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^S? R tb*«MFn*e, on the Abolition of 61S...
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THE LAUC5HIK3 HtJ.ViS. « Whilst Nero fid...
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" ¦^"" aDDRS SSOF TOKASO AJflELLO , . iv call- " * HmsanleUo . Imagined to have bte » Cs * * . rtrf by him *» & e K * Tott of K * Pk » . *» 16 * 7 . •^ BX GEOSSK TWEPDEIA . Awake—w ise ' . my country ' e ioa » , Gird on your itorJi for fight ; y 0 r victory ov death must soon r / pon «<"* h bowm If 8 « Too lot 1 * * * * * tJ 1 * cre , B ' jiTe held yoa ell in thrall ; Aw & ke -4 riie ! my country ' s sons , Rous up hoth ooe and all , g . y will yoa long ** thas aobalt To lead tke lives of slaves ? jjr better let the battle fieli Become each of jour graves :
for those who die in freedom a cause , in heaven will find & home ; fThsre tyrants and hue parasites Can never hope to come . Say , skell the Seapolitan Crouch to the Spanish yoke ! Or , shall each link of slavery ' s chela Asunder now be broke ! Though cow « r 4 s may stand trembling , And priesti may cry , ' < % * $ '' Goi— nature—hutcaa reason—All three do answer— 'Kay !' Kan ae ' er was forced fer bondage , * Sor born to he » slave ; He should be free *« kl » own thoughts—CSainless as ocean ' s wave !
Yea , * t ths winds that o er us sweep Refuse to be ret train ' d , So should mankind spurn slavery ' * - yoke , Kor bo by tyrant * chaia'd . Fair freedom U the gift of God J A boon to mortals given : Then shall to fair , so good « gift , From u » t » rudely riven 1 So , no ! "stave Setpoiltans ! Well sooner headless lie ;
Behold year homes by Spaniards spoil «; Your eiadrar pine « ud die ! When parents , wires , aud Iittlt ones , Aloud fer vengeance cry , How can the sword bids in the sheath ? Draw—draw far liberty ! I , though but a poor fisherman , Will freely lead you on ; I call on jou for your support Till the good work ba done .
Then shout aloud with all yon ? might , Until it wad the sky—• Frtt & m for Kapltt and ier tsm ! Dtiih— teitk , cr—lAbertg !
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ITALIAK PATRIOT SONS . rt . mexj . TZo sr irzuiix cvlum sktixt . Hear ye tha trumpet that ceils to the combat ! Up with your blanw to stream ia tho sfej J Children « f Italy , forward together ! Bravely in battle to conqueror die . Sown vita the Austriani , with kings and cowards Sporn'd be their bribe , and their fortunes defied . "Frwdoia for Italy ' . —what if we perish %
Greatly we perish on Liberty ' s sice . Hatrons , come forth , with the old men end children , Grasping your weapons at Liberty ' s call . Gh & rge on the tyrants the foes of your country—Foes who for sgeshave heli her is thrall . Load ba the cry that for battle and veageance , BUei from millions on Italy ' s shore ; She shall be free , and her children united , Slaves to the Austrian despet no tsore ! She shall be free , or we sleep in oar graves—Better die bravely , than live to be slaves .
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The Ethnological Journal, A Zhgazins Of ...
THE ETHNOLOGICAL JOURNAL , a Zhgazins of Ethnography , Phrenology , and Archaeology Edited by L * eki Btjrk , Esq . No . 1 . London : 12 , Red Lion-c - jurt , Fleet-streefc . "We shall best explain the character of this publf-Ceition by the following quotation from its pro-Fpectm : — This vrork is intended to embrace , first , researches into everj department of science and literature , calculated to throw light upon the mental and physical peculiarities , the primitive seats , migra-| NQ 8 , iaterblendings . and general history of the rsri-DOS divisions of tke human family , from the earliest
periods to the pretest time ; secondly , a careful record of all facts and opinions interesting to tha "Ethnologist which may from time to time be brought to light bj the labours of traveller ! , antiquarians , philologist * , & :., &< s . It will thtti afford to the scholar , to tbe man of science , and to the general observer , a convenient medium of commnnic & ting with She public , and of bringing into a single centre , facta which , thoagh intlmitely related ., require ^ at present , to be distributed over several periodicals , aad which , fry this distribution , lose much of their interest as well as value . '
The first number , which has much interested as , contains a statement of the fundamental principles -and leading doctrines of the new science of Ethnology : secondly , the first of a series of articles on the causes ef the mental and physical diversities ef mankind—thh paper demonstrating that aeither climate , food , nor anj other external or accidental agency prodnoes permanent effects ujMn the colour of the human Skin : thirdly , an inquiry into the authenticity of the Hebrew chronology , from the Creation to the reign of David—the first of a series of papers on this subject . ' Although we are notprepared to adopt all the ideas Of Mr Burke without further evidence as to their Esundness , we must confess thatwe have found inthe ETHX 0 LO 6 IR 4 I . Jot / Rkal real ability combined with ,
• Khat is still mdre dificuli to meet with , veritable originality . We must , however , ' pronounce ' Sgaimt one article , that entitled * The Ruling Idea ef the Present Political Era , ' This ' Ruling Idea ' is said to be ' the natural equality of men ; ' which idea , Mr Burke , in the name of ECience , aver ts to be false . ' He asserts that there are in humanity two ruling principles , wisdom and valour , and tbat ' the races which possess them in the most eminent degree , ever have been , and ever must be , the rulers of tbe world . ' We donbt if wisdom and valour are always in the ascendant , and dispute the assertion tbat these ' prnciples' are monopolised by certain races , or rather classes—for we find Mr Burke speatong of the English aristocracy as freqaently presenting us with
the krge forehead and delicate physical structure of the intellectual racts . ' It is something new to us te tear that that precious assemblage , the Honse of 3 Lord =, is renowned for wisdom , and tbat its memters fire tie monopolisers of valour . ' The Russians , Prussians , and Austrians rale the Poles , but will any one prettEd that these nations pessess higher intellect and are more brave than the Pcles ? Again , take any domestic circle and how various are the qualities and dispositions of its members . One son shall possess valour—a soldier born , but be no way remarkable for intellect , * another shall ht a stndions bookworm , with no disposition for feats of arms ; and a Ihirdsaall be neither brave nor intellectual , provided , perhaps , with enough cunning and calculation to
make a plodding shopkeeper , but nothing highernobler . Will Jfr Burke assert that these three per-Bons ate of three different races ? If so , to bow many races must tie two parents have belonged ? Mr Barke asserts , that in no civilised country in the world is there more than a very small number of persons either fit to legislate for that country or to choose fit legislators for it / He advances several similar assertions in opposition to the doctrine of political Equality . Bat supposing we admit his argument , we should like to know how we are to get at , and single out , ' the very small number' fitted to be electors and legislators- Universal suffrage could hardly return a worse House of Commons than is returned bj the £ 10 Suffrage ; and when under the boroughmongering
¦ system , a more restricted suffrage existed than at present history does not record that the parliaments then elected were particularly wise or virtuous . On the contrary , the suffering existing at the present time is largely attributable to the ignorance , corruption and wickedness of those parliaments . The two hundred thousand electors who returned the deputies ander the system just destroyed in France did not exhibit either in themselves or those they elected peculiar fitness for the power they monopolised ; on the contrary , they rendered the revolution of February inevitable , a plain proof of their incapacity , or
dishonesty , or botb . Yet the two hundred thousand ffere Eurely select enough out of a population of thirty-five millions ! In Austria a still more select system existed ; late and passing events attest its " worth ! We sre afraid that Mr Burke , determined to be original in all things , has achieved singularity but not success in discussing * The Ruling Idea of the present PoJ : t cal Ura . ' But although we cwnot agree with Mr Burke on many point * , we advise all thinkers , seekers of knowledge , and searchers af ' . er truth to read the Exhsoixjgical Jgeexal and judge for themselves . We shall be glad to meet Mr Burke Bgain ,
Tit: Ilidori' Of France, From The Invasi...
