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      FJ ^ &NCjj . —The new Ministry seen > 3 disposed to humour ihe war party ; at least , so 1 ' j . r as the kc ? piiiiC u ? of an armament is concerned . _ The Piris Journals of Monday , Contain" very little news of any interest . The shot prevented the arrival of the mails from the provinces , and in Paris little was talked of besides the question of ihe fortificayocs . Among the strange rumours current on Monday was one to the eff .-ct ; hat the Great Powers had resolved to erect Syria ana Cacdia into an independent Christian State , " aft « r the example of Graece , and that ihe Kings of Naples and Sardinia were in the field as candidates for the Crown for younger branches of their respective families .

      All the accounts received from Germany announced thai preparations for war if ere eTeryvrhere throngh-1 oat the confederation in progress . The garrison , of Luxemburg has been placed on the war footing , and the inhabitants ordered to sapply themselves wkh provisions for six months . —— ' Government are in couTse of liking steps to deprive the post-masters of all the provincial towns of ih ^ privileges they bare hitherto enjoyed for keeping private boxes and account . , and miking up letter- bags for merchants , trader .- - , and gentlem-. n in the eouatry . Tiie proceeds are to be applied to the general revenue of the Post-. Che—no dou ' m with the view of covering , in a snioH decree , the defi- eiency which has bern fuund to arise fr ^ m th « Scheme of the penny-post . — Cumberland- Pacguet .

      The Earl o ? Cardigan has again taken the j field . The Bottle Imp of the Eleventh Hussars has ] again dUthig ~ aished himself . A ^ sm ha-s Lord Hill j been called upon to characterise the merits of the warrior of Brighton—the hero of the " Moselle' — , ' the hissed of Drury-lane . Doctor Sandbars , whose j hard fate it is to serve , or rather to suffer , in the ; Eleventh—committed the run : inuus offence of leaving j the church ( whither , in obedience to the Earl ' s j orders , he had accompanied : he troops ) by the small £ ate , his jpnisbip having a decided prejudice in i favour of the larger one . The doctor being reprimanded for this breach of duty , straightway laid his jjiicvancf before L-rd Hill ; who , for the ' : h ; ru lime , admonished the gallant cui-iiei .

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      The Editor of the Sydney Gazette , Mr . George Wiiiiam iiobcrtsou , has twen s ^ uteucect to pay ati . ie of £ 2 'M to the Queen , a-ad to hi imprisoned twelve months , ibralibel on Capiain Miass , of her ilaj ^ siy ' s ship Herald . fcraiKE foe Wagls at Fout Philip . —The , Sun sajs *• We lave heard "with considerable pain that , during tee lass vreek , symptoms have myairesied themselves of a combination aaionost the journeymeu carpenters and joiiicrs of Melbourne , fur the purpose of obtaining from thoir employers a h : zh « r rate ofvrajes . We are informed thai ona previous © coasion tcere was a similar strike , and that tho masters had to yield and give them two shillings per day additional , and that t : ie same rate of advance is at present demanded . ' A great ma > t persons ( the Cc ' ombia . Observer says 38 ) hav-w- b-en poisoned at C « yly : ; . by tatiiig uawiiolesome turde .

      Joseph Howe . —The bni'areader of the E : ou Union Workhouse , ha ^ been ciEiui = scd by . the- Commissioners . A XE . W Bastils is now erecting on Shaw Heath , nen Stuckport , at a cost to the raie-payersof i 8 uU 0 . ila . Battt , ths Eqeestiuan , has been fined £ ou by ihe Brightou Magistrals , v / u the iufvraia' . iou auc complaint of the lessees of the theatre in that town , for haying without authority , or license , a ? required by the statui-, caused to be acted for gain or reward , an entertain men : of the s : age , or pameEiune , called The Gnozie King , or Ihe Magic Eigie . The case is to be removed into a higher court .

      Man shot , near iobk . —On Monaay , in last yretk , Mr . John Moore , who has been assau ' ted , j and , consequently , carried with him a pistol , for j protection , was returning from Faiford to York , he yth met by several drunken men , one of whom t insulted and struck at him . > loire pulled ; out hi 3 pistol , and shot him . Moore was j immediately seized , and taken into custody . He has j since been held W > bail , himself in £ " 200 , and two j Kureties in £ 190 each , to answer the charge at the j next Assizes . How fortnnate for Mr . Moure thai j his offence was only shooting a man ! - Had he been , collecting money for the Charier , no Izu would have \ been taken , ,

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      HZTUSAL OF THE PARTIES INVESTED WITH PoWER ft Class Legislation , to permit tueir DeeDi to beinquirld into . — At an inquest lately heid before Mr . Wakley , that gentUman said , wv He re ^ r . tted to obserre that attempts had recently been made to prevent prisoners giving evidence aa to death ,-in cases of those who had been conSacd with them . From the public papers , he hid found that inquests had bten held at Woolwich upon seven convicts who bad died of ftver , and that the aiv . horiiics had refused permission for the fc aorr-pri > o 3 ers to be examined . He had no hesitation in saying that by law tke Coroner could command their attendance to give evidence , and that the anthsritk-s vrereJiable to be puElshed for refusing . Such a ctrcuihstance was mo > t alarming , and required the earliest investigation . " HoBTUBLE MCSDEB , AND MrniaTIO . V OF A ClilLD . —Abou ; haJf-p 2 i £ one o ' clock on Friday afternoon , * s Captain Pr-. scott , of Park-street , Wai worth , was crossing "Wat-erloo Bridge , accompanied by Mt . Thomas Isaac , of 5 , S ^ ymonr Place , he found a brown paper parcel lying on the parapet of th- _ - bridge , inside of -which was a stout linen sheet , in which was wrapped a full-grown male child , apparently at > out . five days old , and evidently barn aurc . The heas was completely severed from the body , bs also were the legs and arms . The arms were ; cut

