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      BE 1 EASE OF MR . EDWARD BROWN FROM WARWICK GAOL . On Wednesday evening , ike 2 lst last , the Chartists of Warwick and Leamington entertained Mr . E . Brown ¦ with asapper , at Mr . Frenctie ' a . Notwithstanding the short notice given , there was a glorious meeting ; the room -wag tastefully decorated , and the utmost harmony preTsiled daring the eTeniag . After the cloth was removed , Mr . Donaldsox , the chairman , proposed the first toast , —" The people , the legitimate source of all power . " He addressed his brother Chartists ¦ with feelings of great pleasure on that occasion , as the numbers present , and the enthusiasm exhibited , furnished additional proof of the sterling value of the great and

      glorious principles contained in the People's Charter , and of their increased attachment to those martyrs who had Buffered , and who were enduring bo much misery for advocating those principles . ETery day ' s experience prored the folly of those aristocratic tyrants -who sought by physical force to rivet those chains of slavery which ¦ we re forged by antiquated tyrants , when they were in a comparative state of darkness ; but the intelligence as < i political knowledge of the people -were now shaking the antiquated citadel of corruption ; they would no loEger suffer themselves to be led by the nose , and deluded hj either Whig or Tory factions . The plunder of the people was the common object , of both ? "the on ) jdifference he conld discover between them was , that the "Whigs occasionally sacrificed their principles . to

      expediency , and cheated the people by delusive promises ; while the Tories , like bold highwaymen , dapped a pistol to their breasts , and plundered . tneiu with a darfng face of the most consummate Impudence . ( Loud cheers . ) He would propose , as a toast , — "The people , the legitimate source ot all power , but assure them that until the People ' s Charter became the law of the land , they must calculate on being plundered by the aristocracy of both Whig and Torj . The battle was now between the Chartists and Tories , for tae Whigs , as a party , were defunct—peace be to tbtir remains . Let bat the working classes be united , and they would soon prove to the world that the people are the legitimate source of all power . The toast was drank with great enthusiasm .

      ilr . PaiCE responded to the toast , and drew a clear and masterly sfcetch of Vhe principles of tlie People ' s Charter , and was loudly cheered . The Chairman proposed a toast , "Civil and religious liberty all over the glabe , " He deplored that while most of the religious world would respond to the sentiment , tbey were ignorant of iU value , and opposed to the sublime principles it contained . Every different sect & - ; no bounds to their own religious views ; and yet , with a one-sided consistency , they sneered and hooted every other sect who happened to differ with them , forgetting that true religious liberty consisted in freedom of thought , charity to all , envy to none , but leve to the whole human family . Mr . Gbeatss responded to this toast in a delkbtfn ]

      rue Chairhas next proposed the health of Mr . Edward Brown . The presence of Mr . Brown prevented him saving many things that would be necessary to do justice to his character . No man in England , except Mr . Feargns O'Connor—iloud cheers here interrupted the Chairman ) . —had worked with more zeal in the people ' s cause than Mr . Brown ; no man had been more BBjUitly persecuted . The Chartist movement had been carried on far enough to answer the purpose of the Whigs of Birmingham : the Government threw certain hungry dogs o ( that town a bone to pick , by granting the Coar « j of Incorporation ; but certain he was , that Little Johnny Finality and his " chums "' sent down the Charter of Incorporation to Douglas and Co ., with an

      T > nripr g » * Ti A ing that they should assist in putting down ttie Chartist movement It was at that crisis Lkat Mr . Browa msofaily cania oat , and to 2 d the peepie u . ' Birmingham that they were sold ; and , bj his extraordinary exertions , aided by a few others , be rallied the working men , and tkat successfully ; until , at length , the Whigs set future Tory Governments an example to put down freedom of discussion by physical force , and they senj tbeir bull-dogs into the Bull King to break th « heads of the inoffiKsrre and peaceable working men of the town . The Chairman , at considerable length , dwelt on the psrfidions conduct of the Whigs at that time : he also added that they were equally indebted to the bloodthirsty Tories for the scenes of bruality which followed those events .

      The ioaa : was drunk with three times three hearty cheers . Mr . Bsow y acknowledged the toast in a splendid speech . The proceedings were continued for some time ; ¦ everal other toasts and sentiments being proposed and responded to ; a spirit of union and good fellowship preTailea ; and at the close a vote of UianKi to the rh »* TTTi « Ti -was earned by acclamation .

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      COUNTY SHERIFF'S COURT . A . Sheriff ' s Court was held at Leeds , on Monday last , before J . H Hill . E » q-, Bamster-at-Law . There Were oaly four cases tried , with "which the court ¦ was occupied till nearly midnight . The following are the only cases of publie importance - . — PI . NKNEY r . BOOTH . This wa » an aetiun brought to recover £ 6 3 s .,-loi work and labour dona , and os . for travelling

      expense * . iit XE" » 'fo > , banister , of Bipon , appeared for the plaintiff , and ilr . Johs Hope Shaw , of Leeds , for the defendant . Mr . Piakney , the plaintiff , ii a small farmer and cattle doctor , at Sharow , neat Bipon ; and the defendant , J 4 r . Richard Booth , is a gentleman , occupying a large sheep farm , at Warlaby , near NorthaUerton . la June . ISS 9 , the defendant had a large number of beep afflicted with a disease called the scab , which the plaintiff was employed to cure , by washing them with ft liquor prepared for the purpose , lor which the plaintiff is famous . The evidence showed that the defendant's shepherd went over to Sharow on the loth of June , to see the plaintiff , whom he found at tho

      house uf a Mr . Woodhouse , at Bridge Hewick , on which ooeasioH a conversation took place , which ended is . the plaintiff agreeing to send his two sons to wash tba defendant ' s sheep . The sons went to Warlaby on tfee 19 " . h of June , and were employed until the 22 nd , watering 246 sheep , which it was agreed should be paid sixpence each . The defence set up was , that the agreement was " no cure no pay , " and the sheep , so tax from being cured , bad some of them died , and Consequently the plaintiff was not entitled to recover . Is answer to this it was shown that strict orders had been given that the sheep should be taken proper care of , but neglecting this , they had been left in a field all night , whilst it was raining , by which the preparation was washed off

