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      TVvAlTCE . —The new Ministry seems disposed ioh-JT :-jurihe war pany ; at kas £ w far as the keeping up of an armament is cenceraed . 1- ^ Paris Journals of Monday , contain Tery Ettl- ¦ it - . ts of aay interest . The scow prevented the Hi . -il of the mails from the provinces , and ia Paris litik was talked of besides the question of the fortifications . A . " v : g the strange rumours current on Monday Ka , : o the eff . et chat the Greas P-jTversiad re-Bo : v ..-i ; .- > erect Syria aud Candauuto an independent Cnri ? t : an Sraie , after the example of Greece , and thi . 1 ire KAnjjs of Naples and " Sardinia were in ihe $ _ J as candidates for ihe Cro . wu for younger br . : '• :- > of their rc .-pective families .

      A . ; me accounts received from Germany announced that preparations for w&r vrere tT ^ ry where throughou : : t-. > confederation in progress . Ihe- trarrison of Luxemburg h » 3 been placed on the- ^" ir fooling , and the inhaiitai . ts ordered to suppi ; =:. shelves with provisions for six months . GoTjrKjcHEXT are in coarse of ts ^ in ? steps to deprh :- ; ' - post-masters of all t ' -e provincial towns of the rvTiieges they haTe hitherto enj > ved for keeping S ri ~ - ¦ b- - > xes and accounts , and ruskm .. ; rp letter-» , or merchants , traders , and gentlemen in the Covr- ' . / T . The proceeds are to be appiied to the geii-. r . ii revenue of the Post-offito—no doubt with the v . ; iy of covering , in a smail decree , the defickr : y which has been found tc > arise from the icbj :-:- of ihe "penny-post . — Cumlerland Paccuet .

      i ks . Earl of Cardigan ha 3 a ^ ain taken the Ilela . The B < Mik Imp of ihe Eleventh Hussars hag again -5 L ; t . DgUi = hed £ im > eif . A ^; n haa Lord Hiil tee ; . ¦ :- ? ed upon to characterise u-e merits of the 'Wa . 'r-. i of Brighton—the hero of the " Moselle' "ifc . * - ' :.= -d of prury-laae . Doc ' jt Sandliam , whose hj-i ^ i fate it is to serve , or rather to tuffur , in the Eevapih—committed the mutinous oneice of k-avin ? the . " iiirch ( whither , in obedience 10 the Eiri .-ord : r ? , he had accompanied the troops ) by the small ^ afe , i .. s lordship having a deeded prejudice in iLvoi }~ of the larger c-ne . The aor-tor being reprims ^ i . d for this breach of duty , straightway laid his grev ) .. ? - before L :-rrt Hill ; who , for " the third time , * dm > u > htd the gallant colonel .

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      Tk £ CJ 31 TOS of the S y dney Gazette , ilr . George Will « uj Ilobcriion , Las bee .-, sanwneed to pay a flue < jf i"J >\ i to ihe- Q , aeen , a ;; a to bj imprisoned , twelve inon us , iwr a lix » ei on Captain } tiass , 01 her Majssiy ' s fhij .- jJzraJd . bi-uKK fOB Wages at Foei P-silip . —The Sun g& Y * " ^ o have heard with con .-icitrabie pain that , d ' -trm ^ the las s week ., symptoms have maiiit ' esteu the ^ -iifes of a combination ainon ^ &t the journeymen . srpenters and joiners v ! Melbourne , for the part ! - - « : of obtaining from their employers a higiirr rate -., ; ) Ta . £ es . "VW * are informed thai on a previous © cc 2 ? : ' - . n there was a similar suike . and that the xn&s-. v : s had to yield and give them : wo-shillings per da \ a .-uiuonal , and that the same rate of advance is % & pr ..- - -ut demanded . " A g ^ eat kaxt persons ( the Colombia Observer say ? ;> o ) hive been poisoned at Ctjion , by ( aking unfrhoi ^ ivaie turde .

