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    • PORTRAIT OF W. P. ROBERTS, ESQ.
    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1843.
    • MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION IN HONOUR OF T. & DUNCOMBE, ESQ.
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      Mr . O'Connob has received communications from many districts in all of which a very great deaire is expressed to have a POBTBaii of Mr . Roberts , the people ' s Attorney-General We cannot wOnder that a strong wish should be entertained to possess a lateness of so truly amiable , talented , and true a man ; and although we know that Hr . O'Connor had determined to give no more Portraits , yet we have tbe pleasure to announce that all Subscribers for Three Months , will receive A P 0 B . TRAIT OF W . P . ROBERTS , THE PEOPLE'S ATTORNEr-. GENERAL . We request the aevtral Agents to open lists for the enrolling of names , as none but Subscribe ** will receive a plate . The price ef Paper and Plate when presented will be Sixpence ; and none will be sold w ithoikt tie paper .

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      m TO MB . JOHN HDD PBATT . man , tfxaimiiS . NvHi negaoiaaa , avi dtfreremus rectum wljtatitiam ? r Stb ., —lest fte exact duties of yonr office shetdd not tare been set forth In the" commission under which yon held it , r have thought it proper to set forth the conditions upon -which , and npon which only , a people « we any allegiance to the reigning monarch ; and Sir , asik is a maxim that " the King can do no wrong , " it isaotte that high officer , bat to those subordinates ¦ who are placed in authority nnder him , that the people are to look for the fulfilment of the aboTe conditions Ton indeed hare refused to " sell , " by *' denying" to xu the power of erenpnrcnaang onr right ; while dressed in a little brief authority yon have endeavoured to recommend yourself to yonr master by iusnlting those -for "whose benefit we are told they govern and by whose labour they are snpported . Too have not only violated yonr dnty but yon hare done so intentionally . ; I haT 8 aletter now lying Tjefore me in , which 1 » the following passage :

      "Tork . Sir , —1 fear that yonr best endeavours to act legally will be fmrtrated , as Mr . Tidd Pratt , the certifying barrister , to whom yonr Plan of Organization xcmst be submitted , has declared in York , before it was published , that the Chartists expected him to certify their Universal Suffrage scheme , bat that he would do so such thing . " Ton could not fliaipossibly cave known whether or not the plan to which yon referred came within the provisions of the 10 of Geo . IT , and i and 5 WiH IT ., and by Vba former o ! which your duties are pointed out , and whioh duties yon have sot only flagrantly , but intentionally violated . Indeed yon have not only done so , bat yon have done so Impertinently .

      After haiing called twice at your office , at which by tbe way , your attendance does not appear to be Tery punctual , and not baTing found you upon either occasion , upon the imitation of your clerk J addressed a letter to you on Thursday last , merely requiring such information as you are bonnd to gire . To this letter which ynz delivered by yonr clerk , at your private residence , yon have not thought proper to reply , which yon were doubly called npon to do , in consequence of yonr inability from trifling indiipaaition to Attend at your office . . It ii but light . Sir , that the pnblk should know the trite and insolent manner in which you have treated Its application for powers to act under the strict provisions of the law . Ton have returned the printed rules With the following brief notice in the margin , without , as yon are bound by Act of Parliament to do , having pointed out one single tenable objection . The follow * ing is yonr notice ?—

      " Certificate refused- I am of opinion that the objects of this sadety r as stated in the roles are not within the provisions of the 10 Geo . 4 , c . 56 , as amended by * and 6 W . 4 c 4 , John Tidd Pratt , 25 thSept . 1843 . " Such , Sir , is the brief summary of your , supreme w 11 and pleasure , is strict compliance with your expressed -determination at York , and In direct violation of the law which yon are bound to administer . Every constitutional judge in the country has declared that there is noting illegal in the document entitled the People ' s Charter . The Attorney-General has added the weight of his opinion to fo *« judicial declarationthai is , the Judges of the land and the Attorney-General declare that 4 ha people have a perfect right to contend Ibr the enactment of the Six Points contained in the People ' s Charter , provided they do so legally .

      Having procured this judgment at a Tery great expense , several large towns in England and Wales elected delegates , to the number of thirty-one , to frame * nch rales and regulations for the furtherance of those principles , the legality « f which had been thus pronounced , so that none other than perfectly legal means should be resorted to for the accomplishment of their legal object . The delegates devoted five whole days to Ihe formation of such a plan as weuld give to the projected society , that protection which the law guarantees r&oirsrer , when the resnlt of their labours is submitted to yon , yon presumptuously set yourself above the law , and plaee yourself in direct opposition to the opinion of those judges who further declared that there was a legal way of contending for onr principles . I once wrote a leading article under the head

      "A nation-ontiswed by a faction . " That , air , was bad enough ; bat for a natisn to be first cntiawed , and then insulted , by a subordinate official , isBtiHworse . In my former letter 1 told yon that the Society would ckeerfully expunge any portions of the Plan that were inconsistent with the law ; and I asked you , as tbe act directs , to point out tiose parts which you refused to certify . But no , stiB hoping not only for indemnity but for approval of your-conduct , you throw ci npon our appeal to Quarter Sessions against your unexplained refusal . Bs it bo air : to Quarter Sessions we will go ; axuTtbence , if necessary , step by step until the delegates » h * fn in proper tame again assemble in London , and carry their appeal to the foot of the Throne , BCCKnpamed by all who shall feel themselves insuited by being thus denied the protection of the Jaw by one whose doty it is to see it administered .

      This is no idle boast , Sir . We have annihilated one faction who persecuted ns by appealing from the law to ths angry passions of a class , and we are not going tamely to submit to that tyranny which would appeal from the law to an insolent dictator . It is my opinion Sir , that yon never read the roles and objects that you refused to certify . You have certified jb ? Associations under nearly similar roles—ceiavx £ y excepting those which refer to Universal Svffragti "which however tbe Judges and the Attorney-General have certified for yon .

