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THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1840.
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WEST BTODTG or TOBXBBTXS .
WE , JOHN COTTINGHAM , ROBERT CHARLES HILDYARD , and FREDERIC ROBINSON , Esqmires , Barristers-at-Law , having been duly nominated aad appointed to revise the List of voters in the Election of the Knights ef the Sure forfce West Riding of the County of York , sxkkbt oitj boticc , that we shall hold a Court for that purpose , at the Court House , at Leeds , on FimAT , the 2 nd day of October next , &t Eleven o'Cloek in the Forenoon . And we appoint the Co « rt to be held at Leeds to
be the Court f « ir revising the Lists of Voters in all the Townships in the Pariihai of SwilliBeton , Whitktrk , and Leedi ; and the Township of Addleeum-Eccup , in the Parish of Addle ; the Township of Horsfortn , in the Parish of Guiseley ; the TownihipsrtrAldwoodleyj Barewood , "Weardley , Wigton , and Wfke , in the Pariah of Harewood ; the Townsrip of Preston Gnat and little , in the Pariah of Eippax ; the Township of Roundhay , in the Parish of Barwick-in-EUne t ; and the Townships of Seacroft and ShadwelLia sh » Parish of Thoraer .
JOHtf COTTINGHAM , R . C . S 1 LDYARD , FREDERIC ROBINSON . Dated this 2 Sth day of August , 1840 . K . B . —The Overseers of the sereral Parishes or Towwhipe are desired to bring with them all Nortia of Ctinis , and also all Notices of Objsctioks , which shall hare been sent in to them , or which may be in their possession eitfcer for . the present or preceding jean . And the Voters -who- acre sent m their Claims , whether Objected to or not , are desired to see that they hare been duly aad accurately Registered , as regards the description of themselves and their Qualification , according to toe 38 th Section of the Reform Act .
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ZfEDI BOB . OUGH SESSIONS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , thai the next ^ GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS ef the reuse for the Borough of Leeds , in the West Riding of the County of York , will be holden before Thohas Flower Ellis , the younger , Esquire , Recorder of tbe said Borough , at tne Corai House , m Linens , on Wednesday , the Twenty-eighth Day « f October next , at Two o'Cloek in the Afternoon , * t which time and pkee all Jurors , Constables , Polioe-Offieers , Pjpseeutors , Witnesses , Persons bound by ReeogBizances , and others , having business at the said Sessions , are requested to - Skttent * .
And Notice it hereby also given , "thai all Appeals will be immediately heard on the opening of tbe Court , and that all proceedings under th © Highway Act will be taken on the First Day of - * fce Sessions . By Order , JAMES RICHARDSON , dark of the Peaee for the said Borough . Leeds , 24 th September , 1640 .
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BOROUGH OF LEEDS
MUNICIPAL REVISION . TCTOTICE is hereby given , that William Smith , -JA Eeguire , Mayor , © J tbe Borough of Leeds , in the County of York , togc » fcta with John Horn Shaw , and Thomas Town kkd Dibb , both of Leeds m&resaid . Solicitors , the Revising Assessors of and for the aaidBorough , or their legal Deputies , will hold a open Coeurt for the purpose of Revising the Municipal Burgess Lists , ana tbe Municipal List of Claimante , * paof Persons Objected to respectively at the - Court House , in Leeds , within the said Borough , between the First and Fifteenth days of October next , both inclusive , to commence on Thursday , the First Day of October next , at Nine o'Cloek in the Forenoon of the same Day , and will sit and adjourn from Day to Day , ( Sundays excepted ) at the game Place , until and including Thursday , the said Fifteenth Day of October , unlesd the said Revision shall be previously completed .
All Overseers of the Poor , and all Peraons appointed to execute , or part perform any of the duties of Overseers of the Poor , and all Vestry Clerks and Collectors of Poor Rates of every Parish , Township , Till , Hamlet , Chapelry , Precinct , or Place , within , or partly within , the said Borough , are requested to attend the e » id Conrt , and answer upon oath all such questions as the Court may put to them , touching any matter necessary for RevisiDg the said Lists , And all Overseers , or other Persona having the custody of any book or books containing » ny rate made for the Relief of the Poor during the present or any preceding year , in any Parish , Township , Yill , Hamlek , Chapelry , Precinct , or Place , wholly or in part , within the said Borough , must come prepared to produce the same if
re-By Order , EDWIN EDDISON , Town Clerk . Dated this 26 th day of September , 1840 .
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Fbost , Williams , ahd Jokes . —At a meeting of the Committee for the above persons , held at Bill ' s - "Coffee House , Moor-street , on Tuesday evening last , -it was moved by Mr . J . Barrett , and seconded by Mr . Bough , and passed unanimously , — " That a Sneral meeting of this Committee be held on Tues-§ evening next , at Bill ' s Coffee House , Moorstreet , at half-past seven o ' clock , for the purpose of adopting means to hold a public meeting weekly , to Becure the return of FroBt , Williams , and Jones , and to raise a fund to effect that desirable object ; for the town of Birmingham to co-operate with the Central Committee of London and tne couniry generally , when the Committee and all holders of books are particularly requested to attend . "
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We have received the London journals of Friday . The following are extracts . — A contemporary published yesterday in a third edition that "it was reported in-Paris yesterday ¦( Wednesday ) that the French Leuam mail due at Marseilles on Monday la ^ t had arrived with the intelligence of the capture of Beyrout by Commodore Napier and the commencement of the blackade of Egypt . The capture of Beyrout -was not credited . " Such rumours were , it is true , flying about Paris , but no such intelligence could possibly hare been received . Our Paris correspondent assures us -that the telegraph brought nothing from the East np to the latest date . —Chronicle .
