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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, JAXUATtY 17,1««.
    • Co &ttiw* a'Cortt-ftorito-mt*
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      A ' The Jstorthern Star;\ January ^ 1-7 ...

      A ' THE _jSTORTHERN STAR ;\ January 1-7 8 * 1 6 ,

      O'Hi&Sins 5 Portrait. Inrcp'y Tonumcvons...

      O'HI _& _SINS PORTRAIT . Inrcp ' y tonumcvons applications from onr agcnts , we bave eo objection io extend thc time for subscription' - " _tj > . the -31 st January , while we must decidedly _Tefnse _allowsTiS any hut subscribers having thc portrait , as we hvA - £ 2000 worth of portraits over after Oar _lapt experiment-

      The Northern Star. Saturday, Jaxuatty 17,1««.

      THE _NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , _JAXUATtY 17 , 1 _«« .

      Tiie Strugole. Itis Forte-Ate For Tbosew...

      TIIE _STRUGOLE . Itis forte-ate for _tbosewbo have rights to contend for , tbat tbeir rulers should sometimes be summoned to the defence of their own ormV ? es , and awakened to a consideration of the title upon which they hold them . pSe would prono * rty ( however acquired ) , like mona-rivv . veryspect % _Iwlrasmi _\* . p < n \ theprinciple of _"riRhVaivine . " It is o ? . ly when _usnrpers are _* ncd nnon their own titles tnat tlicy vouchsafe a

      pawing slanee at tlio respective claims of those who contest ihc ' propcrtj _' , and tho ? c who aro entitled to Hie property . ' ; ani it not unfreqnently happens that _, a defendant , ' _snr . p & rting his c _* aim againit an _illfavonTenplaintiffjis compelled to admit thc superior title ofa'third par . _* y , whom accident alone lias called 3 nto ; c-. nrt . lle _* jpe wc _Snd ilie landlords , in their several pleadings against the claim of fhe freetraders , reluctantly constrained to admit the title of ihe _labourer fo a share of the spoil .

      There is nothing more dangerous to litigants than ihe un _^ _asonatf . c necessity imposed u _? _wa them of now and theii producing their title deeds for professional revision . It not nntrcqnentlr happens that the _disproval of the plaintiff ' s title may lead to proof of tho existence of a better title than that set up bythe defendant . If we apply this _commox place rale to the case of the landlords of England , wc mast , in justice , conclude that nothing could havebeen more Impolitic than the admission and confession that the _labanring classes were in any way interested in the

      struggle "between landlords and cotton lords ; because , as a matter of course , thc ncw _' . y-uiseovercil claimants _Tvffl tery naturally ask whether their share consists in oratorical laudation , the honour of tlieir _forhiarfi-cee being toasted and cheered by their _gorged tyrants , the credit of bearing bnt twenty per cent , of the honour conferred upon a breeding sow , and to acquire even that distinction that they must have brought up their families without trouble to their employers , and without having trenched npon tlic pauper fund .

      They will ask if their title , as copartner with tho tfewarf-in-chief , consists in being allowed to work as a charity , while the partner revels in unnatural lnxurv , without ever having toiled . They will ask why the idle partner lives in a princely mansion , made prematurely old by habitual lefbai _? y and gormandizing , while the active coadjutor cannot break his fast unless h _* . boo _i-m fro ™ .-murise . Man is born with propensities which may he nourished into _nrtnes or thwarted into vices , according to his training . Mildness , forbearance , and honesty will , we

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

      . The landlords of _England , long in p _3 s ? es « ion of territorial dominion , have , as a class , so cherished the propensities , habits , manners , and customs in which they were born , nursed , reared and educated , that ihey now Snd it impossible , by any amalgamation of those evil attributes , to agree upon laws absolutely necessary to keep natural instinct * within the limit * of social convenience .

      If the Whigs coald bare _succeeded in holding possession of political power , without admitting the rightful clam of an unenfranchised class as j «* iint tenants in legislation , they would have gladly done so . If capitalists coald hold _siJent dominion over passive and non-resisting labour , they wonld dole _eutapitlfulexistenceof-wagesastheostentationsofforings of charily ; a"d If the landlords could defend their estates agajnst the clamour of the League , without calling a superior title to their aid , they would cheerfully fight the battle without mentioning thc

      claim of their serfs . _Jiay , so thoroughly acquainted ure those in whose judgment they confide of those facts , that the savage proposition has been mooted of transferring the claim of the petulant pauper to tho consolidated fund . It is not the first time that _tve have had occasion ta comment upon this system Of feasting the strong upon the weak . A _syitem trhlch , however , it may serve to prop an _administration for a season , is sure , in the long run , to create 8 , war of strife between the dcspoiler and the d - spoiled * .

      Some men affect a _eoqnetish ignorance as to thc teal cause of that strife which has been so long raging etwecnthe rich oppressor and the poor oppressed . The fanaticallysatisficd would _ascribe it to tha evil genius of artful and designing men . The proponnderi * ot a crotchet policy , would foist their own nostrums as its correction , whilst the powerful vainly hope to crush it by the exercise of tyrannical lawi ; but when ike wise man reflects upon , the awful amount of sorrow , vexation , degradation , and plunder to which the poor have been subjected , his astonishment tnd only wonder will be , that vengeance has not long since had

      its revenge , and that ihe war has not terminated in the extermination of the wrong-doers . _Plundered of their common land , stripped of their poor rights _, their wages measured by the whim of griping capitalists , and hy the capricious exercise of _justiee-made Jaw , their home 3 made desolate , their wants mocked , their subserviency reviled , their submission laughed at , their tranquillity ridiculed , and their faces ground by the law ' s oppression , it is no wonder tbat th _« y should amalgamate as outlaws , and fight their battle * ingle _^ hanu * _eil against their manifold oppressors , suspicious of all save themselves , and resolved to rely upon that only , power which can right them .

      Sack is the" erase of war ; such are the elements thath ' ave created it ; and such are the implements with / which the battle must now be fought . This sew suggestion ; of quartering the poor upon their own taxes is strictly in conformity with the precedent established "bv the Whigs with regard to Ireland .:. _l _ _het Catholic people of that countiy complained elf flit Tithe Imposition , and the government , to-whom- the afflicted looked for redress , said , ' . '"We _iiknotrledgeVpar grievances and will redress them ; but it shall be bvamere change of masters . Yon shall no longer pay a hundred shillings unto Es « f , whom you detest , but you shall pay £ 5 to Jacob , whose voice in your behalf will be thereby

      smothered , and _ao longer heard ; and we will give _anto Jacob twenty-five of the one hundred shillings that more righteously belonged to Esau , because then Jacob would cease to contend against his feather . " Kbar . as the Church and the State have recently ttood in the same relation as Esau and _Jacob—Esao resp «__ entingthe Church , and _Jacoh the landlords , who are the State ? The poor are tc be sacrificed , lest Jacob should make an assault npon the dominion of Esau , who is still strong in the State . We trust , however , that when the voice o ' Jacob reaches the ear of the Wind , that they will recognise it only as tho precursor of the hairy hand of Esau which is to follow .