      In the name of commen sense Sir , did you hope that Ho . 5 , Bolton-street , Piccadilly , was the Palace of Justice , and that Mr , Tidd Pratt , certifying Barrister , was the monarch there enthroned ? Did you for a y »> w \ gnf c admit the potion that your refusal would paralyse the nation ' s energy , scatter all the' elements of y rt" ™ ., and destroy all the prospects entertained from ihe legal working of the-national mind ? If rocb Sir , was your notion , you have doubly erred ; firstly , in your poor opinion of tbe people ; and secondly , in your great ppinion of yourself . This is not the first or only occasion , Sir , whirs out of evil good has cone i and out of your en dearer to snsh our Association in its infancy will arise an amount of angry enquiry , as to the diffidence of , opinion that exist * between tbe Judges of tbe laud and Mr . Tidd Pratt , certifying Barrister .

      HI required any farther stimulus than that which bashitberto nrged me on is support of those principles , the contending for which the Judges say is perfectly legal , yonr intolerant and overbearing conduct has for-TiiKhprl that additional spur , Many" men Sir , have unwittingly created Chartists ; it was left for yon to outstrip all yonr predecessors in the good work . Sir , I sh&n not only prosecute an appeal against yonr decision , bat I will spare no expence in having an © pinion npon yonr conduct , mo that the country may bow whether yon are a servant to act upon your instructions , or a master before whose win all , even the law , must bend . 1 am , sir , your obedient servant , PBAB . GB 3 0 'C 0 S > 0 B , Treasurer to the Association . 14 , Conduit-itreet , Sept . 30 , 1343 .

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      TO THE CHARTISTS OF NOTTINGHAM AND SOUTH DERBY . Sboihbb Democrats , —On Sunday , September the 34 th , 1 proceeded from JJottmghana to Longhborcragh by the quarter to seven o'clock train a , m ., and arrived there by eight o ' clock . I immediately sought the residence of Mr . Sntton , ani found that gentleman at boms , who gave me a hearty reception' After breakfast we went to the house of Mr . Jthn Skevington , and found him at home also . The old veteran In the good cause received me very kindly . About ene o'clock p m ., Mr . Sntton and myself left Iionghborough for Forest lane , near Ashby Boad , where we found several of tbe friend * : but owing te the place not being generally knows , the meeting was not so numerous as it othervise would have bees : however there were a tolerable

      number present . In the evening I addressed a very large meeting in Sheepsbead Market-place . ' - I took for say text that portion of the Lord ' s prayer wherein it ¦ ays : " Give ns this day our daily bread . " Tbe audience of course were chiefly working people ^ nd seemed to Eeel the force of my statement in reference to the parsons each Sunday praying for dally bread for the people , while at the same time they were upholding a srstem Which was daily and hourly starving the producers of Wealth , and consequently preventing them from getting any bread at alL

      My good Meads « f the Hue bottle force were hi attendance during the whole of the proceedings , and condescended to give then : most serious attention to 5 * fzT ^ Trhkih ' """ e . ™ ™ 7 ttaaWo ^ he principal trade in Sheepshead is frame lira * knitting . There are between five and six thousand inlaHtanta inthe above village , who are , I am sorry rf ^ ' j ™ * FS ******* condition , in consequence my brother Charusts ttroughont the country that the people are a truly democratic race . '

      " while a Sheepshead , I had the happiness of meeting , conversing with , and sharing the hospitality of *» geod a Chartist , and I will add one of Se best practical agricnlturalistB , that I have ever met with . Betook me Orongh his -cottage garden ; and I never was so astonished as when I saw hisabbagrand onion beds , especially the latter . He told methat he fead as mnch a * eight strike of onions from 108 souare yard * of land . There are 4 , 8 " « qsare yards in an acre of land . Now , if he had had one acre , and sowed U with onion seed , it would have yielded 398 strikeand supposing the onions wen sold at Is . the strike '

      and that would be the very lowest rale ; for , bear in mind , onions this time last year were sold at Is . tbe gallon , which was at the rate of 8 a . the strike ; the whole amount would be £ 78 . Suppose again that he paid £ 6 as rent for the acre , and that is more than is generally paid in Leicestershire , especially for forest land ; and suppose also that it took thirty load of Baasxre , at 5 J . theload , £ 7 10 s ., and £ i tat seed ; these three items hi the aggregate wculd be £ 15 10 s ; bavag him fox Mm labour—net a , year ' s labour , mark you , nor half a year— £ 62 10 s . He hu had as smch a * te * isxs of oarroit off 1 , 400 fSoare jsrds , which he oM for £ 25 . It cort Mm . £ 3 10 $ tot manure ; for jent , £ 1 JOi ; seed , It ; altogetiier , £ 4 is ; leaving for 0 gtA TWjTJ kbo * * 20 1 ft *

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      On Monday night , I delivered a lecture in Loughborough Market-place on the land . The Secretary informed me that he had taken down tbe names of twenty-seven persons who intend becoming members tinder the New Plan of Organizition . On Tuesday , I delivered a lecture In Whitwick Market-place . The meeting was an excellent one . The working peaple are generally engaged in frameworkknitting and getting coal ; but unfortunately , like all other places I have been in , stee ped to the very

      lips in poverty . The poor colliers do not average above six shillings a week when they have foil employment , which is not eften the case ; some of the pits not working more than two or three days aweek . I would seriously recommend to the delegates or Executive Coonoil of the Colliers' Union to look to this quarter as soon as possible , and send a lecturer or two into the district , ( for it is a very large one ) , in order to establish societies . On Wednesday night ^ delivered a lecture in Kegworth Market-place , on the Land and the Charter . On Thursday night I delivered a lecture to the people of Hathorne , in the open air , on the Land and the new plan of Organization . Brothers , I remain , as usual , yonr servant and folio w-worker hi the vineyard of democracy , Christopher Dotlk .

