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    • PORTRAIT OF W. P. ROBERTS, ESQ.
    • MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION IN HONOUR OF T. S. DUNCOMBB, ESQ.
    • THE B"ORTHEEN STAR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 18i3.
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      Mr . O'CONJfOK has received communications from many districts in all of which a very great desire is expressed to have a pohtbaii ot Mr . Roberts , the people's Attorney-GeneraL We cannot wonder that a strong wish should be entertained to possess a likeness of so truly amiable , talented , and true a man ; and although we know that Mr . O'Connor had determined to give no more Portraits , yet we have the pleasure to annosnee that all Subscribers for Three Months , will receive X PORTRAIT OP W . P . ROBERTS , THE PEOPLES ATTORNEYGENERAL . We request tbe several Agents to open lists for the enrolling of names , as none but Subscribers will receive a plate . The prioe © f Paper and Plate when presented will be Sixpence ; and none will be sold without the paper .

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      TO MR . 30 HN TIDD PRATT . KoZa , vesdemvs . NvSiitegabintus , < ad dSgerevas rectum vdJvStmasC C Sib , —Lest the exact duties efryoar office shenia not iave been » et forth in the eosamission under which you h eld it , I liaTe tbonghtit proper to Bet forth the eondifioni iq » n which , and upon which only , a peop " © ire any allegiance to the reigning monarch ; and Sir , ** it is a msxhn that " the King can do ho wrong-, " it is * ott » that high officer , Dnt to those snboroinates vho are placed In authority nnder him , that the people are to look for the fulfilment of tba above conditians . Yon indeed have refused to " seU , -J > J " ^^ f £ ^ u thepower or even purchasing ourright ; while dressed In a little brief authority yoo hare endeavoured to xeconnaend yourself to your master by insulting those for who » ieneflt we are told they govern and br whose labour Bay are supported . Yon have not only violated -yooz du ^ bntyon have done so intentionally . I have aletter now lying before me buwnich is the

      following psssaga : " York . Sir , —I feu that your best endesTonrs to set legally win ber frustrated , as Mr . Tidd Pratt , the certifying barrister , to wkom your Plan of Organization must be Bobmitted , has declared In York , before it was published , that the Chartists expected him to certify their TJniTenal Suffrage scheme , bat that be would do bo such thing . " You could not ihen possiblyhaTe known whether or not the plan to which you referred , came within the provisions of axe 10 of Geo . 1 Y , and * and 5 WilL IY ., aadbytht former of which your duties are pointed oat , and which duties yon bare sot only flagrantly , Imt intentionally violated . Indeed yon have not only done bo , bat you haTe done so impertinently .

      After baring called twice at you office , at which by fiie way , your altendanee does not appearto be very punctual , and aot haiingfound you upon either occasion , upon the invitation of your clerk I addressed a letter to ^ ou on Thursday last , merely requiring sneh information as you are tannd to give . To this letter which was delivered by yonr elerk , at your private residence , yon have not thooght proper to reply , which yon were doubly called upon to do , in conseqaence of ^ youz inability . from frfflfag indispesttion to attend at your ofice . It is but right , Sir , that the pob& should know the bite and . insolent tmwitmw in which yon have treated Its application for powers to aet ^ nder the strict provisions of He law . " Yon have rebemed the printed Tales 'with the following brief notice in the margin , without , as yon are bound by Act cf Parliament to do , fairing pointed oat one single tenable -objection . The following is yonr noBee : —

      " Certificate refused . I aa « f opinion that the objects of this society * as stated in the rules are not within the provisions of Q » e 10 Geo . e . 56 , as amended by ¦* and 6 W . 4 c . i . John 53 dd Pratt , 25 th Sept . 1843 . " Such , Sir , is the brief -summary of your supreme w : i ! and pleasure , in strict compliance with your expressed determination at York , and in direct violation of the law which you are bosnd to administer . Bvery constitutional } ofige in the country has declared that there is ^ noting illegal in the document entitled the People's Charter . The Attorney-General has added the weight of his opinion to this judicial declarationthat Is , the Judges rf the land and the Attorney-General declare that the people have a perfect right to contend for the enactment -of the Six Points contained in the People ' s Charter , provided they do so legally .

      Having procured this judgment at -a very great expence , several large towns in "Bngland and Wales elected delegates , "to the mmber of thirty-one , to frame such rules aadTsgnlations for the furtherance of those principles , the legality of which had been thus pronounced , so thstTwne other than perfectly legal means should be resorted to for the accomplishment of their legal object . The delegates devoted five whole days to the fonsatioQ of such a plan as w # uld give to the projected society , that protection which the law guarantees ; howav « ,-wben the resalt of their labours is cubxnitted to yoa , 70 a . preremptuously set yourself above the law , and iplaee yourself in direct opposition to the © pinion onbose judges who further declared that there was a legal way of contending for oar principles . I cBce wrote a leading article under the head " A nation outlawed by a faction .

