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    • THE NORTHEKN STAR. SATURDAY. JAXUAB.Y 17.18ifi.
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      I .. - ¦ ¦R The Northern Star. January 1...

      I .. - ¦ ¦ r THE NORTHERN STAR . January 17 , 1846 , ^^ . . - .- - - ' • - II- — - titmr- ______ m ____ m ___ mmm _ m _ mm __ mm _ m _ w ^ mmi . . ¦¦¦ .. _

      "Co'connell, O'Higgins, And Repeal. "Iik...

      "CO'CONNELL , O'HIGGINS , AND REPEAL . " iiKfirEfollowing letter was published in the Champion 5 op 6 optembcr 2 nd , 1 S 37 . It is now re-published in JinXortkcrn Star , for tie csuedal « - — ' * " '" , - ^ asweration of mv mv w > " - ' — ... * . . . _ . . — . ymen resident or sojourning in Great : tab tain . In this letter they will s % the groundworkcai cause of Mr . 0 'Coxxell ' s hatred and persecution a na man who never in his li * e- did one act or deed

      imicmical to the interests of uis poor hut honest counimeimen , the working clas'jes . He now begs of them , thi the name of God , ' , o reflect—to u * e that knowgo ! ge and judgment * with which the great Author of sir bir being has sa amply and so Iwuntifully endowed jm-sm—to Jay f * y , irbands upon their hearts , aud , in ; sp spirit of tiMc Christians , ask tkemsclves if they ewcw ef an-, one act , or deed , either done or prosedsed to he done , for their benefit , as a class , by Mc . Go ^^ ell . And ask again , iu the samesofemn avid mm manner , do they know , or dhl they < rver hear , a any man , whether cayman or layman Avko Msed his voice ia their bchaIf that Mr 0 Cokxeu , 4 xdnot striveio crush ? If they know < rf any , I < * o 3 t- ) t- and Isball , tbercfji * , teel it as an act of Chnsanan charity should they , or any of tiiciu , give -me imdmc in formation upsn this imi-ortaHi subject . * Mr . 'CCCossezl has not -crashed me yei , and with , the csscssiag of < 5 od he never thaSL

      ... Fatsck 0 Hhhkxs . B Dublin , January 10 , 1 S 40 . MlMPv . O'OOSXEIL AND ? Rl *; EI >« r « . OF ELECTION . .,.,, . " TGtheEgtorof & cCmmpion . S Sr % —Ton have laiu a heavy ls * h on my countrymen . r tir Ufcirconfinued sapport of 6 * Connell . Will you lend ouonrcoicnias to the defence of a man who k persecuted jr br ' MfttSngto-Eupporthim ? I lata an elector of Dttblin , end I told these who asked Dene forcny -votetor O'Coimell that 1 could aot vote for a JoCoerrion Bill for Ireland , merely because it was proposed Dy h y the ~ W " -igs ; that I could not pretend to be the enemy 5 f > f tithes , and vote for a law adding to their weight , and " aa-ring the charge more firmly on the backs of the people ; ththatlcould not rote for ~& e English Poor Law

      Amendmsneut Act , nor for nithhoWinjj a substantial Poor Law FroTrom Ireland ; that I coald not vote for turninjradeaf sasar toilie cries ofZS'S ^ OO starring Irishmen , and giving ththem bsjonets for an answer , instead of bread ; and that toto vote for O'Connell now . was to vote for all these things , fl Adhering to these reasons . 1 refused to vote fvrO'Con-Qtcell and against thc-small remains of Irish liberty ; and I i would have refused-fe ) vote if mine had been the cast-Mns-voice . In England it wiil be with difficulty believed , tltlm for this esercise of my elective privilege—for refueieing to vote for a candidate who represents none of ray Gfsentinents . I have been posted in the City , by the placebfcuuiing rabble , who insist on being known as Mr . O'Con-II neli ' s friend ^ aad now exult in the thought that theyharf a ccountry to sell ; -that by these I have been posted as an

      e enemy to Mr . O'Connell and to Ireland ; aud this mode COf dealing with the freedom of election is practised on t behalf of the " Liberator , " under his eyes , and , indeed , { plainly with his sanction . To understand the meanness < - © f litis charge -of enmity to O'Connell , you most know -t-that some years a £ 0 Mr . O'Connell put up a society under ( the name of " Irish Volunteers , "" of which body I was then 4 dupe enough to become a member . I objected to some 4 GtHr . -O'Counell ' s conscientious proceedings ia that body-4 4 m which hfc ; got a packed mooting together of twentyi t- > x > ysvsons , including many members - > f his own family , who , without any trial , or nofieo of accusation , pro--i -Bounced a sentence of malice against me for having called iu question the probity of eae of O'Connell ' s trusts friends ; and to this sentence , which had falsehood

      Written on the face of it , he prostituted the names of his three eons and his soa-in-law . lie then , in the same summary manner , got sixty-three members of the society together , and solicited them to expel me ; It is with reference to this matter that I am accused of being Mr . O'Conueffs personal enemy . It was hard to forgive . Ihis sentence and expulsion did me great injury ; and the injury was done by unscrupulous power in contempt of truth and justice . Nevertheless , as is very well known , 2 have since subscribed to the tribute , and actively assisted to swell its amount ; and if I wanted revenge , my rc-Tenge was this , that Mr . O'Connell , while he was conscious that he had injured me , was obliged to acknowledge , before his committee , that I had contribu'ed es--sentiaViy to secure his return at the election of ISS 5 . . So much for personal enmity .

      Let me tell ifr . O'Connell ' s friends , however , that if I then contributed to O'Connell ' s return , it was neither to luor & yhhn nor to serve him ; and if I cannot assist in returning him now , it is because I am r « luctantly convinced that he has no object , but to make the wrongs of Ireland serve the purpose of bis personal ambition . Let + hc" friends of O'Conueiy if the prospect of place has not hardened them against all regard for public morals , or public decency , look only tothe tlection speeches in Dublin , and the address to the labourers of KUdare . Lee-them hear Mr . O'Connell , after all his speeches , so full of piety and morality , on the " & oul-destrcying guilt of perjury , " actually threaten a portion of the electors with the vengeance of the honest government if they did not vote for him . Let him , the pious , the religious , demand ing votisfer the bribe of employment , and commanding the voters dependent on the honest government to come

      up for this bribe , and swear falsely that they take no bribe . Let them see him . in the address to the labourers of Kilaare , painting his own character in the darkest colour of profligacy . Thus does Mr . O'Connell stand « elf-convicted of seeking power by the vilest of Tory artifices , bribery , intimidation , aud penury , and of exercising it in the worst of Tory corruption—the sale of seats aud © Sees . These sales are to be made to men , not whom ¦ the public suspects , but whom he himself denounces for -viliany ; and all this is to be unblushingly done by a man who soil calls himself a patriot , and who makes a public ostentation of his respect for morality and religion , as if to stamp all he does with the character of profane aud i | npious hypocrisy . Having Mr . O'Connell ' s real character thus written with his own hand , I look with opened cyesonthepast career , and I can understand as crime , what I ftdt at a loss to comprehend as folly .

