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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1843.
    • PORTRAIT OF "W. P. EOBEETS, ESQ.
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      B& ¥ FTSKtl > . —Thb Tt ? b Foitndebs' Strike . — Fos psae few weeks past , the Type Foundera of Sb' -H -ld havebeen on srrike , la opposition toa-re-< InfUS 3 of their wages of from 25 to 75 per wnt . Jti ? rfited that th 6 master Founders of Sheffield suiiT- Gj ^ on are nn-der » bond not to succumb to the jusr . demands of the men . The latter , however , axe deterisined ; and , having justice on their side , we ¦ wisb them that success which labour always merits , hat ten ^ ften falls in obtaining . In its ^ troegles with

      latf-sided capital . The question of the strike has been broughtbefors the Associated Trades of Sh-J " - Beld . and that body has adopted a series of resolutions ^ iiich we subjoin , appealing to the public for ¦ peenT&tTj assistance in support of fbe Type Founders We ? rn ? t the appeal will ba ieartily responded to . At a mating of tbe delegates of the various Trades in Sf ;* = ! 5-ld , held at Mr . Alosley ^ , the London Apprentice , on Wednesday evening , September * 13 'h , 18 i 3 , ihz following resolutions were unanimously pass r * :

      —r-1 . Thst this Committee , viewing with the utmost concern Ihe situaTioc of our brethren , the op&rative Type Founders , and deeply sympathizbig with them In . their arduous struggle- against the unjust and op press- * * reduction of frois 25 t-o 75 per cent ., feel is thsiri'u ? strongly to recommend their case to the imme-ihii © cbnsiaeraiion and assistance of their fdio ^ - ^ rkmen of the various trad es of Sheffield . 2 . That the Committee , considering the mosi cSsnen ; Tneans of assisting out brethren , to be by loan * 3 T > d weekly subscriptions , respectfully solicit the * ai-ers , and other influential individuals of the various Trades , to co-operate with tbem in their effort- ? , to carry our brethren to the end of this strut ?? e-

      3 Th * t tee persons composing this Committee jHedi * themselves to unceasing exf riion to assist the Opera ? tr * Type Founders , until the dispnte existing between them , and their employers is brought to a trinn > ph ? nt conclusion . 2 * . H . —Any pecuniary assistance will be most ShsEkfeUy received by the Committee , who sit caily a * the Three Cranes , Qaeen-street , from twelve to two ia the afrernoon , and from seven to nine in the evemi ?? , to give all necessary information . C * hiislz Crrr xst > Diainicx Joint Stock Bask . —O ^ S-. iurday evening last , a mmou ? was circulated to the ifieel , thai Mr . John Brown , manager of the " City and Pinirict Bank , " had absconded ¦ with s rery considerable sum helon ^ ingio theJJank . The greatest consternation , and alarm prevailed during ihe whole of Sunday ; and early on Monday Zaortiriji ihe following nonce was issued ;—

      Carlisk Cily and District Bank . " a The Directors feel it to be their duty to inform ihe -h-ireholders and the public , that their late mai » - » s . T , Hi . Jahn Brown , has absconded himself from the Bank nnder circumstances which have excj _ a suspicion that he will not return . " T-. e Directors have , in consequence , xnsda a csreiui investigation of the books , cash , securities , and T .-cebers , and they have communicated with ihdr 'Lt'odan and other agents , and are happy 10 be

      able to siate , that they have found everything correct , vrkh the single exception that Mr . Brown's own cish aeconnt has been overdrawn to the amount of £ " -. 554 Si . 3 i , which sum , however , is considerably " == "iurai the am dans of his securities in the poBsessta-ion of the Directors . *• Thomas Moansey , Thomas Lonsd&Ie , ** William Sowerbj , James Heysham , B James Thompson , Robert Benson . H Cii j and District Bank , Sept . 18 th , 1848 . " :

      Tbe Directors and others interested in the safety of tbe Lank , being appprehensive that a run upon it -RoDld ttkepl&ee , held a meeting in the TownixalL tvheii it was deemed advisable to -wait on the ahr ^ pkeepers and others likely to have their notes , to solicit laem to sign a paper expressing confidence in the ^ Utility of ths Bank . Notwithstanding this , iowever , a considerable cumber of persons have drawn out their money .