      That , sir , was baa enough ; butfor auaMentobe first c&tiawed , and then insulted , by a subordinate official , is still worse . In my -farmer letter I told you that the Society Would ekeerfuHy expunge any portions of the Plan Hot were inconsistent with the law ; and I asked you , as the act directs , t » potatfgnl those parts which you lefusediocertify . - Bat B 0 T « tin hoping not only for indeHcnlty bat for B . pproval of your conduct , yon throw vs upon our appeal to Quarter Sessions against your snexplamed refusal . Be it so sir ; to ftaarter Sessions we win go ; and thence , if necessary , step by step until the delegates shall is proper time again assemble in Xondon , and carry their appeal to the foot of the Throne , accompanied by all who shall feel themselves insulted ~ bjbeiag'thus denied the protection of the law by one -whose doty it is to see it administered . '

      This is bo idle boast , Sir . We have annihilated one tsetion who persecuted us by appealing from the law to the angry pasannna of a class , and ~~ we are not going tamely to submit to tiiat tyranny whkh would appeal « tomtbntanr t » ~ m iMBieurffltesaoE . ~ " " , It ismyopinioh Sirj that" you never lead the rules and objects that you refused to certify . You have certified for Associations under nearly similar rules—certainly excepting these which refer to Universal Suffrage ; winch however the Jndge * and the Attorney-General hsre certified fer you .

      In the itame of comman sense Sir , did yon hope that 2 fo . 5 , Bolton-street , Piccadilly , was the Palace of Justice , and that Mr . Tidd Pratt , eerfifjing Barrister , was the monarch there enthroned I Did you for a snosieni admit the notion that your refusal would paralyse the nation ' s energy , scatter all the elements of -irmnnj god destroy an the prospects entertained from the legal working of the national mind ? If such Sir , was yoar action , you have doubly erred ; firstly , in your poor opkuen of the people ; an * secondly , in your great opinion « f yourself . This is sot the first or taHf occasion , Sit , when out -of evil good has come ; and out of your endeaver to smsh cor Association in Its infancy will arise an amount of angry enquiry , as to the difference of opinion that exists between the Jadges of the land and Mr . Tidd Pratt , certifying Barrister .

      Iflr * 5 ttired any further stimulus than that which has hitherto urged me on in support of those principles , the contending for which the Judge * say is perfectly legal , yosr intolerant and overbearing conduct has fursisbed that -additional spur . Many men Sir , have Jmwittingly -created Chartists ; it was left for you ' to outstrip * H yonr predecessors in the good work . Sir , I shall not only prosecute an appeal against your decision , but I will spare no expenee in h&visg an pinion upon your conduct , so that the country may know whether you an a servant to net npon your instructions , or a master before whose will all , even the law , must bend . 1 am , sir , your obedient servant , Pxabgus O'Cossos , Treasurer to the Association . 14 , Condait-ttzeet , Sept 30 , 1813 .

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      On Monday night , I delivered a lecture In Lougbboroogh Market-place on the land . The Secretary informed me that be had taken down the names of twenty-seven persons who intend becoming members nnder the New Plan of Organisation . On Tuesday , I delivered a lecture In Whitwiek Market-place . The meeting was an excellent one . The working people are generally engaged in frameworkknitting and getting coal ; bat unfortunately , like all other places I have bees in , stee ped to the very lips in poverty . The poor colliers do not average Above six shillings a week when they have foil employment , which is sot cften the ease ; some of the pits not wotking more than two or three days aweek . I would seriously recommend to the delegates or Executive Coundl of the Colliers' Union to look to this quarter as soon as possible , and send a lecturer or two into the district , ( for it is a Tery large one ) , in order to establish societies . -

      On Wednesday sight I delivered a lecture in Kegworth Market-place , on the Land and the Charter . On Thondaynight I delivered a lecture to the people of Hsthome , in the open air , on the lend and the new plan of Organization . Brothers , I remain , as usual , yonr servant and fallow-worker ia the vineyard of democracy , Chbistophee Dotle .

      Portrait Of W. P. Roberts, Esq.

      PORTRAIT OF W . P . ROBERTS , ESQ .

      Manchester Demonstration In Honour Of T. S. Duncombb, Esq.

      MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION IN HONOUR OF T . S . DUNCOMBB , ESQ .

