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    • BOOK S PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY JAMKS WATSOJf, 8, ^fieea'a Heai-psssage, Paternoster-row.
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    • IHE NORTHERN STAR, SATDKDAY, JANUARY 1, 1818
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      Book S Published And Sold By Jamks Watsojf, 8, ^Fieea'a Heai-Psssage, Paternoster-Row.

      BOOK S PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY JAMKS _WATSOJf , 8 , _^ fieea ' _a _Heai-psssage , Paternoster-row .

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      EUGENE SUE'S NEW TALE . PRIDE , OR . THE DUCHESS . The first volume of this dramatic picture of High Life ( all yet published iu Paris ) , is given in Part 56 of the FAMILY HERALD for January , price only Sixpence . The Family Herald is a domestic magazine of useful information and amusement , a cheerful and instructive fireside companion , the welcome gnast of every home , and unquestionably the most popular Periodical ever published . Everybody reads and all Booksellers sell the Family Herald . A single perusal will test its merits . Order Part 58 .

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      THOMAS COOPER'S ORATIONS . LITERARY _INSTITUTION , JOHN-STREET , FITZROY SQUARE . SUBJECTS OF POLITICAL ORATIONS to he delivered on Tuesday evenings , by Thomas Coopeb , Author of The Purgatory of Suicides , ' January 4 . —Society to be happy , —Government to be jU 5 t , —must be founded on , and guided by , the principle of Fraternity , or Brotherhood . 11 . _« Privilege : ' the greatest curse of society , ever since its institution : its seizure of Land , Mines , Fisheries , Game , & c . 18 . — " Privilege : ' its arrogation of Tithes , and enact ment of selfish and unjust Laws . 25 . — * Privilege _? its prohibition of _free-thought _, _prescription of a creed , and endowment c € a' sacred class , ' as teachers . February 1 . — ' Privilege : 'its inequitable dealing towards the unprivileged : Taxation . 8 . — ' Privilege : ' its black catalogue of the ' Pension List •* iniquity of Sinecures . ' Subjects of the remaining seven orations , in a future list . _Admissiotwto the Hall Id ., Gallery 2 d . Commence at half-past eight _precisely . Orations are delivered by Thohas Cooper every Sunday morning at eleven o ' clock , preceded and followed by the musical performances of the Apolkmic Society .

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      PORTRAITS OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR . THOMAS DUNCOMBE AND OTHER GREAT LEADERS . THE advertiser is commissioned to dispose of 180 Pic . ture Frames , suitable for the above portraits , n _, about halt the usual prices . News Agents will find thi au opportunity which seldom occurs , as they must ba _cleured out in a few days . Noto down the _adiireis . Samuel ; Holmes , St Gregory ' s Church Alley , Norwich , here all orders will meet witli prompt attention ,

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      _PORTRAIT OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR , Esq ., M . P . T _MARTty informs liis friends and the Chartist body » generally , that lie has reduced the price of his lithographic full-length portrait of their Illustrious Chief to the following price : —Prints , Is ; coloured ditto , 2 s . 6 d .

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      The Ten Hours' Bill. Todmorden.—On The 2...

      THE TEN HOURS' BILL . Todmorden . —On the 20 th ult . a meeting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Short Time Comrtittee took place in this village , for the purpose of devising the best means to be adopted to resist an attempt which is now being made by certain _millowhcvs to prevent the coming into operation of tbe ten hours clause of the Factory Bill , passed in June last . Mr Joseph Hurst was called to the chair , and the fol . lowing resolutions were adopted ;—First . —That it havisg come to the knowledge of the Central Short-Time Committee of Lancashire and York . shire that certain mill . owners were making a _movemsnt to prevent the coming iato operation of the Tt > n Hours _, clause of the Factory Bill on the l _? t of May next , _initractions be forfhtiith given to every local committee in England , Scotland , and Ireland , again to meet and reorganise their forces , and at once communicate with the operatives in each district , with a view of preparing to resist any attempt tbat may be made to interfere with the coming into operation of tho Ten Hours' Bill , for which they have bo Jon ? and so zealously struggled . S condly . —That we lenrn with deep regret that many of the mill owners are having recourse to undae means to obtain the signatures of their workpeople to petitions hostile to the Ten Hours' clause . This meeting strongl y urge upon the workmen not to be duped into the signing of any petition upon any pretence whatever ; but that the ; at once collect evidence of and communicate to the several secretaries the course adopted to compel the hands to sign such petitions , with a view of enabling their friends in Parliament to eaposo the unju 3 tlfiablo infinence used by masters , who have , on all former occasions , opposed the measure . Thirdly . —That the local committees be instructed to record the names of all mill owners who coerco their hauds to tbe signing of such petitions .

