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    • ACCIDENT TO THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.
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      St . -Btsths ' Sa

      ST . _-BTSTHS ' sa

      Bt Ebnest Jokes. Sufferers And Toilers, ...

      BT EBNEST JOKES . Sufferers and toilers , Mighty and meek , "Who bend to the spoilers , The strong to the weak ! Start from yonr slumbers Your wrongt to redress , "Union and numbers Fledge yonr success . In his Parliament-palace The oligarch tits , Self-interest and malice Dictatingby fits . Hate of some faction , Or longing for gold , _Serving to action

      The listless , aud cold . "Bnt thePeop'ie , forgotten , Are tapping his strength , A fabric ao rotten Most crumble at length . "Not one heart hut fires At the triumph ef knaves ! Sons df free sires Shall merer fee slaves ! In times of enthralling , No shrinking was there , "When Hampden was calling T _« do and to dare . Bnt more peaceful yonr field , And more ea « y yonr task j _IfoKfoes bore the shield , Yours wear bnt the mask

      Then hither yonr voices ! And hither your men I TillEflgUna rejoices In freedom again . In ihe halls of St . Stephen Tour battle to fight _. Send tha champions of free men , Apostles of right . Till , conquering faction , Ton rally a band And cheer them to action For Charter and Land .

      " Duncombe And Hit Staff, To The "Indust...

      " DUNCOMBE AND Hit STAFF , TO THE _"INDUSTRIOUS 0 ? ALL _CI-aSSES . Mt Friends , —I do not •• , _)>• - _sdirj & s _to-i sectionally—making a _distiii _' _-ikv _^ _bcra-su thai ch ? 3 of labour the most _oppressa-- ! ¦ -. ad cha .: class _icis- _oppressed : I embody ali wbo wctk tor & IH ' _-ag . whether frith head or hand , in t « n ? general list * , < iad my object is , to convince all of - . bat order of v , n indispensable necessity of forming _s NATIONAL _TJNION for the protection of NATIVE INDUSTRY ; as , believe me , that no party belonging to any other class will extend other protection to labour than will secure to its own class the largest proportion of its profits .

      Ia the mail zeal evinced by the shopkeepers for TREE TRADE , that class showed great ignorance . How often have I told them and you , that the most natural antagonism was the opposition of the shopkeepers to a system which substituted non-consuming machinery for consuming labour ; and yet an unmanly hankering after & bit of social distinction "blinded them io tbeir real interest . The Free Traders ,

      with the Dissenting Ministers as a recruiting staff , cunningly enlisted female sympathy in behalf of the suffering poor ; and while the husband struggled for anticipated profit , the wife , nnder spiritual influence , at once gratified her social taste and proclaimed her charity , her generosity , and her love of religionas those under whose influence women acted as "FREE TRADERS , made it a religions question , quoting Scripture as the devil does io serve his

      purpose . I mention this fact to show you that the TEAPOT and the DISSENTING PULPIT were the most powerful weapons of FREE TRADE . However , the measure has been carried ; and we learn from the fact of the Revising Barristers' Courts being attended by Tory Lawyers , "Whi g lawyers , and FREE TRADE lawyers , that the FREE TRADERS

      see the indispensable necessity of securing such a House of Commons as will insure the legal application of the principle to the interests of all who speculate upon CHEAP PRODUCTION . Sow , "keep that " bird ' s eye" view of the ultimate intention of FREE TRADERS before you . The position is only taken ; the forces have yet to be recruited : the battle has vet to be fought ; the

      HOUSE OF COMMONS IS SELECTED AS THE j BATTLE FIELD _i and my object in writing this address is to induce yon , " the INDUSTRIOUS OF ALL CLASSES , to be prepared for the coming struggle—a struggle upon the result of which the fate of the LABOUR CAUSE—nay , of society , must depend . I do uot ask yon to perform an impossibility , nor do I set yon a very diffienlt task . I do not ask you to return a majority of the House of Commons ; what I ask you is , to secure the one FIFTY-FIFTH part of the representation by which vour country is governed , and to whose LAWS your lives , your liberties , and your properties are subjected .

      I ask but fbr a junction of both ends of labour : the trades , or aristocracy , led on b y Duncombe ; and

      ihe FUSTIAN JACKETS , BLISTERED HANDS , and UNSHORN CHINS , led on by me ; with the co-operation of those who live by mental exertion , and who render a due share of intellectual profit in return for their just proportion of the produce . If the nation sets itself this task , and resolves upon its accomplishment , THE DEED IS DONE . If it rejects the opportunity and the service , labour will have no just cause of complaint against the worst tyranny of its TOLERATED , ACCEPTED oppressors , but must for ever assume the ignominious title of WILLING SLAVERY _.

