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      Thomas Coopeb. The Ch Aeti8t3 Wokks. To ...

      THOMAS COOPEB . THE CH AETI 8 T _3 _WOKKS . To be "bad of John Cleave , and all booksellers . ( Price One _Sbiliing . ) TWO ORATIONS AGAIKST

      TAKING AWAY _TTTTMAX LIFE , ITKDER any Circumstances ; and in explanatiom and J defence of the misrepresented . doctrine of _"Uon . _Enastauce . " ( Delivved iu the _XationaWHall , Holbora , n the evenings of February 25 th and March 4 th . ) "These orations are the outpourings ef a mind that will make itself heard , in spite of the abu » e of hireling demagogues _. or the misrepresentations of pious _trictotersj just because'tis gifted with genius , and inspired by that enthusiasm ever produced by a quick percep tion of truth , and a profound love and veneration for justice , aad its subject , MASf . A free , generous , loving nature speaks out in every page . "Wedo not doubt thatmany a sneer will be called forth bja perusal of this work ; but we ask those who _esBEs , to smote it iftheycan . " --iVoIfttJ «' _"Vm Jtex & ew .

      . _ ... "Mr . Cooper is a man in whose efforts we teke groat interest . He possesses undeniable abilities bf no mean _« rder , moral courage beyond many , and we believe a _ainca-e and fervent desire to do real and permanent good toils ' ownorder . ' Ho has lately excited _bsth surprise . and admiration by ' The Purgatory of Suicides , ' 'The . Baron ' s Yule Feast , ' and ' Wise Saws and Modern _Instances ; " he is a man that has been , and will be , heard ; lie is destined , if we mistake not , to fill a ' position , ia connexion with the progress ofhis own class , bothintaresting and important . "For these reasons we canuot but rejoice in his adoption of sound , and healthy sentiments . The manliness with which he avows , and the boldness and zeal with which lie urges , the doctrines of peace and love , respect for human rights and moral power , in these -lectures , are worthy of all honour . " —Nonconformist .

      ** Ur . Cooper's style is intensely clear andforcible ; that it displays great earnestness , and fine human sympathy ; and that it is in the highest degree . manly , plain , and _Vigorons . Mr . Cooper has evidently expended much time in eelf-cuMvatlon , and is ofa high and noble order ol _intellect . —1 / bnung Advertiser .. _, " T / e feel it difficult to speak in terms of sufficient praise ofthese most eloquent orations on the doctrine cf _nonxesisiance ., Sure ire are . that Ur . Cooper—much as lie las already done to prove his title to the admiration of bis _countrjmen—has never yet done anything more -honourable alike to his character as a man and his reputation as a poet , than this large-hearted outpouring » f the purest and most heroic philosophy . "—Sentinel . Chapman , Brothers , 121 , Newgate-stnet .

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison "Rhvme . In Ten Books . ( One Vol ., 7 s . 6 d . ) "The most wonderful effort of intellectual power produced within the last century . " _—28 eBritannia . Here we have a genuine poem _springing out of the spirit of the times , and indeed out ofthe heart , and experience of one who has wrestled mth and suffered in it . liis no other than a poem in ten books , "by a Chartist , and who boldly sets , his name and his profession of Chart ' _-m on the title-page . It is plain that be glories in Bis political faith more than in his poetry ; nay , his verse is bnt the vehicle of that faith , let , nevertheless , it is 3 vigorous anS most efficient -rehicle . We must cordially _sonfess that we hare read the whole with a feeling of unfeigned astonishment . —Eclectic Review .

      "We hail the writer as a hew power in the world of poetry , the ruler of a hew domain , as yet but little , "known , ' but which the public cannot fail to recognise , when its kings ' of thought shall put on their singing _, robes , and with fresh voice and soul speak its praises to file world . "— Senttaet . " The book possesses mind—mind which make itself _tmd understood , and rrhich , therefore , demands _reipeu . — _dtfteiuci-m . " Pore , _isligions , patriotic , he has not a line inimical to lie great law of _progression . "M en may read him as a preacher poet . His lay is for all time . It will make the lieart of the hopeful glow with a holy iare when he who penned it bas _passed from among men . As man Strengthens in knowledge and love—as passion or prejudice expire—as _Teasos _s _»«»« «»»* "t _™™ _*«*• mastery —„ in tnts _nighJsoaled man ' s work be increasingly reverenced and read . " — GeneralAdvertiscr .

      "Well conceived—wrought out with no ordinary amount of power—clearly and concisely expressed . *'Illuminated Magazine . " Oneof the most extraordinary literary productions of the day—we may say of tke present _age—a work whieh will gain for its author a reputation as lasting , if not as great , as that of Byron , Spenser , and Milton . " —Kentish Independent . "Intensity , passion , is his great characteristic ; and fiiis wiU constitute the main source of his Influence , and , tmlesi we are ranch mistaken , will render the' Purgatory of Suicides' as popular in the political , as Pollock's Course of Time' ia tbe religions , world . —Ifoftin _^ JiaBt Jtcvicw .

