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      TO 2 KB CHARTISTS OP NOTUKCFHAM AlfD SOUTH DERBY , BBOTHEB Democrats—On . Tnesday Oct . 25 tb , I addressed the Chartists of Derby in their Association Boom , Tbomtree-JaEe , Mr . Johnson in the chair , who opened ths DnBiness In a coneisa bat appropriate speech . _ Hy -. abject-was taxation . " I took for my text the celeor .. te <_ political maxim of Blacfcstone , fit , —Taxation -without representation is tyranny . I had not a Tsry numerous audience , bat it "was made of the right gort of material- —all members , and good ones . On WedBesSay I Trent to Melbourne , the seat of the ex-Whig Premier iMelbcume ) vrho gave £ ip to the Jee-totallers -ray lately , when a deputation waited upon him , but who -would not , I am -sure , give ten farthings to further or promulgate the principles of democracy . 1 am sorry to say I conld not get . a meeting , there > eing no loom so that 1 had sixteen miles jovmej in Tain .

      On Fri 3 ay Osi . 57 th . —I proceeded to Swinwicl-, & distance of twelve miles , and feeld a meeting in a large loom belonging to Mr . Yarnold . My Eabjeet . was , * 'Th 6 land and its capabilities . " The meeting was decidedly a good one , and it gives me pleasure lo say that ihe -very best possible feeling was manifested by all parties present in favour of the question . With respect to Swanwiek and the suTxoundisg villages the principal business done 5 ? in the coal and Iren -way . All the works belong to t ^ . ree masters vrho are magistrates ; consequently yon -will at once see that they haTe absolute power OTer the people generally throughout the district , -which is very extensive . The Colliers do sot average at most , when they hare full -work , eight shillings a week . One of the masters is a Tory , the other two are Whigs , one of whom keeps a " tommy-shop " ^ the workmen , forsooth , are not compelled to go to it , but if they do not , the poor fellows meat starve . < . ' for during _ rix months of this

      year they hare not been half employed ; nay , Borne of them have gone every day , for eleven days together , to the pit , and received but about three shillings ; so that they -were forced to go to the tommy-shop or starve . This is the unhappy position they are placed in : but mark the tyanny of the master : the poorfel ' ows are obliged to proceed every day to the pit , no matter trhether there is -work or not for them ; and it is a well-known fact , that many of the Colliers have gone fox days together -without getting any , though they had to 'Walt , in msny instances , fcrux miles ; two to the pit , &nd two back . The floni IB this toinmy- _ r _ -pp la from 3 < J _ to 4 d . moie pel slone than it ia in the shops where ready meney is paid , and , of course , other provisionB are charged in proportion . I have beard many tales of woe , -want , and misery in my lifetime 1 but none of them have exceeded -what I heard in Swamrick . O , the poor Colliers ! surely they are the most cruelly used and oppressed of any class of -workmen .

      On Sunday , the 29 th of October , I delivered a- lecture in the Democratic Chapel , Rice-place , Nottingham , to & crowded audience , upon War and Taxation . On Tuesday , Oct . 31 st , I delivered a lectors to the Snhabifiuits of Mansfield , in the eonjmodiooa School Boom belonging to Mi . Xinwood's ChapeL The meeting "was nryrflBTit for numbers , iir . Hibberd , one of the active members of the Charter Association , occupied Jhe chair , and made a few well-timed remarks ; after which , I addressed the persons present for an hour and a half upon first principles , and attempted to prove , according to them , that Use land ongbt to be public property . The meeting concluded about ten o ' clock . On Thursday , I addressed an open-air meeting in the Tillage of Selston , upen the subject of labour and capital The audience was not numerous , owing to the vrealhti being celd .

      On Sunday , Nov . 5 th , I delivered a lecture in the democratic Chapel , Nottingham . The chapel , on the occasion , was well filled ; and the very best feeling manifested for the good cause . My snbj « ct was She C-rn Laws . I am happy to state that the Nottingham Mends are following the laudable example set them by the Chartists of Manchester , viz , — they have commenced a school on Sandsys for the purpose of teaching the young . I have als » to state that our principles have and are miking considerable progress in this town , and in proof of ifc , there an now no less than eight localities , some of which are in a very healthy state . Each locality has its collector or class leader , who collects the money or subscription on the Saturday night , and brings it into the Council appointed to . receive it on the Sunday-nomine .

      Brothers , with best wishes for your welfare , and the farther extension of democracy , I remain , as usual , your servant and fellowworkerin the vineyard of Chartism , CKRISTOPHBB . DOTLB , Nottingham , November 6 th , is 13 .

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      STRIKE OP THE GLOVE HANDS FOR WAGES IN LEICESTER . In consequence of the repeated rednetions in the price of labour in the glove branch , by the Messrs Biggs and others in the trade , during the last two years , the journeymen glove -hands held a meeting in Mrs . Cooper ' s room , on Monday , Oct 30 th , to taks into consideration the prices given "by the several manufac turers on the different kinds of work ; and to . discuss Ihe propriety of making a stand for the last year ' s prices on Lisle thread , -id . per day on thirty gauge -woollen , and 23 . jtex dcz ° n on the twenty-four guage Woollen gloves . It was stated by a number of men that Ifcsy had Ijeen reduced since last year forty-one per cest . in their labour ; others more , some lass ; and that unless th ? y csnld be better remunerated for their lakour , they would cease work altogether .

