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      CONVENTIONAL HYMN . Jjr— "BCLB BRITANNIA . " DOWN from the eternal courU of ke » ven The m *» i » te of J ehovah eame ; On e * rti " gwi triil" t « «»» «*» jrWen , And ** peace' procliim'd ta' Almighty ume . Hiil j * people ! all k * a the Jinn decree ! Ti « wild , we erer—e » er » h »' il t * free . Peace , l » w , w » d order let pm *!] , The' wickp * men Iotblood ewnhiae ; Then dnpotisa Till thriak and fail , And juniee reign in . truth divine . Hail ye people , &e . B « t atwold the impieos trranU fere To rule wa by their lawiea * saight , ¦ For Qs sad em * then Lord declare , And help ui in the holy fight . Hail je people , ke .

      . Apainat oppression ' i mnrd ' rec * band * , With liberty oar battle-cry , VHi we go forth , ' ueath tbj eomtaands , And freedom win , or £ r * e » tn die ' . Hail t « peeple , kc Freedom ' s light » hall ne ' er be lost , K » r HemTrn the inppliant people hears ; irriftelbVt ' i bw miHien'd hott , United bj their cries and ton . Hail t » people , * e . Y « t spare , O Lord ! ' the dire appeal ; Mar faetssB yitld the righteous claim—Ti » Bftglasd ' * wish—her fnture weal Implores H in thy cacred sime . Ball ye people , < £ « . JOHN PEACOCK r ath sq ^ -va »

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      SINGULAR ~ WxK DaNCB OF JIN ArSTBLiN Ibibe . —About half-past four in the afternoon , a party of » h * tribe male their appearance in the same quarter , holding out baoghs , but according to a verv different ceremonial from anv hitherto observed t oward * n * by the aborigine * . These used the most violent and expressive gestures , -apparently meant to iaduoens to go back whence we came ; and certainly , a * I felt that we were rather unceremonious iaTadtrs of their country , it was my duty to conciliate them bj every possiblt mean * . Therefore I again * d vaneed , Waring a green branch on high ; but the TepuMve gesture * then became mach more Tiolett

      than bef « re , and I stood still at umt fotance from thcM , while honest Tulcan , our Blaeksnmh ( two or three other men being near him ) , continued to work at hi * bellows and anvil near the river bask . This man ' s labour seemed to excite very mnch their eurioaty , and again the overseer and Bulger advanced quietly towards those natives who had approached nearest the blacksmith . Hearing at length , much laughter , I concluded that a truce had been effected as usual , and I too walked forward with my branch Bat on going up to these mea , I found that all the laughter came from those of our party , " -while the natives had refused to tit down , wiring the brancbe * in our people ' s faces , and having also repeatedh

      spit at them while they good-naturedly per&evereu in their endeavours to establish a more amicable intercourse . As a peace-offering , I then presented the man who appeared to be tiieir leader with a t oswhairk , the use of which he immediately guessed , by turning round to a log , and chopping at it . T-ws other stoat fellow * four morning visitor feeing one ot them ) then rudely demanded my pistols from my belt , ¦ whereu pon I drew sne curious to see the effect , and fired at a tree . The ncene which followed I cannot satisfactorily describe or represent , although I ghall ueverfprget it . As if they had previously ? uipected we were evil demons , and had at length a dear proof of it , they repeated with tenfold faxy , accompanied

      "with hideous siouts and demoniac look . " , crouching and jnmping to a war song they set up , all ; their gestures of defiance ; spitusg , springing with the spear , and throwing dust at as , as they slowly "retired . In snort , their hideous crouching measured gestures , aBd low jmmpa , all to tbe tan « of a wild song , and the fiendish glare of tbeir countenance * , appropriately black , and now aH eyes and teeth , teemed a fitter spectacle for Pandemonium , than tbe light of the beauteous mo . Thus these savages slowly retired along tb * river bank , all die while dancing ia a eirdt ? , like the witebes in Macleth , and leaving us in tbe expectation of their return , aad perhaps an attack in the morning . Any further attempt to appease them was out of tbe question ; whether they were by nature implacable , or whether their inveterate hostility proceeded from seme cause

      of disquiet or apprebenaoa BBimaginabre' to us , it was too probable they might ere long force upom us the painful necessity for making them acquainted with the superiority of our anas . The manner and disposition of tb » se people were so unlike those of the natives in general , that I hoped they might be an exception to tbe general character of ti » o » e * wht » we vrere . to meet with ; an evil-disposed tribe perhaps , and at war with all arouBd them . The difference in disposition between tribes not very remote from each other was often very striding . TYe bad left , at only three days' journey behind us , a tribe of » kind and civil natives as any I had net with j and I was rather at a loss bow to understand bow tbey could exist so uear fiends like these . I believe tbe peculiar character of different tribes is not to be easily cbapged by circumstances . —Major Mitchell's Expedition into Australia .

      Costujcks or ths Keigw ot Chabi . es the Sicojtd . —In 1666 , the king , in order to reprew the increasing luxury of dress , and , as Mr . Pepys expresses it , " to teaeb the nobility thrift , " declared in council bis design of adopting a certain habit , which be was resolved never to alter . It consisted of a long close * e » t-of feUek-ckrtb t > r -velvet , pinked witi white satia ; a loose coat oTer it of the Pofisb fashion ; and , instead of shoes and stockings , buskins or brodequins Seme -of tbe jomng ernntiers , aware of the king ' s venaality , laid wagers with him , that he would aot eondnue in this fashion beyond a certain time , which proved to be the ease . " It was , " sayi Evelyn , " a comely aad manly habit ; too good to hold " it

      being impossible for bj * to leave the monsieur ' s vanities long . " Tbj use of ladies' riding habits , or Amazonian habits , as tbey were termed , was in trounced in this reign . It was the eartom ef the queen and the maids of hoaonr to accompany the king id his hawking parties , mounted un fine horses , and attended by the courtiers . To ride well was then as admired female aceomplisbroent ; it appears , that t&e peculiar grace with which Miss Stewart sat aad managed her horse was one of few priDtapal attraction m the eyes of the king , anitbat Miw Churchill had nearl

      y lo « the heart of the Duke of York by ber equestrian awkwardness . Cocked haU , lace ' d y-ith gold , and trimmed with white , black , aud red leathers , were worn by feotb sexes . Pepys records Jua admiration of Mi * g Stewart hi her •? cocked hat aad red plume" as » he returaed from riding . A particularly smart and knnwiag cock of tbe bat w » s aw&med by the young gallants , called tbe " Mon-» onth cock , " after tbe Puke of Monaouth . In the iatter part of Charles ' s reign , the close and disgrace-IqI connexion between the French and English court * , delivered u * np to French interests French politic ?