      "One of the noblest creations of modern times , deeply impregnated with power nnd beauty , and glowing in every page with the illummings of searching and passionate thought _. He -wields an intellect of mighty power . We shall not halt in asserting that in the catalogue of England ' s greatest fords mnst _hereafter be inscribed the name of Thomas _Coopeh . " —Sheffield Iris . " One of those rare works which appear at but distant Intervals of time . It proclaims the author to b ? gifted _^ rith the spirit of poetry in thehighest degree . "—Lckesterthire Mercury . "Tke whole work is one which must impress the reader with the conviction that Cooper , the Chartist , is a man of lofty genius , and must and will be remembered with his land ' s _language "—Boston Herald .

      WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES . ( Two Vols , 15 s . ) "A series of Crahbe-like sketches , In prose . They M _£ manifest portraits , and admonish us of the author ' s Skill in taking the literal likenest . "—Athenanim . "We have read some of thase stories with deep interest _^ and few , we are _persuaded , will rise from _thsdr jernsal but with feelings all tlie warmer for what they bave read . _Thsv can scarcely fail to be popular trith 'the masses ; ' and , upon tbe whole , we think tbey deserve to be so . "—Atlas . " Tkeauthor excuses the sternness of his pictures by alleging their truth . The justification is all-sufficient . Chartist as these sketches are , tbey are healthier , in t * _ne and sentiment , than the tawdry fictions Tamped up fJr _thexeadjog public bj _sme popular writers , that profess to exhibit the life of the labouring classes . "— The "Britannia .

      " Of a truth , this Chartist agitation has thro _* vn to the surface no moreremariinble a man than Thomas Coopeb , and ire much question if there ba any oue so fitted to represent the manmactming _maajes , to _describa their wants , and expound their _nishes , as he . —Kentish Independent . "Many ofthe storivs exhibit considerable _vigour of pencil , shrewd sense , and clear-sighted observation , accompanied with a kindly , genial feeling and toleration , we were not prepared for from bo determined a polititian . "— Glasgow _Citisen .

      Also , iust published , THE . BARON'S YULE FEAST . A Christmas _lihrras . In Four Cantos . . ( One Vol ., 5 s . ) "There is a rough earnestness , both in its thoughts Sad Terse , which is strictly in accordance with the genius of our ballad _minstrelsy , if it does not show , in point of ability , an advance- on the author ' s previous produc tions , it yet shows that he can clwuge his baud without loss of power . "—The Britannia . " Mr . Cooper appears to much greater advantage in this seasonable ' poeia than he did in liis more ambitions attempt of " The Purgatory of Suicides . " " The Baron's * fule Feast" has a genial spirit , various subjects , and a popular _animated style . The poem is the best of Mr . Cooper's productions . "—Spectator .

      " The most chai win ; and fantastic feature in this little volume , with its right dainty title-page , is the exuberance , and , _sooili to _ssy . the appo » iteness of the different songs « hauntedf : _und the ingle in Torksey Hall . Thomas _Coopefstia lit sceaisbrimming over with this spontaneous poetry , 'n book altogether is an original : it is just Suited fort " t -sinter ' s fireside , orer a posset andenn's . " w-Sun . "Let U throw away his Chartist notions—and _Vfhat has ; to _< _lo with rode questions of politics , of Charters , an ; 5 iticiil faiths ; _, creeds , and tbelike ?—and te may takt ' t flare high up in the Tump'o of Fame , as One of EngU i d i _-greatest aud _truest-hearted poets . The man whocanit l . le such exqnisitsgems as _thislitfle volume abounds witl , —ay . aHd he will , carve out for himself a name as enai i _* Jg as the language in wliich he _pen _= tiie

      ' thought 3 _thattrenthe , a _3 . 1 _worustltttbun ! . ' Altogether , 1 this is the best Ghristmas bouk we have yet seen . "—. Leicester ( Tory ) Journal . " We are happy to meet Mr . Cooper iu this light _deparci ment of poetical labour , and to find that his muse can for i a while lay aside her sternness , and , ceasing to brood o ' er 1 Iranian "wrongs , can yield to tlie _impulses of the season , l and sympathise with tins luisilier emotions of social fes-The poem befor .: us proves how much the earlier ( efforts of the author were imbued with true poetic feeling . ' . The notes exhibit a le : irni _> _-g that is surprising when tbe 1 writer ' s history is tak n into account . And yet this sclft acquired _learning is bat onr of the many singular features t that characterlss tbr productions of this singularly _jriftcd I man , a poet of Nature ' * own making , whose extraordinary j genius cannot fail , ere Ion ? , _tq exhibit still higher manif festations of its _powsrs and versaruitv . " —Kentish

      Indeg _p-B-. dent . "A clever fellow i < " our Thomas , tlie Chartist , full of t tough common sense , and as much imagination as could p possibly find room in - - _- ¦ had so crammed with the hard k knotty prosaims ot politics . On the present _occasion he lias essayed , in his oira peculiar way , a metrical itory , w which , although at tiin-s _uiwt . u' . h enough , is written ninth a heartiness S : ut forms a pleasant relief to the B' _Bamby- _pamby _rhyTf-s of most of our poetasters whu have ibi bubjc ofthe moon and stars shove , ana the streams with itt theflow : rsbelow , till ordinary folks are sick and tired of ! fa < hearing of them . Wc have not for a long time met with n a volume of poetry that _* ve could read through with half _» _£ _» _£ much pleasure . " * — _Ci-.-i . toniJJterary _Jle _^ ister . _Fnbnshtd br _tf-jrv _-iriah How _. _jSOD , Piccadilly .