      In this straggle it Is impossible forthe most _astuti to give judgment nntil the several titles of the respective claimants are clearly , distinctly , and ur . € ii 4 rocally before the tribunal of judgment . Wi

      Tiie Strugole. Itis Forte-Ate For Tbosew...

      have canvassed them all minutely , and we distinctly aver that the ten millions per annum of property usurped by the Church must revert to the whole people , whose patrimony it is , before _their poor pittance can be diminished by the fraction of an atom for the satisfaction of landlords or cotton lords ; and if that ' s not sufficient , thc lands wliich belong to the poor must be restored to their kindly use , so that in du ..- time thev may enjoy the fruits of their own

      industry , _nux Tne took must not , cax . not , _ot'Gni Kor io starve . Nay , ought not to be satisfied with a mere lingering existence , while those who traffic in their toil live sumptuously in protected _idleness However unheeded our voice and our warnings may have been , _xse once move caution the government , the landlords , tlie parsons , and the League against a repetition of this practice of feeding the DISSATISFIED POWERFUL upon the paltry pittauoe of the unprotected powerless .

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

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

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

      PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ . Ix order to leave nothing to doubt or surmise , and to establish the fact unequivocally , we think it a duty that we owo to ourselves , to our readers , to our Irish brethren , and to Mr . O'IIiggixs' to keep the whole case clearly anil _distinctly before thc public . Nothing can be more manly , independent , and forbearing than the letter of Mr . _O'IIiggiss t > the Champion , and from its perusal the feeling created in tbe English mind will bc that of astonishment that a people so brave , so _justice-loving , so patriotic , and shrewd as the Irish , should have been made so

      long subj-ervieiit instruments in the hands of a mere _jugsler , to lie used forthe destruction of every honest , upright , and independent patriot who would not "Jump Jim Crow" at the bidding of tlie great showman . Mr . O'IIiggixs' besetting sin has been consistency : not that _dogced consistency which rejects truth and adheres to old and exploded error , but that consistency which _ho'ds fast to principles which gain _strength hy repetition , and become powerful by controversy . The appeal which Mr . O ' IIiggixs makes to the justice of thc English people will not fail of a response , while we are " sorry to announce tha . 1 he sternly refuses all pecuniary aid from the

      English Chartists , who , he says , will require all their own funds to maintain their glorious position in the approaching struggle . Let our friends take heart , however , when wo announce to tliem the glad tidings , that O ' IIiggixs is not deserted even in Ireland , and that a number of patriots of all classes 0 f society have boldly come forward as Irishmen to claim tho honour of sustaining hira in his struggle _against THE PRESS , TIIE INFORMER , _AHD THEIR SPIES . Is it not refreshing to every Irishman expatriated by treachery from his own C 3 _* . iiitry to learn that tlie nation has not-lost its character , and that patriotism has not vet been

      banished from the land of the brave by the treachery of approvers . Elsewhere we " publish a letter to Mr . O'IIiggixs , which will show that from the persecution of the martyr will spring ten thousand patriots to avenge the martyr ' s suffering . It is ever so . Tyranny ever fails in the exercise of its lewd power , and the torture that it provides for others invariably recoils _unen itself . Last night , at a powerful committee meeting—at a respectablo committee meeting of the United Trades and Chartists of London—an address , to be presented to Mr . Dcsc _^ mbe on Wednesday next , was highly approved of , with the exception of one passage , in which the name of O'Coxxell was mentioned , —not even with respect , but merely in connexion with Mr .

      Duxcomoe ' s sympathy for off who are oppressed hy the law . There was a universal burst of manly indignation at the bare mention of the INFORMER'S name , immediately followed by a proposal that the health of Patrick O'IIiggixs , and thanks to him for his manly resistance to tyranny , should be placed upon the list of toasts . Wc wish the Liberator could have been present to have heard thc judgment of the English people . Bat enough . When the time comes we will publish every sentence and every word of O ' IIiggixs' trial , if it take three S : ars ; and we will try , as far as our poor abilities serve , to make amends for the treachery of the Irish press ; while tbe Liberator may rest assured that during his sojourn in England he will be made more familiar than ever with the honoured name of Patuick

      O'IIigcixs . Here follows the memorandum of the Liberator ' - spleen . Let it be preserved as a record of his _tanacherr ' . —

      [ From the Freeman's Journal , Aov . IS . ] TnE _Libeeatoe . —I next wish to call t ' . ie attention of the meeting to a document tr . insmitted to me by post this morning . Itis headed , "Tyrants turning tenants out . " It is a document exceedingly well printed . In it , the strongest possiMe argument is used to induce the tenants to murder their landlords ( hear _. liear ) . This hideous paper has been some time in Ireland . Soma persons have seen it distributed ia the northern parts of this country _atBuldoyle , especially to tho labourers _employed on the railway . A copy of it came into the hands of Mr . Arkins , who was able to trace it to the person that

      circulated it , that person being a stranger . The moment I saw it , I got Mr . Arkins to go to the _castla with it to the commissioners of poliee , and lie left it with them accordingly ; aad , _accordingly , tliey took not a single step with respect to it from that day to this ( cries of shame . ) Nothing can be worse . I will deposit this with Mr . Ray , and move , "That it be keperbed to tiie stakdixo _COJIHITTBE _, TO SEE IF WE CAN TRACE TIIE AUTHOR OUT , AS THE POLICE AKO THE COVEBSMENT SEEJI TO BE eathee idle os TnE sowect . " I will not give it to the paper * , as I don't like to gire it further circulation . " The resolution wasputnnd carried .

      Again , ontliel ' jthofXov ., the Liberator , that is to . ay , Daniel of Darrjnane Beg , " wished to call tlie attention of the meeting to the fact , that , on that day fortnight , he had felt it to be his duty to denounce a . certain infamous document , a handbill , headed' tyrants turning tenants out . * If proper inquiries had been instituted there could not be the slightest difficulty in finding out the guilty authors of tliis atrocious paper . He hoped that some true-hearted and intelligent man would lay hold of tbe miscreants , and so become an hokestaxo efxight DE 7 ECIIVM , WHICH WOULD BE A CBEAT _DESIOSBATl'M . Last week , he handed a copy of it to the government reporter ; and tbe copy which " remained , _auyjona connected with the police might have . " Co _ le » e-street Office , Monday , Nov . 2 _i . _~

      Mr . Q . u . gly , one of the clerks of the Kepeal Assoeia . tion , came before the magistrates , and said , " Tho document which I hold was taken down from the door of Conciliation Hall this morning , by Mr . Thomas Hanlon , who is with me . Mr . Ray , chief 6 eeretary , took it to Mr . O'Connell , and be commanded me to bring it to this office to see what course tbe magistrates would take . " Mr . Tyndall read the document . It was headed , "Landlords and Tenant ., Tyrants turning tenauts out . " Mr . Tyndall ; " I wish we could discover the author of it . If you have a wish to find out the author , it is the nest way to send it to th _» superintendent of police . Take it to him to the Castle-yard , and say Mr . O'Connell sent it to him . " '

      Mr . Quigly said , "Mr . O'Connell had a great wish to find ou * the author , " and then withdrew . —Freeman ' s Journal , Nov . 23 . After having read the foregoing , is it not evident that Daniel O'Coxseixis the informer ? And this is the hypocrite who affects great sympathy for his poor suffering countrymen , while , at the same tim e _, he hounds on the bloodhounds of the law against any one who attempts to render the poor fellows assistance . How long , 0 Lord 1 will poor _Irelapd be doomed to plunder and delusion ?