      When I once see in O'ConneH a man who makes use of Iris country to serve his own ends , I can understand the past . I can now understand why he wore the silk gown at the persecuted Caroline , the wife of George IV ., and then grovelled at the feet of the meanest of kings , offering him crowns of laurel for his victory ( over his wife ) . I can now understand why the poor 48 s . freeholders were . first roused into resistance of their landlords , and then their lives and the lives of their wives and children were Bold in a base bargain with these landlords . I can now onderjtand why the landlords of Ireland have been for nine years starring these honest freeholders to death , and why Mr . O'Connell , who "would not shed one drop of Iranian blood , * ' holds a seat in Parliament , to protest against Poor Lawsfor their protection , lest it should

      confiscate the property of their savage tyrants . I can now understand why he procured a charter empowering these landlords to form tlie North American Colonial Association , for the purpose of luring the ejected tenantry to Canada , there to perish more helplessly and miserably than at home . I can now understand why , in the universal lore of bribery , O'Connell wished to see the Catholic j Jei ^ gy tied by a golden link—that is , by corrupt motives , to the crown . I can now understand why O'Connell , who would have us , at this moment , regard the Duke of Wellington as an incarnate fiend , should have , at one . time , joined to raise a monument to his honour ; and that too when the Duke was more a Tory and less a Whig than he now is . I can now understand why Leader and "Wyse were turned out of Parliament , for beingcouditional

      Eepealers—that is , for wishing to give the Whigs a trial ; and why , after the trial had been given , and the Whigs had been proved to be our basest enemies , Mr . O'Connell ehould turn round and insist on giving the Whigs a trial , no longer wanted , and become himself a conditional Kepealer . I can now understand why Messrs . French , "Fitzsimon , O'Connell ' s « ms-i « -law , after thrusting themselves into Parliament as " unconditional Kepealer * , " should first become conditional Repealers , and then , "before the pretended trial of justice for Ireland is brought 4 o a close , should quietly resign their seats to unconditional enemies of Hepeal , and quietly take oftice from them . Seeing ,-understanding these things , and twenty more of . the same kind , the difficulty irith me is , how any man of

      common sense and of honest intentions , can find , I will Hot say a reason , but a plausible excuse to his conscience & r-voting for O'Connell . At all events , these are my reasons for not voting for him ; and Mr . O'Connell's dt fnends"' would have doneas wisely not to have provoked astatement of them . The discussion can be of no importance' to me . It may be of great importance to C ^ Conneu . For without arrogance , I am entitled to say of him as was said by General Xapier , " When one honest jnah ' gives you up , other honest men will ask tchyl " ? There would be no place for me in the "liberal" press 4 er e .- May-rhopc for an opportunity of defencein the ' ¦ Chasfiioni ¦ I am , sir , & c , PAT 81 CK O'HlGGISS . TfuiSaiAug . 23 , 1837 ;

      5, Antrim-Place, Belfast January 4,1840....

      5 , Antrim-place , Belfast January 4 , 1840 . Sib , —Seeing , bv the Dublin papers , that yon are under prosecution for libelling the landlords , I take the liberty of ehclasing voff a pamphlet , stating the manner in which I was treated * by jny landlord , the late Marquis of » o « rnshire . I addre « e 4 it t » O'Connell , in hopes he would have noticed it in public , but in this I was grievously disappointed ! If it . should be useful to you to make my case public , I shall fef" happy ; ^ statements I have

      made I can verify bv affidavit , if neoesitry , butmy having distributed upwaris of two thousand copies of the l < ampMet in Belfast and « . e county of Down , without any notice having been tafeen by any of the persons Alluded to , is a convincing propf that they could not be controverted or denied . I have still a few copies on band . Hoping that jou will overcome all your enemies , and that the cause * of Chartism will oe Benefited «« Ireland through you , I remain , sir , your well-wisher and obedient servant , . Whawb Bemucx . « r , fatrick O'ffiiKiuB

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      O'HI-SGZNS' POF ; rBAlT » In reply tonuuie m » - -- ' '" cations from our agents , w < - ' nave no objection ^ expend the time for subscriptions to the 31 st January , while we must decidedly refuse allowinS any ^ subscribers taring the portrait , as we hwl £ 2000 worth of portrait * over after our last experiment . We have made the most perfect arrangements for furnishing the readers of the Star with the ablest aud most copious Parliamentary Summary that will appear in any weekly journal in the kingdom .

      The Northekn Star. Saturday. Jaxuab.Y 17.18ifi.

      THE NORTHEKN STAR . SATURDAY . JAXUAB . Y 17 . 18 ifi .

      The Struggle. It Is Fortunate For Those ...

      THE STRUGGLE . It is fortunate for those who have rights to contend for , that their rulers should sometimes be summoned to the defence of their own privileges , and awakened to a consideration of the title upon whieh tliey hold them , else would property ( however acquired ) , like monarchy , very speedily be based upon the principle of "right divine . " It is only when usurpers are sued upon their own titles that they vouchsafe a

      passinctjlancc at the respective claims of those who contcst * the property , and those who are entitled to the property ; and it not unfreqnently happens that a defendant , supporting his claim against an illfavoured plaintiff , is compelled to admit the superior title of a third party , whom accident alone has called into ennrfc . Hence we find the landlords , in their several pleadings against the claim of the freetraders , reluctantly constrained to admit the title of the lnbourer to a share of the spoil .

      There is nothing more dangerous to litigants than the unseasonable necessity imposed upon them of now and then producing their title deeds for professional revision . It not unfrequently happens that the disproval of the plaintiff ' s title may lead to proof of the existence of a better title than that set up by the defendant . If we apply this commos-place rule to the case of the landlords of England , we must , in justice , conclude that nothing could have been more impolitic than the admission and confession that the labouring classes were in any way interested in the

      ntruggle between landlords and cotton lords ; because , as a raaittcrof course . the newly-discovered claimants will very naturally ask whether their share consists in oratorical laudation , the honour of their forbearance being toasted and cheered by their gorged tyrants , the credit of bearing but twenty per cent , of the honour conferred upon a breeding sow , and to acquire even that distinction that they must have brought up their families without trouble to their employers , and without having trenched upon the pauper fund .

