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    • THE NORTHERN STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11.1847
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      « , t , ^ PENCE . S ^ f * - ^ J ^ rt anw knd » hDaih ; yewspaper , thePro jnetors wiU endeavour to statetheprospectsind grounds ^ fwch they rely ; for sufficient Public support ; and they wuparticularly avoid statements and promises that canmotbesnpported byfa-ts . , _ , England , with her vast population , produces relatively Bwer Daily Papers thin anypart ef the civilised world ; fetpanrityofa real necessity oi life was mainly caused Oy the late enormous Stamp Duty of fourpenee , wnica greatly reduced tha number- of Journals published in Xondon . Fifty vear * ago , vritlwnt the duty , there were more Daily papers pubUshed inlondon than at the pre-*« at . ^ hen the Steam Duty was reduced to one penny Only , the public expected an increase of Dally Papers wasegnent on suchreducfion , bnt with « nly one exception Ja tenyeara , only one new Daily Paper was offered for its CilQiCCa The Proprietors of thelONDOU TELEGRAPH areeontinced that the time has now arrived when the pahlic of ^ Jr is creat country wfl ! receive , with satisfaction , a new 3 ) aily Paper , which wfll be in accordance with the follow , -inc nrospectns i—THE LOSDOS TELEGRAPH will be published in Jondon erery day at Twelve o'doek , with aU the news received by the Post ofthe same morning , andtheamarin » quiet inteHisence received by the Electric Telegraph , irhich conquers time and space . —lhe electric Telegraph , niui communications nearly completed tothe mostimpor . taut districts , wUl revolutionise aU our social-relations and , withit , the Daily Press of London . ThepublicwUl not rest satisfied to bs in ignorance far several hours of events occurring in distant important districts , but must fce supi'lied with the valuable intelligence which the Bectric Telegraph wfll communicate every day . At Twelve o'clock each day THE LONDON TELE . . ^ RAPHwillhave El ecsn ' eExpressesffom—BinuiDgham Folkestone Newcastle Bristol Glasgow Norwich Barnsle ? Gloucester Peterborough " Bradford Gosport Ramsgate Berwick Hallfex Rotherham Bridlington Hull " Rochdale Canterbury Huntingdon Southampton Coventry Hertford Sheffield Chester Ipswich Stafford -Chelteuhaia London Scarborough ChesterSeJd Liverpool Stamford Cambridge Leeds Stives . Chelmsford Leicester TunbrMge -Colchester Lincoln Wolverhampton Deal Lowestoff "Wakefield Dover Margate Winchester Dorchester Maidstone Wisbcach Darby Manchester Ware Darlinsfon Northampton Yarmouth Edinburgh No ttingham York . ? . Containing Interesting News-the Corn Markets—Prices of Shares , < tc & c . THE LOSDOS TELEGRAPH , without any wish to be the Siral of any particular Daily Paper now published , tr-li , it is expected , open new ground and create a sew field in the Public Wants . To the General Newspaper Reader , THE LONDON TELEGRAPH will contain everything that can be desired or expected in a Daily Paper ; tbe arrangements for receiving HOME and FOREIGN NEWS have been per . fected ou a large scale—the services of eminent literary men is most parts of the Civilised World , have been secured , and no expense or exertion will be spared to secure . the approbation of the British Public , who desire aDxttT SfCOBS OF THE MoYIKG WoBID . 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      'N- - > w ready , ia one thick 8 vo volatile , price 6 i ., TEE POLITICAL WOBES OF THOMAS PAINE , now first collected together , and to which are added ever jlpieces never before published » England ; aud an appendix , containing the Trial of Thomas Pake , at ~ € uiMaaU ; with a portrait ofthe Author . Complete in 2 vols . 8 ro . nrice 12 s ., j YOLTAIRE'S PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY , I With two well-nnuhed Portraits ef the Author , In 2 vols , price 5 s ., published at Ss „ THE DEVIL'S PULPIT , By the Sev . Bobsw Tailor , B . A . Ie one hanasomiToltrme , price 6 j ., '• - ¦¦ -. .- -.. CABLILE'S MANUAL OF FaEEMASONRT , - ; Originallj published at los , " Cbmpletoinl vet , price 53 / , ¦ . TSEDIEGE 3 IS , ' - . - By the B « t ; Bobeut Tatme / ¦ " " ' 'icomplete set of ' :. ''¦' - ' ; " - ;' J' - COBBETT'S POLIT ^ AL REGISTEE , ; _ For sale , 83 vols / , half-calf . "W . Dugdale , 16 , galyw ' en-Btreet , "Straw 3 . ~;

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      Now Ready , a New Edition » f , MR . O'CONNOR'S ^ WOrlkbKS ^ tL FARMS ' "To be had at the Northern Am-Office , 16 , Great Wind Bill Stmt : and of Abel Heywaod , Manchester .

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      . " . JUST PUBLISHE » . ( Uniform with the " LiBovaEx" Magazine , ) ' ¦• ¦ Price 6 d . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE HUSBANDRY , being the results of four years' experience . Br 3 , SittEir . H'ftow & n and Co ., 16 , Great WindmilLstreet , Locdon and may be had of all booksellers .

