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    • THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1848.
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      Addressed ( before Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE Bt Ebnebt Jonis . This lotter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jones intended to deliver in the court , hut whioh the judge would not allow to be spoken .

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      EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS . Bow-btrbet , Thursday , August 31 . —The peraone accused on the evidence of Powell , the informer , were brought up before Mr Hall and Mr Henry foe re-examination . Mr Clarkson again attended for the prosecution , assisted by Mr Reynolds , Joint Solicitor of the Treasury ; Mr Parrj , on behalf of Greensladeand Burn ; Mr Kenealey for four of the other prisoners * and Mr Macnamsra for the rest . By consent of Mr Clarkson , the prisoner Stone was discharged . Previously ts the whole of the prisoners being placed at the bar , evidecce was siren as to the residences of Ritchie , Morgan , and Poole .

      Mr Clarkson then requested that the following prisoners , found at the Orange Tree , be placed at the bar : —Joseph Ritchie , Alfred Abel . William Gurnay , Jehn Shepherd , James Snowball , James Richardion , George Greenshde , Henry Small , Edward Soadding . William Burn , Philip Martin , William Laoy . Dowling , Wiliam Fay , and William Cuffay—in ail fifteen persons . Mr Clarkson said , as the evidenoe had already baen ' givea at some length , and he had no other to produce , he asked that the prisoners at the bar be committed under the act 11 Vic ., c . 18 , sec . 1 , for feloniously compaasicg the levying of war against the Queen .

      Mr Parry , on behalf of GreanBlade and Burn , applied that they be discharged , or held to moderate bail . He oould not , perhaps , ask their discbarge , because they were found at the Orange Tree ; but they were entitled to bail , because no arms were found upon them . Although they were Chartists , they would repudiate enforcing tkote sentiments by anything like physical force . Mr Kenealy whhed ( he evidence read over , so far a 3 it applied to the four prisoners for whom he ap . peared , he not having been present on the former occasion . iMr Hall briefly recapitulated the evidence which had been deposed against them . He had no evidence that they were present at the meeting of the 15 th , although they had all attended on the ereninn of the 16 tb .

      Mr Hall said , he should certainly tend the whole of the prisoners before a jury of the country . He had paid most anxious attention to the whole of the evidence , and his duty was perfectly clear . Mr Kenealey submitted that there was no evidence against the four prisoners on whose behalf be appeared , « cept that of the approver Powell , and whose evidence was of a very suspicious and doubtful character , which co one could believe . Mr Hall could not possibly alter his

      determination : the weight that was to be given to a particular witness was alone for the determination of a jury , and not for his decision . The magnitude of the offenoe , and the probability that a bailed prioner would not appear to take his trial , were consideratiocs that eught to induce a magistrate not so take bail for such a serious case as had been brought before him , and in whioh opinion his colleague , Mr Henry , fully coincided . He must , therefore , send all the prisoners to take their trial withont distinction .

      The witnesses in this case were then all severally bound over in the sum of £ 100 each to appear at the next Bession of the Central Criminal Court , to give evidence against the prisoners at the bar . The fifteen prisoners were then fully committed to Newgate . Charles Taylor , Geor «> e Cox , William Poole , Charles Gibbs , Thorns Herbert . William Winspear , Thomas Irons , James Prowten , Hugh Conway , Alex . Harvey , J . J . Norton , Samuel Hardy , and Samuel Morgan , were than placed at the bar—thirteen in all . The above-named prisoners were arrested in Webber-atreet , at the Angel publio house . Mr HaU fully committed the prisonera to Newgate for trial , for the same tffance as that for which the preceding class of prisoners had been sent to Newgate . Charles Young , Thoma 9 Jones , and Henry Areus , were then placed at the bar ; and after the deposit tions had been read over , which related to the occurrences at the Charter coffee-house

      , Mr Hall also committed these three persons to Newgate for trial , and the witnesses were bound

      over . Upon the application of Mr Maonamara , Mr Hall consented that the wives or sisters of the prisoners 8 homdbe permitted to visit them previously to their removal from the station-house to Newgate . The total number committed for trial are thirty , one . *'