      They will ask if their title , as copartner with the steward-in-chicf , consists in being allowed to work as a charity , while the partner revels in unnatural " usury , without ever having toiled . They will ask why the idle partner lives in a princely mansion , made prematurely old by habitual lethargy and gormandizing , while the active coadjutor cannot break his fast unless he has toiled from sunrise . Man is bora with propensities which may be nourished into virtues or thwarted into vices , according to his training . Mildness , forbearance , and honesty will , we

      believe , correct , or altogether subdue , evil propensities , bad customs , and bad habits , and law is only necessary to curb or retrain the instincts of nature ; those instincts which are more or less implanted in everything created , from the maggot to man himself . Un ^ er the head "ascendancy" may be found the greatest evils arising from the unchecked exercise of natural instinct . Not only man , but animals , compete for ascendancy , and it requires the most rigorous laws of society to subdue its malignity , and to avert the dangers consequent upon its capricious

      . The landlords of England , long in possession of territorial dominion , have , as a class , so cherished the propensities , habits , manners , and customs in which they were born , nursed , reared and educated , that they now find it impossible , by any amalgamation of those evil attributes , to agree upon laws absolutely necessary to keep natural instincts within the limits of social convenience .

      If the Whigs could have succeeded in holding possession of political power , without admitting the rightful claim of an unenfranchised class as joint tenants in legislation , they would have gladly done so . If capitalists could hold silent dominion over passive and non-resisting labour , they would dole outapitifulexistenceofwagcsasthoostentatiousofferings of charity ; and if the landlords could defend their estates against the clamour of the League , without calling a superior title to their aid , tliey would cheerfully fight the battle without mentioning the

      claim of their serfs . Nay , so thoroughly acquainted are those in whose judgment they confide of those facts , that the savage proposition has been mooted of transferring the claim of the petulant pauper to the consolidated fund . It is not the first time that we have had occasion to comment upon this system of feasting the strong upon the Mcak . A system which , however , it may serve to prop an administration for a season , is sure , in the long run , to create a war of strife between the despoiler and the despoiled .

      Some men affect a coquetish ignerance ai to the real cause of that strife ^ Uichhas been so longraging between the rich oppressor and the poor oppressed . The fanaticallysatisfied would ascribe it to the evil genius of artful and designing men . The propounded of a crotchet policy would foist their own nostrums as its correction , whilst the powerful vainly hope to crush it by the exercise of tyrannical laws ; but when the wise man reflects upon the awful amount of sorrow , vexation , degradation , and plunder to which the poor have been subjected , his astonishment and only wonder will be , that vengeance has not long since had

      its revenge , and that the war has not terminated in the extermination of the wrong-doers . Plundered of their common land , stripped of their poor rights , their wages measured by the whim of griping capitalists , and by the capricious exercise of justice . made law , their homes made desolate , their wants mocked , their subserviency reviled , their submission laughed at , their tranquillity ridiculed , and their faces "round by the law ' s oppression , it is no wonder that they should amalgamate as outlaws , and fight their battle single-handed against their manifold oppressors , suspicious of all save themselves , and resolved to rely upon that only power which can right them .

      Such is the cause of war ; such are the elements that have created it ; and such are the implements with which the battle must now be fought . This new suggestion of quartering the poor upon their own taxes is strictly in conformity with the precedent established by the Whigs with regard to Ireland . The Catholic people of that country complained of the Tithe imposition , and the government , to whom the afflicted looked for redress , said , "We acknowledge your grievances and will redress them ; bat it shall be by a mere change of masters You shall no longer pay a hundred shillings unto Esau , whom you detest , but you shall pay £ 5 to Jacob , whose voice in your behalf will lie thereby

      smothered , and no longer heard ; and we will give unto Jacob twenty-five of the one hundred shillings that more righteously belonged to Esau , because then Jacob would cease to contend against his brother . " Now , as the Church and the State have recently stood'in the same relation as Esau and Jacob—Esau respresenting the Church , and Jacob the landlords , who are . the State ? The poor are to be sacrificed , lest Jacob should make an assault upon the dominion of Esau , who is still strong in the State . We trust , however , that when the voice of Jacob reaches the ear of the blind , that they will recognise it only as the precursor of the hairy hand of Esau which is to follow .

      In this straggle it is impossible for the most astute to give judgment until the several titles of the respective Jclabjiaiits ar pearly , distinctly , auti un- i

      Equivocally ^Rt Tue Tribunal,Of Judgment...

      equivocally ^ rt tue tribunal , of judgment . Wo lave canvassed them all minutely , and we distinctly aver that tho ten millions per annum of property usurped by the Church must revert to the whole people , whose patrimony it is , before taciv poov pittance can be diminished by the fraction of an at , om for the satisfaction of landlords or cotton , ' lords ; and if that's not sufficient , the lands which , belong to the poor must be restored to their kindly use , so that in due time they may enjoy the , fruits of their own

      industry , ncr thb roon must xor , cannot , ought xoi to stauve . Nay , ougnt not to . be satisfied with a mere lingering existence , while those who traffic in their toil live sumptuously in protected idleness . However unheeded our voice and our warnings may have been , wc once more caution the government , the landlords , the parsons , and the League against a repetition of this practice of feeding the DISSATISFIED POWERFUL upon the paltry pittance of the unprotected powerless .

      Had it not been for the acquiescence of the landlords in the plunder ef the poor by the Poor Law Amendment Act , and had the spirit of the 43 rd of Elizabeth been practically earned out , they would require neither eloquence nor newspaper support to protect the joint property of themselves and their labourers from the assaults of free trade . But with what colour of right , and under what feasible pretext , can those who have been foremost in the ranks

      of plunder , now invite the plundered to join in defence of the stolen property ? Were we not fearful of the interregnum between the first rumble and the final settlement of the question , and were wc not apprehensive that during that doubtful interval the most unprotected would be the greatest sufferers , we would cheerfully aid in the overthrow of a proud and pompous faction , whose justice is fear , whose mercy is caprice , and whose charity but springs from ostentation or a dread of the results of famine .

      Split In Tiie Cabinet. The Old Soldier A...

      SPLIT IN TIIE CABINET . The old soldier again!— "Welmkcton appears to ho the " RED CAT" of the Peel Cabinet , and having no doubt received significant hints of the withdrawal of the many proxies that 1 ms holds in hi * pocket in case of his acquiescence in any measure calculated to damage the agricultural interest , declared his intention of opposing and resisting an attempt to repeal

      the Corn Laws . Our poor friend the Times , whose activity increases as the time for the fulfilment of its prophecy approaches , must hear of those ministerial dissensions with befitting sorrow . Alas ' . what a day Thursday next will be for the Thunderer , and how dates will be jumbled , and how circumstances will coincide , and how WE , —that is , the Times , —will have been right after all , whatever Apollo should send from Delphos .

