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BOOKS PUBLISHED AND SOLD by 3 . WATSOX , 3 , Queen ' s Ilead-passaee .
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x ' aternoster-row . Just pnbli » hed , 2 nd Edition for the Million in 12 mo ., 31 : ] pages , closely printed , price 2 s hound in cloth : AMERICA COMPARED WITH ENGLAND . The respective social effects of ' the American and English systems of Government and legislation , and the Mission of Democracy Bv K W . Rtjsseix , of Cincinati , United States , councillor at law . This work explains the Institutions and the Laws OJ the Muted States—shows tMaotual condition of all classes of the people , whether natives or emigrants , and contains an Abstract and lie view ofthe principal English works on that countrv . This is an admirable book . —Weekly Dispatch . It contains elaborate matter of practical value . —Spirit ofthe Jge . This is an admirably written and excellently well-timed book . —Tlw Standard of Freedom .
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tuv TiPPPMBEB KUMBER OF THE DEMO-™ 5 lO REVIEW CONTAINS A NUMBER OP INTERESTING ARTICLES ON BRITISH ANET FOREIGN AFFAIRS - POLITICAL AND SOCIAL . This Day is Published , No . VII . OF TiHB DEMOCRATIC REVIEW 1 WBBnffin ^^ gs TOHnos . history Edited by G . JULIAN HARNEY .
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TiHE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . -L At the usual meeting of the Committee of the Society on Friday , the 23 rd ult , a resolution was passed to the following effect : — " That any man residing in the United Kingdom , may become a member , by writing to the Secretary , G . Julian Hakxev , Northern star Office , a letter signed by some well known Democrat of his neighbourhood , bearing testimony to his previous political character , and enclosing twelve postage stamps , the annual subscription of members .
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CROWN TAVERN , CLERKENWELL-GREEN . A GRAND VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Jti . "Will take place on Tcesdat , Decemheb Utii , 1819 , For the benefit of MRS . FUSSELL . Tickets Cd . each . Concert to commence at eight o ' clock .
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TO BE SOLD , TWO PAID-UP FOUR ACRE SHARES - » . in the National Land Company . Address , by pre-paid letters , to Richard William Sykes , Beuford , near Driffield , Yorkshire . Price £ 410 .
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O'CONNORVILLE . f ! 0 BE SOLD , A T > VO ACRE ALLOTA . MEST , No . 4 , with house and fixtures , two windon shutters , a chimney pipe , nine feet , a bam , cowshed , brewhouse , and a range of pigsties , n brick oven , ami a g 00 l ] copper ; tbe ground is cropped with half an acre of wheat , one rood of tares , three thousand spring cabbages , a quantity of turnips and mangel wurtzel , two heaps of manure , and the remainder of the ground turned up for spring use . The stock consists of one cow , which will calf in the first n-eck in March , an in-pig , sow , and six store pigs , about a ton of hay , < tc , ic , which will be sold with the house and grounds , if the purchaser chooses , or if not , without .
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NEWCASTLE--ON-TINK . — Notice is hereby given to the members of this branch of the Land Company , that the Quarterly meeting will be held on the 9 tii of December , 1849 , at Five O'Cwck in the Evening , when business of great importance will be brought before the meeting . It is requested that each member will attend , In consequence of a petition being in course of signature , calling upon the Directors to wind up the affairs of the Company . C . Forrest Secretary .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! EVERY variety of SINGLE andDOUBLE RUPTURE , however bad and long standing , may be permanently cured by Dr . UARKEtt'S remedy , which has been established several years , and used with great success by many eminent members ofthe profession , that its efficacy is established beyond a doubt . It is easy and painless in use , and applicable to both sexes of all ages . Hundreds of testimonials and trusses have been left behind bv persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of thisremedy , which Dr . Darker will willingly give to any requiring tliem after a trial of it The remedv is sent post free on receipt of 8 s . by postoffice order , or Cash , by Dr . ALFRED BARKER , 108 , Great Russell-street , Bloomsbury-squave , London , where he may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 , mornings ; 4 till 8 evenings ( Sundays excepted . ) Post-Office orders must be made payable at the Blooms , bury Post-office . # In consequence of the immense daily increase of correspondence no letter of inquiry can be answered unless two postage stamps are enclosed . In every case Dr . Barker guarantees a cube .
