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      Market Intelligence

      To the Delegates attending the Manchester Convention . — In order to render as much assistance aa possible to the Delegates attending the Manchester Conference , a list of persons has been obtained who can provide convenient and comfortable lodgings for the _delegates during their stay in the town . By applying at Mr . Dixon ' s , No . 3 , _Crossatreet _, East , Bank Top , Bottom of Long-street , Great Anceat ' s-street ; or at Mr . John Murrey ' s , No . 43 , Brook-street , nnder the Carpenter ' s Hall , they will be conveyed to the places provided . Chartist Convention . —Arrangements have been made for the reception of delegates at the Carpenters ' Ball , Garratt-road , on their arrival in Manchester J . M . Wheeler , Secretary .

      Staffordshire Colliers The report of tbe Delegate meeting at Wednesbury arrived too late for insertion this week . Mrs . Ellis—We have been requested to state that Mrs . Eilis has been started in a small way of business , at No . 7 , Mentague-street , Brick-lane , Spitalfields , where she will be thankful to receive orders for the Northern Star and any political publications . The Committee of Mrs . E . _' _a friends sit every Thursday evening at the Standard of Liberty , Brick-lane , Spitalfields . Thomas Smith must know we cannot announce raffles . Mr . Kydd—All communications for Mr . Samuel Kydd mast be addressed , for tbe present , to the care of Mr .

      Rosa , _Temperanea Hotel , Vicar Creft , Leeds . Manchester Tea Party . —Mr . Dixon wishes to _appriza tbe gentleman from Burnley who lost his hat at the tea-party , that he can have it by applying to Mr Dixon , No . 2 , Cross-street East , Bank Top , or to Mr . J Murray , 43 , Brook-street J . B . Wigan—Respectfully declined . F . Lefebn—We know nothing of the letter . Xo tue Friends of Joseph Linney—Mr . peplow writes us that Mr . Linney has been removed to Stafford Gaol . He arrived iu tbat town last week , and has been placed with Cooper , _O'Niel , and others ef the incarcerated victims where he ' will be allowed the use of books , writing materials , & o . 4 c Mr . Peplow adds that Mr . Linney is in goad health .

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      FRANCE . The Paris papers of Tuesday contain an account of a very formidable strike among ihe minera at Hive deGier , near St . Erienne , which occasioned a collision between ihem and the troops , in which six of the former were wounded , three of them severely . At the date of the last accounts the people continued in a state of high excitement , and endeavoured , by threats and otherwise , to induce their fellow labourers lo join in the strike .

      PORTUGAL . We have received accounts from Lisbon of the 3 rd , and from Oporto of the 4 th inst ... The latter mention a mutiny at Coimbra , which originated in some soldiers wishing to desert to Almeida . The besieging forces of "Viscount __ Fonte Nuova , seeking to cut off a convoy of provisions for Almeida , were put to the rout by the troops of Bomfim , lrom that that fortress . _Nevertheless the Diario states that the artillery had arrived aad opened fire upon the fortress . The Government finds it necessary to Euspend the constitution for a further term . All the guarantees of individual liberty are suspended till the 23 rd of April . The necessity for this step is not quite in accordance with the information the Government has been giving , through its journals , to the public , for the last two months , respecting the revolt .

      Effects or Middle Class Rule . —The correspondent of the Chronicle , _describing some attempts lately made to revive the fallen cause of the execrable Don Miguel , Bays that every vestige of his popularity with the people 13 gone , -but adds , ** strange to say , the new system has not succeeded to his place in their affections . Absolutism with them is unfortunately preferable to _thepresent system of Government . The common question with the people is , what have we gained by constitutions ! Li our condition better ! Do we pay fewer taxes \ Do we get a better price for our wines ? Do we export more of them ? Is the administration of police improved ! Are the purchasers of the church property better landlords and masters than the old possessors ! These are questions that are constantly in the months of the masses , and the answers to them are in the negative .

      TURKEY . The Courrier Francois publishes the following from Constantinople , March 20 . We find _nearly a similar account , as to the " main fact , in the Journal de _FrarJcfort . It is not there stated , however , that the Porte has positively announced its intention of irgicring the punishment mentioned by the Courrier : — " Tha answer of the Porte was given yesterday . The Government promises , in an absolute manner , mo longer to apply the punishment of death to renegades . As to the religious law , no mention is made of it . The Porte promises also to treat Christians kindly . The two ambassadors , however , are not completely satisfied . They call npon the Porte to add' that renegades shall not . be got rid of by poison or otherwise . It has been decided by the council of ministers that , aa renegades can no longer be decapitated , they shall be sent to the galleys for life . "

      Tbe Augsburg Gazette states tbat letters from Constantinople , and from the frontiers of Servia , speak of revolting excesses committed by the Albanian troops in Thessaly , Macedonia , and Bulgaria , against the Christians . It is said that these atrocities are caused by the fanatical hatred of those soldiers against the Christians .

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      BlRflHN SHAM—During the last few days the open air meetings were resumed at the old spot , in _Dnddeston-row . On Sunday morning Mr . George White addressed a goodly assemblage , who listened attentively to his discourse . Mr . White held similar meetings on Monday and Tuesday evenings , and will attend at _Dnddeston-rew every Sunday morning at ten o ' clock , and on Monday evenings at six when the whether permits . Those meetings have been of immense benefit to the _canse of sterling Chartism for the last three years , and from the attentive and earnest manner of the audiences during the -last few meetings , they promise to become as _numeross and popular as ever .