      Parties intending to join the procession in honour of that distinguished patriot T . S . Doncombe , EfCJ . will have the kindness to observe the following regulations . The trades and country friends to assemble in Stevensoa ' s-sqiare , at ten o'clock in the morning . The trades to take the precedence in the procession . The Chartists and other friends not connected with the trades that are walking , are reqnestod to meet at nine o ' clock , at the Carpenter ' s Hall , where they will form into procession , and move from thence to the Square . Mr . Duncombe will arrive at the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway by the nine o ' clock train , where a deputation with a carriage will be in waiting for him- The onitod bodies will move from the Square-through Salford to the Crescent , where they will meet Mr . Dunoombe , and then return through the principal streets in the town .

      The B"Ortheen Star Saturday, October 7, 18i3.

      THE B"ORTHEEN STAR SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7 , 18 i 3 .

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      THE LEAGUE ! THE £ 56 , 000 IS DONE , AND THE CORMORANTS WANT "MOKE * The League hare , at last , produced their balance * sheet . By it , it appears that the ££ 0 , 000 ia just about done * It is all swallowed up 1 Devil doubt it ! There are hungry men enough about the League , to swallow up twi ce the amount ; and even " moke" than th&t could the ; get it .

      The particulars of expenditure that the League have furnished are Tery gehkral indeed . There are no items : so settings-forth of how mueh Mr . Cobdkk has bad for travelling expenoes ; or how much Johh Bkight has netted ; or how much Mr . J . R . R . Mook has cost the oonfiding dupes who hire found the cash . Nothing of ibis sort is done ; nor are there aay particulars of the bulk given to the bullying Siuset Smith ; the respectable and crimelets James Aclakd ; and all the hosts of inferior fry , who do the dirty work . O so ! The League are sotgoiag to let their dupes into those sorts of secrets . Their only business is to find the money ; it is the League ' s business to ppesd it ; sod keep the manner of ex penditure to themselves !

      Their Balance sheet is truly unlove . We venture to say its like vr&s never before seen . It is Indeed a curiosity ; being of all impudent attempts upon the forbearance of a chouBed people the mos j impudent . It is worth preserving . Here it is : —

      " THE LEAGUE FUND . " Total Ahoctst op ScBscKiprioys Received , £ 50 , 290 14 s . . "The beads of expenditure are as follow : — M Printing 5 , 026 , 000 Tracts , and Stamped Publications , and distributing the same—Lecturers ' -Salaries , and Expenoes of hiring Booms , Printing , &c , for 551 lectures—Expences of Deputations to 255 Meetings in Coantiea and Boroughs—Expences

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

      M Total ExparommB , £ 47 , 814 3 « . 9-3 . "Balance op Cash ij » Hakd , Sept . S , 1843 , £ 2 , 476 10 a . 3 d . " Is not that matchless 1 Was it ever equalled ? Would it be possible to equal it ! It beats by far , the far-famed account of the 1 x 0 less-famed Gbeex Yib ! The money ; the £ 50 , 000 , is just" expeuded . " And whathavethe payersgol for it ! A packet of tracts !'}

      Nothing elBel Johh Bbight in Parliament ! AnyelBe \ The discovery of the truth—( which the Char tists told them long ago)—that it was useless to hope for a * Repeal of the Corn Laws" from the present "House ; " and therefore it would be folly to think of peiitionins it any more ! And are these ail the benefits that the £ 50 , 000 have purchased ! Yes ; all the benefits to the payers 1 Not a jot more have they got . With those who have had their pickings out of the Fund" it is quite another thing !

      Have not ihe payers made rather a dear purchase Have they not paid rather dear for their whistle ? That , however , is theis look out . If they are satisfied , we presume every one else should be . But the cormorants are not " satisfied / " The handling of "thousands , " in a general way , with fingers clogged with bird-lime , is too lucrative a job to be given up all at once . " If the spoonies

      w Need , why should we not let them , " is the cry of all the money-takers . So accordingly they raise the cry for "MORE . " ** Food being cheap , the great mass of gulls will have MOE . E to expend on moonshine : " so let us wear them their penny . * MORE" therefore 13 yelped out by the solo-performer , ou Covent Garden Stage : " " MORE / ' " MORE" is thandered forth in chorus br all the " company , " supernumeraries , and all !