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      EXTESSITE FIRES . Tti jr > s * -week has been peenlisrly and aost Tinfoitu-Bately prolific in flrta , both in the province * and in the metropolis , Bcsreely a day passing without tbe occurrence of at least iwo or three , same , hotrever , of sndh alight extent a « bc * to deserve being publicly recorded . Saturdsy xrght , the dosing night of the ireti , was marked ij tbe most slinking and destructive fire of all t&ose that have dsmig the . week spread coastartaHoa and destmsdon ia the metxopclia . Ob S-taraayii ^ itlast , about 15 o ' elosk , this latter fire was discovered xsgisg ia the tar furnace forming part of the extenssva presiiaes belocging to Mr . S&rnnel Burcirfidd , rope-mauufectDrer , in PennyB-fiMJajPoplat iEbs Bioniant th « pei « on -who di « ovei 8 d it became aware

      of ^ e Sr 8 , ne . xaiBed an slana ,-asd la the course of a lair miimtss a Btrong parly ot ths £ division of police w&re ovthe spot , and a somber of constables immediately set to Trort to endeavour to extinguish tbe fire ; 2 mt- in tiit tb * y were naEBceeBfal , for , owing to the Highly lE £ iinihl » miui « o £ th « stock in trade , to * fire ( presd witk ainsxlag qnickDe » v InfoEmntioa was fox-^ rarded to S 3 > e dlffrrant engine statjoca of the metropolia cf theflalsmitj . "With theiiS ^ hteBt delay possible -tbe parish en « ii >« ttm on the spot , and also the School-bonse lane { hrlesde } « ugin 8 ,. aiid , having oblMned a ready and abundant snpplj o ! -wat « -, they Trere Bet to -wort It vaa sopn evident , hoxrerer , from the increasing vigour and . furv of the fiaines , that they would sot yield to the

      power of two , nor of several supines . Tbe "fire still progre ^ sh-sr , the brigade engines from Jefferys-Bquare , Watling ^ &eet , Parringdon-Btreet , audTTellcleK-sqaare siattois reached Gxs scene ., with Mr . Superintendent Braifi'wopd , the "West of England eugiuB from the Btefioa ia tfca WaierJoo-rpad next arrived , -with Mt . CGonortan , aud tie craal number of flrrmen . Uader the direcfionof Mr . Braid-wood , the greater portion of the ftrst-Tsmed engines vfere got into active play , and Tast "was ths volume of water that ttsb promptly poured upon and Into the burning premises . Their magnitude 'was great , and their contents of ths mosligniuble bud-Btance ? , rj , tar , hemp , t « w , flax , yarn , &c It i » impossible to state with preeinon tbe exast quantity of goods piled away in fije premises .

      Foi some time after ti » engines -were at woik . the £ re seemed not to abate , it having , in tha interim , extended to another bnDdiag on the premises , termed the oakum-house , from-which tbe jSattes next Teacbed one of tbe yarn houses , and ¦ ittljMBirthey fired another vmrefconse called the bspi ^ KT ^ all ttess buildings were enveloped in flre , « ami ^ with such arosziiig fifcreesess £ M £ be fire spread , as to-menace with destrnction the - » hole of the extensive aud commodious rope-TPslk and hemp stores . Tbe a »» es were now at theii height , caused by ths general ignition of the remaining most iBfiaramable

      subxtaness , and it ¦ be no exaggeration to say that a larger or higher mass of fiame aad fire has been rarely » en . Sense time elapsed before it -vr&a surely Moertiiaed test the entire premises \ rcrald not have fallen a prey to the dsvonring element To stop the farther progress cf tbfi conflagration in one qaarter , a number of firemen mounted tbe tooIs of tbe premises , and cut HTray tbe commumcatioB , -which expedient was happily crowned tntb scecess . The firsmen finding all efforts to save thatpart of the premUes on fire , tbey exerted themselves -with great bravery , and saved the spacious beam stores , rope-walks , and cable sheds .

      "Upwards vs . two botrrs tiapaad before it "was evident Ikrifit ? most fearful and des-tractive of all elements-was snceuxcbiBg beneath tbe efforte of the firemen and the power of fl » anteg ? 22 ist element they were copiously easting upouit ; shortly afterwErdfl tbe conflagration ctmmeBced to cede and palpsbly diminish , -when the firemen coasidered flisir victory assured- It is scarcely rsoeesry to add , Sat by this time the tar-furnace , one of the yarn "warehouses , a hemp-loft , and the oakamhems , "were a missbapen mass cf bnming nnns . The total d&msfe most amount to a large sum . Mr . Burchfieia ' a loss , ttb nn& ^ stend , Tnll be partly covered by an insrrraucs in ths Guardian fire-office . Tbe origin of the fire could not be traced . A airong muster . of police , under Hie direction of Mr . Superintendent Young , kept the immense crowd b&ek , in order to afford room for UieefiectBil-vrorkinr of the engines .

