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      To The Chartists. Rbk?J __The Devil Hss ...

      TO THE CHARTISTS . RBK ? j __ The devil hsS show n his cloven * -and as it is necessary that you should be foo possession , not only of what occurs in K House of Commons , but how it occurs—as - - «; - much in manner—it is my dutv to detn ? r , e ° to vou the proceedings of Tuesday vht and from their p lain recital you will D e to the conclusion that I was ri ght in the C ° ? o « tp that I formed of the zeal and iuteu-SS the FOUR POINT HUMBUGS . Trom Mr Cobden ' s speedh you would infer that Mr Hume acted with judgment and disrelion ia postponing his motion , not at a niarter past eleven o ' clock , as lie states , but at eleven o ' clock precisely . Yisily . —l will analyse his discretion upon this point , *&&

      SfCQsriTs . — -1 ^ iH prove that the whole thins was a dodge , as the motion was given up . " and so entered upon the paper at the r 5 or . at twenty-five minutes past nine o ' clock . ' psstlu . —As regards the hour b y which \ 5 r Cobden would measure Mr Hume ' s discretion . At that hour there wag a fuller house than one u sually sees , and there was all but a « na-Yim ous desire that Mr Hume should proceed It is customary to bring on important questions at any hour when the house is prepared to listen ; and as we did sit till tweaty minutes

      to two o ' clock , it is not a stretch of imagination to presume that , upon so important a question at so critical a period , the house would have listened attentively till three o ' clock , thus ? jlo « in £ four speakers—two for , and two a ° nin st , the motion—an hour each , and then the deb ate mig ht have been adjourned , which would have afforded an opportunity of resuming the debate next week , instead of making it a dropped motion , and making it necessary to postpone it till the 20 th of June . This course would have brought out two of the advocates and two of the opponents of the measure , and would have relieved the coantrr at once of all

      doubt as to the sincerity of their friends , and the grounds upon which their enemies rested their opposition . Now this , I contend , would have been the manly—the dignified — the straightforward course , had the propounders of the measure been sincere in their project . Moreover , to the honour of the Irish Members be it spoke * , many had come over purposely with the view of taking part in the debate , and supporting the motion , while all the Liberal Irish Members were , as thev stated to

      me , prepared to remain all nig ht if necessary , to aid the English people in obtaining this instalment ; and I assure you , Chartists , that I gained great courage from the feelings that I heard expressed by the Irish Members , and many English Members , in favour of the whole animal . So much for the prudence of bringing on the question and adjourning the debate to next week , in preference to postponing it for a mortal moith—to the 20 th of June . And bow for the proof of the intention of the party not to brinsr it on at all .

      At twenty-five minutes past nine a Member came into the House and said to me , and others , " So , Hume ' s motion is postponed ! ' ' "We were incredulous ; but he assured us that it was entered in the paper , in the entrance to the House—the usual mode of giving such

      notices . Now , I have taken the time at which we heard the news as the time at which it was entered upon the paper , but very probabl y it had been entered there long before , and this I shrewdl y suspect , from the fact of Mr Hume being in consultation with Ministers and Peelites , at different times , before that hour . Chartists , again mark the fact , that , had it not hpen for Milner Gibson provoking a reply from Lord George Bentinck , upon an unopposed motion , Mr Hume ' s motion might Lave come on at ten o '

      clock-Nmr I have answered Cobden ' s compliment to Hume ' s discretion , and I have also shown that it was not Hume ' s intention to bring en the motion at all at twenty-five minutes past nine , as the meaning of entering his intention upon the paper is to give notice to the supporter of a motion that they need not remain in attendance . And now a word as to Cobden . In a very short speech he told two thumpers .

      Firstly , in order to prove the discount at which , mv principles stood in the House of Common ' s , he said I stated in the Convention that in mv absence there was only one man to support niv princip les in the House ; whereas , what I did state was , "That when 1 was abused in my absence Lord Castlereagh was the oniv man who protested against the abuse of an ; : WntMember ; and surely Lord Castlereaah is not an advocate of my principles . ' ' That ' s thumper the first—and a palpable thumper—made for the purpose of casting disrespect upon the Chartist cause .

      Thumper the second . He said , although he retracted it—and I have a better ear than the gods in the gallery—that he met me in nearly every market / town in England upon the q ' ue-tion of Free Trade , whereas , I only met him at Northampton and MALTA , and at one of those places I beat him , and at the ether he beat himself . But he tried to ? hove it "if . bv saying it was my followers he met : so that / though they are the contemptible few . they worried him in every market town in England .

      He *;>! . ! , I had been lavish in my praise of him . v . jjile every man who reads the Star will remember the extent to which that praise went . What I said was , that when I met Cobden at Northampton , I discovered signs of fcind-De ; s . p hilanthropy , and humanity in his countenance . •! :

      It is tiue that I said I should rather see Cobden the leader of this MIDDLE-CLASS QUADRUPED than Hume . But why was it : Because , as 1 have frequently stated , Hume was one of the seven crutches always at the command of rotten Whiggery , from the year 1 V-53 to the year I 84 i . He and six others were eternally courting popularity , by demanding an extension of popular rights , but when the Government that opposed them was in danger , these seven crutches were always at their command . So much for my praise of Cohde / j . And rwv . after the manner of Plutarch , 1 will nive mv opinion of him by

      compun-on v . ith Bri-ht , whom 1 was in the habit of abu .-i ! . ^ . Until 1 saw the two gentlemen in tbo cork ; . it I could not form a just estimate of tneir relative powers—report , which is a fickle . Me , {> a \ e Cobden the pre-eminence , as an orator and a debater . I have now , however , had six months * experience , and , regardless of the c onsequences of praising a Free Trader , I now dtmre , that , as an orator and a deb ater , (' -. ' mien is to Brig ht as a horse chestnut -sto a tin-tout horse . Apo ! ., . . ; - ' : „•_ , . t \ ieTi i t 0 t j , Honourable Member for t ' . e WVst Riding , for having praised ; s nob' ir . it-n ; m , l l , 'd exterior . I assure ;; i

      ^ m 1 ., n . it ajryis commit the blunder of < = ttem ; , t : > . u to judge the inner man bv his HiGwbo ; ,:-. ! . ^ Cfiarti-T- . I told you that you would be jug-^ - I ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ itll you that you are juggled . I Vill tel ! y ,, !; t ! .:, t thev neve ' r intended to bring ? i " '< fiiMiM ) , but merel y intended to use * 7 Ii -=----. ii was used in Ireland—as a bug-£ *> o < u . ; : hten the Government into a reacti on .: ' !; , v tJon , and which would not id " - '" ' < >•• fa-thing benefit upon you .

