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      ~ Just Published, . Thkpukgatory Of Suicides:

      ~ JUST PUBLISHED , . _THKPUKGATORY OF SUICIDES :

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      A Prison Rhyme : in T « n nooKS BT THOMAS COOPER THE CHARTIST . J . How , Publisher , 182 , Fleet-street . er- Orders from the Country to "be tent through the _Uoekwllere . MIL COOPER'S NEW WORK . To be Published early in November , in 2 vols ., 12 mo „ Price Fourteen Shillings ,

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      THE COyXOISSEUR , a Monthly Record oT the FINE ABTS , M « S « Vand the DRAMA . Ooktects of 2 fo . VII .: —Bojal Academy of Arts—The Prim * Donna—Decline of thi _Prama—British Ar . « b- £ ological Institnte—Tbe Fine Arts Commission—Sb & bsperian _Critics—^ Conservatoire de Paris , < kc—Grand Prix de Rome—Dramatic and Musical Summary —Correspondence—Miscellaneous , & c . ic . The Illustration : —A Portrait of Murillo , from a painting by himself , drawn on stone by H . C . Maguire . An O r i g inal Ballad , by S . Wylde . _orimoKS op the _wess . "Toall lovers of the fine arts we recommend the * Connoisseur . '" —Xorthern- Star . " It ought , and we have no doubt Trill , continue to _receive the same patronaga nnd _extensire circulation which It has hitherto done among persons of taste in the culture of the aria and sciences . "— Cambridge _Independent

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      ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY . NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT . 1 TMOSPHERIC Railway daily , with explanatory _ H lecture . "The New Zealand Chief , _Talie a Range , will gira a course of lectures on the Manners and Customs of New Zealand , on the evenings of Monday , Wed . nesday , -and Friday next . Mr . Russ-11 continues to -deliver Ms unequalled lectures on Character , on Tuesday , - . Thursday , and Saturday evenings . Lectures on Science , Ac , dail y , including Major Beniowfki ' s ArtificialMemory , Seal's Rotatory - Steam Engine , Kollman ' s Locomo t ive Engine for ascending inclines on Railways . Every -evening a Grand Fromenatie Concert , supported by _firstrate talent , both vocal and instrumental .

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      COLOSSEUM . PATRONISED and visited by her Most Gracious MAJESTY and his Royal Highness Prince XBERT . OPEN DAILY from Ten till Six . Froonncid by the Press , and confirmed by every visitor « be the most perfeet triumph of Art in its various fl ranches , bo t h by Day and Ni g ht , that has ever been achieved . Equal to six exhibitions . The Gl yp t o t heca , containing works of the first artists ; Mont Blanc and Mountain Torrents , Superb Conservatories , Gothic Aviary , Classic Ruins and Fountains , Panorama of "London , re-painted by Mr . Parris , _& c . Admittance , Ss . Children , half-price . The Stalactite Caverns , the roost magnificent of all the temples which nature has Lailt for herself in the regions of night , le . extra _.

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      "WEST RTDIKG OF YORKSHIRE . MICHAELMAS SESSIONS . _"T _^ _TOTICE is hereby Given , that tbe Michaelmas Gene-J . 1 ral Quarter Sessions ofthe Peace for the West Riding of the county of _Yorfc , will be opsned at KNAKES-_ BOROUGH , on Tuesday , the 14 th day of October next , at Ten o ' clock in the forenoon ; and by adjournment from thence will be holdcn at LEEDS , on Wednesday , the 15 th day of the same month of October , at Ten ofthe clock in the forenoon ; and also , by further _Adjournment from thence , will be holdcn at D 02 _« CASTER , on Monday , the 20 th day of the same month of October , at half-past Ten of the clock in the forenoon , when all Jurors , Sui t ors , _persons bound by Recognisance , and others having business at the said several Sessions , are required to attend the Court on the several days , and at the several hours _. abore mentioned .

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      HARE ON SPINAL DISEASE . THIS day is published , price 2 s . Gd ., CASES and OBSERVATIONS illustrative of the beneficial results which may be obtained by close attention and perseverance in some of the most chronic and unpromising instances of spinal deformity ; with eighteen engravings on wood . By Saxcel Hake , MJt . C . S . London : John Churchill , Princes-street ; ana may be lad of all booksellers .

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      GHEAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , 14 , "WATEBtOO-PlACE , LoS » OS . EIKECTOES . The Chisholm , Clmirman . "William Morley , Esq ., Deputy Chairman . 3 I « nJ _* y S . Barber , Esq . James Joim Kinloch , Esq . 3 ohn _Brightman , Esq . nenry Lawson , Esq . . frauds Brodigan , Esq . Henry Penny , Esq . James Vita . Deacon , Esq . Robert Power , Esq ., M . D . . Alexander R . Irvine , Esq . The Rev . P . W . Johnson John iDglis Jerdeiu , Esq . J Tickeiy , A . M . _AcnrroBs . C B . _Bnle , Esq . T . C . Siminous , Esq . G . Thomas , Esq .