      On &H 3 « ay night , shortly after seven o ' clock , a fire ol a very alarming nature "was discovered on the spacioas premise * belonging to Hears . JOIlind , situated in TVenrwotth-rtreet , WMtecbspel , and termed tie Citj Saw-milla . The predfle spot in which tbe fire oliginited cwid not % e ascertatted , bnt when the fiasaes were firat diseffwred , they-trere raging amongst a large pile of timber , and also in the roof of the engine-bouse . As ¦ whim thB , 1 ^^ ^ - btea 8 preadj a strong mnster of powe-eonstabies were « n the spot , -with Mr . Bnperiniendent Pierce , and -were of great service in keeping the great concourse of spectators out of the reach of danger . Informatton of the outbreak having , without a moment's lota of time , being despatched to the various fire-engine stations in the metropolis , in an almost incredibly short pace ot tarns , OTmenms "brigade engines were on the Witt Mt

      ^» fe " Superintendent JBrsldwood and strang parties of firemen ,. 13 » West of Bnglaid and Ck > unty DgiEes , -wia Messrs . Qonnorton and Carter , were both to * quick in arriving . By the time the engaea could befotintogwod operation , Jwo large stacks of timber , which -were plied high into the air , -were completely en-¦* ek > pedin fire , ana great few -were entertained lest the ir e Aoaia extend to Mr , Sskes ' s ttmber yaidj which eoniained * mbb tfidasands loads of timber , and whose premises tot only npsrated from those on fire by a marrow « wrt . Bj Sint of much exertion on tbe pz ? t of the fireman ; ' fiwj were : aublsd to prevent the further extesision of the fire , and in about one hour after the ontbreak-it 3 tm pretty dear &s firemen had the complete mastery of it ; . "woen all of a sudden , a c » y -was raised tb * t another larra fire had broken ' ont in the

      premises of Mi . N . D . Wood , toy-wantfeouseuian , car-Ting on a large trade &t 1 « . Whitecbapel-road , Immediateiy , tUng tha chnrcfc , As many of the brigade engines as could be spared irare iastaoUy draughted to tha latter buMins , together with the Coonty and TTert of Engkad eoginea , jpd also ths parbh ou * . On the arriyalof theflKmaa , a tralymbliiBO , ytt awful sight presented itself ; the entire baHdiag being on fire from thn jTnriwnmt 1 n ttt » zt » f ; t&e fi * si «» attte time were

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      rushing out of the various windows , and roaring like several large furnaces , - As soon as mttr eould be procured , tito engines "were set into operation , and ' poured a vast volume of water upon the burning building , and also on these adjoining , -which happily prevented the fire spreading . By a quarter-past nine o ' clock , little better than one hour alter tbe outbreak , tbe place was almost burnt to the ground , and the adjoining premises were both very extensively injured by fire and water . The origin of both fixes remains at present a mystery .

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      ill . O'Cossob . has received communications from many districts in all of -which a vtty great desire is expressed to have a PORTRAIT of Mr . Roberts , the people ' s Attorney-General We cannot wonder that a strong -wish Bhould ba entertained to possess a Xikeness of to truly amiable , talented , and true a man ; and although we know that Mr . O'Connor had determined to glvt no more Portraits , yet we have tie pleasnre to announce that all Subscribers for Three Months , horn Saturday , the 16 thofSepL , lrill receive * A PORTRAIT OP W . P . ROBERTS , THE PEOPLES

      ATTORNEYGENEBAL . We request the several Agents to open lists for the enrolling of names , as none but Snbacribers from the above dates will receive a plate . The price ef Paper and Plate "when presented will he Sixpence ; and nose will be sold -without tbe paper .

      The Northern Star. Saturday, September 23, 1843.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 23 , 1843 .

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

      of gr&ee , and Kings , whose power to rule was based upon "right divine , * led the mobt vulgar minds to serious consideration upon the subjects of Government . As civilisation" progressed , however , kings and priests saw tbe necessity of ouch 4 combination as would insure to both an ascendancy -which without union they could sot long maintain . Is the 11 darker" ages , while kingB and priests held their subjects in eubjeetion by the disseminationof precepts and doctrines the most revolting and frightful , they were compelled nevertheless to furnish for their own order . knowledgeof a very different description ; knowledge , which while confined to their body , taught them the most systematic plan of governing those who had been trained up in reverence of kingly aud priestly

      sway . Mind , however , is a prying , searching , seeing , aud discriminating thing . It saw the difference between the precepts written for the rulers and those written for the ruled ; the difference between the maxims by which they were severalij governed in their daties respectively , the one to the other ; and as the two books were compared , the improving xrro of man began to investigate and to think for itself . For a series of ye&rs the knowledge disseminated by priests was confined solely to the advance of king-craft and priestcraft : bat . as the