      off just above the wrist , and again above the eloow ; and the Ieg 3 were severed above the ancle , and again above the knee . About the body there were al ? o several dec-p maims and gashes : the face of the poor innocent was not at all disfigured . It was thought by some thit the child might have been mutibtved through the mother being delivered by instruments ; but a medical gentleman present said it was not so—that the child had evidently been murdered . The remains have been removed to the hous-e of a surgeon adjacent . The affair has created & most extraordinary sensation in the

      neighbourhood . Misert am ) Destitution . —On Tuesday , an inquest was held a ; the Carpenters' Arms , Brook-Etreet , Lambeth , before Mr . Carter , coroner for Surrey , on view of the body of Richard Prari , aged forty-five , who , with his bister ( now in Lambeth workhouse ) were discovered in a Elate of the utmost misery aa i destitution , at a miserable abode in Trafalgar-court , the hoose being nearly destitute of furniture . From the evidence , it appeared tba . t the deceased dkd of hanger and cold , he being found lying on the bare floor , without covering , no provisions Demg found in iht house , but a few potatoes * nd onions . The Jury returned a verdict , " That tha deceased died from exhaustion , prodacedbr the want of the common necessaries of life , stud exposure to the cold , during the present inclement ¦ eison- "

      Seeious Accident on the Blackwall Railwat . —An acsiden ; occurred on this line of railway , which it is feared will terminate fatally , on Tuesday evening last . At about a quarter past aine o ' clock , as Mr . Bowles , carh taker , at the Biackwall terminu ? , was walking along the line between the Jfew-roai branch and the Poplar station , the down train came up , and , proceeding , on an inclined plane , it wa 3 &t full speed- Mr . Bowles , being afflicted with deafness , did cot hear the approach o , the train in time to escape from the line . He was knocked down , and picked up in a state of total insensibility . His jaw-bone was broken , the lower lip split down to the chin , and a -wound of frightfnl extent inflicted in the side of the neck , close to the base of the Ekull . The unfortunate gentleman was temoTed to hi 3 own residence , where he now lies , with but faint hopes of recovery .

      Dreadful Shjpwueck .. —Loss of the Steameb Thames jlnb Sixty Lites . —Intelligence haa just been receiTed of the melancholy loss of tha London and Dahlia Company ' s steamers , Thames , on her Toyage from Dublin to London , on the south-west rocks of the SciUy Islands , and &U on board , consisting of from 60 to 70 persons , drowned , with the exception of a lady , two stewardesses , and one man . Wben the ressel was diseorered in her perilous sitaation by the islander * , their boats were aground , but with great efforts they snoceeded in launching a whale-boat through the breaker * , and getting her onder the stem of the Thames . The commander , Capt . Gray , insisted on the females being first hoisted ahereia ; * ad aofortanatelj , a ? soon as a l * dj and two stewardesses had bean placed there , the boat broke

      adrift , and drore off the land . This was perceived by a , sailing boat , which took her in tow , and succeeded with great risk , in towtog her to the shore in safety . By this time the wind increased almost to a hurriea&e , which rendered it impossible for any other boat to approach the reseeL Captain Gray then formed a raft , on which a great many of the crew / fat , bat it was almost immediately dashed against the rocks , and all the poor fellows thereon met . a watery grave , with the exception of one man , who was miraculously thrown on a perpendicular rock , where he remained ull the following day , when he was rescued in an exhausted state . The vessel became a complete wreck , and the remainder of the « rew perished . Very little of the cargo ia eared . Serenteea bodies hare been picked up , but of the Teasel there is cot a vestige to be seen .

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      SATURDAY , JANUARY 10 , 1841 . ON THURSDAY , ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY YORKSHIREilAN TO DO HIS

      DUTY . Ox Thursday every Yorkshireman mill do his i duty , and till Thursday , Yorkshire expects every j Englishman to furnish the means of the full and j efficient performance of duty . Never have we had such an opportunity of proclaiming the strength of our caise , the virtue of our people , and the hopelessness of factious opposition , as tha : which now

      presents itself . Weak in numbers , weak in principle , and still weaker in popular affection , the dominant faction would fain meet Parliament with the pre-Eumptiun that a new struggle had furnished the means of keeping up the game for another Session , j The time is therefore auspicious ; the object is allimportant ; and nothing will be left undone which i money , treachery , and deceit can supply , in order to give effect to this the last kick of limping

      Whiggery . If the national Toice can be soothed by pretext i and promise ; if the people , by a set of hired jugglers can be turned from their course ; and if confidence can be restored to the oft-convicted traitors ; then may Chartism wait upon treason , and Universal rights slumber in the tomb . Our friends will bear in mind , that the same trick was attempted to be played by the tottering WhigB in 1837 , at the Tery commencement of the session , when hypocrites met to build monuments to those martyrs who died for the principles which the Old

      Mortality" men would commemorate by statues of cold marble , while they hare filled their dungeons with those who would have stamped them upoa the heart , and would hare made them the basis of Unirersal right . Remember that then , O'Connor , singlehanded , and alone , met thirty-seTen Whig members of Parliament , and unaided , save by the working men , after a seren hours' debate , carried an amendment for Universal Snffrage , and thus met the trick upon the threshold , and defeated treachery at the very outset . This was to have been the signal for a series of " practical" meetinga to keep the Whigs in ; but being promptly met , and triumphantly defeated ,