      Portrait Of W. P. Roberts, Esq.

      PORTRAIT OF W . P . ROBERTS , ESQ .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, October 7, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7 , 1843 .

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      THE LEAGUE ! THE £ 58 , 000 IS DONE , AND THE COBMOBANTS WANT "MORE . * The Leagne have , at last , prodnced ibeir balancesheet . By it , it appears that the 450 , 000 is just about done . It is all swallowed np > Devil doubt it J There are hungry men enough about the League , to swallow np twice the amount ; and even " more" than that could they get it .

      The particulars of expenditure that the League have furnished are very gxxeral indeed . There are no items ? no Beitings-forth of how much Mr . Cobden has had for travelling expencea j or how mnch Johm BwGHThas netted ; or how much Mr . J . R . R . Moors has cost the confiding dupes who have found the cash . Nothing of this sort is done ; nor are there any particulars of the hibe given to the bullying Sitctet Smith ; the respectable and crimeless Jjmss Aclajcd ; and all the hosts of inferior fry , who do the dirty work . O no ! The League are not going to tot their dupes into those sorts of secrets . Their enly business is to find the money ; it iB the League ' s business to Fpend it ; and keep the manner of expenditure to themselves !

      Their Balance Bheet is truly unique . We venture to say its like was never before seen . It is indeed a curiosity ; being of all impudent attempts npon tbe forbearance of a choused people the mosj impudent . It is worth preserving . Here it is : —

      » THE LEAGUE FUND . " Total Amocst op Subsckipxioks Reckivbd , £ 50 , 290 14 s . B The heads of expenditure are as follow : — " Printing 9 , 026 , 000 Tracts , and Stamped Publications , and distributing the same— Lecturers ' Salaries , and Expenoes of hiring Rooms , Printing , Ac , for 651 lectures—Expences of Deputations to 156 Meetings in Counties and Boroughs—Expenoes

      of Agricultural Meetings , including Printing , Placarding , and Distributing Reports , tee . —Expenoes of Deputations to Boroughs on Parliamentary Registration—Expencea of Weekly Meetings of the League , and Metropolitan Meetings—Rent , Taxes , Gas , and Office Expences , in London and Manchester—Advertising , including 426 , 000 Tracts in Magazines—Wages , Stamps , Postages , and Incideatal Expenoes— Local Expenoes in Collecting the League Fund .

      " Total Expehditdre , £ 47 , 814 3 =. 9 d , "Balakcb of Cash in Hand , Sept . 9 , 1843 , £ 2 , 476 103 . 3 d . " Is not that matchless ! Was it ever equalled ? Wonld it be possible to equal it ? It beats by far , the far-famed account of the no leas-famed Gbeek PibI The moneys the £ 50 , 000 , is just" expended . " And what have the payers got for it ! A " packet of tracts P >

      Nothing else 1 John Bkight in Parliament ! Anyelse ! The discovery of the truth —( which the Chartists told them long ago)—that it was useless to hope for a a Repeal of the Corn Laws" from the present "Housef and therefore ii woald be folly to think of petitioning it any more ! And are these all the benefits that the £ 50 , 000 have purchased I Yes ; all the benefits to the payers I Not a jot more have they got . With those "who have had their picukgb out of the" Fund" it is quite another thing !

      Have not the payers made rather a dear purchase ! Hare they not paid rather dear for their whistle J That , however , is theib look out . If they are satisfied , we presume every one else should be . But the cormorants are not " satisfied P' The handling of "thousands , " in a general way , with fingers dogged with bird-lime , is too lncrative a job to be given up all at once , " If the spoonies

      will bleed , why should we not let them , " is the cry of all the money-takers . So accordingly they raise the cry for "MORE . " " Food being cheap , the great mass of ^ uZ& vrill have moke to expend on moonshine : " so let us wear them their penny . w MORE" therefore is yelped out by the solo-performer , on Covent Garden Stage : "MORE , " "MORE" is thandered forth in chorus by all the " company , " supernumeraries , and all 1

      One Will Shakspxbb , who used to write plays that have sometimes been represented on Covent Garden stage , says something , somewhere , about an " appetite that did geow on that it fed npon . " Will was right . There are such monstrosities in the world . The League appetite is a ease in point . It was very kxeh ; but £ 50 , 000 would satisfy it . It has had the £ 50 , 000 : but so fax from tbe appetite being appeased , or the keen edge even taken off , it haa GROWN TO ZWICS 1 X 3 FORJtKB SIZE ! It now demands

      £ 100 , 000 !!! If there are spoonies enow in the land , it will get it ! And what is to be done with the money f That is , what is there promised ! More tracts ! And tbe purchase of seats in the House . " There is no hope from " the House" as it is now constituted : therefore , no more petitioning ; but Registration , and the SEATING of Free Trade M , P . ' s . Come , thai is Eometaing >

      But what a revelation ! There is not likely to he a Dissolution for fivb years to come ! TheTorieB have a majority . They vnll keep it as long as they can . Of course , if they can , the tenure of Parliament must run out before they dissolve . Dissolution mq only be forced by a union of & © people . The

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      - ¦ i . ¦ ™— - — — . , rmt - , - i Leaguers will not unite ; for fear the people should reap advantage . There will therefore be no cfiance for the Leaguers purchasing Beats for five years I And then they will have their work I They will have to purchase one-half at the " house . " M When the ? ky falls , we shall catch the larks !" Had not the League better gulp all oxtb policy at once ; and not take leaf after leaf oat of our book , by piecemeal ? Let them do the thing fully , with a good grace : swallow the whole : and go at once to make "that House" what it ought to be . This would be sooner accomplished than the purchase of one-half of a bad lot of seats , rotten and corrupt as they are ! The League might thus save £ 99 , 000 out of their £ 100 , 000 ; and get all that they ought to have into the bargain ! 1

      THE ORGANIZATION . THR BARRISTER ' S REFUSAL TO CERTIFY . The matter of the certifying remains just where it was last week ; with the exception that a case has been laid before counsel , for opinion , which has not yet been returned . By the following address , it will be seen that every necessary step will be taken to enforce the Enrolment . We can have no doubt , bat that the effort will be successful . Tidd Pratt does not make the l&w : consequently , what he has certified , to be law to-day , cannot be against law to-morrow , the law remaining unchanged .