      Land <Ss Labour Bank.—At A Meeting Of Th...

      Land < Ss Labour Bank . —At a meeting of tho Paper _Staisers' Sick Society , Manchester , it was resolved , that the Funds of the Society be sent to the Land and Labour Bank . This is in addition to the funds sent from the Paper Stainers and Hangers Society , they being two distinct societies . In _accordance with the above we have sent the money , and hope soon to send more . On behalf of the Society , _Rjtiru Bakber _, Ed . Burlet , Trustees . Manchester , December 29 th . Manchester . —Mr J . W . Parker will deliver a lecture in the People ' s Institute , _Heyrod-streer , on Sunday , January 2 nd . Chair to bo taken at six o'clock in the evening . A members' meeting of the National Chartist Association will-be held at two o ' clock in the afternoon .

      Bristol . —The Irishmen and friends of Ireland residentin Bristol are informed that a meeting will be held at eight o ' clock on Monday evening next , Jan . 3 rd , at Mr . Charles Rebbath ' _s Coffee and Reading reoms , 1 , Tower hill , Old Market-street , for the purpose of forming a branch of the Irish Confederation : Colchester . —On Monday last , a publio meeting ; took place at the Assembly-room , St . John-street , On the motion of Mr B . ' . Parker , Mr Olive Payne was called to the chair . The chairman , delivered an excellent speech , which elicited loud applause . The sub-secretary then read the report of the branch , which was adopted unanimously . Mr T . Clark , one of the directors , then came forward and was received with great applause . Mr . Clark delivered a splendid address , and received the thanks of the meeting . At tbe usual weekly meeting held the following evening , the sub-secretary reported that thirty more shares had been taken since the lecture . . _„

      Boltom . —The monthly meeting of this branch will take place on Sunday evening next , January 2 nd , at six o ' clock . Ths Land Company ' s Petition will lay for the signatures of both members and the public , every night in the week , at the Land Office New Market-place , from seven until ten o ' clock _. Every member is expected to sign , _STouriBRinoE . —Tho members of this branch are informed that the committee will meet on Monday , the 4 th January , and a meeting of the members will take placo on the Wednesday following . Paid up shareholders are requested to pay all levins on or before the 10 th of January , or their names will not bo placed in the ballot box .

      _Appointment of Poor-uw Inspector for thb Manufacturing District . —The appointment of the Right lion . Chas . Buller , as Poor-law Commissioner f Jr England , was gazetted on Friday , and on the fol lowing day ] by tho terras of tbe act of last session the duties of all the offices ceaBed . Mr Austin , who fur same years has been assistant-commissioner tor the _manufacturing district , immediately received an appointment from the new commission , aa inspector ( the name by which tho _assistant-commissioners arc in future to be designated ) , in carrying tho recent act into execution , At a late meeting of the Scotch Antiquarian Society , there was exhibited the original death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots , and an autograph letter of her stern monitor , John Knox , _Rocbtjals . —Mr Daniel Donovan , of Manchester , will lecture in the Chartist Room , Yorkshire-street ) on Sunday , 2 nd January , at mx o ' clock in the evening .

      The _Minjko Jobbnal announces that 'Prince Albert ha ? , wilh a view to advance the mining interests of the county of Cornwall , determined on working the Louth Towan , United _llills , and Wheal Charley mines , being parallel lode ? . ' The quantity of water which entered the Wigan coal mines , lately , by the irruption of the river _JDjuglas , is calculated at 3 , 495 , 375 tons .

