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      A Lesson. In The Edinburgh Weekl Y Regis...

      more cautious in his statements the next time he addresses a London audience . Mr Henry went on to say , that "Ernest Jones had announced to the Assembly that there were in Aberdeen 6 , 000 Chartists—all < rood men and true , armed to the teeth , and waiting for the fray . He ( Mr H . ) fcneio at the time thai Mr Jones was mistaken , but he did not contradict the statement , as he thought it might dc good , eye . "

      We do not remember , if Mr Jones made the statement in the Assembly imputed to him ; but . if sj , it is clear that he had been grossl y misled . Mr Jones was only one day in Aberdeen : h » s account , therefore , of the " pre - pared" state of the Chartists of that town , must have been entirely based upon the statements made to him whilst there . A heavy responsibility rests upon those who misled him , and not less upon Mr Henry , who coolly sat by , and permitted a statement to be made , which he , as vn inhabitant , and Chartist leader

      of Aberdeen . knew to be untrue . ' His apology that he thought good would arise from allowing- a false statement to be published , says - little for lis judgment , —we will say nothing about seme of truth . If the Aberdeen delegate may deceive London , why not the London delegates deceive Aberdeen ? And if thismode vf " doing good ' ' is adopted in one p lace , what safeguard is there against its adoption in all p laces ? And , lastly , from such a round of deceptions < vhat can result , but evil , instead of good—overthrow , instead of victory ?

      Mr Frnest Jones is enthusiastic and chlvalrous--the Mckat of the Chartist army , — pn . ne , at anv risk to himself , to set an example of heroism to his brother-Democrats ; but we doubt that he would at this moment have been the tortured inmate of a dungeon , had he not confided toojmuch in the feverish representations of parties who , to say the least , allowed their enthusiasm to master their judgment , and blind them to the truth . The " good" that has been done , may be seen in the horrible sentences passed upon our persecuted brethren on Monday last .

      We see that , according to the Aberdeen Herald , Mr Henry " made a furious attack upon Mr O'Connor . " Why this " furious attack" we are not told ; but many furious attacks have lately been made upon Mr O'Connor for no other reason than that he endeavoured to keep good and valuable men , like Mr Ernest Jones , from stumbling into p it-falls dug by fools and knaves . After the bright results of Mr Henry ' s policy , common decency might have suggested to him the propriety of being silent respecting Mr O'Connor . Moral : —In politics , as in everything else , " Honesty is the best policy !"

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      Parliame Ntary Res Iew. The Adjourned De...

      PARLIAME NTARY RES IEW . The adjourned debate on Mr Hume ' s motion -R-as very much inferior to the first , and neither of them took a very high position . The sacrificing to expediency involved in its very terms , appeared to have exercised a benumbing influence on the speakers . The earnestness which is indispensable to real eloquence , was not felt by any of the advocates of the motion , and the Minis ' terial and Protectionist party seeing that

      thev had asham , instead of a real party , to contend with , took the whole matter coolly , not to say contemptuously . Lord John , the oracle of the Treasury benches , ' ' pronounced" on the subject when it was first brought forward . That was considered sufficient . Not a single underling echoed the sentiments of the Premier ; not one of his colleagues in the Cabinet took the trouble to rise to endorse them . The motion was , in fact , treated as "bosh . " "What ' s the use of talking about it , have we not a

      ma-The only exception to this policy was Mr Sergeant Talfoard , who , with more courage than discretion , came forward to proclaim himself a renegade to his former political professions—we won ' t say princivles , because we like to be correct , if we possibl y can . A more miserable farrago of nonsense , inconsistency , fustian , and balderdash , we never listened to , and yet it was ' ' hear , beared , ' ' by Lord John , cheered by some members , and complimented bv others * as a most extraordinar y speech . Mr

      O'Connor was the only member in the house who truly described it . He called it a most ignorant ' speech—which it was . Why Sergeant Talfourd should have made such an exhibition of himself , it is not for us to say , but looking at " lawyer nature , '' and the possibilities of empty seats on the judicial bench , it is not difficult to imagine tolerably cogent reasons . The worthy Sergeant ' s speech resolved itself into three points : within thejast thirty years we have made many changes , therefore we ought

      nowto stop ; next , the people are poor and ignorant , therefore they ought not to have the power of compelling the Government to do them justice , by providing the means for education and employment ; and , lastl y , in other nation * changes hate taken place , and are taking place , therefore none / iught to take place in England . If our readers are not convinced by the logic of the learned Sergeant , or fail to see how the conclusions follow the premises in these three propositions , we candidly confess we cannot help them .

      The mos 1 telling speech in favour of the motion was that of Mr Osborne . It was full of happy hits and pertinent illustrations . One of the most successful of these hits was that in which he stripped the system of Government in this cjuntry of all the mystery and gilding by which its real nature is disguised from the people . Alluding to the objection that the petitions in favour of the motion were merel y " family petitions / ' he asked what the Government was , but a Government of a particular family ? With scarcely a single exception , everv man in the Cabinet was connected either

      by blood or marriage . In fact , to use Mr Osborne s words , the Government at this moment < £ is nothing else but a snug family party . " The few underlings , not in the Cabinet , who do the drudgery , and are honoured with seats on the Treasury Benches , such as tie Wards , Parkers , Wilsons , & c , are only allowed to do so by this famil y of oligarchs , at the expense of their political reputation . As Mr Osborne truly and humorously remarked , these so called Liberal members are treated by & e Whigs as g ipsies are said to treat stolen childrennamely , disfigured and disguised , to make them pass for their own . We think that this has been done so successfully that their

      constituents will not be able at the next election to recognise them again , and that some seats may be lost in consequence . Sheffield , for instance , may be asking some ugly questions as to the appearance of the names of Parker and Ward in the division list against a moderate middle-class p lan of Electoral Reform . No i dobut these two gentlemen , who receive about . 5 , 0 U 0 Z . of public money annually , in the shape i of salaries , have good and sufficient reasons for their votes ; but it is a fair question for the ' voters of Sheffield ; why , upon this occasion , 'their town was not included in the list of large ' towns which voted against an exclusive , unjust , j and oligarchical system ?

