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      £ 1 And Irish Repealers. A Voic^ Froil T...

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      In<£Ngl1sh And Irish Repealers. A Challe...

      IN < £ NGL 1 SH AND IRISH REPEALERS . A CHALLENGE . T TBB EDITOR . OT THE XOBTHBIK STAR . ! ° _ ju the-A T a /^ newipa ^ er refused to pnb-£ elhe letter which I herewith . enclose , and is I witoiGOi to lay i * - **&»* the people of England , I ^ 5 obBgcdbyyonr ^ S ?* a pl « e ia the ^ ^ Be ^ eaMyyoura , PaTAlCX 0 * HlGGIK 8-„ ., _ . „ r ten Atfn IRISH REPEALERS .

      « «H0w To 1epeal The Union?' '^. Ttere's...

      « « H 0 W TO 1 EPEAL THE UNION ?' ' ^ . ttere ' sttertto ' TO THB EDITOR 07 THB NATION . „ . „ -Whenltaw the letter from BlesBington , cd , « d , * Ternist , ' with the above admirable query « be beg inning of it ; I hegan to hope that I Udild see that for which I have been long and wfcu slv looking for , namely , some feasible plan to eeiW ' the Union . ' ^ ^ 7 : «« < m > 4 Tl * 4 Knaai & nnm ml n !!• tl true that ipeeching at Conciliation

      i | js quite .. . coUecting money ; and getting Repealers , red-[ fjj conciliation Hall Repealers , into snug cozey & , & under a government hostile to RepeaL / trill not ttlal the Union . ijafoor correspondent , * Ternist , ' appears , to my ii m understanding , to be as far from laying down nlinlan to Repeal the Union , as the most brawling nofoon , either lay or clerical , belonging to the Con-Natio n Hall delusion . There is an excuse for a aman who has no other mode of making out a Bibaiions subsistence than by deluding h » countr y . tli through the medium of fulsome disgusting him ; nes , spouted hebdomadally at Conciliation Hall ; Hh there is no excuse whatever for a clergyman rajing in the delation , every one of whom know £ it well that the sole object of the leaders of

      zaeal , trom its commencement in 1830 up to the stent hour , wu to get money from the people and bscs from the "Whigs . Such of the Catholic zjgy of Ireland is have joined the Repeal Assoctni can be looked upon in no other light than in ; t of having countenanced and assisted to propaleapolitical delusion npon their poor confiding E 3 CS . Mow I am neither a Young Ireknder , nor eke an DIOldlrelander . but I am a Repealer . And , alnjugh I do not intend joining the Confederates or nnng Irelanders , yet I' do believe that they . are Qfdously and honestly desirous to effect a Repeal fobe Act of Union , and to tee a parliament in Col .

      s e Green , which , bear in mind , are two very disstet things . The Union statute aay be repealed , Ihuiout having a domestic parliament , as a necety : v consequence ofthe mere ae * of RepeaL Anew - , t of Union might be passed . There is a popular m npon this great question . A Repeal of the H of Union does not involve domestic legislation ; t i I shall not pursue this line of argument further ) j present , as it would lead me away from the onset of this letter , which is to show that * Ternist , ' rooagh a goad writer , has propounded no plan to « eh the people'How to Repeal tte Umax . ? He Ijects to the plan proposed by * flibernicus , ' viz . : — "Register , purchase land , create voters , secure 133 Repeal members . ' This , he says , is very good

      i its-way , but it requires time and money , much nns and much money . He also says , ' that we can jjther afford the one nor the other . ' ! It appears , or should appear , from the very nature ' { the objection , that ' Ternist' has some plan of ypeal , which will require neither time nor money i ) echieve the end in view . And what is this in ? Bad as the old delusion was , that proposed fi ' Termtt' is fifty-fold worse . Here it is . — 'Repeal the IkhmvithEngland ' s s 2 , tf jjomefej if not , without it . ' Sow , good sir , is this the sapient plan which repes neither time nor money ? If so , why not say it into immediate effect ? After having proposed this profound plan , he

      lit . ' Are there any rational means of winning the gent of England to the repeal of the Union Act ?' 2 ad . ' Have any means yet been put in operation , Ssa the first utterance of the word Repeal , to the pest dayvtendingia the sli ghtest degree to lesson & s objections of an Englishman to the Repeal ?' fotbis latter question he boldly answers , ' none , caterer , I am fully convinced ?' Pray , now air , permit me to ask you , by what

      jocess of reasoning , or through what medium , have is arrived at this conclusion > Upon what antho-§ r do yon presume to make this unfounded asser-Ba ? Is it because that you are folly conduced that you have made no effort to sin ' England , ' as you say , to the Repeal of the [ mon Act , ' that therefore no one else has ? Verily £ e premises are worthy of the conclusion . "Watts ci Whateley may hide tbeajdiminished beads after 6 a specimen of Blessington logic .

      What do yon mean by winning the assent of Bugis ! , and lessoning the objection of an Englishman to Ispeal ? 'What , Englishman ? Have yon ever seen Ibdel-Kader ? If yon have not , it follows , therefore , Kjraing to your logic , that nobody else has . ¥ here have yon been during the last ten years ? tafy , a public writer , even uxder a fictitious name , Kit to know something about the proceedings of fese whose assent he professes a desire to win to fie Bepeal of the Act of Union . But as it appears pa know nothing of the matter , just let me take jnby the arm and enlighten you a bit , in a friendly , cast way . It will do yon good , and perhaps have ifis salulary effect of inducing you before you write tain , to learn something of the subject on which

      pamte . Be it known to you , then , and to all others whom Stay concern , that in August 1839 , two mifitens of fi | Biumen deputed a missionary to this city with Jamctions to tender their assistance to the people s Ireland , to obtain a Repeal of the Legislative fran ; thtt the name of this missionary was Robert Wey : that a meetingfof the citizens of Dublin tadnly convened by public placard , to bear this ttten ' an tender the co-operation of two millions of NJshmen to effect a Repeal of the Union stafe that instead of bearing tbis gentleman , as the . FKH 3 were bound to do by the well-known laws

      [ JGrOUed society , they assembled in vast numbers , piffinr before the time appointed for holding the pe & g , beat and abused the missionary , tore bis Nits , and otherwise maltreated him ; that the Nal dupes were instigated to commit this base pi brutal outrage , by T . M . Ray , the Repeal secrep 7 , Tom Arkins who led the assaultion the occasion , Now present redoubtable City Marshal ; that Lord Pajng ton then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , pubr % thanked theee worthies , for their manly and Nilotic achievement ; that when a hearing was ^ secuentlv snnsht for at a Repeal meetine in the

      & a Exchange , the patriotic City Marshal , Mr pfetaas Reynolds , who has since had his reward , ^; ' JAat ' no missionary should tpeak at that meetiS « sk « he thouldfint thoahu credential * , and $ t thtnhe would le taken into custody end lodged f Margate , where he might rot lefore any good ftimwn would visit hints' that after all this dis-•|? 3 efal conduct on the part of the soi-ditant Bei dlers , the generous , forgiving , and liberty-loving Efte of England , petitioned parliament to the ata of 3 , 500 , 000 , which is more-than the whole k population of Ireland , for a Repeal of the