      , vfiar ; i . > v - ., ™ ,, * ! . „ .,... + liaV I hart ni . t viiarji . ' v . vou mUst knmv that I had not l -e ruth : • : " replying to the Free Trader , ^ nenvi :. ? . j p-l 0 mise vou , 1 would have made £ m hul . . ju ^ ,.. ]> ; noWj mark—this fellow ^• s oeen ti . o greatest enemy the Chartists have perWi . ; ., i , - j wnen ; J t fresli opportunity s aficrde , ! . h . ^ comes out under his old colours . » nere i- ; h * question you must put to your-

      To The Chartists. Rbk?J __The Devil Hss ...

      selves ; If an undefined thing—FREE TRADE —is worth SEVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS , what would it be worth to throw all the taxes on other shoulders , and to reduce wages upon the pretest of cheap food ? Chartists , for fifteen years I have heen telling you that a paid patriot is nothingmore nor less than a shopkeeper with wares to sell ; and I now tell you , as I told you in the outset , that if Labour ' s work is to be done / it must be done by the labourers , and not by those who fatten upon their toil .

      As well ma j the lamb with the tiger unite , The mouse with the cat , or the lark with the kite . " Chartists , the Free Trade leader , whom you beat for seven years , has called you MYRMIDONS , and says that you are but a rabble section of the labouring class .

      " UP , THEN , CHARTISTS , AND AT THEM !" I teld you , in the commencement of the Free Trade agitation , that your apathy alone could p lace Free Trade in the ascendant . Their object was to show that Chartism merged into Free Trade , and that that boon should be conceded to the popular will ; and now you will find that Cobden has shown the cloven-foot too soon , and that their object is to use popular enthusiasm , and even fury , for the sinister purpose of prevailing upon the House of Commons to arrest that enthusiasm and fury b y granting all that is really required by the industrious and well-disposed portion of the workinsr classes—a reduction of taxation ,

      Chartists , if we were in doubt before , the veil is now drawn . Go to every meeting ; insult no man , put down no man , hear every man ; and , as public meetings are called for the purpose of testing public opinion , if you prefer the SEXIPEDE , or six-legged animal that you know , to the quadruped that is spavined , ringboned , clapped in the back sinews , and foundered—start your animal in every race , and , my life on it , he will win .

      "Well , but , as of yore , they are beginning to call ticket meetings , as a means of testing public opinion—that is , they are empannelling their own jury to try their own case . Well , as the Free Trader confessed that my MYRMI DONS worried him for seven years , the policy that annoys the enemy must be good , and he is a bad tactician who plays the game of his opponent . Therefore , as they have again resorted to this packed mode of testing public opinion , let me see if I can discover a remedy .

      Whenever a ticket meeting takes place , an out-door meeting should be held in the immediate neighbourhood—in fact , as near as possible to the jury box , and it should be held contemporaneously . Now , believe me , that the broken shopkeepers and the small manufacturers , who have been ruined , or are being ruined , will go with you ; but then , at your meetings , you must get speakers who thoroughly understand the Labour Question , and who will he able to show that Labour would

      derive no possible advantage from the reduction of taxation , unless represented in the House of Commons—and , above and before all , keep this great fact in mind , that the object of the new movers is to p lace their bubble in the ascendant , and to per suade the world that Chartism is dead—and hence Cobden ' s attempt to make a split between perfumed and unalloved Chartism . Chartists , in 1842 , at the Sturge Conference ,

      we refused to give up even the name ; and now that every country in Europe is adopting every point of the Charter , and when the Labour Question is the one question that puzzles every statesman in Europe , and when you , the English working classes , are better instructed in that question than any other people in the world , are you , whose princip les can be most beneficially applied for the general good of society , prepared to accept the shadow , and , like the dog , lose the substance ?

      Now mind the four legs of the quadruped : Off fore leg—H-O-U-S E , a thing to live in—H-O-U-S-E . a thing to vote out of . Near fore leg—Triennial Parliaments . Now , from the year 1833 to the year 1847 , both inclusive , is fifteen years , and within that period we have had five parliaments—that is exactl y Triennial Parliaments ; but I may be told that in these cases the death was sudden , and left no chance for a deathbed repentance . To this I answer , " Humbug ! " But what is still more curious , from the year 1833 to the year 1841 , nine years , both inclusive , we had four parlia ments — nearly biennial parliaments — and judge of the men from their measures .

      Off hind leg—The Ballot . The ladle without the soup . The mask for the hypocrite . Near hind leg—Not Equal Electoral Districts , but adding to the constituencies of large towns disfranchisingsmali boroughs , and g iving a larger number of representatives to th great manufacturing towns ; and I should Iik to see how many would vote for the friend of labour against the friend of capital at those masquerades . Now , Chartists , how do you think this limping , halting , called jade , would carry industry upon its back ? I'll tell you—you ' d be the crupper to the Free Trade saddle , and when the animal cocked his tail , you'd have vour share of the loaf .

      Veril y , those Free Traders imagine that they are going to fri ghten me with the dread of being left alone in my glory : but I would much rather sit firmly upon the six-legged ^ animal , amid their scoffs and jeers , than receive their cheers and applause upon the baulking jade that would not even start , but turned tail when the word , "AWAY" was g iven . Chartists , as I don ' t wish to be considered ferocious , at foot I g ive you my speech and Mr Cobden ' s ; they are both taken without the alteration of a word from the Morning Chronicle—and can you see the ferocity in my speech ?

