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2*0 THE ENGLISH AND IRISH CHARTISTS.
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2*0 The English And Irish Chartists.
2 * 0 THE ENGLISH AND IRISH CHARTISTS .
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Frievds and Fellow Counteymek , Before you read this letter you will have learned that the remnant of the ' British Cengtitution has been suspended in Ireland / and jjjat the meaning of the Suspension of , the Habeas Corpus is , that the Lord-Lieutenant 0 f Ireland may give orders for the arrest of ffhomsaever he . pleases , and that the persons & arrested cannot appeal to the Judges of the laud to secure their release upon bail .
£ hey need not be charged with any crime , but they must linger in their dungeon at the grill of the Autocrat . This right of Habeas Corpus , and the light of being armed , are considered the great bulwarks of the British Constitution , but both rights have been abrogated in Ireland ; and perhaps your English Wood , and your Irish blood , may thrill with horror , when you learn that out of 656 constitutional representatives of the people , only eight Irish Catholics and two Irish Protestants contended against , and voted against , the measure . Their
names should be chronicled ; they are—Callag han ^ Fox , Devereux , Scully , Greene , Reynolds , Sullivan , Fagan—Catholics ; Crawford and O'Connor , Protestants . And I believe that had it not been for my resistance to the measure in the first instance , that it would have passed amid the plaudits of the House . And you will scarcely be surprised at the abrogation of the constitution in Ireland , when I tell you that as far as an independent Member of Parliament is concerned , it is also suspended in England .
My speech was called rebellious and treason able , and I believe few men would have stood the hurricane of disapprobation with which it was received . But that is legitimate , because although I hare never interrupted any man in that House , yet I concede the same right to Members of Parliament that is contended for at p ublic meetings , namely—the right of expressing approval or disseat . But what I complain of is , that on Monday I received the following- letter : — Sib , —For God ' s sake do not publish your speech in the Nobthsrs St * r , as it was delivered in the House of Commons , for if you do you are to be prosecuted as a Felon , ander ' th * new Act . ( Signed , ) A DmcnvE .
J » ow all will remember the discussion which took place in the House of Lords , relative to the miblication of speeches made in the House of Commons , when Lords Brougham and Campbell both gave it as their opinion that if words spoken in the House of Commons of a felonious nature were published , with the view of making an impression upon the public mind , that such publication would come within the meaning of the Act . For these reasons you will not read my Speech as delivered in the House of Commons , because , apart from the warning of the "Detective , '' I have received snequivocal assurance that the desire and the wish of the Government is , to strike a blow at Chartism by the conviction of the Chartist leader .
This , I trust , will be an answer to some of my enthusiastic friends , who are anxious that I should be amongst them just now ; and 1 beg of them to keep the case of poor Vernon in view , who was convicted for attending at what was called an illegal meeting , at which he did not speak , and then they will see the facility with which the minions of Grovernment may turn a perfectly legal into an illegal meeting , and "yet some of my enthusiastic friendsurged on by the taunts of Government employes —would consider that I best discharged my duty by thus hazarding my liberty , and
jeopardising their cause . However , as my family and myself have been scattered over the face of the earth—some prematurely consigned to the cold grave ; others having spent more than half a century in banishment , others in YanDiemen ' s Land and Colombia ; and as I am the last and remainder of that stock in this country , and as here I have borne ray fair share of persecution , it is not to be expected that I will jeopardise my liberty , and hazard a cause which is dearer to me than life itselfj by being made the victim or the tool of the susceptiblilitv and credulity of others .
Ss rank has tyranny become , that I even fear to ask a question as to the treatment that the Whig victims are now receiving , least my interference may increase the rigour to which they are subjected . But of this you may rest assured , that I am not an inattentive observer of passing events , nor shall I fail to tura them to the best account . My enthusiastic friends , who imagine that
enough never can be done for them , would have had a taste of the delights of office held under them , had they witnessed the treatment that I have more than once received in the House of Commons , in defence of their cause . And I now tell them , as I haye told them before , that I would rather be found slain amongst the ranks of those contending for freedom , than living , promoted and honoured , in the ranks of the oppressor .
My own countrymen , especially those in Manchester , cannot have forgotten the years ef trouble , of persecution , and of danger . that it has cost me to bring about a union of the Irish and English working : classes , [ while now some of them , who were then opposed to that union , and resisted it , are holding back , fearful of even expressing a mild opinion . Even Irish Members in the House of Commons draw the
distinction between the treatment of English and Irish prisoners , one Member having actually taunted the Government with not having transported some of the Chartist prisoners , while those prisoners are now suffering punishment worse than death or transportation . They are upon prison fare , on the silent system , and in the felon ' s dress , and , until I was aware of the f act , they were compelled to pick oakum like felons .
