which M . Humann's fiscal arrangements would be a powerful auxiliary just now ? And does not the magician also know that tho Belgian King is as great a jobber in railroads , and all other species of traffic , as ever his predecessor . the old flat bottomed Dutchman was t and does he BOt know that a barricade in Brussels would be a sure " sequitur" to a barricade in Paris , Dublin , Manchester , or Birmingham 1 And does he not know that the said barricade would be a very significant notice to King Leo that his provision from the British " idle paupers' fund" would be in a very precarious situation 1 Added to these , has he forgotten M'Leod and the Yankee Doodles 1

      Now , this is a long chain , from America all the way to the Corn Exchange ; but yet every link of it is sure to be forged and united , ia the event of a Tory Government daring to rule th » nation Upon the principles laid down in the Times , and through all time supported by that faction . Th ese are very bad times for trade . Thousands upon thousands of good , honest , virtuous men , vrithfamilies , much dearer to them than the law of primogeniture families are to their unnatural parents , are out of employment ; and the great stage manager of St . Stephens may rest assured that her Majesty's Bervanta will not swell the list , so long as they can avoid it . There is no more wretched oreatare than the haughty fool who is too proud to work , and too poor to live in idleness .

      Ministers are like the old Scotch servant , of whose attachment to place Sir Walter Scott gives us bo striking an instance in one of his inimitable novels : " Willie , " said the Laird , " you and I don't Bleep under the same roof th' nicht . " " And where the dc'il would your honour be ganging to at this time o ' nioht ? had not you better stop till morning V was the pithy response of the old retainer , who imagined , and justly , that past services had entitled him to a settlement .

      Ministers seldom leave office with a good grace , except when they see a very good prospect of getting back again constitutionally and SPEED ILY ; then they walk out like a well-bred dog . But now , good lack ! to walk out and to have eighty or ninety Tory nails driven into the door the moment their backs were turned ! — pooh ! pooh ! they would be " quacks" indeed ; as well

      coffin them up at once . Ah ! no , the whole thing has gone far beyond the rule of legitimacy , and that was the very thing at which we aimed . We have raised the leaping-bar some eighty or ninety notches above legitimacy height ; and the salient Whigs must either take it in sporting style , without balk or touch , or stay at the wrong side , for they may be assured that they shall never again gammon us with the " fool's leap "—a run under .

      . If the Whigs were ia a minority of some twenty or thirty , we should be worse off than ever ; we should hare a bit of constitutional device—a scene of heroics in the bedchamber—a tight lace to be cut to let out royal spleen—a fit of royal hysterics , or , perhaps , an awkward prognostic or two repeated by the royal parrot , in the hearing of Sir Robert . But , alas ! all the " quacks" must now be dismissed , and Dr . People , the State Physician , must be called in to watch the crisis . The inarch of intellect has taken the question out of the narrow limits of expediency , prerogative , and legitimacy , and has placed it within the rational boundaries of common sense .

      The Times may hope to dupo subscribers and advertisers by abusing Whig tactics , and practice the very errors for which , " mutatis mutandis , " he contends , as a necessary prop for the re-decoration of Conservatism . The Editor does not see that , while he challenges the Reformers with an attempt to regulate the franchise according to Whig interest , that he has forestalled the new physician himself ; and in his overture to the coming

      campaign , nay , in his long symphony , he endeavours to tune the Irish franchise according to the Tory " gamut . " Ia fact , whatever Blender reliance the credulous might have felt disposed to place upon the new version given , of Conservatism by tho Times , the awkward and premature vanity of its Edi tor has led him into the egregious blunder of blowing down his own houses , by furnishing us with a too early programme of the performances and actors .