The Courtier Francois announces that a Russian edict has ordered the immediate arming of nine ves- eels of the line , as manyfrigates , and other smaller Tassels , to station at Revel , and be ready to sail for the Mediterranean at an instant's warning . We hare had a host of reports about Russian ileets , and no doubt one will be held ready incase of hostilities , —Cknmxcle . Reported News from Chhja . —The following communication , from a highly respectable corres-: pondent , reached ns yesterday , afternoon , but we did not think it sufficiently important to publish it in a second edition :-- " 1 send you in haste tbe
accompanying extract of & letter from Bombay , received by a friend of mine in Liverpool : — ' After the vessels had destioyed tl ? e forts of the Bogue , at the entrance of the Bocca Tigris , eome troops and seaman were sent on shore to put them in a state of defence against the Chinese . The expedition then proceeded towards Whampo * . having pressed two Chinese pilots ; bnt on reaching Second Su , the passage for large vessels was impeded by the Chinese having taken the precaution to sink gome large jnnks ; however , the smaller vessels and teamen will almost immediately proceed with a strong military force to rase Canton to the ground . '"
—Standard , .-, ( kmszAJtrnfOPLK , Sept . 2 . —By the Hydra steamer , tfiSed from Alexandria on Monday morning , jAffcl despatches woe received by the Government lt 3 Sj Lord Ponsonby , announcing the positive wSSmi of Mehemet Ali to accept the terms which SppUan bad offend him . j ^ irm
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. A letter from Tulle , dated Sunday mowing , halfpest nine o ' ekok , received by estafttt * , say * :- * The registrar went to the gaol , at half-part ^ even tot night , to read to Mae . La&rge the jadgiieiit Tendered by the eonrt , but we are asrared tiMl ^ tewM totally incapable of hearing it . * She is in an alarnuag eoadifcioa . The xternma affeeikm towhion shehaseonBtantly beena prey , has become aggfavated by other symp ^» , asbyp « n > phia Iphlhifli « , tobnch degree , that her death may be expected Tery shortly . Her Counsel are preparing an appeal to the Coort of Cassation ; and it iB believed that it may b » well grounded on . some irregularities in the prooeedings The requisitory of the Advocate-General ttd the judgment of the court were made known to he * this morning . MM . Pailiet and Deemosts will leave as this evening for Paris .
IMPOMAHT IKTKLLI 0 IHTCB FBOMSPAIH—MRxsiQHA * TIOK OP THE SA 5 CHO MlKISTBT . —GfcNEBAL EsPABtbbo appointko Pbjur Minister—The Mooiteur Porisien , pnbliahed this n % ht , ( Tuesday , Sept . 22 , ) contains the following-important news from Spain : — By a decree of the 16 th instant , the Queen has accepted the resignation « f the Sancho Ministry , By » decree of the same day , she has named General Espartero President of the Council of Miaistere , conferring on him the powers necessary to enable him to form the Cabinet himself . General Espartero has accepted the office . " Mujtaxt Pbepaeations ii » Frakck . —The numberof piooes of field artillery has been ordered by the Minister of War to be increased from 1 , 000 to l jBOO . The store of muskets , & « ., PoasOBed bV
( aoTernment u very considerable , bnt Btepa have been taken to have 500 , 000 manufactured annually if necessary . Orders have also been given for the founding of 1 , 000 rampart cannon , and for making UTge stores of oopper , iron , tin , &e besides sulphur and saltpetre . Equipages for the waggon train and the artillery are organising on a large scale , and parchases of cloth for the uniformeof the new levies nave been made extensively . Aboa * 80 , 000 huta have been ordered to supply the means of lodging 30 , 000 Foldiers and workmen at Paris * 15 , 060 men at Metz , 15 , 000 at Chalons , 15 , 000 at Be-fort , » nd 5 , 000 at St . Omer , tbe btrrack aocosunodatioa now existing not being sufficient . All the militarv continuant * have
now being called ont , and by tbe « nd of next month the total foroe of the army , inokding old and new levies , will be about 510 , 000 men . The number of infantry regiments is to be increased from 98 to 100 ; « nd the cavalry are to muster 60 JTO 0 hnrses , of which , however , 48 , 000 have to be purchased The ConstituHonnei says— " The recruiting depots , as they were in 1880 , continue to be completly besieged , not only by young men , but by old soldiers , eager to enrol themselves as volunteers . During the short time tbaf this enthusiasm has existed , the depot at Paris has inscribed as volunteers a greater number than the whole class of recruits for 1839 for the entire department of the Seine "
The late Accident ojj the Eastekn Codwties Railway . —James Perrey , one of the passengers who were injured by the recent acoident on tka Eastern Counties Railway , caused by a collision of the trains , and who had his head and eb « k cut open , besides a fracture of one of bis ribs and right 1 % died in the London Hospital on Wedneeday evening , from the injuries he had received . Information has been sent } to Mr . Baker , the Coroner , who has appointed thiB evening ( Friday ) for holding the inque 3 t . Mason , the other Bufferer , has almost quite recovered , and will be examined ss a witaess .
The Northern Star Saturday, September 26, 1840.
THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 26 , 1840 .
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THE WEEKLY DISPATCH AND REPEAL OF THE UNION . The Weekly Dispatch is conducted with more strength of mind , resolution of purpose , adherence to principle , attention to passing events , and an apparent desire to lead the public mind to rational conclusions upon those several subjects which interest not a class , but society—not a nation , but the universe—than any other paper which comes under
our observation . It is an able exposer of those fallacies which , without proper criticism , -would acquire the etamp of orthodox doctrine . It is a fearless plunger into the depths of " History , " Literature . " and " Politics . " The politician , the philosopher , the sportsman , the divine , the agriculturist , the capitalist , the soldier , and the mechanic , may one and all fare sumptuously upon this one dish . It is seasoned for the guests , not for the cooks .
