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    • THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1846.
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      Rally For Poland! Remember The Martyrs 1...

      RALLY FOR POLAND ! REMEMBER THE MARTYRS 1 In memory of the Martyrs recently slaughtered by Poland ' s oppressors , and for the advancement of the Polish cause , a Public Meeting will be holden in the National Hall , Holborn , on Wednesday evening , May 20 fch . Further particulars in future announcements . By Order of the Democratic Committee for Poland ' s Regeneration , G . Julian _Harnet , Sec ., pro . tern .

      The Northern Star Saturday, May 9, 1846.

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY MAY 9 , 1846 .

      The Struggle. The Conference The Strike....

      THE STRUGGLE . THE CONFERENCE THE STRIKE . The masters have only to be firm , and they must con . quer in the end— _rVide Times of Wednesday . " The men hare only to remain true and they must c _« n quer in the end . —Northern Star . The Times , true to its savage calling _. has attempted to reply to our article , of Saturday last , upon the strike still continuing among the building trades It is evident that this champion of middle class oppression has been enlisted in the Masters' Union

      with the view of urging upon their order the necessity of meeting national co-operation by general resistance . The great central union for the protection of the rights of industry has not been in active operation far yet twelve months and behold its threatening justice to the labouring classes fills monopoly with alarm and calls forth the heaviest peals of the Thunderer to awaken the government to a sense of tho danger that must result from the PRESENT

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

      shillings a man per week to all who shall be on strike , Upon the contrary , the very reverse is the factthe central Hnion being established , not for the purpose of promoting or encouraging strikes , but for the just and creditable purpose of preventing strikes , when injudicious or uucalled-for , and of maintaining strikes only when they become necessary to resist the encroachment of employers . And will any man say , that a body _organized'for such a purpose , clearly within the provisions of all existing laws , was unnecessary or unneeded , when be knows the unfair advantage that has ever been taken of the unresisting trades by their powerful and protected masters . Hence , we very clearly show that the Times is in ignorance of , or has wilfully mis-stated , the great central union .

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

      of _sociGtymay yield to the speculator , his anticipated profit , The words upon which the Times reasons are so truly applicable to the condition of the working classes , and so eminently susceptible of a different conclusion to that drawn from them by the Thunderer , that we offer them as a reasoning gem to _out readers . The Tinas says : — " A day lost can never be regained . It is lost for ever and for every purpose to him who could hare produced it and to the country that _ehould equally with the producer have profited by the production . It is utterly gone and passed away . " s Now , leaving the question of preference for class out of consideration / and arguing upon the principle that time is money , and that

      " The value of anything Is just exactly what it will bring ;" and presuming fer a moment that the man who produces ( regardless of the necessity of society , that would merely use him as a means of ministering to its own comfort ) has just as good a right to uphusband and store his health , and speculate upon his labour , as the master who employs it , and who , without reference to the convenience of society , speculates upon its produce . Let us see , in such case , whether the day's labour lost for the day by him who strikes against a reduction , is LOST FOR EVER . A tradesman resists a reduction in his wages from

      £ 1 5 s . to £ 1 per week . He Btrikes for eight weeks and is idle , but in the end he triumphs ; or trade invites him to demand an increase in his wages of 5 s . a week—he strikes for eight weeks and succeeds . Then his position stands thus ' . he receives £ 55 for the _forty-four weeks he was at work , at £ 15 s . a week ; whereas , if he had not struck , he would have received £ 52 for the whole year . Thus , by the strike , he has saved eight weeks' labour , and lias increased his yearly wages bj £ 3 . We would ask , then , if his eight week ' s idleness was time lost to him for ever ? or we would ask if there is an _inhecut-fight k the master-class to stoic tho produce of

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      his labour to the end that profit may be made of the necessities of society , while the legal right to protection is denied to the producer ? ' Tes , we may be told that such has never been the result of strikes ; but that , on the contrary , they ended with Joss of time and reduction of wages ' . True ; and it was to correct these _abuses—tO prevent the recurrence of such failures , that the Central National Association was organised ; and it is because the masters see the probability of the promised result being realised , that they , too , have resolved upon forming themselves into a Central National Tyrant Association .