      The Chartists held their nsual weekly meeting at the Chartist Hall , Peck-lane , on Sunday evening last . Mr . Wm . Beale in the chair . A petition against the . Master and Servants' Bill was unanimously agreed to , and ordered to be forwarded to T . S . Duncombe , Ee § _-, for presentation . Mr . White addressed the meeting on his return from the delegate meeting at Bromsgrove , after which Messrs Christopher Doyle , George White , Thomas Claike , T . SL Wheeler , and Phillip M'Grath , were nominated to serve on the Executive Committee .

      _BrsansGHAiL—A meeting called by tbe Ship Inn Chartists was held in the Mechanic's Institution , on "Wednesday , when Mr . Mason was elected delegate to the forthcoming Convention . [ Wehave received another report « f the above meeiiDg which states that Mr Mason was not elected ; but that the decision of the previous meeting , held in the same place and reported in our last , was confirmed by a considerable majorityj Delegate Meeting . —On Sunday last , a delegate meeting was held at Wednesbury , for the purpose of nominating a candidate to the Conference . Delegates from tbe following places were present :

      —Birmingham , Messrs . Pussell , Welsford , and Potts _? Walsall : —Messrs . Griffiths and Schofield ; Bilston : —Messrs . White , Hanby , Bowden , Giddon , and Davis ; Wednesbury : —Messrs . Danks , Holden , and Curti 3 ; "Wolverhampton : —Mr . Dndley ; Great Bridge : —Mr . Booth . After Mr . Danks was called to the chair , and Mr . Potts appointed Secretary , the various delegates gave in their reports of the state of the cause , when it was resolved , moved by Mr . White , seconded by Mr . Schofield , " That Mr . Mason , of Birmingham , be proposed at the public meeting to be held at Wednesbury , on Thursday , as a fit and proper person to represent South Staffordshire in the forthcoming Conference . "

      BlBXCfGHAM . AND WORCESTERSHIRE DELEGATE Meeting . —An adjourned meeting of delegates for the above-named district was held at the Shoulder of Mutton Ttitt _, St . John ' s-5 treet , _BronjFgrove , on Snnday last , W . Parker in the chair . The following _places sent delegates i—Birmingham , While , Longstone , and Beale ; _Reddiicb , Parker ; Bromsgrove , _Prosser ; Hall , _Heywood ; Sidemoor , Hale ; Lickey Hills , John Pinfield ; Bedditch Youths , _Alcock , _Bayliss , _Standley , Palmer , and Stewe . £ 1 10 s ll _^ d was handed in from Bedditch , and 10 s 3 d from Bromsgrove to the District Convention Fund . The following instructions were _unanimcusly agreed to for the guidance of the delegates to the Convention from this district : —lst . A brief , _comprehensive , and easily understood Plan of Organization ,

      containing a few clear , and well-defined clauses . — 2 nd . Mode of raising funds to be _simplified by levying a fixed sum to be paid monthly by each locality , according to the number of payable members . —3 rd . Uniform books for each locality , so as te systematise the Associationjthroughout . Also prepared sheets for quarterly returns , to be forwarded by each suh-Sscretary to the Executive . —4 th . The immediate establishment of a fund for the employment of missionaries to visit those places not yei organised , such missionaries to be appointed by the Executive . — 5 lh . The necessity and utility of establishing a printing press in London , for the production of Chartist tracts , addresses , & c , for distribution , and for printing cards , placards , ice , for tht Association . Thank 3 were voted to the Chairman , and tbe meeting adjourned to Sunday next .

      Joseph Lln > "et . —Joseph Linney passed _throng Birmingham on Saturday last , in company of _ac officer of tbe Millbank Penitentiary . He has been removed to Stafford gaol , and is in good health . Hi * teim -of imprisonment expires in eleven weeks . MANCHESTER . —A lecture was delivered in thi Carpenters Hall , on Sunday last , by ilr . Willian Dixon . A public meeting of the inhabitants of Manches tei was held in the Carpenter ' s Hall , on the _evening of Wednesday , April 10 th , for the purpose of elect ' iug delegates to the forthcoming _CouTention . Oi the motion of Mr . Sutton , Mr . John Murray wsj called to the chair . He opened the meeting b ] reading the placard calling tbe meeting , & c Mr Dixon proposed Mr . J- Leach , asafit and proper per son to represent Manchester in the forthcoming Con Tentioiu Agreed to unanimously . Mr . D- _Donavei

      moved ** ThatMr . Doyle was a proper person to repr sent their interests in the forthcoming Convention Agreed to unanimously . Mr . Brew _proposed M _JohnNuttal ; Mr . Sutton seconded the _propositi which was carried unanimously . Mr . Hen _Nuttall proposed Mr . C . Taylor , ilr . Baker second the motion . Carried unanimously . Mr . Leach re amid the applause ofthe meeting , and address them in an excellent speech , in which he expos the atrocities of the Master and Servants Bill . It . Doyle then addressed the meeting , and was fi lowed by _Messre Taylor and Nuttall . Mr . Donov ; moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr . Murray 1 his _condact in the chair . Mr . Murray ackno ledged the complement and made an appeal _^ behalf of a poor broken down Chartist from _Ni Ingham , when a subscription was entered im which amounted to a handsome sum .

