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      Ireland.

      IRELAND .

      Commencement Of The Insurrection. (From ...

      COMMENCEMENT OF THE INSURRECTION . ( From the Fourth Edition of the Marmng C / wiuele of Thursday , July 27 th . ) Liverpool , Thuredjy Morning . —The following intelligence- was received ( per special engine ) last evening , by Mr Seaway , editor of the Ddblis Evek-ISG Post : — HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND . D & b . is , Wednesday . —Commencement of the Rebellion . Tharles , C ' . onmel , and Kilkenny in aims . pafeat and disaffection of the troops . Burning of the railway station at ThurieSi The whole of the South of Ireland is in rebellion . A special engine has just arrived in Dublin , from fonr miles thus side of Tharles ( eighty-two miles in two hours . )

      Tha station at Tharles is on fire ; the rails for several miles are torn up ; and as the engines arrive , the mob intend detaining them . At Clonmel the fighting is dreadful , the people arrived in masses . Tbe Dublin club leaders are there , the troops were speedily overpowered . Many refused te > act . The military stCarrick have shewn disaffection , and have been driven back , and their quarters fired . At Kilkenny the contest ia proceeding , aad here the mob are also said to be successful . No news from Waterford or Cork * COSTR 4 DICTI 05 OF THE KEPOBIED UfSTjaBECTIOS .

      Fbidat , July 23 . —All the morning papers announce that the reported insurrection in the south ef Ireland is a hoax . The following is from the Liverpool correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . As some desire may exist to know how the news in onestioa arrived , wa may observe , that , shortly after eir o'clock , a gentleman , who landed by the mail Steamer , purporting to be a Queen's messenger , put into the hands of one of the cabmen two parcels , ouetojoarc * rre 8 pondenta , and one to the carreapondent of the Tims , which he ordered to have delivered without delay .

      The packages contained the news sent by telegraph , a . nd a writer , whose name is known to your correspondent , sent a letter stating that the news bad arrived at the Castle , Dublin , after the mail fer Kingston pas off , and was sent after by a special engine express , and at the time it was sent off , the news was not known in Dublin , save by the authorities and the gentleman who sent the letter . The Queen ' s meissnfier was reported to have set off by the six , a . m . express train for London . Doblik , Jul ? 26 —The government have determieed upon a considerable number of arrests , and it is stated that tome persons not heretofore openly Connected with the revolutionary movement are to be taken up . It is said that fonr clerks have been occupied in makinet out the warrants , which awaited the arrival of the act antheming the Lord-Lieutenant to take the necessary steps .

      la an Extraordinary Gazette of 26 th July , a proclamation appears suppressing the clubs . Mr Smith O'Brien and several other leaders , now organising the clubs throughout the country , are to be taken into custody to-night ; and , if the attempt to arrest them should not lead to an outbreak , they will be brought up to Dublin tomorrow . The accounts from the south this morning MB really moat alarming .

      Wzst Baohwich. - Mr Linney, Of Bilaton, ...

      Wzst BaoHwicH . - Mr Linney , of Bilaton , ettended a public meaiing and formed a brancb . at tnis place , on Sunday evening last . t 9 ° v & . * P * Ht 3 t PRQun 3 uioii . —On Saturday , ~ Jaiy 22 nd . Mr Byrne lectured atTrindoa Grange * - Sandij , Jaly 23 rd , at tha camp meeting , Goshoe-Monday , Jaly 24 th , Little Chilton Colliery Taeadiy , July 25 th , Kelioe . ' Gsxsrwics Pistsiot . —A ipeoial general meeting Of tta afore diiteiot will t » beld on Tuesday evenin ? , August Jit , it ihe Dxaid'i Arms , Straight ' s Mouth , fotthefomrgaglhe 0 PgaBi , 3 j { 9 a 0 f tjj e jfctfrvt .

      Meetlaiu Uufc Iiiaiilcuwiui Buu O'Con'noryills, Neas Kickmansworth, Herts. To Be Disposed Of, Richardson's Three Acre Paradise, Situate In The Very Best Portion Of The

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      estate , } , au »» cu , uuu , luy groiind'crope , consistlngof Tartars oats , potatoes , onions , cabbage ? , caulifl ) wers , broccoli , peas , beans , & c , 10 > Hawthorn Dean and Ripstone pippins in full bearing , 1 , 3 , gooseberry tries , 207 currant trees , —red , white , and black—a great quantity of raspberry trees , which will bear fruit until October . For terms , apply to Mr 6 . Richardson , on the spot , or t > MrE . Stalhvood , i , Little Vale-place , Haramersmithroad , ( prepaid ) enclosing a stamp for reply .