Tit : Ilidori' of France , from the Invasion of Cmsar till the Ouilr ' ck of the French Revolution By D . TVemjss Job--on- London : Ktnt and Richards , Patertcs ' . er-r . / tv . At the present time , when Francs and Frenchmen o : cupy the foremost place in tho thoughts ofall mankind , " a kntiwkd ^ e of French history is very necessary ; vet th : r . umbtr fcf people who know anything ol Gallic EtM-y , previous to tbe outbreak of the first Revolution , is ' exceedingly limited . To -11 unacquainted vri'h the progress of our neighbours , from fairbatism to their present exalted position , this tvork will bs exceedingly valuable . The first monthly part contains the history of Gau ! , from the arrival
Tit: Ilidori' Of France, From The Invasi...
offchfl Kenans to the times of Pepin aaa tJatrfe MwteJ . , The author heserercited « nrff dfeSn m . tadging this portion of his * ork ? The hSS » att » o ? -petty tyrants , are , unfortunately «> common to all uiitories . that a raj Ehf iffii 5 iuhnutte . i » infficient to excite the £ t well u pity of the reader . We neresL thLi th ! SSeSht S « f . T ? 1 , ea *? 5 pawd ^ Mr Jobion , ffif ^ r r ° " , w th 8 fint part enables us t * ^ T ' Zl TltT * totim- " - - ** the prMM of bSug
^S? R Tb*«Mfn*E, On The Abolition Of 61s...
^ S ? R tb *« MFn * e , on the Abolition of 61 Si StJ ^ " ** ' Loadoa ; J- Watson , 5 . f aut B-illey , Paternoster-row , tn « J bepre f t . ment when fools , incited by taOTM . areshouting / m Paris Vive FEmpereur ] and ^ SSv o r | 9 C CBpiring t , ^ Francion-Wmora M ^ t jofeo of monarchy , it would t * vfellifthi . SSr j * ! ebel l 0 tts ne * dleman » could be trw * - Sft , & 8 K $£ ! " tb 0 * aI ! fl of p & tit - , J ^ . 8 ? "ra , B " ° f » « taB * Ie P «« on U inherently S « l ^ 1 independently of the view 0 f tfc « Individual , for , t » tie StKe never so little , the prince it abnost always leu . whst proportion ii there bstwten oae ewii and all the iffidre of a «» tIoa « ^ Let the fools - who adaire & Napoleon-** taa pmt wai e-apbe , wboia lUkeiwere thrones , Wnow table « artfc , whtsa dies were human boiei '—
reao ^ marfc , Ietrn . and inwardly digeatthe foUow-It is troa that we havo ie » n joae msa of f enloi oadtr the dlaaea . So auch tha greater is the evil . A . talented kin * ia wone than a fool . His ambition caxriea hies to eoaquaat and to ceipotUm ; his people are soon reduced to bewail hUglaiy , slngiuf r # Peun while they die of hunger . We recomiiend this tract to our friemdj . S 3- Either this ' Addreto' ia not the Addresi of raiae , lssaeaby him on the occasion of the flight of Uuib XVI . to Varennes—the Address disscribed by Dumont , Carlyleand other histariana—op Mr
, Watwa has prefixed & wrong date to ft . Iatbis tract , the Addreubears date ' October 25 th , 1792 . bat ;^ i D ? ' i " glt 6 t 9 Qk P * * 20 th of June , 1791 , andPaine ' s Addrete , signed by Achille Dacha-Wet , vag published within a few days afterwards . We suspect that the Addren , published by Mr Watson , was written at the time it bears date , more than a yew inbseqatnt to the King ' s flight ; indeed , it professe * to have beeu written aftsr the oMition of Royalty ; but then , the quotations from Damont and Carlyle are eat of place , and conKquentty , are calculated to confuse tho reader .
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The Lauc5hik3 Htj.Vis. « Whilst Nero Fid...
THE LAUC 5 HIK 3 HtJ . ViS . « Whilst Nero fiddled Rome was burned / has been re-dramatised is aaore than one theatre sow-a-days Thi laughing mania , & lerio-oomic tragedy , has had B great ran . Monsieur Guizot hag Snished an engagement of a very lucrative character , aa the original re presentative of the human hyena . When , backed by a hundred thousand soldiers , ha was told he would be impeached for violating the Constitution , he and
his colleagues laughed immoderately in chorue . In three days the laugh ( changed to a maniac ' s ) was heard ringing through the forest of Vincennes , from a band of fugitives ( of which Guizst was the leader ) without a roof to cover their proclaimed heads . This revolution cassing laughter h & a beaome contagiosa In the British House of Commons when the petition of five millions of Chartittt was introduced , the horselaugh sounded alone the benches , and John O'Connell on mentioning tee word Repeal , was overwhelmed with a storm of gufias . "lis all very well if this executive and legislative epidemic do not rapture thousand * of blood vetitU by its fatal intensity . — American paper .
. WISHERS AXD WISHES . Oh ! know ye the with of tbe true , the true f Oh ! know ja the wish of the true 1 'Til to tee the slave ' s hand ffavlug libfr tj ' e brana , At it * toil-nurtured mosefes coald do , And the wide world ' s oppressors in view . Sod riptn that wiati « f the true ! Then hurra 1 for tfast wish of the trae , the trae—Harra ! for that wish of the true J Aad asether hurra ! For the fast-ccsiisg day Wben tbe m * ay shell preach to tho few From the go « p « l tt pure as ths dew . Oh ! there ' s hooe in that wish of the true !