fJood God ! is this a state of things to be endured , and are one set of men to be treated like thieves , whilst those who consign them to degradation secured pre-eminence by violence and the preaching of revolutionary doctrines ? My friends , the Government has made a dreadful onslaught upon the Press of Ireland , and I believe you can well imagine the delight it would afford them to victimise the only paper in England that dares to avow the pure democratic princip le . Perhaps you are not aware that Lord Arundel and Surrey ,
Mr Drummond , and Sir Benjamin Hall , frequently honour me with reading extracts from the Northern Star in the House of Commons ; and that Mr Hume , as far as unconnected words will admit of abuse , attempted to heap mud upon me for proclaiming the rights of labour . But although I have long borne these indolent taunts I am consoled by the hope of the realisation of a former prediction , when , in speaking of Ireland , I said , "Though a dark sloud has brooded over my country , yet in the distant horizon 1 see the dim shadow of liberty
and my heart gladden ? . " " In my cxtacj I exclaimed , can it be , And a Toice responds , Union and Liberty . " And may that union be now so perfect as to insure the ' freedom of my country , is the f ondest hope o f my heart , and I have only to implore of the enthusiastic and brave , U'hilyt 1 do not ask them to abate their ardour , not foolishly to try to precipitate me into useless and
unnecessary danger . They may rest assured that of all the felons , that felon who has resisted them so long would be their dearest prize , while my countrymen and the English Chartists know , that not only from the day 1 entered Parliament , but } frem the day I was lorn , I have neither said a word , nor written a word , given a vote , nor done a single act which has been hostile to the interest of Ireland or to the
workin ? classes of England . And ir prudence would Ijermii the discJosure , J could submit to them some facts which I have used for the safety bf others , and with which , one day , 1 shall arraign the Whig Government . Now , my friends , ail these things which you force from me , but make me ^ more odious to the Government , and while you talk of the facility
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of packing juries in Ireland , you have never cast a thought that there is no necessity for packing juries in England , as the whole list contains a long catalogue of oppressors , whose interests are supposed to be hazarded and jeopardised by the growing spirit of Democracy . Now I will suppose a case . Suppose I was arrested to-morrow , and arraigned before Chief Justice Wilde and & middle-class jury , and
charged by Tom Snooks , a policeman or detective , with having been present when Jack Styles made a seditious speech ; do you think that any more evidence would he necessary , or do you think that if a hundred witnesses of the most unimpeachable character came forward to prove that I was at the Land ' s End when that speech was delivered in London that it would be an answer to the evidence of Snooks ? Not a bit o it . The Chief Justice would tell
the Jury tnat if I Trasnot there , I ought to have been there , that he trap was laid for me and I ought to have gone into it . I have said as much as the Gagging Bill will allow me , and in conclusion I have only to repeat my former pledge ; that I commenced this movement with the people and for the people , and with them and for them I will remain in it to the close , but the persecution that every member of my family has endured , although it has not relaxed my ardour has increased my caution . I remain Your faithful friend and countryman , Feargtjs O'Connor .
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DR . M'DOUALL . TO THE SUIT OS Ot THE KOBTBEBlf STAI , Dear Sib , —I thank you for yonc notice and remarks on my arrest and the condition of the prisoners and their families . I hope the country st large will respond . There are one or two things regarding IE ) esse which I shall mention . I would cot have been arrested at all had it not been for Robert Newton , constable of Ash ton , who was uncommonly annoyed at gome of the Aehton lads refining him ad mission to the meeting . He then importuned the magistrates , but only two Whigs , Buckley and Lord , couid be induced to sign the warrant , and so fearful were they on the crcss-eiimination of the ' cat ffettine
oat of the bag' that they impartially allowed Mr Roberts to question Newton as to what occurred bs ; tween them , bat , at the same time , cautioned him not to answer . I wsb confined in an underground necessary , commonly called a cell , without any ventilation , from four o ' clock on Sunday morning until ten o'clock on theMoaday morning following . The ricdow was the size of & sheet of Bath post paper , and admitted three rays of thesun , which , illuminating the particles of dust , seemed like three long thin webs of gessamer . They did not represent the trinity of KiBg . Lor ^ s , and Commons , but . tkat of nature—H ) an and liberty—upon which I span many cheering thoughts and arguments :
Used as I have been all my life to the open air , I need not say that I felt horribly oppressed , especially when the water was heated in the pipes which ron through the call for the purpose of warming the vagrant prisoners in winter . I remengtrated—greater heat was applied until the pipes became too hot for the touch of any hand , save that of an iron or copper smelter . I stripped , coat , waistcoat , and , finally . trowBers . I fe ' . t Buffjeated but I saw that any farther complaint would be a triumph to the enemy , therefore ! patiently snbmittedto an extreme hot bath , removing to the farthest career , nsar the
door , the little trap is which was carefully bolted , so that not a breath of air sheuld come in . This little trap-door , I knew , was open to the thieves in the cells ranging beyond mine , fori- 'heard them concoct icg asd arranging their plans , witnsiiao , and evidence with each other- Bat for one of the little panes of glass , the half size of one's hand , bsing broken in the small window , it would hare been death to a perssn to moon accustomed to the free breeze of heaven as I have been . As it was , the enemy succeeded , for I most certainly admit that although the mind lost little of its elasticity the body was most woefully debilitated .
Had the trap door bsen opened a stream of air would have Sowed from thence to the small broken square , or vice versa , or bad the fire been quashed and the trap shut 1 might have done better . The specials on Sunday night broke the monotony of my solitude by trying to break in . I had a Ions ehat at tha trap-door with them , which they opened . They ordered the heat to be lowered . It wag increased . I ordered them home , as all was , and would be quiet , and on being summoned up , and express ing the Fame , whilst in the pressnee of my friend iitken , before a magistrate , they was allowed to return to their wires and families . But mark this , a guard of two policemen was posted over their room , whilst they remained , lest they should come agab to my cell , and say ' all was d—d tyranny . '
The trial you have reported , but you have not been iBformed that ray witnesses broke down , confuted , and demolished the police evidence , The same two magistrates whosie . fsn the warrant , coxwttzd us Not another magistrate would have anything to do with it . There was a bloated blockhead , a bait idiotic being on the bench , who wore a red coat , aad who violated all the rules and regulations oftheservies , as well as the manners and conduct of a gentleman . Who he is , I should be glad to ktow , especially the root from wheeca he sprang . I will defend evety inch of ground at Liverpool
assizes , provided those localities which have no prisoner to defend , will supply Mr Roberts and myself with the means . Ashton will do its daty . The trial will be Terr expensive—for solicitor , counsel , and witnesses must all be paid . The question then is , will tbe people prevent me being sacrificed ? They bave it in their power to say no , and it rests entirely with them to decide whether I am better in or out of piison . There is no time to lose . The whole question hinges on this—Can I take down my witnesses or not ?—Can I secure good counsel or not ?—Can I pay ray solicitor or not?—On the solution of these questions hangs the fate of
Sir , Yours moat sincerely and respectfully , P . M . M'Douall . P . S . —All aid and assistance to be forwarded to William Aitken , schoolmaster , Ashton-under-Lyne . Lancashire . —The assizes begin on the 17 th of August , at Liverpool .
