Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 10th January 1846, Edition 2 of 4, Page 4, COLOSSEUM. -NOTICE.-./Slfs ^ ' SION DURING THE Bv LIDA 23

Page 4
Page 4
4 of 8

On this page

  • Departments (4)
    • COLOSSEUM. -NOTICE.-./Slfs ^ ' SION DURING THE Bv LIDA 23
    • THE NORTHERN STAR. v -: SATUXD-AY, JANUARY 10i 18K?.
    • THE LAND.
    • Co l\tnm$ # €ommnltzM&
  • Adverts (14)
  • Text (8)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      18 « -'Innnm Quiit) January 10, 1846. 4 ...

      18 « - 'innnM quiit ) JANUARY 10 , 1846 . 4 THE NftftVHERN STAR . ... _ , _ . „ „ , - - >

      Colosseum. -Notice.-./Slfs ^ ' Sion During The Bv Lida 23

      COLOSSEUM . -NOTICE .-. / Slfs ^ ' SION DURING THE Bv LIDA 23

      Ad00412

      .. £ *¦* Exhfoition , „„ ... 2 s . 6 d . Children under Twelve . ..... ** »• ^ tra . Stalacfite Caverns « Is . * m of THE DAY EXHIBITION consists ef the Mu ^ .., Scul ptor * , Grand Picture of London , Alba . ' . - Conservatories , Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , Classic Rui * " 18 - Swiss Cottage and Mont Blanc , with Mountain Torrent . & C . & C Open from Ten tiU Four o'CIock . EVENING . —The new and extraordinary Panorama of London bv Night , Museum of Sculpture , Conservatoria .-, and Gorgeous Gothic Aviary , ic , brilliantly illuminated ; Iwlss Coti 2 Se > Mont Blanc , and Mountain Torrent represented by MoouUgl 1 '' Open from Seven till a Quarterpast Ten © 'Clock . A GBASD Obchestba ObgaK , on which the most adrnired Ovebtctes , & c , are played , from Two to Four and j from Eight till Half-past Tea o'clock . j The whole projected and designed by Mr . William j BradweR . I , |

      Ad00408

      DAGUERREOTYPE AND CALOTYPE . THE APEABATPS . IKSS , CHEMICALS , PLATES , CASES , and every oilier article used in making and mounting the above can be had « f J . Bgerton , Ko . 1 , Temple-street , IVMteftiars , Loudon . Descriptive Catalogues gratis . LEREBOURS celebrated ACHROMATIC TRIPLET LESSES for the MICROSCOPE , sent to any part of the country at the following price : —Deep Power , 60 s ., Low Power , 25 s . Every article warranted .

      Ad00409

      TO TAILORS . By approbation of Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert . TH E LONDON and PARIS FASHIONS for Winter , lMoandlS'fi . by READ and Co ., 12 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury-sguare , London ; Bsrger , Holy well-street , Strand , London , and may be bad of all Booksellers wheresoever residing ; a very superb Print , representing the most splendid exhibition in Europe , an Interior Tiew of the Colosseum Regent " s-park , Londsn . This exquisitely executed and beautifully coloured Print -will be accompanied with fullsize ])!^ , Frock . andRidiiig Coat Patterns ; also , Patterns oftheJJew Fashionable Polka Frock , and Locomotive Biding Coats , and an extra fitting Fashionable Waistcoat Pattern , with every part complete , and a full explanation of the manner of catting and making them up ; also 9 extra plates , including 3 sectors , 4 for cutting fancy coats , for waistcoats , the other for cutting Coat Collar Patterns , in proportion , for all sizes , so that any person may complete the whole in the most correct manner , without a previous knowlsdgeof any system of cutting whatever . Price ( as usual ) the whole * 10 s ., orpost free , toanyjtart of England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , lis . System of Cutting , 25 s ; Patent Measures , Ss the set . Patterns , post free , Js each ; to be bad of all booksellers . For particulars , see "Townsend ' s Parisian Costumes , " « 'Gazette of Fashion , " "London and Paris Magazine of Fashion , " the " London and Country Press , " & c .