Oh ! know ye the wish ef the proud , the proud f Oh ! know yo the wish of the prend » 'Tli to empty their veins , 'Hid the crashing of chains-Ay , the veins of their kearts , if snowed , So the aeck of oppression he bow'd . "What s holy with that of tha proud 1 Then hurra ! tat that wiih of the proud , the proud Hurra ! for that wish of the proud 1 And a sweeping hurra ! For the clash , flash , and neigh , "Where young liberty leaps from the cloud That ourls blue o ' er her enemy ' s shroud .
Oh ! the worU for that wish of the proud ! Oh ! know je the with ef the brave , the brave t Oh I know ye the with of tho brave I 'Tis to ton out a lanes For the glory of France , And to dance npon Tyranny ' s grave Whereioe'r its Mack banner may wave . God smile on that wiak of the brave 1 Then hurra ! for that wish of the brave , the brave Hurra 1 for tbat wish of the brave ! And hurra ! for the hand , And thecatqne-cleavlrig brand , That the lights of a nation can save Or redeem by Us world-llghting wave . Heaven bless tke keen brand of the brave . ' Nation . The Belfast Man . Language . —A chain to unite men and keep mankind diBnnited , —A large iesne of notes which has often a small basis of gold .
iHEArsE . —An homoepafhic hespital , where small doses of society are given to cute society . —The chamber wherein batchelors receive curtain-lectures . Mirror . —A journal in which Time records his travels . Chiid . —Tha ever-renewed hope of the world . — God ' s problem , waiting man ' s solution . Miseh . —An amateur pauper . —A lover who is contented with , a look . IG 53 RA . 5 CE . —A serpent which many foster because they suppose it to be harmless . — A dark place , where poor people are allowed to grope about till they hart themse ' res or somebody else .
Batchelob . E— A isule who shirks Ms regular load . Shop . —Private interest disguised as public utility . —A prison for himself , built by a man of the materials he deals in . Chika— A hermit among nations . —A living tosd embedded in stone . Paper . —A receiver of stolen goods . Potirics . —A national hnmming-top , which spins the least when it hums the most . Peisos . —The grave where state doctors bury their murdered patients . Kapqlsok . —A naughty boy who was put in a corner because he wanted the world to play with . CrviUSATiOK . —Mankind's struggle upwards , in which millions are trampled to death , that thousands may mount on their bodies . IT IS TOO LATE !
The day is not far distant when Victoria of England will come forward proposing enlarged suffrage ? , the Ballot , remission of taxes , the abolition of aristocratic privileges—but they will be rejected by the people in the ominous words— ' TOO LATE !' The day is ; coming when Victoria of England will propose to the Irish the fifty additional members in the British ParliameEt—the destruction of the Protestant Church—but the Irish will reject all those with the ominous words— ' TOO LATE . ' * The day is coming when Victoria of England will propose to the Irish—to keep them quieU-to prevent them joining their brethren of England—even the ' Repeal of the Union , with the golden link of the Crown , ' as O'Connell defined and demanded—but a voice will be heard in Ireland , crying—* TOO LATE ! TOO LkTEV-LosionPilot .
THB KEW WOEU ) TO THB OLD . Men of Europe ! From the grares Where oar Fathers sleep , Comes a voice , liki coming wares , St era and deep ; From the bill side and the valley , And the mountain glen ;—Hearkea ! for it bids ye rally , la the might of men !
VEST TRUE . The British throne jests upon this aristocracy , and tbeir hired soldiers . The English masses have long , long since withdrawn their sympathy and _ support : the old English yeomen are degenerated into serfs and paupers ; the mechanics into a species of petri . fied machines , hating crowns and authorities of e ? cry existing kind , for the improvements in the world are not for them—the world and the world ' s laws are enemies . —Bosto ? i Pilot . Entomological Privileges . —Insects generally must lead a truly jovial life . Think what it must ba to lodt-e in a lily . Imagine a palace of ivory and pearl , with pillars of silver and capitals of gold , a'l exhaling such a perfume as never arose from human cesser . Fancy , again , the fun of tucking yourself up for tbe sight in the folds of a r ^ se , rocked to sleep by tbe gentle ei ^ hs of the summer air , and nothing to do when you awake but to wash yourself in a dew-drop , and fall to , and eat your bed clothes !
To The People. The Press-Gang Conspiracy...
TO THE PEOPLE . The Press-gang Conspiracy-Forcible extinction of the right of hit / lie Metling-Bloodthirsty ferocity of the Bourgeoisie—Press-gang sp esand prostitutes -Infamous efforts of the Press-gang to ensure the conviction of the arrested Chartists . The French Republic—The Suppression of Public Liberty Law—The Elections . Friends , Cotjntrtmen , and Brothers ,
I have , in a previous letter , unveiled the dark aad damnable conspiracy by which the Press-gang , operating on the cowardice , ignorance , and preju * dices of the sbopocracy , enabled the arislocralical Whig government to forcibly prevent the intended procession on the 10 th of April last , and also furnished that government witk plausible pretexts for passing the Gagging Bill , under which the patriot Mitchel has been transported to a felon ' s shore . I also warned you , in last week ' s Star , that the
Pressgang were manufacturing another ' panic , ' to afford the government an excuse for still further curtailing the few remaining liberties of the people , and persecuting the people ' s leaders . Before my words were published—although not before they were ¦ rotten—the arrests had commenced , and Monday last witnessed the forcible extinction of the right of public meeting . Both acts of despotism have , of course , excited the uproarious applause of the vile , venal , bribed , and brutal Press-gang .
That the Chartists intended to hold a number of simultaneous meetings on Whit Monday , has been known for some time past . Such meetings have been common in all agitations , and have never before excited persecution . It was understood tbat the meetings , called for Monday last , would assemble for the purpose of considering the presentation of * the Memorial to the Queen , ' and the answer theretoi if any had been received . The false assen . tion of Lord John Russell , that the people were
indifferent to Reform , and had no desire for the Charter , could only be regarded as a challenge to the people , which they were bound to reply to , through the medium of public meetings . To make plain the falsehood of the little Lord ' s assertion was , therefore , also an object of the intended meetings ; but Lord John has prevented all that . He has followed up insult by injury . He first calumniated the people , and then , by the exercise of brute force , prevented their reply .