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Maschestee —Mr Daniel Donovan will deliver a lecture in the People ' s Institute , on Sunday , July 30 th . Chair to be taken at eight o'clock in the evening . A members meeting of tho National Land Company will be held at two o ' clock in the
afternoon . West Bbouwich —A meeting will be held on Sunday evening next , at six o ' clock , at the Rose Inn , Paradise-street . Oibhim . — On Saturday next , Mr Jame » Leach wid lecture in tho Working Man ' s Hall , at six o ' clock . Subject : ' Chartism and Repeal . 'Nones . —A special meeting of the members of the National Land Companji will be . held in the Schoolroom , at two o'clock . Leicester . —The shareholders of the No . I branch of the National Land Company will meet at their room , 87 , Church-gate , on Tuesday night nest , at half past seven . South Lphdos Chartist Hall . —Mr Thompson will lectors on Sunday eveniEg next , at eight o ' clock . Subject : 'Man , his social and political rights . *
Tower Hamlets Victih Committee —All persons holding books or monies on behalf ef the above , must bring them in on Thursday evening at eight o ' clock , at Perry ' s Coffee-house , Shoreditch , Ameeting for special business will be held . J . H . Shepherd will deliver an address on the present aspect of the times , at the Royal United Friends , Tabernacle-walk , Horton , on Monday evening at eight o ' clock . Bkadfobd . —The members of the Land Company are requested to meet on Sunday , July 30 th , at two o ' clock . The room has been broken into , and some of the books stolen . The Chartists will meet at six o ' clock , at the game place . Mebthte Tidtil . — The members of branch No . 1 , of the Land Company , are requested to meet ai the Barclay and Perkins , Pontmorlaia , at seven o ' clock , on Monday evening next , the 31 st inat .
Cokglbiox . — The quarterly meeting of the members of this branch will be held in the Chartist Room , Mill . gtreet , on Tuesday , the 1 st of August , at half-past seven o'clock in the evemng . LecGHBoaenoH . — A Midland Countiea delegate meeting will be held on Sunday , August 6 th , at the Wheat Sheaf Inn , Waid ' s-end , at ten o ' clock in the ? oranoon . Delegates from each locality are invited to attrnd . andto bring certificates eigtel by the president of their council . LIVERP 30 L - "The Chartist Asscc . atioB and Land Company wiii meet in future at J . Farrell ' s Terni erance Hotel , 62 , Richmond-row , opposite Comus-BtteeUto Trtlictl fcWW h Farrell has removed .
To Henry Drummond , M.P., And Joseph
TO HENRY DRUMMOND , M . P ., AND JOSEPH
HUME , M . P . Sibs , —I perceive by the reports in the daily journals , that on the occasion ot the Parliamentary sacrifice of « the Constitution' on Saturday last , both of yon vented your spire and spleen against tbe honourable member for Nottingham , by falsely and foully assailing the Noathbbw Stab . You , Henry Dmmmond , M . P ., maliciously and untruly charged Mr O'Connor with publishing in this journal , ' along column of advertisements of blasphemous and obscene books , ' and recommending them to the readers of this paper .
To this accusation , I answer that Mr O'Connor , who 5 s the proprietor of the Nobthebn Stab , is totally ignorant of the character ot the advertisements inserted until the publication of the paper ; and is certainly guiltless of ever having reviewed or recommended any book—good , bad , or indifferent . The' long column' must be either Mr Cousins ' s or Mr Watson ' s advertisement—or , perhaps , both . I have looked down both advertisements , and I here deny your slanderous assertion , that a single obscene
book is to be found in the list of either publisher . In Mr Watson ' s list I find political , theological , physiological and educational works . In Mr Cousins ' s list I find political , theological , and medical works , with the addition of certain novels and romances . - But , I repeat , neither list includes any work on which could be founded your disgraceful libel of ' ob : cenity . » Messrs Watson and Cousins are incapable of publishing obscene works , and , therefore , have no occasion to advertise such publications .
As to your talk about « blasphemous books , all sensible men will value that talk at its true worth , as the ravings of a bigot or a hypocrite . You doubtless consider yourself an orthodox Christian , and . like the Pharisee , thank God you are not as other men are , but you should remember Byron ' s definitien of orthodoxy and heterodoxy . * The first , ' says the poet , ' is ray doxy , the second is another man ' s doxy . ' Your' doxy is , probably , heterodoxy to Messrs Watson and Cousins . You would hardly venture to denounce Lord Brougham as a blasphemer , yet that personage could not hesitate to avow he has read the writings of Hume , Paine , Godwin , Volney , Diderot , Mirabaud , Kousseau and
Voltaire ; and if Harry Brougham may read the writings of these authors , why not Harry Smith or John Jonas , who have equally as good a right as his liberal lordship to ' prove all things and holdfast that which is good . ' Some of the above-named authors have extorted the lavish praise of the ex-Chancellor . If Lord Brougham may eulogise Voltaire as worthy of * a lasting debt of gratitude , ' * surely the Northebn Stab may adverse the great Frenchman ' s works . Do you , a member of Parliament , stand in need of being taught that ' blasphemy' is an undefined offence , which the prof essors of every religion think themselves at liberty to charge upon the professors of every other
religion ? Are you so ignorant as not to know that the founder of Christianity was cracified and Stephen stoned , as ' blasphemers ? ' That Luther and Calvin were blasphemers to the followers of Rome ? That Dr Kalley , a Protestant minister , was recently pro secuted and persecuted by the Portuguese authorities of Madeira as a ' blasphemer ? ' And , lastly , can you be blissfully unconscious of the fact that you , Henry Drummond , M . P ., are a ' blasphemer in the eyes of Jews , Turks , and Hindoos ; and even all Christian sects but the one you associate with ? I am afraid , however that I cannot credit you with mere ignorance . It is often said of certain persons , that they are not such fools as they look , and my impression is , that you are not nearly so demented as judging by your speeches some people might
imagine . You know that in the enlightened assembly , of which you are a member , your fellow-legislators (!)—all 'honourable' men—are ever ready to bait a Chartist ; and that to set them barking and biting the ' cry' of' blasphemy' is just as good as any other . Were you merely a bigot , you would intro . duce a law to suppress the 'blasphemous' books , and punish the authors or publishers by fine , imprisonment , torture or death — the good old way of vindicating ' the glory of Gcd . ' But that you will not do ; you are wise enough to see that the good old times cannot be restored , so you vent your spleen , by meanly assailin g a gentleman whom you hate for bis popularity—that popularity being gall and wormwood to you , and such as you , who are detested by the great mass cf the people .
