On this page
- Departments (3)
- Adverts (12)
-
Text (9)
-
4 ' THE NORTHERN STAR. ___ , - Atow 88, ...
-
SECRST SOKKOW \ CEUTA1X IIELV 1 Immense Success of the few Mode of Treatment which has never failed.
-
NOTICE 1 ! TO READERS, SUBSCRIBERS, AND ...
-
"»¦> ,£. , ^ Co ffiomspomjema.
-
T!,o. .uM^Vfi i Camhu ^^s< Sco tlnnd .-U...
-
THE'HOBTHEBI STAB SATURDAY, AUGUST »3. ISffli
-
MR. O'CONNOR. No man in this country eve...
-
THE LYONS PLOT. . ' A secret plot for th...
-
THE 'HOLY VAi\. Ireland has been selecte...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
4 ' The Northern Star. ___ , - Atow 88, ...
4 ' THE NORTHERN STAR . ___ , - Atow 88 , 1861 ; \
Secrst Sokkow \ Ceuta1x Iielv 1 Immense Success Of The Few Mode Of Treatment Which Has Never Failed.
SECRST SOKKOW \ CEUTA 1 X IIELV 1 Immense Success of the few Mode of Treatment which has never failed .
Ad00405
TYR . ALFRED BARKER , 48 , Liverpool \ j Street , King ' s Cross , Loudon , From many years' experience at ths various hospitals in London and on the ' Centiueut , is enable ! to treat with the utmost certainty of cure , every variety of disease arising from solitary habits , excesses , and infections , such as gonorrheas , gleet , stricture , and syphilis , or venerea ! disease , in all their stages , -which , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rheumatism , indigestion , debility , shin diseases , pains in the kidneys , back , and loins , and finaUy , an agonising death . ' lie lamentable neglect of these diseases hy mtdieal men in general is well known , and their futile attempts to cure by the use of these dangerous medicines—mercury , copaiba , cubebs , & c , havs produced very distressing results . All sufferers are earnestly invited to apply at once to vr . Barker , who guarantees a speedy and perfect cure , « ma Of every Byiupton , whether primary or secondary w 1 " }™' any of the above medicine ? , thus prevents « £ »¦«* £ lity of any after symptoms . . Tins iruib has been erta
Ad00406
IIKALTJI WJlERfi 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . Cure of a Disordered liver and Stomach , tvhen in a most hopeless state . Extract of a Letter from Air . Matthew Harvey , of Chape ! Hall , Airdris , Scotland , dated the 13 th of January , JS 52 . Sia , —Your valuable pills have been the means , with God ' s blessin ™ , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and a . ; a time -sfheti I thought I was on the Drink of the grave . I had consulted several cmineat doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered my t-ase -as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of jour pills , whieh = 01 . 11 gave reiki ; and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest andstomacb , and right side , I have by theu- mean ' s alose got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows roe . —( Signed ) . Matthew lLas-\ -zr . —To Proiessor HottrUWAT . Cure of a Case of . Weakness and Debility , of Four
Ad00407
DUPTUBES EFPEC ^ nJALl ^ rouiiEB A * WITHOUT A TRUSS ! ^ - ^^ h ALFBp Bakes begs to inform the readers of the - " - osrapN SrAS that a Volume of Upwards of One Thou * sacd Testmoaials will shortly be published . BEAU THE FOLLOmso : — la Ue five case 1 wrote 10 you about , the remedy has
Ad00408
perfectly succeeded ; send me anotiier for a case of Scrotal Hernia . '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . We have witnessed the cure of three easts of Uupture by Dr . Hakkek ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks W 6 made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia . ' .-Medical Joubsal . ' Ycur remedy has cured my Uupture after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its coming down . '—Miss Symmonds , Bajswater . ' A fair time has elapsed since I used your remedy , and moreover I have been examined by a surgeon , who declares it is quite cured . '—Mr . Potts , Bath . ¦ I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters , and thank you for your kind attention . Yeur remedy has cured my rupture . ' —Mrs . Farrcn , Woburn , ' Jlmiv thanks for your remedy ; I have thrown away my Truss , glad enough to get rid of the torture of it . '— G . Henrys , Chepstow . ' ily rupture being twenty-eight years old , I really never expected so per . 'cct a cure . '—Mr . " Eldred , grocer , Long thorpe .