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      WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . Adjournment of . the Spring Sessions for the Trial of Felons . ¦ J _^ _TOTICE IS 'HEREBY GIVEN , that tlie Sminc i > General Qeabter Sessions of thc Peace , for the _We-st Hiding of she County vf _Yorlc , ( will be holden hy adjournment , at Bradford , » n Monday , ihe Eighteenth day of May next , at Ten o ' clock iu the Forenoon , and by further adjournment from thence will re holden in SiiEri-iEin , on _WahxesiV . iy , Ue Twentieth Day of thc same month of May next . atTon o'Cioi-k in the Foi-cuoon , FOR THE ! TRIAL OP FELONS ANJ > PERSONS INDICTED FOR MISDEMEANOR , ; , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons _u-ho stand _uj » on llee > . gi ) _ii ; _ini-t ' , and others _having business at the said Sessions , arc required to attend the Court .

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      . - MUSIC FOR THK if _ANT . _r . v ., ; ,,: THE MUSICAL HERALD , edited by , an , eminent . Writer . A New Periodical , containing , four quarto pages of select music , and four of entertaining aiidinstruetive Musical Literature , will be published ontho Second of May , and eveiy succeeding Sveek , " for _ttw' small charge of Twopence . _Notwtthstuhding its unprecedented cheapness , all lovers of music _areo invited'to-inspect this Specimen of anew Era .- To . be-had , ofaR Booksellers . This is another step towards the promotion of a musical taste in this country which deserve , general enocuragement The Music is both beautifularid correct .

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      RALLY FOR POLAND ! ' ; ' _' _'¦" . ' j . ' ' \ . _, ' . "¦ _REMEMBER THE M _^ TYRS ! ; . In memory ofthe Martyrs recently slaughtered by Poland ' s oppressors , and for the advancement of the Polish cause , a Public Meeting will _beholden in the National Hall , Holborn , oa Wednesday evening _. May 20 th . Further particulars iii future annouiiceliiehts . ,. . . _'" . " . ; . : ; By Order of the . Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Regeneration , , f - ;¦ G . _JuLUJf , ' Har ' nkt , Sec ' _. _^ pro . tern . '

      The Northern Stm Saturday; May 0,1816.

      THE NORTHERN STM SATURDAY ; MAY 0 , 1816 .

      The Struggle. The Conference.—The Strike...

      THE STRUGGLE . THE CONFERENCE . —THE STRIKE . : .. The masters have only to be firm , and they must con quer in the end . — "Vide limes of Wednesday . The men have only to remain true and they must con quer in the end . —Northern Star .- '

      The Times , true to its savage _calling _. has attempted to reply to our article , of Saturday last , upon the strike still continuing among the building trades ! It is evident that this champion of micIdJe class op-: pression has ' bren enlisted in ' the Masters' Union with the view of urging upon tlieir order'the necessity of meeting national co-operation by general resistance . The great central union for the protection of the rights of industry has not been in active operation for yet twelve months and behold its _threatening justice to the , labouring classes fills , monopoly with alarm and calls forth the heaviest peals of the Thunderer to awaken the government to a sense of the danger that must result from the PRESENT

      UNPROTECTED STATE OF CAPITAL . Tiiere is no principle of political economy , no rule of right , no form of . justice , no code of morals that the Times is not prepared to violate , rather than longer allow labour the poor privilege of suffering destitution in quiet rather than _suftbr degradation without a murmur . . The Times bas made some . assertions so false , and ventured upon some so irresistibly ludicrous , that we think we best servo the cause oflabour , by laying them nakedly before the thoughtful , and reasoning upon tiiem calmly . This advocate ef masters' oppression insolently informs the world , tbat the great central union of the trades was established for the purpose of encouraging strikes , aad that it now upholds them by a bonus of ten

      shillings a man per , week to all who shall be on strike . Upon the contrary , the very reverse is the factthe central union being established ,- not for the purpose of promoting or _caeouvagin g ' strike * , but for tlie just and , creditable purpose . ' of , preventing : strikes , when injudicious or uncalled-for , and of maintain ing strikes only when they become necessary to resist the encroachment of employers / . . And _^ will any man say , that a body _orgatiiaed . for « such a purpose , clearly within the provisions of ' nil existing laws , was unnecessary or _unnecdedj when be knows the unfair advantage that has ever been taken of the unresisting trades by their powerful and protected masters . Hence , we very clearly show that : tbe Times is in ignorance of , or has wilfully mis-stated , the great central union . 1

      Tkisjournal ' _st , arguing throughout as if capital was everything . and labour nothing more than capitalists in their caprice deign , to aceord to it . Arguing as if society always suffered , from labour ' s struggles for protection , and never from masters ' tyranny , tells iis that labour is not like its produce , that while it must be ' sold for any thing the bidder chooses to offer , its produce may be stored for speculation without loss or detriment until the necessities

      of society niay yield to tbe . _speculator his anticipated profit . The words upon wliich the Times reasons are so . truly , applicable to the condition of the working classes , and so eminently susceptible of a different conclusion to tbat drawn from them by the Thunderer , that wc _^ offer tiiem as a _roavbhihg gem to our readers . The Timessays : — ... ; . . ; ¦ ' A day lost can never be regained . It is last for ever and for every purpose to liim who could hate produced it , and to the country that should equally with the producer have profited by the production . it is utterly gone and passed away . " ; . •• > . ......... ... Now , leaving the question of preference for class out of consideration , and _ar-juing upon the principle that time is money , and that .