      Just Published, Piieold. Puz2les For Thb Curious, By W, W, Bbook, Also. Prioe 2d., By Tf»» Same Author,

      Just Published , Piieold . PUZ 2 LES FOR THB CURIOUS , By W , W , Bbook , Also . Prioe 2 d ., by tf »» same Author ,

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      LETTERS TO THE TOILIHTG . London : _Pullished by W . _Jcnkinson , 91 , Leatherlane , Holborn _, aad _Clemonta , Little Pultenoy-stroot , _Oold ' _ou-sqtiare ,

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      JUST PUBLISHES , { _Ontfortavrlth the " Labobreb" _Magazino _. ) Price 6 d . A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SPADE A HUSBANDRY , being tho results of f _» ur years' experience . Br J . Sillett . M'fiowan and Co ., 1 ( 5 , Great Windmill-street , LoHdon and may be had of all booksellers .

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      JEST _PUBLISHED . PRICE _81 XPKHCB , NO . Kill . OF " THE LABOURER , " _SONTBNTB , 1 . The Funeral of the Year and its Epitaph , by _] Ernest Jones . 2 . Our Now Year ' s Address . 3 . Insurrections ot the -Working Classes . —Tho Men of Kent and Essex . _i . The Scotch Critics and the Land Company . J 5 . Tho Romance of a People . C . The Poor Man ' s Legal Manual . 7 . National [ literature—* Tha Infwnal Comedy . 8 . Our National Defences , 9 . Literary Review . Letters ( pre-paid ? to be addressed to tbe Editors , 16 Great -Windmill Street , Haymarket , London . Ordors reoeivedby allageats for the " North era Star " and all booksellers in town and country .

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      Just Published , price One _Peany , A LETTER by F * ab 8 P 9 _O'Connob , Esc , M . P ., 'TO TUB RICH AND THE POOR ; To thoBe who Live _i ' h Idleness Without Labour , and to those who are _Willing to Labour but Compelled to Starve . ' _io

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      _t'neozs . psr _iuo . or _< . per w « u . C _YgTHXT MAY BE BONE WITH THREE ACRES _^ V OF LAN D , ' Explained in a Letter , by _FsAaacs O'Connob , _Ebij ., M . P . To be had at tbe Office of the National Land Company lit , High Holborn .

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      Now Ready , a New Edition « f MR . O'CONNOR'S WORK ON SMALL FARMS . To be had at the _Nerfhtrn Star Ofiico , 16 , Great Windmill Street ; and of Abel Hey wood . Manchester .

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      Ihe Northern Star, Satdkday, January 1, 1818

      _IHE NORTHERN STAR SATDKDAY , JANUARY 1 , 1818

      Peogress. Democracy At Home And Abroad. ...

      PEOGRESS . DEMOCRACY AT HOME AND ABROAD . At the commencement of a new year , when the knell of its predecessor is still sounding in our ears , it appears to us a fitting moment to inquire what has been the progress of our principles , in the course of tha past twelve months , and what are the hopeful prospects for those principles in the future . The general election in Julv—August last , greatly advanced the cause of Democratic _progress / The election of the Chartist-Chief ) Feargus O'Connor , was alone worth far more than all the cost of the struggle . A number

      of M . P . ' s pledged to , at least , the principles of the Charter , were also elected ; and the foundation laid for Chartist triumphs on the occasion of the next struggle . From accurate information we are enabled to state _, that the public feeling in favour of Chartism , in Halifax , Sheffield , Derby , Greenwich , Tiverton , and other places , contested unsuccessfully at the late election , has wonderfully advanced since July last . Bad trade has brought not a few of the electoral class to their senses ; and the heartless indifference of the Government and Parliament to the wide-spread distress and suffering , promises to make speedy converts of many more .

