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    • ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN.
    • IRELAND
    • O'CONNORl ILLE, N _ a KICKMANSWOKTH, HERTS Ti) be disposed OF, Ricli-rdson's Threo Acra Paradise. Situate in tliA twt ln-el nnrfinn nf tha
    • IHE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1318 .
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      But Tell The Soverei Ladthe Victoriautte...

      4 THE NORTHERN STAR . _ _„ Jpl £ 2 0 _^^ " ~ " * ' ! 7 _iiT l . . I

      One Mile From Lincoln.

      ONE MILE FROM LINCOLN .

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      ONE COITAGE FARM of FOUR _ALtt-w TO BE SOLD with _Immediat . Po _^ _. e _. _siou . Apilr to Mr Alsopp , R _. dH _. U , Li- ~ -

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      "I ASD ASD _CHAltTlST SILK _HWDKBROHIEP * L A Fresh Supply of 1 _^ Styles _^ _^^ _ , 3 10 -d . Kica Satin , Brussels .. _± n _ . _„ . Ditto , Ditto , Ducape .. " Splendid Satin Oporto _D-cape , up- - wards of twoennces _•_• n 9 ( 1 ' Ladies' Fi _ redH-ndl ; erchi' i __ •• 1 _» --. T _ abofe _1 _u-_ _wthj the attention of _fnends _dcsiroM Of purchasing . Dei . composed of the best material and _W _Tobe-bS-i-c * « f Mr T . Clark , National Land Companj _' s Offices ,-- * , High Holborn , London .

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      Oa the first Satur _. ayin August will be published No . 1 ( to be continued lortni _s Utly , price one penny ) of T 3 E CHARTIST . Thi-jounial will fearlessly assert the Right of tie Peopl- to the Franchise—the justice and expediency of a Repeal ofthe Union between England aad Ireland—iho claims of Labour against tne Eaonopo ists of the Land Currency—the rights of Woman , and Other _kiadrid subjects . The literary _departments will be occupied by honest and able hands . Arrangements are already made i \ ith Jo _. iah J . _Alerri-. 3-n ( author of l _* va ( lne , a lyric romance ) ; Charles _Utting ( of the People's Press ;) Miss Tyudal , and W . A . Nugent . Loadoa : S . G . Collins , 39 , Holywell-street , of whom may also be had—Trial and Portrait of John Mitchel , the Irish patriot , in a pamphlet of sixteen pages . Pr ice one penny .

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      TO TAILORS . By approbation cf Her Majesty Queen Victoria , aud H , ft . E . Prince Albert , NOW READY , THE LONDON AND PAKI 3 SPSING AND SUMMER FASHIONS for 1648 , bv Messrs BENJAMIN READ snd Co ., 12 , Bart-street , Bloomsbury-sqflare , near Oxford-Street , London j and by 6 . Besses , Holywell-street , Strand ; aad all Booksellers , an exquisitely _executed and superbly coloured PRINT . The elegance efthis Print eicel- any baforepabli _. bed , accompanied with the Noiv * si Style , ana extra-fitting Frock , Riding Dress , and Hunting-Coat Patterns ; the mest fashionable dressWaistcoat Pattern , and an _extra-Stting Habit Pattern of" he newest and most elegant style of fashion . Every particular part e _ lain * d ; ca _. tbod of increasing and diminishing the whole for any size fully illustrated , manner of Cutting and Making up , and all other information respecting Style and Fashion . Price 10 s . post free Us . READ and Co . ' s new _sclentinc system of Catting for lSiS is ready , and will supersede everything of tbe kind heretofore conceived . All the Plates are numberedand iettered , and on the scale of Eighteen Inches : Whole sine , _no-rer bsfore atumpted , containing twenty-three square fc * t : particular - , _postiroe . Patent Measures , with lull explanation , 8 * . the set . New PatentIndicater , for _ascertaining proportion and disproportion , illustrated with Diagrams , jirice ? _s . Patterns to Measure ( aU registered ec _. onilng to Act of Parliament ; , post free , Is . each . The _ mle sold by Read and Co ., 1 __ , Hart-street , _Bloomsbury-square , London ; and all Booksellers . Post-oSce orders , an- Post Stamps , taken as Cash . Habits performed for the Trade . Busts for fitting Coats on ; Boys ' figures . Foremen provided . — Instructions ia cutting complete , for all kinds of Style an ? Fashion , which can be accomplished in an incredibly short tirse .

      Ireland

      IRELAND

      A False Alart .-Reported Commence. Ment ...

      A FALSE _ALArT .-REPORTED COMMENCE . MENT OF INSURRECTION . .

      ( From the _Fourth Edition cf the Morning Chronicle of Thursday , July 27 th . ) Liverpool , Tnurrd _. y Mcrniag . —The following intelligence wa 3 received ( per special engine ) last evening , by Mr Gua'say , tdi _... oi tte _Dcbuk __ x . ikg Post : — HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND . Dub in , Wednesday . — C-- a __ en . e _ . ent of the Reb . iuon . Ths-h . _Cotm _. _* . and _Kilkenny in arm- ? . Defeat and _di-sff . cti _. n uf the troops . Burning oft _. railway _. tation at _Thurles . The who ' e ¦ i -. be South of Ireland is in rebellion . A special engine has _js _.. _arrived in Dublin , from four _tniies thf . side of Taurle . ( eighty-twa _miies in two hour .. )

      The station at _Thuri-3 is on Sre ; the rails for s _. v . ra ! miles are torn up ; and as the engines arrive , tba mob " iiu-nd _dc-iaiiung them . At _Cionael the fijhting _is dreadful , the peop'e arrived in masses . Tke Dibiin club leaders are there , the troops wars speedily overpowered . Many k 5 cb- _ ta act . Tne _ iii ?__ - at Carrick h . e . hewn disaffection _, and have be _; _n driven _back , and their quarters fired . At Kilkenny t _ con ' c _> . is proce __ ding , and here ihe mob are also ssid to Le £ u _ ee __ f ul . No _naws from Waterford or Cork- COSTRAD XT I . S CF THE _H-P . BTED INSURRECTION .