      Duncombe has struggled long and struggled nobly to sustain a position for awakened industry to rally round ; he has kept your claims ajive and has just kept you within the statute of limitation , for , believe me , if _drenmstanees should curse the nation with a purely FREE TRADE Parliament , capital will imperceptibly , though conclusively , narrow labour ' s chance of success until every avenue of representation shall be closed against the friends of a FAIR

      DATS WAGE FOR A FAIR DAY'S WORK , which , after all , is our sole—our only object . ¦ In this struggle you will have much to contend foT , and mucVto contend against . It was well enough , in our weakness , to have frightened the enemy , even with the ghost of Chartism . It was a triumph to compel candidates that hated the principle to adopt it as the only means of securing popular support ; it was a confession of popular power , but wehave passed that stage , we must now have the substance . Gisbome might have been a

      better STRAW than young Walter to mark the political current—Sturge might be a bettor member than young Scholefield—or Parson Miall than Molesworth—but none of tbem are comparable to ail unmixed , unequivocal , undisguised , unsuspected Chartist . 1 would rather , much rather , see W . P . Roberts , T . Allsop , Douglas Jerrold , Patrick O'Higgins , Ernest Joaes , Dr . M'Douall , James Moir , Jas . Holliday , W , "Wilkinson ( Exeter ) , Titus Brooke , James _M'Pherson , O'Gorman Mahon , Wm . Londsdale , W . Hewitt ( of Manchester ) , and , though last not least , our noble President M'Grath , ( and many more whom I could name if the people were prepared ) , in the honse .

      than six score who swallowed the nauseous pill in the hope of gilding it Avith the gold of patronage , the profits of speculation , or the reward of treachery . The democratic party roust now assume a distinct anil unmistakeable position , it must secure co-operation from au exhibitiou of its own strength and not seek toleration hy a dangerous and suicidal prostration of its power at the shrine of hypocritical courtship , wooed by the lustful smiles , and won by the foul embraces , of its old seducer aud betrayer While some of the foolish of your order were speculating upon the prospect of a proud aristocracy—in the death-throes—resisting Free Trade for labour ' s sake , you must have smiled at their amiable _sini-

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      pbcity _. and laughed at their childish credulity . I feel assured tbat all my words and all my writings upon the question of Free Trade for twelve years past , will have convinced you that I made the subject , and the character and intentions of those who agitated it , no idle study ; I told you a thousand times that we would be highly criminal if we joined for ita accomplishment , while , if we were in a state of preparedness to take advantage of the change , we might lessen its evil . I told you that you would be the greatest sufferers in the adjustment , and that , ultimately , the manufacturers would discover that THEY had CAUGHT A TARTAR . If , however , you allow them to break their fall with a FREE

      TRADE PARLIAMENT , they will take care that the -whole weight of disappointment shall fall upon you . For I tell you tbat UNREPRESENTED labour has no chance against REPRESENTED capital . But let labour have twelve CHAMPIONS in the FIGHT , regardless of Ministerial convenience , landlords' sufferings , and cotton-lords ' speculation—twelve men who " will each take par t in every Labour question , unravelling what class interett has entangled into mystery , and whose every assertion will be confirmed by five millions of competent witnesses before hasty faction is allowed io .- 'lose tbe rkbaie , xud then farewell to ihe : s & _pliisin oi i ' _tel . to the nwdv of "Russell , io the _Iwc of

      Cobden th ? . ignorance of Hume , the _ar-t _^ _st-ec of _"Ro't _' oucV :, _Rtul tht fabrications of Bright * rhenr frzs > a \; 5 vigorous , truth will come with , racing speed a * id electrifying influence from the lips of _Labours ssif npon the deaf cur of heartless capital . These twelve guardians wonld nieel together , studying every Labour querr-ic" - _-, arranging and Agreeing among themselves as to t " i _« _lieuc _* Aad f .-. rn \ of battle , every man assigned his post according to his ability , and all led on by our indomitable leader and unconquerable chief . The people's right to the land could then be forcibly advocated , and all Europe and the -world would learn that England lived and had been foremost in the march of mind , although a

      hireling press had so cautiously withheld the fact And , again , what inducement to the now apathetic to struggle for a whole House of Duncombes ! As my countryman said , when he liked the smack of the quince in the apple-pie , « . ' If one quince makes an apple-pie so good , what the devil would an APPLE PIE be if itwas all quinces I" I now declare that the Charter thus gained would be immeasurably better for the labouring classes than if its first working was left to the mercy of a parliament hastily elected in the midst of a reason-destroying , thoughtless excitement . The people would be then led by a continuous succession of triumphs for THEMSELVES to a knowledge of the value of the foil measure of justice , while faction would be compelled to surrender to the OBSTRUCTIVE

      INFLUENCE OF TWELVE AND THE NATION . Then there is another strong fact which you must bear in mind . Twelve of the RIGHT SORT elected by you , would win many of the imbecile waverers over to a cause that MEANT TO WIN . Twelve Chartist members means at least FIFTY OBSTRUCTIVES . Twelve Chartist members would soon unmask Old Ireland ' s face , and teach the Irish people that justice to England meant justice to Ireland , and that every one of them would vote for a total abolition of tithes and a REPEAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE UNION . Every village , every town , every

      borough , every city , every county , every house , every cellar , and every flag-stone' upon which j the creature' without God and without hope' rests his weary head , has an interest in this great national movement ; Barnsley as well as York , Middleton as well as Manchester , Kensington as well as London , Let the people only insure twelve Chartist representatives , and their voice will arrest the law ' s vengeance , bind the hands of corruption , and gag the tongue of slander ; while , upon the other hand , if they suffer the present opportunity to pass , and a FREE TRADE Parliament should be the result ,

      farewell even to the chance of another struggle . I believe this to be the age of practice . I feel convinced that we bave succeeded in completing the two first processes of agitation , the creation and organization of public opinion , and I also believe that the country is now prepared for the last stage—its proper direction ; and further , that it will have but little doubt that representation is that proper direction . If the people succeed in getting twelve REAL MEMBERS , the BIGGEST HALF of the House no longer constitutes a majority , aud fbr this simple reason , because a minority