      Mr Cobden ' s speech was statistical and dull ' . In common with all the speeches delivered b y 1 the New Movement men , it laboured under 1 the defect of being based on no definite first ] princi p le . Mr Osborne , as well as Mr Cob-< den , distinctly stated that they recognised no onntural right to the Suffrage . It is , therefore , Twith them not a question of justice , hut of exjpediency . The broad landmarks of right and ^ wrong are thrown down in this most

      important of all questions , and the whole matter reeeolved into one of the adjustment of opposing Horces and a groping in the dark , which , howeever much it may suit those who have tbe posccession of power , is little calculated to emancipate the masses from political serfage . Until ^ politicians and statesmen recognise and admit t the fact , that institutions are made for man , and 'nwA man for institutions—until man the creator oof property , is looked upon as sup / erioj t' j the

      property he creates , there is not the slightest chance for the establishment of a sound political system . Our architects build upon the shifty quicksand of expediency , not the solid rock of princip le . Mr ^ O'Connor ' s policy on the occasion was a dignified rebuke to the middle-clas party , and Mr Cobden , In p articular . Notwithstanding the intemperate and apparentl y studied attack of the Hon . Member for the West Riding upon him , and the Chartist bodv at large , Mr

      O'Connor proved b y his vote that the party , i of whom he is the representative , are not the I wild and unreasoning obstructors to progressive 1 reform which their calumniators say they are ; : while in his speech he vindicated the right of ' every man to a voice in the management of ! national affairs , and declared that the obtaini ing of an instalment of the people ' s rights i woulil , by him at least , be made merely 1 subservient to securing the full 20 s . in the pound .

      One feature of the debate may be remarked as hopeful . Not one of the speakers , whatever section he represented , maintained the doctrine of finality . Mr Sidney Herbert , who may be considered to have spoken for the Peelites , was , in fact , elaborately exp licit upon that point . Whether he was so with a prudent eye to certain possible contingencies , such as the resumption of office b y the chief of his party , and the growth of tne agitation in favour of Parliamentary Reform to such a height , in the meantime , as to render a similar course desirable on that question , as was taken in the case of the Corn Laws , time will tell .

      One thin < f is certain , there is nothing to daunt Reformers in the division . Eightyfour is a large minority ^ positively speaking ; and when it is remembered that Marylebone Westminster , Finsbury , Southwark , Lambeth , and the Tower Hamlets ( Metropolitan Boroughs )—Manchester , Salford , Oldham , Bidton , Rochdale , Ashton , Stockport , Leeds , Bradford , Birmingham , Nottingham , Norwich , Macclesfield , Wolverhampton , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Paisley , and , in short , all the principal hives of population , industry , and enterprise are to be found in the minoritv , it may be taken as an indication that

      victory is not distant , if the party who have taken tbe question up are in earnest . Of one thing we can assure them , that if they do not go on , they will be overtaken and left behind . The ominous words , " Too late , " may be spoken again—when the people , sick of waiting for what are called progressive Reforms , find that the condition of the State demands bold and decided remedies . The mischief—if any then arises—will be the work of those who , lulled into false security , blind to the signs of the times , and , depend , ing upon Parliamentary majorities , and hire ling blood shedders , refused to concede in time the reasonable requests of the people .

      The Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill Ha...

      The Encumbered Estates ( Ireland ) Bill has made some progress . If the Government , instead of wasting the public money , and the time of Parliament last year , upon a lot of clumsy ephemeral measures , had resolutely pressed such measures as this , the foundation of a better state of things might , ere this , have been laid in Ireland , It is to be hoped , that at last so necessary and desirable a Bill will succeed in passing into a law . The measure has one great merit , that of boldly cutting through the net work of difficulties which surrounds the subject . Previous attempts only complicated complication , and made confusion more confounded . The new Bill takes the straightforward and summary mode of enabling a mortgagee to bring an Encumbered Estate to sale ; g ives the new purchaser the power of acquiring a parliamentary and an indefeasible title in a short time , and leaves the parties interested in the proceeds to fight their battles , if they have any , over the ^ noney realised from the Estates . B y this means the soil will be liberated from the monopoly which , at present , locks it up from use , and a chance will be given to labour and capital to convert an artificial desert into a cultivated land .

      A Hypocritical Attack Upon The Liberty O...

      A hypocritical attack upon the liberty or the Working Classes has met with a spirited opposition in the House of Commons , which may be said to have resulted in a virtual defeat . It seems that with the cunning for which the . " saints'' are famous , the '' Sunday Trading Bill " had been smuggled through the second reading , without giving its opponents an opportunity of discussing it . It did not , however , get into committee quite so easily . Mr Baring Wall , appears to have closely watched this last bantling of the pious Mawworms , " who look with complacency upon the desecration of the Sunday by " noble Lords , ' ' and " honourable gentlemen , " but to whom the smell of a joint and pudding from the common bakehouse , the sight of a newly-shaven

      beard on a Sunday Morning , or a newsvender ' s shop open—are abominations . Having no sympathy with the one-sided legislation which is the result of such feelings , the hon . member for Salisbury made an attempt to throw it out ; and although the numbers were against him , the division was accompanied by such circumstances as to induce the belief that we have seen the last of it for a year , at all events . Apart altogether from the reli gious grounds upon which the decent and due observance of the Sunday is advocated , we have a strong political and

      social feeling in its favour . We believe , however , that if that seventh day of rest had not been guarded by religious sanctions too powerful with the present training of men for even political economists to break through , that it would long ago have disappeared . Upon polilico-economical grounds there is no necessity whatever for such an institution . It is simpl y an abstraction of one-seventh of every week from the productive power of the community . The same men , who showed so

      conclusively that the reduction of one-sixth of the labour of women and children in factories would inevitabl y lead to the downfall and ruin of the British empire , would long ago have found good reasons for taking away the poor man ' s Sabbath , or day of rest , had It not been fortunately made a religious question As it is , the encroachments upon it are sufficiently numerous . But it is the bounden duty of every man who wishes well to the industrial classes , to reskt them te the utmost extent .

      There is , however , not the slightest necessity for our running into the arms of the saints * in order to escape from the political economists , and at all events , while trade is conducted in the way it is—while many workmen do not receive their wages until it is too late for them to go to market profitably on a Saturday night—let them have the natural compensation of an open day market and a

      better choice on a Sunday morning . If the well-to-do saints clad in broad cloths and silks , who are untouched b y the difficulties of these poor people , and incommoded by the crowds in their passage to church , do not like this , let them set about amending the state of society , from which such " nuisances" arise—instead of still more severely punishing those who are already its victims .