      KuLEf & WOBiH . —A public meeting was held Easter Monday , at _Etllingworth . on the Cas Green , to elect a delegate to the Conference Manchester for the Coventry district . Resomtio were passed similar to those whieh appeared in t Star of laBt week , passed at the meeting in Londc after ¦ which several addresses were delivered Messrs . White , Parker , Gilbert , and Hertopp . b John White , of Leamington , was elected by a lar jwgoxity to represent this district . _Mjlkrow _^ -Mokb Chartist _Tbitsphs . —— i _Tbesdarias _^ _-tbeannual meeting for the _ekc . ion f _^ S _& wEtd BhB _-took _^ y hvx at tbe Chnreh , wh the Chartist _carfffitfaisr were carried by an- ov _, whelming maiorjiy .

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      MONIES RECEIVED BY MB . O'CONNOR . POB _BXBCtmTS . £ 8 . d . Collected by a few working men of Marsden , near Burnley , by H . Holland 0 6 0 Prescott , by JohnWelsby ... ... 0 5 0 yon _m'douall . From Thomas Eliott o 1

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      RECEIPTS BY GENERAL SECRETARY . SUBSCRIPTIONS . £ s . d . Golden Lion ... 0 2 6 Norwich ... < 0 10 2 Greenwich and Daptford 0 3 6 Sheffield ... 0 10 0 Plymouth ,,, 6 7 6 Hebden Bridge 0 3 7 Penzance 9 3 6 J Marylebone 0 s 0 Xeamington 0 S 6 Standard of Liberty 0 3 5 Stockport Youths 0 4 2 Merthyr Tydvil ... 0 5 10

      TBTBl'TE . _Pen-sanee 0 10 3 _^ Stockport Yonths 0 3 0 _Staleybridge 8 3 7 John Cocking ... 0 16 Samuel Jackson 0 16 CARDS , Greenwich 0 0 6 _Lewisham ... ... 0 1 8

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      _ABSTRACT OF e , DABTBHLT BALANCB SHEET . Receipt of National Tribute during Quarter 74 U 2 Ditto , Contributions 3 » 13 7 Sale ef Cards ... 14 9 6

      Total Receipt 128 14 5 | _Balance from last Quarter ... 48 15 2 Total Cash 177 9 5 | Total Expenditure 165 14 3 Balance in hand 11 15 2 _| T . M . Wheeleb , Sec

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      _THiTNOJBLTHERlf STAR . SATURDAY , APRIL 13 , 1844 .

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      THE IRISH DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL . So then I we were right in our calculation as to Irish estimate of the Eliot boon . It is not easy to come to anything like a rational conclusion npon Irish questions , or see the effect that they may produce upon the machinery of agitation ; and , therefore , we have used the word " calculation" respectingthe _Eiaoiproblem . However we wereenabled to come to a very rational conclusion ,

      notwithstanding the complexity in which the noble mathematician wished to shroud it . The substitution of 55 , 000 "independent" electors for 25 , 000 u dependent '' voters , was so just , so liberal , and so moral a proposition withal , and coming spontaneously from a Tory Government to boot , that it required a thorough sifting of tbe why and the wherefore it should be unpalatable or even objectionable to the Irish .

      Tbe question of Irisli representation has been long and most . furiously discussed by those who have tasted of the sweets of that new power which the Reform Bill created ; and the amount of patronage being in proportion to the amount of Parliamentary support that the " Liberator" conld give to the Minister , it was reasonable enough that he should not only ask for an increase of that commodity , bnt that he should also look for greater facilities in the mode of its production . He asked them for more members , and his own mode of electing them as well ; and naturally enongh supposed that the Royal recommendation upon the subject was part payment for that exuberant Irish loyalty so copiously dealt in by the " Royal Loyal Moral Force Repeal

      Association . " However , the Free Trade principle of "Lord love you , we are all for ourselves in this world " appears , unfortunately for him , to be as well understood as an element of political power , as it is highly prized as an ingredient in commercial policy . The " Libebatob" has long attributed all the grievances of Ireland to the injustice of legislation , rather than to the system of representation . The question of legislation is not one that now disturbs him jmuch . No ; it is to the much more profitable question of representation that he looks with such patriotic and becoming anxiety . " Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" ; and while his friends were in ofiice , if the balance of power placed in his hands by the present system secured for him the r < _quired amount of patronage , it needed no great struggle to overdo the tiling .

      " Enough was as good as a feast " But alas 1 " wilful waste makes wof ul want ; " and the " feast" has been turned into a " fast . " Well then , we foretold while the English _presB was " humming and hawing , " and guessing , and speculating , about the proposed measure of " Justice to Ireland , " that the " Libebatob" would boo in the boon just what we saw at the first glance—an attempt to take the pea from under his thimble , and place it under that of the Tory landlords ; and that we were not mistaken in our notion as to his keen sense of perception , where self is in qnestion , the following mandate to hi 3 expectants will fully prove : —

      " At a meeting of the Committee of the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland , held at the Corn Exchange rooms , Thursday , April 4 , 1844 , the following resolutions -were agreed to : — " ' 1 . That although an unnecessary delay has taken place in tbe production and order / or printing of the Irish Registration Bill , yet _sufficient appears from tbe statements in the public papers to _disclose the _oppressive principles on -which that bill ia founded , tbe purport and object of it being manifestly to hand over tbe representation of the counties in Ireland to the landed oligarchy , and totally to suppress in our counties the popular voice .

