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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1843.
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    • PORTRAIT OF W. P. ROBERTS, ESQ.
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      Mr . O'Ooii SOR haa received communications from many districts in all of -which a very great desire is expre&sed to have a toktraii of Mr . Roberta , the people ' s Attorney-General . We cannot wonder that a strong wish ahonld be entertained to possess a Likenewof bo truly amiable , talented , and true a mas ; and although we know that Mr . O'Connor had determined to give no more Portraits , yet we have the pleasure to announce that all Subscriber ! for Three Months , from Saturday , the 16 th of Sept ., will receive A PORTRAIT OF W . P . ROBERTS , THE PEOPLES ATTORNEYGENERAL . We request the several Agents to open lists for the enrolling of names , u none but Snbseribera from tbe above dates win receive a plate . The price ef Paper and Plate when presented will be Sixpence ; aud nose will be sold -without tbe paper .

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      SHEFFISfcP . —Thb Tttb Founders * Strike . — For some few weeks past , the Type Founders of Sheffield nave oeen on strike , in opposition to a reduction of their wages vf from 25 to 75 per . cent . It is stated that the master Founders of Sheffield * ad London are under a bond not to succumb to the just demands of the men . The latter , however , are determined ; and , having justice on their side , we - wtshtitom that saeeess which labonr always merits ho \ too often fafis in obtaining , in its straggles with

      law-aided capital . The question of the strike has been trough * before ihe Associated Trades of Sheffield , and that body has adopted » series of resolutions , which we subjoin , appealing to the public for pecuniary ^ ssiBtanee in support of ihe-TypeJFounders . we trust the appeal will be heartily responded to : At a meeting of the delegates of the Tarious Trades in Sheffield , held at Mr . Mosley ' s , the London Apprentice * on Wednesday evening , September 13 ; h , 1843 , the following resolutions were . unanimously

      1 . That ibis Committee , viewing with the utmost concern the situation of our brethren , the operative Type Founders , and deeply sympathizing with them in their arduous struggle against the unjust and op presar * redaction of from 25 to 75 per cent ., feel is their duty strongly to recommend their case to the immediate consideration and assistance of their fellow-workmen of the T&rions trades of Sheffield . 2 . TJiai the Committee , considering the most -efficient means of assisting our brethren , to be by loans and weekly subscriptions , respectfully solicit the officers , and other influential individuals of the Tarious Trades , to co-operate with them in their efforts , to carry oar brethren to the end of this straggle .

      3 . That the persons composing this . Committee pledge themselves to unceasing exertion to assist the Operative Type Founders , until the dispute existing between them , and their employers is brought to a triumphant conclusion . N . B . —Any pecuniary assistance will be most thankfully received by the Committee , who sit daily * t the Three Cranes , Queen-street , from twelve to two in the afternoon , and from seven to nine in the evening , to give all necessary information . Cabusls Citt akd District Joist Stock Bask . —On Saturday evening last , a rumour was circulated to the effect , that Mr . John Brown , manager of the * City and District Bank , " had absconded ¦ with a very considerable sum belonging io the Bank . The greatest consternation and alarm prevailed during the whole of Sunday ; and early on Monday morning the following notice was issued : —

      * Carlisle City ° * d I > isinct Bank . " u The Directors feel it to be their duty to inform the shareholders and the public , that their late manager , Mr . John Brown , lias absconded himself from the Bank under circumstances which have excited suspicion that he will not return . " The Directors have , in eonEequence , made a careful investigation of the books , cash , securities , and vouchers , and they have communicated with their London and other agents , and are happy to be

      able to state , that they have found everything correct , with the single exception that Mr . Brown's own cash account has been overdrawn to the aaoost Of £ 2 , 554 Ss . 3 d * , which sum , however , is considerably within the amount of bis securities in the possessession of the Directors . ** Thomas Mbunsey , Thomas Lonsdale , *• William Sowerby , Junes Heysham , B James Thompson , Robert Benson . * C 5 ijand Bistriot Bank , Sept .-J 8 th , 1843 . "

      The Directors and others interested in the safety f the Bank , being appprehensive that a run upon it would take place , held a meeting in the TownhalL , when it was deemed advisable to wait on the shopkeepers and others likely to have their notes , to solicit them to signapaperexpressing confidence in the stability of the Bank . Notwithstanding this , however , a considerable number of persons have drawn out their money .

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      EXTENSITE FIRES . The part week has bees peculiarly and sost unfortunately prolific in flies , both in the provinces and in the metropolis scarcely a day passing -without the occurrence of at least two or three , some , however , of such alight « xtoit a » not to deserve being publicly recorded . Saturday night , tha doting night of tie week , was marked ty itemost ¦ T « T > riT > 5 and Aesirnc ^ re fire o / all those that have during the -week spread consternation and dastzBettoa io the metropelia . On Saturday ni ^ ht last , about . 12 o ' cloek , this latter fire was discovered raging in the tar furnace forming part of the extensive premises belonging to Mr . Samuel Burchfield , rop » -inanufeeturer , in Pennys-flelds , Poplar . The moment the person-who discovered it became aware of the fire , be raised an alarm , and in the- course of » few minutes a strong party of the X . division of police ¦ were on Ate spot , and a number of constables