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      The Northern Star, Satetbday. July 29, I8i8.

      THE NORTHERN STAR , SATETBDAY . JULY 29 , I 8 i 8 .

      Ireland. " Hereditary Bondsmen, Know Ye ...

      IRELAND . " Hereditary bondsmen , Know ye not , Who would be free , himself must strike the blow . " Such were the moral force words under which Lord John Russell would now make it appear that Mr O'Connell had marshalled the mind of Ireland , and , although we are by no means inclined to taunt the dead with the frequent use of the above impressive phrase , yet we are not prepared to charge his living followers with any criminality which may result from strict obedience to his teaching . We shall not chronicle any of the closet and Conciliation-hall sayings of that ffenileman , notwithstanding- that ,

      although delivered within'the four wails of that building , they were nevertheless scattered abroad ; but we may , in justice to those who ate now suffering , or are about to suffer , TP . call attention to the open-air avowals of the national teacher ; avowals made to millions of enthusiastic , oppressed , and starving people . We may remind the Whig Prime Minister of Mullaghmast and the Hill of Tara , where the Liberator declared , that he was surrounded by more physical force than any monarch could command ; and where he contrasted the strength

      of an Irish peasant with the strength of the peasantry of other nations ; nor can we forget the significant allusion to the motto under the touch-hole of the cannon of the Volunteers ; and to the declaration of the departed chieftain , "that his arm was yet young enough to wield a sword in defence of his country ' s ri g hts , ' —a declaration which in our souls we believe he would have realised and fulfilled , had he witnessed the last two years' desolation to which his country has been reduced by Whig treachery and despetic tyranny . And had Daniel O'Connell lived , we feel convinced that

      he would have joined the violent in the last extremity , rather than consent to the decimation of his country by starvation , and the abrogation of the constitution as the means of insuring the passive obedience of a starving people . O'Connell ' s policy was to gather up the mind of Ireland into one volition , which wouldbe an irresistible rampart against the physical force of the enemy . He apprehended more danger from the vindictive vengeance which it has been the policy of England to foster between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics ,

      than he did from the united strength of English despotism . But although Daniel O'Connell denounced physical force , where was the man who more lustily contended against tbe suppression of public opinion ? Did he not resist all statutary enactments , and defy all royal proclamations ? And thus , though opposed to his general policy , we rescue his memory from the stain which the Prime Minister of England would now stamp upon it , by attempting to illustrate what his feelings would be under existing circumstances , b y allusion to what they were under a different state of things .

      The man who stands within twelve yards of t ^ e loaded pistol of a bully , hired to assassinate him , and whose ha nd was steady enough to avenge the contemplated assassination , could not have been a coward ¦ and , therefore , it is an Injustice to attempt any solution of what his course might now be by what his course had formerly been . But we turn from the dead father to the living son , and we remind the " Tanist , " and the heir apparent to the rent gathered from a starving people , of his words in 1845 . He said in Conciliation Hall , " THAT

      THE DAY MIGHT COME WHEN THE OPPRESSORS OF HIS COUNTRY WOULD DRIVE HIS COUNTRYMEN INTO PHYSICAL RESISTANCE , AND THAT THEN HE WOULD BE FOUND FIGHTING IN THE FOREMOST RANKS OF THE PEOPLE . " We are aware of the narrow limits within which the " Gagging Bill" confines our pen , and , mayhap , the exhibition of Ihe moral force leader , in his own mirror , may be the foreshadowing of sedition . Perhaps it may be

      illegal to write in 1848 what the moral force leader of Ireland declared , amid cheers , In 1845 ! " There is no greater injustice than the attempt to drive a responsible leader from his own position and to force his acceptance of every speculative dogma of the reckless and enthusiastic , but that leader who abandons the position around which he has rallied his obedient followers , commits an act of the most flagrant injustice . By the teaching of leaders the mind is formed—b y the enthusiasm of leaders the energy is quickened—b y the resolution of leaders the action is confirmed . ' '

      We have it upon the highest authority that tbe followers of Mitchel swore to him that he should never leave the country , and by that assurance his energy was impelled and goaded to the resistance point ; but when the martyr was clutched what is called prudence supplied he p lace « f what was tendered as allegiance , and Mitchel the brave , the uncompromising , and the bold , became a victim to his confidence , and was dragged , like a felon , from the dock to the hulk , and is now paying the penalty of his misplaced confidence . The people of

