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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1843.
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      KuUSE OF LORDs . —Tcesbat , A ?* n . 25 . - Xord CXMPBELi . « s 5 d he had a grest number of petitions lo pre » ent , ssaiMt the Factories Educational 201 ,. ' % rtw it had not yet come before the House , it T ? ouW be irregular to present them . He mentioned the fact merely to same those who had entrusted him ¦ Wife the petitiom that he had performed his duty , and ¦ was prevented by the forma of tt » Houbo from presentins ti 2 t . nu ' In aiiS » ef to some remarks from Lord Mouteagle , the I > ake of Wellington said the snToject of the Poer l&v in Ireland "was under tha consideration of the Government , and Hie whole qnestion relative to pauper lnnancs would also be taken into consideration .

      The Duke of Wbliisgtois moved an address of congratulation to her Majesty , on the bath of another PriDcesa , which was unanimously adopted . Hia Grace then stated-that on Thursday next he would move an address of condolence to her MajeBty on the death of { he Dakeof Snssex lord CiKPBEU . asked the Xord Chancellor -when he * wo 3 ld lay hia Luna"do BUI before the House , but Joe snrwer -was not saiwfaetory;—the judges -were to he « oiiiait « d , and the judges did not wiah to be connlted . He thought his Lordship , some four -weeks ago , hid a Bill leady ioi meeting snch horrible -crimes as that committed by M'Nanghten .

      The MarqniB of CLAKaiCiSDE gave notice of a motion on Qib Irish Poor Law , for the 4 th of M ay , and ttie House adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Mohdat , Apbil 24 . Sir Jambs SsiBiX gave notice that on Monday next he -would sate the alteration he intended to propose lo the educational clauses of the Factories ' IJin . On th&t day , therefore , he should propose to go into committee pro forma , in order to tie enabled to put the Hour in possession of the details of the proposed alterations . The CHiKCHLXOB of the EXCHFQXJBB intimated Ins intention of making hiB fin ^ m ^ statement on the 8 th of May . Sir jAJtES eBAHAM , in reply to Sir John Easttope , said that Canrcn- » te returns from 10 , 000 cut of the 12 , 000 parishes of Bnglasd had been received , and would be shortly laid on the table of the Boort - ¦ Sir Bobsbt ~ Pxkx ,, in reply to Sir B . H . IngOs , saia , that the debate on the Ecclesiastical Conns' Bill wonld be renamed on Friday .

      lord StaKZBT , in isplj to Lord Joan Kussell , inumated that , in a day or two , he "would state -when he ir # nJd be . aWe to Jntrodnce tbe Canadian Corn Bill He promised also to snpply the Bouse "Frith information on the subject of the duties imposed by the Assembly of Jamaica on the produce ef the United Kingdom—a proceeding ¦ which be considered most Objectionable . On the motion for going into a Committee for Supply , air . Williams made a lengthened statement -with relation to the financial management of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and in the coarse of which he argued that our colonies , especially those of the West Indies , were an enormous expense to this country .

      Ht- Bbbsax said that it -was a mistake to suppose that our West Indian Colonies "were expensive to this eonntry- They , in iict , contributed mainly to their on expenditure , in proof of -which he " adduced the { act , that his own- property in Jamaica was taxed to an amount fire times greater than the returns he received from it lord SXJ 00 . 2 T agreed with the general principle that colonies should be made to contribute as fa ? u passible to their own expenditure ; many of the colonies were already doing so to a great extent-Six Hottxbd Douglas complained of the insufficiency of funds in the colonies for the purpose of spieading Uwgotpel . The Church Missionary Society tu not only unable U send out additional missionaries , tu : could not eves keep faith "with those already lent out . The Lokd Mat ok made inquiry respecting the powers of the GovexEmenfwith respect to emigration ; m reply to -which ,

      Tsrfi starlet expressed the uneasiness -which be ft-ir at the hardships to -which the intended emigrants to Pnnce Edward ' s Island had been exposed , as evinced by the recent proceedings before the Lord Mayor . Bat the fact "was , tb&t the SoveruBjent had interfered is this Tery case to the utmost extent of its powers . In October last , they hsA received information -which led them to suppose that in the case of the emigrants who -w £ fe going out by the ship Barbados , some deception was going on , and the Government emigration agent bad been directed to inquire into the matter ^ and lo give every assistance to tbe emigrants . It tamed oat that the 'vessel wa 3 well found ; that she had an aboniiaat sapply of provisions ; and that , in fact , the requirements of thb Passengers * Act had . been carefully

      complied with . The British American Colonization Association bad Tepresenled that they had purchased 72 , 000 acres of land in Prince Edward ' s Island ; and as tiiis land ¦ wts alleged to have been purchased from private individuals , and not from the Government , there vas no ^«»»™«»< H » t » Trvwyna of ascertaining the fact . The emigration commiasioners had even gone beyond their powers in Bus case . They remonstrated -with the company ; represented to them the period of the year ¦ which rendered the attempt extremely htssrdous ; but they -ware met by assurances that every possible precaution had Deen taken . The Government , however , * i * a sent out information to tbe Governor of Prince Edward's Island , -with instrucuon , that if the - vessel should Arrive , he -was to afford every protection to the Emigrants , and to compel the company to perform t&-¦ wards them the obligations "which it had undertaken . The ship sailed on tha 1 st of November , and on the

      ISth ef December -was driven back to the Cora fl ^ Cork . The emigration ageiit in that port , os inquiry , had ascertained that it tt * s the intention of the company to support the emigrants ' on board until the ship should again ^ e ready lor sea , and that it should be once more provisioned for the voyage . It had been represented in February that the -vessel -would sail in March , and yet at that "rery time the mortgagee -was in possession of the -vessel . This "was a distinct fraud , Application bad been made to the Treasury for its interference , and the Crown solicitor was employed ; but , on the dissolution of the company , it was found impracticable to -Obtain a legal remedy . The company , however , had been sanctioned by gentlemen of high station , whose Barnes must have conduced to enabling it to inflict the hardship and suffering -which the sufferers had endured ; and , if sot legally liable , he trusted that they -would -at least feel the moral obligation they -were under , -to repair She TninchM of which they had been

      instruments . The House then -went into a Committee of Snpply , proceeding'with those estimates which remained over from the recess . The -rotes lor the expenses of the < JoTernmen 4 B of New Zealand , and of the West India "Itlanflu , i&ised some eonrensation ; and on the grant lor our consular establishments , after some remarks from Mr . Witt-tarns , Dr . 3 OWBTSG called attention to the great importance of rendering our consular representatives efficient for their duty by previous education , especially the necessity of a consul being able to speak the language of the country in which he is stationed . Xord Staxxst admitted the importance of the subject , "which vas at present under the consideration of the Government .