      Jo >~ ph Howi :, —The brn ' a natter of the Eton TTiiM-j v \" orkb . ouse , has been disDiiised by the Comtpk- ! - - i- ^ ra . A > w Bastile is now ercctirg on Shaw Heath , Eeai > : ockport , at a cost to the ruit-payers of £ 30 U 0 . Ijp . Ijattt -. the Equestbiak , has been fined £ 50 bj i- ' Brighton ALa ^; stratrS , ori ihe information aad compiUiu ; of ihe lessets of tiw theatre in thai town , for i ... v , j ^ ' wiihynt amhori ' . y , or license , as required by tr . c iiiitute , caused vo be acted for gain or reward , » n eiiit-riiiiiTnem of th < .- sta ^ e , or pantomime , called Tne ' . j . one Kins . or the Magic Eagle . The case is to be removed into a higher court .

      Jl ' . v 5 hot , xeas Yoek . —On Monday , in lasi TFcrh . iir . John ilovre , who has been assaulted , and , fc-i . ieqnenuj , carried with him a pistol , for p ro : <; . ¦ ¦ : ku , was reluming from Fu . 'ford to York , be ¦^¦ ^¦ i suet by several drunken men , one of whom in £ u .:-rJ and striitK at him . Moore puiied out h ^ s pL = ioi , and > -hot him . Moore wis jpiT ?! .- - - a ' v ' y seized , and taken in : o custody . He has f ine- ; c -nj ' held to bail , himself in £ 2 o 6 , and two furt : \ cs : n £ ' 160 each , to answer the charge at the nex ; \ - ; .-ze =. How fortunate for Mr . Moure thai his c . r . e 3 was ou ' -y shooting a man . 2 Had he been eoli-. CwTig mouey for the Charter , no bail would have ieen ¦ -: cn .

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      R . r-:-r < AL of the Parties i ? tve 5 Ted with Power ¦ T " ' .. - ^ L " . C : i ^ jL . 11 OX , TO PKKUtT THi ' . K DeeD- TO B £ i :-v iR £ D i : < ro . —At an k-qnest lai-.-ly held i > er 1 ire iir . " 'V ^ k : ey , ; hai gentitmaii Eaid , " lie regr . tted to obst ?• _ that attcmpts _ had recently been made to prev .. prisoners giving evidence as to dea : h , in ase- uf thosa who had been conflusd with them . Fro _ . ' . ; - p-. iolic papers , he hid found t > : a ; inquesrs had hi ~ - ~ . i held at Woolwich upon seven convicts who had iir i of fever , and that the authorities had refu-. i permission for the fellow-prisoners" to be examined . He tad no hesitation in saying that by law ; -- Coroaer could command their attendance to give . -l .-ienee , and that the acrhcri : ;^ were lisfcle to b ~ p ^ . ii = hed for refusing . Such a circumstance Tras ui .-.-t alarming , and required the earliest inves--fcga ; - 0 D .

      HoB-ilBLE 31 CRBER , AND McnLATIOX OF A CHILD . —A "" v .: naif-pa ;; one o ' clock on Friday afternoon , &s Captain Prc-scott , of Park-street , Waiworth , was « ro ? - ; : ng Waterloo Bridge , arcomvauied by Mr . ThoniHS Isaac , of 5 , Seymour Pi ace , he found a brovvii pipsr parcel lying on the parapet of the bridge , inside of which w&o a ; tout iin ^ n s '> &et , in wlu > . a ~ -3 wrapped a fuli-grown ma ' e cMld , ap ;> arentiy aT ^ ut five ' day 3 old , and evidently born aiive . The aeaa was completely severed from the bo 3 y , * e al ^ o were th e less asd arms . Tha arms irere cm