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      tbo course was abanioneJ ; and , what is most curious , no account has yet been renderod of the funds , though the subscriptions were large . The meeting of Thursday is for the purpose of throwing the mantle over deformed Whiggery , by A SACRIFICE OF ALL MINOR DIFFERENCES at the shrine of office : the plain English of which is , the adoption of any scheme , trick , finesse , or stratagem , by which the rule of one odious party may be preserved for another Beason of profitable abuse . This meeting , if successful , is to be followed by one at Leicester ; but there , werejoice to learn , that every

      post is manned , that every Chartist is on his ground . Leicester is to be followed by a similar demonstration at Manchester , another at Birmingham , and a whip in the metropolis , at an hour when the slaves cannot attend . If we succeed , however , at Leeds , all further experiment will be abandoned : and therefore , the eyes of the nation should be turned to this great aud mighty event ; this first challenge of a new , thi 3 last effort of an old , faction . If all former proceedings of our party have been confined to our columns , let it bo borne in mind that tho proceedings of the 21 st will be conveyed to thefarthermost corner of the earth , upon the wings of the Imperial press . They would gladly pass off the

      demonstration as the mere experiment of an unfledged party ; but they have bo unwittingly bound up the strength of Whiggery with tho result , that no sophistry can now separate them . On Thursday , they will cry " Hear us ! oh ! hear us ! or fear ye to hear the truth ? " While we have been listening to them , and feeling their stripes for eight loug years , they forget that they were fatigued to impatience , in a few momenta , by the humble prayer and respectful petition , of one million two hundred and fifty thousand claimants for justice . Did they hear the nation speaking as one man , even for one night ! No ; they laughed at the appeal , aud condemned without trial .

      The day of trial has passed away , and we have now arrived at tho day of judgment . Honest politicians should Tely upon practical and substantial acts for popular applause , aud cot be compelled to court favour , with specious phrase , in the very teeth of practical oppression . What new claim have they to lay to our favour ! what new title to plead to our support ! On Thursday night , Whigs and Whiggery , Government and the Chronicle , will havo reason to regret the error into which folly and ignorance has precipitated themr while Baines , in extacy and triumph , may rejoice , and exclaim ,

      " Thou cans't not gay I did it . " No ! had the judicious advice of the Mercury been taken and acttd upou , we should have dealt locally with the Fox and Goose club ; we should not have n quired forces beyond tho borough precincts to settle accounts -with our neighbours ; while Whiggery should have waited for the _ result before it made itself party to the experiment : but having proclaimed a national display , and having provided an entertainment , the very seats whereof are to cost the sum of £ 600 , surely , nothing short of a Whig benefit coul J have been in contemplation ! Did ever pl&y bill present promise of more amusement 1 Every favourite actor is announced as being engaged for the performance , and , in order to ensure a select

      audience , the price of admission has been raised to an amount never before known , with not even a bottle of pop to refresh tho audience , —all for " the feast of Teason and the flow of soul . " With scenery , admission , and exlras , about £ 1 . . 500 will be spent upon the juggle , in the very midst of a famishing , naked , perishing , unemployed people ; and , good ^ ouis , all this to benefit the poor ! No thought of self ] No ! Out upon the grovelling notion , the low idea , the filthy thought ! " Cheap bread , " " good government , " and " love their neighbours as themselves , " aud to do unto others as they would be done by , " is the one , the sole , and only , object of this pious , saintly , philanthropic , justice-lovhig , heaven-born , immaculate association of birds and beasts '

      with great pride , we put this question to our millions of " readers : —Was ever camp so faithfully and vigilantly watched , as we have watched ours siuce the commencement of the campaign ? Have we been once caught napping at our post ? Has tbo garrison been once surprised through the negligence or treachery of its oiily sentinel ! Since the Middle Class Committee was prorogued ; since the Corn Law League was dispersed over the country ; since the Ballot-monger ? , Albert ' s slave staff , the educa ' , ion-moRgerB , ein ; - g'a ' . ion-mongera , and legality-mongers have

      presented themselves , have we not watched their every movement , disclosed their every stratagem , and reported their every defeat ? Aye , vve have . But these were only EkirmUhes , mere detail squabbling . On the " 21 st , we come to the grand battle , the recognition of the principle . On that day , England , in the capital of its most important county , must proclaim her freedom , or admit herself a willing slave . On that day all England will be represented at Leeds ; aye , and Scotland and Wales also . Wo will have no retreating , no evasion , no finesse . Let the whole intermediate time be spent in deliberation

      upou the all-important result . Should we allow the faction to succeed , they will continue to hold office , on the strength of minorities neutralised by popular affection , as declared at Leeds . Should they succeed on the 21 st , they will designate their opponents as tyrant majorities , while they will represent themselves as the very axis upon which popular opinion turns ; thereby making tho people volunteers in the New Poor Law Bill , Rural Police Bill , Madhouses Regulations , New Ba&tile Scheme , Royal Dog-kennel , Kiding-house , and Stable plan , with all tho other crimes which have prematurely turned young Whiggery into a hoary oiu sinner .

      Those who have read the controversy , between all other descriptions of Suffrage and Universal Suffrage , of which we undertook the defence , have now tha whole case before them ; and who cau for a moment withhold his voice in favour of the latterl Have we not demolished every Bhadow of a shado of sophistry , enlisted by our opponents in their pigmy v ? a . i against our natural tights \ Have we left them an bair's-breadth of resting ground to stand upon 1 And , while they talk of differences in our ranks , are they , any two of them , agreed upon their details \ while they admit the principle , upon which they agree , to cousist in keepino the Tories out .

      They call you tyrants and exciasiouists , and yet , parodoxically enough , say you have no power ! They call you tyrants , while yon triumph by reason only ; and their dungeons are full of victims , whose only crime was opposing brute-force by moral persuasion . They call you exclasionistp , -while they refuse to yon that which they possess themselves ! You seek not to dispossess any man of his right , but merely to arm yourselves with legitimate power , which being exclusively monopolised by others , has caused England to degenerate into a slave-land , and her people into serfs .