      A number of Totes passed , -with some general conversation } but on the Tote for the expenses of the Steam Kavig&iibB to India , by way of the Bed Sea , after some remarks from TJt Bo wring , Sir Bobsbt P . eel -warmly eulogised the liberal conduct of the Pacha of Egypt , who ,, nnder tircum-Ktanees calculated to make him think that ve -were opposed tehis interests , had manifested a-very enlightened spirit , in thB facilities he Xad afforded to our transit through Egypt , and across the Isthmus . Sir CHaxles TJapibb . concurred in the compliment thus paid te the Pacha of Eycpt-The remaining votes having been agreed to , the Chairman reported progress , and the House resumed . The other orders having been disposed of , the House adjourned . Tttesdat , Atsxl 25 . Many petitions were presented against the Factories Education BilL

      A new imt -was ordered for Salisbury , in the room of Mr . Brodie , -who had accepted the ChUtem Hundreds . Mz . T . Dcscoitbb presented a petition from the Rev . W . Bro-wne , -who had been dismissed from the situation of chaplain of Knutsford < &ol , complaining of the conduct of the magistratea of Chaahire , and praying inquiry into their cvndnct . The Hon . Hember gave notice , that he should move that this petition oe priitod vi&t&e-rotes . Mr . G . W ; Woob brought up the special report from the general committee on petitions , recommending Hiat the petition , of W . Jonas , a prisoner in Leicester Gaol , complaining of the eondact of M * . Baren &umey , and praying for inquby , and other petitions to the same effisct , beprinted for tiie use of Members only . Ordered accordingly .

      Mi . Mtj 2 pht , a » member foi Cork , presented a petition from that place against transferring &e contoaet for mail coaches to a Scbtchman , -which excited loud laughter . A discussion took place on the Sonfij Eastern , Croydon , and . Lxm 3 on Railway Bin , » hsn on a division , there -was a majority of 46 against the re-committal of the SOL The Bill-was , after some discussion , ordered fe > be engrossed . ' - Mr . - TiixiEBS postponed his motion on the Corn Laws , till the 9 ih of May . Sir BobSat PEELniadea statement lelatire to the Degotisticms with Portugal asd Basil , for eommercial tre » ties , bsAit conveyed . no information on t >> rau > important subjects .

      The Right Hon . Baronet then proposed an address of eondolenee to the Qaeen on the death of the Duke of Sussex , which "was agreed to . He also proposed an address of cangratulation to her JIajssty on the birth ef a princess , which -was also carried . MtRiCABDO brought forward his motion oh import datks , -which led to some discussion , and "W 33 ultimately rejected by a majority of li . The other orders of thBday were then disposed of , and the Hodw adjourEed at half-T > aat twelve o ' clock .

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      lifDiA . —We hare received by extraordinary express Calcutta papers to the 5 tb ait ., inclusive , bToajjht to Alexandria by the extra steamer Tenaaserim , to Malta by the Cyclops , and thence to Marseillesby the Acheron . Col . Fr&ser was & passenger , the bearer , it was surmised , ot important despatches , the precise nature of which had not transpired . The papers thos received are almost destitute of political intelligence . The successor , of the late Maharajah of Gualior was to be installed on the" 20 th nit ., and no opposition to his accession was to be apprehended . Lord Ellenborongh twaa still at Agra , whither he had proceeded from Delhi on receipt of the intelligence of the late Maharajah ' s decease . No news of a later date than that received by the ordinary mail had been received in Calcutta either from Scinde or Cabul .

      Falmofth , Apbil 19 . —The Royal mail steamer Medway , Commander Smith , arrived this afternoon with the Har&nnah , Jamaica , and other West India mails . Her dates are , from St . Thomas ' s , the 26 th of March , Bermuda , the 3 rd , and Fayal , the 13 : h instant . She brings thirtv-five passengers , and on freight B 5 273 dollars ; £ 2 , 677 in donbloons , £ 640 in jewels . 1 . 637 *> Z 3 . 17 dwts . gold dust , 929 oz . silver , and £ 7 , 4 ) 00 in British gold and silver . The Royal mail steamer , Trent , brought the Jamaica mails to Sl . Thomas ' sjher date ofleaying was the 20 th March . Three severe * hocfcB of aa earthquake were felt on the morning of the 22 nd of that month off tbe « ast end of St . Domingo , Her Majesty's Bhips Illustrious , Warsmte , Pique , Scylla and Imanm , were at

      Jamaica . Her Majesty ' s ship Spartan had sailed for Santa Martha . Her Majesty ' s steamer Gorgon was at Barbadoes . The Royal mail steamer Clyde , with mails from England of the 1 st of March , bad arrived at St . Thomas's . The Royal mail Bteamer Bee left St . Thomas ' s with mails for Demerara , &o . The Royal mail steamer Avon brought theHavannab mails to Bermiida . Jnst as the Medway was quitting Jamaica , Her Majesty ' s brig Scylla arrived there , having on board General Boyer , President of Hayti . There was no time for the particulars relative to his visit to transpire , but it was Inferred that the insurgents , or patriots , as they called themselves , had carried their point , taken possession of Port-au-Prince ( which was anticipated ) , and had compelled his deportation .