      "The value of anything ; _; Is just exactly what it will brih ™; » and presuming far a moment that the . raah who produces ( _regardlere of the necessity of society , that would merely use him as a means of ministerin <» to its own comfort ) lias just as good a right to _uphusbandand store _lii-i liealtii , and speculate upon his labour , as the master who employs it , and who ; without reference to the convenience of society , speculates upon its produce . Let us see , in such case , whether the day's labour lost for the day by him who strikes against a reduction , is LOST FOR EVER . A tradesman resists a reduction in liis wages from

      £ 1 os . to £ 1 per week . He strikes for _eight weeks and 13 idle , but in the end he triumphs ; or trade invites liim to demand an increase in his wages of 5 s . a week—he strikes for eight weeks and succeeds . Then his position stands thus : he receives £ 55 for the forty . four weeks he was at work , at £ 1 5 s . a week ; whereas , if bo had not struck , he would have received £ 52 for the whole year . Thus , by thc strike , lie lias saved eight weeks' labour , and has increased his yearly _waj-es bj £ 3 . Wo would ask , then , if bis eight week ' s idleness was time" lost to _iiira for ever ? or we would ask if there is an inhecnt right in the _Hiaster-ekss to store the _iwfaw oft

      The Struggle. The Conference.—The Strike...

      his labour to . tlie _etfd that _^ _ts _$ ' _fyk _^ ° _? _$ * [¦ _^^^ , l _^ r _^ ii \ h _)^ . i _^^^ _Potion is denied to the producer ? Yes , ' we may be told that . sucb has nerer been the result of strikes _; but that , on the / contrary , they ended with' loss of time and reduction of . _wage 8 True ; and it was to correct these abuses-to prevent the recurrence , of such failures , that the Central National Association was . organised ; and it is because the masters see the probability of the promised result being realised , that they , too , _hivte resolved _i-upon forming themselves into a Central National Tyrant Association . .. . : - - ' _!' . . ' .,.,

      The Times speculates , ' as is its custom , upon the gullibility of society : This Ready Reckoner informs us , with laughable precision , ofthe exact number of men who struck , tbe critical -number of those who have returned to work , and the precise estimate of those ' who are willing to abandon the central "anion upon condition of being restored to their employment ' ' It further informs us that there are hands enough in , the South UNEMPLOYED , to supply the place of the refractory . "Vfe wilt presume this . guess-to be

      correct , and , if so , we would strongly recommend . thpsa employed in the South to keep their idle reserve at home , until the struggle _' _forthcir rights '' in ; the North is overj and in ' the end the trade generally will . reap the benefit . We would-further recommend tho directors of . 'the central union W ' end their ableat _j their best conducted , lecturers to the South without an hour's delay , in order to expound the nature ofthe struggle , tlie character of the proposed combination of . capitalists , the _^ _^^' objects of the _^ central association _^ and what the inevitable result of a . yielding upon the

      part of the trades must be . " _' '' . ' _::-. '' As we have been johg in the habit '' of conducting greatinational movements , ouropinion is entitled to some weight and respect with the directing body , and we now tell them '' _• - ' "

      _., ' _. /; , . ; _- : _jnkTm _^^ _- _% _]^ , _T _^ i _^ . _'tw . ' i _^ _W' _-. _- _-. This ia the season ifor a , generous -and : a ; timely ,- , because a profitable / expenditure of their _surplus funds ; W _* e take the _ifollqwing sigm from ' The Times as indicative of the course the , _inaa ' terB . under , the guidance * of the' Home Secretary -mean to pursue : — —• \ ., _^ ' . It may very ; fairly be'asked , and it probably ! was asked of the Home Secretary by the deputations that waited upon him Iatelyfrora the principal scenes of this , agitation , whether a Bystem of combination and of terror such as the great central union appears to'enforce and to exercise over the ' , working population of _JSngland , is _consiitent with good order and sound principles of municipal goverhmenti" " ' _" ' " .. ' _" ' . ' , ' , : " .- ••

      _-Does not the above smell strongly of another , ' and perhaps a more tyrannical' Masters and Servants Bill f : And who ' doubts that ; the _Le ague and the ¦ Whi gs will support their , order in this _neyr . _onaliaiight upon the rights of labour . > And ,- again , we may ' ask , will the directing body allow iis"to'be taken by ' _a ' ur _^ prise , ' or shall we : ' n 6 t ; b _^ _-p ; rep _» red ' ' ' _this ; time . _r .: We remind the directors that they _. owe their / origin and their power to the strength evinced in that combination Which overthrew " : "•' ' ¦ : ' _* - '"' ' ' - r