      The Times speculates , as is its custom , upon the gullibility of society . This Ready Reckoner informs us , with laughable precision , of the exact number o f men who struck , the critical number of those who have returned to work , and the precise estimate of those who are willing to abandon the central union upon condition of being restored to their employment . It further informs us that there are hands enough in the South UNEMPLOYED , to supply the place of the refractory . We will presume this guess to be correct , and , if so , we would strongly recommend _thoso

      employed in the South to keep their idle reserve at home , until the struggle for their rights in the North is over , and in the . end the trade generally will reap the benefit . Wc would further recommend ths directors of the central union to send their ablest their best conducted , lecturers to the South without an hour ' s delay , in order to expound the nature of the struggle , the character of the proposed combination of capitalists , the objects of the central association , and what the inevitable result of a yielding upon the part of the trades must be .

      As we have been long in the habit of conducting great national movements , our opinion is entitled to some weight and respect with the directing body , and we now tell them

      THAT THIS IS THE HOUR _I'OR ACTION . This is the season for a generous and a timely , be cause a profitable , expenditure of their surplus funds . We take the following significant hint from The Times as indicative of the course the masters under the guidance of the Home Secretary mean to

      pursuer-It may very fairly be asked , and it probably was asked o f the Some Secretary by , the deputations that waited upon him lately from the principal scenes of this agitation , whether a system of combination and of terror such as the great central union appears to enforce and to exercisa over the working population of England , is consistent with good order and sound principles of municipal government .

      Does not the above smell strongly of another , and perhaps a more tyrannical , Masters and Servants Bill ? And who doubts that the League and the Whigs will support their order in this new onslaught upon the rights of labour . And , again , we may ask , will the directing body allow us to be taken by surprise , or shall we not be { prepared this time ? We remind the directors that they owe their origin and their power to the strength evinced in that combination which overthrew j THE MASTERS AND SERVANTS BILL , and if they have becoming respect for themselves , they will not allow the country to discover _thatWhat labour accomplished without them it failed to achieve under their guidance .

      We are informed by the Chronicle of this morning , that the masters see a terror in centralization which they do not recognise in sectional action . They have resolved upon ma king abandonment of the central association the qualification to slave and live . They acquiesce in the right of all to join their local associations , because the tyrants are aware of their sectional impotency , because they are conscious of their ability to bring the whole strength of their united body to bear upon local strikes when ever they threaten danger to capital , diminution of profit , or overthrow to tyranny . Yes , working men , we

      prophecied there was TERROR IN THE NAME OF DTJNCOMBE , that there was danger in his consistency , damage to corruption in his eloquence , and ruin to sectional faction in his perseverance ; and now that he has made you great , powerful , and strong ; now that his honoured name is a tower of strength to the righteous , and a terror to the evil doer , they ask you to desert your leader , to abandon your directors , and to marshal yourselves in a pigmy warfare against giant capital , under officers whom they can delude , sycophants whom thev can flatter , creatures whom they can overcome .

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

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

      If further proof of masters' determination to resist every legal protection for labour be required , it will be found in the following threatened resistance to the Ten Hours'Bill : — Meetihg of the Association op Mill Owners . —A meeting of this association was held at three o ' clock yesterday , at Mr . Heron ' s offices , _Princess-street , for the purpose of further considering what steps should be taken in relation to the Factory Bill introduced into tho House of Commons . The meeting was attended by various mill-owners , representing the local associations of the neighbouring towns , as well as by spinners and

