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    • 2To 2Sea&n*0 anja (Sovve^ontsm tfi .
    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1843.
    • 33?ftiffog.
    • to ^ _ i i_ TO THE CHARTISTS.
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      T 15 IT TO TrTE " CONCOKDIITM- AT HAM COMMON , SUBBEY . BT G . JOCOB HOlTOiKB . " Every attempt to aemonsinie fte praslbilily of increasing the sum *{ lnnnim lappiBessis * tnbuta to TnnTtTnnfl-S Whether such attempt succeed or whether it foils , itis sHI * n offering st / tt » shiine of human Improvement The MMdenta * £ fiie Ham Coomon ConeoMJmn l »] ieve flat men aronld be healtMer in frame , and more refined 3 n ihongTft ,-were their diet more ample , and less xnim&L 3 iey tellevB Association to be conduciveto personal isppineui and Co-operation to ' -worldly prosperity . -BeBevins * ° » ^ twe ^ eforniera they cndesTonr to act enttbeir belief

      Afew < isy s __ jo _ I had the pleasure of Tinting tbem , Trhen I found little to censure , and much to commend . As 3 sh » far from admiring the -opinions of the Coneordists , I may be supposed impartial in vrhat 1 say in favour of their doings . What they mean by " divine Hitra-feB , " " jrpnits , * harmonies , * " and so forth , I am utterly unable to comprehend . Bat their habitation , their manners , and their intentions , I can . understand . The- other speculations -may he Tery correct ; trat I -will xonfinB myself to "what comes -within the compass of my capacity .

      The Goiicordinm is a mansion -of moderate sizs , in a beantifnl staation . Tie yards are apsdons and clear ; th « jgazdena -extezxsxre and Improving- Some of the looms in the house are genteelly , and all are comfortablj , furnished . Shower and plunge baths are at the service of aS . A printing office is attached to the premises , in -wtacU a portion of the members are employed . Others are occupied in-tailoring , agricultural , sad irimTiRr saefol departments ; and 2 must add , that all look healthy-and appear happy . With the practice of the Concordlsts there is mixed Dp much self-denial . I use the term in the worldly senaa . Be it remembered that all is sot denial -which

      the -srorid is in the habit of calling by that name . I question not that the stem Spartan iras a happier man than the Tolnroptious Greek . The diet of the Concordist is plain , and purely vegetable . The . Epicure would tern airay from their homely meal ; but let him re-Eiembei that they "wonld sicken at his disease-engen dering dish . Their ^ iet has perhaps a homely appearance ; bnt the health that accompanies their rspast is a far store lovely sight than the fever and bile which creep round the ] gourmands * flesh-filled-plate . They "who provide food far their appetites instead of appetites for their food , are strangers to the issfc with which temperance and exercises sit down to the plainest ixre . Is the "words of his t ^ iT »« in tt > r Creech , Horace

      BBgS" Why , Sir , the pleasure that ' s in eating known Is Dot in fif meat , but is thyself alone . Sake exercise thy sauce ; let that euite : Por a Seamy and a zqueasy appetite 2 f or trout , nor tench , sur oysters can delight . " Ab in diet , so in dress , the Concordista consult the attainment of health . In person the young men appear zather the followers of iycurgus ttsn the votaries of pleasure . This is -honourable to them . They chiefly ¦ wear beards , and have much to encounter in the way ef riijeuie for this peculiarity . But they appear to iMrik -with JBulwer that " it is » farce to talk of independenee , while every sun is the slave of his neigfekonr * s opinion . " - We have a strange propensity to ridicule the ^» gTity « t -deviation from costumes worn and -hacknisd , however i « t « tiiM » in itself that dsvistion may be . We often spend more satire on our neighbour ' s innocent eccentricities than on tie pernicious ^ nffm nf JoM t _ h « nySnw

      Is what I -observed at the Concordinm there were many things to be amended . But 1 allow that these are not of great weight . It ia to be considered that the experiment is in an incipient state . It would sot be fair to criticise , as t _ hnngh time cad been afforded to Teach perfection . It is progressive . A friend wboaccompanieQ - » . testified that hB had Tinted the same place Bomex » uiTe months ago , and was surprised at the improvement thai had taken place . The ConcordisU have a particular object in view '; and 3 r ± commenting -on their plans , arrangements , and nodes of living , I have deemed it a dnty to keep Una object ^ lways in view . As in the works of literature , so in experiments in science , the role of Pope should be the guide -of our judgment—JI In all respects regard the writer ' s end "Sines sons " frrrpw * more ~ t _ b _ U-t they intend . "

      * jQ » intention of tie Concordlsts is excellent ; and iherr « xperimeni a most uae-tol one . Hence I -ahoold be xiore ssseus to help tha amendment , than enter upon the condemnation of what may be defective . It is true any visit was short , ' sad my observations therefore few . But I endeavoured to compensate by Tijilence the want of more extensive opportunity . I personally examined every department ; and all I saw was dean and creditable . My ignorance of what I might sot have seen dees sot affect the truth of what I ^ id see . Ana as others hare given their first impressions of this place it is *< raa 3 y fair 1 b&l 1 th&uld give miae .

      Mx . W-J . Pox has said that " to tbe worid , / ai / are is often -worth more than success . ** This is a strange , but true , assertion . It is an important question , "whstber * we axe steeped in cazrreationalism jmd x _ t ____ c&led "wiVb ensiom as to be naoble to throw oS onr artiEdaj habits , . return to the jompls ones of nature , and still progress is intelligence . Much lias been said of the merits of Co * operation ; but little has been done socially to test its benefits . It is an intEresting problem yet to be solved : and it is not too nmtb "to £ &s that tbe progress of humanity tangs upon its solution . Fail we or Success ¦ Will alike settle thB point . Siiedss will determine the way mankind are to take ; and feature will prove that they must start in a sew direction- The Concordists are one party who are labouring to furnish this informa-&m ; asd whether f * " ^* experiment succeeds or sot , ti . ej merit esteem and deserve encouragement .