      Fhid » t , July " 3—AU the morning papers announce thai lie reported ia 3 __ _rrejtion in the Bouth ef Irc ' _-rdis ? _. _hr-jx . Tbe following is f . Gm the Liverpo-1 _correapo-uent of tba Morning Chronic _l e . ' As some de . : re may cxi _. t- to know bow the news in que 3 tioH arrived , wa may observe , _ a % shortly _altit bix o'clock , a tefit ' tniaD , who hnded by the mail ste _ _. er , _nuTpi-rtica to be a Quaen _' _s _me-sange _** , put into the hands of one of the cabmen two parcels , on 3 to your c _. _rr-spoadsats , and one to tne correspondent cf the Times , which he ordered to have _deliver _. d without _'___

      Tbe packages contained the news sent by _telegraph , ar . d a writer , whose name is known to your _corresponden _*' , sent a letter stating that th 9 nevrB h _* id arrived at tte Cank , Dublin , after the mail f ; r _ ing 3 t _ n w _ . 2 , __ d was sent after by a _speeisl engine express , snd at the time it was sent off , the news w _ 3 _n-it knfnn io Dublin , save by the au hrrltie _. _ _td the r ;_ tl = _ a _*_ who sent the lott _ . The Queen ' s _meire _^ ger _ , ? _rapsrted ta have set off by fie six , a . m . cxpr _ 5 triin for London . Dram , J _ t 20 —The government haTe det _.-jaised upon a c _ : i : e _ bi . nusib . r of _arrett-, and it is stated tsst so-ne per . ; _::, not heretofore openly _corn-Cicd with ths _rsr _ iu _.: _r-nary movement are to b _. ta ' _ien np . It is _' : d ih _. t four clerk _, have _b-eu oceti _^ . ' e- ! in _mskicu' cut _t-ie warrants , which awaited tha arrival of tha act authorising the L . _rd-Lieutei __ to _tslis the _ne-. _ssary _stepa .

      In an _Extrasrdir-. arj G _ _-V __ of 26 th Jniy , a _proclamation appears suppressing the club .. Mr Smith _O'Bii-s and several other leaders , now _organising ths club , throughout the country , are to be _tJk _ in . o custody to-night ; aad , if the attempt to ar _ s . them should not lead to an outbreak , they will be brought ap to Dublin tomorrow . Tas accousts from tho south this morning are _leilly m _.-t _alansing .

      Latest From Ireland. Arrest Of Patrick O...

      LATEST FROM IRELAND . ARREST OF PATRICK O'HIGGINS , ESQ . ( From the Morning Herald . ) Liverpool , Fe _ at—Your Dublin correspondent writes lsst- nigS _. ? that Mr Patrick O'Higgins , an agent for the Char ; i . '_ ., _ira . _arreetcd tn . day on a chsrge of felony . In bis _iiou-e _were found 1 , 300 gnu acd blunderbuss stocks in the rough state : he _Bay 3 he has had thera _upwards cf two years in his p 93 _sceg ion . i _ igii ; young men were coramitted to gaol , charged with conspiring to marder two

      inspector _, snd a constable i f _p-Iica—they w _. re mem-_ ra cf one cf tha lately d : s--lved clubs , iB 3 _; . 73 I . ' DR ' 6 H _ DA . Oa Thursday , about . Ereeo ' -lo _. k , Mr P . Marron , eiit . or of the _Decghedi _Asgcs , Mr P . Hart , and Mr St . _'phen Drew , _wer ? arrested ca a _charge of training acd drilling , and brought before Captain Derianny , _thattipendi ; . _ magistrate , in the Thol _. el . AUer a _lenstheasd-avestiEaticn Mr Drew was dismissed _, but _Meisrs Marron and Hart we _ heid to bail to appear at tke nest Meat . _2 _Esize 3 .

      MOSS _ . _ . _ . T-tf 3 _morning at two .- »' _cifjck , a cr _ ri c _. iitam _ 2 five _p-i-G-i . _'wa-S-oppedat tfco _Bianchards ' _-own turnpikegate by C _:-mtabi __ John Biayney aad another of the _poiie _. a . tbat _ : a :. _<> n ; and on examining tbe car they found threo _guss _, thtee _pi-rtols _, two _btlliet--nou'd _., and two piko heads , _ ta a very large _quantitr of _b-. _l-c-rl-id _^ _. s , _Sopf- powder , bail 0 , cap .-, -be , and conveyed tee car to the station-house . The prisoners ga-. eY . 5 r _naiue 3 a * M . 'Kenny , O' Ktrke , Haye ., Le _? , _az _ F _ _y . aad stated that ihey r . sid . d in _Clontarf . ( Froa t ' _- . e Morr . hi'i Chronicle )

      Warrants ior ths arrest of _.. Te _ l of the in _. urg _. flt leader . ? rere list night sent _dovrn to the south . There is a severe run upan the Bank , for gold JlNU & t-QUt . 9 698 . 0 . 1 Ir _ l ___<

      O'Connorl Ille, N _ A Kickmanswokth, Herts Ti) Be Disposed Of, Ricli-Rdson's Threo Acra Paradise. Situate In Tlia Twt Ln-El Nnrfinn Nf Tha