      The meeting was adjourned to the Black Swan publiobemse , where the men determined , one ami all , to strike for an advance of wsge * . A Committee of Management was appointed to solicit the manufacturers for an advance , and report progrets on Tuesday . In the evening , the second-band employers held a meeting on the subject , and agreed to memorialise the Great Bashaw , the author of the " Midland Counties' Charter , " on the question . Ttjxsdat . —At nine o'clock , a numerous meeting was holden at the Black Swan , to receive the report of the deputation from the -manufacturers , which was anything but ^ w * wiT » g The decision of the Messrs . Biggs wtt—they would have nothing at sH to do with the journeymen on the question of wages . A resolution we * immediate ^ come to , " That we strike , the whole trade . " The men instantly joined together inranks , and went to the different shops in the town , to Bolicit the whole trade to strike vgainst the present list of prices , Which nearly every man and woman did .

      In the evening another second-hand masters * meeting Was held at the Russell Tavern , when it was agreed for everymaster to solicit the manufacturers te raise the pries of labour to the amount aaked for by the journeymen . Adjourned until Beven o ' clock on Wednesday night Wedsesbat , —The journeymen assembled this scorning , at the Black Swan , in larger numbers than on thetwe previous days . Mr . George Buckby was called to the chair . A deputation arrived from the masters . Mr . Crofts stated that he had been to Mr . Thorpe , snd he was ^ uite willing to give the price on Lisle , fcnt he would not give them the advance on wool The Working men immediately shouted , " We will stand tax the whole . "

      A deputation « f five was then appointed by the Journeymen to meet "the masters , to argue the question of the strike , and to hear the report of the masters from the manufacturers . The men again paraded the streets , for the purpose of getting out the hands , until dark , when several of the tarn-outs went to work again , But were severely pusished by some persons unknown , who destroyed some parts of the machinery , broke several windows , and dragged the men out of their frames , making them promise never to work again vntil they had gained the price .

      Thxtesdjlt . —At nine o'clock , the men on strike collected together in vast numbers , to hear the report of the deputation , and reseiva ihe advice of their leaders . The deputation announced that the manufacturers were determined to stand against the strike , and that some of the employers had expressed their belief that the men , having ne funds to stand upon , would be starred Into work again . This was received with marks of disapprobation , the men expressing their Srm determination to stand by their original resolution atsrer to go to work until they had gained the price . A resolution was carried that they parade the town to aik * &lmB to support their wives and families . At the dose of the day , nearly five pounds was collected , beside * bread , bacon , cheese , fee .

      Friday .. —At the nsnal time of meeting , the men i « ougregated together in much larger numbers than any ; of the previous days . Messrs . Buckby , Watts , and \ Snath addressed the meeting . After they had again pledged themselves to stand for the whole price , a cart was brought up . drawn fey ten of the manufacturers *! « aves . with a large placard , headed , " Glove hands on ' "tntos lor wayes . —TriendB of humanity assist ns . "i itevetse , " jar . Birgs is the cause of enr bong , cut i dLv *^ L er" C 0116 ** ™» appointed for the ' ™ _ < J ?^?^ Procession was about to mow , when ! = 5 ^ a . « ffiK

      kks iffuas- sss % s * & £ ktsss-tttai- s sa Jrtm . -bmp or ttey would take thenTbefore a « the ton-out ) . "Tskensand welcome , " wasa » Srtv The police took ttoee ^ namely , CtadTcS ? ^ Conlson , and Wm . Green , from theparty . Three more namely , John Timscn , Bobert Allen , and Wm . Hopel wefl , immediately filled thtdr places , and they -wiw taken also . Three more immediately EE . ppii&d their places , namely , Eiias Howard , Wm , Goodman , and

      John Cochayna They were also taken . Cochayne they liberated again , who immediately resumed Ms place * B a collector ; two more joined Coehayne , namely , Tiomas Sbilton , and Wm . Knight ,, who were taken directly . Other two immediately left the Toom to supply their places , but no more arrests took place , c * d the jxirty htggtd ihe tarn all day . Charles Cox , Wm . Colsten , Wm . Green , Jehn Timson , Bobert Allen- Wm . BopsweB , "Pii «« Howard , Wm . Goodman , Thomas Shilton , and Wm . Enigh ^ were brought before the Mayor and two other iUgistotes , and asked whether ;

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      if they were allowed to go , would they cease begging , and not join the party asain ? They all -told the Mayra that , he was the cause of their being compelled to beg ; and if they were to be liberated that minute they would instantly go and beg again ; and if they intended to pnt them down Joy putting them into prison , they would have to take every man , for all were determined to have the price or not work at all They were then all commuted for seven days to hard labour ! At two o ' clock a special meeting of the Magistrates was called to take the matter into consideration , and in the evening a Magistrates' proclamation was issued , cautioning all persons against begging , either singly or in bodies , as they would be brought before the Magistrate * and punished accordingly . As soon as the bills appeared several persona went through the town to solicit the middle classes to take them out of their windows , which was done nearly all over the town .