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      THE LADIES' WOBK TABLE BOOK ; containing -dear and practical instructions in Plain and JEaney Hecdlewofk , Embroidering , Kmtting , Jfetting , drotchet and Tatting , with nnmerons ^ Engravings 5 HnstratavB of the varjons stitches in those DE&fnl and fashionable-employments- Second Thousand . London ; H . G . Clarkeand Co « 66 , Old B&ilej . As exceedingly seat vreD goi jip volume , which should be in the sanfls of erery female : not less handy for the educated woman of superior circumstances than nseful for the neglected child of poverty and labour . The author has a happy knack of putting btbtj thing , e ? en the most . ample , inio pleasing language and an instrnclive form . The iollovring extracts from the introduction will shew the reader something of both the plan and character of the work : —

      ** If it be trae that * home Ecenea are rendered lappy or miserable , in proportion % o the good or evil influence , exercised over them by woman—as aster , wife , or mother "—it Trill be admitted as a fact of tie utmost importance , tha : every thing should be done to improve the taste , cultivate the understanding , and eleTate the character of those * high priestesses * of our domestic sanctuaries . The page of Kstory isforma us , that the progress of any nation in morals , civilization , 'and refinement , is just in proportiDn to the elevated or degraded position in which woman is placed in society ; and the same instructive volume will enable ns io peretive , that the TancSul ereauons of the needle , have exerted a marked influence over the pursuits and destinies of TTIUTI

      ** To Wend tae oserol with the ornamental ,-and to exhibit the gusbings forth cf mind , vitalised bj the vfarm and glowing aSectionsof the heart , is toe ppcuHar h . on * ur and sacred destiny of "Bromas . Wiibout her inflntnee , life "wonid be arrajed m ssbles , xnd thfi proud lords of the ^ creation woald be infinitely more miserable and helpless than the beasts that perish . To reader , thenC those * terrestrial azgels' all thai oar fondest vmhes conld desire , or our most vivid imagmaiions picture , must be , ander any circmasiances , a pleasing and delightfnj employment ; while , foT a father or a brother to behold her returning all ^ Ihe care bestowed upon her by the tboasand ofices of love , to the performance of which she slone is equal , is donbdess oae of ihe most exalted sources of human felicity . " Teen follows a ^ dissertation on the uses of the needle , concluding thus :

      The needle is also capable of becoming an important monitor to the female bean ; and yip would impress iMstrnfii seriously npon their recollection , that as there is * Sermons in stones , And good in every thing , Sotheseedle they so often use , is , or may be , a silent bnt salutary moral teacher . They all "know Hal hsTfever good ihe ^> ye of a need ' s mav be , if it Tr ere rusted and pointless , it would bs of little use . Let them also recollect , that _ though u may possess the Ssest point . and polish ia-tbe -world , if ' desutuve o ! lha eye , it"sronid baof no use at all . The lesson -we "msfl ibem to derive fronr hence is ibis , that as it

      is the eye which holds the thread , and that it 33 by the thread alone that the needle becomes useful , so it , is ihe ^ yebf intelligence ,: direeted to the attainment of useful ends , that gives all the real -r&lue to ihB point and polish , which is so much admired is tee educated female ; and thai without the intellectual powers brthe mind be engaged in the pnTsmts sf goodness , ill * iher endowments vrill be useless to their possessor . l * t them learn also , not to despise such of their companions as , though intelligent and useful- are neither possessed of wit or elegance equal Jo ihdr own . -Qrenmstsnees may have rendered them , life ^ needle , rasty and painless ; but ihe « ye of inieliigeBce is lere , and they may still be useful - ¦

      . _ . .... _ , - . ** Th * want of a vfori containing clear instructions Trithoni unnecessary olffuteEess , and by which ihe nmsidsisd inaj become their oirn msanctor-- , has loii ^ bi ^ n ssn = ibly fell ; and this irant , tiia f ^ ilowzes pates zx-- intended io = npply . Our aim is , noi ic- cate jot-ps lafiics sernie copji ^ S tm to leai ^ stii . io-i . Lt fi , Tiaati oa of fcaiuis oi' tr »» , n-hs and ie-¦ fl = « 30 D ,-wiutn may issae in higser a * vaiDSicni » than ^« i » knifing of a shawl , or ihe netting vl a purse .

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      •* We are anxious to render elegant amusements conducive to the attainment of moral ends * and to Jay that foundation of intellectual superiority and affectionate regard , for the comfort and happtne&s ef others , which can alone give light and animation , sweetness and blooming freshness , to the interesting scenes of future life . All engagements , which are calculated to elevate , soften , and harmoniie the human oharacter , have this tendency * and it is in the assured conviction that the employments here treated of , are , when cultivated in due snbordination to higher duties , well adapted to secure these objects , and to promote these domestic ends , that the Ladies ' Work Table Book has been prepared , and ia now presented to the lovely daughters of England . "

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      THE STRUGGLE . Whatbveb notions the Irish people and their leaders may have entertained as to the probable issue of the Hepeal agitation in the restoration of the Whigs to power , there can no longer remain any doabts as to the tactics and the intentions of the Whigs themselves as a body . We needed not the new-born patriotism of the old members of the old Whig cabinet and their unprincipled followers ; we required not the sudden ardour with which the Irish

      liberal members have been inspired , to convince us of the length that this greedy pack of mongrel politicians wonld go , to thrust their muzzles once more into the mesa-trough , or to teach ns the amount of confidence which the people could place in them . Ardour , zsal , and large professions are baits , however , with which the incautious are likely to be caught ; and therefore it has become onr duty to float it upon the surface , so that every fish may see the hook and avoid the nibble . We did not require the exuberant professions of Russell , Macablat , Pal 3 Iersto >" , Roebuck , Chablss Buixek , and