      Ireland , however , have been no party to the deception and betrayal , because they were not parties to urge him on or to insure his protection ; but , on tie contrary , it is to the violation of those pledges given to the felon that the frenzy , the madness , and the enthusiasm of the Irish people is now to be ascribed . They are not purchasable—they are a nation of indomitable heroes ; grateful for littlehospitable with little—generous , confiding , and forgiving ; but , as far as England is concerned , we fear the folat oi forgivenm ias been

      Ireland. " Hereditary Bondsmen, Know Ye ...

      passed . And although the proposition of . the Prime Minister to abrogate tbe constitution , ma y he received with a howl of faction , in which the yell of the degenerate Irish drowned the Saxon cheer , yet we would ask that Prime Minister to pause , we would ask Parliament , in its pr esumed strength , to reflect upon what the consequence must be , if the leadesr of a determined , maddened , and enthusiastic peop le are snatched from amongst them in violation of the Constitution .

      Does the most confiding in governmental strength for one moment imagine that this war of sister against sister , as they are called , can be profitabl y maintained In the present state of Europe ? Do they imagine that they can revive the mad nationality inspired by Pitt—when all were read y to give the last farthing TO KEEP BONEY OUT . No—those were days of mere agricultural blindness , when the breeches pocket was a good substitute for

      brains ; hut these are times when the active genius pauses , and asks what is to be the return for our submission to further taxation ? Is it to be a probable war with America , the not improbable loss of Canada , the destruction of a home market which by kindness and justice may . be made lucrative and profitable ? or is it the weakening of the English Crown and Government , at a period when legitimacy all over the world is falling before the mind ' s

      progress r Belgium , as a province of Holland , through pauperism , became a sting in the side of the mother country ; while Belgium , as a free state , still holds her o wn thoug h surrounded by a Republic . Or , in th ° emphatic words of Mr O ' Connor , " Can the G overnment of England , with America within fourteen days' sail , France all but touching our shores—Prussia

      demanding Republican Institutions as the means of preserving its monarchy—Italy throwing off the Austrian yoke , and the mind of Ireland one fierce volcano "—we ask , under such circumstances , is it possible to preserve a restrictive Monarchy and Oli garchical Institutions in this country ? It U well for the Prime Minister and the Parliament to say , be tranquil and your grievances shall be redressed , but for eight and forty years the same cuckoo cry has

      been heard . Ireland has had Coercion Bills , Martial Law , and Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , " usque ad nauseam , " and the temporary lull , created hy terror , has been used as » n argument that the people were satisfied ; and even now the prostitute Press of England , and some of the pledged Repealers in the House of Commons , would lead their dupes to believe that there was neither dissatisfaction nor disaffection amongst the Irish people , while we find them thirsting for Irish blood , while tbe transactions upon 'Change are mainly

      regulated by the hope or despair of its being shed . But , we tell the Prime Minister of England , that although his predecessors subjugated Ireland by force and fraud in 1800 , that it would be worse than madness to try an experiment upon eight millions after forty-eight years of experience , which was only successful upon four millions without that experience . And , if the demand for Repeal of the Union shall be changed to a demand for a total separation , the Oligarchy of England , and they alone , will be chargeable with the result . Lord Althorp declared his opinion in the House of

      Commons in 1834 , that , if a majority of the Irish people should demand a . Repeal of the Union , that it would be the duty of that House to grant it . However , although the will of the majority has been most signihcantlyproclaimed , we , nevertheless , find that the assumed duty of . Parliament is to resist that will by the abrogation of the Constitution . And we now tell the Noble Lord , the Prime Minister , that the Constitution proclaims the right of freemen to be armed , and , that to deprive them of those arms reduces them to slavery ; and we would ask , what allegiance a slave owes to a Government that would thus abrogate the