      One Wni Shabspbbb , who used to write plays that have sometimes been represented on Covent Garden stage , says something , somewhere , about an " appetite that did g&ow on that it fed upon . " Will was right . There are such monstrosities in the world . The League appetite is a ease in point . It was very skew ; but JE 50 , 000 would satisfy it . It has had the £ 50 , 000 : but so far from the appetite being appeased , or the keen edge even taken off , it has crows to twicb jib tosxzb sizsi It now demands

      £ lOO , 000 !!! If there are spoonies enow in the land , it will get it » ^ And what is to be done with the money ! That is , what is there promised 1 Moreircct * . ' And the purchase of seat , in '» the Homse . " There is no hope from the House" as it is now constituted : there-^ n JSSJ ******* bQt S *« sthatioS , «» d he SEATING of Feze 0 W uj . ^ ^ thatib something ! '

      But what a revelaiioa . ' There is not likely to he a Dissolution for nvB years to come ! The Tories have a majority . They will keep it as long a 8 they can . Of course , if they can , the tenure of Parliament mast run oat before they dissolve . Dissolution can only be forced by a union of the p&iple . The

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      Leaguers will not unite j for fear the people should reap advantage . There will therefore be no diance ' or the Leaguers purchasing seats for fire yean ! And then they will have their work 1 They will have to purchase one-half ot the " house . " " When the sky falls , wo shall catch the larks 1 " Had not the League better gulp all otra policy at onoe ; and not take leaf after leaf out of oua book , by piecemeal 1 Let them do the thing fully , with a good graoe : Bwallow the whole : and go at onoe to make w that House" what it onght to be . Thte would be sooner accomplished than the purchase of one-half of » bad lot of seats , rotten and corrupt as they are ! The League might thus save £ 99 , 000 out of their £ 100 , 000 ; and get all that they ought to have into the bargain !!

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

      modus operandi by TrbJch success was to be aohieved . As soon as a period was assigned to the struggle , we were the first to sink past recollections , —and they were many and bitter , —in oblivion . We did this ia the hope of gathering up the whole national mind into one volition for general action ; and were satisfied to he , for a time , the duped , rather than stand factiously aloof , resting upon onr fearB and apprehensions . We implored for Mr . CConmblx a fair trial ; wo pointed out the injustice and imprudence of pushing him too hastily forward , or of

      loo nicely canvassing those counter stratagems by which he might be compelled to meet the devices of the enemy . All to whom the question of Repeal is interesting , have read our several commentaries upon the subject ; and while , as advocates for the measure ? we promised and gave to it oar very best Bupport , we also pledged ourselves for the faithful performance of our duty aa censors , when wo saw just cause tor doubt or suspicion : doubts , not the mere creation of our own unfounded suspicions , but doubts engendered by the plain andjunambiguous

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      meaning of Mr . O'Connell ' s own word ? . It was sot to be supposed that we or the people would have gop 0 on blindly worshipping a false prophet , after he had declared his own incapacity , notwithstanding the meaneof fulfilment being multiplied in his hands a thousand fold beyond what he had a rational right to expect . We did not searohingly pry into ever ^ apparent inconsistency of Mr . O'Conneu . ; or if WP did } ook narrowly for materials for after c ^^^ and general review , we did not canvass ' ^ Btily . or faotiously . If beaten in any ; one of h ' ^ movamentS t we should have juatifiei a counter r ^ nj 6 biu thjm

      have held him oritioally to the caption of hi 8 object by means of an ill or w ^ conceived p ^ j ^ We looked to the bond r &nd from it we took the conditions ; which were . ^ t THIS WAS TO BE THE REPEAL YEA ^ Wefurther learned that all appeals to Parliamf ^ were to b 6 ab » qdoned ; and that under her ' ^ jajeaty » 8 8 ign m % mai , the Irish Parliament , as if by mag j O t waa t 0 riM from itB tomb in Col ' ^ ge ( j reen We have said that we did not hamp ' jir # o'ConneLIt ; and we may add that the Government , so far from impeding , has , as if « nor 0 ughly understanding the lengths to which he would go , aud ike purposes for which he would

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

      At a late meeting of the Repeal Association , Mr . O'CoKNEii spoke as follows : — " He had received a petition from Enniscorthy for Repeal ; but , of course , he could not present it , as the session was over . BUT WHEN PARLIAMENT REASSEMBLED , HE WOULD DEVOTE ONE OR TWO DAYS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION TO PRESENTING PETITIONS FOR REPEAL . " Is this , then , to be the Repeal year 1 when petitions for the Repeal are tobe presented in the session of 1844 , and to a Saxon Parliament , too ! and without other hope or expectation than the mere