      Ad00410

      HONOUR TO LABOUR'S CHAMPION . A PUBLIC SOIREE will be held at the CROWN and ANCHOR Tavern , Strand , in honour of T . S . BUNCOMBE , Esq ., M . P ., who will be present , on Wednesday averting , January 21 st , the night previous to the opening of Parliament . The following gentlemen are expected to be present on the occasion : —Captain Pechdl , R . N ., : M . P . ; 3 . T . Leader , M . P . ; 3 . Fielden , M . P . ; W . D . Christie , M . P . ; W . Williams , M . P . ; R . Blewits M . P . ; 1 . Wakley , M . P . ; Admiral D . Dandas , M . P . ; E . G . Barnard , M . P . ; H . Elphiustone , M . P . ; A . Aglionbj , M . P . ; and W . P . Roberts . Also the following eminent literary men : —Eugene Sue , Charles Dickens , Douglas 1 Jerrold , J . Mazzini , and Thomas Cooper . Tea on table : at half-past five for six o'clock precisely . Several other = well known advocates of the People ' s Rights will attend . 1 Tickets 2 s . each , can be obtained at the following j places : —Mr . T . Barratt , secretary to the National United Associated Trades'for the Protection of Industry , Trades * Office . 30 , Urde-Htreet . Bloomsbury ; Mr . James Earns , secretary to the Rational United Trades' Association for the Employment of Labour , 30 , Hyde-street , Bloomsbury . 1 Mr . George Hogget , secretary of the Westminster Reform and BegistratJon Society , Essex-street , Strand . i Mr . T . Powell , secretary to the Venezuelan Transit Company . Holywell-street , Strand . ' Mr . T . M . Wheeler , secretary to the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , 1 , Crown-court , Dean-street , Oxford- i Street ' Mr . J . Bush , secretary to ths London Union of Car- i penters , 1 , York-street , York-road , Lambeth . ; Mr . W . Clark , secretary to the Shoemakers' Society , 27 , Rupert-street , Haymarket . i Mr . W . J . Young , president of the Running Horse i Society of Carpenters , 33 , Park-street , Dorset-square . Mr . James ( City Boot and Shoemaker ) , 3 , Fleur-de-lis- i eourt , Gray ' s Inn-lane . < Mr : Skelton , Cecil-court , St . Martin ' s-lane . Mr . Storey , 3 , Ogle-square , Ogle-street , St . Marylebone . i Mr . Robson , 14 , Richard-place , HaggeKtone-bridge , < ffoxion :

      Ad00413

      ' JE ¥ MORNI | G PAPER . fu ? S ; --On the 21 st of January witi fee published Ko . I , of THE DAILY JEWS , , A Morning Newspaper of Liberal Politics and Thorough Independence . . The leading features of the Paper may be briefly stated under tha following heads : — Its CITY SEWS and COMMEBCIAi INTELLIGENCE , collected from the highest sources will be scrupulouslv ; mparHa . ' , and alwa / s early . r * its SCmS ' iIFIC a * a BUSINESS INFORMATION on every topic connected with RAILWAYS , whether in actual operation , in progress or projected , will be found to be complete . An e xtensive system of KORBIGK CORRESPONDENCE in all parts of the World , has been for some time , and is now , in course of organisation / Its PARLIAMENTARY REPb BTS , its LAW REPORTS , and every other item of such matter , will be famished by gentlemen of the highest tj'uaiibcations . Among the Writers of its LEADING ARTICLES , its Criticisms on BOOKS , the DRAMA , MUSIC , and the FINE ARTS , are some of the most distingut'iied names of this time . Tf ^ LITERARY DEPARTMENT of TtfE DAILY NEWS will be under the direction of Mr . CHARLES DICKENO-- ^ l ' ^ £ Sl ^^^ J ° f B ^ : iNESS itt aU Par t * of the World , particular attention will be paid to the avTanSement of its ADVERTISEMENT ^ C 7- The (?® ce for Advertisements intended for insertion in THE DAILY NEWS , will be at No . 90 , Fleet-strftfit , London . AU Co muvumcations for the Editor should be aa dressed to the Publishing Office , Whitefriars . ¦ - . ¦ ¦ — — . . _ ^ i 1

      Ad00411

      U & XVH UUSIC VUK . UttlUSTHAS . —SEW MUSIC FOl ? PIANOFORTE . § rpHB PIAJflSTA , Kb . 63 , contains X "l'he Royal British Kavy , " and "Welsh" jQuadrflles , now playing at the Promenade Concerts . The two sets Is ., charged by Jullien , 7 s . Ko . 62 , contains the "Elfin" Waltzes and two new songs for Is . Ko . 61 , Music in Marble Maiden , Is . No . CO , the Mazurka . Polka and Qaudrille in "The Devil to Pay , " ( Biable a quatre ) now playing at Drury Lane and ail the theatres , Is . No . 59 , contains the whole opera of "Sonnambula , " 2 s . No . 57 , Ditto , "Fra Diavolo , " 2 s , or the Nos . from 57 to 62 , in splendid binding , as a Christmas or New Year ' s prc « nt , for 10 s . Sent carriage free to any part of the kingdom for a Postoffice order for 12 s ., in favour of the editor , C 7 , Paternoster-row . TO FLUTE PLAYERS . The FiUTONico » forDec ., Nb . 145 , price 6 d ., contains the music in "Le Diable a quatre . " Ko . 143 , contains tho opera of "Sonnambula . " Ko . 142 , "Fra Diavolo . " No . 97 , Norma . All the Nos . contain the gems of an opera , or equivalent , for 6 d . To the flute player , as recreations after more difficult studies , the Flutonicon is invaluable . The whole Nos . in 12 vols for Four Guineas , elegantly bound , or in 145 Nos , at fid . each . MELODIES FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS . The Musical Bee is well known in the Musical World as the cheapest and best work issued in London . Every number aontains from 14 to 20 melodies for 2 d . Nos . 1 to 42 are published . As a specimen , take No . 41 , which contains the popular song of "Love not , " "Minuet D'Exdaudet" tfce whole five of Mnsard ' s Puritani Quadrilles ; songs , with words , " Dance Boatman Dance , " and upwards of eight other melodies . The whole for 2 d . Complete sets , or single numbers may be had at the Pianista , Flutonicon , andJfuiieal Bee Office , 67 , Pater-• wster-row . ( One door from Cheapside . )