      and French fashion * . Thi » was tbe era of those Miormous perukes whkh , in tbe TOeeeeding reigns , of « illiam and Anne , attained to such aa ezwrmoB-x size . ilustachio 8 on the upper lip dirap-eared , from e-ju . t , but were not finally abelighed lill the succeed-JBg reign . At this tirse tb . e expose , e of the neck s -i shoulder * was carried to Rich a eh imekss ex-

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      treme that even women of character and reputation scarcely affected fi . superficial decency of attire . Painting theface , which had declined since Queen Elizabeth ' s time , was again introduced from France , and became a fnshion . Heoda of various colours were worn , and long trains , which caused , very uneasonably , almost as much scandal as the meretricious display of the person . WomeK , instead of wearing long ringlets clustering down the neck , began to frizzle up their hair like periwi g * , as in the t of the

      portrai Butchesa of Portsmouth . It is remarkable , thdt tbeelevation , decline , and fall of the female coiffure comprised exactly a century . It began to rise between 1680 and 1690 ; rose gradually for the next fifty years , and reached its extreme height towards the end of G-eorge tbe Second's reign , when it absolutely emulated the tower « f Babel : from that tiise itdeclineaby slow degrees ; and about the period of the French revolution the heads of our women began to assume their natural- « kape and proportion . —Mrt . Jamkton .

      A Wolf Hxjkt . —The great strength of the wolf is also prsved when be is chased by dogs ; he then seems indefatigable , and is certainly tbe most difficult animal we know of to run down and kill . So he is generally hunted with dogs , when proper ones can be found , aad men armed with gun- ; , who shoot him whenever there is a chance of doing so , or else he is pursued in the way of battle . This last is toe most usual aud the least dangerou ? , for dog . * proper for chasing the wolf are rarely mtt with , and it is frequently necessary to rear a great number before any are found St for the wolf chase ; however , it is a very amusiDg species of sport when one i *

      intimately acquaiBted with tke country , well mounted , and tbe eogs are good . We have said that the wolf is the most difficult animal to kill , and he becomes more formidable -when he attains three or four years of age . At that age his strength aad bottom are prodigious , nay , almost unconquerable : on being started he darts fearlessly forward , and keeps a-beau of his pursuers for two or three leagues , and < jtcb then if he can but find water in his way , he drinka » Bd starts again as strong as at the commencement of tbe chase , and happily for himself he very frequomly succeed- " in escaping from hi * pursutrs The young wolves of frora ? ix months t-o a vear old

      » re easily destroyed , at that age they hiiTe not the - orfTher . - Ae 7 ba « tea ^^? . ^ SJ& - icey are hunted aud killed like rabbits , and in two 0 i thrre hours time tbey are easily caught by the dogs shoald tbey be no ; nhot by the Kportemea when a-nedd of their pursuers . Although fullgrown wolves will ran very long courses , traversing Mitets . « ively lortsts , plains , river * , and meow , yet they never set far ahead of the dogs ; they are o ! ten chased in lull -new ail their course , so that it is quite easy to head the Qogj and shoot the wolf saeuld he be ' likely u hold out very long . Tb&re is another war of v -uctiug the wolf , which is to set some strong greybounds and raastiifs upau him—drive him out of his flaunts— and as he id not a very svril ' i animalthey

      , presently come up wich him , a eon test ensuv / , wcich jcirej time for the hunters to ccmeuu and put an end to the battle . "Wit hout ever hr-vinir adeuted ' this method myself , I was oDce trcidentaUy a witness to a chase similar to tbe uae ju « t dt ^ crJbed , and a combat , from which 1 was enabled to form a correct e . stirnaie of the courage of the dog ? , aad the vigoruus defence wbich a wolf brought to bay is capable of opposing to them . I was one day ' riding acro .-s a vast pliin , accompanied by three gre \ iiounds aad two setttrK , when suCdenly a ery ef VVoif , wolf !" brose upoa mt-. I looked round about me , and presently perceivtd an enormous * wolf \> ur * u . d by three or four top Wlongiug to some farmers who Wire ploughing close bv : tbe ooes wtre folio ., cq hv

      taemen , who bad quitted their work , armed wuk sticks and pitchforks , and b y saouts and gesture * encouraged their dogs in tbe eh ^ . se . I directed the attentiou of my 6 o ^ to the animal by jutting bv horse into a gallop afr * r him ; th ' t-y * oon caught .-lghtofhim , and instancy joined is tLu chase ; he * ''oon overtaken , not only \ j my greyhounds which pTestntly were .-. . his tail , and coiHp ^ lud him to turn round and defead hinxself , but by it . y sei ^ r , also , which were not less bo ; d in " tke attack . These assailants were shortly joined by the faitners mastiff * , wLieh the wolf haa " left bchiiid hira . Hi » « tuatio 3 now became most dangerous for himself bat full ofinterest for nee . I enconrj ^ ed tbe dogs in the fihtand the

      g , y by turns flew at tb ^ poor least , which not knowing what to thick of so many foe .- ' and unwilling to be delayed in his fi ' ^ l t , Lit ' which ever came in hi" way ri-ht and left in a manner too burnti to be very dangerous , a ! l tfee time making the best of his way towa : us some woods a fall hallleague from the scene of action . At length osc of the ea- ^ er anima-ls seized him on the bead , and tLu anim ^ i turning to free bim-elffrora him was icitantly fastened upon by the ctber do t' # , and ldi down . The pell-mell kiad of strode wbich result-. J frOm tbe auimalV fall and the succeeJiag dc ^ . eratr combat a . aost bafiie descriptioa . The wolf had now seven or eight do . ^ rs upon him , but be still du endeU mmseif most courageously ; more than once he forced several of bis assailants back , makinc them feel tbe

      strength of his fangs , > . the Dumber and fury of the de ^ s prevented him frum gettiny up apaia m renew the flight . I had already ali ^ cte ' d from my Lorse , and with my gun in my hand was waiting for a favourable opportunity of uhootiofj tke wolf but in vain , for the dogs animated by my presence fastened themselves all over the breast , " so that to part of him was left uncovered , and had I fired my piece I must have shot a dog instead of th * wnlf . In the course of a short time , however , the workmen and ploughmen casne up with their sticks and iron pitchforks , and the wolt soon expired beneath their blow ? , yet not before he had inflicted manv bad wounds upon the dogs ; the fight lasted fJll ten minutes . The wolf bimselfwas covered with wounds , and certainly he must have succumbed had no men

      come up with their weapons to put an end to the combat , or bid I not bt-en there to encourage the dojts . My greyhound * particularly were excited , almost to madness , aad exerting all their powers mo * t determinedly , they pursued him with the swiftness of aa arrow , and tore out tbe piece of flesh where tbey bit him . This was an enormously large wolf , and the fanning men told me that their dogs had chased him several time * , but hail never succeeded in coming up with him . But , thanks to n . y hardy greyhound ? , we ran iBto him , and had a mot amusing chase . —Sportsman of February .