      Yon were neitker tyrants nor exclnsionists when you prostituted yourselves in 1832 , and listed under the false colours of a treasonable rabble of the hungry aristocracy . When your drunken carcases staggered under the weight of your own prostitution—when you proclaimed yourselves regicides , homicides , incendiaries , burglar * , robbera , plunderers , and BcoSers at rromen , thfn yoa were a moral , virtuous , sober , religious , life-respecting , property-preserving people . But now that you have become strong in virtue , and threaten to defy the ttmpter , you are a band of murdering , propertydestroying Infidels , although not a Bingle crime can be laid to your charge .

      On the 21 st , then , we re-acknowledge the bond , and sign our uew covenant for the first year of liberty , and the eighteen hundred and forty-first of the Christian era . Let this national document be signed at Leeds , on that day , by all the delegates ! Let it bo prepared on parchment , and , with their signatures , let it be pres ^ atad . to the Queen , together Frost ' s restoration addresses .

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      REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF EMANCIPATION AND REFORM . The present position of Ireland—the boasted boons , especially those of Emancipation and Reform—together with the recent declaration of many Protestant landlords , aa to their future intentions towards their Catholic tonantry , as coupled vfivh a consideration of the suffrage by which one man ' s property constitutes another man ' s vote—induces us , nay , compels us , as jouraalista , to take a retrospect of the effect of those measures upon that country , her people , her rulers , her leaders , and her aristocracy , for the last twelve years . We pass over all antecedent time , as the lapse of ages whose bloody landmarks were to have been shaken by Emancipation in 2829 , aud which were to have been wholly uprooted by Reform in 1832 .

      We would willingly seal the blood-stained pages of the old almanac , and gladly impute to ignorance those bye-gones , over which Emancipation aud Reform , as peacemakers , were to have made tho injured and tho injurer , the Catholic and the Protestant , shako hauds , and bury in oblivion all those sorrows and heart-burnings , which had bo long affected Ireland , as with a periodical plague . By Emancipation ( which comes first in order ) we never did expect to see its fruits yielded in the abandonment of faith by either party , Protes ( ant or Catholic , as the terms of full enjoyment of the

      measure . No ; wo hailed it as a license to each to worship his God without restriction from a rival church , or the interference of a rival party . We looked upon Emancipation as the wedge , but not of faction ; as the victory , but not of party . Wo looked upon it as a grand national moral triumph , achieved by the sound , really religious , and tho just of all parties , by which the injurious and tyrannical domination of a law church , established in barbarous ages , was to bend , in tho fir ^ t instance , to a Christian toleration , according to modern refinement . And as advance in civilization had slowly led to toleration , through tho darkness of the past , we

      had a right to look upon the new light of reform as that bright and shining lamp , which was progressively , but surety , to lead all to that state of eqiia'ity , upou which persons of all denominations should live , aud by which alono we can hope for peace on earth , and good will among men . We looked upon Emano patiou as a sure Btepping-stoneto this desirable object . How ofien have we written the fact , that with the moat perfect religious equality , civil disabilities may exist to a frightful extent , whilo civil equality is sure to level all religious differences ; aud , yet how the fanatic will fi ^ ht for mere moonshine , while he ia torpid and slothful upon all questions of substantial right .

      Tho existence of religious ascendancy is conclusive evidonce of the existence of exclusive political power . The removal of religious disabilities seldom confers substantial political power upon tho emancipated ; aud yet will they still struggle for an augmentation of religious right , only in the vain hope of thus strengthening their forces for a general assault upou the enemy . But , as we shall presently show , that struggle mu 3 t embrace the enfranchisement of all , else will its want of completeness fail of producing a perfect or a satisfactory result ; and that it should be so is natural , because , surely , if he

      contend , as lve do , for perfect religious equality , and show that , howe > er it may be nominally obtained , yet that it cannot be actually preserved with perfect civil equality , wo provo that civil rights , which is thetreo , must be first planted , before religious liberty , which in the fruit , can be tasted . In fact , civil liberty is the trustee ; religious liberty one of the trusts . Those who advocate the one , and fall ahort of the other , are aa erroneous iu their notions as the sportsman who expects to manage his horse without a bridle , or the mariner who hopes to steer his vessel in her course without compass or rudder .

      We now turn to a consideration of the profit and loss upon Emancipation ; and let U 3 consider who have been actual gainers , and who actual losers , for the gain of others , by that msasurc . By Emancipation , the senate , the bar , tho army , the navy , the privy council board , and , in short , all offices , with the exception of those whiah only one man at a time can fill , tuch as Prime Minister , Commander of tlw Forces , and conscience keeper to tho Monarch , were thrown open to Catholics . These offices , in

      the language of those who contend for " British glory , " and "social equality , " we are told , are equally open to the rich and to tho poor ; but , in the words of Horne Tookb , so is the London Coffoe House ; put if a poor man goe 3 there , will he get his dinner without money 1 We may pus-h the question furihur , and ask , if the poor man , the honostcst poor man in the kiugdom , goes there , will he be admitted , though hwing plenty of money to pay his way , yet wanting the livery of tho house—tUo genteel apparel .

      The profit of Emancipation to the rich lias been to place Catholic Judges upon the Bench , not a whit less oppressive than their Protestant brethren , the moment they become part aud parcel of tho system , but , on the contrary , jealous of public opinion , fearful of public criticism , knowing that promotion has been a sop to party , rather than the reward of merit ; and , in order to preserve au honest fume , they lean harder upon tho poor crutch by which they have hobbled through the mud to office , and thus prove their impartiality and fitness for office , by pressing most severely upon those of their own persuasion . A Catholic promoted to the rank of Queen ' s Counsel by Emancipatiou , would

      not take twenty shillings and elevenpence from the most oppressed religious brother , even in defence of the most favoured tenet of the proscribed church , in preference to twenty-ono shillings from an exterminating Protestant , who appears as his opponent to the orthodox faith . And , as Catholic litigants are generally poor , and Protestant ones are generally rich , aud as the promotion to a silk gown must be paid for by those who seek shelter under its magical influence , thus has Emancipation so far raised tho price of law to the poor client , while it has bluuted ihe energy of the advocate , and alarmed the appreueusion of the Judge . So much for the legal benefit of Emancipation to rich and poor .