      Off j ^ .-t ibove the wrist , and aga ; n above the elbow ; And the legs were severed above the ancle , anci « g&in ai ^ vs the knee . About the body there were *! so » f ver&I deep maims and cashes : the face of the poor iniiocent was not at all disfigured . It was thouK-H by some that the child might have'beeu inntiL » : e < i through the motLer being delivered by instruments ; bus a medical gentleman present said it w ^ 3 not so—that the chila had evidently been Biurd-r-d . The remains huv-i been rtmoved Xo the hoa ^ e of a surgeon adjacent . The affair has crested % most extraordinary sessation in the

      neighbourhood . Misebt a > t > DEsrrrroox . —On Tuesday , an inquesi was held at the Carpenters' Arms , "Brookgtreet , Lambeth , bef . re Mr . Caiier , coroner for Surrey , ou view of the body of Richard Pratt , agnl fony-fivc , who , with his Eister ( tow in Lambeth woikhouse ) were discovered in a taLe of tha utmost misery and destitution , a ! a misers bl 3 abode in Trafalgar-couri , the house being nearly destitute of furuuure . From the evidence , it appear * d that the deccaseU dkd of hunger and cold , he being found Ijing cu the bare Hoor , without covering , no profisions oeicg found in the house , but a few potatoes and ouijns . The Jury rei'imed a "vtrdic :, " That Hhi deceased died from * exh 6 u = tioc , produced by the Wans , of the commua necessaries of Hfe , and expogure vj ihe cold , during vhe present inclement

      SE-aors Accident ok the Black wall Railway . —Art accident occurred on rhis line of railway , which it Is feared will terminate fatally , on Tuesday evening last . At about a quarter past nine o ' clock , U > ir . Bowles , cafh taker , at the Bi&ckwall termiuus , wa 3 walking along the line between the New-road branch and tha Pop ' iar station , the down train came up , and , proceeding , on ah inciined plane , it was at full epeed . Mr . Bowles , being afflicted with deafness , d ) d cot hear the approach o , the train in time to escape from the line . Ho wa 3 knocked down , * nd picked ap in a state of total in-Bensibiiity . His jaw-bone was broken , the lower lip split down to tne chin , and a wound of frightful extent ir-flicted in the side of the neck , close to th * base of the skull . The unfortunate gentleman waa removed to his own residence , where he nuw lies , with but faint hopes of recovery .

      Dreadful Shipwreck . —Loss op the Stkakeb Thamls ± sb Sixxr Live ? . —Iiitilh ^ cnce has jus t keen received of the mdancholy loss of the London » nd Dublin Company ' s steamers , Thames , on her Toyage from Dsblin to Lonooa , on the south-west rocks of the Scilly Islands , and all on board , con-¦ isting of from 60 to 70 persons , drowned , with the txception of & lady , two stewardeesei , and one man . When the restel w * 8 discovered in her perilous « itufcfcion by the isl * nder » , their boat * were aground , bnt with great efforts they succeeded in launching a whale-boat through the breaker * , and getting her mnder the item of the Tbame * . The cosmaader , Gtpt . Gray , ionsisd on the fem&Iet being first homed therein-, and unfortunatriy , % » » oon m a lady * ad two Btowwdessea had be « n plio « d there , the boat broke and drove off the i dThi

      Adrift , » c , » vraa pereeiTed by ft g&Oing boat , which toyk her ia tow , and sucoeeded with grett risk , in towing her to the shore in safety . By this time the wind incicaied almott to % hurriase , which rendered it impogf ibie for * ny other boat to approach the vessel . Captain Gray then formed a raft , on which » great many of the crew rot . bnt it was almost immediately dished against fiie rocks , and all the poor fellows thereon met a watery grave , -mth the exception of . one man , - who was miraculously thrown on a perpendicular rock , Where he remained till ihe following day , when he was rescued in an eshaasied state . ( The vessel became a complete wreck , sad the remainder of the « rew pemhed . Very little of tbe cargo ia saved Seventeen bodie 3 havo been picked np , bat of the resiel tijere ia act a vestige to be seen .

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      FaOM OTJB IXiXDO'S C 0 RRESPOM > E . VT . Wednesday Evening , Jan . 13 . 'A . The Weaihek , &c , ix Loxoon . —Snow , snow , snow All last night and all the day ; the severe frost having partially broken op , the metropolis ia almost impassable for equestrians , dangerotu for pedestrians , &u < i inseenre for all Borta of conveyances ; while moat of the country vehicles- are many hours behind their accustomed time . Business thus impeded , and every thing gloomy , the general conversation assumes an equally gloomy tone ; Ihe awfully sudden end of Scott the diver , the murder and mutilation , a la Grtenacre , of the poor child whose * remains were found on Monday , ( and which , being so fully reported in the daily press , I need not farther refer t » , j form the aliengros&ing topics of discourse , save , now and then , biiag enlivened by the detail of some recent railway tnllirions , ¦ whica are looked upon as mere ordinary occurrences .