      Saturday . —At the hour of meeting , the men on strike appeared at their put with the cart and placard , and nominated twenty-four individuals as collectors , { whose families amounted to 106 children besides their wives , who , in case they should be imprisoned the parish would have to maintain ) , and 200 more volunteered their services should the twenty-four be taken . Theyparaded the principal tlreets , begging all day , lut ihe authorities did not interfere , Scsdat . —Mr . Bnckby preached an excellent sermon in the Market-place , attwoo ' clock , fromSt James , v . c A , 5 . and 6 th v ., to a numerous and an attentive audience for the benefit of the wives and children of the imprisoned turnouts . 16 s . 8 ^ d . were collected by Mr . Kmyet

      Mokdat , Nov . 6 . —This day has decided the battle , as the great Nabob , Mr . Biggs , has given the advance to a majority of his band ? . Others are following in rapid succession , and ere two more days are gone , nearly the whole trade will be in work at the price . This has been the greatest struggle in the history of Gloveism in Leicester . This step taught the Manufacturers a severe lesson , as it deprived them of receiving their rents and taxes { which they impose upon their hands ) to the amount of several pounds per week , some as much as £ 100 . The Poor Law Guardians , as well as the inhabitants in general , stood well by the turnouts . A general sympathy prevails among the middle classes for the men in prison ; and the hands which have got the advance have come to ths desolation to support tbe remaining few on strike .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , KOTEMBER 11 , J 843 .

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      REBELLION IN IRELAND . Weknowof no other designation , than that of Rebellion , that can be now given to the state of Ireland ; and when public opinion shall hare roused from its present lethargy ; when the present stern demand for blood and vengeance shall be snooeeded by that thrill of horror which the recollection of those appalling events which are sore to follow the shadows that they have cast before them ; then , but not till then , will the insulted people of Britain put the real rebels upon their tiial ; then will the English nation marvel at its base subserviency to Ministerial

      rale ; then will all other classes discover that truth which the peo ple have long since learned , that Parliament is a mockery , and that the English constitution is in reality a military despotism . When , we would ask , were powers extensive as those now used in Ireland , exercised without the consent of Parliament , except upon an emergency , which might have justified Ministerial usurpation \ No Buch emergency now presents itself , » s the oool and deliberate plans of the rebels are daily printed in their organs , and are based , not upon hasty expediency , but are mapped out with all the

      coolness and precision of a siege to be carried on according to themostapproved principles of warfare . Great , however , as the military Bkill of the Duke of Wellington ma ; be , he has not yet had to combat against an enemy from whom there is no retreat . He has not yet bees engaged in a conflict with publio opinion ; bat of this , he and the Cabinet of which be is the military chief , may rest assured they will one day , and that not a distant ose , be arraigned before the tribunal of public opinion for waging war against a people whose grievances were confessed , bat to whose wrongs remedies were refused .

      "While the war rages , the -whole press , as usual , b npon the side of despotism ; the ** liberal" portion only opposing the sanguinary measures , because their own friends have not had the advantage of adopting and carrying them ont . We have read the pages of Irish history with as much attention a 3 most people ; and yet are we at a loss to discover , even in the most bloody time 3 , any act of atrocity which can be considered at all analogous to the present proceedings . What ! in the nineteenth century ; in the eleventh year of Reform , and in the twenty-sixth of profound peace , with a strong government

      commanding a majority that is ready for any thing ; at Eucb a time to see deadly war waged in the very heart of the nation i to see oar ports blockaded with our ovm war ships ! our towns garrisoned -with our troops ! and all to prepare for aa onslaught against our own people , and Parliament not consulted ! It is in troth monstrous . It is such a state of things that old England wonld not have tolerated before the blighting curse of artificial produce had paralyzed her brawny arm ! It is a state of things which

      all the nations of Europe , and even America must look upon with surprise , with horror and disgust . And yet , while the tragedy is performed on our own stage , and before oar own eyes , the British audience will look calmly on until the checktakers shall demand pay , when the drama is over . This is one of the great evils of our present system . The people sanction that , with thft price of which they are unacquainted ; whereas , if it was demanded before the performance , their mercantile souls would rebel against the injustice .

      We pass over the paltry Ekirmishes that are now taking place in the Irish Law Courts . We look with contempt npon the paltry chargeB of conspiracy —the principal of which is supported by attempting to make it crimiaal in one man for doing that which done by another is looked upon as a duty . If Welli . *« ton praises the EngHsh troops for their valour and conduct , he pajs them but a just tribute ; bat if O'Cotnell goes beyond the allegiance standard , and gives a portion of them credit fer intellectual advantages , he is a traitor . If

      BscrGHAM speaks of cheap law , and proposes arbitration as a substitute for expensive litigation , he is a patriot ; but if O'Coknsll carries the principle into effect , he i 3 a rebel . Fudge . The whole thing is nonsense : and without further analysis than a mere comparison of the respective powers of the contending paTtie 3 , we should console ourselves with the reflection that victory is sure to be upon the side of the people , was not the cheering thought some-what overcast by the recollection of what tottering despotism is capable of attempting ere it listens to reason , and surrenders its dominion .

      Present appearances by no means destroy the hope that fee Grand Jury before whom the cbm-Pijunt of T . B . Smith against Mr . O'Connell , for arraigning the capacity of his doting father to administer justice has been submitted , may ignore the Bills : thas finding that all the charges brought

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      against Baron Smith , were perfectly sustained , and that Mr . T . B . Smith ' s title to represent the borough of Youghall , was not legitimate . In euch case , the whole superstructure falls to the ground ; and Lord De Gbet and Mr . T . B . Smith will be buried in tho ruins , while Ltndhdbst and the English draftsmen of the Irish seigewill lay at their door all the odinm of defeat . Let Mr . 0 'Connei . l , however , not suppose for one moment , that the war will terminate outside , whatever the results of the legal inquiry maybe inside ; and above all let him take warning from the recent chock that hi 3 proposed adoption of Federalism has received from the united voice of Ireland . We candidly confess , that up to this wholesome manifestation of Irish opinion , we

      were m the habit of looking upon O'Connell as Ireland , and the Irish hi « willing slaves . We are proud , however , to have discovered our own error , and to admit that the Irish people have now established a claim to English support , to which they could not before lay claim . However the people of England might have pitied their ignorance , and sympathized with their sufferings , yet , so long as they were spell-bound by individual influence , were they unworthy of support . The lesson , we trust , that has been accorded toMr . O'CoNNELi . will be serviceable not only to him , but to the whole tribe of political agitators . It -will teach them that swimming with the current of popular opinion , they are powerful ; —but that ruin follows their attempt to stem it .