      AND THE NATION would be greater and more powerful . Suppose , for instance , a bad measure proposed by the government—a measure injurious to the rights of labour—an address instantly appears from Duncombe and his dozen ; five million voices speak to tbe bouse at once , and should their prayer be resisted , then a national demonstration takes place throughout the country , to meet the third reading with a remonstrance so strong that it cannot be mistaken . Four hundred Free Traders

      dare not make laws to carry their principle into practice , if the people had twelve members in the bouse to aid Duncombe . When these simple truths strike upon the ear , and speak to common sense , what a huge criminal , what an immense traitor Daniel O'Connell must appear ; -who for 14 sessions has had at his back , and uuder his controul , from 45 to 70 tools to be used for any job , and who have been used to strengthen the bands of corruption . Is it not almost more than mortal man can bear , to reflect that this UNCLEAN BEAST has received

      from his countrymen ten times as much as the Whig government insolently doles out as alms to a nation upon whose plunder it has lived ? while the plundering Liberator tells the slavish recipients to receive it thankfully , and beg humbly for more from the SAXON OPPRESSOR , when the step mother ' s scanty bit is gone . 0 ! Mercy , Justice , and Pity , what this cold-blooded bad old man might have done for poor Ireland !!' . While , after 17 years of EMANCIPATION , and 14 of REFORM , which placed a majority of the representation in his hands , bis countrv is a paltry beggar for alms at the

      oppressor ' s door ; while he lolls m idle luxury , bartering snbmissive poverty for Saxon patronage . Not all the Arch-Bishops , Bishops , Priests , and petty-fogging place hunters on the face of the earth , can much longer screen such open infamy from open exposure and punishment . You , Englishmen , have not yet reflected on the fact that he signed the Charter to deceive you , and has made a voluntary tender of his physical force to crush you in the field , while he has cheerfully prostituted his parliamentary strength to the unscrupulous support of your bitterest enemies , and aided in swelling the statute book with laws for

      your coercion , prostration , and degradation ; while after so long a possession of so much power , I defy mortal man to point me out one clause in one statute ofhis framing or suggestion , calculated to serve thc cause of civil or religious liberty . No , NOT ONE . The nation ' s task is now set , " it is to secure twelve CHARTIST MEMBERS atthe next general election , and the way to perform it is , to sink all distinctions between Whigs and Tories , to resolve that the battle must he hetweeenFREE TRADE , WHICH MEANS

      " Duncombe And Hit Staff, To The "Indust...

      CHEAP SPECULATION , and the Charter , which means - A FAIR DAY'S WAGES FOR A FAIR DAY'S

      WORK . Lit iis concentrate our force wherever we have the _btiLriCe of power , in a borough ov toTn . Let us divide _lii-gland , Scotland , and Wai es into twehi ; e ' _-jcloral districts selecting in each as our battle 'round , that , where we possess most electoral strength and HON ELECTIVE INFLUENCE . Let us then any to _eitberparty , here we take our stand giv « us one Char-* ist member HERE , & nd you shall have every particle of Chartist _ai / _p' _-ori » i i ' ut" iv"ii « iuacro * : '" _' _" : _s _cieouirai diUrici ; ' but OUR BALANCE OF POWER shall be

      _ret-aaad hb the 1 \ "BS" £ _"RVE b insure fair play . Let then , the remainder of that electoral district pour in its whole strength to the one place we mean to contest . Let that district have its local committee and machinery , and let the BATTLE GROUND have Us Central Committee , acting with the National Committee sitting in London ; and even with the present registration we will shake the . old bones of corruption . The Executive have provided a good and eligible room in an eligible situation , and the sittings of the National Committee should be for the present one nigbt in the week at least ; and , as the day of battle approaches , should be SEVEN nights in the

      week . Tracts should be printed , lecturers should be employed , candidates should be selected ; but the first step is to divide the enYpire into twelve electoral districts , selecting in each ONE SECURE SEAT for a TRUE MAN . We will not dictate to the enemy with whom we may coalesce , nor shall the enemy dictate to us in the choice of CANDIDATES . Let the uuiversal shout throughout the land then be—Hurrah !! for Duncombe And the Twelve , For Duncombe And the Twelve—Hurrah . _' . ' ! Your faithful friend and sen-ant , Feargus O'Connor .

      Rally For The J&Fca'rter! . W- '' ' "'V'...