      Constitution ? The Press may luxuriate in the hope that O ' Brien and Meagher have absconded , and that thus the Irish Confederation has been dissolved . Such is , no doubt , the fond anticipation of those who would produce despair through treachery , but whatever the result of the conflict may be , we hazard an assurance that , whether the gaol or the grave shall be their lot , they will not dishonour their names by flight . The English Government

      would make it appear that Ireland is a portion of England , whereas England is much more a portion of Ireland . Her manufacturing towns are crowded with the disinherited , the expatriated , and the exiled , hunted from their native land by the cruel Landlord , or the griping Parson , the desolating Middleman , or the relentless Official : and those who understand the feelings which possess man in social life , will understand the feelings ot those who are absent from the scene of national

      excitement . If the parent is present with a suffering child , fortitude and hope is sustained by the immediate knowledge of every change and crisis ; but if he is absent , and relies upon the post or the electric spark when he cannot see the sufferer , the excitement is greater , and the agony more poignant , increased by doubt . So it is with the absent Irish ; they take rumour for fact , and want of accurate information

      drives them to frenzy and despair . Hence we find that an attempt has been made to include Liverpool and Manchester in the unconstitutional proposition of the Prime Minister , But as it is the resolve of the powerful terrorists to strike a deadly blow at Chartism and Repeal , and as there are emissaries abroad who thrive by falsehood , and live upon blood , we would caution our Irish brethren against their machinations .

      England is now feeling the effects of foreign revolutions , —her Exchequer nearl y bankrupt , her trade paralysed , and her manufactures all but suspended ; her agricultural produce is threatened with a competition of the produce of other countries , not subject to unbearable burthens and taxations ; and for these casualties , calamities , and reverses , according to ancient custom and policy , the Government will attempt to eke supplies from the timid , by parading the phantom of disaffection ; and ere long we shall have the Chancellor of the Exchequer coming down to the House extolling

      the Government for its precaution , and the aristocracy and the middle classes for their loyalty , which will end in an appeal to their pockets . And when has there been an occasion for such an appeal , that incipient revolution has not been the bugbear , and loyalt y the talisman . So that in the exact proportion in which the demand for liberty increases , does patronage become augmented . But let not the noble lord lay the flattering unction to his soul , that streams of Irish blood , or hulks of Irish victims , will ever banish from the Irish mind that pent up rancour engendered by an alien church alien

      , an proprietary , alien laws , and alien taskmasters . These monsters have upheld a tyrannous ascendancy which has been as injurious and weakening to the English Crown , as to Irish prosperity , and an attempt beingmade to banish this destructive superiority from the land , it now rallies in the jury box determined to uphold its authority as long as a foot of resting ground remains . But we tell the oppressor , thac the authority of Government , the desolation of the Protestant Church , the tyranny of alien landlords , the authority of their middle class representatives , their partisan mads .

      trates , party judges , packed juries , ruthless police , unscrupulous detectives , and prostitute Press , cannot bind the united mind of an op . pressed and united people . And when the day of terror shall have passed away , and when the unbiassed verdict of a national jury , too large to be packed , shall be delivered , the English Minister who fostered revolution to secure power will be found as the criminal and he will be justly chargeable with the deplorable consequences which will be but the result of his own weakness , his own treachery and ambition .

      Persecution In Scotland. Arrest Of Edinb...

      PERSECUTION IN SCOTLAND . ARREST OF EDINBURGH CHARTISTS . We take tbe following from the London papers of Thursday evening : — " Edi nburgh , Wednesday . —This afternoon , Mr H . Rankine , Mr A . Walker , and J , Gumming , with some others , were arrested , on charges of a general character , comprising attendance at illegal public meetings , and ad " i i LimTl . AVMI

      dresses delivered on those occasions of an exciting description . The houses of those individuals have been searched , and documents of a very suspicious character have been seized and carried away . The three named were committed to gaol , and some of the others liberated on bail . A great demonstration of sympathy with the offenders is talked of by the Chartists . "

      So Scotland is to share the general proscription . War levied against the people of Ireland—terror established in England—and now extended to Scotland ! What are the people to do ? Their petitions are scoffed at , their meetings prevented by force , their footsteps tracked , and their words watched by Iscariot-detectives , and their advocates by the help of " Trial by Jury " thrown into dungeons .

      " The laws ( corrupted to their ends that make them ) , Sirve but for Instiumenta of some new tyranny , That every day starts up to enslave ub deeper . " The middle classes are being armed with deadly weapons to use against the people . The police of London are learning the use of the cutlass , and practising military evolutions , in addition to which the police of Liverpool are provided with firearms . A military camp is being formed in the neighbourhood of Liverpool , and everywhere the signs abound of a determination to rule the working classes by the law of the naked sword .