      We now write for a nation , and of MhO'Connell as the recognized leader of the national mind ; a mind which , thanks to Irish firmness , can no longer be diverted from the pursuit of the real democratic principle . The question no longer is , what O'Connei-l will be satisfied with , but what the Irish people require as the full measure of justice . Repeal can no longer be acted as the Rent-day . It hoa now become a stock piece , and the Irish people will not allow it to be laid aside for any other performance . In other years we might have some misgiving as to the period of Mr . O'Connell ' s relapse . from Federalism to Unconditional Repeal , just preceding the

      iribute day ; but now the stake that he plays for , being no less than his head upon the block in the event of failure , is too great to justify the . supposition that the jump has been taken for the " nonce . " On the ^ 19 th , bit * O'Connell will receive what is called the national tribute . Let him bear in mind that nineteen shillings in the pound will be subscribed for Unconditional Repeal , while the odd shilling only will be the fee for Federalism . Let him recollect that there is now an Unconditional Repeal staff in every parish in Ireland , and that after the lessons he has taught the Irish people , it will not do henceforth to " palter in a double sense / ' with a people determined upon attaining their country ' s independence .

      From the position assumed by Lord Eliot , the Chief Secretary for Ireland , and from Sir Rodebt Peel ' s well-known opposition to the present system of coercion it is by no means unlikely that once more Ireland may be the grave , as well as the battle-field of the Tory administration ; and but for the influence of the Duke of Wellington over the doting old Peers , there can be little doubt that Sir Robert Peel would seize the present opportunity of calling Parliament together , in order that the nation may judge whether the amount of projected conciliation was worth the price of the contemplated

      coercion . Unfortunately , however , Sir Robert Peel s hands are not only tied , but those who hold the strings are pulling in different directions ; Mb own mind going- with conciliation while the palsied Chieftain uses the weight of the Upper House to drag him on the side of coercion . If he is wise however , he will call Parliament together , and lay hismeasnres before the nation , or otherwise if Irish blood should be shed , while acknowledged grievances are unredressed , and Parliament unconsulted , he may rest assured that his day of reckoning will

      come , when he will discover that if there is indemnity for the minister , there is retribution for the people . We fear that he draws too flattering a conclusion from the present slumber , produced by the temporary revival of trade , while he should bear in mind that the slightest reverse of fortune might call aloud for the return of the troops upon whose presence it would appear the tranquillity of Ireland now depends ; while Rebecca , not participating in the improved trade , appears likely to draw upon the Commander-in-Chief for her full share of military protection .

      Had not Mr . O'Connell prudently renounced his hasty adoption of Federalfsm , it was our intention to hare proved to demonstration that Federalism would have considerably multiplied imperial difficulties , whilst its domestio working would have increased internal jealousies , and would have placed a larger amount of patronage and corruption at the disposal of the British Minister . In fact , if ever there was a mad crotchet , an insane project ,

      devised by man for the amelioration of Ireland which would be sure to leao to a diametrically opposite result , the establishment of what is called a Fede-Tal Government pre-eminently out-tops all other projects in insanity and delusion . It is a scheme merely floating upon the surface of the superficial minds of the old Chariemont rump of jobbing Whigs , not yet extinct in Ireland , and looking for reanimation from domestio plunder .

      The boasted improvement gained by the Volunteers uDder the treacherous Charlemont , in 1782 , had precisely the same effect upon Ireland in those days that Federalism would have at the present time . The only change produced by the Volunteers in 1782 was the mere transference of patronage from the Irish Parliament to the English Minister . And of all the sad days of Ireland ' s saddest history , those days of her boasted independence , from 1782 to , the sale of her Parliament in 1800 , were the most remarkable for treachery , profligacy , debauchery , subserviency , and dependency , until , at length , so manifold became the general grievances inflicted by the centralized conquerors of

      1782 , that Ireland rose en masse , not against English tyranny , but against Irish profligacy ; and at length , the triumph of Chablemont was completed by the ruin of Ireland . There never was an important period of the history of t ny country mote ignorantly paraded as a proof of its greatness , than that of Ireland ' s history from the yea-r 1782 to the year 1800 ; while , in fact , the so-called triumph was gained in America , and wrung from the necessities of the English Minister , and taken advantage of by Lord Charlemont and the Irish Whigs as a fitting opportunity to establish Irish independence , but actually used by him and them for the purpose of destroying Irish liberty , and of establishing their own centralised and increased power upon its

      . That Ireland is justified in now looking for selfrepresentalion in consequence of the inability of the Imperial Parliament to deal with those domestio grievances -which fester the Irish mind , is admitted in the tardy iuqnjry norr set on foot to discover the real seat of the disease , added to the fact , that the distemper of that country has , for the last fortythree years , surpassed tho skill of each succeeding administration . Thus , we bring the state of Ireland , a 3 admitted by every Prime Minister within the period , as proof that Ireland has not been properly governed ; and is , therefore , justified in calling for self-representation , while we give the following extracts from siatemen of older times in proof of the

      fact , that never has England , from the moment of her assumed dominion in Ireland , from 1169 , —done justice , or even attempted to do justice to the Irish people . Mr . Pitt says : —( a ) The Irish Constitution a deformed resemblance of the British . The evils ¦ wi th which Ireland is afflicted lie deep jn the situation of the country . But the imperfection of the Irish Constitution is admitted , and to that must be added the complicated grievances and defects of the state of the country at large , with respect to the want of a diffusion of property , to the extraordinary disparty of rank , and to the scanty means of social improvement , all producing , in a proportionate degree , misery in one extreme , and oppression in the other . If any institution be inadequate to pro-