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      {®* Owing To An Extraordinary Press Of M...

      {®* Owing to an extraordinary press of matter several communications are unavoidably postponed . We are also compelled to postpone the list of monies for the Defence Fund . G . Whitx . —Received . Livebpool . —The printed circular shall Le given in our next . Ikeland . —We are compelled to omit the letter of our Irish correspondent . Wetmocth . —John Smith suggests' that lec ' urers sheuld be sent to ag .-icultural and other districts not already agitated , to form branches , instead of al ' . iflystravelling the same road ; a lecturer would do great good in Wey . mouth . ' He strongly advocates the distribution of tracts . We cannot answer his questions . CesiioE —Notices of meetings are always inserted , if sent to the Koktbebn Star Office . —Ed . N . S . SxitouD . —AU parties in future desirous of comicujiication with the Chartists of Stroud ,, will write to Mr Clissold , sub-secretary , Mr ky + b ^ d ' s C ' Wte-r » Ou ! 3 , Swan-street , Stroudwattr .

      K3cbipts Of The Jtawoh Al 2,An3d Company...

      K 3 CBIPTS OF THE JTAWOH AL 2 , AN 3 D COMPANY , FOR THE WEEK ENDING THURSDAY , J 0 LT 13 , 1818 .

      FER MR O'CONNOR . ( HA . UEO . £ e ' " Blandford „ 0 12 0 Brisjhtlingsea .. 0 9 0 Linlithgow .. 2 0 0 Alexandria .. 2 18 8 Ipswich „ 21 9 0 Devizes .. 8 6 li Marylebone » 3 12 10 Birmingham , Westminster .. 0 17 0 Goodwin .. 4 0 0 Newcastle . upon- Southampton .. 2 4 S Tyne .. 9 11 8 Hull .. 17 0 Chateris M 2 6 6 Bath .. 5 0 0 Nottingham . Witham .. 10 0 Sweet .. 3 11 6 Sandbach « 1 U 0 Derby .. 2 la 6 City .. 0 10 0 Yarmouth .. 4 18 0 C Howland .. 0 10 0 Thorniey .. 1 10 0 A Love .. 0 5 0 Peterborough .. 7 0 0 A Hayes .. 0 10 0 Hebden Brid ge * 4 i 6 T Thornberry „ 0 10 0 Chepstow .. 2 0 0 H Towers .. 0 10 0 Blandford .. 3 16 10 £ 100 4 __ 1 EXPENSE FUND . Ipswich .. o 18 0 Tbornlcy .. 0 1 6 Marylebone - 0 It 0 Alexandria .. 10 6 Netvcast ) e-upon . Devizes .. 0 2 0 Tyne .. 0 6 0 Birmingham , Nottingham / Goodwin .. ° 5 Sweet .. o 17 6 Hull ( .. 0 13 0 Derby .. o 4 0 Witham .. 10 0 Yarmouth .. 0 2 0 £ § J 8 J ,. ! . ! " lUlTtM Land Fund . „ " ~~ ,,. 100 4 1 Expense Fund ... 6 18 C Rule » 0 1 ° 107 3 7 Bank 225 ^ 0 £ 332 19 7 Wlf . DuoK . CflBISTOPnEB DOILB , Thos . Clabk , ( Correa . Seo . ) Philip M'QBATH , ( Fin . Seo . ) NOTICE TO DEPOSITORS . Hereafter , all Post-office orders should be made payable to Thomas Price , at tho Bloomsbury Money Ordoroffiee , ivistead "f St llartln ' s-le-grand General Post-office . All who have not sent in written vouchers to be exchanged for printed certificates , are requested to do so without delay . The half-yearly interest due on the 31 st December , and SOth June , is added to the principal in the several accounts , in accordance with the Bank Rules , and bears interest as fresh deposits . T . Pbice , Manager , RECEIPTS OF LIBERTY FUN D . Thomas Paine Mr Murrell .. 0 2 6 Brigade , per Mr Ford .. 0 2 8 Hammett - 0 6 0 Mr Mitchel .. 0 10 Leigh , per M P Whittington and Daly .. 19 0 Cat , per Bloom-Emmett's Bri- field .. 0 2 10 Bade , Padding- Westminster Loton .. 10 0 cality ( 3 rd Crewe .. 0 6 0 Subscription ) 0 4 0 Hoxton , per Mr Thomas Paine Kydd .. 0 15 0 Brigade , ner Minories , from Hammett ~ .. 0 4 2 a Few Cigar Johnstone , Scot-Jlakers .. 0 5 8 land .. 0 5 0 Whittington and Greengate Lo-Cat , per Bloom- cality , per field „ 0 8 7 Hancock .. 0 3 9 Limehouse .. 17 0 £ 7 3 6 2 C . B . —The orders from Paisley , Arbroath , and Leith , with all orders , will henceforth be acknowledged in his list only . John M 'Csae , Secretary . FOR MRS MITCHEL . RECEIVED BY W . BIDEB . Birmingham , Eagle Tavern , per J . Sweet „ 0 2 6

      To The People. We Have This Day Balanced...

      TO THE PEOPLE . We have this day balanced our accounts , and have to announce to our friends that we are without funds . We are the servants of the people , and therefore feel a plain statement of our position to be an imperative duty . It is almost unnecessary to add , that if we be not supported , our services can be neither lasting nor efficient as public officers . On behalf of the Executive Council , John-street Institution , John M'Crae , Sec . July 13 th .

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      (From The Morning Chronicle.) Mission Op...

      ( From the Morning Chronicle . ) MISSION OP MR MEAOHER TO THE UNITED STATES . The Confederates and their rlubs have been working in secret since the passing of the Treason Felony Act . One portion of the plans of the Executive Directory , however , has transpired , namely the mission of Mr T . F . . Meagher to the United States . There are various rumours as to the objects of this move . Some are credulous enough ta believe that Mr Meagher ia to join an expedition of sympathisers from same American port , to rescue John Mitchel from the British authorities at Bermuda ; others state that Mr Meagher is to make a tour of the United States to organise clubs similar to those in Irel nd , in order that the Irish Confederates may be able to calculate the extent of their resource ? .