      The British and North American Royal mail steamer , the Hiberaia ( a ~ n « w -vessel ) sailed on Wednesday afternoon from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston . She carried out the largest number of passengers ever taken by any of the line to which she belongs . Severs ! gentleman conld not be accommodated with berths , and were refused a passage .

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      THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN SWINDLING AND MURDERING SOCIETY . Such ought to have been the title of an attempt to pray upon the defenceless , as unprincipled and heartless as anything we ever remember to have read of . Our readers will find the whole matter detailed elsewhere under the head " British American Association , " It appears that a number of adventurers , of whom the chief acting men seem to have

      been a couple of pettifogging Attornies , put forth prospectuses of an association of shareholders , having a million of pounds capital , and offering tempting terms , to emigrants in the shape of cheap passage to Prinee Edward's Island , and cheap land on which to locate themselves on their arrival . They were all on their arrival at Prince Edward ' s Island , to be located on the lands of the company , which they were to purchase from the Company at a very cheap rate ; the object being , of course , the most benevolent one of improving the condition and circumstances of the Emigrants . At the head of this infamous

      conspiracy to rob and plunder the most defenceless por . tion of society were a Duke 1 fifteen Peers ! , ' and forty Baronets !!! Several foolish people , lured by the attraction of these great names , and supposing the purpose of tbe Swindlers to be honest , gave np their Tittle bosineBses and home comforts , —raked their little possessions together , paid the wretches £ 30 , £ 40 . and in some caseB £ 50 , for the passage-money of themselves and families , bargained with the association for the purchase of lands from them in the Colony , and set sail in the month of November for Prince Edward ' s Island , a place in the 47 th degree of North latitnde .

      These poo ; wretches , instead of being landed and made gentlemen of at Prince Edward ' s Island , are now in London Dock , in daily expectation of being cast out into the streets to perish , After being fleeced of every farthing they had in the world . It turns out that" the Company" had not a single acre of land either in Prince Edward ' s Island or any where dse —that the ** million" of capital was s great lie , for they had no capital at all , —that the ship in which the poor creatures had embarked had been chartered , provisioned , and laden with cargo , all unpaid for , — that the captain who was to have gone with them ,

      never got a farthiDg of money for himself or his men , —and that the deliberate purpose of " the Company" was , in case these poor things escaped the perils of the ocean ( a thing next to impossible at the time of the year when they started ) , and got to their destination , to turn them adrift to starve ! I i The deliberate contemplation of ench wiokedness -would be almost incredible , were it not evidenced by their own admissions . The matter is however put beyond all doubt by one of the ** directors , " a fellow named Campbell , who seems to have been a main man in the business , and who makes the horrible avowal with the utmost coolness imaginable .

      In November last , as we have said , after having been sloped" of then " passage-money" to various tunes—some £ 30 , some £ 40 , and some £ 50 , —the unfortunates , fifty in number , men , women , and children , set sail ; and after having gone about half way across the Atlantic , the captain tells us that the ship encountered heavy winds and Be&s , and was bo dreadfully battered as to be obliged to put back to the nearest eligible port , which was Cork , a distance of 1 , 300 miles . On the 22 nd of December , she reached Cork , where she remained until the 9 th of

      April , At that time the captain , who seems to have had no share in the Company , but to have been himself victimised as well as the poor emigrants , was preparing again to attempt the voyage , when he received orders to proceed—not to Prince Edward ' s Island , but to London . For London , accordingly , he sailed ; thither he brought the unhappy emigrants , and deposited them , minus their all , akd with hoticb to quit the vessel , in the London Docks . This produced , as might be

      expected , some complaints on the part of the destitute voyagers , who had been ihus cruelly tantalized and robbed . They were advised to proceed by summary process , before the Lord Mayor , against the Owner and Captain of the vessel ; when all the particulars above recited , and many others of a similar character , came out in the examination of thia Mr . Attorney , Commissioner , Director , Contractor , Ship-owner , Campbell . Mr . Campbell insists n ? on it that he is a most virtuous ill-used man ; taat he has much more reason to complain than the

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      emigrants ; that he has been grossly deceived by the Company—though he was a ohief Manager , Director , and Commissioner of the Company—and with two or three oth er fellows , might be said , in fact , to be the Company . He says that he has been ruined by the speculation ; that he has lost his Bhip , and lost every thing ; though it does not appear even from his own story , that he has paid a single farthing into the funds of " the association , " or that he has

      paid a single shilling of wages to the captain or crew of the vessel , or to the provision merchants , or to any body else—sot even for the cargo on boardfor the obtaining of a part of which a warrant was issued against him , on a charge of swindling , and , to finish all , the ship seems to have been mortgaged for £ 750 to begin with . What has become of all the money paid by the poor emigrants nobody seems disposed to tell .

      The following colloquies between the virtuous and ill-used Mr . Director Campbell and the Lord Mayor will give some idea of the utter heartless , recklesB , petty thievery which has been practised by this company : — " The Lord Mayor—I find in this printed paper a number of great names ; tbe names of a Duke , fifteen Lords , sod nearly forty Baronets . Yon are amongst the ami missUmers , and the emigrants complain that you have not performed your contract " Mr . Campell—It was impossible for me to perform it . The association is completely broken up . " The Lord Mayor—The association may be broken up , but these noblemen and gentlemen are not broken up . Are all these shareholders ?