      " * 2 . That the _legislative sanction to the measure of substituting for beneficial interest tbe solvent tenant test , will , even by the avowal of the authors of this nefarious bill , annihilate two-thirds of the present _£ 10 constituency ; and thus the authors of this measure unhesitatingly proclaim the indeliberate intention to lessen , by two-thirds , the county constituency . " ' 3-That the franchises afforded by tbe present bill , as a , substitution tor tbe present , and fer that more enlarged constituency which Ireland has been loudly , and indeed vociferously , demanding for years past , are

      twofold—namely , 1 st , the £ h perpetual freehold franchise , which , not requiring , aa it ought to do , residence in oTder to qualify the owner to vote , will afford an amp le opportunity for creating fictitious votes ; and -white the second—namely , the £ 30 rating clause , will exceedingly restrict the number of those who can possess the franchise—a class that , in fact , will probably be fonnd not to exceed S _» , 6 Q 0 at the utmost ; and as these persons may be , and almost universally will be , tenants at will , it is manifest that their votes will be under the entire control of tbeir landlords . .

      " « 4 . Tbat the tenant-at-wfll clause in the English Reform Bill , commonly called the Chaudos clause , has been found by experience to work _mest mischievously , and , in fact , to deBtroy the independence of the English county voters . It is the worst spedes of franchise known in England , and therefore it is brought forward as the principal franchise to be given to Ireland ; while the low rates , of franchise existing in England have been most unjustly taken away from the people of Ireland , and are , with similar ii justice , still retained from them . " * E . That another objection to the present bill is , that it makes no provision for an increase of the representation of the Irish nation .

      «« 6 . The admitted facts npon the discussion oi bring ing in the bill demonstrate how cempletely justi fiable the call for the Repeal of the legislative TJnioi by the Irish people was , and is , and how little the ; rave t expectfrom any other , rave an Irish legislature ! ««• S . That we respectfully eaO open the Irbh mem bers to attend the progress of this most _Efflictin , _measure , and to give the bill the mo » t decided oppc _sition by all means knownto tbe constitution of Par liament , however vexatious those means may b called . _"'DaKIEX _O'CONNELl , Chairman of tbe Committee . ' " If the above resolutions are compared with ou article ofiast week , there will appear a very _strikin coincidence between the two : and differing as we d from Mr . O'Connell upon many points _^ this _, agree ment is nevertheless not wonderful : for , as w

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      remarked last week , this is a subject upon which he must be honest , and with which he cannot afford to juggle or coquette . The resolutions bear the *• Loyal Royal" eignatnre of the august " Liberator" himself ; and are of so much importance that we shall say a few words upon each . From the first we learn that Dan can take a hint ; and that" sufficient appears from the statement of the publio papers to disclose the oppressive principles on which that bill is founded . " He does not require the printed Bill to convey a knowledge Of the

      Royal boon . No ; he has seen enough already . But wait till he sees tbe details by which the " oppressive principle" is to be worked out , and then his indignation will swell to bursting . The resolution further says that Dan Bees the dodge as we saw it ? that is , that the intention is just as we stated it ; to transfer " the pea from the priest ' s thimble to the Protestant landlord ' s thimble ; " or , as Dan has it , " manifestly to hand over the representation of the counties in Ireland to the landed oligarchy , and totallly to suppress in our counties the popular voice . "

      The second resolution was evidently written under very excited feelings , and not at all ia the improved tone of the now Bubdued and bland * ' conciliator . " Here it is denominated a " _nkfabiops bill : " and from it we learn that the proposed augmentation is , qneer enongh , no augmentation " at aU , at all J" bnt is , on the contrary , " a deliberate intention to lessen , by two thirds , the county constituency . " Did we not say that the creation of 55 , 000 voters of the wrong sort , would not compensate for the disfranchisement of 25 , 000 voters of the " bight sobt V and does not Dan say the very same !

      Resolution the third assures _ub , as we assured our readers last week , that the bit of £ 5 freehold franchise is bat intended as a means of manufacturing faggot votes ; and as the ' Liberals" cannot compete with the Tories in this description of fabrie , it is therefore justly denounced . We also learn that Dan feels that patriotism will merge into " Lord love you , we are all for ourselves in this world "; and that , acting upon self-preservation principles , " it is manifest their votes will be under the entiro contronl of their landlords . " So it is , Daniel 1 quite manifest . You are quite right . But , then , how can you stop it ?

      Resolution No . 4 , is a gem ofthe very first water . It commences with a denunciation of the ' * Chandos Clause , " and complains , as we did last week , of the injustice of inflicting upon Ireland all the vices ofthe English Reform Bill , while it withholds from that conntry its few advantages . But upon whom , or upon what class is the following anathema intended to fall 1 " The low bates of franchise ; existing in England have been most _wjustly taken away

      FBOM THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND ; AND ARK , WITH _SIHILAB INJUSTICE , STILL BETA 1 NED FBOM THEM . " To what class of voters does the above refer f Can it be to the 216 , 000 40 s . freeholders !! And is the name o Daniel _O'Cosskll to the lamentation over the departed 40 s . class , a forgery , or is it genuine 1 Wo can woll understand the sorrow of a parent who joins in the "Hullagone , " and theory of " Hally-Ihew , Hallylhew ; Darby what made you die V But we cannot understand the grief chaunted by the

      homicide , especially knowing that the act was _committed with "malice aforethought . " Howbeit there stands the resolution , and there stands the signature of Daniel O'Connell ; and there stands in tho resolution the condemnation of the disfranchisement of tbe 40 * . freeholders ; and there stands the conviction of those who accepted their own emancipation at so dear a price as the degradation of 216 , 000 o their brother Catholics and countrymen , and the consequent humiliation of the whole Catholic people of Ireland !