      An idea is started that Tidd Pratt is acting under instructions from Government . We do no t believe anything of the aort . If we are to believe that he has received instructions in this case , we must also believe that he received similar inatruotions in the ca 3 e of the Rechabites , which body , we find , he treated just as he has treated ours . He refused to certify ; and though they wished him to point ont tbe obnoxious portions of their rules

      and they would alter them so as to conform to law , still he would not do that which the Act that calls him into existence requires him to do . There can be no reason to suppose that Government gave instructions in that case : and vet his treatment of that body , was precisely similar to the treatment he has pursued towards us . Then , why assume that Government have interfered in onr oase ! Why sesk to multiply difficulties in our way ?

      The refusal of Tidd Pratt to oertify , arises not in our opinion , from Government interference , but from Mb own pig-headedness : and his desire to substitute bis own feelings , his own disinclinations , and hiB own caprice for laws . He has evidently mistaken his position . And we must bear in mind that , hitherto , he has done just as he liked in his office . Be has had norap-on-the-knuckles administered . The

      Recabites did not compel him to perform his duty towards them , as they ought to have done . They put np with his insolence : and his assurance has increased . Had they administered the rod , as they onght to have done , his oonduot towards us would have been quite different from what it has been . He wonld have hesitated ere he had ventured again on the course that brought him into contact with the law . As it is , we have to bring him to his

      senses . Nor will this be a very hard job . There are not so many difficulties in the way as some people seem to imagine . At all events we see none : and we are not inclined to fancy them , when they are not there . If we find them , we will try to remove them . But there is not much use in conjuring them np to the mind ' s eye ; and then , whon we have overcome little obstacles , exclaim , " how very clever we have been" J There is not much sense in that course . Let as take and meet the circumstances as they arise ; and not frighten ourselves with dreams !

      It is true that Tidd Pratt signified , in York , his intention to refuse his Certificate , before the Plan was laid before him . He there also specified the part to which he objected . That specification showed that his objection was purely a matter of feeling ; a personal distaste . That may be overcome , or obviated . At all events , of this we feel certain : that the Enrolment of our Organization can be obtained ; and we think we may venture tbe assertion , that it trill be obtained .

      Meantime the people have plenty of work . They have all their preparations to make . They now have their meetings , with officers , and all other machinery for conducting the present business . They hare , at least , such machinery as has been in existence for the passed year . This will serve their purpose for the present ; and enable them to make all due arrangements for the formation of Branches , Classes , and Districts , when the Enrolment is obtained . They can get their lists of names ready . They can subscribe their monies . They can talk over , as to wbo would be the best men for officers , under certain oircamstances ; and they can make themselves fully ready for action , . whenever the Plan is ready for them .

      This is ovr advice to the people : to go on , just as they are , for a little while : but be making all preparation for the change . The breathing-time , if well improved , will invigorate for more energetic and determined efforts . Here is the address of the Executive , pro tern ;—"Fellow Countrymen , —Wo feel regret at being obligated to inform you that with regard to the Enrolment we have but little extra information to give ; we have laid the Plan of Organization before counsel , who have not yet given us their opinion ; but on taking office on Monday we shall feel it to be our deoided duty , as your duly appointed

      servants , to take the necessary steps to prosecute this matter to a successful issue . We are determined that no efforts npon our part shall be wanting to promote that sacred cause upon the successor failure of which depends the happines ? of millions . We are resolved not to permit the caprice of Tidd Pratt or any other Government hireling whose interest is identified with the prolongation of misrule , to triumph over us without a vigorous and determined struggle ; and we cherish a confident hope that itvrill eventuate in the enrolment of our Plan of Organization , and consequently in the discomfiture of the pettifogginR Tidd Pratt . For

      further particulars on this subject , we refer you to Mr . O'Connor's letter ; meanwhile v ? e must proceed Onward' is the Chartist motto . The expediency mongers are in motion . The League is again promulgating its nostrums for national distress ; while Ireland is nobly struggling for the establishment of a democratic principle . Up , then , fellow countrymen at once , with that virtuous determination and energy of purpose becoming men resolved upon achieving the liberty and happiness of their country . Phillip M'Grath , President . Fearoub O'Comnor . Treasurer . Thos . M . Whsklbb , Secretary . "

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      REPEAL OF THE UNION . -Alas , poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . If there is one duty of a public journalist more pleasing than another , it is that of being able to review his own works with satisfaction , and to challenge the criticism of others with confidence . Since the commencement of the agitation for a Repeal of the Legislative Union , we have viewed the question solely upon the grounds of principle , without reference to those who were engaged in its accomplishment . Nay , we rather relaxed somewhat of our wonted severity , when canvassing the

      modus operandi by which success was to be achieved . As soon as a period was assigned to the struggle , we were the first to sink past reoollections , —and they were many and bitter , —in oblivion . We did thia in the hope of gathering up the whole national mind into one volition for general action ; and were satisfied to be , for a time , the duped , rather than stand factiously aloof , resting upon our fearB and apprehensions . We implored for Mr . O'Connell a fair trial ; we pointed oat the injustice and imprndenoe of pnshing him too hastily forward , or of

      too nicely canvassing those counter stratagems by which he might be compelled to meet the devioes of the enemy . All to whom the question of Repeal is interesting , have read our several commentaries upon the subject ; and while , as advocates for the measure ^ , we promised and gave to it our very best support , we also pledged ourselveB for the faithful performance of our duty as censors , wb / en we saw just cause for doubt or suspicion ; doo ' ots , not the mere creation of our own unfounded suspicions , bat doaUs engendered by theplaiaaadjruiambiguoua