      immediately aet to work to endeavour to extinguish the fire ; bat in that they were unsuccessful , for , owing to the highly infamabla natnre of the stock in trade , the fire spread witk am ^ Eng guicksesa . Information was forwarded to tha different engine stataoas of the metropolis of the calamity . With the slightest delay possible the pariah engirje was on the spot , and also the School-bouselane ( brigade ) engine , sad , having-obl&ined a ready and abundant supplyof -water , they wen aet to work . It ¦ was soon evident , however , from the increasing vigour and fnry of the flames , that they would not yield to the power of two , nor of several engines . The fire still progressing , the brigade engines from Jefferys-squ * re Watling-itreet , Farxkgdon-street , and Welldost-square stations reached the scene , with Mr . Superintendent Brsidwood , the West of England engiaa from the station in the Waterloo-road next arrived , with Mr . Connorton , and the usual number of firemen . Under

      the direction of Mr . Bnddwood , the greater portion of the first-mmtd engine * were got into active " play , and Tart was the roJusae of water that was promptly poured upon and Into the burning premises . Their magnitude was great , and their contents of the moat ignitoble substances , via , tar , hemp , tow , flax , yam , & * It is impossible to state -with precision the exast quantity of loods piled away in the premises . Por some time after the engines / were at work , the firs seemed not to abate , it having , ' in the interim , extended to another boOdikg on the premises , termed the oakum-honse , from which the flames next reached one of the jam houses , and ultimately they fired another warehouse called the hemp-left ; all these buildings ¦ were enveloped in fire , and -with such amazing fierceness did the fire spread , u to menace with destruction , the whole of the extensive and commodious rope--walk and hemp stores .

      The flames were now at their height , ' caused by the ge&eral ignition of the remaining most inflammable substances , and it would be no exaggeration to say that a larger or > ighg * mass of flame and fire has been rarely sees . _ Some time elapsed before it was surely ascertained that the entire premises -woold not have fallen a prey to the devouring element Tostop the fnriber progress of the conflagration in one quarter , a number of firemen mounted the roofs of the premises , and cut away the communication , which expedient -was happily crowned -with success . The firemen finding all efforts to save that part of the premises on fire , they exerted themselves with great bravery , and saved the spacious hemp stores , rope-walks , and cable sheds .

      Upwards of two hours elapsed before it was evident that the most fearful and destructive of all elements was succumbing beneath the efforts of the firemen and the power of the antagonist element they were copiously easting upon it ; shortly afterwards the conflagration commenced to cede and palpably djniimnh , -when the firemen considered their victory assured . It is scarce ) y accessary to add , that by this time the tar-fnmace , one of the yarn "warehouses , a hemp-loft , and the oakumhouse , -were a misshapen mass of burning rnins . The total damage must amount to a large , sum . Mr . Bnrcbleld ' sloss , -we understand , -will be partly covered by an insurance in the Guardian fire-tfiica The origin of the fire could not be traced . A strong muster of police , under the direction of Mr . Superintendent Young , kept -file immense crowd back , In order to afford room for the iffectaal -working of the engines .

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      On Sunday night , shortly after seven o'clock , a fire of a very alarming nature was discovered on the spacious premises belonging to Messrs . KUlind , situated in ¦ WBntworSh-Btreet , "Whitechapel , and termed the City Saw-nuU * . The precise spot in -which the fire originated could not be ascertained , but -wien the flames "were first discovered , they-were raging amongst a large pile or timber , and also in the roof of the engine-house . As * oon aa the alarm had been spread , a strong muster of poltee-coustablas -were en theapot , -with Mr . Superintendent Pierce , and -were of great service in keeping the great « anco * r » of spectators ont of the reach of dangsr . Information of fee outbreak having , without a moment ' s las of tiae being despatched to the various fire-engine aUtoons in tha metropolis , in an almost incredibly short S ? 4 ?^ " J L « ^ ada engines were on the spoW with Mi . Saperiatendent Braidwood and stwug parties of firemen . She West of England and SI ^ fi ! ! ?^ C ^ ortou and SSer were £ & quick iurriTing

      « ry ^ . By Uxe ta . *? %£ ? £ & *>«<* into geod ^ operation , two W , rtactorftoSoJ ^ ° ^ d ^^ K * ^ V ^ ^ rtabS ^ t tte fin shoaia extend to Mr . Sjkes -jj fimber jard , which « ontain » d soae thousands loads of tiaberf lud whose premiaesWHe ooly separated from those on fire hy \ aaaow court . By dint of mueh exertion on the part of the firemen , they were taabled to prevent the farther extension of the £ » , and in about one hour after the outbreak it was pretty dear the axemen had the complete mastej 7 of it ; when all of a sudden , a cry-was taisea ttmt aaotber large fire haa"broken ont in the premises of Hz . W . D . Wood , toy .-warsfeousemaD . earyingon a large toade at li , ¦ Whitechapel . road , immediately facing the church . As many . of the brigade eagfaes as could be spared were instantly draughted to lie latter buildli 2 | , together with the County and West et Eoghsd eDfinas , and ol » the parkb one . On the arrival of the fipemen , a truly suWia * , jet swfnl « fgfct presestediitttf ; the satire buildbag being on fire from ifci teWHBenl to tiw roof ; ta « flnttt sv tte tint w «»