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

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

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

      Has Mr . O'CoflNEU . so sunk the character of man and gentleman , as to design another visit to the Saxon Parliament , for no earthly purpose but that of standing up to receive the insult and vituperation of English lordiings and aristocrats , to constitute a new stook in trade for another agitating campaign ! Can ho hope to arouse a kind of sectional warfare , and to divert the Irish mind from all thought of Repeal to a consideration of the insult which he courts , and which he medidates a journey to reoeive ? Will this increased resistance upon the part of the Government be construed by him to the Irish

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

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

      la the midst of all these disheartening circumstances ,, we h&ve the one consolation that Dr . M'Hale and the Irish priesthood are not to be seduced from the path of virtue . No circumstance so fully demonstrates the zeal and attachment of the Rotfian Catholic Clergy to the cause of Repeal as the admitted fact , that they have cheerfully submitted to large reduotioas in their own hardlyearned dues , in order ( hat their Hooks may be the better able to contribute their quota to the oaase ot Repeal . We believe it to be an undeniable fact , that since the commencement of the present agitation a

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

      They are Irish by blood , Irish in language , Irish in religion ; but "aliens" In the land of their birth . Their feelings are Irish , their flocks are Irish , their minds are Irish , their generosity , their patriotism , and their sympathy for their oppressed and suffering , charge , are all—all Irish;—characteristics which will not allow them to submit- to their own and their country ' s degradation . They look to Repeal as the means , not of enriching themselves ; but of enablJBg them the better to discharge those duties

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

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      their conntry ' s / f ^ otat r J 8 to these nnassaming patriots , and r . ottojthe overpaid braggadocios who revel upon t ' a 6 proo ^ ed 8 abs tracted from their little hoards , t ^ at we oo or ^ accomplishment of a Re *« of the Union . ^ Vill the y , we ask , consent to this proposed procrastination ? Will they be parties to placing stumbling blocks , ix the otherwise unopposed coarse of the Irish people it Will they tell them from the

      sacred altar that 1843 is not to be the Repeal year and that in 1844 another appeal is to be made to the Saxon Parliament 1 ) We doubt it . Bat should they venture upon the hazardous experiment , we have still that reliance upon an appeal to the sober mind of " United Irishmen" which buoys us up with the hope , that the days ] of mock patriotism are gone ! Delation has faded before the light of public opinion ; and to be honoured , the directors of publio opinion must bej honest !

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

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

      the " move" is a dastardly one ! The poor slaves of the pits are to be made the scape-goats for the Carron Iron Company to ride away apon ! "The company do not employ the women . " "The «> orftme » doit ! " W ; hat oowardice 1 Who do the pits belong to ? Who pays the wages ? Who are the masters ? The Iron men 1 or H the workmen" ? The dastardly * move" will not serve the Company . It will shew their baseness , their unutterable baseness : but it will not help them out of the mess .

      It delights us to learn that the hen are taking up this question in a proper manner , and with becoming spirit . The Duke and the Carron Iron Company had better ° move" quiickly ; had better " move" the women out of their pits , and put men there : they had better take this step , mnd quickly , or they wilj have to figure before the Cocbt , as breakers of the l aw I The step determined on , by the men of Falkirk , is just the right ione . It cannot fail to have the law enforced . Their Memorial will bring the facts legitimately before Sir James Gbaham ; and then he must "move . " The Duke and the Company had better look out . 1

      The following we take from a report of a meeting of Colliers at Falkirk . j It behoves the Ddke and the Carron Company to look at it : — " Mr . W . Daniells was now called npon to read an article from the Northern Star ot Sept 23 rd , beaded The Coal Kings and the L » sr , ' which gava universal satisfaction ; and a vote ot thanks was given to the Editor for his defence of the oppressed collier against

      the high and mighty ones I Ik was then carried that a Memorial be drawn up , j and sent to Sir James Graham , calling his attention toithe fact of the Duke of Hamilton and the Carron Iron Company employing females in their coal-pita ; and informing the Home Secretary that neither the Fiscal , Sheriff , or Magistrates would interfere ! That Mr . W . DinielU be requested to draw up the Memorial , and that jit be signed by as many colliers as possible . " j