Excepting , perhaps , Mr Sillett s book , on farming , I am not aware that Mr O'Connor has ever recommended any book to the readers of the Star . 1 alone am responsible , for the censure or applause bestowed upon any book reviewed in the Star . For anything I know Mr O'Connor may never look at the review columns , and certainly he knows nothing of the reviews until the publication of the Star . I do not spare censure when I think censure called far , but on the other hand I do not , and never will , hesitate to applaud and recommend a really good and clever work , even though it should not be shaped according to tbe fashionable orthodoxy of the day . I am content to ' Selia on Truth wherever touud , On Christian or on Heathen ground , ' Believing with the poet ,
that—* The flower ' s dlrine wherever it grows . You , Henry Drummond , M . P ., proceeded in your speech to assert , that ' the hon . member for Not . tingham bad in his journal advocated the principles of M . Proudhon , which went to deny the right of any property . ' I shall simply reply to this , that you have asserted what you knew to be an outrage on truth . You went on to ssy , " He ( Mr O'Connor ) had in the course of certain articles published in this journal , said , addressing tbe people , The land is yours , and one day or other you will each of you have your share of it , when you shall have acquired sufficient knowledge and strength to assert the principle that tbe land is the
people ' s inheritance , and that kings , and , priests and nobles bave stolen it from the people , and only hold it through their ignorance . " I cannot at this moment call to mind where you have found this extract , or whether there is any foundation for your imputing it to Mr O'Connor . Any way I will say that Mr O'Connor need not be ashamed of it . For my part , I should be only too happy , could I acknowledge myself its author . But can you not ser < , 0 wise M . P ., that in charging Mr O'Connor with the sentiments just extracted , you have contradicted a preceding charge ? In one
breath you charge Mr O'Connor with advocating principles which go to deny the right to any property , ' and in the next breath you charge bira with teaching the people that the right to possess the land is naturally theirs , and that they will recover their property in the land as soon as they have acquired sufficient knowledge and strength to assert their right . For my part I declare roy belief that this is most wholesome doctrine , and that whoever preaches it does more for tbe advancement of mankind than such statesmen (!) as you will effect though you should legislate (!) for a thousand vears to come .
' Yes , I declare—I echo the assertion of a great principle , a principle founded in eternal right , that THE LAND IS THE PEOPLE'S INHERITANCE , AND THAT KINGS , AND PRIESTS . AND NOBLES HAVE STOLEN IT FROM THE PEOPLE , AND ONLY HOLD IT THROUGH POPULAR
IGNORANCE ! I do not court persecution , but under any circumstances this principle I will maintain . It is not against property I war , but against the fraudulent appropr iation of national property , by the plunderers and oppressors of the people . Towards the conclusion of your speech , you , Henry Drummond , M . P ., said : —* The bon . member for Nottingham in these articles , attacked the very tenure of property , and sought to destroy society as it now existed . In one of those articles the hon . member for Nottingham said , " For myself , I freely avow that I have no respect for society as i » is at present constituted . 'Civilisation ' ratans illrequited labour and a bastile for the millions . Civilisation * is a huge lie—an organised hypocrisy . Banish ' civilisation . ' ( Hear , hear . ) " Thus you
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are reported in the Morning Herald . If the report is correct , I . shall show you to hava been guilty of a wilful perversion of facts . In the first place you knew that Mr O'Connor I- i ^ whfttev « r to d ( > wit » ^ e Address in which the passage you professed to quote occurs . I can truly assert and prove that Mr O'Connor could not have seejj that Address until the Star of July 8 ih was pubttsfaed , and very likel y even then did not notice or put himself to the trouble of reading that document . You could be under no mistake as to
the parties responsible for that Address , it being headed as an « Address from the Fraternal Democrats to the Working Men of Great Britain and Ireland and signed ' G . Julian Harney , Secretary , ' I leave the public to pronounce judgment on your conduct in asserting that * the hon . member for Nottingham , said , & c , & c . ' The hon . member did not say , & c ., and is not answerable for the sentiments you have ascribed to him . Those sentiments are mine , and the words are mine , and I glory in avowing them .
Here is a correct copy of the passage you have misquoted : — We ( the Fraternal Democrats ) frankly avow that we have no respect for society as at present con Btituted . * Civilisation' means ill-requited labour sjiarvation , gaols and bastiles for the masses . To tho millions civilisation is a huge lie , an organised hypocrisy . Perish such civilisation . ' The word 4 uch is in italics in the original . I must now trouble you Henry Drummond , M . P ., to turn to the report of your speech on Hume ' s Reform Motion , as published in the Morning Chronicle of June 21 st , in which you describe ' society as at present constituted , ' and the' civilisation' of the present day in the following words : —
' In the first place , they must consider who were the persons making these demands . He was sure that the greatest portion throughout the country at the present moment were persons who , from various causes , were suffering ^ reat distress , and he believed that there was no distress which a man was capable of suffering equal in pain , both to body and mind , to that of seeing his family around him starving to death ( hear , hear ) , whilst he f elt that he had the ability to support them had he but the meant ? . ( Hear , hear . ) Many gentlemen must remember
that passage in the first of our modern poets , who when he would describe the acme of human suffering , takes the case of Count Ugolino , and there describes muck such a scene as that to which he had adverted . Many gentlemen had also read no doubt , the very painful accounts which were published not very long ago , detailing sufferings of such a nature that they had nearly destroyed aU the finest feelings of humanity—that had gone even the length of leading mothers to contemplate and provide for the death of some of her children that she might have somewhat more to give the others . '
This is ywr picture of' civilisation , ' and if you had the heart of a man within you , you would cry with me , ' PERISH suck CIVILISATION !' But there is this difference between you and me . I belong to the working classes , and have known in my own person the sufferings of the working classes ; you belong to that privileged minority who thrive by the sufferings of the people . Is it true that you are related to the Duke of Athol , the too celebrated lord of Glen Tilt ? Is it true that you are brother-in-law to the Earl of Kinnoul and the Bishop of Rochester ? These are , for aught I know to the contrary , all * honourable men ; ' but not the less deeply interested in society as at present constituted , and that ' civilisation , ' which according to your own showing , dooms the masses to horrors rivalling the miseries of Count Ugolino .