      RALLY FOR THE J _& _fcA'RTER ! . _W- ' ' ' " 'V ' ,: A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR _TAVERN , STRAND , ON MONDAY _EVENlNGJfEXT . SEPTEMBER 28 th , 1846 , TOR THE POEPOSB - OF ADOPTING A NATIONAL PETITION TO PARLIAMENT , " " _"" ' FRAWNG FOB THE ENACTMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . The following eminent' Reformers have been invited and arc expected tobe present and _nddress the Meeting :- _? . O'CONNOR , Esq ., GEORGE THOMPSON , Esq ., JOSEPH STURGE , Esq ., E . MIALL , Esq .. E . JONES , Esq ., L . UEYWORTH , Esq ., Re ? . Mr . BURNETT , Dr . M'DOUALL . Mr . JULIAN HARNEY , Mr . S . KYDD , and the Members of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the _National _Chartus Association . , 3 _BT Notes of invitation have also been addressed to several of thc Democratic Members ot the House Of Commons , but , owing to their absence from town at the present season , the Committee , have hot yet received answers , and cannot , therefore , speak confidently of their attendance . THE CHAIB TO BE TAKES AT EIGHT O'CLOCK PKKClSEtT . ADMISSION FREE ,

      To The Members Of The Chartist Co-Operat...

      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY . My dear Friends , —We receive a few letters expressing great anxiety for the purchase of more Land . You need be under no apprehension . I have visited six or seven estates since I last wrote to you upon the subject , but your anxiety shall not hurry me into a bad purchase . I will not buy anything the cultivation of which will not repay you for your labour , better than if you were working for the best wages . In a few hours , from this time , I shall be in

      the tram for Birmingham , to visit an estate in Warwickshire , well situated , and if the land is good it will be bought ; if it is not , it wont . . And I may now tell you , to satisfy your curiosity , that we are about making a very extensive purchase , but recollect , that although there is plenty to be had , that land is not to be purchased like a hat . You are not half as anxious as I am to set to work again , although I think I have given you the full benefit of my leisure since the bulk of the work was over at Herringsgate , in the improvement of the Star and the circulation of our principles at public meetings . I assure you that the _extension of the plan and the

      anticipations of its success surpass my most sanguine expectations , and the carrying of it out promises to occupy no small portion of my time . Now , turnabout is fair play , and if you are very anxious upon one point , I am equally anxious upon another—it is this , we have opened over twenty new branches within this week , and I wish this rule to be read at every meeting of the new and old brauches . It is , that the secretaries shall transmit the money each week , without holding it until it is supposed to be of sufficient importance to send . This enables the secretary to keep bis accounts more regular , and will be a better protection for the members . The members in each branch should ascertain the exact

      amount paid within each week , and then by reference to the Star of the following " week they can be satisfied as to its correctness . I give this injunction , because some persons , perhaps not members , hamper us with letters to know why a weekly return is not made , when no remittance has been sent . If , then , this simple rule is observed , there can be no mistake or dissatisfaction .

      If the amount is not worth a post-office order , it can be sent in postage stamps ; but it should be sent each week . Another subject to which I draw your attention is this—you voted so much levy upon every member for the payment of the Directors , and yon appointed me Treasurer of the Expense Fund . Now I believe that no men in this world ever earned their

      wages more honestly or more hardly than the Directors ; but it was a vote of the Conference that it should be paid out of a particular fund ; and upon that fund , and upon that fund only , can they rely . Therefore , if you are anxious for the purchase of land , I am anxious for the payment of your servants , without whose aid I could not carry out your wish . Those who suppose they have paid in full , and who have not paid their Directors' Levy , may be disappointed upon the next ballot , as no name will be put into the ballot-box _. unless the levy has been paid ; while it will be stopped from those who pay weekly ,

      or by instalments . The sum voted is fully ample for the purpose ; and I think that the payment of the Company ' s servants is just as essential as the purchase of land . It may be , that much more has been paid on account of this fund than wc ire aware of , as the generality of secretaries send their remittances in a bulk sum , without any instruction as to its application . Now , surely , these simple rules may be attended to , and will ensure the success and integrity of what all are now beginning to look upon as the most glorious project ever undertaken for the emancipation of the working classes .

      In conclusion , you may rely upon a purchase not only of the 130 acres that have been ballotted for , but of a much larger quantity , being made forthwith ; but it is impossible for me to communicate to you every estate that I am going to purchase , or every one that I am going to inspect ; but this much

      To The Members Of The Chartist Co-Operat...

      I tell the drunkards—that six out of the last eigh ' estates that I have visited have been brought , to the hammefeby- the dissipation of the proprietors . _-Your faithful friend and bailiff , . Feargus O'Conkor .

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      _-MJtri-n VX _' . TO THE IRIS if RESIDING 'IN GREAT BRITAIN . FKuoff-CoysTRTMe . H , —You have aee . n by my last _i-H _^ r . ¦ ' _-r ' - ' _- _' _-h _^ _bculd have been N < v . _" i . inBtead of No 1 , that Uie end and object of" the lUpca ! movement wiis tihc _l-Qiitondioa . « v the WUig _& to _^ w & i _'" . ' . _'ftiUh & liV . fi _dainis of their friend--, the Repesl agitators , on the Government "should not be disparaged .