      By Emancipation , the Catholics were promised the total abolition of Tithes . By Emancipation , the Catholic tenantry and labourers were impliedly to bo guaranteed in a defensive controui over their landlords , by snch a sweepingPoorLaw , leviable upon the estates of those landlords , as would insure to tho Catholic tenantry that great protection which self-interest ever furnishes against the caprice of the most tyrannical , by making each proprietor pay for the poor of hi 3 own creation .

      Let us be distinctly understood . Catholic Emancipation was held out to the Irish people as a sure guarantee of religious , social , and civil equality;—of religious equality , by the exemption from the payment of any impost , except their own chosen pastors ; of social equality , by tho introduction of such a system of Poor Laws , as , while it left the landlord full possession and undisputed right to do what he likes with hit own , yet , nevertheless , imposed upon him the obligation of paying for the indulgence such a price as would preclude the possibility of inflicting ruin upon any , without imposing a

      corresponding sacrifice upon himself . Politically , Emancipation promised a guarantee against the further invasion of religious right by exclusivo civil power it promised the enactment of laws , and the appointment of such officers for their administration , as Bhould render justice to all without reference to religious persuasion ; and that society , thus remodelled and invigorated in its social and religious relations , should by degrees , and as religious animosities were healed be moulded into a perfect civil state , as the means , the only means , of preventing a relapse into the fever of religious strife and Christian warfare .

      Emancipation was purchased at the expence of a tremendous sacrifice of principle to expediency . Nearly three' hundred thousand political slaves , whoso very existence depended upon that holding

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      which constituted a 40 s . freehold , were sacrificed with their families , amounting to over two millions , ^ o this religious gratification , for the wealthy Catholic to hold political station . The Catholic priesthood , however , upon the part of the Catholic people , stipulated for an equivalent , before they consented to so monstrous a sacrifice of the poor , for the exclusive benefit of the rich . At tho head of the stipulating party , was the memorable Dr . Doyle , Roman Catholic Bishop . This stipulation embraced a honourable provision for those who cheerfully surrendered their little all , for the glory of their religious triumph , in such a measure of Poor Laws as would furnish real relief to the unwilling idler , who , in consequence of the treaty , was sure to lose his political

      qualification . However , inasmuch as the Irish people never do receive that oourse of education which would fit them for those offices thrown open by Emancipation , and , inasmuch , as they now , after twelve years ' probation , pay 25 per cent , increased tithe , iu the shape of rent ; inasmuch as they have got ouly such a system of Poor Laws as their leaders , their priests , and themselves repudiate and condemn ; we are justified in asking , in what , then , consists tho religious and social improvement in the condition of the poor Irish Catholics , consequent upon Emancipation ?

      But if Emancipation hare failed in producing that state of religious and social equality , or even relief from religious disabilities , what are we to say of Reform , which was to have given full and complete effect to the measure | of religioua relief , by means of the civil liberty thereby established ! To relieve the mind of all religious animosities , to equalize society , aud to give to all equality before God , in recognition , if not in belief , of the subdued Protestant parson , was a step actually necessary , as the precursor of civil equality ; and , in consequence of this great and mighty magical change , Reform promised to be the trustee of all .

      Up to tho year 1829 the Catholics were minors : Emancipation rendered them of full age , and constituted a national majority ; and then those of them own oppressed , insulted , and proscribed creed were looked upon , and naturally , as the fittest arbitrators to demand , if not an account of the long trust , at least , a fair adjustment , and a proper settlement of accounts for the future . To this end , representatives were sought from the ranks of the old champions of religious liberty ; and the new franchise , being a £ 10 beneficial interest , was supposed to constitute such an independence as would remove that

      subserviency inherent iu the old forty-6 hilliug freeholders . This opinion was fully justified by the result , inasmuch as a great number of Roman Catholics , many of them wholly unknown till they appeared upon the hustings , were chosen , and properly chosen , by a Catholic people , as the first-fruits of their glorious religious triumph , followed by their political advancement . With such a force in the citadel , and the Catholic people of Ireland ready to back them" with their hearts' blood , will our most sanguine Catholic friend kindly direct our attention to the victories of so powerful a party , after an eight years' campaign 1

      Let us now consider whether or not amount of value can give effect to an erroneous principle . The forty-shilling freeholders were disqualified , and turned upon the face of the earth as vagrants and wanderers , lest ia their overwhelming ^ numbers , they should everywhere return their newlv-qualified fellow-Catholics . The first experiment opened the door of St . Stephens , to Roman Catholic representatives , chosen by an independent Catholic constituency , rendered independent by the possession of a £ 10 beneficial interest of those , who have been bo long and so well nursed by Mother Church ,

      an ever-flowiug , never-drj much cow ; well fed upon Catholic blood and sweat . The " beneficial interest " being an abstraction from the wealth of Protestant landlords , they saw no reason why they should thus furnish weapons of offance to the enemy . Hence we find the extermination of ten-pounders to be set about , and accomplished just as easily and coolly , as that of the two-pounders . Tho principle is the same ; aud the facilities for putting it into operation similar . Well ; what's the result ? Why , jubtthia . We find an unchristian , exterminating dog , an infidel destroyer , one Sir Anthont Buooke , Bart ., a Sir Joh . t Mannell , and others of the same black kidney , declaring , amid the cheers of ruffiansprouts of Protestantism , their determination

      to let their " beneficial interests" to Protestant interlopers , rather than the Catholic sous of old and good tenants on the land ; or to renew for the old occupants , at a sacrifice of 20 or 30 pei * cent , in the rent . That is , that a Protestant voter shall get , for £ 100 perannum , what an old , faithful , and solvent Catholic shall not get for £ 130 , nor , in fact , at any price . This is the resolution of an association of Protestant landlords , for the murder of their Catholic tenants ; and it is considered not only legal , but praiseworthy , and is highly lauded by the Protestant press . Now , suppose the Catholic tenants , holding those unfortunate ' beneficial interests , " were to form themselves into an association , and pass the following resolution : —