      America. No Tote, No Musket! The News Fr...

      AMERICA . NO TOTE , NO MUSKET ! The news from America—to make room for which we omit our summary of this day ' s news , as well as much important matter—will be read with nervous anxiety . We are not of the war party , because war is the trade of tyrants , the ruin of democracy , the blight of trade , and the changer of honest industry into lewd and licentious idleness . While such are , however , our own feelings , we cannot fail to cherish

      a preference for one of the belligerent parties ; and inasmuch as American Institutions represent our principles , and English Institutions do not , and because our maxiia is " measures , not men , " \ ie give the balance of preference to Republican America ^ Moreover , the territory which is likely to constitute the cause of war , more naturally , if not more legally , belongs to America ; but beyond this title we should be sorry to seethe pimple of a desolating " pox" generated upon a limb , or the smallest member belonging to the great Republican hody .

      Wherever class legislation has planted its unhallowed hoof , class distinction has been the invariable result—a distinction marked by idle superiority and industrious inferiority ; and if a cutting from this unhallowed Upas tree should he planted upon a portion of the Republican territory , four times as large as the kingdom of France , with the power and the will of British blood-traffickers to nourish it to its extremest desolating growth , it might , andmostpro . bably would , cany the monarchical contagion into

      the republican bosom . In our further observations upon this subject , wc shall rather deal with the question , as M . Guizor has placed it before the public , and upon whieh we hare already briefly commented ; and taking the speeches , the resolutions and votes of Congress—the comments of the American press , and the feelings expressed at public meetings , as unequivocal answers to M . Guizoi ' s threat , wc venture a hint to the Republic , the adoption of which may have the double effect of sparing bloodshed , and adding largely to the scanty population of that Republic : —

      Let us suppose , then , that France should land a hundred thousand , or any number , of soldiers in America , those soldiers will not consist of the weak or unhealthy ; and the French people being for the most part fond of the land , and inured to agriculture , would become excellent farmers . We have always looked to the press as a much more powerful engine than the bomhshell or the cannon , and very much prefer its use . The moment those Frenchmen land as enemies and usurpers , let them be converted into friends and settlers . Instead of being met by an antagonist force , let them he a » - sailcd with a welcome of the following description : -SOLDIERS OF FRANCE ! DO YOU COME TO SHOOT YOUR BROTHERS , YOUR

      FATHERS , OR YOUR FRIENDS , AT THE BIDDING OF A TYRANT ? WE HAVEjNO CAUSE OF QUARREL WITH YOU-OUR QUARREL IS WITH YOUR OPPRESSORS . BIDE , THEREFORE , AMONGST US ; FORTY ACRES OF GOOD ARABLE LAND , WITH A LOAN OF 100 DOLLARS , TO BE REPAID IN EASY INSTALMENTS , AS A TAX TO UPHOLD A GOVERNMENT THAT WILL PROTECT YOU , TOGETHER WITH YOUR NATURALIZATION AS SUBJECTS OF A FREE STATE , IN WHICH EVERY MAN IS REPRESENTED BY HIS OWN VOTE , SHALL BE YOUR LOT .

      The Morning Chronicle , the property of Sir John Easihope , a huge aud unprincipled money jobber , sings a peaceful note through , its cockloft American correspondent , lest tho anticipation of war should have an injurious effect upon tbe speculations of the proprietor . Every one of these private letters from America were written by some hired scribe in a garret in the office of the Chronicle at the bidding of the jobher , and therefore must be received as such .

      Upon the other hand , erery newspaper coming from America hreathes a warlike spirit ; while , as coming events cast their shadows before , General Cass , the leader of the war party , and the aspirant for presidental honours , is supposed to be actuated in his belligerent spirit by the notion that such course will best insure popular favour . We would , therefore , much prefer drawing our conclusions from this concentrated force of public opinion , than from the pliant hand of a pliant money scribbler .

      No doubt some of the merchants on 'Change were forewarned of American feeling , and hence , we find a dgwnward tendency in all money speculations . The propositions to build block-houses , augment the navy , and call ; out the militia of America , taken in connection with the signs to which he have before adverted , can leave but little doubt that a rumpus is at hand , whether Texas , Oregon , Cuba , or American hostility towards England should bo the immediate propelling

      cause . Our readers will recollect that many months ago , when tho money press of England attempted to convince us that the American people thcmeelves would he divided upon a question of war , that wc then stated that whatever the cause of quarrel may be , Americans would rally to the cry of " Revenge !" America speaks of raising a militia of 200 , 000 freemen , with homes to protect , institutions to defend , and a country to fight for . England proposes to raise a militia of 10 , 000 , as substitutes for tlie

      GALL 1 NT SOLDIERS who are to figlVt for monarchical interv cnti 0 n with Republic "institutions . We may sp'Uk freely of the mode of courting brotherhood Vith the French soldiery , b'ifc we know how rigorous the la « h in aU casus where an attempt istnad » to inspire OUR GALLANT DEFENDERS with true courage , patriotism ., 'morality , or Christianity . They are attributes before whose influence tyrants blush and usurpers tremble . Wo may , however , speak of ourselves ; and , again commending tho Americaa news to all who arc likely to be ballottcd as militiamen , we say , for ourselves , without interfering with their taste ,

      NO VOTE , NO MUSKET !

      Patrick O'Higgins, Esq. In Order To Leav...

      PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ . In order to leave nothing to doubt or surmise , and to establish the fact unequivocally , we think it a duty that we owe to ourselves , to our readers , to our Irish brethren , and to Mr . O'Higgixs to keep the whole case clearly and distinctly before the public . Nothing can be more manly , independent , and forbearing than the letter of Mr . O'Hiooins to the Gltampion , and from its perusal the feeling created in the English mind will bo that of astonishment that apeoplc so brave , so justice-loving , so patriotic , and shrewd as the Irish , should have been made so long subservient instruments in the hands of a mere

      juggler , to be used for the destruction of every honest , upvight , awl independent patriot who would not "Jump Jim Crow" at tho bidding of the great showman . Mr . O'HiaoiNs' besetting sin has been consistency ; not that dogged consistency which rejects truth and adheres to old and exploded error , but that consistency which holds fast to principles which gain strength by repetition , and become powerful by controversy . The appeal which Mr . O ' -IIiggins makes to the justice of the English people will not fail of a response , while we are sorry to announce that he sternly refuses all pecuniary aid from the . English Chartists , who , he says , will require al 1

      their own funds to maintain their glorious position in ths ftwpvmVmg steviggte . Let wit friends take heart , however , when we announce to them the glad tidings , that 0 'IIk . gins is not deserted even in Ireland , and that a number of patriots of all classes {" society have boldly come forward as Irishmen to claim the honour of sustaining him in his struggle against THE PRESS , THE INFORMER , AND THEIR SPIES . Is it not refreshing to every Irishman expatriated by treachery from his own country to learn that the nation lias not lost its character , and that patriotism has not yet been banished from the land of the brave by the