      The action r" »» been previously tried in the same court , wLen a verdict was given for the plaintiff for { he amount sought ; upon which a new trial was moved lor in the ( Jueen ' s Bench , on the ground that the verdict was nut in accordance with the evidence . Tbe motion was granted , and an issue was directed to have the case re-aigued . The evidence was of great length , iltiA in some p "'" fc * contradictory . Tlie court was occapied from eleven o ' clock in the morning until nearly ¦ even at night ; and the jury , after a short deiibtrattvn , returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £ 6 7 s . —damages , ls > , the whole amount sought

      CSA . LLAXD r . BB . AT . This was an action to recover back a stake of £ 15 , deposited by the plaintiff in the hands of the defendaot , Trpon an Iflezal race . Mr . Bwd , for the plaintiff , stated that the facts ¦ were in a narrow compass , and the case would probably resolve itself into > question of law for the conrt above . The plaintiff was the owner of a black mare , and in March last be deputed a person named John Eastwood to make a match for her to trot four miles against toother mare , belonging to one Benjamin Eastwood . The match was made on the 22 nd March last , for £ 25 a-side , and was to come off on the 5 th of May . Two pounds a-side were paid down to make the match , into the hands of the defendant as stakeholder ; on the 3 rd

      of April £ li a-side more were deposited , and the remaining £ 10 a * Bid « was to be made good oa the day of the race . Oa t&at morning , however , the plaintiff was informed that the defendant was father-in-law to Benjamin Eastwood , and he then objected to bis continuing the office of stakeholder , but offered to go on with the ™ . tj > Vi if any respectable indifferent person wer » named in bis stead . The parties ultimately conld not agree aa to another stakeholder , and the plaintiff then declared the match off , and gave defendant notice to pay back his money , which notice be repeated in writing the same evening . Now , in paint of law , if either party to an illegal wager gave notice to the

      stakeholder to pay him Wack his stake before he had banded it over to the other party , he was bound to refund it , whichever won or lost , or forfeited his wager . That this was an illegal wager was clear of all doubt . By the 16 tb Charles II . horse races were all declared ill «? aL The 13 th Gee . II . legalized horse r » ct » for sums of £ 30 or -upwards , if ran at certain plaeea namtd in that statute , and the lSih & *> - 11-jnade them legal wherever they might be run . . But it bid been decided , in a case before Lord Eidon , that tb * two latter Acts only applied to real horse-racing upon the turf , and not to a trotting match upon the Qneen ' a highway , and that case had been confirmed by a latar one before the Court of Common Pleas .

      Witnesses were then called who proved the facts ateted , and upon the agreement being produced , it ap ^ peared on the face of it to have feeenmade between John Eastwood andBenjaniiB Eastwood , and not between the plaintiff and Benjamin Eastwood . John Eastwood , howiverTswore distinctly that he made it as the agent of the pUtntiff * t « i that all the money deposited belonged to U » phiBttff AuTaHAW , for the defendant , submitted first that the wager was legal , and attempted to distinguish this case from that decided by Lord Eldon ; and , secondly , that the evidence of John Eastwood , that he acted as plaintiffs agent , was not admissible to contradict the agreement . Mr . Hill ( the Sheriff ' s Assessor ) , refused to stop the case on either point , but reserved leave to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit if he should be so advUed .

      Mr . Sh aw then addressed the Jury for the defendant , contending that John Eastwood had made the match on Ml Own M ejnti i th&t be tad not mentioned the plaintiff to Benjwun Eastwood -, or that he was at all eve . ntB a partner in the wager witfl the pl ** itiffi .

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      Three witnesses were then called , who swore that they had not heard Challand mentioned except as the owner of the mare ; but they admitted , OU crossexamination , that they were not present dating the whole time . Mr . Bond , in reply , contended that there was no ground for imputing perjury to John Eastwood , who had expressly sworn that he made the match as plaintiff's agent , and that he no doubt mentioned tlie plaintiff to Benjamin Eastwood , before the defendant ' s witnesses came . Besides , Mb client bad made the deposits , and had been throughout treated as the principal in the matter . The Learned ASSESSOR summed up , telling the Jury that if they thought upon the evidence that John Eastwood made the natch on behalf of the present plaintiff , and so declared at the time , and that he was not ft partcr in the wager , then their verdict must be for the plaintiff ; otherwise , for the defendant .

      Verdict for the plainvifffor £ 15 , subject to the points reserved .

      PINKET r . BOOTH . The plaintiff wai the same as in the former case ; and the defendant , Mr . John Booth , of Kiilerby , new Catterick , brother of the former defendant The action was brought to recover £ 3 15 s ., for sheep washing , and 5 s . for travelling expenoes . Mr . Newton was for the plaintiff , and Mr . Davison \ of Northallerton , for the defendant . The Jury gave a verdiet for the defendant . The csse did not terminate till two o ' clock on Wednesday merning .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, July 31, 1841.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 31 , 1841 .