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      rushing out of the various windows , and roaring like several large furnace * . As soon as water could be procured , the engines were set Into operation , and poured a vast volume of water upon the burning building , and also on these adjoining , which happily prevented the fire spreading . By a qoarter-paet nine o ' clock , little better than one hour after the outbreak , the place was almost burnt to the ground , and the adjoining premises were both very txtenrively injured by fire and-water . The origin of both fires remains at present a mystery . On Monday morning week , a fatal fire occurred at the union workhouse , PsJmouth , It appears that about eleven o ' clock in the Borning , the Inmates were greatly alarmed at observing a body of smoke issuing from one

      of the upper windows of the building , -which was toon ascertained by the master to proceed from a room that was occupied by a woman of the same of Mary Perry . On going to the apartmrat they found it Impossible to enter on account of the heat and smoke . However , by dint of great exertion the fire was extinguished , when the body of the unfortunate woman was discovered almost burnt to a cinder . It is supposed that the ' fire originated by her clothes igniting , and that she fell on a bed in the appartment and set the place in flames . An inquest has been held on the body , and a verdict of "Accidental death'' returned . At East Feckh&m , on Tuesday last , at about twelve o ' clock in theforeneon ,

      three houses , the property of Viscount Torrington , tenanted by poor labouring families , were consumed by fire- His Lordship was present shortly after the commencement of the fire , and took as active part in aiding to extinguish it None of tke parties are insured . During the present week fires have also happened neat Nortairn -Burrowsvin 3 > evonshire : at Barton , near Tivertou ; at Shelsley , in Worcestershire ; at West Bare , near Canterbury ; and at Bantetby , in Lincolnshire , at each of which much loss of property took place , chiefly in the destruction of fann-hoases , barns , wheat stacks , and out-buildings . ; sod in more than one Instance , we regret to say , these conflagrations are supposed to be the work of an Incendiary .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, September 23, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 , 1843 .

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      THE MARCH OF MIND . From the moment that what is called " civilization" was introduced into the civilised portions of the world , the main object of all in authority has been , so to discipline mikd as to bring it within the prescribed limits ot authority . In former ages , kings and priests , rulers , governors , and taskmasters differed amoHgst themselves as to which was due the greatest amount of tribnte . Art in those days had not so far triumphed over nature , as to suggest and recommend a combination of the ruling powers for the perfect subjugation of the ruled ; and the very disputes , discussions , and dissensions , which arose between the " Lords anointed" who claimed priority

      of grace , and Kings , whose power to rule was based npon " right divine , " led the most vulgar minds to serious consideration npon the subjects of Government . As civilisation" progressed , however , kings and priests saw tbe necessity of unch a combination as would insure to both an ascendancy which without union they could not long maintain . In the "darker" ages , while kings and priests held their subjects in objection by the dissemioationtof precepts and doctrines the most revolting and frightful , they were compelled nevertheless to furnish for their own order . knowledge of avery different description ; knowledge , which while confined to their body , taught them the most systematic plan of governing those who had been trained np in reverence of kingly and priestly

      sway . Mind , however , is a prying , searchiBg , seeing , and discriminating thing . It taw the difference between the precepts written for the rulers and those written for the ruled ; the difference between the maxims by which they were severally governed in their dutieB respectively , the one to the other ; and as the two books were compared , the improving Ki 5 D of man began to investigate and to think for itself . For a series of years the knowledge disseminated by priests was confined 6 olely to the advance of king-craft and priestcraft ; but , as the

      misd improved , the very knowledge , or rather the cunning , by which priestly dominion was established became a weapon in the hands of the many , and has been from time to time used as a means of destroying the very power which it was designed to uphold . In all ages the Church has been the precursor of reform ; not that the Charch has disseminated knowledge wiih . the intention of destroying its own power , or of admitting the laity to a participation therein : bnt the very knowledge by which it hoped to maintain ascendancy has been used fox the detraction of that power which its exclusive

      possession was designed to uphold ; and thus that which was intended as a weapon to destroy liberty has been snatched from the assassin ' s hand and plunged into the assassin ' s breast . In no country has this march of " civilization" been more rapid ; in no laud has its tffeots been more deadly , than in this empire , where the combination , the conspiracy between Church and State is most perfect . The hisd , even in defiance of the united p ower of kingcraft and priestcrft , dares sot only to canvas the royal and aristocratic bastard ' s title to " Grace" ; to inquire into the fitness of ministerial

      panders , debauchees , and gamblers to ex ' . end the blessings and circulate the divine truths of religion ; but it even dares to inquire as to the title by which menarchs reign over their people ! The searching 10 s can no longer be led to make striking distinctions , recognized by the law , between the Rich Oppressor and the Poor Oppressed . It reflects npon tho esteem in which the Almighty holds poverty , and his contempt for riches : and thus recognizes a striking difference between those attributes held in veneration by the Creator , and in contempt by those who would base their title to rule upon " right divine . "

      We do not mean this commentary as reflection upon ike State Church merely , although it would best apply to its present position . It has reference as well to those Dissenting bodies who merely denounce the ascendancy of the State Church from pique and jealousy , rather th&a from a feeling of religious independence . Let the lowest order of Dissenters be placed to-morrow in a situation to contend for ascendancy with the State Church ; and with the sword in one hand and tithe in the other , they would either oroclaim their BHperiority , or die as martyrs

      in the religions struggle . Hitherto the naion between Church and State , supported by the thunder from the pulpit and the roar from the o&nnon , has tended to the strength of both ; but now one must give way : either the poor State must make up its deficiency from tbe parings of the rich Church , or the Church mast proclaim a religious war against the Stale—a war which would annihilate all standing obligations—a war ffihicb would destroy all existing interests—a war whose triumph would be the establishment of Church faith over national faith .