      " Mr . Campbell—No ; they are only the vice-president and consulting oouneiL What the deuoe did the Association want with a Vioe-President and Consulting Council , who were not shareholders , and who consequently were not members , and have no more to do with it than the man in the moon ! And why were not these noblemen and gentlemen as good members and shareholders aa Mr . Commissioner Campbell , or any one else , seeing that no money had been paid by any one } for the very next question of the Lord Mayor shews this to have been the case : — " The Lord Mayor—How much of the million capital has been paid up 1 " M . r . Campbell—None at all . Nobody paid vr AT ALL . "

      And again : — " The Lord Mayor—Pray , Mr . Campbell , bow many shares did these Noblemen and Baronets take ? *• Mr . Campbell—Nome at all . " Here then is the evidence out of their own mouth , thai without a Bingle Bhare taken—without a single shilling of paid-up capital—with nothing in the world but lying paper to go upon , this Company of one Duke , fifteen Lords , forty Baronets , and sundry " small attorneys" put forth their pretensions to " a million" capital , to the possession

      ot immense lands in Prinoe Edward ' s Island , which they will sell to people , and , under these pretences , take from the struggling poor , by way of bettering their condition , every farthing the poor oreatures can scrape together , and then turn them out to starve !! Here is a Company , boasting a display of names and patronage and influence , equal to that of any bubble which has floated on the surface of villany for Borne time ; engaging actually to sell on very easy terms , lands , oT whioh they did not possess one acre ! Hear again the colloquy : —

      " Mr . Taylor ^ ian ' emigrant *) . —I understand they have not an acre of land in Prince Edward ' s Island . " The Lord Mayor . —What ! no land there f Is that the case , Mr . Campbell ? Mi . Campbell . —Not a single acre , my Lord . " Mr . Henley ( another ' emigrant ') . —THBV BAEGAUtED TO SELL ME ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES .- ! JI Here were Christian (!) men , noblemen , gentlemen , &o ., lending themselves to a scheme for deliberately murdering all these poor emigrants by the slow process of starvation ;—" The Lord Mayor . —As yon are a director , you can let me know -what the plan was with respect to those emigrants if you bad got them out to Prince Edward ' s iBland ?

      " Mx . Campbell . —Twenty homes had been prepared by the association to receive them , and they were nitervrards to be located there by our agent , Mr . Goodman , jun ., a gentleman in whose talents and qualifications we have the utmost reliance . " Tbe Lord Mayor—And what was then to become of them ? Mr . Campbell—They were to build more houses and work in other ways , and to be regularly located . " The Lord Mayor—And how were they to be subsisted ? " Mr Campbell—There was & month ' s extra provision going on , so that they would be provided for a month after landing .

      " Tbe Lord Mayor—And then take their chance of starvation . That is certainly a frightful alternative . These poor men have been deceived by the long list of high names , and are now thrown into the most serious difficulties . 11 Mr . Campbell—I have been deceived myself most egregiously . As to the month ' s extra provision , the general practice is to give extra provision for only a few days after arrival . Tbe Association in this adopted a most liberal plan . "The Lord Mayor—Wny emigrants under such circumstances may die of sheer starvation . Mr . Campbell—So they may " Really this devilism ia so horrible that itiie almost dangerous to trust one ' s self to write about it .

      But thelamiable and ill-used Mr . Campbell is a most philosophic gentleman 1 : — " He did not think the emigrants ought to make any complaint until they were dispossessed of their asylum on board the vessel in which they were at present supported . And to his aid in this ck air table view of the case , comes Mr . Mellkb , another lawyer , who appeared as attorney for Sir R . Bhohn , another of these M Commissioners , " who , like Mr . Campbell , has of course been a great Bufferer in the business : —

      "Mr . Meller spoke warmly in praise of Sir R . Broun , and called the Lord Mayor ' s attention to tbe prejudices raised against the association . It was true it consisted of persons not accustomed to act , but it was a bona fide association , and actuated by the most honourable motives . It wu bad enough , he submitted , for his client to be ont of pocket £ 700 or £ 800 . and to find the association fail , without being designated as a person connected with a fraudulent undertaking . Tbe men who complained , after all , did not leave employment to go out to Prince Edward ' s Island . " The Lord Matob ' s answer to this fellow wag such as might become a man : —

      " The Lori Mayor—They left their native country to go to a remote one to gain an honest livelihood for their families by industry and labour , and they were induced to go by the authority of the great names with which tbe prospectus abounds . Let them not be reproached with having lost nothing by going . They have Buffered a vast deal , and I trust tbe association will take care that they shall not be able to complain that they have lost everything . " One would suppose that rebuke enough to make the ears of even an attorney tingle ; but they are commonly not made of tender stuff , and the attorney Melleb returns unabashed to the charge : —

      " Mr . Meller—I contend , my Lord , that it is bard that , because these emigrants have failed in their speculation , the association should be covered vrith odium and execration , if a man become a bankrupt many others necessarily are involved . " Hear but the heartless wretch ! " Because these emigrants have failed in their speculation" 1 In what had the emigrants failed ! Had they not paid their money ! Had they not sailed with the ship ? Had they not hazarded their lives ! Had they not , fool-like , trusted to the assurances of forty Baronets ,

      fifteen Lords , and a Duke ! And were they to be taunted with having " failed in their speculation " because they had been choused , deceived , cheated , and robbed ! and so taunted too by the very parties from whom they had suffered all this injustice !! Such it would seem are aristocratic notions ; and it was only when the Lord Mayor brought some intimation of the power of justice as well as of its beauty to bear upon him , that this hired defender of fraud gave back a little . The Lord Matob replied most properly : —

      •• There cannot be the slightest analogy . Your association are not bankrupts . Now look at Mr . Taylor ' s case , and just form an estimate of what he has undergone , and what he may still undergo if his claims are neglected . He has eight children . He has paid £ 50 to tbe secretary for their passage . He has expended the little money he had put together for the purposes of bis occupation in Prince Edward ' s island . Now , this man -was to nave had Vwtnty acres of country land and one acre of town land , and he went away with san-