      Dublin , July 8 —The treaty of alliance between the O . d and Youn ^ Irelanders has been broken off the Conciliation Hall gentry insisting that the League be specially and distinctly pledged to peaceful , bgal , and constitutional means , and that the club organisation be entirely abandoned . SB 1 ZORB OF THE ' IRISH FBLON . ' Yesterday evening a body of policemen proceeded to the FfiLOs office in Trinity-street , and having stated that they had a warrant for the arrest of the . roprietor , they proceeded to seize , and finally carried off , all the papers , books of accounts , correspondence , & c , on the premises . They forced off the lock of the office desk , and the door of the editor ' s room , for doing which they stated that they had sufficient authority .

      SURRENDER OF MR MARTIN , THE PROPRIETOR . The following ia from the Po » t : —On Saturday morning Mr John Martin , proprietor of the Irish Felon newspaper , surrendered to Sergeant Prender , of the Detective Force , immediately alter which he was conducted to College-strect police-tiffico , accompanied by his attorney . Mr Kemmis , the crown solicitor , was present , but did not take any active part in the proceedings . On Mr Martin being brought before the bench , Mr Ttsdall asked him if he was aware of the nature of the informations which had been sworn against him ? Mr Martix replied that he was aware of those informations , bat he was ignorant of the specific charge laid against him .

      Mr Ttndall stated that there were different charges laid in the informations , one of which was for the pnblicatioa of a letter on the 24 th of June , in the Irish Felon newspaper , signed * J . F . Lalor , ' and the other was for the publication in the same paper of the 1 st of July , of an article headed the ' First Step , ' and for those offences it was his duty to commit him for trial . Mr Martin said he wished io fay a word or Ivro on the subject of his absence , in avoiding the execution of the warrant , the reasons of which he bad alteady explained in the Irish Felon of this day ; but as that paper had bsen seized by the police—a proceeding which he felt bound to declare was a public robbery —he wished the circumstance to be publicly known . The reason he had kept out of tbe way was , that he wanted something like a fair trial , which he could not expect to have had at the last commission .

      Before Mr Martin had surrendered , tbe police bad orders to seize the Irish Felon newspaper , and , in execution of their orders , they seized every copy of that paper which they could discover , cither in the office er where it had been published , or in the pos session of the newsvenders in the streets . ARREST OF MR OAVAN DUFFT , EDITOR OF T ' NATION , ' UNDER THB TREASON FELOflT ACT . _ Shortly before nine o ' clock , on Saturday evening , a detective peliceman arrived at tho office of the Nation newspaper , in D'Olier-atreet , with a warrant for the arrest of Mr Charles Gavan Duff / , the proprietor of that newspaper . Mr Duffy happened to be in the office at the time , and was taken into custody ; and the account-books , manuscripts , documents , < te ., found in the office , wera also seized and conveyed to College-street Police-office in the adjoininstreet .

      g When Mr Duffy , in custody of the police , entered tbeoffioe , Mr Tyndall , one of tbe divisional magis trates , was . upon the bench , and Mr Kemmis , the Crown Solicitor , was in attendance . Mr Duffy was accompanied by Mr M'Carthy , Mr M'Gbee , and other members of the Confederate Society . The office , notwithstanding the latenets of the hour , was crowded by the friends of Mr Duff / , and many perains assembled in the passages and the street in front of the office . .- »« **« Mr Ttndall , the magistrate , addressing Mr ihiny , stated that informations fcad been sworn against him , under tbe Treason Felony Act , whioh rendered it his duty to commit him lo Newgate for trial at the next commission of oyer and terminer . Bail is not allowed by the act , and tuGE ® was do allusion to the matter . HMUutUU kV mj

      wuw ----- - But a long conversation did occur as to the legal right Of the constables to seize the J / nanuscripts and documents in the Nation Office . Mr Duifj , comparatively regardless ef the crushing charge against himself , insisted that the law conferred no such risht for the seizure of his property previous to

      trial . , . , Mr TrNDAiL stated tha ' . b ' dhad merely a ministerial duty to discharge in reviving the informations under the Act of Parliamen' it aDd that he would not enter unsu the question y to the seizure of tbe papers .

      (From The Morning Chronicle.) Mission Op...

      In tke course of this excited d'scussion , Mr Duffy , addressing his book-keeper , said : ' tell you , as the polios have used force without the sanction of th . ; law , to resist them in all such attempts in future . In all such cases of illegal oppressaion , your dut y is to protect yourself against such arbitrary proceedings . ' ( Applause . ) Mx Daffy appeared much less concerned than any of the friendu who accompanied him . Before leaving iho office , he said , addressing the crewd-- ' My last words are , double your numbers in the clubs . ' ( Cries of ' We will , ' and applause . ) Mr Duffy was then conveyed to Newgate prison , where he arrived about half past nine o ' clock . There are rumours tbat further arrests are to bo made , and that a special commission is to issue ; but this latter is not likely .

      Thb State cf Ireland .- — The following letter was published in the Standakd of Saturday last . Tho writer is said to have resided some years in Ireland in an official capacity , which affords him the best means of information , and to be a military man of high rank and of great experience , as well as great inteMgence : —• This country , since Mitehel ' a transportation , bus been apparently quiet , but that very quiet leads me to suppose that it extends only as far as appearances go ; 'ind that the disaffected are only waiting for what they nny consider a favaurab ' e opportunity . The clubs have within the last month not only increased in number , both in Dublin aud the ptovinees , but are daily becoming more cautious in their proceedings , and perfecting themselves as

      much & i possible in details , so as to become efficient as one body . Crimes which twelve months ago were frequent all over the country now are almost unheard of—merely because tbe Repea ' era are waiting to make an attempt oa an extended scalr , and all Ireland will take its tone from Dublin . It is known that 50 , 060 men and upwards are at present aimed , and well armed , too , acd almost the whole of that number have been practised to use their arms . An immense quantity of ammunition has found its way into Ireland during the last six months . Where is it ? The number of avowed Repealers ia great ; tbe number of Repealm not avowed is also great ; add to these others whom the smallest chance of success would surely turn , from selfish motives , and say