As to you , Joseph Hume , M . P ., a few words will suffice . You followed the member for West Surrey , and declared that' the paper from which the hen . gentleman had quoted was no credit to any one . ( A laugh . ) * * Any paper which pandered to the passions of the multitude by propagating such doctrines fully deserved the term profligate that had been applied to it . * -. * And the men who propounded such doctrines , and held out such dangerous principles to the ignorant and unthinking should be shunned by all persons , and scouted from society . ' Thank you for nothing , Joseph . It is bo fault of yours that the means at present employed to crush the independent Irish press haye not before this time been put into
requisition to destroy the only public journal in England , which such shoyhoys and political charlatans as you stand in awe of . Are you not a wretched counterfeit of a ' Reformer . ' when , acknowledging as you do , that English misgovemment and Whig treachery are the prime causes of Irish disaffection , you nevertheless , with a hypocritical whine , declare yourself' placed in the painful position of supporting her Majesty's government , * in strangling ' the constitution , ' and handing over Ireland to the rule of the sword ? Both the hon . member for Nottingham and this journal have earned your hatred , by exposing the humbug of your Reform dodge , and , therefore , you join chorus with the West Surrey sage in raising a howl against 1 thedangerou 9 doctrines' of the Northbrn Star .,
On so notorious a ' brown-bread , ' sham-Radical as you , Joseph Hume , M . P ., I do not think it necessary to waste further remarks . I beg to remind you , Henry Drummond , M . P ., that on the occasion of your election at Guildford , on the 6 th of August last , you said : — ' I was born a Tory—and I stuck to Toryism till it became as dead as a door nail . ' You went on to say : — ' Whigism is as dead as Tory , ism , ' and you added : —• ' It has been determined that class-legislation shall come to an end— -in that
determination I join . ( Loud cheers . ) * * There must be perfect equality for all . No one class shall domineer over another , or be domineered over by another . ( Loud cheers . ) ' This speech gave me some hopes of you , even though ' born a Tory , But my hopes have suffered shipwreck , and I am afraid you have sadly disappointed your constituents and that the cheers will not be so loud' the next time you address a Guildford audience . Oh !—as Burns says when addressing tbe Deil : —
' 0 wad ye tak a thought an * men . ' You read the Norphesn Star . Good . That is the one hopeful feature of your otherwise deplorable case . Read it attentively , reflect on this letter , learn to speak the truth , eschew the shocking habit of bearing false witness against your neighbour , and you may yet redeem your character . If , however , these words of warning are too late , if you are j : esolveito persevere in the road to ruin , the best fortune I can then wish you , will be—that the next election for West Surrey , may leave you politically , like Toryism , ' as dead as a door nail . ' Gf . Julian Harney . Northern Star Office , July 27 th , 1848 .
Sheffield.—On Tuesday And Wednesday Even...
Sheffield . —On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings , July 18 and 19 , Mr West delivered two lectures in the Adelphi Theatre . At the conclusion of Mr Wrn ' n firat iectura , Mr Thomas Clark briefly addressed the meeting . Nottingham . —The district council mot a ; the Three Tuns , Old Radford , on Sunday las * . A public meeting was held in the same house . Mr Mellors in the chair . Mr Sweet addressed the meeting ; and a resolution was passed pledging the assemblage to establish a locality of tho National Charter Association in Radford . A committee wag appointed to carry out the resolution .
Me Bybne ' s Route next Week —Monday , July 31 st , and Tuesday , August let , at Berry Edge ; Wednesday . August 2 nd , Hartlepool ; Friday . August 4 th , Castle Eden ; Saturday , August 5 th , W , a gate . Nbwcastle-upon-Txnb Tho meetings of this branch of tha Land Company will be neld in M Jude ' s long room , every Monday evening , at eigt t o ' clock . The future meetings of this branch of the National Charter Association will be hold in M . Jade ' s long room , every Sunday evening , at six o ' clock . Mr B . Embleton will deliver a lecture on Sunday , July 30 th , at seven o ' clock . Mr Joseph Barker will deliver two lectures in the Ridley-court room , Newcastle , on Monday , July Slat , and Tuea dayA ugust' 1 stat half-pait a 3 ? en o ' clock .
, , Carrinoton and Isoh-Gbeen . — The members cf tho Charter Association will meet at the New In » i on Monday evening , July 31 , at eight o ' clock . llkBDBN Bridge . —A special Lancashire and Yorkshire delegate meeting will be held in the Chartist Room , Hebden BviUao , on Sunday * Jul ? 30 , at ten o ' clock ia the forenoon . Delegates are expected to attend from tbe localities in both counties .
Receipts Of The N&.Tiqh&& U&&H Compaxtv,...