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

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

      panders , debauchees , and gamblers to extend the blessings and circulate the divine truths of religion ; bnt it even dares to iDguire as to the title by which mtnarchs reign over their people 1 The searching veto can no longer be led to make striking distinctions , recognized by the law , between the Rich Oppressor and the Poor Oppressed . It reflects upon the esteem in which the Almighty holds poverty , and his contempt for riches : and thus recognizes a striking difference between those attributes held in veneration by the Creator , and in contempt by those who would base their title to rule upon " right divine . "

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

      in the religions struggle . Hitherto the aaion between Church and State , supported by the thunder from the pulpit and the roar from the cannon , has tended to the strength of both ; bat now one must give way : either tne poor State must nake up its deficiency from the parings of the rich Church , or the Church mast proclaim a religious war against the State—a war which would annihilate all standing obligations—a war -which wonld destroy all existing interests—& war whose triumph wonld be ihe estab lishment of Church faith over national faith .

      In every political move , whether foreign or domestie , the interest of the Church is the primary con-FidcratJon wiih the Ministers of State , Majesty , when entering upontlw duties of office , ifl bound to uphold the religion of tae Si * te as by lawjestablished —is the head « f the Church—the Erceutive of the Church , and the Church oust be the Monarch's first consideration , else will the Monarch cease to reign in the hearts of Churchmen . Now , it is into fchese deep recesses—these mysterious caverns—iheBB

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      dark abodes inwhioh Kings andpriests ^ oU cponsel , that the improved ms » of the present day dares to look ; and having Bean -what is to ^ discovered there , it asks whether the edicts emanating therefrom tend to the glory of God , and to the good of his people" ? We do not ourselves dare to answer the question ; but in those countries where the . effects-. navs been most deep ] y felt , a oombmafion of ininds appears to have takenit into serious consideration . Ireland has come to the conclusion that , a State religion , enforced at the point of the bayonet , and demanding human blood as a sacrifice ia honour of tho

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

      " Adrian , bishop , servant of the servants of God , to his dearest son in Christ , the illustrious King of EDgland , greeting , our apostolic benediction . Full , laudably and profitably hath your magnificence conceived the design of propagating yonr glorious renown on earth , and completing your reward of eternal happiness in heaven ; while as a Catholio prince , yon are intent on enlarging the borders of the Church , teaching the truth of the Christian faith to

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

      " There is indeed no doubt but that Ireland , and all ihe Islands on which Christ , the Sun of Righteousness , hath shone , and which have received the doc ~ trines of the Christian faith , do belong to the jurisdiction of St . Peter , and of the holy Roman Church , as your Excellency also doth acknowledge ; and therefore we are the more solicitous to propagate the righteous plantation of faith in this land , and the branoh acceptable to God , as we have the secret conviction of conscience that this is more especially oar bouaden duty .

      " Yon , then , most dear son in Christ , have signified to us your desire to enter into the Island of Ireland , in order to reduce the people to obedience unto laws , and to extirpate the plants of vice , and that you are willing io pay from each house a yearly pension of one penny to Si . Ptfeu «» rf that you will preserve the rights ef ihe churches of this land , whole and inviolate . We , thereiftre , with that grace and acceptance suited to your TMous and laudable design , and favourably assenting ? to your petition , do hold it good aud acceptable , that , for

      extending the borders of the church , restraining the progress of vice , for the correction of manners , the planting of virtue , and ihe increase of religion , you enter this Island , and execute therein whatever shall pertain to the honour of God , and the welfare of the land ; and that the people of this land , receive you honourably , and reverence you as their lord , the rights of their churches still remaining sacred and inviolate , and Baving to Peter the annual pension of one penny from every house .

      "If , then ,: you be resolved to carry the design you have conceived into effectual execution , study to form this nation io virtuous manners , and labour by yourself and others , uhom you shall judge meet for this work , in faith , word , and life , that the church may be there adorned , that the rePgion of the Christian faith may be planted and grove up , and that all things pertaining to the honour of God , and the salvation of souls , be so ordered , that you may be entitled to the fulness of eternal reward from God , and obtain a glorious renown on earth throughout all ages . '

      Now such ib one of the titles of the monarohs of England to Ireland , and whether or no subsequent invasions of that country have nullified the conditions upon which the ' above title was granted , is for the Irish mind to discover . Whether the successor of the second H « kst , Harbt the VII Ith , had , in 1542 , derived any better title after tbe Reformation , upon condition that he would hold sovereignity based upon the promise to destroy the Pope ' s supremacy we cannot Bay ; but we give the following clause from Daties , an English lawyer and hired historian- He aaya : —