      1 am sure , sir , that you have the candour , and the ¥ *• $ & to admit that you are more enlightened now , *» when I took your arm a while ago . ^ t lest there should be any mistake or doubt Meeting the hearty good will of the people of ^ nd towards the people of Ireland , and their [ W love of justice and fair play . I hereby cbal-N jou , or any one else , to a discussion of a Re-* ti the Act of Union , in any part of England S & yoa or they may choose—Exeter Hall , if yon r- The meeting to be an open one , and one forty ' s notice of it to be duly advertised and pla-^ o ; a nd I undertake to pay the whole expense I Je meetingand vour expenses there and hack ¦

      , ""blin , should tae ' rneeting notaffirm the follow-? ewiBtion ; provided alwaya that you pay all 3 ttpenses , and charges injhe event of the reso-^ heiog affirmed . Resolved : — , -. . ^ in the opinion of this meeting , the Aet of Union J ^ a Great Britain and Ireland was brought about J * £ most hue , bloody and brutal awm ; that it has L ^ frieronsinjwj-on the people of Ireland ; and to aferred no rtjht or bensflt on the prtple ofEng-S , 1 fl * tt » W « h people are justly and rig hteously fe ?** a E ? otal of the Act of Union ; and that

      L : * " Ae Bag , Lords ; and Commons of Ireland r ^ makt laws fer lreUnd . That the Irish have j ^ Wed , plua *« red aud expatriated from their naj-i-md b y the hereditary oppressors of the peoP 16 oi j ~ J * ; that a sincere , hearty , and cordial union be ^» & 0 a » henceforth aad for aver , established between r *^ 16 of England and Ireland , for thetnrpose of j ^ orowing tyranny » nd oppression ia both countries , a ^ curing dumtstie leghlatioa based npon the cornpower of the people over their repreftntatires . > Patrick O'Higgiks . * o . lS . yor tb Aane-street .

      A Voic^ Froil Tipperar Ti Fmihlto Statl ...

      A VOIC ^ FROil TIPPERAR FMiHlTO STATl 0 » . imt COrflrtRT-HilBin : ¦ " » ¦ THB ir « . « - « _ J ? m BPr *» ry , Dee . 2 nd , 18 * 7 . For wme week . part we hareTallbaen ^ Sowly ffi ! S m l 5 ^ k * K lieve ^ iresent depreased rtate , but up to thig the wmethiBz remains in naKSw . WhatherMajeSrtWnuSl £ S dW > Z f 0 r ^ , m 4 U tt 9 »^ ral topic tfen ? versafaon among all classes , and all seem to come to one wnebmon that is , 'that they intend doing ? ffiLi S «* Pttheinposttioa oftaxeaand ttemtroductionof a Coercion BUI , which , ofcourse , « to sufice as a remedial measure for starvation , we have come to the conclusion , that th * above forms the stun total ot their intentions towards Iralaa * . : : ll TOTCF rilllll Mini

      Bat in reality , we often ask ourselves , Ate her Majesty ' s advisers mad ? or if they be wise , do they tooknoan us Irishmen as fools ? ' Tha best proof , at all of their being governed by one feeling or other , u evinced in their determination to introduce a Coercion Bill , for our future comfort . A Coercion BUI , forsooth ! Well , ' tis singular how Ministers can reconcile it with the duty they owe the constitution and their sovereign , to attempt the violation of the privileges which the former guarantees to , and the utter swears to maintain for her people , and on the suppression of which it is only natural that they should forswear allegiance .

      True ! Tbia country is in a very disturbed state , murders are perpetrated openly and fearlessly . Erery . good member of society must deplore sueh barbarity , but will they , before calling for a Coercion Bill , trace the effect to its cause * Let them say 'Murders , doubtless , are committed ; but surely there must be some cause for it , as human naturo is not so depraved as to revel in criee for pleasure ; and then let then , if they find grievances unr « - dressed ,-4 rst remove them , and see whatefiectit may produce in tranquillising Ireland .. But let them not attempt to coerce us untiL at least , they remove our

      manifold wrongs and persecutions . We are the descendants of a disinherited , proscribed race ; our fathers were deprived of all their rights and privileges ; we ( inherit their sense of wrong , we feel what they have bees made to suffer , and they have left us a legacy of evils to be atoned for . Let us not be furnished with , pretaxta for taking vengeance , let us not besnpplied with causes to avenge our fathers ' murders , spoliations ,, and robberies , perpetrated on them by ruthless tyrants—the generators of the beggared servile crew , who would now seek to goad us into madness .

      Let it be recollected that so long as the causes which produce murder be not removed , so long have government no right to coerce us . They starved two millions of our brave and hardy Milesian race , and twe millions store efaa true and brave men would have met the same doom , had it not been for the generosity ef the English people . They robbed us of our means to live , in refusing means to reclaim our waste lands , and bring into play the available resources of our country . They insulted us , and called as idle , thriftless sots . AH this , and more we bore in patience , but let them attempt to coerce with us , and we will see , can they calculate on our dastard submissioa to tyrants' will No I we will not bear coercion , it smells too much of RotsiaB

      serfdom / it'a tinctured too much with penal times . Better die a freeman than live a slave . Bat no ! rightwill triumph , and beforewe band ourselves ever to the jezecationer many a noble fellow will pour out tke last drop of his heart ' s blood , —many a sword will be dyed with thecrimson gore of a ruthless tyrant , and many an executioner will call heaven ' s vengeance down on our task masters who drove us , maddened by despair , to destruction . True ! Many will preach obedience to the law . Yes , by all means , let the constitution law of the realm be obeyed , bat not the law which would man our manhood , and hold us up as chained caitifisto the gase of scoffing Europe . Too long have we been slaves , —too long have we forgotten what be might be — too long

      have we lain dormant under the thraldom of a cursed race of landlords , who tore ' out oar very vital * , to famish a eratification to their profligate appetites , but we will do so no longer . Progressive reform is the order of the day , and no coercion . Let the Ministers of England remove the causes which pro . dace crimes ; and then , if after the peasants wrongs are redressed—the farmer ' a persecutions removed , — tbe tenants rights guaranteed , and our social and political evils done away with , if , after these things be done , triine continues , then , by all means , let a Coercion Bill be introduced , and , I am satisfied , it will receive the support of every man who would now risk ' outlawry , ' beftre ha would submit to it . But sueh an event is impossible . Give us remedial measaresand erima ceases !