      "Howlong ! Oh ! God , howlonj V Chartists of Scotland and England , working men of both countries , give your sympathy and your help to the persecuted patriots of Edinburgh . Northern Star Office , Friday Morning . We have just received a letter from Edinburgh stating that Mr Robert Cranston is included in the above arrests and , further , that the publishing office of tbe "North British Express" has been shut up by " the authorities , '' and all the property connected therewith taken forcible possession of ! What say you to that , Englishmen ?

      State Of Ireland. We Give In Another Col...

      STATE OF IRELAND . We give in another column a statement of the reported commencement of the Insurrection iu Ireland , in which it is stated , that the whole of the South is in open rebellion ; that fighting has taken p lace at Thurles , Clonmel , and Kilkenny , in which the People have been victorious . It is also reported , that the troops h ; ive shown disaffection towards the

      Government . On the other hand , the Evening Papers of Thursday contain no confirmation of this important intelligence ; on the contrary , in both Houses of Parliament Members of the Government , in reply to questions addressed to them , have professed to treat the matter as a hoax . The news of the Insurrection—whether for the moment true or false—has caused great excitement in the City , and occasioned a fall in the Funds from 802 to S 5 f . From the tone of this ( Thursday ) evening ' s " Sun , " it appears that some apprehension of " a run for sold" is entertained in the city .

      The " Standard" thinks the accounts from Ireland exaggerated , hut adds , " still there can de no doubt of the explosion of the rebellion . ' ' According to the " Standard , " the moneymongers in the city are calling for measures " to silence the firebrand demagogues / ' in England and Scotland ! Northern Star Office , Friday Morning ,

      It will be seen by later news in another column that the announced insurrection is a false report . AH accounts , however , agree that a struggle is inevitable . The author or authors of the hoax did their work cleverly , and created that alarm which , no doubt , was the object they had in view .

      The Martyrs. Rally To The Rescue ! ^ The...

      THE MARTYRS . RALLY TO THE RESCUE ! ^ The sacrifice of the Bradford and Blngley victims has commenced . In another column will be found a brief aceonnt of the trial of some of the defendants charged with having taken part in the Bradford Riot , on the 99 th of May . Those already tried have , with one exception , been found Guilty . The sentences have not yet been pronounced , and , most probably , will be deferred until the whole of the defendants have been tried .

      We understand that there are , in all , fiftyeight persons charged with riot , & c , for trial at the present ( York ) assizes . The alleged offences embrace all the forms of " seditious speeches , of illegal meetings , of riot , of rescue , of training and drilling others in the use of arms , of being- present for the purpose of being trained and drilled , and of aiding , assisting , and abetting an unlawful assembly of persons in their being trained and drilled to the practice of military movements . " Of the fifty-eight , only nine have been enabled to obtain bail , and , consequently , nearly fifty of these persecuted men have been already two

      months in prison . This has arisen from the exorbitant amount of bail fixed by jthe celebrated " poor man ' s friend , " Busfe ild Ferrand , and his worthy associates of the magisterial bench . The variations in the forms of the committals do honour to the ingenuity of the aforesaid " poor man ' s friend ; " and that our readers may understand the comprehensive character of the net provided for the entrapment and sacrifice of their proscribed brethren , we give the following specimens : — One man is committed for "having wickedly , maliciously , and seditiousl y , in tiie presence

      and hearing of divers liege subjects of our Sovereign Lady the Queen Victoria , uttered , pronounced , and declared certain scandalous , malicious , and seditious words , of and concerningour said Lady the Queen , her Government , Crown , and dignity ; '' another stands charged , that he , " with one R . W ., and divers other evil-disposed persons , to the number of 500 and more , at present unknown , did unlawfully meet together for the purpose of exciting discontent and disaffection , and for the purpose of exciting the liege subjects of our Lady the Queen to hatred , and hostility to the Government and Constitution of this

      realm—and did , by loud and seditious speeches , exclamations , and cries , and b y exhibiting divers flags and banners of a seditious character , cause grea t terror and alarm to divers peaceable and liege subjects of our Lady the Queen , her Crown , and dignity . " Let the Just-asses of England only continue this game a little longe r , and not all that the most furious Republicans ever said or did , will have done half so much to damage " our Sovereign Lady the Queen , her Goveinme t Crown , and dignity , " as will be done by these officious , meddling , persecuting , " vindicators of the law . "