      O'Connell, O'Higgins, Artj) Repeal. Tue ...

      O'CONNELL , O'HIGGINS , ArTj ) REPEAL . Tue following letter was published in the Champion of September 2 nd , 1837 . It is now re-published in the Northern Star , for the especial consideration of all my countrymen resident or sojourning in Great Britain . In tliis letter they will see the groundworkthe cause of Mr . _O'Coxnull's hatred aud persecution of a man who _nevee iu his life did one act or deed inimical to the interests of his poor but honest countrymen , the working classes . He now begs of them , in the name of God , to reflect—to ibe that knowledge and _judgment with which the great Author of tlieir being has so amply and so bountifully endowed them—to lay their hands upon thcirhearts , and , in

      the spirit of true Christians , ask themselves if tliey knew -of any one act , or deed , either done or proposed to he done , for tlieir benefit , as a class , hy Mr . O'Coxxell . And ask again , in the same solemn and candid manner , do they know , ov did they ever hear of any man , whether clergyman or layman , who raised his voice in their behalf that Mr . _O'Coxxelldid not strive to crush ? If they know of any , I do not ; and I shall , therefore , feel it as an act of Chris _, tian charity should they , or any of them , give me some information upon this important subject . Mr . O'Coxxell has not crushed mc yet , and with the blessing of God he never shall . Patrick O'IIiggixs , Dublin , January 10 , 18-16 .

      Ml . O'CONNELL AND FREEDOM OF ELECTION . To the Editor of thc Champion , Sib , _—T . ou have laid a heavy lash on my countrymen for tlieir continued support of O'Connell . Will you lend your columns to the defence ofa man who is persecuted for refusing to support him ? I am an elector of Dublin , and I told those who asked me for my vote fur O'Connell that I could not vote for a Coercion Bill for Ireland , merely because it was proposed by the Whigs ; that I could not pretend to be the enemy of tithes , and vote for a law .-Milling to _thi-ir weight , and fixing the cliarge more firmly on tbe backs of the people ; that I could not vote for the English Poor Law Amendmeut Act , nor for withholding a substantial Poor Law

      from Ireland ; that I . could not vote for turning a deaf ear to the cries of 2 , 3 S , 000 starving Irishmen , and giving them bayonets for un answer , instead of bread ; and thai to vote for O'Connell now , was to vote for all these _thingr , Adhering to these reasons , I refused to vote for O'Connell and agaiust the small remains of Irish lib rty ; and I would have refused to vote if mine bad been the casting voice . In England it wiil be with difficulty believed , that for this exercise of my elective privilege—for refusing to vote for a candidate who represents none of my scutiiients . I have been posted in tlie City , bj the placehunting rabble , who iusist on being known as Mr . O'Connell ' * _friends _. and now exult in the thought that they have a country to sell ; that by these I have been poitid as an

      euemy to Mr . ' O'Connell and to Ireland ; and this mode of dealing with tbe freedom of election is practised on behalf of the " Liberator , " under his eyes , and , _indeed , plainly with his sanction . To understand the meanness of this charge of enmity to O'Connell , you must know that some years ago Mr . O'Connell got up a society under the name of " Irish Volunteers , " of ivhieh body I was then dupe enough to become a member . I objected t * somo of Mr . _O'Conuell ' s conscientious proceedings in that body _, on which he gut a packed meeting together of _tiveutytivo persons , including many members if his own family , who , without any trial , or notice of accusation , pronounced a sentence of malice against ine for having called in question the probity of one of O'Coiinell ' _s trusty friends ; aud to . this sentence , which bad falsehood

      written on the fice of it , he prostituted the names of his three sous aud his son-itilaw . Ho then , in the same summary manner , got sixty-three members of the societ ) together , and solicited them to expel uie . " It is with reference to this matter that I am accused of being Mr . O'Couiicll ' s personal enemy . It was hard fo forgive . This sentence and expulsion did mc great injury ; and tho injury was done by unscrupulous power in contempt of truth and justice . Nevertheless , as is very well known , I have since subscribed to the tribute , and actively assisted to swell its amount ; and if I wanted revenge ,... ) - revenge was this , that Mr . O'Connell , while he was conscious that he had injured me , was obliged to acknowledge , before his committee , that I had _contribu ' ed essentially to secure his return at the -election of 1835 . So much for personal enmity .

      Let me tell Mr . O'Connell ' s friewls _, however , tbat if . then contributed to O'Conuell ' s return , itwas neither to mortify him nor to serve him ; and if I cannot assist iu returning him now , it is _bscause I am reluctantly convinced that he has no object , but to make the wrongs oi Ireland serve the purpose of his personal ambition . Lei _Mie " Mends of O'Connell , " if the prospect of place has not hardened them against all regard for public morals , or public decency , look only to the election speeches in Dublin , and the address to the labourers of Kildare . Lee them hear Mr . O'Connell , after all his speeches , so full of piety and morality , on tha " soul-destroying guilt ol pel jury , " actually threaten a portion of the electors with the vengeance of the Jioncst government if they did not rote for hiin . Let him , the pious , the religious , demanding votes for the bribe of employ _m-nt , and commanding the voters dependent on the honest government to come

      up for this bribe , and swear falsely that they take no bribe . Let tbiein see him , in the address to the labourer ? of Kildare , painting his own character in the darkest colour of profligacy . Thus does Mr . O'Connell stand < elf-convicted _* bf seeking power by the vilest of Tory artifices , bribery , intimidation , and perjury , and of exercising it iu the worst of Tory corruption—the sale of seats aud offices . These sales are to be made to meu , not whom the public suspects , but whom he himself denounces for villaiiy ; and all this is to be unblushingly dons by a man who still calls himself a patriot , and who makes a public ostentation ofhis respect for morality and religion , as if to stamp all he does with the character of profane aud impious hypocrisy . Haviug Mr . O'Connell's real character thus writteu with his own hand , I look with opened eyes on the past oareer , and I can understand at crime , what I felt at a loss to comprehend as folly .