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A GREAT BLESSING . R UPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED 1 . X WITHOUT A TRUSS i—Dit . WALTER DE ROOS , 1 , Ely-place , Holboro-mu , London , still continues to supply the afflicted nith itis celebrated cure for Single or DoubleRuptures , the efficacy of wbicb for both sexes , of any age , is now too well established to need comment . It is easy in application , causes no pain or inconvenience ; and will be sent free , with full instructions , 4 c , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of Gs . Cd . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holborn office , Dr . DE R 0 O 3 has a great number of Trusses left behind by persons cured , as trophies of his iminenaa success , which he will readily give to those who require them after a trial of this remedv . Hours . —10 till 1 ; and 1 tills . —( Sundaysexcepted . ) N . D . —To prevent unnecessary correspondence , all letters of inquiry must contain two postage stamps , or they wiU not be noticed . In every case ' a perfect cure is guaranteed .
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GRAPI 1 IOLOG 1 CAL DELINEATION OP CHARACTER , " The proper study of mankind is man . " —Pope . THE extraordinary success MISS DEAN J- has met with in delineating the characters of individuals ii-om their handwriting , induces her ( through the medium of tlw public press to diffuse move widely the benefits of this intesesting discovery . AH persons wishing to " know themselves" by means of this science , must address a frece letter of half a dozen Hues , stating sex and age , to MISS DEAS , 10 S , GUEAT KUSSELL-STREET BLOOMSUURY-SQUABE , LOJJDO . V ( enclosing thirteen postage-stamps ) , and they will receive an accurate description of their mental and moral qualities , virtues ; failings , & c ., and many things hitherto unsuspected , calculated to guide them through life . ;< Your faithful delineation from the specimen sent , has amazed me . " —Miss Ellis' Huntingdon . "I send you three more specimens of writing—the answer I have just received is extraordinary correct , "Hr . Monk . Newport .
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RUPTURES ! RUPTURES !! A BOON TO THE PUBLIC . ' !! R UPTUEES PERMANENTLY CURED *•* WITHOUT A TRUSS!!!—AU ruptured persons are respectfully informed that Dr . JAMES BOOTH continues to supply his justly celebrated remedy for every variety of Sin gle and Double Rupture , which , during an extensive practice , has been uniformly successful . It is simple and perfectly painless in use , and applicable to both sexes of whatever age . The remedy is sent post fr « e on receipt of 6 s ., by rostroffice order , or cash , by Dr , James Booth , 14 , Hand-court Holborn , London . PoSt-otlice orders to be made payable at the Holborn Post-onicc . Letters of inquiry must enclose two postage stumps , without which they cannot possibly be answered , in consequence of the vast amount of Dr . B . ' s correspondence . A perfect and permanent cure is guaranteed in every case . Address , Dr , James Booth , U , Hand-court , Holborn , London .
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THE CHEAPEST EDITION EVEB rOBUSHXD . Price Is . 6 d ., A new and elegant edition , with Steel Plate of tbt Author , of PAINE'S POLITICAL WORKS . Sow Ready , a Sew Edition ot Mr . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS Sold by J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster row , Loudon ; A . Heytvood , Oldham-street , Manchester , and Love and Co ., 5 , Nelson-street , Glasgow . And bi aU Booksellers in Town and Country .