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      meaning of Mr . O'Connell ' s own words . It was not to be supposed that we or tbe people would have gone on blindly worshipping a false prophet , after he bad declared his own incapacity , notwithstanding the meansof fulfilment being multiplied in his hands a thousand fold beyond what he had a rational right to expect . We did not searchingly pry into every apparent inoonriBtenoy of Mr . O'Connell ; or if we did look narrowly for materials for after comment and general review , we did not canvass hastily or factiously . If beaten in any one of his movements , we should have justified a counter move , rather than

      have held him critically to the completion of his object by means of an ill or rashly conceived project . We looked to the bond ; and from it we took the conditions ; which were , that THIS WAS TO BE THE REPEAL YEAR . Wo further learned that all appeals to Parliament were to be abandoned ; and that under her Majesty ' s sign manual , the Irish Parliament , as if by magic , was to rise from its tomb in College Green . We care said that we did not hamper Mr . O'Connell ; and we may add that the Government , so far from impeding , has , as if thoroughly understanding the lengths to which he wonld go , and the purposes for which he would

      go those lengths , appear not only by inactivity but by invitation , to have lured him on to his own quick undoing . He cannot then justify retreat or delay upon the necessity imposed upon him of changing his position to meet the enemy ' s attack . His career has not only been unopposed , but aided : and therefore those confiding paupers and zealous patriots who were willing to hazard their little all upon the chances , or indeed the certainty , of a Repeal of the Union after a short campaign , are now justified in demanding why and wherefore the conditions of the bond have been violated , and why another appeal is to be made to the Saxon Parliament f

      At a late meeting of the Repeal Association , Mr . O'Cohneli . spoke as follows : — " He had received a petition from Enniscorthy for Repeal ; but , of course , he could not present it , as the session was over . BUT WHEN PARLIAMENT REASSEMBLED , HE WOULD DEVOTE ONE OR TWO DAYS AT THE COMMENCEMEN ^ OF THE SESSION TO PRESENTING PETITIONS FOR REPEAL . * la this , then , to be the Repeal year ! when petitions for the Repeal are to be presented in the session of 1844 , and to a Saxon Parliament , too ! and without other hope or expectation than the mere

      creation of further strife and dissatisfaction , upon which tbe idle , the wily , the treacherous , and the trafficking , oan live through another season of weakness and credulity ! Having Bold all the Repeal seats to Whigs ; having denounced the very mention of Repeal during the last General Election ; and having repudiated all hope of redress from tbe Saxon Parliament , does Mr . O'Connell hope to add additional proof of English indifference , when he himself has purged the House of Commons of all the Irish blood that would have backed the Irish in their demand for justice 1

      It must make the heart of the zealous sad , and the cheek of the valiant glow with the flush of indignation , when contemplating the reckless manner in which the rights of Irishmen are " set" to auotion , and knocked down to the highest bidder . Already the worn-out figures are dreat in tbe captivating costume of office , to carry reflection from the thinking mind , to the fascinated eye . We read of the liberal corporators attending Repeal meetings , decked in their corporate buckram ; bedizened with the emblems of the conqueror , and shrouded in the ermined habiliments that Ireland so nobly won from the proud invader . What a triumph ! to see our patriots on the rath of Mullaehmaat with cocked hats ,

      velvet robes trimmed with ermine , and gold chains won at the expenoe of church money , paid by the Catholic voter 1 Well indeed may those knighterrarita in search of Irish liberty present a drum as a fitting emblem of their noise and bluster , to their insulted Williamite brethren I Well may they contend for the right of the Orangeman to hold his land free of rent from the grantees of the Orange Prince ! Well may they eulogize the patriotism of Londonderry , and dignify their journals with a transcript of his letter 1 The thing they hope will last their time ; but we are much deceived if the Irish people , with the IriBh clergy at their head , will allow all their triumphs to pass away in another appeal to the Saxon Parliament !!

      Has Mr . O'Connell bo sunk the character of man and gentleman , as to design another visit to the Saxon Parliament , for no earthly purpose but that of standing up to receive the insult and vituperation of English lordlings and aristocrats , to constitute a new stock in trade for another agitating campaign t Can he hope to arouse a kind of sectional warfare , and to divert the Irish mind from all thought of Repeal to a consideration of the insult which he courts , and which he inedidates a journey to reoeive ! Will this increased resistance upon the part of the Government be construed by him to the Irish

      people as proof of the increasing hostility of their English brethren ; or will not his prostitute press tell the people * that be sold the Irish nerve that would have strengthened his arm for the struggle , and would have defended him , as it did before , against the insults of bis opponents 1 If the Saxon Parliament is to bo again resorted to , where was he , and where Was his " truok" baronets , his stipendiary magistrates , and his sworn supporters , when the petition of 3 , 500 , 000 gallant Englishmen for a

      Repeal of the Union was presented , by the bold and uncompromising Duncombe ! When the Right Honourable Gentleman ' shall present his petition from the fighting men of Enniscorthy , will reference be made to the 3 , 500 , 000 English petitioners I No . The strength given by England to Ireland will be thrown in the shade ; while her weakness , as opposed to the hostility of England , will be paraded by the West Britons as a justifiable reason for returning to tha instalment principle .

      la the midst of all these disheartening circumstances , we have the one consolation that Dr . M'Hale and the Irish priesthood are not to be seduced from the path of virtue . No circumstance so fnlly demonstrates the zeal and attachment of the Roman Catholio Clergy to the cause of Ropeal as the admitted fact , that they have cheerf ' ully submitted to large reductions in their own hardlyearned dues , in order that their flooka may be the better able to contribute theirquota to the cause of Repeal . We believe it to be an under Jablo fact , that since the commencement of tbe present agitation a

      vast number of these disinterested pastors have actually denied themselves the common necessaries of life , in order that the patriotism of their flocks should stand high upon the national roll . They have never lent their minds to the base subterfuge of diverting the national struggle to the mere restoration of the Whig part . ^ i No : they are for the most part , if not altogether , the sons of the soil , aB we gather from their ,- Irish names . They visit the squalid hovel o // wretchedness ; they sit reeignedly by the dyir jg patient ' s bed , unawed by infection , unruffled by the taunt of the oppressor .