      , Another topic being disewsed among us ' Wild Irish' is , the conduct ef the Parliamentary misrepresentatives of Ireland . lt has beenrudely remarked that little can be expected from men who either refuse or neglect to moot the greatquestion of Tenant Right , to which they were pledged at the hustings , but on which they aresilentj both in parliament , and in th * programme of the ' r resolutions , —that no confidence need be placed in men who left it to an English member—an Irishman whom their vituperative spirits exiled—to start a motion on Repeal—in men who , before a Whig Secretary of State , cowed and withdrew a just amendment to the Whig ministers ' ill-boding speech . No wonder that the man who styles himself leader ** P + ti a TaJak namnla atTtniiM K » mTiaVavl Till IPOtWlVhv An Wl UlOU wMW ^ ^

      * U « . puu ^ JSO ) OUUUIM WW tVWBQW vvavw - ** English baronet , on the tame spirit of his dreams . Oh ! for Ireland , that she hadnot a few sucb >« n as O'Connor , Anstey , Grattan , Mahon , and O'Brien , representing her—men who fight her battles manfully , who weuld assume a tone of manly independence in advocating a nation ' s rigata . . Intelli « enc « has just arrived reeountine the interview of the Irish Council with Lord John Russell . and also John O'ConnelTs letter to the Fskbhu ' s Joukiml . It has produced a dreadful sensation . A few more facts like that , and Lord John will see how far easier it would be to rive people means to live , than

      to meet the expenses attendant on the suppression of an outbreak . It is really alarming to hear the ministers'deciaionregardiBglreland . He andhis colleagues ought to be made aware of the ill-boding aspect of things in this country . Theresa a deadly hatred of the English government being implanted in every Irishman's bosom . Society ia in a ferment—it is like a volcano heaving ita destructive lava , previous to its being spread out on the plains . A short time hence , and no nan—not even the best disposed—will find it his interest to be quiet . Their motto will be , ' That they have nothing to gain , but everything to lose , by their quietness . ' ..-.,.- ..

      Never was there sueh a hostile feeling being nourished against English legislature as at present Not since the days of the first invasion , when Henry the Secoodsent his cursed satelites to roband plunder our forefathers , at the instance of a traitor king , M'Murrough of Meath , —not since the days of bloody persecution , when the pitch cap , the rack , and the gibbet , met an Irishman at every tarn , —not since those days were Irishmen so completely opposed to the English government as at present . They are determined not to victimise themselves for any government Let Lord John and his cabinet digest that piece of information . We blame not the English people . No ; let that fact go farther . The Saxon may be called a scoundrel , but the Irish will not believe it . They stretch forth their hands in friendship , to the honest men of England ; they ask for their co-operation , and thank them for last year ' s assistance . Let the English hear our grievances , and they will not blame us for our

      opposition to their government . When facts like the following are of daily recurrence , will the English say we have no ; cause of complaint ? . . ^ Saturday last , 27 th Nov ., the . sub-sheriff o * lthis county , Mr Going , proceeded to the lands occupied by farmers of the name of Qninliks to eject them . / These unfortunate men owed but one year ' s rent : they offered the rent in full—they offered the costs oi the ejectment—but ont they should go—the sheriff ' s der putt was netauthbrised to take it . Further , heat ! These unhappy men had anna in their honse .. They said , ' We wish togiveno opposition to the . sheriff , bat let the bailiffs not enter , we will remove our own cattle and furniture . ' Fortius they were arrested * are now in goal at Nesagh , and informations * re sworn against them , for jetisting the sheriffdeputy in the execution of his duty , I will let thiifactspeak withtheIrisb pepp ! eforit 5 elf , anditisonIymelaneholy it is not * solitary fact . Dear what the Ttpwatar ViKMCAioB of the 1 st inst ., says , commenting on the

      HDOTfi *~* ' ' . - ¦ ' ~ ^ * It is undeniable that the _ present lamentable state of this country is mainly owing to the unfortunate relation" subsisting between landlord and tenant . It is certain also that in some cases it is a struggle for existence with the tenant ; and we do not know that the appliances of the most stringent code of laws that can be imagined , will avail in checking the spread of crime , as long as qectment processes are enforced with inflexible vigour , where honeaty and fair dealing have not abandoned the tenant . It is scarcely neosssary to add , that all the Coercion Acta that can possibly beframed must fail ntterly and disgracefully in their object , while prevailing pauperism is augmented by casting people out from the homes of their fathers . '

      The above observations , I am sure , will meet with the concurrence of every unprejudiced reasoner . There's another fact , that will give some idea of the stateof the eoua try ; and recollect itis told of one ofthe richest counties of the South of Ireland . Let it speak for itself , facts are stubborn things . For the > enagh division , inctuding only the North Riding of Tipr nerary there are at least one hundred and seventyfive insolvent debtors . Let the English government tear such statements as the above , and ask thema » lves can the Poor Law work well in this country ! Hesranother fact-the Rev . Mr Quaid , P . P ., told theEnnis guardians on Wednesday , that if the poor of Clonlea are not quickly relieved , they must plunder

      I feel pleasure in informing you that R . U . Bw . y , Eso .. thechairman of theNenaghboard of guardians , who was shot at eight or ten days since , is expected

      A Voic^ Froil Tipperar Ti Fmihlto Statl ...

      - T ? J 3 J ¦?*^ ¦ : * <«» t of danger .-Major ih ? fH ' bt , ^ ra mea offi iaI » « nt down from of S ? St 5 Ste "" S ^& l ttw circumstances SLEfcti ~ *& "wider . Several persons were bwughtnpon Monday , the 29 th ulfc . Vn suspioioni JjJJ'W «* sequentiy discharged for want of eri ' . 'SSf " P ° 8 tedn P through the county , calling l wt % lth , 8 p ? uaDiry * t Toomevara , / or Tue £ day , the 30 th ult , in order to enter Nenagh , and demolish the workhouse . ' The hour for the meeting

      ; . Im „« Afe ' &!?•• ^ * ° P dragoons , i company of the 77 th regiment , anda larg ? body of fiMSl ,. * fte tmrtm of Captain £ & £ *«?• £ ^ Tho ¦»*&»¦ dM not take place , owing either to the severe weather . br to the fear of the military , so that the day passed off in quiet . _ lhe Lord Lieutenant sent £ 15 per Mr Odell , subuapector , to young Grady of Garry Kennedy , in tbis county , as a reward for his bravery in resisting an armed assassin , who attempted to rob his father ' s house and shoot him .

      MrGore Jones , R . M . Thurles , committed to the county gaoL Nenagh , five persons charged with the murder of Mr Anthony Burke , of Borrisoleigb , in theyearl 837 . Their names are Pat Kennedy , Pat ljwyer , Pat Murphy , Edmund Dwyer , and Michael Kennedy . On Sunday night , the 28 th nit ., three men brutally attacked their companion , as they were going home from Borrisokane , assailing him with stones until he was insensible . He was saved from murder by a patrol of police who were on duty , and whoarrested the inhuman brutes en the spot . The unfortunate man was conveyed to the Borrisokane hospital , and a scarp pointed stone , two and a half inches long , was extracted from his skull . His death is expected . The notorious Hoeanandhis narty were cantured

      on the 21 th nit ., after leaving the honse of a man named Hackett ,. of Denanville , near Borrisokane , which they robbed of some clothes , being disappainted in finding £ 60 , a sum which they expected was in the house ; but which was lodged in the bank that day . This is the fellow who was charged with murdering Mr Waller , of Finnoe . Fame attributes to hum the perpetration of some terrible deeds . The above stateof things should make government cautions of exciting the people further by legislation calculated to drive anyone mad . They should be terrible facts and strong weapons in the hands ofthe Irish M . Fs , who are bound to oppose the governmentandifnecessarytryto oust it from power , before it works ruin for the country which they represeaf . Z . T . O .