      . THE MASTERS ' AND : SERYANTS BILL , and if they have becoming _, respect for . themselves , they will not allow , the country to discover that what labour accomplished without them it failed to achieve under their , guidance . . .. . We are . informed by the Chronicle of this morning , that the masters see a terror in centralization which they do not recognise in sectional action . They have resolved upon making abandonment of the central association the qualification to slave and live . . They acquiesce in the ( right of all to join their local associations , because the tyrants are aware of their sectional impotency , because they , are conscious of their ability" to bring the whole ' strength of their united

      body to bear upon local strikes when ever they threaten danger to capital , diminution of profit , or overthrow to tyranny ; Yes , ' working" men , we propheciecl there was TE RROR IN THE NAME OF DUNCOMBE , that there was danger in his consistency , damage to corruption in his . eloquence - and ruin to sectional faction in his perseverance ; and now that he has made you great , powerful , and strong ; now that his honoured name is a tower of strength to the righteous ,, and a terror to the evil doer , they ask you to desert your leader , to abandon your directors , and to marshal yourselves in a pigmy warfare against giant capital , under officers whom they can delude , sycophants whom they can flatter , creatures whom they can overcome .

      The masters see danger in centralized combination , and whimsically enough _, ' the way in which they prove its injustice and inutility is , by constituting themselves into a central national union of _oppres " sors . If they see danger in centrilizntion you must see a corresponding value in it . The Times tells us , that the organization of the Trades is more ; dangerous than it has been since 1834 . If there is danger in its power , it is only . dangerous to oppression , and its danger to oppression should constitute its value in

      your eyes . The sword of capital is drawn , -and labour , to hold its ground , must throw away tlio scabbard . Defvat now is ruin for ever , kiumph now is perpetual victory . Let us then , in our next number , be able to communicate the cheering intelligence that every district has its lecturer , and that an alliance has been formed with thc Trades of Ireland , whose co-operation ia- worth courting , who arc ripe for action , arid who , when the struggle comes , will not be found wanting in the performance of thoir duty .

      If further proof of masters' determination to resist every legal protection for labour be -required , it' will be found in the following ' threatened resistance to the Ten Hours'Bill * . — Meeting of the Association of Mils Owners , —A meeting of this association was held at three o ' clock yesterday , at Mr , Heron ' s offices , Princess-street , for the purpose Of further considering what steps should be taken in relation to the Factory Bill introduced into tho House , of Commons . The , _meeting was attended by various mill-owners , representing the local associations of the neighbouring towns , as well as by spinners and manufiicturers of Manchester and the immediate neighbourhood . Mr . R . II . Greg presided , and after hearing from ' him some ' statements as to what had passed ia

      London with refereuco to the Factory Bill , the feelings of the meeting was expressed with the greatest unanimitya resolution _bring adopted without a single dissentient , _expvessive of the opinion of the meeting , that the bill now before Pai'liament was' a measure impolitic and _unjust , and opposed to the best interests bf the operatives themselves . ' It was resolved unanimously , that the most strenuous opposition should be given to tho bill , and that a deputation consisting of tho following gentlemen _sliouldproceed to London'for ' tlie purpose of carrying the resolution of the meeting : intoVffect : —Mr , Alderman Murray , Mr ) Lewis _Yfilliiinis , Mr . W . lt . Greg , Mr . John Sliawcross , and Mr . William Taylor , of Preston . It is expected that the . ' deputation will be joined by one or two gentlemen now in : ' London . _—ifancfiestsr Cfuardian of Wednesday . ' - ¦

      We trust that we have now said enough to . _Oni bolden the trades in their struggle , to impress upon the directors the necessity * of courage , caution , and vigilance , and to inspire the trades with the conviction of tho indispensable necessity of electing good men and true to represent them in the forthcoming conference ; where labour ' s battle must be fought without flinching , where labour ' s struggle must be persevered in to the death , and where labour ' s courage may be crowned with ' success , and Labour ' s battle once begun , Bequeatheafrom Weeding sire to son , , Th » 'baffled oft is ever won .

      Every working man who can spare a penny or a halfpenny , should send it forthwith to the central national association to enable them to carry on the striigald with credit to themselves and profit to the eause oflabour .

      The Heart Of Erin. So Then The Man Who "...

      THE HEART OF ERIN . So then the man who " reigns in the hearts of'hia countrymen" is consigned , "like a cask of small beer , " as the Times informs us , to a coal cellar iu the Ilouse _tsf Commons , from which light is all but excluded , and with , a Saxon menial , whose office appears to partake more of the spy than the attendant , as his only companion ; and this is the present situation of the lineal descendant of Bryan _Boru , to commemorate whose triumphs for _Jreland _her-LiberatorsclcctcdClwis-aU _' tlie crowning fieldi o [ lis

      The Heart Of Erin. So Then The Man Who "...