      We commend to the attention of our readers a letter from Dr M'Douall , describing the particulars of his recent arrest and co-nmittal for trial . I he treatment of that gentleman while in detention at Ashton , will excite the loathing disgust , and burning indignation of our readers ! The cowardl y torturers appear to have tried upon their victim a combinition of the crueS ¦¦ Si S ? i u , ' wltI U horrors » f the celehiated Black Hole . Curses loud and deep vXttneT ' ' " * " * ^ - ^ old-bloodeU

      M ^ iin , ™ have been holden in the metropolis Meetings have been holden in the metropolis to sympathise with Ernest Jones and his fellow victims , and for the purpose of obtaining some mitigation of the cruel punishment to which they " are subjected . The Daily News has the assurance to state that " the moderation displayed bv the Attorney-General and the Crown counsel in the recent trial at the Old Bailey , was exemplary care was in general taken not to strain the la w , or to act with unnecessary harshness towards the defendants : and the members of the Chartist body were satisfied of the perfect fairness of all that took p lace . " Here are a precious string of lies—the greatest lie being the libel on the London Chartists , that they were satisfied of the perfect fairness of the trials !

      Mr Jones was last week relieved from oakum picking by the payment of M , which relieves him for one month from this disgusting toil . Mr O'Connor has this day ( Thursday ) paid 41 to exemp t Vernon , Fussell , Sharp , and Williams , from the same slavery for the ensuinsr month . With pain and shame we must now direct the attention of the Chartist body to the humiliating fact , that scarcely anyjunds have been provided for the defence of the Yorkshire victims . Up to last Saturday , the West Riding treasurer had in hand not more than a shilling a head for each of the unfortunate men and we fear that this week the funds are very little improvedj although the trials are now going on .

      Dr M'Douall ' s letter speaks for itself . He will defend every inch of ground—if supported by the peo p le . Is Dr M'Douall to be sacrificed ? He requires money to pay his solicitor , fee counsel , and take his witnesses to Liverpool . Men of England , we appeal to you to do your duty , and aid the Doctor in his struggle with his and your oppressors . The families , too , of the London victims demand your earnest sympathy , expressed not by words , but hy deeds . He who at this time withholds his assistance—according to his means—is a traitor to the Chartist cause , and the most culpable of theenemies of the Chartist martyrs «

      Parliamentary Review. The Whig Policy To...

      PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . The Whig policy towards Ireland has at length attained an appropriate consummation . Based upon hypocrisy , and carried on in fraud , it has ended in open and undisguised despotism . Last Saturday will be an historical day in the annals of that party , of Parliament , and of the country , whose liberties were , at one fell swoop , and in one short sitting .

      swept away . The Government that in two years has not been able to construct or carry one remedial measure for Ireland , can be vigorous enough when it pleases , and so can Parliament ; but , unfortunately , it is only for mischief when they rouse themselves to action . One Bitting of seven hours is sufficient to suspend the Constitution : a session of seven months has produced no effort to mend it .

      In order to form anything liku an impartial judgment on the course pursued by the Government in this suspension of one of the great constitutional rights of the subject , which distinguish a free country from one under despotic rule , it is necessary to recal to recollection a few leading facts . It may be true , that looking at the present condition of Ireland from the same point of view as Parliament and theExecutive Ministry , thattAey have no alternative but to resort to this extreme

      measure . In the face of an open and" avowed armed preparation for insurrection , with the shject of wresting from the dominion of the Queen an important portion of the empire , to the rule of which she succeeded her predecessors , and which she swore to maintain intact , the servants of the Crown have , constitutionally speaking , no alternative but to take every passible measure to prevent or repress that armed insurrection , and prevent that severance of the empire by foree of arms , if it is proposed to effect it by that means .

      All this may be admitted as abstractedly true ; but it does not in the slightest degree improve the position of the present Ministry . The question remains—who is to blame for the disaffection having grown so general ?—the armed preparations so formidable as to call for measures of so severe , unconstitutional , and despotic a nature ? In replying to that question we need not travel back into the long records of Ireland ' s miegovernment . It is unnecessary to disinter from the tomb of past centuries , the injuries which have been inflicted upon her by systematic tyranny and misrule ; it ig even , for an immediate answer to the question , not needed that we go beyond 1846 , and the accession of the present Ministry to power .