      We candidly avow that ive _ai-e not overflowing with pity at the sight of the _embarrassments of the electoral class . The present House of Commons , as avowed by that choice specimen of the bourgeoisie , John Bright , is essen . tially a middle-class house , and the ministers are at the beck of that class . A more incapable set of rulers than Lord John Russell and his colleagues never pretended to administer the affairs of a nation , and a worse body of misre .

      p resentatives never assembled in the vV estminster tax-trap . According to friend Bright , we are indebted for both these blessings to the respectable gentlemen of the _" shop / 5 who would elect lords and lordlings , bankers and contractors , millocrats and railway-kings , fools and " snobs / ' and would not elect men who grounded their claims to public confidence on their integrity , talent , and political wisdom . The poet has written

      that" He who hates truth , shall be the daps of lies , " and this the intelligent shopocracy have exemplified in their own persons . The truths of Chartism were too strong for their stomachs , and , therefore , were rejected for the quackeries of free-traders , currency-reformers , and bit-by . bit progressionists . They had their choice , and they deliberately chose the evil and rejected the good and they are rightly punished .- — " They would be foola and victims , and they are . "

      But as experience is said to make fools wise , we trust that even the bourgeoisie are not incapable of improving oa the past , and doing better for the future . We trust , too , that the working men will be better prepared for the next struggle , than they were at the late Election . What was done was done well ; but better things might have been done had the good work been set about in good time . There must he a greater number of Chartist Candidates in the field next time , and they must not delay their appearance therein till the eleventh hour ; there must , moreover , be ample funds in hand to enable the Democratic

      Candidates to carry the struggle to the polling booths . We are glad to learn from the Address of the Central Registration and Election Committee , published in another column , that after paying alj ; demands , a surplus of Sixty Pounds remains at the disposal of the committee , which surplus has been wisely banked for future use . Thus should a vacancy occur in the Representation of any locality , and should the Committee consider the chances of success favourable for a Chartist Candidate , the means exist of bringing forward a man of the People at a moment ' s'notice . Of course it

      needs no argument to show that the Committee's Funds at present in hand , however useful for any emergency , will be perfectly useless to meet a General Election . The next struggle may be far off , or it may be much nearer than most persons imagine , but in either case the collection of funds should not be left till the last moment . As general appeals for money are not often attended to , we suggest to the Election Committee , that the first Saturday , Sunday , and Monday in the month of May next , be appointed for a general collection amongst the Chartists , members of the Land Company , and friends of Democracy generally , for the benefit of the Election Fund .

      We also suggest that theCommittee should send printed circulars to all the Chartist and Land localities one month previously , calling upon the said localities to make the said collection , either b y levy , general subscri ption , proceeds of public lectures or festivals , or any other mode each locality may deem the best . Should Parliament _^ not dissolve before May , 1849 then the like collection to take place at that time , and so on every year in , the reonth ef May , until n dissolution of Parliament . We are not in the habit of praising or puffing either public individuals or public bodies , but we must take this occasion to say that the members of the Central Registration and

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      Election Committee have , by their untiring and patriotic labours during the past year , " deserved well of their country , " and fairl y entitled themselves to the grateful thanks of the unrepresented classes of these realms . We may here allude to a matter which is already , and very properly , exciting the attention of the friends of Chartism—we allude to the threatened attempt to oust Mr O'Connor from his seat . The petition against that gentleman may be onl y a waste-paper pellet , intended to annoy the People ' s member ; it may , however , be something more—it may be the effort of an infernal conspiracy to ruin Mr O'Connor with expenses . If so , there can be no

      doubt that the conspirators will be foiled , and have " the poisoned chalice returned to their own lips . " Of course we take it for granted , that every man who , by " resolution" or otherwise , expressed bis joy at the return of Mr O'Connor to Parliament , will sell the shirt off his back rather than allow the hon . member for Notting ham to be beaten , or compelled to defend his seat to his own pecuniary injury . The blow aimed at Mr O'Connor is intended to strike down up-rising Chartism . If Mr O'Connor is defeated , we are all beaten ; if he is immolated , the people are sacrificed . Should he fall , then might we say with theorator over _Csesar ' s

      body" Then you , and _wa , and all fell down , While cursed treason triumph'd oVr u » . " But we have perfect faith in a very different issue . We are persuaded that we have but to sound the trumpet " to the rescue ! ' and the People will rise as one man , to the help of their friend and champion . Throughout England lectures , psblic meetings , and assemblages of local delegates , attest that the " dry bones" are once more quickening into life and action . The very numerously attended and enthusiastic meetings recently holden in the metropolis , exhibit a

      most hopeful sign of the times . The very energetic labours of the Metropolitan Delegate Council ( which includes the members of the Chartist Executive ) , have mainly produced this cheering revival . We now entertain sanguine hopes that when the _misrepresentatives of the nation re-assemble , they will find the people less disposed to quietly submit to their useless talking and evil working . The renewed agitation for the Charter opens a field for tbe exercise of the people ' s virtues . If self-reliant , courageous , and persevering , they must and will succeed .