      In every political move , whether foreign or domestie , tbe interest of the Church is the primary consideration with tbe Ministers of S > ate . Majesty , when ' entering npon tha duties of office , is bound to uphold the religion of the State as by law . established —is the headof the Church—the Executive of the Church ; and the Church must be the Monarch ' s first consideration , else will the Monarch cease to reign in the hearts of Churehmen . Now , it is into these deep receBses-thtse mysterious cavwns—Ibese

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      dark abodes in whioh Kings and priests hold counsel , that the improved mind of the present day dares to look ; and having seen what is to be discovered there , it asks whether the edicts emanating therefrom tend " to the glory of God , and to the good of his people" I We do not onnelves dare to answer the question ; but in those countries where the effects have been most deeply felt , a combination of minds appears to have taken it into serious consideration . Ireland has come to the conclusion that a State religion , enforced at the point of the bayonet , and demanding human blood as a sacrifice in honour of the

      State Church , is foreign to the Church established on the mild principles of Christianity ; while her priests have not lost sight of the fact "that the title of an English Monarch to govern Ireland is based upon the condition that the Catholic religion Bhall be extended in that country . " Indeed , as Ireland is preparing herself in & most laudable manner to assert a portion of her rights , it may not be amiss to state here the conditions upon which that country was granted as an appendage to the English Crown . It bears date as early as . 1156 , in the reign of Hbkry II . and runs thus : —

      M Adrian , bishop , servant of the servants of God , to his dearest son in ChriBt , the iD . astrious King of England , greeting , our apostolio benediction . Full , laudably and profitably hath yorj- magnificence conceived the design of propagating yonr glorious renown : on earth , and competing your reward of eternal happiness in heaven ; while as a Catholic prince , yon are intent on enlarging the borders of the Church , teaching the truth of the Christian faith to

      the ignorant and rude , exterminating the roots and vice from the field of the Lord ; and for the more convenient execution of this purpose requiring the counsel and favour of the apostolic see ; in which the maturer your deliberations , and the greater the discretion of your procedure by so much the happier , we trust , will be your progress , with the assistance of the Lord ; as all things are used to become to a prosperous end and issue which take their beginning from the ardour of faith and the love of religion .

      ** There is indeed no doubt but that Ireland , hnd all the Islands on which Christ , the Sun of Righteous ness , hath shone , and which have received the doctrines ef the Christian faith , do belong to the jurisdiction of St . Peter , and of the holy Roman Church , as your Excellency also doth acknowledge ; and therefore we are the more solicitous to propagate the righteous plantation of faith in this land , and the branch acceptable to God , as we have the secret conviction of conscience that this is more especially our bdunden duty .

      " You , then , most dear son in Christ , have signified to us your desire to enter into tbe Island of Ireland , in order to reduce the people to obedience unto laws , and to extirpate the plants of vice , and that you are willing to pay from each house a yearly pension of one penny to St . Peter , and that you will , preserve the rights ef the churches of this land , whole and inviolate . We , therefore , with that grace and acceptance suited to your pious and laudable design , and favourably assenting to your petition , do hold it good and acceptable , that , for extending the borders of the church , restraining the

      progress of-vice , for the correction of manners , the planting of virtue , and the increase of religion , you enter this Island , and execute therein whatever shall pertain to the honour of God , and the welfare of the land ; and that the people of this land , receive you honourably , and reverence you as their lord , the rights of their churches itill remaining sacred and inviolate , and saving to Peter the annual pension of one penny from every house . " If , then , yon be resolved to carry the design you have conceived into effectual execution , study to form this nation to virtuous manners , and labour by yourself and others , tehom you shall judge meet for

      this work , in faith , word , and life , that the cAurcA may be there adorned , that the religion of the Christian faith may be planted and grow up , and that all things pertaining to the honour of God , and the stlvation of souls , be so ordered , that you may be entitled to the fulness of eternal reward from God , and obtain a glorious renown on earth throughout all ages . " How such is one of the titles of the monarchs of England to Ireland , and whether or no subsequent invasions of that country have nullified tbe conditions upon whioh the 'above title was granted , is for the Irish ki . vd to discover . Whether the successor

      of thesecond Hekkt , Hahbt the V 11 lib , had , in 1542 derived any better title after the Reformation , upon condition that he would hold 6 overeignity based upon the promise to destroy the Pope ' s supremacy we cannot say ; but we give the following clause from Da vies , an English lawyer and hired historian . He

      says : — M In the indenture of submission all the Irish lords do acknowledge King Honry the Eighth to be their Sovereign Lord and King , and desire f > be accepted of him as subjects ; they confess the Sing ' s supremacy in mil causes , and do utterly renounce the Pope ' s jurisdiction . " That the Irish people were not parties to either of the above bargains of sale , is matter susceptible of easy proof . From 1156 the continuous wars upon the English settlers , prove that the Irish people were

      not satisfied with the transfer by Adrian the IV ; while the fact of the whole nation , or nearly so , still adhering to the Catholic creed proves that that they were no parties to the indenture of submission , or to Hjlrht the Eighth's title to the Kingdom of Ireland . Indeed the frequent demands upon the English cabinet , during every successive reign , even down to the present civilized" hour , establishes tbe fact that the Irish people have never yet been parties to the abandonment of their religion , or to the sale of their coustry . And to a consideration of these questions the sober mind of Ireland will now be so directed

      under the judicious management of her leaders , aa to prove the utter hopelessness of a M physical " triumph , over her mental powers and moral force . To that country and Spain the world now looks for a practical illustration of tha march of mind ; while we have every reason to hope that that of Britain will not lag in the race .