      others , to convince ns of the lengths to which the " outs" would go to get" in" again . "We needed not the high-flown patriotic sentiments of the Irish section who reviled ns , who coerced ns , and who would have crushed as , until every drop of Chartist blood had been squeezed out of as , to teach us the effect that altered circumstances will have upon vicious politicians . When we bear in mind the funeral procession that bore the bleeding corse of Ireland to ihe foot of the Throne , when the Irish people followed it as chief mourners , and ihe Whigs attired in their Windsor nniform , preceeded it as a

      joyous festival , we require no further proof of the hostility of that party to the ** concessions" required by the Irish people . When we bear in mind that the first act of Lord Plusket , Lord Grey ' s first Reform Lord Chancellor , was to dismiss every Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate who presided over or took part in the anti-Tithe agitation of 1332 , at a time when Stasley , the Secretary for Ireland , declared that the " total extinction or Tithes " was one object to be accomplished by the Reform Bill ; when we recollect that the Hon . 1 ' ieiick BuriBB , Sir Bjchabd IS ' agle , Mr . James Re » -

      sioKD Baebt , and several others , were deprived of the Commission of the Peace for taking part in that anti-Tithe agitation ; when we recollect that without any agitation whatever existing for a Repeal of the Union in Ireland , the Whigs gave ns the most bloody Coercion Bill that ever disgraced the statute book , by which they suspended Trial by Jury , and subst ituted that of Court Martial ; when we recollect that they gave ns an Irish Arms Bill which differed bnt slightly from the atrocious measure now before the House ; and when we bear in mind that all these cruelties were contended for as necessary to produce a calm in which justice should be administered : when we recollect all these

      things , and find after ten years of boasted calm of Whig creation , that the Whifcs have so better stock of complaint ihan the existence of every grieTance which was promised to be remedied , we say they had much better hold their peace . We find an announcement in the Time * of of Tuesday last of a meeting that took place at the house of Sir Besj amih Hall , Whig member for Marylebone , and a baronet of Whig creation . It will be found in oar eighth page , and will be read with the interest it deserves ; and most especially the speech of Mr ; Wtse the Whig member for Waterford , from which we cull the following sentence for special remark . Mr . Wt ? 3 says : "NOW WAS THE TIME FOR

      ENGLISHMEN TO SPEAK OUT . BUT UNLESS IT WAS THE WEALTH , AND THE INTELLIGENCE , AS WELL AS THE NUMBERS , IT WOULD BE BETTER NOT TO MAKE THE ATTEMPT . " It will be further seen that the only resolution of the meeting was to present an address to her Msjesty praying her to dismiss her present ministers from power . This is the first stone directly thrown from the Whig camp ; and we shall most anxiously watch the Repeal

      agitation to see whether or no it has hit !! If Mr Wtsk supposes that the numbers are to be led in the train of wealth and what he is pleased to call the intelligence of the eouniry , he will find hrtneelfmost egre ^ ionsly mistaken ! The wealth is in theindustry of the working classes , while intelligence belongs pre-eminently to their order . ThiB is a " new move" ; the newest of the " New Moves , " and one whieh the people will require all their watchfulness to guard as ^ ins t . as emissaries are already abroad

      endeavouring to prepare the public mind for eqcb a result The Chartists , however , have now acquired a distinct position for themselves as a party ; and it is only by making a proper use of that position , that they can hope to exist as a body . Should they now be foolish enough to join in a kind of secondary Repeal Agitexion , which would have no other object in view than the restoration to power of England ' s and Ireland ' s bitterest foes , thej ^ haii do so after caution . They

      shall not blame nsforany evil results that may follow As far then as regard ^ the declamation of the Irish Liberal Members and the hangers-on of Wbjggery ire tell the people not to be led away by their sophistry , or to be gulled by their insolence ; but wherever a resolution iB proposed to present an address to her Majesty merely calling upon her to dismiss her present advisers and the Parliament , let them move thB following as an amendment : —

      To present an address to her Majesty praying that her Majesty will dismiss her present advisers and call to her Council such only as will be pledged to carry out the details of ihe People ' s Charter , and to Repeal the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland , in accordance with the wishes of the people of that country ; and farther praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Parliament and : © issue her royal commands to the several Sheriffs of Counties , and to the returning officers cf Cities aad Boroughs , to return members elected by the wiole people aeeordijjg to tbe principles Jtixi doivn in ike People ' s Charter and demanded by 3 , obU , 00 'J of hexSnplish subjects ; and further put lag U-av ail political prisoners , whether at home or abroad '

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      shall be restored to their families , their country , and their friends , and that justice shall be done to all those who havo unjustly suffered legal persecution for demanding a redress of those grievances which are now generally admitted to exist . " If the recent discussions in the House of Commons upon the subject of Irish , grievances has taught us the amount of justice which that country is likely to receive at the hands of the Tory Government , it has further taught us that as the cricket system is to be played , the Whigs are better " out " than "in , " watching the wicket . In their day , the

      best evidence that could be adduced foi the coercion of Ireland was one old ballad ! while taking advantage of Whig precedent , the Tories rely upon a whole book of songs . The only difference between the two parties is this : that while the Whigs were " in , " the Tories not only did not oppose them , but joined them in their every aot of recklessness ! while upon the contrary , the Whigs , when " out , " are upon the watch , and give us , at all events , the benefit of their opposition . The English people know that the Whigs and Free Traders would squander blood and treasure to any amount before they would consent to enact the People ' s Charter . The Irish people know that they have pledged themselves to resist the Repeal of the Union to the death ; and from this

      knowledge the people of both countries must come te the conclusion that any junction between Chartists and Whigs must be destr active of Chartism ; while any coalition , between Repealers and Whigs must annihilate all hope of Repeal . Justice to Ireland cannot be recognised in patronage ; it can only be developed in representation . Justice to England cannot be recognised in the principles of Free Trade , or Chareh Reform ; it can only be effected by popular representation . We havB thought it essentially necessary to be thus explicit upon the subject of this new dodge , beoause we are awaro that at a time of general excitement those who are not steady in principle will be easily warped to the side of extravagant profession ; and that the Whigs and their emissaries will have recourse to all available