      _O'CONNORl ILLE , N _ a KICKMANSWOKTH , HERTS Ti ) be disposed OF , Ricli-rdson _' s Threo _Acra Paradise . Situate in tliA _twt _ln-el nnrfinn nf tha

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      estate , uieel . _laid out , sowed , and planted , with top ana ground crope , consistlngofTartary oats , potatoes , onions , cabbages , _caulifliwers , brcccoli , peas , beans , & c , 10 " Hawthorn Dean and Ripstono pippins in full bearing . I' . gooseberry trees , 207 currant trees , —red , white , and black—a great quantity of raspberry trees , wbich will bear fruit until October . For terms , apply to Mr 6 . Richardson , on tke . pot , or toMrE . Stallwood , ' 2 , Little _Yale-pluce , -lammersniithroad , ( pre paid ) enclosing a stamp fur i \ ply .

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      EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA . Tbis Say is published / price 0 ns Shilling . EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO KEW SOUTH WALES PROPER , AUSTRALIA FELIX , AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA . By J . C . Bvene , Esq , Anther of ' Twelve Years' _Wanderings in the British colonies . ' Effingham Wilson , Commercial and Colonial book ' seller and stationer , ll , Rojal Exchange .

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      FARMS ON SALE . A TOUR ACRE farm at Bromsgrove . — THK . EE FOUR ACRE farms at Minster Lovel , all of which arc cropped , — A FOUR ACRE farm at _Snig ' _a End , cropped . — A TWO ACHE firm at Minster Lovel . — A TWO ACRE farm at Snig ' s End , cropped . —A THREE ACRE farm at Minster Lovel . All cropped , All applications to be made to the Directors at their office , in , High Hulb _. rn , London .

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      TWO FOUR ACRE shares in the Land Company , _eligible for tbe ballot , price _ 6 ' 4 10 s eaeb , or £ 6 los the tr . o . Apply , ( it by letter prepaid ; to S . Rippingale , No . 51 , Wellington-street , Blackfriars-road , London .

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      Now ready , price Twopence , THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING A LETTER Addressed ( before Sentence , ) TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SIR THOMAS WILDE . By Ebnebt Jones . This letter contains the substance of the address which Ernest Jonea intended to deliver in the court , but which the judge would not allow to be spoken . Also , price Threepence , A VEKBATHI REPORT OF THK TRIAL *! OF ERNEST JONES AND THE OTHER CHARTIST LEADERS . Now Ready , a Now Edition of _ H . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . THE CHEAPEST EDITIOM EVEK PUBLISHED . Price Is . 6 d ., A new 3 nd elegant edition , with Steel Plate of the Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . HO . XIX . OF " THE LABOURER , " FOR AUGUST , Containing an Analysis of the Evidence eiv _ before the Committee appointed by the House ol C minions to report on the National Land Company , wiil be ready r „ t w _. elr . Watson , Q . ueen ' _s _Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London : A Heywood , _Vlfinshe-t-r _: aud all Bo _ - B ? l ! ers in Town and Country .

      Ihe Northern Star , Saturday, July 29, 1318 .

      IHE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , JULY 29 , 1318 .

      Ireland.

      IRELAND .

      ' * Heredltaiy bonusm .-n _. know _yo not , Who would be free , himself must 6 trike the blow . "

      Such were the moral force words under which Lord John Russell would now make it appear that Mr O'Connell had marshalled the mind of Ireland , and , although we are b y no means inclined to taunt the dead with the frequent use of the above impressive phrase , yet we are not prepared to charge his living' followers with any criminality which may result from strict obedience to his teaching . We shall not chTonicle any of the closet and Conciliation-hall sayings of that gentleman , notwithstanding that , although delivered within . the four walls of that

      building , they were nevertheless scattered abroad ; but we may , in justice to those who are now suffering , or are about to suffer , recall attention to the open-air avowals ofthe national teacher ; avowals made to millions of enthusiastic , oppressed , and starving people . We may remind the Whig Prime Minister of Mullaghmast and tbe Hill of Tara , where the Liberator declared , that he was surround _ by more physical force than any monarch could command ; and where he contrasted the strength of an Irish peasant with the strength of the peasantry of other nations ; nor can we forget the significant allusion to the motto under the touch-hole of the cannon of the Volunteers ;

      and to the declaration of the departed chieftain , " that his arm was yet young enough to wield a sword in defence of his country ' s rights , *'—a declaration which in our souls we believe he would have realised and fulfilled , had he witnessed the last two years' desolation to which his country has heen reduced by Whig treachery and despetic tyranny . And had Daniel O'Connell lived , we feel convinced that he would have joined the violent in the last extremity , rather than consent to the decimation of his country by starvation , and the abrogation of the constitution as the means of insuring the passive obedience of a starving people .

      O'Connell ' s policy was to gather up the mind oflreland into one volition , which would be an irresistible rampart against the physical force of the enemy . He apprehended more danger from the vindictive vengeance which it has been the policy of England to foster between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics , than he did from the united strength of English despotism . But although Daniel O'Connell denounced physical force , where was the man

      who more lustily contended against the suppression of public opinion ? Did he not resist all statutary enactments , and def y all royal proclamations . And thus , though opposed to his general policy , we rescue his memory from the stain which the Prime Minister of England would now stamp upon it , by attempting to illustrate what his feelings would be under existing circumstances , by allusion to what they were under a different state of things .