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      JUST PUBLISHED , rocs sixrrNcj , HO . XII . OF " THE LABOURER , " With a Portrait of F . O'Connor , Esq . ., M , P , C 0 JJTBKX 8 , 1 . The Age of Peace , a Poem , by Ernest Jones . 2 . The Insurrection ofthe Working Classes . S . The Morality of Commerce . 4 . The Romance of a People . 5 . The Poor Man ' s Legal ManniL 6 . National Literature—Poland . Letters ( pre-paid ) to he addressed to the Editors , 16 Great "Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Orders received by all agents for the "Northern Star *' and all booksellers in town and country .

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      Just Published , price One Penpy , A LETTER by Pzaxoos O'Cohho * , Esq . , M . P ., 'TO THE RICH AND THE POOR ; To those who Live in Idleness Without Labour , and to those who are Willing to Labour but Compelled to Starve . ' Price 2 * . pcrl 08 . orl 8 j . perl 0 ? 0 . ; ¦ . C "IITHAT MAY BE DONE WITH THREE ACRES V T OF LAND , ' Explained in a Letter , by . FEAiocs 0 'Comos , Eeo .., ll , P . -i ; : ;^ ' : To be had atthe Office ofthe National Land Company 141 , High Hollwrn . t .. - . ^

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      —— : — : ¦ . ;— . . ... $ 3 ~ Now that Parliament has assembled we must , as a general rale , exclude lengthy communications , unless reports ( tcett written ) of very important . meetings . Reporters , writers of letters ; and Caar , - tist and land sub-secretaries will ; therefore , oblige by making their communications as brief as pos . sible . We shall be glad U > soma of our . correspon dents will try to improve their writings-and shall thank others , who might do so , to let-aa have their reports , Ac . i before Thursday * r-. - •• ¦ ¦ ¦ =- ¦ ..,:

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      DRM'DOUALL . DrM'Douall is earnestly requested to be atthe Northern Stab Office in London , on Tuesday evening next , the 14 th inst ., on most important business .

      The Northern Star, Saturday, December 11.1847

      THE NORTHERN STAR SATURDAY , DECEMBER 11 . 1847

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      THE POLAND OF THE WEST . At the present moment , when the privileged classes of this country are banded together to trample upon unhappy . Ireland ; when even Irish '' ' patriots * ' are turning traitors , and not a score of just and honest men—English , Scotch , and Irish—can be found in the Senate , to resist the further coercion of a ruined and despairing people ; when unprincipled journalists are doing their utmost to revive the embers of national prejudice , and rekindle the flames of hatred between " Saxon ' ' and

      " .. Celt ; ' when on this side of St George ' s Channel Ireland has no friends hut those who , like her own children , belong to the ranks ol the oppressed ; and when it is devilishly attempted to chill the sympathies of even those friends , the honest working men of England ; at such a time it appears to us an act of djuty to remind the people of England of the miseries Ireland has suffered through English misgovernment . We implore the People of England to turn a deaf ear to the false-hearted legislators , and villarious writers who , would set them against their Irish brethren . If the English people now bravely stand in the breach between

      unhappy Ireland and her assailants , they will make the only atonement they can make for the evil done in the days ofthe past . Ireland ' s ages " of suffering demand atonement or retribution . The people of England may avert the latter by making the former . Let them repudiate the injustice committed by the governments of past times , and insist upon the government of the present time acting justly , and all may yet be well . Otherwise the wrongs of Ireland will not fail to draw down a heavy doom upon England , under the weight of which she will wither away and become , like the unholy empires of ancient days—a desolation and a by-word ,

      ' When the curse Heaven keeps for the proud shall come over Her merchants rapacious , her rulers unjust , Anal—a ruin at last , for the earth-worm to cover—The Lady of Kingdoms lie low In the dustl " Many a column of this journal has been filled , and worthily filled , with revelations of the sufferings of the Poles , and appeals to the generous and liberty-loving of this and . every

      other land , to aid that unfortunate people in their struggles for freedom and regeneration . But at our own door is a people who have suffered all , and perhaps more than au sriffered by the . Poles , with this , distinction ,. that , the people of Poland have groaned under tyranny and' persecution for the past seventy . years , whereas the peop le of Ireland'have been slaves , and victims of English oppression for the past seven hundred years ! / J , ' :

      , ¦ . Poland has been robbed oYher independence , and partitioned amongst more powerful states . Ireland has been also denationalised ^ and forcibly annexed to a more powerful neighbour . The lands of Polandhavebeen ' ' -confiscated for . the benefit of theconquerors , ; and p ^ e & jely tfie same robbery hasbeen committed upon " Ireland . The Poles have been persecuted for their religious faith , and the most infernal means have been tried to force them to abjure their-religion , language , laws ,, and , customs ; precisely the same persecution , . { 6 v < $% & mis \ ex £ tx $ te objects , hasheen waged i ' againstIreland . / We

      might extend the parallel , and snowjthatiin'all theattempts ^ againstf the ^ rights ; prppertyvand dearest interests of the ^ Polish peoplfe / thie ; ba ' rbarons , Itussiari despotism , tia ^ bufc imit ated the acts of the constitutional government of this country towards the people of Ireland . , It is now nearly seven hundred years since the Anglo-Korman brigand , " Strbngbow , " commenced the work of blood and spoliation by invading Ireland . It is true , that that mail-clad ruffian , with his band of cut-throats , I had been invited to Ireland by a recreant Irish prince , who had , for his crimes , been driven