      We take Conservatism upon the Times own showing , and we unhesitatingly declare it to be a new " coat of mail" for Toryism ; yet are we nothing daunted . We anticipated the appearance of the monster in shape and form according to its presumed strength , and that strength will prove the ruin of Toryism . The ignorance of a people is the tyiant ' s best title to power , and the ignorance of rulers is the people ' s best title to rule themselves . The ignorance of popular feeling , of national require ments , of national

      will , is made manifest in the columns of the leading organ of new-fledged Toryism ; and ^ our duty , therefore , is to meet it , beat it , and having plucked it of every feather , consign its rotten carcase , and for ever , " to that bourne from which no traveller returns ; " and , ah . ' had the Whigs but rendered us a timely and honourable aid , we should long since have been relieved of the pestilence of Toryism in all its multifarious shapes and forms ; but , alas ! while they were sowing the seeds of popular discontent , the old foe was reaping a rich harvest from

      dis-. Again , we say dissolve , and bait your hook with tho Chartist fly to catch some thirty Chartist fishor " pull baker , pull devil , and the devil part the couple 1 . " for never again , will the people be caught by tho expediency fly . ' You may fish , and fish , and fish away , till you are black in the face , without one " nibble , " or even a single " rise . " The people now feel their importance . They have willed their freedom , and freedom they must have , even in spite of double-edged Toryism , mild Conservatism , expediency Whiggism , or ° two faces UNDER A HOOD . "

      THE CONTESTED SEATS . Elsewhere , in our number of to-day , will be found the opinions of counsel upon the question of our title to the contested seats , as well as upon our chances of success . By reference to those opinions it will be seen that both agree in the view taken by Mr . O'Connor , and although he had not the necessary authorities for reference , yet was his reasoning in strict accordance with those authorities cited by counsel . Mr . O ' Connor agreed with

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      " ¦¦ * s » Mr . AusTuiJthat tho question would be one of law , and for the committee to decide ; and farther added , as to Newcastle we have nothing to expect front a party committee , as each faction has a seat to defend . ' . Having very minutely and attentively perused the opinions of counsel , and having also called our own poor illegal ( or rather non-legal ) jddghesi to assist in a conclusion , we have no hesitation ia givirg it as our opinion , that the Chartists must succeed , or some dreadful consequence most follow the forcible ouster ' . of their constitutionally elected representa

      tives . Every man of common sense most sow be aware that J . B . O'Brien , Esq ., is the legitimate member for Newcastle ; and we use the word legitimate in its only legitimate sense . That Georok Binns , Esq . ia the legitimate member for Sunderland . That Col . Thompson and Robert Lowert , Esq . are the legitimate members for Edinburgh ; that— Eagle , Esq . is the legitimate member for Norwich , in spite of the

      Hell-bora-Dover ; and that in all oases whore like illegalities have been committed by returning officers , those Chartists who had a majority of hands in their favour , and who were , in consequence , declared duly elected , and where no poll was taken , mind taken , not only demanded , but taken , that in all such cases the said Chartists are the legitimate Members ; and we have to beg that a list of all such cases may be forthwith transmitted to us far consideration , with a plain and simple statement of

      facts . Wo have been now near four years editing the people ' s paper , and imany more have we been devoted to the advocacy of their cause , and we unhesitatingly declare , that never , within our memory , had the people ' s cause suoh high ground to stand upon in a legitimate struggle with faction . Let us just reflect for a moment upon the result which would be produced all over the empire by the unjust or capricious decision of a Committee upon a matter so vitally important to the people . The peeple say , " We are ready to rely upon our moral

      means for the advancement of our cause ; and in the prosecution of those means you close all the doors even of legitimacy against us ; and thus hurling defiance at our legitimate resources , you invite us to the only alternative with which nature has armed the brave oppressed , who recognise more torture and shame in the slave ' s existence than in the freeman ' s grave . " Let it once be understood , in addition to all . other causes of irritation , that while whim closes the front-door of representation against the poor oppressed , whim also holds the master-key

      by which the rich oppressor is admitted by the backdoor . Let it be but fairly understood that while Macaulat , Gibson , Cbaig , Hinde , Orb , the Marquis of Douro , B . Smith , Alderman Thompson , and D . Barclay , who never polled a vote and who were rejected by electors and non-electors , constitute a portion of the House of Commons , O'Brien , Binns , Thompson , Lower ? , and Eagle , who were legitimately returned by the only poll which was taken of both electors and non-electors , are not only excluded , but are excluded because they are the friends of the " poor oppressed . "