      Repeal And The Charter. A Voice Erom Ame...

      REPEAL AND THE CHARTER . A VOICE EROM AMERICA ! There appeared in the Boston ( U . S . ) Pilot of October 9 tb , 1847 , a very lengthy letter from an Irishman , whose name is honourably distinguished in his country ' s struggles—Thomas Mooney ; in which letter the writer sets forth his views as to the causes which had hitherto prevented the triumph of Repeal , and the means by which , Repeal might be gained . One of the principal causes of failure has been , according to Mr Mooney , the disunion of the people of England and Ireland . Mr Mooney specially deplores the denunciation heaped upon Mr Feargus O'Connor by the late Mr O'Connell , as the prime cause of the disunion he laments . The entire letter , which occupies nearly five columns of the Boston Poor , is too lengthy to be transferred to our columns ; . we most content ourselves with the following extracts : —

      How Befeal Has Been Betabded , And How B...

      HOW BEFEAL HAS BEEN BETABDED , AND HOW BEPEAL IS TO BE WON . Tones Hotel , Rochester , September 27 , 18 * 7 , Mt Daaa Sra , —Sour paper of the lift , which met me here to-day , contains an extract from the Nation , referring to Feargus O'Connor in a rather disparaging manner , which gives me pain , and induces me to trouble you with the following remarks . Repeal has been retarded by the bickerings , divisions , and jealousies of Irishmen , among themselves . If we hare not enough of good sense among us all to frown down this addiction , we have not yet acquired the political stamina to beget or sustain our national independence .

      Feargus O'Connor is a distinguished Irishman , of great influence in England , who has worked , and ia working , for the Repeal of the Union . Charles Gavaa Duffy is a distinguished Irishman , of great influence in Ireland , who is working for the same object . Mr O'Connor bas established a newspaper in England , ( theNoaxaiBK Stax ) , which has , with one exception , the largest circulation of any newspaper In England , Mr Duffy has scouted all the overtures for a junction of the Chartists and Repealers , which Feargus O'Connor made to him . A few weeks ago I saw evidences of this in the Nation ; and to-day I read an extract which treats Feargus O'Connor ' s recent triumph , over a Cabinet Minister in Nottingham , with something like a sneer , and Instead f hoping much for Repeal from that event , merely bints that 'Feargus O'Connor will be a thorn in the sides of the Whig * . '

      How long , may I ask , are those senseless asperities to be suffered in our ranks ! What has Feargus O'Connor dona against his native land , that he should thus be treated something like a political swindler ? I have heard a great deal in my time said against the * violence ' of the Chartists . It was a favourite theme of the lamented Liberator—ft theme , however , in which I never Joined , but against which I frequently remonstrated in private—evidences of which , in the handwriting of O'Connell himself in 181 * , were in my possession which restrained me from going ovsr to England to agitate for the Repeal , and try to conciliate and indoctrinate the Chsrtiste .

      Seven yearsexperience have not altered my p laioaiu this respect . Seven years of bitter and painfal experience have proved to me that the Chartists ought to have been conciliated long ago , aud ought to have been leagued with the Irish Repealers in a powerful confederation for the freedom of the two nations—the English aad the Irish . I have suggested the same ideas in my Irish History , pages 1897-8 , which was published in tbe lifetime of O'Connell , and pressnted to him ; so that no one can say that my present expressed opinions grow from a hasty impulse , or from personal feelings ; And it will appear , by this letter , that I am now somewhat at issue with the successors of O'Connell on the one hand , and the leaders ofthe Young Inland party oa the other . This Is a very unpleasant predicament indeed . I should like to stand well in the estimation of both ; and Ihope nothing may be construedfrom this letter to disentitle me to their esteem .

      I think , sir , tbe day hasarrivedjwhicb calls npon every Irishman to make some sacrifice for the sake of the looked'for freedom of bis country . From the mass of tbe people a sacrifice of a few pence or shillings , and a little time occasionally , ar « required . From the wealthy a sacrifice of their vanity in favour of their own maun , factures—from the leaders , a sacrifice of their offended feelings , their wounded pride , their excited enmities . Tho peopla are willing enough to perform their part , but the leaders don ' t seem eqnally willing to sacrifice ; sow this retards our progress , and will continue to retard It just so long as it will last , and no longer .

      It is best to be plain then with our leaders , and tell them that we require of them a cessation of personal hostilities , and a gradual approximation to unity ; to tett them that we rejoice much when one of them praises the other , and that nothing paint us more than ( to read the expression / of the slightest unklndness from any one of them towards another We with Mr John 0 ' Connell to know that Mr Oavan Duffy is highly respected by the American Bepealers—we wish Mr Gavan Duffy to know that J ohn O ' Connell is acknowledged by the great body of the American Repealers as the successor of his father—andi" though he may not be gifted with his father ' s varied abilities , he has , we think , that national integrity which it it admitted the father possessedi We wish Mr O'Connell , Mr O'Brien , and Mr Duffy to know that we consider Feargus O'Connor , a very deserving , a very patriotic , and a very great Irishman .

      Feargus O'Connor entered into the Bepeal struggle so long ago as 1881 ' . ' with * the fervour of an impassioned Celt . He then , by his energy ; his eloquence , and'his exertions ' , broke down the Whig and Tory alliance that held in captivity the opinion and representation ofthe county of Cork . By his exertions were the county won toRepeal—audit has continued a'Repeal county ever swee . In Parliament he , was the seconder of 0 'ConnelTs celebratedinotion for Repeal , in 1834 . In 1 C 35 be was unseated for the county of Cork ' , on the petition of bis opponent . " In 183 C O'Connell separated from and denounced him . The quarrel was long and painful , hut Feargus did not abandon Bepeal .

      Denounced by'O'Connell , excluded from Parliament , and abandoned by the Irish , Feargus O'Connor ifdsstitute ef ability and stamina , would have perished as a public man . But he volunteered bis services to another battalion of struggling serfs—namely , the Chartists of England . Here , eagle-like , he soon soared to his wonted natural altitude . He soen became the recognised and followed leader of the discontented English . For this he was adtnirably calculated , being well versed In history , ' law , politics , and literature—possessing an imaginative mind , a good voice , and an eloquent tongue and pen . His physical , powers of endurance w ere astonishing , in truth , he had no superior in these respects , but O'Connell alone , Mr Mooney next notices the Charter , which he truly says , ' was at the outset , approved of by Daniel O'Connell ; Mr M . however , falls into the common error of talking of the ' fife points ' , of the Charter .