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Otf THE FIRST SATURDAY IN 1850 , Will ha published , ( Price Ose Penny , ) NO . I . OF A WEEKLY PERIODICAL , To be entitled pOOPEB'S JOURNAL : U To be conducted by Thomas Cooper , Author of the "Purgatory of Suicides , " And devoted to Intellectual . Moral , and Political Progress . It was a saying of Napoleon that " a name was a programme of ideas and opinions : " and the name of the Editor of the Now Cheap Periodical is so well known as that of a " Plain Speaker , " and an advocate of the broad rights of mankind , that profusions , in the present instance , become unnecessary . The new periodical will bo Octavo in form , and consist of sixteen closely printed pages each number . The First number will be ready for tlie trade on New Year's Day , Published by James Watson , 3 , Queen's Head-passage , Paternoster-row , London ; and to be had of all bookseUcrs and ' news-agents in town and country .
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The Chartists of the West End , Dundee—We have . received a letter signed "Veritas" urging the above body to raise subscriptions on behalf-of the Victims , to liquidate the Debt due for Printing , and also towards the expenses of Mr . O'Connor ' s Action . The writer recommends that lists should be opened in the workshops and fuetoiriDS , and a person appointed to receive collections , who wouldtransmit the money to 106 , Scouringbum , when it would be forwarded to the Star oftice . We are glad to hear that the East-end Chartists are doing their duty . St . M „ Haugh Mill . —It terminated on the 17 th ult . Nottingham . —James Sweet acknowledges the . receipt ol the following sums , sent herewith , viz .: —Fob Macna-• maba ' sActios . —Mr . Rowland Lloyd , Is ; Mr . Broadhead , 6 d ; Mr . Liggett , 2 d ; Mr . E . Thurman , Cd ; Mr . J . Jacques , Cd ; Mr . J . Hudson , fid . Victim Fond—Mr . Lees , lOd . - —Fon Chaktist Executive , —Mr , Burgin , Cd ; Mr . Lees ,
Is . Monument Fund . —Mr . Lees , Cd . To exempt Ebnest Jo . ves Kiosi Oakum , picKisc . —From the King of the French , 5 d . Petekhououcu E . Soholey acknowledges the following sums for Maenaniai'a ' s Action , sent herewith , viz . : — Charter Association , 5 s ; G . Roft ' e , Is ; J . Thompson , Is ; J . Ellwood , Is ; E . Seholcy , Is ; W . Simpson , Cd ; T . Harrison , Cd j W . Harrison , Od ; J . Walker , Cd ; J . Haddock , Cd ; C . Waterfield , Cd . Motmam . —Mr , John Campbell , has received lor same pur . pose , from Henry Drinkwater , Ilollingworth , Thomas Drinkwater , HoUingvvorth , ( id-. J . S . Broker , Ilollingworth , le ; John Ashworth , Hodge Fold , Cd ; J . Campbell , Cd ... J . Skehhit begs to acknowledge the receipt of 4 s . ' Id . from the Colonel Hutchinson locality , for the M'Douall testimonial . Jonas Duckworth , Bradford—A letter will be sent as soon as you transmit your addrift in full . Cheltenham . —A small body ^ w shoemakers of this town have resolved upon remitting smaU sums of money , as . often as possible , to the Chartis ^ cause , hoping it will meet the eye and will of all trades in every town—especially of their own trade—as the primitive object of
trade societies , nve democracy , and to maintain their rights for each other . If A . nduew White will immediately write to Win . Jackson , New Summer-street , Birmingham , he will hear of something to his advantage . Mi * . W . Dale , Dorking . —Send your Northern Stars , addressed to P . O'Higgins , Esq ., 14 , North Ann-street , Dublin . He will doubtless circulate them iu quarters where they will be useful . John Bryson , New Swindon . — Address W . P . Roberts , solicitor , Princess-street , Manchester ; or 2 , Robertstreet , Adelphi , London . J . W ., Baenp . —Ten figures , 1 : » OT , 099 , 5 » 9 . George White . —In answer to several correspondents , we have to state that Mr . White ' s address is 53 , Shannonstreet , Marsh-lane , Leeds . J . Ssiedley , Retford . —We are not in the possession of the rules of any Co-operative Society . G . Bahnett , Hull ; Benjamin 1 ' illihd , Padiham ; and G . Brown , Adwalton . —Received , T : ; Majok , Rending . —Mr . Cobden ' s statement has been already answered . James Bligh . —Next week .