It was , I believe , originally intended that some threa or four meetings should take place in London , on Whit Monday . The object of these meetings , I have already stated ; an object strictly ' constitutional , ' and proposed to be carried out by means perfectly ? legal , ' Finding , however , that the Pressgang were actively engaged in fomenting alarm , the Chartist leaders abandoned their original intention of holding meetings on ClerkQnwell Green , and other places in the populous and bnSy parts of tbe Metropolis , and resolved to restrict the popular manifestation to one assemblage , at tbe far east of London , on a spot of ground far distant from * tbe busy haunts ' of the profitmongers . This was publicly announced by placard , and other means , and the same course
was taken to make known the peaceful and strictly legitimate purpose of the meeting , but all in vain . It was pre-determiued that such meetings should be ' put down , ' and when did the wolf . lack arguments to justify his butchering propensities ? The government well knew that there was no real ground for alarm , and , therefore , employed the Press-gang to get up a false alarm . The worthy janissaries set to work , and , as on the occasion of « the 10 th of April , ' wrote and published lies by the yard , for the purpose of justifying government intervention . They succeeded in getting up a little bit of talk , which the government affected to regard as a panic , and , thereupon , took ' vigorous measures' to suppress the right of public meeting .
Amongst the inventions of the Press-gang was included the lie , that the Chartists intended to walk in procession on Monday last . Several of the Saturday and Sunday papers contained the following -. — . The organisation of the Chaf tist members , has most ilgnallj filled on the Surrey side of the water . Jn the extendre parish of Lambeth not more than 139 persons have enrolled thtmeelves . It is , therefore , very questionable whether one tithe of the 200 , 000 men announced to walk in procession , and upset the present government will meet on Monday ,
Here the ruffians of the Press speak of what they pretend to regard as an universally known fact , that the Chartists had announced tbat they intended to walk in procession two hundred thousand Strong , to upset the Government . The readers of the JVorthern Star need not be told that the Chartists neither intended nor announced anything of the Sort , nor anything tbat the most perverted imagination could construe into any such meaning . The procession—the intention to upset the government—in fact , the whole paragraph \ ras an unmitigated lie ; but by such lies the ' base , bloody , and brutal Whi gs '—as O'Connell , in a fit of honesty , called them—were enabled to make another assault upon the last few privileges of the Commons .
The people of England are said to live under a government of ' King ( or Queen ) , Lords and Commons ; ' but it is well known that in London no such authority is acknowledged . Although there has been no revolution in ' ihe metropolis of the world , ' nevertheless , we live under a ' Provisional Government—provisional until the people' win their ain again . ' The members of this government are neither peets , astronomers , nor historians ; they are
simply—thief catchers ! Yes , the people of London , whose forefathers resisted the edicts of the despot Charles , submit to the ukases of Commissioners Mayne and Rowak ; and , worse still—a large proportion of the Londoners are only t oo happy to acknowledge the Kings of Scotland-yard , whose ' notices' and ' proclamations' have altogether superseded the old-fashioned system of law-making by Act of Parliament .
On Saturday evening , the 10 th , out came the proclamations of the thief-catching autocrats , forbidding the intended meeting at Bonner ' s Fields , on the 12 th , and announcing that' all necessary measures ' would be taken to prevent such meeting being held . These measures were , as on ' the 10 th of April , ' the concentration of ten thousand tioopsiu the metropolis —the putting the pensioners under arms—the arming of the police with cutlasses—and the calling out of ' the specials' en masse . To these preparations must be added the fortifying and provisioning of the public offices to resist a siege ; and ambuscades and artillery to surprise , slaughter , and ' mow down in masses . '
The Sunday papers followed up the work commenced by the ' dailies , ' in demanding that ' the strong arm of constituted authority' should strike a blow that would be ' felt , ' and for ever put an end to Chartist demonstrations . Monday ' s Times , Chronicle , and other journals , contained the most atrocious incitements to the government , police , and military , to hesitate at no deed of violence to crush the working men . The Chronicle contained the following significant paragraph : — Wat Txleb . —This day is the anniversary of the death of Wat Tyler , who was killed on the 12 th of Juno . 1381 .
Of course , the pious wish of the Chronicle ruffian was that , on the 12 th of June , 18-18 , the ' authorities' of London might , by fraud and violence , obtain the privilege of sporting another bloody dagger ! Had there been no opposition to the intended meeting , the overmastering thunder storm which raged during the whole of the afternoon of Monday last , would have sufficed to have rendered any such gathering next to impossible . As it was , the Exe cutive did wisely and well in protecting the unarmed people from the sabres of tbe police , and the muskets of the soldiery , by adjourning the meeting .
The Executive had no thought of an armed meeting , —no thought of war or bloodshed , —and Messrs M'Douall and M'Crae would have been highly culpable had they hesitated to take the prudent course they did take . The getters up of the meeting purposed to speak not to fight , —to pass resolutions not make revolutions , —what madness , then , it would have been had they allowed indignation to usurp the place of prudence , and precipitated themselves and their followers against the deadly force which they had never counted upon having to contend against .
1 Of course , the daily deluders have sincp Monday been chuckling over the ' new defeat of the Chantists ; ' and once again that wretched thing , the Morning Advertiser , better known in London as ' The Tap-tith ; congratulates the country on the ' extinction oi Chartism . ' It adds to this flig ht of imagination a bit of truth which cannot be too often impressed upon the people— ' that the Chartists have no sympathy from the middle-classes . The middle-classes are , to a man , against them . '
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fndeed this -is- true . -There -may- be aminority amongst the shopocracry who in secret acknowledge the justice of the Chartist cause , and even wish the Chartists success , but in public they make no sign . By their silence they seem to share the hostile feeling of the majority of their class , and that hostility is of the deadliest character . Intormation from many quarters assures me that the great desire of the bourgeoisie was , that on Monday last a conflict mi ght furnish the police and military with an excuse for an indiscriminate and wholesale butchery . ' Shoot the dogs ; grape shot them , ' has been the furious language used by the shopocracy generally in reference to the Chartists . * Why are not the leaders transported ? ' 'Hang the rascals . '' have been the expressions of hellish hatred spurted from the foul tongues of the jury cfass during the last few weeks . Yet thousands of these ruffians are in
the jaws of bankruptcy . May destruction ' s sharklike grip close upon them ! When they are reduced to the miserable condition of tbe men whom they are so eager to bludgeon , —see slaughtered , transported , or hanged , —then , perhaps , but never till then , will they learn to feel for their fellow-men , and have some little comprehension of the principles of honesty , truth , and justice I have yet to notice the worst doings of the Press-gang—first , the alacrity with which the reporters are taking to the unclean work of spyism ; and secondly , the horrible efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of the arrested patriots .