      True , I am not paid for cautious words and for measured language . I speak my feelings on behalf of an oppressed people . He offers his wares for sale in the supplicating tone of the butcher s wife at the close of a hot day ' s market , when the broken bits won ' t keep—*• ' Buy , buy , buy . " But , Chartists , I never seek the battle nor shun it when it comes , and as Cobden has called you " Myrmidons , " ' a small insignificant

      and very powerless party , " " an organised faction of the very smallest dimensions "—before Saturday , London shall be p lacarded with my challenge to Richard Cobden , inviting him to meet me in Wakefield , the nomination town for the West Riding of Yorkshire , on Whitsun-monday—a day when his supporters cannot lock up " their hands—and there to test the speed of the animals , and to show upon whose side are the " Myrmidons , '* and up » n whose side is '' the smallest possible faction . "

      Now , then , this course will test hisjudgment and his veracity ; and if the four-legged animal wins , I will take it as a fair test of public opinion , and will then back the quadruped . Now , surely , this is not blinking the question upon my p art , the more especially when I am prepared to surrender the pleasure of witness ing the location of the occupants at Snig ' s End , for the purpose of availing m ; elf of a holiday for the West Riding Derby , and from thence I go to Sheffield on Whit-Tuesday , to give a description of the running . I remain , Brother Chartists , An advocate of the whole animal , name and all , Fearm ' s O'GoysoR .

      To The Chartists. Rbk?J __The Devil Hss ...

      Here are the speeches from the Chronicle , and I beg your attention to the following sentence , which is reported exactly as it was delivered : —

      « I HAVE SET HIM l PUBLICLY AND POLITICALLY AT DEFIANCE , AND I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO BEAT THE HONOURABLE MEMBER BY A VOTE IN PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES , IN THE OPEN AIR , IN ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE KINGDOM . " Of course ' country' is a misprint for ' county , '

      hut I give it as I find it in the Chronicle , and I ask you , knowing that I had not the right of repl y , can there be a doubt upon any man ' s mind that Cobden hoped that the assertion would serve the immediate purpose of con vincing the House that Free Trade had killed Chartism before , when led on by me ; and that the threat of the quadruped would again destroy Chartism , when taxation was reduced . F . O'C .

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      "' Yul ^ Xi. No 553- London,Saturday, Ma...

      "' yUL ^ XI . No 553- LONDON , SATURDAY , MAY 27 , 1848 . ^ . SSSSg : ^^

      Representative Reform. Mr Iidme : I Am V...

      REPRESENTATIVE REFORM . Mr IIdme : I am very sorry , sir , to say , thai at this late hour , it being now past eleven o'clock , I s ^ all sot be able to proceed with the motion of which I have given notice . Mr G ' Csrnor : Go on , go on . Mr Hume : I know the magnitude and importance of the duty I have undertaken ; and I know , very well , that in the time before me 1 shall not be able testate the grounds of the motion , which I wish to make as clear as possible . Mr O'Cosnor . Go on , go on . ( Cries of * Order . ')

      Mr Home : How can I go on f Let me speak for myself . I have been here the whole of the evening , anxious and willing to bring on the motien . I am disappointed , and consequently , howeTer anxious 1 may be for the discussion , and do man can bs more anxious for it than I am , 1 shall be obliged to postpone it . The only day I find upon the order book upon which I can bring it on , is the 20 th Jane ( ironical cheers from tho opposition beeches ); and on that day I will certainly bring it forward , in the hope that it will then meet with no impediment . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr O'Connor : I quite agree , sir .

      The Speaker : There is no question before the house . Air O'Oojfsoa : Then I more thai this boose do now adjourn . I quite agree , sir , with the hon . member for Montrose , that we should allow him to speak for himself ; but I hope that in . future he will not undertake to speak for the osnntry . On a former occasion I came at my great personal inconvenience from a great distance to support a motion of the hon . member for Montrose , lie withdrew that motion , and I then told him that he had deceived me for the first time ; but that if he deceived me a second time the fault should be my own . ( Laughter . ) It is quite evident to me that the hon . member for . Oxfordshire ( Mr Henley ) wag quite right when ho said this motion v . as merely a tub to the

      whale . There is _ no question of greater importance than that of which the hon . member for Montns- ) gave notice of for to-night ; and I dare say there are many honourable members prepared to support it , in better health than I am at this moment ; but it was my intention ts remain here till the close of the debate , whatever might be the consequences . ( Laughter . ) The hon . member for Montrese having asked the working classes now to fraternise with the middle classes , and the working classes having come to the conclusion to abate a great portion o . ' thete principles which I have always earnestly and indefatigably advocated for them , I do not think they have been well treated , Had it notbsen for the assurances of the hon . member for Montrose that he would bring on this measure the first opportunity

      I should have persevered with mine ; but now , after the high expectations that have been held out to the country , after the assurance that the middle classes were ready to plead for the working classes , and after the worJua & jsliasBjSs had beeri ^ eluded by the middle classes . I ask the hon . member for Montrose if he thinks it likely that I , for one , or the working classes generally , willany . longer confide in him ? ( Llear . ) I have told him , and the party with whom he acts that if they want to have tho confidence of the pen ! pie , they must take a determined stand upon this question . They have been juggling the people for the last month—they have now postponed their motinn for a month ; whereas , if the hon . member for Montrose had bronghfc it forward , the debate might feave been adjourned to an early day , and then the

      people would have believed him to be really in earnest . By my advice the country has tolerated this move , ment . The country has made great sacrifices for it by having abandoned tho larger , for the purpose oi the sen = e of the house being taken upon the minor , principle . I do not , then , wondtr at hon . gentlemen opposite thinking they have achieved a great triumph when , in the present state of the house this motion is abandoned , I do not wonder at them casting some derision upon the position in which the hon . member for Montrose has placed himself and his friends . I say to the hon . member 1 will not again bs a party to such a ' mockery , delusion , and snare ; ' and I will not again be a party to recommend the working classes blindly to confide their