      treachery of approvers . Elsewhere Ave publish a letter to Mr . 0 ' Higgiss , which will show that from the persecution of the martyr will spring ten thousand patriots to avenge the martyr ' s suffering . It is ever so . Tyranny ever fails in the exercise of its lewd power , and the torture that it provides for others invariably recoils upon itself . Last night , at a powerful committee meeting—at a respectable committee meeting of the United Trades and Chartists of London—an address , to be presented to Mr . Duncombe on Wednesday next , was highly approved of , with the exception of ono passage , in which the nameof O'CoNNEHyWas mentioned , —not even with respect , but merely in connexion with Mr . Duxcombe ' s sympathy for aU who are oppressed by the

      law . There was a universal burst of manly indignation at the bare mention of the INFORMER'S a trae , immediately followed by a proposal that the health of Patmck O'Higgins , and thanks to him for his manly resistance to tyranny , should be placed upon the list of toasts . We wish the Liberator could have been present to have heard the judgment of the English people . But enough . When the time comes we will publish every sentence and every word of O'Higoixs' trial , if it take three S ; ars ; and we will try , as far as our poor a ilitics serve , to make amends for the treachery of the Irish press ; while the Liberator may rest assured that during his sojourn in England he will be made more familiar than ever with tho honoured name of Patrick

      O'Higgixs . Here follows the memorandum of the Liberator's spleen . Let it be preserved as a record of his treachery ;—[ From ( heFreeman's Journal , Nov . IS . ] The Liberator . — I next wish to call the attention of tho meeting to a document trausniittcl to me by post this morning . It is headed , " Tyrants turning tenants out . " It is a document exceedingly well printed . In it , the strongest possiMe argument is used to induce the tenants to murder their landlord * ( hear , hear ) . This hideous paper has been some time in Ireland . Soma persons have seen it distributed iu the northern parts of this country atBuldovle , especially to the labourers cmplovcd

      oh the railway . A copy of it came into the hands of Mr . Arkins , nho was able to trace it to tlie person that circulated it , that person being a stranger . The moment I saw it , I got Jlr . Arkins to go to the castle with it to tho commissioners of police , and he left it with them accordingly ; and , accordingly , they took not a single step with respect to it from that day to this ( cries of shame . ) Nothing can he worse . I will deposit this with Mr . Ray , and move , " That it be refeured to the stashing COMMITTEE , TO SEE IF WE CAN TRACE THE AUTHOR OUT , AS THE KILICE AND THE GOVERNMENT BEEM TO BE RATHER IDLE ON THE SUBJECT . '' I will not give it to the papers , as I don't like to give it further circulation . " The resolution wasput and carried .

      Again , on the 25 tli of Nov ., the Liberator , that is to fay , Daniel of Darrynane Beg , " wished to call tho attention of the meeting to the fact , that , on that day fortnight , lie had felt it to be his duty to denounce a certain infamous document , a handbill , headed ' tyrants turning tenants out . ' If proper inquiries had been instituted there could not be the slightest difficulty in finding out the guilty authors of this atrocious paper ; lie hoped that some true-hearted and intelligent man would lay hoid ** of the miscreants , and so become an honest and upuicht DETECTIVE , WHICH WOULD BE A CRE 4 T DESIDEKATUM . Last week , he handed a copy of it to the government reporter ; and the copy which ' remained , any one connected with the police might have . " Cottegcstrect Office , Monday , Nov . 21 .

      Mr , Quigly , one of the clerks of the Itepoal Association , came before the magistrates , and said , " The document which I hold was taken down from the door of Conciliation Hall this morning , by Mr . Thomas Hanlon , who is with me . Mr . Ray , chief secretary , took it to Mr , O'Connell , and he commanded me to bring it to this ofiice to see what course tU « magistrates would take . " Mr . Tyndall read the document . It was headed , "Landlords and Tenants . Tyrants turning tenants out . " Mr . Tyndall ; " I wish we could discover the author of it . If you have a wish to find out the author , it is the best way to send it to the superintendent of police . Take it to him to the Castle-yard , and say Mr . O'Connell sent it to him . "

      Mr . Quigly said , "Mr . O'Connell had a great wish to find out the author , " and then withdrew . —Freeman ' s Journal , Nor . 25 . After having read the foregoing , is it not evident that Daniel O'Connell is the informer ? And this is the hypocrite who affects great sympathy for his poor suffering countrymen , while , at the same time , he hounds on the bl oodhounds of the law against any one who attempts to render the poor fellows assistance . How long , 0 Lord ! will poor Ireland be doomed to plunder and delusion ?

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      ti & kin ot tneir accounts TO AGENTS . The papers of several of our agents have been stopped

      ns wc , conscquemo not being paid . The readers will know to whom blame is to attach . Others write that they give large credit for the Star , and ask for indulgence . We don ' t believe them , and we cannot and will not extend further indulgence , unless our paper makers will receive their 1 0 U ' s as cash , then we'll take as many as they please .

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      PATRICK O'HIGGINS . If we were to insert the several letters that have come to us relative to the treatment of Mr . O'Higgins , we shoulil wore than fill the Star . Suffice it to say , all bring consolation and expressions of confidence ; some bring money , which will be returned ; and not one that does not breathe a spirit of frightful hostility against the Wl'OUJifift , One Irishman writes thus from Manchester : " Good God ! Feargus , how I used to hate you , for denouncing O'Connell ; but I love you new . Oh . ' murder , that ever my bard- » . iviied pence should have gone to support an APPltOViJR '"

      All Replies To Mr. O'Connoi "S Correspon...

      All replies to Mr . O'Connoi " s correspondents have been displaced to make room for the American news of . Friday morning . Petitions . —The llouse of Commons will not receive printed petitions , nur will Ministers receive printtd memorials ; nil muit be written .