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      vide an effectual remedy for these evils , it is , I do not hesitate to say , the Irish legislature . From its own nature it is , and must be , incapable of restoring the internal happiness of the country , and fixing the prosperity of the people . The Legislature , formed as it is , must remain radically defective . I have spoken an honest and fair opinion . " Mr . Dunaas , created Viaoount Melville , ia l 802 , saya : —( c ) " It is a melancholy truth , that there does not exist in the great body of the people of Ireland that confidence in the Parliament of Ireland , which is [ essential to its utility . I need not go far to search for

      the reasons of this essential defect , it grows out of the frame and constitution of the Parliament of Ireland . It is generally acknowledged that the poor of Ireland experience all the miseries concommitantto a state of want and wretchedness . " Lord Hawkesbort , afterwards Lord Liverpool , says : — ( c ) " The course of events which for some time past have taken place in Ireland , have firmly rivetted me in the opinion , that there must be something radically wrong in the internal situation of Ireland /' Mr . Windham says : —( d ) " I maintain that the disorders of Ireland have grown chiefly out of the

      constitution of Ireland , established for near a century and a half ; and it ib impossible that a Government dislocated in every limb , should enjoy health , or long survive those diseases , some slow , some acute , which are sickly of appeot and make her feeble of heart , but the seeds of the mischief are in the constitution itself . " Lord Grenville says : —( e ) " Does there or does there not : exist a necessity for a change in the system of the Irish Government . I declare I never conversed with any wellinformed man from Ireland who did not say that the present state of things , aa they now existed

      ia that country , could not continue consistent with tho general safety of the empire . " Mr . Addington Bays \—( f ) " It is a melanoholy but I fear an iucontestible truth , that the state of Ireland has at no period of its history with which we are acquainted been such as to afford satisfaction to any mind that can appreciate the conditions of civil society . The bounty of Providence has indeed been displayed in that country by a fertile soil , and by abundant means of internal improvement ; and prosperity ; its inhabi tknta have not been less distinguished than those of Great Britain , in corresponding stations of life , for

      eloquence , for literary and scientific acquirements , and for thoBe talents and exertions which have established the naval and military renown of the British empire . Their form of Government is the Bame as ours ; but it wants its true characteristic—it does not , like ours , bestow and receive general confidence and protection : it is not , like ours , connected with the ! indissoluble ties , with the obvious interests , the feelings , and the sentiments of the great body of the people . " Lord Auckland says : —faJ "Is it not true that , whilst Great Britain has advanced , Ireland , possessing the same climate , a fruitful soil , excellent ports , and a numerous people , to whom the Common Parent of all gave great acuteness and ingenuity , has nevertheless been involved in

      comparative disorder , poverty , turbulence , and wretchedness ! I might add , without exaggeration , that in the six hundred years since the reign of Henry II . there has been more unhappiness in Ireland than in ' any other civilised nation not actually under the visitation of pestilence or internal war , neither prosperity , nor tranquillity , nor safety were to ba expeoted from a Government , founded in the pretensions of a small part of the community , to monopolize the representation , patronage , and resources of the whole . The insufficiency of such a system has been felt and lamented for a century , and is become now more than ever unsatisfactory to the bulk of the Irish' nation , and utterly incompetent and unsafe with respect to the general interest of the British Empire . "

      Now , such are the recorded opinions of English Ministers and Statesmen as regards the constitution and government of Ireland , from the earliest days of British usurpation down to the close of the last century ; all bearing most forcibly upon the increased independence of Ireland . Thus we bring our charges of incapacity againBt the English ; Cabinet down to the year 1800 , upon the evidence of those great authoritieswhile the acknowledged condition of the Irish people , their unanimous demand for self-government aa the only means of redressing their grievances ,

      added to the unbroken ! chain of testimony of all Statesmen from 1800 , to the present time , that the disease , by which Ireland ia afflicted , was beyond cure , furnishes proof incontrovertible that England is not capable of governing Ireland , and bringing us to the natural conclusion , that Ireland must consequently be allowed to govern herself .. Wo have shewn that the battle of Ireland was before fought in America , and what has been , may be again ; and , who knows but once more the expatriated sons of Ireland , may be enabled to serve their fatherland , to which , although affording them no asylum ,

      their affections still cling , and in whom a hope to return to yet exists . For ourselves we confess that ; the odds are more than a thousand to one in favour of the nation against the Duke , the Viceroy , tho Attokney-General , tlje Ex-Chancellor , and the present oocupant of the Woolsack , with Sidmouth and Castlereagh at their back ; and therefore , after eight months continuous writing upon the subject , we olose our present remarks with our former declaration , that one of three sacrifices must now be made . The union by the Ministers ; the Irish priesthood by O'Cownell ; or G'Connell by the people .

      It is a melancholy fact , that even the admission of existing grievances must ba wrung from the fears rather than from the justice of our rulers as evinced in the present enquiries into theistate of Wales , at the instigation of Rebecca , and into those of Ireland , upon the demand of the nation .