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      BBMCVAIi OP THB CHARTIST PHI 80 N 8 R 8 TO SEWCUTB . ( From the S un ) At L qn 5 fL ter pa 3 t four ° ' oIock on Thurday after noon the Chartist prisoners committed to Jay foi triBl , at Bow-stwet . were removed to Newgate . For nearly an honr before the time of their removal the polico prevented all except the most respectably at tired pereonsfrom passing along the street . Near ] 200 constables , were occupied in discharging th duty . In passing along our reporter stood for . few momenta m the midst of the Solitude created jn Bow-slreet . for trade and traffic were for mow than an hour all but suspended opposite the court , taking however , the precaution to place himself in IS way-whilst , n this position an impertinent ofi namal Inspector Dodd , an unfit person to hold Toll an office , ordered him in the most uneourtewii % « Z to beoff . He told him that he JKSffiftt

      repnea tnis impertinent officer , ' f ou » n » v h . 7 «» Mr Dodd seemed desirous of getting' up ? row h . £ ) of wishing to quell it if one had arisen * We Jove , saw to unnecessary and useless an aUemot ak rfi « play ; the misguided and sill , men w 5 reThereb ¥ endowed with a notoriety of which their power whe ther for good or evil , rendered them unwerth "' Many of the police wore cutlasses . The prhonersTere placed , after much delay and much ceremony , and much parade , in three police vans , and each wls fol . lowed by two mounted pol ee . They wera £ ;«„ rapidiyoffto Newgate . [ Mt ^ BjES ui suspended , and poor people not allowed to d !« hrough Bow-rtreec , not b ylChartisti , but VK Guard . ans . of order . . We sympathise with the re * PjrterpitheSoNas to the conduct offfilL .

      ujdd , but we much quest onif hiB virtuous " inS gna toon would have been excited if the aggrieved oartY had been-instead ef h-mself-a poor K « 2 i ? in that ease , Mr Reporter wonld moit likely h « e com mended the activity' of the ^ igCt offioer j °

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      PORTRAIT OF JOHN MITCHEL . Specimens of a splendid portrait of the first victim of the Whig Treason Act , are now in possession of our agents . The portrait will be shortly ready for presentation . That of Smith O'Brien , and those who are sharing his fate , are also in course of preparation . None but subscribers will be entitled to those portraits .

      The Northern Star , Saturday, September 2, 1848.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 2 , 1848 .

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      country , because every man was the child of the State , living under its protection , governed justly by its laws and participating in its wealth . The Parliament was a representation of the system , and the beadle was the administrator of the law . He required but the law ' s authority to rally all in support of the law , because all then had an interest i § the preservation of the law . England was then happy England , merry England—all joining in the Christmas carol , the feast , and the fair—none hurried to

      a premature old age , or consigned to a premature grave . Their amusements were innocent •—their work was wholesome— -their recreation was invigorating—their minds were contented —their homes were happy—their children were a blessing—their laws were a pridetheir pastor was a benefactor—their constitution was the envy and admiration of surround ing nations—and their lives were at the service of the State , which rendered them protection as an eqaivalent for their allegiance . Such was the Past . Such was England of

      yore .

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      THE FUTURE . In most cases the future is based upon pasfc experience , but if we are to draw our conclu . sions of the present from the past , we should entertain but gloomy anticipations for the future . We have heard promises and been ' buoyed up by pledges , we have heard confes , sions of delinquency and protestations off amendment , but we have learned to draw tho distinction between the professions of thostf seeking power , and the acts of those possessing power . And this fact destroys all confidence i ? r / i e 9 wh ° delude the _ people by bidding : luriweir

      connaence , upon tne pledge that the * will realise their anticipations ; but it dees not destroy our hope in the people ' s own resolution , which must henceforth confirm them in the belief , that if their work is to be done it must be done by themselves . To guess critically at the future by the pasfc or the present , would be a labour of no small difficulty , but we do predict that the time will arrive—and that at no distant period—when