      from his dominions by his own people . Unhappily for both England and Ireland , the Irish were only capable of offering a feeble resistance to their invaders ; feeble , not because they were weak in numbers or the material of warfare , for tbe reverse of that was the case ; but because their chiefs were disunited . The state of anarchy into which Ireland had fallen , previous to the English . invasion , indeed , very closely resembled the state of Poland , previous to the first " partition ; " and , that anarchy was caused by the baseness , rapacity , and ambitions feuds of her " great men ; " and every

      one knows that , in our own time , Poland has suffered the like , evils arising from the like cause . But , as two wrongs never yet made a right , no amount of blame fairly chargeable to the account of the Irish chieftains ; can justify the English invasion , more especially when that invasion was [ undertaken ostensibly to restore to Ms throne a tyrant , who , for his pubblic and private crimes , had been expelled from his country . About a year after the first invasion , Henry II ., the English monarch , visited Ireland , and by way of justifying the crimes of his Lieute-

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      nants , exhibited * . a document , signed ; ; by ; the Pope , authorising the English king to conquer Ireland . ' It is very questionable that the alleged Papal permission to invade Ireland > a 8 anything but a forgery . But even if authentic , it makes the case ofthe invaders no better . A subsequent Pope ; granted the American con tinent to the Kings of Spain and Portugal , but who will dare in this day to assert the right of the Pope , or any other potentate , to divide and giveaway an entire continent , as a hunting ground for a couple of kings ? When , in the reign of one of Henry s successors , the Pope

      made a present ot England to the French monarch , the English , although they were then staunch Roman Catholics , defied both tbe Pope and the French king , and maintained their independence sword . in hand .: The invasion of England by the Norman tyrant , William , was authorised by a Pope "?; . but Englishmen , who suffer td this day under the evils brought upon them by that invasion , do not regard that invasion . as havingbeen at all sanctified b y the purchasedblessings bestowed by the Pope upon the Norman brigand ' s banners . TheEastahd South-East coast , comprising less than One-third of the kinirdnm w » w > tl . o less than One-third of the kingdom were the

      only parts of Ireland conquered by the English invaders .. This part of the country is known in Irish history by the name of the "English Pale . ' * - ' - The rest of the island remained for a long period essentially Irish , the chiefs sometimes paying tribute to the English kings but quite , as , bftenpaying ; , off their invaders with steel instead of gold . ¦>¦ But although by far the greater ' part of Ireland was still unconquered , the invaders pretended to regard rthemselvfi ^ as the ' rightful masters ' iff ,, the Irish ^ sofl ^^ The , ' island was divided T into ten-sections , which Henry made over to his principal nobles ; for them to subdue

      as they best Could . ' From that time forth Ireland wWgiyeii over to the -most frightful disorders When arid wherever , ' ^ by ' force , o " r . treachery , the invaders could dispossess the ancient . pos ; sessprs of . the . soil , . they .-did • • so * .- Gentle- and simplewere robbed of their lands , and gradu . ally an alien aristocracy was introduced , between " whose' descendants ' - arid ; ' thie ' ymtahje Irish' . people there has raged hatred an ^ hosti - lity to the , present ; hour . ,, ..,. ' ,. . !;„ * ; ; , For fou ; -hundred years the legislation of the English Pale outrivalled the ukases'of

      Nicholas . '"Laws against intermarriage vrith the natives ; " " laws against the , langii ^ g-fe' of ¦ the natives ; " and "laws . Jagainst .. t ^ ei r . ; manhers and customs , " constituted the English method of dealing with " the mere Irish . ' ' The people had been deprived of the protection of their ancient institutions ; on the other handj they were hot allowed to have the . protection : of English law . They petitioned ^ over and oyer again to be allowed protection , if not freedom ; but both were refused . They were proclaimed "Irish enemies , " and doomed to interminable proscription , plunder , and massacre . .

      Four hundred years after " Strongbow ' s " invasion , theRoyal Tigress , Elizabeth , set about completing the work commenced by the second Henry . ¦ Although the Irish had been excluded from English law , they were now made war upon in the name of the law as " rebels ! " We pass over the bloody records of the battles , surprises , assassinations , and executions , which converted Ireland into one vast field of blood ; but we must mention one fact . One of the means employed to subdue the Irish was the creation of a famine . The English armies occupied the provinces , destroyed the crops and

      every description of food they could lay hands upon , above what they wanted for themselves . When one crop was destroyed , they prevented the sowing of another , until , at last , ' many ^ arts of the country became a desolate waste , and , except in the towns / wholly depopulated . Innumerable families gave themselves up tothe enemy , to die by the sword , rather than perish by hunger . yihree centuries ago , English statesmen created a famine to " reduce" the " Irish rebels f ' now , English statesmen have a famine to deal with which may create " Irish rebels ;" " rebels " . who would now have the sympathy , and perhaps something more , of the English people .