      It will be remembered by our readers that , towards the close of that Session , Sir II . Peel brought in an Arms Act for Ireland . It was first introduced in the House of Lords , where it went through all its stages with the entire sanction of the Whig Peers , including those who now sit upon the Ministerial Bench . On the appearance of the bill in the House of Commons , Lord J . Russell and the Whigs sup . ported the first reading , and even John O'Connell admitted that the case presented by Sir K . Peel , as a justification for the measure , and its own comparatively temperate and mild

      character , were such as to induce him to take a neutral part on the first reading . He merely begged for a little time to take the sense of the people of Ireland on the subject . It was admitted by the Irish members generally , that it was the mildest bill of the kind ever proposed . If we understand the policy of Sir R . Peel on that occasion rightly , it was his object to put these limited powers into the hands of the authorities , in order to prevent the people from obtaining possession of arms ; and , having thus secured the State against the contingencies of an armed outbreak , he intended to have

      proposed and carried a series of remedial measures for laying the foundation of a better state of things in that country . Presuming that such was his intention—a presumption fully borne out by all that the Right Hon . Baronet stated in the debates on the bill—and especially by his memorable declaration with reference to Irish policy in the speech with which he took leave of office—there cannot be the slightest doubt on the mind of any impartial man , that Sir It , Peel would have succeeded in his objects . However much any party may differ from the politics or the policy of the late

      Premier , every one admits his rare administrative ability . When he brings forward any measure , it is certain not « nly to be suited to the purpose in view , but also to be framed in such a practical and business-like shape as fully to answer these objects ; besides this , the country at large know that when he proposes measures he really means to carry them . They are not produced merely to make a show of work , and then withdrawn , postponed , or botched ; and , as a

      consequence , they have confidence in him as a practical statesman ; while , at the same time , Parliament knowing that they must either pass the measures or find another Minister , go willingly and in a workmanlike spirit to work . We repeat , therefore , that if Peel hadsucceeded in getting his Arms Act , and by that means preserving a tolerable amount of quiet in Ireland , we might fairly have expected a really remedial and practical policy from him , of ' a comprehensive and immediately practical character

      . But what were the facts ? When the Bill was first introduced into the House of Commons , the great Free Trade measure of the Premier was still before Parliament , and any hostile move on the part of the Whi gs might have damaged the chances of its passing the Lords . l hey wwhed it to be passed , because they knew they could not , if in office , do so themselves whereas , that matter once settled , they saw the path to the resumption of power and patronage open to them . They therefore waited until the seal of the Queen ' s authority was finally

      affixed to the bill repealing the Corn Laws , ana then united with the alienated section oi the I rotectionist party in defeating Peel on the Arms Act , with the express view of forcing

      him out office and securing their own return him out of office and securing their own return to power . Whatever may be thought of the bitter and revengeful feelings by which the Protectionists were induced to vote with the Whi gs on that occasion they were at least natural , and lmj nothing of meanness or selfish calculation about them—but their allies were of a more sordid stamp—they were actuated onl y b y the desire to clutch at the loaves and fishes of office .

      They succeeded in their endeavour ; I ) u t on what terms did Lord J . Russell ; become the Pre mier of Great Britain and Ireland ? He dj s . tinctly declared that the time for governing Ireland by coercion had gone by forever He enumerated the long and melancholy cataloo- ue of coercive measures which had been enacted since the year of the Union—all of which had utterly and entirely failed to produce t ' ie intended effect , and upon that historical review pro .

      claimed the natural and rational induction—that in future these modes of endeavouring to suppress discontent and disaffection should be abandoned , and a conciliatory policy adopted , based upon the principle of removing the evils which generated both . Ha proclaimed that he was willing to accept the government of the country on these terms , and was prepared with a broad and comprehensive policy . Parliament took him at his word , and he became Prime Minister .

      What are the results ? Where are the indications of that broad and ' eomprehensive remedial policy which was to lay the foundation of a new and prosperous state of things in Ireland ? In every respect Lord John Russell has falsified his pledges , and acted diametrically opposite to what he declared he would do . The terrible famine , and its consequent suffering , in 1847 , which virtually threw both landlord , tenant , and labourer into the power of the Government , would have been seized b y a hold and judicious minister as a providential auxiliary of the most powerful character , to

      enable him to cut the Gordian knot of diffi . cullies , which other previous ministers had mainly attempted to untie . In the midst of that dreadful crisis which , in effect , reduced society to its ori ginal elements in Irelandproduced general disorganisation , and threw all classes helplessly on the sustaining energies of the Executive and people of this country , a far-sighted and determined minister would have said : "lam willing to relieve and assist you to the utmost that the means at my d ; s . posal will enable me , but it must he under such arrangements as will be mutually

      beneficial , and which will afford at lea ^ t a reasonable hope that such an awful and deplorable crisis in the history of the . nation shall not recur again . It is clear that some radical error lies at the root of the organisation of society in Ireland , or the wide-spread destitution , disease , and death , and the utter helplessness of all classes under these afflictions , could not have existed . We must , therefore , proceed radicall y with our remedies , and while fully providing for a fair adjustment of all existing claims , lay the basis for a better application of the soil and labour of Ireland in future . "