      Wi > DOTf-TAXES verttu Chaetisic—On Friday last , a mooting of the householders of St . M&rylebone , convened by advertisement , by the window-tax repeal committee , was held at the Mechanics' Institution Tavern , Cross-street , New Road . The advertisement calling the meeting stated , Lnlarse capital * , " N . B , No 0 TH £ K BUSINESS WILL BE CONSIDERED ; " but , at seven o ' clock , the hour announced for taking the chair , there was a strong muster of the members of the Charter Association present , and but very few of the window-tax committee . Repeated calls were made for a chairman , which tbe committee paid no attention to ; when , at leDgth , the Rads placed Mr . Hill ( a respectable householder of the parish ) in the chair , who , after calling on that portion of the committee who were present to enter upon the business of the evening , ( which

      tLey declined doing , on the ground that so few of their number were in attendance , ) said , he regretted the absence of the mnjorily of the cemniittee ; but , as he had been plaeed in the chair , he would do his utmost to give every one who might address the meeting a fair hearing . Mr . Savage , in a brief address , moved the fc-llowipg resolution : — " That this meeting recommend the committee for the repeal of the 'vrindow-tax to obtain a requisiti 9 n to the vestry , to call a public meeting of the inhabitants , to consider the propriety of petitioning the legislature to totally repeal tXls obnoxious ani odious impost . " Mr . Nicholson , one of the repeal committee , seconded the resolution , contending that agitation , besides repealing the window-Ux , would greatly assist the Chartist cause ; he professed himself a Chartist in principle , but wished the Chartists

      to join the committee , in order to obtain a > repeal of the window-tax . Mr . George Lovett , a working man , did not like the resolution ; he c * usidertd something more than % repeal of the winrtow-tax was required ; ridiculed the Mea of petitioning so many times for that object ; alluded , in a forcible manner , to the fate of even the National Petition for tbe Peopled Charter ; and contended that Universal Suffrage was the only m * ans of obtaining a repeal of tbe irineiow-tax , or of any other obnoxious impost . He concluded by proposing , as an amendment , " That we , the householders and inhabitants of the Borough of Marylebone , ia public meeting assembled , do hereby protest against the odious windowtax ; but believe that the only effectual remedy for remoTing all unjust taxes will be by obtaining Universal Suffrage . " This amendment was seconded by Mr . M'Kindley , and supported by Mr . Scott , who said it was of no benefit to -working men to join the middle

      classes in nibbling off the leaves of the political tree ; they were determined not to be gulled any longer , for they would go to the root of the evil at once , by means of Univtrsal Suffrage , and nothing short of it . Mr . Jordan also supported the amendment , and said he ¦ was opposed to sending any requisition to the vestry , foT tbe parish beadles and tax-collector * were statioued at th'j door , to prevent any person entering whose coat ¦ was green , or who might not be a householder -, thus provii ! » that tbe Vestry have no sympathy with the inhabitants at large of the Borough . He recommended the People ' s Charter as the best means of getting rid of al ) oppressive taxes , and sat down amid loud applause . Dr . Webb , and Messri Campbell and Ball , then severally addressed the meeting in favour of the original resolution ; which , however , on being put , was lsst , and th © amendment of Mr . Lovett carried by an almuit unanimous vote . Mr . Scott then proposed thre * cheers for Feargus O'Connor , which were given in a most enthusiastic manner : at were also three

      cnesrs for Frost , Wi . liams , and Jones , and all political victims ; and three more for the People's Charter ; when ta-j meeting peaceably separated . MKKiihG a > d Festival for jhb Be > efit op the Political Victims . —Ou Mond » y evening , a very numerously attended meeting , at which various enttr-ainnients were produced , took ploce at the spacious Social Institution , John-street , Tottenham Court Road ; the proceeds of the occasion being devoted W the Political Victim Fond . It « u foand that the lower hall , though capable of accommwdatiug 2 * 0 couple to da . ncs , -would not accommodate more than 1- ^ . i the conip&ay ; and accordingly the large toohls up stairs were placed at the disposal of the committee , wLtere music , singing , and soelal conversation reigned paramount ; while below , the disciples of Terpsichore " threaded the m » s : y dance on light f&ntutic toe . " till a late hour . Some capital songs were sung during the evening ; many good things were said and done , and a tru ' iy festive night was spent by all , to the great benefit of the funds .