      It "Is scarcely passible thnt any man can be so s ' u pid , so completely destitute of sense and _understanding as not to see , NOW , what the Irish Universal Suffrage Association pointed out to them so far back as 1841 . Every one sees , NOW , that the Liberator of the brave Forty-shilling Freeholders ; the destroyer of two million and a half of his countrymen , never , fbr one single moment , entertained the slightest notion of repealing the Union . No , no , my friends ; that was the very last thing to be thought of . It was plainly stated , and deliberately resolved , that

      the Repeal was to be left an open question , to be agitated for by the people of Ireland ; well knowing that if they would agitate for it to the day of judgment they would not be one bit nearer to it than they were the day they commenced . But then , agitation brought in the sum of £ 123 , 621 to the coffers of Conciliation Hau ,. Agitation brought in about £ 30 , 000 a-year to the O'Connell Tribute : and , therefore , agitation was to be kept up at all hazards . The ejected tenantry—the poor dupes—are the unoffending sufferers ; they , poor creatures , are the victim *! _, of one of the most heartless knaves tbat ever

      disgraced human nature . The only excuse that can be made for the Catholic clergy—the natural and chosen protectors of the helpless , the widow , and the orphan—is , that they are not politicians * , they have been deceived and cheated themselves : or else they would be highly culpable in wilfully joining , aiding , and abetting , tbis mad career of wickedness , cupidity , and _Whiggisra . Politics are completely excluded from the College of Maynooth ; so much so , that if a student gets a newspaper the mere fact is a sufficient ground for

      expulsion ( Besides , all priests teach what they bolieve , and what I believe , to be infallible truth ; they have , therefore , no idea of the tortuous course of a wily , eloquent politician , who has spent a long life in making tho worse appear the better cause . The palpable sophistry of the deceitful orator is completely lost sight ot in the eloquent and impassioned appeals to their patriotism . It is , therefore , due to them , in common justice , to say , tbat few , very few indeed , hare joined the agitation from corrupt motives .

      I shall , for thc present , postpone my intended remarks upon the second letter of Dr . M'Hale to Lord John Russell upon the conduct pursued by the Rev . Mr . Hearne , towards the Chartists of Manchester ; and upon the political sermon preached by the Rev . Mr . Miley in Marlborough-street Church , on the occasion of Mr , O'Connell becoming Lord Mayor of Dublin . It can be demonstrated that this sermon contains rank blasphemy , disgusting adulation , and abject slavery ; and is a disgrace to the clergyman who preached it , and an insult to the understanding of those who had the patience to listen to it .

      You have seen that the Catholic Bishops and Catholic Clergy who joined the repeal agitation , were all enrolled members of the UNARMED VOLUNTEERS . Now , I ask you , docs it not follow , as a natural inference , that , as the Bishops and Clergy were duly enrolled members of the unarmed volunteers , ' -there must have been armed volunteers ? Unless this were the case why was the distinction made ? Why should there be unarmed volunteers ? Where " fore , then , tbis ridiculous fuss ab . ut moral forco NOW , when the scheme of physical force failed ? " Is it _eneugh , or shall he , while a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms , cheat you still V

      There is not a man amongst you , lay or clerical , that did not expect , that , in 1843 , there would be some fighting for repeal . Disowning it NOW , places you in a very unenviable position . Neither Priest nor Bishop should ever place himself in a position to have his veracity called in question . Following a false guide has not only placed some oi them in that awkward position , but has made them convict themselves . What is the meaning of that noble expression of the Bishop of Ardagh , whicli shook the Ilouse of Lords , from centre to surface ; and made every Peer tremble , both in and out of Parliament ?

      "IF TIIEY ATTACK US IN OUR PEACEFUL MEETINGS , IN THE OPEN AIR , WE SHALL RETREAT TO OUR CHURCHES * , AND THERE , WITH OUR LIVES , BEQUEATH OUR WRONGS TO OUR SUCCESSORS !" There is language befitting a better cause and a betterleailer . Why do these Bishops and Clergy , who embarked honestly and sincerely in the repeal agitation , not come forward like men , and acknowledge boldly and manfully that they were duped and cheated by the arch-deceiver ; and no longer run the risk of

      exposing themselves to the pity , and perhaps , ultimately , _^ co ntempt , of honest men , by following tbe old cheat through all his crimes and contradiction ? . If tlieir object be to secure for themselves a State provision , and thus become bound by a " GOLDEN LINK TO THE CROWN , " their support ot O'Connell , through all his vagaries , is quite consistent . - But there is a shameful want of morality in the pretence that the object of the repeal agitation is tlte repeal of the Act of Union , when , in reality , it is the restoration of Whiggery , and a State

      Pro-Vision . Thc Catholic Hierarchy and Clergy who are enrolled members of the "UNARMED VOLUNTEERS , " either know Mr . O'Connell ' s object , or they do not know it . If they do know it , they are guilty of aiding him to deceive and cheat their flocks under the pretence of Repealing the U nion . If they do not know his object ( which is the only excuse that can be offered for them ) they are guilty oi de-