Amongst all classes and all parties a ' spy' ia reputed infamous , and it is well known that , according to all the . usages of war , the mercy commonly ahown to captured enemies is never extended to this loathsome section of mankind . Now the reporter who attends meetings avowedly for the purpose of taking notes of the proceedings for a newspaper , but in reality to sell his 'joltings down' to the government , for the purpose of getting honest men imprisoned or transported , is—what else can he be ?—a « spy . ' It may be said that , when ' government reportera ' openly avow their attendance at meetings for the purpose of taking notes for their employers , they cannot be fairly regarded as spies . Perhaps not , but
they occupy scarcely a better position—that of political prostitutes , selling their skill for filthy lucre , to enable a corrupt and irresponsible government to wreak vengeance upon its enemies . I Use the term political prostitutes' advisedly . ' If Mahomet allowed women no souU , we may fairly refuse to believe tbat the reporting tribe are troubled with that thing called' conscience . ' The ' suckmugs , ' as Cobbett called them , report according to order . If they report for ihe Post or the Herald , they will swell a meeting of thirty Protectionists to three thousand . If they report for the Times ot Chronicle , they will perform the same act of kindness for the Free Traders aud Liberals . Both will depreciate
thirty thousand Chartists to less than as many hundreds . They put the balderdash of a fussy fool , known to possess a well-lined purse , into something like common-sensible shape , and declare he made' an eloquent and admirable discourse ; ' whilst the real sense and eloquence of a working man , is merely noticed as ' the usual Chartist stuff , ' ' the usual abuse of the constituted authorities , ' & c , & c . Possessing a certain amount of pot-house wit , picked up principally at ' Cogers Hall , ' the ' Coal Hole , ' and other similar establishments , they are only too happy to exhibit their' talents' in turning into ridicule the proceedings of the people , and making the wrongs and sufferings of the many , the subjects of ribaldry and burlesque .
The efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of Ernest Jones , and the other persons under arrest , are most disgusting . The Herald exclaims , ' There is no fear that men who declared that they intended outrage , and even assassination , shall be acquitted of any evil intention , and sent out upon society again as good and proper subjects . ' This is intended to prepare the jurors to decide the ' guilt' of the accused before-hand . The Sunday limes says— ' With respect to the leaders of this lawless and senseless movement who have already been arrested , no maudlin sympathy will be felt for them either by the great body of the English public , or by that class especially of which English juries are composed . ' This is an attempt to predetermine
the fate of the accused . That beastly publication , Lloyd ' s Threepenny Trash , after pretending to quote from the speeches of Messrs Jones and Sharp , says— ' Mitchel is on his way to Bermuda ; Jones , Sharp , Fussell , and WltUAMS Are CBged in Newgate , as the half-way house on the road of their destination . ' And the Times of Monday , the very day en which the Central Criminal Court Sessions opened , published , a few hours before the delivery of the Recorder ' s charge to the Grand Jury , a long series of reported extracts from speeches alleged to have been made by Ernest Jones , extending as far back a » the 4 th of April . The real object of this foul work of the truculent Times cannot be mistaken .
I find that the Examiner is at its dirty work again , in doing its utmost to injure poor Mitchel and his family . It denounces the authorities for having , as alleged ( it may have been only for a few days ) regained from subjecting the patriot to the humiliation Of the convict dress . With fiend-like malice the ruflian next assails Lord Cloncurry , and the other subscribers to the fund for Mrs Mitchel , remarking that that lady ' did her worst
to instigate a rescue -, ' and adding that' An inrpor tant check to criminal conduct ig the consideration that its consequences may involve not only the actor , but his wife and family , in distress or ruin . ' The mere destruction of the patriot does not suffice to glut the vengeance of this liberal miscreant ; he would fain see the wife in the union workhouse , or drink in the sounds of her last groans , as she and her children dted of hunger on the road-side S Such are the tender mercies of Liberals 1
In another article the ExAMlNKR calls upon the ruling powers , to give' the whole machinery of jus - tice a thorough overhauling and re-composition , to enable it to meet wiih effect and credit the demand which is likely to be made on its powers and services . ' The meaning of this is plain enough . The Examiner desires such machinery as will / under all circumstances , ensure the imprisonment , transportation , or hanging of ail the disaffected . Why not at once establish drum-head court-martials , as the only proper ' machinery' for the preservation of order' and' the laws ?'
With ' petitioning' and' memorialising' proved to be mockeries—the right of public meeting extinguished by brute force—the laws employed merely as the convenient machinery to sanction , and work the rule of the sword—and , in short , the much vaunted 'Constitution' shown to be a humbug , what is left to the suffering working men , but to pray day and night for the destruction of the present system , by any means that fate may send , —even though with the fall of the system the country itself should perish ? What is this ' country' to the unemployed , the starving , the politically proscribed , the socially persecuted , the gagged , bullied , belied , bludgeoned , and bayoneted millions ? ' Ob ! belter far Tbat the ocean o ' er us thundered , Tban be what we are !'
The Prench Republic claims a few remarks . The infamous measure for the suppression of public assemblages , on which I briefly commented in my last , was adopted by the National Assembly , by a majority of 478 against 82 . Of the five members of the Executive Commission , both Ledru-Roi-lin and Lamarting absented themselves from the Chamber during the discussion , 1 suppase to mark their hostility to the measure , and Flocon walked out when the division on the clauses ; commenced but it would have been a nobler course if all three
had resigned . The eighty-two members of' the Mountain' nobly protested against the atrocious law . 'You dishonour the Republic ! ' cried Citizen Guinard , from the extreme left . * You , the spoiled children of the Republic , ' cried another patriot , ' are strangling your parent * ' But in vain were these patriotic manifestations ; the bill was passed in the course of a single sitting . This bill , says the Times ' would , if it had esisted before the 22 nd of February , have effectually prohibited those demonstrations which led to the revolution . It was
beyond all question , an armed tumultuous assemblage which proclaimed the Republic in Fiance ; but the Republic has already shown more feav than gratitude to the author of its exigence . ' The recent elections have unhappily resulted in the return of that arch-intriguer Thiers , and that counterfeit of ' the Emperor , ' Louis-Napoleon . Happily these returns are counterbalanced by the election of Ca-ossidieri * ., Pierre Leroux , Proudhon , and Lagrange . Caussiiheue , although not too well liked by some of the ultra men of the clubs , is a thoroughly honest Republican , and a man capable of performing great deeds in the hour of crisis . Pikhbb Lkhoux is a soci ? . l philosopher of European fame . Proudhon , editor a ( the HepreskntanT nv Pecple , another Communist , according to the admission of his enemies , ' is a man of singular ori ginality and talent . ' Lagrange is an ultra demo-
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crat of the Babbes school ; a man of vast courage and energy . I am sorry to have to record the defeat of Thore , the able Editor of the Vuai Repcjeliqbe , and Rasp ail , the Editor of L'Ami du Pecple . Both these patriots should have beenand were very nearly-elected . The mass of the votes recorded for Catjssidiere , Lkrotjx , Proudhon , and Lagrange , were principally given in the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 rt , 8 th , 9 th , and 12 th
arrondissements , ths quarters of artisans and working men . This is a good sign . It shows that the men of the barricades are organising and concentrating their strength . Future electiona will , probably , be still more favourable to the cause of labour . The proper exercise of Universal Suffrage is to be learned only by repeated trials . Annual Parliaments are the best provision to ensure both honesty on the part of the elected , and wisdom on the part of the electors . L'Ami dd Peuple .