      own principles to , or to place confidence in , men who in my soul and conscience I believe only intend to use them for their own purposes . ( Loud cheers from the Opposition tenches ) I have never been a party to any delusion either in this house or out of this house ( ironical cheers ) , ' and I never will be ; and if the question had been put ' is it the pleasure of this house that the motion be withdrawn , ' if I had walked into the lobb y alone I should hare voted against it . Again , I say . the country will not be satisfied with the hon . member for Montrose having postponed his motion , and again I say I agree with the honourable member for Oxfordshire that it wa <; nothinz but a 'tub to the whale . ' ( Qppositun cheers . )

      Mr Bright seconded the motion of the adjournment as a matter of form . Mr Cobden : There can be but one opinion , I think , on the part of every sincere and honest man in the house and in the country , that my honourable friend , the member for Montrose , is entirely bhmeless for the delay which has itlwn place in bringing on his motion . No reasonable man will suppose that anyone , having the conduct , of so important a question , would bring it before the house after a quarter past eleven at night . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The object of my honourab'e fritnd is , that this important question may be fully discussed ; and if he had began at

      five o clock in the afternoon , I question whether this one evening would have been sufficient for a full discussion . ( Hear , hear . ) The honourable cetitleman who has just sat down has undertaken to give advice in not very courteous or comphmentary terms to my hon . friend . Now if I miiht " , presume to give advice t > my hon friend , the member for Montrose , it would bs this—that in the conduct of this important question he will not follow the advice , still less the example , of an honourab ' e member who cals himself the leader of the working classes of this conntro who has undertaken now for nine years to lead them in toe advocacy of the People ' s Charter-Mr O'Cosnor . '• For fifteen years cow .

      Mr Cobden : For ufteen years ! 1 believe the honourable gentleman himself stated the other day , at a meeting of his Convention , that , after fifteen years' leadership , in the advocacy nf the People ' s Charter , he had but one man in the Howe of Com mon he could depend upon , in hi * absence , to advocate his principles . ( Several honourable members here tried . ' name , name . ' ) One honourable member was mentioned , but I do not know who i - was . ( Laughter , ) I think that one fact alone is sufficient to warn my honourable ^ friend the member for Montrose , how he borrows his tactics from the honourable member for Nottingham ; and I think , too , that if anything can open the ejes of the working classps of this country to a just sense of the value of that honourable meaibar ' s services , it is the position in which their cause has been placed in this house , an

      ions experience of the honourable member , and he will not accuse me of having any persona ! hostility towards him when I say no honourable member in this house has lavished so many compliments upo me as the honourable member for Nottingham ; but withrny erperience of his conduct out of this house , and of tho manner in which he has contrived to array the working classes of this country against the very men that could assist them in carrying forward their object if they wished for success—I say that the ( onduct of the hon . gent ' emas has dene more to retard the political piogrtss of the working classes of England than that of any other political man who ever lived in this country . ( Great cheers . ) 1 speak a'icr 1 -de experience of the honourable member . No man has more right to speak on this subject than 1 have . For seven years I had to struggle with his relentless hostility whilst I was advocating the cause of the working class ? a by means of the abolition of all taxes upon their food . That honourable

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      gentleman did all he could to array the working classes against me and thosa who acted with me . I had more hostility to encounter from him and from his party , than from the Dake of Buckingham and all Ins follower * . ( Cheers . ) What wan the result ? "lT ^ rni 8 ed wittt the bononrablo member , er with his myrmidons . No one can charge me with ever having fraternised with , or succumbed to them for a moment . I always treated the honourable member a ? tbfl leader of a small , insignificant , and very poweriess party . ( Cheers and a laugh . ) I never identified him or his followers with the mass of the working classes of this country . I treated him then as I treat him now , not as the leader of the working classes pf England , bnt as the leader of an organised . faction of the very smallest dimensions . I have set

      him publicly and politically at defiance , and I have never failed to beat the honourable member by a vote in public assemblies in the open air in almost every country in the kingdom . Now . I may Bay for myself , that in any advocacy which I may enter on for the advancement of the political franchise of the workinn classes , I never will fraternise witb the honourable member and his organised followers ; and if he says , as he has said , that he has been preparing his followers to go with us , I will say , as I have said a hun r ? d times , tbat t with tie Chartt aa organised under his leadership , I never will fraternise-r-I have tet them at defiance btfore , and I sot them at defiaoce now—( cbtera ) ;—and 1 beseech my honourable

      friehd the member for Montrose not to bo deluded by anything that may fall from the honourable member for Nottingham as to the power which he asserts he has with the working classes of thia country . He was weak before ; he is powerless now , and whatever he may threaten or promise in thia house , will be equally uninfhiential and unimportant in the progress of any great question of reform . Notwithstanding the most ferocious attack which had been made upon my honourable friend the member for Montrose , I am convinced that the great body of the peaple ofthis country will not feel disposed to withdraw from him that confidence which he has so long enjoyed- ( Cheers . )

      Mr 0 Connor wished toexplam . The honourable eentleman stated that he had beaten him ( Mt O'Connor ) in almost every county in the kingdom , Nnw tho fact was , that he had never had the honour of meeting the honourable gentleman , but once in his life . Mr Cobden said , he meant the honourable gentleman or his followers .

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      Alahmtkg State Op The Country. — Trial O...