      " The ChaRUse have pbovkd themselves mobe ACCURATE CALCULATORS THaH THE KIDDLE CLASSES . Whether their nOjTRCM would have mended matters is sot . sow the qcfstios , " but the hesul 1 has shews that they were cobiect in theib opinion—that is the present state op the representation , it was vain to thike . of a bjepeax of the cobh h 0 n 0 p 0 lt . ******* Political power in this country , though ii resides in a cohparatively small class , can onlt be exercised bt the sufferance op thb masses , "Morning Chronicle ( organ of the Whig MinistersJ Friday , July I 6 ih , 184 i .

      THE WHIG BUDGET BARRICADES . Oce " moral force" readers may believe it or not , just as they please , but we beg to assure them that with our own hands , we selected the following precious morBel of " morality" from the Morning Chronicle of Saturday last , the 24 th of July , 1841 , and tsnth year of Peace , Retrenchment , and Reform : — " There are many things in the present posture of affaiis which are anything but symptomatic of a Tory millenium . " The rain falls , and the price of corn rises ; trade does not improve ; and , should the harvest fail , Sir Robert will have a winter to encounter as disagreeable as that of 1830 . from which he fled .

      " The Whig budget has been defeated by monopolists and ecclesiastical activity , and Tory taxes must be the substitute . " The army must be increased , because the Tories have no tenure but the bayonet in Ireland . The navy eannoi be diminished , because foreign powers , knowing the hatred ot the working classes and of the Iruh nation to the Tories , will not fail to look around for opportunities of indemnity from the late triumphs of Lord Palmerston . " France , in 1830 , according to the oracle of Tamworth , by an example of physical force , disturbed the slumbers of the English oligarchy . Is net France disturbing at this moment , the prospective success of a Tory Budget ?

      " We must hava money , * says M . Homann . — Toulouse answers by a barricade . " ' We must have money , " says Sir Robert Peel . — Manchester and Birmingham may answer any budget , but the Whig one , with a barricade . " ' We mnst have money through new taxes , ' repeats the oracle . —Money you may have , but not new taxes . Xo new taxes for the people—no new taxes for the middle classes—no new taxes for any or for all .

      " Such will be the universal cry of the British empire ; and many as elector whom folly , or spite , or bribery , or intimidation , has led from his duty at the recent contests , will declare against new taxes—many a merchant , who has hitherto sacrificed his trade to party spirit , will repent his grovelling infatuationmany a manufacturer will have the film of ignorance uifcen from his eyes , and will wonder , as he wakes , at his transcendent degradation .

      " The Budget gave , reliet Sir Robert giv e * new burdens . The Whigs depart with the unpopularity of wisdom . Sir Robert enters office with the popularity of folly . Walk before him , O ye taxgatherers ; for verily he will augment your daily labours . Walk be / ore him , all ye oorruptionists , oligarchs , and others , who find your accounts in the augmented hardens , and the increased miseries of the people . Welcome to him who grinds the poor for the sake of the rich . Welcome to the demure , pharisaical Sir Robert—to the comely and decent Jesuit—to the plausible champion of the Cbandos gang . Welcome , I say , to the hero of the pivot , and to him of the sliding scale .

      " Bat , men of England , look to your pockets . If you -wiu not have the Whigs , mske Peel give you their Budget If you are tired of Melbourne , extract his good measures from your enemies . " Of course the above is from " a Correspondent , " that is , from the Editor to the Editor ; as all of our mottled tribe have a vast privilege , not only of using both ends of the " stylas , " as Horace says , but there is also vested in us a kind of

      prescriptive right of selecting the exact degree of relationship in which we choose to stand towards our children , whether as legitimate parent , putative father , Father by adoption , or god-father . The striking likeness , however , of the youngest son of the Chronicle to his eldest brother , Master Massaroiu Reform Easthope , born in 1831 , leaves no doubt upon the mind of those whe have seen both that they are " par nolile fralrum . "

      In very truth , we feel unequal to handle the aboTe with any degree of moral courage . We fear touching the pitch lest we may be thereby defiled ! bat we must e ' en at the Barricade , as no doubt some notice will be expected from us . Well , then , it will be in the recollection of our readers tha , t when " plain Joh . V now Lord Job John , announced the death and burial of Chartism , we shed no tear over the empty grave ; we heaved no sigh over the corseless tomb . We watched the ^ iantin his dHmber , which the foolish old man mistook for the repose of death ; we examined the limbs and felt the heart , and finding them warm and animated ire said thzt when the giant again rose refreshed from his slumbers , that he would start from that very point of his journey at which , before resting , he had arrived .

      Our readers will recollect that we then argued that however persecation , intimidation , and " physical foroe" might , for » season , arrest the progress of Chartism ; yet , npon it 3 resuscitation , would it be gore to start from that very point where oppression made its last assault . We announced that not a step of the old ground would be gone over again ; bnt on the contrary , what was gained would be kept , and fresh ground would be broke . That we were right in our conjecture is fully proved by the extraordinary and rapid strides made since the incarceration of our best , our wisest , and ablest leaders ; and that this is a principle in politics , may be inferred from the fact of the Whig organs having

      finished the campaign of 1831 with fire and sword , and now ( after a sleep not far short of Rip Van Winkle ' s nap ) proposing to open the campaign of 1841 with barrieadea and circumvallations of bread , thus starting from the very point where the " Reformers" left off in 1832 . If any fatality could have occurred more propitious than another , to aid the class ** Reformers" in moulding the Reform Bill to their own party purposes , it was that state of things which the senseless and then uninstructed people created at the bidding of their task-masters . " Reform" was literally snatched out of the fire , and cut into party dresses before the smoke had subsided .