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      ceiving a . nd cheating their flocks , by pretending that they do know it . In either case they stand convicted , and are morally bound to return to their confiding dupes every penny they wrung from them under the pretence of Repealing the Union . It is well known ( and I could name the parties ) that , eyen in the Archdiocese of Dublin , the poor people gave butter and eggs to the Repeal Wardens when they had no money to give . How ean any Clergyman , who ,. for the last six years has been guilty of calling upon the people , from the steps of the Altar ,

      to pay the repeal rent , come forward , and-from the same altar preach morality and honesty to the people until such time as he sets the example himself by paying back tho money which he helped to get from the people under a false pretence ? It goes hard with a man who would have sacrificed his life for the priesthood to be forced to speak thus of them ; but the truth must and will be told ; and must and will prevail at last , though it was nipped in the bud , and the very confessional made use of to crush it . "USE ALL THE

      MEANS WHICH YOUR SACRED OFFICE PLACES AT YOUR DISPOSAL to crush Char- __ _tif-m in the bud , " said Daniel O'Connell in an ad ' dress to theCatholic olergy in September , 1841 , and again in"jahuiry , ' 1843 . To which the unarmed volunteers , that is to say , that portion of the Catholic _cle-gy who joined the Repeal delusion , said— " We shall ! we shall ! " and sure enough they did . Every clergyman knew when he joined the " Loyal National Repeal At-aouiation of Ireland , that it was '' . _onipoiwl of four 'Yifi ' mci _chstos . " Pint . —The members who pay one pound annuallv .

      second . — -Ihc volunteers who payor collect ten pounds ami pay it in x week . _tiiivii , —The v . nanried volunteers , _whicli i 3 coroyicacd _, _ciriuaivelv , oi' _mms _ii ia _t ' -i « 0 * Ml _* - _* r bWarcfey and clergy its have beeu enrolled meaitwra . fourth . _—Aasucisviei _* _, _•¦^ a' ' - is to say those who pay uu' shilling annually , but why have " no right either to _spisak or tn vote at any meeti j . g . Tliey may shout ir . cheer , but can neither speak not vote .

      Here , now , we have members , volunteers , unarmed volunteers and associates : and the bishops and clergy joined this unmeaning melange ! They have a great deal to atone for , and the sooner they make the atonement the better . It is dangerous to forfeit the respect of even one man , no matter how humble he may be . It is fmpossible to respect men , no matter how exalted their station , who force those who rely upon tbeir wisdom and integrity to join such an infamous delusion . Have not those who have paid their money and taken out an associate's card in a society in which they can neither speak

      nor Vote , become voluntary slaves , and carry about thera , on the face of their cards , the badge of their own degradation 1 And is it a part of the duty of the bishops and clergy to degrade their flock . Let me not he told by some empty flippant knave that the associates can speak and vote ; because they may be permitted to speak and vote when such speaking and voting answers the purpose of tlie nefarious gang of insolvents , bankrupts , swindling gamblers and forgers , who manage that greatest of all swindlesthe Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland . But should they presume to yolie in the opposition they would then discover that none but MEMBERS

      VOLUNTEERS , and UNARMED VOLUNTEERS have right to vote . Now , my countrymen , why have you joined an association of this sort , and why do you continue _members of it ? Have yon not been long enough the dupes of tliose who profit by your credulity ? Do you not sec that your leaders have always treated you as mere rubbish , and that the greatest political right they ever promised you was the mere hope of better and more steady employment from your taskmasters ? If those whom you trusted , and who have led you for the last forty-six years ever , promised you any other

      right or privilege than that of _working hard for them and their order , and shouting , at the ; heels of those who dragged you along through mud and mire , what is it ? who proposed it ? where or at what time was it ever mentioned ? I never heard of it . Even the Repeal of the Union , more properly the Restoration of Whiggery , never contemplated any political right for you . Is it not time , then , that you should look for some political right for your own order . Trust no man , support no man or body of men , but that man or body of men whoso object is to achieve UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . This is your

      Charter . Without this you will be nothing but that which you have ever been since you wero deprived of it by the Disfranchising Statute , the Sth of Henry 6 th . From that period to the present time you have been the sport and spoil of every frothy , canting , speech . making professing patriot , every political knave men who have treated and will continue to treat you as their stock in trade ; men who have sold you and will sell you to any Minister for place and pension . How many hundreds of you have been turned out of the county of Dublin for voting against your landlords and in favour of Christopher Fitzsimon , tho Libera .

      tor ' s son-in-law ? How many hundreds of you have been turned out of the county of Meath for voting against your landlords and fbr Alr _. _Morgan O'Connell ? How many hundreds of you have been turned out of the county of Kerry for voting against your landlords and ibr Mr . Charles O'Connell , another sonin-law of Daniel O'Connell ? How many thousands of you have been turnod out of Ihe county of Carlow for voting against your landlords , and for Raphael the Jew , who was not a Repealer—for Mr . Maule , now Baron Maule , who was not a , Repealer—for Mr . Ashton Yates , who was not a

      Repealer—and for little Daniel O'Connell , Junior , who was not then a Repealer , but a supporter of a Whig Ministry , the pledged opponents of Repeal . Let it not be said that I censure any man for voting against his landlord ; far from it . Every man has not only a right , but is morally bound to vote according to his conscience . I merely state the simple unimpeachable fact , to show you how you have been duped and cheated—how you have been wheeled about and turned about by your unscrupulous Leader ; aad how your condition has become worse and worse at every turn .