      manufacturers of Manchester aud the immediate neighbourhood . Mr . R . H . Greg presided , and after hearing from him some statements as to what had passed in London with reference to the Factory Bill , the feelings of the meeting was expressed with the greatest unanimitya resolution being adopted without a single dissentient , expressive of the opinion of the meeting , that the bill now before Parliament was a measure impolitic aud unjust , and opposed to the best interests of the operatives themselves . It waB resolved unanimously , tbat the most

      strenuous opposition should be given to the bill , and that a deputation consisting of the following gentlemen should proceed to London for the purpose of carrying the resolution of the meeting into effect : —Mr . Alderman Murray , Mr . Lewis Williams , Mr . 'W . R . Greg , Mr . John Shawcross , and Mr . William Taylor , of Preston . It is expected that the deputation will be joined by one or two gentlemen now in London . —Manchester Guardian of Wednesday .

      We trust that we have now said enough to em bolden the trades in their struggle , to impress upon tho directors the necessity of courage , caution , and vigilance , and to inspire the trades with the conviction of the indispensa ble necessity of electing good men and true to represent them in the forthcoming conference ; where labour ' s battle must be fought without flinching , where labour's struggle must be persevered in to the death , and where labour ' s _courage may be crowned with success , and labour's battle once begun ,

      Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son , Tho'baffled oft is ever won . Every working man who can spare a penny or a halfpenny , should send it forthwith to the central national association to enable them to carry on the struggle wit h credit to themselves and profit to the cause of labour . i _« M // C /// n _^ r' _^/^ rWv >

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

      THE HEART OF ERIN . So then the man who " reigns in the hearts of his countrymen" is consigned , "like a cask of small beer , " as the Times informs us , to a coal cellar in the House ef Commons , from which light is all but excluded , and with a Saxon menial , whose office appears to partake more of the spy than the attendant , as his only companion ; and this is the present situation of the lineal descendant of Bryan _Boru , to commemorate whose triumphs for Ireland her Liberutoi'selected _Clontavi the crowning fieM -. of his

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      renown—as the * spot to wind up Ireland ' s peaceful struggle against her Saxon oppressors ' . Often as we _havefbund it our duty to criticise and _5 ensufe softie of the vagaries by Vhich Smith O'Brien sought to prove th . _p super ; ority of the Repeal agitation over all other agitations , we are not amongst those who would nicely scan or punctiliously balance an Irish Member ' s regard and deference for parliamentary etiquette , parliamentary usage , parliamentary precedent , or parliamentary convenience .

      If we were disposed to measure Smith O'Brien ' s conduct by any of those whimsical standards , _jugtice would compel us to take a more extensive review of the whole case , and its several bearings , than the Saxon press or the maudlin portion of the Conciliation patriots appear disposed to extend , to what appears to us one of the grossest insults ever offered to a nation , one of the most flagrant violations of parliamentary usage , as well as the most contemptible revenge upon a proud , unbending , daring spirit .

      The Coercion Bill is admitted on all hands to be severe beyond precedent , and unconstitutional beyond defence . Added to which , the only colourable pretext for its hasty and inconvenient adoption by the Commons is ,-the respect stamped upon it by the hasty and inconsiderate ' manner in which it was rushed through the Lords . The Bill is admitted to be unconstitutional . The Bill is allowed to be Anti-Irish . The Bill is proclaimed impotent , inefficient ; and incapable of arresting the offences against which it is aimed .

      . These admissions , by many who have su pported the first reading upon the principle of convenience , added to . the loud denunciation of its provisions by the Irish liberals , would of themselves , in our judgment , sanction unconstitutional , unprecedented , and inconvcnUnt opposition ; England ' s weakness , quoth Mr . O'Connell , is Ireland's opportunity . Smith O'Brien ' s unprecedented courage and constitutional resistance to unconstitutional tyranny , wai pre-eminently calculated to embarrass the English Minister , by arresting his commercial policy until he had withdrawn his fangs from Irish liberty . How often has Ireland been told that her people should not stand upon the ; nicety of etiquette with her Saxon oppressors ? How often has Conciliation Hall re-echoed the

      plaudits of penniless beggars , when the Liberator has expressed his determination not only to abuse all the forms of the House , but to die upon the floor rather than permit the chartered privileges ofa banking company to operate against the interests of the Irish people ? How often has he hurled defiance at the CONSTITUTIONAL call of the House , which , as an Irish Member , be VOWED HIS DETERMINATION TO RESIST ; and how , with tears in his eyes , he has clasped our hand , and thanked us for unprecedented and unconstitutional resistance to the forms of the House of Commons .