      Those who applied the details to the principle knew full well what tha effect of those details would be : not perhaps that one would have been the mean of transferring power to Tory hands ; but they knew that the general effect would be to create a more slavish and dependent constituency , if possible , than that which it destroyed . They knew full well that all the people ' s share was ( notwithstanding the " vigilant" popular controul under which our institations were to be placed ) still to rest upon the clemency , whim , or caprice of the party which mi ^ ht be in the ascendant . In fact , they knew that the change was but a mere change of masters . The people did not expect so bad a return as they have receited . In every speech they recognised the

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      admission of some great principle , one and all tending to the one great professed end of making taxation AND REPRESENTATION CO-EXTENSIVE J and the great error committed was a blind renunciation of all further popular interference with the details , when the principle had been gained by fire and sword , and threats of extermination of royalty itself . Suoh was the great error in 1832 : such , as we have over and over again stated , has been the great error in all physical revolutions . The people , generally successful in the physical struggle , rest satisfied , and suppose that victory follows the last shot , or the last crash cf the fired building : when the soldiers repose , leaving to their officers the disposal ot the triumph and the possession of the spoil .

      Our readers will further bear in mind that we were alone in noticing the new Whig tactics eo loosely cast before us in the war print , the Globe , under the significant heading "Bread or B ( ood " We stated that the country would be roused upon that cry , and further insisted that the hungry Whigs cou > d not pass through the dog-days , without becoming rabid , if once whipt from the mess . Does not the following sentence from the Chronicle fully prove the truth of our assertion ?— We must have money , says Sir Robert Peel . Manchester and Birmingham may answer any Budget but the Whig one with a Barricade . "

      sSow , that is from the Chronicle , and we have emphasised the may jast as we find it in that journal - , and will any man of plain common sense read it thus emphasised , otherwise than—Manchester and Birmingham ought to erect the Barricade ; Manchester and Birmingham we trust will erect the Barricade , in resistance to any Budget , other than a Whig Budget : that is to say , the people of Manchester and Birmingham should risk their lives

      the peace of the country , and the very existence of society , for no other earthly purpose than that of whipping the Whigs back again to the mess ! for that is the plain meaning of the thing : because the Whigs know full well that they would have to toss up some other hasty pudding of a Budget for next year , and so on : annually looking out for windfalls and God-sends for the " surplus population" of idle paupers , which " presses too hardly upon the means " of the industrious man ' s existence .

      But is it not curious that , in the tenth year of Reform and retrenchment , the Whiga should still claim credit , not—for reducing taxation , but for experimentalising to avoid further direct taxation ! They require £ 2 , 400 , 000 for the current year ; and as " a penny saved is a penny gained , " we could very easily relieve them from all the trouble , anxiety , risk , and loss of office , by nipping just that amount from the burden of the state , and [ barring the precedent . ' ] the

      morsel would not be felt ! We could doit for them , and more , without even one act of aristocratic injustice ; but upon their preservation of the mess fulL , entire , and intact , ( which are the terms of their trust ) , depends their support ; and therefore they prefer walking out for a bit , to living upon short commons even for a season , in the hope of returning to the undiminished mess at some future day . About the Barricades .

      Let us just suppose that O'Connor had appeared in Court , as proprietor « f the Northern Star , to plead to an indictment framed upon the very article we have copied from the Chronicle : nor indeed is he safe from this , as he was actually con victed twice for matter copied from other papers , and was also extensively denounced and held up to public reprobation by the said Chronicle and the Whig press generally , upon a third occasion , for the crime of the Northern Star having copied from the Tyne Mercury a sketch of a " cat " , and which the Tyne Mercury gave as a description of the sort of bed upon

      which it desired to see the said O'Connor reposing . We gave the article from the Mercury t" cat" and all ; and at no distant period we found the whole of the Whig and Tory Press teeming with abuse of O'Connor for having given a sketch of a cat for injuring the horses of dragoons , with a recommendation for its adoption . Nay the infamous and lying slander was actually repeated to the cheering representatives of the people , by that greatest and meanest of all tools , Plain John , and urged as a reason among others for his persecution of O'Connor and the Chanists .

      But to the Barricade . Whatisitfor , and whatis to hi the amount of the promised victory t A republic ? No . The establishment of the universal rights of the wbol& people , under a limited and responsible monarchy ! No . The annihilation of the Tory party ? No . The means of affording to the Whigs a power of completing " Reform , " in which they have been hitherto baffled by Tory opposition i No . The remission of some heavy burdens , and reduction of taxation I No . Some temporary means of helping the system-made paupers through their present distreBS , until permanent steps shall be taken to

      prevent a recurrence of the evil ? No . The Repeal of the new Poor Law Act ? No . The repeal of some bad law ! No , no , no ; no such thing ! The Whig Budget is the acknowledged " casus belli . " In decency , the Chronicle should have spared us the disagreeable and thankless office of taking it to task befow the battle commences ; for although we and the unrepresented people cannot be expected to give to Toryism another " fair trial , " yet we do think that , inasmuch as the mere difference of locality ,

      whether right or left of the Speaker's chair , constitutes the sole asd only difference between Whigs and Tories , the Chronicle should , in common decency , have waited for some better pretext , and more practical reason , for erecting the Barrioades in Manchester and Birmingham , and thus have spared us the trouble of cautioning the people against the " revolutionary and treasonable" recommendation : aye , " revolutionary and treasonable "; there ib no use blinking it—it amounts to that .