RECEIPTS OF THE N & . TIQH && U && H compAXtv , FOR THE WEEK BNDIHG THURSDAY , JULY , 27 , 1818 . PER MR O'CONNOR , babes . £ s . d . Pershore H 1 0 8 Bolton „ 6 6 0 Croydon „ 4 0 6 Treston , Brown 8 0 0 ¦ Westminster « l IB 0 Newport , Salop 0 1 o FoleshUl „ 3 17 0 Telgnmouth „ 5 0 0 Bridport .. 0 2 2 Hanley „ 1 Is C Markinch „ e 14 0 Henry Smith .. lie Seaham „ 0 18 0 Heaiy Gslden ,. 0 7 6 Malton „ t 17 9 George Martin 0 4 0 Nottingham , Thomas Tilley .. 0 7 8 Sweet „ 0 2 0 Alfred Wood M 0 2 0 South Shields ,. 416 0 Thoi Thornberry 0 5 0 £ 38 19 7 u i v „ , EXPENSE FUND . * = ¦ » FoleshiU u 0 2 0 South Shields .. 0 4 0 Bridport „ oie Hanley „ 020 vfttVwi , „ m " ° 8 8 MrgMelvitl M 0 2 0 Bweef ' n , . gonry Golden .. 0 2 O Bweet „ o 3 s Wmlsherwood 0 2 0 Manchester „ e 16 0 £ 1 18 6 Land Fond ... 38 19 7 Expense Fund ... l is 6 Rn »» 0 2 8 o t . 41 0 9 Bank .,. . „ . „ , „ mi 9 6 £ 1 « 5 _ 14 _ 3 W « . Dixoh . Cbeibtophe * Soils , Thoi . Cu » k , ( Oorres . Sec . ) Phiup M'QaiTH , ( Fin . Sec . ) BECEIVED AT BANK . BacuP - .. n ., 500 NOTICE TO DEPOSITORS . Hereafter , all Post-office orders shonld he made payable to Thomas Price , at the Bloomsbury Money Orderoffice , instead of St Martin ' sle-grand General Postoffice . All who have not sent in written vouchers to be exchanged for printed certificates , are requested to do bo without delay . The half-yearly Intere « t due » h the Slat day of Decernbar , and 30 th June , is added to the principal in tho seve . ral accounts , In accordance with the Bank Hulea , and bears Interest as fresh deposits . T . Psiob , Manager . RECEIPTS QP LIBERTY FUND . Romford , « Card Wellingborough 0 10 0 Pidcs * M 0 1 « 0 Oldham , per T . Greenwich .. 0 10 2 Trestram .. 0 2 6 Limehouse , Re . Newcastle , per publican .. 010 0 M . Jude .. 013 1 Uxbridge , per Ashtoa , per Dr MrRedrope .. 0 5 0 M"Douall „ 2 0 0 Merthyr , per J , Manchester , per Morgan .. t 0 0 T . Ormisher ,. 6 0 0 Holmfirth , per Todmordeo , per H . Marsden - 0 J o R . Close « 1 0 e Norwich , psr E , Barnslfy , per E , SpriBjiall M loo Salby .. o u l Northampton , Swindon , per W , per W , Hun- Burton ,. 10 0 day ( No . 1 ) « 0 10 0 Markinch , A . Northampton Mitchell .. 0 10 ( No . 2 ) .. 6 13 0 Chippenham , S . Dalston , per A . Robbeok „ 0 0 6 Leach „ 0 5 0 , ' £ 16 8 4 John M'Cbab , Secretary . FOB MBS JONES , BECEIVED BT W . HIDES . Washington Bri- Kilmarnock , per gade , per "Mr M . Gilmour ,, 0 2 4 Daniels ' * . 0 16 0 Noi tbampton , Mr Tolman , per W . Mundy „ 0 6 6 ditto ., 0 10 Paid Mr J , Simpson „ £ 1 110
Executive Notice. Letters Have Been Rece...
EXECUTIVE NOTICE . Letters have been received from many of the moat important districts of England and Wales , giving favourable accounts 6 f the progress of the movement generally . The great question for the ' present is efficient organisation , and from reports that reach ns every day . we have reasons to believe that the elements cf a gigantic movement party for the Charter exist in this country . One thing is plain—the Russell Ministry are breathing their last , and the present Houae of Commons is imbecile for good , and powerful only for evil . Such a parliament cannot govern . The breaking up of parties is inevitable ; and , therefore , the collecting and husbanding of our strength is wisdom . Daring these past ten days , important meeting ? have been continuously held in London and districts and our colleague , Mr M'Crae , has gone to Scotland , to cement the bonds of union on both sides of the Tweed river . We deem it advisable to issue no
address . Next week we shall address our friends at length . We have received numerous applications for mis . sionsries , but the state of our finances prevent us complying with the requests of our friends . Let no WhiK servile or Tory journalist rejoice at this announcement . We cannot put our hands into a fund for secret service , by which to make an impression on tbe ' Times , ' and astonish the' Sphcwtobs '—snrprise the ' Exauiners' of the' Chronicles '—and have our office filled with official ' Dispatches ; ' but we can do greater things : we can move England and Scotland from Land ' s End to Land ' s End , and will awaken the dozing minister , one o f these mornings , to such a cry for the Charter as will make him wonder at the meaning of tho ofUmisqueted phrase— ' VoxpppuH , vox d'i . '— ' The voice of the people is the voice of God !' Signed on behalf of the Executive . Sauvbl Kidd .
Lament For Mitchel. Am—' The Flowers Of ...
LAMENT FOR MITCHEL . Am— ' The Flowers of theFortst ' O , Erin , thy bobb and thy daughters in anguish May weep , for their dearest and bravest is gone ; Exiled , o ' er thy wrongs and thy sorrows to languish , Far , far , from the friends of his heart and his home . Bright gem of thy green isle—fair freedom ' s devoted—Tho terror of tyrants—the friend of the slave—Whose patriot bosom , all pure and unspotted . Now beats under chains o ' er tbe dark briny wave . Cold , cold , is tho bosom that sighs not in sorrow , Nor weeps for the Exile one sad silent tear ; No bright hopes to lighten his heart for the morrow , No fond friends to soothe him , so lonely and drear . There , far from the land for whose freedom be struggled ,
To breathe but for Erin in secret a sigh-There stung with sad thoughts that his country is troubled , Perhaps in a hulk ' s darkest dungeon to die . Cast out from his home , the land of his fathers , The scenes of his childhood , his own native shore , Where death , like the frown of a thunder cloud gathers , And hearts once so happy , are happy no more . Bereft of one noble , one soul-stirring besom , A Mitohel . who felt , Erin , deeply for thee : But , b'ijhted too soon , like a flower in itablosaom , And oast out to wither ' mid the deep rolling sea .