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      Duchess of Okleans . —In Paris , the gallery of the theatres , it is well known , « called " le Paradit " or Paradise . The Duchess of Orleans took a fancy to go to tbs play one night , with only a fill : tie cham . br e , and l >> sit in the Paradit . A young officer , who happened to be next the duchess , was very free in his addresses to her , and when the play was over , concluded by offering her a supper , which she seemed to accept . He accompanied her dswn stairs , but wa ? coafounded when be saw her attendants and equipage , and heard her name . Recovering , however , his presence of mind , he handed her royal highness into her carriage ,

      bowed ia sileace , and was preparing to retire , when she called out , "Where is the sapper you promised ?" He bowed , and replied , " In Paradise we are all equal ; but I am not insensible of the profound respect wbich I owe you , madam , upon earth . " This prtmpt , neat , and proper reply , obtained for him a place in the duchess ' s carriage , and at her table . De . Johkson . — "When Dr , JohD _ spji £ ciirt « iM «» . Potter , ietoM MfrtEaFne was ot mean extraction ; that be had no money ; and that he had had an uncle hanged . Tb » lady , by way of reducing herself to an equality with the doctor , replied , that she had no more money than himself , and that though she bad not bad a relation hanged , she had fifty who ¦ deserved banging . And thus was accomplished this

      very cunous amour . Purchasing a Husband . —Susan , a country girl , desirous of matrimocy , received from her mistress tbe present of -a five-pound bank note for her marriage portion . Her mistress wished to see the object of Susan ' s favour , and a very diminutive fellow , swarthy as a Moor , and ugly as an ap ? , made hi * appearance . ' Ah , SusaD , ' said her mistress , ' vtbat a strange choice you have made ! ' ' La , ma ' am , ' said Susan , ' in ? nch hard times ss these , when almost all the tall fellow * are gone for soldiers , what more of a man than this C 3 n you expect for a five-pnund note ?'

      Warmth of Debate . —Mr . Burke one day m tbe warmth of debate spnke some words rather disrespectful of tbe government , ilr . George Onslow called hira to order , and gaid he would not sit silent and hear the sovereign insulted . Mr . Burke in explanation said , That though he reverenced hi . * Majesty ' s own persos , he saw no reason for respecting Ait Majesty ' s man-servant and his maid'Servant , his ox and his ass . ' Value of Greatness . — Mr . Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day , when his Dephew , a Guinea traveller , came in . ' iNephew , ' said Godfrey , ' you have the honour of seeing the two greatest m £ n in tke world . ' 'I don ' t know how great you may he , ' said the Guineainan , 'b ^ t I doH ' t like vour look ? : ' I bave often bought a man much better than both of you together , ail muscle and bone , for tea guiceAs . '

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      Pkiiso . sal Security . — Will you do me a favour ? ' says young George JSroeks to bis wealthy Irieud , Siiaon Hanson . — 'Wb&t i » it George ? ' said Hanson . — ' I wish you to lead nte a hundred pound * , sir , ' replied George . ' Call at my counting-house , ' rrjoined Hanson . George was not long in paying his respects . ' What security caa you give me , young gentleman ? ' 'My own personal security , sir . ' ' Very well , get in here , ' said Hanson , lifting up the lid of a large iron chest . Get in there ! exclaimed George , in astonishment ; ' what for ?' ' Why , this is the place where I always keep my securities . '

      A Good A ? oloqy . —Ib the Court * f Session in Scotland , the judges wh « do not attend , or give a proper excuse for their absence , are by law liable to-a nae . This law , however , is never enforced ; but it is common , or the first day of thekeesion , for the absentee to Rend an excuse to the Lord President Lord Stoneneld having seat such an excuse , on tbe President mentioning it , the late Lord Justice Clerk Braxfield said , in his broad dialect—* What excuse can a stout fellow like him hae ? 'Mylord , ' said tbe president , 'he has lost his wife . ' The justice , who was fitted with a Xantippe , replied , ' Has he ? that is a good excuse indeed ; I wish we had a' the same . '

      The Dead March . —Mr . Clubbe , the author , of an ingenious work en physiognomy , was remarkaVile for his lively turn of mind and easy temper . The evening before his death , his p hysician aud in * titnate friend , Dr . Frost , of Hadleigh , feeling las pulse with much gravity , and observing that it beat more eeenthan upon his last visit—* My dear friend / said he , ' if you don ' t already knew , or have not a technical expression for it , I will tell you what it beats—it beats the dead march . ' Wine . —An Asiatic chief being asVed hi * opinion of wine , said he thought it a juice extracted frora women's tongues and lion ' s hearts ; for , when druuk , he could talk for ever and fight the devil .

      A Tavern Dinneb . —A party of bon-viv « nti , who recently dined at a celebrated tavern , after having drask an immense quantity of wine , rang for the bill . The bill was accordingly brought , but the amount appeared so enormous to ov . e of the party ( not quite go far gone aa tbe rtat ) that b . e stammered out , it was Impossible so many bottles opuld have been Jruak W y * seven persons . — ' True , sir , ' said Boniface , ' but your honour forgets the tnree gentleraeE under tbe table . ' Severe Rebuke . —A French field-marshal who had attained that rank by court favour , not by valour , received from a lady the present of a drum , with this inscription—Made to be bealt * .

      Irish and Ekolish Roads . — An Englishman asked an Irishman if the roads in Ireland were go-d . ' Yes , ' said the Irishman , ' so excellent , that I wonder you do not import gome of them into England . We have the road to love strewed with roses ; the road to matrimony through nettles ; the road to honour through a duel ; th « road to prison through the courts of law ; and the road to the undertaker ' s through the apothecary ' * shop . ' ' Have you any road to preferment ? ' ' No , ' said the Irishman , ' not now—that road , simce tke Union , is feHioved to England : you pass through it to the kind ' s paiace , and I am told it is the dirtiest road in Great Britain . '

      Caledonian Comfort . —Two pedestrian travellers , native * of tke north , bad taken up their quarters for the night at a Highland hotel in Breadalbane : one of them next morning complained to his friend that he had had a very indifferent bed , aud a » ktd him how he had slept ? ' Troth man , ' replied Donald , nea vera weel either , but I was mui / kle better off than tbe bugs , for de'il a anc of them c ' iostd au e ' e the hale night !'