      The fifth resolution complains that " no provision is made by the Bill for an increase m the representation of Ireland . " We do not join in this song of mourning . We think we have quite enough of Irish representation , until the whole popular voice of Ireland shall be represented . _Tken , as many representatives as you please . The seventh resolution is a perfect fulfilment of our last week's prediction , to the effect that tbis new and unconstitutional attack upon Irish liberty , would be met heart and soul by the " Libeeatob . " Hero we have the order for M OBSTRUCTION , " " howeveb vexatious those means mat be callkd . "

      Well , well , to be Bure ! How every agitator , who is compelled to fight honestly against injustice , is compelled , after all , to resort tothe muoh abused M OBSTBDCT 1 VB _POLICr " of the much abused Chartists ! We f eel assured that the just contempt in which the working classes of England hold Mr . Daniel O'Connell , and the more especially for his recent senseless and malicious attacks upon their order and their principles , renders the task of rousing them against auy measure for which he may require their co-operation , difficult in the extreme . We must not , however , forget our duly to Ireland , to justice , to

      England , and to posterity . The Irish Registration Bill of . Lord Eliot , then , is a question of mach , very muoh more importance to Englishmen than it is to Irishmen ; and we shall briefly state why . The effect of Lord Eliot ' s Bill must be to throw the whole county representation of Ireland into the hands of the Tory landlords ; and our friend The Cork Southern Reporter is wrong , very wrong , in supposing that the alteration would but lead to an increase of confiscations , oustings , and clearances . It would lead , firstly , to inactivity upon the part of the "Liberal" party ; and subsequently that party would merge , either from hopelessness or compulsion , into the " Chandos Brigade . "

      The " Liberal" constituencies now set their landlords at defiance , because by so doing they can hold the ascendancy ; but once deprive them of that inducement , and what is now a virtue would very speedily be considered a mad and suioidal obstinacy . This measure would give the Tory party almost exclusive control over the Irish county constituencies ; and thus place SIXTY-FOUR County Members at their disposal . Those Sixtyfour Irish Members would be a more destructive force at the command of an English Tory

      Minister , than eighty English Members : and for this plain and simple reason ; because publio opinion in England may , upon exciting occasions , have some influence upon English representatives . The same , or even a larger amount of English excitement or public opinion , would have no influence bers , whose resistance of all popular demand would whatever upon the 64 Irish Tory County Membe the strongest recommendation that they could possibly advance in behalf of their claims as representatives . From the moment that the

      English Parliament has been infected with Irish State Church Orangeism , in 1800 , or the period of the Union , to this day , the Irish Protestant Members have been the most obsequious tools in the hands of the English Minister . To their subservienoy is to be attributed at least one-half of our present National Debt , and all tbe English and Irish blood that has been squandered in religions wars to prop up the Protestant Church , and prevent the spread of democratic principles . But for their aid , Castlebeagh could not have made his

      several successful onslaughts againBt the liberty of Englishmen ! But for their countenance , the Manchester butchers would not have dared to shed English blood at Peterloo ; and therefore the people of England are bound to consider the present struggle as one ofa national representative character , rather than as a mere question of Irish dissatisfaction or complaint . Once done , it cannot be undone . Once dene , and Englishmen become the slaves of an Irish Orange faction ; over whom all English public opinion will have lost its comroul .

      To resist the infernal purpose then let all the powers of *"• OBSTBUCTIVE CHARTISM " be put into full and immediate active operation ; to resist the most daring , _^ most outrageous , and most "dangerous attack ever ye _£ , made upon , public _j iberty . Shonld this measure be carried , " farewell

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      tothe Charter ! farewell to Repeal ! farewell to Petition , to Liberty , to _Discission , and to Free Trade ! And opposed though we are to the measure o f Free Trade Bought by its present advooates _^ yet God forbid that we should tacitly allow Sir R . Peel to take that arrow out of onr quiver whioh he may one day find a useful weapon wherewith to fight that party , who would if allowed their present bill ,

      hang it for ever as a millstone round our ' , necks . We look upon the dangers of Free Trade under existing circumstances , and all other perils and dangers , as of little importance compared with the dangers of increasing the powers of the Irish Tory Landlords—the-Irish Orange Protestants—the Irish Church cormorants—and the Irish Protestant Orange squirearchy and their minions .

      Therefore , again we say : " To your tents , " obstructive Chartists ! "To your tents , " united Repealers ! "To your tents ;' Free Traders ! "To your tents ;" Dissenters ! "Toyour tents ; " Presbyterians ! "To your tents ; " all who have an interest in life , in liberty , and property ; and save , O , save your country and yourselves from the odium of being governed by a majority of wreckless Tory Orange Protestant Irish Bloodhounds .

      Down with the Tories ! Cut the warp , before the web of oppression is wove . Out with them , and truat in God and your own powers for their successors . Dread not even Whiggery . That infliction with all its horrors , would be comparatively harmless . We have killed that monster before , and could kill it again , were it to be so far reanimated as to crawl into power : but never , never , neveb can we

      stretch the same arm across the channel to destroy that whioh is now in process of creation ! Up , then ; meet , and petition , one and all , and each for himself . If we all unite for one month , we can kill the hideous monster . Let the measure pass , and England will shortly have more cause to complain of tho Union than ever Ireland had ! Down , then ,: with the Tories , let who and what may follow !