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      Tue Exj ' uE Ellis . — Important ComtUNicArioN . — We We received the following letter : —Please excuse rae troubling you with this letter , but having read in jour glorious «« r of December 37 th , that a petition was adopted at a public meeting held in Rochdale , praying for the pardon of "John Frost , / ephaniali Williams , John Jones . and William Ellis . / orparticipatiiv ; in an outbreak at Newport , " I am induced to remind our Rochdale aud other friends , that William Ellis " did not participate in on oii'brenfc cit . Newport , " but that William Ellis was convicted , before Lord Chief Justice Tindall , Mr . Baron Parke , and Mr . Baron Rolfe , at a special commission , held at Stafford , October 3 rd , 1 S 42 , "for , on the night of the 15 th of August , 184 ' - ' , selling fire to and burning , and demolishing , the house of the

      Kev . J . E . Aitkius , of Hanley , " in the Staffordshire Potteries , and of which said crime I am as convinced that William Ellis is innocent as that I am writing this letter . I will here state two facts , out of many , that ought to satisfy any reasonable man of his innocence . First , the only evidence that in any way connected Ellis ' with the fire , was that of a man of the name of Goodwin , who swore that he " saw him at the fire , that his face was blackened ; yet he would not swear whether Ellis had a cap or a hat on , as he had only a side view of his face . " Secondly ; since the trial the follow-in ? circumstances have come to light , which , if known sooner , would have completely destroyed Goodwin ' s damnable we , and caused a triump hant acquittal of KIBs : —A gentlemen of the name of Woolnch , a master joiner and carpenter , who resided in Burslem , near t » Ellisand was on duty on the night of tlie 28 th of

      , August , 1842 , as a special-constable at Burslem , says that he saw " W . EIlis . thnthewas smoking his pipe . that he stood talking with hira for twenty minutes , " at the time that Goodwin swore he saw him at the fire ! Mr . Woolricli told me the above himself , and that he had known Ellis sixteen years , he took me to the spot , where k « stood talking with him , and which I declare to be two miles from where tho fire took place . I hope I have stated sufficient to spur all on in the goqd work of asking for a pardon for Ellis , but should any friend or friends require more information respectinghiscase , by writing to me as below I will cheerfully give it . Hoping you will give this an early insertion in the . Star , and begging pardon for taking up so much of your valuable space , I am , dear sir , yours truly , G , 1 ) . Mart . Boothcn Villa , Stoke-upon-Trent , Potteries , Staffordshire , Jannary 12 th , 1840 .

      Veteran Patriots' and Exiles' Widows' and Children's Funds . —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums from Dewsbury : —T . S . Brooke , for the Veteran Patriots' Fund , 10 s ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , 10 s . ; James Fox , for the Veteran Patriots' Fund , Is . 3 d . ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , Is . 3 d . Also , of 20 s . from W . Weir , Hamilton , being " the proceeds of a rafile got up by the members of tho National Charter Association ( of Hamilton ) , for the relief of the veteran patriots and exiles' widows and children . " Aud I beg , also , to thank the writers of these two letters for the clearness and distinctness of their directions as to the application of the monies . —Thomas Cooper , Sec , 134 , Blackfriarg-road .

      David Wilson . —The lines are inadmissable . Will the Chartists ' of Birmingham favourthcChartists of Bolton with the full particulars of John Roberts ' ease ? The Bolton Chartists have agreed at a publie meeting to send a memorial to her Majesty for a commutation of his sentence , and want full particulars . Direct for Mr . Vf . Pickvance , 18 , Duncan-street , Bolton . Nottingham . —All persons having any Chartis * Convention money in their hands , are respectfully requested to forward the same without delay to Mr . James Sweet , news agent , as the accounts must be immediatelyclosed . Petitions for tiic restoration of " Frost , Williams , and Jones , " also for " William Ellis , " lay at all the news houses for signature . Haste and sign t No time must be lost !! T he petition will close on Monday

      next , the tilth instant , at four o ' clock . The Dixon Fund . —AU parties having boohs or monies in hand for tho Dixon Fund , arc requested to forward the same immediately , Mr . Dixon has taken a house in order to commence business . Address , Thomas Whittakcr , Treasurer , CS , Devonshire-street , Hulme . Thos . M . Wheeler informs the friends at Brighton , referred to by Mr . Cooper in last week's Star , thathe was absent from London when the money arrived , but that immediately upon its receipt he informed Mr . Cooper , through the medium of Mr . StaUwood , that he could have tlie money any time he was passing Mr . Wheeler ' s residence ou his road to the publisher ' s . Mr . Wheeler resides nt a distance of nearly three miles from Mr . Cooper , and is put to considerable trouble and

      expense in sending to that gentleman ; he therefore hopes that parties having money to send to any funds for which that gentleman is treasurer will send it direct to his residence , 143 , Blackfriar's-road . Frost , Williams , and Jones . —In consequence of the numerous applications for instructions how to proceed in getting up petitions for the restoration of those injured men , I beg to state that a large sheet of common writing pnpsr will do to write the petition on , and that suitable copies of petitions are to be found in the Star of November 22 nd , 1 S 45 , the first ( for Frost , « fcc . ) written by Mr . T . M . Wheeler , the second ( for EHi . «) written by Mr . T . Cooper , and that ruled sheets for signatures aro to he obtained , at a small charge , of Mr . John Cleave , 1 , Shoe-lane . — Edmund Stallwood , Distressing Case . —We learn , with feelings of deep regret , that a gentleman distinguished in the ranks of social reform for tho untiring earnestness and cool

      discriminating judgment of his advocacy of all plans for elevating the condition of humanity , is now labouring under a sickness as dangerous as distressing , from the debility of body and bitter pangs of straitened means . Mr . Ityall is now in that condition , where the sympathy of democrats , in personal visits and pecuniary aid , becomes a duty which we doubt not will be generously given by many of our reader * who are acquainted with the sterling patriotism of Mr . Ityall . A few of the more immediate friends of Mr . Kyail are actively engaged in endeavouring to minister to the immediate and pressing emergencies of the case ; and Mr . Hethcringtoii , publisher , 40 , Holywcll-strect , Strand ; Mr . " * fatson , publisher , 5 , PauVs-alley , Paternosterrow ; with Messrs ^ Lea , Dent , and Ivory , at their respective residences , will gladly receive any expression of sympathy , or furnish any information required . We wish them all the success so well merited , and hope for a speedy restoration of Mr . Ityall ' s health . Wm . Bell . —The Executive ' s " Address , " and tin notice from Mr . Stallwood , will answer his wishes .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-0?Eratiye La...

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-0 ? ERATIYE LAUD SOCIETI * . SUARES , PER MR . O ' CONNOR . £ s . d , Warwick , per J . A . Donaldson .. .. .. ' J H n John Built , Birmingham .. .. ., .. VI ( j W'igton , per T . Bell 4 9 0 Mountain , Queen ' s Head , near Halifax , per John Bates .. .. .. .. .. ., 7 15 ( i George Mills , per K . Burkett .. .. .. 5 - fi Halifax , per C . W . Smith 4 4 9 Carringtou , per — Lee .. .. .. * .. 10 i !