      Supervisor and Tanner . —A tanner , near Swr-ffnam in Norfolk , invited the supervisor to dine with him , and after pushing tbe bottle about briskly , the supervisor Uok his leave ; but in passing through the tan-yard he unfortunately fell into a vat , and called iu . ctily for the tanner ' s assistance to get him out , but to no purpose—' For , ' said the tanuer , ' if I draw uuy hides without giving . twelve hour * ' nutice , I sbail be exebequered and ruined ; but I'll go and inform the exciseman . '

      A Slight Difference . —A pompous fellow made a very inadequate offer fora valuable property and caiiing tbe next day for an answer , inquired ii i .: e ewr . er bad entertained his preposition . 'No ' repiitd the other , ' your proposition has entertained

      me . Ctjrtom-Houst Wit . —A mareachal ef France having been dvUioed some time in bis carriage at erne of the gates of Paris , it was at last opened by an i-xcise oinctr , who , seeing the hero , shut it again , sajing , ' Pardon me , your excellency , laurels pay do duty . ' Hit in the Dark . —Sir W . Tl , whogwore olaiujtaicitij «< jiJ , tallcJ one day on l ' ootc , on iiis return from seeing Godfrey ' s experiment to exrmguish fire in a house , by throwing iuto tbe room chemical balls , which he had prepared . Foote asked askeu him it" the balls answered ? ' Ay , d—m me ' gays Sir W , ' they would extinguish h-ll !' 1 Ihen , ' replied the wit , ' order a number of them to be put into your coffin . '

      Swift among the Lawyers . —Dean Swift having preached an assize sermon in Ireland , was invited to dine with the judges ; and haviDg in bis sermon considered the u * e and abuse of the law , he then pressed a little hard upon those counsellors who plead cau * es which they know iu tbeir consciences to be wrong . When dinner was over , and the glass began to go round , a young barrister retorted upon the dean ; and after several altercations , the counsellor asked him , ' If the devil was to die , whether a parson might not be found , who , for money , would preach his funeral sermon ? ' ' Yes , ' said Swift , ' I would gladly be the man , and I would then give the devil his due , as I have this day done his children . '

      A Double Delivery . — "At a village neaT Cambridge , Mr * . M— , who kept the post-office , was likewise a midwife in considerable practice . A Cantab parsing that way wrote with a diamond on the froct pane of glass , ' Ladies and letters safely delivered . ' The Lamb and the Wolf . —A farmer having a law-contest with hi * opulent landlord , who gained a verdict , observed to his counsel , on coming out of court— ' 1 &ee it \ itt \ e avails the lamb having the best cause , if the wolf have the strongest teeth . '

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      ^ STATE OF POLITICAL FEELING . Public Meeting at Bradford . —A public meeting was held in the Odd Fellows Hall on Monday evening last , Mr . Clarlson in the chair , for the purpose of raising our quota of the needful towards defraying the expense of conducting the defence of that talented friend of the working millions , tlie Rev . J . R . Stephens . The meeting was ably addressed by Messrs . Brook , Whitney , Thornton , Cliff , Heyworth , Jackson , and Anan ,

      and the following resolutions were adopted . 1 st , — " That this meeting holds in abhotence tyranny of every description , especially when its shafts are levelled at innocence , virtue , and talent . And that we view with indignation and disgust tbe mean , base , and infernal persecution of that talented ad vecate of tbe oppressed million ) 1 , the Bet J . B . atepnens . " 2 nd . — » That this meeting sympathises with the Rev . Joseph Raycer Stephens , and that we therefore pledge ourcelves to render him all the

      assistance in our power , pecuniary or otherwise , in his forthcoming struggle with the enemies of liberty . " A vote of thanks was given to the chairman , aad subscripuaas entered into , which we are glad to say are going on with great spirit in this district . FEMAiE Radicals .-The females in several of the districts in the neighbourhood of Bradford , have formed themselves into Unions , and we are happy to say have commenced collecting th « rent with great spirit . An address is now getting up by the women * f Bradford to the women of the West Riding , calling upon them not to be asleep in the great cause oh which depends their fatnre happiness .

      Honlby . —At a public meeting of the Honley Northern Union , held on tbe 19 ; h inst ., it was resolved , 1 st . " That we , the members of , the Honley Northern Union , do imfflediately enter into a subscription , to assist in defraying the expenses of the trial now pending against our mo . « t worthy and devoted friend , the Rev . J . R . Stephens . " 2 nd . " That subscriptions he received at John HorsfalFs , the agent for the Northern Slur , ox by any of the members of the Honley Northern Union , who will have the goodness to remit the same to J . Horsfall

      treasurer , for tbe above-named object . " 3 rd . " That we , the members of the Honley Northern Union do cordially agree with the resolutions of our worthy brethren of Edinburgh and Mid Lothian , for furthering the cause they have so baldly and nobly entered upon for the liberties of the people , who are determined to f ' -ee themselves from the burthens of oppression , at all hazards , and bid defiance to Lord John , or any sort uf police he may name , come from what quarter tbey may . " 4 th . " That the abore resolutions be inserted in the Northern Star . "

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      Jiew Pooh Law , —We hear with delight that the - rate-payers in the Dtwbury Uninn are preparing for another strangle with-the devil * own law . The townxhips of Dewxbury , LiversudjL'H , O .-gett , and MirP . eldj have already made their determination to have Guardians in nf their own choice , such as are opposed to the law . We also hope that the townshi p * of Bir » ta ! , Morkj , fioathill , Batley . Heckmondwike , Thornhill , and Whitley Lower will also do their duty , for if they Buffer this opportunity to be lost , " Baron Swindle Bank" will be a living monument of despotism in their eternal disgrace , and future generations will look back upon them as the tnwt contemptible a * d indolent of

      sl » , ye » . We have observed a bill upon the walls of Demtbury with the following remarks upon it , and we hope that tbe other townships will fellow the same example . " To the Katc-payenof Deuubury —The time is faut approaching , when you will again have the opportunity of exercising your power in opposition to the infamous new Poor Law in the ? tlvction ® f a Board of Guardians for the ensuing year . The election will take place on 25 th Marcb next , and if you can . obtain a majority of Guardians opposed to the law , you may jtt stop iu

      further progress ; therefore look out in time for such personals are suitable for the office , and remember as your rajes must be paid before your votes can be accounted good , be prepared for the poll , and you will conquer . Rate-payers of the township of Dewsbury , if you wish to put an end te this crnel law of tyrants , dfl not stand neuter at this time with your votes , for if you do , others who are love r * of the law will be appointed , and will carry into full operation thig most horrid measure , a » three Guardians can claim to act for the whole Union . "

      Clayton West . —On Monday evening , the 18 th inst ., at the usual time , ( right o ' clock , ) the memfcerw of the Clayton W >« t Northern Union met in the large reom of the Commercial Inn , Mr . Winn in the chair , when the following resolutions w »> re pasted nent . con . 1 st . Proposed by Joseph Mitchell and * eeonded fey Jo . « nua Booth , " ' That a voluntary subscription be entered upon immediately in aid of the Stephens fund , whereby he may be enabled to rebut the charge * of his enemies , and expose the

      infernal machinations of hi * merciless oppressors . " 2 nd . Proposed by John Hanson , and seconded by Joseph Mitchell , " That a second subscription be set on foot immediately , to support the - chnnen representatives ef the people in Convention assembled ; to enable them to carry out those great principles of political enfranehiHemeDt that is bo much needed to protect thu ma » sea of thi * great empire from the mercenary , unjust , and unnatural domination of Whig and Tory factions . "

      Middleto * Political Uniok . —On Monday evening last , it being our committee meeting , the block printer * of the Rhod « a Print Works , near Middleton , sent in their second and very handsome subscription to th *» National Rent , amounting to £ 3 1 » . ; and also the machine printers of the Fame place * ent in their subscription of 6 * . 3 d . ; for which we return them our most sincere andgrateful thanks , hoping they will never fail to aid us in this virtuous jitru ^ Klp of " right a ^ ainut might . " The principles of Universal Suffrage , to ^ ethwr with a ll it * other appendages , is manfully , but morally , struggled for by the members of our Union . We are eight hundred member * , and have collected for the NaUonal Rent upwards of £ 39 . We shall feel highly gratifiid if you will insert these few lines iu your Valuable paper .