      In the reign of James I ., six Irish counties were confiscated to the crown , and the entire province of Ulster was colonised by Scotch settlers . The Irish have always been a loyal race , much attached to kingcraft , accordingly when the grand struggle came between Charles and the Parliament , the Irish took the side of the king . " They were rewarded for their generous devotion by further confiscations' to replenish / the Royal Treasury . Charles promised them liberty of conscience and public worship , in return for which they advanced his

      Majesty a hundred thousand pounds—a very large sum in those days ., ' His kingship pocketed the cash , but left his faithful subjects , minus the promised privileges . ' , ' .,.. '¦' If the English Monarchy was false and ra . pacious , the English Commonwealth was fanacal and . sanguinary . Cromwell ' s fame was baptised in the blood of the Irish nation . The confiscations of property belonging to Royalists in England and Scotland , were annulled at the Restoration ; but not so in Ireland . The Cromwellians were maintained in their

      ill-gotten possessions by- the second Charles , who thus testified his gratitude to the Irish loyalists for . their support of his father ' s cause In the reign of his successor , the Irish again took up the gauntlet in defence of a king who was too cowardly ' and contemptible ' either to wear a crown , or be . capable of exhibiting gratitude to that crown ' s defenders . James II . expelled : from England , and vanquished in Ireland , fled to France , and the " glorious , pious , and immortal" hero of Orangeism became sovereign of th ' e two islands .

      From the time of the Protestant Reformation , a new element of discord , and pretext for oppression , had been introduced . The immense majority of the Irish people remained stedfast tathe faith of their fathers ; and , of course —for such was the rule in those days—were , tl erefore , proscribed and persecuted by their Protestant rulers . In the reign of Elizabeth , the Irish Catholics were compelled to attend . the Protestant Church service , although that service was conducted in a language of which they understood nothing . If they did not attend , they were subjected to a penalty of 20 ? .

      sterling for each offence . When Ireland submitted to the rule of William III ., it was on thie faith ¦ of a too-celebrated document—the '' Treaty of Limerick . " By that treaty , Hhe Irish . were guaranteed religious liberty and rights ,-and , immunities ,, which placed the Roman Catholic population—the ¦ ,. immense roajority- ^ on something like an equality with the Protestant population of the kingdom . But that treaty was disgracefully and deliberately ^ violated by , the ; English Government . The " Penal Code ' swept away every ; privilege guaranteed by the treaty . A State oath - was

      imposed upon the people , revolting to their religious . convictions—and ; therefore , rejected by the Roman € atholic population , who were , thereupon , subjected to heavy and desolating penalties . Under this atrocious " Code , " a wife or child might acquire the property of the husband or father by conforming to the Statetest . But mark the virtue of the Irish people —although . any son , by turning Protestant , might have acquired his father ' s lands , no one instance of such falsehood was ever known . In

      a thousand modes and forms , the Roman Catholics were harrassed and persecuted for holding fast by their religious convictions . We often hear the Irish upbraided for their ignorance , but be it never . forgotten that , under the " Penal Code , " Roman Catholic schools were shut up , and the schoolmasters banished ; if after a schoolmaster had been banished , he returned , he was liable to be punished as a felon . Did Calmuck tyrant ever invent a more damnable system to destroy the very soul of a nation ? .

      ¦ ; The triumph of the American revolutionists so far shook the English Government , as to compel the dominant power to somewhat relax the screw . The worst of the penal laws " were repealed , The brief period of Ireland's' Par-

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      liamentary independence , ' ? ; gave promise of if better future , but that promise was notrea * lised . Corruption bought up the sham patriots ofthe Irish Parliament ; and a fomented , rebellion , followed by bloody proscription , silenced in death the true patriots who sacrificed their lives on the altar of their country . We shall not here dwell upon the means emp loyed , to carry the Act of Union , and the effects of that Union upon Ireland . The subject demands a separate article , which our readers will perceive follows these remarks . The martyrdom of Emmett and Fitzgerald

      and the host of patriots who shared their fate , did not produce peace in Ireland . The slayings on the field of battle ; the shootings _ and hang ings ; the floggings ; the pitch-cap Jtortures , and other hellish atrocities resorted to by the agents of the English Government , to strike terror to the hearts of the Irish , failed in producing the intended effect . The blood of the slain cried to Heaven for vengeance , and the miseries of the living left no rest for the guilty oppressors . " Arms Bills , " and " Coercion Bills , " and « White-boy Acts , ' followed each other in rapid succession ; but still there was no security for life or property ,

      nor was agitation suppressed . At length it became known that the agitation for Catholic Emancipation had largely "infected"the army , and then the Government yielded— " Catholic Emancipation " , was granted . But the boon was of little service to the people . It admitted a few rich Catholics into Parliament , and opened places of power and pay for the benefit of the few , but the mass ofthe people were in no sqrise bettered . by the change . AH their social wrongs were continued , and , therefore , agitation-has continued . Therefore has the cry ; of " Repeal" been raised , and therefore is the Goveinmeht menaced atj this moment by an Irish'insurrection .