Having said so much of this " Justinian" of the press , our disagreement upon the vital question of the Repeal of the Union , will be divested ot that malevolence which too frequently characterises all newspaper controversy . The general commentaries of the advertising press pass by us as cbaff before the wind . We need neither the approval nor the condemnation of the prostitute tribe . We consider their breath as the mere evanescent puff of a forge bellows , which can blow the fire in , or blow the fire out , or blow ihe coals about , as convenience directs-But when we find a journal , such as we have described the Weekly Dispatch , arguing the immense question
of the repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland , upon no better data than the admitted fallacies of Mr . O'Connell and some of his miscalculating friends , and the unauthenticated account of the state of the nation and the Irish Parliament antecedently to the " Union , " upon the suspicious authority of , no doubt , some hired scribe , whom the Dispatch does not even venture to name , though quoting largely from his pagep ; when we thus see intellect blinded by prejudice , and reason giving way to sophistry , we hasten to dispel the mist which seeme to have obscured the vision of our Argos-eved contemporary .
We now take the two articles of tne Dispatch upon the subject of repeal or " separation , " ( which he will ) for dissection . The Dispatch founds all its reasonings npon a misconception , which we shall incontrovertibly prove from his own matter ; and , indeed , it appears to be a wilful one , as we can scarcely suppose our contemporary chargeable with so much ignorance as his false reasoning would exhibit .
The Dispatch starts with the assertion that repeal means separation . To this we agree , and were the first to announce the fact . But then all the subsequent folly and balderdash of Mr . O'Connell about his chubby cheeks , rosy gills , and buoyant spirits in 1798 , which happens to be the year when he was called to the bar , is unfairly grasped at by the Ditpalch ag evincing a desire upon Mr . O'Connell ' s pan to return to those bloody days when the English oligarchy 6 hed the best blood of Catholic
Ireland , to uphold - the baneful ascendancy of a Protestant Church in that country . What is the simple fact ? Why , that O'Con . nell refers to 1798 in refutation of the charge of a desire to separate , while the Dispatch most adroitly asks , " Are these the halcyon days to which Mr . O'Connell would return ? " Now , to show that O'Connell is arguing only against the presumption that he desires separation , let our readers see the full proof in the following extract given , but unfairly warped , by the Dispatch : —
( j : i j ! ! j 2 | " It is not the creation of anything new ; it is not I the creation of anything originating in the human ima-! gination ; it is nothing imaginary or fanciful ; it is only \ restoring things as they were before , replacing them in ' , the position in which they were when I arrived at manhood , and when I was called to the Irish bar , for I I -was called to the Irish bar in 1798 , and the Union did ¦ not pass till 1800 . I want to go back to the time when
I was called to Uie bar ; & merry young fellow I wasunknown , unmentioned , without any claim upon notice , the son i / f a simple country gentleman—proving how much a humble individual may do if he is perpetually honest and perpetually active . I want only to bring tbiDgs back to tbat period . There was no separation in 1799 between England and Ireland—there was a connexion between them . I want to bring back tae connexion to that . "
Can anything be more clear than that the above passage has reference to the description cf compact which existed between the two countries antecedently to the Union , and not to the feelings , excitement , or barbarity , of which the blood-stained annals of those sad days of English perfidy and Irish treachery are proofs too fresh to be forgotten—toe deep to be erased ! Those who advocate the Union had much better draw a veil o ' er the crimsoned robes in which tbe bridegroom arrayed bis victim
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and ih « lid-, her ta ^ Lalti * thrdogh the chan ^ li « u * i followed by tnwH p Vuum a bleeding « ad a * trawilling sacrifioe to hfa lnrt ; ' ¦ ; . : To * fliij » fl ^ tb « proceed * i » A ^ at ^ the object or meaning of which we can only R ™** "*; w « r >* # * ^ f ***]!? / " * P ? W » that the DupofeAinufcTi ^ tttaVaqueition of iuch vital importanoe slrould not be allowed to proceed uasttiMd in his ooranuu ; that jasfly building upen the general igaonnce respecting thJBgubject , hopes that bis own will pas » undetected . The Dispatch , at roll speed * BtUlfcwping vpov the enormities by which the Union waacarriod , and , most unjustifiably wttbg up the atrocities of the victors as a bar to the revival of the rights tf the plundered , thus launches into
absurdity : — " If the Act of Union U to be wpealed , would Mr . O'Coraell consent ta the Repeal of all the AcU of Parliament relating to Ireland whkh have been pasted riocathe Unioa of 1800 t Wooldbe like U be placed as th « Civillan « aay , i * statuqtuiade bdlu »* andU > begin Reform again f" ¦ It is utterly impossible to dealaerioualy with this compound of folly and ignorance . Before we make an observation upon this extract , let us once for all tell the Dispatch that Mr . O'Cowkbll is not the Irian Aatkm ; indeed , the importance which the press
aUaehee to Urn , moreinan to the question , reminds ub of a story we have more t ^ an once heard of the importance which one of theoerpea of 1798 attached to Mb wig , amounting to a veneration not inferior to that in which the barber of Fairport held the wig of Jonathan Oldenbock . The story runs thus : — " A party of divines , anticipating that they were U be surrounded by the rebels , drew lets for the honour of montiog guard , white the rert of the company should peacefully drink M the glorious , piod ; and immortal memory . " The distinction of keeping first watch fell upon * Dr . Nbclioai ^ who , being well