      Ad00415

      : 1 = 1 j FUNERAL ECONOMY ! THE CEMETERY and GENERAL FUNERAL COMPANY , united with SHILLIBEER'S PATENT FUNERAL CARRIAGES , respectfully inritepnblie attenjion to the economic and convenient arrangements for performing every description of Funerals complete , atcharges so moderate as to defy competition . and no extras , by which the comfort of bereaved families will be materially promoted , and expenses limited . City-road , Finsbury , next Bunhill-fields Burial-ground ; 21 , Percy-street , Tottenham-conrt-road ; and 136 , Union-street , Southwark . Shillibeer ' s Patent Funeral Carriage , with two horses , £ 1 Us . 6 d . ; Single Horse , £ 1 Is . A respectable Carriage FuneraL combining ever ) - charge , Si 4 s . Hearses and Mourning Coaches . Catholic Fittings . Four Horse Funerals , £ 1212 s .

      Ad00416

      1 i ' i ' i ; i i i < i < : i i 1 i \ . EXTRAORDINARY ECONOMY TO TEA DRINKERS . THE DESIRE OF ENGLAND . —The PIQUA PLANT , now sold at Ss . fid . per lb ., is three times the strength of tea , and is also equal in flavour , more delicate in taste , nfinitely more healthy , as is proved by physicians and chemists of high standing , also by persons in great num . herewith the most delicate lungs and stomachs . It is most pleasant aud invigorating , and is recommended to the debilitated'for its invaluable qualities , to advanced age for its strengthening properties , and to tha public generally for its moderate price and intrinsic excellence . Tns Test . —The proof of the efficacy and healthful effect of the plant in preference to tea or coffee : —Let a nervous or dyspeptic patient use two or three cups of strong tea upon retiring to rest , and the effect will be night-mare , disturbed sleep , and other violent symptoms of indigestions , Ac . The Pboof . —Let the most debilitated , dyspeptic , asthmatic , consumptive , and nervous patients use two , three , or more cups of a very strong infusion of the Piqua Plant , and in the morning they will awake refreshed with their repose . It is highly recommended by physicians to invalids and children as a most invigorating and pleasant beverage . The following are reasons why the Piqua Plant is superior to tea , viz .: — 1 st . Because it is beneficial to health . 2 nd . It does not injure the nerves . 3 rd . Children may use it with advantage to health . 4 th . It does not prevent sleep . 5 th . A quarter of a pound will go as far as three quarters of a pound of the best gunpowder tea . Cth . It is strengthening and nutritious . 7 th . It is recommended by physicians , aud tea is disapproved of by them . It greatly improves the voice ; it is recommended to singers and public speakers .

      Ad00414

      T . HOMAS COOPER . THE CHARTIST'S WORKS . THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme . In Ten Books . ( One Vol ., 7 s . 6 d . ) " The most wonderful effort of intellectual power produced within the last century , "— The Britannia . "We hail tha writer as a new power in the world of poetry , the ruler of a new domain , as yet but littleknown , but which the public eannot fail to- recognise , when its kings of thought shall put on their singing I robes , and with fresh voice and soul speak its praises to j the world . "— Setitwe ? . " The book possesses mind—mind which make itself felt and understood , and which , therefore , demands- respect . —Atheneemn . " Pure , religious , patriotic , he has not a line inimical to the great law of progression . Men may read Ilia as a preacher poet . His lay . is for all time-. It will make the heart of the hopeful glow with a holy fire when he who penned it has passed from among men ; As man strengthens in knowledge and love—as passion or prc--judice expire—as reason gains and retains her mastery —will this high-souled man ' s work bo increasingly reverenced and read . "— General Advertiser . Well conceived out with ordinary