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HOW IRELAND IS GOVERNED . Alas ! poor country , Almost afraid to know itself . When rogues fall out , honest men come by their own . The Orange massacre at Dolly ' s Brae , and the subsequent dismissal of Lord Roden and the Messrs . Beers from tho magistracy , has elicited a document , which discloses the particulars of a most atrocious conspiracy against the people of Ireland . The
conspirators were the Govemmeut , aM a small anti-Irish faction , called Orangemen , aud the confessions of particulars is made by the latter , because their co-conspirators have cheated them out of their share of the results of their combined exertions . It is no unusual thing when robbers quarrel about the division of their plunder , for' the losing party to " peach" on their companions in crime , and , whatever may bo thought of the " approvers , " society accepts , and acts upon their evidence in self-protection . In this li ght we look upon the first Report of the Grand Lodge of tho Orange Society , detailing the negotiati and rel
ons ations between the Government and tho Orangemen lost year . It is tho old story of Peachumaud Lockett , and both of the parties at issue may very properly adopt the language of these worthies , and say , " Brother , brother , we ' re both in the wrong . " The Orange confession is certainly rather verbose . . Its facts are bo wrapped up in . a cloud of words , that it requires a little patience to make them out , and excites no small wonder when they are mastered , at the ingenuity by which they were euveloped in such superabundant aud mist y verbiage . But with all its faults of construction and diction , it isuot what the Time s calls it , " a mile of moonshine "
The facts are there , and very disgraceful facts they are to the Viceroy , whom the Times has taken under its protection . He is turned the " seamy side" outwards ill a very edifying manner . The whole Report betrays that the concoctors wore afraid to deal vigorously with the materials at their disposal ; but , despite the feebleness of the st yle , the softening down of facts-the insertion of blank lines , where names ought to have been giyen it contains such aji OYovwhelmmg exposure of low cunning , fraud , duplicity , and treachery , on the part of the Government and its employes , as never before was given to the public . Let us briefly state the case . Tho Ov ^ t ™
men thought they had entered into such an alliance with tho Government , offensive and defensive , m 1848 that in 1849 they could exhibit all the outward aud visible signs of having regained theirformer ascendancy over tho Roman Oathohc people of Ireland . The Special Act forbidding processions having lapsed . theV SSleT" ^ b 6 lief that > aa £ tttold n mncs , the Government would abide by tS
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compact between them . But public -opinion was too strong to allow of this connivance . in their crime . After a long delay-w ^ showed how well disposed the Government was to let its Orange allies escape unquestioned and unpunished , the independent Press of this country forced them to remove from the magistracy some , at least , of the men , who , baring first as Orangemen instigated the murders at Dolly ' s Brae , next exercised their magisterial functions to screen the murderers , and refuse
justice . . The dismissal seems to have taken them by surprise . They could not believe that tho Government , which had in 1848 entered into a compact with them , in pursuance of which they had been furnished with arms , to put down the Roman Catholics when the Government dreaded their rising , would turn round and treat them thus scurvily , when in 1849 they had committed a few murders on their own account . They set up a cry of treachery , and tho Government organs responded with a fiat denial of their ever having been any compact at all between them and Lord Clarendon . To prove the existence of that compact is the object of the Report . Let ns briefly recapitulate what , to our mind , it conclusively