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      MR , DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY Was , last night , ( an will be seen by our parlinmentary reports ) ejected from the Ho . ise of Commons , in consequeucu of his having accepted in a luckless moment , the rcgistrar . » hiu o ( hackuny coacln s ! The ex-placeman ; md ex-mcmber lia « U ¦ tui boru , it should seem , under an unpropitious star ; fur somehow , or other , despite Mr . llutvey'ii aekuowledgpd talents , and u ^ durtry , ko lias mnde but little progress iu political hie . He has , it is true , to ascertain extent , k ^ pt aloof frt > m all the recognut-d pimiea in the House of Commons *; and lie bun not bees able to form a party for himself , either in parliament , or in tue country . This last event has proved , in nn especial manner ,

      « nntnwarit " fnr Mr 14 ......... l _ . u'L «_ .. » _ . i " untowarH for Mr . Harvey . In the first place , in order to avoid putting his seat in jeopardy , Mr . Harvey declined nil remuneration for his labours . Tlien ( still in order to * ave his seat ) he resigned the registrarsuip . Finally , aftt ; r renouncing both pluei ? and salary , he is compelled to return once more to his constituents . Mr . Harvey hn . « , in fact , proved , we fear , throughout the transaction , too clever for himself ! It is not , by i «» y . mean >> , dear that the whole affair ( the ddcidiou of the House * <> t Commons excepted ) is not a Whig trick . Lord John Rus « -ll tender .-d the appointment ,, with tht' view of getting rid of Mr . Hnrvey ; and Rl , r . Harvey fell into the miu ^ terial tnvp » Tho Whitt AUonu-y-Oeueral etjcnw to have known that Mr . Ilnrvwy '* ncvoptnnoc of tlic J- ( . ii !»

      -trar-hip disqualified Mr . Harvey trom sitting in tbe House of Commons ; nnd tht * sentiments of the Whig Attornej-General ou the point were known , doubtlew , to the Whig Home Secrftary . Lord John , however , was too cunuinj ; to breathe a hint on the subject to the lute Member for Southwark ; and tbe late Member for Southwark , again , wna too eager to taste the sweets of pluce , to doubt , at the right time , the sincerity of Whig advances . The result of the bu-siues * will add , we daresay , to Mr . Harvey ' s already large stock of experience of the vwissitudes of publicuUAirt * , and of the value of Whig frieadship towards Radicals , who happen to be without tue appendage of a taih—Mornin " Herald .

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      NATIONAL CONVENTION . Below we give , according to our promise last week , the epeech of Mr . O'Connor in bringing foward hiu motion relative t « the state of Ireland on Monday week , in the National Convention . Mr . F . O'CONNOR arose amidst lond cheen to bring forward his motion , and spoke as follows : — Sin it has been contddered thnt many questions which have been introdnced iu thi * Convention have be . !» arrelevant to the object * which it has in view . I hope , indeed I feel , that I ahall be able t » prove to tawtonventiwa that this question materially affects ounwterentg at large . When we consider that the Parliament is now assembled , and that the questions they dweuss are all imperial queftiens—that Irish Members are equplly as important and efficient aa

      Eughsh Members , and that Ireland nothuvinjr anv ParbameHt of her own , the whole , constituent bodies of either cosntiy are eqnally imperial with tb ^ Mi er : looking at ibin this way , it is a question t * S § u"erests and calls for the consideration , not only * of the Convention and those who have sent the Convention here , but it is one materially and indeed vitally affecting the welfare , and demanding the attentive consideration of the Irish people themselves , wno have been kept in the dark as to the position which they ought to hold in the empire . I find from the press that since I gave notice of my motion , Mr . O Conuell , a man heretofore having great authority in Ireland , has written a letter to Dublin , declaring that as a body we have no power—that the

      Convention is as nothing jn the estimation of the people that , in fact , the mass ef the population have no regard for it—that it contains a few discreet members ; but that hereafter it will , an a body , become woolly impotent . 'It has been the policy of this man to keep alive the diaventione between the Irish and the English people . I ' am happy to have the opportunity here in this Convention , the only convoluted authority representing the people of this country , of throwing back the slaader and the tatmt , that they have no feelings in common ¦ with the peop le of Ireland . ( Hear . ) 1 am » Orry to Bay that Ireland has , through her leaders , been accustomed to look upon all her grievances as religions grievances . The grievances of the Irish we . not nno * Hm

      , = of religious oppressions merely , but as I shall prove , questions of the ^ franchise . ( Hear , hear . ) Isbnl be able to show that , that though Catholics ef all orders declare , and justly declare against the Protestant church , which never ought to have existed in th . P 0 UIltrr ; yet the question really is , no matter whether the people be Catholics or Protestants , " the nch oppressor against the poor oppressed "—( cheers ) —yet the entire resolves itself into on ? question—viz that of the " rich oppressor against the poor oppressed It has been argued that Englishmen complain of a monied aristocracy , while in Ireland they complain of a church aristocracy ; but if the Irish people had not this—if it were banished , it . would be replaced by a monied aristocracy , which would prove to be quite aa bad as tke other . ( Hear , hear . ) What can put an end to thi * ? ( Hear . ) From the period tVat Catholic Emancipation passed , ( and mind Catholic not of

      ^ mancipation was the act a Catholic Parliament , ) from that moment , ( and I advance this to show that the people of Ireland have as little to expect from the Catholic as from the Protestant ) when the Catheiica get into Parliamen t to this day , they have not been more forward than have the Protestants to relieve tho people from the church domination which they have so long laboured under . ( Hear * hear . ) When I was a Member of Parliament , I found nine Protestant Members ready to vote for the abolition of rithea , while we could not 1 get two Catholics to vote for it , ( Hear , hear . ) This-proves that they looked only lor a transfer of pow « r . But the motion which I have brought forward , goes to show that we are desirous of pointing out the condition of the Irish people , and tbe romedies requisite to ameliorate it . ( Hear , hear . ) ireliaud is essentially an agricultural country ; no mauulaclurws , little commerce , and