      Ad00417

      WISE SAWS AND , MODERN INSTANCES . ( Two Vols , las . ) " A series of Crabbe-like sketches , in prose . They are manifest portraits , and admonish us of the author ' s skill in taking the literal likeness . "—Athenaawi . " We have read some of these stories with deep interest , and few , we are persuaded , will rise from their perusal but with feelings ail the warmer for what they have read . They can scarcely fail to be popular with ' the masses ; ' and , upon the whole , we think they deserve to be so . " —Atlas . " The author excuses the sternness of his pictures by aUeging their truth . The justification is all-sufficient . Chartist as these sketches are , they are healthier , in tene and sentiment , than the tawdry fictions vamped up for the reading public by some popular writers , that profess to exhibit the life of the labouring classes . " — Tlie Britannia " Of a truth , this Chartist agitation has thrown to the surface no more remarkable a man than Thomas Coofsr , and we much question if there be any one so fitted to represent the manufacturing masses , to describe , thaw wants , and expound their wishes , as he . —Kentish Independent . " WeU written and interesting . The stories contain some true and painful pictures of the miserable condition of many of the poorest operatives , while others of them are of a humorous description . They cannot fail to be popular with the thinking and reading portion of the working classes . "—Leicester Clmnicle . "Many of the stories exhibit considerable vigour of pencil , shrewd sense , and clear-sighted observation , accompanied with a kindly , genial feeling and toleration , we were not prepared for from so determined a politician . "— Glasgow Citizen .

      Ad00418

      Also , just published , THE BARON'S YULE FEAST , A Christmas Rhyme . In Four Cantos . ( One Vol ., 5 s . ) "There is a rough earnestness , both in its thoughts and verse , which is strictly in accordance with the genius of our ballad minstrelsy . If it does not show , in point of ability , an advance on the author's previous productions , it yet shows that he can change his hand without loss of power . "—The Britannia . Publish ** iw T «~—i-i- Muw , 'm , Piccadilly .

      Ad00419

      CHEERFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE FIRESIDE COMPANION . THE WELCOME GlTCSt OP EVERY KOME I THE FAMILY HERALD is not only the cheapest but the most popular and amusing literary Miscellany everpublished . It is a compilation' of Wit , Humour , Fiction , Truth , and Knowledge , adapted for all classes , tastes , and ages , grave or gay , rich or poor , and contains something of everything , facts and philosophy for Gentlemen , bints and entertainment for Ladies , questions and problems for Youth ; interesting Tales ; extraordinary Adventures ; wonderfulNaratives ; remarkable Events ; moral , familiar , and historical Essays ; select Poetry ; instructive Biographies ; comic Sketches ; amusing Allegories ; the wisest Sayings of the wisest Men ; useful Advice for Self-improvement ; salutary Cautions ; scientific Discoveries ; New Inventions ; Hints to Housekeepers ; Practical Recipes ; diverting Sports and Pastimes ; ingenious Puzzles and Riddles ; facetious Sayings , Jokes , Ac , affording harmless and profitable recreation for all the members of a family . The objections usually made to cheap publications are not at aU applicable to tha FAMILY HERALD , its distinguishing feature being , that it contains nothing whatever to offend the most delicate sensibility . A publication like this , combining mirth with propriety , utility with economy , and wisdom with cheerfulness , was long wanted—that want is now supplied , the relish of amusement is conveyed into the bread of instruction in a manner which has united all opinions , and will obtain for it a place on every parlour table . The best proof that its attraction hasbeen considerable and the approbation general , is the fact that , in the course of a few months , the FAMILY HERALD , has become the most extensively circulated of the English periodicals —a universal favourite .

      Ad00420

      COALS . PROVIDE FOR WINTER . PROVIDENT FAMILIES , subscribing Is . per week to the Metropolitan Coal Company's Shilling Club , can obtain four half tons annually , without furtker charge , lines , & c . The Company's price current is , Best Seveorieu Walisend , 2-3 s . per lull ton ; Seconds , 2 ls ., 22 s ., and 23 s Coi ; e , 17 s . Gd . Office , 27 !) , High Holborn ,

      Ad00421

      * - " * * V ' v v . y . - - . ' " r . *?* " * . ¦>¦•/ ' * ^^¦ ¦ - ^^^ lil ^ mMSw .,.,.. j OF PATBIOK OCTCrfclNS , Esq . In order to dignify and commemorate those who boldly defy the law , the approver , ' and the tyrant , when our princip les are at i stake , we will , as soon as the work can be { completed , present to every subscriber of the Star from Saturday , 17 th of January , J 846 , 1 a Splendid Portrait , from a steei engraving , of Patrick O'Higgins , Esq ., the Chief of the Irish Chartists ; and , perhaps , the attitude of triumph in which our friend will be represented , and the thing triumphed over , may be anything but flattering to his persecutors .

      The Northern Star. V -: Satuxd-Ay, January 10i 18k?.

      THE NORTHERN STAR . v -: SATUXD-AY , JANUARY 10 i 18 K ? .

      The Press Of Ireland. When Such Restrain...