      how many honest men aad true are left . Some strong and decisive measures should be at ones taken to putdown the clubs and disarm tbe disaffected as much as possible . Till this is done , all other mea . sures must be fruitless . Our soldiers are true as steel , and , even should there be a few black sh ^ ep among them , they dare not abow themselves as such , as they would be shot at once by their comrades . Thy pensioners may nlsa bo calculated upon as a moat effective force . Tbe Dublin police and tbe constabulary in the country are a most useful force , and to be trusted as a body ; but still , when we rtflejtthat they are all Irish ( with very few exceptions ) , and mostly Roman Catholics , it cannot ba Huppesed tbat there are not some disaffected men amongst them ; and I

      think , were there any symptom of the Repealers getting the upper hand even for a short time , b-th police and constabulary would in part sympathise with them . Remember the harvest is fast approaching . The clubs are hourly increasinc—the priests are ripe for Repeal—and upwards of SO 000 men are known to be well armed , Tbe clubs must be put down at once , as the first greatstep ; o improvement . Arrival of John Mitchkl at Bermuda . —We have just had a conversation with a g entleman who this day travelled in the comp & ny of om of the officers of the vessel which carried Jobn Mitchelto Bermuda . Mr Mitchel arrived out in good health , though in a ratber depressed state of mind . On hie outward voyage be was remarkably silent and reserved , but enjoyed good health . —Freeman ' s Journal .

      ATTEMPT TO RE 5 CUK MB DUPFV . When Mr Duff / was proceeding to Newgate , in company with the officers , the covered car in which he rode was stopped at the upper end of Mary-street by the crowd , and a rescue attempted . A rescue was also attempted in Green street , but on both occasions , at the desire of the constables , Mr Duff / addressed the people and advised thera to go home and be peaceable They promised to do so , and then Mr Duffy called on th-m to give a cheer for Irish independence , which was heartily responded ta . Tho crowd then dispersed quietly .

      ARREST OS TUB PROPRIETORS OF THE TRIBUNE . July 9 —To-day , at two o ' clock , the registered proprietors of the Tribune were placed under arrest on a marge of felony . When Mr Tyndall and another magistrate took their places on Ihe bunch in Collegestreet , Messrs O'Do ^ herty and Williams , registered as proprietors of the Tribune newspaper , were placed at the bar , and they were eventually committed for trial . The whole proceeding took place without exciting the smallest interest , or collecting any crowd , three or four friends of the parries aud a few reporters jtbe press only being present . There are some penny publications , such as the Irish National Guard and the Penny United Imsbman , which inculcate in a less polished form the doctrines of Young Ireland , and these also the police have , during yesterday and this day , seized wherever they have been brought under their notice .

      It is rumoured that a warrant is out for the arrest of Mr Meagher , for his club address . He was yesterday in Dublin , and is reported to have sailed in the evening for Liverpool .

      ARREST OF MR MEAGHER . Dublin , Wednesday . —Mr S . F . Meagher was arrested at Waterford , yesterday , for a teditious speech , and sent to Dablin under an escort of mounted ' police . He has been committed for trial , but admitted to bail . AURKST OF MR DOHENT . Mr Michael D- < heny was arrested in Cashel on Tuesday last , and committed to Nenagh gaol to abide bis trial for felony at the present assizes . An attempt as made to rescue him which however failed .

      MORE ARRBST 3 . Dublin , July 13 . —Mr T . D . M'Gee . the subeditor of the Nation , and Mr Edward Hollywood , who has eoroe connexion with the Fxtw , were arrested yesterday evening , on a charge ot eedition ; and , after due investigation at College street , were bound over in heavy recognisances , to appear at the present assizes of Wieklow , to take their trial . Although the bail is returnable to the present assizes , it is pretty well understood that the trials cannot take p lace before the spring .

      Newcastls-Dpon-Ttne.—The Adjourned Discu...

      Newcastls-dpon-Ttne . —The adjourned discussion on the report of the committee of the House of Commons on the National Land Company will be resumed Jn M . Jude ' s long room , on Sunday , July 16 th , at six % ' clock in the evening . N . B . —The members of this branch are particularly requested to attend en this occasion . The parties who have received subHcription books in aid of Mrs Jones are requested to bring them in to the committee on Sunday , July 16 th , at eight o'clock . Newcastle—The Chartists of Newcastle are

      respectfully requested to send in their subscriptions to the Liberty Fund as early as possible to M . Jude , the local treasurer , and parties desirous of taking collecting books for the above fund can be supplied with them on application to M . Jude , or J . Niabett . Iveston . —The members of this branch of the National Land Company are requested to attend a general meeting , to be held in the school room at Iveston , on Monday , the 17 th inst ., when the local expenses must be paid . Important business will be brought before the meeting .

      Nottingham—The district committee will meet at three o'clock on Sunday next , at the Manvers Arms , Sneinton Hermitage . Newcastle upon-Ttne . — The members of this branch of the National Charter Association are requested to attend a general meeting in the house of ivlartin Jude , on Monday , July 17 th , at half-past seven o ' clock , to take into consideration the state of this branch of tbe association , Lkioksibr . —A district delegate meeting will be held to-morrow ( Sunday ) in the Cbart'st Association room , 20 , Carley-street , at ten o ' clock in the

      morning . Northumberland and Du-rham . —A district delegate meeting of tbe National Charter Association will be held in the house of Mr Thomas Featherstone , Three Tons , Coxhie , Durham , on Sunday , July 23 rd , at ten o ' clock in the forenoon . A camp meeting will bo held at Heufrh Hall , Coxhoo , on Sunday . July 23 rd , at two o ' clock in the afternoon . N . B . —Localities are requested to send delegates to address tbe camp meeting . Bloomsborv . —Meetings of this locality will ba held every Sunday evening , at the Orange Tree , Orange-street , Red Lion square . Chair taken at eight o ' clock . Important Notice . —A delegate meeting of all the localities of London and district will take place at 83 , Dean-street , on the forenoon of Sunday , the 23 rd instunt . —the object being the formation of a perraa nent Victim Committee . Chair to be taken at e ' even o ' clock .