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      RICHARDSON , MANUFACTURING CUTLER * . _ESMBLISKBD 1805 ,

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      COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER , PROVIDENT _FAMILIES , subscribing ls . per week to the Metropolitan Coal Company's Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annuall y , without farther charge , fines , ic . The Company ' s pcice current iB , Best Screened "Wallsend , 23 s . per fall ton ; Seconds , 21 s ., 22 s ., and 2 3 s . ; Cofce , I 7 _s . 6 d . Office , 2 * 9 , High Holborn .

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      TEETH . MASTICATION and Articulation Improved and Guaranteed . —Messrs . DAVIS , Surgeon-Dentist !* , 123 , Pall-maU , opposite the Haymarket , and 1 , New Bridge-street , corner of _FUetstnet , continue to supply teeth , _guaranteednever to discolour , _breaT c , or decay , and fixed without springs or wires , without extracting the old stumps , or g iving any pain . A single tooth , Ss . ; a set , £ 5 . "Loose teeth fastened . Scurvy iu tho gums effectually cured . Stopping decayed teeth . Price 4 s „ Davis ' s _Hermastkan : all persons can -use it themselves , as full _directions are enclosed , and can'be sent per post .

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      _GENUINE TEAS AND COFFEES FOB . THE MILLION . The cheapest place in London for Teas and Coffees is at the Warehouse , 24 and 25 , Regent Street , Westminster , near f-ie _* Vauxl . & ll Bridge Road . THE Projwietor , E . WAltMINGTON , takes this oppor . tunity to return thanks for the liberal supporthe lias received since he opened the above premises ; and to those who _havenot yet favoured him _withtheirpatronage , E . W . most strongl y solicits s trial , feeling assured that the articles sold at tbe warehouse , both in price and quality , will give universal satisfaction . Goods io nny quantity sent free to nil parts of London and the suburbs ; nnd persons in the ' country , by remitting a Post-office order , will find their instructions faithfully attended to .

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      EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The _PIQ _. UA PLANT , now sold at Ss . 6 d . per lb ., is three tim _^ s thc strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinltely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also b y persons in great numbers with the most delicate lunge aud stomachs . It U most pleasant and invigorating , and is recommended to tlie debilitated for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to the public generally for its moderate pr ice and intrinsic excellence . The Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful iffect of the plant in _preference to tea or coffee : —Let a Vnerrous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong- tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-more , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , & _-C ,

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      TO THE EMBARRASSED .-IMP 011 TA . NT . TH EKB orethoueands ef persons who _liaro Stragg _^ d long against-the 'force of misfortune ,-but faff ire aware that by n very Tccent Act all small traders owing debts not exceeding _-JSKOO , farmers , and nil otlwri _owiug to any amouut _, can be entirely raised from their difficult ies " at U * K _" _mall-elBicnse , and without imprisonment ' or bankruptcy . A 41 such Mr , Weston beg * will-apply to liioi at _Moira-chtmbra-s , 17 , _Ironmonger-laiio , _vCfccapside , by _letter-ovpersoiiaily . . Persons summoned for small debts should apply iinme . diately _. as -thrtj may thereby save -themselves from fr « _- quer . tand loagthened commitments toprwon .

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      NOTICE TO _EMISRANTS .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OP THE NATIONAL ORDER OF INDEPENDENT ODD FELLOWS , IN MANCHESTER , SALFORD ., AND OTHER DISTRICTS . BRETHREN , —A Placard has lately betn circulated through this and other districts , signed W . Rat . eliffe , C . S ., containing the grossest falsehoods , and holding out a delusive bait to entrap the unwary , hoping by this meana to get you once more within then * power , tliat they may make a selection of Victims to glut _tliair vengeance . We need scarcely wars you to beware of their machinations , for too many of you have already _expe-

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      Tliis day is published , under tiie sanction of tbe G . M . and Board of Directors of the _National Order of Independent Odd Fellows-. NO . II . OP THE NATIONAL INDEPENDENT ODD EELLOWS' EXA . MIJ . Ell . Price Twopence . CONTAINS _: Appointment of the Oflieers of tlie National Order of Independent Odd Pellows ; Report of the Manchester Board of Management ; Quarterly Committee ofthe Manchester District ; Liverpool Address ; A list of the Plunderers of tlio Order ; Stockport District ; Minutes ofthe Provisional Committee ; Probe's Strictures on Ne Sutor ; Vindcx v , thc " London Journal ; " Ratclifie , the defaulter , tabooed at Doncaster , tbe . tic . To be had of the Booksellers . Printed and published by J . and Vf . Pope , 48 , Tib-Street , _Market-street , Manchester . To whom all orders nml _ > ni __ mi _ ni ( . __ t _ on 9 : iro to lie forwarded .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR BATUltDAY , OCTOBER i , 1815 .