      Resolved , " That we , the Roman Catholic tenants , upon the estates of , having learned the iutentien of our landlords to give a preference of 30 per cent , to Protestant tenants , and to oust all those of the Catholic faith whose holdings confer votes , and deeming such intention to be a violation of all Christian duty , geutlem&nly feeling , and justice , have come to the following determination ; that is to say : we shall not interfere with the just right of the landlord to secure his rents , and to dispose of Buch farms as may fall out of lease to the best

      advantage ; neither shall we defend defaulters nor countenance opposition to the legal claims of the landlord ; while , at the same time , we do hereby solemnly declare , that if a single act of injustice be done in furtherauce of the brutal resolution of our landlords , we will have recourse to all those means with which God has armed mau for self-defence ; and if a single Catholic life shall be sacrificed in the promotion of the landlords' object , we hereby pledge ourselves to avenge the ungodly aot , by the sacrifice of a double number of our Protestant oppressors . "

      Now , what would be the result of such a resolution I Why , the immediate proclaiming of the Liberator ' s mitigated Coercion Bill , for the preservation of Protestant life , without reference to Catholic suffering . Aud yet , while this hellish conspiracy is formed against ths emancipated Catholics , by their Protestant brethren , we find the energies of the Royal Loyal National Humbug Association , wasted upon repeal buttons , Emigration to Jamaica , committees of supply , and so forth ! without daring to grapple with the real " exterminators , " whose denunciation is left to us . This is the beneficial interest which the poor man acquired by Emancipation and Reform

      They havo supplied a gratification to the rich , while they have furnished disqualification , extermination , and destruction , to those by whom the victory , such as it is , has been won . Thus it ever has been ; and thus it ever will be , until man , wheresoever he roams , shall carry with him the title-deed of his freedom . Will this , and such like instances of sacrificing thirty per cent ., rather than enfranchise the independent voter , open the eyea of the supporters of Household Suffrage Will this teach the people that they mast throw off the whole load of oppression at once , iustead of looking for an instalment of justice from their tyrannical rulers !

      Emancipation and Reform have been a profit , and a great profit , to the rich Catholic , while they have been the ruin of millions of their poor , and , thenfore , defenceless brethren . True , all the victories have been bloodless—that is , all the blood has been shed upon one side , and that the wrong side ; witness Rathcormac and other spots , where Catholic blood still cries iu vain for vengeance—witness tho sweeping of estates , the persecution of the people , and the aggrandisement of the Generals , wha , in the hottest fire , have kept themselves free from scratch

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      while tho soldiers have borne all the blowB , and allowed the officers to run off with all the spoil . Such have , been the inestimable blessings conferred upon the people by Emancipation and Reform .

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      ^^^^ i ^ a ^^^—^ - ~ w * . "v FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S POSTSCRIPT . In our overland mail-bags , we found a long letter to tho Editor , apparently intendsd for publication , expressive of the Proprietor ' s opinion of the manner in which his paper has been conducted during his unavoidable absence . It is a little too personal and complimentary for publication : we , therefore , only say of its general contents , that they express unqualified satisfaction—which we are as glad to see as to think that we have deserved it . The Postscript is , however , as he says , the best part of the letter , and we , therefore , give it . It is as follows : —

      P . S . I have been induced , by a newspaper notice and some other reasons , to send you about one huudred and sixty-four closely written folios of matter , the produce of four days' labour , for insertion ia the Star , in the hope that the noble patron aud criti « may discover , in my style , such an improvement as shall ensure for me his kind consideration . Tha notice to which I refer tuds thus : — " We learn , also , that the Marquis of NokmaNbt intends to mitigatt the remaining portion of Vincent ' s imprisonment , in consequence of the improved tone of his writing , and ' the avowal of his intention to conduct his proceedings in a different spirit for the future . "

      Now then , to exhibit my "improved tone" : —and , to begin with criticism , let me inform the scribe who penned the above , that " mitigate" is not the word which should have been used to express the intention of the Noble Marquis . Imprisonment cannot be mitigated ; though the severity of its concomitant circumstances may ; " remit" is the word which ought to have been used , I trust that , while perusing my composition , the Noble Marquis will make allowances for one who writes with a rusty pen , and under the disadvantage of perfect seclusion from the world , some intercourse with which is necessary for the arrange * ment of literary productions .

      However , notwithstanding the several disadvantages under which I labour , I have hope aud expectation that in my improved style he will recognise ray title to his consideration , while for my future proceedings I promise to be more circumspect than I have been , by attending two meetings of the people for one which I was in the habit of attending btfore , being convinced that froia ihe scholars in the school of idrersitv , man can best learn wisdom .

      if the specimens which I forward should be thought of a too political nature , I beg to advertise you that have , since my sojourn in this secluded spot , written a variety of works , and among them a work entitled "The Devil on Three Sticks ; " but from tha similarity in the name , I beg that the critic will not pre-jndge me as having either robbed , borrowed from , or even presumptuously attempted to imitate the admirable work of Dr . Smollett , entitled " The Devil on Two Ssicke . " No , so far from it , throughout fourteen volumes which I have written , there i » not a single quotation from any author , living or

      " dead . ** The Devil on Three Sticks" consists of three volumes , one containing the adventures of Phippa Fribble , ( a consummate governor , ) aud Morgan Rattler , hia secretary ; one , "The Beggar King and his subjects ; " and one , "The Comicalities of ( he littlest Lord iu the world . " Perhaps you may have a desire to see the work , but you must rest satisfied with the bill . of fare , and wait patiently for the repast . The five first aid the last chapters of tne " Adven * tures of Phipp 3 Fribble , " then , contain matter of which the following headings may give you some notion : —

      Chap . 1 . —Wherein Morgan Rattler recounts to his Excellency the rocks on which his Excellency ' s predecessors foundered , and the course which he recommends , to avoid the possibility of a similar catastrophe befalling his Excellency . Chap . 2 . —In which the Beggar King objects to the company kept by Phipps Fribble , and proposes the alternative of keeping better company , or of abdicating spontaneously , to avoid the disagreeable necessity of being coerced to submission ; and which , the curious mode of coercion being ingeniously made known to the Viceroy , produces the desired effect .