Ad00409
THOMAS COOPER , - »• Author of ' The Purgatory of Suicides , - ie . Deliveks Oeatioks on the Following Subjects : — The Genius of SJsjkspeare , as displayed in his ' Hamlet ; ' with headings and Recitations from the flay , the Music of Ophelia ' s Songs , & c . The Life and Genius of Milton ; with Kccitations from 'Paradise Lost , ' & c . The Life and Genius of Burns ; with the Music of some of his Songs , Recitations of ' Tarn o ' Shanter . ' Are . The Life aud Genius of Byron ; with Readings and Recitations from his Works The life andgenius of Shellev , with Itwidmgs Hecitations from his works . Civilisation : What it was in the Past—what it effects for Man in ihe present , and the universal Human llappmess it must produce in the Future . The English Commonwealth : Founders of the Struggle—Coke . Selden , Elliot , J ' ym , Hampden , A-c—Despotism of the King- , and Tyranny of Laud—Civil AVar-Death of Hampden—Battle of Naseby—Imprisonment , Trial , and
Ad00410
For any number of Orations , oeuvereo . on successivi nights , Thirtj Shillings each . 5 Park Row , Knightsbridge , Lond .-n . * B —When the distance from London is great , and . ' special journey has to be made from tbe Metropolis-o ; course , some allowance for extra travelling expenses wit be expecttd . II c-tn only accept invitations from Yorkshire and Lan cashire , to the end of October . My Mends may address me for the next fortnight— ' Care of Mr . Barlow , book seller 1 , Nelson-street , Newcastle . on-Tyne . ' -T . C ]
Ad00411
THE CfilSlAL JTALAUii . The following Engravings of this unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had . at this Office : — I—View of the Exterior of the Building ; a magnificent print—two feet long—exquisitely engraved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Pkice oslt Sixpence , tt —Proofs of the Same Print , printed on ' thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price One Shilling . Ill—The Same Print , Superbly Coloured ; on extra Drawing Paver , and finished in the most exquisite style .. Price Two Shillings aud Sixpence . IV . —View of the Interior , as it appeared on one of the most crowded days ; a magnificent Print , twenty-eight inches long , taken from tho centre of the Building , showing the entire length , and containing several hundred figures , PiUCK SlXPE . VCE . V . — 'The Same Print , on Super Drawing Paper , coloured in the richest style , forming an exact representation of the Building . Puics okly ( X \ K SUIUISO . The usual allowance to the Trade and Dealers . Office , 10 , Great Windmill Street , Ilaymarket .
Ad00412
Just Published , IN NOS . AT ONE PENNY EACH , THE EMIGRANT ' S GUjIdF " tO THE GOLDEN LAND pALIFORNI . A V ITS FAST IIISTOKY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS PUTUUE PROSPECTS : WITH A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD HEOION , . AND TI 1 E SUBSEQUENT IMtoitTA & 'T rKOCBEDIiYGS .
Ad00413
In Kos . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A IIISTOKY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIOUS
Ad00414
flow Publishing in A ' os . at One Penny each . By the Authoress of ' The Gipset Girl . ' Eacli P ^ nni : Sombek of this Novel will contain Sixteen PftgfcSof solid print . THE TRIALS * OF * LOVE OB , WOMAN'S REWARD : ItY Mrs . II . M . LOWNDES ,
Ad00415
Just published , price One Shilling , rPHE APPLICATIO N OF ASSOC 5 IAJL TIVE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS TO ' AGRI CULTUKL \ -A LEoratE , delivered on behalf of the S 0-ciety for promoting Working Men ' s Associations , on Wed . nesdai , Ma * , 1851 , by the Iter . CuAntEs King lev jun ., Kector of Eversley . "' f L . H nd ^ "hed by John jaraes Be zer , at the Office of the 'Chnatian Socialist , ' 183 Fleet-street ..
Ad00416
In the matter of " an ft . ctto cisaorre " « = Company' and to dispose of the Lands and property helonging to the Company , and to wind up the undortahine , " and of the Joint Stock Companies Winding-up Acts , 1818 and 18 iS ) . . T JOSEPH HUMPHRY , ESQ ., J ) the Master of the High Court of Chancery , charged with the Winding up of thi < Company , hereby give notice thut I shall , at my chambers , Southampton-buildings , Chancery-lane , London , on Thursday , the itfi day of September next , at twelve o ' clo . 'k at noon precisely , or at Kiich adjourned time or place as 1 may then or afterwards fix appoint an Official Manager , or Official Managers , of this Company . And I give notice , that all parties interested are entitled to attend at such time and place and to offer proposals or objections as to any such appointment .