      Soum Lomdon Chartist Hall . —Tbe quarterly meeting of tbe shareholders of the above ball will take place on Friday evening , July 21 , at eight o'clock . An excursion to O'Cononrville will take place on Sunday , July SO , to start from the Temperance Hall , Waterloo-road , at five o ' clock in the morning . FissBimr District Council . —An adjourned meeting of the delegate council of Finsbury will be held at Hopkinson ' a Temperance Coffee-house , Little Saffron-hill , on Wednesday evenitg next . Chair to be taksn at eight o'clock . GflSKN Gate Locality , Hackney Road . — A meeting will be held on Monday , July 17 , to consider the propriety of having a Chartist Hall and Mutual-Lxchange Ba ^ ar . A lecture will be delivered on Sunday , July 10 th , by Mr M . J . Jones .

      Mr S . Kydd will lecture in the Milton-street Theatre , City , on the evening of Wednesday . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock precisely . Subject of the lecture : — - 'The People ' s Charter . ' No . ' policemen in plain clolhes ' admitted . Mr Samuel Kydd of tho Executive , will lecture on Tuesday evening , July 18 . at the Duke of Sussex , Grange Walk . Chair to be taken at eight o ' clock . Chapman ' s Coffee IIoueis , 177 , Churoh-street , Shoreditch . —A public meeting will be held at the above bouse on Sunday evening nexi , July lOtb , at eight Q ' elocfc »

      The Trials Of Messrs Francis Looney And ...

      THE TRIALS OF MESSRS FRANCIS LOONEY AND ERNEST JONES . SENTENCES ON TH E PRISONERS . CRIMINAL COU RT ^ SATURDAI , July Sin . THE TRIAL OF FRANCI 3 LOONEY Francis Looney was arraigned on an indictment charging him with two misdemeanours on"Kb of I ^ T oi 0 rney * Genera 1 ' Wel 3 bv . Mr Bodkin , and Mr Clarke , were counsel for the prosecution The prisoner was defended bv Mr Kenealy

      . The Attorney-General eaid that this case wa « very short and conclusive . The case would be proved by a single witness , and he need not do more than read the speech delivered by thedefendant-a speech he must characterise as a most dangerou * one . There was some alight degree of difference in this case as compared with those that had already been under consideration ; lor in those the speeches had been delivered to large open air meetings , whilst the speech for dalivering which the defendant stood at that bar was delivered to a meeting of some three

      hundred persons in tho Chirtist Hall , in the Blackfr iars-road . In addition to ( ho charge of Eedition , the defendant was charged with attending an unlawful meeting , and with taking part in a riot ; but with regard to the latter charge , the jury would not have to inquire into it . The learned Attorney-General then proceeded to read a transcript of a government shorthand writer ' s notes of the defendant ' s speech , the substance of which will be found below . It would , he said , be a useless w aste of public time to dwell further upon the fp ? ech , which he should proceed to prove by the short-band writer .

      William Counsel , examined by Mr Whl ^ ey : I am a sh & rt-hand writer . On the 5 th of June I attended a meeting at tho Chartist Hall , Webberstreet , Blackfriars ' -road . I got there about eight oclotk . About two hundred persons were present when the chairman was chosen , but that number increased as the business proceeded . There were , I should think , three hunditd person ? present the majority of whom were Irishmen . The chairman announced the defendant as ihe secretary to the Davis Club . The defendant said he attended the meeting ti assist in the formation of a club . He avowed himself a dreadful opponent' practically ' ol Lord John Russell . He advised tho audience to

      possess themselves of arms , as they had a right to do so—tbey had a right to repel the midnight burglar , and they had equally a right to ktcp arms to ( ppose the myrmidons ol a base goverrment . A time was coming when men would have to act as men . He said that John Mitchtl , a mm who for fourteen weeks had written and propounded the most beautiful doctrines , and who had done bis duty as much an R'jbeit Emmett had done his in bis day , had been removed from amongst them , lie avowed himself a republican in heavt and i , oul , and advised all who could to get arms . Pikes , he said , could be had for eighteenpence , and pistols were cheap . The House of Lords was a rendezvous for pickpockets , and no good would be done until the land was wrested from

      the robbera who held it , To the Irishmen present he would say that the harvest that was then springing up from the surface of Irish soil would never leave the land until every man had enough . English ar . d Irish should be united , and if their demands for jua lice were unheeded , they would take it ; and if the myrmidons of the English should attempt to hew down their Irish brethren when tbey appropriated the growing harvest , * by heavens , ' said he , ' we will be there to assist them . ' He then moved a resolution , which was seconded by a person named Reoney , and which was to this effect , that as God made man , and as man made arms , it is the undoubted right of every man to possess them , and to know the use ot them ; and , as the possession of arms imparts a dignity and importance that none but the possessor knows anything of , he advised every man to obtain thera .

      Witness cross-examined by Mr Kenealy : I attended with Mr Doogood , another short-hand writer , and his . clerk , The chairman said , that the meeting was to enrol members of a ' Mitchel Confederate Club , ' to obtain a repeal of the union . The defendant did not leave the room when he had delivered his speech . I have attended and taken notes in tbe House of Commons . There was considerable applause at the meeting . Mr IJiciiARD Ivemjiis , son of the Irish crown solicitor , produced and proved a c py of the record of the conviction of Mitchel for felony ; This concluded the case for the prosecution . Mi Kenealy then tooks > me technical objections to the indictment , a short discussion takiEg place , the result of which was that the Lord Chief Justice dep . ded that the objections did not affect the indictment ; bu :, at the request of the learned counsel , his lord » hip took a note of tho objections .

      John Gray , a police-sergeant , was then called by the Attorney-General , at the request of Mr Kenealy . He deposed tbat he arrested the defendant , telling him he acted on a warrant issued by a magistrate fur a seditious speech delivered by him at a Charti & t meeting . The defendant asked to see tho warrant . Some persons called out' Looney is it right , shall we fight ? ' The defendant said tbat thi . sepersonswfreno Iriends of his , and said to Ritnens , ' The first of them that may interfere with you in the execution of your duty , knock him down . Mr Kbmealy then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of tbe defendant . He said he appeared in his present position at the earnest r < quest of the defendant , whtrn he bad known from his childhood , and vibo was attached to himself and his family . His conduct had been hitherto unimpeachable and had entitled him to respect and esteem .