      ALAHMtKG STATE OP THE COUNTRY . — TRIAL OP JOHN MITCnsn . —C 0 M 1 KG EVJJNXS CAST THEIR SHAPOWS BEFORE . ( From , our own Correspondent . J Dublin , Tuesday , 23 rd Mat . We are hurrying to the grand crisis with accelerated impetus . If Ireland ' s regeneration be not at our very doors , another century will find her still ft nursery of slaves and beggars—a land of crime and outrage , of bloed and tears , more abject and base , and grovelling than even at present . England , perhaps , may not be in a position to hold us down for a csntary . nor for a year ; she may not even bo mistress of herself . But I say , that if we do not now push ' forward , ' our opportunity is gone for ever , and years , and ages , and generations , will find our luckless land as I have described . This is evident . With the example of all Europe before our eyesffith our tyrr . ut rulers paralysed and embarrassed on every hand—with millions of friends and sympa .

      thisers , in the midst of the enemy's land— with America cheering us onwaids , and with the sense oi present insult , and tho treasured memory of seven centuries of persecution and robbery burning in our minds , ifwe do not be a free people we never . ' need hope tor a triumph , or emancipation , or happiness , Circumstances of which we jet do not dream , may operate in our favour , and ensure our triuruph , but if these circumstances do not arise I veril y believe there will be a frighful struggle in this country , With a few exceptions in Conciliation Hail , nobody doubts this contingency . There is now no ' Old Ireland ' party in this country , with the exception oi s _ ome antiquated parish priests , and the ' fogies' ot the crumbling eatablishmenJ on Burgh' Quay . We are all now , thank Gjd , not 'Young Irelandcrs , ' or Confederal es . ' srfactionists , or partisans , but enor aies of British corruption and Saxon tyranny , faithful of course to our Queen , but loving Ireland infinitely belter , and sworn to have her ' as she ought to be , ' or perish in the attempt .

      These are hot days in Dublin ! Hot in every sense , for the sun shines down redly and brilliantly , and men ' s minds , to use an Irishism , are 'in a blaze John Mitchel is on his trial to-day , or , rather , Ireland stands before a Saxon court , in the person of John Mitchel . John Mitchel represents Ireland—at least , all that is worth anything in Ireland ; and il he be convicted , not he alone will be pronounced ' felon , ' but every good and uallant man within the watery zom which encircles this island . This is no flourish . It is a fact . Miny men anticipate a '

      conviction . ' many others prognosticate an ' acquittal , ' but in either case , the prosecution of this young patriot , is the most unlucky job which England ever undertook in thia country . If Mitchel be acquitted , English law is not worth a cabbage-stalk in Ireland ever again — if he be sent to the convict hulk , it will be still a fatal triumph for our enemies . Mark my words . England never be-devilled herself in good earnest , until John Mitchel was sent in tho ' black caravan ' to occupy a gloomy cell and a ' doss' of stinking straw , in her Majesty ' s prison in Newgate .

      The city is tranquil , but much excited . There is scarcely any business doing to-day . Every body is out , and every footstep is bent towards Green-strcct . The Court-hhuse , the reader will please to bear in mind , is in Green-street , in an obscure part of the city ; and the gaol , commonly called Newgate , is an antiquated , gloomy , f » rtress-like pile , attached to the Court-house . This Green street is a stirring locality to-day . Thousands of angry-looking men are pressing towards the seat of justice , whilst several hundred policfmen , with a strong posse of mounted cocsta

      balary , sword in hand , form a cordon around the edifice . The people abroad know little of what is passing within , and no poor-looking person is admitted . This is strange to English ears , but in Ireland it is no new thing . We are a strange peop ' e indeed in Ireland . In France or any other land , a few policemen dare not push , or jostle , or bludguon thousands of honest and peaceable men , from the portals of the temple of justice . 'Justice ! ' Saxor , justice !! Irish fudge !!! But in Ireland one wonders not at anything .

      What some call 'Yoang Ireland , ' is now in the ' ascendant . ' A few months ago , this littlo party was the butt of public ridicule—despised , insulted , belied , and suspected . Now the case is , indeed , widely different . Thfre is nothing now any good but ' Young Irelandism . ' There is no body to appose this great organisation but the Whigs and the staff of the fallen house of O'Connell . I was looking at the ' marching' of the Confederate Club , to the great meeting at Belle Vue , on last Sunday . It was a strings sight to see an ' Irish enemy' marching through the centre of a Saxon garrison . Yet so it was . They did ' march . ' The police authorities said they should not , but they did after all , and laughed at the police , and defied their batons and their blusterings , I was at that meeting in Belie

      Vue . It was a glorious scene . There were no banners floating- , no drums beating , no tinsel or flippery , as in the days of ' 43 , but there were twentythousand men there registered a vow that if a jury was packed to try John Mitchel , the world should hear of it ; and that , if the said Jchn Mitchel was vie timised to the Saxon , twenty times twenty thousand pair of arms should be raised up to ' pronounce ' against tho verdict ! There was no shuffling about the matter . There was no mincing— ' no trimming of caps' at Bel ' e Vue . It was a regular camp meet ing—and every man there , with the exception of the police and Mr Hodges , tho government reporter , was an ' enemy' to the Whigs , ontl had a rifle or a pike at home . You will learn by the Irish papers that the

      object of this meeting" was to protest against having a jury ' packed' on Mr Mitchel ' s trial . It was heir in a suburb of this city , near tho Grand Canal Mar bnur . It was a fine meeting . Most of the leading Confederates were there , including T . F . Meagher , J . B . Dillon , C . G . Duffy , of the Natiom , John Martin , of Lopchorne , Dr West , Richard O'Gorman iun y and Thomas Darcy Magee . The speeehetwerO ^ short , but good and ' racy . ' Mr Meagher seemed a little out of tone , but was ekquent , aa usual . The best speech was that ol Darcy Magee , tlMUih he is the youngest of the leading orators of Music Hall . It was a " great day , ' indeed , and nobody who witnessed the scene , and heard what was spoken , could help feeling that ' a great day forirbland' was already dawnirg .