      the tyranny of the oppressor will be avenged upon his own head ; when the people , in their moral majesty and might , will r ise superior to all those difficulties which now surround them and of which they themselves are the sole originators . It is puling—it is childish—it is cowardly—for insulted millions to waste their energies in declamation and denunciation of the insulting- few , whose very rule and authority is , of itself , prima facie evidence of

      theacquiescence of the people . When trade is good political agitation is a farce , and when a reverse jumps upon a people living from hand to mouth , they exclaim , " We are ready , lead us on . " It is not so with the . combined and united few , who in times of nrosperity and adversity look to union , and to union alone , as a means of preserving power . ' When has there been any opposition to the ' most reckless expenditure in seasons off flourishing trade ? while all who believe that

      prevention is better than cure , must admit the difficulty of forcing economy upon a Government , in times of depression , when they stand most in need of servile support , and when that servile support can be onl y secured by the continuance of the pensions of idle paupers who have been created in the days of prosperity , and who , however the people may suffer cannot be repulsed or dismissed in the days of adversity . No ! The rule is this when

      ; you have an Exchequer filled—a portion of which should constitute a surplus—a Savings Bank and a Sinking Fund-the future is then meal sured by the present , querulous oppenents are pensioned upon the surplus ; but when adversity comes , the bees who have filled the hive are driven out by the drones , and the drones are fed out of the reduced Exchequer , lest their buzz should disturb the harmony in the hive .

      Howbeit , we look to a time when the past and present will only be known as a nursery tale ; when the English will have their Saxon tales / partaking of the romance of the Arabian Nights ; when the children will crowd round the nurse ; when past history will be an old almanac , and when the youthful blood will recoil at the narrative of our times . We think we see the little group nestling round the nurse , asking her to tell them a story , and we think we hear the nurse gratifying their curiosity , thus : —

      ' Well , my dears , once upon a time there were a set of men they called Whigs , and in those days a great many of the poor people were dressed in red coats , and were called soldiers , and they had guns and bayonets ; and if the poor people complained they shot them . ' ' Dear me , nurse , what do you mean ? You don't mean to say that they killed them ?'— - Yes , my child , they killed them . ' 'Oh dear ! for what , nurse ?'— For asking , for bread while ] their little children were starving . '

      ' Well , but , nurse , didn ' t you tell us the other night that there was a place long ago where the poor people could no to and get food ?'— 'I did , my dear ; but then the poor didn't like it , because their little children were taken away from their papas and mammas , and they cried , and were very unhappy , ' 'Well , but couldn ' t they stay at home and work ? ' —' . No , my dear , they could ' nt get work . '

      ' Oh , nurse , how papa and mamma would fret if Fred , and Jane , and I , and all of ua were taken away from them ; and did the people then love their children as papa and mamma love us ?'— 'Yes , my child , they loved them when they were allowed to support them ; but you know when papag and mammag hear children crying for food , it makes them very cross . ' . ' Dear me , nurse , what horrible people those Whigs must be ; but go on , nurse V 1

      Well , my dear , there were what they called policeman , with great thick sticks , that used to go amongst the poor people that were hungry and complained , and beat and killed them , and then left the poor little children orphans . And in those days they had what they called ' detectives , ' dressed like gentlemen , and going amongst the poor to make them say and do bad things , and then they'd go and tell of them , and they would be transported . ' ' What ' s that , nurse ?'—• ' Sent away in ships to foreign countries . '

      Oh dear me , nurse , were there no parsons then to take care of the poor ?'— 'Yes , my child ; but in those days all the parsons were made by Government , and they were very bad men , and the people had to pay them , and they didn ' t like them . ' ' Well , but nurse , how could those { parsons go to heaven ?'— Oh , my child , I suppose they repented . ' 1 Well , go on , nurse . ' ' Then , my dear , in those days if a poor man stole anything—if his children were starving , aud he couldn't get work—he was hanged . ' ?