      Chief Justice Wilob interposed , and said it was not the usual coursefor a learned counsel to give evidence in the behalf of a defendant ) in his speech to thejury . It was very inconvenient , and quite irregular . Mr Kbhealy said it had been done by a very great and learned man , Mr Erskine , under similar circumstances , and he considered he waa justified in following such an example . The learned counsel proceeded to state that he laboured under considerable disadvantage en the present occasion , and it was increased by an intimation that he had received from a private source tbat anything he might say upon tbe subject of the Repeal of the Union would be watched by the Attorney-General with lynx eyes , and tbat ulterior proceedinga would probably be taken against him .

      Tbe Attorney-General : How dare you say , sir , anything of the kind ? How dare you make such an assertion ? Some friends of your own may have made such an observation , but I would not condescend to do so . I say , how dare you , sir , make such an observation ? Mr Kenealy appealed to the bench whether the Attorney-General v . as to be allowed to use such language as that to him . Chief Justice Wilde said that he had mentioned something that had been whispered to him by a private friend , and , if it were untrue , he must expect to have it repudiated . It was a charge against the Atfcorney-Geaeral .

      Mr Kenealy then proceeded with his address . His client , he said , was an Irishman , and a Repealer , two very great crimes , he admitted , in this country ; but he trusted he should be able to satisfy the jury that their liberties were at stake on the present occasion , and he therefore hoped to induce them to acquit the prisoner of the charge made against bira . He submitted tbat the prisoner , believing conscien . tiously that it would be better for the people of both countries that the Union shall be repealed , had a perfect right to discuss the matter publicly , and ho asserted that his prosecnHon was merely an attempt by the government to stifle the expression of public opinion , and to assert tbe slavish doctrine of passive obedience ; and he said that if the jury did not

      interpose , they would be parties to the destruction of their own liberties . He did not deny that the defenddant had made the speech imputed to him . He admitted he madeit , and he was now prepared to justify it , and to assert that he had not exceeded the law . He had been placed by her Majesty ' s Attorney-General before the jury to answer a charge of bedition , of attending an unlawful meeting , and of riot . The Attorney-General had thought fit to abandon the charge of riot , and why , he would ask , had it ever been brought forward ? The jury was a tribunal placed , and most properly so , between the liberty and the rights of the subject and the infamous acta ot attorney . generate and the possible parlizwsbip of the bemh . Not that he wished to say aught of the

      English bench of the present day , which , he was sure , was as pure and as impartial as ever was exhibited to tho world ; bnt there were times when such was not the case . He was but a young lawyer : yet ever since he had made the law his study , he bad applied himself to the constitutional law of this country ; and although he was not to be supposed to understand constitutional law as clearly as an attorneygeneral , or an attorney-general ' s colleague , he thought he knew what was the constitutional law well , and he had no hesitation in asserting that the law , as it had been laid down in tbcEe trials by the law officers of the crown , was not the constitutional law of this country . It was contended that tbe people had no right to resist . That doctrine he denied . The people of this country would not be told that they were to be passively obedient ; and he would

      show by authority as great as that of tbe Attorney-General himself , tbat such was not the constitutional law of this country . The people had a night to exist , for , look to the great and important events connected with the revolution of 1 C 68 Did the people of that day admit the doctrine of passive obedience ? The doctrine of passive obedience said tbat the crown might be guilty of all kinds ef tyranny , and be held to do no wrong . He never could f ubsdribe to any such doctrine . The revolution oi 1688 was not tbe less glorious because it was effected by force . He did not denj that the defendant had attended the meeting in question , but be believed that he did so from pure and patriotic motives ; and if they believed that , —however misguided he might have been—he acted on that impression , it was their duty to acquit him , Hy cQnuuwga iD & j » uifl to raise , m ouwry

      The Trials Of Messrs Francis Looney And ...

      against such doctrines , when they rsmem ' jered that scarcely any great national cause had ever beea gained without force , that tr ^ at foundation of cur liberties , Magna Charta itself , having been caincdat tho point of the sword . Similar rpinions bad beea hold by numbers of celebrated men , aithfiugh they had not expressed them with the same force and earnestness as the defendant . Amosg the state & men < j | modern tim es who had en many occasions expressed similar principles , he alluded particularly to the Ead of Chatham ; and among philosophers , to Hume , Locke , and Paley- As an instance of the na-. cessity for resistance to unconstitutional measnresL he pointed out the injury which had been done to this country by those preceedings on the part of

      George III . and his ministers which had caused ta this country the loss of the American colonies , which Lord Chatham had described as ' the brightest jewej in the English crown . ' If those proceedings had beea prevented by proper resistance on the part of tha English people , those colonies would still be retained , and this cnuntiy would be in a far more high and independent conditiin than at present . The rightof public meeting was undoubted . Not the most despotic minister of George the Third attempted to put down this right , and it was only in the free exerciso o this right defendant had acted . Tfcere were always alarmists , wiio exaggerated the danger of such meetings as bad recently taken place . Direcll * the meeting was advertiseda leading new

      , spaper raised the panic , by advising tradespeople t > shutup their shops ; and what perhaps would othtrwke have been a peaceful and unimportant meeting , w » 9 raised into a dangerous proceeding by the presence of tbe horse police ; and then , to increase the public apprehension , a r . umter of persons actuated by a most miserable spirit of ' flunkeyism '—it was an expressive word and very properly applied—fowl sworn themselves in as special constables . He quoted an opinion laid down by Sir Thomas Wilde , at tie state l rials in 1844 , when that learned gentleman said that a meeting to be illegal must not be merely a large meeting , but must be of such a character as to excite al rm in reafenable mir . ds ; yet tho Attorney-General denied the law to be so . Now

      ho thought he had clearly established the right of resistance to tyranny and of public meeting ; and he asked , hud those rights b ^ en taken away ? The privilege of public meeting , of course , meant the privilege of sptech ; and if it were attempted to dcfrive teem of that liberty of speech , th » n the attempt amounted to an act of tyranny ; acd whether it was right or ntt to resist it , became a delicate question . But it vfas one forced upon them by recent events . He contended tbat the jury , in such cases , were the constitutional authority to decido both upon the la ;?? nd Ihe fact : atdhe heped they

      would follow the bright example set by juries in former times , who , in cases of libel , when the judges declared that it was them alone who were to decide upon tbe fact of a publication being a libel or not , and that the jury had only to say whether the party accused had publi-. ' ied it or not , in many instances returned a verdict that tbe defendact was guilty of publishing only , and although judges bad refused to receive such a verdict , juries htd persisted in returning thf m , and the judges could net pass any fenteace on the defendant . lie called on them to do the game in this instance , and te say , by their verdict that the defendant was guilty of making the speech o : dy .