      means for creating a reaction , based upon extensive promises , no man can doubt . If , however , the people suffer themselves to be duped , they will learn their first lesson in folly , from the spirit of vindictiveness which will be evinced ia their annihilation as a political body . Should this trick succeed , the insincere of all parties would allow their senseless , frothy agitation to subsido into a temporary calm for the purpose of bringing their united forces to bear against Chartism , which contains the only whole political principle worth contending for . Wo have now done our duty ? it is for the people to do theirs ! ! and if evil should come from neglect of our advice , let the charge be saddled upon those who read our warning but eschew our counsel . We feel convinced

      that many warm-hearted Irishmen amongst us may be led away by a belief that the Tories only Btand in the way of a Repeal of the Union , and that consequently every act of opposition to them is calculated to advance the question . Our hope , however , is in the belief that Ireland herself has achieved too much strength , and has arrived at too Eupieme a knowledge of her own powers , to waste that strength and power in so slight a triumph as that of knocking down the Tory ** wicket" and placing the "bat" once more in the hands of those whom it cost us so much trouble to " bowl out , " and who , while in , pursued a career of " base , bloody , and brutal recklessness , unparalleled in the bloodiest annals of the bloodiest country . "

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      Robert Peel io that false p dsition in which the confidence Of his patty has placed him : a position which he might have held by independence ; a position which { he is about to lose from weakness . Our whole system has become so confessedly rotten that even in honest or well intentioned leader is sure to bring contempt upon himself by the tools that he is compelled to enlist in his service . There is an old and in his ) case a very pertinent adage : " if you wrestle with a sweep whether ybuatand or fall , you must get some of the soot . " :

      We presutrie that tha same chances may be calculated upon from embracing as from wrestling ; and Sir Robert having embraced the political sweeps of all parties , from the ranting Republican , the revolutionary Whig , and : the constitutional Whig , down to the inflexible and stand-still Tory of the olden school , for the purpose- of carrying on what he hoped to make a Conservative Government upon the p rinciple of required reforms , now finds himself blackened by contamination , and damned by expediency . Could he have hoped for a better result from the workings , the machinations , and the conspiracies to which he has been exposed in the

      Cabinet , not of his voluntary formation , but of his involuntary adoption 1 When we see tho three most important offices filled by pressed men , and not by volunteers , we must have considerable misgivings as to their interest in the success of their leader ' s undertaking . Sir James Giiah . m fills the most important office under the Crown ; aad it is only by acting in complete opposition to his whole former life that he can hope for grace , for favour , or even for toleration from his newly adopted party . He is cold-blooded , cruel , unrelenting , vindictive , and calculating ; and hates Sir Robert Peel as he hates the ; devil himself . Stanley fills an

      office only second in importance to Graham ' s ; and Stanley , tho proud scion of the proud old house of Derby , but bonds beneath expediency ' s sternest necessity in playing subordinate to the man whose father had : the merit of making his own fortune Stanley hates Ireland with aa irrepressible , imperishable , and unextinguishable vehemence ; he loves the Church for the milk that he draws from her pap ; he defends that title which the land gives him as a politician ; he aspires to that elevation and greatness for which blood has been hitherto held an indispensable qualification ; and he knows that Peel has placed an extinguisher upon his hopes ,

      and fetters ; upon his struggling ardour . For these reasons Stanley , too , hates Peel ; while he loves Grauam , as in fact our Home and Colonial Secretary may be and not inappropriately denominated the Siamese Youths . Stanley and Graham broke up fro Grey Administration : and Stanley and Graham will as surely destroy that of their present master . Seeing the power that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland has exercised , we must naturally attach great importance to that high office ; and although we believe in the sincere attachment of the quonduin republican Lord Lyndhurst , his benefactor , yet do we incline to think that an unchecked

      license to the old republican blood to flow without dread for the loss of the good things of this life would overcome the strong feeling of personal regard . Peel is not altogether safe from the strongest affection which may be manifested , Under prosperity , by the political children of his own nursing . Glad stoke will stand by Peel as long as Peel can stand without him ; but the moment that the fitting time for separation ; arrives , that moment will Gladstone breaK from his leading-strings , and with a cool and calculating temper , and with a perfect mercantile knowledge , which so pre-eminently qualifies a man for distinction in this rule-of-three country , he will

      march on at the head of the commercial and dissent interest , and , moulding himself to the strongest political party , will acquire the position of leader of tho public mind , the object nearest and dearest to his heart . Such then are the materials against which I eel has to contend in eccresy ; while there is no cloaking the hurricane of unpopularity which is gathering round him from without , for tho very rea ' sobs that we predicted long since , and which are , for opening the eyes of the people to the fallacies of the itinerant demagogue freetraders - If reference is now made to the letters of Mr . O'Connor upon the subject of the Tariff and the Ihcomu Tax at a time when the whole press ot' the empire was silent upon the probable result of those measures , it will be seen , that' so long ago as March and April 1841

      that gentleman predicted the very " crisis" which has now resulted from those measures , and tho position into which they would bring tho Prime Minister . He foretold the very amount by which agricultural produce would be lowered , and to which the ! value of land would be reduced ; while he also predicted that those reductions would be ot no value whatever to the working classes , whose wages would be commensurately reduced ; and ho further added , that from-the Charter aloue could the people hope for any share in any benefit that was to be achieved by the Tariff ; thus not only predicting the u crisis , " but prescribing the subsequent treatment for the patient . All changes of all sorts , it beneficial ,: can be only so for those classes who , by representation , are enabled to turn them from general to class purposes .

      We shall conolude these observations with an extract from a French paper , from which the general feeling of our friends abroad , as to our present position , may be gathered .