      When I once sec in O'Conneli a man who makes use of his country to serve his own ends , I can understand the past . I can now understand why he wore the silk gown ofthe persecuted Caroline , the wife of George IV ., and then grovelled at the feet of the meatiest of kings , offering him crowns of laurel for his victory ( over his wife ) . I cau uow understand why the poor Ms . freeholders wero first roused into resistance of their landlords , and then their _lires and the lives of their wires ami children _iverc sold in a base bargain with these landlords . I can now understand why the landlords of Ireland have been- for nin * years starring these honest freeholders to death , and why Mr . O'Connell , who " would not shed oue drop of human blood , " holds a seat in Parliament , to protest

      against _Toor Laws for their protection , lest it should confiscate the property of their _savage tyrants . I can now understand why he procured a charter empowering these landlords to form the North American Colonial Association " , for the purpose of luring the ejected tenantry to Canada , there to perish more helplessly and miserably than at home . I can now understand why , in the universal love of bribery , O'Connell wished to see the Catholic clergy tied by a golden link—that is , by corrupt motives , - to the crown . I can now understand why O'Connell , who would have us , at this moment , regard the Duke of Wellington as an incarnate fiend , should have , at oue time , joined to raise a monument to his honour ; and thai too when the Duke was more a Tory and less a Whig

      than he now is . lean now understand why Leader and Wysc were turned out of Parliament , for being _conditional Repealers—that is , for wishing to give the Whigs a trial ; and why , after the trial had been given , aud the Whigs had been proved to be our basest enemies , Mr . O'Conmll should turn roaud and insist on giving the Whigs a trial , no longer wanted , and become himself a conditional Repealer . I can now understand why Messrs . French , Fitzsimon , O'Connell ' s sons-in-law , after thrusting them _, selves into Parliament as " unconditional Itupealers , " should first become _conditional Kepealers , and the _ _i , before the _pretended trial of justice for Ireland is brought to a close , should quietly resign _tbeii-seals to unconditional enemies of Kepeal , and quietly take office from them . Seeing , understanding these things , and twenty more of

      the same kind , the difficulty with sac is , how any man of common sense and of honest intentions , can find , I will not say a reason , but a pla _^ jjible excese to his conscience for voting for O'Connell . ' At aU events , these are my reasons for not voting for him ; and Mr . O'Connell ' s "friends" would have doneas wisely _notio have provoked a statement of them . The discussion ean be of no importance to me . It may be of great importance to O'Connell . For without arrogance , I am entitled to say of liim as was said by General Napier , " When _ouo-houest man gives you up , other honest men wiR ask why ?" There would be no place for _ina in the " liberal" press here . May I liopo for an opportanity of defence in the _Champion ? I am , 6 ir , lie ,, PiTBlCB . _O'EtaoM , Dublin , Aug . 23 , 1837 ;

      3 , Antrim-place , Belfast , January 4 , 1815 . Sib , —Seeing , by the Dublin papers , that you are undei prosecution for libelling the landlords , I take tho liberty of enclosing you a pamphlet , stating the manner in which I was treated by my landlord , the late Marquis of Down-B ' lire . I addressed it to O'Counell , in hopes he would have noticed it in publie , but in this I was grievously disappointed ! If it should be useful to you to make my case public , I shall feel happy ; the statements I have

      made I can verify by affidavit , if necessary , but my having distributed _upwards of two thousand copies of the pamphlet iu Belfast and the county of Down , without any notice having been taken by any of the persons alluded to , is a convincing pro _» f that they could not be controverted or denied . I have 6 till a lew copies on hand . _DTopiug that you will overcome all your enemies , and that the cause of Chartism will bo benefited in Ireland through you , I remain , sir , your _well-wisher and obedient servant , Vmux BEiimcK , Mr , _Tatrick O'Higgins ,

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      Tut "Bxilt; Euas. — Tmvoiwaht Commvuicvh...

      Tut "BxiLt _; Euas . — Tmvoiwaht _Commvuicvhok . — Wo have received tha following letter : _—I'louse excuse me troubling you with this letter , but having read in your glorious Star of December 27 tli , that a petition ivas adopted at a public meeting held in Rochdale , praying for tho pardon of " John Frost , Zephaninh WiHiams . JolinJoncs . and William mh _. _forparlieipaUng in « n outbreak at Newport , " I ata induced to remind our llochdale and otlier friends , that William Ellis " did not participate in an outbreak at Kcwport , " _^ but that William Ellis was convicted , before Lord Chief Justice Tindall , Mr . Baron Parke , and Mr . Baron _R »\( e , at a special commission , held at Stafford , October 3 rd , 1842 , "for , on the night of the 15 th of August , 1842 , setting

      fire to , and burning , and demolishing , the house of the K . v . J . B . Aitkiiu , of Hnnloy , " in the Staffordshire Potteries , and of which said crime I am as convinced tbat William Ellis is innocent as that I am writing this letter . I will hare state two facts , out of many , that ought to satisfy any reasonable man of his innoeence . First , the only evidence that in any way connected Ellis with thc fire , was that of a man of the name of Goodwin , who swore that lie " saw him at the fire , that his face was blackened ; yet he would not _sn-car whether Ellis had a cap or a hat on , as he had _onlj , a sidoview of his face . " Secondly ; since the trial , the _following circumstances have come to light , which , if known sooner , would have completely destroyed Goodwin ' s DiUiSAME liu , and caused a triumphant acquittal of Bibs * —A- _gentlemen of the name ol" Woolrich _, a ' master joiner and carpenter , who resided in _Uurslom ,

      near U Ellis , and was on duty on thenight ofthe 28 th o . August , 1842 , as a speci . » l . coiist . ibI « at Durslem , says that he saw " W . EUis _. that lie was smoking his pipe , that he stood talking with him for twenty minutes , " at tlie time that Goodwin swore he saw him at the fire ! Mr , Woolrich told me the above himself , and that he had knowu Ellis sixteen years , he took ine to the spot , where he stood talking with him , and whicli I declare to be _tiuo miles from where the fire took place . I hope I have stated sufficient to spur all on in tbe good work of asking for a pardon for Ellis , but should any friend or friends require more information respectinghiscase , by writing to me as below I will cheerfully give it . Hoping you will give this an early insertion iu the Star , and begging pardon for taking up so much of your valuable space , I am , dear sir , yours truly , G . B . Mart . Uoothen Ville , Stoke-upon-Trcnt , Potteries , Staffordshire , 'Jannary 12 th , 1810 .

      West _Hidinc Election . —A resolution appeared In the notice to correspondents of last Saturday ' s Star headed West Hiding , and saying that it was of -vital importanoe that there should boa Chartist candidate brought forward at the West Riding election , and calling on the West Riding secretary to call a delegate meeting for that purpose . Where" this resolution emanated from I was unable to discover , although I made diligent enquiry , and' I bave had no communication upon the subject from any locality in tbe Riding , therefore , I concluded , I would not be justified in calling a meeting . Further , a _resolution iva _* passed at the last West Riding delegate meeting , that a special delegate meeting sliould bo held on the first Sunday in January , to take into consideration tho very subject contained

      inthe anonymous resolution , and which appeared in the report of that meeting in the _S'M _\ I sent a notice to the Star , that the suid special delegate meeting would be held on the fivst Sunday in January . Tho only localities that sent delegates to that meeting were Bradford Mid Halifax . H is rathwtoo bad tbat tbe Bradford people , who nobly do their duty in such casts , and who travelled sixteen miles to do this important business ( but considered tbey were not justified in filtering iuto it , seeing there were no delegates from nny other locality but Halifax ) , should be called upon to travel another sixteen miles to do the business which they came to do before . —J . _CttossLiND , W . U . _sccrntary .