      If your condition las not become worse and worse by every movement into which you have been led by-Mr . O'Connell , I call _np-in you one and all , collectively and individually , to lot mc know what you have gained in any way by _enabling your friend-Christopher Fiizsimon , Esq ., the Repeal Member for thc county of Dublin , and son-in-law to Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your Leader , to sell the electors of the county of Dublin to the enemies of Repeal , and leave them to the tender mercies of their landlords for the sum of £ 1 , 000 a year , as clerk of the Hammer ?

      What have you gained , in any way , by _enabling your friend Charles O'Connell , Esq ., M . P . for the county of Kerry , and son-in-law of Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your chosen Leader , to sell the electors of that county to the enemies ef Repeal , for the sum of £ 900 ¦ i . year , as a stipendiary Magistrate , including house , coals , candles , and servants ? What have you gained , in any way , by enabling Mr . Morgan O'Connell , the second son of Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., your chosen Leader , to sell the electors ol the county of Meath to the sworn enemies of Repeal , for thc sum of £ S 00 a year , as [ Deputy Clerk in the Registry Office ?

      What have you gained , in any way , by voting at the bidding of your ' * august Leader , " Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., for Alexander Raphael , Baron Maule , Ashton

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      yates , and _ijttie Dame ) _O'Connell , who was not longago kicked out of a ball room in Florence for bad behaviour , and pitchforked into the representation of the rotten borough of Dundalk , for similar conduct ! Now , my countrymen , as I am at a loss to know what you have gained , or are likely to gain , by those _tivistings , and turnings , by which it appears to me , as well as to every other man who feels anxiously ' desirous to secure the political rights of the working classes , arid thus raise them , at once and for ever , in the scale of society , that your condition _isnowtwentyfold worse than it was thirty years ago , why is it that you Still follow a man who has deceived you so _^ often , and who never yet proposed any one measure- _^ for your interest ? He has proposed none whatever .

      No , not one single measure during bis long life has he ever proposed for your benefit * , but on the contrary , has always made uso of yon to promote his % . own immediate interests . Society has become so _J _% corrupted and contaminated by the vile teachings of _^ this bad man , that not one ofhis followers , either lay or clerical , can endure the very sound of any political truth . Truth has become hateful in their '

      ears . And that love of fair play , truth , and justice , for which my countrymen were so pre-eminently distinguished , are new banished from the land , and low trick , falsehood , cunning , cant , deceit , and hypocrisy , substituted . It grieves me to see society ' reduced to this abject state of degradation . It rests With you , in a great measure , to restore society to what it once waa , and what it ought to be . Withdraw your support at once from every man , set of

      men , society , or association , whose primary object will not be a Complete Radical Reform of the House of Commons , by tbe extension of the Electoral Fran- ' chise to every male inhabitant of this empire , ( infants , insane persons , and criminals only excepted . ) In my next letter you shall hare the promised extracts from Mr . O'Connell ' s writings , evidence , and speeches . Patrick _O'IIiooihs . Dublin , September 20 tb , 1846 .

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      VOL . IX . NO . 463- LONDON , SATURDAY , _SEPTEMBER 26 , 1846 y _-iigS _^^ . _ ———¦ ' _« nw » _w—¦———¦¦——m—ki i

      Accident To The Steam Ship Great Britain.

      ACCIDENT TO THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN .

      Livnwool, Thursday. Asmnhoon,—This Morni...

      LivnwooL _, Thursday . _AsmnHOON , —This morni ng * about 10 _cTc-JocsC , the merchants on 'Change and the members of the underwriters' rooms were thrown into a sta tc * of som e ck ci teieen t by the _n-cfti p t of an express from Captain _Hoskcn , stating that bis noble ship , tbe Great Britain , had run ashore in Dundruio Bay . Oa reaching the rooms alluded to we found _tii _* following notice posted . " ••" "The Great Britain Steam Ship , from _Liw . vnooi t _& _TTc-. v "i ' orL . van on swore on the main , neat lbs _iksw and Calf , in _Dundvura _'Layy-ii east «> a < i uf _"" r & _laud , county Down , in 01 hours alter _leirine _Liversool . Passengers all landed , and tlio vessel will br : . _s-ot oii ft « : t springs . Thc sea was _making a eompfete ! y < ea _* jh over her after she struck , but the vessel wan _oerfectlv tight . "

      The particulars so lav as they _ha-se been learned , are extremely meagre . Thc following summary , condensed from Gore's _Advertiser , comprises all of importance * . — ' - The Great Britain left Liverpool for New York at eleven o ' clock on Tuesday forenoon , with tho largest number of passengers ( upwards of 180 ) that ever crossed the Atlantic in any steamer . She made extraordinary way after clearing the harbour of Liverpool ; indeed , all accounts agree in showing that she wen * at the unusually rapid rate of 13 } knots an hour . There can be very little doubt that she steamed most vapidly , ior in nine and a half hours after leaving our quays she struck on the Irish ooast .