      The man who stands within twelve yards of tbe loaded pistol of a bully , hired to assassinate him , and whose hand was steady enough to avenge the contemplated assassination , could not have been a coward ; and , therefore , it is an injustice to attempt any solution of what his course might now be by what his course had formerly been . But we turn from the dead father to the living son , and we remind the "Tanist , '' and the heir apparent to the rent gathered from a starving people , of his words in 1845 . He said in Conciliation Hall , " THAT

      THE DAY MIGHT COME WHEN THE OPPRESSORS OF HIS COUNTRY WOULD DRIVE HIS COUNTRYMEN INTO PHYSICAL RESISTANCE , AND THAT THEN HE WOULD BE FOUND FIGHTING IN THE FOREMOST RANKS OF THE PEOPLE . " We are aware of the narrow limits within which the " Gagging Bill" confines our pen , and , mayhap , the exhibition of _ e moral force leader , in his own mirror , may be the foreshadowing of sedition . Perhaps it may be

      illegal to write in 1848 what the moral force leader of Ireland declared , amid cheers , in 1845 ! "There is no greater injustice than the attempt to drive a responsible leader from his own position and to force his acceptance of every speculative dogma of the reckless and enthusiastic , but that leader who abandons the position around which he has rallied his obedient followers , commits an act of the most -lug-rant injustice . By the teaching of leaders the mind is formed—by the enthusiasm of leaders the energy is quickened—by the resolution of leaders the action is confirmed . ' '

      We have it upon the highest authority that the followers of Mitchel swore to him that he should never leave the country , and by that assurance his energy was impelled and goaded to the resistance point ; but when the martyr w _ clutched what is called prudence supplied

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      li- ; p lace ef what was tendered as allegiance , and Mitchel lhe brave , the uncompromising , and the bold , became a victim to his confidence , a : id was dragged , like a felon , from the dock to the hulk , and is now paying the penalty of his misplaced confidence . The people of Ireland , however ,. have been no party to the deception and betrayal , because they were not parties to urge him on or to insure his protection ; hut , on tie contrary , it is to the violation of those pledges given to the felon that the frenzy , the madness , and the enthusiasm of the Irish people is now to be ascribed .

      Thev are not purchasable—they are a nation of Indomitable heroes ; grateful for littlehospitable with little—generous , confiding , and forgiving ; but , as far as England is concerned , we fear thej point of forgiveness has been passed . And although the proposition of the Prime Minister to abrogate the constitution , may be received with a howl of faction , in which the yell ofthe degenerate Irish drowned the Saxon cheer , yet we would ask that Prime Minister to pause , we would ask Parliament , in its presumed strength , to reflect upon what the consequence must be , if the leaders ofa determined , maddened , and enthusiastic

      people are snatched from amongst them in violation of the Constitution . Does the most confiding in governmental strength for one moment imagine that this war of sister against sister , as they are called , can be profitably maintained in the present state of Europe ? Do they imagine that they can revive the mad nationality inspired by Pitt—when all were readv to give the last farthing TO KEEP BONEY OUT . No—those were days of mere agricultural blindness , when

      the breeche _. pocket was a good substitute for brains ; but these are times when the active genius pauses , and asks what is to be the return for our submission to further taxation ? Is it to be a probable war with America , the not improbable loss of Canada , the destruction of a home market which by kindness and jus tice may . be made lucrative and profitable ? or is it the weakening of the English Crown and Government , at a period when legitimacy all over the world is falling before the mind ' s progress ?

      _Belgium , as a province of Holland , through pauperism , became : i sting in the side of the mother country while Belgium , as a free state , still holds her own though surrounded by a Republic . Or , in th a emphatic words of Mr O'Connor , " Can the Government of England , with America within fourteen days' sail , France all but touching our shores—Prussia demanding Republican Institutions as the means of preserving its monavchy—Italy throwing off the Austrian voke , and . the rrind of Ireland one fierce volcano "—we ask , under such

      circumstances , is it possible to preserve a restrictive Monarchy and Oligarchical Institutions in this country ? It is well for the Prime Minister and tiie Parliament to say , be tranquil and your grievances shall be redressed , but for eight and forty years the same cuckoo cry has been heard . Ireland has had Coercion Bills , Martial Law , and Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , " usque ad nauseam , " and the temporary lull , created by terror , has been used as an argument that the people were satisfied ; and even now the prostitute Press of England , and some of the pledged Repealers in the House of Commons , would lead their dupes to believe that there was neither dissatisfaction nor

      disaffection amongst the Irish people , while we find them thirsting for Irish blood , while the transactions upon 'Change are mainly regitlated hy the hope or despair of its being shed . But , we tell the Prime Minister of England , that although his predecessors subjugated Ireland by force and fraud in 1800 , that it would be worse than madness to try an experiment upon eight millions after forty-eight years of experience , which was only successful upon four millions without that experience . And , if the demand for Repeal of the Union shall be changed to a demand for a total separation , the Oligarch y of England , and they alone , will be chargeable with the result . Lord Althorp

      declared his opinion in the House of Commons in 1834 , that , if a majority of the Irish people should demand a _^ Repeal of the Union , that it would be the duty of that House to grant it . However , althoug h the will of the majority has been most significantlyproclaimed , we , nevertheless , find that the assumed duty of _Tarliament is to resist that will by the abrogation of the Constitution . And we now tell the Noble Lord , the Prime Minister , that the Constitution proclaims the right of freemen to be armed , and ; that to deprive them of those arms reduces them to slavery ; and we would ask , what allegiance a slave owes to a Government that would thus abrogate the Constitution ?