      Veteran Patriots' anu Exiles' Widows' and Chilp eek ' s Funds . —I beg to acknowledge , tho receipt ot the following sums from Dewsbury : —T , S . Brooke , for the Veteran Patriots' Fund , 10 s ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , 10 s . ; James Fox , for the Veteran Patriots' Fund , Is . 3 d . ; for the Exiles ' Widows' and Children ' s Fund , ls . 3 d . Also , of 20 _i . from W . Weir , Hamilton , being "the proceeds of a raffle got up by the members of the _National Charter Association ( of Hamilton ) , for tho relief ofthe veteran patriots and exiles' widows and children . " And I beg , also , to thank the writers of these two letters for thc clearness and distinctness of their directions as to tke application ofthe monies . _—Tnosus CoorEtt , See ., 134 , Blackfriarfi-road .

      David Wilson . —The lines are inndmissnble . Will the Chxutisis ov Bishisgham favourtheChartists of Bolton with the full particulars of John Roberts ' case ? Tho Bolton Chartists hnve agreed at a public meeting to send a memorial to her Majesty for a cb _ n mutation of his sentence , and ' want full particulars . Direct for Mr . W . Pickvance , 18 , Duncan-street , Bolton . Nottingham . —All persons having any Chartist Convention money in their hands , are-respectfoily requetted to forward the same without delay to Mr . James Sweet , news agent , as the accounts must _, be immediately closed . Petitions for the restoration of " Frost , Wiiliams , and Jones , " also for " William Ellis , " lay at all thenews houses for signature . Haste and sign ! No time must be lost ! I The petition will close on Monday next , the 19 th instant , at four o ' clock . '

      Frost , Williams , and Jones . —In consequence of thc numerous applications for instructions how to proceed " in getting up petitions for tlte restoration of those in . _jured men , I beg to state that a largo sheet of common writing papor will do to write the petition on , and that suitable copies of petitions are to be found in the Star of November 22 nd , 1 S 1 . 5 , the first ( for Frost , isc . ) written by Mr . T . M . Wheeler , the second ( for Elli _«) written by Mr . T . Cooper , and that ruled sheets for signatures arc to be obtained , at a small charge , of Mr . John Cl . iave , 1 , Shoe-lane . —Edmosd Stallwood . - _Tns Dixon Fund . —All parties having books or monies in hand for tha Dixon Fund , ave requested to forward the same iniinediattly , Mr . Dixon has taken a liouse , in' order to commence business . Address , Thomas Wh ' _utaker _. Treasurer , _liS , _Devoiwhire-stre ' ot , Hulme .

      J .. W ., New Town , MoNTGOMEitrsniHE . —Any person who joins the Chartist Co-operative Land Society previous to the Close . of the 1 st section , will of course be one of . that section whether , ha ha * paid up his share or not . Tuos . M . _Wiireler informs the friends at Brighton , re ferred to by Mr . _Caoperin Inst week ' s Star , that he was absent from London when the money arrived , but thai immediately upon its receipt he informed Mr . Cooper , through thc medium of Mr . Stallwood , that he could have the monoy any time he was passing Mr . Wheeler ' s residence on his road to the publisher ' s , ilr . Wheeler resides at a distance of nearly three miles from Mr . Cooper , and is put to considerable trouble and expimse in sending to thatgentleman ; he therefore hopes

      that parties having money to send to any funds for which thatgsntleman is treasurer will send it direct to his residence , 143 , _Ulackfriar's-road . Distressing Case . —We learn , with feelings of deep regret , that a gentleman distinguished iu the ranks of social reform for thu untiring earnestness and cool discriminating judgment of his advocacy ' of all plans for elevating the condition of humanity , is now labouring _uwler a sickness as dangerous as distressing , fvoni the debility of body and bitter pangs of straitened means . Mr . Ryall is now in that condition , whew the . sympathy of democrats , in _personal visits and pecuniary aid , becomes a . duty wliich we doubt not will bt

      generously given by-many of our readers who are acquainted with the sterling patriotism of Mr . Ityall . A few ofthe moreimmedbite friends of Mr . Ryall aro actively engaged in endeavouring to minister to the immediate and pressing emergencies of the case ; and Mr . Hetherington , publisher , 40 , Holywell-street , Strand ; Mr . Watson , publisher , a , _l'aul _' s-alley , Paternosterrow ; with Messrs . Lea , _Djut , and Ivory , at their respective residences , will gladly receive any expression of sympathy , or furnish any information required . We wish them all the _suecesuso well merited , and hope for a speedy restoration of Mr . Ryall's health , Wm . Dell . —Tho Executive ' s "Address , " and the notice fvonv Mv , _Stollwoou , will answer his wishes .

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...

      RECEIPTS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LA . ND SOCIETY . SHARES . PES UR . O ' CONNOB , £ s . d . Warwick , per J . A . Donaldson .. .. .. 2 14 0 John Built , Uiruiinghuiii _.. .. .. .. 2 12 0 Wigton , per T . Hell 4 0 0 Mountain , Queen's Head , near Halifax , per John Bates .. .. .. .. .. ., 7 15 fi _Gcorsie Mills , per R . Rurkett .. .. .. 5 2 6 Halifax , per C . W . Smith .. .. .. _i i 9 Carringtou , pet * — Lee .. .. .. .. 10 3 2

      Oldham , per Vf . Ilamer 2 0 0 WithanvperC . Fish 5 4 8 John . Smart , Bromham 0 10 0 _Upton-upoti-Severn , per W . Brown .. .. 0 1110 Bristol , per R . H . Williams . 421 Alexandria , per J . _M'lutire .. .. ,. 4 16 i Kidderminster , per G . Holloway .. .. 200 Septon , per L . Lodge 2 lo 0 Campsie , per W . Walker .. _ . .. 1 8 fi Carlisle , per J . Gilbertson ,. ,. .. 500 Leicester , per G . Noon .. .. ., .. 200 Glasgow , iter J . Smith .. .. ., „ io u 2 Per Mr . TordifF , Waterloo , Pudscy , near

      -Bradford ., .. 13 to o Bradford , per J . Alderson ., „ „ 5 10 0 Hamilton , per W . Weir .. I 10 0 itoclulalc _, per E . Mitchell ,. „ ,, 10 0 0 Note . —Tho sum acknowledged from Boulogne on the 3 rd of January should have been £ i lis ,, uot £ 3 17 s .