primed with frequent and potent -libations in honour of the Church , mount « d , and sallied forth . He bad not gone far when he chanced to meet with a cow , that brake from her new quarters in spite of martial law , and was at full Bpeed on her way to heir old home . The potent effect of Paddy ' s eye-water , liberally applied to the Doctor previously to his mounting guard , magnified the bellowing quadruped into a whole regiment of Irish rebels in the act of charging his pious companions . Big with love ef Mother Church , he roared out" Stand , and give the pass and countersign , and be
d—d ! " To which the cow returned— " Moo-hoo-ooo !" " Who , who , who ! " exclaimed his reverence , " who the devil are you yourself ? " and , firing his carbine , galloped off as-fast as Mb horse ' s heels would carry him , pursued by the cow . In his flight the Doctor's hat and wig fell off . The report of his carbine brought his companions to his aid , when , upon being asked what was the matter , he replied" Ireland ' s lost , and we ' re undone 1 " " Speakspeak , " said his companions , what—what m the matter ! For God ' s sake speak ! " My wig is in possession of the enemy , " replied theDoctor , " Ireland ' slost and we ' re undone I "
•* Would Mr . O * Coj * weli , consent to the repeal of all the Acts of Parliament relating to Ireland , which have been paeoed since tho Union of 1801 ! " asks the Dispatch , We really cannot answer for Mr . O'Connill ; bnt the nation would consent to the repeal of Coercion Bill , Tithe Bill , Church Bill , Emancipation Bill , Police Bill , Arms Bill , assimilation of Cnrrenoy Bill , Poor Law Bill , and every other Bill denoting % mere license for the natives to exist in the land of their birth , according to the caprices measured by the dread of the victors . M When men die , worms eat them , but not for love ! " While the Irish submit , their enemies squeeze them , bnt not for love . Does not the
Dispatch ere this see the folly of his own question ; and does it not amount to this!— " If the Irish get a Parliament of their own , will they promise net to use it ! Why , theRepealoftheUnionis demanded torepeal bad laws ; as well as to enactgood ones . Every measure which has been forced from the unwilling grasp of the conqueror , or rather the subduer , baa carried this maxim upon its face , — " Curse you , we give you just what we can ' t keep from you ; but in the measure , such as it iB , you shall still witness our superiority and your degradation / ' So that , whatever Mr . O'Conhell ' b altered position might be , whether he would still remain " in statu quo , ante bellum , " we know not ; but we do know tbat the people remain " in statu quo , post helium . "
Again , the Dispatch repeats , " the period of Irish history which Mr . O'Connell dwells upon with such delight . " Here we have a repetition of the Bamo fallacy . The period to which Mr . O'Connell refers with delight , is only one of-comparison betwten the bettered state of Ireland in 1782 , and her previous dark reispi of oppression ; and even this , we shall presently show , was but comparative and not positive excellence .
When the Dispatch talks of restoring to Ireland her usual number of Biabops , with their complicated and disordered territories and revenues , the Dispatch talks nonsense , and he knows it . We can only answer it thus : " I'll hit you a slap in the face 1 " said a gentleman to an Irish jaunting-car driver . " Be J s , I believe you would if I'd let ye , " replied Paddy . Does the Dispatch suppose that an Irish Parliament would be , as formerly a mere tool in the hands of an English Privy Council 1
Tbe delight of the Dispatch in reminding his readers that it was the Dutch Admiral who , in the reign of Chaeles II ., put the broom at his masthead , and not at the period alluded to by Mr . O'Connbll , is a pretty way of judging of the merits of a principle by the fallacies of an individual . If the Dispatch requires a bit of false reasoning to grapple with , we select the following passage from Mr . O'Connbli / s speech , aa quoted by the Dispatclh ;—" If Ireland mode a bargain in 1800 , no matter whether it turns out beneficial or not—if she made a contract or compact , she cannot in honour , and she ought not in conscience , to recede from it "
Now , nothing can be more unsound in principle and more false than tho position here laid down . Eyery Act of Parliament is a compact ; every repeal of an Act is consequently a breach of compact ; the Reform Bill was » breach of compact . If we subscribe to the doctrine laid down by Mr . O'Conmell , we at once bar the march of intellect for a space of forty years , by pleading an act of an agreement entered into forty years ago . Will the improved minds constituting a jury in the present day admit the validity of such a plea 2 We say not . But if we are to go to compacts , let us have
the terms upon which the several grants of Ireland were made to tho English Crown . The first set up is the Charter of Edgar , dated at Gloucester in 964 ; but in speaking of this Charter even Lkland , a most corrupt and bare-faced slanderer of Ireland , says , " The Asiatic style of this Charter , aud the silence of English aa well as Irish annals , render its authenticity justly suspicious . " So much for the first title which is pleaded , but is nowhere to be found . The second title of England to the lordship of Ireland we give from a manuscript copy in our possession . It runs thus : —
Adrian , Bishop , eervant to the servants of God , to his dearest son in Christ , the illustrious King of England , greeting , our apostolic benediction . Full laudably and profitably hath your magnificence conceived I he design of propagating your glorious renown on eartbvand completing your reward of eternal happiness in heaven , while , as a CATHOLIC Prince , you are intent on enlarging the borders of the Church , teaching the truth of the Christian faith to the ignorant and rude , exterminating the roots of vice from the field of'the Lord , snd , for the more convenient execution of this purpose , requiring the counsel and favour of the apostolic See ; in which the maturer your deliberation , and the greater the discretion of your procedure , by so much the happier we trust will be your progress , with the assistance of the Lord .