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      littlti traie , and there is an exclusive class who dispose .-of that little . I shall on the present ecension cht » w you the exact link which exist between landlord end tenant in the first iastanc *' ' ; tlu'ii I shall bristly review the manner in which cases are conducted in courts of justice , to show you that the people of Ireland have no protectioa for lite , liberty , or property . After the year 1800 , whnn Ireland became tributary , in every sen «! of th « word , to this country , when the court was removed fr « m Ireland , ( nnd I am no stickler for courti , nor v * ry anxious about them , except as they may involve Kome expenditure of money . ) Then , also , the I ' arlifurfent was removed , andimteadof thefosterin » legislature which Ireland formerly possessed , the lanS in urst instance

      Became amaw , me , in largeporrion * , tn suit the convenience and pecuniary views of those gentlemen who were obliged to kave Ireland and reside in this coontry during a certain portion of the year . At the period to which I have alluded , the estates belonging to the rich landed propr ietors were let out in very large amount of acres , two , or three , opfoar , and , in some instances , so many asiO , 000 acres to middle men , who paid the rent in bulk . Thus the agriculturists were handed over by the landlords to middle men , who had ao interest whatever in the land except that of obtaining the largest possible amount of profit , and thus you will perceive the landed proprietor abandon his natural position as a magistrate and guardian ef the people to men

      whose sole connexion with the people was that of avar ice aBd peenniary oppression . These middle men to whom the landlords abandoned the people , became tithe proctors , land agent * , magistrates , and in fact , filled all the offices of the state . Now I will tell you how they subdivioed tha land . Suppose that they took 5 , 000 acres at a bulk-rent of £ 5 , 000 a year : for this the middle m : m paid a heavy fine , in erder to allow the rich rann to come over to this country and make a suitable appearance . The middle man then subdivided the laud , letting it at 30 s an acre , in ordarto remunerate himself for theieavy fine he paid to the head luHdlerd .- You will see that under this system the tie between the landlord and tenant wa * broken ; the link that previously bound

      them together was dostroyed . The practice of resorting to frequent ousting * , and frequent tattings , in order to ootnin more tines , caused the people of Ireland to petition the House of Commons over and over again , but not for any alteration of the system , but upon the subject of religion ; and while we heard of Municipal Reform and manyother matters , toe never befcrd a single word of the oppression , of the landlords npon the people . ( Hear . ) What wjw the bounden duty of the representatives ? Wh y ^ te have brought the whole question before parliament , and to have shown the country that by a fostering system of agriculture there would be no need to look to Poland or Belgium . That if they had called for an agricultural ' committee , not a nolitical

      committee , but an honest body of man , they would have proved that Ireland , if encouraged , and a prope r expenditure of capital in agricultural pursuits , Poland and Belgium might grow what they pleased , and eat it too , fer what England cared . These facts have not been brought before the people because the landlords have taken their kwovrledge of Ireland from the middle men , whosw interest it is to prejudice the minds of the people of this country against Ireland . ( Hear , bear . ) These mew , who were driving m » nfter time the tenants from their estates , said to the landlords , whenever they expressed their intention of visiting their estates— " Pray don ' t come here ; remember , great though the danger , I ara known to the peopl .- ; but if you come kere , I will

      not be answerable for your life . I am your friend and will run all the risk . " Thus the Irish pewpl « S gained th « character of assassins , while those who traduced them gained the confidence of those whose especial duty it was to ameliorate their condition . Some of you who come froln agricultural counties ' must know , that land li-fat a good rent to the large proprietors inny be rendered valuable , which when let to a man without capital , asd at a small rent may be worth nothing . Now these middle men get in the shape of fines all the money that ought to be given to tlie improvement of the land . ( Loudcnes of heir , hear . ) la Ireland , at thia moment , there is not such a thing as an equitable tenure . ( He . ir hear . ) A man has an equitable tenure when thp

      tenant has an agreement unstamped . A legal tenure is where the tenant hag a stamped lease ; and what a pretty figure a tenant with an unstamped agreement would cut if he carried . it into a court of justice , thinking that he had a legal tenure . And thin lead * me to the cause of the outrages committed by the people of Ireland . It is not that the law is not enforced , but because the feudal system remains there in all its rigour . There is , in fact , as I have said , no such a .-thing a * a tenure in Ireland . On the estates of the Duke of Devonshire , perhaps one of the best landlords in Ireland , there is no tenure whatever . ( Hear , hear . ) From the year 1815 tue Duke has made inductions in his rents from twenty-five to thirty per cent . Did he make anv

      new documents , or grve new leases ? No ; but he destroyed all confidence- by preserving the old teas e * , and null holding over the heads of the tenants one quarter of the reduction against the time they should , be rich enough to discharge it . ( Hear . ) This it is which has prevented the ontlay of capital in agricultural pursuits . Walk through Ireland , and when you sco a bad cut of wheat , on hadly cultivated land , and say to the farmer , " You might have made it worth five pounds more an acre if yon had laid out two pounds more an acre for lime ; " and what will he tell you ? Why , he would tell yon this : — " While 1 go on this way , I shall be able to keep u home over my head and get a few potatoes ; but if I wag to improve it as you teU me I should be doing it for the landlord , who « mu ™»

      only tike what I have , but he would turn me out altogether . " ( Hear . ) Is it to be wondered at , then , that the Irish people should , . as Cobbett said , come over - here with bare legs and consider themselves justified in procuring a share of the pigs that they had fed . ( Hear , hear . ) We have heard a ereatdeal » t Irish beggars ; but I am about to detaifthe result of my own experience tpon this part of the subject . During the month of May , the emigration to this ceuntrv commence *; that i * , when they bave secoudearthed the potatoes . The next process of these able-bodied people w , after having , as I have told youj performed their last duty in the potato garden , to lock the door ; the wife takes a child , or two chil ! dren , perhaps on her back , and thev enmmenn * .

      begaiug . Ireland has more than ample resources for } -er Qwn want * , and for those of this country tvlBot andif the lrisa people can be brought to join in-this agitation , the question of the Corn Laws of which the entire people are led away from the real causes * f their grievances , would be put upon its proper footing . The taxes laid on Irelaad . ? hough light , were tad on it , should be recollected , rather tojuit English wealth than Irish poverty . ( Hear ) ihose Uudrs supposed to be free , pay dutv before they reach IrelanI Taxes for the lnsh ! \ Vhy Tf you were to put a tax of tbjve halfpence a stone upon potatoes , it would amount to the starvation of Ireland . Spring Rice could fiud no better argument agai ,, st the repeal of the Union than a discover * wnicn

      ne innde , that in 1834 , there were double the number of houses for eight millions of people to hve m than there were In 1800 for four nillion * to live in- ( laughter ) -and that it required double the number of vesseisin 1834 , to carry provisions for eight millions than it did in 1800 to carryprovisions for four million .-. ( Much laughter . ) A mighty clever Chancellor to make this discovery . ( Hear ) We have never had an agricultural committee or an agricultural debate —( hear )—and my object in this detad w to show you , not so ' much the state of Ireland , as the nature of the political nnd party influence m that country , and to which that state w mainly chargeable . 1 my that you never f ^? S ?^^^ K ?» .. ^ 5 ? n * fioiiof < he - Iiiih - through the