      We must direct the special attention of our metropolitan readers to a prospectus issued by a Committee comprising all the known and trusted leaders of Chartism residing in the capital , which prospectus sets forth a plan for obtaining for the Chartists of London a Commodious and central hall for public meetings , & c , We recently expressed our strong conviction that the project set forth by tbe

      Committee above alluded to , was of primary importance to the cause of Democracy , so far as London wasconcerned , andon the present occasion it is not necessary that we should do more than reiterate the expression of that conviction , at the same time appealing to our metropolitan friends to take up the matter promptly and earnestly . There must be no doubtingno fear of failure ; like Carnot , we must " organise vietorv , '' and victory will be ours .

      The National Petition demands a word . It is a duty the people owe to Mr O'Connor , to prove by their signatures to that petition that he is indeed their representative ; it is a duty they owe to themselves , to prove b y the same means their earnestness in repudiating the misgovernment of their rulers , and the sincerity of their desire to be represented in the Legislature . We leave to the Chartist Executive the question of calling together a representation of the Democracy in a National Convention . In our opinion , such a Convention is highly necessary , and its early [ sitting as _indispensable- Energy must now be the order of tbe dav .

      Of course , the Executive must be powerless , lacking the sinews of war . Is it too late to suggest a" _New-Year ' s Gift ? " Many individuals anticipated the new year b y contributing largely , considering their means . Shall their patriotic example be followed ? Let the honest and earnest men of every locality see to this . In this political review of the past , the present , and the future , the Land movement hardly comes within the scope of our remarks ; nevertheless , it is a proof of unexampled progress , and a subject for gratulation , that the members of the Land Company may say , — "WE ARE FIFTY THOUSAND !"

      Fifty thousand future freemen—fifty thousand organised Chartists , or to be made Chartists—made by the force of reasonmade by the instinct of self-interest , which must teach even the most thoughtless that the certain means to make the Land Plan national , and secure to the Land members and their children the full blessings of that Phn , lies through the obtainvnent of the Charter . Our remarks upon Home Progress have left us but little room for ; comment upon the progress of Democratic principles in other lands . In France , the Reform Banquets have

      succeeded each other with startling rapidity . The French Chambers have just been opened and the Fagin of the Tnilleries has spit his spite against the Reformers , by alluding in his speech to " the agitation which hostile and blind passions are fomenting ; " and he has appealed to his Peers and Deputies to "firmly maintain according to the Charter , social order , and all its conditions . " " His Citiaen-kingship croaks discreetly , but his words , though few , sufficiently betray his fears . The Reform discussion will now be transferred from the

      banquetting halls to the Chamber of Deputies , where , ot course , _Guizot and Co . will find a majority to support them in violently voting down every attempt to reform the present infamous system . The result will be a more powerful renewal of the agitation " out of doors , " then _n-311 come arbitrary attempts , on the part of Ministers , to put down the Banquets ; resistance will ensue , and revolution commence . I he truth is , that these Reform Banquets are * ' th _£ beginning of the end , " and that end will be the destruction of Louis Phili ppe ' s throne nnd something more .