There is , indeed , no doubt but that Ireland , and all the islands onichich Christ , the Sun of Righteousness , hath shone , and which have received the doctrines of tite Christian faith , do belong to the jurisdiction of St . Peter and the Holy Roman Church ; as your Excellency also doth acknowledge ; tuul , therefore , we are the more solicitous
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to profagaU tferighttooi plaatati . n < rf-fatUi fc » * it fe ^ iM > 9 * i ' mm :. Me » piab £ to O « d , a * wf have the ieewt eonrlcUoTor cowdeaee tbat thi . ta more ( Mpee 1 a « y «* l ) oiUMl « ^ 7 j - " ^^' " You , then , moat dear aoa In ChrUt , hav « i !| mifled to u » your derirt to pnt « into «^ ialand of Ireland , in order to reduee the peojOe toobedlenee ant * law * , and to extirpate the plants of vice , and that you aw willing to pay , from each h « w > , a yearly pension of o » e penny to St ^ Peter , and that mwiU pmerpe the righto of the Q m ^; . if ^ U-ti ^ : : vaM : iaa- inviolate ; we , tliere Tow ; with that gr&ee and acceptance Baited to
your pious and laudable design , and favourably assenting to your petition , do hold it good and acceptable , that , for extending the border * tfihe church , restraining Vie progress of vice—for the concetto tf manners , the planting of virtue , amf the iitcnxmQf religion , y » u enter this Island , and execute , therein , u > katever shall pertain to the honour of God ahd tie welfare of the land ; and that the people of this land receive yon honourably , and reverence you at their lord , the rights of their churches stia remaining taared < md inviolate , and saving to St . Pet « r the annualpension of ome penny from every house . "
If , then , you , be resolved to carry the design you hare conceived into effectual execution , study to f orm this nation to virtuous manners , arid labour , $ y yourself and Men whom you thaU judge meet for this work , in faith , nord , and life , that the Church may be there adorned , that the religion of the Christian faith may be planted andgroum up , and thvt all things pertaining to the honour ofGod and the salvation of souls be ao ordered that yon may be entitled to the fulness of eternal reward , from God , and obtain a glorious renown on earth , throughout all agea /
Now , from this compact we learn the terms npon which Ireland was annexed to the Crown of England ; and in reply to the restoration of her Bishops , we plead the charter of Henry against the right of any such Bishops ; and we ask , "Is not the compact entered into nearly seven oenturies back , as binding ae any compact subsequently agreed upon , and if original compacts are to bar all subsequent ones , more so j and we ask whether the terms of the compact have been kept . " Adrian , in -1156 , had just as good a right to sell Ireland to HsiTBT ^ as Castlkreigh and hfc dupes had to sell her to
Gkobojb in . 1800 . There is this single difference , that the sale of the former was in conformity with the religious feelings of the people , and was effected without fraud , treachery , or bloodshed , whilst the sata of the latter was characterised by every vice in the blackest character of hell . The reasoning of the Dispatch upon the virtue and validity of statutary compacts reminds us ytry forcibly of the Irishman ' s logic , who , having knocked his antagonist down , and still continuing to belabour him , was requested by the spec tators to let him get up . ?? No , by the
holy , " replied Paddy , ; "I had hard work to get him there , and Til keep him there now ! " The logic of the Dispatch amounts precisely to this . It has cost England too much in blood , plunder , treachery , arms , cruelty , and perfidy , to think of undoing the compact which was acquired . By a parity of reasoning , we must conclude the Dispatch to be opposed to the restoration of Charles II ., in consequence Of the vast amount of fasting , praying , murdering , plundering , lying , and all the other atrocities it coat poor Cromwell to eject and butcher Charles I . The same title may be the best plea of our present Royal Family to the throne , inasmuch as it has cost tbe nation thousands of millions , together with a legacy oi eight hundred millions to our successors , to support
their title and the Irish Church . When King William was graciously pleased to accept these kingdoms , the nation did not owe one million of money . The Dispatch demands a permanence of compact in proportion to the violence required to accomplish it . He sympathises with the assassin , who , poor fellow ! met with great opposition , rather than with the victim who offered it . A warm dispute once took place in a society of politicians . The character of Catharine , Empress of Russia , was the subject , when one of her supporters , being bard pushed , exclaimed most pathetically , " Well but , gentlemen , will you not make allowance for the poor soul , who , in the very outset , waa compelled to murder her busband !"
The only compact which reason will acknowledge , is that which "force and right conspire " to maintain . All others owe their continuance to » combination of circaa » atances , any one of which failing , weakens , nay , arouls the whole . The simple question of compact is , Do a majority of the Irish people feel disposed to- rescind it ; and , if so , are they able to accomplish their desire ! ' We say they are both able and williBg , and , therefore , in the language of Solon , " force and right conspire . " Eren in 1792 , the Irish Parliament , by the repeal of Poymno ' s Act , far from- being purified , fell from
the fire of the English Privy Council into the furnace of the English Treasury ,, while the immense sums spent from the year 1790 to 1800 , in fomenting the Irish insurrection , and corrupting the Irish Parliament , furnishes ample proof that even this poor concession , the repeal of Sir E » wa * i > Poymno ' s Act , was likely to do more than , was anticipated by the Privy Council , pale and sick from the result of the American wars , and nervously alive to the increasing interest which France began to evince , whether interestedly or not , in the condition of the Irish . Let the Dispatch bear in mind tbat the acceptance
of peace by Fox and Burks in tho Rociungham administration , which succeeded that of Lord North , was qualified with the stipulation of accepting the resolution of the Irish volunteers , namely , " That the claim of any body of men e * ber than the King , Lords , and Commons of Ireland , to make laws to bind that kingdom , is unconstitutional , illegal , and a grievance ; that the powers-exercised by the privy councils of both kingdoms under the cover of Poyning ' s Law , are unconstitutional , &c . ; that all
restraints imposed upon the trad * of Ireland , except by the Parliament of that kingdom , are likewise unconstitutional . " Such was the resolution of the Irish volunteers , well armed . The English Parliament met on the ath of April , 1182 , and upon the following day Mr . Fox presented a message from the Iuiitf , recommending tho Parliament to take the affairs of Ireland into consideration ; and which , if the Parliament had not done , Ireland would have declared her independence .