      Feargus O'Connor , as I have said , after his quarrel with O'Connell , iu 1836 , threw himself into tbe ranks of the men who demanded tbis farther reform of the English Constitution , He soon obtained rreatinfluence among them ; and he next established the Nostheb * Stab to advocate their demand for far greater reform than had yet been proposed by any ofthe Wbigch am . pioHi of improvement . - The quarrel which unfortunately sprang up between O'Connell and O'Connor now extended itself to a quarrel between O'Canuell and the Chartists , of which body O'Connor had become the recognised leader . Mr Moone y next notices the progress of the Char «

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      ¦ ™ - — i -. » .. - . — tirtmovement , and the persecutions to which the Enabahworking men were subjected . , — : At Birmingham and on * or two other places there were some collisions between the polios and the Chartists , just as there were atNewtosbarry . Castlepollard , BMOTereen and some other places between the aril-tithe * EA ? lrelana ' and ftB p ° Uw an * y ' ... ¦ V ° f ' ti » t « « P 0 ke « sedition' ( of course they did ) at their public meetings and they were prosecuted by th * Whig government for this . Yes , that very Whig party whose leaders in

      1832 proposed to the men of Birmingham , tomarch on Idndon with tbe bayonet screwtd on their muskets , if their reform bill were not acceptsd by the Lords . Eighteen or twenty ofthe Chartist leaders , including Feargus O'Connor , were found gnilty of sedition by carefull y packed juries-were cast into prison for periods varying from twelve to eighteen months , just as O'Connell and his feUow-martjrs were foand guilty of ' sedition' end cast Into prison on the ever memorable 8 » th of May , 1844 . . The persecution of 1813 43 is next descried hv

      Mr mooney . He next says;—z . v « t . J ae lhe remedial financial measures from Peei , by which four millions per annum were removed from the shoulders ofthe working classes , and placed iu the shape of a - property tax - on the wealthy , vThls was a sop to Chartist agitation and to nothing else : The Chartists , all violent as they were , extorted this much a l . tw ^ ta n ment , from the "tooeraoy- I question whether the Repeal agitation of 1 M 3 4 , with its terrlfls S ? n ! , A """" P " and 1 " ' seditious' resolutions on Tara Huliand Hullagmnast , extorted so much from the ita . verement The repealers , with all their decorum , and legal caution , and extra loyalty , did not escape a prosecution for sedition , nor the dungeon-and did not extort any thing from the government , save a few places for some of their chiefs .

      The aceountthus appearing of Chartist and Hopeal agitat ion , honestly totted and balanced , would leave a far gieattr product to the credit of Chartism than Bepeal . Now , during the progress of those two movements , O'Connell , tbe leader of Repeal , rejected all the offers ofthe Chartists to Join with him or serve with him . Thesa offers of co-operation and friendship were frequently made ; Oh the contrary , ' be attacked them in every mode of condemnation of which he was master : caused their subscriptions tt tbs Bepeal wherever paid

      , in London or elsewhere , to be returned , and all assooia * tion between them and the Bopaalerstobe for ever forbid , This was done , as it was alleged , to keep the Be . pealers safe from the meshes and nets of the law . But alas I the Repealers did not escape those meshes ! and were it not . that by an accident there happened to be three Whig , landlords In the House of Lords against two landlords , who refosed to give a triumph to their enemy Feel , O'Connell would have served his twelvt months in the dungeon , just as Feargus . ' O'Connor , ' the ' violent'Chartist did .

      Between the treatment of the cautious , loyal , and legal leader of repeal , and tbe more ' violent * and direct agitation ef the Chartist chief , there Was no literal dlffert ' nee . The loyal caution of the one , and the violent sedition of the ether , were both rewarded with an tfual quantum of prosecution and imprisonment . Notwithstanding the hostility ofthe Irish leader to all their movements ; the Chartists did good for evil . In then * celebrated monster petition , presented to parliament in 1843 , by threcand-a-balf millions of these Char , tists , they prayed the Imperial Parliament amongst their other demands , to ' restore to Ireland its suppressed Parliament . ' They did , these violent cuUthroats ! and Feargus O'Connor was the man who drew up that petition .

      -Mr Mooney next notices the meetings in favour of Repeal and the Charter , held in London , Manchester , Sheffield , and other places , and adds—I would ask the humblest of yonr readers , as the most exalted , to put the question to his heart , ' ought these men and their distinguished leader kt regarded by us Bepealers as enemies V Mr Mooney then reviews the past and present position of Mr O'Connor , and says : — When I view this Irishman—this Bepealer , thus surmounting the petty and the great obstacles that impeded his progress—and placing himself at the head of public opinion in the enemy ' s country , I cannot but rejoiceand pronounce blm a great Irishman ,

      Is it wise in us Bepealers to hold aloof from such a man ! I hope we shall hear no more denunciations of English Chartists , or of French Infidels , or American Slaveholders , among Bepealers . We Bepealers pretend to the world that we seek the freedom of eight millions of Irishmen who reside in Ireland . Let us , then , do this dnty with charity and fidelity , Leave the American Slaveholders to the American Freemen ; leavs the French Infidels to the French Priesthood ; and leave the English Chartists to work out their salvation as well at they can . And if any of these denounced classes volunteer their services to our cause—we , poor serfs , ought to receive them , and with thamks . We ought , it is thought by many , to conciliate Inter , nally as well as externally . These opinions I ventureto express , not as mine own but , really , of many Bepealers whom I hare met in the thousand publio meetings I have organised in America and Canada in bthalt of Ireland , for the last seven yearn

      And now , sir , as to the fuestion of 'How Bepeal Is to be wou V I answer without hesitation , that tbe mode is to me as plain as that of any other great undertaking ) such as the constructing of a canal or railroad—but tbe engineering , and tbe labour , and the time , and the patience must be expended , else we shall have nothing but Bepeal on paper . Might I suggest from this distance , to either Toung or Old Ireland , to send a coapie of their ablest speakers to England , who would make the question plain to the cornmen capacities of the common people of England aud

      Scotland , and who would conciliate everybody—to ee id a couple more who can speak French , through France aud Belgium , and make friends and converts there—to send a ceaplemore to go through Canada and the United States , who would be well received and well entertained by the friends of freedom at . this side . ' Let all theee missionaries preach the one political creed—the independence of Ireland in connexion with tho British Crown This , is the doctrine of all Bepealers ; beyond this they do not aspire ; but ill-treatment may , In the course of time , drive them to imitate Franklin , Charles Thompson , and Patrick Henry .

      I weuld most respectfull } urge on yonr Bepeal brethren throughout tbis new world , to consider tbe prospects of forming a great American association with an American cash fund in reserve , to be kept and accumulated here , and held ia terrorem over the falling aristocracy of Britain . A hundred thousand dollars could soon be collected from a hundred thousand Irishmen on tbis sMe ; and once such a capital were put together , its interest alone would pay all the expenses of agitating the question vigorously and effectively through the new world . Such a fund and organisation would call around the came the advocacy of the entire American press , and soon after the sympathy , and armed assistance , if necesearu . of the whole American people .