      After repeatedly trying coercive measures , the Whigs pretended to have become converts , t 6 ' a better policy , and when ; in June , 1846 , Sir Robert Peel ' s Government proposed a bill to authorise the disarming of the people , the Whigs threw out the Mil , and . thereby caused the retirement of Sir Robert Peel from power . Since they have regained their places the Whigs have made no attempt to try the efficacy of remedial measures , but oh the

      eontrary , after allowing multitudes to . perish of famine and ^ fever , they have returned t » coercion , ; as a means to provide for ( f the protection of life and property . " . 'Wehavetraced / or at least indicated the long couirse of oppression under which Ireland has groaned , arid yet suffers , and we ask the English people , whether that oppression has not exceeded—far , far exceeded—the worst atrocities of which Poland has been the

      victim ? Wrong done by England , or in the name of England , is as much wrong as if done by Russia . Tyranny and cruelty are the same all the world over . No length of time can sanctify oppression , nor obliterate right . England owes to Ireland a debt of reparation , which has been accumulating for the past seven centuries , and that debt can only be paid by the English people insisting upon veritable

      justice to their Irish brethren . We implore the Irish people not to do Englishmen the injustice of supposing that the present House , of Commons represents the people of this country . That House is as much the enemy of the English , as of the Irish people . The enemy of the one is the enemy of the other , and that enemy , if ever overcome , must be crushed by the united Democracy of both nations .

      The Repeal Debate, If Another Proof Were...

      THE REPEAL DEBATE , If another proof were wanting ofthe incompetency ofthe Cabinet to govern the country , and of Parliament to represent it , that proof was abundantly afforded on Tuesday night ] ast , on occasion of Mr O'Connor ' s motion relative to a Repeal of the Legislative Union between England and Ireland . In the first place , every endeavour was made to induce Mr O'Connor to postpone his motion for a month , —and Sir George Grey used : the most insinuating " soft-sawder' * on the

      occasion . Even Irish members , pledged to Repeal , but afraid of their own votes , joined their efforts to those ofthe "Whig minister , on . ihe plea that the House and the Irish members would then be better prepared to support itmore able to rally . \ Vhy ?—This is a question on which Irish members have been preparing themselves for years—which ] they profess and ought to know in all its bearings , — -and . they ought to need nothing more than to hear the trumpet sound the charge for their country ' s battle to rush to the rescue as champions of its rights . Sufficient notice had been given to

      bring them from the furthest west of Irelandand those who were absent were desertersthose who voted against the measure , traitors to their country . We well know what postponing a motion at a minister ' s request amounts to—it is the death-blow to its success—it takes the strength out of its supporters , and gives government the time , in the interval , to have it negatived under another shape , so that when the original motion comes on , the question appears already decided by the House . We congratulate Mr O'Connor on his indomitable couraee , and the wisdom not to have fallen into

      the skilfully-prepared trap . But , mark the reason urged by Sir George , Grey for postponing the motion : " other measures of greater importance to Ireland claimed precedenca . " Ay ! true to Whig policy , —Coercion must precede remedial measures , and ; by preceding , in the natural course of events , prevent those measures ever doing good . , Kill a man , and then bandage the wound , — thatis'Whig policy to Ireland ! When' the country's strength is gone , —when the people are banished or destroyed , then come with a mockery , of remedial measures , — -it is like

      raising a splendid gravestone over the man you have murdered . Postpone the consideration of Repeal for that of Coercion ! Why , there has been one system , of eternal , coercion practised towards Ireland , and has it prevented outrage and violence ? . NolS ; The more you coerce , —the more will tbe victim' struggle , — and the more you prevent his open resistance , —the more deadly wUl you ' make his secret Vengeance . Are the , Government so blind aad so bad , that they cannot see : the only ,, way , to prevent outrage , is to remove the cause ? Vx * Tot alone to punish the offender—but to vender

      the offence unnecessary , by making ther people happy and contented . ' W e admit , that in some cases terror may detef from , crime ; , violence , orresistance , —but Ireland ' s ii . riot a case . like this . The Irish have rpassed the boundary of fear , —they have reached the worst , —what can they have todread from'Government ? "What cares the man , standing above the smoking ruin of his cottage , b y . the dead bodies of his murdered , wife and children , with hunger , gnawing at his heart , and madness in his brain , what cares he for bayonet , ball , or truncheon ? Ah ! your coercion is but child ' s play , and

      your power , great as , it is , turns powerless from the excess of ruin . you have made ! And it was for a measure Iike ^ this , Sir George Grey wanted to postpone thequestion of Repeal ! In the next place , we wish our readers to notice the manner in which the question was treated by the House . There was no discussion—no debate—a few Repeal Members spoke , and nobody replied , with the exception of the acrimonious ^ driveiling of Mr Walter , or Major Blackall ' s patriotic statement , that he would

      have voted for the measure had it been brought forward b y , any other member There again is an instance of the policy of faction—Men not . Measures ! Hostility to an individual makes this patriotic gentleman turn traitor to his constituency , and—according to hisownassertion-belie his own convictions ! Sir George Grey 8 speech was one unmeaning sneer , advancing not one singlo reason against Repeal , or against gracing a Committee , exc ept the aU-pofcr ^ one with Ithe truckling