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      guine' hopes of prosperity . He Is brought' back with nis large family , without the means of subsistence , an * with starvation looking bim and hia family In the face , and he is told that in a day or two he and his children are to be tamed oat of the ship , which was bound to take them to their final destination , and to look about amongst the uniona for sympathy and protection . It is ridiculous to tell me that this man can be abandoned by an association of noblemen and gentlemen —( loud applause ) . "

      ! ' Throughout the investigation the Lord Mayor manifested a laudable determination to stick to the u noblemen and gentlemen , " in the hope , doubtless , of inducing them to do something for the relief of the poor creatures whom they had helped to delude . The " noblemen and gentlemen , " of course , seek to lick themselves clear of any blame in the affair . One of them , Doctor RoLPH . said : — " Neither the Duke of Argyll nor the consulting council of the association were advised of the arrangement of the Barbadoes . It was planned by Mr . Campbell and Mr . Andrews , and was carried out whilst absent from this country . It always met with my most decided reprobation . "

      Now , we know not whioh to admire most ; the unutterable meanness of this Duke of Argyll and his dignified oomrogues of " the consulting council " in lending their names to this naked piece of swindling , br their sneaking cowardice , and still greater meanness , ] in skulking from the responsibility they have incurred , and seeking to shelter their noble ( Ij heads under the impeachment of their agents . The poor Duke was as innocent as a sucking duck of the whole matter : —

      " Mr . Nettleship declared that the Duke of Argyll and Sir J . Cockburn had been as grossly defrauded and deceived as had been the unfortunate emigrants ; and that it had become necessary to show who were , the parties involved in tbe actual respsoslbility . '' " The Date ' s and Sir J . Cockburn ' s object was most humane and benevolent , and it can be proved that they stg not chargeable with any act in the slightest degree exceptionable . "

      " Hia Grace ' s intention was to promote the moat beneficent scheme of emigration , and in such a manner aa to prove of tbe bighext service to the poor persons who should emigrate . That was the object whioh his Grace bid in attending a meeting in June last , when tbe only resolution some to was a preliminary and indispensable Btep , that a sum of £ 60 , 000 should be insured as available for the purposes of emigration . The Duke ' s knowledge of the real proceedings of the association did not extend beyond that information , and his Grace never entertained the most remote idea of sanctioning any act until that money should be raised . "

      Such is the defence set up for the " president" of this wholesale den of tljieves ! Now what are the faots ! Hear one of the poor sufferers , Mr . Taylor , who had been duped of his little all : — " It had been stated that the Duke merely meant to ubscribejfSOO without becoming a shareholder . Now , evidence could be produced to show that his Grace signed his name , according to the Scotch form , as 'Argyll Pirosea for shares in the asaeclation—( laughter ) . It had been said that the Dnke refused to do anything in the association until the sum of £ 50 , 000 should be raised . One would think that a nobleman who saw the necessity of the application of money would put down some himself—( laughter )—but it did not appear that bis Grace had done anything of the kind . "

      Doubtless ; no better proof of the Duke's lying pretence can be had , than the fact that while affecting to wish the prosperity of the poor emigrants through , the association , and while affecting to refuse hia sanction to any steps being taken till sufficient funds were in hand , he—a Duke— signs his name for £ 500 , but does not pay a farthing !; while the other lie , that" when he joined the association as President , subscribing his name for £ 500 , he did it

      for the benefit | of the poor emigrants , and not as a shareholder , and neither seeking nor consenting to receive any bonefit , " is met by the poor emigranta with the assertion that it could be proved that he signed , not witblany suoh merely benevolent purport , but , in tbe usual way , for shares ; and under this assertion his hired lawyer bullies are as tame as mice ; they don't dare even to deny it . Now for the other portion of the Duke ' s defence : —

      * ' It was agreed that no step should be taken until £ 50 000 were raised . Upon this resolution the Duke relied , and had no intention of sanctioning any act until that money should be raised . " Lying again . Acts were done . He knew that they were done . Proceedings commenced ; not a farthing having been paid up beyond the qualifications of the oommisioners . A prospectus was published , and seat to his Grace , in which his Grace appears as President of the Association . But the Duke did not then withdraw . Arrangements were made for sending out emigrants . Some of the emigrants began to

      suspeot the inability of the company , and at last detected and exposed it . Then , bat not till then , does the Duke withdraw . It was only when the straw be ^ an to shake that the Noble rat ran from its hole . Up to that time , ( and it id before that time , it must be observed , that all the engagements with the emigrants were formed ) he had remained , with his own knowledge , a party to , and bound by , all tbe acts of the Association of which he was the President , and to whioh hiB name as President gave its chief claim to confidenoo . What becomes , then , of hia prate , through hia lawyer bullies about not

      being responsible to these poor emigrants for the cruel wrongs inflicted on them ! He is responsible for all ; and no other man so muoh so—not even his tools and scapegoats Campbell , Andrews , and Sir R . Bboun . It was through his act in lending his name to the concern , that these emigrants were originally induced to enter into the contract . By his means they were led to contract , and he knew it . In his own name he was a party to tbe contract ; and he is fairly answerable for whatever consequences may arise out of that contract . So much for the Duke—the senior partner in this firm of fiends . If he have not been a fiend with thorn , but

      merely a fool on whom they have practised , let him now prove it , not by lying a * ad shuffling to get out of the mess ; but by admitting his folly frankly and making up to these poor people the loss he has been the mjeans of causing to them ; their physical sufferings , he cannot indemnify them for . But let him do what he can ; and then perhaps society may think that there is yet some glimmering of manhood even in a Duke . His noble friend , Sir John Ccckburn , is in preoisely the same predicament , and has only the Bame meanB of getting out of it . No other sort of wriggling will serve him in the eyes of honest men , -whatever the : lawyers may say .