      THE PRESS OF IRELAND . When such restraints are laid on tlie press that the people are held in ignorance , and from that ignorance know neither their own duty as members of the State , nor yet the duty of those who are set over them , or , to speak more properly , those who have set themselves over them , it may be fairly concluded that the country where suck restraint prevails is fast verging to vassalage . "When a man knows what his duty is , he would be more apt to perform it than if that knowledge be withheld from him . But knowledge of it is a duty , and ignorance , of course , bej ¦ 1 ^ , i ^ ,

      comes a crime . Those therefore who check the communication of knowledge make themselves accessories in the guilt of him that si » s from ignorance , or sins without a due and distinct knowledge of his duty ; and even with the principle on which it was founded . It was better , both in a moral and political sense , that men should act properly with a knowledge and a sense ef duty , than not err by accident , or even act right , not knowing what to do . In the one there is a virtue , in the other none , or at best a virtue of tho negative kind ; a virtue from which no praise flows , and for the practice of which 110 reward follows there having been no motive to the action , no known PRINCIPLE to guide or govern it . On a truth so evident it is unnecessary ( I . ] i ] j

      to enlarge : wo shall therefore proceed to its application , and by trying it as it affects Ireland at present , endeavour to show that an immediate and radical reform of tlie restrictions laid on the Irish press becomes absolutely necessary to the existence of tho country as a free and independent state . We have observed that to insure the right of obedience of the people , they should be made acquainted with the principle on which their duty is founded . This , however , as parties are now constituted in Ireland ; it may not always be safe to do ; for it has sometimes happened that those who exercise a power over the press , having no principle of their own , are very little anxious what the principles are that are promulgated through the press , provided the present convenience be answered .

      When Governments become completely wicked their first object is to screen their crimes , and , as with governments , so with individuals , theexposure of those crimes would tend to shake their power and precipitate their downfall . Thus in all despotic states , the press , where it has found a footing , has ' ever been an engine of terror formidable to the tyrants . But if vice be the bane of every state , that which tends to enlighten the human mind and make men honest , instead of being checked should be protected and freed from restraint . By laws states are preserved ; that , therefore , which promulgates and

      preserves the laws should not be restrained . The will of government is promulgated by the press , but the will of the people , from whom all governments proceed , and to whom they must return , shall not bo promulgated or made known lest the power of the source may become too strong for the stream that flows from it and becomes corrupted . Hence , to publish the slow murders of a landlord , class , the extortions of privileged patriots whose dark deeds are cautiously withheld from public notice—the injustice of a judge , or the folly of a Whig-made police knight , is a wicked scandal , as we learn from modern interpretation , for the greater the truth the greatei

      oifence in letting that truth be known ; lest if truth be divulged and rendered familiar to the ignorant , the corrupt may fall into contempt and lose their authority ; which means , that it were better that mankind should be governed by church tyranny , confederated with blood and rapine and a sufficient amount of toleration to those who denounced the system but dare not shake it , than that honest men should question the integrity or even the motives of those who would discipline them out of their feelings and persuade them they had none . The errors taught to a mob are less formidable to liberty than the toleration of the prejudices of their rulers or their leaders , upheld by a venal and corrupt press .

      What demolished at a blow the throne of France , and erected on its ruins the most formidable government that ever " perplexed monavchs ? " Not the sudden fury of a mob , but the commanding power of the press , before whose voice thoBastile fell like the walls of Jericho at tho sound of the trumpet . Let those , who , by restraining the press , would keep the multitude in ignorance , and then abuse them for their want of knowledge , say that the people of France had neither virtue nor understanding when they hurled despotism from its throne , and proclaimed the people's rightful ownership in the land . Lot the conductors of the Irish press cast their eyes on their own univorthiuess , and confess how limited is THEIR virtue , how humbled THEIR pride of

      talents , and wisdom to govern , while they are contending for what they insolently term self-government and by which wo are to understand the licentious rule of its licentious conductors . Tho press alone made France what she was , it made her free , it made her great , while the despots of ignorance trembled at tho warning of its voice , and stooped in their littleness to its awful authority . It was not France that terrified the nations of Europe , it was her press , whose sound went forth into all lands , and shook the thrones of darkness . No wonder that corruption stands appalled , and would stifle the expression ot truth when the detection of guilt would lead to knowledge and denude hirelings of their impositions ,

      If men be honest and pure of offence what have they to dread ? Well , indeed , may the wicked tremble , for though they are seldom ashamed of their crimes , they yet have cause to deprecate the publication of their guilt . Louis , the fourteenth tyrant of the name , used to say he more dreaded the Amsterdam Gazette than the armies of England . For these reasons tyrants have always endeavoured to destroy the press , and aro sure to put it down while they are preparing some new tyranny for the slaves of their rule . But if the press be tho herald of public virtue and the record ef illustrious actions , then is the silencing of its voice the murder of freedom and glory : if it be the champion of innocence and the guardian of genius , its destruction is the abettor of crime- * the

      The Press Of Ireland. When Such Restrain...

      nurse of night and ign ^ nce . ne " >» im * , U * found universally true , ; that it ik * torn . be good , and the peoplehappy under them , no excesses of the pms can make either the one bad , or the other discontented ; but it is observable , that , as the Irishpeople are most unhappy under si vicious government , the Irish press becomes more licentious , but not more formidable to the tyranny—its licentiousness is but that aid which the crafty require from the innocence of i gnorance .