      Mr O'Connor ' s letter to Mitchel is a subject , of much speculation in DaWin . it has given wnqjnidv tied satisfaction , and proves that , amid tho difficulties which bssot that gentleman's path , he does not forget old Ireland , nor those who struggle in her behalf . There is one thing in connexion with this subject , however , which pains us , as Irishmen . That is , that Feargus O'Connor is not amongst ourselves , leading the _ van against the enemy , and flinging the weight of his name and talents into the great national struggle . Itia not too late ! Let him come , and he

      Alahmtkg State Op The Country. — Trial O...

      will meet six millions ce & d mule failthas in the land of the west . He need not withdraw from the English camp , but he might , at least , give his own a helping hand against the common enemy . The Irish peasantry are still arming . A true bill has been found against Mitchel , He applied for a copy , but was refused . This day counsel on both sides are arguing this point . To marrow his trial commences in good earnest . I will send a line with whatever I can tell about the trial , as well as concerning the case of Devin Iteilly , who is about to be added to the list of' conspirators . ' Dublin , 24 th Mat . Yesterday the court was engaged hearing Counsel on both sides , on ' Law Points' connected with the indictment against Mr Mitchel . To-morrow ( Thursday ) the trial goes on in good earnest . Mitchel looks fearlessly on his enemies , I saw him in court yesterday ; ho looked somewhat paler than usual , but his fine eyes looked scornfully on the surrounding host of vrigged and gowt ied foemen .

      Mrs Mitchel. There Appears In The United...

      MRS MITCHEL . There appears in the United Irishman an address of sympathy from the Dr Doyle Club to Mrs Mitohel , together with that lady ' s , spirited reply : — Madam . —In the state of alarm and uncertainty tar which , notwithstanding : your long preparation arid yoar * best endeavours , we feuV jou -nmst be redTi 0 B 4 by thety . rannioal arrest of our heroic broth er , your husband , Jobs Mitchel , we ceme to assure you that we not cmjy _ feci that the Aggression has been made upon us aa citizoas of this nation , but as if It had been mode upon each of us individually , tho same deep indignation , the same bitter and determined resentment .

      However some of ub Irish citizens may have disagreed oa abstract questions , this tyrannical attempt by the foreign usurper of our country to crush him individually , binds us all together henceforth to rise or fall with him . We have now but one absorbing duty to performnamely , to prepare , night and day , for the purpose , should ho be convicted , of restoring him in triumph to liberty and to you . We however , entertaia that confidence in our follow citizens that no jury will bo found so corrupt , base , and traitorous as to convict him . To yourself , personally , we moat respectfully offer our sentiments of esteem and sympathy .

      With his safety there is but one other duty equally imperative on u ' u ; namely , to protect those he holds dearest—jou , madam , and jour children , from the slightest annoyance or Insult . ( Signed , on bahalf of the club , } John B . Watsos , Cbn ' rsMm . Mrs Mitchel replied briefly in tho following words : — I feel deeply grateful to the members of the Dr Dojle Club for their most encouraging and hopeful address to me . I bavo the utmost trust and confidence in their determination not to allow their brother Confederate , John Mitchel , to leave this land in a convict ship ; and I feci assured—nay , I am Quito certain—that my busband will never disgrace their oause or his own . I have

      not hitherto allowed any fears I might feel for my chil - dren's safety or my own to interfere with that line of policy which my husband thought it his duty to pursue , and I do not intend to do so now . But let mo tell tke Confederates of Dublin that I firmly believe that to allow any Confederates , no matter how insignificant the part he may have taken in their cause , to leave Ireland in ftlon ' s fetters for tho advocacy of their cause , would be Che most fatal madness , and would but rivet the chains moro closely than ever , so that they would be unable to re ^ cln the noble position they now hold , by all that they mi . 'ht say or do for half a century to come , I have now only to repeat my thanks to the members of the Dr Doyle Club , for the sympathy which they have expressed with myself personally on the present occasion .

      ABBEST OP HB & EIM . Y . At five o'clock on Monday evening Mr Devin Reilly was arrested en a charge of' drilling and training , ' contrary to law . On Tuesday , Mr Reilly was brought before the police magistrates , at the head police-ofiice , College-street , and al ' ttr tho case wa & heard , and informations for his committal made out , he was admitted to bail , himself in £ 160 and two sureties in £ 50 each , to appear and take bis trial at the ntxt city cemmission , to be tried two months hence .

      HOEE AiEEETS , Mora of tho leaders of the Confederates are to be pro . secuted . I have just learned that a warrant has been issued for tho arrest of Mr Charles Gavin Duffy of the Nation , and that informations charging Mr T . D . Iteilly , with having committed felony under tho new act , were sworn yesterday , Rumour also states that Mr Thomas Darcy M'Gee will also be proceeded against , we presume for the part he took in the meeting on Sunday ] mt , Father Kenyon has arrived in Dublin , to conduct the editorship of the United Irishman .

      Aa application to postpone the trial of Mitchel nil be made on Thursday , on the ground that the jury panel was partially arraigned .

      Location On Snig's End Estate. The Follo...

      LOCATION ON SNIG'S END ESTATE . The following is a correct list of the two , three , and four acre shareholders to be located at Snig ' s End Estate , on the 2 nd Monday in June , ISiS . Thomas Clahk' Corres . 5 eo .