Ad00417
In the matter cf '' an Act to dissolve 'the National Land Company' iindtn dispose of the Land and property belonging to the Company , and to wind up ihe undertaking , " and of the Joint Stock Companies' Winding-up Acts , 1818 and 1819 . NO TICK is hereby given that all parties claiming to be creditors of the above-mentioned Company are to ccme in and prove their debts before Joseph Humphry , Esq ., the Master of the High Court of Chancery , charged with the Winding-up of the said Company , at his chambers , in Southampton-buildings , Chancery-lane , London . And that until they shall so come in they will be precluded from commencing or prosecuting any proceedings for recovery of their debts .
Ad00418
TVTOTES TO THE PEOPLE , iM An Organ for TRADES GRIEVANCES . A Systematic exposure of tie Tiiaod , Injustice , a . vd Orrr . Essio . v of The Employed nr toe Ejiflotek . Published every Saturday , containing forty Columns Of close print ( besides wrapper ) for Two Pence . us ERMS ! JOBES . Head dumber Seventeen !! . ' ( Publishing thisdav , ) For an exposure of the atrocious treatment of the Welsh Miners , and of the Operatives of Stockport and Droylsden , Published hy J . Pavey , it , Holywe ' . l-street , Strand , London . '
Ad00420
NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . q ^ HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X hereby announce the following meetings — On Sundaj next , at three o clock in the afternoon the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall ' toellrolmemS ,, tbKSUi , ^ ^ i < »»« iij attendance on Sunday evening nest , tlie late Crown and Anchor locality will meet at the White Horse , liare-street , Bethual-On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Amis Tonbridge-screot . Kewroad , a lecture will be delivered . Oil Sunday evening , lit the Lherary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Mr . Robert Cooper will lecture . Subject : ' The Monsser Nuisance of the Age—What is it *' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Leicester-place . St . t ' eter ' s-terrace , Hattougarden , Mr . W . Broom will lecture . On the same evening , at the Ship , High-street . Great WUCll . StrCOt , Whitoohapel , a discussion will take place on the merits of Free Trade and Protection . Messvs . Shaw , Davis , and others , will attend . On the same evening , the Washington Locality willmect at the Two Chairmen , Wardour-street , Soho , to enrol members , and other business , and also for discussion . On the same evening at 21 , Vine-street . Uatton-garden , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , the Political Victims' Association wid meet at ir » . Cuddridge'a , Corner of Queen-street and Frith-street . Soho . On the same evening , at the Lecture-room , 5 , Gale ' s , row , Straight ' s Mouth , Greenwich , a lecture will be delivered . On Tuesday evening , in the Cofrec-rtom of tlic Johnstreet Institution , a meeting will be held for tlie purpose of discussing the following question : 'What is th .- Radical Cure for the present Social Condition of Society V The sub-secretary "ill be in attendance to enrol members . Chair to be taken at half past eight o ' clock . On Tuesday evening , at the Paragon Chapel , Bcrmondsey New-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , at the Literary Institution , Leicester-place , Hay-s ' reet , Glerkt-nnrell , a " public meeting will be held to review ths i > 4 itical events of the week . On Wednesday evening , at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey New-road , the Bermoudsey Lecaliiy will meet to enrol members . On Thursday evening , at the Hope Coffee-house , Bridport-place , the Hoxton Locality will meet to enrol mem bers . On Saturday evening , the Cripplegate Locality will meet at thu City Hall , 2 G , Golden Lane , Barbican . On the same evening , at the Lecture lioums , opposite Regent-strcet , Vau : ; h :: ll Bridge-road , a meeting will be held for the promotion of the popular cause . gW Notices of Lectures , < fcc , will be gladly inserted in this list , provided the same be forwarded to the i hove office ou or before Thursday noon . Signed on behalf of the Committee , Jons Abso . t , General Secretary .
Notice 1 ! To Readers, Subscribers, And ...