      Such might , and would , have been the course of an enlightened and practical Minister , under the circumstances which then occurred , but Lord John Russell is neither an enli ghtened nor a practical Minister . The opportunity slipped through his fingers unimproved ; the only use he made of it was to squander ten millions sterling in one year , ia a way , which , while it involved a total loss to this country , produced in Ireland only a deeper feeling of humiliation and alienation than had formerly existed . Its real grievances remained untouched , and the hopes of substantial amelioration and improvement faded further into the distance .

      Is it any wonder , then , the leaders and the people of Ireland should have grown desperate , and resolved to let their country ' s salvation no longer depend upon the will of a minister « ho was incompetent to his task , and of a legislature which was either ignorant of the remedies required , or who-, e personal interests were directly opposed to the introduction of these remedies ? The consequence has been , that instead of the Arms Bill of Peel , in 1846 , we have had a Coercion Bill passed in the extra session before Christmas 1847 ; the Gagging Act , before Kaster 1848 ; and that proving altogether

      incapable of p utting down the natural indigna . tion with which Irishmen regard the Government of this country , Lord John has now suspended the Constitution ! From this time forth the Lord Lieutenant has the power , without any proof of guilt , without any formality of examination or trial , to seize u p on every man or woman in Irelrnd he p leases , and to shut them up in jail until March next . There is but one step more to absolute despotism , in its worst and most abhorrent formnamely , to proclaim all Ireland under martial law , and the supreme authority of drum-head courts-martial .

      We repeat that we owe this disgraceful and painful state of things , together with all the loss of life , destruction of property , and the more deadly feeling of alienation between the two countries , which must ensue from any actual collision , entirel y to the policy pursued by the Ministers now in power . It is the natural and inevitable termination to a career begun in false pretences , and every step of which has been a disappointment to the People , and a contradiction to the professed principles of the Government , with reference to its Irish policv .

      Whether the extreme measure now resorted to will prevent bloodshed or insurrection , as Lord John says it is intended to do , remains to be seen . One thing is quite certain . The people of Ireland have got a new article of accusation against the British Legislature and Government—a new argument for Repeal or Separation . The Parliament that finds so much difficulty in passing remedial measures , finds none in passing coercive and cruel ones . We shall never forget the scene in the House of Lords on Monday night . The resolutioi to suspend the standing orders having been

      agreed to , after a very short conversation on the first reading of the Bill , it was read a second time , went through committee ( almost before poor old Shaftesbury could £ Ct into his seat and out again ) , reported , read a third time , and passed in about two minutes ; with a celerity and a unanimity that was truly edifying . Such spectacles are historical . We could not hel p feeling that we were present at the commencement of proceedings , . the end of which it was difficult to foretel or forsee . There was , however , too much reason to fear that we were sowing the wind and must expect to reup the whirlwind .

      Mr Keogb's Motion On The Subject Of The ...

      Mr Keogb ' s motion on the subject of the recent trials in Ireland , and the manner in which the Jury was packed in order to procure the conviction of Mr Mitchel , led to a ' characteristic scene . Parliamentary " rows" are quite common affairs with a Whi g Cabinet . It would almost seem that , conscious of their inability to say or do anything in a proper and statesmanlike manner , their only resourse is to fly into a passion with any one who touches them on the sore place , or who oven so much a » points his finger thereto . In this instance Mr lveogh raised a legitimate question , and treated it m » manner thoroughly in accordwith the forms

      ance of Parliament . He kept to Ins subject strictly ( a great merit nowadays ) , and in the course of his really able , eloquent , and spirit-stirring speech , did not utter an irrelevant sentence . He contrasted -as he had a right to do—the conduct 0 * every man of the present Government on foi " nur occasions , when they were in opposition , and their professions , as well as the avowed principles of their party , with reference to the administration of justice , and the composition of juries in political cases , with their own conduct , now that they have the power of ordering all these matters . He icviewed most truthfull y , and , therefore , most disagreeably to Whig ears , the policy of the Ministry

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29071848/page/4/