June 14 th , 1848 . P . Sj The strange scenes of which Paris has been the theatre during the last two or three days are most dispiriting . A thoughtless mob , containing , no doubt , a large number of paid agents shouting' Vive i'Empereur' in honour of that contemptible humbug , Louis Napoleon , and a government impotently energetic against a monstrous reaction , the creation of their own weakness and folly , are spectacles calculated to almost break the Hearts of those who regarded the 24 th of February as the dawn of
democratic freedom , happiness , and gloi 7 . Surely the people of France will not again bow their necks to the joke of monarchy ; surely they will not take for a new tyrant the London ' Special / who took Up a bludgeon on the 10 th of April , to aid the English aristocracy and bourgeoisie in their unholy war against the rights and liberties of the oppressed English people . I fear much that civil war and the re-establishment of royal tyranny are in store for France . This comes of' moderation . ' Oh ! for one hour of ' 93 !
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IHE * JBIBE MLOR . ' The ' Inisn Fbmh' ( late Unimd Ibiihuiii ) will make its first appearance on the 24 th inat . The prospectus is issued , sod announces tbat tho new paper will advocate and enforce , amongat others , the following principles : — That ths Irish psoplo havo o jut and Indefotwlble right to this island , and to all the moral Rsi material trealth and reiouross thereof , to possess and f overs ( he eame for their own use , maintenance , coafort , and hoaourasattata ; . That tbe cu . tom cillsd tenant right , which prevails par » ticularly ia the north of Trelind , ia eju « t and salutary custom , both for north ani ' eoath , that it ought to be extended and ficored in Ulster , and adopted and eaforoed by common consent in the other three provinces o { the island .
That every free man , aad every man who desires to become free , ought to here arms , and to practice the ate ol them . That the ' eorerelgn style , title , honour , end dignity » t an Irish Felon to British rulo , are higher , more glorloui , aad mora sacred , than those of any King or Queea oa earth ; and that the life and liberty of one Irish Velon are at le & et ai precious and taored as those of one K ' ng or Queen , one viceroy , one jadf e , or sheriff , or juryman . That every ana in Ireland who ahall hereafter pty taieafor tho support of the State , shall have a just right to an equal voice with ever ; other man in the go . vcrntnent ef that State , and the outlay of those tares . That no ' Combination of Clasisa' in Ireland is de . elrflble , jlllt , Or possible , eare oa th » terms of the rights of the Industrious classes being acknowledged and
secured . , THB IRISH LXAOUE . Ddbuk , Jdnb 10 . —The negotiations between tha Old and Young Ireiandera have resulted in a mutual determination to dissolve their respective associa tions , and establish in their stead a new and general Organisation , to be entitled , '• the Irish Leagna for * he Attainment of the Legislative Independence of Ireland . ' According to the Freeman of this morning , tbe directing bodisa of the existing ; associations , viz , the Committee of the Repeal Association aad tho Council Of the Confederation , are to be the original
members of the new ; and every contributor of one shilling shall be entitled to become a member . To s & cure unanimity , and guard against the possibility of division , bo mattter can ba introduced at the meetings which shall not have baen approved and sanctioned by a majority of the members of the council . One of the fundamental rules of 'the new organisation , that is to be , is , that no member shall be held bound by the expressed opinions of any other member . Such ia the basis of' the solemn league and covenant' between the rival houses ef Burgh Quay and Abbey-street .
BERMTJDA . THE PL 4 CB OF BXILB OP JOHN MTICHgL . Bbrmudas' Islands , or Somrus' Islands ; a cluster of small islands in the Atlantic ocean . They are in number about 400 , but for tho most part bo small and so barren , that they have neither inhabitants nor name . They were firat discorered . by Juan Bermudas , a Spaniard , in 1522 ; in 1609 , Sir Geo . SomBM , an Englishman , was wrecked here , and after his shipwreck , formed the first settlement . The most considerable of these islands are St George , St David , Cooper , Ireland , Somerset , Long Island , Bird Island , and Nonesuch . The first contains a town ( St George's Town ); the two following , some villages ; the others , only farms dispersed .
The air is so healthy , that sick people from the continent of America , frequently go thither for the recovery of their health . The winter ia hardly perceptible ; it may be said to be perpetually spring ; the trees never lose their verdure , and the leaves only fall when new onea begin to appear . Birds sing and breed without intermission . But these advantages are counterbalanced by frightful storms , accompanied by formidable thunder , which aro announced by a circle round the mion . Some fertile plains are sean , but , ill general , the country is mountainous . The soil is of divers colours , brown , white , and red , of which the first is the beat ; although light and atony , it is , in general , rich and fertile . The water is , in general , salt ; there is but little fresh , except rain water , preserved in cisterns . The inhabitants gather two harvests of Indian corn in a year , ene in July
and the other in December ; this forms their principal food . They likewise cultivate tobacco , legumes , and fruits suffieient for their wants . Their trees are principally cedar and palmetto . Besides these they have orange trees , olive , laurel , pear trees , & c The red wood is peculiar to these islandi ; its coloured fruit feeds worms , which become flies , a little larger than the cochineal bug , instead of which they are ussd . There are no venomoua reptiles Building of vessels is the principal trade of the inhabitants . These islands extend from KE . to S . W „ about fortyfive miles The whole shore is surrounded with rocks , most of which are dry at low water , but covered at flood . They are 230 leagues S . E Cape Fear , in North Carolina . The north point of these islands lies in Ion . C 4 o , 28 ' W . ; lat . 32 o . 22 ' N . Population a few years since . 10 , 381 ; white 5 . 462;—slaves , 4 , 919 . —Popular Encyclopedia .
[ There are 2 , 500 convicts continually working there in gangs upon the dock-yards and fortification , which are most extensive and formidable . Bermuda is garrisoned by two companies of Royal Artillery , one of Sappers and Miners , Royal Marines , and both battalions of the 42 nd Royal Highlanders . It is also the principal naval rendezvous for her Majesty ' s fleet on that station . The governor is Captain Charles Elliott , R . N . The Thames convict hulk , a huge leviathan oi the deep , is moored at Bermuda . J Mrs Mitchel —We havo been informed that this lady has purchased a , passage for herself and a portion of her family in a vessel which will sail for Bermuda in a few days . It is to be presumed that she is impelled tj this step by tbe hope of frequently enjoying the society of her unfortunate husband ; but it is scarcely necessary to say tbat it the same discipline , or anything like it , be observed in this case as ia experienced by other convicts , her object will not be accomplished by the voyage . —Dublin World .