      _renown-4 » 8 the spot to wind-up Ireland's peaceful struggle _agamathW Saxon ' _oppressow _^^ Often as we have found it our duty _^' criticise and camuro _« eme of the vagaries by which Smith- O'Brien sought to prove the superiority of the Repeal agitation brer all other _Agitations , - vfe arei _notT amongst ; those wiio would nicely scan or punctiliously balance an Irish Member's regard and deference for- parliamentary etiquette , pariiamentary _UBage , parliamentary precedent , or parliamentary convenience . ; > . . ,

      If we were . _disposed _. to measure Smith O'Brien ' s conduct by any of those whimsioal standards , justice would compel us to take a more extensive review of the whole _. case ,. and its ., several ; bearings , than the Saxon press or the maudlin portion : of the Conciliation patriots appear disposed to extend , to what appears to us one ofthe grossest insults ever offered to a nation , one of the most flagrant violations of parliamentary _usagei _as _' _vrell as the most contemptible revenge ; upon a , ; pxoud , "unbcnding , daring spirit . The . Coercion Bill is admitted on all hands to be severe beyond precedent , and unconstitutional beyond

      defence .. 'Added to which , the only colourable pretext fbr its hasty and inconvenient adoption by the Commons is , the respect stamped upon it by the hasty and inconsiderate-manner in which it was rushed through the Lords . The Bill is admitted to be unconstitutionai . The Bill is allowed to be Anti-Irish ; The Bill is proclaimed impotent , inefficient , arid incapable of arresting the offences against which _itJB . aimed .. _: _i-. r-. _7 , _<> j !¦; . '¦ := !/' :. ¦ :.. ¦ _¦ - _i-:-These admissions , by many . who have supported the first _feadingl _' upon , the principle of convenience , added to the loud , denunciation ; of its provisions by

      the Irish liberals ,, would of themselves , in our judgment , sanction uneonstitutionil ,. unprecedented , and _inconvenienUpposUioiii . " England ' s . weakness , quoth Mr . O'Connell , is Ireland ' s opportunity . Smith O'Brien ' s unprecedented courage and constitutional resistance to unconstitutional tyranny , wai pre-eminently calculated to embarrass the English Minister , by arresting his commercial polioy until he had withdrawn his fangs from Wsh-liberty . How often has Ireland been told-that her . people should not stand upon tbe'nicety of etiquette with her Saxon

      oppressors ? ' How Often has Conciliatieh Hall _reechoed the plaudits . of penniless beggars , when the "Liberator has expressed his de termination not only ; to abuse all the forms of the House , but to die upon the floor rather than permit the chartered privileges of a banking company to operate against the interests of the Irish people ? How often has he hurled defiance at the . _CONSTITUTIONAL call of the House , which , as an Irish- Member _^ he VOWED , HIS -, DETERMINATION TO : RESIST . ; and how , with tears in his eyes , he has clasped our hand , and thanked . us for unprecedented and unconstitutional resistance' to the forma of the House of Commons . ;

      Does he forget , when shuffling ,-trembling , and pleading in mercy , ' we marshalled the Irish Repealers upon the floor of the . House , and in defiance of all the rules of the House , in defiance of the Speaker's call to order , we , with others , stood upon the floor , and not only- cheered him but waved onr hats in defiance of the Saxon threat to censure him ? Does he forgeti onr _uiicpnutitutioiial uproar for more than ten minutes , which compelled the , Speaker ,

      amid the renewed cheers ' of hearty Irishmen wh © denied ' obedience'to precedent , forms and constitution , to withhold the threatened censure , and award him a . triumph over his _arrogant Saxon oppressors ? Does _he'forgetj that in the fullness of his gratitude he subsequently clasped our hand , and _withtears in his eyes said , " If I offended you or insulted you on Monday last , if I beg your pardon will you forgive me ?—for , as William Finn says , I now see the only time to know our friends is when we want them .

      YOU HAVE GAINED A TRIUMPH FOR IRELAND AND FOR ME ! " Aye , we gained the triumph , but itwas by . the violation , and not by the mawkish observance , ofthe rules and precedents of the Ilouse of Commons . Smith O'Brien's error was not that he loved Ireland too well to be a party to her oppression , but his error was that his zealous , energetic , proud , and consistent opposition , placed the mere truckling opposition of the would-be patriots in its proper light . However Ministerial convenience and . free trade necessity may afford a passing eulogium to the dignified but constitutional resistance of O'Connell , the young heart of Ireland will respond to the more

      generous and genuine opposition of the descendant of ' Born . Aye , in spite of the warm-faced patriot who boasted of Ireland ' s constitutional means of _manufacturing a million pikes in the week ; in spite of servile obedience to his loader ' s commands , justice will yet be done to the man who has dared to carry into practice the 'theory that has constituted Ireland ' s great moral' lesson for ths lost twenty years . If no other benefit accrues to Ireland from the courage of ' 0 'BRii * N--if his abseneei shall insure the easy transit of the measure through the house , the indifference evinced . by those , who hare urged him to the course _willhave the inevitable effect of separating the zealous and sincere irom the profligate and