      Mi . MATrnE REvoi . rTio ? f i * S ? . Jihes ' s Park . — On ennday last , about noon , as about thirty -f the meuxittd guard -were on their way from Buckingham Pab . ce to the Hcrsa Guards , S'jnte young men , who wtre engaged peltirg each other with sns ^ r-bills , let fly , either by accident or design , a few of them at the soldiers . The lstter , instead of moving forward , when , in all probability , they w « uld have escaped further anneyance , turned exceedingly wrathful upon the yout ' as , and one or two drew their swords ; a shower of snow-bails immediately followed ; the young men stood to their mark , the soldiers evidently receiving some clumsy thumps ; and for fully s quarter of

      an honr , an incessant shower of bj . Us rattled against the soldiers' trappings . At length , the foot-guirds sent an escort , and two or three policemen arriving at the same time , the " mimic war" was concluded , by the assailants gntting , and seeking protection on the ice . Several , however , were apprehended , and on ITonday some of them were convic ' . ed at Bow-street , of the offence ; aoad various Hieasores of punishment were awarded , either according to the magnitude of the offence , or to the share tik * n in it by the delinquents ; one young t" ^" , very respectably connected , was sentenced to a muDilfs imprisohmuat and hard labour , while others were merely fined 3 vs . £ 1 , or 5 s .

      A STORT has lately gone the " round" of the press about " a changeling ; " in which a black child is ingeniously substituted for a -white one . It may be satisfactory to know , now that everybody has been as much interested , as though the occurrence hid been real , that the paragraph is merely a very clever hash-up of a tale Bome twenty-four years old ; and is no doubt the production of a " liner , " who , driven to his wit ' s end during the recent dearth ut true news , dished up that story for a dinner , which has interested so many wondering thousands . The original circumstance from which the details are taken , occurred at the Liverpool Lying-in Hospital , near a quarter of a centnry since , and was enacted by a " lady" who called in her carriage to select a wetnurse , accompanit-tl by a biack footman : the inference is not very creditable to ota aristocracy .

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      ON THURSDAY , ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY YORKSHIREMAN TO DO HIS DUTY . Ox Thursday every Yorkshirem » n will do his ducy , and till Thursday , Yorkshire expects every Englishman to furnish the means of the full and effitient performance of duty . Never have we bad such an opportunity of proclaiming the strength of our cause , the virtue of our people , and the

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

      Whisk ery , If the n&tioa * l voiee can be soothed by pretext and promise ; if the people , by x » et of hired jugglers can be turned from their course ; and if confidence e » n be restored to the of I -convicted traitors ; then may Chartism wait upon treason , and Universal rightc ilumber in the tomb . Our frieadi will bear in mind , that the sute trick was Attempted to be played by the tottering Whigs is 1837 , fct the very eomnencement of the seation , when hypocrites met to build monuments to those m * rtjr » who died for the principles which the Old

      Mortality" Ben would commemorate by statues of cold Barbie , while they have filled their dungeon with those who would have stamped them upon the heart , and would have m * de them the basis of Universal right . Remember that then , O 'Connor , singlehanded , and alone , met thirty-seven Whig members of Parliament , and unaided , save by the working men , after & seven hours' debate , carried an amendment for Universal Suffrage , and thns met the trick upon the threshold , and defeated treachery at the very outset . This was to have been the signal for a series of " practical * meetings to keep the Whigs in ; bat being promptly met , and triumphantly defeated ,