      SPAIN AND ENGLAND . Le Siede observes , that " Both Spain and Great Britain are in a period of crisis . "If may judge from appearances , we should foresee a more extensive catastrophe fur onr rivals beyond the channel than for our national allies beyond tbe

      Pyrenees . The agitation In Ireland is such , that tb . 4 entire mass of the population is joining ia it OConnell has promised to have 3 , 000 , 000 of Kepealera , and be has obtained them ; operatives , peasants , lawyers , proprietors , priests , bisbops , all have risen at bis voice . It is easy to see th it tnis man is , morally , the sovereign of Ireland , and that with one word he may raise a tempest ' On the otber hand , of tbe operative of Great Britain there are 2 , 000 , 000 who are idle in workhouses —in those ; bastiles for hbour where there is no occupation to be bad . Tbe official returns of the indigent poor throughout England aad Wales for tbe year 1842 , state the poor within the workhouses to be 221 , 687 ; the exterior poor , 1207 . 402 :

      , " In the same country the pictnre of corruption is not less hideous than that of pauperism ; we have traced it too recently to repeat it . It is proved that in no country are there committed more crimes , nor in no country are morals more depraved Xixao . in England . " It is there that the Government , tbe Ministry , tbe two Chambers , and tbe Law Department openly practise venality ; it is there that diplomacy is habitually destitute of all good faith ; it is there that tuuro is a

      virulent dispute between three churches ; it is there tbat social order is attacked in its base by the Chartists . Add to all those causes of deduction that the British army , whose province is to secure the administration of the laws , is nnmerkally weak , scattered over the entire globe , and is composed in ihe proportion ef one-third of those Irish Catholics whom they are employed to repress . Do not forget , in fine , that England is crushed ; under the weight of a debt of more than fifteen milliards , and that henceforward it vld be impossible for hei to add to her taxation . tbe if tbere exist of

      * ' In Spain , on contrary , ' some the causes of the derangement which is visible ia Bagland , there are at least unity of religious fuitb , ricLuess ef soil , waioa is sufficient for ! tbe wants of a > l , iu general an honourable character , and a material force resulting from her admirable position between the two seas which join the barrier of tbe Pyrenees . •« The prosperity of those two nations is necessary for tne future tranquillity of Europe . Whatever may be our cause of complaint against tbe moat powerful , we trust that both may weatuer the crisis iu which they are at present placed by useful reforms . Spain will draw the strength she requires from her own vitality , and Englatid , endowed with incontestible energy , has need ouly to enlarge the popular rights in order to maintain herself for a long time against the weight of her tottering empire . "

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      We lkarn from Boulogne-sur-Mer that a few days ago a revenue cutser captured , off Cape Grimz , a boat , with three men on board , containing bales of cotton-thread , tulies . and stockings , amounting ia value to £ 10 , 000 . Each bale had straps , to as to njake it portable as a knapeack . The boat and its freight wtro b . - .-ught iato Boulogne , and hold on condition of the goods being re-exported .

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      My Friends , —I ha ^ e before been pat the extreme pain of referring to the differences which . exist between me and the Editor of the Northern Star , with reference to Dr . M'Douall . I had reason to hope that if those differences could not be reconciled , you would be spared from the frequent recital of them . From the article which appeared in last week ' s Star , however , under the head "Notice to Correspondents , " my hepe in conciliation was wholly destroyed ; and no alternative remains to me but that of publicly expressing ruy disapproval of the

      course , and disbelief in the charges against Dr , M'Doual . Nothing can bo farther from my mind than tor a moment to deny the right of every man to express his own opinion fully and fairly ; and in order to set myself right with tho public , I shall exercise that rijjht and I trust calmly myself . I do not then subscribe in any , the most remote way , to the denunciation of Dr . M'Douill . For myself , I will add , that I respect him for his talent , I honour him for his patriotism , and I have full i

      confidence in his integrity , while as a friend I ' .-. ave the most affectionate regard for him . With theso feelings , and entertaining them I trust strongly , I could not submit to be branded as a hypocrite for tolerating abuse of him , or a 3 a tool , not' being able to resist it . I feel convinced that I have taken the propec course for the > protection of my own honour and my friend's character , by thus taking the earliest opportunity , after the recent provocation , for making this explanation ; while at the same time I am resolved that upon the issue no

      contingent oviU shall Bpnng . You are not to infer from this that any other difference whatever exists between me and Mr . Hill ; while he , I feel assured , will concede to me that right which he has very freely exercised himtelt ' i From my disinclination to say more upon painful subjects than is necessiry to serve my immediate purpose , I abstain , for the present and for ever , from further reference to this most painful of all painful ones . Aud remain your faithful friend , i Feakgcs O'Connor .

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      The Carpenter ' s Hall Chartists , Manchester —Tkis monniKj ' s post ( Thursday ) brought an address from Che Council of the Carpenter ' s Hall Ctutrlis ' s in reply to \ lte notice in lust week s bur atfecliny them . Mr . fli / L who is personally alluded to in Unit address , has been this w > . ek in very indifferent heat'h and so hutch engaged in making preparations jor his tour through ihe country , Uiat lie has spent scarcely a >> y time at the Office ; and coii ' stqucutly the erdite arrawje'ntnl , and indeed management of the paper hus { fallen upon my shoulders . I have not an opportunity just now of consulting him ; and as I presume this address will not be inserted

      without explanatory ttmarks I have wlihheld it for toe purpose of putting it into his hands . In thus acting I assure the Carpen ters Hall Clutrtisls that I have no intention either to ( ifend or io interfere ; I merely act as duty dictated , under the peculiar circumstanees . J . Hobson . E . Wilks , Cheltenham , desires us to answer the following question : — " Which are the cheapest and best books to give an ignorant person a general knowledge of his rights and duties as a citizen ; the object , nature , and duty ej Governments ; the reforms neceisary in our Governtnent ; and the warn to get it reformed ; and some general knowledge of Poi-lical Economy V The works we would rciommend are , Faine ' s Right ' s

      of Man ; Paine ' s Dissertation on First Principles of Government ; Paine ' d Common Sense ; Paine ' s Crisis ; and Paine ' s Decline and Fall of the English System ! of Finance : also Cobbott ' s Legacy to Labourer * : Cobbett ' s foor Man ' s Friend ; Cobbett ' tsJ Paper against Gold ; and Cobbett's Advice jto Youni * Men . For the "Reforms necessary in our Government" read the People ' s Charter ; and , "" for the way to get it Reformed" ] attend to the teachings ' of the Northern Star . For a general knowledge of TRUE } Political Economy , read Bray ' s Labour ' s Wrongs , and Labour ' s Hemedy ; Watts ' s Fact 3 and Fictions of Modern