      They are Irish b y blood , Irish in language , Irish in religion ; but ' aliens" in the land of their birth . Their feelinga are Irish , their flocks are Irish , their minds are Ir ish , their generosity , their patriotism , and their &y mpathy for their oppressed and suffering , charge , are all—all Irish;—characteristics which will not allow them to submit to their own and their oo' jntry ' s degradation . They look to Repeal as the means , not of enriching themselves ; but of enabling them the better to discharge those duties

      whi ch as Christian ministers they are bonnd to perfo ' . m . They are not appointed to the high and sacred 'office of pastor for their vices , or their subserviency to existing authority ^ -they are nominated for their virtues and their devotion to their country , their flocks , and their God . They ate only rich' in hope and grace . Their lives are simple—their . manners mild—and their wants but few ; and few though they be , they have been made the more pressing by the recent demands upon the poor contributors to their frugal comforts , for the means of achieving

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      their country ' s freedom . It is to these nnassumiDg patriots , and snot to the overpaid braggadocios who revel upon the proceeds abstracted from their little hoards , that we look for the accomplishment of a Repeal of the Union . Will they , we ask , consent to this proposed procrastination % Will they be parties to placing stumbling blocks , in the otherwise unopposed coarse of the Irish people ? Will they tell them from the

      sacred altar that 1843 is not to be the Repeal year ? and that in 1844 another appeal is to be made to the Saxon Parliament ? We doubt it . But should they venture upon ! the hazardous experiment , we have still that reliance upon an appeal to the sober mind of " United Irishmen" which buoys us up with the hope , that the days of mock patriotism are gone ! DeWon has faded before the light of public opinion ; and ] to be honoured , the directors of public opinion must be honest t

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      THE " COAL KINGS" AND THE FEMALE { COLLIERS . So ! The exposure we have made of the trampling upon the law by the Duke of Hamilton , in the employment of not less than sixly females in his Colliery works , at Redding , has produced'a " great sensation" at Falkirk ; and , at last , the Fiscal is beginning to move ! He had better ! He should have moved long ago . Whether he has had a " poke in the ribs , " or not , from Sir Jambs Gbaham , we have not the means of knowing : but if it be so , Sir James has done no more than his duty . We shall

      wait anxiously to hear the result of his moving . There is also a "s / ir" among the Carron Iron Company . The relation of the fact that they have more than one hundred females employed in their coal-works ; and that the Magistrates , and Procurator-Fiscal , and the Sheriff , had refused to interfere and enforce the law ; the relation of these facts , and the cajling of the attention of Sir James Graham to them , has produced a commotion amongst the Carron Company of Iron men . In this case

      the " move" is a dastardly one ! The poor slaves of the pits are to be made the ecape-goats for the Carron Iron Company to ride away upon ! " The company do not employ ihe womem * u The workmen do it ! " What cowardice ! Who do the pits belong to ! Who pays the wages ! Who are the masters '} ^ Thej / ron men I or " the workmen" ! The dastardly" move" will not serve the Company . It will shew their baseness , their unutterable baseness : but it will not help them out of the mess . '

      It delights us to learn that the ken are taking up this question in a proper manner , and with becoming spirit . The Duke and the Carron Iron Company had better " move" quickly ; had better " move" the women out of their pits , and put men there-: they had better take this step , 0 nd quickly , or they wil have to figure before the Court , as breakers of the law ! The step" determined on , by the men of Falkirk , is just the right one . It cannot fail to have the law enforced . Their Memorial will bring the facts legitimately before Sir James Graham ; and f&en he must " move . " The Duke and the Company had better look j out . The following we take from a report of a -meeting of Colliers at Falkirk . It behoves the Ddke and the

      Carron Company to look at it : — " Mr . W . Daniella was now called npon to read an article from the Northern Star of Sept . 23 rd , headed ' The Coal Kings and the Lav , ' which gave universal satisfaction ; and a vote of thanks was given to the Editor for bis defence of the oppressed collier against the high and mighty ones I It was then carried that a Memorial be drawn op , and ssnt to Sir James-Graham , calling his attention to the fact of the Dake of Hamilton and the Carron Iron Company employing females in their coal-pits ; and informing the Home Secretary that neither the Fiscal , Sheriff , or Magistrates would interfere f That Mr . W . Daniella be requested to draw np the Memorial , and that it be signed by as many colliers as possible . "

      That ' s the way . Give a plain unvarnished statement of facts : and attend well to the answer that Sir James Grahax returns . So much for ] the Scotch LAW BREAKERS . They claim our first attention , because there is a Dukb amongst them ; an hereditary law-maker ; a commissioned law administrator ; the head of the magistracy of a whole county , being the Lord Lieutenant , and ; as such , the Queen ' s representative . A gang of law breakers , with euch a man as this for head , or Captain , surely ought to have precedence in attention . Having bestowed that attention

      upon them , we cow turn to England to have a sort of peep at the iLAW-BRBAKiNO-doiDgs of the " Coal Kings" there . Last week we detailed the doings of Mr . Whauby , a Whig-Magistrate , at Wigan , who has about twenty females working in bis pits ; and also the doings of Mr . Pbeston , who has also females working in his pits . In these cases we exposed tbe manner in which these worthies attempt to gull the public , by having the females dressed vr in mal £ attire il ! Ihis week we have to record more breaches of the law , by " Coal Kings . " If we go on , we shall ] have a pretty batch of them in a short time ¦