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

      post is manned , that every Chartist is on his ground . Leicester is to be followed by a similar demonstration at Manchester , another at Birmingham , and a whip in the metropolis , at an hour when the slaves cannot attend . If we succeed , however , at LeedB , all further experiment will be abandoned : and therefore , the eyes of the nation should be turned to this great and mighty event ; this first challenge of a now , this last effort of an old , faction . If all former proceedings of our party have been confined to our columns , let it be borne in mind that the proceedings of the 2 lst will be conveyed to the furthermost corner of the earth , upon the wings of the Imperial press . They would gladly pass off the

      demonstration as the mere experiment of an unfledged party ; but they have so unwittingly bound up the strength of Whiggery with the result , that no sophistry can now separate them . On Thursday , they will cry " Hear us ! oh 1 hear us 1 or fear ye to hear the truth ! " While we have been listening to them , and feeling their stripes for eight long years , they forget that they were fatigued to impatience , in a few moments , by the humble prayer and respectful petition , of oue million two hundred and fifty thousand claimants for justice . Did they hear tho nation speaking as one man , even for one night ! No ; they laughed at the appeal , and condemned without trial .

      The day or trial has passed away , and we have now arrived at the day of judgment . Honest politicians should rely upon practical aad substantial acts for popular applause , and not be compelled to court favour , with specious phrase , in the very teeth of practical oppression . What new claim have they to lay to our favour ? what new title to plead to our support ! On Thursday night , V / higs and Whiggery , Government and the Chronicle , will have reason to regret the error into which folly and ignorance has precipitated them : while Baines , in extacy and triumph , may rejoice , and exclaim ,

      " Thou cans'fc not tay I did it . " No ! had the judicious advica of the Mercury been taken and actt d upon , we should have dealt locally with the Fox and Goose club ; we should not have ri quired forces beyond tho borough precincts to settle accounts with our neighbours ; while Whig- , gery should isave waited for the result before it made itself parly to the experiment : but having proclaimed a national display , and haviDgprovided an entertainment , the very seats whereof are to cost the sum of £ 600 , surely , nothing short of a Whig benefit could have been in contemplation ! Did ever play bill present promise of more amusement ! Every favourite actor is announced as bein& engaged for the performance , and , in order to ensure a select

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

      With great pride , we put this question to our millions of readers : —Was ever camp so faithfully and vigilantly watched , as we have watched ours bince the commencement of the campaign ! Have we been once caught napping at our poot Ha 3 the garrison been once surprised through the negligence or treachery of its only sentinel ! Since the Middle Class Committee was prorogued ; since the Corn Law League was dispersed over the country ; since tho Ballot-monger .- - , Albert ' s slave staff , the education-mongers , emigration-mongers , and legality-mongers have

      presented themselves , have we not watched their every movement , disclosed their every stratagem , and reported their every defeat ! Aye , we have . But these were only skirmishes , mere detail tquabUing . On the 21 st , we Cv > me to the grand battle , the recognition of the principle . Ou that day , England , in tha capital of its most important county , must proclaim h « r freedom , or admit herself a willing ¦ lave . On that day all England will be represented at Leeds ; aye , and Scotland and Wale 3 also . We will have no retreating , no evasion , no finesse Let the whole intermediate time be spent in deliberation

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

      Those who have read the controversy , between all other descriptions of Suffrage and Universal Suffrage , of which we undertook tho defence , have now the whole case before them ; and who can for a moment withhold his voice in favour of the lattor ? Have we not demolished every shadow of a shado of sophistry , enlisted by our opponents in their pigmy war against our natural rights ? Have we k-ft them an hair ' s-breadth of resting ground to stand upon ! And , while , they talk of differences in our ranks , are they , any two of them , agreed upon their details ! while they admit the principle , upon which they agree , to consist in keeping tub Tobies

      OCT . They call you tyrants and exclusionists , and yet , parodoxically enough , say you have no power 1 They call you tyrants , while you triumph by reason only ; and their dungeons are full of victims , whose only crima was opposing brute-force by moral persuasion They call you exclasionists , while they refuse to you that which they possess themselves ! You seek not to dispossess any man of his right , but merely to arm yourselves with legitimate power , which being exclusively monopolised by others , has caused England to degenerate into a slave-land , and her people into serfs .