      slaves of power ^ - "We > th ' e Cabinet , will it dballnotbe , " , " ,., . ..: """; . . .. . ,, t . .. . , ' : Wenovr . prdcfeedjdconsidertnegrQunds on which Mr O'Connor based his motion . JI ^ did ^ n dt argue the case as one of pounds , shillings , and pence ; he did not enter into long calculations of exports and imports '; he did hot make the ! whole gi ° . t ! of the question one of " commercial prosperity , " as the modern political economists invariably $ 0—a prosperity that may be , and , owing to mismanagement , in most instances -is , concomitant with popnlar misery ; he did not argue the question as one

      of moneybags , but as one of man—as one of right . As a conquered country , Ireland had a right to resist oppression ; and if there had been anything binding in the Act of Union , every one of its provisions had been broken , and a contract broken by the one party could not be binding on the other . That Union , too , was carried by bribery and intimidationthe Irish people had no voice in the mattera corrupt parliament of hirelings had voted away the inalienable rights of their country . The arguments of the Honourable . Gentleman were unanswerable , and there ' was riot even to

      an ^ attempt answer them . Nor was it necessary , for the Janissaries were at their post . But the words of Mr O'Connor were verified , and let it go forth to the world—the Ministry were afraid of having their conduct to Ireland investigated . But those years of black tyranny , without one gleam of . sunshine across them , speak for themselves . Ireland speaks for herself . Why do a people starve upon a fertile soil , beneath a clement sky , and a genial clime ? . Because- they ^ . are . ; aliens in their own country—paupers oh their hereditary land—slaves in . the ^ ipansions •; of their fathers I Because their collective wealth is

      drawn away at ' the point ofthe bayonet , because the ships' cpin ' e- emrity - and ^ go away full , froin * Keir , magnificant harboure ' , h ' ecsiuse a swarm p ? I foreign . usurers * , and middlemen have got their « - vice-like . grasp - > upon , the country ; and while ; they drain it to npanderto the' rioting of absentee landlords * drain it again to mafej fortunes -for themselyeS ; because indnstry' / ig- " acriiriej ; bearJijg' -a ^ 'heavy {> enalty , since , wlie r * ' a man has , enriched his ittle holding by belabour , that saSicea for his eviction , and letting his land at higher rent to another , a victim in his turn .- Repeal

      would do much to ; remedy this . A Parliament under the very eyes , within reach ofthe very voices of the people , dare ; not , play , sueh pranks before the world , aa when girded by eorruption ' a citadel , Sts Stephea ' s . And f it-is to be hoped , the Irisfe people haying - gained Repeal , will return inert worthy to be theiT Representatives to Colege Green . To enable them to do this , we trust they will « Atain political power ; and , possessed of their native Soil , the Franchise , and Riepeal , Irishmen may indeed behold their country become , ! ' Tbe first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea . " '

      While , however , the Legislative . Union is repealed , . we hope to see the union , ofthe English arid Irish people more elosely cemented with every day ' j , » unibnV" of'feeling , [ a union of interests , a union oflibertyr When Irish and English are united in the great cause of mutual freedom , monopoly must go down before them . This faction knows , and ,, therefore , it has endeavoured to breed reciprocal hatreds and jealousies between" them by every means in its power , . These are vanishing before the truth—the-might y truth—that- the same hand which has- crushed Ireland , is heavy on the heart and strength of England * , too —and the words ofthe poet-are-being

      manifested"A fellow-feeling makes . us wondrous kind . " " Ireland for fhe Irisfr / " and " England far the English ! " is the mutual cry .. Let it be shouted , side by aide—from John 0 ' Groats to Connemara—from the Giant ' s Canaewayto the Cliffs ef Dover— -it willibe the knell of oppression—it will be- the birth-peal of freedomfor the solitary fortresses of tyranuy must sink before tfee confluence of eur united nations .

      Parliamentary Review. Ireland, In. Sever...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . Ireland , in . several of the ' phases of that most difficult and complicated of State problems , has entirely occupied the attention of the Legislature this week ; On Mkinday , Coercion ; Tuesday , Repeal y Wednesday , Etonian Catholic Disabilities ; and then ,, on Thursday , back again' to Coercion ' the notices- of motions which- had been ; givea > by members on various subjects for . that evening having been withdrawn in order < that the debate on the second' reading mig ht , proceed .

      The-debate and ! the division : of Monday night , amply justified the- motioa and the de . bate ; of Tuesday * The . easyunconsciousness with which- Sir € » LGrey , requested , Mi ? :. 0 Gonnor to postpone- his- motiony for an ^ nquiry into- the causes ef the- degradation' and misery of bis native country ^ in order that the Govenunentmight h > enabled to . proceed more rapidly with another measure , . cast in the some mould as those which have for < so many centuries oppressed Ireland , was of itself a proof of the necessity of such an inquiry . It showed a complete ignorance- of the state of

      feeling in Ireland , with reference- jo English legislation , and an extraordinary obliviousness of the ^ natural emotions of humanity under such circumstances , which would , if suck things happened in any other country , excite our special wonder . But , as Lord Bacon has truly sahVJMan is a bundle of habits ^ and the English have been so . long accustomed to > look upon Ireland and Irishmen ia much the same light as the benevolent fish woman regarded the eels , that they have at last- imperceptibl y persuaded themselves , that skinning alive is a process the Irish have got quite used to , arid care nothing about it .