      That ' s the way . Give a plain unvarnished statement ot facts : and attend well to the answer that Sir James Gbaham returns . So much for the 5 oot < l 11 ^ AW BREAKERS . They claim our first attention , because there is a Duke amongst them ;] an hereditary law-maker ; a commissioned law-administrator ; the head of the magistracy of a whole county , being the Lord Lieutenant , and , as such , the Queen ' s representative . A gang of law breakers , with such a man as this for head , or Captain , surely ought to have

      precedence in attention . Having bestowed that attention upon them , we cow turn to England to have a sort of peep at the lAW-B&EAKiNa-doings of the " Coal Kings" there . Last week we detailed the doings of Mr . Whaliey , a Whig-Magistrate , at Wigan , who has about twenty females working in his pits ; and also the doings of Mr . Preston , who has also females working in his pits . In these cases we exposed the manner in which these worthies attempt to gull the public , by having ihe females dressed up in male attire !! Ihis week we have to record

      more breaches of the law , by " Coal Kings . " If we go on , we shall have a pretty batch of them in a short time i Let the reader ; and let Sir Jakes Gbaham in particular , pay attention to the following : — " Sir , —You may depend upon the following facts , for we can prove them to be true . " Mr . Robert Lee , ef jthe Hodghead Colliery , near Bacnp , has lu his employment seven girls . Mr . Pilling , Hodghead Colliery , near Bacup , has four girls employed .

      Mr . Bucfcstone , of the same place , employs two girls . James Lord , Trough Colliery , near Bacup , employs two girls . Lord Deardean , Land Colliery , employs two girls . Mr . Townsend , of Bacup , employs five girls . And Mr . Haworth , of Coppy Nook Colliery , employs one girL All are employed in mining operations . We are . Sir , yours , Daniel Thompson , : « John Auty , " Two of the Agents of the Association . " Bacup , Oct . 3 rd , 1843 .

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

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

      the day . The Weekly j Chronicle was almost the first and the loudest at this sort of game : going to the expenee of a page of engravings to bring the toils and hardships of the collier women and girls more vividly before the public . Where is the Press how ; now , that the law which the press so j unanimously hailed as a necessary and just measure of protectioh I where is the Press now ; now that that ' aw is being continually broken ? Silent I \ Vhere is the Weekly Chronicle \ Silent 2 The females are still subjected to the hardships he so pathetically and pictoriaUy described : yet he openBnot his mouth 1 Why ; why is this f

      Will the Weekly Chronicle lend as his set of ustrations ? We mean his wood-cut representations of women dragging coal tubs , by chains passing from the waist between the legs ; of women carrying baskets ot coal upon their heads up the pit ladders ; and of women descending the coal-pit , cross-legged upon the clutching-iron , along toith men ! Will he lend us these , his pictures of coalpie hardshipB upon females ? He seems to have

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      handed over the collier women and their pbotectioii to us . At all events , he grossly neglects them . And as he makes no use of his case , will he hand it also over to us !

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      THE ORGANIZATION . THE BAEBISTER ' S BEFOBAL TO CERTIFY . The matter of the certifying remains just where it was last week ; with the exception that a case has been laid before counsel , for opinion , which has not yet been returned . By the following address , it will be seen that every necessary step will be taken to enforce the Enrolment . We can have no doubt , but that ^ effort will be successful . Tidd Pbatt dr ^ not make the law : consequently , what he has eertiiied , to be law to-day , cannot be against law to-morrow ] the law remaining unchanged .

      An idea is started that Tidd * p ^ xx | g ^ fog under instructions from Government . We do np t believe anything of the s r , rt . if we are fco believe that he has received Ktstructions in this case , we mnst also believe tr ^ , t he received Bimilar instructions in the case , of the Rechabites , whioh body , we find , he treated just as he has treated ours . He refused to certify ; and though they wished him to point out the obnoxious portions of their rules ,

      and they would alter them so as to conform to law , still he would not do that whioh the Act that calls him into existence requires him to do . There can be no reason to suppose that Government gave instructions in that case : and yet his treatment of that body was precisely similar to the treatment he has pursued towards us . Then , why assume that Government have interfered in our case t Why soak t 3 multiply difficulties in our way ?

      The refusal of Tidd Pratt to certify , arises not in our opinion , from Government interference , but from his own pig-headedness : and his desire to substitutehis own feelings , his own disinclinations , aad his own caprice fob laws . He has evidently mistaken his position ; And we must bear in mind that , hitherto , he has done just as he liked in his office . He has had no rap-on- tbe-knuckles administered . The

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

      senses . Nor will this be a very hard job . There are not so many difficulties in the way as some people seem to imagine . At all events we see nose : and we are not inclined to fancy them , when they are not there . If we find them , we will try to remove them . Bat there is not mnoh use in conjuring them up to the mind ' s eye ; and then , when we have overcome li ttle obstacles , exclaim , how very clever we hare been" 2 There is not much sense in that course . Let us take and-meet the ciroumstanoes as they arise ; and not frighten ourselves with dreams I

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

      Meantime the people have plenty of work . They have all their preparations to make . They now have their meetings , with officers , and all other machinery for conducting the present business . They have , at least , such machinery as has been in existence for the passed year . This will serve their purpose for the present ; and enable them to make all due arrangements for the formation of Branches , Classes , and Districts , when the Enrolment is obtained . They ean get their lists of names ready .