      What ' s that , nurse ?'—There was a rope tied round his neck , my dear , and he was hanged until he was dead . ' Oh dear me , nurse ! you frighten me so that I shan't be able to sleep . I shall be dreaming of those nasty Whig 3 all night . Oh ! I think I see one coming down the chimney Oh ! rm so frightened . ' . V Well , I won ' t tell you any more , my dear . ' ' Oh yes ; go on , nurse . But , nurse ; hadn ' t the poor people land in those days , and how could they be hungry ?'—' No . my dear ; the rich people took all the land from them . '

      'Howcould that be , nurse ? Didn't God Almighty give the land to the people to live upon , and wasn't God very angry with them ? And did ' nt those ] nasty Whigs ever read the Bible ?'— ' No , my child , they were very naaghty men ; and this pretty book that I am telling you the story from , says that in these days the parsons onl y readjsome portions of the Bible Y Well , but nurse , how did- the poor people live ?'—Why , my child , they worked in places called factories , in great large towns , in great large buildings , " with great large fires in them . '

      'Nurse , is that the hell we read about ? And were those ( all devils ?'— ' No , mychvjji . you musn't . talk that way * they were all made by God , as w ell as yourself , and I dare say they are in Heaven now . " ' Well , nurse , are the WMgs in Heaven * too V — < I can ' t tell that , my child . ' ? Well , but nurse , I'd like to know ,, because if they are , I'd try and not go to Heaven V'My dear , you mustn ' t talk that « ay—that ' s very naughty , and if mamma heard you say that , » he wop . ' id be very angry . ' 1

      Well but , nurse , I can ' t help it , but I ' m sure that if they behaved so bid to the poor , therycaa ' t be in Heaven . Well but , nurse , when was it that all this ended J' ' Why , my ( child , it was when people called Chartistsvery good men a nd very religious men , began to feel for the poor—made their appearance , and then they destroyed the Whigg . j ' Oh dear me , nurse , what nice people thosfl

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      LAND COMPANY . A special meeting of the Land members of the Manchester branch , will be hell in the People ' s Institute , on Sunday next , the 3 rd instant , when all members are expected to attend , as most important business is to be discussed .

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      An Authentic Report . f ..... THE TRIAL OP DR M'DOUALL will be published on Saturday nt-xt . v To b « had of all Chartist booksellers .

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      TBB CHARTER ! THE CHARTER ! THE CHARTER < THE POLITICIAN , for Siptembkb , now ready , price One Penny , contain * , amongst various Articles on the Topics of the Day , Statistics , &c , an article : — ¦ Modern Chartism : a Criminal QuoBtion of Burglary , Anon , and Murder !'—being a Refutation of a virulent attack from the Times of August lath . London : S . T . Collins , 39 , Holywell street , Strand .

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      THE PAST .

      There was a time when England and England ' s Constitution was the envy and admiration of the surrounding nations—when her strength / rallied to the cry of "The Church is in danger , " flocked round the > tandard of protection . In those good old times interest was individualised—character was centralised—and if the feudal lord had privileges , he possessed them upon the condition that the duties consequent thereon should be administered . The employer of some score of handloom weavers

      operatives , mechanics , or artificers , constituted but one of the body , and this small section constituting a portion ef the great whole , recognised the indefeasible rights of its several parts . If trade was good , the master was as dependent upon the hands as the hands were upon the pocket , as every hand contributed its share towards the profit of the speculator . And so far did . the law recognise this sacred social system , that the unemployed , instead of becoming a degraded pauper , imprisoned in a bastile , was himself furnished with raw material , which is capital , for the most ' profitable application of his own labour . He was well housed—well clad—and well fedand if