      The Tress may luxuriate in the hope that O'Brien and Meagher have absconded , and that thus the Irish Confederation has been dissolved . Such is , no doubt , the fond anticipation of those who would produce despair through treachery , but whatever the result of the conflict may be , we hazard an assurance that , whether the gaol or the grave shall be their lot , they will not dishonour their names hy flight . The English Government

      would make it appear that Ireland is a portion of England , whereas England is much more a portion of Ireland . Her manufacturing towns are crowded with the disinherited , the expatriated , and the exiled , hunted from their native land by the cruel Landlord , or the griping Parson , the desolating Middleman , or the relentless Official : and those who understand the feelings which possess man in social life , will understand the feelings ot those who are absent from the scene of national

      excitement . If the parent is present with a suffering child , fortitude and hope is sustained by the immediate knowledge of every change and crisis , - but if he is ab .-ent , and relies upen the post or the electric spark when he cannot see the sufferer , the excitement is greater , and the agony more poignant , increased by doubt . So itis with the absent Irish ; they take rumour for fact , and want of accurate information

      drives them to frenzy and despair . Hence we find that an attempt has been made to include Liverpool and Manchester in the unconstitutional proposition of the Prime Minister . But as it is the resolve of the powerful terrorists to strike a deadly blow at Chartism and Repeal , and as there are emissaries abroad who thrive by falsehood , and live upon blood , we would caution our Irish brethren against their machinations .

      England is now feeling the effects of foreign revolutions , —her Exchequer nearl y bankrupt , her trade paralysed , and her manufactures all but suspended ; her agricultural produce is threatened with a competition of the produce of other countries , not subject to unbearable burthens and taxations ; and for these casualties , calamities , and reverses , according to ancient custom and policy , the Government will attempt to eke supplies from the timid , hy parading the phantom of disa ffection ; and ere long we shall have the Chancellor of the

      Exchequer coming down to the House extolling the Government for its precaution , and the aristocracy and the middle classes for their loyalty , which will end in an appeal to their pockets . And when has there been an occasion for such an appeal , that incipient revolution has not been the bugbear , and loyalty the talisman . So that in the exact proportion in which the demand for liberty increases , does patron - age become augmented . But let not the noble lord lay the flattering unction to his soul , that streams of Irish blood , or hulks of Irish _victims , will ever banish from the Irish mind

      that pent up rancour engendered by an alien church , an alien proprietary , alien laws , and alien taskmasters . These monsters have upheld a tyrannous ascendancy which has been as injurious and weakening to the English Crown , as to Irish prosperity , and an attempt being made to banish this destructive superiority from the land , it now rallies in thejury box determined to uphold its authority as long as a foot of resting

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      ground remains . But we tell the oppressor , that the authority of Government , the desolation of the Protestant Church , the tyranny of alien landlords , the authority of their middle cla ss representatives , their partisan magistrates , party judges , packed juries , ruthless police , unscrupulous detectives , and prostitute Press cannot bind the united mind of an op pressed and united people . And when the day of terror shall have passed away , and when the unbiassed verdict of a national jury , too large to be packed , shall be delivered , the Eng lish Minister who fostered revolution to secure power will be found as the criminal , and he will be justly chargeable with the deplorable consequences which will be but the result of his own weakness , his own treachery and _am-. -- , _.. _ _. ,.

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      Persecution In Scotland.

      PERSECUTION IN SCOTLAND .

      Arrest Of Edinburgh Cuarti&Ts.

      ARREST OF EDINBURGH CUARTI & TS .

      We Take The Following From The London Pa...

      We take the following from the London papers of Thursday evening : — " Edinburgh , Wednesday . —This afternoon , Mr H . Rankine , Mr A . Walker , and J . Cumming , with some others , were arrested , on charges of a general character , comprising attendance at illegal public meetings , and

      addresses delivered on those occasions of an exciting descrip tion . The houses of those individuals have been searched , and documents of a very suspicious character have been seized and carried away . The three named were committed to gaol , and some of the others liberated on bail . A great demonstration of sympathy with the offenders is talked of hy the Chartists . "

      So Scotland is to share the general p roscription . War levied against the people of Ireland- —terror established in England—and now extended to Scotland ! What are the people to do ? Their petitions are scoffed at , their meetings prevented by force , their footsteps tracked , and their words watched by Iscariot-detectives , and their advocates by the help of " Trial by Jury " thrown into dungeons . " The laws ( _corrupted to their ends that _roafto tbem ) , S . vo bat for ln . _truraonta of aome new tyranny , That « _-very day starts up to on _. _lave _u . deeper . ''

      The middle classes are being armed with deadly weapons to use against the people . The pulic . of London are learning the use of the cutlass , and practising military evolutions , in addition to which the police of Liverpool are provided with firearms . A military camp is being formed in the neighbourhood of Liverpool , and everywhere the signs abound of a determination to rule the working classes by the law of the naked sword .

      " How long ' . Oh ! God , how long ?" Chartists of Scotland and England , working men of both countries , give your sympathy and your help to the persecuted patriots of Edinburgh . Friday Mornin _? . We havejust received a letter from Edinburgh stating that Mr Robert Cranston is included in the above arrests i nnd , further , that the publishing office of the "North British Express" has been shut up by "the authorities , '' and all the property connected therewith taken forcible possession of ! What say you to that , Englishmen ?

      MORE ARRESTS IN SCOTLAND . Saturday Morning . A letter received this morning from a friend at Greenock infoims us that Messrs Robert Burrell and Andrew Keilson , of that town , and Mr James Smith , of Glasgow , were arrested very early on Thursday morning . The charge against Messrs Burrell and Smith is that of " treasonable correspondence ; '' that against Mr Keilson is of being secretary of a club for " illegal purposes . "

      State Of Ireland. We Give In Another Col...