      They can subscribe their monies . They can talk over , as to who would be the best men for officers , under certain circumstances ; and they can make themselves fully ready for action , . whenever the Plan is ready for them . This is odb advice to the people : to go on , just as they are , for a little while : but be making all preparation for the change . The breatbing-time , if we ll improved , will invigorate for more energetio and determined efforts .

      Here is the address of the Executive , pro tern;— . M Fellow CoirafBTMEN , —We feel regret at being obligated to inform you that with regard to the Enrolment we have oat little extra information to give ; we have laid the Plan of Organization Wefore counsel , who have not vet given us their opinion ; but on taking office on Monday we shall feel it to be our decided duty , as your duly appointad fiervants , to take the necessary steps to prosecute this matter to a successful issue . We are determined that no efforts upon our part shall be wanting to promote that sacred cause upon the success or failure of which depends the happiness of millions .

      We are resolved not to permit the caprice of Tidd Pratt or any other Government hireling whose interest is identified with the prolongation of misrule , to triumph over us without a vigorous and determined struggle ; and we cherish a confident hope that it will eventuate in the enrolment of our Plan of Organization , and consequently in the discomfiture of the pettifogging Tidd Pratt . For further particulars on this subject , we refer you to Mr . O'Connor ' s letter ; meanwhile we must proceed

      'Onward' is the Chartist motto . The expediency mongers are in motion . The League is again promulgating its nostrums for national distress ; while Ireland i s nobl y struggling for the establishment of a democratic principle . TJp , then , fellow countrymen at onoe , with that virtuous determination and energy of purpose becoming men resolved upon achieving the liberty and happiness of their , country . Phillip M'Geatb , President . Feabgos O'Cosnob , Treasurer . Thos . M . Wheeler , Secretary . "

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      ^^ „„ 30 THE CHARTISTS OF NOTTINGHAM ! A 2 TD SOUTH 3 > EBBY . Bbotheb Bekoouts , —On Sunday , Septembwtiie Sith , I proceeded from HotHngbaia to Loaghborongh by the quarter to seven o ' clock train a . m ., and arrived tbere bj eight-o ' clock . I immediately songht the residence of Mr . Sntton , and found that gentleman at home , who gave me a hearty recepttoni After break-Zsst we -went to the house of Mr . J » hn Skevington , and found him at home also . The old veieran in the good csose received me verr kindly . About sne o'clock pm ., 3 tr . Sntton * &d myself left Looghboroagh for Porest Xane , near Ashby Boad , where we fonnd several of the

      ill mends : but owing to the place not being generally known , the meeting was not so numerous as it otherwise would have been : however there were a tolerable number present . In the evening I addressed a very large meeting in fiheepshead Market-place . I took for » y text that portion of the Lord > prayer wherein it a » y » : "Give as ting day our daily bread . " The audience of course were chiBlyTrorkingpeqple ^ nd seemed to « el the force of say statement in reference to the parsons each Sunday paying for daily bread for the people , "Whue at the same time they were upholding a system ^ Znl"" *" . ^* 07 ^ honrly tarving the producers of Stee ^ t ^^ T ^^ reTenBl 1 * ^^ tTom Setting

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      While iniBheepsfaead , 1 had the happlnea of meet-^ ^ T ^*^ " * *»** *» ETS as geod a ChsrUst , » d I » m add one tf thTbert practical agncultaraasU , that Ihave ever » el JX Me took jm through ki * cottage garden ; and I aerer ma « p- astonished as when I saw his cabbage and ooioa beds , especially the latter . He told me that he bad as much as eight strike of oniona from 108 square yards t £ land . There are 4 , 8 ifi * taare yards in an acre cf land . Now , if be had bad one acre , and sowed it with oaion wed , it would have yielded 39 s strike ; * cd supposing the onions were sold at is . tfae strike ^ and that wanld be the very lowest rate ; for , bear in mind , oniow this time last year were sold at Is . the gallon , which was at the rate ol 8 s . tha strike ; the -arhole amount would be £ 78 . - Sappose again that he

      _ paid £ 6 as reoi iarThs acre , and that is mere than is ^ nerallypaidfai LeicssUrAhira , especially for forest 2 and ; and » ppo » also that it took thirty toad of manure , at St . the load , £ 7 l O a * and £ 2 for seed ; these three items In the aggregate would be £ 15 IDs ; leaving him iat Mb isbour—net a year ' * Zabour , mart yon , nor half a year— - £ Ai W- He bu had as much uimieest / eanvts vS J , * 00 ^ aare yard * , which be ¦ old Io * £ 25 . -- - -lt cost -him 42 10 a Soi manure ; for lent , £ 1 Ids ; teed , 4 s ; a . Ucp * h # > £ l 4 s j isaTfaig-for . eight fffcfcka labow £ 20 10 a