      Peel And His "Difficulties." Irish "Conc...

      PEEL AND HIS "DIFFICULTIES . " IRISH "CONCILIATION , " AND ENGLISH "SHORT CROPS" AND " _SPECTJLftTIOH . " Hitherto Peel has had a most wonderful " run of good luck . " Coming into power , as he did , at a period of groat "commercial depression ; " when " late PANIC " had hung on the limbs of commercial enterprise for years , paralysing every exertion , and superinducing gloom ahd dismay in all minds ; coming in at the end of a cycle of bad harvests , and at the end of ten years of gross mismanagement on the part of the Whigs , whose blundering , or whose

      anxiety to feather their nests , so bare from their long exclusion from power , prevented them from raising an income equal to their expenditure , and who , therefore , wore constrained to add to that debt the enormity and expense of which has acted like an incubus on the energies ofthe nation for the last half century ; coming in , under sueh circumstances , and having the foresight to take advantage of the great confidence reposed in him to give a turn to commercial affairs , to institute the principle of direct taxation on realised property and income—and being blessed , moreover , with three great and glorious harvests in

      succession , which caused food literall y to abound ; coming in under these circumstances , and when America was recovering from the depressing effects of her " _la-ib PANIC , " -consequent oa the immense issues of paper-money and the accompanying frenzy of speculation—and when , with this , the war with China was brought to such a fortunate termination as to open up to our merchants and traders a market of most immense extent : coming in under these circumstances , and being aided by adventitious ones , _Vef . l ' s career has been eminently successful as a whole : and he lias been the first

      Minister for the last thirty years that has had showered on his head such hi gh commendations from all classes of the commercial and _trading world , almost _;'* 7 S 8 pective of old party distinctions . His financial _'ueasures ; his repealing of many of the duties on raw niatt _* rials and on products employed in manufactures , and _exacting a tax from property and income , brought him not only an income equal to his expenditure , but ; left him that wonder of modern times—a sum-lbs _^ . herewith to purchase thc repeal of other taxes that _pressed on the productive _enevgioa of the kingdom : _xe 4 thus he

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      was enabled both to _restore " confidence" in the " money market , " and . thus make _^ accommodation " easy , and give an hr . petus to the £ eneral manufactur ing interest , _seating the _becalmed vessel on the stagnant wate _rs _ once more afloat on the tide oi " _niou _FROsr-LRixv .: " _though his operations have fixed on the cwners of properly -and enjoyers of income the tew they regard as s « _ocKotulbeyond the possibility of wriggling it off so long as the present charge on the dkbt lasts . The good harvests also aided his financial measures most opportunely ; for , by making food plentiful , and thus rendering it unnecessary to

      purchase from abroad , they retained at home immense sums of money to be employed in industrial operations , that -would otherwise have had to be sent to other countries in exchange for tiie corn wc wore -short of . The improved aspect of affairs in America , on the recovery of that country from a dire and misery-scattering monetary _revolu tion , and the now Chinese treaty , also -camo in aid of his measures .:. so ¦ that altogether , ao far , Pebl was "in luck ; " and he has had the -credit of havingbroughtabouta period of " pkospukhy" totally un - precedented in all our previous histories of

      "Prosperities" and their accompaning "Panics . " In periods of pkobfxuitt , few parties , even tho most virulent and unappeasable of politicians , are disposed to find fault with the Minister : and from a like cause , in periods of distress and " ruination" scarcely any Minister-can stand . It was from this cause , that * o many jf the trading classes so readily gave up the Whigs at + he last general election : anxious as they were , that . somebody else should try to tinker up the old kettle ; And aware as they were that any change could hardly be for the worse . With this class , poli tical reasons go a very short way . As for _patbiotism , they have no conception even of the meaning of the term ; much less of the duties which it imposes on them . They may be attached to their " party ; " and ,

      in ordinary times , willing to bo as subservient to party as can bc desired : but with them the real touchstone of goodness is such success in finance as will bring about " a roaring trade ; " and to the sleeve of the man who for the time being can accomplish this , will they pin their faith ; sacrificing to him the principles and claims of their party as readily and with as little remorse as a Lcadenhall butcher sacrifices the lives of young lambs . Many who ac from motives such as these , contributed no small share of the exertions that raised Peel to power ; and by them he has been well sustained : while the general success of his financial and trading measures has blunted thc edge of the _ksenost opposition , and altogether ( for the " . time ) disarmed those that are neither "hot" nor " cold . "