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      HAS ROME NOW NO BRUTUS 1 HAS ITALY NO TELL ? The present state of Italy is most critical and interesting both to the supporters of despotism and the friends of freedom . The former are alarmed lest the inhabitants of that lovely land should escape from the bondage to which Priestcraft and

      Kingcraft for centuries has subjeoted them ; and the latter fear lest the present movement should have prematurely exploded , and end , as too many similar struggles have previously done , in the butchery of the patriots , and the triumph of the " cowl'd and purple-clad ruffians'' who have too long scourged and desolated the fairest portion of Heaven ' s oreation .

      Our readers will remember that the autumn of 1813 was marked by several petty outbreaks in the _, " States of tho Church , " followed by tbe arrest of a large number of the disaffected . Plots and conspiracies were said to have been detected . The parties implicated were either thrown into prison or compelled to fly ; and we were assured by the papers in the pay of the continental despots , that these " vigorous measures" had had the desired effect , and that Italy was restored to quietude .

      Still , ever and anon , some play-house row , conflict with the police , or sudden irruption of suspicious characters from the mountains , said to be brigands , but known to be political insurgents , showed tbat tho volcano still boiled beneath the surface ; and that other eruptions were not far distant . A Military Commission has been sitting

      trying the parlies arrested a few months since . Our paper of last week contained the Pope ' s confirmation of the sentences passed by this tribunal ; accompanied by information that has fairly startled the Governments of this part of Europe , and set all the hirelings and officials of despotism on the qui vive to suppress a new and formidable outbreak of the discontented subjects of Rome and Naples .

      As just observed , the Pope has confirmed the sentences of the Military Commission . Upwards of twenty of the patriots are stated to be condemned to death , and a still larger number to the galleys for life . But , accompanying this intelligence , the reader would See the reports of fresh revolts both in the Neapolitan and Pontifical StateB . The people have risen in arms , attacked the soldiery , and in some instances ( even according to the Italian

      press ) with decided success . It is in vam that the hirelings of tyranny denounce these outbursts as merely the excesses of brigandage ; there can be no mistake as to the object of the movement , the cry of the _insurgonts being , " Down loith ths Government /" ' * Long live Liberty and the Constitution I" It is , in fact , the uprising of " Young Italy" against the bloody and mind-crushing tyranny to which mankind has too long bowed the neck and bended the knee .

      It is a well-known fact , that for a considerable time past the present outbreak has beoa in course of preparation . In every foreign country where the Italian Refugees have been compelled to take shelter , they have maintained a correspondence with each other , and been silently employed in preparing the materials of the present storm . In Malta and Corsica tho greatest aotivity has for Eome time past prevailed in their ranks ; and we have it on the authority of the Times , that a Central Committee of the Secret Political Society , known under the name

      of the Giovane Italia , has long been established in London ; and an Italian school , frequented by adults as well as by children , has existed for some years , under the direot management of several of the most ardent leaders of the democratic party . Measures are stated to have been taken by the members of this society , acting in conjunction with their exiled countrymen ill Paris , to kindle a fresh and extensive insurrection in the Italian States . The Times states that one of the agents of this society has even engaged a considerable body of men in Corsica , who aro to be conveyed to the Italian coast on the first signal of a general insurrection .

      Several of the revolutionary leaders are near the soene of action in the neighbouring islands both of the Adriatio and the _Mediterranean . In the interior of Italy , the agents of the secret societies are on the alert . Their plan is said to be to kindle simultaneous local insurrections in Bologna , Perugia , Ancona , and Naples , whence each revolutionary detachment is to maroh upon Rome , where a democratic Government would be forthwith proclaimed .

      The Morning Chronicle denies that the present disturbances proceed from any revolutionary clubs or secret societies ; and asserts that the outbreaks are the fruits solely of local discontent , aris " ing from the wretched administration of those countries . It argues that , whereas , in 1821-22 Lombardy and Piedmont were the scenes of revolutionary _confliots _, that now all is peace ; and therefore that those states are satisfied with Austrian

      rule , and Austrian-propped despotism ! Nicholas immolates his thousands ; carries fire and sword tbrotigh Poland ; drags to slavery her patriots , or com pels them to fly to other lands ; keeps down , by a brutal and bloody tyranny , every vestige of public opinion i all is quiet ; all is the stillness of death ; and therefore , argues the liberal man the Chronicle , all is contentment and the happy Poles venerate the Czar ' . A most philosophic instructor ! Tyrants

      " Make a solitude , and call it peace !" and you , liberal hack , cry " Behold the people are contented . " Does Venioe indeed hug her chains ] Is she indeed in love with the Austrian yoke 1

      " O for one hour of blind old _Dandolo !" The truth is , that Austrian bayonets are the great maintainors of tranquillity' in the North of Italy . If once success , affording a hope of ultimate and complete victory , favoured the tfforts of the patriots , the whole PeniESula would be in a blaze from North to South , ' overwhelming in Hb _Vessuyian flood the barriers whieh Kingcraft and Priestcraft have erected ,

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      —vainly we trust , —to keep in eternal slavery the descendants of the men who ruled—nay hade the world . The Chronicle ) would fain make out that these struggles are merely the result of the Pope ' s Government being behind the commercial spirit of the age" in refusing to permit railroads , & o . There is nothing the Chronicle dreads more than that the

      revolutionary and democratic principles now so prevalent in England , France , and Germany , should be carried into , and established in , Italy ; but the Chronicle ' s very jclumsy trickery is perfectly transparent . The cry ofthe people : " Liberty and the Constitution for ever , " settles the question ! It is " Young DemoceAct" struggling with hoary-headed despotism ; and though " defeated oft , " will yet be triumphant in the conflict !