      Mr . Easthope ' s life and property will be just as secure under a Tory , as under a Whig Government ; and he has not the same justification for his violence , as an unrepresented , neglected , despised , persecuted , and starving out-lawed people have . Surely , then , if the Whigs cannot wait for a month for a trial without talking about Barricades , the sentences of poor " ignorant" working men , for no other crime than merely meeting , as iu the case of Hoey , Ashton , and Crabtrbe and hundreds of others , were most egregiously severe , and their crime was very venial compared to that of the Chronicle , who cannot state any better cause of complaint than the mere change from one side to the other of the House of Commons .

      We have Borne recollection of a denunciation of O'Connor and O'Brien by the Chronicle , by George Henry Ward , by Macaulat at Edinburgh , and more recently by that respectable pauper , Mr . Oswald , at Glasgow , for having recommended the people to resort to " physical force , " and then deserting them . This we nevei thought it worth while to contradict as the whole people were aware of its falseness , and indeed a 3 the bankrupt M . P . for Glasgow was very significantly ana flatly told upon the hustings by a large portion of the said people . However , had O'Connor and O'Brien , even by insinuation , ( which they never did , ) told the people to make a physical resistance to , or physical aggression upon , tyranny , the people would have

      been justified in insisting upon those two gentlemen taking the command of the troops : and in the same way , should the Whig Barricades be erected in Manchester and Birmingham , and should it not be convenient to send a deputation from either of these towns to London , for Mr . Easthopb , Lord Palmekston , and the Proprietor of the Globe , to take the command ; and should the rage extend to the metropolis , which is very probable , we hereby insist upon the Chronicle and Globe offices being respectfully searched for the Editors—no , for the Proprietors ; [ this is another privilege of ours , so long as our writings are not objected to by our employers !] and upon Mr . Easthope being compelled to take the chief command of the " Budget Bar-

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      ricade '' wlich may happen to be nearest to his office . We think this a good moral doctrine for our peace-loving Chartist friends ; and we beg to jttssure them , that the very same result aa was produced in Nottingham , Newcastle , Bristol , and Dorchester , by * firing" the Whigs into office in 1831 , would be produced after they were Barricaded into office ia 1841 ; that is , the foremost men would be some hung and some more transported , which are the usual rewards of Whig seldiera after the battle .

      But can anything more fully prove the injustice of class legislation than the impunity with which a set of trafficking politicians , destructives , and hired and common disturbers of the peace , are allowed thus to excite the quiet people to treason and rebellion ! Why is not Easthope prosecuted ! Why will he not be prosecuted 1 Because , as we stated the week before last , a Jury that would hang a Chartist for half the crime , would acquit Eastbope and honour him as a champion and a martyr .

      We are fond of giving sums to our pupils ; and now suppose the second Whig campaign to have commenced with Barricades , how is it likely to end 1 Answer—in the establishment of the Charter , a Republic , or anything else which is found indispensible for Whig restoration to the mess if the ChartiBt garrison only holds out . However , they will try to accomplish it constitutionally if they can ; in short , " morally if they may , physically if they must . " For ourselves we ever have been , and ever shall be enemies to excessive punishment , and more especially for political offences ; and the most

      that Mr . Easthope and his violent friends can now expect at our hands , if worsted in the campaign of the " Budget Barricades , " will be to insist that the critical standard for the punishment of poor political offenders , established by the Whigs , shall not be violated . If there appears a strong point of law in Mr . Easthopb ' s favour to save him from being half hanged firstly , and then to have his bowels torn out and thrown in his face , and then to be the other half hanged , and then to have bis head out off , and then to be quartered and disposed of according to her Majesty ' s pleasure ;

      and if all the best and ablest of the judges are in favour of that point , and if Mr . Easthops ' s crime appears to consist in resisting tyranny and advocating justice for all ; in such case we will take care , as far as we have the power , that he shall suffer no greater punishment than transportation for life to a penal colony . If any Whig is discovered walking with a rusty old sword , or other warlike instrument , such as a pike handle without the pike , or having combustibles under his bed furnished by ahired Tory spy ; and if the said Whig is convicted upon the false evidence of a self-acknowledged perjurer , who

      admits that he was hired by the police and government authorities , we will , in such case , take care as far as we can , that suoh Whig suffers no greater punishment than four years upon the tread-mill under the silent system : and if any Whig shall attend a meeting for the purpose of declaring his grievances , WHILE OUT OF EMPLOYMENT , or being badly paid , and if no disturbance of the peace shall take place at suoh meeting , and if the said Whig or Whigs can get any respeotable person , or persons , to give him , or them , a good character for honesty , industry , and obedience to law , we will , as far as we can , take

      care that such Whig , or Whigs , Buffers no more than two year ' s imprisonment at hard labour under the silent system : and if any Whig journal shall publish illegal speeches or proceedings , we will , in such case , take care that no heavier punishment shall be inflicted than eighteen months solitary confinement , with heavy recognizances to keop the peace for three years ; and a complete and entire violation ef all prison rules , for Buoh others as the then Secretary of State for the Home Department shall , in his wisdom , be graciously pleased to substitute . Such is the very best that we can promise to do for the "Whig Budget Barricadere . "

      We feel some astonishment that the torch , found to be so pre-eminently successful a Reform weapon at Bristol in 1831 , should now be abandoned for the heavy , the cumberous , and more expensive Barricade . Will the Chronicle have the kindness to transmit to our office a wood-cut , wheels and all , of a moveable Barricade , and also of a Reform " torch , " so that we may lay the same before our readers , with a hope of inducing them to remain at home , while the Whigs are " all abroad . " Perhaps Mr . Steele , the pacificator General of Ireland , would at the same time have the kindness to famish us with a cast of one of those " one million