      You were neuter tyrant 3 nor exclusionists when yon prostituted yourselves in 1812 , and listed under the false colours of a treasonable rabble of the hungry aristocracy . When your drunken carcases staggered under the weight of your own prostitution—when you proclaimed yourselves regicides , homicides , incendiaries , burglar * , robbers , pluuderarc , tad ( coffers at women , then yon were a moral , virtuous , lober , religious , life-respecting , property-preserving people . But now that you have become strong in virtue , and threaten to defy the tempter , you are a band of murdering , propertydestroying Infidels , although not a single crime can be laid to your charge .

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

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      REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF EMANCIPATION AND REFORM . The present position of Ireland—the boasted boons , especially those of Emancipation and Reform—together with the recent declaration of many Protestant landlords , as to their future intentions towards their Catholic tenantry , as coupled with a consideration of the suffrage by which one man's

      property constitutes another man ' s vote—induces us , nay , compels us , as ¦ journalists , to take a retrospect of the effect of those measures upon that country , her people , ber rulers , her leaders , and her aristocracy , for the last twelve years . We pass over all antecedent time , as the lapse of ages whose bloody landmarks were to hare been shaken by Emancipation in 2829 , and which were to have been wholly uprooted by Reform in 1832 .

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

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

      had a right to look upon the new light of reform as that bright and shining lamp , which was progressively , but surely , to lead all to that state of equality , upon which persons of all denominations should live , and by whioh aloue we can hope for peace on earth , and good will among men . Wo looked upon Emancipation as a sure stepping-stone to this desirable object . How often have we written the fact , that with the most perfect religious equality , civil disabilities may exist to a frightful exteut , while civil equality is sure to level all religious differences ; and , yet how the fanatic will fight for mere moonshine , while he is torpid and slothful upon all questions of substantial right .

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

      contend , as we do , for perfectTeligious equality , and show that , however it may be nominally obtained , yet that it canuot be actually preserved with perfect civil equality , we prove that civil rights , which is tho tree , must be first planted , before religious liberty , which is the fruit , can be tasted . In fact , civil liberty is the trustee ; religious liberty one of the trusts . Those who advocate the one , and fall short of tbe other , are as erroneous in their notions as the sportsman who expects to manage bis horse without a bridle , or the mariner who hopes to steer his vessel in her course without compass or rudder .

      We now turn to a consideration of the profit and losd upon Emancipation ; and let us consider who have been actual gainers , and who actual ioaers , fot tho gain of others , by that measure By Emancipation , the senate , the bar , the army , the navy , the privy council board , and , in short , all offices , with the exception of those whioh ouly one man at a time can fill , such as Prime Minister , Commander of the Forces , and conscience keeper to the Monarch , were thrown opon to Catholics . These offices , in

      the language of those who contend for " British glory , " and " social equality , " we are told , are equally open to the rich and to tho poor ; but , in the words of Hormk Tooke , so is the London Coffee House ; but if a poor man goes there , will he get his dinner without money 1 We may push the question further , and ask , if the poor man , me honestest poor man in the kingdom , goes there , will he be admitted , though having pleuty of mouey to pay his way , yet wanting the livery of the house—the genteel apparel .

      The profit of Emancipation to the rich has been to placo Catholic Judges upon the Bench , not a whit loas oppressive liian their Protestant brethren , the moment they become part and parcel of the system , but , ou the contrary , jealous of public opinion , fearful of public criticism , knowing that promotion has been » sop to party , rather than the reward of merit ; and , in order to preserve an honest fame , they lean harder upon the poor crutch by which they have hobbled through tho mud to office , aud thu 3 prove their impartiality and fitness {' or offi . se , by pressing moat severely upon those of their own persuasion . A Catholic promoted to the rank of Queeu ' s Counsel by Emancipation , would

      not lake twenty shillings and elevenpence from tbe moat oppressed religious brother , even in defence of the most favoured tenot of the proscribed church , in preference to tweuty-ono ahilliugg from an exterminuting Protestant , who appear * as his opponent to the orthodox faith . And , as Catholic litigants are generally poor , aud Protestant ones are generally rich , and as the promotion to a silk gown must be paid for by those who seek shelter under it 3 magical influence , thus has Emancipation so far raised the price of law to the poor client , while it has blunted the energy of tho advocate , and alarmed the apprehension of tho Judge . So much for the legal benefit of Emancipation to rich and poor .