      The measures taken and suggested to crush this out-burst deserve a few words of comment . It appearb that no fewer than one hundred persons had been arrested in Naples and lodged in the forts of St . Elmo and Sti Erasmo . The principal of them are the sons of the celebrated Baron Poerio , Councillor de Agistinis , the brothers _Pami _^ taio , Councillor Bozzelli , a Captain of Artillery named Ajalo , & o . The Government instead of sending bread to the famished people of Calabria , preferred landing there 700 j or 800 soldiers , without any other provisions than ball cartridges . The latest news

      however , represents the revolt as extending , all tbe mountainous districts being occupied by baads ef insurgents . On the news of the outbreak reaching Rome , the Pope issued an ordinance , ordering ' * a publio mourning of three days , during whioh every one is obliged to fast , and to offer up publio prayers , supplicating God and the Virgin to save the Churoh from the ! storm with which it is threatened ! To a largo portion of the modern Romans this fasting will bo nothing new : for a more wretohed population is scarcely to be found on the face of the earth—thanks to the blessed protection of holy Mother Church . Alas for Rome I

      when such hideous blasphemy , such revolting jugglery , can be tolerated for a moment . " God and the Virgin" supplicated with fasting and humiliation to "save the Church , " i . e . to save tyranny , rapacity , hypocrisy , and military brutality . " Save the Church" meanB crush liberty , shed the blood of patriots , force back the tide of _knowledge , and stay the progress of human improvement . And is there no _Brutjjs to rouse the seven-hill'd city against the " holy" Tarquins , who thus commit violation upon down-trodden , outraged liberty ? No Gracchi to re-kindle the \ patriotism of the children of Romulus ? No _iRienzi to renew the God-like effort of the " last of the Tribunes" to save the

      " mistress of the world" from baseness so deepl y degrading aa this t " Alas ! the lofty city ! and , alas J The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger ' s edge surpass Tbe conqueror ' s sword ia bearing fame away ! Alas J for Tolly ' s voice , and Virgil ' s Jay , And Livy ' _s pictured page I but these shall be Her resurrection ; ] all beside , decay . Alas ! for earth ; for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she wore when Rome was free ! _' ?

      When Galileo forswore his mind ' s convictions , and bowing before [ the thunders of the "Church , " and the toners of the Inquisition , recanted his opinions , and in his human weakness assented to a "priest-coined lie , ? ' at the very moment of hia degradation tho truth burst from his lips , when rising before his ignorant and brutal judges , he exclaimed , stamping his foot , _? E pur se muove / " So , let the thunders of tbe Vatican roar ! Let " fasts'' and " supplications" be ; ever so numerous , the truth will yet triumph , and demooracy " move" on ! 1

      The Times suggests a resolute Austrian "intervention' * to " put down" the present movement . It is well-known that the Papal Government is totally helpless ; and that without foreign assistance a revolution cannot be avoided : and the Government of Naples is nearly in the same condition . The Italians have , therefore , _etery prospect of settling accounts with their tyrants , if only let alone by other nations . But the old game of " intervention" is to be played over again . After all the cost of blood and money to put down democracy in France , the Times is now advocating a similar course to crush liberty in Italy . When in 1820 the Carbonari effected the

      glorious and bloodless revolutions of Sardinia and Naples , Austrian " interference" was then' urged . The people of those States had compelled their royal rulers to grant them constitutions , as the people of Greece have reoently compelled the booby Otho to do . The _jAustrians did " interfere , _- " and absolutism was restored by German bayonets . The Pope absolved the ! Kings of Naples and Sardinia from the oaths they ! had sworn to obey the Constitutions they had granted ; the leaders ofthe Carbonari were butchered in cold blood ; and Italy again handed over to the tender mercies of Kingcraft and Priestcraft .

      In 1831 , animated by the successful revolutions of France and Belgium , and the glorious exploits of the Poles , a movement was again attempted by the Republicans , but was stifled by the treachery of Louis Phili ppe , who allowed the Austrian despot to again march his armies to the relief of the petty Italian tyrants . The result is the present state of misery , unparalelled in the history of those countries _. Famine is the portion of the great body of the people ; and universal robbery the means by which

      Pontiff and King , Cardinal and Noble , amass their wealth . The police ( so called ) are simply a body » f spies and traitors , whose business is to ferret out conspirators , and who are necessary for the hellish policy of Pope and King , to invent plots , and get up outbreaks , for the purpose of destroying the patriots . Such are tho fruits ; of former Austrian " interventions : " and yet the Times demands a renewal of that" interference" to maintain this state of things , and prevent the triumph of popular freedom !

      As to Austrian "intervention , " the probability is that such a step may not bo so quietly acquiesced in , as at former periods . Iu their present temper the French are extremely likely to insist upon " interfering" also ; and , thanks to the power of steam !—France could now invade Italy at almost any point before a single Austrian soldier could cross the Appenines . We know that while the present French despot lives , he will do all he can to prevent the triumph of Republicanism , not only in France , but every other country ; but his day is fast drawing to a close : and the tricolour once more purified from the filth of monarchy—or it speedily will be—will again call up Europe to tbe contest for freedom , to

      the ( we trust ) utter annihilation of all her enemies . The Journal des Dcbais , the slavish organ of Louis Phili ppe , declares that " Europe is calm ; and whatever may tend to disturb * this general repose will not find sympathy with a single Government . " Perhaps not with a single Government : but there is not a single people but will most heartily sympathise with any and every ; movement that tends to " _dis . turb" the " repose" of oppressors . If Europe is " calm , '' it is the calmness of hope biding her time . The " pear may not yet be ripe , " but the bud is growing . The " sacred dogma of equality" will yet be in the aseendant _. and the " right divine" of Kings and Pontiffs to govern and maintain wrong trampled in the dust .