      Not that Peel's career has been wholly free from difficulties . Far from it . But then his position in relation to his ( once ) party and the circumstances ol the times , has enabled him not only ( for the time ) to surmount some of those difficulties—but actually to turn them to advantage . He had to works , party , pledged to the teeth to maintain a certain course of poliey both towards Church and State : that policy he had to break down—and he had to make tho party pledged to maintain it , his instwjments for their own destruction . Placed as he was at their head ; being their only "leader ; " being thc only man thev

      had capable of grappling with the difficulties of the hour ; fearful of losing their hold of that power which they had once more wrung from the hands of the incompetent Whigs ; hungry from a ten yeavs absence from "the loaves and fishes " : thus circumstanced , they were constrained to throw themselves into the inexorable Minister ' s arms , and be dragged by him through all the mire and filth of tergiversation , apostasy , and unfaithfulness . Once chained to the car , there was no retreat . " In for an ounce—in for a pound . " Independence once gone , there was no step in degradation at which they could halt : and thus tho first

      " difficulty" that _Pjskju had , —a difficulty at one time most formidable , —was , by dextrous management , turned even to advantage : and the world was edified by seeing political morality trampled undor foot , and the essence ofthe "high and noble" in the land noting themselves down as obsequious tools , giving the lie to all their previous high-sounding professions . Once off the firm ground of principle , and once launched on the current of expediency , like swine in water , they cut their throats with their own pettitoes : and _mg great Conservative party , formed out of the wreck of Toryism , has had its brief hour of existence , and is now numbered with . ' the things tha ' were whose end was shame .

      Another " difficulty" that Peel had to contend with was Ireland . Indeed he proclaimed this as " the difficulty . " Bound up , as he was from former identity , with the Orange faction , his elevation to power was the signal for the rival faction to " Bubblo , bubble , toil and trouble , " at the agitation for a Repeal of the Union , wliich had been r ecom m e n ced w h en t ho r e i ns o f power were slipping out of the hands of the Whigs , and when it was evident that the days of patronage were numbered . And a formidable " difficulty '' Ireland from the first proved ! Fuel waa artfully added to the agitation-fire , to

      " Make the Hell broth boil and bubble , ' * 'till it threatened to boil over ! Defiaxck of the SAXON was deemed so noble an aet , and so worthy of undying fame , that the _life-imparting chisel of the sculptor was set to work to preserve the attitude and eternize the action and the words ' . Peel was dared to " go to law" —which daring he closed in with * . and for months he was kept in tho very " hot water" of the " State-Trials . " Though worsted there , still the hard-fought battle of the courts had the effect of letting off thc superfluous steam , and of lowering the heat of the cauldron down to safety

      degree : and then Peel sought to take advantage ofhis position , and overcome his master " difficulty" by a series of cunning concessions and well-timed " conciliations . " To this end , we had the project of endowing Maynooth—an adroit attempt to detach the Roman Catholic clergy from the " embodied discontent , " and to leave the master spirit of the ' * difficulty " without one main means of moving the masses . To this end also , we had the New Colleges , conceived in the most "liberal" spirit—a spirit , which , while it did not give ascendancy to Catholicism , did put down the ascendancy of _Orangcism . To this

      attempt at _" couciliation , Pebl gave up the dearlycherished " prejudices" of his youth—the " _pbinciples" on which he had rallied his party after the Reform-Bill dispenion : and to this end did your Saxdo . ns and your _Gladstones vote their former life A LIE , and " embody" in practice the principles they had unceasingly and uniformly _dtcried . To this end , also were the Orangemen snubbed , A great show of impartiality , and of ft determination to deal with both agitating parties alike , had to be made : and therefore Mr . Watson and another Justice , who

      attended Orange " monster meetings" rabid Orangemen , were dismissed from the magistracy . But still all would not do . The "Repealers" were not to be so foolishly caught . The endowment of Maynooth was accepted , with the insulting commentary that the hand that conceded it would also concede Repeal when the agitation was strong enough to be appeased in no other way . The New Colleges were spurned , because the scheme of education was a " Godless " one : for the pupils in them were not handed over to either one set of priests or the otlur . The Roman

      Catholic priesthood were not to be detached from the effort to " KAisn Roue , " through the instrumentality of a " good cut" for nationality , by such a mere " sop in the pan" as Maynootli , although there was the " golden link to bind them to tlie State" in prospect . And thus Peel ' s " concession" and " conciliation " failed of its object . Ilia Irish " difficulty" WaS not lessened . His " good luck" seems in this case to have forsaken him , and the tide of fortune to have changed * . for while he thus failed to hook the party for whom he set the bai t , he exasperated into active warfare the party who did support him when first he encountered the "difficulty . " He failed in winning new fricnds-and ) ie )) as amycd a ,. [ nst him his old ones . The dismissal of Mr . Watson _asd . Mr , _Anc'i'DALE . _g _^ _'in- ; ( I Or ange _foclioa to