      Irish pikes , " which he assures us can be manufactured in less than a week ? Ah , we said that it would come to this . DANIEL AND THE MISCREANT

      CHARTISTS AGAIN . The nasty fellow has been spitting his venom upon Chartism in his tour of reimbursement . We just give the following specimen of this gentleman ' s love of truth . When addressing the people of Kilkenny , the other day , he Baid : — " England never was in a greater state of jeopardy than she is at present : her artisans starving—her manufacturers eonVplftinlns—her commerce declining—her revenues exhausted—and Chartism bunting over the land . And if Irishmen joined the physical-force Chartists , and assisted them in their maddened career , why , before this time , the aristocracy of England would have been reduced to hqwlisg beggars ., if not assasinated by the Chartists , and the , throne of our yonng and lovely Queen would have been overturned . "

      Waa there ever such unpardonable folly as this ?! But is there not something to deplore even in the folly \ Do not the wise discover in it the foregone conclusion , that in Chartism alone the " Liberator" recognises perfect freedom , and consequent free trade arid total destruction of all monopoly in humbug % Do they not also see in it full proof that , so long as he can help it , no union shall take place between the people of the two countries ? But , we defy him ! Knowledge is more powerful than sophistry , bombast , or blarney , or than all three put together ; and we have now before us not a few cheering communications from different parts of Ireland , assuring us of the rapid progress of the good cause made through our humble instrumentality .

      M The aristocracy of England would have been reduced to prowling beggars , IF NOT ASSASINATED BY THE CHARTISTS ; and the throne of our young and lovely Queen would have been overturned . " Good God ! is the man " clean daft" ? Has he gone quite out of his wits in anticipation of Ireland's howl when she comes to ask for her 42 Repealers that voted for her resurrection in 1834 T Or does he hope to turn the curious from an investigation into their own affairs , by oreating a greater curiosity about ours . This is a counter irntan ,. "The Chartists assassinate" ! Was

      ever a more base and malicious slander ?! Bnt this is not all . The disinterested Liberator , in one of his recent phillipics , at Cork , stated the terms of his future support to a Whig Government ; and what do our readers suppose those terms are ! " Repeal , of course . " No : guess again . Justice to Ireland ? No : Total Abolition of Tithes ? No . Extentton of the Suffrage ? No : guess again . Do you give it up ? Yes . Well hear , Daniel O'Comnbll will not again support a Whig Administration which " refuses

      to give Places to Repealers . " You don ' t believe it ? don ' t you ! Well then , have his own words from the correspondent of the World newspaper , corroborated by the press generally . " Mr . O'Connell said , that , should the Whigs resvme power , he would not support them if they refused place to any man because he is a Repealer . " Now , do you believe it ! " Aye , I do now ; and it bangs Bannagher , and Bannagher bangs cock fighting . " Thus has Chartism been merged into " assassination " , and Repeal into " situation" !

      Ah ! Dan , sold tho people , body and sleeves , to Lord Duncannon and the Whigs iu 1835 , and now he offers them a cheap bargain of Repeal : but we have better hopes for Ireland ; All is not lost

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      that ' s in danger t The English people will heap coals of fire upon the heads of the IriBb , by carrying a Repeal of the Union in spite even of the Liberator himself ; and when we have , by our moral strength , and without a blow being struck , oran "aristocrat assassinated / ' or the Queen ' s dignity even impaired , procured , as with God ' s blessing and the aid of our blistered hands we shall do , FOUR MILLION SIGNATURES for a Repeal of the

      Union , ( valueless , perhaps , from a want of the accompaniment of 2 s- to each name , making the small totaloffourhundredthousandpounds ;) we say , when we have done this , the odds are Lombard - street to a China orange , that the answer from Dan ' s" tame associates" will be : " No ; we won ' t have it now ; it mast be bad , poison , rank poison , when offered by our deadly enemies , THE PEOPLE of England "

      Just think of the folly of this man telling his gaping audience that tbb peoplb of England must be hostile to Ireland , because the county constituencies had returned a large majority of Ireland ' s enemies to the present Parliament ! Is this not a melancholy perversion ! Why not honestly tell the Irish people that , of the batch , the English people would not have returned a single one of those enemies of Ireland if they had a voice in the selection .

      This attempt to divert public attention from the fallen state of Ireland , prodaced by the " Liberator ' s" truckling expediency policy , shall not do . In self-defence , and in defence of the English and the Irish people , we shall next week perform the unpleasant duty of enquiring how-far the Irish people have even endeavoured , in the late straggle , to rescue their own country from the bloody grasp of the " prond invader" and the ruffian faotions ;

      and how far the question of questions has been advanced by the blood , the sacrifices , and the glorious , but misapplied , exertion of the brave Irish people . They are a brave and a noble people , and the greater our sorrow that their Milesian blood should fertilize the land of their forefathers now held by the right of conquest , which was only achieved by the very disunion so sedulously attempted to be kept alive by Mr . O'Connell .

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      THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL . Impressed with the same jealous feeling as the Noble Lord whose name adorns our frontispiece , of the equal importance of " watching details as of maintaining great principles , " we have perused his " Will "more than once , in the hope of discovering in its details some substitute for" great principles , " the disposal of which , in the excitement of so awful an

      undertaking , the noble testator has wholly omitted . Whether the omission proceeded from a want of such a description of property , or whether it was already disposed of by previous settlement , or mortgaged , or otherwise pawned , or encumbered beyond redemption , we cannot undertake to say ; but certain are we , that we felt strong disappointment as expeotant participators in what we had a right to consider as national trust property , to find that there were no assets .