JNow , here we find a very old compact broken through , and one , too , lauded by historians to the very skies . PoYMNo ' n Act bears date 1494 ; and consequently had much antiquity to boast of . Davies , the first speaker of the boroughmongering Parliament , convened by Jamfs I ., whereto he added no less than eighty nominees of the English oligarchy , by writs issued to fort boroughs ; this Daviis , also an historian , calls Poyninos ' 8 Act " leges legum ; " while Bacon calls it " memorable . ** Yet , nevertheless , was this " memorable" compact of nearly three centuries surrendered to fear .
Here , for the present , we dispose of the first volume of tho Dispatch , and let us now come to the second . In the outset we find a repetition of the fallacy upon which the Dispatch founds his whole traiu of reasoning . In speaking again of Mr . O'Connell , he says-r" He refers to 1798 , as the halcyon days of Ireland . Lut us take a few passages from a standard work on those dreadful 4 good old times' of Irelannd . An Irish author saya— ? It was astonishing with what fortitude the rebelsuncoveredstood the
, , tremendous fire , opened upon the four sides of their position . A stream of shells and grape was poured on the fanatical multitude ; the priests encouraged them by exhortations , the Women by their cries , and every shell that broke amongst the crowd was followed by shouts of defiance . ? * The troops advanced gradually , but steadily , up the hill . The rebels kept up their firo , and maintained their ground , their cannon was nearly useless , their powder deficient , but they died fighting at their post . At length , enveloped iu a torrent of fire , they broke and sought their safety , " &c . &o .
We have before disposed of the fallacy as to 1798 , But the Dispatch , in arguing against a repeal of the Union , gives copious extracts of the means—the gallant , the feariess , the almost superhuman means , resorted to by the people , and the Roman Catholic clergy , in resisting unjust force , and retaliating upon the enemy for unjust acts of atrocity and barbarity ; and after setting forth the savage cruelties of the oligarchy , and the just and manly defence of the natives , natives " who would not lament G'Connell ' s Paradise Lost !" FudgelU
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I « sptHkiBg of the advaatag ^ i if the Unl «« : t * Ireland , tia ? Dispoteh , i * urn ** to the argiment of the expwtatfo * * f ill their valoablw without a rwonera ^ iiiigreta ^ n . aaserU that there ia a return in the importation front J 2 nglandof -stio « s , hatfl , clothi » , gatmmtkdry ; croflkerj * ratafery article mhoIM toclTlliaed KleV * fieri fcfo pMn that ti * Z > i $ patch is in utter igneranoe of ttie state ef the Irish , and writot for a class , and not forthe community . Not one In a hundred , nay , not © aeioi thousand , of the Irish p ^ asanti ^ ever wore an jEnglish sbo « , few wear any j not on « . in a thousand ever war * anrEagliahr
hat , or English clothes . Not onein ten thousand evwr raw an English grate . As to cutlery and creckery , m » tore supplies the place of one in the thumb-nail to peel the potatoes ; and the turner supplies the other in the shape of trenchers , piggins , bowls , dishee , &c . It is so to civilise the Irish as to bring these things into common DBe , that they require a Parliament of their own . If Mr . O'CoNNKU , who understands nothing whatever of trade , commerce , reciprocity , or agriculture , happens to make some blundering speeches respecting trade and the disadvantage of purchasing from neighboira those thing * which by restrictions Ireland is prohibited from famishing for her own
use , or upon the beet terms—if the ignorance of others furnishing false calculations , a * to the amount of loss which the Union has entailed upon Ireland , it is not a fair conclusion that even O'Cokkkll expecta that the sam thus sacrificed will be restored . The inference is that a continuance of the Union will increase the burden , be it much or be it little ; and the > Dispatch must show us a better equivalent for beef , butter , pork , bides , corn , eggs , honey , and sheep , the produce of those . who never partake of any of them , than crockery ^ grates , and cutlery , ( which the producers never see ) and Acts of Parliament they only / obey at the point of the bayonet .
' The fact of Mr . Eoam flourishing a stick round his head in exultation at : the defeat of a Ministerial measure , in an IrUh " un-reformed House of Commons , " Mine forty yetrs since , would , even if a crime , be no better ground for condemning the whole House , than the fact of an English Chancellor of the Exchequer , with the responsibility of managing the monetary affairs of the country , coming drunk into the Reformed House of Commons , and challenging Mr . Cobbett , amid the cheers of gaping fools , to fight " shoulder to shoulder , and elbow to elbow , " would be a sufficient ground for condemning the whole of the Reformed House of Commons . Indeed , Mr . Egan ' s exultation at the fact of Government being defeated by a majority of six ,
upon bo vital a question , establishes the fact that , in spite of Englishgold and Irish treachery ,-there waa some virtue still left lurking in the Irish Parliament . Again , the Dispatch cannot furnish us , from the most inveterate of Ireland ' s many enemies , proof' of such low-lived , brutal , savage conduct in the Irish House , even in the worst days of English tuition , as we can find a parallel , nay , an over-match for , in the British Reformed House of Commons . Has the Dispatch forgotten the hootings , the bowlings , the neighings , the crowings , the barkings , and the characteristic brayings , with which the Irish Coercion Bill , and many others of the Union boons , were supported and carried through the Reformed Houbo of Commons !
The Dispatch would not wish to see those scenes of barbarous ferooity which characterised the Irish insurrection re-enacted . Neither should we ; but is it not matter of history , and known to every child , that those very scenes were created by Lord Castlereagh and the English oligarchy , for the express purpose of forcing the compact upon the reluctant Irish ]? With what candour or grace can the Dispatch , then , charge acts of resistance and retaliation upon those vanquished by treachery and
gold , when , having gained wisdom by experience , they now seek to effect by moral means the restoration of those rights whkh were wrested from them by brute force , perpetrated by hired mercenaries , paid with their own sweat , to shed their blood 1 The Constitution off England was changed by revolution . The revolution was successful ; it was the revolution of the nation . The Union was accomplished by revolution ; tat it was a revolution against the nation .