      In conclusion , let me implore my countrymen at home and abroad to be hind and charitable to each other , and to remember that a bigotted , ignorant world is in arms against us , and that , for self-protection , we should consider ourselves SB one great family , whose individual characters affected one and all . -1 am , sir , your obedient servant , Thomab Moohit .

      Edinburgh.—An Interesting Game Case Is H...

      Edinburgh . —An interesting game case is how before the first division of the Court of Session . Capt . Wemyss . the late liberal M . P . for Fife , came into court , craving that his tenant a Mr' Gulland , at Newton , might be prevented from hunting , pursuing , or scaring game on the farm of Newton , by means of muzzled dogs , or by discharging fire-arms loaded with blank cartridges , and likewise . from entrapping game , killing or injuring game on the said farm by means of snares , set under the pretence ot Killing rabbits . It appeared from the defender ' s answers , that the farm of Newton adjoins the grounds of Wemyes Castle ; whence entered on his ' lease in 1839 , the game was not by any means plentiful ; and that game had since accumulated to such an extent ,

      that he ' employed persons with guns loaded with powder only , and accompanied with moszleddogs , to ridlnYnelds of tho destructive pestilence that had hitherto rendered them barren . ' This measure was successful , ' and not one precious head of game fell a sacrifice to the experiment . ' The respondent also admitted that he employed a professed rabbit-killer to rid his faun of rabbits by means of snares . In pleading for the defendant the Lord-Advocate ad < milled that a tenant , without a qualification , had no right . to hurt or to kill game ; but he stated thathe knew no authority in the laws of Scotland which bound a tenant to feed or ^ to preserve game on his farm for the benefit of his landlord , to whom belonged the right to hunt or shoot . Game were / era ttaturce—they belonged to nobody . If a tenant planted a field of potatoes , or of wheat , he was entitled to put scare-crows up in different parts of the field ; and the landlord was not entitled to say that it was

      illegal to do so because they scared not crows but pheasant s . Upon the same principle , a landlord could not object to boy s with rattles being placed on different parts of a field to frighten away either hares or pheasants . He went a step further than this . If the hares or the pheasants had sense enough to eat in spite of this noise , he held that the tenant , as in this case , was perfectly entitled to take dogs , and , having muzz ' ed them so that they could not touch either the leathers of a bird or the wool of a rabbit , to send these up anddown the farm , to bark and to scare away pheasants and hares from destroying the crons . His lordship said he had great compassion for hares in the ' family way , ' but if the barking of the does , or the firing of the blank cartridges , had the effect of causing them to miscarry , hocoiild not help it . The court signified that interdict would bo granted , but formal decision was deferred till Tuesd ' ¦¦; V ¦ i ' if !

      ay . .. •« . . , a . ' „ :. „ . T « -. It is said that Lola Montes , the chere ame of Louis of Bavaria , has bsen obliged to visit the south of Italvj being inclined to consumption . —Query—of brand y and water ? ' A fine woodcock , quite dead , - was piclted up a few days ago on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway . It had flown against the wires of the electric telegraph with so much lorce as to shatter its bill about I quarter of an inch below the point where it joins the skull ; and the concussion seems to have killed the bird which had no other wound .

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      THE CRAIFORbBLOCEPRINTERS , TO THB EDITOR 0 » THI HOMHSWI STAB , Committee Room , Bell Inn , Crayford , K « n » , and Bell Inn , Old Bailey London . „ , ' November 23 rd , 1847 . Sir , —The London Block Printers' Society in looking over the statements ofthe Central Committee of the National Association , in the Star ofthe 13 th ult . prepared by them for the ' million , ' find they have so artfully contrived to mix up a little truth , with a large quantity ' of error , as to make it appear , to those who are unacquainted with the case , or who are biassed by a desire in the future to fill the places of the present Central Committee , and are determined to support them in their present practices , that they are compelled in justice to their cause , to

      oner a tew words in explanation upon their various paragraphs . In their first , they state we bavebeen misrepresenting them . This is false , or why have they ( the Central Committee , ) not been able to confute our delegates they have met before various trades in London ? How is it , we ask , if we have misrepresented them , that after hearing both sides of the case , several have stopped their payments ? ' Tis true that by the truth being told , the National Association does wear a gloomy aspect in London ; and if by their ' facts ' , they are not able to vindicate themselves in fair discussion , which has been tried in London , we know not what they may avail them in the country . Their second is false—they know as well as ourselves , we never were members of the

      association , prior to this year . 'Tis trne , that at our own expense we sent a delegate to Conference , merely to watch the proceedings , which was openly stated at the time . 'Tis true , at his return , that many of our then members agreed among themselves to pay a weekly levy to assist the Central Committee in carrying out . the plan , to be forwarded to them as a voluntary contribution , and that Mr Peter Hoey was appointed from among themselves to receive and forward the same ; Third . — YesJhe did apply for the self-made levy ; Fourth . — Mr Williamson has either a very , imaginative brain , or else he isaddictedtoa certain propensity that he cannot refrain from it ; the fact is , . he was not sent for by the Crayford block printers , but he came to

      solicit their adhesion to the National Association , and No . 2 shop was sent for to attend , when twelve oi them attended , and he there made many promises , not one of which has ever been verified . As to our being so very desirous of being dated back , we can assure you oar men were very much averse to it , when it was proposed to them by the Central Committee , who argued , that if a disturbance were to happen in onr trade , such as a ' reduction , ( a thing they could never suffer , ) how awkward it would be if they should want the whole trade out , that one part , should be eligible to support , and another part not , when by paying back from the 1 st of February , No . 2 would be eligible at the same time as No . 1 ; such was then the true reason why

      we were booked back . Mr Winters is under a mistake i we were ( having given up all hopesof their attendance ) , upon his arrival , drawing out a list , showing at a glance , the immense reduction in the price effered , and the price formerly paid—the highest reduction beingfo . 6 d . in ' . the pound , and the lowest as much ae Ss . 4 d . in the pound upon the various stylesshowing upon an average , the amount ol os . 5 d . in the pound reduction , so . that a delegate might be dispatched to the Central Committee the next morning . And it was not till after much conversation thatthe medium list was named , and then by himself , which caused one of our men who came in at that moment , to make use of an expression , which we find they make use of in their

      resolutions . Their first resolution we never saw , till we saw it in print—whether they ever passed such a one or sot , we can't pretend to say . Fifth—It is true the gates were shut for a number of weeks , but they were se for the purpose assigned in our ad . dress , which appeared in the Stab of November 13 th . How is it they barelchosen tbe 1 st of August as the day on which , then , and not till then , they say the reduction was offered to us f why surely their heads must be muddled with business , or something wone , for by referring tothe almanac you will per ceive ' tis the Sabbath day—rather an awkward day ( we think ;) for the master of a firm , toeffer a reduction to his men . 'Twas an unfortunate thing for us . that our trade was so depressed , and our