      insincere . ,. ., -... It was impossible much longer to preserve the _connection between clean " ' hands and " an itchy palm . " It was impossible for a gentleman of character , and -with love for that character , to remain a party to extracting _thousands from paupers , that idlers and profligates may revel upon the fund . The Irish people will , recognise * in the disgusting love of precedent urged by Tom Steele , the foregone resolution to dispose of Smith _O'Bbibn , * but will Ireland tolerate such a course ? Will . the Irish continue to hurl defiance at theSaxon invader and . oppressor , and then nicely scan the forma ofthe house and the precedent of Par

      liament , in order to frame an indictment against one whose crime is . love , of Ireland ? No ; if „ we know Ireland , we feel convinced that the attempt to smother sympathy for the insulted brave will burst into national regret for withholding timely justice , and the delay will but add to . the triumph of . the martyr . Whatis there degrading in being confined even in a felon ' s dungeon ? That ' s not the in 3 ult . The insult is in Irish acquiescence in the Saxon tyranny . The insult is not to O'Bribn it is to Ireland : and the insult , if tamely borne , will justly entitle the Irish people to a harsher and more tyrannical measure than that for resisting ' which O'Bmbh enjoys his honourable distinction .

      If we could condescend to make a technical defence _forgone who is only accused by traitors , we would establish O'Brien ' s innocence upon the labour ' prin ciple pertinently set forth in his own letter to bis constituents . ' He was tbe most vigorous leader—the most sincere leader , of the opposition to Ireland ' s Imprisonment Bill . He knew that time waa every _, thing to the Minister , and that resistance was everything io Ireland . He had pledged himself to resist the unconstitutionai monster to the last . He knew not what draw duty might make upon his time and constitution ; but he did know that he owed a duty to Ireland which should not be impaired

      or-imperfectly discharged by the performance ofa duty ; which he did not owe , but which was imposed upon him by the speculations of a set of trafficking plunderers . He knew that five hours given to the business of English traffic was fiye hours robbed from the defence of Irish liberty—from the assertion of Irish right s _^ He knew that Ireland had the first claim upon his vigour , his constitution , and his time . Ho knew that Ireland had but a scanty supply of daring spirits , while England had a surplus of horse-racers , cock-fighters , speculators , and traders , who best understood their own monetary concerns , and who may be the more safely entrusted with their adjustment .

      He knew those , things , and therefore he uphus- ' banded his strength for the midnight struggle for ' Irish liberty . Aye , and Ireland will know _tkose things too ; and Ireland must further know why O'Brien in 184 G was imprisoned , and why he was not imprisoned in 1845 for the Bamo _oflfenceC and the ready answer will be because in 1845 THERE WAS NO COERCION BILL _; although , in 1845 , when he wa * spared , there was more r _* lwfty traffic and more necessity _Vfor his attendar . ee on committees

      The Heart Of Erin. So Then The Man Who "...

      We cannot conclude without _expttBgin-r _ourwarDT _^ thanks to the Namok for its bold , its manly an d ? compromising denunciation of the Saxon insult t fered to an Irishman , nor can we abstain from ex pressing our gratification _that' there ' yet remains a few bold . spirits'like _^ _O'BRiKKyahdRQons who win keep the young blood of Ireland in the straight path of freedom , j _* and who , despite the maudlin philoa . ophy of mendicant patriots , and _trafficking politf _cians , place hunters , and _hacka , will raise the stan _^ ard , not of Repeal BUT OF SEPARATION _fe _^ the tyrant oppressor under whose laws Ireland _ij devastated / and in compliance with whose _conYe . nience her advocates are imprisoned ..

      YOUNG IRELAND , awake , arouse , arise , _youj hour is come . The Saxon ' s embarrassment pro claims your opportunity ; the Saxon ' s weakness pro , claims your strength ; . the English people WERE NEVER OPPOSED TO YOU ,, they have stoutly fought your oppressors , they have _magnanimously contended for your rights , despite the slanders your deceivers . Support your press in virtue , ani its columns will become pillars of strength through

      out the universe , The _yirtuous portion of your press now struggles for release from an irksome bondage , from a coercive despotism . Ireland never acquired a boon from English justice , your instructors have taught you , that she owes her triumphs to English fear , to English necessity . Make her fear you then , and she will do you justice , or allow her tamely , and without : remonstrance , to take yen , geance on your advocates , and she will justly _givs

      you COERCION AS THE SLAVE'S _PORTION OF BRITISH LEGISLATION .

      ; * , . ' English Ousting; Of. Slaves. W...

      ; * , . ' ENGLISH OUSTING ; OF . SLAVES . While the virtuous press of England , and the virtuous . middle class , are loud in their denunciation ot the tyranny of Irish landlords—a tyranny which m were the first to expose—it may be ' worth while to consider whether , the . sympathy of tnose pbilanthro . pists is real or pretended , and to inquire why their champion , tbe Times , abstains from condemnation of English mill-lord _oustings and oppression , while it so truly characterises the abominations of Irish landlords . About : three months ago , Mr . Duncombs

      moved for a return of all persons removed from the manufacturing districts , under the Settlement Act , or by other authority , during the years 1841 , ' 42 , and ' 43 . That return has been a long time making its appearance , but has at length come forth , but very imperfect , the returns from Stockport , Black burn , Bury ; and the Township of Leeds , not being made ; although , it is three months since the order for those returns was issued , and although Stockport was the PRINCIPAL TOWN from _* which the ho .