      Let the reader ; and let Sir James Graham in particular , pay attention to the following : — " Sir , —Yon may depend upon the following facts , for we can prove ; them to be true . " Mr . Robert Lee , ef the Hodghead Colliery , near Bacap , has in his employment seven girls . Mr . Pilling , Hodgbead Colliery , near Bacup , has four girls employed . Mr . Buckatone , of the same place , employs two girls . Jamas Lord , Trough Colliery , near Bacap , employs two

      girls . Lord Deardean , Land Colliery , employs two girls . Mr . Townsend , of Bacup , employs five girls . And Mr . Haworth , of Coppy Nook Colliery , employs one gixL All are employed in mining operations . \ " We are , Sir , yours , ' " Daniel Thompson , j " John Adty , " Two of the Agents of the Association , " Bacup , Oct 3 rd , 1843 .

      Here are names and places . Will Sir James Graham inquire 1 Will he give the Magistrates a nudge ? Is it not time I Whatever can ] be the reason of the silence of the Press , on this matter , with the single exception of the Northern Star ? For weeks has the Star kept the conduct of the Duke of Hamilton and tbe Carron Iron Company before the country ; and it is adding to its list of LAW-BREAKERS every week . Yet not one single paper else , that we know of , has even touched the question ! There is not a week passes , but some paragraph or other is

      extracted from the Star , and sent "the round of the Press . " How happens it thai all mention , of these LAW-BREAKINGS have been so studiously foregone ! Why has Mother Goose not had a nibble ? She tries to bite onr heels every week : why haB she not had a gobble here ! To say the least , this silence' , is most striking—most wonderfuly unanimous ! It is the more striking , when we call to mind the torrents of indignation poured out by this same Press , { when the Commissioners' Reports on the hardships of Collier life , especially for females , first appeared . Not a League paper , nor a Tory paper , in tfee Kingdom but wept bottles of ink ; and " denunciation" was the order of

      the day . The Weekly Chronicle was almost the first and the loudest at this sort of game : going to the expence of a page of engravings to' bring the toils and hardships of the collier women and girls more vividly before the public . Where is the ] Press now ; now , that the law which the press so unanimously hailed as a necessary and just measure of protection ; where is the Press now ; now that that ' aw is being continually broken ? Silent ! Where is the Weekly Chronicle % Silent ! The females are still subjected to the hardships he so pathetically and pictorially described : yet he opens not his mouth \ Why ; why is this ! i

      Will the Weekly Chronicle lend us his set of illustrations ? We mean his wood-cut represent ations of women dragging coal tubs , by chains p- ^ g . ing from the waist between the legs ; of w amen carrying baskets ] of coal upon their heads ap the pit ladders ; and of women descending tbe < feal-pit cross-legged , upon the clutching-iron , fgj ong wiih men ! Will be lpnd us these , his pict '/ res of coalpit hardships upou females \ H emm to hav «

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      handed over the collier women and their protectios to as . At all erents , he grossly neglects them . And aa he makes no use of his case , will he hand it also over toust

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      THE ROYAL CONGRESS . —WHO IS THE PROPHET ? Wk contend that the prevention of an act , or the frustration of a scheme , by timely notice , equally establishes the character of a prophet , as if the identical cirouinstance , the occurrence ef which he foretold , had happened . For instance : if A prophesied that the hoos 3 of B would fall upon him , and smother him npon a certain night ; and if B in consequence of the warning abandoned the house , and thereby saved his life , the fact of B not being killed would by no means detract from A ' s character as a prophet .

      What we are now going to do , is to defend onr own title against any charges to which the nonfulfilment of our prophecy may subject us . We know that it is a very usual practice with many of our catemporariea to foretell acts after they have actually , from staleness , passed ont of memory . Of this school of prophets there is none more celebrated than the Honourable Member for Sheffield , whose extraordinary revelations in the Weekly Chronicle have so often amused as . It is only bit by bit that we can learn the acts of Kings and their Ministers ; and we do assert that we augured as extensive a piece of diplomacy oat of the Royal trip as was discovered in the celebrated shake of fhe celebrated head of the celebrated Lord Bcrleigh , in Sheridan ' s celebrated play of the celebrated critic .

      There is no doubt that the King of the Barricades had anticipated a very benefioial result from bis Snuggery with our fascinating little Queen ; and , from the usual secrecy observed upon all occasions by the wily old fox , we may naturally conclude that the first fruits of this new confederacy woald have been developed in some practical form . However , even the regal blow must now be preceded by all the usual forms that characterise the more vulgar set to . We must have the usual amount of jaw ;

      of threat ; and of sparring : preliminaries for which , in kingly squabbles , we are to look to their bottleholders—the press . Already we have directed public attention to those awful manifestations announced through the several leading organs of France and England ; and we now tarn to other continental journals , as well as to a portion of the Irish press for confirmation of the fact that we were justified in the deductions we drew from the Royal meeting .

      Upon the subject of the Qeen ' s visit we foretold that it was the precursor of a Congress in which Louts Phillips would play Spain against Ireland . In confirmation of this project , we submit the following ominous notices : — Important!—The "Congress of Kings . "—The Nuremburgh Correspondent of the 26 tb ult . announces , that in the month of November next a

      Congress will be assembled to arrange the affairs of Spain . Carliats and Christinos , are to be represented at it . Martinez de la Rosa , Sancho , and Cortina will defend the interest of Queen Christina . Villafranca , Pantoza , and Alvarez de Toledo will indicate the means of effecting a reconciliation . The same journal adds , that the statement in the Madrid journals relative to the intervention of France is merely an allusion to the preliminaries of that Congress .