      We ask if a more powerful reason could be urged in favour of a great organic change ! We ask if argument more convincing could be adduced oa behalf of Chartism % We ask if any one circumstance could more tend to rivet the attention of all to the means resorted to for the suppre 3 sio n of the moral advocacy of the cause of the poor in the House , which should be their own t We think not and although corruption has thrown many impediments in our way , even to a hearing , and has

      clogged the simple principle with complicated and expensive forms , yet have we sufficient reliance upon popular honour and national love of justice , to feel assured that nothing that energy can do , will be left undone to secure for our leaders that position te which their blistered hands ( bless them ) have proudly entitled them . Oh , it would be a noble sight and a dignified answer to tyranny , to see O'Brien going hot from the Whig dungeon into the House of Commons , accompanied by all London !

      We need say no more . If these things are worth contending for , the means must be supplied . The Repeal Rent for last week , announced at the Corn Exchange , was between £ 600 and £ 790 ; while tis " Chartist Seat Fund , " at the end of a month , stands thus : — " Feargds O'Connor , £ 5 . " ThiB is really too ridiculous t let every shoulder be at once put to the wheel , and let the means be forthwith forwarded to the Treasurer ; as Mr . O'Connor , cannot be expected to go further vpqs HIS OWN ACCOUNT . If the seats are lost , the people will have lost them if the means for their recovery is withheld .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, August 7, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , AUGUST 7 , 1841 .

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      PROGRESS OF SEDITION !" Br the powers but we do get on ! The papers in the " Whig interest" seem to vie with each other , as te which of them shall force the Solicitob General—( Attorney General we have none—heto " annihilated !")—to prosecute them for " seditous libel . " There actually seems to be a race , as to which of the conductors of the Globe , the Chronicle , tho iSun , and the Examiner shall first reach the " condemned cell" ia York Castle there to eujoj eighteen months of solitary confinement !

      The Whigs are beaten—therefore incitements to Riot!— to Revolution !—to Swing !—to assassinate ! —to carry ladies' heads on poles !—to " trail" their lifeless bodies in the streets ! are now the order of the day !! What is to be the ond of all this I H suc"h incitements , and such ail-but recommendations are given even now , before the Whigs are out , what may we not expect when they are shown down stairs ] We know what was done before , when

      they wsre threatened with dismissal . We have not forgotten the " We will pay no more taxes f the " bloody axe ; " the " craped executioner ; " the " crown upside down ; " and the " three groans for the Queen ! ' » ¦ We have not forgotten the things then done ; and are prepared to expect that any thing and every thing , will be done by the cowardly and treacherous faction to regain possession again of place and pay .

      We have , on former occasions , noticed the " seditious and treasonable" recommendations put forth by some of the papers we have above enumerated . We purpose here to present our readers with a collection of several , that they may see how far Whig writers are allowed to fco with impunity , when the object to which their recommendations tend , is to bring back the Whigs to power , or to sustain them in it . We have before noticed the fact that the Glok some time ago announced , that the battle-cry was to be : " Bread or Blood ' ! The Sun , when speaking to Tory parsons and Tory ladies ,

      said"It has happened that ladies' beads have been carried about the streets on poles , or trailed in the dirt ; and it ha 3 happened , sufficiently -within recollection to SERVE both FOR a warning and AN EXAMPLE , that a priesthood has been compelled to find safety m Bight , and . those who braved the popular indignation forfeited , their lives to their temerity . " The , Chronicle , as we shewed last week , talks at " Barricades" being raised , if the Whig Budget is not adopted . Hear him : — " France , iul 830 , according to the oracle of Ta-nworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed tne slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is not France disturbing at thii moment , the prospective success ots Tory Budget ?