      Chap . 3 . —Wherein Phipps Fribble and Morgan Rattler are in consultation upon a Liberal Apothecary ' s Memorial ou behalf of a Liberal elector sentenced to transportation for a rape , and in which the Viceroy aad Morgan are assisted by the notes of the Learned Judge , taken upon the trial ; and how , an election being at hand , and parties being balanced Morgan Rattler proposes , and his Excellency accedes , to an appeal from the memorial and Judge ' s notes , to the printed list of voters , and the astounding effect which the perusal produced , and the decision consequent thereupon .

      Chap . 4 . —How Morgan Rittler discovers an inclination in his master , to become free of the Beggar King ' s controui , with the sad result which threatened to follow , but which was fortunately avoided by a timely submission . Chap . 5 . —An awful chapter ; in which utter ruin threatens Phipps Fribble , in consequence of canvassing the wife of one of his new subjects , for the support of her husband , in aid of his government , after the manner ia which those favours are gained at Naples , and at other foreign Courts ; and how Morgan Rattler reconciles matters .

      There are thirty-seven other chapters , the Ia 3 t of which contains Morgan Rattler ' s account to the Prime Minister , of the incompetoncy of Phipps Fribble , with a recommendation of his being brought home and placed under the immediate controui of the Minister ; and Phippa Fribble ' s recal , together with his total change of policy . Such ia a taste of what you have to expect ; and I think I could not have employed my long leisure to a more becoming and grateful purpose , than in handing down to posterity , a specimen of that style , which' I owa in my preface to owe chiefly to

      the retirement so necessary for reflection . Alas ! how fortunate would it have been for my persecutors , had they allowed mo te go on thinking and laying my half-digested thoughts before the passing breeze of changeable opinion , instead of allowing me the opportunity of stamping them in imperishable characters ; for I have the vanity to think , that though my offspring should but quicken during the life of its . pareut , that yet , the posthumous brat may gain strength , aad live to furnish lessons of wisdom to succeeding generations . Authors , who are independent of the holy brotherhood of critics , are nevertheless bound fast in the no less irksome bonds of

      the fraternity of publishers ; but , regardless of the one , and independent of the other , uill make my works succeed in the market . The very best chapters may-be immeasurably inferior to the very worst to be found in any of the inimitable productions of Cervantes , Lk Sage , Fielding , or Smollett ; but , as far 39 regards the portraiture of character , and the faithful following of nature , I will fearlessly place them in competition with the works of any living author . This you will ascribe to native modesty ; but I am willing to submit the issue to any twelve judges , always barring a Yorkshire , Lao * cashire , or Monmouthshire Jury .

      You will compare my letter to that of a lady , whereof the postscript forms the greater part . B © it so ; I had the leisure , and vay pen ran away with me . Again , I am , yours , P . O'C .

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . W ? had purposed to give in this week's Star , an elaborated article on the whole bearings of the law on political associations , and a safe and certain plan of abidingby the present organization , in defiance of even Whig lawyers , backed by Whig Ministers . The approaching " Welcome-to-DAN . " Demonstration has , however , precluded it , and we must content ourselves with the following short heads of guidance to which we claim the precise attention of those who desire to be safe . Let all the ' people of every locality be of one Association ; and , as recommended ia the admirable

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      rRvM era lo . vdon corespondent . Wednesday Evening , Jan . 13 / A . The Weather , &c , in London . —Suow , mow , gso-. v i All last night and all the day ; the severe fr . ; st having partially broken up , the metropolis is almost impassable for equestrians , dangerous for pedestrians , aad insecure for all sorts of conveyances ; while most of the country vehic l es are many hours behind their accustomed time . Business tu . ua impeded , and every thing gloomy , the general conversation assumes an equally gloomy tone ; the awfully sudden end of Scott the diver , the murder and mutilation , a la Gretnacre , of the poor child whose reniuins were found on Monday , ( and which , being so fully reported in the dally press , I need not further refer to , ) form the allengrossing topics of discourse ; save , now and then , biing enlivened by the detail of some recent railway callisions , which are looked upon as mere ordinary occurrences .

      \ j j j , : i f Window-Taxes versus Chartism . —On Friday last , a meeting of the householders of St . Marylebone , convened by advertisement , by the window-tax repeal committee , was held at the Mechanics' Institution ! Tavern , Cross-street , New Road . The advertisement calling the meeting stated , in large capitals , " X . B . No OTHER BUSINESS WILL BE CONSIDERED ; " but , at seven o'clock , the hour announced for takiDg the chair , 1 there "was a strong muster of the members of the ' Charter Association present , and but very few of tbe I window-tax committee . Repeated calls "were maue for I a chairman , which tbe committee paid no attention to ; ! -when , at leDgth , tbe Ra& 3 placed Mr . Hill < a respect-¦ able householder of the parish ) in the chair , ¦ who , after i ca ' . Hug on that portion of lhe committee vrho were