O Erin , when will the sweet harp of dear freedom , Be heard on thy mountains , thy moors , and thy plains 1 O , when will a Mitchel's heart , silently bleeding , Beat gladly to hear thou hast broken thy chains ? His soul it was free as thy fierce foaming fountains ,-It sought but the millions in bondage to save ; Then weep , Erin , weep , o ' er thy moorlands and mountains , F « r Mitohel , the injured , the true and the brave . Awake , haplees Erin , awake from thy slumber— | j O , stay not in serfdom and sorrow to sigh—Arouse fer thy freedom , in loud battle ' s thunder , Till conquered and helpless thy tyrants shall lie . O , eay not the land of an Emtnett , departed , Shall groan with the chains that a despot has made ; O , say not a Mitohel , the pure , noble-hearted , Shall sleep with the felon , and sink in the shade .
Tho voieo of his bosom , that boats with emotion , la heard in the roar of the wild heaving wave ; It comes on the breast of the far distant ocean ; It speaks to the tyrant , the serf , and the slave . Then '( hough he is absent , his spirit is speaking , In accents of freedom , sweet Erin , to theo ; The Rise and the Thistle , liko iond ones , bte seeking To twine round his fcossm , that droops by tbe sea . J . P .
Imperial Parliament. ^ -^ (Cowfiwltifrom...
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ^ - ^ ( Cowfiwltifrom the Etgh'hjytge . ) Mr Khtnouw thought it of little important * whether this unconstitutional measure extended to September or to March . His opinion was so strong against the priaclpla ot the bill , that if it was proposed to pass it for seven yean he should n ^ t be inclined to divide the house upon it , ( Great laughter . ) They m ljjht laugh , but he could asiure them that tho proceedings . cf thai erealnj would be received in a very different spirit in Ireland . Whea it reached Ireland that on a Saturday they assembled , and in a few hours suspended the constitution of that country , and that when he , as one of the representatives cf Ireland , mado an observation tending to convey his » IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . * T ~ +
strong opposition to the measure , instead of nceirlng any sympathy he was lau (* hed at , what were the feelingi of tho people of Ireland likely to be ? Ho would adrfn those gentlemen who were is the minority not to trouble non . members by voting again on the question . ( Cheers , Though he entertained groat respect for the hon , mera « oer for Middlesex ( Mr Osborne ) , he roust say he was not prepared to go with him at present in any attempt either to modify the proTiiions of the bill or its political exist . ence . ( Hear , bear . ) His belief wo « , that in lieu of being called a Bill for the Supenslon of the Haoeat Corpus Act , it would hereafter be called a Bill to PacUitatetbe Re . Jn 2 t . m i x ? - Be had P'omfced togive no factious opposition to the measure ; that promise he was prepared to Keep ; and he called upon other hon . members not to insist upon another vote . ( Cheers . )
k „ w £ r \ J ™ V ? if he had * S reed with the hon . mem . her for Dabhn ( Mr Reynolds ) , that the passing of this measure would accelerate tho Repeal of the Union , ha would have voted for it . ' Lord J Rosseli said that the act of 1822 provided that it should remain in operation from the 22 nd of Februe ary till the 1 st of August eastiing ; the present bill made the period somewhat longer , though not much . With respect to the object of the hon , member for Middleses ( Mr Osbonie ) , whtse mind seemed imbued with thene . cessity of considering some remedial measures before th « house separated for the session , he beeeed to remind hint
that a ( frea * part of the supplies hod yet to be voted ; and that If the House of Common * considered that ther » should be one remedial measure or any number of reme « dial measures before voting the supplies , they would have ample opportunity of acting upon their views . Mr Hour said that his hon . friend ( Mr Osborne ) would have an opporlnsity of making aey objection he chose on tho estimates being proposed , ha hoped he would leave the responsibility of tbe measure with her Majesty ' s Ministers , and net divide th « house . Mr Osboene , on being pressed by other members , said that , seeing tha wonderful unanimity of Irish maml beri , he would withdraw his amendment .
The Bill then went through committee , after which tha house resumed , and the Chairman reported . Tha Report was then brought up and received . The bill was then read a third time and passed , immej diately after which tho house adjourned at a quarter to seven o ' clock . . HOUSE OF L 0 RDS-M 0 N 6 AY , ' Joiv 74 . :
SUSPENSION OF HABEAS COHPPS ACT ( IRE . LAND ) BILL . Mr Bernal and other members of the Houss of Com . mons brought up this bill . The Marquis of Lansbownb saW , Wore the house proceeded further in its ordinary business , he would call attention to an act just sent up from the other house-i being an act to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in cefr ^ tain
practical possession of the country . Slnca the Lord . Lieutenant had proclaimed Dublin , Cork , and Waterford , the ackiiowledgedleaders of the conspiracy had gone from town to town , and county to county , for the purpose of reriewins their forces and ascertaining the extent of tho power on which they might immediately rely . These proceedings were tak . en without disguise , as if theu object hid been to make out a case for the measure now . proposed . There being no doubt ns to the facts , it was for their lordships not only to apply tho remedy of which ' circumstance ] admitted ; thay must give it prompt and decisive operation . Those who had thus put themselves out o £ the pale of the constitution , who had formally reuounced their allegiance and proclaimed war without submitting themselves to Itf ^ dangers , were in no waj » entitled to receive the benefits of those wise precautions and mild regulations which the law of that house- and the coumtry had prescribed for the protection , not of rebellious , but loyal subjects ; and therefore , acting on the precedent of i § 03 , he moved that the standing orderi be dispensed . with , ; that this measure might pass at bacei He ventured to promise that . without delay it would receive Her Majestv ' a assent .