estahljsllGS ** - — Colonel Phaire was commissioned by tho Government to negotiate with the Orangemen . Major Turner , the Lord-Lieutenant ' s Master of the Horse ; Mr . CORRY CoNNELlan , his Private Secretary ; Captain Kennedy , the Military Commandant of Dublin , and " other persons high fa office , " also took part in these negotiations . The Government proposed to the Orangemen to become spies and detectives , and promised them , as an inducement , and as an evidence of its confidence in
them , " that posts of great . moment would be confided to their keeping . " The Orangemen , on the other hand , encouraged these advances on the part of the Government , but fearing that it was not in earnest from the higgling and protracted manner in which the affair was managed by his agents , determined , on the 22 d of April , to put the Viceroy ' s sincerity to the test . They therefore intimated to him , that on the evening of that day a resolution , condemnatory of his Government , would be adopted by the Grand Lodge of Dublin , unless ement his
stopped by a satisfactory mov on part . The two points on which they all through took their stand , were , that they should be recognised as Orangemen , and be provided with arms by the Government The Lord-Lieutenant having been furnished with a copy of the threatened resolution , did not arrest the parties who thus dictated terms to him , and set themselves in defiance to his Government . On the contrary , a conference was fixed for five o clock in the afternoon , at the house ofthe " Grand ' Secretary of Dublin ; " and in tho
residence of this acknowledged officer of an illegal confederation and secret society , there actually did assemble at that hour Lord Enmskillen , the Deputy Grand Secretary for Ireland , the Grand Master of Dublin , and the Grakd Secretary for Dublin , on the part of the Orangemen ; and Major Turner and Colonel Phaike on the part of the Government . The conspiracy began—as all conspiracies do—by an obligation to secrecy as to the " conversation" that might take
place . The result was , that the Orange delegates gave Lord Clarendon ' s delegates their ultimatum , to be submitted to him for ratification and consent . This was , that they demaaded , in proof of the sincerity of Government , a grant of arms , and that , as an instalment , five hundred stand should be immediately granted , or the means of purchasing them . The rice-regal delegates retired , carrying with them these terms , and " about two hours " afterwards Colonel Phaire called on Lord
Enmskillen with a letter from Captain Kennedy — the officer entrusted by the Government with the military arrangements for Dublin—in which the five hundred stand of arms demanded by tho Orangemen were guaranteed . The Orangemen thereupon withdrew their resolution . Captain Kennedy paiil them £ 600 for arms , under pretence of the sum being raised by subscription , of which there is not the slightest proof , the whole being a device , ludicrously transparent , to cover the direct complicity of the Government . Sir
Edward Biakeney , the Commander ofthe Forces , received from the Grand Master ofthe Orangemen an official "list" of " the Dublin Orangemen , and wrote an order to Colonel BROWNE , the head of the Police , sanctioning the granting of licences to have arms to an exclusive sectarian secret society ; and , further , the leaders of the Orangemen , as such , were made aware ofthe plans of tho military commandant . A similar course was pursued in the rural districts ; and thus the Govern * ment , while disarming the whole Roman Catholic population—while refusing arms to a " Defensive Association "—openly constituted
of the most wealthy and respectable persons , of all classes and creeds—actually did arm the members of a secret society , known only for their inveterate hatred to the Irish people—for the bitterness of their sectarian animosity , and for the blood-thirsty ruthlcssness with which they have , at all times , gratified their savage instincts and antipathies . If this was not arming one part of the population against another , we know not what it is ; and , looking to the position of affairs in Ireland , at the time tho event took place , it seems to us to be upon a par with the engagement of bloodhounds to hunt down the Indians , by a former Government of civilised and Christian England .