      Political Economists ; Atkinson ' s Principles of Political Economy ; Gray ' s * Social System ; Gray ' s Remedy for the Distress of Nations ; Oastler'a Fljeet Papers ; Owen ' s Memorials to the Allied Sovcreitjus ; and Owen'a Developemont of the Priuoiulea and Plans ot Home Colonies . Afr . Wtlks stales that he asked the question of the Editor of the Noa-eouformise ; but received for answer that " he could not answer . '" Above he has our answer ; aud if , iriifii he has read \ and grounded himseif in the princi ple * thr worfts spec > Jud te , ick , he is uv' a wine v . aii , <¦¦! t ^ c sutjectsei-niiieratfiL u t ' s n-d , i > the 7 " " . r of existing Luoks or book-reaiimy io iin'kr / nm -i .

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      .. ' — WttLiAM Faibburn , Wbdnesburt , desires all who may have monies in their hands % for the aid an ) d assistance of the law-made widow , Ellis , to send an account of the same for publication , that the amount collected may be ascertained ; and the ¦ money applied , either in one way or other , to the relief of the present pressing necessities of the , widow ' s ease . Cobkection . —/ n Mr . Cleave ' s list of subscriptions last week , one item was set forth as from Mossley Lincolnshire . It should have been Lancashire . The Marylebone Chartists desire the address of Mis . Richards * as they have some money for her . , A Sincere Friend , at Usworth , venles to the

      pitmen of the Tyne and Wear , bearing testimony to their great and glorious demonstration ofSatur' day last , when , as he says , "five and-twenty thousand men , with their sixty or seventy banners fluttering in the breeze , and accompanied by their bands of music , ' * assembled to hear from one another the cause o / their manifold grievances . But while he is pleased to be able to report most favourably as to the general order and decorum of the precession , he must reprove for a practice at the meeting , which , if not stopped on future occasions , may lead to great mischief . He speaks of the practice of drinking on the

      ground , from ale-carts and waggons ; and the . practice of the bands playing while the proceed ings of the meeting are being carried on . Both practices , he says , interferes with good order j and give the enemy occasion to speak ; while the former may be used by the designing for the accomplishment of most nefarious schemes to defeat the object of the working men . Amongst a sober people there is tittle chance of a riot or tumult being incited : with a tipsy crowd nothing more easy . He would advise that the parties calling ' large meetings should see Io these things for their own protection . C . F . Stollmeyeb . —We will see what can be done in

      dur next ? Henry Hig ? on , on behalf of the Chartists ofCelne , writes to say that William Smith , who was arrested during the strike-outbreak , at Skipton , in August last , and sentenced to twelve months ' imprisonment in Wakefield House of Correction , will be at liberty again about the middle of A ugust next ; and his friends are desirous to give him a public entry into the town , as a mark of respect for his virtues as a good citizen , a good father , and a good Chartist . To this end they desire the co operation of every lover of right , A meeting is to be holden in tfye Chartist newsroom , Windy Bank , on Sunday , July 30 th , to make the necessary arrangements .

      J . L . Ambler , Ambler Thorn . —We are sorry that we cannot oblige him ; but the calls upon our space are so many and so urgent , that it is very . little indeed we can devote to mere Essays or Disquisitions on abstract questions . We rather P'efer matter that j elates to present and immediate practical results .. Robert Ashforth , Birmingham . — We know not of the Advertisement he writes about . He had better consult some of the faculty in Birmingham . We are not friendly to Quacks . J . M . Leach , Hyde . — We cannot afford space for his long address to the master-manufacturers and shopkeepers of Hyde . We would advise him to

      deliver it Io them orally . Nottingham Ft male Chartists will see that we have omitted their " schooling ' of Miss Susannah Inge . We must not have the wumen" quarrelling" : the men make " mess" enough . The notice last week was quite sufficient . A Constant Reader , Hull , should have given his name . We shall hand the tetter over to Mr . West . It would have been but fair , too , that a u Constant Reader" should have ascertained from the party himself , whether the sum he speaks of had not been tent , before he wrote his " suspicions" at all . Isaac Hoyle , Kirrdale Gaol , skall have attention next week .

      The Poor Law at Warrington . —We have another communication from the person signing himself " Washington , " not only reiterating his former statements as to gross and scandalous treatment pursued lotcards the inmates of Warrington Workhouse , but assuring us that his account of them is far from being as strong as it might truly be . We much regret that" Washington" has not given us his name . In these matters , and with charges of cruelties so incredible as he details , it is but fair thai those who wish us to publish that which might bring us under " the lash Of the law , " ohoutd at least give us an opportunity - of ascertaining their own credibility , and how far we might be justified in trusting ourselves to

      make statements on their responsibility , —which is , as we sometimes have been dearly made to know , —no responsibility at all . We therefore can but slill treat this matter as ttn . attempt of the enemy . *• Washington" details much that he has done in the Chartist cause , and against the Whigs and Tories of Warrington ; but he has not told us who ho is . He may be , for aught we know , a Poor La'a Assistant Commissioner , who wishes to have groundless charges of " Poor Law atrocity" published , that he may have a "job' * of "inquiry , " and be able to "demolish" the flimsy and infamous stories vamped up against " the Boon , "—the rate-saving , comfort-distributing New Poor Law . " Washington" having

      thus ' fixed" us , we must decline to publish his statements : not that we would shrink from doing so , if assured of their truth . This we should do , regardless of all consequences : for we know that the only safety of the poor under the present spslem lies in public exposure . The Press is the only power on the side of the people at all dreaded by their persecutors and robbers : and we are prepared to run all risks in affordinq the poor all the protection that the Press can afford , when we have real grievances to detail—re i ] actions io complain of or denounce . Anxious , however , as we are to publish whatever can tend to alleviate or better the condition of the poor victims of tyranny , -we cannot afford to go