NOTICE ! TO READERS , SUBSCRIBERS , AND FRIENDS . "We hare this week issued a circular to all our agents , intimating that , on and after Saturday , the 30 th inst ., the publishing arrangements of the 'Star' will be placet ! on the same footing as those of all other metropolitan weekly journals . From that date no papers will be supplied except for cash .
In consequence of not acting upon this general rule of tho trade , Mr . O'Connou has suffered heavily in past times , aud has now owing , in small separate sums , an aggregate debt of some thousands of pounds . \ Ve have ho doubt our readers pay for theii' papers when they receive them ; we only want the agents to do the same when they take them from us ; and to content themselves with their legitimate profit , instead of taking paper , printing , government stamp , and editorial labour from us without making any return . In carrying out this arrangement , it is quite
possible that some of our readers may be disappointed iu receiving their papers for the first week or two . If so , they will know where the fault lies , and they can easil y remedy it . They have only to give their orders to another news-agent , who is in the habit of observing the trade rule , and sending his money with his orders to his wholesale agont , either in Londoner in the country . If no such person be available , a quarter ' s payment in advance , or the remittance of the price of a single number in postage stamps weekly , will ensure the paper regularly from this office by post .
We hope , however , that tlie ample IlOtiCQ we havo given of the change will enable all our present agents to make arrangements accordingly ; aud that , while the proprietor of the ' Star' will in future be honestl y paid for the papers' he supplies , the readers of tho ' Star' will suffer no inconvenience , but receive our Journal as usual . We may add , that during the vacation , we purpose to use our best efforts to make it second to none , as to the value , variety , and importance of its contents .
Wo find that the circular , which , under present circumstances , wc felt it our duty to ispue , has givon offence to some of our agents . It is a pleasiug duty to us to state , that we have many of tho most honourable men in the trade acting in that capacity , whose payments arc prompt , and whose conduct merits not only our respect aud esteem , but the confidence of the public iu all trade t ansactions . In commencing a new arrangement for tho publication of the 'Star , ' however , we were necessarily obliged to announce the causes of that alteration ,
without specific reference to individuals ; and we shall deeply regret if that indispensable announcement has either hurt the feelings or , iu the remotest degree , injured any honourable agent . To them , we shall look for the same prompt and tradesman-liko conduct wo have always experienced at their hands ; while we must repeat that the circumstance in which wo are placed during Mr . O'Conkoh ' . s absence from England , will compel us imperatively and rigourously to act upon the arrangement ; of which wo have givon
"»¦≫ ,£. , ^ Co Ffiomspomjema.
" »¦> , £ . , ^ Co ffiomspomjema .
T!,O. .Um^Vfi I Camhu ^^S< Sco Tlnnd .-U...
T ! , o . . uM ^ Vfi i Camhu ^^ s < Sco tlnnd .-Ueceived D P !™ k- ' S > aU have 0 ur attention next week ' A « Stion " H ^ Z ? he Proceedings of the Democratic ta , iVSh K ^ »« ««<* of the periods alluded , the filli 3 , „ V , tis upon our columns , occasioned bv nossibiitv % " triai ilt Stafford . ' precluded the E §» £ » iK 3 £ " 'ass : BS » One or the People , Edinburgh—We are snrrr thof ssaassssH- " - * K
The'hobthebi Stab Saturday, August »3. Isffli
THE'HOBTHEBI STAB SATURDAY , AUGUST » 3 . ISffli
Mr. O'Connor. No Man In This Country Eve...
MR . O'CONNOR . No man in this country ever sustained a more arduous and protracted contest with successive hostile Governments , or so resolutely encountered the prejudices and the persecution of the ruling classes , as Mr . O'Connor . For a period of nearly twenty years he has occupied the frcntrankof the Chartist battle , and borne
the heat and burden of the fray . Prosecution after prosecution has been instituted , in accordance with the advice of Lord Melbourne' Ruin him with expenses ; ' and not only has he suffered iu purse and person from these direct attempts to ruin him , but ho has , at all times , been called upon to contribute largely to tho defence and the support of others in tho day of trouble and adversity .