      > instrumentality of the present House of Commons , ( I mean that change which Ireland oueht to hope for , ) so long as the time of her member ! is thrown away by the Protestant snapping off the Catholic s none , and the Catholic biting off the Pro testant's ear . ( Laughter , and cries of "hear , tear " ) When I was a member of the House of Commons ' 1 placed a notice on the books ( for I know sonwthhiK of agriculture , having been brought op iu agricultural pursuits , ) that all rents should in future be corn rents , 'at . a lease forever : so that if by , the law of primogeniture the land was locked up , it shall not be locked Hp by the gambling debts of the landlord 8 forefathers . ( Hear . ) The law of primogeniture "Jil ^ «« ?' «"""; ° L Jr ^ nd ' n present wretched state hearThe

      . ( Hear , . ) aristocracy and landed proprietors will be the last to relieve her from this state ; and it is for yon , the Convention , to say ii there be not a possibility of . arr iving at the depth of Irish grievances , and of pointing out tbe course to be . pursued in order to redress them . ( Hear ) I have no hesitation in saying , that ignorauce of what is going on in the political world is the great reattoa ¦ wh y the people of Ireland have not joined us—( hear , beat ;)^ - 'wbj \ e webear of the Precursors , there are hundreds of thousands in Ireland who never heard of them , nor this Convention—who never heard of Corporate Iteform : bnt there is scarcely one of them who has net felt the lash of the law and the _ church . ( HeaT , hear . ) Will the Precursors' Association direct the attention of the people of Ireland tue reai oi

      w causes complaint ? ( Hear ; hear ) Not they . The person ^ whe directs that association , and who sitround a table la the Cora Exchanged m * well paid political staff , have an indirect intere ^ i ? keeping up Mr . O'Connell ' s popularity « nd *« transfer power from others into ^ tneir Wa hand ? presentatives are- rotten . ( Hear ) I . * w f them where they would have Corporate R J * ^ the total ubolition of ^ iS ^ tJ ^ S

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      wouM preler th « total abolition oltith ? s . Ailtthaat which they would prefer , abolition of tithes or ths Repeal of the Union , they would say , Repeal of tea Union , because that would put an end to all bad laws at once .- ( Hear . ) This question has never been put to the people—it has never been agitated but for the aggrandisement of nn individual . ( H « ar , hear . ) Then I hope this Convention will be enabled to direct the energies of tbe Irish people in a proper course , and that it will have that influence with them which I thinlc it is capable of producing O-Connell has endeavoured in bis letter to destroy this influenee . I believe that his letter to the Precursors is a proof ( for he never takes notice of that which is not worth noticing ) , that he is afraid of

      the Convention . ( Hear . ) What he says of our weakness is argumeat of our streagth —( hear ) - ^ and like the lady with a love letter , be puts the soost important matter of his communication into a corner . ( Hear , hear . ) Again I observe , it in for the Gonventioa to say whether or not it can devise » remedy for redressing the manifold grievances of the I rish people . ( Hear . ) How pleasing will it be for the people of Ireland to know that . their eauae has been taken up by a body of men representing the people themselves . ( Hear . ) Thus the church question , which has so outraged all social relationa m . Ireland , and monopolised the whole attention of the country , you will be calledon to settle , and tbist is a matter of no trifling pecuniary consideration

      with the people © f tbis country . The titae qnestioa was once an all absorbing question . I was one ef the originators of the agitation upon that questioB , and ta show you how agitation , while it has been progressing here , has retrograded in Ireland —( hearj I Tuay just mention that the people ©{ Ireland bow take that which they would have scorned to hava accepted in 1813 . What is the great boen now ? ( Hear . ) In 1833 , 1 was among the number of thosa who exhorted the people not" to pay tithes . What was the consequence ? Four or five years of arreac becamo due , and then it was that Mr . O'Connell ordered the people to pay . He himself , entered into a compromise with the Government . If the people had not been betrayed bv O'Connell . tithes wonM

      have ceased long ago in Ireland , and there wonld have been perfect security for life , liberty , and property . ( Hear . ) Let us take an extensive viewof this question . In 1835 the House of Commons , brintf Protestant , passed a law that no grass land * should pay taxes . Thu . s , while the rich aristocracr oUfefed his untaxed prayers at his altar ,: tbe poor Catholic widow , with her half acre of potato ground , paid not only for her own religion , but for that of her rick master . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . Goulbum passed the Tithe Composition Bill , which rendered the grass land of the Catholics iasecure frein taxation , and then it was that the whole aristocracy joined in the eutcry against tithes . ( Hear . ) Daring nearly a , century , the Cathotic and Protestant landlord *

      magistrates , jurors , yeomanry officers , were the first to shoot , transport , or bang ewry man who raised his voice against the payment of tithes . ( Hear , hear ) But upoa tlie grass lands being taxed , those very persons who were the most prominent in . upholdiag the system , became the most violent at public meetings , where they registered their name * ngainat the continuance of tithes —( hear)—lord lieutenants , and magistrate * presiding at their meetings . ( Hear , hear . ) For eighty years , tfeey shot , transported , and hanged the people , and it wa « when the green lands became taxed that we saw , tor the first time , the Catholic and Protestant aristocracy arrayed against the payment of tithes ( Hear , hear . ) This will be the case with the Cora

      Laws . The landlords will see that they have to pay taxes , and they will then say , what is this Convention which proposes remedies for the grievances of all classes } —they are iaen that would have free religion , and who wish every man to pay for bis ova parson—and we will go to this Convention for support ; for in vain have Irishmen leoked to Parliament lor protection . ( Henr , hoar . ) The church question is such that no man can tell what tithe he is liable to , or to whom he shall pay these tithes . But tha parson has the most extraordinary means of collecting hisdues , Inthf- ( irst instance , he has all the courts oflaw , the bishops' courts , the magistrates' courts , assizes , petty sessions . This party i . « protected by machiuerv with winch

      tlie poor cannot compete . ( Hear . ) JFor , so great is the political support which , government receive from the church party , that in all its bearings it is considered to be mere a . political than a religious cj ^ uistion . What can effect , what can change tnis system ? Either physical resistance , as in the case wf Rathcormac , or a complete reorganization of the House of Commons . ( Hear , hear . ) While we hear' sq ^ much of peace , law , and order , we find th ^ t they " nre , lika the Irishman ' s reciprocity—all on one side ,. If a . gentleman fall in Ireland by the hand of an assassin , ( and a ~ borrible state ot society that must be in which -asaasiiiiation obtaiu . * , ) a grpat outcry , and very justly , 'is raised ; but if a whole population are