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

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

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

      generous and genuine opposition of the descendant of Boru . Aye , in spite of the warm-faced patriot who boasted of Ireland's constitutional means of manufacturing a million pikes in the week ; in spite of servile obedience to his leader ' s commands , justice will yet be done to the man who has dared to carry into practice the theory that has constituted Ireland ' s great moral lesson for the last twenty years . If no other benefit accrues to Ireland from the courage of 0 ? Bribn—if his absence shall insure the easy transit of the measure through the house , the indifference evinced by those who have urged him to the course will have the inevitable effect of separating the zealous and sincere from the profligate and

      insincere . It was impossible much longer to preserve the _connection between clean hands and " an itchy palm . " It was impossible for a gentleman of character , and ¦ vith love for that character , to remain a party to extracting thousands from paupers , that idlers and profligates may revel upon the fund . The Irish people will recognise in the disgusting love of precedent urged by Tom Steele , the foregone resolution to dispose of Smith O'Bsien ; but will Ireland tolerate such a course ? Will the Irish continue to hurl defiance at the Saxon invader and oppressor , and then nicely Bean the forms of the house and the precedent of

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

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

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

      He knew those things , and therefore he uphusbanded his strength for the midnight struggle for Irish liberty . Aye , and Ireland will know those things too ; and Ireland must further know why O'Brien in 1846 was imprisoned , and why he was not imprisoned in 1845 for the same offence , " anil tlie ready answer will be because in 1845 THERE WAS NO COERCION BILL ; although in 1845 , when he was spared , there was more railway traffic and more necessity [ for his attendance on committees

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      We cannot conclude without expressing our warmest _thaijks to fhe Nation for its bold , Us manly and un « compromising denunciation of the Saxon insult _offered to an Irishman , nor can we abstain from expressing our gratification that there yet remains a few bold spirits like O'Bbien and Roche who will keep the young blood of Ireland in the straight path of freedom , _Kand who , despite the maudlin _philos * ophy of mendicant patriots , and trafficking politicians , place hunters , and hacks , will raise the standard , not of Repeal BUT OF SEPARATION from the tyrant oppressor under whose laws Ireland is . devastated , and in _compliance with whose convenience her advocates are imprisoned .

      YOUNG IRELAND , awake , arouse , arise , your hour is come . The Saxon ' s embarrassment proclaims your opportunity ; the Saxon ' s weakness proclaims your strength ; che English people WERE NEVER OPPOSED TO YOU , they have stoutly fought your oppressors , they have magnanimously contended for your _rights , despite the _slanderso yonr deceivers . Support your press in virtue , and its columns will become pillars of strength

      throughout the universe . The virtuous portion of your press now struggles for release from an irksome bondage , from a coercive despotism . Ireland never acquired a boon from English justice , your instructors have taught you , that she owes her triumphs to English fear , to English necessity . Make her fear you then , and she will do you justice , or allow her tamely , and without remonstrance , to take vengeance on your advocates , and she will justly give . you COERCION AS THE SLAVE'S PORTION OF BRITISH LEGISLATION .

      English Ousting Of Slaves. While The Vir...