Colonel Phaike { Foul would have been a more appropriate name ) , did not confine his labours to the Orangemen . He was also active among the Confederates , whose rash but wellmeant efforts to achieve tho independence and regeneration of their unhappy and oppressed country , it was the object of the Government-Orange conspiracy to defeat . The difference ot the means employed in their case , suggests a difference m the men . The Orangemen
were openly asked to become a body of spies and detectives , and promised gratification lor their predominating instincts if they assented . But into the camp of the Confederates this galhmt Colonel had to creep by means of such infamous and de based wretches as UOBWtx—tno man upon whose evidence the patriot Wm . Smith O'Brien was doomed to the scaffold— and is now suffering life-long exile from the land he loved SO well
The Whigs , M- hen out of office , are political purists . Their employment of such means in Ireland , and , concurrentl y , the suborning 0 f such reptiles as Powell , Davis , aud others m this country , prove that in office they are steeped to the lips in political corruption h ypocrisy , and chicanery . They tread in the footsteps of the most tyrannical and infamous ol then- predecessors . The onl y differenc e we can perceive , s , that they have not the same manhness-the same frank and unblushing audadty . They creep , and crawl , and lief £ rS ° T * W round-about aovices , and ckm 8 y tnckg whifih ,
uoooay ana onl y add contempt to the disgust S & So much for one patty to this conspiracy 2 J Br Mv f , . "¦" **• ' «^' both ! " mlates - " BIack guards The Orangemen , both in and out of Par lament , always assume that they are l ol ZL P l ° i e J nIre ^ d ' W ° have oft ^ tS Oolonel Verner in one house < in < l T ^ W ' a U ? ° K eated iQ tWs very Kepoit . At all times , their boasts ofloyaltv and attachment to the British crownX jwion are ostentatiousl y paraded asXZ S ? wrftM ? £ WJZlB ftS *
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this were they invested with supreme rule in Ireland , and supported in their infamous oppression of the subjugated millions of Roman Catholics , whom they trampled in the dust , and deprived of the commonest civil and political rights . Even the dreariest pages of Russian or Hungarian despotism , contain scarcely any blacker or more revolting examples of wanton bloodshed or rampant oppression , than the history of Ireland under Orange sway . At
length their tyranny became so intolerableit threatened so utterly to destroy the wholo nation , that the power to do mischief was wrested from them , much from the same feeling as prompts people to wrest a razor or a pistol from a madman . For some years past , they have been obliged to " pave hell " with their " good intentions , " instead of making " hell upon earth" with them , as they used to do .
But tho tiger instinct , though heldm check , was not extirpated . They were always on the watch to regain their lost ascendancy , and the position of the Government at the commencement of 1848 , seemed a favourable time to make an effort . Europe was shaken by the revolutionary earthquake which , at that time , shook and overthrew so many thrones . Chartism in England—Nationalism in Irelandmade our rulers uneasy , and their tenure of power insecure . Loyalists , such as the Orangemen profess to be , would have : seized that opportunity for offering their assistance , unreservedly , to the existing authorities , because " the nowers that be are of God . " But
Orange loyalty is neither a chivalrous nor a pious loyalty . It is as selfish as it is sectarian . Its only objects are power and pence for themselves , proscription , persecution , and oppression , for the religionists they hate . Hence they tookadvantageof Lord Clarendon ' s difficulties . They got up an address and resolutions of a hostile character , in order to add to his embarrassments , and force from him that recognition of their ascendancy which otherwise they might not have attained . "We now see clearly how to value the big , boastful speeches which were made in Parliament about that time , when " noble lords" and " hon . members " offered their lives and those of their
tenantry , and ostentatiously departed from their legislatorial to their feudal duties , promising to rally , their retainers , and fight for the Queen and Constitution . It was all a mere sliam . The veriest piece of humbug . All the while they were playing the cards for one great object only . They wanted the control of the Government of Ireland back into their own hands . They thought they had succeeded , but the Whigs cheated them as well as the Roman Catholics , whom they treated to so much " blarney . " The only result of all thisplotting and counter-plotting is , that the Whigs are still in office , and that Ireland is a by-word and a reproach among all nations .