LordBRODBHAM belived the remedy , to be effectual , must be speedily carried . He , therefore , entirely api proved the proposition of his noble friend , and had no douht their lordships would with one voice pass the bill , let this measure ba vigorously enforced , and there need be no fear as to the result . It was not wanted toprcvent what was utterly impossible—the severance of the empire , but to avoid civil war ; for , although attempts to repeal the union failed ia their foul and wicked objects , they would not fail to involve Ireland in confusion and blood . He hoped there existed in Ireland , as in England , such rules of prison discipline as would prevent the issue of such treasonable corraspondence as had found its ^ way from within the walls of Newgate to the Irish papers last weeK , The Earl of WicKtow complained of , Mr Duffy being allowed from his prison to publish most seditious and trea . sonable language . The Marquis of Lansdowns said although the letters to which the noble earl referred were dated from the prison , thera was reason to believe they were not written there . ( Hear , hear . )
The Earl of Ei . i . bnB 3 bocoh gave his cordial assent to the measure , but did not think it would prevent rebellion If it bad been proposed six or eight weeks ago it might have done so . But a system of organisation bad bees growing up from day to day . The speeches which had been read by the noble marquis were not new . Three montbs ago Lord Stanley read from the United Ims * man similar language ; and it was three months ago whea he ( Lord Ellenborougb ) called attention to tbe state of Irelani , * nd aaked it the government moantto come to parliament for any other powers that those which they then possessed ; It was then said that if the '
jord-Lieutenant ask ? d for further powers they would come topir liament for them ; and were they to understand that tho Lord Lieutenant , only on the 18 th of July saw the necessity for furthar powers \ T ney had seen the organisation ef those who advocated rebellion ; bat had the well . affected been organised , and put in possession of arms f in the commencement of a rebellion orsrunisation was everything . Bethought this measure would now facilitate the rebellion . He said three months ago that no man ought to be permitted to carry arras in the then state of Ireland ; and he did not believe that any measure whatever would now be likely to prevent the rebellion of tha south without tho arming of tho north .
The Marquii of Lansdowhi would not be Provoked by the speech of tho noble earl , the { only one . he waft happy to say , of that character which had been delivered ia either house . He had chosen a bad opportunity to go into details ai to time , as to opportunity , and so on , but he would assure the noble earl that on every one ol theft ) points , at a fitting time , on any day t ! ie » oWe earl cIjobb to name , he wruld meet him on behalf of the government at home and of the Lord Lieutenant , between whom and the government at home they had been the most perfect concert . Ho wouldjnot . then sa . T more , as he did not tKtnW , even after the speech of the noble earl , that he intended to obstruct the passing of the bill , which was so important should as shortly as possible , become the law of tha land , The Earl of Glbnoail warned the catholic clergy to b « careful in advising the people to rebellion , as soma of the young priests were doing , as every revola-ioa in Europe had been destructive of the interests of tha Roman Catholic clergy .
The standing orders were then suspended , and the bill was re id a second time , passed though committee , was reported , wad a third time , and finally passed in about two minutes . The Health of Towns Bill passed through committee , and their lordships rose at a quarter to seven , no doubt congratulating themselves on having got through a fair piece of work for an hour and three quarters sitting . MONDAY , Jolv 24 th . HOUSE OF COMMONS . — Alarm in Liverpool—Mr Cabdwei . l presented a petition from Liverpool , signed by all the authorities and respectable inhabitants of that town , praying for the extension of tbe measure for suspending the Habeas Comus Act to that town . The adjourned debate on Mr Keooh ' s motion relative to tho striking of the juries in the recent trials in Irelund for sedition , was resumed , and after a discussion nega « tived without a division . The house then went into a committee of supply on tho army estimates , and several sums were voted . The Incumbered Estates ( Ireland ; Bill was then read a third time , and passed . TUESDAY , Jolv 25 th .
HOUSE OF LOHD 3 . —The house met at twelve o ' clock , when the Hoyal assent was given by commissi > n to t !» 8 Habeas Corpus Suspension ( Ireland ) Bill . The Marriage ( Scotland ) Bill was road a third time , and passed . HOUSE OF COMMONS . — Tun CoL ^ ias .-Sir Wm . Moi . eswoktb brought forward the full ) wins motion : ' That it is the opinion of this house that the colonul i-x « penditure of the British empire demands inquiry , with a view to its reduction ; and , that to accomplish this object and to secure greater contentment and prosperity to the colonists , they ou ^ ht to be invested with large powers for the administration of their local affairs . ' Mr Hott seconded the motion . Mr Hawes replied , and the debate was adjourned . WEDNESDAY , Julx 26 th .
HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Mr R . M- Fox withdrew his m otion on the Parliament of Ireland . The Waste Lanis ( Ireland ) Bill was withdrawn .. The Sale of Beer Bill went through committee , a » d tho house adjourned .
Manchester —A Special Meeting Of The Man...
Manchester —A special meeting of the Manchester branch of the National Land Oosapacy , will be held in tho People's Institute , on Sunday moming , July 30 th , atniaa o ' clock . W 0 LYBRHAM , riM , —A f , -eneral rncotjaj' of the members of the Chanist Association wiV be held in tha Society's meeting room , Bricklayer Arms , WalsaVstreet , atxi Sunday , July 30 th , ai half-past eoven in the evening . IluDDBBs ? iKiD . ~ The Wesi Riding delegate meeting will bo held on the fir i Sunday in August , at Mr Joseph lbelson ' s , To ' . ipsynHce Hotel , Buxton-road , IIuct \ ev . ' jlield , when a , secretary will bo e > cted , 'ha present one being aboiii to retire . To commt nve at oieveno ' clotk .
TocMDiiDBs , —On Sunday n ? st , Ju ! y 80 , a Gtiartiit camp meeting will be held at S « ud ! oy-pikc , to ^ cotamence s . t- two o ' clock . A ool . oction wi 1 be iza-. le for the purpose of defending tbe poiitiaal ti'wjutri at York tw ' z s . Tim Grkeral Delecivtg Meeting of Lncashira miners \ vi 1 bo hold or . Monday , A Must " . ' - Btt'ft Uo ? d , LamboviieiilRvefP , - IVtuH r : o > , ^ r Wjgaa , Ciiair to bo talicn = u t ! - ; v ; n vAU >' - '< ' «* ferenwn .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29071848/page/1/
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