Mns Mitchel . —A portion of tha family of Mr Mitchel have arrived ia Neary , his native town , where , we understand , it is the intention of Mrs Mitchel to fix her residence during the banishment of her husband . —Ncwry Examiner . Jons Mitchel —A younger brother of John Mitchel sailed from Liverpool , on Saturdaj , in the Britannia , for New York . He purposes , it was conjectured , to proceed to Bermuda , on matters of a family nature , to his brother . The Great Weatern steam ship plies regularly between New York and Bermuda , the voyage being about seventy hours . By later accounts we learn that there is after all ' nothing settled . ' So says Mr John O'Connell in the following letter addressed to the Freeman's Joorkal ;
Sib . —I most sincerely regret to have such reason to fear that the doiircd coalition of the Repealers is not so immediately practicable as is predicted in the Mobnimq 1 ' aEEMaK of this day , that I cannot let the week close without nviklng public my impression ou this subject , I have received from a most important quarter , a remonstrance , couched in the very strongest terms , against giving up tho R ; p ; nl Association founded by Daniel O'Cjnnell . Difficulties of detail also have to some ex ' . cut intervene ! upon points of great importance ; but my great reason for fearing thut the oRlitiou may no : very speedily occur is , from tho remonstrance iu question , The importance of the qjarter from whence ft cornea cannot bu overrated ; and I am bound also to say , that ^ eommunkatlous to the sam-j effect , from other qu " . rters , also of great importance , bsve reached me since tho first came to linnd . I , therefore , pray the friends of the Repeal Association tUrou 6 -hout tho coun . r ) te understand Wat , as vet , nothin * ia settled . ^ .
I am , dear Sir , your obliged Servant , • . Saturday ? ' JoM ffOoMttM . Dctl-w , JesK 11-The sittings of the' Repeal As-Bociation are postpsned for a fortnight . Mr John
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O'Connell made an elaborate exposition of the principles on winch " be waa ready to enter into the proponed union . Several letter * for and against * . ae league were read , tbe mo ^ t inn lemial of which wure froM the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath aad Uean of Ardagh , whose diocesan , Dr O'Higgins , ia at present in Rome . TheBilhop of Elphin is also adverse to ths merging of the old association . Nothing beyond the suspension and the speech was done , until the opinion of the country can be collected . Tho statement of Mr John O'Connell was received , with considerable hissing from the body of tho nwi , whete it ia said the Young Inlanders congregated m some force .
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THE HiEMED CBiBTIBTB—JOJJW o ' cohbeli . ' b TttEisoM —MO » R 4 tt » B 8 T 81 DM . OBID—THB * IBI » H TBIBBwa ' AM > THB " IBI 8 H FBIOU '—STATE OP THE HIMAHD DISTaiCM , iPPALLINQ H 18 E & Y—STATfl OF TBB CBOVS—OHIVKBSiA r ^ VTBWK AND OEEFSBATIOH OF TBE 7 BA 8 ANT & T . ( From our own Correspondent . ) DCBWH , JOBS 12 TH . And so the Whigs are going to ' treat' the people ot ? England to a dose of the specific which they have Jult now administered io iudustriOUlly In Ireland ! Well , * this bangs Banaghrr , ' and they say oyer fcere , tbat Banagher beat the deril . ' If this he trae , hie cloven , hoofed mej'g-j cannot hold a candle to ourrulwrs beyoad thSherrlng . pond , Aftfr all , we * mere Irish' are no beU ter than overgrown fooli . We Imagined that * ffe alow
would came tn for tho satchml care of the Whige , « ad that though they might' kill us with kindh « M , ' or givo a few of ua the benefits of * ' free patasge' to Bermuda ov Sydney , to Spike Island or Norfolk frlaad , to ' If ova Zembla or the Lord knows whete , ' still we never dreamed they would concede tho same privileges to ' ( rueborn Britons , ' though they might be Chartlete or CtHu federate * , or even tinged rrlth a * ta » ta * of RepablleadlsiO . We Imagined that the Whigs had «< * > tH € taln * r Of tbe 88 « i > city End prudence of the fos in them . Reynard , it is remarked , seldom commlte depredations on the tearoost or dackhoaiein the vicinity of his den—ther ' ) k scarcely « ver annoys tbe firmer in the neighbourhood of the rookery ; and , until now , peop . 'e , over here , imag ined that we alone were to be the prey of the foxes end
carrion crows of th j EoglUh government . We know tha onrruUrtcoMtdertvay treatment ( hanging Itself not excepted ) too good for the ' alien' Irish , bat wo had no notion that tbey had the temerity to wage war with thulr own people , and , like ths ftmtne-s ' rleken mothers of Rome In old times , and of Skibbereen on yesterday , try » protracted straggle for eiiitence by sucking the lifeblood of their own children . Bat it appears tbat we are mistaken . A § the canny Scotchman sayi— ' Nnebsdy can tell what may come to pass aoo , ' and people muet ao longer be iurprlsed at any audacity , or HUga'ity , or iy . ranny perpetrated by the men (?) at the head of tbe British government' The chivalrous Ernest Jones was a etu .-atling block in their way ; he must be rtmoved at aU hazards , and Fatiell , Williams , cad tbe rest most be
victimised as an example to all other Britons ot tae ' loner orders' who would dare to assert the dignity of human nature or claim those rights and privilege * of Englishmen , which existed since the tyrant John qua '" jd before tbe brave barons on the classic field of Runny , meds . Hen of England , wilt this bet Is there no appeal—no retouroe—no blood in the anoe brave , fearless , and unbending sons of Britain ? Will Ernest Jones be sent after John Mitchel , or must his lets-talsated fellow * 1 felons' be lacrificed at the shrine of Whig-robbery aud revenge f ' 6 fnd forbid ! ' said our noble Irish O'Connor ' that I should be a special constable '— ' 6 od forbid that the honest , bold . spoken men , now in the gripn of the government , should ba ruined because tbey lov-ad their country and eald that Englishmen ought to bofreet
The people of Dublin are much exasperated at the Chartist arrests in London and elsewhere . There it a perfect community of feeling now between the straggling cloem » f Ireland and England—at all events the people of this country are no longer oafeless spectators of what le passing amongst tbe English enemies of Whlggery and corruption . Ernest Jones le very pepuJar ia this oitybis talents are much admired , and his unflinching antagonism » o the common fos , makes that gentleman an object of much anxious inquiry and solicitude . Wo fervently wish that be may not fall a prey to the bloodthirsty villains in whose snures he has become entangled . In my last communication I hinted , nay—expressed my conviction , that there was a likelihood of a complete anion of Repealers being immediately effected in Ireland . The national hopes ran high—men ' s pulses throbbed nith delight at the glorious prospect ; but alas !