      having so little was the greatest reason why we should be firm in our price and union , Sixth . —If it was an out-of-work question , we ask , what did he want with non-society m « n t But we know it was not so , neither did the noa-soeiety men do us so much harm , as some of our own men going in , and we firmly believe , that they would not have gone in , if the Central Committee had acted with justiceand promptitude in our case . Their second resolution we never saw , till we saw it in print , but even supposing we had , are we to be made believe that the 1 , 600 men of Lancashire , were a set of scamping vagabonds , so lost to all sense of right and wrong , as to leave their homes for the the purpose of bringing down to so great an extent the price of our trade . Why 'tis a gross libel upon our

      honest fellow labourers . Now the fa * t is , the first time the masters went to the north , they only succeeded in obtaining four men from Middleton , and these were men who considered the Central Com mittee had wronged them ; three out of the four after trying the work a few days found they could not live by the price , and solicited money from the trade to take them back to their families ; the second time theysucceded in obtaining eleven men from Cobden ' s works at Chorley , who were induced to sign a document for six months , which men are weekly receiving more than they can earn . Seventh . —This is a mere artfuldodge for the puipose of substantiating their own shuffling positions , and to vilify our characters , for it is a tact well known and understood by

      all honest tradesmen , that tbe parties in any trade , who are in dispute , have not even a voice whether they shall strike or not , and that , therefore , 'twas tbe whole trade , and not the No . 2 . society , who proclaimed it ( after everything had been tried ) , a strike / , and 'tis not likely , if anything could have been done to prevent it , and having no funds left , they would have heavily tared themselves to support the sixty men , beside the number that No . 1 shop were paying to support . We do believe that' every trade fares the same with them , ' ( the Central Committee , ) by what we can judge by private letters and the public prints . Now as to the intimidation , surely those who live in glass houses should not throw stones . When our deputation ( Messrs Gardner

      and Dixon ) waited upon them at the time stated , Mr Williamson himself bepnn to bluster and bully in an artful manner , till Mr 6 . asked him if he knew te whom he was talking , and gave him to understand he was not to be frightened by , man or , men out of the truth of disposition ; and Mr W ., then , finding it of no use , cooled down , and calmly heard the case , which the Central Committee said was so very different to what had been before represented to them ; knowing this , however , to be false , we wished them to refer to their , minutej book for the , depositions given by Messrs Fairman , M' ^ icker , and Gardner , but not one word spoken by either was on record . But the Central Committee then said , they thouffhfc . that by reconsidering the case , we might

      be madefriendsi We said , we hoped so too ; ol this thing : wo were certain , it , would , by a fair understanding , make us better friends ; and , if this could not become to , it would inevitably make us greater enemies . The Central Committee then said , if such was the case , they must publish a justification of their view * , which would be' bad for both parties . Mr G . said he was duly authorised and fully prepared for peace upon an honourable adjustment , but , if such could not be got , > he w . ai also , knowing he had truth upon his side , prepared for a paper war ; such , then , was the nature of the intimidation , Mr Pee did go to Crayford on the Friday , and remained there all night and part of the next-day , and , before parting with the men , expressed himself-satisfied , that

      we had , in the first instance , been misrepresented to'them , but that , from all he could , learn , our present . delegates were . truly representing the case ; judge , thenj'ouvsurprise uponreceivingi on tho 26 tb , their third resolution . Their eighth is a continuance of their seventh , and before-the resolution . Their ninth'is the only tenable ground upon which they " cah stand , and would have been the most honourable , but was hot takeu up by tbem till November 4 th ; if taken in tho first instance it would have prevented the present unpleasant feeling , and have left the case open for argument at the next Conference ; but , instead of which , their obstinacy is cutting the Association to ribbons , and they are endeavouring to vilify the characters of an honourable body

      of men ; yes , men who have ever proved themselves such , and who are still esteemed as such , which our balance sheet will prove , for , although we have had to contend against the unprecedented pressure of the times and the endeavours of the Central Committee to injure us , yet have we been enabled to raise among our friends , in the short space of ten weeks , the sum of £ 1 U . IBs . 9 d . —yes , in ten weeks ; for the firstplace we applied to for assistance was at Dartford ( the cordwainera , ) en the 16 th of August , for on the 14 th , and not till then , did out trade determine we should resist the offered reduction by taking us on strike , although they agreed to pay us back from the 3 rd of August . Their tenth , we leave the public , after seeing even this much of the case , to judge for themselves . Their eleventh , by what we

      can glean from private letters , and other information , we think , if they do not now regret , they will very soon deeply regret their position ; and , again , we know that in the north Messrs Williamson and Robson have branded us with the name of impostors , and endeavoured to make us out everything that is odious , and say / that they have been at some little t'ouble to confute our misrepresentation in London . Will these gents say where , and before whom , they have confuted us ? NoWj if they have confuted us ,- u will appear very strange when it conies to be known that parties , after hearing both-sides or the case , have stopped their payment' . - » ?? v if *** £ *« St Central Committee who remanin X ^ J ^* been able to confute our ^«^ KC ? traae will thesecente undertake to do so ,. betore any traue , notice we will attend to them . On the 1 st of Nov . we made application to the committee of the tin

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      P |^ j «^ Cr aven ftr assistano ^ . jAfter hearingpur case . they : said , if oak nfl / iffi $ '' -Wi *? ^ raPPorted ; ; but the Central Committee had told . the ewe sowery different ,-that they most hear , us face to face , so that they might judge for . themselves , forms they were members of the Association , they could not think" of helping us if the Central Committee was right , as it would he nullifying their proceedings . November 4 » h was then appointed forthe meeting , at that same house . Accordingly at eight o ' clock , the discussion commenced between Messrs l-reen and Peel , ofthe Central Committee , and Messrs Dixon and Gardner , our deputies , before the Committee and many of their men , which discussion continued till past twelve at night , the Central Committee shifting from

      position to position till they assumed tbe one contained in their ninth paragraph , and when told of it they admitted we had so driven them till we had got them in a corner . This they admitted openly in the room , and Mr Green told one of themen , if we had not sent suoh * 1>—y muffs' to represent our case in tbe first place things would have been very different . Here ' s justice ! with a vengeance !! Oh ! what a thing k obstinacy . After thedebate the tin plate workerssaid tliey would , after looking over their notes , consider if they could assist us or not . The next week they sent for us , to receive some money . That was our last meeting . It does not show that thejf . confuted us . We now leave it in the hands of' tho public , and again beg to solicit their benevolent aid , either by loan or gift . Signed on behalf of the Committee , ' W . II . GabdhbbChairman .

      ^ „ m . , - P-S > --There being an error in the twenty-sixth item , the second item , in the second column , we would thank you if you would alter it for us . It is put as £ 3 I 9 j . 8 d .. from the carpenters and joiners of London . It ought to have been £ 4 . from the carpenters , Dun Horse , High-strest , Borough ;

      Free Trade, Cheap Bread . High Iwages, A...