      Into the question of Repeal , or the topics embraced in Mr O'Connor ' s elaborate speech in support of his motion , it is not requisite to enter here , these questions having been commented upon in previous articles ; But the manner in which an influential ' section / of the Irish members stood b y their colours , on that occasion , forgetting whatever . personal or party motives they might . ; have , heretofore had to induce them to act otherwise , was most creditable to them , and is a hopeful ornea of

      better times for the counfoy thejr represent . The strength of England has always consisted to agreat degree , in the divisions , and differences which have existed amongst Irishmen . Religious and political feuds have been the true foundations of English supremacy—and we repeat that , small as the minority was which voted with the Hon . Member for Nottingham , it comprised names which give promise of better days for Ireland in the good times coming .

      ¦ We hesitate not to say that Repeal , as a practical question , wasimmensely advanced by the debate on Tuesday night . After the lapse of many years , it was rescued from the position of a mere empty brutumfulmen , and once more placed before Parliament as a substantive question , with which , in future , it will have to grapple . Of course its first reception was preciselv what might have been expected . Sedure in his majority , the minister barely condescended to repl y , and the short speech in which he announced his determination to refuse the inquiry , consisted more of personal allusions to ui

      e manner ot the hon . mover , than any attempt to answer the matter of his address . In fact , he felt that the majority was large enough to dispense with the use of reason or argument on the occasion , and he substituted somewhat supercilious personalities instead . Of the well drilled forces at the command ofthe various factions , not one , with the exception of Mr Irelawny , opened his lips ; and that precocious young man evidently did . so with the view of firing off a pop ; gun > which he had not the opportunity of discharging the previous night on the subject of Coercion , Despairing , we presume ,, of being more successful in future , he seized the lucky chance , and was as imperti-

      Parliamentary Review. Ireland, In. Sever...

      nent , both in manner and matter , as coul di ^ well conceived . As a speech on the a » m ' before the House , it was totall y wide f ft point ; and if it went for anything at a )) j s * merely to exhibit more glaringly the utt er norance and incapacity of Englishmen tohJF " late for Ireland . But though the Hou sec listen approvingly to his glib impertinent because their squared with its own prejudice / it had not the same courtesy and patience t extend to the speech of Mr Pagan , the hon member for Cork , an Irishman wellacquainf 0 j

      with his country , and who has given deepst ^ to the subject ^ One would have imagined that when the question really at issue was the fit . ness of an Imperial Parliament to legislate for Ireland , the members of that Parliament would have at all events carefully avoided a course of conduct which , in itself , emphatically imp ] je { i their condemnation as a competent legislative body , and proved the correctness ofthe position taken up by the ad vocate * of Repeal . A more disgraceful and disorderly interruption to a new member , and to a speech evidentl y pre pared with great care upon the subject , perhano

      never took place in that house ; and the matter was made worse by the exceedingly offensive ill-judged , and ill-tempered debit of Mr Jinn Walter ofthe Times , the colleague ofthe hon , mover of the motion for inquiry . Mr Walter evidently wanted to be witty , but his attempts at badinage miserably broke down , and were at length transmuted into feelings of bitter mortification and real hostility . Two or three more such exhibitions , and the principal wielder of the thunder of Printing-house-square , will discover that whatever he may be in the classic regions of Blackfriars , he feat a discount io Westminster .

      Despite , however , the superciliousness of the Home-Secretary , the silence of the rank and file , ofthe factions , and the impatient and unmannerly interruptions at the close of the debate , we repeat that the discussion , as a whole , materially advanced the question . Each subsequent discussion will place it more and more in' the position of a practical' matter which must he settled , and : that too- in the right way—namely ; , hy carrying it . If it be constantly , and judiciously kept before the Le ~ gislatbre and the Public , it must be carried aft no distant day . The events of the last few years have very much tended to open the eyes of the English people , to the real merits ofthe

      question - T and from extensive experience , ofthe feelings of various parties ! and classes , we arc prepared to say that the public opinion on this subject has very greatly changed . Whether from selfishness , or a conviction of the justice of tbe demand , many who but a short time since * would have sneered down the slightest mention of Repeal , now listen complacently and approvingly to the arguments by which it is supported . ; Oiir own conyietion is that it presents the only means of really elevating Ireland in the scale of nations . Exotic Governmenthas been tried for centuries in that island . We all see its results . Whatever the consequences ^ of selfgovernment maybe , it is altogether impossible they can be worse than those which flow from our present system .

      \ Mr Anstey's Birfor Repealing Thelotof'...

      \ Mr Anstey ' s BiRfor repealing thelotof ' rub . bish , which ericumbera the statute book , with reference to the civil rights of our Roman Catholicfellow-subjectSjrwas received on Wednesday in a manner which promises this time to settle a long mooted question . Mr Watson was by skilful manoeuvring { on the part of the iptolerants defeated on a similar bill last year ; but the debate and the divisions of Wednesday seem to augur a different result on this occasion . . . ¦

      Th E Irish Members Gallantly Struggled A...