      But what shall we say for Sir Richard Broun , and the other " managers" of the " association V First , what do they say for themselves ! what says their lawyer for them ; the honest and modest Mr . Mellkb I Hear him : — " These peor men deserve the utmeist sympathy ; but the association bad so notion of deceiving them . Mr . Halden contracted with the emigrants at large . "

      So ! then ; it was not the " Association , but Mr . Halden who deceived the poor fellows . And who is Mr . Halden 1 The Association ' s" agent . And had he no instructions from his employers as to the terms he should make with emigrants X or did he go in the very teeth of all his instructions 1 Did the " Association" take care to tell Mr . Halden that they had no land ; and did he still proceed to sell land to the emigrants ? No , no ; Mr . Meller did not venture upon any of these assertions—with

      the printed prospectus and the "Estates in Prinoe Edward ' s Island" and the " Million Capital" staring him in the face . It was a little too bare even for a lawyer ' s face . Besides , Mr . Halden seems not to have been their only agent . They had another , a Mr . —Oh ! no ; not Mr ;—a Sir A . M'Nab—we really must not forget the titles , for these are almost aill titled " nabs . " Well ; they had an agent in the person of Sir A . M'Nab—for whose guidance , it seems , they had issued " official instructions , " containing this statement : —

      " These instructions apply to Upper Canada only * the association having already acquired estates in Lower Canada to the extent of 366 893 acres in addition to large estates in Prince Edward ' s Island and , other colonies . " And these " official instructions" were actually issued and published , when the scamps knew that , a 3 a company , they had not a single acre of land

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      in any part of the world , nor a shilling wherewith to buy it !! And yet these fellows impudently tell the publio , through their lawyer , Melleb , that they had no intention to deceive ! and have tbe audacity to ] prate of the hardship that they Bhould have any blame for the suffering they have brought upon the poor confiding people ! The more we look at the whole matter , and the more thoroughly contemptible and disgusting is the light in which we see the conduot of the entire noble firm . The only man who seems to

      have established for himself any claim at all to exception from thejgeneral culpability is Dr . Rolph . Nothing could more strongly prove the iniquitous influence and tendency of the whole of the classregulation and distinction whioh now pervades society , than the fact that , with his strong , clear , and humane mind—with his evident wish to procure something like justice for the poor people—the Lord Matob yet j shrunk from anything like effective characterising of the conduot of the noble partners in this precious firm ; and sought every possible shield and cloak for them . He said : —

      " what dreadful mischief arises from tbe use of high names in cases of this kind ( I have no doubt that the noblemen and gentlemen whose names appear on this paper were wholly ignorant of the nature of the proceedings to which j it might appear they lent their sanction . " j " I cannot , looking over this prospectus , conceive it possible that any of the individuals would suffer these poor emigrants to be imposed upon . " Mr . Campbell—How cornea it then , my Lord , that they have done so ?"

      " The Lord Mayor—I dare say that Borne of these noblemen bavo , under tbe impression that the association was calculated ! to do good , allowed their names , from a benevolent feeling alone to be used . I am convinced that not one of thorn ever dreamt that a number of poor emigrants would be sent out to on isolated spot with a month ' s provisions , to tun the chance of climate and the various contingencies to which persons in a country unknown to them must be subjected . "

      Now , it might be sufficient to remark on this that the Lord Mayor ' s excuse for the " Noblemen and Gentlemen" implies that they must be the most arrant fools alive . ' Besides which , it was clearly stated and uncontradicted by his counsel , that the Duke of Argyll took the lead at all the public meetings , and madia no secret of attaching his high name to the acts of the Association , and that his Grace ' s correspondence with the late Lord Mayor clearly proved that fact .

      His Lordship sought further to throw tbe cloak of charity around the "Noblemen and Gentlemen" by the intimation that their names might have been used without their sanction at all ; and advised that the poor people desirous to emigrate should take care before they "wallow the contents of a printed prospectus , with exalted names attached , to inquire of the persons whose signatures afforded so strong a recommendation whether they authorised the use of their names . " ;

      He fished hard for evidence of this kind to exculpate some of the long list of Lords , Baronets , &c , with the Noble Duke at the top , which he held in his hand connected with this nefariety ; but it was " no go . " They were too deep in the mud for the good natured Lord Matob to get them out . Dr . Rolph settles it thus : — "The Lord Mayor—Were the whole of the names mentioned in the prospectus sanctioned by the patties themselves ? " ] " Dr . Rolph—Daring the protracted investigation which took place before the committee of inquiry , satisfactory evidence' was adduced by Sir R . Broun to prove that no names were inserted without due authority . "

      Now we venture to give on our own account a piece of advice in reference to this and like sharking companies of Emigration bubbles blown up with big names ; and our advice is , just have nothing at all to with them . Never ! mind whether they have author * ized their names or not ; for it seems frem the investigation of this case to make little matter . Just keep at home and Bee if you can ' t raise a Home Colonization Company of your own , with more of benefit and less of risk from roguery . We have now before us the prospectus of an Irish scheme of this sort , headed by Mr . Daniel O'Connell , by five Catholic Priosts and Dignitaries , one Baron , and thirteen Esquires . ! This is called " Thb Catholic Emigration Society * * ' and it purports to be

      " an institution to regulate Emigration and to secure to the emigrant the realisation of his hopes of bettering his condition , '' and it professes to have a capital of £ 200 , 0 f 0 , in shares of £ 10 each ; and it tells also of "the society ' s lands , " and of "issuing debentures" upon those lands " for sums of £ 25 and upwards . "] We calculate that no man with a grain of sense will have anything to do with this Irish speculation , while the Scotch one is yet ring * ing its disastrous consequences in his ears , or while these consequences ] s tand on record . Let the people cultivate the land at home before they lend themselves to the foreign speculations of Noble emigrationists , and risk a ruin more perfect than even that they now endure . '

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      TO iTHE PEOPLE . My Friends , —I must again call upon you to bestir yourselves . I never do so without urgent necessity ; and there certainly is , now , a necessity most urgent . I have this day ( Thursday ) received a call to Judgement" in the following terms : — " THE QUEEN AGAINST FEARO 0 S O ' CONNOR AND