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      From the heading of this article aor M mSky 6 up . pose that we are about to advocate 80 me Utopian scheme , eome "foreign policy r aOve > » of uniting Frenchmen , Spaniards , Italian ? ^ &Oij with the pe 0 . pie of this country in some pr Opajjanda of European liberalism . Nothing of V eort . Though yielding to none in our aspiration ' ,, f 0 P the freedom and happiness of all mankind , are content for the present to take for a mottr , - England for tbe English , "

      "Ireland for the . Irish , " and " France for the French / ' Whi ' . a wishing success to all nations in their struggles , with the ?» powers of darkness" for the establi shment of democratic institutions , the experienc e of the past has warned us that any interference , on our part with them , or on their part with ¦ as , w © uid be worse than useless ; and tend rather to the . rivettihg than the loosening of the fetters of humanity .

      we look at home ; and to our own countrymen we appeal to band together for mutual protection , and the working out of their political redemption . Would that we could summon to this " holy alliance" the long-oppressed yet , ever gallant , people of Ireland ! But , alas ! selfish falsehood has there done its work , and estranged from the oppressed of this the oppressed of tha t land ! Within the last few days has appeared an Address from the National Repeal Association , in reply to the Queen ' s Speech "; it embraces and is filled with the self-same topics which have repeatedly appeared in our columns , in similar documents . But there is one paragraph to whioh we request the atteation of our readers . The address says : —

      " We expect nothing from England or Englishmenfrom Scotland or Scotchmen . In each of those countries the benevolent few are overpowered by the international antipathy to Ireland and the virulent bigotry against the Catholic religion of the overwhelming majority of both England and Scotland . " Against this we enter our solemn protest . It is falsehood and calumny , every word ! Throughout the Repeal agitation , Mr . O'Connell has unceasingly laboured to promote disunion and hatred betwejn the two nations ; and in the furtherance of this object , has , upon almost every occasion on on which he has opened his mouth , showered down

      his vituperation upon the English and Scottish Chartists . We have refrained from noticing his hacknied abuse ; anxious , as we have been from the first moment we thought him in earnest , to offer him no obstacle , nor affrrd him the shadow of excuse for his charges against the people of this country . But now that , advancing beyond lip-abuse , we have in print this deliberate denunciation of the people of England and Scotland , with the emphatic finish of" Such are the words wo address to our fallowsubjects ail over the globe , " we think it a duty demanded of us , by the position we fill , to denounce , in the strongest language , this wholesale libelling of our fellow-countrymen .

      We pass by the atrocious falsehood respecting the Tara meeting , content to leave Mr . O'Connell in the hands , of the M Whistler . " Nor will we waste space in traversing the ground so often trod before , in refutation of these calumnies . We are content to leave the matter with the working classes of England and Scotland , who can rightly understand and duly appreciate them . Did O'Conneia really desire to establish the freedom of his own countrymen , and promote that of his "fellow-subjects all over the globe , " he would peu very different sentiments to tbe above .

      It will be no fault of O'Connell ' s , if , when the ** league of kings" is perfected , the people of these Islands Bhall be powerless , because disunited . He is doing his best to effect that object , and on his head be the responsibility . With more pleasurable feelings and brighter hopes , we turn to the working classes of England , Wales , and Scotland ; believing , as we do , that no difference of creed can prevent their union for the attainment of that whioh would be a common good to all .

      We have asked ia it not time that the people united with each other for their mutual protection ? But what protection ? That whioh results from , and can only be obtained by , the making of the legislative power the reflex of the popular will ; or in other words by making the Charter , law . In the present aspect of European policy , it is indeed a matter of proud satisfaction to us , that the conductors of this paper have uniformly and successfuly laboured to keep the movement party of this country Btedfast to its political faith as defined in the

      Charter . The state of Spain at the present moment affords a painful illustration of the miserable state Of a people emerging from the political darkness of ancient creeds and codes , yet wanting a beaconlight to guide them ta the path of veritable liberty . For years now has that fair laud been rendered desolate by the ravages of war , and its children employed as the assassins of one another . And for what 1 To gratify the lust of power of a worthless Prince or Queen Regent ; to forward the ambitious designs of military scoundrels , or the grasping

      selfishness of money-gorged capitalists , and would be aristocratic profitmengers ! And in all their wars , battles and bombardments ; in all their contests for Carlos and Isabella ; Chbistina or EsrARTEHO ; for Ministers or Juntas ; the poor working , fighting , ever-suffering people have been used &s mere " explosive masses " , first to subserve the interests of one faction , then of another ; and at the termination of eaoh contest have found themselves every way more powerless than at the commencement . How is it that so much of blood has Sowed for liberty in Spain

      —yet flowed in vain ! Because the people have had no definpd object in their struggles ! They have cried " Viva Isabella , " or " Vtva the Constitution "; the former a miserable child , only now thirteen years old , who is forsooth io be declared of age and married forthwith , to this or that royal scion , as the interests or caprices of kings and ministers may dictate ; and the latter , a " constitution" which gavo to them no rights ^ conferred on them no privileges I At this very time the people of Catalonia are

      Buffering death by wholesale assassination at the hands of the very miscreants whom they have raised to power ! How different would have been the tale to have been told , if " measures , not men" had been the object of their former struggles ! If the democratic principles of the English working-man ' s Charter rather than the exclusive privileges of their so-called " constitution ; if their own Sovereignity , ta . ther than that of Mrs . Munoz , or Don Carlos ; of Espartbro or Narvaez , bad been the end and aim of their countless and heroio sacrifiof s !!

      It was a day pregnant with happiness to generations yet- unborn , when the working classes of this country pledged themselves to support no other agitation but that for the Charter !—a resolution hitherto firmly maintained , and which all the artifices and persecutions of the enemies of democracy have failed in shaking or annulling . Yes ! despite of persecution oft renewed , and corruption tried in every variety of form , we have maintained our ground ; nay , we have yearly , weekly , daily , increased our strength , and added to the number of adherents to our principles .