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      madness ; and while Lord Wi _ . c _ hei . 8 ba in England has flung his " eommi ' jSions , ,, a 8 Lord-Lieutenant of several « ount ie 8 ) into Peel ' s face , through sympathy with Vis Irish Church brethren , and as a reproof for _Peel ' s sacrifice of his " friends , " the Earl of _RaM-srand the Marquis of _DowssiilBE , with _ucorcB of -v . _iVa , have repeated the acts of Mr . Ii _atton , and ( W "* xl Peel to take a similar revenge ' . That challenge Peel has not dared to accept : ahd there lie is now , with the Roman Catholic preklos _PROTESTING against his New Colleges Act as a "godless scheme of education , " and calling on the

      Irian people to spurn it from them with indignant contempt , because the priestly "finger" is excluded from the College " pie ; " there he is , with no thanks for his Maynooth Grant , to carry which he broke up his own party , and scattered " Conservatism " to the winds ; there he is , with _O'Coxxkll as insulting as ever , preferring his demands , and bitterly taunting the "firm Minister" with having giveaway to popular demands in his numerous " _concessions ; " and there he is , with the Orange institution revived : with the old waning embers of bigotry fanned into aflame ; and with thc bristles of the whole sect of Irish Church

      Protestants set up" against the " traitor Peel . " If Ireland _eyerwas a difficulty to the present Ministry , it is doubly so now ! Ministerial " conciliation" having failed , a new tack has now to be taken . The ORDINARY LAW is again to be inroked on the " disaffected" Repealers : on those who will not be satisfied with the small " sop" thrown to them , as a taste ef what they may get , if they will only behave themselves decently towards the Government . "Conciliation" having proved inefficacious , coercion is to be tried . Thc defeat and ingloriousness of former prosecutions seems to bc forgotten ; and it would appear that the " gentlemen of the long robe" arc to make another effort to "Jay" the evil spirit of _Burgh-quay by the heels . At least , we infer as much from the following significant article from the fciii 3 H erald o f M onday last : —

      " How Jong , oh Catiline , wilt thou abuse our patience V was thc indignant exclamation of the Roman statesman to the Roman incendiary . With one voice all good men in the empire have long thus apostrophised Mi _' . O'Conkell— "Catiline , " as the Chancellor most truly termed him — " Catiline , without his courage . " Long impunity , however , has made the timid daring . It lias become a serious question whether , towards such a man as tliis , further forbearance may not savour of criminality ? A mountebank , harmless in the mere collection of liis pence , becomes dangerous by the circulation of those poisons to which the public may fall a sacrifice . It seems to us high time to crush a nefarious system , held , we are satisfied , in equal abhorrence by

      every ri » lit-unnded subject , whether Roman Catholic or Protestant . The reflecting Roman Catholic cannot fail to sec , that , by tlic present Minister , Irish agitation has been stripped of ail its pretences , for ho lina made equal law and equal favour a reality . The loyal Protestant must admit the justice of the principle which , deems civil distinoti . on to lie neither an inheritance nor a monopoly , but the legitimate reward of talent , guided by industry , andnot disqualified by sedition , Both must be blind indeed not to perceive , that as Cliristians and countrymen , they have a common interest in the prosperity of the realm , which , like a house , if divided against itself" , must fail . It is

      the sacred duty—it may bo the salvation of allfirmly to denounce tliat withering conspiracy by which , undor pretence of repeal , all that they hold dear or estimable in life may bo ultimately compromised . We say , advisedly—under pretence of Repeal . We deny that Mr . O'Connell ever serious _^ contemplated such a measure . Other considerations apart , h e is b y no means such a blockhead . With Queen , Lords , and Commons , opposed to it , he must feci its impracticability , save through a rebellion . Now , a rebellion , lie declares , he deprecates , and though he says it , we believe him . Of courso , we feel called upon to give some reason for so revolting an _admission . Wc believe him , then _.

      because rebellion would cast down the idol of kis worship—his own selfish interest—it would compromise , at once his profession and his safety . It is not only not incredible , it is on the contrary consistent , that he whose sole divinity has been self , should of all extremities deprecate rebellion . Little does it matter , however , what he weans , if what he does leads in that direction , —if the clear tendency of his whole course is to sow discontent among the peop le , to frustrate where he can , and to malign , ivhon ho euniiot frustrate , the good intentions ofthe Government . The most liberal concessions have regularly been met by this man ' s obloquy , and the practical , wo may call it the paternal benevolence