      TWO ACRES . 09 Emma Adams Banbury G 03 Samuel Whalley Manchester M 6 Jamci Holt Ditto 198 J * hn Hudson Leicester 137 John Carter Upton-on-Severn 826 Charles Frith Greenwich ion W . H . Curtis Whittinaton and Cat 17 Wra . Peckett Office List 14 Constantino Jay Hull 1822 Robert Wilson Walsoken 108 Charles Firth Office List 206 James Ilarmer Ditto 182 James Smith Birmingham 121 Stephen Needham Derby 1230 Thomas Sutton Office List 42 John Langley Norwich 151 George Staples ) ( Farailv Ticket 152 Henry Staples J \ Office List 649 John Teagtie Biiston

      20 Mary Clarkson Addin ^ ham 707 Isaac Goodhall Market Lavingtoti 090 William Gray Ditto Ditto S 2 C . II . Buddecombs Southampton 2038 Edward Edesbury Office List 237 G William Dart Exeter * 21 G 7 Thomas Hope Ledbury 161 Thomas Ashman Mells , Somerset 31 Robert Heppenstall Hull 70 Robert Baines Newcastle-on-Tyne 11 John West Office List 33 John Robertson Stalybridgo 1-557 Thomas Ilalsale Chorley 1916 Richard Diniola Office List 13 S 3 Dennis O'Brien Alva

      THREE ACRES . 32 John Kay \ / Ashton-under-Lyno Thomas Buckbyj \ Family Ticket 1624 , 407 James Watson Dewsbury 35 Alexander Cleland Glasgow 9 JohnBuswell Banbury 1080 , 1090 George Cose Nottingham 1607 , 138 Thomas Saville Halifax 18 Robert Winter Hull 20 Henry Oliver NewportPagnell Matthew Brown Office List 793 ; 62 Donald Robinson Edinburgh Wm , Gent Wellingborough

      FOUR ACRES . Mr C . Doyle O'Connorrille Mr Baker Birmingham A r G . Wheeler Reading Mr Cornwall Bradford Mr Rawson Manchester Mr Smith London MrKindell Bradford , Wilts 449 W . Colston Derby 273 274 James Wakcman Torquay 531 T . New .-on Dewsbury 1078 1079 Daniel Powell V . erihyr Tydvi ' 1520 1521 J / imcs Brand Sloaford 05 John Rice Bradford , York 514 T Franklin Limehouse 361 302 John Ivnross \ / Family Ticket 2351 2352 Andrew Kinross J \ Alva 151 U 15 G 5 J ha Lawton Retford

      65 John L Simpson ) f Family Ticket 1087 Esther Hunt / \ Manchester 506 R ) b . Tt Jarvis Office List 6061 J . weph Smith Rouen , France 3507 3509 Kdveund Gee Wi « an 1920 W . James Menhyi- Tvdvil 7-J . / 6 John Miller Newton Abbott 921922 JiiraesCarew Manchester 177 John Rimsey Glasgow 1390 , 1391 W . Jamtt Ofliw Lut 19 (> C , 19 C 7 T . Launchbnry Kidderminster

      Iikywood. —The Members Of This Lecality ...

      IIkywood . —The members of this lecality are requested to meat in the Association Room , Hartleystreer , on Sunday , the 28 th inat ,. at six o ' clock . —On Tuesday evening , May 30 th , Mr Matthews wiil lecture on' the present prospects of tho Chartist Movement ; ' to commence at half-past seven .

      Iikywood. —The Members Of This Lecality ...

      (• PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NA . TIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . to the people . Feixow Coukxbtmbn , _ , , . . .. declared the ~

      Lord John Russell having m House of Commons , that he did not belioyo the peoplc . of this country desired the Charter , we accept that statement as a challenge , and hereby jj . vii . eyqa to make immediate arrangements fer coan , hipg m the most central positions of the various districts of England , Scotland , and Wales , great gatherings Or . the Cl-artists , on Whit-Monday , the 12 th of Jane . Bo peaceful , he orderly , but above all organised . He who does not organise cannot be relied upon . ;—» Answer reluctant magistrates , that the Prime Min * ister of England has indirectly called ycu together * , either tofalter or confirm his belief as to your apathy and contentment .

      Rally , rallv , in your classes—Gather , gather , ia yonr hondredi—Meet , meet , fallow countrymen , in . your ( eua ol ' thntigands . , . Record a solemn vow , never to cease agitating , and to agitate ior nothing less than tho Foopte ' a Charter . _ Let the chairman of each meeting so arrange it that the mvh Miiy who srs present form thf n'selvea into a solid square , so as to be counted in thy front line and down one of the sides . The multiplicatioa of the one number by the other , will give the exaefc amount of men present . When that is -OG & rectly ascertained and verified by some wellknown person present , whether rasgifltrate , mayor , alderman , councillor or othorwisa , let known person present , whether rasgiHtrate , mayor , alderman , councillor or othorwisa , let

      the statement be forwarded at once to Lord John Russell , directed thus : —To the Right Honourable Lord John Ruseell , First Lord ot the Treasury , Downing-streetv 'J ijjjidon . Make no remark what ever , beyond the cofr & ot statement , and let that be dooo in a clear , business-like , manner , and . with a calm and dignified ) fephit . Send us also a copy , so that we may aefrasaj ^ unter-Bheet on his Lordship , aatotheTiurj ^ ie ^ ofjoar-rcporia' , ' . - * . ' yi 4 shall so fciisifrga . it that one of the rqeSabeio of tho Executive shali . be present at each of five ; and oaa of the Commissioners at each of twenty great meetings . We shall rely on you , tho people , supporting us in the Exe 6 ution . of this moat important duty . We remain , fellow countrymen , your faitlifal

      brethren in the cause . P . M . M'Douiix John M'Crae Ernest Jones James Lzacji Samuel K . V . DD .

      The Provisional Executive Com Mittee To ...

      THE PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE TO THE PEOPLE . Fkllow Countrymen ! - At a time when so many parties aro ia the field with promises of Reform , we consider it oue duty to point your attention to what we deom tho policy requisite to be pursued . ' Chartists ! these are times to try men ' s souls , their judgment , and their firmness . The Vfiiddlo class are seeking our support—at first , under tha plea of Household Suffrage ; then , when they find this miserable bait will not take , they grow more vague—talk of a ' wide extension '—but all adhere te their ' Triennial Parliamentg '—and 'Property Qoa «

      lifieatiou—though some insidiously change it to an * Income Qualification of £ 200 per annum '—whieh means a Middle Class Qualilieation , to the exe'usion of working men and the interests of labonr . Seeing their original propositions scouted by the people , they have made a further change , and try to clothe them in a more attractive shape . They are now dedaring themselves f-: r Universal Suffrage , leaving the ' details for carrying it out to be considered at a future period . ' We believe that the details ( the remaining five points of the Charter ) ai'O essentially necessary for eiving due effect to the principle of Universal Suffrage . Leave the DFTAILS to ba fixed by the middle class , and Universal Suffrage , in their hands , may become universal mockery .