      What is now wanted is , the gathering up of our forces ; the binding together in a legal , and therefore safe ; an efficient , aud therefore workable , Organization of the millions , imbued with our principles , and thirsting for their recognition ; the faithful people , whom neither poverty , persecution , nor corruption have been able to sever from our ranks , or detach from our standard . Thb means fob this exi . iT , and are at our command . They are contained in the New Plan ef Organization , adopted bv the Conference .

      We trust that wherever the banner of the Charter is unfurled , —and where is it not?—that there tbe gallant spirits , who "through good and evil report" have stood by the popular cause , will bo up And stirring , preparing to take the necessary steps for the Organization of the democratic troops , and tbe veritable realization of the " Holy Alliance of tho People . "

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      WHO IS THE TIMES'S CORRESPONDENT IN WALES 1 This is a question often asked , though we h « e yet seen no one attempt to answer it . We win try . It is right that the Chartists of Wales should know who it is that they have amongst them , wi tfo a power end a disposition ( a 3 evidenced by hia several sly thrusts ) to do them damage : and it is also right that tho farmers of Wales should know something of the m * n they admit to their secret conference ? , to aofc as a spr over their move , ments .

      Who is he , then ! What is his name t Where is he best known ! Has he a character where h » is well known , that will stand the test , of examj . nation ? A " political" character we mean ; for in these days of lax morality a man is allowed to be a political rogue without its being any detriment to his private standing . How does the correspondent of the Times in Wales , stand in these respects ! for upon a satisfactory solution of some of these queries will depend his title to the confidence of the Welsh people , speaking in a ** political" sense : for it ia as a politician , and as the servant of "political traffickers" that we wish to speak of him .

      His name , then , ia Gomeb Powell . He was once a flaming Radical ; and figured moat conspicuously in the British Political Union . He is now a renegade from his former principles . Hia character ( " political ") is well known at Bristol . The Welch Chartists and the Welch Farmers may hear much of him , if they send to Bristol , and inquire . We refer them to bis old associates in the Political Union , which used to meet in St . Augustine ' s Place . From them they will hear much ; but not much to the credit C * politically speaking" ) of Gomer Powell . They will hear something about a ( " political ") printing press , and some printing type .

      They will hear that these bad been bought by the hard-earned pence of the working people ; and that they were induced to place the control of them , for " political" reasons , in the hands of Goher Poweli .. They will hear , also , that Gomer used them in bringing out a paper directly opposed to his own professed principles , and the principles of the men who had bought the printing materials . They will learn of the trouble that the working mea had to get the "things" back again ; and they will hear of the stale in which those " things" were , whea possession of them was at last obtained . Above all , they will hear what Gomer Powell did with th type—i politically , " of course !) .

      And this renegade is now employed on the Tory Times . ' ! And such is the man sent into the Welch mountains to worm out the secrets of th » Welch Farmers !

      THE " COAL KINGS" AND THE LAW . Last week we called publio attention , and the attention of Sir James Graham , the Home Secretary of State , to the fact that in the Coal Works belonging to the Duke of Hamilton , —the law lately passed for the protection © f Colliers , and for the prohibition of the employment of female labour ia Mining operations , is daily and openly violated—set at defiance i This week we have to report more of such violations ; and to again call on the Homo Secretary to take steps to teach the high and " privileged" ones that they are not yet " above the law . " At the Duke of Hamilton ' s colliery works ai

      Redding , upwards of sixtt females are constantly employed ! At the colliery works belonging to tho Carron Iron Company , at Canon Hall , upwards of one hundred pemales are constantly employed !! Here is a pretty state of things ! Dukes and " Iron Companies" are to be allowed to trample on all law and authority ! And will Sir James Graham permit it ? Will he not move 1 Will he allow the Duke of Hamilton and the C&rron Iroa Company to set tbe Legislature and the Executive at defiance ? Will he not assert the " majesty of the law" ? If he do not , let him beware how he again tries to wreak its " vengeance" upon the devoted Chartists !

      Let him not shroud himself up in the garb of < n < difference , alleging that " it is none of his business "; that the " proper course" is for the aggrieved to apply to the magistrates of their districts , who are empowered , and required , to execute the law . This plea will not avail . MAGISTRATES HAVE REFUSED TO INTERFERE ! Informations have been laid before them , and before the Fiscal of Falkirh ; and vet thet w ill take ko steps to vindicate the law . " Is it not time that Sir James Ghaham was nudging , them t Is it not time he interfered ? Is it uot time that both the Duke of Hahilton , the members of the Carron Iron Company , and the magistrates , were all called to account ?

      Our information is derived from a source on which we can depend . It is from a person for whose veracity we can vouch . We give here his communication ; and crave attention to it . The fact , about the killing cp the woman at the Duke of Hamilton ' s pit at Redding , is all-important ! To it we specially beg to refer Sir James Graham : — Carron Hall . —Messrs . Daniells and Hammond visited this place on Tuesday last ; but such is the tyranny of the Coal Kings , that the Colliers were frightened to hold a meeting ! These collieries belong to the great Carron Iron Company , and the

      men are in the lowest state of vassalage . They are all under a most infamous bond , which ifl renewed every year ; and the Company hearing that Messrs . Hammond and Daniells were addressing the different works in Stirlingshire , were in such a hurry to get their slaves bound , that they offered to many £ 5 as compensation for their liberty ; this money however they are to pay back with five shillings interest ! Tne Carron Iron Company , like the Duke of Hamilton , are settiDg the law at defiance . They are employing women ia their coal pits . It is competed that they have not less than