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

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

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

      set to . We must have the usual amount of jaw ; of threat ; and of sparring : preliminaries for which , in kingly squabbles , we are to look to their bottleholders—the press . Already we have directed public attention to those awful manifestations announced through the Beveral leading organs of France and England ; and we now turn to other continental journals , as well as to a portion of the Irish press for confirmation of the fact that we

      were justified in the deductions we drew from the Royal meeting . Upon the subject of the Qeen ' s visit we foretold that it was the precursor of a Congress in which Louis Phillipe would play Spain against Ireland * In confirmation of this project , we submit the following ominous notices : — Important !^ -The " Congress op Kings . "—The Nuremburgh Correspondent ot the 26 th ulfc .

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

      The Frankfort Journal declares that the German and Eastern Powers have all made up their minds as to the marriage of a son of Don Carlos with the Queen of Spain , in order to preserve the principle ot legitimacy , and abolish virtually the Salis law . It announces a Congress for this purpose , and adds , Don Carlos consents to the marriage , provided his son have the title of King , and not be merely the Queen ' s husband . So far it will be seen that our prediction is

      strengthend by very influential foreign journals j while our further anticipations are thus commented upon by the Dublin World : — " The state of Spain continues to be of absorbing interest . Torn by sanguinary factions , it is plunged into a" *! " > hxjtrora and ooofusion of anarchy . The young Q / ieen , like a eignet ring , is passed from one bloodstained hand to another , with as little regard and consideration as if she were indeed , no more than the inanimate symbol of power . What a spectacle to nations who already champ the bit , and strain the curb of monarchy I Nor is the danger overlooked by the 6 tartled sovereigns ef Europe .

      Republicanism must be crushed , and legitimacy established in Spain . That is the ultimate resolve ; and , accordingly , while the King of the Frenohamused the Majesty of Fngland with caresses and cajolery , his promises and bribes were paving the way for a French army across the Pyrenees . Nor is it likely now that English influence in the Peninsula has been so thoroughly undermined , that the Foreign , office will interfere with his design . One of the Spanish parties has solicited the interference of Louis Phillippe , and it is preferable that the long contested question of the Spanish succession should be decided in favour of a Bourbon Prince , than that

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

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

      democratic prime minister and directing agent of thought and action , we now look as a corrective of evil institutions , and as a barrier against real intrusion . The mind is marching onward with rapid strides ; while the phantasmagoria of kingcraft and priestcraft is becoming dim in the new light . Since we last wrote , Greece , the cradle of science and norse of artB , has " pronounced ' ]—Greece without a blow has dictated terms to her monarch 1—Greece has presented to Europe and the world , that nnextinguishable fraternity which in the ; mind of tbe truly free must ever exist between the soldier and the

      civilian . When King Otho expressed his desire to submit the popular demand for a Constitution to his Ministers , the people and the soldiers , or more properly , the civil and military community of Greece replied that the Ministers had met , had deliberated , and pronounced ; and the sun that set upon the Dictator ' s head rose brilliantly upon the people ' s Constitution . Athens . presented no bustle , because its whole mind , with the exception of Otho , ran in the same current With Greece it was , as with England it will be , when the deep sore of oppression shall become unendurable to the majority . No shots were fired ; no

      clamour waa raised ; no sound of triumph was heard , though the victory was complete . Whether or no Greece saw the passing opportunity of wresting her liberty from the hands of an irresponsible Monarch * while affairs of greater moment occupied the attention of the three great powers , Russia , France , and England , who have always made that unfortunate conntry a make-weight in their several negotiations , we cannot say ; or whether the rule-of-three method wi ll be resorted to , to deprive her of her liberty , by an inconvenient demand for that debt which she owes as the price of her bondage , we cannot tell ; but in either case , the triumph of combination will be a lesson not lost to the nations of the earth .

      Spain , too , in spite of the intrigues , the machinations , and the treacheries of Lpma Fhilippb , will follow the example of Greece . Is it not marvellous , unaccountable , and " passing strange , " that so enlightened a people as the French should tamely submit to the squandering of their money in perpetuating Boarbon intrigue and tyranny in Spain ? Every roan who has followed the events of the last ten years in Spain must hare come to the

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      4 . TEE NORTHERN STAR . *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 7, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct671/page/4/