      Having said so much upon the general topic , now turn we to the more immediate consideration of the present state of the Irish press . Of latter years Mr . O'Connell has "been alternately denouncing and flattering Whiggery and Toryism . He has defied and crouched , he has resisted and yielded , as it served his purpose ; but never has he used his strength , which is the nation ' s voice , for diminishing the lewd power of either the one or the other . In his own personal conflicts with those who would check his progress he used the press as a tool , but never » a national engine to achieve national greatness . He has whispered and lisped the wrongs of Ireland in the narrow sphere of personal ambition , but tas soul , shrunk from

      that cowers before democracy , has ever the destruction of the abettors of wrong . He > has denounced the Whigs , while he has aided them with his might in their every act of oppression , and shielded them from the only power which could de * stroy them . That power , however , although withheld from the knowledge of ths frish people by the corrupt and slavish press of the country , has overthrown silence , stripped mystery of its magic , and exposed the villany , the corruption , and trickery of tliosewho looked upon the ignorance of a people as tlmrown best title to power . The man who would use the press to achieve the triumph of Saxon law should close bis mouth against all Saxon abuses . The man who would malse a criminal of him who i t

      fearlessly exposes error should stand at the bar e 4 ' justice as the assassin of truth ,, the destroyer of virtue , the murderer of his country ' sliberty . What but the press could have placed jugglery in the ascendant over principle , and especially in such a liberty-loving country as Ireland' ! and what but the press can hurl the monster from its throae ? Had it not been for the virtue off the Irish press , at tiie close of tho last century—that ) press , to preserve whose purity one patriot has endured nearly half a century of exile—Ireland would now be in a state of even worse bondage than , she is . The vigour , the

      courage , the power , and the purity of that pressi taught tyrants that Ireland would one-day be a nation , and only required a free press- to make her so .. That press dreaded not the promulgation of landlord tyranny , of the law ' s oppression and the tyrant ' s rapine ; that press did not sanction the principle of aiding Saxon law by inviting the Irish people to become approvers and informers ; that press was virtuous , and its founder became a victim ; the press is now licentious , and its abettor may one day share the same fate , but not the same laurels . The one has lived honoured , and will die regretted ; the other

      has lived fraudulently , and will . die unmasked . The historian should be able to note a country's improvement in the increase of its people ' s virtue j and what ,, we should bo glad to know , would be the feelings of a SAAnsFiBLD , a Harvet , a Fiizgbiuh > , or an Emmett , if tlie sanctity of their honoured tombs were disturbed by the whisper , that Irish patriotism was measured by Irish subserviency , and that the surest road to popular favour was turning APPROVER to tho Saxon government . Thank God , ~ those departed heroes sleep secure from the infamy of that press which dares to commemorate the greatness of their times , but shudders at the mention of their

      names . Who fears to talk of 98 ! ¦ Who dares to lisp Lord Edward ' s name % Who dares to utter Emmett ' s slaughter ? Who dares to mention Harvey's fame ? Who dares to talk of Curran ' s daughter ? Out upon you , you base , degenerate vermin—you foul destroyers of your country's liberty ' . —you prostitutes , you bastard Irishmen , you things that write for hii'e , and fear the very ' sight of the impress of your Irish feelings ; if such by chance should find a place in your breasts , you must smother them . Are you not hirelings ? Poor priceless slaves , with

      measured conscience , bated breath , and fettered hand ? Tou profess to loose the chains that bind your country , while you tighten every rivet and forge such bondage as freemen blush at . You have hoped , by your silence , to procure the downfall of the man whose bravery you should have honoured , in whose intellect you should have taken pride , in whose veins ran the pure stream of liberty , and whose triumph will but mark your impotence , Y ou will live but as speculators in the laws of forbearance , while O'IIiooins will triumph over the foul coercion to which you hoped to have consigned him . VOU ARK A SKI OF SERVILE SLAVES !

      Toe Land. The Rules Of The Chartist Co-O...