      Oldham , per W . Hamer ,. .. .. .. ' i o 0 Witham , per C . Fish ,. .. .. .. r > 4 S John Smart , Bromhain .. .. .. .. 0 10 0 Upton-upuii-Severn , per X ? . Brown .. ,, 0 11 10 Bristol , per 11 . II . Williams .. .. .. 421 Alexandria , per J . M '* ulire .. .. .. 4 16 4 Kidderminster , per G . Holloway „ .. _ 0 u Septon , per L . Lodge 2 10 0 Campsio , per W . Walker 18 6 Carlisle , per J . Gilbcrtson 0 0 0 Leicester , per G . Xoon ., .. .. .. 2 0 0 Glasgow , per J . Smith .. .. .. „ 10 u 2 Per Mr . Torditf , Waterloo , l ' udsey , near

      -Bradford 13 10 0 Bradford , per J . AUlersoa .. .. ., « i « « Hamilton , per W . Weir 1 1 . 0 Rochdale , per K . Mitchell 10 0 u Ashton-under-Lyne .. ., „ .. 2 8 2 Salfwd ., .. .. „ „ „ 2 0 t Baeup 5 0 0 Manchester , per J . Murray .. ., ,. - . 'n 0 0 Xote . —The sum acknowledged from Boulogne on the 3 rd of January should have been £ i 17 s ., not £ 3 17 s .

      SHAKES . PER GENERAL BECRETART . £ -. & . £ S . d . Birkenhead .. .. 200 Hachelltowall .. 0 u <; John Ponieroy .. 014 Solby 2 0 0 Independent Cord- -Bunilcv .. .. 900 wainers .. .. I ) 18 8 Todmordeu .. .. 010 Cambunvcll .. .. 2 0 0 J . Cleave .. .. 038 Westminster .. 8 15 0 S . Aukvrmau .. 0 1 -l Mr . Kendall .. 004 Boulogne \ . .. •» 4 « George Fox .. .. 2 12 2 Truro .. \ . .. 0 S 0 Warrington .. .. 2 IS 0 Mr . Griffiths , New M . N 0 10 Town .. .. 4 4 ( I CARDS AND RULES . Norwich ^ .. 0 0 (! LEVI FOR THE LAND CONFERENCE . PER MR . O ' C O NNOR . Bristol , per R . H . Williams ,. ., .. 0 0 s

      PER GENERAL SECRETARY . Per Secretary .. 0 1 ;¦! Cainberwell .. .. 0 1 0 Sunderland .. .. 0 I 0 U Jf . B . Iu those cases where , from the number of the shareholders being limited , it would be expensive to send tho Directory Fund of one hali ' petmv per month per share in a separate order , it is recommended that it should be sent direct to me in postage stamps . Individuals belonirmir to my class , will remit their amount in a similar milliner .

      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . EXECUTIVE , PER MB . O ' CONNOR . Mountain , Queen's Head , near Halifiwc , per J Bates 0 ,., n Oldham , per W . Hamer t > ^ u c Rochdale , per C . Shaw \ !! 1 y 9 Campsie , per W . WalUer „ ' * " n j ( , fl Birkenhead , per T . Cujiin „ „ " 0 10 0 Boulogne , par I ) . IU-id " 1 0 0 Hey wood , per J . Miller .. .. „ \\ 0 i 0 Mr . T . Brook , Dewshury .. ., , ' " ] p jq jj PER GENERAL SECRETARY . Mr . Pcarcey , Ro- Marylebime ( cards ) 0 1 R tueriilthe .. .. 010 Trowbridge ! . 0 I „ Westminster .. 0 1 » Tower Hamlets Oldham , T . Kershaw 0 0 0 Mr . Godwin o 1 n DitiM . Tweedale 0 1 o -. 010

      victim fund . Mr . Wells , Tower Hamlets .. fl 0 , EuRATA . -In last week ' s f tor the sum of 3 s . fid w-ik hxiles I uud , instead of Bid ., aud the words " vetei-ui patriots" in the bonding should al , o ! ,.,, •« IhJcWuS " Thomas Martin n * HEELt « , Secretary .

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      Monday. Free Trade.—Tho Protectionists A...

      MONDAY . Free Trade . —Tho protectionists and anti-monopolists are marshalling their forces for the grand' " "fit which commences on Thursday next , while the Times is directing its thunder at tiic camp of General Iticlimond , the Commander-in-Chief of the Protectionists . The drilling that the squeezahle county members are receiving at the hands of their respective constituencies is an awful warning to the Whig p « arty , who vainly hoped to purge tlie House of Commons of aristocratic influence by the Reform Bill . Mr . E . Yorke , brother to the Earl of ilardwickc , and his nominee for Cambridgeshire , has had the least taste in life of agricultural decency ; for , notwithstanding the commanding influence o ? the noble lord , he has been hooted , groaned , and hissed for his support of feel ' s tariff , and his refusal to pledge himself againat , further agricultural inroads . Now we beg our readers

      to bear in mind , that in April , 1842 , when Sir Hubert Peel proposed his tariff , that we proclaimed the fact that the farmers would not open their eyes to h ' effect till 1840 , and that they would not feel the effect disastrously until the autumn of that year . We also stated , that , when it was felt , both landlords and tenants would become levellers , and give to Chartism the character of insignificant mildness—in proof of which , wc may observe that the Tlirec-anil-a-fhilf per Cents , have had a taste of their quality , a feeler has been thrown out as to how relief from poor-rates would square with their book , and reconcile them to free trade . The county cess is in the margin of sundries , whilst the most vigorous of tiie Protectionists demand a sweeping tithe reduction , if not a total abolition , of the impost . Won ' t the Chartists be angels as soon as the mild landlords have received the last bite of their MAD DOG !

      Tjie Cor . v Iiudk . —By St . Paul the sliding scale goes bravely on ; wheat and all are slithering down , notwithstanding the latest statistical revelations of the Times' foreign arithmeticians , that there is no wheat anywhere to be had for love or money , even if the ports were opened . It is the funniest thing in the world to read the philanthvopic speeches of Protectionists and anti-monopolists , the one hugging the agricultural labourer to death , and the other squeezing the very puddings out of his operative client , to prepare him for an eternal gorge of cheap bread . However , both are beginning to believe at last that cheap and dear are relative terms , and that the man is as badly off when the loaf is but twopence as when it was a shilling , if he hasn't the twopence to buy it . Money Market . — Notwithstanding that the

      Government Commissioner for the reduction of the National Debt OPERATES , as tho fancy term it , to the amount of £ 150 , 000 a-week , depriving the market of so much of its spoil , yet the Oregon , the four millions extra for the French navy , the demand of a constitution by the people of Prussia , the state of Ireland , the calling out of the Militia , the deposit of the countless millions for railway operations , the impossibility of customers to pay their tradesmen ' s Christmas bills , and the certainty that the lawyers will have their'full whack out of the millions when they are paid , all these little circumstances multiplied produce a conviction of the great fact , that we arc near SOMETHING , if not the END ; and hence we find all the newest devices of the jugglers failing to keep up prices . Consols are ^ going down , shares are a dru ? , and Exchequer Bills alone denote the folly of individual confidence in the Prime Minister .