      ot the Minister has been encountered , but not c h ee k ed , by tho baseness of his ingratitude . Abundant evidence of our assertion crowds upon us , _^ We content ourselves with his conduct on the Maynooth grant and the Irish Academical Institutions Bill . What he docs mean we are not called upon to explain . If we were , we would answer unhesitatingly , that wc believe lua object , and his exclusive object , since the Emancipation Act , was the successful furtherance of a mendicant calling , disguised under the desecrated name of patriotism . But of what moment is his latent meaning , if his overt acts manifestly tend to mislead the ignorant and encourage the disloyal ? Wc repeat it—if the wise

      policy ot one of the wisest Ministers England ever saw is to be allowed its fair probation , this man and his abettors must no longer be permitted to evade law and neutralise legislation . It is now manifest that no Government , be it Whig or be it Conservative , cau satisfy Ml * . _O'Cc-xnell . The question then is , whether wc are to be ruled , as heretofore , under the English constitution , or coerced under the Irish dictatorship ? This is our alternative . It may happen that Mr . O'Connell may not succeed in the concealment of his meaning , or that a very mercurial and not very prudent population may mistake it , and then who can calculate on the very frightful , yet very possible contingencies ? May not the crisis really

      arise , which , to serve a purpose , this man affects to fear—a crisis in the convulsions of which his voice niay become powerless ? Who can answer for a phrensicd rabble—where dwells the magician who can modulate at will the yell of fanaticism or soothe the paryoxism of popular insanity ? If the crisis sh o uld arise , what excuse will the Minister , or what solace will the nation find in tho admitted fact , that the prime mover of . the madness never meant it ? We will go even further still . "Wc do not believe he would await it . We have little doubt that when the " poisons in jest" were circulating freely—when a whole empire was Hung into _convulsions—wliGii the hell-hounds of civil war tad

      been let slip , and wlicn law and life and property and civilization became the prey or playthings ot the infernal pack , —we have no doubt at all that the innocent author of such terrible calamities , without power to stay them or courage to share them , would consult in flight an ignominous safety . II is nature is not changed since the death of Mr . _Maguatu , or since the Irish secretaryship of the present Minister , or since the memorable night when Mr . _Douimiv evoked the " vow in heaven , "—that convenient vow behind which he hides and slanders , —that Christian vow which permits the sin and remits the responsibility . His whole career justifies our supposition , for what has it exemplified but one course of selfishness the most invariable and intense ? In him the characteristics of his country arc reversed . Her dauntless chivalry is changed to can tion , or rather to cowardice : her

      careless generosity to sordid avarice ; her heartthat gushing spring of all her thoughtless , but often noble impulses gives way , jn him , to the cool head to calculate , and the itching hand to grasp . We defy the vilest slave that flatters him to point out a single proposal which he did not precede or follow up b y a pecuniary demand . Far be it from us to attempt to enumerate the mendicant claims or patriotic imposts—the association rent—the pre-SL _^ nt-the _WP «» 1 rent-the _enrolntent smiling—the annual contribution , and the thousand other _soiil-sickenin" : _expedients by which a _& i ? peo PJ ' , _^ made less . It , however , Ireland s self-styled patriot press is credible , the collection since the Emancipation Act must amount to half a million !! The Court parasite , in the face of mankind , plies his base vocation , and aiows th e _vileness by which he earns his wages _, bliameless and servile , he is at lcast no hypocrite _, _liut where shall we parallel throughout history ' s

      a nuns a patriot holding out the Cap of Liberty for alms . He a patriot ! Then was _Akistides unjust ; PiTT corrupt * , and Mauvel a hire-? " , m c y * sm ' ely ' lhis svstem must have aa end . lhe nation expects , aud justice demands it . Let the same dauntless spirit which , despite everv obstacle , gave equality to the lloman Catholic , now exUud justice to the Protestant , by crushin _g a tyranny odious alike to both , Wo tell ' thc * Minisfer and we tell him advisedly , that all which is valuable in the Roman Catholic community will hail his interference with gratitude , and his success with joyHe

      . may depend upon it , though terror keeps them silent the intelligent arc disgusted with the transparent juggle , and the poor are tired out with the interminable extortion . Indeed it is high time . There was nevcrexercised under the mask of freedom * _mw iron , relentless , unforgiving despotism—no , not in the worst days of the _IVOl'St revolution . Wo appeal to the most infatuated follower of O'Coxxell whether , m lus wildest dreams , lie dare exercise a l ' ™_ , yhctlier lie dav < i _focath a scruple without be ing denounced—whether , on his verv first sten to

      wlia . _* " _thc-y told him \ vas _tfljerty , he did not find himsellc a slave ? If anv man doubts that passive obedience was the condition of his _feyoi-r , let him

      Peel And His "Difficulties." Irish "Conc...