Nobly and courageously has he borne himself ; but there is a limit to human endurance and individual power . Even Mr . O'Connor ' s Herculean frame , sanguine , temperament , and capability of enduring fatigue , anxiety , aud hard labour has succumbed under the burdens thrown upon him in connexion with the popular movement . During a considerable portion of the lato Session of Parliament , his health was so enfeebled and shattered that ho was not able to take any very active part in public business ; and he has now availed himself of the recess to visit the Continent , where , we understand , he will remain for some time , with tbe view of restoring that health and energy which the labours and the anxieties of the last few
years have so seriously injured . It is , we believe , not only for personal , but pecuniary reasons , that he has been compelled to take this course . The affairs of the National Land Company have latterly entailed upon him endless trouble and annoyance . Instead of benefiting by that Company , as his slanderers have calumniously asserted , thousands of pounds of his own money havo been sunk in its operations ; aud ho has injured , to
iv large extent , Ws own establishment in endeavouring to meet claims connected with it , which had no more right to fall upon him than the Man in the Moon . Tho result is , that until the affair is wound-up Mr . O'CoNKOK will unfortunately suffer much more from its failure in a pecuniary sense than any of the thousands who embarked in that well-meant experiment for tho improvement of the labour iag classes .
Ill health and the circumstances to which vre have thus briefly alluded , have combined to induce him to retire for a while from the arena of active public life . In tho interval he will , we trust , he able , with renewed strength and energy , to arrange his personal affairs in such a manner as will , when he returns , etiable him to give to the People ' s cause the same powerful aud disinterested advocacy which has characterised bis long public career , and we are sure that wo but echo the cordial and heartfelt wishes of
thousands of his admirers and attached disciples when we wish him a speedy restoration to health , and an end of the difficulties in which his liberal and great pecuniary sacrifices for the cause have placed him . We trust that we shall have , occasionally , contributions from his pen , explanatory of his views on home and foreign politics . And wc hope that during his absence the ' Old Guards' of Chartism will rally round and support the ' Northern Star , ' which we need not say will continue what it has ever beenthe faithful and uncompromising advocate of the People ' s Charter , and of every measure calculated to elevate and improve the condition of the masses , politically , socially , and morally .
The Lyons Plot. . ' A Secret Plot For Th...
THE LYONS PLOT . . ' A secret plot for the wholesale destruction of life and property ' is one of the most hacknied devices of oppressive and unpopular governments for prolonging power , * A bloodthirsty aud extensively ramified conspiracy , ' is au approved method of frightening the ' comfortable classes' into fits , and enabling the tyrants , for the time being , to trample , with impunity , upon ' law and order , ' in the name of both . Plots which have been hatched by
police invention , and matured by the infernal iugenuity of hired emissaries , are always duly ripened , aud discovered just atthenickot ' time , to suit the purposes of their originators . The miscreants , upon whom the infamous duty devolves of carrying out the scheme , seldom fail to fieduco some sincoro , but impatient and short-sighted haters of tyranny , into complicity with them . This gives an appearance of reality to the concoction ; and when the apies and informers have succeeded to that extent , the mine is ready for springing . The contrivers of the so-called conspiracy from the commencement havo taken care to keep the
whole affair entirely in their own hands , and under their own control . They have , during its progress , lashed the public mind into a fever of anxiety aud alarm , and , at the convenient moment , the dupes and victims of the plot are dul y assembled to be pounced upon by the police , —their trials take place before panic-stricken jurors and partisan judges , who receive , with eager and unquestioning credulity , the testimony of the perjured and conscienceless wretches , by whom the whole nefarious plot has been ' got up , ' and exile for life , or death on the scaffold , is the appropriate finale of the coolly planned official conspiracy andjudicievl tragedy .
The city of Lyous is , at the present moment , the scene of one of these police hatched dramas . For many months the French papers in the pay of the Government , and the reactionary parties , have been engaged iu stimulating the fears of the neutral aud easv-going classes , by affectedly mysterious , and halfwhispered revelations of an extensivei v ramified plot of the Red Republicans . The Assembly has separated for a short vacation , and it
is thought the time has come for the denouement of the carefully prepared and long hatched Government conspiracy . It will , during the recess , prevent the people from coolly scrutinising the conduct and tlie policy of those who now hold the reins of power ; and it will hel p to deter man y veil meaning people from all ying themselves with the constitutional and popular party , by associating it with deeds of violence , bloodshed , anarchy , and spoliation .