      Trade . —Every available penny that can be scraped together by way of loan , discount , or sale of railway shares , is being applied to manufacturing speculation in expectation of the roaring trade to be derived from free trade . DON'T THEY WISH THEY MAY

      GET IT . Court Circular . —The Queen has been busily engaged in rehearsing her speech for the opening if Parliament during the last week , and we learn with pleasure , that Prince Albert , all the royal nurses , and the dear babes in the nursery , who constitute tlie Royal audience , have expressed their unqualified ar . probation of the continued assurances of peace from all FRIENDLY powers , aud especially with the confidence with which the vote for the necessary SUPPLIES for the year is anticipated .

      Reform . —The Duke of Newcastle , whose right to do what he likes with his political slaves of the aristocratic class , we neither question nor object to , lias given the Right Honourable Mr . Gladstone his walking paper for Newark , no doubt for having re-joined the Peel Administration upon the principle of live trade-that is , SUCH FREE TRADE as Sir Robert Peel will condescend to soothe the anti-monopolists with . The " Times" axd the Prime Minister . —If there were any two horrors that more than any other flaunted our great contemporary , they were " those of

      Leaguism and Ministerial reserve . The League were traitors , and Peel was a tyrant for withholding all knowledge of his measures from his party , " Tempora mutantur "—the times change , says tfie Latin proverb , " et nos mntamur in if / is , " and we change with them , says the Times' proverb ; and hence wo now find Leaguism to be philanthropy , benevolence , beneficence , humanity , Christianity , charity , and godliness itielf , while the luostappjauded feature in the Premier's multifarious character is UIS SECRECY ; an Irishman would exclaim . " Ogu ! wisha thunder and b—y wars ; is ' iit it a quair world we live in . "

      IRELAND . Effects op Class Legislation , —The reader has observed how many changes a single death of a church dignitary , an army dignitary , or a navy dignitary may involve , but we doub t that he has ever seen the almost endless changes that the dismissal of a ministerial dignitary may entail . We'll try to give Mm a list . The Duke of Newcastle , the proprietor of the houses of the Borough of Newark , aud consequently the owner and disposer of the votes , has dismissed M >\ Gladstone from the representation of his slaves . The convocation of the collective wisdom is at hand , and Mr . Gladstone being Minister for the Colonies , his black and white clients will , of course , expect their advocate to be at his post ,

      and , therefore , it is necessary to provide against such a contingency as a general elcctiov which . might entail the loss of the Prime Minister ' s right baud . Mrs . Lawreuce , proprietor of the slaves of Ripon , has died and has left the inheritance in her slaves to Earl de Grey . Mr . Alphabet Smith , the Irish Attorney-General , is the executov to Mrs . Lawrence ' s will as far as the slaves are concerned , that is , lie represents Ripon , and Ripon is the surest refuge for Gladstone , therefore , Chief Justice Fennefather resigns the Chief Justiceship , of the Queen ' s Bench , Mr . BJackburn resigns the mastership of the Rolls , Smith succeeds him , Greene succeeds Smith , Brewster Warren , or Henn , or some other cock , ' succeeds Greene , Corballas or Martiey or some one

      else succeeds Brewster , some one else succeeds the fortunate fellow , and so go ou the changes consequent upon Smith ' s resignation of the Borough of Ripon , but then commences the patronage to be bestowed upon Earl de Grey for the adoption of Gladstone . This sort of promotion reminds us very fercib ' v of a trial at which we were once present before some Dublin Magistrates . A party of wags resolved anon having a lark after the theatre , and repaired to a celebrated chop house , in Oapel-street—they were not there very long when the fumes from the ckavtku-r reminded each of his peculiar grievance , and that ono of his companions was the peculiar cause ot it . A row , of course , ensued , and all being implicated except the waiter , he was called upon to statu tha facts , and having a horror , as all the Irish have , or rather used to have , of being ax informer

      and with a sense of his master ' s interest , and a keener sense of his own honour when questioned as to thecause oftherow . andpushcdastowhowasihcaggressor he swore that he heard nothing till he saw Grady kicking Mills , Donovan kicking Grady , Rouke kickin " Donavan , Moore kicking llooke , Shaughncssty kicking Moore , Flagherty kicking Shaughnessev , aud that he , the-waitcr kicked Flagherty until they were all finally kicked out into the street , whereupon the magistrate observed " Why , then itapnears that you are the aggressor after all . " " Why , thin to be sure latu" was the reply . "Then we fine you a pound , " says the magistrate . ' Thank you , your honour , it is onlv three shillings a piece for tho gentlemen , and thev'll pay it with all the veins in their hearts , won't you " ver honours ? " "Aye , Mic , ten times as much , for bv Jakg you are an honest fellow . "

      Molly Maouireism—Wc give the following specimen ot the kindly disposition of Mia . MaWire ' s children when they are treated with even common decency : — " One Good Tubs Vebuives Ajtother "— We learn that Cptain Atkinson , the celebrated sportsman , who some years ago resided at Clauhugli , in this nuVhbourhood and aftetwMut at the Cottage , Uathowen , was sur . rounded by a large party of the Molly Maguires , whilst shooting ou a bog m the neighbourhood of Carriok-on-Shannon last week , aud ordered to dvliver up his fowliiu ? - piece ; tins he refused to do , and drew a pistol from his breast to fire at the fellows ; it missed tire , and the Mollies immediately wrested both the gun aud pistol from him , and would in all probability have given him something not very agreeable in return had not a resident on the bog I'oinc to the rescue with a short gun , and swore he would

      shoot some of the party if the arms were not restored tilling them at the same time of the generosity of ihe captain towards him and his wife . The gallant captain aud true sportsman ' ; it appeared , was on the bog a wCek previously , and « convenient" to the lint of this poor man ( whose wife was in her confinement nt the time ) ne requested that the captain would not fire •« convenient" to the house , explaining tlie delicate state of his wife Cap . tarn Atkinson instantl y retired to a distant rart of the bog , and alter returning honut from his day's cport , despatched a messenger to the hut with manv comforts that the poor family were strangers to , and called a few daj » alter to inquire after the patient . On hearing of his generous kindness to the poor man , tho Mollies instantly returned the arms to Captain Atkinson , and cheered him lustily , promising to protect the game for him , and that

      no person would be allowed to shoot there but himself . The Mollies then straight betook themselves away , wishing him long life , and cheering him us they went along . — M ' MhiiftifA ( fttunfiii / i ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17011846/page/4/