      , not indulging in those scenes of dissipation from the proceeds of which his present rulers are enabled to maintain their sway , he partook of the more simple and wholesome fare which conduced to his health , his comfort , and equality . He lived upon the side of the common-he drank the milk fresh from his own cow and ate the vegetables fr esh fro m his own garden—while he plied the loom his wife attended to his children ; they were brought up under the fostering eye of the parent , and the parent was answerable to society for the character and conduct of his offspring . And if what is called civilisation— as manifest in Athenamms , coffee houses , readinff rooms . « in

      lalaces , sick , benefit , and burial societies , and brothels—is urged as proof of the improvement of the working classes , we appeal to the present state of disaffection , dissatisfaction , immorality and strife for the solution . Then the working classes honoured the king and . all that were placed in authority un derhim , because authority was their safeguard , and not their tormentor . The parson was the pious minister who lived humbly and prayed fervently , that God may preserve the fruits of the earth / so as in due time his flock might enjoy them . England did not then look to foreign countries for the means of subsistence .

      This , we may be told , was because the popula . tion was more slender ; but the population of those days , compared with the breadth of land then cultivated , and the rudeness of agriculture , was larger in proportion than the population of our time , having the advantage of extensive agricultural improvements . None then could unfairly speculate in the labour of the workman , because society was individualised , and the employer , instead of dictating terms to

      his hands , was but one of the twenty-one . Then they were not only not dependent upon the foreigner for their daily supply of food , but the speculator in that food was punished as a criminal for regrating , monopolising , or forestalling . In those palmy days of universal protection , the speculator dared not rig the market by forestalling its produce , and thus , having become the monopolist of abundance , cre ? te scarcity by becoming the retailer of produce purchased wholesale .

      In those days it was no disgrace for the master to consort with the labourer . In those days the . serf , as he was called , received pro . tection from the lord to whom his service was rendered . We had few doctors , few apothecaries , few dissenters , few lawyers , no bankers , no pawnbrokers , no gin palaces—because we had honest speculation , fair competition , and no crime . Then England , with her scanty

      population , could not only defy the world in arms at home , but could take vengeance abroad upon those who dared to assail her prerogative . In those days , if casualty , famine , or surprise came upon her , and if her Exchequer was inadequate to meet the calamity , the rich suffered equally with the poor , and the principle that " all the staff in the world was made for ali ; the folk in the . world , ' was acknowledged and carried into practical operation .

      That disparity between nian and man , which must make the Creator blush , was not then carried to the extent to create discord in the human family . Then , every man had an interest in the protection of the institutions of the

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      THE PRESENT .

      Merciful Providence ! Creator of the Universe ! How can we draw the picture without offering you offence ? How can we be so blasphemous as to presume that all is known unto you , and that you tolerate that system which renders its victims unfit to enter into your presence ? The present system by which this country is governed , not only presents such an anomaly as was never before witnessed , but that toleration of its existence brands its every supporter as a heinous sinner and a criminal . The man who is told to be fruitful , becomes wedded

      to the wife of his choice , and while his children , born in holy wedlock , become a curse , his life ' s blood is sapped to support the children of idlers . He no longer has control over his own labour ; man is no longer individualised ; and , in the aggregate , the poor no otherwise constitute a portion of society than furnishing the means to supply luxuries to the idle . No longer has the honest labourer any , the slightest , control over the value of his own industry .. No longer does his own country furnish him with the means of existence . No longer can he barter the produce of his labour for the necessaries

      and comforts of life . No longer does he look upon the Parson as the propounder of Religion and Christianity . No longer does he look upon the master as an employer ; he esteems him as a speculator . No longer is he prepared to rally ^ to the cry of , " My Country is is danger , " because his country has disinherited him , and abandoned him to the cupidity , the profligacy , and lust of those who make merchandise of his destitution . No longer does he receive protection in return for his allegiance , and , therefore , to him monarchy has become a farce , and representation a by-word of contempt .

      If he complains , he is a rebel ; if he begs , he is a vagrant ; if he steals , to save his starving family from death , he is a thief ; and if , disgusted with the tyranny to which he is subjected at home , he should seek shelter in some foreign land , he is a praiseworthy adventurer , prepared to mend his fortune by seeking that protection , remuneration , and justice , which his father-land refused to him , though willing to be an obedient and industrious child .