How cleverly theaftair has heonmanaged by the official plotters against the well-being and peace of society may be judged from the following facts . . According to the constitution , ' the offence of those engaged in what is termed the great Lyons Conspiracy is a political one , and ou ^ ht to be tried b y tho civil tribunals and juries , lhat course of procedure " would , however , have given the accused a chance of escape , however small , not to be thought of . Hence the scene of the drama has been laid in Lvons , which , with several adjacent departments
, continues to be placed under martial law . Instead of the alleged conspirators being tried before the ordinary courts of justice , thoy are arraigned before-a court of military officers , presided over by the colonel of the 13 th reeiment of the line . No less than fifty-one persons ( of whom some have escaped ) are thus charged before a tribunal , the members of which are professionally and habitually disqualified for dealingwith the intricacies of law , and the masses of evidence necessarily involved iu such an investigation . The Jconatitution of the tribunal is of itself a proof that the
prisoners arraigned before it are pre-doomed ; and they will be so , with the approval of the middle and trading class , in consequence of the artful manner in which the plat has been got up against them . It ia alleged that after the
The Lyons Plot. . ' A Secret Plot For Th...
e v ents ' of . June , 1840 , which led to the < T ^ and dispersion of many of the Hot , l , ' ^ leaders , the Red party fell back UC 1 Cau provinces ' , where they organised . ^ " democratic associations for political oV ° under the pretence of charitable purposes ^!?' most powerful of these societies , it 35 Ea j . i ' ° that in the South-Western department France , under the title of the New Mowi * - ° The members of this body , it is alleged " "' divided into ( henries , or sections of ten * A which was commanded b y a sereennV of corporal . The funds were raised by a ^ . bution of twopence to fiveponce a nioiiti | r tri " each member . Each departm ent had ¦ anient
ana a committee , which it is 5 . ^ , 1 ' : * tained relations with tho directing comS ^ in Paris , Lyons , aud London . Tho iuitj ! of members was accompanied bv cerem ' U ' ° somewhat similar to those which Jed t I 0 S transportation of the Dorchester TJuioniV * this country some sixteen or seventeen ago . The candidate for admission 2 ^ 1 himself upon a bare dagger to the FolCh J . ' . T 7 ~ i' / ree rnm '' Mvear '" tlie nanus of « ,. tyi'S ot liberty , to arm my hand against tvi-imiv 1 , Wlieal and religious , and this at all times * incl . Jii 1 Ioliswear to L . bonr for the propagation of den ! , 11 r ' ' Socialist principles ; I swear 10 assis t my broil c an ever it may lie necessary ; I swear to ,, „ , , „ rt" ! , catraitor if it fall to my lot ; I sircar to I •„! la , h ' 1 which may he mid or done ] ,. ibis ., Cieiv ' , ? , T , , MW , n R myself to an infamous death if I betray this „ " ! . ' % i
Having pronounced these words blindfol d the bandage was removed , aud the new n ^ rn ' ber found himself surrounded by co-cm «« i tors , with their weapons pointed at him siL , nifying that they would defend him if ' trup and kill him if false . These theatrical acccs ! saries are as stale and worn out as the mo ^ t effete Stage-tricks of a Victoria melo-tlrania and , we all know , have no more effect in n serving secrecy than a proclamation by tto town crier . Their only effect ( if ever thrv
are resorted to , ) is to betray the sill y p , W g who go through such ceremonies in we thoroughly into the hands of tho vilo ] iolico emissaries , who have hatched the plot . It is alleged , however , that the Ass < ici ;\{; nn Organised by such means , extended jnjQ fifteen departments—that it had clandestine manufactories of gunpowder , conceale d stores of arms , aud a loader in the person of
Alphonse Gent , a former representativ e 0 f the people in the Constituted Assembly The plans attributed to him are at least suIlU ciently comprehensive in their aim and scope . The Association under his direction was to rise simultaneously at different points , am { secure tbe whole of the South Eastern tiepartments , together with the frontier 0 f Switzerland and of Savoy , as a means of as .