      The press has given to the Noble Lord ' s production a multiplicity of fine names , some calling it" a xrtat state paper ; " others" an important document ;' others " the plain , straightforward , and manly address , bearing the signature of the Noble Lord {" others a " luminous Manifesto . " All these high-flown terms raised our hopes to a great pitch , for a week , as state documents and all state affairs generally do ; but at the end of that time , Wo find that the greatest importance now attached to the great document , is " the time at which it made Us appearance "

      We regret exceedingly that the Noble Lord did not , as is the # sual custom with testators , commence by assuring us that he was of " sound and disposing mind , " and then return " thanks to Almighty God for the same . " We really regret the absence of this usual form ; because if we were to deoide upon the state of the testator ' s mind , by comparing his document with those documents which have recently appeared from the pen of working men , as members of a representative body

      not recognized by law , or as individuals struggling for their just rights , we should undoubtedly declare that either Lord John , or the authors of those national documents , were " non compos mentis . " and inasmuch as the latter State Papers not only express and define " groat principles , " but likewise propose the most simple details for their arrangement for use , while hiB Lordship ' s will makes no bequest of the one without which the other is inoperative ; we therefore pronounce his Lordship " non compos . "

      Now , let us just take the most important portion of this dooument , and see wherein its statesman-like character is to be found . The testator , in the three first paragraphs , according to tho arrangement of the Examiner , from which we take it , for it has been variously subdivided , says as follows : — " LORD JOHN BUSSELL ' S ADDEESS TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON .

      " Gentlemen , —I request you to accept my sincere and hearty thanks for the honour you have conferred upon me by electing me one of , your Representatives in the Common * ' House of Parliament I should have made this acknowledgment at an earlier period , had I not been desirous of explaining to you the course which the general state of the returns will make it my duty to puisne . In owler to do this the more clearly I must refer to some past events .

      " In the early part of last year , when a resolution , declaring a want ot confidence in the Government , was brought forward , I distinctly announced the intention of proposing additional taxes to meet the increased expenditure of the country . In the present year , so soon as the estimates had been completed , and the probable amount of the revenue could be calculated , her Majesty ' s Ministers took into their serious consideration tbe disparity which still existed between the income of the country and the cost of its establishments . We found that the new taxes were not sufficient to supply the deficiency . We were of opinion that we could not , with due regard to the hononr and safety of the nation , reduce its naval and military forces .

      " But , npon a careful view of our commercial imposts , we cameto the conclusion that , by removing prohibitions , and lessening restrictions , it was possible to replenish the Treasury . " Now , what is there valuable in all that beyond the Btrong analogy , between the procrastinated compliment to his Lordship ' s constituents and the procrastinated announcement of his Lordship ' s " great commercial reforms , " so frankly , but so foolishly avowed ? His Lordship concludes the second paragraph thua : — " We were of opinion that we could not . with due regard to the honow and safety of the nation , redoes its naval and military forces . "

      Now this is unfair as well as untrue ; the sentence should have run thus : —• " We were aware that we had produced a state of things which could only be upheld by brute force , aud therefore we were compelled to overtax those whom we had starved , for the pay of more soldiers and sailors , and officers , and policemen . " But in the third paragraph we find , that after all the expence , the anxiety , the risk , and the inconvenience to which the country has been put , his Lordship only calculates upon the mere POSSIBILITY of replenishing the Whig Exchequer by means of the " Great Commercial Reforms "

      W « ll , the Noble Lord labours through the remainder of a very dnll and heavy paragraph of thi ? " important and luminous Stata document , " and thus opens the fourth paragraph . He says : — " As soon as the new Parliaments meets , we shall take the first opportunity of asking for a clear and decided judgment npon the policy we have pursued . " What , more last words ! another last judgment , and a further dig into another quartern loaf ! Man alive ! has not judgment been passed three several times J First , out of the House , by a clear verdict of guilty ; second , m the House , by a clear verdict of insanity and imbecility ; and lastly , upon appeal to ihe REFORM MADE PEOPLE , a clear verdict of guilty ; and now , not satisfied , theNobk Lord is resolved upoa pushing the people , his ioo

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      lenient judges , to pronounce judgment . No , no we hare given . his Lordship and his Lordship ' s party a very long , and a very fair trial ; and in the discreet and excellent language of the Morn , ing Advertiser , which , throughout , has kept the lead of the Whig press , we entirely concur . Our able contemporary , thus weeps a tear of joy over the improved but melancholy fate of the Wbigg . " The atmosphere of the opposition benches is , after all , the atmosphere in which Whigs can breaths

      freely . The opposition is their native element . As an opposition , they have from the time of Fox anil Shebidan downwards achieved . their greatest victories and gained their brightest laurels ; and there can be no question that new triumphs and fresh trophies await them in the new sphere oq which they aTe about to enter . In the ranks of the opposition , they will , no doubt , redeem tha character they have lost , and restore the confide nce which the people of England have for some time ceased to repose in them . "

      How the Whig epicures may relish the free and pure air upon the Opposition side of the Heuse , as a substitute for the "fat dabs" < jf office , we are not prepared to say ; but in e very word of the above , which we have one hu ndred times impressed upon our readers , we fully concur ; and of the Whig Opposition , after so high an eulo . gium , ^^ we would say , " Esto perpettia . " We } must now come back to the noble testator , After the above passage , from the fourth paragraph , he goes on to complain , in bitter terms , against all those details which in the " great principle" of Reform have acted injuriously to Whig interest . Here we shall only ask , who supplied those " im «

      portant details" to the " great principle" ! Ther » does not appear to have been attached by his Lord * ship , IN TIME , that great importance of •* watching details , " which it now appears his party ' s interest required . Well , is not this just what we have been hammering at for years I Hare we not said , a thousand times , that the measure was lost from a neglect of its proper detail moulding to its proper uses , and according to the spirit of the " great * principle" 1 In foot , we and the people were , and have long been , before the Noble Lord ; and now the stupid press begins to praise matter and assertion whioh merely proves the ignorance , incapacity , and backwardness ef his Lordship ' s ignorant associates .