      mowed down on tlio damnable principle under which the Irish people suffer , they are anathematized for having expostsd themselves to danger . ( Hear , hear . ) What respect , I ask , can people hnve for the laws , when their interests are altogether forgotten ? When the-judge calls tke act of on assa-siu au act of fantastic chivalry ? They are ^ compelled to have recourse to the laws of nature for geif-presftrvation . ( Hear , near . ) There was a case where one of those middle men turned out fifty-two cotters to starve upon the road side . Twelve of these men went out to a house and deliberately drew lots for the individual who should shoot the man ; having performed the deed , the assassin immediately gave himself up to the authorities . This wasdesignated by the judge act oi

      as an Jantastic chivalry . 1 hese men would endeaveur . tij redress their grievances by the strong arm of physical force , while we desire to destroy tha system which has originated "these grievances ( Hear , hear . ) Look at Rathcormac ; there had there be , en a ' charge of wilful murder against four gentlemen , and when I rose to bring the matter before the House of Commons , Mr . Hume and Mr O Connell told me not to hamper the ministry by bringing it on at that moment . After the bill had been sent to the grand jury , LordBeerbaven invited Major Colles , one of the men included in the charge , to serve as a grand juror to find bills of indictment against himself . ( Hear , hear . ) This' cannot b » contradicted . I furnish names and facts . " ( Hear hear , hear . ) At the assizeswhen the agitation

      , upon the tithe question had been so strong , some murders having been committed , I was counsel myself for some of the prisoners . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) There was one man against whom them was not a shadow of evidence j he was included ia the . charge of the judge , and tie jury returned a . verdict against him , and he was hanged . " ( Hear , hear . ) I asked Mr . Bennet , who was king ' s counsel , why they hanged Ryan , as it was proved that he was standing at the side of a ditch with his hands in his pocket , at the timeof the murder , and what answer do you think Mr . Bennet gave ? Why , said he , Ryan would not have been hanged if he bad not laughed . ( Hear , hear . ) So that we have this extraordinary anomaly , that a man can W liani ^ rf in

      Ireland for laughing . ( Loud expressions of indignation , ) Supposing that that man had a brother ; he attended , the ceurt of justice and heard the evidence , and then witnessed the execution , would ho petition , or would he resert to ulterior measure * . I hf Jd that there ought to exist an eqnal and impartial ' administration of-the law to all ; but in Ireland tha tact of a man being a Catholic is sufficient to ensure hw condemnation ; while the fact of a man being s . Protestaiit , would be sufficient to procure his escape . I have seen men tried without a flaw in the link of the evidence , and I am aware that a dinnur Tiad been provided by the jurymen who was to try thft cause , to testify his approbation of the resistance offered by the prisoner to those who were opposed to tha

      tithes . —Jbx fioc utto dtsce omnes . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . O'Connell wanted me not to hamper the minis try , but what a contrast does his behaviour in the * House offer to his conduct out of the House . ( Hear hear . ) He goes over to Ireland after the session , and then he laments that he has been too kind in his place in the House ; that he had the best wishes and intentions in the world for th * welfare of the Irish , people ; but that this person of influence , and that person of rank talked to him , and that he was iu fact talked out of his good measures : and then he bewails his folly for having been ao foolish a * to let anT one talk hunoutof the measures thathe had promised to carry for the benefit of Ireland , ( laughter ) and thus he only makes fol y morefooii , ^ | im ( /^ uiore ignorant

      . All this deplorable policy of O'Connell goes on without the mSst distantprosjeet ? l * Evu * - ° £ ^ » * und < * which tKS peopklabourrO'Connell promises WlyJtoduS people lwteuto him , but he will elect nodiin ^ ( hear ); and I tell yoa , that largely a 3 thePreco ? sow' Society , * . spoken of , the people knownSg ^ f ^^ t ^ &s ^ d S ^ g ^ A ^^ ssri ^ it thl * vl ^ " ^ P 0 ?*? capacity , depend upon n- » k ¦? S ? - commendations to , and yout synx SH ^^ SRsriftas * wULhave ^ to perform will not be a political but a Hoaat duty—to shovr them that ™ £ ~~ Ax . "Jt * T

      their condition and then that you h " *^ a remed 7 propose , and that you are ready to as «/ t them S % 2 * W . ^ : t «^ --i * to .-eBe& . ( Hear . ) Tha reason why the lnsh people have stood aloof from u * IwS V ^ P * of- thw kind has been made . IS * 'V' ^ - i r mee' thea oa tbe Principle of justice to all , apart from all religious pnVpoaesY and not allow a question of ^ e CathoUc chorea , or the Protestant chorch ,. to-give Mr . O * CoDnfll an opportumty to play offone of his tricks . ( Hear , hear > Mr . O Csnnorthenrerorted to the tenure in Ireland , nnd , after reiterating that the desire of the Gonvan-. nou'wsw not a-transfer of power from one party te another , but that of the destruction of that oligarchical domination , which has go long enra-. d the empire , he > at down amidst enthusiastic cheeriog . wbick lasted for several minntea . °

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      TB * GOVERNOR'S REQUEST KOT GRANTED GOVr&KOR . Gw > & Bomin ? , Sextos , Uie your ende , Oar Butile » h » ll increase your trade ; A Tajrr » Dt irbe u lately deid , Reqaire * Be more onr BMtile » id . SKXTO . X . I teel I mast m ; trade resipTj , 1 e * tnt bury \ &t * c wko pise ; White JJftd b srsdiog in great ttore , Brrad aoifievnt for tt * nonr

      GOVERKO » - K « natter wk » t God » eni * m stors , Tb * de » d are waotiiig setking more ; So take tout » pad?—do longer staud , A » d Bi » xe ike rrare at mr comxuand .

      SEXTON . I i * »* t ! 3 ce to m » Ve a prove . To «»» Uew « p jtmr Bmuw « la » e ; Let Rnwrtl J ^ n ' * iafenul el » n i * oeh like graret made where tlkey caa . GOVERXOE . Vj tia »^» expired , I mart begone , "To « et th . e tcamyis tb « ir bre » lfiit on ; ^« make the jrrare , toh' 11 sooa k » Te xvire , VTe rains mot tke piauig poor . SEXTON . Wi » t k the de it m-OMt be made ? Boi , oh ! I mtt * t fri »« op the trade ; 1 cannot—will nut make % grave To snil «« r up the Bastiie aiave .

      GOVERKOE . Then \ eep at di « t » nre from mr paw , Vrlule l > e an * &ce in tkis law ' ; Or you will urui aod i&W crave , To bury me a BajUle iUre . J . S . J ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 2, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1047/page/7/