sistance or retreat ; having thus secured a footing in this part of France , other measures were prepared to make the insurrection universal . AH the machinery was said to be complete—tho day was fixed when ( Jest was to havo given the signal for the jRepuhlicau , rising by watch fires on the mountains , wlteu , as usual , the police came out with a list of tho parties implicated on the 7 th of November , lOoO . Some arrests took place—fresh miners , most probably fabricated by the police spius , gave colour for additional arrests , which were said to lead to more extensive
disclosures , as a matter of course ; and at length , after the lapse of nearly a year , Gmtv and those accused with him , are on their trial before a Court Martial , for an alleged political conspiracy . The excitement caused by the mock trial , and at the manner in which it is conducted , ia intense . The working classes in Lyons and its immediate vicinity , are roused into madness
by the proceedings , and it requires an army to keep them down . Nor is that army entirel y successful . Recent intelligence shows that , iu various places disturbances have broken out , in which the gendarmes and the soldiery have suffered severel y , and the authorities have interdicted all fetes or meetings of any kiud whatever , so much do they stand in awe of the wide spread and deep popular discontent excited by their proceedings .
But the issue and the object of these proceedings are not problematical—the coastitutution of the tribunal , the nature of the evidence , and the character of those by whom it has been concocted , point but to one conclusion—the accused will be found guilty , and condemned to undergo the tortures and the indignities , which for some years past have been heaped upon other genuine republicans , by tha conspirators against the Republic . Tho twofold object of removing dangerous opponents , and frightening the public into submission for fear of worse treatment than thev
experience at present will have been gained , and tho raw head aud bloody bones , dressed up so hideously by the police nurses , will once more save a detested government , and a band of political tricksters and jobbers , from condign punishment and political extinction . Do we therefore , despair of the future of France ? No . It is not by p lanned conspiracies and secret oaths , and all the jn ^ lm' of skulls and cross bones , and naked daggers , that nations are to be freed from a detested
yoke . Such proceedings have never—t » r but seldom—produced that result , and ^ in France there is less need than ever for having recourse to them . The Republican party have but to hold fast by the Constitution—to use such open and legal means of association as it provides—or , if denied their use , to nrM that denial a source of even greater strength , by their protests against the illegal and tyrannical subversion of the C onstitution , by those who have to te it in enter to •¦ mi navtouuiii * j
sworn execu , - : * w x .. ** , v « . » -- - ~ secure a victory . If the perjured men ™ now hold power dare , at the last monient , to resort to force for the purpose of carrying their usurpation to its ultimatum , the W " ' licau call , " aux antes , " will be responded to by the nation , and faction crushed for ever .
The 'Holy Vai\. Ireland Has Been Selecte...
THE ' HOLY VAi \ . Ireland has been selected as the b attle ficlj on which the Roman Catholic hierarchj « tho Government are to fight out the tawe commenced last session . The meeting a Rotunda , on Tuesday last , was an open « claration of war on the part of ^ l 8 i { 0 , ., / tho lates ; they have boldly thrown ^ ther gauntlet , and it remains to he seen the Government will take it up . m . J "" \ hQ that if it rested with Lord Joitf ^ Z ^ jfic statute which expressly forbids , rrf , ] M | penalties , the assumption of terrij 01 ^ would be suffered to remain a , £ ja But the powerful party which sUC ^ iH ( rcnt making that measure much uiore ; ° than ho intended it to be , « -1 '" ° . (; , tain to let it remain inoperative ; while "' tfj ] J that any attempt to enforce its yrj » ^ stir up an agitation in the sister isia fc has scarcel y had a parallel during tut p
century . , i . „ Dossi ° " It is ' deeply to be regretted that tm . ^ lity of a political and social re ^^ ycd that unhappy country should thus o tnr aB by the renewal of those Jusens , ]( and seanimosities and squabbles . The " ^ du ring vere trials through which it has pas > ^ the last three or four years had ««• ^ .. ^ many formidable obstruction s to t § - ^ batprogress and substantial improve " ' ljm jnuever may be thought of the enorw u ^ tion of the population iu a ^ ° f , i t ft , t her 8 sense , or of tho causes which lea . de ; l ( l ] y can be no doubt that it ^ daceo ^« j ^ d ' s competition for land , which was w » » ^ greatest social evils . At the samo ^ wholesale transfer of the land by . J . d 1 .. — J i ^_ x .. _ / -. ...... r ., nm tho W ' r - toff iistates iiw
uereu uoun « , i . , i stoa debt and mortgage-fetteredlandio offfler 8 , race of less burdened and more acj 8 uper gave promise of the introduction ° system of industry and employn ^ S by th These prospects have been bl »»« rl 6 ! tf demon of reli g ious discan . ^ tt
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 23, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23081851/page/4/
-