We protest against any infere » ee drawn from the corrupt state of the Anglo-Irish Parliament . We might -with as much seriousness- plead the suicidal act of the boroughmengering Parliament in 1832 , and the many atrocities and admitted delinquencies of that assembly , as proof that England is not entitled to- any Parliament . Ireland never had a Parliament . The English oligarchy had an office on College- Green , where the clerks of the Council and the oligarchy did their Irish business . Those clerks- were the nominees of English and Irish Peers , to whoa ( in return for the appointment of tools
to do the business of the English oligarchy ) was assigned tbe whole patronage of the laud—useless places created to augment their wages of cetraption ; and when there were more places than inhabitants ,, thea pensions , honours , sineeures , and other seasonings , were thrown into- the mess of the already over-gorged . Up to the year 1800 , even Universal Suffrage could not have returned a fair representation of the Irish people-to * the Irish Parliament , and for this maple reason * . Tbe Members were all Protestants ; the people were aearly all CathoKca ; while th& Church
of the Protestants , or otherwise the tithes- paid by the Catholics , was the bone of contention . The Protestant Church , a large standing army , together with an immensely expensive legal corps , the never-foiling concomitant of slavery aud oppression ,, furnished a portion of the means of aristocratic subsistence . Tbe Englishi oligarchy willingly opaned that treasury for the sugpon of a Church , by whose political influence it waa enabled to commit wholesale plundering in the name of God . We have proof of the sincere love born * by England to the Irish State Church , in the
spitit breathed against it in the Reformed Parliament ,, when , like the forty-shilling freeholders , its power was on the wane . The Church was delighted with its triumph over the . forty-shilling freeholders ; whereas it should have taught the bigots-the wholesome lesson , that their turn was sure to com 9 next So it was with the Irish Church ; and , if we may be pardoned a moment ' s digression , the same mle will be observed , and that shortly , towards the English landlords who . robbed the poor to . enrich themselves . To uphold the Irish Churoh has cost the nation
thousands of millions of money , and oceans of iunocent Catholic blood ; and that Church is still sucking at the very vitals of a Catholic people , though the leech is marked for % season under the specious name of ' rent charge , " aad nothing but a Parliament , returned by the payers of the impost , can correct the evil . We deny even the right - of aaEoglish Parliament , returned by a Protestant people , to perpetuate a tax upon a Catholic people . Eveu in 1782 . when Poy-?
ning 3 Act was repealed , and the trade , being first plundered of her capital , was opened , only one of her hands , and that the left one , was untied , because a Catholic people were still at the mercy of Protestant represent atives . Catholics were not eligible to sit either in the English or the Irish Housa of Commons . In nothing do the advocates of repeal more damage the question than by comparisons between the Irish Parliament at different periods , the fact being , that Ireland never had a Parliament .
As to thec ns on trade , no restrictions so great as those artificial barriers opposed to the developement of natural resources . Ireland ever has been , and ever must be , shackled in that vital point , until the proprietors of her own soil are made to feel an interest above all others in its improvement , which never can be the case so' long as a majority of manufacturers , lazy fools , admirala ,- generals , bankers , commissioners , court lickspittles , govern a country exclusively agricultural , and of which they are as ignorant as the child unborn . " The Irish must have coals before they require grates { they must have meat before they want cutlery ? and something to put upon plates and dishes before they
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r * V fa « i >^; m »*\ Mp ^^^ h » re till tti&yhavea retail market at ham , fo * a ]! wbotelemarkel ' iB England fc * idth » tw 2 new towe'tfll laboar ia oade more vaUaM / T H » . pplicatioa to th » « p « rre «« nt . rf » 5 * reeoafees , ttfld e * tk * paternal eyw of » JJJ trirto ^ yV W ^^ tt / Hnb 1 ^ of gaJJJJ menVmbMlt bj the maxim that aiittaion of u ^ isBtrongerthu a w «) i bf bran , aat the lip of , £ * BWre powerfil tb « tfc »« ton « b ' s To « r . ^*
One , and perhaps the most ptwwful **« , _ aga in * the Uriiot , if ttftt publifl opinion ia ( W ? of producing thai wholesome effect upon ( W intot wWdi , when fairly ? xereiaed , it is eveTJ to have . As the Chrt » el cannot be Removed J between the governors « d the governed , ^ governors most go tothe i ^ bt tide ef the wat « . We have now replied t » tte Dispatch ; w , conchimon , beg to assure hi » that he need be ^ / no apprehension of a divorlre . The necestfT * uniting all good men upon ibe qoestion ^ w * Thingembob ' s appointment as Poor Law r « 3
sioner . or of installing Mr . Tom Fool in the M ^ " alty , jnst now an object go yitally impS to unhappy Ireland , will furnish a ^ 2 extinguisher for the burning flame of «»? peal . " Public opinion is like any other &J " , it should be used when ripe , or « 1 n it J grow rotten . The Irish mind his been loo | J , for useI it is now far advanced in decay . The £ guarantee which the Dispatch oan require for a . preservation of the *? compact , " is Mr . O'Cor ^ l want of moral and persenal courage . He hai M
the moral courage to withstand the defection of % vermin whose cheering countenances and valj ^ support are preserved by the happy knack of q ^ . taining profitable discord in the midst of unpr ^ able ferment , on which they and he continne j fatten . 'He lias not the personal courage to h *^ the proper direettahof Oat publio opinion whiokk has so exl « nsi ? eiy « reated , and so succes ^ w