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      ment , he has [ never been opposed to the Repeal question , cor \ to the great body of Repealers . When he joined the Repeal Association , he . cam © forward fob Iceland , and not for Mr . O'Connell . He came forward to aid in the carrying out of the great principles for which he had contended and struggled , when representing bis native county in the Imperial legislature . Has ow contemporary forgotten , thatj long before the Dublin World was called into existence , Mr . O'Connor had raised the shout for Repeal in the teeth and in defiance of the Whig aristocracy , the Bhoy-hoy" liberals of Cork

      that Mr . O'Connor was the man who forced Mr . O'Connell ; to the testing of the "Saxon" Parliament on this very question in the year 18341 that Mr . O'Connor throughout his publio career , since the timeUhat O'Connell made a " present " of him to the English ' ¦ ' Tory Radicals , " has unceasingly advocated the right and necessity of Ireland's legislating for herself , until the result was seen in the British masses ( to the number of nearly three millions and a half ) acknowledging ihe principle and demanding the " Repeal" in their memorable " National Petition" of 18411 that this paper (

      established by Mr . O'Connor ) , the senior of the World by some few years , has , from the first day of its existence ^ been the unyielding advocate of that " Repeal" which Mr . O'Conhell has ao often yielded to expediency , aud whiob , if he possibly can , he ; will yield again ? S Let the World remember these facts ; and it will surely be at no loss to comprehend why Mr . O'Connor was desirous of aiding his countrymen in their struggle for self-government . True , Mr . O'Connor—aye and others of the Chartist leaders who joined the Repeal body—had entertained feelings of hostility towards

      Mr . O Connell ; feelings engendered by his repeated betrayals of the principles of liberty , ( which we can prove if need be ) , and his disgusting libels of the working classes of this country ; but when they thought they saw him inclined to act honestly for once ; when they thought he was really in earnest in his agitation for the Repeal , they generously smothered their feelings of resentment , —honour to them !—and made sacrifice of their own wrongs on the altar of the common good . Should Mr . O'Connor be reproached for so acting I It might have been more va accordance with the loftier ideas of patriotism , seemingly entertained by the World , that Mr . O'Connor should have sacrificed iris

      duties as a public man to his resentments as a private man ; ' but we are not of the same opinion . Nay , more ; when the offers of co-operation on the part of Mr . O'Connor and the English Chartists were spurned by O'Connell and his tools and sycophants ; when in return for such proffered aid , Mr . O'Connor and his friends were , week after week , vilified and abused , calumny heaped upon calumny , and lie upon lie , Mr . O ' Connor did not retaliate ; he bore vituperation without deigning to notice his assailants ; and , week by week , his pen and tongue was j still employed in advocating their cause . In our opinion his only fault was , if he was faulty at all , that he bore with the vituperations of his slanderers too long .

      But the World continues : — " It is easy , " jsays our contemporaay , " to impute bad motives to a political rival or opponent ; " and k < were out advice considered of the least value by the Northern Star \ we would recommend it to deal less iu personal abuse ; of Mr . O'Connell . " j Now we begjto eay that we very often consider the advice of the World to be of no little value . There is no paper that wejread with more attention , and often with no email profit . What our contemporary may mean by " personal abuse" we hardly know . But this ! we do know , that the reading of

      the World ' s " gentlemanly" criticisms on the " errors" and " serious mistakes" of the "Repeal Association" has helped considerably , to open our eyes to the real character of the present agitation , and perhaps tended , in no slight degree , to produce those effusions ! from our pen which our contemporary is pleased to term " personal abuse . " Let the World refer to the back pages of the Northern Star from the time that the Repeal agitation assumed the { character of a reality , down to the Clontarf " blow-up" ; and show , if lie can , that from our pen one word of abuse of Mr .

      O'Connell emanated ! Up to the last moment that we could conscientiously do so . wa supported Mr . O'Connell , despite his " personal abuse" of us . It was only when the enemy struck that blow which Mr . O'Connell ; had courted , and showed their readiness to go to "law , " or to " war , " which he had so often " defied" them to do ; and when he then exhibited the spectacle of a " leader" without " measures , "andja" general" without" plans , " with which to meet and beat the power he had so "high and haughtily defied ; " it was then that we expressed our animadversions upon his conduct , in the tone and manner which bur judgment dictated to us was

      our duty . When we saw an offer made to sell 11 Repeal" for " { FEDERALISM" ; when we saw shamelessly exhibited O'Connell ' s willingness to truckle and compromise—to barter and betray the hopes and prospects of the too-confiding people of Ireland , for the sake ( as we believed ) of his own personal safety ; if , then that we denounced , fearlessly and honestly , the condact of the would-be betrayer . " What we have written , we have written . " We have exposed fraud and falsehood ; and if such exposures are deemed by our contemporary to be " personal abuse , " we willingly plead guilty to the " soft impeachment . "

      But the World says something about " imputing motives . " We have saidwe read our contemporary . We do so ; and Ifrom another article in the same page in which , is that on which we are commenting , we find something like " motives imputed" to the Repeal patriots , jas the moving springs of their patriotism , which ; we submit to the reader throws us ( upon all ordinary occasions ) into the shade . In commenting upon the " charge" of Judge Burton , the Editor of the World administers a well deserved flagellation to the "liberal" hacks who are now bawling against the partial application of the law . "Short-sighted scribes , " says the World : — I