Ay ! and so it will continue until the people shall arise in their strength , and deprive the combined conspirators ofthe power to oppress them . Ifthereisanyonethingin the world that could send the blush of shame to the brow of an Irishman , or make tho Mood circle quicker in his veins than another , it should be this Report . When he sees how an alien Government and a selfish faction have combined to promote their mutual interests at tho expense of his country , and to perpetuate class misrule and sectarian domination on the
ruin and destitution of the great mass of his fellow-countrymen , surely it should rouse all to a sense of the necessity for a national , practical , and energetic effort to throw off a yoke so gallingand so disgraceful . The petty bickerings and jealousies which have divided " the sons of the soil—the real people of Ireland—from each other , should be discarded ; men of all classes , and creeds , and politics , should unite in one powerful phalanx , and demand that Ireland shall be permitted to take that rank among nations which its situation , its resources , and
its population entitle it to . The Orange revelations have put a powerful weapon into the hands of the Nationalists . They show the rottenness and worthlessness of the machinery by which the country is governed—the dirty tricks and infamous devices by which the Government is upheld . Let the quarrel of the rogues , in this case , turn to the profit of honest men . Let us , in future , have Ireland governed by Irishmen , for the benefit of Ireland , instead of being an arena for the display of the worst vices of a bad Government , and the worst passions of a blood-thirsty faction .
Pakliamentary Prospects. Indications Tha...
PAKLIAMENTARY PROSPECTS . Indications that we . are approaching another Session of Parliament begin to make their appearance . For the last eight or ten days Cabinet Councils have been pretty regularly held , and numerously attended . It is conjectured , that the fate of many of their Bills in former Sessions , has impressed the Ministry
ll'lih 4 tin m * . _^~* ± _/* . _ 111 . a > - * with the necessity of really knowing what they themselves mean when proposing a measure to Parliament , and that they are engaged at present in the process of ascertaining that fact . It is very probable , this is the case , because there are no foreign aflairs of urgent moment to call for their consideration ; and if they were to meet daily for the next two HiOlltllS , ta > is plenty of work requirin g to be done at home .
The visit of Sir B . Peel to the Duke of Bedford—brother of the PREMiER—at Wobuvn , has . been taken in some quarters to mean that a change in the Ministry is on the fa »! s . That Sir Hoberx himself would take part in a regular Coalition Ministry wo do not believe ; that he is disposed . at present to take office in any shape , wo very much doubt . But his party arc not so squeamish or indisposed to office , with its loaves and fishes . Lor i . Lincoln , Sir James Graham , Mr . SiMEY Herbert , and Mr . Cardwbll , would have no
objection to resume their scats on the Treasury Bench ; and Lord John ' s regiment of subordinate heads of departments is not so well drilled , or so effective , as to l \ ave prevented him on various occasions from looking wistfull y at the benches on the other side ofthe table . It is , therefore , uot improbable thatsomeshuffling of the cards may take place , cither before or during the session . Meanwhile , as an index to the topics that are supposed to be under consideration , a that the Ministry intend to red uce the interest upon certain portions of the National Debt
# Looking at the present abundance of money m the market , and the low price at which it can be had , they could not adopt a moretinielv measure . It will be recollected that Sir It , Ieel , during his last Premiershi p , took advantage of somewhat similar circumstances to eftect an immediate savmg of £ 650 , 000 , and a all £ 1 , 300 , 000 a year . . There can be no more le
gitimate or unobjectionable mode ( even on served V ° mone y- ™ nger 8 them-S /^ «* our enormous Debt , tZ }\ ^^ surel y not bound to pa 4 more to the holders of stock than they coulj ^ et fov theivrriori eyin the open market ; and , if the Bank of England finds it necessary , ii consequence of the abundance of moneT to charge only tiro and a half per cent ™ St advances , the stockholder has no riX t grumble if he is paid at the same rate gt * °
. By vigorously following up this policy ari SIM / - ' i taEL G ™^> -d mativ A l- ° redu <* it , it will , ultiaidt' f ? , ^ ^ y ^ 'n into * tten & i ; ster-lL iff h ? T that ' until tw * »« - eduS l f ^ *<> « J Perceptible E m £ annUa e * P ^ ture «¦» take ¦ Place , ihe moaey-lords have had it all their
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 8, 1849, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08121849/page/4/
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