      No longer are the laws respected , because they are made by the oppressor , and administered by brute force . Destitution increases , while the science of agriculture improves , and we become every day more dependent upon the stranger for our food ; in short , we are now beggars at the door of the foreigner , because so improvident is our Government , that a night ' s mildew , or a week ' s rain , creates a calamity which the economy and providence of the most careful working man , who is compelled to live from hand to mouth , cannot guard against . We have an expensive Regal Establishment

      , an overgrown Army , an unnecessary Navy , a huge Legal Establishment , rendered necessary by the vices of the system , - a gorgeous Church Establi shment , living sumptuously upon the sw eat of the poor ; an overwhelming police establishment ; a speculating , crucifying master class ; bankers wallowing in wealth ; shopkeepers starving ; a staff of idlers who receive pay for pandering to the vices of a government ; an incompetent government , a jealous aristocracy , a proud oligarchy , a disunited people , a hired Press , a prejudiced jury class ; prisons full , workhouses full : an

      unemployed people dreading the tender mercies of the bastile , herded together like swine in garrets and cellars ; while the eye is shocked with the pompoHs show of pampered idlers , and the disgusting sight of sleek fat horses , well caparisoned , drawing gin , whiskey , beer , and porter , by these abodes of wretchedness . Men no longer have the power of estimating the value of their own labour . It is measured by their employers' caprice , and their own destitution ; they are but too happy to Receive the poorest modicum ef wages for the greatest amount of toil , and if they do not starve

      silently , without a murmur , they are rebels , traitors , felons , or seditionists ; and , as has ever been the case with the possessors of power , and with the well-to-do , the contented attach the name of Chartist to the discontented , in the hope of damning the principle by exposing the means resorted to for its achievement . But let us ask , if times were changed , whether the maxim that the more man suffers here below , the greater will be his enjoyment hereafter , would reconcile the present persecutions of the poor to the presentsufferings of the poor ? A revolution on the Continent is the signal

      for domestic coercion , in the hope that the fever may be checked , and that prevention is better than cure . And without taking into consideration the circumstances which have led to these changes abroad , the Minister of the day says , we will establish a reign of terror at heme , in order that the infection may not reach our shores . But is he so poor a physician as not to know , that although he may check the disorder , he but tends to increase its virulence ?

      Ishe not aware that no monarchliving in the confidence of the strongest army , has ever been able successfully to resist the legitimate demands of a united people ? And can he be mad enough to suppose , that a Government living upon the dissensions of opposition , with an empty Exchequer , a bankrupt trading class , a jealous commercial class , a pauperised shopkeeping class , and a famishing working class , can long secure that harmony which is indispensable to the very existence of society .

      We are rtow upon the eve of an Irish famine . America sympathises with the Irish peopleher sword is still fleshed—she is a young nation , proud of her savage conquest of Mexico and would desire no greater triumph than the humiliation of England . Prussia ' s King is a waiter upon Providence , the crown is tottering upon his head . Austria ' s Monarch is looking to the intervention of a Monarchy and a Republic for the sustainment of his power . The P i" invi * i > the fieW of battle or to the

      . , surrender of St Peter ' s chair . The Czar of Russia is obliged to exhibit all his military force to secure obedience to his will . Our Indian possessions are of doubtful tenure . All the minor States of Europe are in a state of convulsion , waiting the result of the French Revolution , which has not yet arrived . America looks with a jealous eye upon Canada : Ireland is in a state of incipient rebellion ; and can any man be so blind or ignorant as to nra .

      sume that , however the folly and indiscretion of a few may furnish a { pretext for severity and oppression , the many will much longer tolerate a system which has paralysed industry , shaken confidence , destroyed trade-a system whose strength is represented in increased power to maintain it , while those who furnish the means are becoming daily pauperised . This is ihe Present , the security of which is * Tta F * t ° * ° f Whi 0 h We mU 8 t l 99 Ve

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 2, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1486/page/4/