      " Can you not [ call to mind when the Whigs had undertaken a crusade against the Chartists , bringing the Six Acts to bear upon them , and throwing them into dungeons , that we wam « d you in how short a tijie this harsh treatment might furnish a precedent for dealing vigorously with the Irian Repealers ?" But , adds thej World , the Government is more desirous of awingj than punishing their political adversaries : andw—i

      " The Bapealers ^ npon the other hand , we mean the leaders o ! the party , are as innocent a set of fellows as ever engaged ia a conspiracy . They have marched , talked , collected money and spent it merrily , but they never meditated a rebellion . What , though they spoke of fighting men , they had no notion of Oghting . as their counsel will assert in the Queen ' 8 Bench , should it bacome necessary ,- and thea , as for their

      warsongs , they were ( harmless effusions . The beat thing Sir Robert Peel can do is to send a batch of The Yonng Ireland * lawyerlings to mangle law in the Colonies , and appoint a score or two of other patriots , who are ready to die for fatherland , to lucrative sitoations in the Cttstonis , Excise , and Constabulary Force ; and thea withdraw his superfluous military power . The Whigs did this , and they sneceeded ; and the Tory Premier should profit by the example . "

      If our contemporary does not mean to " impute motives" here , thisn do we not understand him . If he is not afteir this charged with " personal abuse" of the immaculate patriots of the Corn Exchange , then were ! we never more mistaken . What ! to " impute" to the " Liberator" Tqm Steele , and Co ., that they have " collected money , and spent it merrily" ! that > ' though they spoke of fighting ,

      they had no notion of fighting" ! that "their war songs , " those " thoughts that breathe and words that burn , " meant ] nothing at all , at all !! and were mere " harmless effusions" ! that" Young Ireland " would forget its " jhigh and haughty resolves" " to die for fatherland ] " and would sell all its hopes of anti-Saxon nationality , and tho restoration of the glories of Brian Borihome , for " lucrative situations" iu the " Colonies , the Customs , the Excise , and Constabulary" . ' ! O hideous ° personal

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      abuse" ! " The Whigs succeeded by such vile means ; and the Tory Premier might profit by the example" ! O ! monstrous ** imputation" ! Lgfc oar contemporary look to itt We will not venture to advise him ; but fearful are we , that unpopular as the Northern Star is at the Corn Exchange , the World is likely ta be , if possible , still more unpopular . One question more and we have done ; the World , in commenting upon present agitations and present associations , asks : —

      " Even as regards the principles © f the Charter , must it not be obvious to the Northern Slat that they were as fully appreciated forty years ago , and perhaps mora prudently and respectably advocated , than they are at the present hoar ? " ¦¦ .. We answer No . Surely our contemporary must have been asleep to what has been going on in ' * the World" for the last "forty years" when he put to us the above question . Forty years ago , the principles of the Charter were hardly known . The Riceuonds , the Foxes , the Greys and others , who bad some years before , spouted " Universal Suffrage "

      as a party clap-trap , had , like the "heaven-born " Minister , shelved " the principles of the Charter , " and were busied only with denouncing Pitt and the War ; whioh war they afterwards carried on as " vigorously" as Pitt had done , when once they obtained place and pay . The great mass of the people , drunk with " blood and glory , " hounded on by assassin-like priests and prostituted writers , were madly engaged in the cru « sade against the " principles of the Chahter * " under cover of a struggle to put down " Jacobinism" and "Atheism . " The famed "

      Corresponding Society" had ceased to exist . Thel ' walL i Hobne Tookb , Habpt , and Other advocates of the " principles of tho Charter , " unable to stem the torrent of popular delusion , bad retired into private life . Hunt was unknown ; and Cobbett had not yet put forth the energies of his giant mind in support of those principles . Such was the real Btate of things w forty years" ago . How different now . The people of Britain have bought their experience dearly , and it has not been lost upon them . They now look back with loathing upon the "triumphs" and " victories" of forty years ago , and execrate their own folly and the villainy of

      tbeir deluders . Now , millions have given their adhesion to the principles of the Charter , and flock in thousands to listen to their exposition and assertion . These principles , either under the uncompromising name of Chartism-, or the new-fangled names supposed to be more palateable to the middle classes , are steadily advancing in the local governments , and gradually acquiring Municipal power . The number of its champions in the Legislature are at least as numerous as they were forty years ago ; and the Chartists have , confessedly , the balance of power in many of the electoral districts : and are rapidly acquiring power among the electoral body .

      But the World says that the principles were " perhaps more prudently and respectably advocated than they are at present . " Perhaps they were not . At the period the World speaks of , honest Major Cartwright was the only " advocate" of the principles of the Charter . Major Cartvtright ! was indeed , in the best sense of the word , " respectable ; ' ! for he was honest . " Comparisons are odious , " says the proverb ; and we da not think it worth while to compare present with past names , or we might shorr that both within and without "the House '' the principles of the Charter are advocated by parties at least as " respectable" as those by whom they were advocated

      forty years since . Our contemporary should remember that there may be more than one definition of the word " prudence . " It may be that in other days oar principles have been " prudently" advocated in the way that the World" imputes" to the present Repeal agitators , with a " prudent" eye to their own personal ends . Yes ; the " principles of the Charter " have , erenow , been advocated by those who sought and were quieted by " lucrative situations" in the " Colonies , " the "Customs , " and the "Constabulary . " Thank God such " prudential" agitation of our principles no longer exists . In lien thereof we have the principles advocated honestly ; and whatever the World may think , that is the sort of pru-Jcutiai" ana " respectable agitation to our taste .