      OTHERS . " Take notice thai ! you are hereby required to attend in her Majesty ' s Court of Queen ' s Bench , at Westminster , on Thursday the fourth day of May next , then and there to receive tbe judgment of tbe said Court upon a certain indictment whereupon yon were convicted at the last Aspires held at Lancaster , in and for our county of Lancaster . " Dated this twenty-fourth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and forty-three . " G-begorv , Faulkner , & Co ., ! " Solicitors fer the Prosecution . " To William Hill , one of the above defendants . "

      Like notices have , I presume , been served on all the defendants . Intelligence has yet only reached me from Cooper and Arthur , each of whom has got his billet . It has not taken me by surprise ; I had notice of its coming , and expected it . I had also learned , before receiving thia document , that Government intend to work hard—that they mean to have in all—fifth count men . aa well as others . Every man is to be " shopped" if it can be done at all . No power of sophistry land lawyerism whioh money can purchase will be wanting to prove black white and disagreement union ; The tug will , in all probability , be in the law of the fifth count . Nothing can be clearer to common sense than that the fifth count

      cannot involve any ; crime ; but common , sense and law— i " have oft ; -times no connection . " Hence it will not do to bring against Lawyer-gab the mere common sense of honest men . In the " tug of war" " Greek" imust meet u Greek . " Lawyers must be met by lawyers . There are also some matters in the fourth count , which , if I mistake not greatly , will afford fair exercise for lawyergab . And , at all events , there are in many of the individual cases abundant circumstances which handled skillfully ,: may in all [ probability save to us the services of some of our best men .

      But all this needs ! the funds . Not a bit will the lawyers work without money . Money will be unsparingly used against us . Will you suffer your noblest friends and best champions to lack any advantage which your utmost exertions can procure them by a counter application of the same mighty lever ! Nay ; I ask not for them but for yourselves—for the cause —for our country ! Can these men be spared from the movement ! must they , at all events , leave it without a struggle—a last struggle and a mighty one—being

      made I Have their long services , their ardent devotion , their ruined families , no claims upon your sympathy ! I know the very naming of these things is an insult to you ; and that you are readier to rash to the rescue than I am to call you . I know your nobleness of nature : but I know also the greatness of your oppression ; and hence I entreat you , like Sampson , "for this once , " lay to your whole strength , tha t the pillars of the foul temple of corruption being griped , may fall toge-

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      ther , and bring down the edifice along with them There are many things for which money will be wanted besides the lawyers . This summons must be answered personally . Your friends will have to travel up to London , aad this will cost money . They Bhould be 4 n London a day or two before the time and the arguments may be long , and staying in London is ex pensive , They may need also some previous preparation ' and their families must be looked to . You must not send them up with the heart-breaking burden on their minds , that their best beloved ones are left m

      perish , or next door to it , while they are secluded from the world . Mind you , I know not that any 0 * them will be Becluded—but it may be so—an 3 y ought always to provide amply for the worst that may come . They may also , if you bestir you well come back , to cheer your hearts with patriotism * which shall show you that they deserve all yOn . efforts . I never help the enemy by gloomy antici pv tions ; but I like always to be prepared ; and so ought you ; and hence I t \^ write to you . The time is short . This day week remember . Stir , stir ! Thank God , I do not yet need to ask you on my own account , and I can therefore press you the more confidently for those who do

      need it . Not one shilling of your money hjg yet been appropriated to my expencea or defence in any shape , nor shall it now . I can do without it , and I hold that every man who can do without it ought ; there are enough of those who cannot . If the . time come when my private means fail , I shall not be slack ia requiring from yoa whit my services may have earned . Nor will you , I know , be slack to give it . That time m&y come : thank God it has not yet come . Bat remember that nearly all , if not indeed all , of oar best men are otherwise situate , and forgive me if again say for once indeed , stir . Let the money pour in . Send it to John Cleave , or to this office , to Mr . Ardill , and do not be sparing .

      To my fellow " conspirators" I have a word to saj Every man should be thinking of the circumstances of his own particular case whioh may best tell in mitigation of punishment , and get affidavits o f the m drawn at once for the consideration of tha Court ; aad every one should be in London on Tuesday night at latest , so that a meeting and consult * . tion can be had before coming into Court—and so that each may have the advice of the indefati gable Roberts , of Mr . O'Connor , and of such other lawyers as the state of the funds may have enabled them to employ . I give these general suggestions for general benefit . My own course is fixed . No arrangement whioh may be come to by others , will alter it or at all affect me individually .

      Again I say to the whole people , stir , stir ; and if you have any love for yourselves , your country , and the common cause , now pxove it . Send up the means to fight this battle well . God save you all , and speed the Charter . Northern Star Office , Wm . Hiu . Tauwday Noon , April 27 , 1843 . P . S . —All my many friends whom I hare pro * raised ere long to visit will now see that a " mar

      be" is interposed . I do not expect any alteration in their plans need be made , but we shall soon know . It may be that this is my last opportunity of saying a word to you through the Star of some months . I do not expect this , but it may be so : and if so , farewell—see that is my absence it be nourished with your favour , and made to ehioe brighter and further than it has ever done before . It will be under tbe care of one who has often been

      of great assistance to me in its arduous duties heretofore ; and who , therefore , will not be strange either to it or to you ; One upon whose judgment I would rely in preference to that of any mania England , always excepting my own , and on whose honesty , had I a thousand lives I would risk them all without the tremor of a single nerve . The Star will lose nothing by losing me , if I am to be " locked up , " which I do not expect . But if I be , I then " command you on your duty" to support the Star ; while I have never before asked such a thing of ot from you . W . E