      SIIABES . PER GENEBAIi BECUETABT , * £ _» . d . ' £ 8 . d . Birkenhead .. .. 2 0 0 Rachel Rowall .. 0 « John Pomeroy .. 014 Selby .. * .. .. 200 Independent Cord- Burnley „ ., 900 wuiners ,. ., ' 0 18 8 Todmordcn .. „ 0 I 0 Camberwell .. .. 200 J . Cleave .. .. 038 Westminster .. 3 15 0 S . Ackerman .. 014 Mr . Kendall .. 004 Boulogne " .. ,. 248 George Fox .. .. 2 12 2 Truro .. " .. .. 080 Warrington .. .. 2 18 0 Mr . Griffiths , New M . N _, „ „ ,, 010 Town .. . .. 446 CABDS AND III _Llif . Norwich _» „ 0 0 C

      Receipts Of The Chartist Co-Operative La...

      LEVI FOR THE L _1 XD CONFERENCE . _TEB MB . O ' CONNOB . Bristol , per R . II . Williams " . 0 0 3 PER _GEXERAL _SECRCT / LBV , Per Secretary .. 013 Camberwell .. .. 010 Sunderland .. .. 010 _K . B . In those cases where , from the number of tho shareholders being limited , it would be expensive to Rend tho Directory Fund of one halfpenny per mouth per share in a separate order , il is recommended that it should he sent direct to me in postage stamps . Individuals _helonginff to my class , will remit then * amount in a similar manner .

      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . EXECUTIVE . PER MR . O ' CONNOR . Mountain , Queen's Head , near Halifax , per J . UatCs 6 12 0 Oldham , per W . Ilamer .. 0 14 6 Rochdale , per C . Shaw 1 9 9 Campsie , pur W . Walker 0 10 0 Birkenhead , per T . Cupm 0 ll 0 llonlognu , per 1 ) . Itcid .. . -. 100 _HeywoVl-c * J-Miller _» | J 0 Mr . T . Brook , Dewsbury 0 10 0 PER GENERAL SECRETARY . Mr Pearcev , Ro- Mnryhibotie ( cards ) 0 18 ' titerhittae .. ., 010 Trowbridge .. .. 0 li 0 Westminster .. 0 1 8 Tower Hamlets , Oldham , T . Kershaw 0 0 C Mr . Godwin .. 010 _Dit'o , J . Tweedale 0 10 YICTIM FCND .

      Mr . Wells , Tower Hamlets 0 0 l > Eiirata . —In last week ' s Star the stun of _% . fid . was acknowledged from Air . George , of Windsor , for the Exiles'Fund , instead of 8 Jd ., and the words " veteran patriots" in the heading sliou'd also have been omitted . Thomas Martin Wiieellii , Secretary .

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      Another Skuious Collision O.V The Midlan...

      Another _Skuious Collision o . v the Midland Railway . —A very serious collision took place at the Chesterfield station on Tuesday _mornin (? . It appeared that as thc down train , from Derby to Leeds , arrived at the station at Chesterfield _. _Jshe was moving at the most terrific speed , and , although her steam was ' shut off at a considerable distance from tho station , the train , in consequence oi * the rate it was then going at , was unable to stop , and ran with fearful violence into a mineral train wliich was crossing at tlic moment from the down to tlic up lino . The engine of the passenger train was thrown off the lineand it was almost a miracle that none ol * the

      , passengers were cither killed or wounded . Wo are happy to state , however , that the whole number escaped ' ' uninjured , and the only inconvenience they suffered was a delay of- some two or three hours until the line could be cleared ,- the engine itself was completely smashed . Tho engine of the mineral train was also _seriously damaged , but not to the ' extent of the passenger engine , which was a remarkably powerful ORe and nearly new . Mr . Cooper , the station-master , was instantly on the spot , and it was soon ascertained that all the passengers were safe , and indeed that not a single individual

      ivas liurfc ; the greatest confusion , however , provailed , and for some time the line was impassable . Four engines , and a large number of labourers , were set to work to clear thc line of all impediments , so that the public should be as little inconvenienced as possible . Our correspondent was informed thatthe reason tlic driver could not stop the cngino at the station , was owing to tho slippery state of tho rails , Immediately on tlic accident becoming known at Derby , the engine-driver and guard in charge of the train , were sent for by the board to explain the cause of the accident , and there cannot be a doubt but the most rigid investigation will bc instituted as to thc cause of tho accident .

      _Sackrootal Assass xatios . —A letter from Naples states , tliat tho sacristy of the church Die Girolamini , in that city , has just been the scene of a crime unparalleled in recent times , and which has excited general and profound _indignation . A priest , it appears , had coolly cut tho throat of a brother ecclesiastic with a razor . The murderer was caught in tho act , and apprehended . The sacred host of the church was immediately carried away , and will not bc replaced until tho sacristy has been purified by an expiatory ceremony .

      _ThcMxgdeburg Gazette publishes details ofa horrible drama , which occurred in a village near that town . A man in a fit of insanity killed his wife and five children , and then set tire to his house to conceal bis crime , lie next inflicted on himself two wounds in thu neck and chest , and presented himself to a surgeon of Magdeburg , declaring that he had been attacked and thus injured by the individual who had committed tiiis series of crimes . The authorities at once proceeded to the house , and found nearly every thing consumed , and the bodies calcined . The man afterwards acknowledged that it was he who had done all himself .

      __ Tiik latk _Firk at Camdex-Tow . w—Upon instituting _inquiries 011 Wednesday on the spot , sufficient information was obtained to satisfy every party thatthe fire which-broke out the preceding evening in Hawley ' s Fields , was the work of some vile incendiary . It appears that none of the workpeople had been upon the premises since twelve o'clock at noon on Tuesday , consequently thc outbreak could not have occurred from any accident or negligence on their part . Whilst the firemen were _examining ihe buildings . after tho flames were extinguished tliey discovered quite sufficient to convince their , that the lire bad been wilfully caused by some one . Under thc flooring of tho stairs belonging to the house that was the least burned , they found the remains of a wooden candlestick , such as is used by carpenters , and at the _sids of it was discovered _abtu t an inch and a half of a ° candle-wick , the tallow having become melted and . run away . A similar discovery tliev made in

      tho next house , and from thc fact of layers of shavings having been found crammed under the floorings , there is every reason to believe _tkat some one liad entered the buildings at an early bom * of theevening , laid the train of shavings , and placed in each a lighted candle in the expectation that the whole four houses would become ignited at the same moment . Such , unfortunately , wns the case , and had it not been for the timely discovery mado by the police , coupled with the earlyarriv . il ofthe Brigade , County , and West of l _ _ ngltinil engines and firemen , thc four buildings , must have been totally consumed . Mr . Matthew . Marshall , builder , of Hustridge-pliwe . Portland-town , is the owner of the property , and it appears that he had received a threatening letter from some one , and from a variety of circumstances which had previously transpired , " it is expected that the guilty party will , ero long , be apprehen led by the police and brought to justice .