      H In the indenture of submission all the Irish lords do acknowledge King Henry the Eighth to be their Sovereign Lord and King , and desire to be accepted of him as subjects ; they confess the King's supremacy in mil causes , and do utterly renounce the Pope ' s jurisdiction . " That the Irish people were not parties to either of the above bargains of sale , is matter susceptible of easy proof . From 1156 the continuous wars upon tbe English settlers , prove that the Irish people were not satisfied with the transfer by Adrian the IV while the fact of the whole nation , or nearly so , still adhering to the Catholio creed proves that that they

      were no parties to the indenture of submission , or to Habbv the Eighth ' s title to the Kingdom of Ireland . Indeed the frequent demands upon the English cabinet , during every successive reign , even down to the present " civilized" hour , establishes the fact that tha Irish people have never yet boen parties to the abandonment of their religion , or to the sale of their country . And to a consideration of these questions the sober mind of Ireland will now be bo directed under the judicious management of her leaders , as to prove the utter hopelessness of a " physical " triumph , over her mental powers and moral force .

      To that country and Spain the world now looks for a practical illustration of the march of mind ; while we have every reason to hope that that of Britain will not lag in the race .

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      THE HOLY ALLIANCE OF THE PEOPLE . While Monarohs and Potentates , trembling for the Bafety of their thrones , or bent on promoting schemes of further aggrandisement , are travelling post-haste from Paris to Normandy , and from London to the Chateau a" Eu ; and again from the icy Eeat of Muscovite Autocracy to the hardly more genial atmosphere of Prussian despotism , —to which , by-the-bye , Victoria is invited by the royal

      Prussian drill-sergeant , there tomect himself and the great Northern Bear ; while these movements of crowned heads and " illustrious" personages , plainly betoken the renewed " alliance of kings" to oppose the further " encroachments of the democratic principle" ; is it not time , we ' ask , that the long-trampledupon people were uniting with each other for the purpose of protecting themselves from a repetition of the crimes and oppressions which " legitimaoy '> has before-time committed and inflicted upon

      them ! We have no deBire to figure as M alarmists" ; but when we look at ihe steady progress of Republican principles in France ; the awfu ? ly distraoted state of Spain ; the political troubles in Italy ; the arrests of the Communists in Austria , and other countries ; the under-current of revolution throughout Germany ; and the rebellious disposition of even Russian aristocrats , ever and anon bursting forth in exploded conspiracies and military emutes ; when we look at our home fosition , particularly in Ireland and Wales , —where in the one

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

      progression . ? .. . There i 3 a popular motto , * ' when bad men combine , good men should unite . " Surely the time is come , when , in the expressive language , of one of the chiefs of Chartism : " with the enemy before as , we should measure our own length and depth , and know our own strength " : when each and all should give in their adherence to ihe saaziiR : ¦ ' "he who ia for na is with nsj- and he who Id not with us is against ns . "

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      From the heading of tWq artiole some may suppose that we are about ; to advooate some Utopian scheme , some ¦ "foreign polioy move , " of uniting Frenchmeni Spaniards , Italians , &o n with . the people ofthi 3 countryin some propaganda of European liberalism . Nothing of the sort . Though yielding to nope in pur aspirations for the freedom and happiness of ail mankind , we are content for the present

      to talce for a motto "Eugtand for the English , " "Ireland for the Irishj'Vand ; *' France for the French . " While wishing suocess to all nations in their struggles with the " powers of darkness" for the establishment of democratic institutions , the experience of the past has warned as that any interference on our part with them , or on their part with ua , would be worse than useless ; and tend rather to the rivetting than the loosening of the fetters of humanity .

      We look at home ; and to pur own countrymen we appeal to band together for mutual protection , and the working out of their political redemption . Would that we could summon to this " holy alliance" the long-oppressed yet , ever gallant , people of Ireland i But , alas ! selfish falsehood has there done its work , and estranged from the oppressed of this the oppressed of that land 1 Within the last few dajs has appeared an " Address from the National Repeal Ae&ooiation , in reply to the Queen ' s Speech "; it embraces and is filled with the self-same topics which have repeatedly appeared in our columns , in similar documents . But there is one paragraph to which we request the attention of our readers . The address says : —

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

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

      We pasB by the atrocious falsehood respecting the Tara meeting , content to leave Mr . O'Connbll in the hands of the * Whistler . " Nor will we waste space in traversing the ground so often trod before , in refutation of these calumnies . We are content to leave the matter with the working olasses of England and Scotlanl £ ? who can rightly understand and duly appreciate them . Did O'Connbu . really desire to establish the freedom of his own countrymen , and promote that of his " fellow-subjeota all over the globe , " he would pen very different sentiments to the above .