      100 women or females working in their pits . The Duke of Hamilton has upwards of sixty in hid pits at Redding ; but it will be seen that the Carron Company beat the Duke , they having ( at least ) one hundred females working in their pits !! How long is this to continue 1 how long are the Duke of Hamilton , the Carron Iron Company , and a many others in the Holy town , Atrdrie , and Coatbridge districts to set the law at defiance ! Will Sir James Graham take the matter up ? because the magistrates will not ! Informations have been , laid against the above parties before the magistrates , and the

      Fiscal of Falkirk ; and yet they will take no steps to vindicate the law I It may be said that surely the Duke does not know of these practices being carried oaathis works at Redding ; or he would instantly put a stop to them . In answer to this I beg to state that the Duke has been lately married to an Italian lady , and that he wu personally round the works at Redding about a fortnight since , and left money for the bauds to drink ( he health of himself and lady ! Not know of it !—he is perfectly well acquainted with it ; indeed the thing is quite notorious . Why

      it is only a few weeks ago since a woman was killed in one of his pits at Redding ! and though tho newspaper press in the neighbourhood were informed of the circumstance , yet not a line did thej insert in their papers concerning it . This ; womM was newly married , and was ¦ some months gene with child ! She had been working »" night with her husband , and at breakfast ' time in the morning was coming up the pit with him in a hutch together , when the empty hutch owt

      them , the engine going at an extra quick pace . Tfia empty hutch , or tub , struck the woman on the hea 4 j knocked her oat , and she was precipitated to tw bottom , twenty-two fathoms , and of coarse dashed to pieces ! The husband was saved unhurt ; &u name is William Hure . The woman was twenty years of age . This accident took place on the 19 * day of last July , and would have remained still secret had not your correspondent dragged it to light . U necessary , I can obtain scores of men to attest tM truth of the foregoing .

      Will notf some notice be taken of this I Will not some enquiry be instituted ! Will not the la * be vindicated ? Will not Sir James Graham k * to it ? His Grace , the Duke of Hamuton and Bbakdo ^ is Lord Leiutenant of the county ; is head of the Ma ' gislracy- ^ -is representative of the Queek in Btf County . Pretty fellow , this , to be head of & Magistracy , to enforce the laws , when h « lives »* daily violation of them , and pockets the wealth produced by snch violation ! Pretty fellow this , for Lord LeruteBant ! He ought , most certainly ; HK , of all men , ought to be the Queen ' s representai »«>

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      \ IRELAND . REFUSAL TO PAT RENTS , RATES , TITHES , j AND TAXES . We beg to direot the attention of the reader to a report of the proceedings at the Corn-Exchango , upon the proposition of Mr . Connor to issue a manifesto against the payment of rents , rates , tithes , aud taxes . 'While there is some freshness in a new man venturing to propose any thing new upon his own responsibility in the Irish Repeal assembly , there is also something cheering in the manner in which the old hands canvas the legality of their proceedings . This spree of novelty introduced by Mr .

      Connor will no doubt have a very pernicious effect upon the Repeal movement ; and was very judiciously crushed in the outset by those who would have to bear the peaalty of his folly . The resistance to the ] payment of rents has already gone to considerable lengths , as is evidenced by the accounts in another part of this sheet ; and it would have progressed perhaps as rapidly without the interference of Mr . Connor ; while the press reporters and newspaper writers will not fail , in a short time , to attribute the resistance to a motion made , in the Corn-Exchange , " the ultimate disposal OF WHICH THEY DO NOT , AT PRESENT , , BKAB IN MIND . " !

      To these facts we dfreoted the attention of Mr . O'Connell some months back . We cautioned him that however temperate , judicious , and legal his acts may be , yet would it be impossible for him to separate himself from the commission of those acts performed by others in furtherance of the general object . If Mr . O'Connell , as a lawyer ,

      has discovered that the tenants of English companies , being Orangemen and Presbyterians , have a better claim to the lands held by them , than those who received them as grants from the hands of an English Government , it will require no little legal ingenuity to convince the Catholic tenantry of Inland , that their title to the fee of their farms rests upon any inferior pretension .

      "Like case , like rule" is a maxim that lawyers aro fond of quoting ; and we can well recollect that when Mr . Lovett proposed a resolution in the Convention of 1139 , precisely similar to that proposed by Mr . Connor to the Repeal Association in 1843 ; and after Mr . O'Connor had opposed the resolution , and after it was rejected by a majority of the Convention , —certainly not in the same unceremonious manner in which the resolution of Mr . Connor was smothered in the Repeal Association , — yet in convenient time Mr . O'Connell had a recollection that " such a resolution ; " " such an illegal

      resolution " ; such a monstrous resolution ; " such an attempt at the robbery of individuals , " u was proposed in ) Mr . O'Connor ' s Convention . " Nor surely has Mr . O'Connell forgotten that in the times i to which we refer , we pointed out to him the folly of strengthening the hands of the Attorney-General , by directing the attention of that functionary to what he called the illegal acts and transportable offences of the English Chartists . His troubles , are now crowding upon him t andi while embarked with millions , he will find that , with all his ingenuity , he cannot separate his individual acts from those of his more enthusiastic followers .