      Chief Justice Wiloe . —That will be a verdict of nofe guilty . Mr Kenealy then went on at very great length to argue upon the rightof tbe people to bear arms , and to oppose tbe government for the preservation ot their own liberties , and be expressed bis opinion that tha government had acted illegally in reptessirg thete meetings . He said that already the right of Englishmen to hold public meetings to discuss their grievances , which was one of the most important rights they possessed , had been taken away from them ; their right to petition bad been turned into rioicule by the proceedings connected with tha Chartist petition , when the enemies of the people affixed fictitious signatures , evidently with that object , and the present prosecution was an attempt to deprive them of tha liberty of speech . Heentreated the jury to putastop to these tyrannical proceedings of tbe government

      , and he said it they did not interpese , they weald find , one by one , that tbeir boasted rights and privileges would ba taken from them , aud they would have to submit to a tyranny equal to that which existed in the east , or else the people would rise in arms , and the monarchy would probably be destroyed . Did he wish to see such a result ? Ivn , no one could be more loyal or more firm in hia attach , ment to the illustrious lady who now filled tbe tbrono than himielf , but he warned the g ivernment of tha consequences that might ensue . Let them look at what had happened in a neighbouring country . Louis Philippe , with his capital surrounded by forts , with his hundred thousand natioral guards , he attempted to put down liberty . He destroyed liberty of speech—he destroyed trial by jury—he endeavoured to take away the right of public meeting , and where was he now ? A wretched outcast at

      Clarement , unbonoured and unpiiied by all , visited , it was true , by some of the British aristocracy , but not pitied even by them , for they felt that he was un * worthy of pity . Humehad arrived at the conclusion that the government of England would end in an absolute monarchy , and he would say , take care that this is not tbe case . Such a change would scarcely be felt during its progress , but would be certain to arrive . The liberty of the press was unassailable , because it was too powerful to be successfully grappled with . But it was not the same with speaking , for an individual might be taken away , and his influence ceased . He therefore urged them to be very jealous and watchful « f every encroachment wnich tended to diminish the rights of tbe subject . The learned counsel hfier some further remarks , said he knew that in this country there was a piejadice agaiest an Irishman . His unfortunate

      countrymen were looked upon as half savsges , unworthy of consideration or respect , and even if one of them appe red in a court of justice as a witness , be was laughed at and derided . On the present occasion tha jury had seen the sneer with nhich the Attorney-General had asked the question whether there were any ' Irish' at the meeting . God help them ! They suffered misery and privations enough—misery and privation which were notoriously the result of the manner in which they had been raitgoTerned by this country , and he did think that they might have been spared these additional insults . He trusted , however , that on this occasion the jur y would overcome their prejudice , that they would deal with the unfortunate Irishman before them as though he waa their own countryman , \ and he confidently believed that when they looked at the ease calmly and dispassionately they would say that he was not guilty of the crime laid to his charge .

      The Attorney-General made a very brief reply . He said ho sheuld notanswer tbe topics that had been introduced by the learned gentleman into his speech , but he ag & itt denied most emphatically that thera was any ground for the assertion he had made , that any of his observations upon the subject of repeal would be watched or taken notice of . As to what had been said about aty prejudice that was supposed to exist against an Irishman in this country , ho beiieved every one was aware that no such feeling existed , He himself was accused of asking , with a sneer , whether there were any Irish at the mieting .

      Tho jury had seen what had occurred , and he . would leave it them to say whether there was any truth in the statement . With regard to tbe question itself , it was one absolutely necessary to the case for the prosecution . Tbe defendant was cha rged with making an inflammatory and exciting speech upon the subject of a convietirn of one of his countrymen in Ireland , and it was an important fact , as tending to exhibit the additional danger likely to result from such a speech , when delivered in an assembly principally composed of Itisbmen , and that was the only reason why the question was asked .

      Chief Justice Wii . dk then eummesl up , and said it appeared to him that a great many of the topics which had been introduced for the defence had nothing whatever to do with the case . None of the great authorities tbat bad been alluded to by the learned counsel advocated the right to oppose by force of arms any government as by law established , and all their observations only referred to cases where the crown and the government had exceeded their powers , and oppressed their subjects by acts wholly inconsistent with the law . Every _ word , therefore-, that bad been enunciated upon this subject by these great champion ) of liberty might be taken as true , and yet they woald be found to have very little bearing upon tbe present case . Had the government of the present clay acted so as to justify to be

      an armed opposition ? for the speech appeared admitted , and tbat must ba taken as the evident object of it . It was said that they had improperly presented some publiojneetinfis trom tuning place . It that we ? e so , were there no con stitutional means ts punish them for so , doing ? Would that ba a justification for the people to rise in astrs and upset the government , or did they think tb . it they should enjoy more liberty , or that there would be a greater protection to property if such a resalt were to take place than under the present government ? . Ike learned judge having explained the law upon the sutjeet of sedition , toll the jury that they should take the speech of the defendant with th « m when they retired , and having considered the whole of it , if they thought it was possible , and looking at it in the mrst charitable point of view , that the

      defendant uttered the expressions imputed to him innocently , and without any of the unlawful intentions imputed to him by the prosecution , it would be their duty to acquit him * After some further comments upon the evidence , hia lordship said he was flOrty tO hear the learned counsel state that tbe people of this osuntrv had a prejudice against an Irishman , and that in courts of justice they were received witD . contempt . He could only say , that during bis experience of fifty years , in courta of lustice , he had never seen one instance of it , and he believed that the court , the jury , and every one P ""™** " ^ repel such an act as that which the Attorney-General had been accused of , namely , speaking tnftiw * ot the Irish . He certainly saw nothing ot the ^ kmfl in the conduct of the Attorney-General to ™? " ? he MWt to » T «* J ditfeWttt kBd 0 f mn t 0 W

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 15, 1848, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15071848/page/5/