      Yea those principles are advancing , Forty yeara have not rolled by in vain . The mind of the masses is at last thoroughly awakened . There may be pauses ; there may be defeats ; apathy may occasionally take the place ef action : but "Onward" is the motto and " Forward" is the cry , " No peace with ttranny" we have inscribed upon our banners , and we will wage to " victory , " our contest with oppression ! " Come it slow or come it fast The Charter shall be won at last !"

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      THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOUR . The world a short time since was informed that Mr . Thomas Attwood , was again " coming out . " That he was prepared with a plan to unite all parties , and a remedy for all existing ills . " What can it all mean V has been in every body's mouth ever since the time of this startling announcement Birmingham was beat up , and canvassed for a " vote of confidence" in Mr . Attwood , and sixteen thousand expectants were found gullible enough to express their " confidence" in the man before they knew anything of his intended measures ! At

      length , after many mysterious announcements of what would be seen by and by , this week has brought us a document from the v ^ n of Mr . Awwood , addressed to the sixteen thousand ^ which , for superlative and inimitable fudge , is unmatchablo amongst all the specimens of " prose run mad" thai it has ever been our lot to peruse . We have no room for this precious specimen of ex-legislative wisdom this week ; next week we may give it , and attempt an analizition of its component parts : if indeed that be possible . In the meantime , we may inform our readers that "the Mountain" has not laboured in vain ; it has " brought forth ""A MOUSE" !

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      Suicide in Wimbleton Park . —On Monday evening , Mr . Carter held an inquest at the Rose and Crown , Wandsworth , on the body of Mr . John Davisou , aged 51 , who was found hanging to a tree in Wimbledon Park , on the morning of Saturday last . Mr . John Brown , of Streatham , gardener , stated that deceased resided at bis house . He hid formerly been a copper-plate cleaner , but in consequence of some injury he had sustained in his right hand he had discontinued that line of business , and had subsequently followed that of a coffee-roaster . He had resided in White Lion-court , Seven-dials , but , in consequence of ill-healthhe had come "to

      , reside at witness ' s house , with a friend of his . His mind was in an unsettled state * On Friday moraing last , he quitted the house , about half-past tett o clock , having previously ordered his dinner . . As he did not return that night Witness and his friends went in search , but could learn nothing respecting him . Witness , on the following morning , hearing that a man had been found hanging in Wimbletonpark , went to the Rose and Crown , and id entified the body . Several witnesses deposed to a kaowleogB of deceased , and to the previous state of his mind « and the jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed his own life , being at the time ia an on * sound state of mind .

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      CHARTISM AND REPEAL . THE DUBLIN WORLD AND THE NORTHERN STAR . The Editor of the Dublin World , in acknowledging the compliment we honestly paid him some time back , namely , that he was " evidently not subsidised by the managers at the Corn Exohauge" ; has embraced the opportunity thereby afforded of taking Mr . O'Connor to task for certain supposed inconsistencies ; and , at the same time , has condescended to administer a little advice to us , which , though we may demur to its propriety , we have no doubt was honestly intended , and in the like spirit it shall be responded to .

      Differing , in Mo , from the " Free Trade" notions and occasionally other views put forth by the World , we have , at the same time , always respected what we have deemed to be the honest convictions of our contemporary ; and where honesty reproves or advisesj we trust that we shall ever be found willing to bow to reproof when deserved , or to act upon that advice when our own judgment tells us that it was needed .

      First with respeot lto Mr . O'Connor , the World says : — " The Repeal Association may have committed errors —we think it baa been guilty of serious mistakes bnt the Northern Star should be the last to accuse it , seeing how lately tnoBe « whom it delights to honour' were eager to join its ranks . To be candid , and without meaning any discourtesy , we must be allowed to say , that had we thought aa ill of Mr . O'Connell as Mr Feargts O'Connor has for a long while declared he does ! we never would have solicited permission to be enrolled a Corn Exchange associate . If you doubt a man ' s political honesty , it is worse than folly to seek a connexion with him . "

      It is trua that Mr . O'Connor has thought ill of Mr . O'Connell , and has'had but too good reason for so thinking . But if Mr . O'Connor has been opposed to one individual of the great Repeal move-

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      ( a ) See Debret ' s Parliamentary Register , 3 rd Sessions Par ., vol . p . 612 , « 13 , and 623 . ( b ) Ditto vol . 7 , p . 708 and 724 . ( c ) Ditto vol . 7 . p . 673 ( d ) Ditto vol . 7 , p . 736 . ( ej Ditto vol . 8 , p . 262 . ( f ) Ditto vol . 8 , p . 48 . CoJ Ditto vol . 8 , p . 331 , 332 .

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      - ¦ - ¦ ? . ~» m > -. « .. ~ . SCOTCH JUSTICE (?) versus FREE DISCUSSION . Our readers will remember onr comments last week upon the illegal and tyrannical treatment of Mri Jeffert by the Edinburgh Sheriff ; we have now to record the capture and treatment of Thk Man Paterson . " He writes" On Tuesday evening week , I was apprehended on a warrant for contempt of Court , and to answer foe disturbing the public meeting in the Waterloo Rooms . I was kept in a dark cell fourteen hours , they refusing to take bail , although it was offered to any amount-. When brought before the sheriff , yesterday , alter ascer taining I was indicted for next week , he adjourned my case till Monday week , on my finding bail . "

      The trials of Paterson and Robinson for "blasphemy" are probably on by this time . The result shall , in due course , be made known to our readers . We request our Edinburgh friends to send us a paper containing reports of the trials , as soon 83 published .

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      A . THE N O RTHERN STAR .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 11, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1238/page/4/