      "fishing" for sham instances ef oppression ; or suffer ourselves to be imposed upon with fictitious narratives , if we can avoid it . Strongly suspecting that this is an attempt to no impose upon us , we naturally feet desirous to ascertain whether oUr tuspicions are justifiable or not . We should therefore feel greatly obliged if some known friend in Warrington could help us io ascertain whether there are any grounds for one or two statements or allegations made by our correspondent " Washington . " We havJ ascertained , since our last , that the Master of Warringlon n orkhouse has died very lately ; and that he died suddenly . These facts we gather from an advertisement in the Manchester Guardian for

      a new master and mistress , m " consequence of the sudden death of the late master . " but what we are anxious now to get io know is : " Did the Guardians farm the old and young female inmates of the Workhouse to the Maater , to be by him kept for the sum of one shilling and six pence per head per week" ? " Is it true that the food he kept them on was so thin that the young females could not help but _ urine their beds" ? " /* it true that for thus doing , what they were physically incapable of preventing , the WBKE FLOGGED" ? # / s it true , that on the 27 th of June last , nine females were set apart to be FLOGGED by the Master himself ; but that before he had finished with the first , he fell down at the feet of his victim , and expired in less than

      fifteen minutes" ? " Is it true that an old man , of the name of Taylor , more than seventy years of age , and so feeble as not to be able to walk without two sticks ; is it true that this old , feeble man was refused admsssion into the Workhouse , and consequently drownedhimselfinthe San key Canal , at a place called Buttermilk Bridge , on the evening of June 2 lth last" i " Is it true that about a month ago , a little girl was so hungry as to crave a potato from the old woman who had the charge of boiling them ; and that she was discovered eating it in the yard by the master ; and is it true that he forced the child to tell where she had gotten it ; and then , after reprimanding the old woman , is it true that he look another potato , hot from the pat , and went and forced it down the child ' s throat' » " Isil true that that same

      CHILD DIID THAT SAME NIGHT" ? We icish to know uhctlier these things be true or not : for we don't believe them ; but believe that the sending of them to us io be published is a wicked attempt to mislead us . If it turn out to be so , we shall gladly aid in bringing to justice the man who , by means so detestable , seeks to bring odium upon the Poor Law Au'horities , and innocent people into trouble . The letters we sh « ll preserve ; and if we don ' t recdve from some known friend in Warringian , confirmation of the allegations made by the writer , ice shall either place them in the hands of the Poor Low Commissioiisrs , to be

      . by them dealt with as they may think meet ; or in the hands of a Member of Parliament , for Parliamentary inquiry . Mhs- Cooper . Leicester—A most energetic and stirring appeal to the Chartists generally , on behalf of the husband-bereaved widow , Cooper , has been for warded to us , by Mr Thomas Winter and Daniel Toon . They represent her as being in great difficulties arising from her continued illness , and her inability to attend to business She is in danger of being ouste from her home , being in arrears with Loth her rent and rates . The bare mention of these JacU will be sufficient to show Chartists their duty .

      W . Aitken , late of AsiiioN . —The Committee appointed to collect subscriptions Jor the support of the wife and family of Mr . Aitken , ( who had to run to America for the part he took in the strike outbkeak . iff August last J , desire all those zeh'i h-tr < - ? , < jo ! , * and mpnirs to deliver Ihem ¦ in , on or Uja r tars'tut / . tlf Wrd of A inj 7 ts ! . either to ihe Commit ! ee v » e ' lf , til the ' Chartist ' Room * Ckarlntvrn , on Mmd-iy an I Tae * d ;>' j evenings , or to Mr . E . I / U .-0 n , Lo ^ kielter .

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      THE CRISIS . We know not whether the physician who had foretold a orisiB , and who , although he bad propoetically described all those symptoms by which its approach , its character , and duration were likely to be characterised , wonld be held in much respect as a practitioner , if , when the crisis was over , he was unequal to the task of subsequently dealing with his patient . For years , yea , for scores ot years , "" crisisea" have been foretold by our political physicians ; and they have come , some as predicted ,

      shewing all the symptoms by which they were to be preceded ; but when the patient was to be got over the purging , the sweating , the blistering , the enpping , and tbe bleeding , it was then that the difficulty of restoring him to health , to strength , and . to vigour presented itself . Our present ruler ? , then , are precisely in the situation of the physician in the latter case . They have blistered and purged , and bled and cupped , and sweated the people , and have brought about that weakness which must ever follow such treatment ; and they are now unequal to the task of restoring

      the weakened frame of society to its once healthy position . Politicians , however , like other professional experimentalists , are unwilling to confess the inefficacy of their own nostrums , and contend th \ t the present condition of the people is a natural consequence growing out of some natural cause over which practical politics can have no oontroul . We know , quoth one , that the patient labours under Church deliriums ; we know saith another , that the patient labours under a very heavy rent pressure ; we know , quoth a third , that the burthens of the state are heavy and hard to be borne ; while a fourth

      admits that those upon whose industry they must all ultimately fall , have been crushed beneath their weight , from the fact of those who represent the property of others having thrown them exclusively upon the shoulders of those who were not represented at all . If , then , these are the diseases under which the people labour , and if the connection between Church and State , which causes the Church delirium , is to be held inviolate , as Sir Robert Peel informed ns no later than Tuesday night , there can be but little hope for any abatement in the symptoms of that portion of the disorder . If the rent

      pressure belongs , as we are told , to the "head morak " rather than to the bead political , there is as little to be expected by way of recovery from that chronic disease . If what is called national faith must , under all circumstances , be upheld , the patient must still continue to suffer under that portion of the disorder . It is some consolation , however , to find that things which were scarcely allowed to be hinted at 8 om < 3 few years aqo—and for hinting at which some have grievously suffered—are now spoken of , freely discussed , and admitted to deserve that character

      which good men have suffered for stamping upon them . It not unfrequently occurs that that convenient plea , necessity , must be stretched in a remedial as well as in the coercive direction ; ? nd henco we find Sir Robeht Peel ultimately driven to the necessity of making the following admission . He says : " the attention of the House had been called to three soets of irish grievances—the sccial , thb Political , and the Religious . The Social , ob Agrarian , were not new Grievances nor WAS IT POSSIBLE FOB THE GOVERNMENT TO DEVISE ANY lUHRDJATE KI . MBDY FOB THEM 1 BUT IF A