      " Many rumours prevail as to the cause of the accident . Some Bay that the reckoning was badly kept , and otbers tbat the light off Dundrum Bay was taken for some other light . We believe , from what we have heard , that the latter was the real cause of the disaster . ** The passengers and crew were all landed in perfect safety . By means of jaunting ; cars , horses ' , carts , and other conveyances , tho majority of them reached Belfast , and several of them _arrive d in Liverpool and Fleetwood this morning , by the Sear King and Maiden City Steamers , "There was naturally very great confusion and consternation on board when the vessel struck , but through the active exertions and timely counsel of Captain _Doskt-n all fears for personal safety were quickly subdued , and the passengers , as wo have said , were safely landed , and with as much expedition as the unexpected nature of the circumstances would admit of .

      " The Great Britain , it is thought , will be got off , but as yet nothing very positive on this point can be stated . The sea was making a complete breach over her after she struck , but the ship was perfectly tight : " We cannot conclude this account without expressing our deep regret that such a dreadful catastrophe should happen , and that the fame of this noble ship has unhappily been eo greatly tarnished , when she appeared to be in the commencement of 3 most prosperous career . " Liverpool , _Fbidav . — The passengers , from tha Great Britain , were all safely landed . The top of the spring tides took place on Tuesday night , and as we shall not have a tide of equal height until the be . ginning of October , great fears are entertained as to whether she will ever Ingot off .

      The Late Accident On The Great Western Railway.

      THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY .

      The Inquest On The Bodies Of Paul Broome...

      The inquest on the bodies of Paul Broome Sargeant , and James Bonner , the two persons killed by this accident terminated on Thursday . Some of thejury strongly animadverted on the fact of the brackets which connect the carriage with the springs having been , in thc luggage van , made of cast iron . These brackets , as well as the springs themselves _,, were snapped across by the force ot the collision . The carriage in which the deceased men lost their lives was also inspected . Tbree ofthe compartments were completely demolished , and it appeared that Mr . Sargeant , who is supposed to have been standing upright at the moment of the accident , was actually forced through the partition into the next compartment , where he « as held in an erect posture , while his head , which was completely severed from his body , was forced backward nearly to the extremity of the roof of the carriage .

      Mr . Bushc , the engineer , accounted for the accident by supposing that the engine and tender got away from the train unobserved by the driver , and that presently after thc train struck the tender when under the bridge . As the train would have a greater velocity than the engine , the effect of the concussion would be just what has taken place . The common tendency in such cases is for one of the carriages to run under the other , and it is most likely that tbe luggage van ran under the tender , and that its back part was thus raised over the passengers carriage behind it .

      The Coroner , in summing up , observed , that considering the great weight of the luggage vans , provided as they were with iron sides _^ and wheels , he thought the foremost passenger carriageplaeed next to one of them ought to have some additional protection , and not be left trusting to the usual slight materials of these carriages alone . It was most probable , that if there had been a piece of iron , er some other protection between the passenger carriage and tho luggage van on the present occasion , tlie melancholy results which had brought them together would not havo occurred . jVerdict—Death by accident in both cases .

      Raimvat Metropolitan Termini.—The Novel Sight Will Soon Be Witnessed Of Many Hundreds Of Men Eni-

      Raimvat Metropolitan Termini . —The novel sight will soon be witnessed of many hundreds of men eni-

      Ployed In Tbe Very Heart Ot London In Th...

      ployed in tbe very heart ot London in the construction of a railway . Tbe London and South-western Company have now get possession of nearly all the property necessary for the extension of their line to liungerford-bridge , aud the most active preparations are making for commencing the construction of tlio works witliout dcl _.-iy . There will be a magnificent station at llungci'tovd-bridgo . The extent aud style of the erection may he inferred from the fact , tbat its cost will exceed £ 100 , 000 . The expenses ot _csnstructing the extension line from "Sine-elms to _Ilungerfoi-d-bridge , including the purchase of property , will not , it is _supposed , be under £ 000 , 000 , making with the station £ 700 , 000 , or the enormous sum of

      £ 350 , 000 per mile . Ihc South-western Company , though making their principal station at Hungcrfordbridge , do not mean to stop there , but are to extend their line to London-bridge , where means will be adopted to _coitnecS their station with that of the London and Brighton , tho South-eastern , and the various other companies , wliich have tlieir termini ou the east side of London-bridge . It is calculated that the expenses of _extending ; the South-western Kailwav from _llungerlbrd-hri-lge lo London-bridge will bo about . _^ 10 , 000 , making the sum altogether expended hy that Companv . in carrying its line from Nine-elms into the centre of London , upwards ot £ 1 , 000 , 000 . The extension to liuiigerford-brulge is _ex-. ccted to be finished in eiirlitccn months , and that

      to London-bridge in three years . ACCIDKST TO THE "MAIL TlUIS OX »« - ? . J _» " * _° i i , ... _'i'i . « mill train on tue noin . * Junction Railway .- Ihe ma •> « western , which should have ' _* n _SV " ,. ... nn „ ouare station at half-J «» t _hw oclock « Uj _., « a Wednesday mornina . did not reach unt' * _MNpast nine o ' clock full ** four nours after the usual time . Scause of detention was the bursting ofthe bo . kr of one of tbe eng ines on tl . e Midland Junction Rai - way , and the _neccsiit ; fur sending back to _Lancaster for another engine .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26091846/page/1/