      STATE OF IRELAND . We give in another column a statement of the reported commencement of the Insurrection iu Ireland , in which it is stated , that the whole of the South is in open rebellion ; that fighting has taken place at Thurles , Clonmel , and Kilkenny , in which the People have been victorious . It is also reported , that the troops have shown disaffection towards the Government . On the other hand , the Evening Papers of Thursday contain no confirmation of this important intelligence ; on the contrary , in both Houses of Parliament Members ofthe Government , in repl y to questions addressed to them , have professed to treat the matter as a hoax .

      The news of the Insurrection—whether for the monrcnt true or false—has caused great excitement in the City , and occasioned a fall in the Funds from 8 G- to S 5 _J . From the tone of this ( Thursday ) evening ' s " Sua , '' it appears that some apprehension of " a run for gold " is entertained in the city . The " Standard" thinks the accounts from Ireland exaggerated , but adds , " still there can be no doubt efthe explosion of the rebellion . " According to the " Standard / ' the moneymongers iu the city are calling for measures ' * to silence the firebrand demagogues , " in England and Scotland ! Friday Morning .

      It will be seen by later news in another column that the announced insurrection is a false report . All _weeount ., however , agree that a struggle is inevitable . The author or authors of the hoax did their work cleverly , and created that alarm which , no doubt , was the object they had in view .

      ARREST OF P . O'HIGGINS , ESQ . Saturday Morning . Mr O'Higgins , the able and patriotic advocate of his country ' s rights , has been arrested on a trumped-up charge of " I _ lony , " or , as some ofthe papers have it , " High Treason !" We reserve comment . It is reported in some of the papers that Mr Smith O'Brien is at the head of ten thousand armed men in Tipperary . A large force of police and military has been sent from Dublin to arrest him .

      The Martyrs.

      THE MARTYRS .

      Rally To The Rescue ! The Sacrifice Of T...

      RALLY TO THE RESCUE ! The sacrifice of the Bradford and Bing ley victims has commenced . In another column will be found a brief account ofthe trial of some ofthe defendants charged with having taken part in the Bradford Riot , on the 29 th of May . Those already tried have , with one exception , been found Guilty . The sentences have not yet been pronounced , and , most probably , will be deferred until the whole of the defendants have been tried . We understand that there are , in all , fiftyeight persons charged with riot , & c _, for trial at the present ( York ) assizes . The alleged offences embrace all the forms of " seditious

      speeches , of illegal meetings , of riot , of rescue , of training and drilling others in the use of arms , of being present for the purpose of being trained and drilled , and of aiding , assisting , and abetting an unlawful assembly of persons in their being trained and drilled to the practice of military movements . " Of the fifty-eight , only nine have been enabled to obtain hail , and , consequently , nearly fifty of these persecuted men have been already two months in prison . This has arisen from the

      exorbitant amount of bail fixed by the celebrated " poor man ' s friend , " Busfe ' ild Ferrand , and his worthy associates of the _magisterial bench . The variations in tht forms ' of the committals do honour to th _* ingenuity of the aforesaid " poor man ' s friend ; " and that our readers may understand the comprehensive character of the net provided for the entrapment and sacrifice of their proscribed brethren , we give the following specimens : _ One man is committed for "having wickedly maliciousl y , and seditiousl y , i „ the presence ana hearing of divers Wsm subjects of our

      Rally To The Rescue ! The Sacrifice Of T...

      Sovereign Lady the Queen Victoria , uttered , pw > nouneed , and _decided _cei't _. iin scAndaloue , malicious , and seditious words , of and concerningour said Lady the Queen , her Government , Crown , and dignity ; '' another stands charged , that he , " with one R . W _., and divers other evil-disposed persons , to the number of 500 and more , at present unknown , did unlawfully meet together for the purpose of exciting discontent and disaffection , and for the purpose of exciting the liege subjects of our Lady tke Queen to hatred , and hostility to the Government and Constitution of this c _? : _™^ . t „ j „ _4-i . _a _nt „ _ocm _Vint . nria . nt . _fprflfl

      realm—and did , by loud and seditious speeches , exclamations , and cries , and by exhibiting divers flags and banners ofa seditious character , cause great terror and alarm to divers peaceable and liege subjects of our Lady the Queen , her Crown , and dignity . " Let the Just-asses of England only continue this game a little longer , and not all that the most furious Republicans ever said or did , will have done half so much to damage " our Sovereign Lad y the Queen , her Government , Crown , and dignity , " as will be done by these officious , meddling , persecuting , " vindicators of the law . " We commend to the attention of our readers

      a letter from Dr M'Douall , describing the particulars of his recent arrest and committal for trial . The treatment of that gentleman while in detention at Ashton , will excite the loathing , disgust , and burning indignation of all true men . The cowardly torturers appear to have tried upon their victim a combination ofthe cruelties of the Inquisition , with the horrors of the celebrated Black Hole . Curses loud and deep from the masses , will reward their cold-blooded vindictiveness .

      Meetings have been holden in the metropolis to sympathise with Ernest Jones and his fellow victims , and for the purpose of obtaining some mitigation of the cruel punishment to which they are subjected . The Daily News has the assurance to state that " the moderation displayed by the Attorney-General andthe Crown counsel in the recent trial at the Old Bailey , was exemplary : care was in general taken not to strain the law , or to act with unnecessary harshness towards the defendants : and the members of the Chartist body were satisfied of the perfect fairness of all that took p lace . " Here are a precious string of lies—the greatest lie being the libel on the London Chartists , that they were satisfied of the perfect fairness of the trials I

      Mr Jones was last week rescued from oakum picking by the payment of ll ., which relieves him for one month from this disgusting toil . Mr O'Connor has this day ( Thursday ) paid il . to exempt Vernon , FusseU , Sharp , and Williams , from the same slavery for the ensuing month . With pain and shame we must now direct the attention of the Chartist body to the humiliating fact , that scarcely any funds have been provided for the defence of the Yorkshire victims . Up to last Saturday , the West Riding treasurer had in hand not more than a shilling ahead for each of the unfortunate men , and we fear that this week the funds are very little improved , although the trials are now going on .