      Again we caution him against the supposition that the present Ministerial preparations will be wasted upon the mere suppression of the passing ebullition . No . They have been too expensive ! they have gone too far 2 When the " estimates" are brought before " the House , " proof of service and necessity will be required ; and it will not do to say that , like the King of France ' s men" They marched up tbe hill , And then marched down again . "

      Sir Robert will not suffer himself to be twitted in the Commons , or the Duke ia the Lords , with the charge that they have but extinguished the matoh , without scattering the pile . The present Ministerial operations aro intended to furnish an example for the future ; and not as a mere prevention of the present ! danger . The Irish people will recognise ia Repeal , as they ought' to do a separation of the Church from the State ; a lowering of rents ; the extinction of tithes ; a ** fixity of tenure" ; and " a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work " : and neither Mr . O'Connell , nor

      yet all that iiifl uence by which he has hitherto been sustained , will satisfy the people with anything short of such ( changes . Nor ought he to expect it ; inasmuch as they are the benefits whioh he has been in the habit of holding out as those sure to now from a Repeal of the Union . The Irish may cheer ; and England may call their cheers senseless , from an impression that the Irish people do not understand all that Mr . O'Connell says : but if they did not understand a single word mere of his orations than that " Ireland should be for the Irish " , to that they will attach the practical meaning ; and for ih fulfilment will they contend .

      Mr . Connor was not far wrong when he expatiated upon the return that tbe people were now beginning to expect for the bestowal of their hardearned peace ; and the more freely they give them the stronger will they consider their claim for something in return . The mere sitting of a Parliament in College Green would not realiza that claim . Under the present system of election , the House would consist of landlords , church-lords , and moneylords : and if ( the first expectation from such an assembly was not realized , the wrath and vengeance of

      the Irish people would be great . We would , therefore recommend to Mr . O'Connfll the strictest self-oxamiaation . We would implore of him to view the question as a whole , and to see , how it can be most safely and securely advanced without danger to himself , or to the cause of which he is the acknowledged : leader . He must bear in mind that even in the event of the Union being Repealed , he would be answerable for tho better Government of

      the country under the new system . He must recollect that in 1836 he caricatured the English Peers as " bloated buffoons , " and " old women in pantaloons ; " and that he assured the English people that a thorough Reform required the destruction of hereditary legislation . He must be cautious , therefore , how he ! leaves it in the power of the Irish people to compare his support of hereditary legislators for Ireland in 1843 with his denunciation of the same order in 1836 .

      Tho feelers and invitations held out by the Whig press , \ to induce Mr O'Connell to make the Repeal agitation subservient to what they call " practical" and " real" Reforms , is indieativo of a strong impression upon their minds that Mr . O'Connell , if inclined , could now work the Repeal agitation to Whig purposes . Those who build fcheir hopes upon suoh an assumption are but indifferent observers of passing events . They mast know that none , save a Tory Minister , would have strength 1 enough to stood with the House of Commons , constituted as ifc iis ; while they must also have discovered that the ardour of this Repeal agitation has

      wholly diverted the public mind from the Registration Courts ^ to which aforetime Mr . O'Conneh . attached paramount importance . Ha has now learned that iin almost every instanca the liberal con 8 titucncies ] have lost ground in Ireland ; and that the result of a general election would be a manifest weakening of his Parliamentary power . To us this is rather matter of joy than of sorrow ; inasmuch as we have long been of opinion that from Parliament no hope could be entertained ; and that of all contaminating influences , of all jobbing factions , of all reckless and unpriccipled seetions in " the House , " what is called the " Irish liberal" section outstrips , and out-tferods , and out-does them all . j

      While Irish agitation is thus progressing , and whilst symptoms of out-door dissatisfaction are thus dribbled out , las in the case of Mr Connor , it is consolatory to find the English Chartists Re-Organizing and re-embodyiug their forces for the advance ment of those principles upon which , and upon which alone , the Repeal of tbe Untoi ^ or any other change can bo ; safely or securely established .

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      THE HOLY ALLIANCE OF THE PEOPLE . Whils Monarchs and Potentates , trembling for the safety of their thrones , or bent on promoting schemes of further aggrandisement , are travelling post-haste from Paris to Normandy , and from London to the Chateau a" Eu ; aud again from the

      icy seat of Muscovite Autooracy to the hardly more genial atmosphere of Prussian despotism , —to which , by-the-bye , Victoria is invited by the royal Prussian drill-sergeant , there to meet himself and the great Northern Bear ; while these movements of crowned heads and " illustrious" personages , plainly betoken the renewed " alliance of kings" to oppose the further " encroachments of the democratic principle" ; is it not time , we ask , that the loug-trampledupon people were uniting with each other for the purpose of protecting themselves from a repetition of the crimes and oppressions which " legitimacy ' s has before-time committed and innioted upon them !

      We have no desire to figure as "alarmists "; but when we look at 'he Bteady progress of Republican p 7 incipleB in France ; the awfully distracted state of Spain ; the political troubles in Italy ; the arrests of the Communists in Austria , and other countries ; tbe under-current of revolution throughout Germany ; and tbe rebellious disposition of even Russian aristocrats , ever and anon bursting forth in exploded conspiracies and military emutes ; when we look at pur home position , particularly in Ireland and Wales , —where in the one

      country the nominal government is morally superseded , and in the other an insurrection against rents , rates , tithes , and tolls , is setting at defiance the " constituted authorities" of the land : whon we look to these things , we can understand the palpitating of hearts in the breasts of kings aud ministers , prompting " royal visits "; and which visits we' doubt not , are but the " precursors" to that "Congress of Monarchs" which we firmly believe Europe will shortly see assembled for the purpose of opposing an organised ( and we trust last ) resistance to the onward march of human

      progression . There is a popular motto , " when bad men combine , good men should unite . * Surely the time is come , when , in the expressive language of one of the chiefs of Chartism : " with the enemy before ub , we should measure our own length and depth , and know our own strength "; when each and all should give in their adherence to the naxiti : " fee who is for us is with uc , ' and he who is not with as is against as . "

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      a _ " THE N O R T HE R N S TA B . : ' . '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1231/page/4/