      The Frankfort Journal declares that tbe German and Eastern Powers have all made np their minds as to the marriage of a son of Don Carlos with the Queen of Spain , m order to preserve the principle of legitimacy , and abolish virtually the Salig law . It announces a Congress for this purpose , and adds , Don Carlos consents to the marriage , provided his son have the title of King , and not be merely the Queen's husband . So far it- will be seen that our prediction is strengthend by very influential foreign journals ; while our further anticipations are thus commented upon by the Dublin World ;—

      " The Btate of Spain continues to be of absorbing interest . Torn by sanguinary factions , it is plunged into all the horrors and confusion of anarchy . The young Queen , like a signet ring , is passed from one bloodstained hand to aaother , with as little regard and consideration as if she were indeed , an moM than the inanimate symbol of cower . What a spectacle to nations who already champ the bit , and strain the curb of monarchy ! Nor is the danger overlooked by the startled sovereigns ef Europe . Republicanism must be crushed , and legitimacy established in Spain . That is the altimate resolve :

      and , accordingly , while the King of the French amused the Majesty of Fngland with caresses and cajolery , bis promises and bribes were paving the way for a French army across the Pyrenees . Nor is it likely now that English influence in the Peninsula has been so thoroughly undermined , that the Foreign office will interfere with his design . One of the Spanish parties has solicited the interference of Louis Phillippe and it is preferable that the long contested question of the Spanish succession should be deoided in favour of a Bourbon Prince , than that thedangerousexample should be longer tolerated , of a

      nation settling its own Government and constitution according to the popular will . When France is about to put down the national movement in Spain , and establish a despotic legitimacy , may not Louis Phillippe send a force to crush Repealers ? The antagonist principles of popular liberty and aristocratic tyranny are rapidly condensing their power , and ranging themselves in fatal opposition . Education , both secnlar and religious has opened the eyes of the millions , and a struggle is inevitable . Be the conflict brief or protracted , we bid God-speed to the rights and liberties of men , social , moral , and political . "— Dublin World .

      When the above extract is read in connection with onr several articles upon tbe recent Royal meeting , we find , that after-circumstances have led our contemporaries to the same conclusion at which , we arrived upon much more-slender data . It may be a 8 in the case of B ., whose life was saved by timely notice ; that the results , which we anticipated in the outset , may also be frustrated by the general notice of preliminaries to which the press now directs public attention , and to meet which we even a nticipated our Irish contemporary by directing attention to the improved mind of Ireland . To thai

      democratic prime minister and directing agent of thought and action , we now look as a corrective of evil institutions , and as a barrier against real intrusion . The min& is marching onward with rapid strides ; while the phantasmagoria of kingcraft aad priestcraft is becoming dim in the new light . Since we last wrote , Greece , the cradle of science and nurse of arts , has " protieunced"l—Greece without a blow has dictated terms to her monarch . ' —Greece has presented to Europe and the world , that inextinguishable fraternity which in the mind of the truly free must ever exist betyjpen the soldier- and tha , civilian . 9 W

      When King Otho expressed his desire to suhv jfc the popular demand for a Constitution to bis Mr ais . ters t the people and the soldiers , or more pror ^ eily , the civil and military community of Greece replied that the Ministers had met , had delibera" iea , and pronounced ; and the sun that set upon the . Jictator ' 8 head rose brilliantly upon the people ' s O oastitution . Athens presented no bustle , because itf . whole mind , with the exception of Otho , ran in thf , same current With Greece it was , as with En ' iand it will be , when the deep sore of oppression e ' nall beoome

      unendurable to the majority . No &b' jts were fired ; no clamour was raised ; no sound r , f triumph was heard , though the victory was oom- piete . Whether or no Greece saw the passing opportunity of wresting her liberty from the hands of aa irresponsible Monarch ' while affairs of greater moment occupied the attention of the three gre ^ t powers , Russia , France , and England , who haw , always made that unfortunate conntry a make-Veight in their several negotiations , we cannot say > or whether the rule-of-three method will be resorted to , to deprive her of her liberty , by an inconvenient demand for that debt which she

      owe 33 the price of her bondage , we cannot tell ; b >\( in either case , the triumph of combination will be a lesson not lost to the nations of the earth . Spain , too , in spite of the intrigues , the machinations , and the treacheries of Louis Philippe , will follow the example of Greece . Is it not marvellous , unaccountable , and " passing strange , " that so enlightened v people aa the French should tamely submit to the Equahdering of their money in perpetuating Bourbon intrigue and tyranny in Spain 1 Every man who has followed the events of the last ten yeaxs in Spain most hare come to the

      Manchester Demonstration In Honour Of T. & Duncombe, Esq.

      MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION IN HONOUR OF T . & DUNCOMBE , ESQ .

      Parties intending to join the procession in honour of that distinguished patriot T . S . Buncombe , Efq ¦ will have tbe kindness to observe the following regulations . The trades and conntry friends to atsemble in Stavensoa ' s-Bq'uire , at ten o ' clock in tbe morning . The trades to take the precedence in the procession . Tbe Chartists and other friends not connected with the trades that are walking , are requested to meet at nine o'clock , at the Carpenter ' s Hall , -where they will form into procession , and movs from thence to tbe Square . Mr . Dancombe will arrive at the terminal of the London and Birmingham Hallway by the nine o'clock train , -where a deputation with a carriage will be in waiting for-him . Tbe united bodies will move from the Square through Salford to tbe Crescent , where they trill meet Mr . Buncombe , and then return through the principal streets in the town .

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      a ' y th'e N ( ntTifrBrr ' rro - — - —r— - ** - — ¦ . ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 7, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1233/page/4/