      present to enter upon tbe business of the evening , ( which they declined doing , on the ground that so few of their cumber -were in attendance , ) &aid , be regretted the absence of the majuriiy of tliu committee ; but , as he had been placed in the chair , he would do his utmost to give evtsry onevrho might address the meeting a fair hearing . Mr . Savage , in a brief address , moved the foliowicg resolution : — " That this meeting recommend the couim ' ttee for the repeal of the "window-tax to obtain a rt-quisitian to the vestry , to call a public meeting of the inhabitants , to consider the propriety of petitioning the legislature to totally repeal t « is obnoxious and odious impost . " Mr . Nicholson , one of the repeal committee , seconded the resolution , contending that j uniation , besides repea'ioc the window-tax , would

      greatly a-ssiat the Chartist cause ; be professed himself & Chartist in principle , but withed the Cliariists to join the cutnmittte , in ordtr to obt rin a re- ) peal of the "windovr-tax . Mr . Gxorge Lovett , a j ¦ wo rking man , did not like the resolution ; he cinshiertd something more th'in a repeal of the window-tax was required ; ridiculed tbe idea of petitioning so iiildj times for that cbjtct ; alluded , in a j forcible manner , to ths fato o ; * even the National Peti- j lion for the People ' s Charter ; and contended tbat 1 Universal Suffrage was the only mrans of obtaining a j repeal of the winJow-tax , or of any other obnoxious 1 impost . He concluded by proposing , as an amendment , " That we , tbe householders and inhabitants of the Ujrouch of Maryiebonc , in public meeting

      assembled , do heriby r / rot-st against the odious windowtax ; but bclivve thit the only effectual reme-iy for re- j moving al ! unjust uses will be i . y obtaining Universal j Suffn ^ e . " This amendment was seconded by Mr . j MKiailey . aud supported by Mr . Scott , who said it 1 was of to benefit to workiDg men to juiu thu middle ' classes in nibbling iff the leaves of Uic ! political tree ; j they were determined not to be gulled any longer , for 1 they wou-d go to tha root of the evil at once , by means j of Universal SufiVagt , atd nothing short of it Mr . i Jordan also s'jppor . ed the amendment , and -raid te v ? aa opposed to sending any requisition to the vestry , j for tbe parish beadles an 1 tax-cullecwrs were stationed I at the door , to prevent aDy person entering whose coat i

      was green , or > rho might not be a householder ; thus proving that the YeHry bave no sympathy with the inhabitants at large of the Borough . He recommended the People ' s Cliarter as the best niearu of get : ing rid of all oppressive taxts , and sat down amid loud applause . Dr . Webb , and Messrs . Campbell and Ball , then severally addressed tie meeting in favour of tiie original resolution ; which , however , en fating put , waa lost , and the amendment of Mr . Lovett carried by an almost unanimons vote . Mr . Scott then proposed three cheers for Feargus O'Connor , which were given in a most enthusiastic manner ; aa were also three cheers for Frost , WMiams , ami Joues , and all political victims ; and three moro for the People ' s Charter ; when the meeting peaceably sepax&ted .

      MSETING AND FESTTVAL FOE THE BENEFIT OP the Political Victims . —On Monday evening , a very numerously attended meeting , at which various entertainments were produced , touk ploce at the spacious Social Institution , John-street , Tottenham Court Road ; the proceeds of tie occaaion being devoted to the Political Victim Fund . It was found that the lower hall , though c ^ pabla of accommodating 200 couple to daucs , would not , accommodate moro than haif the company ; and accordingly thy lirge rooms np stairs were placed at the disposal of the committee , where music , singing , and soeiil conversation reigned paramount ; while below , the disciples of Terpsichore " threaded ths m ; ry dance on li § ht fantastic toe , " till a late hour . SvKne cspiial songs were sung during the evening ; irAny good things were said and done , and a truly festive nigut was spent by all , to the grvat oeneSt of the fnr . ds .

      ; Mi . viATtRE Revolution in St . James's Park . — ; On Sunday last , a 5 > ont nacn , &s ab ^ ut thirty > f the i mounted guard were on their way from Buckicgbam Palace to the Horse Guarda , some young mm , who were engaged pelting each other wiih snowballs , let fij , either by acci-Jent or design , a fsw of them at the soldiers . The la : ter , instead of moving forward , when , 1 in all proiiabiiity , they Wuu ' . d have escaped further annoyancf , turned exceedingly wrathful upon the i youths , and one or two drew their swords ; a shower . of snow-bails iramciiatsly followed ; tbe young men stood to thtir ni-irk , the soldiers evidently receiving 6 'tms clumsy thumps ; and for fu ' . ' y a quarter of

      ' an hour , an incrssait shower of bills rattled i against tbe soldiers' trappings . At length , the ' ' foovguaxds sent an escort , and two or three policemen j arriving at the * arne time , the " mimic war" "was conclaJed , by the assailants cutting , aad seeking protection : on the ice . Several , however , were apprehended , aud on Monday some of them were convicted at Bow- » trvet , i of tbe offeree ; and varioiw measures of puoishaient ; were awarded , either according to the magnitude of the offence , or to the * hare taksn in it by the delinquents ; one young man , very respectably connected , was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment and hird labour , ' while others were merely fined 3 is . £ 1 , or 5 s .

      A stout has lat-ely gone the " round" of the press about " a changeiing ; " in which a black child is ingeniously substituted for a white one . It may be satisfactory to know , now that everybody has been as much interested , as thongh the occurrence had been real , that the paragraph is merely a very clever liash-up of a tale some twtnty-four years old ; and is no doubt the production of a " liner , " who , driven to his wit's end durirg the recent dearth of true news , dished up tLat story for a dinr . er , ¦ which h \ s interested to many wondering thousands . The original cirennutance from which ths details are taken , occurred at the Liverpool Lying-in Hospital , near a quarter of a century since , and was enacted by a " lady" who called in her carriage to select a wetnurse , ace Jinpanied by a black footman : the inference is not verv creditable to our aristocracy .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1092/page/4/