      FREE TRADE , CHEAP BREAD . HIGH IWAGES , AKD PLENTY TO DO 1 GnEEKocK .- On the 20 th ult ., it was announeed to the mechanics m the employ of Scott , Sinclair , and Co ., at their foundry , East Stewart-street , that a reduction of two shillings per week would be made on their wages after the 3 rd inst . The cause assigned by the . employers for the course they were about to pursue was this , that last season they were necessitated to increase the wages through the high price of provisions , and now that provisions had fallen , they meant to make a correspondent reduction . The workmen held a meeting on the evening of Tuesday week to consider the subject , when they agreed tothe following document , and appointed a deputation to wait on Mr Scott to reason the matter with him .

      TO HESIBS SCOII , SIXOMIB , AMD CO . from the Operative Mechanics in the Greenock Foundry , East Stewart-street . Gemi . ihen , —It is with feelings of surprise and regret that we have learned that you contemplate making a reduction ot . s . per week in the wages ef the mechanics in your employ , after the 8 rd of December , Tbe documtBt announcing your intentions states that you were necessitated last season through the high price of provisions , to increase yonr worhmsn's wages , and now that provisions are low you intend making a corns * ponding reduction . Gentlemen , we have yet to learn that any Increase was made to our wages through tbe cause assignod . belng well aware that it has been the Invariable rula in the trade to regulate wages by the supply and demand lathe Labour market . '

      Gentlemen , we are surprised that the firm of Soott , Sinclair , and Co . , should be the first to prepose a reduc tion of wages , knowing the high standing that you held in the trade as engineers , and the many facilities you are possessed of over many otbsr firms , and tbs fact that yon are at present paying lower wages than is paid by others in the town . G enflemoa , we would earnestly intreat you to reeon . sider the oaso before coming te a final decision , We are not ignorant of the present deranged state of the monetary affairs of the country , and oi the . temporary suspen . sions thathava taken place ih . many branches of business through such derangements . We are , tberefof e , willing to agree to a reduction in tha hours of labour , until suoh time as the present temporary depression Is relieved , Yours respsctfully , Tbb Wmxhbx ix roTO Earoor . The deputation waited on Mr Scott and handed him the above , when the following answer was returned : —

      fbice wsr . Description of Goods . May , ' 47 . Nov . ' 47 . Oatmeal , per sack of 280 lbs , Sis to 65 s —85 s to Flour , American , ptr barrel 40 s to 51 s —31 s 6 < i to S 3 * Sugar , crushed ordinary , per cwt . ... 51 s to 88 s —44 s to 49 s Treacle , per cwt . ... ... 24 s 9 d to 25 S-183 Cd Cheese American , per cwt . 48 s to S 2 s —41 s to 46 s Bacon , foreign ... ... SBa to 67 s 6 d-35 s to 64 s Barley , per 112 lbs . .. 28 s . — 15 s to 15 s 6 d Bsst Split Peas , per cwt .... 20 s —U >» Rica , pw 112 lbs . ... 29 s —18 s

      Best Peat Brasezneal , ptr 280 lbs . ... ,., 54 b •¦ » . 86 s It is a well known fact that the wages have never been regulated by the price of provisions , neither did the Messrs Scott offer any advance to their workmen when provisions rose to a famine price . It ia true they had to raise their workmen ' s wages , but it was because they were all leaving ; there was a great demand for hands , and nearly one-half of the 600 in their employ had to work from . quarterto half-day . overtime every day during last year , and overtime was only given up two or three days before the proi passed reduction .

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      TO THE WOOD TURNERS OF GREAT BRITAIN . Brother Operattvbb . — The Operative Wood Turners ' . Association of Birminsham having long been convinced of the injurious effects resulting to eur trade through men on tramp applying to our employers for a job previous to consulting the men as tothe probability of obtaining work , we earnestly solicit a correspondence with those of our trade who are in union , with the view to tho adoption of a simple , yet costless and effectual mode ot regulating the means of support , and the conduct of tramps . The plan we have adopted in Birmingham is as follows : If any tramp coraes from a town where we know there is a society of the trade , and hrirgs . not his clearance card from such society , we give him no support , hut , if otherwise , he shows a clearance card .

      certifying that he hasacted as a brother to those he | h * s left , we give him what pecuniary assistance we nun afford , as well as endeavour to procure him a job . We wish you , brother operatives , > to follow our example . And , in order that the plan should work well , it is essentially necessary that' each trade society should know the names of those who are unionists . We are prepared to send you the . names of the few in Birmingham who have hitherto kept aloof from us . Let snch men , wherever they may be , understand that unless they will act in unison with their shopmatcs , for the purpose of obtaining for labour its rights , we , the unionists , will not assist them , neither will we work with them in society shops . We hear much ol the tyranny of employers , but , bear in mind , that without a slavish disposition on the part of the men , employers would not tyrannise . All we seek is a fair day ' s wage for a fair day ' s work ; and I rejoice to inform you , broth

      ers , that nearly every employer with whom we are acquainted coincides with our object , and is willing to assist us in attaining what ' we seek . In Birmingham we had a strike prior to our connection with the National Trades' Association , in which we were successful , and it is mainly owing to the honest intentions of those on strike , and the firm determination to accomplish what we sought , that we hold the position we do . In conclusion , brothers in labour , with the Northern Star as the organ of the trades' unions , there is no rational object can be sought that we cannot achieve , if only true to ourselves . To enable us and you to discriminate between the good , the honest , and persevering friend of mankind , —the Unionist , —and the cringing timeserver , —the Non-Unionist , —we request that you will correspond with , Tours faithfully , in the cause of Labour , Thos . Fbart , No . 5 , Court , Great Russell-street , St George ' s , Birmingham .

      The Housewives Of Newcastle-On-Tyne Comp...

      The housewives of Newcastle-on-Tyne complain bitterly ofthe inadequate supply of coals to the town for domestic purposes . In the whole parish of Aston . commonly called Pipe Aston ; in the county of Hereford , not one single baptism , marriage , or burial , took place throughout the year 18 i 6 . . Fatal Accidbht ox the Eiteb— Fivb Lives Losx .-Before Mr Baker , at the Five Bolls , Limehouse , on the body of David Sporle , aged 56 years , who was drowned in the riv er , off Limehouse on Saturday morning , by the upsetting of a , boat , when four other men perished , it appeared that on Saturdav mornin ^ atone o ' clock , the deceased and four 2 eSiained a boat for the vmmdwmgt wwiThallafitJishter moored in the middle ot the K ? OaSing 'he Hguter , one of the party rose f 1 his seat » d attempted to step on the gaunto .

      \ Zn , * slinned and was in ine aos oiiaumg ^^^^• ^ j ^^^ rrr nifns rose * t the same time for the purpose of catch-? ne him . The boatgave a sudden lurch , and the five . men were all thrown into the river . The poor fellows . caught hold of each other , and three of them almost i mmediately disappeared clingin » to each other lighter , and they also reach them . The body covered on Saturday of his companions , nam outof the river off Poplar Owing to the absence of one of the unfortunate joumed .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11121847/page/3/