      Working men ! The New Reform League is eal . cnlatetl to benefit the middle class alone ; every oao of its ftatures will give them added power , and give you none . Bo on your guard ! Why do thoy ask your help ? Because Whig government—a compound of cotton lords and landlords—is fast ruining their trade , and they & re not strong enough to subvert that government . They ars , therefore , placedin the dilemma of submitting quietly to the Whigs , and being ruined—or of joining the Chartists , and giving up their class privileges . They think , however , they can once more dupe UB , and'blind ub as lo thei ? real intentions . Chartists They cannot do withtut you . but they are trying to save themselves at the cost of as few class privileges as they can . They are driving their bargain—let ua drive obbs . Jf ue hold out , they will be obliged to come to our twins .

      how that they are again raising the Cuckoo cry of , ' Take what yoy can get !'— ' Do not gn fn * tn » wholo at onco !'— fc « u them , that we adhered to our principles at a time when we stood alone—in tho hour of adversity—in the day of comparative weakness—and tbut now , when wo are sstrosg ; now , when the Press is forced to devote its columns daily to a nii . ice of onr movement ; now , when the middle clas ^ c- * are seeking us , soliciting us for help , now is not the moment to ask us to descend from our proud position —abate one iota of the Charter , or sneak from honest principles into servile expediency .

      ' THE CHARTER WHOLE AND ENTIRE , ' must be our motto , and sve must oppose every Reform movement having only a sectional , not a universal good in view . They may taunt us with being obstructives—they may taunt us with thwarting their' introductory measures , which are to pave the way for the rest . ' Tell them a Reform which should benefit only the raiddle class , would be worse than no Reform ; for whereas that chss are now somewhat kept in check by their privileged opponents , they would then becomethe irresponsible and unconditional masters of thereoplo . Chartists ! Reflect , also , when they aak you to ' give up your Chartist agitation'in order to 'join with them V Who is there to join with ? A political pigmy—a mere shadow . Where is their party ?

      Where is their strength ? Have they the people with them ; No ' . Have they even their own class with them ? No ! A few solitary sentinels , watching our movement from , i . distance—divided among themselves—contradictory and disagreed —« e see nothine to unite w » h , but a fevr parliamentary and political pedlars , daring to call themselves leaders of parties having nw existence but in their own conceit . Rally , then , Chartists ! Unmask them at their meetings—tear the flimsy veil off their vague and unmeaning resolutions ( you will see samples of thfra in this week ' s Star )—ask them what they really mean ?—fix the sli ppery rhetoricians to thepointand , if that is not the Charter , move tho following amendment , which wc s ubmit to you , as , even herein , uniformity \ 3 desirable , evidencing at once the strength and extent of ' our organisation : —

      Resolved , os a change is now universally Admitted to be necessary ; as that change must strike at the root of the evil , not merely at its surface ; as the working classes have been , and are , the greatest sufferers and the oldest reformers , and are , therefore , entitled to the first consideration and the chief benefit resulting from reform ; as the Charter embodies their rights , and expresses their wishes : this meeting pledges itself to sanction no measure of electoral reform short of the principles contained in that document , Without Compromise , curtailment , or surrender—convinced that the omission of any one of its points , would cripple the efficacy of the rest—warned by tho treachery of the Reformers of 1832—aware that a united people has the power ot carrvins anv just measure of reform , and determined that tho interests of Labour shall be the ruling question of the age . '

      A ? wd as to the Plan of Organisation : we consider that phn capable of affording our ' . raoverav ' . nt an irresistible posyer . To ensure this , it ' must be acted on uniformly in every locality . It will not do for one locality to adopt one plan , —and another a different one ;—for the political machine to work well , it must harmonise it all its details . The Roverctient . dread our organisation more than any other measure . They will therefore try to thwart its developcment by forcing the people into a premature outbreak . Spies and traitors will be employed for this purpose . They will irritate you by acts of loea ! tyranny . Once more , be on your guard There must bo no rioting—organise ! organise ! organise . '—and tha hour of our triumph will come . We warn you , it is nearer than our enemies—and even than our friends expect ; Nothing but intemperate haste cm retard it ,-nothing but a dereliction of principle can rob us of its fruits .

      TIIK CHARTER AND NO SURRfNDEK . JOUN M'Ca . KK , Eusksi JONE ? , P . M . Douall , James Leacu , Samuel Kvdd .

      Notice, —All Treasurers And Secretaries ...

      NOTICE , —All treasurers and secretaries of dts trict * and localities are requested forthwith ^ to forward their nr-mns and residences to the Executive . All money orders to be made payable to John So well , E = q ., at the Po 3 t-OfiW ' , Southwark , London , 3 T = d transmitted o J . ilin M'Crae , Financial Secretary , Literary Institution , John-sJreet , Tottenham Court-mad . London . It , is particularly requested tho above mny be strictly adhered to . John M'Crar .

      Oi.Dn.Ijr.—On Sunday (To Morrow), A Meet...

      Oi . Dn . ijr . —On Sunday ( to morrow ) , a meeting of tholrish Con federation wiil take place in the Workin ?; Mnn ' a Hall . «? hen Mr B . _ S . Treanor , and Mr R . Anderson , of Sval y bridge , will deliver addrt & ses © u ' tbe Principles of the Irish Confederation , and the best means of tho people of England and Ireland ob . tainin ? their rigb's . ' Chair to be taken at six o ' cltck in tho evening . —A meeting of the Land members will take place in tbo school-room /; afc ' tw 9 o ' clock in tha afternoon . Wortley . —Messrs Brook and Harris will address a meeting , on Monday evening , at half . past sevea 0 clock .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27051848/page/1/