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      Notice . —Many of the London readers of the Slta could not procure their copies of the paper last week This disappointment occurred from the post office servants having misdelivered a large parcel ( directed to Mr . Cleave ) to a news-agent in a distant part ol the town , whioh parcel Mr . C . did not receive until Tuesday evening . Tbe disappointed subscribers aw now assured that they can obtain their papersfrom Mr . Cleave , and it is earnestly hoped that the Gfl » nists generally of the Metropolis will take care that the Northern Star does not suffer any loss m liaatoulatiou from the negligence of the Post Omofl

      folk . Mr . Mead is at the service of any Society wfi «? tm request his aid . His address is No . 1 , Batcna Street , Newtoum Row , Birmingham . I jJm friends at Burton-upon-Trent make no objections , he will pap them a visit . If they m communicate with him on the subject , orsena their Secretary ' s address , he will feel very mwn obliged . . A Fbiemd to Suffering Humanity ' s Kmiff *" given Is . to Mr . Sinclair , No . 25 , B& frjPl Newcastle , for Mr . Cockburn . This « the first donation Mr . S . has received for that really « wj ditute individual : but it is sincerely haprt »*»

      such as can afford to assist him will cam jertt ™ and render their aid in procuring a *» m mv will enable him to purchase matends j ^^ r mencing his Business of Mattrass-maker- om stone blind , he is unable to procure a Jtve T by any other means ; and is now in the b «™» state of destitution a human being can be r « J ««» to—necessitated to live , or rather extfj , !/^ cold charily of strangers . Can this not UP * vented ? Can Cockburn not be enabkd torn for his living ? Any sum handed to Mr . Sf ™ f n ~ h ; m „ , •« />« mn * t thankfully received , am

      duly acknowledged through the Star . .. Notice .-The Demonstration Committee oj «» Convention make their last application , ™ P ? ing the Dinner Ticket money due , to be P ™ Wednesday evening next , at 8 " « ' «« . _ Hawkins ' s , Crown and Ai ^' <^ * JLi Alley , FaTringdmSireet ; orthewnwPj * will be published defaulters in the btar oji week ; -a portion of the debt of the ^ j £ g at the White Conduit House ^ ' ^ JfS to the disgrace of the Chartist fo $ J"J ' cause .-By order , Fbargus O'Connob , RUFFY BlDl-BY > jj CLEBKBNW ! aL . -N 0 IICE .-I < 15 f ^ ^ ff" ^ S <* ed that the Members of this locaMy vntt » ^ the Old Blue Lion , IS , Coppice Row , on Morm

      evening next , atQ o ' clock . . ir / dress ( n Fenar& P . Me K—Weknov not of "F ^ t * be had in the case lo which his /> / <* ¦' . The law of England is so tender VJ ** Z ^ t tw that it inflicts no punishment wM " £ ani man who seduces a confiding young wom ^^ then leaves her and her child to W'jZgta f . selves : unles * both mother and child ai ** W J into the workhouse . The parish mtgM ^ cover from the putative father the acW ( V > « r the child ' s maintenance , and no ***' .. ^ of ( her has no redress whatever . * ' fo 0 Christian-like way of Pr * # * W ? £ Zdmire » country . We hope our Scotch friends a ^ W . Davies . —The prospectus he sends us «< *'

      tisement . „ .. . / ciom Q . X .- We never before heard of a" suite oj and suppose nobody else ever dut . , ^ Davh > Ponf BiRMiNGHAM .- lf * have sefit ^ to Mr . Cleave , which is all we can dojW ^ Richard Marsden . letter u f « gSU columns are too full to allow of its inseri S . B— Tull ' s Husbandry , by Cobbett . a ., S » iTa . —No room this week . , ia jn t A Constant Reader , Dunfeemune , nw like answer . J . B . C—No room . . r ,: , , ment «^ . ? Aebroath Chartists -Their "k ** " ^ to A four shillings . Mr . HiU will be toft * ¦ „ j * them among the rest of >^/^> U " Land o ' Calces , " always with the * W ^ mission of my Lords the Queen s <^ " ^ f they send him the address of their Secret

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      - i ¦ ¦¦» FOR THE NATIONAL DEFENCE , FONP . ft 0 3 D . P . RamBbottom ~ ~ - - * ~ 0 l ; A Friend , Clayton W . eri ~ - ~ — e 5 From the Chartists of Croyaen , Sarrey — Q i 1 W ., Esremont , Cumberland — ... — fl 1 < j Two Friends , per J . S weet . Nottingham ... 1 FOR THE VICTIM FUND- Q 5 l | From the Cbartiats of Croyitea , Surrey ... IJ FOR MR 3 . ELLIS . 0 * ' From the Chartists of Croyden , Sarrey ¦• • Ij

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      The Q , deen . —The interesting situation" of the Qaeen is made the subject of daily reports in the London prints . She appears , from all that we can gather , to have passed the time prescribed for her by the gossips when she ought to have brought forth another proof of her affection for her subjects . The Qaeen , it is said , has behaved rather ill in this ; she has actually deprived her ministers of their Easter holidays , as they have had to dance attendance at her bedside , instead of kicking their heels in the country durinit the Easter recess .

      The Ddkb op Sussex . —This Royal Dake , who has been for some time suffering under severe illness , seems to be fast Binking under disease and old age . Several physicians and surgeons are in hourly attendance upon him , but their services seem , from the tenor of the London papers , to be of little avail . Of course , daily bulletins are issued , and the " greatest interest" is said to be manifested on hia behalf , all the hangers on upon Royalty paying their devoted respects at his residence . Lokpoh Stock Exchange , Thubsdat Evening . — Business was rather brisker in the English funds

      to-day , an increase being occasioned by the commencement of publio transfers in the reduced securities . As this particular class of stock was in good demand at advanced prices , the feeling is that in all probability the Government will forego tbe long anticipated decrease of interest , and seek by some more popular financial operation to economise the expenditure on the ^ ebi of the country . ' There were no transactions of particular interest negotiated in the course of the business of the day , but nevertheless on the whole the market in every respect was better and more firmly supported than previously .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, April 29, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , APRIL 29 , 1843 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 29, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct648/page/4/