      ENGLISH OUSTING OF SLAVES . While the virtuous press of England , and the vir « tuous middle class , are loud in their denunciation of the tyranny of Irish landlords—a tyranny which we were the first to expose—it may be " worth , while to . consider whether the sympathy of those philanthropists is real or pretended , and to inquire why their champion , the Times , abstains from condemnation of English mill-lord _oustings and oppression , while it so truly characterises the abominations of Irish landlords . About three months ago , Mr . Duncombe moved for a return of all persons removed from the

      manufacturing districts , under the Settlement Act , or by other authority , during the years 1841 , ' 42 , and ' 43 . That return has been a long time making its appearance , but has at length come forth , but very imperfect , the returns from Stockport , Blackburn , Bury , and the Township of Leeds , not being made ; although it \ b three months since the order for those returns was issued , and although StockpOrfc was the PRINCIPAL TOWN from which the honourable member required the return . However , as far as they go , we are in possession of them ; and let us now see the result . Within that short period _.

      there were three thousand eight hundred ura piftv-six heads of families , consisting of eieveh _THOUSAND THREE . HUNDRED * AND , FORTY-FOUR individuals , expelled from their habitations , many of whom had resided tkx , twenty , thirty , thirty-five , and even fifty and fifty-four years , in the towns from which they were removed . When the returns are complete we shall enter more largely into the consideration of this wholesale ousting . We have no doubt that a complete return will show that at least fifteen thousand persons have been thus brutally ejected by the philanthropic freetraders in two countries in a period of less than three years ; and unless some peculiar privilege belongs to

      the mill , and some peculiar duty to the land , the clearance of the mill-lords will far outdo the clearance of the Irish landlords . Let us suppose such a thing as fifteen thousand Irish cottiers being removed in two counties of Ireland , who had established some sort of title , by a ten , twenty , thirty , thirty-five , fifty , and fifty-four years' residence , what we should be glad to know , ( would be the amount ef virtuous wrath poured upon tlie Irish malefactors by the virtuous press and free-traders of England ? In each case the sin is committed in the name of lawin . the one case , the defined law which enables the landlord to oust his tenant ; the other , the undefined law which enables the capitalist to dispose of his slave .

      The Times has often told us that the practice of ousting tenants would not be tolerated in England , although justified by law , but nevertheless we don't find a tongue to wag or a pen to scratch against the tyranny of the _Malthusians . Perhaps we may be told that , in the one case , the wanderer is sent penniless in the world , and in the other ease he is ONLY RE * TURNED TO HIS PARISH after a fifty-four years absence , and when the vice of capital has _squeezed all the blood out of his body and the mar * row . out of his bone 3 . Bad as they are , give us , a

      thousand times give us , the EXPOSABLE tyranny of the Irish Landlords , compared to the _concealed murders of the Mill-lords . For the present we must take leave of this disgusting wholesale clearance , relying upon Mr . Duncombe to make the most of it in the debate on the new Law of Settlement ; while we cannot abstain from stating the disgusting fact , that from page 4 of the return we find two Irishmen were transported from _Ashton-under-Lyne , on the same day , the 24 th of February , 1841 , in the middle of

      winter , of the respective periods of residence of fiftyfour and fifty years . This return is imperfect , inasmuch as it does not furnish tho names of the several tyrant mill-lords who committed the havoc . It would have been well for Mr . Gerrard and Sir Francis Hopkins , if they had been English Mill-lords instead of Irish Landlords , for in that , case we would pledge ourselves , that the world would never have heard of their clearrnces or the murder of _paor Seory . But surely a RECKONING day will come .