organised . Mr . CtCojwkll knows full well Unity Union will never be repealed by an English H i * of Commons ; he also knows that the last bold fa is to require of the united people to hold si *] . taneous meetings in every county in Ireland , 4 « to elect ^ representatives , whose rery appearan « i Dublin would have the ma / ne effect « f dhangini ^ blood-stained hand into tbe strongest cement ^ mutual love and interested affection , and tc&W
stnktng a single blew . We had intended this article for last week , but ti » unavoidable length of our co » ment upou tW Suffrage obliged us to postpone Hs insertion . Tht announcement of the Dispatch—^ That he wonU drop the subject unless some new features mt given to the case , " led us to suppose that his noti « of it was complete , otherwise we sbovld hare wii ^ j patiently for his whole case , as the question is jj , that will keep . We find , however , that without tk * required provocation , our contemporary hai tjturned to the chargein the letters of Pu » icou lu week . Although we hare replied to the twi j ^ articles , we cannot in justice to ourselves o » the » V
ject , venture-to embody our reply to at ) U « m article . Although our remarks have ran to a codderable length , they are yet far shortof the space occupied by oar contemporary . However , we nfdn no apology for entering folly into a subject , vAii , in our opinion , is much more immediately and p > . manently interesting to all the dupes of the com nity than the "foreign measure" which occupies stop of columns in the daily and weekly ' press of toft countries- In the meantime we regret to say ikt our able contemporary has left himself completely open in his last number , and we promise to " \ ri into him" accordingly in our next . '
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MR . OASTLER . We understand that thi 3 gentleman purposes h i a short time , to eesply with the urgent request i many of his old friends in Huddersfield , to * j them a visit ; and- that it is proposed to greet tia with a gratifyingasmnnee that he still lives tab hearts of the people of the district in which he hi been so long and «? well known . A publio entry ii to be given him , amd a pubiie dinner , after whiti some token of allegiance aad gratitude will doubtta be presented to the Qii King " by his lieze sb
jectp . the working men ; for whom the best efforts / his life have been spent . We trust the event wi shew to the base factions , that even in their unite ! strength they are powerless against one mu " armed in honesty , "" and backed by industrj , Huddersfield can swarm its thousands and its ten of thousands , and no working man should gmdg » to give one day cheerfully to- sustain the heart rf him who « whole life and parse , and enerjia , have been spent for them .
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THE GLORIOUS GLASGOW MEETING . We must leave the lengthy report of this Deooastration , which we have given elsewhere , to tefl its own tale . In place of comment , whichvfroca as , who wen not there , must come with : allowance , we give tin following letters which have been addressed to Mr O'Connor , in his prison house , by tb » writers win were there : — "Glasgow , Sept . 2 lst , 1840 . " Noble Fkiend , —I wants this in : the excitement of the moment ,, the pleasure I fsel in coDbr buting to your happiness makes me write instant * and if you ever felt pleaeuse of the highest and nuf
exalted character , ' prepare-to enjoy a segular b # ful . The procession of to-day , beats everything i the kind that I have ever seen or read of—therwi and streets for two miles- and a half , the disUna between Glasgow Green , and the Wheai . Sheaf , fr * whence we started , warned with men and . womft and their enthueia 6 m is beyond description * 1 thought your heart was with us at the time , ul that it was everything , yoa could desire . Through tlf whole distance my arms were literally torn off w » the hearty shakes my hands received from the Septet lads and'iassies . The procession was atfull hoar m
a-ha ' . f walking into the Green—it wa ^ a gloriouatt * soul stirring affair . I saw you at the meeting ^ in front of the hustings-on canvas . Yoa are idolisw by the Scotoh people—they are a noble set offel lows j » s ever lived . Think what a meeting « t «" present time should be—and- . it was that . Tto * times ! . three were heartily given to- you and t » Imprisoned CharMsts . We are going a-head . " with » vengeance ; the " sovereign people" arc in a deligW ful position ; the- Carlisle men send their respw * to you . We are going to have a Soiree this eternal * they could sell 2 , 000 tickets if t hey had room . I d" *" write again in the morning , and for the present
" Remain your grateful and " Devoted friend and servant . "G . Whiis . "Four o ' clock , pjn ^ ?? Glasgow , 21 st Sept-W"AIt very dear Friend , — -I snatch a iew » £ ments , in accordance with your request , w ™ , you that our meetiDg has just separated ; a " ^ glorious turn out , I assure you , it wa 8 * v ii « I friend White , who is just sitting by me wnu ^ write , bids me tell you that it was < to } dedl * i 3 o » than the last West Riding Meeting . The proce » was certainly equal , if not superior , to anjiau * , se
ever saw ; and the meeting is f aid b l ^ JJrOS to be equal to either the Durham or " ^ meeting . The number engaged in the V ™ TZ & was altogether enormous . One of the o ™ " ^ reporters present told me that there « % ^ hundr « d banners displayed-you m » y- J ^?! , ^ procession from this fact . The numbers are ¦ w ^ estimated-it is mpposed that there ^ JL jj fewer than 200 , 000 in the procession . . SLntlanV certainly stronger than it ever ^ % ^ y e 0 u ffonli it is triumphant everywhere . I am sure yo ^ have been deUghted bad you been amoD ^ j u ^ day . You were by no means forgotten , r ^ you . At the close of our proceedings , ^ S ) 'Cottlong , hearty cheers were given for * ^ f an » dd n « nor ? I have much to do to-night , and can
mote at present . .. lqi ; oT . me , " ^ -i t ^ gi ff ^ Mr . O'Connor handed these to ¦ ™ £££% ad . gratification , and we cannot refi » in f «>« n eating that gratification to our fri ends .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1840, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/king-y1kbzq92ze2703/page/4/
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