      npurable member required the return . ; However , as tar as . they , go , we are in possession of them ; and let us now see the result . Within that short period , there were ' _-THREB thousand eight hundred and _FiFit-six heads of families , consisting of _blbthk TH 0 U 8 AXD THREE HUNDRED * AND ) FORTT-FOUR individuals , expelled from their habitations , many of whom had resided txn , _tvyentt , THiBTrj thirtt-hyb , and even FiFiT * and riFit-rouR years , in the towns from which Uiey were removed . . ; ,

      . When ; the returns are . complete we snail enter more largely into the consideration of this wholesale ousting : ' . ' We have no doiibt that a complete return will show that at least flftGen thousand persons hare been thus bmtally ejected by the philanthropic freetraders in two countries in a period of less than three years : and unless some peculiar privilege belongs to the mill , and some peculiar duty to the land , the clearance of the mill-lords will far outdo the clear .

      ance of the Irish landlords . Let us suppose such a thing as fifteen thousand Irish cottiers being removed in two counties of Ireland , who had established some sort of title , by a ten , twenty , thirty , _thirty-five , fifty , and fifty-four years' residence , what we should be glad to know , { would be the amount ef virtuous wrath poured upon tbe Irish malefactors by the yirtuous press and free-traders of England ? Is each case the sin is committed in tho name of

      lawm _^ the one case , the defined law which enables tha landlord to oust his tenant ; the other , the undefined Utw which enables the capitalist to "dispose of hia slave . The Times bas often told us tbat the practice of ousting tenants would not be tolerated in England , although justified by law , but nevertheless we don't find a tongue to wag or a pen to scratch against the tyranny of the Malthu * _sians . Perhaps we may be told that , in the one case , the wanderer is sent penniless in the world , and in the other case he is ONLY

      RETURNED TO HIS PARISH after a fifty-four years absence , and when the vice of capital has squeezed all the b . ' ood out of his body and the marrow but ' of his bone 3 . Bad as they are , give U 9 , a thousand times give us , the EXPOS ABLE tyranny of the Irish Landlords , compared to the concealed murders ofthe Mill-lords . For the present we must take'leaveof this disgusting wholesale clearance , relying upon Mr . Duncombe to make the most of it in the debate on the new Law of Settlement ; while we cannot abstain from stating the _iisgustingfact , that frompago 4 of the return we find two Irishmen were

      transported from Askton-under-Lyne , on the same day , the 24 th bf February , 1841 , in the middle of winter , of the respective periods of residence of fiftyfour and fifty years . This return is imperfecti inasmuch as' it does not furnish the names of th © several tyrant mill-lords who committed the havoc . It would have been well for Mr . Gerrardand Sir Francis Hopkins , if they had been English Mill-lords instead of Irish Landlords , for in that _^ case we would pledge ourselves , that the world would never have heard ot their clearances or the murder of peor Seery . But surely a RECKONING day will come .

      Parliamentary Review. Whatever May Bo Sa...

      _PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Whatever may bo said of our gratitude to literary , scientific , and philanthropic benefactors , nobody can _allegestinginessagainst us in _oar _^ treatment ' of _successful men slayers , whether by land or sea .. The Army , Navy , and the Bar , monopolise all the good things that John Bull has to give away . They are the only portals through which , peerages , pensions , and fortunes can be reached , and riewed abstractedly , it is difficult to say whether the speedy destruction of war , or the life-long anxiety , heart-wearing-, protracted ,

      . butsureruinofalawauitistheworstevilofthetwo . lt is , however , the fashion at present to reward these classes and this week Parliament has added the ' , ' solid pudding" of a large pehsion for their own Hyes and two succeeding generations , to the " empty praise " . formerly bestowed upon Lord _Habm . _soe and Lord _Goven , Use , it ia said , reconciles one to the greatest deformities , yet there was something in the aspect of the House of Lords on Tuesday night , which suggested some reflections of a not over complimentary character respecting one portion of that assembly—wemean the Bishops . It is but seldom

      that any of these Rev . Prelates are seen in the House , but their appearance thero is always oniinou * of mischief , either to be perpetrated or rewarded-To debates on _* such . _* mattevs as promoting tkephysicat health , the domestic comfort , the intellectual ad _» vancement , or the political emancipation of the masses , they never lend the light of their Reverend _countanances . But ifit is proposed to knock off some of the shackles which our untutored or bigotted ancestors imposed on the expression of opinion _^ -if rewards are to be bestowed on some gory hero ,, who has directed the slaughter of tens of thousands _^ his

      fellow beings , then be sure that their bench will be ¦ weft fiiteu . So it was on Tuesday night . There did they sit , white robed and placid , listening with a sort of seraphic rapture to exultations over the wholesale destruction of human life , to details of tho terrible struggles in which all tho demoniac passions of man ' s mature were roused to madness—in which the masses of dead and wounded actually choked up the river , and dyed its waters red with blood : there , we say , did these Ministers ofthe Gospel of Peace sit calm "; *> _nd smiliugly , as if the description , were of _soiue

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 9, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09051846/page/4/