      COMMITTEK HAD BEEN PROPOSED FOB INQUIRY INTO THK Law of Landlobd and Tenant he would gladly have agreed to that . " These are the words of the Prime Minister of England , delivered in his place in . Parliament on last Tuesday night , —the most important admission ever made by an English Minister , and One which will not fail to have its due and natural effect upon the minds of the working classes .

      Let us see yrhsA this admission amounts to . The Bight Honourable Baronet telJs as the grievances complained of ; but that it is impossible for the Government to devise any means to remedy the grievances ; .. . however he will a ^ ree to the appointment of a Committee to hear the grievances which the Committee cannot remedy . The admission , however , leads us to ask why Sir Robert Peel , as Prime Minister , has neglected to do that which if done by another , he would not oppose ! If a Committee to enquire into the law of landlord and tenant be necessary even for the childish purpose of besrin / j , seeing-, ordering , and doing nothing , why did not Sir RoBtRT Peel him eif movo the appoint * mt-nt of Mich sv Committeei Perhaps the lair answer to this question may go far to-eshibit Sir

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      THE MARYLEBONE DODGE . It will be seen from an announcement made ia oar present number that the meeting at Sir Benjamin Hall ' s house was but the ] precursor of a public meeting wbioh is to be held on Monday next , in the borough of Marylebone , ostensibly for the purpose of discussing Irish grievances , but in reality with the view to restore the Whigs to power . If Marylebone , however , claims any political pre-eminence in its representative quality for having returned a fighting sailor and a Whig baronet , it is also distinguished for having throughout tho most trying times preserved a high character for public principle and political boldness . Under these circumstanevs we

      might well afford to leave the Whigs and their followers to bo dealt with on Monday next by the working classes , who , jwhile in power , they so cruelly deceived and brutally oppressed . As however we are aware of the use that will be made in other parts of the country by a Whig triumph in Marylebone , and as the local drones may have a blighting effect upon the local bees , we would strenuously recommend the friends of freedom in the Charter , to send their battalions from all parts of London to aid and assist ia making tho triumph of democracy so complete that its enemies will not

      again dare to mock us by false promises , and so woe us that they may be able to crush us . Marylebone has been the scene of many a glorious Chartist triumph ! Let that of Monday be added as another to the number 1 The rising-school , tho workhouseyard , the institute , and the several other places of meeting , have frequently resounded with the shouts of triumph : let them be heard again on Monday , and let the amendment , which we have elsewhere recommended , be committed to the hands of the Admiral and the Baronet as the sense of the men of Marylebone , to be delivered into the hands of the Queen . And let them see that this service on their behilf shall bo as well performed as those

      which they boast of having so faithfully rendered to the electors . Above all let them take care and have fair play , and in order to ensure it , let them appoint an honest , brave , and cool-headed working man tc take the chair . Surely , if the meeting is for the benefit of the peoph , this is a step that all parties must acquiese in ! The time ia come when Chartists must not oniy be watchful but brave ; as the people ma £ rely upon it that those who lay claim to extreme j liberality , are as much opposed to the Chartists and their principles au the most rampant Tory to be found on earth . — jv - — _____ . _ iw w— ^ v — _ p —

      We must now organize ! organize !! organize !!! fora dissolution of Parliament ; and should we be driven to another election under the old system , we must take advantage of the pressure of tbe times to insure the restoration of all expatriated Chartists , and the emancipation of the imprisoned : while for the general conflict we must 60 marshal our forces as will ensure the return of such a knot of veritable Chartists as will sit with the Speaker and rise with the House , pledged to the non-electors by bond and oath to restore their trust when called upon , as a means of ensuring the honest discharge of those duties whioh they undertake to perform . There would be no better commencement to such an organization than the triumph of Chartism amid the

      general confusion of politics ; and there would be no place which could give greater influence to that triumph than the adoption of the amendment we have published , by the good people of Marylebone . It would give both factions a taste of that share which the people themselves intend to have in all future changes , while it would inspiro the Chartist body with a new hope and vigour for the coming campaign . J

      The Northern Star. Saturday, July 15, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , JULY 15 , 1843 .

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      ~ ^ ~~~ . BRADFORD . —The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Bradford Short Time Committee , held at the New Inn , on Friday evening , the 8 ih instant : — " That whereas information has been communicated to this Committee that several worsted spinners and manufacturers in this town and neighbourhood are overworking children and young persons in their employ , and in various other ways encroaching upon the provisions of the Factories' -Regulation Act , we do resolve to watch their proceedings , and obtain such information as will enable them to bring the offending parties to jastice , " ; Woolcohbebs Wagks—One of the manufacturers of the name of Milnes , having promised to the

      woolcombers in his employ an advance of wages ; for a fortnight ; and if the rest of the masters could be induced to advance , he wonld -continue the promised increase of ivages ; ibis news spread rapidly throagh the whole body of woolcombers , and the result vras a very large meeting of the trade , held near ihe Temperance Hall , and three persons appointed as a deputation to visit the masters , and by reason and argument induce them to advance the wages . A resolution was unanimously adopted to hold a public meeting on Monday evening at seven o'clock on the same place , to be called by requisition . The chairman dissolved the meeting , urging them to Bse ^ very means in their power to get up a larg e meeting of the trade , and use no threat or intimidation of any kind , to any employer , or any other person in any way connected with the employers .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 15, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct941/page/4/