      The Noble Lord then proceeds to tell us all about the elections , and all about what every hand-loom weaver was perfectly cognizant of . He complains of Lerd Chandos ' s ^ 50 tenant-at-will clauso ; of the dependency of county voters upon their landlords , and so forth ; and then the Noble Lord gays a something about the " certainty of the cause of civil and religious liberty triumphing at last . " Yes , in faith ! but it would have been at long , long last , had it not been for the spiteful prod which the Noble Lord promises , in the sixth paragraph to give , in oppo * sition , to the poking hack which he rode while in office with so "loose a rein" and " careless seat" that he was thrown . In the sixth paragraph he says : —

      " Out of power we obliged our opponents to abolish those testa by which political office was made exclusive , and a religious sacrament profaned . Oat of power we forced our adversaries themselves to free the Roman Catholics from those disabilities which tbey had declared indispensable for the maintenance of tin Constitution , and the safety of the Church . " Bravo , Lord John ! Then in opposition , in God's name , remain J as in truth you appear tons to plead eloquently for the privilege and place , and as eloquently to show cause why you should never again hold office , without a committee of sane Chartists to " watch all the important details" of your " GREAT PRINCIPLES . "

      We now assure our readers that we have goni through this " great state paper ; " this important national document ; '' this "luminous manifesto , - " this " statesman-like production ,- " and we ask oar readers to contrast it with the luminons manifesto of the late Convention , which we published in May last ; or with the Address of the Executive , which appeared in our last number ; or with any one of the numerous and spirited addresses which hate come from female Chartists' Associations , and say which is most in accordance with the great principles required by the present generation ; and which , if moulded by proper "details , " would be most calculated to arrive at that result which the Noble Lord vainly hopes to persuade the people he aims , namely , " civil and religious liberty . "

      The press , as is its custom , has treated this im < portant and luminous document , " each according to ( heir several interests ; while the only importance ¦ w hich we attach to the piece of incomparable folly falsehood , blarney , sycophancy , and sophistry is the opportunity it affords us of exposing to our virtuous and intelligent readers the sort of bait with which golden fish are caught . Positively , if such a communication was gent to us for insertion , bearing the initials of J . R ., we should thus dispose of it in our notice to cornspondents : —

      " J .. R . has been received , but we decline publish " ing it in pity to the unfortunate contributor , who must be sadly afflicted with delirium tremens . W « would , of all things , recommend him to try changi op air , where he may restore that tone and confidence , and self-possession , of which he appears to stand so much in need . " The Noble Lord has not yet bit upon the proper bait to catch the mess . Black wings , blue bottom , and steel body is not the fly for the dog-days . A fly found in abundance , in fact swarming about factories and bastiles , called the "Chartist stinger , "

      is the proper fly for the mess fish . The angler knows where to look for them , and will hear them buzzing like a swarm of bees , at an immense distance upon a summer ' s evening . They are a thin , lank-looking fly , like a (> daddy long-legs ; " &U limbs and no body ; and the golden fish are verj greedy after them and will take them freely , when they won't rise at a "horse-fly" or "blue-bottle . " The Captain and first Lieutenant of a line-ofbattie ship ohoe got into a very warm argument

      as to the proper iiy for the season ; the Captain insisting that the " horse-fly" was then the best bait for mackerel—the Lieutenant denying that there was any such fly : whereupon an Irish sailor , who happened to be at hand , and who was an acknowledged angler , was appealed to as umpire . The Lieutenant asked him " Pat , did you ever see a " horse fly" 1 " No , d- —n my eyes ; " replied Pat—*' -bufc I tell yonr honour what I see , jast as quair a thing—I see a cow jump down a pM * cipice . "

      We have just told the anecdote to relieve the tedium of the consideration of the " mighty , great , and importantly luminous and statesmanlike" new moonshine ; while we lire in hope that a codicil will be added in the noble patient ' s next attack of sp leen , to cure all defects , and making suitable disposal of all the great principles held in trust by the noble testator .

      THE PEOPLE'S TACTICS . The elections are now settled ; the New House is returned ; the Whiga have been taught their proper lesson . They have been , in fact , made powerl ess for evil , and the next best thing for the people ' s attention ft , the use to be made of their victory ; f « a popular victory over the base Whigs , their ungrateful oppressors , we hold the result of the general election to be a steady unshaken adherence to tbeir own policy , an absolute refusal to be drawn , cajoled , ft

      bullied into any agftation for any thing short of the entire Charter , must be joined to a careful improvement of every means by which our offensive operations against the citadel of corruption can be carried ou . We have always told our readers that there are only two media through which they can look for the restoration and establishment of popular rightphysical revolution , or an Act of Parliament . Th » former . it has been the studied carefulness of onrh ' vf « to avert by all means ; we have been continuall y

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      A THE NORTHERN STAR .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct717/page/4/