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

      We have asked is it not time that the people united , with each other for their mutual protection f But what protection ? That which results from , and can only be obtained by , the making of the legislative power the reflex of the popular will ; or in other words by making the Charter , tAW . Ia the present aspect of European polioy , it is indeed a matter of proud satisfaction to ua , that the con * ductors of this paper have uniformly and successfuly laboured to keep the movement party of this country stedfaBt to its political faith as defined in the Charter . The state of Spain at the preseat moment

      affords a painful illustration of the miserable state of a people emerging from the political darkness of ancient creeds and codes , yet wanting a beaconlight to guide them in the path of veritable liberty . For years now has that fair land been rendered desolate by the ravages of war , and its children employed as the assassins of one another . And for what ? To gratify the lust of power of a worthless Prince or Queen Regent ; to forward the ambitious designs of military scoundrels , or the graspingselfishn ess of money-gorged capitalists , and would-be aristocratic profitmongers I And in all their wars ,

      battles and bombardments ; in all their contests for Carlos and Isabella ; Christina or Espabtero ; for Ministers or Juntas ; the poor working , fighting , erer-eufferiog people have been used as mere " explosive masses " , first to subserve the interests of one faction , then of another ; and at the termination of eaoh contest have found themselves every way more powerless than at the commencement . How is it that bo much of blood has flowed for liberty in Spain —yet flowed in vain ! Because the people have had no defined OBJtcrtn their struggles ! They have cried . * ' Viva Isabella" or " Viva the Constitution "; tho former a miserable child , only now thirteen years old , who is forsooth to be declared of age and married forthwith , to this or that royal scion , as the

      interests or caprices of kings and ministers may dictate ; and the latter , a " constitution * which gave to them no rights , conferred on them no privileges I At this very time the people of Catalonia are suffering death by wholesale assassination at the hands of the very miscreants whom they have raised to power ! How different would have been the tale to have been told , if" measures , not men" had been the object of their former struggles ! If the democratic principles of the English working-man's Charter rather than the exclusive privileges of their eo-oalled " constitution ; if their own SovereignUfcTtither than that of Mrs . Munoz , or Don Cablos ; of Espartero or Narvaez , had been the end and aim of their countless aud heroic sacrifices J '

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

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

      We tru 3 t that " wherever the banner of the Charier is unfurled , —and where is it no /?—that there the gallant spirits , who " through good and evil report '? have stood by the popular cause , will be up and Stirring , preparing to take the necessary steps for the Organization of the domooratic troops , and the veritable realization of the Holy Alliance of the People . "

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      [ IRELAND . REFUSAL TO PAY BENTS , BATES , TlTHES ,, - AND TAXES . We beg to direct the attention of the reader to a report of the proceedings at the Corn-Exchange , upon the proposition of Mr . Connor to issue a manifesto against the payment of rents , rates , tithes , and taxes . While -there is some freshness in a new man venturing to propose anything new upon his own responsibility , in the Irish Repeal assembly , there is also something cheering in the manner in which the old hands canvas the legality of their proceedings . This spree of novelty introduced by Mr . Connor will no doubt have a very pernicious effect

      upon the Repeal movement ; and was very judiciously crushed injthe outset by those who would have to bear the penalty of his folly . The resistance to the payment of rents has already gone to considerable lengths , as is evidenced by the accounts in another part of this sheet ; and it would have progressed perhaps ! as rapidly without the interference of Mr . Connor ; whilo the press reporters and newspaper writers will not fail , in a short time , to attribute the resistance to a motion made , in the Corn-Exchange , " the ultimate disposal OF WHICH THEY pO NOT , AT PRESENT , BEAR IN MIND . " I

      To these facts we directed the attention of Mr . O'Connell some months back . We cautioned him that however temperate , judioious , and legal his acts may be , yet would it be impossible for him to separate himself ; from the commission of those acts performed by others in furtherance ot the general objeot . If Mr , O'Connell , as a lawyer , has discovered that the tenants of English companies , being Orangemen and Presbyterians , have a better claim to { the lands held by them , than those who received ! them as grants from the hands of an English Government , it will require no little legal ingenuity to convince the Catholic tenantry of Ireland , that their title to the fee of their farms rests upon any inferior pretension .

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

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

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

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

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

      Mr . Connor was not far wrong when he expatiated upon the return that the people were now beginning to expect for the bestowal of their hard * earned pence ; and j the more freely they give them the stronger will they consider their claim for something in return . The mere sitting of a Parliament in College Green would not realize that claim . Under the present ! system of election , the House would consist of landlords , church-lords , and moneylords : and if the first expectation from such au assembly was not realized , the wrath and vengeance of the Irish people would be great . We would , therefore reoommend to Mr . O'Coknell the strictest self-examination , i We would implore of him to view the question as a whole , aud to see how it

      can be most safely and securely advanced without danger to himself , or to the cause of which he is the acknowledged leader . He must bear in mind that even in the event of the Union being Repealed , he would be answerable for the better Government of the counfry under the new system . He must recollect that in 1836 he caricatured the English Peers as "bloated- buffoons , " and " old women in pantaloons ; " and that he assured the English people that a thorough Reform required the destruction of hereditary legislation . He must be cautions , therefore , how he leaves it in the power of the Irish people to compare ; his support of hereditary legislators for Ireland in 1843 with his denunciation of the same order in 1836 .