      By Emancipation , the Catholics were promised the total abolition of Tithes . By Emancipation , the Catholic tenantry aud labourers were impliedly to be guaranteed in a defensive oontroul over their landlords , by such a sweeping Poor Law , leviable upon the estates of those landlords , as would insure to the Catholic tenantry that great protection whioh self-interest ever furnishes against tho caprice of the most tyrannical , by making each proprietor pay for the poor of his own creation .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      an ever-flowing , never-dry milch cow ; well fed upon Catholio blood and sweat . The " beneficial interest " being an abstraction from the wealth of Protestant landlords , they saw no reason why they should thus furnish weapons of offence to the enemy . Hence we find the extermination of ten-pounders to be set about , and accomplished just as easily and coolly , as that of the two-pounders . The principle is the same ; and the facilities for putting it into operation similar . Well ; what's the result ! Why , just this . We find an unchristian , exterminating dog , an infidel destroyer , one Sir Ahthont Brooke ^ Bart ., a Sir John Mannell , and others of the same black kidney , declaring , amid the cheers of ruffiansprouts of Protestantism , their determination

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

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

      advantage ; neither shall we defend defaulters nor countenance opposition to the legal claims of the landlord ; while , at the same time , we do hereby soiemnlydeclare , that if a single act of injustice be done in furtherance of the brutal resolution of our landlords , we will have recourse to all those means with which God ha 9 armed man for self-defence ; and if a single Catholic life shall be sacrificed in the promotion of the landlords' object , we hereby pledge ourselves to avenge the ungodly act , by the sacrifice of a doublo number of our Protestant oppressors . "

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

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

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

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

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      NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Wb had pnrpoged to give in this week ' * Star a « elaborated article on the whole bearings of the law on political associations , and a safe and certain plan of abiding by the present organization , in defianco of eveu Whig lawyers , backed by Whig Ministers . The approaching M Welcome-to-DAit . " Demonstration has , however , precluded it , and we must content ourselves with the following short heads of guidance to which we claim the precise attention of those who desire to be safe . Let all the people of every locality be of one Association ; aiid , as recommended in the admirable

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      4 THE NORTH ER N S T A R . " - ' ' ___ ^_

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      FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S POSTSCRIPT . In our overland mail-bags , we found a long fettei to the Editor , apparently intended for publication , expressive of the Froprietor ' 9 opinion of the manner in which his paper has been conducted during his unavoidable absence . It is a little too personal and complimentary for publication : we , therefore , only say of its general . contents , that they express unqualified satisfaction—which we are as glad to see as to think that we have deserved it . The Postscript is , however , as he says , the best part of the letter , and we , therefore , give it . It is as follows : —

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

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

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

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

      dead . " The Devil on Three Sticks" consists of three volumes , one containing the adventures of Phippg Fribble , ( a consummate governor , ) and Morgan Rattler , his secretary ; one , "The Beggar King and his subjects ; " and one , "The Comicalities of the littlest Lord in the worid . " Perhaps you may have a desire to see the work , but you must rest satisfied with the billiof fare , and wait patiently for the repast The five first aad the last chapters of the "Adven ? tures of Phipps Fribblo , " then , contain matter of which the following headings may give you some notion : —

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

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

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

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

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

      the fraternity of publishers ; but , regardless of the one , and independent of the other , will make my uiorks succeed in the market . The very best chapters may be immeasurably inferior to the very worBt to be found in any of the inimitable productions of . Cervantes , Le Sage , Fielding , or Smollett ; bat , 03 far as regards the portraiture of character , and the faithful following of nature , I will fearlessly place them in competition with the works of any living author . This you will ascribe to native modesty ; but I am willing to submit the issue to any twelve judges , always barring a Yorkshire , Lancashire , or Monmouthshire Jury .

      You will compare my letter to that of a lady , whereof the postscript forms the greater part . B « U so ; I had the leisuro , and my pen ran away with me . Again , I am , yours , F . O'C

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1841, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct533/page/4/