      TOE LAND . The Rules of the Chartist Co-operative Land Association are now perfected and ready for enrolment , with the opinion of counsel , that they are , in every way , conformable to the statute , and we hope , by next week , to communicate the glad tidings that we have achieved , for all the members , that amount of protection which will secure their funds against the DISHONESTY OF THEIR OFFICERS ; and

      thus silence the wily and disarm the suspicious . The great value which all the movement parties in the state are now- either directly or indirectly compelled to attach to the land , not only at home but abroad , should induce every man ( and the very poorest has the means under the Chartist Co-operative Association ) to secure for himself as much of the soil of the country as will make him independent of the capricious wages of the casual employer and the starvation wages of tho permanent slave-owner .

      However the advocates of free trade and protection may attempt to colour the question of free trade , those , for whoso benefit the mensuve is contemplated , are beginning to see the question of labour , nay , of existence , in the grotesque group presented by the various artists . It matters but little to the slave who toils through tho week , whether he is governed by protectionists or anti-monopolists , provided each place an equal burden upon his back , and the only question with the toiling millions should be , how , at one bound , and at the . same time , they could rid themselves of the incubus of landlords and the

      nightmare of cotton-lords . How they can destroy the usurped privileges of the one class without becoming subjected to the new and more tyrannical dominion of their successors . We have more than once used the past as a caution for the future . Wc have shown how , from the proclamation of American Independence to the Revolution of France , the popular voice became smothered in the craft and wiles of faction . France gained more by her revolution than America by her independence ; for America , with a twenty years' start of France , is only now struggling for what France has already partially achieved-. the sub-division of her land , And however lewd tyranny may have been under the restoration , and however the scions of the house

      ef the murdered Bourbos may have been anxious to take vengeance on a people who limited monarchy , and stripped the crown of some of its Most valued prerogatives , yet neither they , nor the king of the barricades , whoso desire for reassumption is as great as that of Ms nredecasaovs , yet have not one or all been able to retake a single acre of that broad domain , which constituted the only triumph of the Revolution . Upon the other hand , it would either appear that land for want of population was useless when America declared her independence , or that the voice of American knowledge was lost in the exultation of llcr triumph , inasmuch as it is only now that the people of that country are beginning to turn their attention from the shadow to tho substance , from the protection of others to THE LAND FOR

      THEMSELVES . In every instance of which history makes mention , the people ' s share in every change where the possession of the land has not followed , has been a tightening of their , chains . "Who can turn to Ireland , and

      but it must be destroyed , or its injustice and ineequality must be curbed by the possession of THE LAND .

      competitor which makes its slavish attendant more obedient to its will than even to the terror of the bludgeon , the sword , or the law . It is this monster that creates strife amongst men who ought to be united . It is this disturber that destroys the peace of families , and that prematurely relaxes filial duty and parental authority -. . and neither monopolist nor anti-monopolist wi'l lend their aid in its destruction , nor would we wish to destroy it if it could be made MAN'S HOLIDAY instead of MAN'S CURSE :

      to make the question of labour a mere stalking-horse for their own party purposes . And the labourer cannot disassociate the question of labour and capital—* the consideration of monopolist and antimonopolistwithout taking into account the material ingredient , MACHINERY , which is equally used and encouraged by both parties—by the one that they may SELL CHEAP , and by the other that they may BUY CHEAP . This is the great SALESMAN that regulates the price of wages—this is the awful

      The question of fsee trade , and . especially the ability of its advocates to raise a quarter of a million of money in the midst of threatened famine , and without the danger of dimiuished luxury , has , in truth , resolved the question into- its proper dtmensions — namely , the positioa that Labour should hold in the present struggle . That question is now argued in England with surpassing truth and eloquence , and , however long-su & ring may be paraded by the advocates of the labouring class , ia the columns of the press , we hold it to . be an utter impossibility for that press and the League united , longer

      primogeniture , of settlement , and entaiL To this land plan of ours-we attach surpassing importance , the mora especially from the confidence that all now seem ta repose in its good working ; . and ,, we trust , before many weeks are over our head , tosee sueha staff of free labour advocates agitating the several rural districts as will teach the especial , objects- of free trade protection , the elodpoles , the difference between free labour expended for themselves , and labour expended either for the monopolists or antimonopolists .

      The free traders ,, like the Irish-juggler ; were wont to mention this monster in the « catalogue of griev--ancesi but the strict reading of the grammar of political economy has- taught them that trade , with a . blighting , restriction-imposed upon- its by protection , is preferable to the opening of a feee labour market ; and , like O'CokiVbh , ,. who to-morrow would refuse the Repeal with a free House of CommonSj the free traders , i £ they had the option , would ; spurn from them the long wished-for measure ; , if it was to be- accompanied by the destruction : of the law of

      the industrious . In reflecting upon the state of Ireland , to whicfe ; nature and a longing for her liberty not unfrequently . compels us , we are forcibly struck by the fact , that all the power of the national will , str concentrated , harmonious , and brave , has never onee been applied t » the destruction of that monster evil—an evil , the destruction of which- is how but seldom hinted at because , if destroyed ! ,, it would have a prejudicia l effee * upon the monopolists of labour . Through life , it has been our darling- object to create a class of

      lusbandmen who should' be masters of their own ; ime , and whole , and sole ; -and unrestricted ; possseslors of the produce of their ' own industry , but in our vay to tbisholy consummation * the law of primogenf * . , ure stands- prominently foremost . The working ; classes of this country reautrc bofc the chance off transforming ? themselves from * hired 5 slaves to ihde ~ jendent labourers-. That chance ,, by the rules oF theteaociation , W can offer sectibnally , while destruction of the law of primogeniture would accomplish ; it nationally .