      The feelers and invitations held out by the Whig press , to induce Mr . O'Connell to make the Repeal agitation subservient to what they call " practical" and "ireal" Reforms , is indioativo of a strong impression upon their minds that Mr . O'Connell , if inclined , could now work the Repeal agitation to Whig purposes . Those who build their hopes upon such an assumption are but indifferent observers of passing events . They mnat know that none , save a Tory Minister , would have strength enough to stand with the House of Commons , constituted as it is ; while they must also have discovered that the ardour of this Repeal agitation has wholly diverted the publio micd from the

      Registration Courts , to I which aforetime Mr . O'Connell attached paramount importance . H « has now learned that in almost every instance the liberal constituencies have lost ground in Ireland ; and that the result of a general election would be a manifest weakening of his Parliamentary power . To us this is rather matter of joy than of sorrow ; inasmuch as we have ] long been of opinion that from Parliament no hope could be entertained ; aud that of all . contaminating influences , of all jobbing factions , of all reckless and unprincipled sections in "the House , " wha ' t is called the" Irish liberal" flee * tion outstrips , and out-Herods , and out-does them all . ¦ •¦¦] . " ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦

      While Irish agitation is thus pregrefsing , and whilst , 'symptoms of out-door dissatisfaction are thus dribbled out , as ! in the case of Mrf Connor , it is consolatary to find the English Chartista Re-Organiz ' - ingand te-emhod ^ ing their forces for the advancement of those principles upon which , and upon whioh alone , the Repeal of tbe Usion , or any other change can be safely or eecarely established .

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      WHO IS Tj 3 E Z 7 M # S \ S CORRESPONDENT IN WALES ? This is a question oftenasked , though , we hava yet seon no one atJempi . : ^ anaw ' er it . We will try . It is right that the Chartists of Wales should know who it is that they have among 3 t them , with a power and a disposition ( as evidenced by hi 3 several sly thrusts ) to do them damage : and it is also r ight that the farmers of Wales should know something of the man they admit to their secrefc conferences , to act as a spy over their movements .

      Who is he , then ? What is his name ? Where iB he best known 1 Has he a character where he is well known , that will stand the test of examination I A ' political" character we mean ; for in these days of lax morality a man 13 allowed to be a political rogue without its being any detriment to his private standing . Ho « v does the correspondent of the Times in Wales , stand in these respects ? for upon a satisfactory solution of some of these queries wiJl depend his title to the confidence of the Welsh people , speaking in a " political" sense : for it is as a politician , and as the servant of " political traffickers" that we wish to speak of him .

      His name , then , iB Gomer Powell . He . was once a flaming Radical ; and figured mo 3 t conspicuously in the British Political Union . He is now a renegade from his former principles . His character ( " political" ) is well known at Bristol . The Welch Chartista and the Welch Farmers may hear muoh of him , if they send to Bristol , and inquire . We refer them to his old associates in the Political Union , which used to meet in St . Augustine's Place . From them they will hear much ; but not much to the credit (* ' politically speaking" ) of Gomer Powell . They will hoar something about a ( " political ") printing press , and some printing type .

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

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

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      4 . T H E ,-t ff O , R THE BiNz : Sff A Ifo - ¦;¦ -j , ___ . _

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      On Monday morning week , a fatal fire occurred at the union workhouse , Falmoulh . It appear * that about eleven o'clock ib the morning , the inmates were greatly alarmed at observing a body of smoke issuing from one

      of thB upper windo-sra of the building , whicfe was aoon ascertained by the master to proceed from a room that was occupied by a woman of the name of Mary Perry . Ongoiiigto tbe apartment they faund it impossible to enter on account of the heat and smoke . However , by dint of great exertion the fire was extinguished , when tbe body of tbe unfortunate woman was discovered almost burnt to a cinder . It is supposed that the fire originated by her clothes ignitog , and that aheiell on a bed in tbe appartment and set the place in flames . An inquest has been held on the body , and a verdict-vf "Accidental death" * returned . At East Peckham , on Tuesday last , at abouj twelve o'clock in tho forenoon ,

      three houses , the property of Viscount' Torrington , tenanted-by poor labouring families , were consumed by fire . His Lordship was present shortly attache commencement of the fire , aud took an activei jpBanalding to extinguish It . None of tke parties are insured . During the present ^ vreek fires have also happened near Northern . Burro-srs , in Devonshire -. at Biiton , near Tiverton ; at SheWey , in Worcestershire ; at West Be-re , near Canterbury j and at Bametby , In Lincolnshire , at each of ¦ which much loss of property took place , cbirfiy in the destruction of fann-hauses , barm , wheat stacks , and out-bnil dings ; and in more than one instance , we regret to say , theso conflagrations are supposed to be the work of au incendiary .