      ExTiucnox of Nkedi . es from the Flf . su . —A striking illustration of one of this class of cases has occurred in Sheffield in the course of this week . The subject in this instance is a female servant , in tlie faintly of Mrs . Hoppenstall , of _Upperthorpe , and about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age . It seems the young woman was recently under the cave of a medical man , whose treatment produced salivation , subsequently to which she fancied that needles were slowly progressing from her left shoulder to the arm , at some depth in the muscular sub . tance . On Moiu _' ay the pain became excruciating , aud presently one , and soon afterwards throe small needles were extracted from thc fleshy part of the arm ; and on tlie following morning two move , with part of a third ! Thev made their a _ > - pearance partly ubovo and partly below the elbow

      , and seem perfectly bright aud mworroded . Mr . John _lleppenstall _, who himself drew out the latter portion of the needles , says that thoy did not bv anv means easily come away ; " and that no blood _foliWeii from the _punetuve . Next in interest to the curious fact of the undoubted extraction of so many needles under the circumstance .., is the question , _iw io how they got into thc young woman ' s flesh ? Of this site can givo _ no account , having no recollection of ever haviug either swallowed tlicm or received tlicm _int'i her hotly from any external _accident ; but she says that sometimes she has felt the pricking of needles ' in her chest , while tlieir progress down her arm was quite perceptible . She states also , that _seven vears since , or wheu about thirteen years of age , she recollects not fewer than fifty similar needles , and . pieces of needles , being extracted from one of her fingers in the _eourse of a fortnight . —Sheffield Mercury .

      Singular _OrEiuTio . v . _—^ omo time ago two . ledgers of the names of Stevenson and Covan , in the employment of Sir William Maxwell , Bart ., of Monteith , were dressing a bodge for Air . llobbert Cummins ., of this place . Cavan had rather more to do on bis aide of the hedge than Stevenson , andthe latter wishing to _tissist the former reached as far as he could over the top ofthe hedge with his bi _« l , but unfortunately at the first cut after doing so completely looped off thc middle finger of Cavan ' s right hand . Dr . _M'Oormick was immediately sontfor . but being from home , did not arrive till twa hours afterwards . Mr . Thomas M'lvcrlie , preventive officer , kept anuointine the parts of tho finger with Rig a balsam , and upon the doctor s arrival he used a little of the same and after some exercise of skill , got the two parte to lit exactly . Ho then wrapped them up ina piece of old linen , bandaged them , and left them so for four days . At the expiration of that- time the doctor examined the parts and found that thev had been

      eu oy nrsc intention , aud that all was _coing on well , and expressed no doubt but that _ttivan would have his finger restored to use . This _aaticu « tion ofthe worthy doctor ' s we are glac _? ctSl

      Hi P™.,?, ! A I Bt -'? Sittutb »°N Sheep...

      hi p ™ ., ? , ! i bt - _' ? SITTUTB _» ° n Sheep ' s Wool . _S ™ cloth from a . mixture , we believe in aboil , equal proportions , of Chinese grass and sheep ' s wool , lhe success of thc experiment cannot as vet to pronounced upon with certainty , but one ofthe great _ilifticulties has been overcom . ' , _namelv , tiie possibility ol felting : and itis shown that a piece of cloth mado from these materials , of the width of IOS inches , has , by the application of the felting stock-- ! been compressed to the width of 60 in ' . lies . _—LeoYs Mercury ,

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      Monday. Fkee Trade.—-Tlie Protectionists...

      MONDAY . _Fkee Trade . — -Tlie protectionists and anti-monopolists are marshalling their forces for the grand light which commences on Thursday next , while the Times is directing its thunder at the camp of General Rich _, niond , the Commander-in-Chief of the Protectionists . The drilling that the squeezable county members are receiving at the hands of their respective- constituencies is an awful warning to the Whig party , who vainly hoped 10 purge the House of Commons of aristocratie influence by thc Reform Bill . Mr . E . Yorke _, brother to tlie Earl of llavdwicke , and his nominee for Cambridgeshire , ha * had the least taste in life of agricultural decency ; for , notwithstanding tho _ctnnmantling influence . 0 ? the noble lord , he has been hooted , groaned , and hissed for his support of Peel ' s tariff , and his refusal to pledge himself

      againstfurther agricultural inroads . Now we beg our readers to bear in mind , that iu April , 18-12 , when Sir Robert Peel proposed his tarill " , that wc proclaimed the fact that thc farmers would not open tlieir eyes to it ' seffect till 184 ( 5 , and that they would not feci " the effect disastrously until the autumn of that year . We also stated , that , when it was felt , both Jarnl / ords and tenants would become levellers , and give to Chartism the character of insignificaut mildness—in proof of which , we may observe that tho _Three-and-a-Half per Cents , havo had a , taste of their quality , a feeler has been thrown but as to how relief from poor-rates would square with their book , anil reconcile tliem to free trade . The county cess is in the margin of sundries , whilst the most vigorous of tho Protectionists demand a sweeping tithe reduction , if not a total abolition , of the impost . Won ' t the Chartists be angels as soon as the mild landlords have received the last bite of their MAD DOG . '

      Tim Cork Tkaob . —By St . Paul the sliding scale goes bravely 011 ; wheat and all are slithering down , notwithstanding tho latest statistical revelations of the Times' foreign arithmeticians , that there is no wheat anywhere to he had for love or money , even if the ports were opened . It is the funniest thing in the world to read the philanthropic speeches of Protectionists and anti-monopolists , the one hugging the agricultural labourer to death , and the other squeezing the very puddings out of his operative client , to prepare him for an eternal gorge of cheap bread . However , both are beginning to be _) iev « at last that cheap and dear arc relative terras , and thatthe man is as _baiify off when the loaf is but twopence as when it was a shilling , if he hasn't the twopence to buy it .

      Moset Market . — Notwithstanding that tha Government Commissioner for the reduction of tha National Debt OPERATES , as the fancy term it , to the amount of - £ 150 , 000 a-week , depriving the market of so mttnh of its spoil , yet the Oregon , tlie four millions extra for the French navy , the demand of a constitution by the people of Prussia , the state of Ireland , the calling out of the _Militia , the deposit of tho countless millions for railway operations , _tjie impossibility of customers to pay their tradesmen ' s Christmas bills , and tho certainty that the lawyers will have their full whack out of the millions when

      they are paid , all those Utile circumstances multiplied produce a conviction of _inEoBEAT fact , that we arc near SOMETHING , if not the END ; anil hence we find all the newest devices of the jugglers failing to keep up prices . Consols arc going down , shares arc a drug , and Exchequer Bills alone denote tlie folly of individual confidence in the Prime Minister . Trade . —Every available penny that can be scraped together by way of loan , discount , or sale of railway shares , is being applied to manufacturing speculation in expectation of the roaring trade to be derived from free trade . DON'T TIIEi WISH THEY MAY

      GET IT . Court Circular . —Thc Queen has been busily engaged in rehearsing her speech tor the opening of Parliament during the last week , and we learn with pleasure , tliat Prince Albert , all tho royal _uurses , and the dear babes in thc nursery , who constitute the Royal audience , have expressed their unqualified approbation of -the continued assurances of peace from all _FRIENDLY powers , and especially with the confidence with whicli tlie 'vote for the necessary SUPPLIES for the year in anticipated .