      " We must have monay , " says M . Humann . — Toulouse answers by a barricade . . «« We must have money , * says Sir Robert PeeL" ~ Manchester and Birhikguah may answer any budget but the Whig one , with a barricade . " ' The " evening organ of the "Whig Ministry" also thus discoursetb . : —

      " Whoever' else may have forgotten , the Du * e ° Wellington has not ceased to remember the Frencn revolution , of 1830 , nor the effect which the ww days' events in Paris had upon tho public mind m w country . The same causes which accomplianea i " downfall of the elder branch of the Bourbon lamuj

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      ^ TO THE CHASTI 5 TS OF QHEAT BRITAIN . £ Brother Chabtists op Gkbat Britain i—I ft * T 5 had the { pleasure to meet the Committee formed here far the purpose of forwarding and circulating the Kor-nern siar in Ireland , and have been much gratified to £ ad them inspired -with the noblest spirit and resolve to ( tttv out the very important object for which they have been formed I hare found them most intelligent disinterested , energetic , and in every vray worthy of the fullest confidence , and I assure you that they have not only fonrarded those Stars -whichhaTebeen transmitted to them , in the most prompt and judicious manner , but have , * t their own expenee , sent a large proportion of the lrhule . I have Been many letters from various parts oi tfce country , breathing the boldest spirit of liberty and

      almost imploring your aid through the committee . They lam-nt most bitterly their inability to purchase the Star ; they describe how they have been deluded and deceived by their press and their demagogues ; they express their conviction that immense good has resulted Iron ; the limited circulation of the paper , aad explain vith clearness that a proportionate amount will be the effect of an additional number being sent . They have been made to believe that you are not only the deadliest f oes , bat thai you thiisted for their blood ; but that the " peep o'day , " the light of truth , has shorm upon a por-Hon ot those unfortunate and deluded brethren of the sist > : r isle . It is vitally important that the utmost exertions should be exercised in order to enlighten tbtir darkened understandings , and prove to them that we

      are tieir best friends ; that our struggles are far their emu'zipation , net less than that of our otd ; that vre hsV - long deplored the daikness in which they have beei < kept ; that ire are delighted to have an opportunity to stretch forth to them the right hand of felloe hip ; that tre are most anxious to abolish all distincuons of nationality , to merge every difference . of religion or politics , to establish the right of all to worship , unrestrained or untrammelled , in that way in vine a his conscience dictates &b the right , asd that ire should become as one family ; that ire should aid snd assist one another , never ceasing our mutual and bes :. ffjrl to that end until the Charter is the law of the land—until every man in the United Kingdom has a

      toi « in mating the l&m he is bound to obey and in imj >; sing the taxes he has to pay . And nothing ia so veil calculated to effect this object as the diffusion of oar ..-r ^ an among our Hibernian friends . And when 1 asurs you there is a very great falling off in the numbers recci vtd by the committee , I feel that any appeal to you WitcII be sapeiflaoa ? . Oa the contrary , I have llie fuli' -st confidence that every Chartist in England , Scotland , and Wales will vie with each other in carrying out -bis object , and you may all rest assured , that even a limited attention to this , after a speedy perusal of jcvt own Stars , will soon annihilate the entire infiiraee of the mercenary demogogues throughout irtT . snd .

      Ti-rTelore I implore you \ o forward the S ! ar lor any othir democratic paper ; to Mr . B . Macartney , 13 , CrosshaH-.-treet , Liverpool , within four , if possible , but positively within seven daya of the date thereof . I am , My kind Friends and Brother Chartists , Tour devoted Friend , L . PlTK-ETHLT . Liverpool , 3 d August , ISil .

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      A THE NORTHERN STAR ;

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct561/page/4/