      the disposal of Government , and the great safetyvalve of an extensive commerce , added to the new respectability assigned to trade , the junior branches of each aristocratic house would long since have waged war against their elder brothers and their parents ; as , like Ireland , a country without trade , and cursed by the law of primogeniture , would have led to an ECONOMICAL surplus population—that is a population of young idlers who are , fortunately for the peace of the country , reconciled to their disinheritance from the land , so long as they can speculate in trade , or be quartered aa State pensioners , or worse tha ® useless lumber upon the taxes paid by

      behold a conquered country . with scarcely a foot of ground for her . own , " people , to . rest , upon ; who i » n witness the supremacy of jugglery and the prostration of common sense in that country , without being irresistibly led to the conclusion that the mind requires something solid to rally round ? In England there is a kind of safety-valve for labour in its capricious employment and in its own noble struggles for its share in its own productions ? In England the absurd law of primogeniture is only tolerated by the several outlets that are at the command of the aristocracy ? Were it not for church patronage , army patronage , and all the patronage at

      The Land.

      THE LAND .

      However childish it may appear to threaten to resign my office , as Deputy Treasurer , I now tell the sub-secretaries that I will not longer be made a fool of for their pleasure . It matters not whether th » orders are transmitted to Mr . Wheeler or to me , but I do insist upon all being made payable to W . P . Roberts , and at Oharing-cross Post-office . It was my intention to have balanced the whole account up to the end of the year , by placing all the monies received since I furnished my last balance-sheet into the bank to the account of the treasurer , and it

      will scarcely be believed , after the frequent notices given , that post-office orders have come payable at the General Pest-office , at Charing-cross , the Strand , Oxford-street , Old Cavendish-street , and Piccadilly ) and that my nephew has been nearly the whole of this week engaged in getting them cashed , and on presenting £ 140 in orders at the General Post-officeyesterday £ 40 was refused , £ 20 being made payable to Thomas Martin , principally from Bacup , and £ 20 not advised . Now these have to go back to tha

      country , whereas observance of the simple rule would have saved all this trouble . My nephew , my secretary , and myself are employed a large portion of every day in transacting your affairs gratuitously but I will not longer undertake the labour of correcting blunders that need not be made . I have now a large sum of money which I wish to bo placed to the treasurer ' s account , and the simple rule of which I request future observance is this-all post-office orders to be made payable to W . V . Roberta , and the name of the person procuring the order to be legibly signed in the letter containing it .

      Fearocs O'Connor . N . B . I thank those persons who have sent me notice , of estates to be sold , and I wish them from all districts to continue sending such information , as we shall very speedily be in a situation to make a lar ^ e purchase . F 0 'C °

      Co L\Tnm$ # €Ommnltzm&

      Co l \ tnm $ # € ommnltzM &

      TO AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS . All agents and subscribers who have had their accounts rendered , and do not discharge them by next week will have their papers stopped ; and their readers must understand that the fault is not with us .

      Man Cnesteu._Tow Year's Dit.. -Kdtto&E E...

      MAN cnESTEU . _ tow YEAR ' S DiT .. -Kdtto & e Executive nor Mr . O'Connor were pledged to attend the meetw » n Stephenson ' s-square , on New Year's Bay . Had the Executive attended the meeting , they must have remained from the 23 rd of December , the night when tho convention closed , till Friday , the 2 nd of January , in Manchester and its neighbourhood , instead of attending , as they have done , to the enrolment of the rules , which are now completed , and are this dav submitted by counsel to Tidd Pratt for enrolment , and of which there is not now the slightest doubt . The Executive by remaining in Manchester would have entailed an ex . pence of £ U 10 s . iu salary alone , which would not have

      given general SATiSficTios . Mr . O'Connor was pledged to attend the KcrsaJ-moor meeting , had it taken place , but he bogs to assure his friends , that whatever they may think , he is not rich enough to run to Manchester and back again every week . ' He attended the conference and the convention , and was obliged to post to Warrington on Monday night after tlie confeveuce , merely to gain five hours at his daily work . Now tin ? people should clearly understand that Tues .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 10, 1846, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10011846/page/4/