      Switzerland has passed through the ordeal of a domes tic struggle , and has , like tbe Phoenix emerged from tbe flames of civil strife _stronger than she was before . Freed from , the conspirators and traitors who benumbed her energies , Switzerland now presents the spectaclelike Pallas bursting from the brow of Joveot a nation armed to the teeth , ready to measure swords with any of the Despotisms who may dure to dispute her claims to perfect independence , and her guardianship of the sacred principles of Democracy . _. The triumph of the Swiss Diet has given an impetus to the cause of Democracy throughout Euyopej but particularly in Germany and

      Italy , the addresses sent to the Diet from a number of German cities , and the subscriptions collected by the German people in aid of the widows and orphans of the soldiers of tbe Confederation who perished in battle , prove that the German people _haye wisely identified Swiss Radicalism with their own cause . The anti-Jesuit demonstrations at Milan , Turin , Genoa , Florence , and in Rome itself , prove that the Catholic people of Italy understand that the enemies of the Swiss Radicals are their enemies , and that the conspirators against the Swiss Diet are also conspirators against the cause oi Progress , in all nations . Italian freedom is everywhere advancing , in spite of Metternich ' s menaces , Ferdinand ' s

      ferocious proscription of his subjects , and the timid and temporising policy at present pursued by Pope Pius . "The die is cast ; the Rubicon is crossed ; " Italy must and will be free . ' The struggle for liberty in Portugal-is on the eve of recommencing . In Hungary , Bohemia , and Gallicia , _thejdomination of Austria totters to its fall . Poland is agitated by the throes of coming convulsion : and even the

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      Russian _^ _despotism is undermined , and _mayTt a moment when men little dream of such * catastrophe , be Mown to destruction b y unset hands . We commend to our readers the extra ordinary and brilliant speech of M . Bakounir _» which will be found in our second page , fferw ' which our readers will learn that a _democrats revolution in Russia is neither hopeless nor problematical , but certain , and that , too , at n _^ distant day . Yes , "Poland is not yet lost ' and Russia will yet be redeemed . ' Across the Atlantic , our American _brethwa aie at length beginning to get their eyes opened to the folly and wickedness of their murderous crusade against Mexico . That horrible sentiment , " Our country , ri ght or

      wrong , " is fast disappearing before the march of Fraternity—a principle once adopted by the Young American Party only , but now becoming generally recognised . In proof , we point to the report in our seventh page of the great meeting holden in New York , in support of Italian liberty . The Ame-icans are , thank Heaven , beginning to find out that it would be wiser , nobler , holier work , to hel p to crush the Despots of the Old World , than _^ to cut the throats of Republicans in the New—to hel p to free tbe nations of Europe , than to enslave those of America . We shall have something to say shortly of the progress of the friends of a Landed Democracy—the "National Re .

      formers . ' Their success is a guarantee for the preservation of the institutions ofJeffersoa and Washington , and a pledge for the political and social redemption of the human race . Lastly , the project first enunciated by the Fraternal Democrats , and then definitely pro . posed by tne Democratic Society of _Brussels , namely , the holding of

      A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS of all nations , is another and most important sign of Radical and Cosmopolite progress . It is proposed to assemble the said Congress at Brussels , on the anniversary of the Belgian Re . volution , in September next , at the very time that tbe united ; schemers , the free-traders , will hold their Congress in the same city . The ' proposition is , at this moment , exciting earnest discussion in France , Germany , and Swit 2 erland ; and in tbis country , has been already unanimously and enthusiastically ; adopted by the Metropolitan Delegate CdunciJ , at whici

      two members of tbe Chartist Executive assisted , and has been since ratified by several of the London localities . At a future time , we shall return to this important question , which , in the meanwhile , we commend to the calm consideration of the Chartist body throughout Great Britain . Hitherto " a chain of moun . tains , a river , an arm of the sea , a quickset hedge , or an imaginary lino , " has served to disunite nations and keep them enemies of each other ; but the _< c march of mind" is convincing

      each and all of the folly of these divisions . Congresses of kings have been holden to divide and enslave mankind , but the Congresses of the people will unite and free the human race . In such Congresses will be found the " cheap defence of nations'' against both popa . lar vanity and the blood y designs of royal conspirators . In vain do tyrants plot in their se . cret councils , and marshal their homicidal forces , the handwriting is on the wall _decreeing their doom . In spite of their force and their

      fraud" It ' s coming vat for a' that , When man to man , the warld o ' er Shall brithers be for a' that !"

      Coercion In Ireland. On Wednesday The Ne...