      Dr M'Douall ' s letter speaks for itself . He will defend every inch of ground—if supported by the people . Is Dr M'Douall to be sacrificed ? He requires money to pay his solicitor , fee counsel , and take his witnesses to Liverpool . Men of England , we appeal to you to do your duty , and aid the Doctor in his struggle with his and your oppressors . The families , too , ofthe London victims demand your earnest sympathy , expressed not by words , but by deeds . He who at this time withholds his assistance—according to his means—is a traitor to the Chartist cause , and the most culpable of theenemies ofthe Chartist martvrs .

      Parliamentary Review. The Whig Policy To...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Whig policy towards Ireland has at length attained an . appropriate consummation . Based upon hypocrisy , and carried on in fraud , it has ended in open and undisguised despotism . Last Saturday will be an historical day in the annals of that party , of Parliament , and ofthe country , whose liberties were , at one fell swoop _, and in one short sitting , swept away . The Government that in two years has not been able to construct or carry one remedial measure for Ireland , can be vigorous enough when it pleases , and so can Parliament ; but , unfortunately , it is onl y for mischief when they rouse themselves to action . One sitting of seven hours is sufficient to suspend the Constitution : a session of seven months has produced no effort to mend it ,

      In order to form anything like an impartial _judgment on the course pursued by the Government in this suspension of one of the great constitutional rights of the subject , which distinguish a free country from one under despotic rule , it is necessary to recal to recollection a few leading facts . It may be true , that looking at the present condition of Ireland from the same point of view as Parliament and the Executive Ministry , that they have no alternative but to resort to this extreme

      measure . In the face of an open and avowed armed preparation for insurrection , with the object of wresting from the dominio n of the Queen an important portion of the empire , to the rule of which she succeeded her predecessors , and which she swore to maintain intact , the servants of the Crown have , constitutionally speaking , no alternative but to take every _possible measure to prevent or repress that armed insurrection , and prevent that severance of the empire by force of arms , if it is proposed to effect it by that means .

      All this may be' admitted as abstractedl y true ; but it does not in the slightest degree improve the position of the present Ministry . The question remains—who is to blame for the disaffection having grown so general ?—the armed preparations so formidable as to call for measures of so severe , unconstitutional , and despotic a nature ? In replying to that question we need not travel back into the long records of Ireland ' s misgovernment . It is unnecessary to disinter from the tomb of past centuries , the injuries which have been inflicted upon her by systematic tyranny and misrule ; it is even , for an immediate answer to the question , not needed that we go beyond 1816 , and the accession of tbe present Ministry to power .

      It will be remembered hy our readers that , towards the close of that Session , Sir R . Peel brought in an Arms Act for Ireland . It was first introduced in the House of Lords , where it went through all its stages with the entire sanction of the Whig Peers , including those who now sit upon the Ministerial Bench . On the appearance of the bill in the House of Commons , Lord J . Russell and the Whigs sup . ported the first reading , and even John O'Connell admitted that the case presented by Sir R . Peel , as a justification for the measure , and its own comparativel y temperate and mild Hill

      _rf _, -. -v . » - * U * - * character , were such as to induce him to take a neutral part on the first reading . He merely begged for a little time to take the sense of the ' people of Ireland on the subject , It was ad- j mitted by the Irish members generally , that it i was tbe mildest bill of the kind ever proposed . If we understand the policy of Sir R . Peel on that occasion rightly , it was his object to put these limited powers into the hands of the authorities , in order to prevent the people from obtaining possession of arms ; and , having thus secured the State against the _contingencies of

      an armed outbreak , he intended to have proposed and carried a s _ i _ 0 f remedial measures for laying the foundation of a better state of things in that country . Presuming that such was his intention-a presumption fully borne out b y all that the Right Hon . Baronet stated m the debates on the bill—and especially h y his memorable declaration with reference to Irish policy in the speech with which he took leave of office—there cannot be the slightest doubt on the mind of any impartial man , that Sir It . Fed would have succeeded , in his objects ,. However , much any _piu-ty may dif .

      Parliamentary Review. The Whig Policy To...

      fro . * " the politics or the policy of the late P mief , every 0 _& e admits his rare admii _ . 8 tra . jj " ability . When he brings forward any measuro it is certain not only to be suited to the _purno ' in view , but also to he framed in such a pr ; it . tical and business-like shape as full y to answer these objects ; besides this , the country at ia _ know that when he proposes measures here al _ means to carry them . They are not produce d merely to make a show of work , and then withdrawn , postponed , or botched ; and a < j _, th frj ,. _* u the uolitics or the nolinv nf tha _l-, _tn n

      j consequence , e y have confidence in him as , practical statesman ; while , at the same time j Parliament knowing that they must either t W o » ( _tho measures or find another Minister , go I willingly and in a workmanlike spirit to work j We repeat , therefore , that if Peel hadsucceeded . _, in getting his Arms Act , snd by that me ans j preserving a tolerable amount of quiet in Ire . j land , we might fairl y have expected a really remedial and practical policy from him , 0 f ? , , comprehensive and immediately practical _chai racter .