      Reform . —The Duke of Newcastle , whose right to do what ho likes with bis political slaves of the aristocratic class , we neither question nor object to , has given the Right Honourable Air . Gladstone his _walking paper for Newark , no doubt for having re-joined tho Peel Administration upon the principle of free trade—that is , SUCH FREE TRADE a s Sir Robert Peel will condescend to soothe tho anti-monopolists with . The " Times" axd thePmmk Minister . —If there were any two . horrors that more than any other Haunted our great contemporary , tliev were those of

      Leaguisui and Ministerial reserve . The League were traitors , and Peel wis a tyrant for _withholding all _^ knowledge of liis measures from bis party " " _remporu _imttantur "—tho times change , ¦ says the Latin proverb , " et nos mitlumur in illi . i , " and we change with them , says the ZYjiks' proverb ; and iieace wo now find Leaguism to , be philanthropy , benevolence , beneticenco , humanity , Christianity , charity , and godliness itself , while the mostapplauded feature in the Premier ' s multifarious ciiaracter is HIS SECRECY ; an Irishman would exclaim . " Ogh ! wisha thunder and b—y wars ; is ' ct it »• quair world we live in . "

      IRELAND . Effects of Class _Legislation , —The reader has observed how many changes a single deatn of a church-dignitary , au army dignitary , or a navy dignitary may involve , but we doui > t that he has ever seen the almost endless changes that the dismissal ofa ministerial dignitary may entail . We'll try to givo him a list . The'Duke of Newcastle , the _proprietor of tho houses of tbe Borough of Newark , and consequently the owner and disposer of tlio votes , bus dismissed _M' \ Gladstone from the representation of liis slaves . The convocation of the collective wisdom is at hand , and Mr . Gladstone _bein _; Minister for thc _Calonies , his black and white clients will , of course , expect their advocate to be at his post , and , therefore , it is necessary to provide against suoh a contingency as a general _election which might entail the loss of the Prime Minister ' s right hand . Mrs . Lawreiice , proprietor of the slaves of _Rioon , has _dicd-and has left the inheritance in her slaves to

      Earl de Grey . Mr . Alphabet Smith , the Irish Attorney-General , is the executor to Airs . Lawrence ' s will as far as tho slaves are concerned , that is , he represents Ripon , and Ripon is the surest _refuse for Gladstone , therefore , Chief Justice Penne ? ather resigns the Chief Justiceship , of the Queen ' s bench , Mr . blaekbiirn resigns tho mastership ofthe Rolls , Smith succeeds him , Grcone succeeds Smith , Brewster Warren , or llciin , or some other cock , succeeds Greene , Corballas or Martley or some ono else succeeds Brewster , some one else succeeds tho fortunate fellow , and so go on the chm _; e 3 consequent upon Smith ' s resignation of thc Borough of Ripon , but then commences the patronage to be bestowed upon Earl do Grey for tho adoption of Gladstone .

      uns sort ot promotion reminds us very forcibly of a trial at whicli we wore ' once present before some Dublin Magistrates . A _pjirty of wags resolved upon having a lark after tho theatre , and repaired to a celebrated chop house , in C « pel-stree _*_ —they were not there very long when tho fumes from the CRAvrnw ; reminded audi of his peculiar grievance , and tliat one of his companions * was the peculiar cause of it . A row , of course , ensued , and all being implicated except the _waiter , lie was called upon to state the tacts , and having a horror , as all the Irish have , or rather used to havo , of being ax _ixfokmeu , aud with a sense of his master ' s interest , and a keener sensed'his own honour when nuestioned as to the cause

      of the row , and pushed as to who was theaggressor , lie swore that he iveavtl nothing till he saw Grailv kicking . Mills , Donavau kicking Grady , Rooke kicking Donavaii , Moore kicking llooke , Shaiighnessey kicking Moore , Flagliorly kicking _Shauuhnessey , and that he , the waiter kicked _Fiaglierty until they were all finally kicked out into thc street , whereupon the magistrate observed " Whv , then it appears that you are _theaggressor after all . " "Whv , thin tobe sine lam" was the reply . "Then wc fino vo ' u a pound , " says tbe magistrate . ' Thank you , your honour , it is only three shillings a piece for the gentlemen , and they'll pay it with all the veins in their hearts , won ' t you yer honours ? " "Aye , Mie , ten times as much , for by Jaaus you are an honest fellow . " '

      Molly _MdOffinw _- _'M . —> _Ve give the following specimen ot the kindly disposition of Mrs . Maguire ' s children when they are treated with even common decency * . — "Oxe Good Turn Deserves _Axo-hier . "— "We learn that Captain Atkinson , ibe celebrated sportsman , wlio some years ago naUea at _Olaubngb , in this neighbourhood , aud afterwards at tbe Cottage , _Rathowen , was _surrounded by a large party of the Molly Maguiree , whilst shooting on a bog hi the neighbourhood of Carrick . on-Shnimon lust week , and ordered to deliver up his fowlingpiece ; this he refused to do , and drew a pistol from his breast to fire at the fellows ; it missed fire , and the Mollies immediately wrested both the nan and _ptitol from him , imd would in all probability have given him something not

      very agreeable iu return had uot a re _» i \ Jent on the bog come to tbe rescue with a short gun , aud swore he would Khoot some of the party if tho arms were not restored , tvllintj them at thu same time of tbe generosity of the captain towards liim and his wife . The gallant captain and true _spi . _rtaman" it appeared , was on the bog a week previously , and ' * convenient" to the hut of this poor maB ( whose wife was in htv confinement at the time ) . He requested that the cap'ain would not fire " convenient" to the bouse , explaining the delicate 6 tate of his wife . Captain Atkinsou instantly retired to n distant part of the

      bo ; :, and after returning homo from his day ' s sport , despatched a _mes'ssiiger to the but with many comforts that the poor fumiiy _^ cve _stra-agcrs t 0 > » nd called a few days after to inquire a _'/ tcr tho patient . On hearing of his generous kindness l <> lhe poor man , the Mollies instantl y returned the arms to C , ' _I' < _'l in Atkinson , aud cheered bim lustily , promising- to p _'* _- _* " 1 _rtl * ° iime for nim > ttnd lbat no person would bo olio wed to shoot there but himself . The _Moliie . then straight _h _'* _- _* 100 _**" - themselves away , wishing him long life , and _cheoritij him as they went along , — _Westmeath Guardian ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 17, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17011846/page/4/