      Portrait Of "W. P. Eobeets, Esq.

      PORTRAIT OF "W . P . EOBEETS , ESQ .

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      THE " COAL KINGS" AND THE LAW . Last week we called pablio attention , and the attention of Sir James Gjiaham , the Home Secretary of State , to the fact that in the Coal Works belonging to the Duke of Ha 5 iiltonv— the law lately passed for the protection ef Colliers , and for the prohibition of the employment of female labour ia

      Mining operations , is daily and openly violated—set at defiance ! This week we have to report more of such violations ; and to again call on the Home Secretary to take steps to teach the high and " privileged" ones that they are not yet ' above the law . " At the Duke of Hamilton ' s colliery works ai Redding , upwards of sixtt females are constantly employed ! At the colliery works belonging to the Carron Iron Company , at Carron Hall , upwards of one hundred females are constantly employed !!

      Here is a pretty state of things I Dukes and " Iron Companies" are to be allowed to trample on all law and authority ! And will Sir James Graham permit it ? Will he not movei Will he allow the Duke of Hamilton and the Carron Iroa Company to set the Legislature-and the Executive at defiance ! Will he not assert the " majesty of the law" I If he do not , let him beware how he again tries to wreak its " vengeance" upon the devoted Chartists !

      Let him not shroud himself up in the garb of * ndifference , alleging that "it is none of his business *'; that the " proper course" is for the aggrieved to apply to the magistrates of their districts , who are empowered , and required , to execute the law . This m . ea will sot avail . MAGISTRATES HAVE REFUSED TO INTERFERE 1 Informations have been laid before them , and before the Fiscal of Falkirh ; and tet they will take no steps to vindicate the law . " Is it not time that Sir Jambs GnAHAM was nudging them ? Is it not time he interfered ! Is it not time that both the Duke of Hamilton , the members of the Carron Iron Company , and the magistrates , were all called to account !

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

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

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

      Fiscal of Falkirk ; and yet they will take DO steps to vindicate the law I It may be said that surely the Duks doe 3 not kuowof these practices being carried on at bis works at Redding ; or he would instantly put a stop to them . In answer to this I beg to state that the Duke has been lately married to an Italian lady , and that he was personally round the works at Redding about a fortnight since , and left money for the hands to drink the health of himself and lady Not know of it!—he is perfectly well acquainted with it ; indeed the thing is quite notorious . Why

      it is only a few weeks ago since a woman was killed in one of his pits at Redding ! and though the newspaper press in the neighbourhood were informed of the circumstance , yet mot a line did they insert in their papers concerning it . This woman was newly married , and was some months g * ne with child ! She had been working all night with her husband , and at breakfast time in the morning was coming up the pit with him in a butch together , when the empty hutch met

      thenvthe engine going at an extra quick pace . The empty hutch , or tub , struck the woman on the head , knocked her out , and she was precipitated to the bottom , twenty-two fathoms , and of course dashed to pieces ! The husband was saved unhurt ; bis name is William Hure . The woman was Urentf years of age .- This accident took place od the 19 th . day of last July , and would have remained stillseoie * had not your correspondent dragKed . it to light . If necessary , I . can obtain scores of men to attest tn& truth , of the foregoing . > ;

      Will not somenotice be taken of this ? WilLow some enquiry be >; ' instituted ? Will hot the ; iA * be vindicated ! Will not Sir Jambs Graham see to it !; . • . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ " - ¦ ' /' , .: * ' ' \ 1 His Grace , the Duke of Hamilton and Brandos , is I ^ r ^ Leiutenant ' of , tne county ; is hta&ofihstea gistracy-r-is BBPaESENiAritK of the Qobbn ;' in his Countt . . Pretty fellow ^ this , to be head $ rjN > Magiatracy , to enforce the ! law 8 , wheu h « lires >* daily violation of them , and . pockets the wealth produced by such violaUoa ! Pretty fellow this , for a Lord Leiutenant ! His ought , most certainly ; HB 1 of all men , ought to be the Queen's represented *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 23, 1843, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct820/page/4/