      Th e Irish members gallantly struggled against the Coercion Bill on Monday night . In availing , themselves of every constitutional obstruction to the progress of that measure , they are only doing justice- to their country . It is a maxim of English- law , that it is better to let ten guilty persons eseape , than unjustly condemn one innocent individual * But the very reverse of this is applied to Ireland for the crimes of a few individuals , whose dis «

      tncts are to- be- deprived of the protection of thekws and rendered liable to all the evil & of a suspension of the constitution- There is neither justice nor reason in such a course , and we ' repeat , that in opposing its adoption , the Irish members are doing their duty . Ireland will also see with gratitude the noble and determined part borne by Mr C ^ Connor and Mr Wakley , the only two English members who have throughout consistently voted for justice to Ireland .

      ¥ pon the inconsistent , if not treacherous conduct of Dillon Browne , and 1 the equally singular position taken by Henry Grattan , we-reserve comment at present . Time will probably , soon show to . what influences we are to . attribute the " Jem Crowism" of the former gentleman , at all events .

      Co &Eate$ Sc Toommnumte.

      Co & eate $ Sc toommnumte .

      Gy The Great Longth At Which No Have Rep...

      gy The great longth at which no have reported tbe Bepeal' Dabate ^ aad . the space occupied by several other matters p ' f Importance concerning Ireland , compels us for the present to withhold a number of communications , including reports , & c , from Win * laton , Bilaton , Stlford , Wakefield , Preston , Todraorden , Sheffield , Mr Martin Jade * & c „ < Sjc . T . Jonks , Liverpool . —We have net room to spare for any notice of that ass who calls himself' the New Messiah . ' J . Gktr . —We 'do not know where- Summons ' s work on Switzerland can be had . Sismondi ' s work is published by Chapman , Strand , London * E , » 0 BKBTso . v , Plymouth ; A . Dbtsdaw , Liverpool ; T . Almond , London , and G . Cosk , Ipswich . —Wo have not . room for the letters of these correspondents . James MHJo & suck ,. of Stockport , who has visited the Lowbands Farm , writea as follows :-I have fished the cottages ; all is plenty , peace , and happiness . The

      cimaren with rosy cheeks , flushed with raral health , not like the factory operatives in Stockport , At the Ledbury , Gloucester , Worcester , and Cheltenham mar . nets there are no potatoes or other vegetables cared for but tbe' Chartist potatoes , * as they arecaued . The Land Flan must , and will succeed . B * AJwoB » .-. It appears that the Br adfob © Obsbryeb has been giving currency to the « Whistler's' Ues , at the same time refusing to publish any counter-statement . . A correspondent , Robert Ryder , sends us a long letter ' . which he seat to tb . c Obsmivxb , in reply to Mfce Whisthr , ' but which the editor of that i aper refused to pub » lish , adding to his refusal the impudent observation , . that the' Whistler * deserved the thanks of the shareholders for having thoroughly canvassed the Land Scheme ! We have not room fer Mr Ryder ' s letter , tho 'publication of which , in our columns , is indeed unae . cessary ; after the finishing the ' Whistler * has had at the hands of Mr O'Connor . Mb 'John- Sale , St Hellers The paper and plate-will be sevenpence . Your present quarter ends JaBUary 1 st , - 1818 .

      Mb Jonks , Liverpool . —It wttl be some time in Pebruarj before tbe portrait is ready , Mb Coatbs , Stokesley . —The plates are not ready for m , 6 e <> ' dbr . e , Scarborousli .-We hara not got any oi Mr Buncombe ' s portraits left . The Petition plate is c ° M 8 od Is ., and tbe coloured and mounted plates of o Connorrille , « , fid . In whose parcel can we enclose , them ! Mr John Jordan , Todenbam . —We never supplied the paper , nor have we received any tost-offlce erdes in payment . Mb Jokes , Liverpool .-Mr Harney knows how to perform his duties wlthaut the help of Mr Jones ' s impertinent interference . R . DABiijfa , Blyth . —Tho money is ackaowledgod by the committee ' s secretary in this number of the . Stab .

      tt « AL . NOTICE , — . As I have a considerable number of caieaon band , requiring ulterior proceedings , I mu > t , ia order to enable me to do Justice to my clients , decllse receiving until further notice any more legal correspondence ( e «« pt such at relates to oases in * < Kld )» Whether for the Stab or otherwise . ALL LETTERS CONTAINING NEW CASES WILL BEMAIN UNNOTICED . tW LSTIEIB TO Bl ADDBISSBD IN FCTCBE 10 HC At 16 , QBE *! WlSDBttl . STMKT , HATHA * " * , London . Ermbt Jonbs . Even should fresh cases be accompanied by fees * they will not ba attended to .

      The Deed Of Settlement Of The National L...

      THE DEED OF SETTLEMENT OF THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY Will hy at the following ^ places during the ensuing week : — Dbvizib , Tuesday-Mth * . Swindon , Wednesday 15 th . Rbidino , Thursday 18 th . O'Cobhortiub , Friday 17 th . Members of the first , second , and third Sections enly can sign . Hours of signing from six o ' clock in the evening * until tw o ' clock at night . Thomas Clark , Corresponding-SwreW

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11121847/page/4/