      COERCION IN IRELAND . On Wednesday the new CoercioR Act of the Whigsjcame into operation in the counties of Limerick and Tipperary , and in certain baronies of the counties of Clare , Cork , Waterford , King ' s County , Roscommon , Leitrim , Cavan _, and Longford . In the county of Cork , one barony , that of Orrery and Ktimore , has beesproclaimed .

      The Lord-Lieutenant ha _& thus shown little delay in _putting the last precious spawn of surface legislation in force—with what effect remains to be seen . The landlords and tbeir organs generally , predict a failure , because of the mildness ( Heaven save the mark ' . ) of the measure . They are quite prepared to urgft more stringent and sweeping measures , under cover of which wholesale extermination and expatriation could be carried on . The people of Ireland are vermin in their eyes , and it is onl y because there exist certain restraining influences in public opinion , and in modern civisation , that prevents them from having open recourse to a war of utter extermination .

      We have protested , and we repeat our protest , against the monstrous infraction of tha principles of natural justice , and of sound policy , which the whole legislative career of this country towards the Irish people involves . If the landlords , the Church Establishment , and _theExecutiveAdministration , have reduced that people by their monstrous , unjust , and tyrannical conduct , to such a condition that society is utterly disorganised , and there is neither safety for life nor property , that is

      prima facte evidence of their unfitness longer to continue its rulers , Instead of our adding cruelty to cruelty , injustice to injustice , by punishing the helpless victims of their fatal and ruinous policy , let us remove them at once from the position in which they have been enabled to work so much mischief , and commence a new , radical , enlightened , and practical course of remedial measures , altogether unimpeded by the obstacles which these parties might throw in the way , if suffered to retain

      the position and influence which they have alread y so grossl y and grievousl y abused . A whole people cannot , and ought not , to be sacrificed to the maintenance of any class or classes whatever j where the existence of these classes has utterly failed in producing any of the results tor effecting which they are professedly established , it is time to sweep them away . Man is greater than institutions . It is only so tar as any institutions develope the latent capabilities ot the soil , and give free scope to the faculties of those who dwell upon it , that they are valuable . That societ y in Ireland has utterly broken down , is so self-evident a proposition , that it

      needs no argument to enforce it . What then ought to be done ? Extreme cases demand extreme remedies . Either repeal the legislative union at once , and permit the Irish people to work out their own redemption unfettered by _England , or , if we still insist upon ruling that country , let us take it into our own hands at oncepension off the landlords ; pay offthemortgageesj abolish the Anglo-Irish Church , making equitable compensation to the present incumbents , and commence with a tabula rasa . it ire had . 1 Government bold enough to do this , and practical enough to Introduce the necessary measures for developing the latent

      resources Of the _nnnntrv _« r . A _L „ : _ : 1- :., _ resources of the country , and training to industry and order the population , by giving them a direct and permanent interest Hi the improvement th ey were instrumental in carrying out , very few years would elapse before that wind , is now the disgrace , would become the glory of the British Empere ; and instead of a _anynupon the finances , an inexhaustible storehouse of real wealth . But it is the curse d the age to be afflicted by " small men" ami

      small measures . The sliopkeeping spirit possesses it entirely . The far-seeing calculations ot the true statesman are unknown to our rulers . It is sufficient for them if they can ' make the thing last their time ; " and thu s , oy alternate coaxing and coercing , they manage to tinker up a worn-out and miserable system tor the time being . Have a care , masters Unless the foundation he looked to , the oid ncketty edifice must tumble about your _ears some day .

      %8t A Ludicrous , But At The Same Time A...

      % 8 _T A ludicrous , but at the same time annoying _, mistake of the printer's , occurred in tha remarks last _week upon the Bill for the remoTal of tho Jewish Di * _ouitiea . I _n _« sentence wag 'Nor shall we ask whet *" the _propounders of broad principles which would admit the Deist or the Atheist , a 8 vvellas the Jaw , to *« _Eh riT _? V & C ' For _^ _«> e _wovd Divil ni _Bubstttuted thus converting the passage into «» _UanjKr-ll not _SOjnetW _WWge ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 1, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01011848/page/4/