      recur to the period of , the Reform Bill . That moa _. suse threw , as he then loudly boasted , half tha representation of Ireland into his hands . How ( l « f he exercise that power ? Did he select as members _, those who could expose the wrongs , while they es . emplified the genius of their country ? Alas ' , the land of Burke and Sheridan , Curran , and 1 *_ _-h . > _'ki . i , had mutes for its representatives I—obedient mutes , who did the bidding of their master , even to the strangling of their own independence ; a quiescent vassalage was notoriously their sole qualification . When the _Speaker claimed for them freedom oi speech , he might as well havo solicited the wisdom of Solomon ; of what use , indeed , could speech have been to those who were denied the faculty of tIiou « ht

      which , even had they possessed , they were prohibited from exercising ? In this , his nomination parliament , the lust of gain alone interfered with the lust of domination . Rut the ruling passion could not be restrained , and even thc hated Saxon might assume the livery , provided he purchased it at—" sav two thousand pounds . " At this very moment the " dictatorial principle is as avowed as ever—sixty slaves are to be returned at the next election , provided they consent to have no will of their own . This is a condition precedent to their elevation , if elevation , indeed , that can bc called wliich would degrade even M'Ualb ' s " coiv-boy" representatives . If , however thc system is not crushed—if the Conciliation _]]«] j convention is permitted to tax , and legislate , and

      denounce as usual , we are far from doubting this disgusting consummation . An _organised rei"n of terror is established , and those who . ire audacious enough to be independent , are left a choice between exile and proscription . But though absence mar screen the person , it cannot protect the reputation , Nofliirlifccun evade the winged venom of Conciliation Hall . __ Age , sex , station , patriotism—all that is honoured in life or even sanctified by death , only whets the obliquy of the Christian convention . Tha whole world has been its high way , and as its French prototype possessed its orator , so does Burgli . quay its slanderer of " the human , race . " Are we called on for examples ? Stand forth from your obscurity " ye base , brutal , and Woody Whics , " stunc bv

      the scorpion ingratitude you nourished ! Bear w i t n ess , Lord _Buougham , slavered now , and slan * dcred now—as if one poison could counteract anotlier ! Attest it , thou shade of George the Fourth , to whom on his knees the insolent irresponsible blandly promised a diadem and a palace , and whose memory he pursues with ceaseless _yjtu . peratiou . When a hollow pretext was wanting for fawning upon the _Melmwrnes and the _Noiimasbys , in order to get places for the tail , did he not dial cover that the Coercion Bill was Lord Guky ' s , which was Lord MELBounNE ' s measure ? and more shameless still ! did not Lord M £ LBoun . _\ i * meanly submit to take the credit of being incapable of doing the very things wliich , under Lord ( Jiiey . he

      had notoriously done ? Did not this venal demagogue pretend to discover that Lord _Nobmanbv had for thc first time governed Ireland on principles ol equality ; when it was notorious that the _adiuinistrations of" Lords Welleslkv and Anglesey , though parthilly unjust to Protestants , were founded on this principle ; and did not _LordNonMAxnv , like Lord _Meluoubne , meanly submit to profit by what he knew to be foully false ? Again—did the virtues ot _Georgu , the pious and the good—did the sailor frankness of his son , William IV ., secure thorn an immunity ? Where is the exception among the rival sections _^—which of their leaders—wc name tlicm—Peel , Kusseii , Roebuck—has escaped ? But , alas how Bhould they , when even he who

      concentrates the perfections of them all—he , England ' s glory , Europe ' s champion , the envy , were he net the admiration of the whole world—when Wellisoro . _*** himself has had his setting splendour bayed at by these mongrels ? Did the lustre of tlieir talents , or the memory of the services lavished upon tiie lloman Catholics of Ireland , shield 1 _' lunket or the unburied Busiie ? Was the modesty of England ' s matrons , or the valour of her soldiers , _unVevilcd ; waa not her population wholesale spat upon _&* " Saxon ?" Why was France insulted in the person of her Sove » reign , the lustre of whose crown is lost in that of liis virtues ? Was it meet that liberty should be wounded in the persons of Mma and Esrarif . ro , or if Russian absolutism required that her Emperor should be

      branded as a " monster , " was it to maintain slander's impartiality that the peaceful tomb of Washington should be outraged , and republican America planed under proscription ? These are your demagogues Your tribunes ofthe people ! Your liberty-brawlers Your Irish toleration . mongers ! Give power to such men !! Why the very graves of buried despots would disgorge them to do homage to their masters . The grovelling reptiles , spawned from the Liffey ' s slime upon Burgh-quay , perfect in themselves , are also specimens of tlieir tribe throughout the world , Tho transformation from the demagogue to tho despot is of course . Give thorn but authority , and tlicy are sure to avenge themselves on those principles of freedom by proclaiming whicli they hvpocritically