      j But what were the' facts ? When the Uj _' i was first introduced into the House of Com-, mons , thegreat Free Trade measure of the Prei mier was still before Parliament , and any hostile move on the part of the Whigs might have damaged the chances of its passing the Lords . I They wished it to be passed , because they knew ( they could not , if in office , do so themselves whereas , that matter once settled , they saw the path to the resumption of power and patrona . I open _toj them . They therefore waited until the seal of the Queen ' s authority was finally ' affixed to the hill repealing the Corn Laws , and then united with the alienated section of

      the Protectionist party in defeating Peel on the Arms Act , with the express view of forcing him out of office and securing their own return to power . Whatever may be thought of the bitter and I revengeful feelings by which the Protectionists were induced to vote with the Whi gs on tha t : occasion they were at least natural , and had ' , nothing of meanness or selfish calculation about them—hut their allies were of a more sordid stamp—they were actuated only by the desire to clutch at the loaves and fishes of _i office .

      They succeeded in their endeavour ; but on what terms did Lord J . Russell . 'hecomethe Pre mier of Great Britain and Ireland ? He distinctl y declared that the time for governing Ireland by coercion had gone by for ever . He enumerated the long and melancholy catalogue of coercive measures which had been enacted since the year of the Union—all of which had utterly and entirel y failed to produce _ e intended effect / and upon that historical review pro claimed the natural and rational induction—that in future these modes of endeavouring to suppress discontent and disaffection should be

      abandoned , and a conciliatory policy adopted , based upon the principle of removing the evils which generated both . He proclaimed that he was willing to accept the government of the country on these terms , and was prepared with a broad and comprehensive policy . Parliament took him at his word , and he became Prime Minister . What are the results ? Where are the indications of that broad and ' eomprehensive remedial p olicy which was to lay the foundation of a new and prosperous state of things in Ireland ? In every respect Lord John Russell

      lias falsified his pledges , and acted diametrically opposite to what he declared he would do . The terrible famine , and its consequent suffering , in 1847 , which virtually threw both landlord , tenant , and labourer into the power of the Government , would have been seized by a bold and judicious minister as a providential auxiliary of the most powerful character , to enable him to cut the Gordian knot of difficulties , which other previous ministers had mainl y attempted to untie . In the midst of that dreadful crisis which , in effect , reduced society to its original elements in

      Irelandproduced genera ] disorganisation , and threw all classes helplessly on the sustaining _energies of the Executive and people of this country , a far-sighted and determined minister would have said ; " I am willing to relieve and assist you to the utmost that the means at my disposal will enable me , but it must be under such arrangements as will be mutually beneficial , and which will afford at least a reasonable hope that such an awful and deplorable

      crisis in the history of the nation shall not recur again . It is clear that some radical error lies at the root of the organisation of society in Ireland , or the wide-spread destitution , disease , and death , and the utter helplessness of all classes under these afflictions , could not have existed . We must , therefore , proceed radically with our remedies , and while fully providing for a fair adjustment of all existing claims , lay the basis for a better application 0 ? the soil and labour oflreland in future . "

      Such might , and would , have been the course of an enlightened and practical Minister , under the circumstances which then occurred , but Lord John Russell is neither an enli ghtened nor a practical Minister . The opportunity slipped through his fingers unimproved ; the only use he made of it was to squander ten millions sterling in one year , in a way , which , while it involved a total loss to this country , produced in Ireland onl y a deeper feeling " of humiliation and alienation than had formerl y existed . Its real grievances remained untouched , and the hopes of substantial amelioration and improvement faded further into the distance .

      Is it any wonder , then , the leaders and the people oflreland should have grown desperate , and resolved to let their country ' s salvation no longer depend upon the will of a minister who was incompetent to his task , and of a legislature which was either i gnorant of the re . medies required , or whose personal interests were directl y opposed to the introductioi _. of these remedies ? The consequence has been , that instead of the Arms Bill of Peel , in 1846 , we have had a Coercion Bill passed in the extra session before Christmas 1847 ; . the Gagging Act , before Easter 1 _)_ 8 ; and that proving altogether

      incapable of putting down the natural ; indignation with which Irishmen regard the Government of this country , Lord John has now suspended the Constitution . ' From this timo forth the Lord Lieutenant has the power , without any proof of guilt , without any formality of examination or trial , to seize upen every man or woman in Ireland he pleases , and to shut them up in jail until March next . There is but one step more to absolute despotism , in its worst and most abhorrent formnamel y , to proclaim all Ireland under martial law , and the supreme authorit y of drum-head courts-martial .

      We repeat that we owe this disgraceful and painful state of things , together with all the loss of lite , destruction of property , and the more deadly feeling of alienation between the two countries , which must ensue from any actual collision , entirely to the policy pursued by the Ministers now in power . It is the natural and inevitable termination to a career S _u _ fa , se P retences , and every step of which has been a disappointment to the People and a contradiction to the professed principles of the Government , with reference to its Irish policy .

      W hether the extreme measure now resorted to will prevent bloodshed or insurrection _* as Lord John says it is intended to do , remains to he seen . One thing is quite certain . The people of Ireland have got a new article of accusation against the British Legislature and Government—a new argument for Repeal or beparation . The Parliament that finds so much difficulty in passing remedial measures , finds none in passing coercive and cruel ones . We shall never forget the scene in the House of Lords on Monday night . The resolution to suspend the standing orders having heen agreed to , after a very short conversation on

      the first , reading of the Bill , it was read a second time , went through committee ( almo . t before poor old Shaftesbury c . ukl get into his S 8 nt and out again ) ,, reported , read a third _> time , and passed in about two minutes j with

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29071848/page/4/