      The present weekj up to the time of penning these remarks , has brought us no news of importance as to the state of things in the Italian Peninsula . From this , the Tory papers argue that the insurrection is quelled , j " The wish is father to the thought . " It is well known that the Italian Governments take every possible precaution to prevent the truth of passing events being known to the

      rest of Europe . It would , therefore , be premature to conclude that the present movement is suppressed , simply because we have no " report of progress . " But even if so , the suppression can be but temporary . With the example of the Greeks before them ,, the Italians cannot , for any length of time , remain quiet under their present degrading yoke . We would fain hope that- the hour ja near when Italy will cast off the shackles of priestly tyranny and

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      burst the chains ot foreign despotism ; when tha sunny clime of beauty and of song will find a Tell to rescue her from Austrian slavery , and . aWABH _* ington to lead her to the consolidation of her liberties ; when old Rome shall be , once more the seat of Republican virtue ; and monkish bigotry and brutality give way to the light of reason , and the triumphant march of knowledge and equality .

      Labour's Struggle. Our Present Sheet Bea...

      LABOUR'S STRUGGLE . Our present sheet bears ample witness to the alacrity aud spirit with which the question of the Ten Hours' Bill , and tbe defeating of the _proposed infamous Labour gagging law , have been taken up by those most interested and affected by them , —the labouring people . Meetings , hamerous and enthusiastic , are being holden in all parts ; and every exertion seems to be making to secure for the Factory workers the manifold blessings that must inevitably accrue from restricting the time of Factory Labour , and to p revent the infliction of that deadly curse to Labour which the " enactment" ofthe atrocious " Masters aad Servants" Bill would as inevitably prove to be .

      To particularize out of the many meetings that have been already holden , would almost seem invidious : and yet we feel compelled to allnde to the Leeds gathering , not only because we have given an extended report of its interesting proceedings , ( as a sample of the spirit and business of the rest ) , but also because of the determination expressed at it by influential persons , to throw _partt to the dogs , and to fight with the working people for justice Let the reader attentivel y peruse the speeches of Dr . Hook and Mr . _Febhand ; and he will ba constrained to say , that the day for anu

      Minister dragging his supporters through the filth of political apostacy , to enable Capital to retain its hold on helpless childhood and suffering females , has passed and gone ! Sir Robert Peel will find that there are hearts iu England that will not submit to perpetuate the evils and cruelties of the Factory system ; no , not even to retain the blessings of Tory rule . They have made their _selectisn ; and they have selected the path of right and justice , leaving it for him and those after his own heart to pursue the crooked one of injustice , certain , as they are , that it will lead the Peel squad out of place and power .

      Opposition to Peelism has fairly set in . It would have been better for him to have acceded to the decision of the House on the Ten Hours' Clause with a good grace , instead of permitting Graham to get him into a " fix" from whioh he cannot possibly remove withont damage . Should he now accede to the measure , it would be an act of concession without grace : for every one woul d feel that it was accorded to stave off opposition ; while if the Cabinet stand upon their expressed determination of resistance , beyond ail doubt , od they must go . '

      Let what has been so well begun by Labour in defence of its own rights , and in seeking for the benefit ef promised protection , be as well continued , until the end is triumphant success 1 The first week of Labour ' s campaign has been spent to good purpose ; and from the preparations made , the good work will be well continued dnringthe next . This week Yorkshire has spoken ont pretty plainly . Leeds , Bradford , _Huddersfield , Halifax , and several other places have had their _say ; and unmistakable " says" they have been . Lancashire has also " had a finger in the pie " : and the " plumbs" she met with are bo plump and sweet , that she purposes other " outs at it" dnringthe next seven days .

      Where are the parties who dare to assert that the Ten Hours' measure is not required or wished for , by the working people of the factory districts ! How is it they have not dared to shew their faces , and raise their voices 1 Why do they not come before the , publio , and let us have a " taste of their quality ?" Though much has been done , and preparations for more to be done have been entered into , still all is not done that ought to be . All the Trades are not _a-stir . Some of them are asleep yet ; and when they awake , it possibly may be to find themselves bound hand and foot by the new " Masters and Servants '* law ! Let them arouse up to action ! Let them

      follow the good example set them by the Sailors o f Sunderland ! Surely , when a body of Labour ' s sons so unlikely to take part in Labour ' s battles on shore as the sailors , are found fighting against oppressions existing and threatened , there is no excuse for others whose opportunities of information are mnch greater , and whose interests are far more deeply involved . There is not a trade society or body of working men in the kingdom , but ought to have its petition against the Bill aimed at its very existence ; and one also in favour of the measure for regulating factory labour , embodying as it does the healthful and jest principle of restriction on Capital ' s freaks .

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      public as a Whig , Tories , and thus earned a Judgeship . He was employed by thegovernment in the proseoutionsof Henry Hunt and others , arising out of the Manchester massacre . As Attorney-General nuder the Wellington administration of 1829 , he rendered himself universally odiou 3 by his prosecutions of the press . As a Judge his memory will be ever hold in infamy . Bis brutality , vulgarity _^ and savage sentences in the late prosecution of the Chartists and factory _torn-outPi excited one universal foeling of disgust and indignation . No public man , since Castlereagh , has been more detested : and few indeed will be those :: WnO will weep for his loss .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 13, 1844, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/nss_13041844/page/4/