      Parliamentary Review. Whatever May Be Sa...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Whatever may be said of our gratitude to literary , scientific , and philanthropic benefactors , nobody can allege _stinginc-ssagainst us in our treatment of successful men slayers , whether by land or sea . The Army , Navy , and the Bar , monopolise all the good things that John Bull has to give away . They are the only portals through which peerages , pensions , and fortunes can be reached , and viewed abstractedly , it is difficult to say whether thespeedy destruction of war , but sure ruin ofa lawsuit is the worst evil of the two . It or thelife-long anxiety and heart-wearing protracture ,

      is , however , the fashion at present to reward these classes ; and this week Parliament lias added the " solid pudding" of a large pension for their own lives and two succeeding generations , to the " empty praise " formerly bestowe d upon Lord Hahdinqe and Lord Gough . Use , it is said , reconciles one to the greatest deformities , yet there was something in the aspect of the House of Lords on Tuesday night , which suggested some reflections ofa not over complimentary character respecting one portion of that assembly—we mean the Bishops . It is but seldom that any of these Rev . Prelates are seen in the House , but their appearance there is always ominous of mischief , either to be perpetrated or _rewarded . To debate on such matters as promoting the physical

      health , the domestic comfort , the intellectual advancement , or the political emancipation of the masses , they never lend the light of their Reverend countenances . But if it is proposed to knock off some of the shackles which our untutored or bigotted ancestors imposed on the expression of opinion—if rewards are to be bestowed on some gory hero , who has directed the slaughter of tens of thousands of his fellow beings , then be sure that their bench will be well filled . So it was on Tuesday night . There did they sit , white robed and placid , listening with a sort of seraphic rapture to exultations over the wholesale destruction of human life , to details of the terrible struggles in which all the demoniac passions of man ' s nature were roused to madness—in which the masses

      of dead and wounded actually choked up the river ,, and dyed its waters red with blood : there , we say , did these Ministers of the Gospel of Peace sit calmly _, and smilingly , as if the description were of soma

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      To be had of John Cleave , and alt booksellers . ( Price One Shi ' . ling . ) TWO ORATIONS AG 1 IKST _TaKIXCt away _humas life , UNDER any Circumstances ; and in , explanation : defence of the misrepresented , Uoctrine of "N ' Resistance" ( De : mred in the National Hall , Holbo en the evenings of February 25 th , and _JTarch 4 th . ) " These oration * are the outpourings of a mind tl wiw , make itself heard , in sp ite of the abuse of hireli demagogues , or _themisrepresentauons of pious trick * te just because ' tis gifted with , genius , and inspired by tl enthusiasm ever _proaueed by a quick perception of trui and a profound love and veneration for justice , and aubject , mas . Afree _. _geoerous . loving nature speaks « in _tvery page . Wedo not doubt that many a sneer w be called forth by a perusal of this work ; but we a th . « ewhos . NEEB , toBEFPTEit if they can . " _—Xotttngh _'

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      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhvme . In Ten Books . ( One _' Vol ., 7 s . 6 d . ) '« The most wonderful efibit of intellectual power produced within the lart eentury . "—The Britaimitl . " Here we have a genuine poem springing out of the spirit of the times , and indeed out of the heart , and experience of one who has wrestled with and suffered in it , It is no other than a poem in ten books , by a Chartist , and who boldly sets his name and his profession ol Chartism on the title-page . It is plain that he glories in Jtis political faith more than in his poetry ; nay , his verse is but the vehicle of that faith . Tet _, nevertheless , it is a vigorous and most efficient vehicle . We must cordiallj onfess that we have read the whole with a feeling of unfeigned astonishment . —Eclectic RetUto .

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      TVISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES . ( Two Vols , 15 s . } "A series of Crabbe-like sketches , in prose . They are manifest portraits , and admonish us of the author ' s skill in taking the literal likenew , _"—4 « ni «« tn . "We have read some of these stories with deep interest , and few , we are persuaded , will rise from their perusal but with feelings all the warmer for what they have read . They can scarcely fail to be popular with the masses ; * and , upon the whole , we think they deserve _«« be so . "—Atlas . "The author excuse * the sternness of his pictures by alleging their truth . The justification is all-sufficient Chartist as these sketches are , they are healthier , in _tenc and sentiment , thaw the tawdry fictions vamped up for -the reading public b y some popular writers , tbat profess to exhibit the life of the laoouriug classes , "— Tht JMtauma .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 9, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_09051846/page/4/