I fear we are doomed to disappointment , John O'Coanoli—the puny , middling , insignificant Jahn O'Connell—cannot bear a reconciliation . He has grave reasoas fthy he should oppose a junctUa of C moiliation Hall with the Confederates . He la advised by certain ' unmentionable' parties , not to Buffer ' the house that TJatv built' to be upset , even though the salvation of Ireland depended uprm its overthrow . Ob ns 1 that brawling braggart would ' rayther die en the floor of tho Hosse of Commons than that a Coercion Bill should pate for Irehad . ' Yet the BUI did pass , and John did not give op the ghost . He will now prefer to give his last kick in the rostrum of Conciliation Hall , ' rayther * than allow a treaty of peace and union to be ratified with ' Toung Ireland , ' A « bofll * liih , tbat unloa toll " , be effected , and that peace trill be proclaimed in 8 plU of him , and 0 . 0 won't' die * neither until he will see himself and his
' moral force' tam-fooleiy , driven from the coanolls of brave and unpurcioseabU Irishmen . The reign of' humbug' is <") Yer , Spouting is bow out of season . Ths' reat ' is' gone out , ' too , for lest week it was but £ 9 or so ; and the Irish peasant would new laugh to scorn the ' Repeal warden ' who would ask him for the accustomed shilling , Paddy would prefer laying out his shillings on a good ' Croppy , ' or O UUBty ' Mi ' cbel' than exchange them for Thomas Matthew Ray ' s bit of printed pasteboard . Oh i no ! John at / sic , your esn is set . Ton mast become a ' felon , ' or you mast , in vulgar parlance , * shut op' altogether .
There will be a full meeting of tbe Cosfederatts at Music Hall , on next Wednesday evening , It is supposed that it will eclipse even the glorious hosting of the 7 th last ., though Indeed that was a magnificent affair . The Confederates are not cowed by the fate of Mitchel . They Will go on , and I feel strong hopes that we are near a successful termination of onr straggles . Bravery and honesty cannot be foiled fer ever . The right is en our Ido , Truth Is with u > , and 'Magna est Veritas etprevatebft , ' The Evening Feiiiian of last Saturday in a second edition , had a rumour that T . F , Meoghtr , Eiq ,, and Richard © 'Gorman , Esq , were to be arrested on the ' Felony' Act on this day . Up to twelve o ' clock nothing has takon plaoo in tbig way , but I would not wonder if those gentlemen were inmates of the station-house this very night .
Oa Saturday , the first number of the laisn TamoNE » ade its first appearance It is respectably ' got up . ' —JOOd typOi correctly printed , and gives a lair quantity of matter for the price . It is embellished by a very exeellentllkeneis ef John Mitctie ' , engraved on wood , accompanied by a brief , and very loosely and clumsily written memoir of the glorious exile . It also has the novelty ( in Irish journals ) , Of a feullUlon in which a clever tale by our illustrious countryman , William Carleten , is comm need . This tala is called ' the Evil Eye , ' and promises to be a story of great Interest—as is everything
from the prolific pen of Carle ton . Tbe leading articles Of the TRIBUNE are in the right spirit of thorough-going nationality . One thinj I must say , however , tkat the proprietors of the Tbibuhe would want to bring more spirit and more taUnt to the task they have undertaken , Mr C ii le ton's light does not extend its radiance without tie boundaries of the ftuilMm . The original political writing . Is , to say the least of it , compiled in the true ' penny-a-line' fashion . This will never do for ths other , wise resptctably-cenductod Tbibone . The poetry is milk-and-waterish enough too . But I trust each succeeding number will bring Improvement ? .
The Ibish Fkiok will com ? out on Saturday , the 21 th inst . It will have immense circulation , and I am certain it will deserve it , Mr John Martin , of Loughorne , will be Its registered proprietor aud chief editor , assisted by the Rev . ; Mr Kenyon , Thomas Devin Reilly , and James F . Lslor , Esq . —a eon of the late worthy representative of the Queen ' s County , Patrick lalor , Esq ., of Tennakill . With such a corps the Ibish Feios will be the 1 leading journaf , ' if not of Europe , at least of Antt-Snsony . Those young men are all possessed of first-rate talents and If they are not' feloiss' at heart , there ' s not a' Cottoner in Cork . ' The Feion will be a worthy successor of The United IsienJtAN , and if ever a number of it should come into ths hands of the brave Mitchel in his exile , bo will rejoice that big mantle has not fallen on unworthy shoulders , or his pike got into the hands of cravens , or runaways , or traitors . Success to tho Fklow .
I have been on a ramble through some of the midland districts of Ireland during the last vyoek . Tho appearance of the country at this moment would remind one of many scenes to be met with in Eastarn climes . Gran , dear and Desolation—Magnificence and Meanness , — Plenty and Poverty—Luxuriance and Sterility—Im . provements and Decay : the Few wallowing in all the good things that a rich soil and a splendid climate can produce ; the MaNV—tho MuuoNS— suffering all tko horrors of famine , pestilence , and tyrannic sway . Such Is Ireland tit present . The newspaper pictures of Irish misery are terrific , indeed , but , alas ! they fall far short of tbe awful reality , I was notprepared for tho revolting misery which I found all over the wide circuit which I travelled , and amongst almost every sr ^ e < in < i section of tho people—from the holder of twenty acres , down to the mcro cottier and day laboursr . Were another person to tell me of these thiugs I could not bDllovo Mm . Bui ns wo ia Ireland , ' seeing is cohering , ' and the
say * siKhts and Bou nds ' with which I became aiquaintod oa inst wetk , shBll never be erased . from asy memory . Those who remember the more mournfal passages In OoidsiBith ' e beautiful description of The Deaerted Vil . luge , ' will unders tand me when I assert , that his re . marks aro more or less applicable to almost every Irish hamlet and village at tho present hour . Tho country teems with beaut / , —ne ! - , luxuriant , surpassing beauty , —the flovrcrs bloom as gaily and as vividly as ever ; tbe song-birds hUt ' fragrant air with their joyful notes as iu tho days of old ; the fields smiio with tho promiso of un early and abundant harvest . Providence , in 1818 , das lefi ' uO'hing undone to muko this country one of the richest end t ! i ° happiest regions of the globe . But , alas ! lure I must turn the picture , shift tho scene , and now , beho ' . d the prospect which opens to the view ! Laok along thm fliwet sunny hedge row by the wbj side , where tho hip-rose li opening Its maiden blossoms , and where the red-bicaat is twittering her soft notes of love
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 17, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17061848/page/3/
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