      attained it . No matter what distinction adventitious circumstances may have drawn between them—whether robed in the purple _ofDoMirus , or disfigured by tho rags of Uobksi'ierbe , they are all the same . Thu same infernal fetters link the whole fraternity—the same frigid philosophy which shuts out mnn and nature from their sympathies—thcsaineliava , crafty , mercy-hating spirit , which , in our memories , crushed throne and altar in the name of liberty , and then mocked its goddess from thc scaffold ofthe _guillotina . May Heaven avert the sway of such men from deluded Ireland ! Thc mild majesty of _Jsngland ' _s Q . UEEN would be superseded for the worse even by the Council of Three lluudred , and our holy Church needs neither light nor purification from the fires of the Inquisition . Wc have not the least objection to Mr . O'Consell ' s antics , so long as they merely lender /«/ _wscZ / ridiciilous . He may parody ambition to the top of his bent , in the robes of an alderman , or tr aves t ie

      Punch in ' the chair of a lord mayor—ho may even befool himself upon "Tara . of the Kings , " and bow his " _uncrowned" head for the Milesian cap from whicli Saxon tyranny has purloined the bells : but when he approaches thc very verge of rebellion—when ha supersedes the legislature by tlic levying of taxes , and thc courts of Jaw by the creation of tribunals , and the executive by what he boasts to bc a monster organisation—when a weekly congress holds its permanent session in the metropolis of Ireland , despatching , through the country its missionaries of sedition—when every authority , institution , and establishment in the laud are made the subjects of ridicule or slander ; and when the unhappy people , now impoverished by mercenary exactions , and now inflamed by revolutionary falsehoods , arc taught to repudiate the Government of England for the sympathy of America or the fraternisation of Francewc do say it is an unnatural state of things , which should lie at once terminated . Sir _RoBKn-r Peel

      may rest assured that the Roman Catholic communit y , their nobility , gentry , aye , and avastpor tion of their clergy also , grateful for the conciliatory spirit of his system , await but his signal to temler tlieir co-operation . The ancient Roman Catholic names of Ireland—the Fixgals , the _Trimulestoxs , the Gokiianstowxs , the Bellbws , are not to be found in the muster roll of sedition . They stand aloof in significant estrangement , and represent _thouKinds and tens of thousands who have long been disgusted at the shameless imposture by which their body have been misrepresented , impoverished , and disgraced .

      Ireland , long compromised by the extremes ot uoui parties , relies tor relicf from both on the firmness _fif the Minister . We speak in no spirit of" exclusiveness—wo stop not to ascertain the colour of his creed who evades the law er violates the constitution . Whether it be the first Protestant magistrate in d _><"* land , or the paltriest mountebank that tumbles on Burgh-quay , let each , we say , have an equal measure of justice . By this just system , promptly , nnd rigidly , and fearlessly canned out , the o eop le ot Ireland will feel that they are under the rule of an impartial and a paternaf Government .

      This article is not an ordinary one ; nor is it mm an ordinary pen . Assuredly it is not from any cf d _' usual writers in tke Herald . The very / om of tlio article , —to say nothing of its power and force , so far superior to the ordinary twaddle of Grandmama , — bespeaks this . The Herald is the Ministerial organ : and the article in question bears all tlio extern al ' nlpress of demi-authority . It is intended to serve two or three purposes : to frighten O'Coxxell , in tlio first instance , by letting him know that mischief towards him is brewing ; to pave tho way | ' _f (! ff legislatorial measures to put down political agitations and political societies in Ireland , and to secure the support of the Whigs to such measures , seeing that the measures of " conciliation" to _toMth _bothfW" _^ wive parties , have failed to satisfy even indeg'ce ; and it is intended also to quiet the perturbed sunt of Orangeism , by showing the teeth of the LAW woe more ready to bite against the file of Repeal .

      The picture that the _Lonn Ciuscellou drarsof O'Coxxell , in the article just quoted , ( for we clargo the article to 7 « i ») is a masterly one ; one , we _giv _, to say it , —which the actions of the original nove than justify . Tho shameless mendicity of the _Birgh j quay " patriots" has long stunk in the nostrils -f atrue lovers of freedom : and the tyranny cm » cb » over thought and action by thc imperious die _»[ ° _Jj has long been the scorn of every Mend to pi'" * liberty . These things make it difficult for tfc n » Repealers—those who are so from princip _le—bMthey recognise the vight of all people to judge otuw own wants , and supply their own ncccssitic' _^ ' transgressions of tho first principle of indepe'J _*" 1 " _- by the money-gorging freedom-denying junta * ' _® " Conciliation Hall , " we say , make it diificlt _MJ the actcrs-out of the democratic creed to tow " *• them , _became _jie that handles pitch must _cx- _'rf _ - ' badefiiiid * _tJll Jif the THREAT conveyed ,- _t _••• 4

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 4, 1845, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_04101845/page/4/